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Speaker 1 (00:00):
She's lad now it's over.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
She never should have gotten so in fould.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
At least that's what she told him. It is hate
a front page story.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We try to bring you the front page stories, and
in medias dot virtus, the truth is in the middle.
We take the work seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously,
and so we take your feedback seriously. And I got
a message from Mike Arnold listening in Charlevoi on WMKT
either AM or FM this morning, and he's got a
(00:40):
good point. He said, you've already cussed twice and then
insulted other cultures who insult your culture Alcoholic, Irish prick,
he said. He's he's right about the alcy. I say
that flippantly because some people battle with alcohol, so you
have to be careful what you say. But I don't
mind a tip now and again. And I am of
(01:01):
Irish descent, and maybe that was kind of not nice
of me to observe what we talked about a few
minutes ago about eating spaghetti underneath. Is it called a burka?
I think anyway, So thank you, Mike. You're probably right
Mike Arnold listening in Charlevoy. I appreciate the feedback and
appreciate you listening this morning, and I better watch my language.
(01:23):
Get a two bit pepper. These days, it's interesting because
a lot of the politicians, even Kamala Harris used the
MF word on her book tour I saw recently. Then
I also saw JD Vance shut down by George Stephanopolis
in an interview because George didn't like what he was saying,
and Kevin Eppling wrote, this needs to be done more often,
(01:46):
just shut them down and not show up to their
rambling press conferences. And so I thought, hmm, So you're
saying that journalists should stop people from answering the questions
they've posed. Isn't that censorship? I don't know. If you
invite someone on, you probably ought to let them talk.
But then again, people have that word platform. Why do
(02:08):
you give the vice president a platform? Everything is very
sensitive these days. I want to thank Trish Garber, though,
the owner of WMKTAMNFM in northern Michigan, who wrote to
me and said, your show continues to impress. It's your
pleasant demeanor that carries the day, very admirable in today's
(02:28):
overly contentious society. So I thank you for that, and
I take that as a responsibility, and so I'll watch
my language and be a little more sensitive. By the way,
Laura Halloo and Lansing listening also, she said, I swear
I saw you on The Prices right yesterday. Well, Laura Halloo,
you did the show that I took my mother to
a few months ago aired yesterday and we were seated
(02:52):
in the front row, stage left, and my mother had
a funny hat on and I had an orange blazer.
So if you were watching The Prices right yesterday, it
looks like MPs with Drew Carey there. Well, it sure was, okay,
Michael Patrick Shields with you. Lots to get to so much.
This morning, the President of the United States, Donald Trump,
(03:14):
was excited about the peace deal that he brokered, and
he went there to meet with the families and the
hostages that were released, and he went on to Egypt
to have a sort of a peace summit with a
number of world leaders and to sign the documents. And
here's what the President said about the deal that he made.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
This took three thousand years to get to this point,
can you believe it?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And it's going to hold up too. It's going to
hold up. Alex Treman is the CEO and Jerusalem Bureau
chief of the Jewish News Syndicate JNS dot org. Alex
Is it holding up.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Michael Patrick? Thanks so much for having me So far.
It looks like the deal is moving ahead, at least
from Israel's side. You know, we did see the return
of twenty living hostages just a few days ago, to
you know, much relief across all of Israeli society. We
still haven't received that the majority of those that were
(04:16):
taken dead or killed in captivity. That's still a problem.
But the IDEF is in control of fifty percent of
the Gaza Strip and Kamas doesn't pose a threat to
the Israeli home front.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I thought I read somewhere that within twenty four hours
there were some killings by Gaza and also Gaza refusing
to give up weapons and power. Is that did I misread?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Was that fake news? What's the skinny there?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, Kamas has actually been going through the GOA Strip
and murdering Palestinians that they believe are collaborating with Israel
or want to be part of some kind of alternative
governance structure that would work alongside Israel. So they're definitely
trying to maintain dominance in the strip. You know, there's
probably about ten thousand camas Terras. Many of them were
(05:06):
not Hamas Terras in the beginning of the war, but
were recruited over the last two years, and they're running around,
many of them with assault rifles, and that's what they
have to assert their dominance. But you see, as Jihadis
always do, when they don't have the ability to kill Jews,
they start killing each other. God.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I remember when George Herbert Walker Bush was president and
the Berlin Wall started to fall, he told his team,
allegedly and the people in his administration and the diplomats
around the world, quote, no spiking the football. You know,
this is going to happen and it's going to be done.
