June 30, 2025 • 22 mins
(June 30,2025)
Inside ‘Operation Narnia,’ the daring attack Israel feared it couldn’t pull off. Is your brain aging faster than you? New tools offer ways to measure and improve cognitive health. The Vatican launches American-style fundraising.
Inside ‘Operation Narnia,’ the daring attack Israel feared it couldn’t pull off. Is your brain aging faster than you? New tools offer ways to measure and improve cognitive health. The Vatican launches American-style fundraising.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to bill handle on demand from KFI A
six forty KFI handle.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here. It is a June thirtieth, Monday, last day of June.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We're looking at some of the stories.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, the jury is hearing and we'll start deliberating today hearing,
I think jury instructions now in the Sean did he
Coomb's trial and they start deliberating, We're gonna probably wait
with baited breath on that one. And the big beautiful
bill is now being voted on segments of it. Amendments
(00:38):
is what the Senate is considering, and we'll see how
many actually go over the line, actually make it and
go over the line. So that's going to be they'll
be voting all day on this one. Okay, going back
to what Israel did and the attack on Tehran and
the nuclear facilities that Iran has. Even for Israel, this
(01:01):
one was a stunner. Now, Israel has a reputation of
having the most well equipped, best trained military in the
Mid East, and it is by a long shot, and
there are reasons for it, one of them being that
this is a country knows that if it loses one war,
(01:22):
it is done.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's finished.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's tough, and also it is a country that has
was created out of the ashes of the Holocaust, and
this is why the attack on October seventh was so
fundamentally viscerally devastating for Israel. That was the largest number
of Jews that were killed in one single operation since
(01:45):
the Holocaust. Okay, so keep that in mind as we
talk about this in What Israel Did.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So a little bit of history.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Here, midnight June thirteenth, Israel generals are in a bunker
beneath Israeli Air Force headquarters and they're watching as Israeli
jets are coming into Tehran in an operation they call
Red Wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Figure out the names.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A few hours later and one thousand miles away, Iran's
top military commanders were dead, all in one fell swoop.
Top military commanders completely dead. It was a combination of
intelligence for information and military precision precision that even experts
(02:30):
military experts around the world were surprised. But it wasn't
the only success during Israel's twelve day campaign. Another part
of the attack was called Operation Narnia.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And this is after the book and after C. S.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Lewis, you know that series, And what it did is
successfully kill nine top Iranian nuclear scientists almost simultaneously at
their home at different parts of the city, and they
were able to knock them out.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So what a huge success. It nearly fell apart.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It really was a huge gamble that had more of
a chance of losing than winning. And what this did
has helped Cement, not that it needed it, but Israel
is the dominant military power in the region, and this
is what Israel is thinking, and it makes sense. Israel
hopes that this will be a realignment of countries away
(03:38):
from the Iranian influence and set up friendly their relations
with Israel. Keep in mind, when the attack October seventh happened,
Israel was on the cusp of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And if Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Goes in terms of normalizing relations, the rest of the
Middle East follows suit. I mean, they just fall into line. Well,
which would not Syria, right, Siri's under new government, how
about Lebanon, his blaws wiped out. Hamas will never agree
(04:14):
to a relationship with Syria. They'll go to the last man.
And look what's happening over there. I mean, I think
what Israel is doing is a crime. I think they
are I think Israel's committee war crimes with what's happening
over there. But at the same time, it doesn't matter
how many people die, Hamas will will gladly lose ninety
(04:34):
five percent of the population and have people have no
place to live. Not to make sure it doesn't engage
with Israel. Well, keep in mind, you know, Hamas is
a millet as a political power, and they always had
a military wing. Hamas as a political power was founded
on the concept of the destruction of Israel. I mean,
(05:00):
that's how many political parties are created for the destruction
of a country that is adjoining it. Well, that's Kamas,
so uh Israel and actually other countries are saying, okay,
maybe we're going to sign new peace accords following Tehran.
(05:21):
People are more afraid of Tehran. Countries around that region
are more afraid of Teyon Tehran than they ever are
of Israel. Israel is not interested in taking over that
part of the world and making it a Jewish world.
