October 3, 2024 • 33 mins
Should America stand by Israel, moreover, why should Christians stand behind Jewish people
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And the death toll has now risen to one hundred
and ninety throughout the Southeast, with hundreds still missing after
Hurricane Helene. A strike by US DOC workers appears to
be prompting some buying panic. The del Jorno family can
confirm the Costco in Cool Springs, Tennessee out of toilet paper.
And Tuesday's vice presidential debate. What did I guess the
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other day with the White House correspondent John Decker? I
think I said thirty six million. I think you did so,
and price is right. You can't go over. I gotta
stay under. I was under drew more than forty three
million viewers. That's about eight million more than I thought
it would You're going to qualify for the showcase showdown.
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Just what would that be? Jade Vance versus the Haitian
migrant Tigers, Royals and Pidres. Oh my, they all advanced
to the Major League Baseball Divisional Playoff round and we
got Thursday Night Football. Tonato Baker midfield. He had some
football left in him, didn't he that? Oh, can't do it.
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Can't do it. Oklahoma Sooner who the Browns wish they
had is leaning the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this year into
Atlanta tonight for Thursday Night Football. Good morning, Welcome to Thursday,
October twenty twenty four on the Aaron streaming live on
your iHeartRadio app. This is your morning show. I'm Michael,
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That's Jeffrey Lyon, Hi, and we certainly appreciate you being here.
As far as things that are really going on, you
have the President, which is appropriate, the quote unquote President
of the United States visiting command centers in North Carolina
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and vowing for the federal government to pick up one
hundred percent of the tab and be there for everybody
in Eastern Tennessee and Western Carolina as well as those
affected in Georgia. That this is not a time for
Republicans and Democrats. This is a time for Americans to
stand behind American citizens suffering. And then you had Kamala
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Harris go there. That felt a little bit more campaigning.
She had on. You know that when they do the
whenever there's a disaster, they have that White House jacket
they put on. She had her vice presidential jacket on.
And again I can't be critical of her, and you know,
but I thought Donald Trump did a less obvious and
more tasteful shot at it from Georgia early on. So
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for me, and it's just me, may not even be you,
but to take people suffering, I think you know, you
have a campaign and that's real, that's for the future leadership.
But when you have a tragedy on going the way
it is, I don't think you turned that into a
campaign event. And that's what part of it felt like
for me yesterday. A lot of people hurting, a lot
of people still missing, and a lot of people lost
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their life tragically, and there's going to be a lot
of need that continues in this region. I think everybody's
attention is on this strike and how it's going to
affect us. As I mentioned toilet paper gone at Costco.
So I mean you had to go through everything that
was out on the floor, everything that was in the back,
everything that was in your local and regional warehouses. And
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that's panic buying and it's early for that, but you
can expect that. I think we ended up at Target.
We had toilet, they had toilet paper. I got a
couple of cases in my trunk. Yeah, that could be
gone today and we could be accused of being the
panic wire, which I have a bidet, so there's no
panic for me. But you know, how does all this
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play out? And again, it plays out in two ways. One,
the president could enact at taft haartly and put this
whole thing on hold for cooler heads to prevail for
ninety days. So far he's choosing not to. So far
he's doubling down. He's for the workers. The issue itself
is difficult. I could bring it up and I can
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tell you that there'll be X number of people look
at the radio and yell at me, and they will
hear that I'm siding against the longshoreman, you know, and
vice versa. So I mainly cover this from how it's
going to impact all of us collectively, how a fragile
economy is about to take a huge hit politically in
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the final five weeks of an election. How this could
be the October surprise. And then because if I know,
you know, Joe Biden doesn't appreciate the way he was treated,
it makes me speculate, Okay, you forced me out of office,
you forced me not to run. I'm not enacting taft tartly.
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Good luck winning now. It sure feels that way anyway.
But what's really at stake is well paid people compared
to the average American are wanting in some places as
high as a seventy seven percent pay increase. Hey, go
for it if you can, but you got to come
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to a bargaining table and be reasonable. And the part
that makes it really tricky or unreasonable or hard for
any of us to fathom how they're going to find
common ground is their stances on automation. You just can't
put a technology back in a two pace bottle. You
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just can't. It's gonna be here, It's going to be interwoven,
and the more you hold out, the more it's probably
going to be instituted. Now, there's also a trade dilemma
with all of this. This is why China is so cheap.
A the labor, but b the automation and the way
they can move things through their ports. So hey, look,
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I stay out of it. It's a very very complex negotiation,
and then we will break down what you can expect
to see. Right now, you're seeing some early panic buying,
but this goes on days into weeks. You'll feel something,
weeks into months, you'll feel something completely different. Beyond that,
you're looking at a fragile economy falling right back into desperation.
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There is nothing like what we've seen going on in
the Mid East. I think people in politics try to
make it escalation and who's to blame. The reality is
Israel is a sovereign nation. It has a right to exist.
It's approaching its one year anniversary of being invaded where
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thousands were harmed, raped, slaughtered. American as well as Israelis
taken and kidnapped, and they have a right to get
their citizens back. I wish the United States was more
interested in getting our citizens back, and they have a
right to protect their sovereign nation and their people moving forward.
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They've done so with very strategic air strikes, even with
some ground incursions and then what happened earlier this week,
one hundred and eighty one missiles fired from Iranian soil
raining down over Israel, and thanks to the Iron Dome
and thanks to other systems, including some United States assistance,
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none really hit their target and did any damage. But
this takes it from a proxy war to a direct
war with a ram. We wanted to visit with the
al X team, who is the CE the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews. She's on the ground in Israel,
and first and foremost we got a chance to pray
with her and find out how she was doing.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Thank you so much well. The past year has definitely
taught us to be resilient, that we know how to
seek shelter when there are attacks on our people, and
then we also know the other sides that I think
is no less important of how to then go on
with life and thank God for another day and another
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sun shining and blessing of breathing. So in Israel, we
are very confident that we are representing the values of
the free world, sanctifying life and preserving freedom in a
region that is all too often trying to destroy it.
So we are staying strong. We are held up by
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the prayers of so many people like you, and we
will continue to fight for a right to exist.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I will tell you I always view the epicenter of
the world, the Middle East, and the episod center of
the Middle East, Israel, on the epicenter of the epicenter
of the epicenter of the Temple mount But you know,
sitting here in Franklin, Tennessee and watching those missiles, one
hundred and eighty one of them raining down, and watching
the Iron Dome and the other systems, and I believe
the very hand of God protecting his land and his people.
