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IDF Soldier Rotem Avny & Director Justin Folk | Team Behind New Documentary "Paging Hezbollah" Joins Sid Live In-Studio · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Congratulations, Sid, on your induction into the New York State
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I completely agree with President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable it took them so long. Sid, you've not
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  Speaker 1: only become one of the great voices of New York
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  Speaker 1: and America, you're one of the greatest voices of truth
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  Speaker 1: for Israel. And there's a reason you have such an
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  Speaker 1: enormous audience. You don't blabber woke nonsense. You don't tell
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  Speaker 1: people what the fashionable crowd thinks they should hear. You
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  Speaker 1: tell them the truth. the hard truth, and you tell
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  Speaker 1: it with passion, with humor, and with absolutely no fear. Sid,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to know, Israel knows who its friends are.
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  Speaker 1: You've stood with us when it was popular, and more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: when it wasn't. That means a great deal to me.
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  Speaker 1: It means a great deal to the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you, Sid, and congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Two weeks from tomorrow, 15 days away, so very close
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  Speaker 2: to each other, one week apart between Israel and the
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  Speaker 2: United States. Talking about Israel, the new documentary is Paging Hezbollah.
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  Speaker 2: This is great stuff. The film tells the inside story
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  Speaker 2: of Israel's extraordinary 2024 exploding pager operation against Hezbollah. and
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  Speaker 2: how an operation years in the making ultimately put thousands
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  Speaker 2: of compromised devices directly into the hands of Hezbollah operatives, terrorists,
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  Speaker 2: and changed the course of the war. Now, Justin Folk,
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  Speaker 2: who was the producer and director, he likes doing these documentaries.
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  Speaker 2: He's made a whole bunch of really good ones. No
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  Speaker 2: Safe Spaces. He had Prager and Carolla in that one.
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  Speaker 2: What is a Woman with Matt Walsh? Am I Racist?
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  Speaker 2: which got him more than $ 12 million in theaters. So,
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  Speaker 2: Justin Falk, you've got the documentary bug, don't you? Yeah, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: That's high praise from the Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good, right? Amazing. I got one from Trump, too.
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  Speaker 2: It's like two minutes long. Incredible.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you deserve it, and thanks for having us. We're
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  Speaker 4: excited about this film. This film is going to be,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, for lack of a better term, very explosive.
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  Speaker 3: See what he did there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's very funny.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm trying to do what you do. No one
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  Speaker 4: can compare to what you said, but... Um, no, we're
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  Speaker 4: very excited. And, um, it's not just a document. People
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  Speaker 4: think of a documentary. This is much more than just
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  Speaker 4: a documentary. It really does tell the story of the
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  Speaker 4: spy operation. It's a spy thriller. It's, uh, it's something
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  Speaker 4: that people should go see in movie theaters. It's, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's going to have all the explosions that, uh, any,
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  Speaker 4: any action movie would have. Uh, but it's really incredible
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  Speaker 4: story of a real life spy operation. One of the
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  Speaker 4: most incredible in all of history. So we're excited to
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  Speaker 4: tell it. And Rotem, how do you say a last name?
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  Speaker 2: Avni?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. Okay. So you have now served more than
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  Speaker 2: 250 days of reserve duty since October the 7th. You
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  Speaker 2: live in northern Israel with your wife and your children.
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  Speaker 2: You're a hero. You're an IDF guy. Where do you
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  Speaker 2: live exactly? What town in northern Israel?
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  Speaker 5: I live near Kiryat Shmona.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sure. So you've served and have been serving Israel
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  Speaker 2: all this time. Still do. You still do. So what
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  Speaker 2: is your role in this movie? And how cool is
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  Speaker 2: it that we're making a movie showing how smart Israeli
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  Speaker 2: intelligence is? Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's really, really, really an amazing opportunity to show
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  Speaker 6: the people our way of life. I think this movie
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  Speaker 6: is all about. I'm the associate producer. I'm honored to
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  Speaker 6: be the associate producer. And it came to be quite
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  Speaker 6: by accident, and Justin was really curious about how is
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  Speaker 6: it to live in such a situation when you just
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  Speaker 6: want to live, but you need to defend your house.
