EP 1,216 - EDAN ALEXANDER IS FREE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY/DRAYMOND GREEN WEAPONIZES RACE/CODE SWITCHING TIM WALTZ
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Boom! Have no fear, the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast is here. Biggity boom. Have no fear, the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast is in the place to be. On today's banging, very emotional I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast, Eden Alexander from New Jersey has been freed.

A miracle. He is back. He is on his feet. And he is in his parents, his mother's arm. Eden Alexander from New Jersey has been freed. Plus, NBA playoffs. My suggestion that maybe the Knicks fans go get a broom. Listen, not all suggestions wind up being great suggestions. And Draymond Green, you're good.

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Sign up for alerts. Ask a question. If you're watching on YouTube, watch and ask a question. Leave a comment. Good, bad, or indifferent. You like something, you don't like something? Let me know. I'm Rapport Stereo Podcast coming live and direct. I'm going to just get into it. Man, what a week. What a day. I'm going to get into it. Eden Alexander. Eden Alexander. Edan Alexander from New Jersey. The Lone Soldier from Tenafly, New Jersey.

As of the recording of this I Am Rap Poor Stereo podcast just hours ago has been released. And what a miracle. What a miracle. It's a miracle that he's alive and that he was seen on his own two feet walking. I can't imagine what he's been through. Eden Alexander, who was a lone soldier. If you don't know what that means, he's a dual citizen soldier.

And he enlisted in the IDF. Eden Alexander is 21 years old. He was born in Tel Aviv and raised in Tenafly, New Jersey. And at 18, he made the choice to enlist in the IDF. And he was stationed near Gaza. Obviously, he was on patrol October 7th. And that day he disappeared.

And for 580 plus days, 580 plus days, Eden Alexander was being held hostage. There were two videos, I believe, two videos, propaganda videos of him while being held hostage. And because they knew he was a soldier, who knows what he was subjected to. But I could say for myself, and I'm going to get into my feelings and thoughts throughout the day, because for me personally, the...

Qatar jet of it all and all the stuff that's been online and the Trump maybe getting this plane and all that stuff, it has caused me and a lot of people to take our eyes off the main prize, which is Eden Alexander is home. Eden Alexander is home after 580 plus days. And I know for myself, I said, I posted...

I prayed for his return. And I know I tweeted in my posts. I've spoken these words. Please bring these hostages home by any means necessary. By any means necessary. And Eden Alexander has been freed by any means necessary. And I can't imagine how his mother...

and father and his family and his friends feel. I am sure they have, I can't even imagine what they've been through. I can't imagine what Eden Alexander has been through, but he's back. He is back and it is a miracle, a true miracle that he's back and alive because as we know, so many hostages didn't make it back. So many lives were lost on October 7th.

There are believed to be 20, 19 now, 19 of the now 58 hostages are alive with the other ones allegedly not alive, but nobody knows anything. This is a dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty game and a dirty war. And my feelings, and I know a lot of people's feelings, I've spoken to so many different people.

Dust Brothers, Jordan, Miles, and I have been texting, spoken to people in Israel, spoken to people in the United States, some people who are Democrats, some people who are Republicans, some people who are left-left, right-right. I know for me, and I was talking to my wife, she really reminded me that we all were begging, tweeting, protesting, stressing, crying, and all of the above that we

Eden Alexander and the hostages come home by any means necessary. And the reason why the by any means necessary part keeps coming back to me, because of course this wasn't going to be pretty. And the animals of Hamas, their bosses in Qatar, they won on October 7th. I've said this before. There's no fixing. There's no replacing Hamas.

The damage that was done on October 7th to the people who lost their lives. There's no replacing the heartbreak of those people's families. There's no replacing, fixing therapy that can repair the damage of the hostages that were taken and that come out alive. The victims, the IDF soldiers who have been injured, who have been unlived, their families, their

The people who I've spoken to myself, and the minuscule amount of people that I've spoken to myself, who have stories of horror, horror of October 7th, the horror that I'm sure they are just spooked to the core by, and terrorized to the core by, and the life-changing memories and experiences of surviving from October 7th, and so forth and so on. But...

The animals, the bad guys won on October 7th. And the assets that they had with these hostages, we lost. The good guys lost. Israel lost. There's no way to fix it. The only way to fix it is to get them all back. And even then, this young man's life will be changed forever. His family's life will be changed forever. Their perspective on all things will be changed forever.

But when I was talking to my wife about the idea of bring them back by any means necessary, fight, yell, scream, beg, plead. I tweeted that shit so many times. I said it so many times. By any means necessary, this is what it means. And it feels extremely emotional. It feels crazy. All the stuff that's been put in the news and online, some of it's probably true. Some of it's probably not true. The idea of...

Qatar wanting and suggesting that this young man, after being held hostage for 580 plus days, comes to Qatar and meets Trump and meets whatever the hell the leader of Qatar is. I don't know what they are.

To be paraded around. When I thought about that this morning, and I don't know if it's going to happen as of the recording, this I Am Rap Poor Stereo podcast, Edan Alexander's grandfather said, no, he's not going to Qatar today. And he should never go to Qatar. He should never have to go to Qatar. He shouldn't have to go anywhere. But to get him home, if that was suggested, that's what by any means necessary means. It just put me, I could just speak for myself, it just put me, and I don't speak on behalf of anybody here,

through like a spin cycle of emotions because you think this is what a Jewish person, a hostage is taken, an American hostage is taken, a Jewish American hostage is taken and held for 19 months and Biden couldn't get him out. And then Trump and his crew, Witkoff and so forth, they have to agree because they're

I can't imagine that Trump, as fucking wild as he may be, or maybe he did suggest it because by any means necessary, unfortunately means by any means necessary. But somebody came up with the idea that after 19 months of captivity, Eden Alexander goes to Qatar two, three days after being released and meets Trump and meets the leaders of Qatar. And I'm just thinking, how sick is that?