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And I think that's at the root of this right
in that you have a right to exist. The other side,
for all the people to talk about a two state solution,
do not acknowledge that right to exist. You're under constant
attack and you have a right to defeat enemies and
protect and preserve your way of life. Do you feel
like the world in America and this administration is standing
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with you, because I can tell you there's a lot
of believers who are.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Definitely seeing those seeing those missiles, the most amountablistic missiles
to ever be launched at one said nation in the history,
and to see them being shot down by the Iron
Dome and landing in open areas in this and in
the ocean in between houses. The Guardian of Israel neither
slumbers nor sleeps, that's for sure. And what we feel
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is what the Fellowship represents, let me say, is the
silence to majority. Exactly what you're saying, my children, it's
a ready proto cal for them they're in and go
into the shelter. It's a ready protocol for them wherever
they go, whether it's to the mall or a friend's
house or nail salon, to always know where the closest
bomb shelter is because you have between thirty and ninety
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seconds to find safety there and if not, then you
are at risk of the rocket God forbid hitting you.
That's our reality. And when they turn on Instagram and
Facebook and even mainstream media, what they see is that
the whole world is against Israel. They're burning Israeli flags,
they're calling Israel to be destroyed. But what the Fellowship
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represents is the silenced majority, the faithful Christians, and there
are a lot of them, seven hundred million around the world,
one hundred million in America alone, who are praying for Israel,
who are standing with Israel, and who understand this is
a very clear war between good and evil, and the
same forces that are threatening Israel are the same forces
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that are threatening America.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I often, often, I often remind them of what the
enemy says. First come Saturday, Then comes Sunday. First, the
intolerance of the existence of Israel, the destruction of Israel,
the killing of all the Jews. And then right after that,
and if they succeed, and they will not, But if
they succeed, then come Sunday, the extermination and the destruction
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of America and the killing of all Christians. But I
want to even go before that and say, spiritually, if
you are a Christian, you have no life outside of Christ.
Your life becomes Christ's life. Therefore, you have an instant
past with Israel, present with you Israel, and a future
with Israel. This needs to be taught within the Christendom
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and the Church, and I believe it is in many places,
but not as many as it needs to be taught.
When we go to Genesis and we hear I will
bless those who bless her, and I will curse those
who curse her. Let me ask you, what are the
ways believers listening in America to you today can bless Israel.
I would think prayer, money, support, But what are some
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of the ways we can bless Israel and thus bless ourselves.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, I just want to say thank you to start with,
because Tahar, you speaks so bravely, so unapologetically, as a
Christian who believes in Israel's right to exist and recognizes
what it says in the Scripture is to pray for
the peace of Jerusalem, that Christians are grafted on to
the rich olive tree of Israel, that the roots of
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the Christian faith are in Israel, that Israel is your
spiritual homeland, and we're in this boat together, something that unfortunately,
so many Christians are scared to say, or are even
turning their backs on Israel. So just to hear you
say that so faithfully, something that gives me chills as
a Jewish woman who recognizes we are in this together.
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It's something that is moving, emotional and not a given unfortunately.
And I think what Christians can do to stand with
Israel is first and foremost to realize this is a
battle that there are so many evil forces trying to
change your heart, trying to change your spirit. So continue
to be strong in your faith, continue to be strong
in your prayer. And then the next part is letting
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the people of Israel know about that voice and those prayers.
And that's what we do at the Fellowship through distributing
food boxes and placing bomb shelters. Everything we do we
look in the scriptures and God says, feed the hungry,
clothe the naked, shelter the poor, be the watchmen on
the walls, and so everything we do what we've been
doing for forty years, but that we've been doing in
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a huge way on the ground under rocket attacks, missile attacks,
wherever it is in Israel since October seventh is we
go bomb shelter to bomb shelter with food boxes, We
go school to school with shelters, and we say this
is from Christians who stand with you, who love you,
and who will never abandon me.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Powerful. Now you're giving me chills. Yeah, Lextein is joining
us CEO of the International Fellowship for Christians and Jews.
I'm struggling to say, in essence, you've become physically on
the ground in Israel. The Red Cross of Israel, although
I'm a much bigger fan of the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews that I am the Red Cross. But
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I think that's a part of this alliance that people
don't realize how it practically plays out on the ground,
especially on weeks like this.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yes, yes, yes, we don't have bureaucracy. We don't wait
for anyone to tell us where to go. We don't
have roundtable discussions to discuss what our strategy is. We
see a need and we go out on the ground
in the moment to meet that need. Period there's someone
who's hungry, we bring them food. We have a soup
kitchen and carrit Shmona that's a small town on the
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border with Lebanon, just a mile away from where Husbala
terrorists are. That city has been bombarded with rockets, sometimes
hundreds of rockets a day and suicide drones. Our soup
kitchen had a direct rocket hit. I was up there,
I was on the roof. I saw the hole in
the soup kitchen's roof and the destruction that rocket. That
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terror launched rocket cause trying to put out our light
and stop us from producing food. Well, within twenty four hours,
we made sure that We had hundreds of meals that
were going out from the soup kitchen to the people
who were lying on us. And so I think our
you could call it a strategy, but I call it
a calling. Our calling is to be there for the
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people who need us, period, whether they're on the borders
with terrorists, whether they're being bombarded by rocket attacks from
Iran or or Hamas or from the UTIs and Yemen.
It doesn't matter. The Fellowship and our workers, our volunteers
are on the ground providing life saving aid without any
ifs or butts.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I'm not gonna, you know, tiptoe around it. And that's
what this whole conversation is about. How those listening can
bless and keep and provide and stand with Israel today
through the International Fellowship of christiansen Jews. I encourage you
to go to the website. You'll see there are many
ways for your giving to make a difference.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chona.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
There's an old expression, rude awakening. We had one here
at the Dell Journal Home three o'clock in the morning.
Little Baker Mayfield, better known as Scout, my English Shepherd,
made a little trot towards the door, doing what any
loving father would do. I opened the door for him ahead,
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and he returned fifteen minutes later, dripping wet. Oh and
I can't imagine that's all from the skunk. Oh. No,
so I'm weird. I love the smell of blacktop. Sure,
I love driving and smelling a skunk. I have never
had a skunk spray my dog before. That is a
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much different smell. How you doing much more concentrated what
I would call my new definition of a rude awakening.
It's almost garlicky when it's sprayed all over your dog.
