Aston Bright From Dennis Rodman to Firefighter Running For Council Volunteers in Israel to Help Jews

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Here's your host, the Fight Man.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yo, It's pipe Man, the Wandering Jew. This is our
new spinoff podcast because pipe Man is sick and tired
of people hating on each other, sick and tired of
people being divided. We need to collectively as humans, create

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unity and love throughout the world. And I couldn't think
of a better guest to bring on that promotes that.
Who Okay, he had a show on our station years ago,
and we're going to talk a little bit, like very
briefly about that, because I have some funny things to
talk about there. But he, oh, my god, he has

(01:54):
captured my heart by going to Israel in the middle
of chaos to help the Israelis and the Jews and
the fire department and first responders over there in Israel,
because they're pretty busy right now. So there's gotta be
some hero that goes and helps them fight fires and

(02:19):
just help in any way he can. And that is
asked him Bright, So let's bring him on to the show.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Hello, Hello, Hello, what's going on? Brother? How are you?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh? What's happening? You know? Listen, we've known each other
a long time. Yes, yeah, it started by the way,
I have a trivia question for you. And right now,
did you recognize a voice before you came on the show?

Speaker 4 (02:50):
No, I didn't recognize it was it me?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
No, it wasn't you, but it well, the first part
of it was you wouldn't recognize because it was my
grandkids doing the ok and then there was my daughter
doing the disclaimers and she worked at the station when
you had the show here. But then the last part
of the intro was chad.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Ah Chad oh Man.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Okay, okay, and I I've been wanting to change the intro,
but I just can't do it. Get rid of Chad
off the intro, Like.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
I get that.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I mean, he was around before even the station was
around that. I don't know if you know, but when
I decided to start this network, I used to got
We were really close friends, Chay and I and I
used to go support his gigs all the time, and
I looked at him and he would literally be playing guitar,

(03:49):
singing and messing with the mixer board the whole performance,
and I'm like, that's who I need as my engineer
my station for real. That's how it happened.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, and he was great.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
And then I vividly remember sitting at the studio table
with you one day and you were gonna invite me. Okay.
So for everybody that's listening watching doesn't know, when I
met you, you were the personal assistant to Dennis Rodman,
and you still work with him, but you have gone

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way way in a lot of different better directions, not better,
but more directions and just growing as a person. And
all the time I've known you and I you know,
it was funny back then, because I remember you were
really smart, you know, very very into your uh you're

(04:47):
very educated and formed on all things politics, but not
like today, like really educated and somebody you could have
a conversation with and no matter what the viewpoint was,
it was a good conversation.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah. Absolutely. I try to always stay up on the
different issues and try to do.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Whatever I can to stay involved and to help.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
And yeah, back then I was doing some work with
Dennis eventually went on to be one of his managers
for many years. And but yeah, I've since returned to
the business community and that's that's where I'm at now.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, and before we get onto the meet and potatoes here,
I am gonna say one thing that I remember vividly
seeing at that studio table is you invited me to
go to one of the Rodman parties. Okay, but you
warned me. And at the time, I was raised my kids,

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and you warned me. You're like, but you better be
prepared that you're gonna be gone from like I don't know,
Thursday till Tuesday, and you're not gonna be able to swim,
You're not gonna be able to sleep. You better be
prepared for that. And I think I said something you like,
Oh man, before I have kids, I would have been

(06:09):
totally down with that, but my kids that.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Long Dennis's parties or legendary. Matter of fact, Lionskate Films
is making a movie about Dennis when he left the
playoffs the NBA Finals and went to Vegas for forty
eight hours. So it's called to be called forty eight
Hours in Vegas. There's a feature film that's coming.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Wow, that's pretty cool, and I understand you guys are
also you know, try and get his number retired in Chicago,
which I am a million percent for. He is the
greatest rebounder ever in the NBA and he deserves it.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, there's a I'm pretty sure it's a fan that
started this campaign with retire ninety one dot com. He
created a website and someone sent it to me the
other day and I actually he told Dennis about it,
and he loves the idea of having his number retired
next to Jordan and Pippin and all the other Chicago greats.
So we really appreciate the fan that is created that

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retire ninety one dot com to try to help Dennis
get his number retired. And I have a great story
about how Nanni's got in the whole fan, which we
can also maybe touch on as well at.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Some point today. Absolutely, whenever you want. And I do
have to say something like, okay, I have to tell
everybody I would vote in a heartbeat if I lived
in Plantation. But I am so excited that you are
running for counsel in Plantation because I think we really

(07:40):
need more people like you in politics, and because I
just think you have so much to offer, and you're
such a source of you know, energy, volunteering, you know,
just to me a hero in that respect. Now, I
will say I have a request. Sure, when you win, Okay,