What I thought was sort of a dignified manner. Was
(05:48):
there too much focus on who gets the credit, specifically
the American president for this peace deal.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well, I mean, I think the president can get as
much credit as everybody wants to give him. I mean,
he deserves a lot of credit. He did something that
the Biden administration refused to do, which has put all
the pressure on Katar, Turkey, Egypt and the Arab countries
to force Amasa to accept the terms of a ceasefire agreement.
But of course the President didn't do it by himself,
(06:21):
and the President has been very gracious. I think of
providing a lot of credit to Prime Minister Natanielle for
putting the force on Kamas that was required both in
the early stages of the war, but even at the
end in terms of approving the operation into Gaza City,
which put a tremendous amount of pressure on Kamas, and
(06:42):
even the attempts to assassinate Kamas leaders in Qatar, which
I know that the President wasn't a big fan of,
but that did really shake up, I think, the balance
of power in the region and certainly push the Kataris
to want to get out of this situation as soon
as possible. But of course in Israel, the media is
(07:03):
not going to congratulate Natanielle for a job well done,
and they want Natanielle out. They want the voters to
pick somebody else as the prime minister, and chances will
be in an election soon, so they all of a
sudden just throwing hurling all the credit on President Trump
and none onto Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Nsanelle it sounds suspiciously like the American media and how
they feel about our president here too. Something else, the
piece through strength seems to have worked again in this case.
Is that fair to say?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, I think that now the enemies of Israel recognize
that if they attack, they are going to be demolished.
I mean, you see that across the region. You see
the Hasbala has been degraded something seventy five to eighty percent,
Camas has been degraded approximately ninety percent, the Hutis have
been degraded tremendously as far away as Yemen, and Iran's
(08:03):
nuclear program has been basically eliminated, at least for the
time being. So, you know, I think that that's the
only language that's really understood in the Middle East, which
is that you will not be attacked when they see
that the price of attacking is is that great?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Those stories coming from some of those hostages are just unimaginable.
That inhumanity involved, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I mean, you're hearing about some people that were chained
up in underground tunnels for two years, barely had any
food to eat. It really isn't humane. Of course, it
was Christiana, I'm import from CNN who said that probably
some of the hostages were being were being treated better
than gods and civilians.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh my god. Alex Treman, thank you for being available.
Find him at Jans dot org, Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Jewish
News Syndic.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
This is Chris Buck with Michigan Reimagined podcast. And when
it comes to managing your finances and planning for your future,
I suggest you contact my friends at Wagoner Financial. Whether
you're just getting started, getting ready to retire, or anywhere
in between, Wagoner Financial can help you make smart financial decisions.
Don't navigate a complex problem on your own. Wagoner has
the expertise to help you feel confident that you're making
the right financial choices. Contact an advisor by calling five
(09:23):
one seven eight five three three three sixty seven, or
visit their website at Wagonerhyphenfinancial dot com.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Our path to a top ten state is only as
strong as our strength of commitment. It's time to compete
to win. When we do better by our kids, invest
in people, accelerate our economy, and get the fundamentals right,
we will feel a powerful win in our sales that
will move Michigan over it. That's a top ten state.
(09:50):
Business leaders for Michigan is the state's business round Table.
We're committed to make Michigan more competitive. Time to be bold, Michigan,
It's time to compete to.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
When it comes to healthcare costs, we often focus on
one thing, our insurance premiums. But whatever, we're only seeing.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Part of the picture.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The truth is our health insurance costs reside downstream at
the end of the cost equation. But to really understand
what's driving of costs, we need to look upstream to
the healthcare system itself. Upstream, there are costs like the
price is charged by hospitals and doctors, and the cost
of prescription drugs, healthcare administration, and technology. These costs flow
(10:30):
downstream directly into your health insurance premium. That's why Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is advocating for a system
wide solution to address the rising cost of healthcare. Blue
Cross knows that healthcare is personal, needs to work for everyone,
and affordability matters, and that starts with shedding light on
the entire cost equation, from upstream costs to downstream premiums.