And then, of course three o'clock in the morning, you're
in the shower, but you can't get it off. No,
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I'm reading stuff about tomatoes and what a nightmare, and
the smell is so thick on me I can't even think.
So bear with me this morning, and you're having a
better morning than I am. I assure you. Welcome to Thursday,
October third, twenty twenty four. Yeah, we got the doc
workers strike. Now the death toll is up to one
hundred and ninety from Hurricane Helena, and we still have
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hundreds missing. And then the wars in the Middle East
as I often say the epicenter of the world is
the Middle East, and the epicenter of the epicenter is Israel.
There's a couple of things. For people of faith listening,
I will point you to Genesis twelve, God speaking, I
will bless those who bless Israel, and I will curse
those who curse it. That doesn't vibe very well for
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Iran has Bellah Hamas who these advise very well for
the people of Israel and the country of Israel, and
you see God's hand protecting it through the Iron Dome
and other assistants. There are geopolitical issues. This is a proven,
trusted friend. This is a democracy surrounded by enemies. It's
important for the world and certainly the American government to
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stand by Israel. But for us as believers, how do
we bless her? How do we stand with her? Well?
I turned to Yale Estein, who is the CEO of
the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, an organization I've
been supportive of for over three decades because it gives
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you such a practical way to do it. She's on
the ground in Israel, so our first and foremost concern
was that she was okay find that out. In Part
one Part two, I brought up that this attack is different.
These are not proxies carrying out the dirty work of
Iran like Hesba Lahamas, and Israel's been decapitating that leadership.
Now this is direct war now with Iran. And how
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does she and the Israeli people expect their government to respond.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Well, it's really important. We'll get it through the eyes
of faith and also geopolitics. And from the eyes of geopolitics,
we can see that Iran has been holding the entire
world hostage for at least twenty years. There are so
many countries, Muslim countries, even in the Middle East, who
want advancemen, who want peace, who want to be doing
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good things for their people freedom, and they have this
noose around their neck of Iranian terror proxies that are
threatening them. Iran is not only threatening America and Israel
the Big Satan and Little Satan as they call it,
but they are stopping the advancement of peace and prosperity
for the entire world. They have strategically set up terror
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proxies across the Middle East and across the world in
order to make sure freedom doesn't rain. And so I
think what Israel is doing now is recognizing the world
is not going to take care of this threat. And
the only way that we are going to move forward
into a future of strategic partnerships between even Saudi Arabia
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and Israel that's possible is only if you get rid
of this threat that is holding back the world from
all good things. And so yes, I think Israel got
rid of Hamas, we are in the process of getting
rid of Hasblah. We will do whatever we need to
get rid of the Hutis, and I wouldn't be surprised
if we see the Iranian regime of terror fall very
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soon as well.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
This is not escalation. This is necessary for the preservation
of Israel and the protection of its people. It is proportional,
it is right. I would think target you know, targets
like their oil that they've been selling to China and
using that money for terrorism, or perhaps all of the
sanctions that have been lifted to impowerment. They only understand
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one thing, and that is force, and I think force
is coming. It has it has been historic the you know,
I think at the Old Testament scripture, when the enemy
comes in like a flood, God raises the standard against them.
I'm seeing that and that I'm seeing you know, for
all these political narratives, Obb's just trying to hang on
to power. No a level of defeat of this enemy
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for the security of not just a region but the world.
And the last two months has been more than I
have seen in the last three decades. There is something
so precise and so impactful and effective about this that
it's not only going to impact our time, but I
think for many, many decades to come. So we pray
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for wisdom as Israel prepares to respond. And now we
come up on the one year anniversary of October seventh,
where it all began. Put that into perspective with the
events of this week.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well, I don't think anyone would have thought one year
ago that we would not only still be fighting this
war and not only still be fighting for our survival
and hiding in bomb shelters, but that even more fronts
would be opened. But I think God is calling us
on this one year anniversary to remember the evil that
really exists in this world. And God has called us
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just like you started off saying in the beginning of
this show, Israel is the center of the world. Jerusalem
is the epicenter, and he's called Jerusalem and Israel to
wipe out this evil and bring light back to the world.
And so within all of the confusion, within a year
of anti Semitism being on the rise like I've never
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seen in my lifetime, or me, I think, or you
I think, there's so much light within it as well,
to see how our Christian friends have not turned their
back on us, They have not cowarded to the hatred,
but rather they have stood up stronger, more bold, more brave,
more faithful than ever before to say we stand with Israel,
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we stand with the Jewish people, and we will not
be confused and make that mistake again. And for me,
that is a significant light in the darkness that cannot
be cannot be looked over.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Final moments for the ALX team of the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews on the one year anniversary of
October seventh and the historic bombing events of this week
and whatever is about to unfold, I always cut to
the chase this way, what do you think America would
do if Aron launched a one hundred and eighty one
missiles at us? Get real? And I think, kind of
like we experienced after nine to eleven. You have a choice.
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You can either take on a victim mentality or you
can be victors. We pray for the victorious protection of Israel.
We bless you. We call God to shine his face
upon you and protect you and enrich you. And I
encourage all my listeners to learn more about this incredible
relationship between Christians and Jews through the International Fellowship of
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Christians and Jews and how it makes a measurable difference
in this time and it gives you the ability to
literally in prayer here in America and with your resources,
make a difference on the ground. And I can't encourage
them enough to do that. Tell them where they can
find you on the website and how they can become
partners at all different levels.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Well, well, thank you so much for your words, and
I say I'm I'm in. You can join our efforts
and learn more about our work by going to our
website www dot IFCJ dot org and you can see
how oh your donations transform in an instant into life
saving food and aid. You follow day to day activities
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on my social media pages at l x Stein, where
I update you a few times a day on how
you have such a huge presence on the ground in
the Holy Land and saving lives.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thank you so much for your time, me Ellen. We
pray for the continued protection of Israel and God's people.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I'm Jim Schultz in Tampa and my morning show is
your morning showy.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Plans how to get the smell of skunk out of
my house and my clothes and my lungs. But good
luck with that. Good morning. It's fifty minutes after the hour.
It fine, rise and shine, one chance to live and understand.
