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Speaker 2: Here. It is a June thirtieth, Monday, last day of June.
Speaker 1: We're looking at some of the stories.
Speaker 2: Well, the jury is hearing and we'll start deliberating today hearing,
Speaker 2: I think jury instructions now in the Sean did he
Speaker 2: Coomb's trial and they start deliberating, We're gonna probably wait
Speaker 2: with baited breath on that one. And the big beautiful
Speaker 2: bill is now being voted on segments of it. Amendments
Speaker 2: is what the Senate is considering, and we'll see how
Speaker 2: many actually go over the line, actually make it and
Speaker 2: go over the line. So that's going to be they'll
Speaker 2: be voting all day on this one. Okay, going back
Speaker 2: to what Israel did and the attack on Tehran and
Speaker 2: the nuclear facilities that Iran has. Even for Israel, this
Speaker 2: one was a stunner. Now, Israel has a reputation of
Speaker 2: having the most well equipped, best trained military in the
Speaker 2: Mid East, and it is by a long shot, and
Speaker 2: there are reasons for it, one of them being that
Speaker 2: this is a country knows that if it loses one war,
Speaker 2: it is done.
Speaker 1: It's finished.
Speaker 2: That's tough, and also it is a country that has
Speaker 2: was created out of the ashes of the Holocaust, and
Speaker 2: this is why the attack on October seventh was so
Speaker 2: fundamentally viscerally devastating for Israel. That was the largest number
Speaker 2: of Jews that were killed in one single operation since
Speaker 2: the Holocaust. Okay, so keep that in mind as we
Speaker 2: talk about this in What Israel Did.
Speaker 1: So a little bit of history.
Speaker 2: Here, midnight June thirteenth, Israel generals are in a bunker
Speaker 2: beneath Israeli Air Force headquarters and they're watching as Israeli
Speaker 2: jets are coming into Tehran in an operation they call
Speaker 2: Red Wedding.
Speaker 1: Figure out the names.
Speaker 2: A few hours later and one thousand miles away, Iran's
Speaker 2: top military commanders were dead, all in one fell swoop.
Speaker 2: Top military commanders completely dead. It was a combination of
Speaker 2: intelligence for information and military precision precision that even experts
Speaker 2: military experts around the world were surprised. But it wasn't
Speaker 2: the only success during Israel's twelve day campaign. Another part
Speaker 2: of the attack was called Operation Narnia.
Speaker 1: And this is after the book and after C. S.
Speaker 2: Lewis, you know that series, And what it did is
Speaker 2: successfully kill nine top Iranian nuclear scientists almost simultaneously at
Speaker 2: their home at different parts of the city, and they
Speaker 2: were able to knock them out.
Speaker 1: So what a huge success. It nearly fell apart.
Speaker 2: It really was a huge gamble that had more of
Speaker 2: a chance of losing than winning. And what this did
Speaker 2: has helped Cement, not that it needed it, but Israel
Speaker 2: is the dominant military power in the region, and this
Speaker 2: is what Israel is thinking, and it makes sense. Israel
Speaker 2: hopes that this will be a realignment of countries away
Speaker 2: from the Iranian influence and set up friendly their relations
Speaker 2: with Israel. Keep in mind, when the attack October seventh happened,
Speaker 2: Israel was on the cusp of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: And if Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2: Goes in terms of normalizing relations, the rest of the
Speaker 2: Middle East follows suit. I mean, they just fall into line. Well,
Speaker 2: which would not Syria, right, Siri's under new government, how
Speaker 2: about Lebanon, his blaws wiped out. Hamas will never agree
Speaker 2: to a relationship with Syria. They'll go to the last man.