Iran is interested in taking over that part of the
world and creating its own theocracy. Now, in terms of
(05:44):
the success of the attack, even some Israeli officials were
surprised at how their plans, which date back more than
a decade. Most of this was in the planning stage
for over a decade. Israel plays not only the short game,
but the long game. Much what happened for example in
(06:09):
Lebanon Hezbolah, remember the pager.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Story where Israel, first of all, Hazbolah was not using phones.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They decided they couldn't use cell phones because those conversations
could be picked up, so they went to pagers.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, what Israel did.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is take its time, knowing the pagers were involved, created
a company that then distributed pagers and got a contract
with Hesbelah to provide thousands of pagers, which Hesbolah then
turned around and gave to its operatives and its leaders,
(06:49):
and Creel just waited and then one fell swoop out
came the signal, and these little pagers, which had been
manufactured with explosives in them, all went off at the
same time, thousands of them, simultaneously, blowing ears off, blowing
(07:10):
heads off, I mean, just decimating. Has been a leadership
and its operatives very much the long game.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's what Israel does.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So a lot's going on going back, and this is
a great story because this is an analysis of what
happened when Israel attacked Tehran, with the United States, of course,
attacking the nuclear facilities. So even Israel was surprised at
(07:45):
the success of its attack on Tehran, taking out all
of its air defenses, I mean, just wiping out so
much of its military, and frankly, the Israeli officials were surprised.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
They were kind of stunned.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
How these plans, some of them going back more than
a decade.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
As I told you, Israel plays a long game. How
it all came together. And the reason all of these.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
High administrative people in Tehran. You've got these scientists that
were all killed simultaneously, nine of them. You had commanders
of the Iranian forces all being killed. And here's why
Israel had to hit all of them at once. If
they didn't, they would scatter and the retaliation against Israel
(08:38):
will be far stronger.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The point is there was nobody there, there was no leadership.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Israel took it out, and of course they're going to
respond and they have to come together. But when you
wipe out the leadership and won't one fell swoop, it
takes time to put it together again. Now this gets
interesting because this goes back to the mid nineteen nineties
(09:03):
when Israel intelligence first identified the Iranian attempts to build
that nuclear weapons program, and from the nineteen nineties, Israel
is now building a network of agents inside Iran.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
To facilitate the sabotage.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Causing explosions twice at one of the main enrichment sites,
assassinating some scientists, and then doing that cyber attack.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But Israeli authority said that's not enough.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We have to destroy this nuclear program because Nettagnan who
and others have said, you cannot let Iran have the bomb.
Iran has the bomb and unloads it on Tel Aviv.
Israel's basically over. So Israel now has to attack one
thousand miles away. So pilots had to learn how to
(10:00):
fly in formations of six to ten aircraft around a
single tanker plane taking turns to refuel. It's never been
done multiple times. They had to learn to position the
planes perfectly so that the missiles when they were dropped
would land within fifteen to twenty seconds of each other,
and they had to be right on point. And they
(10:23):
couldn't train in Israel because Israel is just not that
big as two hundred miles top to bottom and east
to west. If you go to before the West Bank,
it's twelve miles is the thinnest.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Part of Israel. It's a country that is twelve miles
wide at one point.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So in two thousand and eight, in what was called
Operation Glorious Spartan I love these names, one thousand, f
fifteens and f sixteens went flying to Greece testing their
ability to do this.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Over the next several.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Years, Israel came pretty close to launching an Aratag air attack,
but Natinnahu kept on being voted down by ministers and
security chiefs fearful of starting a war or angering Washington
because they do nothing without Washington's approval, and the military
planners kept on gaining. The attack just kept on going,
(11:18):
including attacking Hamas and Gaza, which they did, Hesbela and Lebanon,
which they did, and then flying over Syria, which they
didn't have to do because as the Assad government collapsed.
So October seven, Israel spends almost two years decimating Hamas.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's still happening as we speak.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I had weakened Hesbelah, who's for some crazy reason, decided
to attack Israel just in solidarity with Hamas.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Some genius figure that one out.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
In the meantime, Israel came back and wiped out a
good part of Hesbelah. Israeli spy networks inside I Run
were tracked the movement of the military leaders and set
up drone bases inside the country so they could launch
drones against military installations, ballistic ballistic muscle, muscle, missile launching
(12:16):
launching sites, air defense systems. I mean, this thing was crazy.