This Thursday, October the third, it's top five stories of
the day. Well, the death toll it has risen now
to one hundred and ninety throughout the southeast, one hundreds
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still missing after Hurricane Helen. President Biden announced details of
the relief efforts in North Carolina yesterdayday.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I approved a good question of Governor Cooper and photo
government to cover one of all the costs for debris removal,
murgercy protective measures for six months.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
The president's re marks came after he took an aerial
tour of the area set hardest by the flood caused
by Helena. The President this time said it's time to
put our political differences aside.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
There are no Democrats, Republicans, only America. And our job
is help as many people as we can, as quickly
as we can, and as thoroughly as we can.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And the strike of US DOC workers appears to be
prompting some panic and buying. Aaron Rayal's here to talk
about many things this morning, but Aaron, I can confirm
to you that panic made its way to Costco and
Cooles Points, Tennessee, where there was no toilet paper. This
will not affect your husband or me. We have the days,
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but we're already seeing some of that that early buying panic.
You know what.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
We've had this discussion before, and I think it's important
to reiterate to the American listening part that your toilet
paper will.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Not save you. No, I don't know why we do this.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
It cracked me up. It's like it's potty humor, just
like Nover.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But isn't it fascinating what we you know? Like Andrea
posted it to me this way, Hey, do you think
we should stock up on some things? And I and
so now I've got you in my head because we've
we've had this conversation on the air. All right, First
of all, there's the timing. There's you got to look
at this thing in five stages. If this is days,
it's one story. If it's weeks, it's another story. If
it's months, it's another story. And if it goes beyond that,
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it's a problem. But when you start thinking about what's
in boats in coming from abroad, well, if you're wanting
to buy a car, this is going to be a
pricing issue rather quickly. Electronics Christmas around the corner, but
you know, mainly a lot of produce. And when we
even talk about that, we really got to single out
the costcos in the walmarts versus others, you know. But
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but the simplest way what aeron is to think that
which is on a truck already in the United States
will be fine. That which must come from abroad mainly electronics, automobiles.
I can think of a few other things, but Neil,
what do we do? We have to go get toilet
paper every time toilet paper is apparently it's the ultimate.
I'll do anything but use my hand, you know, it's
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it is funny, but it happened. It happened yesterday already
it happened.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
And also side note about the toilet paper. Most of
it ninety percent of it is produced in North America
and Mexico. You're fine, both like it will be okay.
But one of the things, like we just get to
the nitty gritty of this. So, like you said, do
we play this out a week, two weeks, a month.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
It's all going to change.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
But what we do know is that one of the
biggesticking points is automation. And Harold Daggett, head of the
Longshoreman's Association. Google him, by the way, Google him.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, he's a character.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
He's character, Like if you casted him as the head
of a union, would they'd be like, tone it down.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It's just he is.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
And he's been connected to the Genezi crime family. He's
he was not accused. He was actually acquitted from a jury.
But you know, reco charges all the stuff. So he
also lives in a seven thousand square foot mansion in
New Jersey, So just give it a Google. But AnyWho,
he is continuing to hold out for automation. The future
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is a tough one to fend off. Michael unions. They
want language that is airtight, that says no automation, no
semi automation, They've already been offered by the US Maritime Alliance,
that's the group that reps the ports and the ocean carriers,
a fifty percent increase in terms of pay. They want
seventy seven percent increase. But they are not willing to
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acquiesce or move one inch on the automation. And this
is going to be a hard one because you can
create contract provisions that offer like protections for workers so
that they simply don't lose their job to automation. You
can guarantee retraining on the new tech or some other
kind of comptent station. They did this on the Pacific coast.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
They are not.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Willing to make that. We dusted a little bit of
that out yesterday. You can maybe make an effort to
ease it in. I like the you know, retraining, but
you can't prevent it. Now I have the great pleasure
of joining the Premiere lineup, and so in our lineup
we have Glenn Beck and Clay and Buck and Sean Hannity.
I thought Glenn did a brilliant job of explaining to
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people something you and I hadn't quite gotten to yet,
and that is number one. These are well paid individuals,
so they are well above the national salary age, as
they should be. It's tough work, hard work physically, and
dangerous work. But we're talking one hundred to two hundred
thousand dollars a year depending on what port you're in,
and they're wanting a seventy seven percent increase. All right,
so you know, keep that in mind. But the automation part,
(30:46):
this is where we're getting beat by China. Yeah, slave
labor in China, but also they're using all these automation
systems and we can't compete in the way that they
can turn items out in a way we can't physically.
So you're going to have to do it to compete.
It's already here. You can't get the genie back in
the bottle. You know, be reasonable in your negotiation about
retraining or easing it in. I mean, I understand it,
(31:08):
trying to protect jobs. But in the end, we saw
this in Washington, right. They thought they had such a
great victory at fifteen to twenty dollars minimum wage and
guess what most got replaced by automation.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Yes, and listen, this is a dangerous job. Generally they
make a good living, but I think that listen, it's
valid to argue for pay increases with thirty percent inflation.
The starting salary is twenty bucks an hour. It goes
up to then, I believe, like twenty four an hour,
and it tops out at thirty nine. If they were
able to get their seventy percent increase, they'd be making
(31:41):
sixty nine bucks an hour at the top end, which
is good good. So long story short, it's almost easier.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Long short, short, what did you say, long.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Shortman, short, easier to acquiesce to the pay increases as
opposed to the lack of automation. Again, this is this
is coming, and it's it's been shockingly slow moving. You know,
union workers they like to point to the fact that
their jobs are very dangerous, which they are, and dangerous
jobs deserve higher pay. We all get that.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
No one is seen otherwise, but.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It's kind of ironic that one of the big drivers
of automation has been safety. So, you know, you can
find a middle ground if you're willing to come to
the table. But if you're not, no, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
To give you closing. Won't sayre in reyale. I'm going
to give you the the task of trying to figure
out because I don't think it's toilet paper. What I
think Christmas shopping on the horizon could be a big issue.
Automobiles could be a big issue. Now we go months
and then there's there's a lot of other problems. But
(32:44):
initially I'm thinking phone chargers maybe, I mean, what could
possibly be anything within today and maybe even two months
christ In two months you get into the Christmas shopping.
But in electronics and toys team move. Yeah, this is
not a lot to panic over. Just yeah. And I
think still the most interesting angle is is it union
(33:05):
Joe or is it spiteful Joe that knows he had
his presidency taken away and he's not going to enact
tafteartly and he's going to allow this to barry Kamala
and get his revenge.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
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And the death toll has now risen to one hundred
and ninety throughout the Southeast, with hundreds still missing after
Hurricane Helene. A strike by US DOC workers appears to
be prompting some buying panic. The del Jorno family can
confirm the Costco in Cool Springs, Tennessee out of toilet paper.