(10:53):
Want to learn more, visit miiblue daily dot com. Slash
Affordability
She's lad now it's over.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
She never should have gotten so in fould.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
At least that's what she told him. It is hate
a front page story.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We try to bring you the front page stories, and
in medias dot virtus, the truth is in the middle.
We take the work seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously,
and so we take your feedback seriously. And I got
a message from Mike Arnold listening in Charlevoi on WMKT
either AM or FM this morning, and he's got a
(00:40):
good point. He said, you've already cussed twice and then
insulted other cultures who insult your culture Alcoholic, Irish prick,
he said. He's he's right about the alcy. I say
that flippantly because some people battle with alcohol, so you
have to be careful what you say. But I don't
mind a tip now and again. And I am of
(01:01):
Irish descent, and maybe that was kind of not nice
of me to observe what we talked about a few
minutes ago about eating spaghetti underneath. Is it called a burka?
I think anyway, So thank you, Mike. You're probably right
Mike Arnold listening in Charlevoy. I appreciate the feedback and
appreciate you listening this morning, and I better watch my language.
(01:23):
Get a two bit pepper. These days, it's interesting because
a lot of the politicians, even Kamala Harris used the
MF word on her book tour I saw recently. Then
I also saw JD Vance shut down by George Stephanopolis
in an interview because George didn't like what he was saying,
and Kevin Eppling wrote, this needs to be done more often,
(01:46):
just shut them down and not show up to their
rambling press conferences. And so I thought, hmm, So you're
saying that journalists should stop people from answering the questions
they've posed. Isn't that censorship? I don't know. If you
invite someone on, you probably ought to let them talk.
But then again, people have that word platform. Why do
(02:08):
you give the vice president a platform? Everything is very
sensitive these days. I want to thank Trish Garber, though,
the owner of WMKTAMNFM in northern Michigan, who wrote to
me and said, your show continues to impress. It's your
pleasant demeanor that carries the day, very admirable in today's
(02:28):
overly contentious society. So I thank you for that, and
I take that as a responsibility, and so I'll watch
my language and be a little more sensitive. By the way,
Laura Halloo and Lansing listening also, she said, I swear
I saw you on The Prices right yesterday. Well, Laura Halloo,
you did the show that I took my mother to
a few months ago aired yesterday and we were seated
(02:52):
in the front row, stage left, and my mother had
a funny hat on and I had an orange blazer.
So if you were watching The Prices right yesterday, it
looks like MPs with Drew Carey there. Well, it sure was, okay,
Michael Patrick Shields with you. Lots to get to so much.
This morning, the President of the United States, Donald Trump,
(03:14):
was excited about the peace deal that he brokered, and
he went there to meet with the families and the
hostages that were released, and he went on to Egypt
to have a sort of a peace summit with a
number of world leaders and to sign the documents. And
here's what the President said about the deal that he made.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
This took three thousand years to get to this point,
can you believe it?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And it's going to hold up too. It's going to
hold up. Alex Treman is the CEO and Jerusalem Bureau
chief of the Jewish News Syndicate JNS dot org. Alex
Is it holding up.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Michael Patrick? Thanks so much for having me So far.
It looks like the deal is moving ahead, at least
from Israel's side. You know, we did see the return
of twenty living hostages just a few days ago, to
you know, much relief across all of Israeli society. We
still haven't received that the majority of those that were
(04:16):
taken dead or killed in captivity. That's still a problem.
But the IDEF is in control of fifty percent of
the Gaza Strip and Kamas doesn't pose a threat to
the Israeli home front.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I thought I read somewhere that within twenty four hours
there were some killings by Gaza and also Gaza refusing
to give up weapons and power. Is that did I misread?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Was that fake news? What's the skinny there?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, Kamas has actually been going through the GOA Strip
and murdering Palestinians that they believe are collaborating with Israel
or want to be part of some kind of alternative
governance structure that would work alongside Israel. So they're definitely
trying to maintain dominance in the strip. You know, there's
probably about ten thousand camas Terras. Many of them were
(05:06):
not Hamas Terras in the beginning of the war, but
were recruited over the last two years, and they're running around,
many of them with assault rifles, and that's what they
have to assert their dominance. But you see, as Jihadis
always do, when they don't have the ability to kill Jews,
they start killing each other. God.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I remember when George Herbert Walker Bush was president and
the Berlin Wall started to fall, he told his team,
allegedly and the people in his administration and the diplomats
around the world, quote, no spiking the football. You know,
this is going to happen and it's going to be done.
