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This Palm Sunday, Recognition That Life is Bigger Than a Bracket 3-24-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host, Alex Garrett, and welcome inside to this edition of the
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Alex Garrett Podcast Network. You know, all weekend you've been maybe thinking about
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the fragility of your bracket. Meanwhile, I've been thinking about the fragility of
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life. So today is Palm Sunday. Hope you've got a blessed one.
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But the last few days have been thinking have gotten me thinking about the fragility
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of life. Because while all of us have been consumed, I included with
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the bracket busting that's been the first couple of rounds in the NCAA tournament in
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twenty twenty four. I mean Oakland beating Kentucky fourteen over three. And by
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the way, did you see that Oakland, which I've was a school in
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Michigan, got eighty thousand dollars from the University of Louisville fan base for beating
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Kentucky. How about that? And I believe they turned into merchandise in their
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tournament run, but nonetheless, which only lasted one game because they did get
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knocked out by NC State. But nonetheless, nonetheless, the brackets have been
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busting. But the fragility of life is more important than the fragility of our
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brackets, isn't it? While coaches and even fans and players may even on
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the sideline or on the court complaining. Caitlin Clark, right, you were
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complaining a little bit. Did you not see the footage in Moscow of the
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concert hall being terrorized with forty dead at least and one hundred wounded. Did
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you not notice that Kate Middleton had her cancer diagnosis reveal right on national television
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in the middle of March Madness this past Friday. Well we all noticed it,
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but not many talked about it after it happened. But that's where I
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feel like we have to have that conversation. The fragility of life weigh outweighs
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the fragility of the bracket. So even if your bracket got busted, even
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if your team didn't go it further into the tournament, thank god you are
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around to see your team even in the tournament. Thank god you were even
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around to complain about maybe a referees call or a coaching decision, or if
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you're the coach, complain about certain situations on the court, certain calls and
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whatnot. Thank God you were there to breathe and make those complaints because there
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are forty no longer able to do that in Russia because they are dead from
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terrorism and what everything of Vladimir Putin. The Russian citizens do not deserve to
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die in the hands of Isis. They do not. They don't even deserve
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to diet the hands of their own government. But isis not. They don't
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deserve that either, and so and so, I just wanted to take a
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step back, because there is something to the fragility of life that is so
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much more important but gets less magnified than the fragility of a bracket. And
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it's like that every March Madness. But this year there are some real heavy
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news. And by the way, those that were firing off conspiracy theories and
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those that were firing off hateful things about Kate Middleton's cancer, a photoshop edit,
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a Mother's Day in the UK, just shut up now. We don't
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need to hear you talking about how sad you are she's suffering. You made
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fun of her while she was going through it in January and February and March.
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So take a seat on the bench to use marchmadness language and sit this
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one out. I have had a family member, my father that I have
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cancer, so I can empathize with how bad things have gotten for the Royal
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family, whether it be Sir Charles's King Charles is now cancer, cancer,
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Kate Middleton's cancer. It's not easy, it's horrible. But for those who
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are Monday Morning quarterback in a photo, shame on you for now saying how
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bad do you feel for doing that? Own up to him and realize that
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you don't think of the Royal family as people, but they are in fact
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real people, and they are showing us the fragility of life by what Kate
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Middleton did on Friday, by what's been going on with King Charles and his
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kids are diagnosis. So don't sit there and tell me that you care.
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Now. We don't want to hear that. We don't need to hear that.
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And Prince William and Came Milton have been saying they've been getting a lot
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of support, and I sometimes wonder where from because before this video was released
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on Friday, a lot of people were making fun of her, were making
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fun of her non a disappearance from the public life, but she clearly had
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been taking care of her and meeting with the great doctors, the great medical
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teams that Buckingham Palace has to offer. So, whether it's this Moscow terrorism
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at the hands of ISIS or Kate Middleton, can we just realize that life
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is bigger than a bracket and basketball and sports for one second of this fast
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paced action that now will hit the Sweet sixteen next week. Yeah, I've
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been talking about how I'm excited when my final four picks may it to the
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next round, but I'm also aware of the brutalities that the world's facing so
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much so, and I haven't really done this in an anti Israel light,
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but what I'm about to tell you should not be taken as totally anti ISRAELI
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I'm gonna go out in March than say River to the Sea, which is
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very hurtful to the Jewish people, by the way, very hurtful. But
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I want to give this information from long reads because here's another situation that we've
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been maybe not noticing as much. First of all, Secretary of Blincoln has
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been really swinging and missing when it comes to foreign policy and being the Secretary
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of State. I wish you put that guitar down and actually get Hamas and
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Israel to talk. If we're going to play that role. We have to
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play that role. But Hamas rejects every Israeli deal, while Blinkin plays as
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a guitar and then goes and talks to Egypt about how they can play a
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role in providing a pathway for citizens of Gaza fleeing their home. But while
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I believe the state of Israel, I believe Israel has to defend itself,
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this stack cannot be ignored. According to say word Derby in Long Reeds,
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more than the thousand children injured it in Israel's brutal bombardment of Gaza are now
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amputees. Eliza Griswold meets some of the children and the people treating them,
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and I talk with doctor Gasan Abu Tisita, who spent forty three days in
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Gaza performing surgeries. The number of child amputees carries long term implications, Abu
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Sada told Eliza Griswold, listing his concerns. Israeli forces apparently destroyed Goadz's only
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facility for manufacturing prosthetics and rehabilitation. This facility was funded by Qatar. Right
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now, the leading manufacturer of child prosthetics, the German company Autobach, is
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working to supply the necessary components to children up to the age of sixteen.