(08:08):
when you win, the parade for your winning has to
be a parade of one wheels.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
I'm actually down with that.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
You know how much I love riding one I actually
have no problem doing that. And what's even crazier is
I have just recently decided that I'm going to get
back into skateboarding.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
So stay tuned to that.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh that we got to do that together. I have
three skateboards at home, Okay, I have my I have
one that it's in my jeep outside right now. It's
with me at all times. That's my trick board. I
just got done with doing Welcome to Rockville and Daytona
at the Daytona International Speedway, and I was like, hey, well,
I lose my media credential if I take my skateboard

(08:51):
and I ride the wall. Now, of course that we've
probably been one of the stupidest things I ever did anyway,
because that wall is insane. Man. But I also have
a long board and check this out. You'll want to
know this. I have this thing. It's it's a stick okay,

(09:13):
almost like a paddle boarding so I use it to
practice paddle boarding on land. And now my newest edition,
which now the newest edition of skateboard, also combines politics
into it. By the way, Okay, go figure that out
and I'll tell you in a second. But it's a

(09:36):
surf skate, which is the newest thing. The trucks are
very different. They're made so that when there's no waves
like here in Florida and you're a surfer, you can
surf on your skateboard. That's why it's called surf skate
because you don't you don't kick, you pump just like
you're on a wave, and that gets it going. Got

(09:57):
check it out. It's pretty wild and like it's I've
been skateboarding all my life and when I got this thing,
like I never wear pads, I never wear a helmet.
I called up my daughter. I'm like, yeah, I think
maybe it's time I got a helmet, uh and pads
because this thing is insane. Like I ate crap, okay,

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and I don't eat crap on my skateboard. It was
it was pre and so I like it because it's
a new challenge. Okay. But here's what's funny. I did
some research and I bought it from the best surf
skate company in the world, Like Carver is pretty popular
here in the US, but there's one called Yowie and

(10:40):
there out of Spain, and I bought it, okay, and
I got a factual experience to dispel all all myths
about tariffs. Because I bought this thing. It took so
long to get to me, like really long. I got it,
And after I got it, I was getting like a

(11:04):
collection agency calls and text messages. I thought they were
scams from FedEx saying I owe them money and that
I have to pay the tariff and I owe them.
I am like or I'm not getting the board. That's
why I thought it was a scam. I'm like, all right,
I have it. I ignored it, ignored it. I got a

(11:26):
collection letter in my mail and I literally, I literally
called them up. I'm like, what are you talking about? Well,
you agreed to tarif. I'm like no, otherwise, I wasn't
paid it array. It wasn't in my contract to buy it.
So they were trying to stick me with the tariff.

(11:49):
The country wasn't paying it, the company wasn't paying it.
I didn't pay it either, Pipeman, don't pay no terrorff
for buying something. You're muted a little there aston Hello,
uh there you're back.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
See see, I saw your bounce moving. But I'm like, well,
maybe he's muted on purpose, But now that you start talking, it.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Might just be some sort of noise canceling situation.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, it was probably Zoom Zoom takes over your thingy
and so it doesn't play well with others and we're
not on zoom. So will you think about that? Okay,
from a political standpoint, what is your opinion on tariffs
and what do you think about the fact that me

(12:41):
as American is paying the tariff, not the country.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
So one of the things I would say is that
our economic policy, I think, you know, it is what
it is, and some of the changes that have recently
been made. Obviously the courts have if sussed out and
have sorted out a lot of those things. And my
understanding is that anyone who has been paying tariffs is
going to be getting a refund. So it sounds like

(13:07):
most of those tariffs have been struck down that didn't
follow the proper procedure for that. But you know, I
will tell you that one of the things that that
I think is is really important. It's just really taking
care of our people, you know. And so one of
the things that's really important to me and just being
in service to others, is that I always think that

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if we put our people first, no matter what you're
talking about, whether the federal government, the state government, the
local government, we put our people first, I think that
will always be ahead and will always be better off.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
So that's that's really just the position I take in.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
And we're not going that, you know, we're I can
always agree on everything, but I think that we can
always agree that the people need to always.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Come first, no doubt and I'll tell you what I did.
I did the total American thing. I called up. I
call them, I'm not paying it charge the country and
they gave me. Wait, they did give me an email.
So they said if I email them and said that