They spent years and bringing in pieces of the drones
in suitcases, in containers, in trunks of cars. Israel had
(12:36):
infiltrated Iran over the last twenty thirty years to the
point where it knows or it knew everything that was
going on, even knew where the scientists were. And there
was a real problem going on with the scientists because
somehow they got win that something was up, and they
(13:00):
started to scatter and Israel said, oh no, nope, nope,
And an amazing bit of luck, they all came together
to meet in one place, all of these senior scientists
to discuss what would happen and how the Iranian nuclear
(13:20):
program would keep on going in the event of whatever attack.
And Israel knew where they met, where they were meeting
Boom one missile went into that building and wipe them out.
I had to tell you it's an extraordinary story of
what Israel did and they were able to pull it off.
(13:46):
You know, obviously I'm pro Israeli, but I tell you
you don't want to screw around with Israel. You really don't. Militarily,
it just doesn't bode well. I mean, talk to Kamas,
which is still fighting. They still I won't give up
the hostages. You got me on that one, all right.
(14:07):
I want to share with you what happened on Saturday
while I was doing handle on the law. Now, Neil
will tell you, because I've known Neil the longest here,
and Neil will tell you that I've from day one
he met me thirty years ago, that I'm always groping
for words that I forget where I am that Frankly,
(14:28):
my cognitive abilities are somewhat limited, and I don't have
to worry about the fact they're recently that bad. They've
always been that bad. So it's not really a question
of aging. Except what happened on Saturday morning. Well, during
the course of the breaks, I walk around because I
(14:50):
am bored, silly, already read the papers, and so I
just walk around. So I'm doing handle on the Law
just as I am the show on Saturday morning, and
I went to look at my notes for Saturday night,
my m scene to make.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Sure I got all the pieces of music that we're.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
On so I could announce everything, and I forgot I
was doing the show.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Completely forgot.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I was doing the show, and all of a sudden,
I'm going, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I went in and I talked.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
To Sam, Sam, how long have you been playing this
bumper music? Three minutes? I came back, answered one question
on handling Law. Someone asked me a question, Bill, what
do I do? No, And I went right into, hey,
thanks for listening everybody. I just completely forgot. Okay, So
(15:51):
with that in mind, I've never done that. By the way,
With that in mind, let me tell you about a
study that just came out by the pre kind of
preventative Preventive Medicine Research Institute, and.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It talks about cognitive decline.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
For example, forgetting you're doing a radio show and going
oh oh, I'm on the air live and having people
listen to three minutes a bumper music, which I'm assuming
we lost one or two listeners during the time. And
what the research shows is that lifestyle changes actually improved
(16:31):
or stabilized brain function in patients with early stage Alzheimer's disease.
And how do you tell if someone has Alzheimer's disease.
There's tests for it, for example, doing a radio show
and forgetting you're on the air. That's one of the
tests that proves Alzheimer's disease. So I love talking about
studies because this is science.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There's occasionally I'll do an anecdotal store story, but I
have to tell you it's anecdotal. I've heard or this
is what people are saying, and I always point out
that it's anecdotal. This is a full study and it
was published last year but now became public and it
was led by the Preventive Medicine Research Institute nonprofit that
(17:18):
found that brain function and cognition significantly improved in patients who.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Made lifestyle changes. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We are not designed We human beings are not designed
to last as long as we're lasting, our bodies aren't.
I mean, this is why we have knee problems, feet problems,
all kinds of problems when we get older and our
minds tend to go pretty quickly and the quality of
life tends to fall apart. So a study published by
(17:50):
the Preventive Medicine Research Institute said, here's what we can
do to actually extend the quality of life and substantially,
especially if you catch it early on, If you catch
dementia early on, for example, forgetting to go on the
(18:10):
air like I did on Saturday morning during a break,
forgot to come back, and that's worth listening to if
you want to listen to it on demand. Well, actually
you're going to just listen to three minutes of bumper
music while I was.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Running around out there.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And according to the author Dean Ornish, who is this
is what he does, the earlier you intervene, the less
intense of the lifestyle changes are likely to prevent it.