And Tuesday's vice presidential debate. What did I guess the
(00:54):
other day with the White House correspondent John Decker? I
think I said thirty six million. I think you did so,
and price is right. You can't go over. I gotta
stay under. I was under drew more than forty three
million viewers. That's about eight million more than I thought
it would You're going to qualify for the showcase showdown.
(01:14):
Just what would that be? Jade Vance versus the Haitian
migrant Tigers, Royals and Pidres. Oh my, they all advanced
to the Major League Baseball Divisional Playoff round and we
got Thursday Night Football. Tonato Baker midfield. He had some
football left in him, didn't he that? Oh, can't do it.
(01:35):
Can't do it. Oklahoma Sooner who the Browns wish they
had is leaning the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this year into
Atlanta tonight for Thursday Night Football. Good morning, Welcome to Thursday,
October twenty twenty four on the Aaron streaming live on
your iHeartRadio app. This is your morning show. I'm Michael,
(01:55):
That's Jeffrey Lyon, Hi, and we certainly appreciate you being here.
As far as things that are really going on, you
have the President, which is appropriate, the quote unquote President
of the United States visiting command centers in North Carolina
(02:16):
and vowing for the federal government to pick up one
hundred percent of the tab and be there for everybody
in Eastern Tennessee and Western Carolina as well as those
affected in Georgia. That this is not a time for
Republicans and Democrats. This is a time for Americans to
stand behind American citizens suffering. And then you had Kamala
(02:36):
Harris go there. That felt a little bit more campaigning.
She had on. You know that when they do the
whenever there's a disaster, they have that White House jacket
they put on. She had her vice presidential jacket on.
And again I can't be critical of her, and you know,
but I thought Donald Trump did a less obvious and
more tasteful shot at it from Georgia early on. So
(03:03):
for me, and it's just me, may not even be you,
but to take people suffering, I think you know, you
have a campaign and that's real, that's for the future leadership.
But when you have a tragedy on going the way
it is, I don't think you turned that into a
campaign event. And that's what part of it felt like
for me yesterday. A lot of people hurting, a lot
of people still missing, and a lot of people lost
(03:25):
their life tragically, and there's going to be a lot
of need that continues in this region. I think everybody's
attention is on this strike and how it's going to
affect us. As I mentioned toilet paper gone at Costco.
So I mean you had to go through everything that
was out on the floor, everything that was in the back,
everything that was in your local and regional warehouses. And
(03:50):
that's panic buying and it's early for that, but you
can expect that. I think we ended up at Target.
We had toilet, they had toilet paper. I got a
couple of cases in my trunk. Yeah, that could be
gone today and we could be accused of being the
panic wire, which I have a bidet, so there's no
panic for me. But you know, how does all this
(04:11):
play out? And again, it plays out in two ways. One,
the president could enact at taft haartly and put this
whole thing on hold for cooler heads to prevail for
ninety days. So far he's choosing not to. So far
he's doubling down. He's for the workers. The issue itself
is difficult. I could bring it up and I can
(04:34):
tell you that there'll be X number of people look
at the radio and yell at me, and they will
hear that I'm siding against the longshoreman, you know, and
vice versa. So I mainly cover this from how it's
going to impact all of us collectively, how a fragile
economy is about to take a huge hit politically in
(04:58):
the final five weeks of an election. How this could
be the October surprise. And then because if I know,
you know, Joe Biden doesn't appreciate the way he was treated,
it makes me speculate, Okay, you forced me out of office,
you forced me not to run. I'm not enacting taft tartly.
(05:18):
Good luck winning now. It sure feels that way anyway.
But what's really at stake is well paid people compared
to the average American are wanting in some places as
high as a seventy seven percent pay increase. Hey, go
for it if you can, but you got to come
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to a bargaining table and be reasonable. And the part
that makes it really tricky or unreasonable or hard for
any of us to fathom how they're going to find
common ground is their stances on automation. You just can't
put a technology back in a two pace bottle. You
(06:00):
just can't. It's gonna be here, It's going to be interwoven,
and the more you hold out, the more it's probably
going to be instituted. Now, there's also a trade dilemma
with all of this. This is why China is so cheap.
A the labor, but b the automation and the way
they can move things through their ports. So hey, look,
(06:22):
I stay out of it. It's a very very complex negotiation,
and then we will break down what you can expect
to see. Right now, you're seeing some early panic buying,
but this goes on days into weeks. You'll feel something,
weeks into months, you'll feel something completely different. Beyond that,
you're looking at a fragile economy falling right back into desperation.
(06:47):
There is nothing like what we've seen going on in
the Mid East. I think people in politics try to
make it escalation and who's to blame. The reality is
Israel is a sovereign nation. It has a right to exist.
It's approaching its one year anniversary of being invaded where
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thousands were harmed, raped, slaughtered. American as well as Israelis
taken and kidnapped, and they have a right to get
their citizens back. I wish the United States was more
interested in getting our citizens back, and they have a
right to protect their sovereign nation and their people moving forward.
(07:28):
They've done so with very strategic air strikes, even with
some ground incursions and then what happened earlier this week,
one hundred and eighty one missiles fired from Iranian soil
raining down over Israel, and thanks to the Iron Dome
and thanks to other systems, including some United States assistance,
(07:49):
none really hit their target and did any damage. But
this takes it from a proxy war to a direct
war with a ram. We wanted to visit with the
al X team, who is the CE the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews. She's on the ground in Israel,
and first and foremost we got a chance to pray
with her and find out how she was doing.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Thank you so much well. The past year has definitely
taught us to be resilient, that we know how to
seek shelter when there are attacks on our people, and
then we also know the other sides that I think
is no less important of how to then go on
with life and thank God for another day and another
(08:28):
sun shining and blessing of breathing. So in Israel, we
are very confident that we are representing the values of
the free world, sanctifying life and preserving freedom in a
region that is all too often trying to destroy it.
So we are staying strong. We are held up by
(08:49):
the prayers of so many people like you, and we
will continue to fight for a right to exist.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I will tell you I always view the epicenter of
the world, the Middle East, and the episod center of
the Middle East, Israel, on the epicenter of the epicenter
of the epicenter of the Temple mount But you know,
sitting here in Franklin, Tennessee and watching those missiles, one
hundred and eighty one of them raining down, and watching
the Iron Dome and the other systems, and I believe
the very hand of God protecting his land and his people.