What I thought was sort of a dignified manner. Was
(05:48):
there too much focus on who gets the credit, specifically
the American president for this peace deal.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well, I mean, I think the president can get as
much credit as everybody wants to give him. I mean,
he deserves a lot of credit. He did something that
the Biden administration refused to do, which has put all
the pressure on Katar, Turkey, Egypt and the Arab countries
to force Amasa to accept the terms of a ceasefire agreement.
But of course the President didn't do it by himself,
(06:21):
and the President has been very gracious. I think of
providing a lot of credit to Prime Minister Natanielle for
putting the force on Kamas that was required both in
the early stages of the war, but even at the
end in terms of approving the operation into Gaza City,
which put a tremendous amount of pressure on Kamas, and
(06:42):
even the attempts to assassinate Kamas leaders in Qatar, which
I know that the President wasn't a big fan of,
but that did really shake up, I think, the balance
of power in the region and certainly push the Kataris
to want to get out of this situation as soon
as possible. But of course in Israel, the media is
(07:03):
not going to congratulate Natanielle for a job well done,
and they want Natanielle out. They want the voters to
pick somebody else as the prime minister, and chances will
be in an election soon, so they all of a
sudden just throwing hurling all the credit on President Trump
and none onto Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Nsanelle it sounds suspiciously like the American media and how
they feel about our president here too. Something else, the
piece through strength seems to have worked again in this case.
Is that fair to say?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, I think that now the enemies of Israel recognize
that if they attack, they are going to be demolished.
I mean, you see that across the region. You see
the Hasbala has been degraded something seventy five to eighty percent,
Camas has been degraded approximately ninety percent, the Hutis have
been degraded tremendously as far away as Yemen, and Iran's
(08:03):
nuclear program has been basically eliminated, at least for the
time being. So, you know, I think that that's the
only language that's really understood in the Middle East, which
is that you will not be attacked when they see
that the price of attacking is is that great?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Those stories coming from some of those hostages are just unimaginable.
That inhumanity involved, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I mean, you're hearing about some people that were chained
up in underground tunnels for two years, barely had any
food to eat. It really isn't humane. Of course, it
was Christiana, I'm import from CNN who said that probably
some of the hostages were being were being treated better
than gods and civilians.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh my god. Alex Treman, thank you for being available.
Find him at Jans dot org, Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Jewish
News Syndic.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
This is Chris Buck with Michigan Reimagined podcast. And when
it comes to managing your finances and planning for your future,
I suggest you contact my friends at Wagoner Financial. Whether
you're just getting started, getting ready to retire, or anywhere
in between, Wagoner Financial can help you make smart financial decisions.
Don't navigate a complex problem on your own. Wagoner has
the expertise to help you feel confident that you're making
the right financial choices. Contact an advisor by calling five
(09:23):
one seven eight five three three three sixty seven, or
visit their website at Wagonerhyphenfinancial dot com.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Our path to a top ten state is only as
strong as our strength of commitment. It's time to compete
to win. When we do better by our kids, invest
in people, accelerate our economy, and get the fundamentals right,
we will feel a powerful win in our sales that
will move Michigan over it. That's a top ten state.
(09:50):
Business leaders for Michigan is the state's business round Table.
We're committed to make Michigan more competitive. Time to be bold, Michigan,
It's time to compete to.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
When it comes to healthcare costs, we often focus on
one thing, our insurance premiums. But whatever, we're only seeing.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Part of the picture.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The truth is our health insurance costs reside downstream at
the end of the cost equation. But to really understand
what's driving of costs, we need to look upstream to
the healthcare system itself. Upstream, there are costs like the
price is charged by hospitals and doctors, and the cost
of prescription drugs, healthcare administration, and technology. These costs flow
(10:30):
downstream directly into your health insurance premium. That's why Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is advocating for a system
wide solution to address the rising cost of healthcare. Blue
Cross knows that healthcare is personal, needs to work for everyone,
and affordability matters, and that starts with shedding light on
the entire cost equation, from upstream costs to downstream premiums.
(10:53):
Want to learn more, visit miiblue daily dot com. Slash
Affordability
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