Speaker 2: And look what's happening over there. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: what Israel is doing is a crime. I think they
Speaker 2: are I think Israel's committee war crimes with what's happening
Speaker 2: over there. But at the same time, it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: how many people die, Hamas will will gladly lose ninety
Speaker 2: five percent of the population and have people have no
Speaker 2: place to live. Not to make sure it doesn't engage
Speaker 2: with Israel. Well, keep in mind, you know, Hamas is
Speaker 2: a millet as a political power, and they always had
Speaker 2: a military wing. Hamas as a political power was founded
Speaker 2: on the concept of the destruction of Israel. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's how many political parties are created for the destruction
Speaker 2: of a country that is adjoining it. Well, that's Kamas,
Speaker 2: so uh Israel and actually other countries are saying, okay,
Speaker 2: maybe we're going to sign new peace accords following Tehran.
Speaker 2: People are more afraid of Tehran. Countries around that region
Speaker 2: are more afraid of Teyon Tehran than they ever are
Speaker 2: of Israel. Israel is not interested in taking over that
Speaker 2: part of the world and making it a Jewish world.
Speaker 2: Iran is interested in taking over that part of the
Speaker 2: world and creating its own theocracy. Now, in terms of
Speaker 2: the success of the attack, even some Israeli officials were
Speaker 2: surprised at how their plans, which date back more than
Speaker 2: a decade. Most of this was in the planning stage
Speaker 2: for over a decade. Israel plays not only the short game,
Speaker 2: but the long game. Much what happened for example in
Speaker 2: Lebanon Hezbolah, remember the pager.
Speaker 1: Story where Israel, first of all, Hazbolah was not using phones.
Speaker 2: They decided they couldn't use cell phones because those conversations
Speaker 2: could be picked up, so they went to pagers.
Speaker 1: Well, what Israel did.
Speaker 2: Is take its time, knowing the pagers were involved, created
Speaker 2: a company that then distributed pagers and got a contract
Speaker 2: with Hesbelah to provide thousands of pagers, which Hesbolah then
Speaker 2: turned around and gave to its operatives and its leaders,
Speaker 2: and Creel just waited and then one fell swoop out
Speaker 2: came the signal, and these little pagers, which had been
Speaker 2: manufactured with explosives in them, all went off at the
Speaker 2: same time, thousands of them, simultaneously, blowing ears off, blowing
Speaker 2: heads off, I mean, just decimating. Has been a leadership
Speaker 2: and its operatives very much the long game.
Speaker 1: That's what Israel does.
Speaker 2: So a lot's going on going back, and this is
Speaker 2: a great story because this is an analysis of what
Speaker 2: happened when Israel attacked Tehran, with the United States, of course,
Speaker 2: attacking the nuclear facilities. So even Israel was surprised at
Speaker 2: the success of its attack on Tehran, taking out all
Speaker 2: of its air defenses, I mean, just wiping out so
Speaker 2: much of its military, and frankly, the Israeli officials were surprised.
Speaker 1: They were kind of stunned.
Speaker 2: How these plans, some of them going back more than
Speaker 2: a decade.
Speaker 1: As I told you, Israel plays a long game. How
Speaker 1: it all came together. And the reason all of these.
Speaker 2: High administrative people in Tehran. You've got these scientists that
Speaker 2: were all killed simultaneously, nine of them. You had commanders
Speaker 2: of the Iranian forces all being killed. And here's why
Speaker 2: Israel had to hit all of them at once. If
Speaker 2: they didn't, they would scatter and the retaliation against Israel
Speaker 2: will be far stronger.
Speaker 1: The point is there was nobody there, there was no leadership.
Speaker 2: Israel took it out, and of course they're going to
Speaker 2: respond and they have to come together. But when you
Speaker 2: wipe out the leadership and won't one fell swoop, it
Speaker 2: takes time to put it together again. Now this gets
Speaker 2: interesting because this goes back to the mid nineteen nineties
Speaker 2: when Israel intelligence first identified the Iranian attempts to build
Speaker 2: that nuclear weapons program, and from the nineteen nineties, Israel
Speaker 2: is now building a network of agents inside Iran.