(09:19):
And I think that's at the root of this right
in that you have a right to exist. The other side,
for all the people to talk about a two state solution,
do not acknowledge that right to exist. You're under constant
attack and you have a right to defeat enemies and
protect and preserve your way of life. Do you feel
like the world in America and this administration is standing
(09:41):
with you, because I can tell you there's a lot
of believers who are.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Definitely seeing those seeing those missiles, the most amountablistic missiles
to ever be launched at one said nation in the history,
and to see them being shot down by the Iron
Dome and landing in open areas in this and in
the ocean in between houses. The Guardian of Israel neither
slumbers nor sleeps, that's for sure. And what we feel
(10:09):
is what the Fellowship represents, let me say, is the
silence to majority. Exactly what you're saying, my children, it's
a ready proto cal for them they're in and go
into the shelter. It's a ready protocol for them wherever
they go, whether it's to the mall or a friend's
house or nail salon, to always know where the closest
bomb shelter is because you have between thirty and ninety
(10:29):
seconds to find safety there and if not, then you
are at risk of the rocket God forbid hitting you.
That's our reality. And when they turn on Instagram and
Facebook and even mainstream media, what they see is that
the whole world is against Israel. They're burning Israeli flags,
they're calling Israel to be destroyed. But what the Fellowship
(10:50):
represents is the silenced majority, the faithful Christians, and there
are a lot of them, seven hundred million around the world,
one hundred million in America alone, who are praying for Israel,
who are standing with Israel, and who understand this is
a very clear war between good and evil, and the
same forces that are threatening Israel are the same forces
(11:11):
that are threatening America.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I often, often, I often remind them of what the
enemy says. First come Saturday, Then comes Sunday. First, the
intolerance of the existence of Israel, the destruction of Israel,
the killing of all the Jews. And then right after that,
and if they succeed, and they will not, But if
they succeed, then come Sunday, the extermination and the destruction
(11:34):
of America and the killing of all Christians. But I
want to even go before that and say, spiritually, if
you are a Christian, you have no life outside of Christ.
Your life becomes Christ's life. Therefore, you have an instant
past with Israel, present with you Israel, and a future
with Israel. This needs to be taught within the Christendom
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and the Church, and I believe it is in many places,
but not as many as it needs to be taught.
When we go to Genesis and we hear I will
bless those who bless her, and I will curse those
who curse her. Let me ask you, what are the
ways believers listening in America to you today can bless Israel.
I would think prayer, money, support, But what are some
(12:21):
of the ways we can bless Israel and thus bless ourselves.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, I just want to say thank you to start with,
because Tahar, you speaks so bravely, so unapologetically, as a
Christian who believes in Israel's right to exist and recognizes
what it says in the Scripture is to pray for
the peace of Jerusalem, that Christians are grafted on to
the rich olive tree of Israel, that the roots of
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the Christian faith are in Israel, that Israel is your
spiritual homeland, and we're in this boat together, something that unfortunately,
so many Christians are scared to say, or are even
turning their backs on Israel. So just to hear you
say that so faithfully, something that gives me chills as
a Jewish woman who recognizes we are in this together.
(13:08):
It's something that is moving, emotional and not a given unfortunately.
And I think what Christians can do to stand with
Israel is first and foremost to realize this is a
battle that there are so many evil forces trying to
change your heart, trying to change your spirit. So continue
to be strong in your faith, continue to be strong
in your prayer. And then the next part is letting
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the people of Israel know about that voice and those prayers.
And that's what we do at the Fellowship through distributing
food boxes and placing bomb shelters. Everything we do we
look in the scriptures and God says, feed the hungry,
clothe the naked, shelter the poor, be the watchmen on
the walls, and so everything we do what we've been
doing for forty years, but that we've been doing in
(13:51):
a huge way on the ground under rocket attacks, missile attacks,
wherever it is in Israel since October seventh is we
go bomb shelter to bomb shelter with food boxes, We
go school to school with shelters, and we say this
is from Christians who stand with you, who love you,
and who will never abandon me.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Powerful. Now you're giving me chills. Yeah, Lextein is joining
us CEO of the International Fellowship for Christians and Jews.
I'm struggling to say, in essence, you've become physically on
the ground in Israel. The Red Cross of Israel, although
I'm a much bigger fan of the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews that I am the Red Cross. But
(14:29):
I think that's a part of this alliance that people
don't realize how it practically plays out on the ground,
especially on weeks like this.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yes, yes, yes, we don't have bureaucracy. We don't wait
for anyone to tell us where to go. We don't
have roundtable discussions to discuss what our strategy is. We
see a need and we go out on the ground
in the moment to meet that need. Period there's someone
who's hungry, we bring them food. We have a soup
kitchen and carrit Shmona that's a small town on the
(15:03):
border with Lebanon, just a mile away from where Husbala
terrorists are. That city has been bombarded with rockets, sometimes
hundreds of rockets a day and suicide drones. Our soup
kitchen had a direct rocket hit. I was up there,
I was on the roof. I saw the hole in
the soup kitchen's roof and the destruction that rocket. That
(15:24):
terror launched rocket cause trying to put out our light
and stop us from producing food. Well, within twenty four hours,
we made sure that We had hundreds of meals that
were going out from the soup kitchen to the people
who were lying on us. And so I think our
you could call it a strategy, but I call it
a calling. Our calling is to be there for the
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people who need us, period, whether they're on the borders
with terrorists, whether they're being bombarded by rocket attacks from
Iran or or Hamas or from the UTIs and Yemen.
It doesn't matter. The Fellowship and our workers, our volunteers
are on the ground providing life saving aid without any
ifs or butts.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I'm not gonna, you know, tiptoe around it. And that's
what this whole conversation is about. How those listening can
bless and keep and provide and stand with Israel today
through the International Fellowship of christiansen Jews. I encourage you
to go to the website. You'll see there are many
ways for your giving to make a difference.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chona.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
There's an old expression, rude awakening. We had one here
at the Dell Journal Home three o'clock in the morning.
Little Baker Mayfield, better known as Scout, my English Shepherd,
made a little trot towards the door, doing what any
loving father would do. I opened the door for him ahead,
(16:48):
and he returned fifteen minutes later, dripping wet. Oh and
I can't imagine that's all from the skunk. Oh. No,
so I'm weird. I love the smell of blacktop. Sure,
I love driving and smelling a skunk. I have never
had a skunk spray my dog before. That is a
(17:13):
much different smell. How you doing much more concentrated what
I would call my new definition of a rude awakening.
It's almost garlicky when it's sprayed all over your dog.