(14:10):
in an email, I went, I wouldn't have to pay.
And so that's why I did. And then they told
me the email address and I started laughing. The email
address was DJT at FedEx dot com.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh that's crazy, right.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Oh my god, it's just so funny. But so the
bottom line is I love what you're about because it
is always about the people. And I think, you know
what we stopped. We need to really stop just focusing
on all the stuff that really is not that important
and and focus on being the United States of America.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
You know, there's a lot of a there's a lot
of division, mostly on partisan lines, and one of the
things I really believe is important is that we don't
have to agree on everything to be able to be.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
A community, right, you know, and we're not going to
agree on everything, you know.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
I and I think that's important to remember. Things have
become so hyperpartisan now that it's like, oh, this side
versus that side, and I don't think it needs to
be like that because one of the things that and
as a person who's traveled to thirty different countries, I
can tell you that one of the things that has
kept America together is whether you're on the left, right, center,
or different. We probably agree on like seventy five to

(15:42):
eighty percent of things, and then there's that fifteen twenty
percent maybe where there's some disagreement. But the thing that
makes us different than most a lot of other countries,
especially like say in certain parts of the Middle East
and in Africa, or even in Latin America, is those
countries agree on maybe like two or three percent, and

(16:04):
they have ninety seven percent differences, which is why they
have revolutions every fifteen twenty years, why they have unstable
governments and coups and all these problems. And so I
always try to remind people that if you think that
we have division here, you should see how a lot
of other countries are trying to deal with a lot
of these issues. And it is like kindergarten compared to

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some things going on in the Middle East and in
Africa and in Latin America and in other parts.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Of the world. So we have a really good thing.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Here, and one of the things I think that I'd
like to do is to try to help us to
keep this thing going and to make things better and stronger.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I love it because that is what makes us stronger.
And yes, we're gonna have differences. And the perfect example
of that is my brother. If I have a brother
that if people don't agree with him, they're uninformed and uneducated.
And when he said that the first time to me,

(17:01):
I was like, or, I was like, or maybe they
just grew up at a different place than you did.
Maybe they have a different career than you do. Maybe
they have a different upbringing than you do. Maybe there's,
like I could give you a million variables of maybe.
So maybe you should find out why people vote the

(17:22):
way they do or believe the way they do before
criticizing them, because maybe they have good reasons for it.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, you know, you have to people kind of come
as they are, you know, and like you said, it's
a lot to do with their background, their experiences, their
education level. Everyone comes to the table bringing something of
value and it's not going to always be the same
as you and we're all going to be a little
bit different. But that's what makes this country so great
is that we are all different. We bring a little

(17:50):
something special and something different. We're a nation of immigrants,
So yeah, it's important to remember that. And one of
the biggest I think mistakes people make is that they
take someone's ignorance and they use it as an insult.
And ignorance actually is not an insult. It actually just
a lack of knowledge. It doesn't mean that they're wrong.

(18:12):
They just a lot of people just don't know what
they should know about something, and that's why they feel
how they feel, believe what they believe. So I am
a person who always will talk. I'll talk to anybody.
I'll talk to anyone. I'm interested to learn from anyone,
And whether we agree or disagree, I think that I

(18:33):
might be able to teach you something, you may be
able to teach me something. And I think that's how
we can work together and how we can build something.
You know, very very special, and I think that's very important.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
And you know what, I'll tell you it is so
true because I think the only way to really learn
is from people with different points of view than you,
because the people with the same already you already know that.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, and I caution people to stay out of echo chambers.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
You know, if you're in a group of friends or
some sort of Facebook group or some sort of Reddit forum,
and you're only going to places where everyone violently agrees
with you, then you're doing yourself a great disservice. You
need to definitely you need to watch MSNBC or whatever
they call themselves. Now, you need to watch Fox News,
you need to watch CNN, you need to watch News Nation.

(19:23):
You need to you need to read and watch a
wide range of networks so then you can decide where
you want to land and what you want to believe
and what you think is accurate. Because if you no
one on the far left is always right, no one
the far right is always right.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
It's usually something in the middle. And yah, good, good.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Variety of information sources, you're probably going to be getting
better information than if you were only watching sources from
the left or only watching sources from the right. Then
that level of bias and bias is necessarily wrong. But
you need to have some variety so you can, now
you know, sort through all the information and you can