In other words, what he did is he looked at
healthy people in twenty twenty four. This is a separate
(18:46):
one and saying even modest levels of physical activity twenty
five minutes of moderate to vigorous activity a week are linked.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
To bigger brain sizes. I guess your brain actually increases.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And advances in diagnostic and prognostic tools. What happens if
and when are helping doctors and scientists get a new
understanding of how to measure how to modify cognitive function.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
By the way, the Food and Drug Administration just to
prove the.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
First blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So that's pretty good. Now, that's designed for.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
People who are having memory problems, just to start with,
not for people that are healthy. We haven't gotten that.
We haven't gone that far yet, but here it is. Okay,
here's what the study concludes. Diet a whole foods, minimally
processed vegan diet, low and harmful fats, refined carbs and sweeteners.
(19:54):
I'd rather lose my mind, thank you very much. I
have no problem forgetting that I'm alive. Exercise at least
thirty minutes daily of moderate aerobic exercise and mild strength
training at least three times a week.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Okay, I'll give you that one.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I walk every day and I work out three times
a week, and I still look the way I look
because I also live at Costco and if you look
at my freezer, it is one hundred percent Costco processed food.
Stress management one hour a day meditation, stretching, breathing exercises,
(20:33):
overseen by a certified stress management specialist. Who the hell
is a certified stress management specialist?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Where do you get that? One? Wow?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Adequate sleep encourage while we work in the morning, good luck,
and then support Participants and their partners or spouses attend
one hour support group session three times a week focusing
on emotional support. You know, when I got out of
(21:05):
drug rehab, I've shared with you that was a cocaine
addict and I spent four years in the lovely throes
of cocaine addiction, and I went into drug rehab and
part of it is I had to go to AA
meetings afterwards or Narcotics Anonymous, and I'd go two three
times a week, and about six months into it, I'm
(21:26):
looking around and I'm listening to.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
People pitch and tell their stories.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
In the middle of one of the meetings, I stood
up realizing I'd rather be a cocaine addict than sit
through one more of these, walking out the door, never
going back ever again. So the chances of me participating
in group sessions, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Am I losing my mind?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Neil?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Am I losing my mind? Or is it about the
same as always been? Mostly the same. Good. I think
I feel better. What happened on Saturday was because you
worked from home. You're studios right there. If you were
in the studio, you wouldn't have forgotten to go on
the air.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well I might have because I was looking at notes.
All right, we're done. Tomorrow morning, we're all back again,
starting with wake up call, Amy and Will who has
his back to me, and that's from five to six,
and the Neil I jump aboard, and then of course
Cono and Ann are always here to.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Make to make this work.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Gary and Shannon are up next. Catch you in the morning.
This is KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well, you've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here. It is a June thirtieth, Monday, last day of June.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We're looking at some of the stories.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, the jury is hearing and we'll start deliberating today hearing,
I think jury instructions now in the Sean did he
Coomb's trial and they start deliberating, We're gonna probably wait
with baited breath on that one. And the big beautiful
bill is now being voted on segments of it. Amendments
(00:38):
is what the Senate is considering, and we'll see how
many actually go over the line, actually make it and
go over the line. So that's going to be they'll
be voting all day on this one. Okay, going back
to what Israel did and the attack on Tehran and
the nuclear facilities that Iran has. Even for Israel, this
(01:01):
one was a stunner. Now, Israel has a reputation of
having the most well equipped, best trained military in the
Mid East, and it is by a long shot, and
there are reasons for it, one of them being that
this is a country knows that if it loses one war,
(01:22):
it is done.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's finished.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's tough, and also it is a country that has
was created out of the ashes of the Holocaust, and
this is why the attack on October seventh was so
fundamentally viscerally devastating for Israel. That was the largest number
of Jews that were killed in one single operation since
(01:45):
the Holocaust. Okay, so keep that in mind as we
talk about this in What Israel Did.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So a little bit of history.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Here, midnight June thirteenth, Israel generals are in a bunker
beneath Israeli Air Force headquarters and they're watching as Israeli
jets are coming into Tehran in an operation they call
Red Wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Figure out the names.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A few hours later and one thousand miles away, Iran's
top military commanders were dead, all in one fell swoop.