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  Speaker 6: And this is basically what I did, gave him a pick.
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  Speaker 2: You gave him a whole bunch of intelligence that you knew,
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  Speaker 2: obviously nothing specific to the story, but being a guy
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  Speaker 2: that lives in Israel, deals with this on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 2: even before October the 7th, it wasn't like you had
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  Speaker 2: no issues. So you just provided him, you're a boots
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  Speaker 2: on the ground guy, basically, right? That's you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Justin is a truth seeker. So when
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  Speaker 6: we met, he was just very, very interested about like,
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  Speaker 6: how do I live?
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  Speaker 5: How do I manage?
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  Speaker 6: He was interested about like, how is it like to,
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  Speaker 6: defend your home with your own body. And I just
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  Speaker 6: wanted to, I was honored to be in this position
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  Speaker 6: to just let him in, just walk in my shoes.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. Well, how did you find him, Justin?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I met Rotem at a dinner in northern Israel
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  Speaker 4: where I was with a group of, like a tour,
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  Speaker 4: and they had Rotem come and basically tell his story
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  Speaker 4: of what it's like being in the north. And at that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a lot had happened since October 7th with
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  Speaker 4: the war. And the north and Americans don't really understand
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  Speaker 4: how tough it was for these people.
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  Speaker 2: They had to.
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  Speaker 4: Evacuate their area, and they were constantly being bombarded by Hezbollah.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why this pager operation was so significant, because
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  Speaker 4: it turned the table. And so I needed somebody, you know,
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  Speaker 4: being American filmmakers going over there, we needed that. We
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  Speaker 4: needed that, like you said, boots on the ground to
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  Speaker 4: really kind of pick the lock on this story and really,
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  Speaker 4: really tell it authentically and with a lot of authority.
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  Speaker 4: And so Rotem helped me, he helped me with the IDF.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, he was serving IDF tank commander.
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  Speaker 3: And so that kind of opened the door.
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  Speaker 4: We did some relationship building with the IDF and Mossad
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  Speaker 4: and the prime minister's office. And that's what allowed us
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  Speaker 4: to really kind of tell the inside story. That's what
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  Speaker 4: makes this movie so special is it's actually told by
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  Speaker 4: the people that did the operation.
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  Speaker 2: I was in Israel for the first time ever. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to go my whole life. I never went for
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  Speaker 2: 56 years. And then literally three months after the war started,
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  Speaker 2: January 2024, most Americans were afraid to go to Israel.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't wait to go. And the Israelis were so
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  Speaker 2: happy I was there. They're like, this is the time
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  Speaker 2: when we want you there. So I stayed at this hotel.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Herbert Samuel Hotel. You know it, Rotem, in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice. And there was a bunch of Israeli families
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  Speaker 2: from the south. Because at that point, Hamas, they were
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  Speaker 2: still killing people in and around Gaza. And the northern
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  Speaker 2: part of the war hadn't really started yet. That came later.
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  Speaker 2: But eventually... Those central cities, Rotam and Justin, like Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: they were bombarded with Israelis who needed a place to
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  Speaker 2: live coming from both the south, Hamas, and the north, Hezbollah, right? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, your whole community was probably evacuated, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 6: I stayed in the areas who were evacuated because this
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  Speaker 6: is our home.
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  Speaker 2: So you stayed? Because you're a tough guy. You're an
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  Speaker 2: IDF guy.
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  Speaker 6: You're not moving. I just love my home. And it
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  Speaker 6: was easier to get to the Lebanese border, you know, because.
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  Speaker 2: The fight.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, and then you do like this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But did your Whiteman kids stay with you or did
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  Speaker 2: they evacuate?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's a little complicated, but you go back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: You go back and forth.
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  Speaker 5: You go back and forth.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, a lot of people have been evacuated from
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  Speaker 6: their homes.
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  Speaker 5: For a long, long time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And a lot of people also stayed.