(20:09):
have a good, well rounded view of what's really going on,
as opposed to just in your area where you think
everyone's going to agree with you, and that's not how
you grow. You've got to have people challenge your ideas
and challenge your beliefs because if not, then you're never
going to change.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
And we have to look at our country. Our country
has changed, We have changed.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
I mean over the two hundred and fifty years we're
about to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of America.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
That blows.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
It's incredible.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
And this country has changed a tremendous tremendously And that
would have never happened had we all just stuck in
our silos and stuck to what it is that we believe,
it never would have happened. So I think that that's
important to talk to the other side, to have voices
that you're listening to from all angles so you can learn.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
You can learn from that, no doubt. And like, had
that happen two hundred and fifty years, it was just yesterday,
I would celebrate in the by centennial fifth grade in school.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Amaze, it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
No, it's incredible, it's right.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Absolutely, absolutely incredible.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Twodred and fifty years is just it's amazing.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Listen, this isn't this is an experiment.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's the first time. This is the first time in
history where you had a country where the leaders, the
first leader, George Washington, you know, stepped down on his
own voluntarily.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, where someone was in.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Charge of a country and voluntarily stepped down. There wasn't
a war fought, or he wasn't assassinated or killed to
change power. It didn't go to his family. He voluntarily
stepped down. It was the first time in human history
that that's ever happened. And it's wow, amazing. It's an
amazing thing. If you really know understand history, and like

(22:01):
the Roman Empire and all these different empires that have
been around, the power has always changed through violence, and
this was the first time that that never happens. I
think that's very special.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
I bet you most people don't even know that. I'm
glad you brought that up. For sure.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
People don't realize that.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
And I have to tell you, you know, like I
consider you a hero for some of the things you do,
and most of all as the wandering Jew. First of all,
I want to say that I think everybody needs to
travel because we live in this bubble sometimes and I
have changed dramatically since I started traveling compared to when

(22:38):
I never left the US, And I know people that
never even left or street their whole life and they're
clueless of what have have. I don't know if you remember,
but one of the people works with me, Rebel, she
runs our Louisiana studio. First time she came to Florida
to come to a Florida studio, she was flipping out

(22:59):
because there was this big billboard by the airport for
free STD testing, and like she's like, what the hell
is that? Like, well, would you rather be? And I'm
a Yankee, so I had to bust her chops. Would
you rather be? Like like you out there and to
buy you and just spread and crap all over the place.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
But I also have to say, as pipeman wandering Jew,
and my hat is off to you because you know,
you're captain of the volunteer fire department here in South Florida.
You know of implantation, but you have gone on several
trips to Israel, yes, and like not because you had to,

(23:46):
because you chose to and excited about it during these
times where even Jews are like afraid to go to Israel,
so I want to know how that started and why
you do it.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
One of the most amazing things about the trips I've
made to Israel was really highlighted to me by a
friend of mine. He's one of the directors of the
Israel Fire and Rescue Authority, and he.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Said something to the American delegation that was just there.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
I just got back from Isoe, by the way, about
thirty days ago, and one of the things he said
is that the United States is the only country that
sends firefighters or sends help to Israel when rockets are firing,
when they're under attack, when there's a war. And he
said that, and it just really stunned me. And this
most recent trip was my sixth trip to Israel to

(24:41):
fight wild and I never really thought about it that way,
but it just really stunned me when he said that,
because it really is quite remarkable when you think about it,
that there is a country under attack and at war
and the United States is sending firefighters over there to
help this country.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
When we do, like you said, we we don't have
to go.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
And the organization that has made all this possible is
was started in two thousand and eight by a gentleman
named Adeza Hobby. It's called the Emergency Volunteers Project. And
after the Second Lebanese War, he was a first responder
and he just said, you know what, when there's trouble
here in Israel, our resources are consumed very quickly, and

(25:25):
maybe we can have some friends from the United States
come and help. And that's how we started this organization.
And over the over the last many years, he has
also included bringing over physicians and healthcare workers like pets
and e mts and physical therapists, and also civilians to
help with feeding trucks. And so it's just an incredible

(25:46):
effort of Americans who have decided, you know what, when
our friend and our best ally in the Middle East,
Israel's in trouble, we're going to go over there to
help them. And it's just really quite extraordinary. One of
the most amazing things after the October seventh attacks happened
was the EVP website in the US was crashed by

(26:06):
over seven hundred American firefighters who were trying to sign
up to go to help. Wow, it's just really extraordinary,
and I like to share that because a lot of people,
especially Israelis and Jews. They feel very alone right now,
and I share that just so they can know and
understand how much support that they really do have, not
only here in the United States, but around the world.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I love it because Okay, so first of all, when
the last Iran conflict happened, Israel Iran conflict, my son's
in the military and he was there with his unit,
you know, uh, fighting on the side of Israel. But
what was even better, which made me so proud, was

(26:48):
his unit was, you know, going to leave, and he
requested that he stayed behind and fight with the IDF
And he was the last one of his whole unit
that ever came back. But he stayed there, and he
told me he wanted to fight for the mother country.
And then my youngest daughter, she did birthright in Israel

(27:13):
the summer before October seventh. So for those listening that
don't know what birthright is. When you're born a Jew,
they have this thing called birthright that at any time,
by time you're thirty, they even expanded it to thirty recently,
you get a free trip to Israel and then they

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show you everything and you're on a kibbutz and they
you get to learn the culture, your history, your heritage,
you know, because so many people think, oh, Israel has
only been around since nineteen forty eight. No, not even close.