Top military commanders completely dead. It was a combination of
intelligence for information and military precision precision that even experts
(02:30):
military experts around the world were surprised. But it wasn't
the only success during Israel's twelve day campaign. Another part
of the attack was called Operation Narnia.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And this is after the book and after C. S.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Lewis, you know that series, And what it did is
successfully kill nine top Iranian nuclear scientists almost simultaneously at
their home at different parts of the city, and they
were able to knock them out.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So what a huge success. It nearly fell apart.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It really was a huge gamble that had more of
a chance of losing than winning. And what this did
has helped Cement, not that it needed it, but Israel
is the dominant military power in the region, and this
is what Israel is thinking, and it makes sense. Israel
hopes that this will be a realignment of countries away
(03:38):
from the Iranian influence and set up friendly their relations
with Israel. Keep in mind, when the attack October seventh happened,
Israel was on the cusp of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And if Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Goes in terms of normalizing relations, the rest of the
Middle East follows suit. I mean, they just fall into line. Well,
which would not Syria, right, Siri's under new government, how
about Lebanon, his blaws wiped out. Hamas will never agree
(04:14):
to a relationship with Syria. They'll go to the last man.
And look what's happening over there. I mean, I think
what Israel is doing is a crime. I think they
are I think Israel's committee war crimes with what's happening
over there. But at the same time, it doesn't matter
how many people die, Hamas will will gladly lose ninety
(04:34):
five percent of the population and have people have no
place to live. Not to make sure it doesn't engage
with Israel. Well, keep in mind, you know, Hamas is
a millet as a political power, and they always had
a military wing. Hamas as a political power was founded
on the concept of the destruction of Israel. I mean,
(05:00):
that's how many political parties are created for the destruction
of a country that is adjoining it. Well, that's Kamas,
so uh Israel and actually other countries are saying, okay,
maybe we're going to sign new peace accords following Tehran.
(05:21):
People are more afraid of Tehran. Countries around that region
are more afraid of Teyon Tehran than they ever are
of Israel. Israel is not interested in taking over that
part of the world and making it a Jewish world.
Iran is interested in taking over that part of the
world and creating its own theocracy. Now, in terms of
(05:44):
the success of the attack, even some Israeli officials were
surprised at how their plans, which date back more than
a decade. Most of this was in the planning stage
for over a decade. Israel plays not only the short game,
but the long game. Much what happened for example in
(06:09):
Lebanon Hezbolah, remember the pager.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Story where Israel, first of all, Hazbolah was not using phones.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They decided they couldn't use cell phones because those conversations
could be picked up, so they went to pagers.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, what Israel did.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is take its time, knowing the pagers were involved, created
a company that then distributed pagers and got a contract
with Hesbelah to provide thousands of pagers, which Hesbolah then
turned around and gave to its operatives and its leaders,
(06:49):
and Creel just waited and then one fell swoop out
came the signal, and these little pagers, which had been
manufactured with explosives in them, all went off at the
same time, thousands of them, simultaneously, blowing ears off, blowing
(07:10):
heads off, I mean, just decimating. Has been a leadership
and its operatives very much the long game.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's what Israel does.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So a lot's going on going back, and this is
a great story because this is an analysis of what
happened when Israel attacked Tehran, with the United States, of course,
attacking the nuclear facilities. So even Israel was surprised at
(07:45):
the success of its attack on Tehran, taking out all
of its air defenses, I mean, just wiping out so
much of its military, and frankly, the Israeli officials were surprised.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
They were kind of stunned.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
How these plans, some of them going back more than
a decade.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
As I told you, Israel plays a long game. How
it all came together. And the reason all of these.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
High administrative people in Tehran. You've got these scientists that
were all killed simultaneously, nine of them. You had commanders
of the Iranian forces all being killed. And here's why
Israel had to hit all of them at once. If
they didn't, they would scatter and the retaliation against Israel
(08:38):
will be far stronger.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The point is there was nobody there, there was no leadership.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Israel took it out, and of course they're going to
respond and they have to come together. But when you
wipe out the leadership and won't one fell swoop, it
takes time to put it together again. Now this gets
interesting because this goes back to the mid nineteen nineties
(09:03):
when Israel intelligence first identified the Iranian attempts to build
that nuclear weapons program, and from the nineteen nineties, Israel
is now building a network of agents inside Iran.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
To facilitate the sabotage.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Causing explosions twice at one of the main enrichment sites,
assassinating some scientists, and then doing that cyber attack.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But Israeli authority said that's not enough.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We have to destroy this nuclear program because Nettagnan who
and others have said, you cannot let Iran have the bomb.