And then, of course three o'clock in the morning, you're
in the shower, but you can't get it off. No,
(17:33):
I'm reading stuff about tomatoes and what a nightmare, and
the smell is so thick on me I can't even think.
So bear with me this morning, and you're having a
better morning than I am. I assure you. Welcome to Thursday,
October third, twenty twenty four. Yeah, we got the doc
workers strike. Now the death toll is up to one
hundred and ninety from Hurricane Helena, and we still have
(17:55):
hundreds missing. And then the wars in the Middle East
as I often say the epicenter of the world is
the Middle East, and the epicenter of the epicenter is Israel.
There's a couple of things. For people of faith listening,
I will point you to Genesis twelve, God speaking, I
will bless those who bless Israel, and I will curse
those who curse it. That doesn't vibe very well for
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Iran has Bellah Hamas who these advise very well for
the people of Israel and the country of Israel, and
you see God's hand protecting it through the Iron Dome
and other assistants. There are geopolitical issues. This is a proven,
trusted friend. This is a democracy surrounded by enemies. It's
important for the world and certainly the American government to
(18:43):
stand by Israel. But for us as believers, how do
we bless her? How do we stand with her? Well?
I turned to Yale Estein, who is the CEO of
the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, an organization I've
been supportive of for over three decades because it gives
(19:05):
you such a practical way to do it. She's on
the ground in Israel, so our first and foremost concern
was that she was okay find that out. In Part
one Part two, I brought up that this attack is different.
These are not proxies carrying out the dirty work of
Iran like Hesba Lahamas, and Israel's been decapitating that leadership.
Now this is direct war now with Iran. And how
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does she and the Israeli people expect their government to respond.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Well, it's really important. We'll get it through the eyes
of faith and also geopolitics. And from the eyes of geopolitics,
we can see that Iran has been holding the entire
world hostage for at least twenty years. There are so
many countries, Muslim countries, even in the Middle East, who
want advancemen, who want peace, who want to be doing
(19:53):
good things for their people freedom, and they have this
noose around their neck of Iranian terror proxies that are
threatening them. Iran is not only threatening America and Israel
the Big Satan and Little Satan as they call it,
but they are stopping the advancement of peace and prosperity
for the entire world. They have strategically set up terror
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proxies across the Middle East and across the world in
order to make sure freedom doesn't rain. And so I
think what Israel is doing now is recognizing the world
is not going to take care of this threat. And
the only way that we are going to move forward
into a future of strategic partnerships between even Saudi Arabia
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and Israel that's possible is only if you get rid
of this threat that is holding back the world from
all good things. And so yes, I think Israel got
rid of Hamas, we are in the process of getting
rid of Hasblah. We will do whatever we need to
get rid of the Hutis, and I wouldn't be surprised
if we see the Iranian regime of terror fall very
(21:00):
soon as well.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
This is not escalation. This is necessary for the preservation
of Israel and the protection of its people. It is proportional,
it is right. I would think target you know, targets
like their oil that they've been selling to China and
using that money for terrorism, or perhaps all of the
sanctions that have been lifted to impowerment. They only understand
(21:23):
one thing, and that is force, and I think force
is coming. It has it has been historic the you know,
I think at the Old Testament scripture, when the enemy
comes in like a flood, God raises the standard against them.
I'm seeing that and that I'm seeing you know, for
all these political narratives, Obb's just trying to hang on
to power. No a level of defeat of this enemy
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for the security of not just a region but the world.
And the last two months has been more than I
have seen in the last three decades. There is something
so precise and so impactful and effective about this that
it's not only going to impact our time, but I
think for many, many decades to come. So we pray
(22:09):
for wisdom as Israel prepares to respond. And now we
come up on the one year anniversary of October seventh,
where it all began. Put that into perspective with the
events of this week.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well, I don't think anyone would have thought one year
ago that we would not only still be fighting this
war and not only still be fighting for our survival
and hiding in bomb shelters, but that even more fronts
would be opened. But I think God is calling us
on this one year anniversary to remember the evil that
really exists in this world. And God has called us
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just like you started off saying in the beginning of
this show, Israel is the center of the world. Jerusalem
is the epicenter, and he's called Jerusalem and Israel to
wipe out this evil and bring light back to the world.
And so within all of the confusion, within a year
of anti Semitism being on the rise like I've never
(23:08):
seen in my lifetime, or me, I think, or you
I think, there's so much light within it as well,
to see how our Christian friends have not turned their
back on us, They have not cowarded to the hatred,
but rather they have stood up stronger, more bold, more brave,
more faithful than ever before to say we stand with Israel,
(23:29):
we stand with the Jewish people, and we will not
be confused and make that mistake again. And for me,
that is a significant light in the darkness that cannot
be cannot be looked over.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Final moments for the ALX team of the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews on the one year anniversary of
October seventh and the historic bombing events of this week
and whatever is about to unfold, I always cut to
the chase this way, what do you think America would
do if Aron launched a one hundred and eighty one
missiles at us? Get real? And I think, kind of
like we experienced after nine to eleven. You have a choice.
(24:03):
You can either take on a victim mentality or you
can be victors. We pray for the victorious protection of Israel.
We bless you. We call God to shine his face
upon you and protect you and enrich you. And I
encourage all my listeners to learn more about this incredible
relationship between Christians and Jews through the International Fellowship of
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Christians and Jews and how it makes a measurable difference
in this time and it gives you the ability to
literally in prayer here in America and with your resources,
make a difference on the ground. And I can't encourage
them enough to do that. Tell them where they can
find you on the website and how they can become
partners at all different levels.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Well, well, thank you so much for your words, and
I say I'm I'm in. You can join our efforts
and learn more about our work by going to our
website www dot IFCJ dot org and you can see
how oh your donations transform in an instant into life
saving food and aid. You follow day to day activities
(25:07):
on my social media pages at l x Stein, where
I update you a few times a day on how
you have such a huge presence on the ground in
the Holy Land and saving lives.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thank you so much for your time, me Ellen. We
pray for the continued protection of Israel and God's people.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I'm Jim Schultz in Tampa and my morning show is
your morning showy.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Plans how to get the smell of skunk out of
my house and my clothes and my lungs. But good
luck with that. Good morning. It's fifty minutes after the hour.
It fine, rise and shine, one chance to live and understand.