(27:56):
I had a couple add some thousands of years to that, Okay,
you know, and you know. So the bottom line is
she came back and it was a very eye opening
experience when she came back because she was going to
school up in the Panhandle where the violent protests were happening,

(28:17):
and she had friends that she met in Israel that
were taking hostage or new people or family that were
taking hostage. Her kibbutz was bombed the one she was at,
like so many stories, and she has to come back
to the United States to be afraid to go to

(28:38):
school because of the fact of people thinking Israel's the
one trying to commit genocide, and it's outrageous.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
It's something that you don't only see in the Israel situation,
but there's a lot of times a very loud, vocal
minority that makes seem like that's how everyone feels, and
that's just absolutely not true. The United States has always
supported Israel since nineteen forty eight, when Ben Gurion announced
that the gates of Israel will open in May of

(29:13):
nineteen forty eight, Harry Truman. Twelve minutes later, Harry Truman
got on the radio and showed support that the United
States was going to support Israel, and his Secretary of
State and his Secretary of Defense told him not to
do it, and he.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Did it anyway.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
And since that day, the United States has always supported Israel.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
And we always will.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
So the loud vocal minority and the kids and the
tents on the campus is that's not that they don't
represent the United they don't represent America.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
A lot of them, you ask, and they don't even
know where Israel or Palace going is.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
They don't even know where Israel is. They don't know where,
they don't know anything about it. There they think it's
like cosplay for them. They're putting on their kefias and
they're like they're doing something, and that's not how America feels.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
It's just not.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
But again, this isn't the only area where you find
that a very loud vocal minority can sometimes because of
the algorithm of social media, because of the way that
media works, they want clicks, they want eyeballs, can make
it seem like that's how people feel, but that's not
how the majority of America feels. Because I will tell
you this much. People ask me all the time about

(30:26):
how I feel about what's going on the Middle East.
I say, listen, First of all, the most important thing
you need to understand is just because I go to
Israel and I support Israel with the humanitarian work that
I do there, just because I'm pro Israel doesn't mean
I'm anti Palestinian.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah, that's the most of me. That's what I think.
That's what people don't get too. It doesn't have to
be one way or the other all the time with
everything they don't.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
And also I also remind them that Israel's a nation
of ten million people, but there are Muslims, Christians, and
Jews who are Israeli citizens. So when I say Israel,
I'm talking about everyone in Israel. They're over two million
Arab Muslims considered to be like Arab israelis is what
they're referred to as. But they're citizens of Israel with

(31:09):
equal rights, and they have that Israeli passport and they
can vote, they can have any job that they want.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
And by the way, in the Middle East, these Arab.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Muslims are the freest in the entire region. So Arab
israelis are the freest Arab Muslims in the Middle East.
There's nowhere else in the Middle East where you're going
to find Arab Muslims who have more freedom than in Israel,
especially for the women. Yeah, for the women. So we

(31:40):
have much more in common with Israel than we do
with anyone else.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Not that we can't.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Partner with and ally ourselves with other Arab states, Gulf states.
We can support many other people, and that's fine, but
we are most closely allied with Israel.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Number One. They have elections.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
They have elections, they have the rule of law, they
have courts, they have a court system. They have you know,
if you commit crimes, you go, you can be tried
and go to prison. In many other parts of the
Arab world, that's just not the case. There are no elections.
There haven't been elections in Gaza in twenty years. They
haven't been elections in Gaza or the West Bank in
twenty years. So and I'm not here to castigate whatever

(32:26):
they're doing. I'm here to talk about the humanitarian work
that we do, our strength and friendship that we have
with Israel, which includes the Muslims Christians and Jews who live.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
That's everybody, not to mention the IDEF.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
I have a friend who is a major in the
idea F and he said something to me that I
never really thought about. But the IDEA is the Israel
Defense Forces. That's not the Jewish Defense Forces. It's the
Israel Defense Forces. That right, everyone in Israel, everyone Muslims, Christians, Jews,
it doesn't matter. And by the way, there are a
Muslim Arab Israelians who serve in the IDEF. So it's

(32:59):
a very unique country. It's a very diverse country. If
you ever go there, there are a lot of Ethiopian
Jews who are there. There are Jews Sephardic Jews who
are descendants of the eight hundred thousand Jews were who
were expelled from the Arab countries in nineteen forty eight.
There were almost a million Jews kicked out of Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco,

(33:22):
North Africa, Syria, Lebanon. There were almost a million Jews
that were kicked out of their homelands and they all
ended up in Israel nineteen forty eight. So you have
a rainbow of people. So they always are like, oh,
Israel's this, you know, white colonizers. I'm like, have you
ever been to Israel?