Iran has the bomb and unloads it on Tel Aviv.
Israel's basically over. So Israel now has to attack one
thousand miles away. So pilots had to learn how to
(10:00):
fly in formations of six to ten aircraft around a
single tanker plane taking turns to refuel. It's never been
done multiple times. They had to learn to position the
planes perfectly so that the missiles when they were dropped
would land within fifteen to twenty seconds of each other,
and they had to be right on point. And they
(10:23):
couldn't train in Israel because Israel is just not that
big as two hundred miles top to bottom and east
to west. If you go to before the West Bank,
it's twelve miles is the thinnest.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Part of Israel. It's a country that is twelve miles
wide at one point.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So in two thousand and eight, in what was called
Operation Glorious Spartan I love these names, one thousand, f
fifteens and f sixteens went flying to Greece testing their
ability to do this.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Over the next several.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Years, Israel came pretty close to launching an Aratag air attack,
but Natinnahu kept on being voted down by ministers and
security chiefs fearful of starting a war or angering Washington
because they do nothing without Washington's approval, and the military
planners kept on gaining. The attack just kept on going,
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including attacking Hamas and Gaza, which they did, Hesbela and Lebanon,
which they did, and then flying over Syria, which they
didn't have to do because as the Assad government collapsed.
So October seven, Israel spends almost two years decimating Hamas.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's still happening as we speak.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I had weakened Hesbelah, who's for some crazy reason, decided
to attack Israel just in solidarity with Hamas.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Some genius figure that one out.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
In the meantime, Israel came back and wiped out a
good part of Hesbelah. Israeli spy networks inside I Run
were tracked the movement of the military leaders and set
up drone bases inside the country so they could launch
drones against military installations, ballistic ballistic muscle, muscle, missile launching
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launching sites, air defense systems. I mean, this thing was crazy.
They spent years and bringing in pieces of the drones
in suitcases, in containers, in trunks of cars. Israel had
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infiltrated Iran over the last twenty thirty years to the
point where it knows or it knew everything that was
going on, even knew where the scientists were. And there
was a real problem going on with the scientists because
somehow they got win that something was up, and they
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started to scatter and Israel said, oh no, nope, nope,
And an amazing bit of luck, they all came together
to meet in one place, all of these senior scientists
to discuss what would happen and how the Iranian nuclear
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program would keep on going in the event of whatever attack.
And Israel knew where they met, where they were meeting
Boom one missile went into that building and wipe them out.
I had to tell you it's an extraordinary story of
what Israel did and they were able to pull it off.
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You know, obviously I'm pro Israeli, but I tell you
you don't want to screw around with Israel. You really don't. Militarily,
it just doesn't bode well. I mean, talk to Kamas,
which is still fighting. They still I won't give up
the hostages. You got me on that one, all right.
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I want to share with you what happened on Saturday
while I was doing handle on the law. Now, Neil
will tell you, because I've known Neil the longest here,
and Neil will tell you that I've from day one
he met me thirty years ago, that I'm always groping
for words that I forget where I am that Frankly,
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my cognitive abilities are somewhat limited, and I don't have
to worry about the fact they're recently that bad. They've
always been that bad. So it's not really a question
of aging. Except what happened on Saturday morning. Well, during
the course of the breaks, I walk around because I
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am bored, silly, already read the papers, and so I
just walk around. So I'm doing handle on the Law
just as I am the show on Saturday morning, and
I went to look at my notes for Saturday night,
my m scene to make.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Sure I got all the pieces of music that we're.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
On so I could announce everything, and I forgot I
was doing the show.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Completely forgot.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I was doing the show, and all of a sudden,
I'm going, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I went in and I talked.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
To Sam, Sam, how long have you been playing this
bumper music? Three minutes? I came back, answered one question
on handling Law. Someone asked me a question, Bill, what
do I do? No, And I went right into, hey,
thanks for listening everybody. I just completely forgot. Okay, So
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with that in mind, I've never done that. By the way,
With that in mind, let me tell you about a
study that just came out by the pre kind of
preventative Preventive Medicine Research Institute, and.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It talks about cognitive decline.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
For example, forgetting you're doing a radio show and going
oh oh, I'm on the air live and having people
listen to three minutes a bumper music, which I'm assuming
we lost one or two listeners during the time. And
what the research shows is that lifestyle changes actually improved
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or stabilized brain function in patients with early stage Alzheimer's disease.