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  Speaker 2: They stayed. Okay, good. You tough guys. So, what did
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  Speaker 2: you find out when you're making this movie that you
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  Speaker 2: didn't know before? We knew that they dropped off all
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  Speaker 2: these boxes and as Paula thought, They were getting pagers,
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  Speaker 2: and the next thing you know, it literally blew up
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  Speaker 2: in their face. What did you find out about this
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  Speaker 2: stuff before?
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  Speaker 4: Well, the details are so, so interesting. I can't wait
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  Speaker 4: for people to see this movie, because what I learned
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  Speaker 4: was it wasn't just a technological operation of, like, how
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  Speaker 4: do you put a bomb into a small device and
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  Speaker 4: have it go off at the same time?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that by itself is fascinating.
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  Speaker 4: But this was actually much more of a marketing operation
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  Speaker 4: than anything else because they had to convince Hezbollah to
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  Speaker 4: buy these things and carry them around with them and
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  Speaker 4: trust them as devices. And so they had to make
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  Speaker 4: a product that actually worked and worked well. But when
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  Speaker 4: you say trust them.
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  Speaker 2: There was no reason to believe in a million years
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  Speaker 2: from the Hezbollah guys that you couldn't trust them. Like,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to put a bomb in a pager? So
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  Speaker 2: I think earning that trust was probably easy. Marketing it,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not, but who would ever think in a million
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  Speaker 2: years that your phone or your pager would have a bomb?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 4: They trusted the pagers because pagers could only receive messages.
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  Speaker 4: and not send them. And because Hassan Nasrallah, the leader
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  Speaker 4: of Hezbollah, told all the Hezbollah fighters to get off
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  Speaker 4: your cell phones. Israelis are listening to you on your
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  Speaker 4: cell phones. Throw your cell phones away, and let's use
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  Speaker 4: pagers instead. And so, to your point, the pagers were
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  Speaker 4: the one thing they counted on so they could communicate
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  Speaker 4: with each other. And so the Israelis were able to
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  Speaker 4: get into the supply chain of the one thing that
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  Speaker 4: they trusted.
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  Speaker 2: Love that. And Nasrallah was killed by the airstrikes. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Not in the actual pager situation.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Nasrallah, so the Pager operation was the first operation in
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  Speaker 4: 10 days that set off this incredible, incredible, you know,
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  Speaker 4: turnaround in the north. The airstrikes came about 10 days
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  Speaker 4: later after the Pager operation, but it was the Pager
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  Speaker 4: operation that allowed them to carry out those strikes and
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  Speaker 4: not have, you know... thousands of missiles being fired into Israel.
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  Speaker 4: So it literally brought Hezbollah to their knees.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And they were able to carry out all the other
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  Speaker 4: operations and really turn the tide in southern Lebanon.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Rotem, were you part of that fighting after the
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  Speaker 2: Patriots exploded? Were you part of that fighting? Yes. You were.
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  Speaker 2: So where exactly were you situated when you fought in
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  Speaker 2: the north?
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, it's kind of classified. I can't
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  Speaker 5: be specific.
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  Speaker 2: You can't tell me that, right?
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  Speaker 5: I can't be specific.
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  Speaker 2: You can tell me at the break.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll tell you in the break. But it was very,
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  Speaker 5: very significant.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I've been, I'm an IDF officer, tank commander
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  Speaker 6: and more. And I've been to the front and I've
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  Speaker 6: been to the war rooms and I seen how it
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  Speaker 6: was so significant, you know, and as an Israeli, we
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  Speaker 6: know war like all our life and he's was, well,
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  Speaker 6: they basically, they took a long time to reorganize because
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  Speaker 6: when the land operation started, Hezbollah wasn't really there. It
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  Speaker 6: was really, really low friction, we call it.
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  Speaker 2: It was supposed to be the day one when Hamas...
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  Speaker 2: attacked us in Israel on October 7th, Hezbollah was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be part of that. But they screwed up. They
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  Speaker 2: weren't ready until like a couple of days later. But
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  Speaker 2: ideally what they wanted was Hamas attacking the south and
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  Speaker 2: Hezbollah at the same time attacking the north, which they
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  Speaker 2: weren't able to pull off.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a big part of the movie. We
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  Speaker 4: show this in the movie. But this coordinated attack was
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  Speaker 4: supposed to happen. One of the reasons it didn't, that
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  Speaker 4: we learned, was the IDF mobilized quickly to the north.