Speaker 4 (33:43):
You know, there's a lot of different There's not really
not that many white people in Israel.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
That's what I was about to say. I'm like, listen,
I would stick out like a sore thumb in Israel.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
You would be the odd man out in Israel, you know.
So it's a very diverse place, very diverse place. They
have all religions can practice there, and that can't always
be said in some of their neighbors, you know. So
and then at the end of the day, you know,
it's a very tough neighborhood. And they have been in many,
many wars, none which if they have started, they only

(34:16):
have fought defensive wars.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
They're in a really tough neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Then, you know, sometimes unfortunately they got to, you know,
kick a little ass sometimes, and that's just the nature
of the beast. And I'm a person who doesn't like war.
I'm a humanitarian and I wish for peace in the
Middle East.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
And by my.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Trips to Israel working as a firefighter, they're volunteering with
the Israel Fire and Rescue Service, is my way of
trying to help to maintain the peace there for everyone
who is there. And I believe that the children in
Israel have peace and safety, and I believe the pasting
and children of that peace and safety as well. So,
like you said, it's not a binary choice. I can

(34:57):
hope for peace for the Israelis and I can hope
for peace for the Palestinians.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
And I'm gonna show some pictures in a second that
I want us to kind of I'm gonna have you
kind of describe the pictures. But that what you just
said is why I consider you a hero. Okay, because
to me, everything you do is about the human race,

(35:23):
any particular race, not any particular political thing. Because listen,
you know what people you cannot like the politicians of Israel.
That doesn't mean hate all Israelis.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, I don't have to agree with the leaders of
Israel to support Israel. It's just like I don't have
to agree with the leaders of the United States to
support the United States. It's no different. I'm not going
to always agree with everything our government does. Doesn't mean
that I hate America. You know, that's crazy. So this
binary choice that people think that they have is just
not it's not good for the country. It raises the

(36:02):
political temperature very high. We need to lower the temperature down.
We need to make sure that we know and understand.
These are our friends and neighbors. You know, we have
members of our family that may not always agree on politics.
And that's okay. You know, that's why there's that rule,
you know, no politics at the thanksgetting table, you know,
just right that.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Happened to that. When I was a kid, you didn't
discuss the politics, you didn't discuss religion and here go.
You didn't get into fights with people. And then like,
you didn't even tell people you vote for. I remember
being told as a kid, don't tell people who you
vote for. It's your personal choice. And nowadays people come
up to who do you vote for? And I'll say,

(36:41):
it's not your freaking business. Speaking of voting. Before we
go into pictures, I have to express a story with
you because you know, I don't know if you know this,
but I have for several presidential campaigns. Right now, pipe
Man has ran for president. Okay, yeah, all right, And

(37:06):
first I want one to play our audio commercial of
my presidential you know, my presidential ad, and I want
you to hear it, okay, and then I'm going to
tell you what happened in twenty sixteen. Roll at one, Hey, folks,

(37:27):
this is Bill Clinton. I listen to W fourcy dot com.
And just remember I did not have sexual relations with
that woman. Bring back the good old days, and I
will have sexual relations with that woman. Vote Pipeman for
pres Now. There's a reason I was playing that for

(37:53):
you because but you're talking about what happens on social
media and everything else. You know, I think we need
more people like you that really really dig in and
know your stuff. Because in twenty sixteen, I had six
people that were listeners of my show vote vote for

(38:17):
me for president.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Oh my gosh, vote I have a joke.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
It was a joke.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Pretty good.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
I love so I could. I can now say that
I got six votes for president in the United States
of America. God help us all if I get more votes. Okay,
but everybody definitely needs to vote for you. That's implantation
for counsel, because I think you're going to make amazing

(38:48):
changes and do amazing things because you're all about helping,
and that's what public service is, you know, in.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
The best example of freedom is that everybody gets to decide,
you know, what they want to do and who they
want to support. You know, that's the ultimate idea of freedom.
And I truly believe, as I said at the open
of the show, that we've got to put our people first.
And one of the things I'm really leading into is
that our residents come first. We're going to take care