Speaker 1: To facilitate the sabotage.
Speaker 2: Causing explosions twice at one of the main enrichment sites,
Speaker 2: assassinating some scientists, and then doing that cyber attack.
Speaker 1: But Israeli authority said that's not enough.
Speaker 2: We have to destroy this nuclear program because Nettagnan who
Speaker 2: and others have said, you cannot let Iran have the bomb.
Speaker 2: Iran has the bomb and unloads it on Tel Aviv.
Speaker 2: Israel's basically over. So Israel now has to attack one
Speaker 2: thousand miles away. So pilots had to learn how to
Speaker 2: fly in formations of six to ten aircraft around a
Speaker 2: single tanker plane taking turns to refuel. It's never been
Speaker 2: done multiple times. They had to learn to position the
Speaker 2: planes perfectly so that the missiles when they were dropped
Speaker 2: would land within fifteen to twenty seconds of each other,
Speaker 2: and they had to be right on point. And they
Speaker 2: couldn't train in Israel because Israel is just not that
Speaker 2: big as two hundred miles top to bottom and east
Speaker 2: to west. If you go to before the West Bank,
Speaker 2: it's twelve miles is the thinnest.
Speaker 1: Part of Israel. It's a country that is twelve miles
Speaker 1: wide at one point.
Speaker 2: So in two thousand and eight, in what was called
Speaker 2: Operation Glorious Spartan I love these names, one thousand, f
Speaker 2: fifteens and f sixteens went flying to Greece testing their
Speaker 2: ability to do this.
Speaker 1: Over the next several.
Speaker 2: Years, Israel came pretty close to launching an Aratag air attack,
Speaker 2: but Natinnahu kept on being voted down by ministers and
Speaker 2: security chiefs fearful of starting a war or angering Washington
Speaker 2: because they do nothing without Washington's approval, and the military
Speaker 2: planners kept on gaining. The attack just kept on going,
Speaker 2: including attacking Hamas and Gaza, which they did, Hesbela and Lebanon,
Speaker 2: which they did, and then flying over Syria, which they
Speaker 2: didn't have to do because as the Assad government collapsed.
Speaker 2: So October seven, Israel spends almost two years decimating Hamas.
Speaker 1: It's still happening as we speak.
Speaker 2: I had weakened Hesbelah, who's for some crazy reason, decided
Speaker 2: to attack Israel just in solidarity with Hamas.
Speaker 1: Some genius figure that one out.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, Israel came back and wiped out a
Speaker 2: good part of Hesbelah. Israeli spy networks inside I Run
Speaker 2: were tracked the movement of the military leaders and set
Speaker 2: up drone bases inside the country so they could launch
Speaker 2: drones against military installations, ballistic ballistic muscle, muscle, missile launching
Speaker 2: launching sites, air defense systems. I mean, this thing was crazy.
Speaker 2: They spent years and bringing in pieces of the drones
Speaker 2: in suitcases, in containers, in trunks of cars. Israel had
Speaker 2: infiltrated Iran over the last twenty thirty years to the
Speaker 2: point where it knows or it knew everything that was
Speaker 2: going on, even knew where the scientists were. And there
Speaker 2: was a real problem going on with the scientists because
Speaker 2: somehow they got win that something was up, and they
Speaker 2: started to scatter and Israel said, oh no, nope, nope,
Speaker 2: And an amazing bit of luck, they all came together
Speaker 2: to meet in one place, all of these senior scientists
Speaker 2: to discuss what would happen and how the Iranian nuclear
Speaker 2: program would keep on going in the event of whatever attack.
Speaker 2: And Israel knew where they met, where they were meeting
Speaker 2: Boom one missile went into that building and wipe them out.
Speaker 2: I had to tell you it's an extraordinary story of
Speaker 2: what Israel did and they were able to pull it off.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously I'm pro Israeli, but I tell you
Speaker 2: you don't want to screw around with Israel. You really don't. Militarily,
Speaker 2: it just doesn't bode well. I mean, talk to Kamas,
Speaker 2: which is still fighting. They still I won't give up
Speaker 2: the hostages. You got me on that one, all right.