And how do you tell if someone has Alzheimer's disease.
There's tests for it, for example, doing a radio show
and forgetting you're on the air. That's one of the
tests that proves Alzheimer's disease. So I love talking about
studies because this is science.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There's occasionally I'll do an anecdotal store story, but I
have to tell you it's anecdotal. I've heard or this
is what people are saying, and I always point out
that it's anecdotal. This is a full study and it
was published last year but now became public and it
was led by the Preventive Medicine Research Institute nonprofit that
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found that brain function and cognition significantly improved in patients who.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Made lifestyle changes. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We are not designed We human beings are not designed
to last as long as we're lasting, our bodies aren't.
I mean, this is why we have knee problems, feet problems,
all kinds of problems when we get older and our
minds tend to go pretty quickly and the quality of
life tends to fall apart. So a study published by
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the Preventive Medicine Research Institute said, here's what we can
do to actually extend the quality of life and substantially,
especially if you catch it early on, If you catch
dementia early on, for example, forgetting to go on the
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air like I did on Saturday morning during a break,
forgot to come back, and that's worth listening to if
you want to listen to it on demand. Well, actually
you're going to just listen to three minutes of bumper
music while I was.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Running around out there.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And according to the author Dean Ornish, who is this
is what he does, the earlier you intervene, the less
intense of the lifestyle changes are likely to prevent it.
In other words, what he did is he looked at
healthy people in twenty twenty four. This is a separate
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one and saying even modest levels of physical activity twenty
five minutes of moderate to vigorous activity a week are linked.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
To bigger brain sizes. I guess your brain actually increases.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And advances in diagnostic and prognostic tools. What happens if
and when are helping doctors and scientists get a new
understanding of how to measure how to modify cognitive function.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
By the way, the Food and Drug Administration just to
prove the.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
First blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So that's pretty good. Now, that's designed for.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
People who are having memory problems, just to start with,
not for people that are healthy. We haven't gotten that.
We haven't gone that far yet, but here it is. Okay,
here's what the study concludes. Diet a whole foods, minimally
processed vegan diet, low and harmful fats, refined carbs and sweeteners.
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I'd rather lose my mind, thank you very much. I
have no problem forgetting that I'm alive. Exercise at least
thirty minutes daily of moderate aerobic exercise and mild strength
training at least three times a week.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Okay, I'll give you that one.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I walk every day and I work out three times
a week, and I still look the way I look
because I also live at Costco and if you look
at my freezer, it is one hundred percent Costco processed food.
Stress management one hour a day meditation, stretching, breathing exercises,
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overseen by a certified stress management specialist. Who the hell
is a certified stress management specialist?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Where do you get that? One? Wow?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Adequate sleep encourage while we work in the morning, good luck,
and then support Participants and their partners or spouses attend
one hour support group session three times a week focusing
on emotional support. You know, when I got out of
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drug rehab, I've shared with you that was a cocaine
addict and I spent four years in the lovely throes
of cocaine addiction, and I went into drug rehab and
part of it is I had to go to AA
meetings afterwards or Narcotics Anonymous, and I'd go two three
times a week, and about six months into it, I'm
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looking around and I'm listening to.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
People pitch and tell their stories.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
In the middle of one of the meetings, I stood
up realizing I'd rather be a cocaine addict than sit
through one more of these, walking out the door, never
going back ever again. So the chances of me participating
in group sessions, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Am I losing my mind?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Neil?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Am I losing my mind? Or is it about the
same as always been? Mostly the same. Good. I think
I feel better. What happened on Saturday was because you
worked from home. You're studios right there. If you were
in the studio, you wouldn't have forgotten to go on
the air.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well I might have because I was looking at notes.
All right, we're done. Tomorrow morning, we're all back again,
starting with wake up call, Amy and Will who has
his back to me, and that's from five to six,
and the Neil I jump aboard, and then of course
Cono and Ann are always here to.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Make to make this work.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Gary and Shannon are up next. Catch you in the morning.
This is KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well, you've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Catch my Show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
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