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  Speaker 4: Because they realized they knew Hezbollah was a way more
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  Speaker 4: powerful force than Hamas. So Netanyahu had a choice. And
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  Speaker 4: there was a disagreement in the cabinet about this. There
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  Speaker 4: was a real debate that went on about when do
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  Speaker 4: we confront Hezbollah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There always is.
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  Speaker 4: But the IDF did move troops quickly to the northern border,
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  Speaker 4: and that was a deterrent.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, like, don't try it. Don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right. They still did. So there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people that think the day after the election, next Wednesday, okay,
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  Speaker 2: the election is a week from tomorrow, eight days away.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big BB guy. You heard him congratulate me.
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  Speaker 2: I love him. Hopefully he stays in power. But regardless,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people think the day after, next Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: nine days from today, Rotem, that regardless of what happens,
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  Speaker 2: Bibi stays in power for about two months, right? Because
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  Speaker 2: a new government wouldn't start until like January. And the
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  Speaker 2: conventional wisdom is, he going back to war. Same thing
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  Speaker 2: with President Trump. Lose the midterms in 15 days. The
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  Speaker 2: conventional wisdom is, in 16 days, Iran, get ready for
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  Speaker 2: a beating. So have you been told, are you ready,
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  Speaker 2: that right after the elections in Israel, you may be
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  Speaker 2: forced to go back and fight?
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I'm not a very political guy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: We're just here to tell this amazing story about how
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  Speaker 6: this operation unfolds. When he was in a key position,
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  Speaker 6: and he's just basically telling the story.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right. I got you.
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  Speaker 4: I think the thing, and he wrote to me and says,
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  Speaker 4: they're always ready, right?
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  Speaker 3: Always ready. So it's like they have to be always ready.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And so Rotem and, you know, the rest of this.
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  Speaker 4: One thing I learned so much, and Sid, you know this.
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  Speaker 4: You go over there, you see the resilience of these people.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: They live their lives every day.
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  Speaker 2: They go to school.
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  Speaker 3: They go to work. They have fun.
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  Speaker 2: They eat. They dance.
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  Speaker 3: They do everything. And at the same time, they have
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  Speaker 3: to always be ready for what's next.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what? You know what's great about
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  Speaker 2: these people, Justin and Rotem? When you're in an airplane, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and that airplane is hijacked. And I know we had
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  Speaker 2: heroes in America, too. Don't forget United Flight 11, 93.
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  Speaker 2: It's 11. The one that crashed in Pennsylvania in 93.
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  Speaker 2: Those were American passengers who stormed that cockpit. So we've
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  Speaker 2: done that here. Unfortunately, it ended in tragedy. The plane crashed.
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  Speaker 2: But when Israelis do that, it's because when they're like six,
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  Speaker 2: seven years old, they start getting ready for every situation
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  Speaker 2: just like that. Men, women, it doesn't matter. So a
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  Speaker 2: guy like Rotem, for example, by the time he's 10,
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  Speaker 2: he's ready to go. And you can see that all
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  Speaker 2: over Israel. There's a confidence that, yeah, you got a
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  Speaker 2: sad day. You got a sad day, but you ain't
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  Speaker 2: going to get his twice. And your movie depicts that
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  Speaker 2: with this amazing intelligence, A, like you said, finding out
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  Speaker 2: how to get these people, those pagers, and then making
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  Speaker 2: sure those pagers blow up.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of the most incredible spy operations of all time.
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  Speaker 3: It really is.
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  Speaker 4: It's so improbable. And we have so many great people
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  Speaker 4: to tell. The prime minister's in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's in there. We have the director of Mossad himself.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, Mossad doesn't usually do movies.
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  Speaker 2: No, they don't.
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  Speaker 3: They're not in the movie making business.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised at what their face is on the screen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think what happened was, listen, Israel's been fighting
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  Speaker 4: wars since their whole existence.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: When they were created in 1948, right? And they're very
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  Speaker 4: good at it. They're very good at the kinetic warfare.