(39:18):
of our people. We're going to make things more affordable,
We're going to make it easier to do to get
things done in the city. We're going to tackle the
traffic nightmares. Plantation is booming right now. There was a
time just a few years ago we had tower cranes
all over Plantation.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
We're building banding. We're in the center part.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Of the county of Broward County, so tens of thousands
of cars passed through to get to Sunrise, into Oakland
Park and to Tamarak coming from five ninety five. So
we have a lot of pass through traffic that comes
through here. And it's just a very vibrant city, which
is also why I think one of the most important
things I can talk about is public safety. You know,

(39:56):
police and fire. So we've got to make sure the police,
Department of Fire Department everything that they need. So these
are some of the things that I'm running on and
I'm really just asking for the voters in Plantation to
support me and I'm gonna keep doing the incredible work
that our Plantation City Council and our mayor has been doing.
And I'm really looking forward to having that opportunity.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
And everybody, whether you're Implantation or not, if you agree
with me that Aston is definitely a hero and worth
doing public service for us, go to astonbright dot com
donate help out because as you can tell, this is
a man of the people. This is not a man

(40:38):
of a party. It is a man of the people.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Thank you. I really do appreciate that. Yes, anyone who
would like to support me or learn a little bit
more about me, they can go to astonbright dot com
where they can make a donation. You have to be
a US citizen or a Green Card resident. If you're
a Green Card resident, you can still make a donation.
And yeah, it's just been and I always love having
an opportunity to share my story and to talk about

(41:04):
the Emergency Volunteers Project and the amazing volunteers that we have.
And by the way, the last time I went to Israel, which,
as I said, I just got back about thirty days ago.
We had firefighters from California, New York, Maryland, Michigan, Florida, Texas,

(41:25):
and Alaska.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Wow, from all over the country.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Taking time off of work, leaving their families and going
into a war zone. And I think it takes just
a really special individual who really believes in helping people.
The only reason why we do this. I'm a firefighter
because I believe in helping others. I've dedicated my life
and becoming a firefighter in twenty fourteen has given me
the opportunity to do that, and it's something that is

(41:55):
very important to me and I just really do love
being in service to others. And then of course I
have my business background, working for Fortune five hundred companies
and working in the business and professional world. Now it
just really gives me an opportunity to take those skills
in order to help our city and to help the
residents of Plantation, which is what I intend to do.

(42:16):
So I'm very just very excited to be here and
to share some time with you and catch up with
an old friend, and to share my story and see
what we can do about getting me onto the City council.
November thirty is the election.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
By the way, Oh, we got to get you on there.
You are so well rounded. I'm a total Labra. I
love your viewpoints because I see viewpoints on all sides
as a Libra, and like you said in the beginning,
I don't like the extremes. Put me somewhere in the middle,
and I don't have to stick to my guns. You know,
it's like I gotta do what's right, not what's right

(42:49):
or left.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Absolutely kitchen table issues. You know, we got to focus
on the kitchen table issues. You know, as James Carvel
very famously said, it's the economy stupid.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
You know, we've got to focus on those issues.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
A lot of times we can get distracted with a
lot of these other issues that are out there, but
at the end of the day, we've got to focus
on finding ways. So people like imagine today a young
person who just graduated high school. Maybe they went to
the military, or they started they started working in a trade,
or they went away to college. They finished now they're training,
they finished the military, they finished their trade school. How

(43:26):
are they going to buy a house? How they're going
to buy a house today? The prices are just completely
through the roof. The rents are going through the roof.
Rents are too high, so it's really difficult for the
young people to get started. And then you have folks
on the other side of the spectrum, the seniors. You know,
a lot of them are no longer working. They're own
fixed incomes. So we got to find a way to

(43:46):
give some relief and make things more affordable. And I
just think that's very, very important, and being focused on
a lot of these other issues is not going to
help to resolve a lot of those problems. So that's
really where I'm focusing a lot of my time on
things that are going to help to help people live
better lives.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
And that's really what I'm focused on.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
I love it. I love it. And now going back
to Israel, I'll have one pull up some pictures, okay,
in action in Israel, and as each one comes up,
I kind of want you to describe the picture to
the audience. So tell us about this one.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
Yeah, So this one was on Yamha show that we
were headed to a Holocaust remembrance event, and so I
had on my class address uniform. I'm there in the
fire station. What most people don't realize is when the
EVP deploys us to Israel, we live in the fire
stations with with the firefighters. So we lived there. We're

(44:45):
not at a hotel, and like we just kind of
go on calls them and again, no, we're living in
the fire stations. Wherever they go, we go. When the
call comes out, we go out with them, and we're
fighting fires from rocket attacks or just even things that
don't have anything to do with the war. Because even
though there's a war going on, there's still car accidents
and someone leaves up part of the stove, so those