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Procuring prosthetics, however, is only the first step child amputees in medical care.
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Every six months. Abu Sitz has said, bones are growing faster and
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rohnes grow faster than self tissue, and several nerves often reattached painfully to skin.
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Such limb requires eight to twelve more surgeries. While'm gonna post it on
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my podcast. On my podcast, by you you get the point, it's
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not looking good for the amputees in Gaza, the children amputees let alone.
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Then, But and it's another example of life being bigger than basketball, life
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being bigger than this bracket. Because I've been I've been very cautious outside this.
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I feel like if you say certain things, you will appear anti Israeli,
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anti Semitic when it comes to this disaster in the Middle East. I
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will not understand why the Israeli government sat on this intel that Hamasa was going
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to do what they did on October seventh. But I do not understand why
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those who say free Palestine are yelling at innocent Jewish people on the streets of
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New York. You know, it felt like every day for a little bit
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there. But alongside the amputees, I have to say's decision to continue this
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bombing and it worked a segment of getting Hamas leaders who are hiding under these
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hospitals. That is true. But when you see thousands of amputees and you
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see what the continued bombing and the continued narrative of Israel bombing has done here
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to American Jews and put down safety at risk. I really believe that and
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have believed that the news indirectly indirectly affected American Jewish lives because those American Jewish
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lives are always under threat. When I see those who were screaming in the
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streets free Palestine and anti Israeli sentiment, because when you say NYC condemns Israel,
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I think you loop in those Jewish people who are innocently trying to live
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their life and steer away from the terrorism that came to them on October seventh
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and does come to them in the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Avision. But
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when I see a story like the amputees, I cannot ignore that. As
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someone who wants to discuss adaptability, my goodness, the Gosen population has a
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lot of adapting to do now, and that includes that includes those who have
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lost limbs in this battlefield. And so to that end, if you are
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pro Israel, you cannot ignore the numbers. If you are pro the Jewish
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people and the right to defend themselves, you still cannot ignore these numbers.
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But if you are free Palestine, folks, you shouldn't be wearing pins like
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Mark Ruffalo did of bloodied hands that were shown at the hands of someone who
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murdered you know, Jewish people. I'll send you the backstory on those pins
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that you saw at the Oscars. Those were by the very nature anti Semitic,
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and I'll tell you why. So can we stop ignoring all these different
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the damage done in Gaza, the continued rhetoric here on the home front,
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And if I'm the Israeli government, if I am that in Yahoo, maybe
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the realization that my goodness, my actions are impacting American Jews safety, and
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that is on him. Yes, Hamas has rejected deal after deal after deal.
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But when I say life is bigger than a bracket, these are the
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hard conversations to have. And no matter how many deals Hamas rejects, not
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much tyranny. They reign on those people of Palestine. The very nature of
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what Israel has continued to do with certain wins here, and there is more
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they're affecting the Jewish population of America and New York City than it is having
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an effect a positive one on the Israel Hamas War. So Prime Minister Naneahoo
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will probably be voted out, but more so than that, he needs to
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come to grips with the fact that what he's doing is affecting only gods and
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children, but Jewish Americans who are just trying to live life here without being
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yelled at by an insane free Palestine from the river to sea protester. And
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and that's not even counting what's going on in the anti sentimatism front on campuses
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that's also being caused by the academia, if you will, but by the
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news cycle. And when the new cycle continues to say how bad a Jew's
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bomb and kasa, the pressures on Jewish students are getting worse. I do
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believe they are connected. So not only is life bigger than basketball or a
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bracket, it's bigger than politics. It's affecting your lives across our nation,
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and it all needs to end, especially in this holy time. So yes,
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just like we laid the palms for Christ to enter Jerusalem, maybe this
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Palm Sunday we canna lay the palms for innocent Gosins. We have nothing to
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do with the Hamas terror attacks and Israel established a better ground game to get
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their nemesis and the world's nemesis and wipe out Hamas. That's my prayer,
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this Palm Sunday. Life is bigger than a bracket.