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  Speaker 4: The thing that they realize they're not that good at
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  Speaker 4: is telling their story, right? And so I think they
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  Speaker 4: realize that with this particular story, they needed to tell
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  Speaker 4: it because somebody else would. And it's one of the
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  Speaker 4: most incredible stories to tell. And so I think we
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  Speaker 4: were able to convince the prime minister, we were able
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  Speaker 4: to convince the high-level people, Mossad, that you need to
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  Speaker 4: tell this story. And the world needs to know, especially America.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: We need to understand.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait. Where can people see this documentary?
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  Speaker 3: In theaters, October 30th. Tickets go on sale October 21st.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. Here in New York? There's a New Yorker?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you bet.
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  Speaker 2: You bet.
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  Speaker 4: Most major markets will have it. It's going to be
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  Speaker 4: released around the country October 30th. And like I said before,
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  Speaker 4: we highly encourage people to see it in the movie
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  Speaker 4: theaters because.
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  Speaker 2: This is one to watch. Because this will be streaming,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure. You can watch it at home eventually, right?
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  Speaker 2: Netflix or Hulu, one of those things.
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  Speaker 3: Eventually. You'll have to wait for that. It'll come. But
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  Speaker 3: I would encourage people to get out to movie theater.
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  Speaker 5: Actually.
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  Speaker 4: By going and buying tickets, by buying them early, it
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  Speaker 4: really does help push the movie out to more and
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  Speaker 4: more people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a message that people need to know
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  Speaker 4: because they need to know who the good guys are
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  Speaker 4: and who the bad guys.
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  Speaker 3: Are in America.
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  Speaker 2: You're so right. Paging Hezbollah. So, Rotem, you're going to
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: put down the rifle now and become an actor? What
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: do you think? It's a lot less dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: He's actually in there.
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  Speaker 4: We did some recreations, and you can see Rotem in
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: some of the scenes.
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  Speaker 5: Some shots, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How cool is that going to be? See, look at that.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: He's on the big screen. All right.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: It's going to be very cool.
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: I didn't think in my lifetime I will get to
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: do such important, really, really important work. It's all about
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: sending the right message and spreading the truth about, like,
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: who are we, Israelis?
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: We're just a bunch of people. We love life.
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: Israel and America, we don't only share a relationship, a friendship.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: We share the same war. We share the same values.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: The difference is that Hezbollah is just right at our doorstep.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: That's right, and you're going to wipe them out and
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: get rid of all the evil in the world today.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: So one more time, Justin Folk, and great job by you, Tim.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: How can people find out what they need to know
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: about this film?
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: They should go to paginghezbollah.com, and October 30th is when
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: the movie's going to be in theaters. October 21st, get
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: them early.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Get them early.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Because when you buy them early, they release more and
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: more screens.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Right, of course.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: And so buy your tickets early. And go out and
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: bring it, bring your friends. It's going to be, it's
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: going to be a hoot. It's going to be, it's
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: going to be explosive.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: So I went to see Bibi Netanyahu speak at the
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: UN a couple of weeks ago. I was in the building.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: It was great sitting there with Alan Dershowitz. How cool
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: was it that Bibi actually had a pager with him?
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: And showed it to the audience. Incredible.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Incredible.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: He should have said, go see me in paging Fola.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: But he had the pager with him. Not the one
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: that exploded, obviously. He did.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: And Netanyahu knows how significant that operation was. And honestly,
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: you learn this in the movie, how much he's responsible
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: for ultimately making that decision to go forward.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: There was disagreement about the operation itself. But he made
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: a bold move.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: They didn't know if it would work or if it
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: would do what they thought it would do. And it
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: was the Prime Minister and the Director of Mossad that said, yeah,
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: let's do this.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: I love it. Justin Folk and Rotem Avni, thank you
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: guys so much. It looks like an amazing, amazing film.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Go buy your tickets as early as October the 21st.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: It's at theaters October 30th. Paging Hezbollah. Looks like a
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: winner to me. Thank you, gentlemen.
• 17:21
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