Speaker 2: I want to share with you what happened on Saturday
Speaker 2: while I was doing handle on the law. Now, Neil
Speaker 2: will tell you, because I've known Neil the longest here,
Speaker 2: and Neil will tell you that I've from day one
Speaker 2: he met me thirty years ago, that I'm always groping
Speaker 2: for words that I forget where I am that Frankly,
Speaker 2: my cognitive abilities are somewhat limited, and I don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about the fact they're recently that bad. They've
Speaker 2: always been that bad. So it's not really a question
Speaker 2: of aging. Except what happened on Saturday morning. Well, during
Speaker 2: the course of the breaks, I walk around because I
Speaker 2: am bored, silly, already read the papers, and so I
Speaker 2: just walk around. So I'm doing handle on the Law
Speaker 2: just as I am the show on Saturday morning, and
Speaker 2: I went to look at my notes for Saturday night,
Speaker 2: my m scene to make.
Speaker 1: Sure I got all the pieces of music that we're.
Speaker 2: On so I could announce everything, and I forgot I
Speaker 2: was doing the show.
Speaker 1: Completely forgot.
Speaker 2: I was doing the show, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I'm going, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I went in and I talked.
Speaker 2: To Sam, Sam, how long have you been playing this
Speaker 2: bumper music? Three minutes? I came back, answered one question
Speaker 2: on handling Law. Someone asked me a question, Bill, what
Speaker 2: do I do? No, And I went right into, hey,
Speaker 2: thanks for listening everybody. I just completely forgot. Okay, So
Speaker 2: with that in mind, I've never done that. By the way,
Speaker 2: With that in mind, let me tell you about a
Speaker 2: study that just came out by the pre kind of
Speaker 2: preventative Preventive Medicine Research Institute, and.
Speaker 1: It talks about cognitive decline.
Speaker 2: For example, forgetting you're doing a radio show and going
Speaker 2: oh oh, I'm on the air live and having people
Speaker 2: listen to three minutes a bumper music, which I'm assuming
Speaker 2: we lost one or two listeners during the time. And
Speaker 2: what the research shows is that lifestyle changes actually improved
Speaker 2: or stabilized brain function in patients with early stage Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2: And how do you tell if someone has Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2: There's tests for it, for example, doing a radio show
Speaker 2: and forgetting you're on the air. That's one of the
Speaker 2: tests that proves Alzheimer's disease. So I love talking about
Speaker 2: studies because this is science.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: There's occasionally I'll do an anecdotal store story, but I
Speaker 2: have to tell you it's anecdotal. I've heard or this
Speaker 2: is what people are saying, and I always point out
Speaker 2: that it's anecdotal. This is a full study and it
Speaker 2: was published last year but now became public and it
Speaker 2: was led by the Preventive Medicine Research Institute nonprofit that
Speaker 2: found that brain function and cognition significantly improved in patients who.
Speaker 1: Made lifestyle changes. What does that mean?
Speaker 2: We are not designed We human beings are not designed
Speaker 2: to last as long as we're lasting, our bodies aren't.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is why we have knee problems, feet problems,
Speaker 2: all kinds of problems when we get older and our
Speaker 2: minds tend to go pretty quickly and the quality of
Speaker 2: life tends to fall apart. So a study published by
Speaker 2: the Preventive Medicine Research Institute said, here's what we can
Speaker 2: do to actually extend the quality of life and substantially,
Speaker 2: especially if you catch it early on, If you catch
Speaker 2: dementia early on, for example, forgetting to go on the
Speaker 2: air like I did on Saturday morning during a break,
Speaker 2: forgot to come back, and that's worth listening to if
Speaker 2: you want to listen to it on demand. Well, actually
Speaker 2: you're going to just listen to three minutes of bumper
Speaker 2: music while I was.