This Thursday, October the third, it's top five stories of
the day. Well, the death toll it has risen now
to one hundred and ninety throughout the southeast, one hundreds
(25:51):
still missing after Hurricane Helen. President Biden announced details of
the relief efforts in North Carolina yesterdayday.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I approved a good question of Governor Cooper and photo
government to cover one of all the costs for debris removal,
murgercy protective measures for six months.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
The president's re marks came after he took an aerial
tour of the area set hardest by the flood caused
by Helena. The President this time said it's time to
put our political differences aside.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
There are no Democrats, Republicans, only America. And our job
is help as many people as we can, as quickly
as we can, and as thoroughly as we can.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And the strike of US DOC workers appears to be
prompting some panic and buying. Aaron Rayal's here to talk
about many things this morning, but Aaron, I can confirm
to you that panic made its way to Costco and
Cooles Points, Tennessee, where there was no toilet paper. This
will not affect your husband or me. We have the days,
(26:49):
but we're already seeing some of that that early buying panic.
You know what.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
We've had this discussion before, and I think it's important
to reiterate to the American listening part that your toilet
paper will.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Not save you. No, I don't know why we do this.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
It cracked me up. It's like it's potty humor, just
like Nover.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But isn't it fascinating what we you know? Like Andrea
posted it to me this way, Hey, do you think
we should stock up on some things? And I and
so now I've got you in my head because we've
we've had this conversation on the air. All right, First
of all, there's the timing. There's you got to look
at this thing in five stages. If this is days,
it's one story. If it's weeks, it's another story. If
it's months, it's another story. And if it goes beyond that,
(27:35):
it's a problem. But when you start thinking about what's
in boats in coming from abroad, well, if you're wanting
to buy a car, this is going to be a
pricing issue rather quickly. Electronics Christmas around the corner, but
you know, mainly a lot of produce. And when we
even talk about that, we really got to single out
the costcos in the walmarts versus others, you know. But
(27:57):
but the simplest way what aeron is to think that
which is on a truck already in the United States
will be fine. That which must come from abroad mainly electronics, automobiles.
I can think of a few other things, but Neil,
what do we do? We have to go get toilet
paper every time toilet paper is apparently it's the ultimate.
I'll do anything but use my hand, you know, it's
(28:20):
it is funny, but it happened. It happened yesterday already
it happened.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
And also side note about the toilet paper. Most of
it ninety percent of it is produced in North America
and Mexico. You're fine, both like it will be okay.
But one of the things, like we just get to
the nitty gritty of this. So, like you said, do
we play this out a week, two weeks, a month.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
It's all going to change.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
But what we do know is that one of the
biggesticking points is automation. And Harold Daggett, head of the
Longshoreman's Association. Google him, by the way, Google him.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, he's a character.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
He's character, Like if you casted him as the head
of a union, would they'd be like, tone it down.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It's just he is.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
And he's been connected to the Genezi crime family. He's
he was not accused. He was actually acquitted from a jury.
But you know, reco charges all the stuff. So he
also lives in a seven thousand square foot mansion in
New Jersey, So just give it a Google. But AnyWho,
he is continuing to hold out for automation. The future
(29:25):
is a tough one to fend off. Michael unions. They
want language that is airtight, that says no automation, no
semi automation, They've already been offered by the US Maritime Alliance,
that's the group that reps the ports and the ocean carriers,
a fifty percent increase in terms of pay. They want
seventy seven percent increase. But they are not willing to
(29:45):
acquiesce or move one inch on the automation. And this
is going to be a hard one because you can
create contract provisions that offer like protections for workers so
that they simply don't lose their job to automation. You
can guarantee retraining on the new tech or some other
kind of comptent station. They did this on the Pacific coast.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
They are not.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Willing to make that. We dusted a little bit of
that out yesterday. You can maybe make an effort to
ease it in. I like the you know, retraining, but
you can't prevent it. Now I have the great pleasure
of joining the Premiere lineup, and so in our lineup
we have Glenn Beck and Clay and Buck and Sean Hannity.
I thought Glenn did a brilliant job of explaining to
(30:22):
people something you and I hadn't quite gotten to yet,
and that is number one. These are well paid individuals,
so they are well above the national salary age, as
they should be. It's tough work, hard work physically, and
dangerous work. But we're talking one hundred to two hundred
thousand dollars a year depending on what port you're in,
and they're wanting a seventy seven percent increase. All right,
so you know, keep that in mind. But the automation part,
(30:46):
this is where we're getting beat by China. Yeah, slave
labor in China, but also they're using all these automation
systems and we can't compete in the way that they
can turn items out in a way we can't physically.
So you're going to have to do it to compete.
It's already here. You can't get the genie back in
the bottle. You know, be reasonable in your negotiation about
retraining or easing it in. I mean, I understand it,
(31:08):
trying to protect jobs. But in the end, we saw
this in Washington, right. They thought they had such a
great victory at fifteen to twenty dollars minimum wage and
guess what most got replaced by automation.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Yes, and listen, this is a dangerous job. Generally they
make a good living, but I think that listen, it's
valid to argue for pay increases with thirty percent inflation.
The starting salary is twenty bucks an hour. It goes
up to then, I believe, like twenty four an hour,
and it tops out at thirty nine. If they were
able to get their seventy percent increase, they'd be making
(31:41):
sixty nine bucks an hour at the top end, which
is good good. So long story short, it's almost easier.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Long short, short, what did you say, long.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Shortman, short, easier to acquiesce to the pay increases as
opposed to the lack of automation. Again, this is this
is coming, and it's it's been shockingly slow moving. You know,
union workers they like to point to the fact that
their jobs are very dangerous, which they are, and dangerous
jobs deserve higher pay. We all get that.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
No one is seen otherwise, but.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It's kind of ironic that one of the big drivers
of automation has been safety. So, you know, you can
find a middle ground if you're willing to come to
the table. But if you're not, no, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
To give you closing. Won't sayre in reyale. I'm going
to give you the the task of trying to figure
out because I don't think it's toilet paper. What I
think Christmas shopping on the horizon could be a big issue.
Automobiles could be a big issue. Now we go months
and then there's there's a lot of other problems. But
(32:44):
initially I'm thinking phone chargers maybe, I mean, what could
possibly be anything within today and maybe even two months
christ In two months you get into the Christmas shopping.
But in electronics and toys team move. Yeah, this is
not a lot to panic over. Just yeah. And I
think still the most interesting angle is is it union
(33:05):
Joe or is it spiteful Joe that knows he had
his presidency taken away and he's not going to enact
tafteartly and he's going to allow this to barry Kamala
and get his revenge.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
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