(45:05):
calls are still coming in and so we redo the
exact same thing anybody else is doing. And so yeah,
this was a picture on the day of Yama show up.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
We're getting ready to.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
December. That was actually my first time in Israel on
Holocaust Remembrance Day where they played the siren and then
all the cars stop, people get out of their cars
and stand at attention for two minutes. I mean, it
really was just an incredible display of respect, unlike anything
I have ever seen, where the whole country comes to

(45:41):
a standstill for two whole minutes.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
It's incredible.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Wow, all right, So let's what else we got here.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
On scene of a of an apartment fire. We had
just finished fighting a fire in an apartment. There was
some sort of electrical issue and so it was made
all of fire fighters kind of talking afterwards.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Next one one, Okay, so we were doing some training
at one of the training grounds there.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
That's just me putting on my airpack and getting my
mask situated.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
So another great question I always get.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Is is it different fighting a fire in Israel versus
in the United States? And it's not different. A fire
is a fire, and it doesn't matter if it's here
or it's in Israel. Now, the fires there are a
little bit different because all their buildings are made out
of stone, so where as opposed to the United States,
where our buildings sometimes are made out of wood and

(46:41):
made out of other materials that can also burn. So
their fires, for the most part, unless it's like a
shed or something, are the room and contents fire, So
the building itself is not on fire, it's just whatever
is in the room. So those fires are actually much
more dangerous because it can get a lot hotter, and
a concrete or a stone structure versus say a wooden

(47:04):
structure because at some point the fire will ventilate and
it'll start to expel a lot of heat and gases,
which does not happen in the Israel buildings unless a
window is vented or something like that. But even then,
it's like a it's like a brick oven because it's stone.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
You know, the rooms are stone. So this was a
training event with one of the.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Local firefighters kind of getting me rigged up with their gear.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
And then this was me getting dressed. I think I
was getting ready to go on a call.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
I think, just put my gear on, get ready to
go on a call. And I bring my own gear.
I bring my own gear. This is my gear I
wear every day, so I brought it with me to
the US. And I like to thank the airlines because
this time I flew on l Al, but I fall
on United, I phone on American excuse my phone on
Delta as well to Israel on my six trips. But

(47:55):
the airlines will always allow us for our firefighter gear
to fly for free, which we appreciate.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
Nice to the airlines.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
I like the PFD there in Israel. You're you're you're
wearing the plantation proud in Israel. Oh, absolutely absolutely, next
one one, all right, Okay, that's all of them, all right. Cool,
So everybody that's watching right now, I put a QR
code up in the top left. Hit that QR code

(48:25):
and you can go vote, not vote, but donate to
Aston's campaign. And if you are Implantation, please vote vote
for Aston because he I think it's gonna make such
amazing you know, great things happen in Plantation and it's

(48:46):
just gonna make it a better place for better humans.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Thank you so much for that, Gan, I really appreciate that,
and just it's been great to catch up with you
and spend some time and tell my story about what's
going on. I think right now, with the rise of
a Semitism, I think it's more important now than ever
for us to speak out and speak up. Yeah, because
it's not it's not right, and it's it's very detrimental

(49:09):
to the Jewish community, and we have to stand together
with our friends in the Jewish community and definitely stand
up for them.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
I love it because I love somebody like you saying
that who's not a part of the Jewish community just
more of a ally to the Jewish community. And I
have when I have people that are Jews that are
being anti Semitic. It kind of makes me shake my head, like,
come on, you have.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
A saying I'm not Jewish even though I know I
look Jewish. You know, I mean we can all still
be together.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Yeah, I think that's important.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
I think it's really important for the outside community to help.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
And not for nothing but the philanthropy that comes.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
From the Jewish community, especially with the Black community, the
black community. Jeish community have always been great allies and
we still are and I like to go out and
talk remind people of that. Again, the loud, vocal minority
might make it seem like that's not still the case,
but I can assure you that it definitely is.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yes, Well, I hope you have great things coming on
the horizon and I know you well. Are there any
final words you want to leave the listeners with the most.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Important thing I can share with you and your listeners
about the very important humanitarian work that I'm thinking in
Israel is that I want everyone in the Jewish community
and Israel to know that we're with you, and an
attack against Israel is an attack against the United States.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
We're always going to stand together with you.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Well, thank you for that. Thank you for your support
and being a hero, because I'll tell you what, my
hat's off to you. I don't know if i'd want
to fight fires, no doubt, and you certainly aren't either,
And so thank you for all your service to thank
you everybody around the world. That's why I say thank you,

(51:00):
all right, man, I.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Really appreciate it. So great to see you again. Great
to catch up brother.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Great thanks for being on the adventures of pipe Man
the Wandering Jew.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
Take care.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
I'm w for c u I Radio.

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