Speaker 1: Running around out there.
Speaker 2: And according to the author Dean Ornish, who is this
Speaker 2: is what he does, the earlier you intervene, the less
Speaker 2: intense of the lifestyle changes are likely to prevent it.
Speaker 2: In other words, what he did is he looked at
Speaker 2: healthy people in twenty twenty four. This is a separate
Speaker 2: one and saying even modest levels of physical activity twenty
Speaker 2: five minutes of moderate to vigorous activity a week are linked.
Speaker 1: To bigger brain sizes. I guess your brain actually increases.
Speaker 2: And advances in diagnostic and prognostic tools. What happens if
Speaker 2: and when are helping doctors and scientists get a new
Speaker 2: understanding of how to measure how to modify cognitive function.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Food and Drug Administration just to
Speaker 1: prove the.
Speaker 2: First blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty good. Now, that's designed for.
Speaker 2: People who are having memory problems, just to start with,
Speaker 2: not for people that are healthy. We haven't gotten that.
Speaker 2: We haven't gone that far yet, but here it is. Okay,
Speaker 2: here's what the study concludes. Diet a whole foods, minimally
Speaker 2: processed vegan diet, low and harmful fats, refined carbs and sweeteners.
Speaker 2: I'd rather lose my mind, thank you very much. I
Speaker 2: have no problem forgetting that I'm alive. Exercise at least
Speaker 2: thirty minutes daily of moderate aerobic exercise and mild strength
Speaker 2: training at least three times a week.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll give you that one.
Speaker 2: I walk every day and I work out three times
Speaker 2: a week, and I still look the way I look
Speaker 2: because I also live at Costco and if you look
Speaker 2: at my freezer, it is one hundred percent Costco processed food.
Speaker 2: Stress management one hour a day meditation, stretching, breathing exercises,
Speaker 2: overseen by a certified stress management specialist. Who the hell
Speaker 2: is a certified stress management specialist?
Speaker 1: Where do you get that? One? Wow?
Speaker 2: Adequate sleep encourage while we work in the morning, good luck,
Speaker 2: and then support Participants and their partners or spouses attend
Speaker 2: one hour support group session three times a week focusing
Speaker 2: on emotional support. You know, when I got out of
Speaker 2: drug rehab, I've shared with you that was a cocaine
Speaker 2: addict and I spent four years in the lovely throes
Speaker 2: of cocaine addiction, and I went into drug rehab and
Speaker 2: part of it is I had to go to AA
Speaker 2: meetings afterwards or Narcotics Anonymous, and I'd go two three
Speaker 2: times a week, and about six months into it, I'm
Speaker 2: looking around and I'm listening to.
Speaker 1: People pitch and tell their stories.
Speaker 2: In the middle of one of the meetings, I stood
Speaker 2: up realizing I'd rather be a cocaine addict than sit
Speaker 2: through one more of these, walking out the door, never
Speaker 2: going back ever again. So the chances of me participating
Speaker 2: in group sessions, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: Am I losing my mind?
Speaker 2: Neil?
Speaker 1: Am I losing my mind? Or is it about the
Speaker 1: same as always been? Mostly the same. Good. I think
Speaker 1: I feel better. What happened on Saturday was because you
Speaker 1: worked from home. You're studios right there. If you were
Speaker 1: in the studio, you wouldn't have forgotten to go on
Speaker 1: the air.
Speaker 2: Well I might have because I was looking at notes.
Speaker 2: All right, we're done. Tomorrow morning, we're all back again,
Speaker 2: starting with wake up call, Amy and Will who has
Speaker 2: his back to me, and that's from five to six,
Speaker 2: and the Neil I jump aboard, and then of course
Speaker 2: Cono and Ann are always here to.
Speaker 1: Make to make this work.
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon are up next. Catch you in the morning.
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