To parade around a 21 year old kid who was stolen and done. Who the fuck knows what they've been doing to him all this time. And you want to show him off like some prize. Some negotiated piece of material. I felt that. And then this idea of this plane that I've read so many different things about. A $400 million plane that was being gifted to President Trump.

That he tweeted that it was, I'm just like, what the fuck? Plane? So what happened? You know, the idea of Trump, did he say, oh, well, I want the hostage back. And they said, we'll give you the hostage back, but then you take the plane. But how does, what kind of, what is this? And then arguing with people that love Trump, people that hate Trump, Jews that,

hate Trump, but I mean, just like the whole day was just sick and twisted and emotional and frustrating. And I just go back to free the hostages by any means necessary. And this young man has been freed by any means necessary. And it's, it's a miracle that he's alive. It's, it's incredible that it was done. I know that this situation, I can't even imagine the frustration that,

from Trump, from Netanyahu, whatever we think of them, whatever you think of them, whatever we think of them, whatever anybody thinks of them, like this is a fucked up thing. And then for anybody have to kowtow down to Qatar and these animals because it's just been really, really emotional day and a really incredible day and a day filled with thoughts and ideas that I never experienced before.

And we've had some crazy days since October 7th. We've had some crazy fucking days since October 7th. But this young man is home and he was freed and he is in the arms of his family right now. And if Trump is getting a fucking plane or he said he's getting a plane, he's not getting a plane. And if it means saying you'll bring him to Qatar, I know his mother was like, I'll bring him anywhere to get him home.

I know his mother and his father, we'll take him to Jupiter if it means getting him home. Yes, yes, we'll go anywhere to get him home. Whether or not that happens, I don't know. But I know for myself, I have to check myself and take my personal thoughts and feelings. And I really urge everybody to check yourself. If you're really thinking about the fate of the 58 hostages, check yourself. And I'm checking myself that it's not about...

Us, planes, jets, Qatar. This is a sick, ugly game. And there is no winning. They won on October 7th. If your thoughts, prayers, and soul goal, your soul and goal is to free the hostages, it must be done by any means necessary. And this situation with Idan Alexander really proves it.

really really proves it and test it in a way but I have to take my own feelings and thoughts out of it because I'm not his mother I'm not his father and I'm certainly not that young man and they have been put in the most desperate I'm sure humiliating position to have to beg for your life and

I can't imagine that literally have to beg and do anything you can to stay alive, to do anything you can to have your son stay alive and for him to make it home. I can't imagine that. I can't imagine that. And nobody can question. Nobody has the right to comment on what it's taken to get Eden Alexander home, the nastiness, the vileness of it.

The sickness of it, the frustrations of it, nobody really could understand it. And you can't say what you would do and what you wouldn't do when you're not in the shoes of that young man and his family and his friends. And I know I'm kind of ranting, but that's what I do. I do just rant.

I'm not trying to say what everybody else is saying, reading off the phones and reading off this reporter and that reporter and this tweet and that tweet and outsmart everybody. I'm trying to just articulate my feelings in the best way possible. But it has been some day. It has been some crazy, amazing day. But the most beautiful part of it, despite all of our thoughts, feelings, frustrations,

is that this young man is home. I will say in defense of being frustrated, being upset, being angry, being embarrassed about the idea. I was embarrassed about the idea of this young man being paraded around a young Jewish man being paraded around Qatar. It is a very emotional time.

And we are allowed to have emotions and you are allowed to have emotions and give yourself space to have those emotions because this is an extremely unprecedented emotional time. You know, people talk, you know, being mad, you mad, you mad, bro, you mad, bro. Why are you so mad? You and your feelings. This is a time to be mad. It's a time to be sad. It's a time to be happy. It's a time to be ecstatic. It's a time to bang your fist. It's a time to cry.

Um, if you're a Jewish person, if you're someone who's invested in the fate of the 58 remaining hostages and the fate and state of Israel, literally and physically, and the fate and state of Jews safety in the world and Jews, um, sort of place in the world, it's an emotional time. So, um,

Stay focused, but we are allowed to have emotions. You are allowed to have emotions. I'm allowed to have emotions. But at the end of the day, he came home by any means necessary, and there are 58 other hostages that must come home by any means necessary. Period. End of story.

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Well, my broom talk didn't go as planned. I know last week I mentioned getting brooms for Game 3. At least I ran it up the flagpole. Spitballed ideas. Maybe we get some brooms for Game 3 in New York. That didn't go as planned. Okay? I understand that. I understand that. And I did it old school. Specifically for Game 3, I did it old school. On the couch. I actually got offered a ticket. Like...

I'd say two hours before the game, but I already had my plan. Me and my wife, we worked out. Nice, nice pump. Got a nice pump before the game. Ate something and then bunkered down old school on the couch. And I watched and it got ugly quick. Got ugly quick.

And here we are now. Here we are now, heading into Game 5 as of the recording of this I Am Rapport Stereo Podcast. But yes, the idea of getting a broom to sweep the Boston Celtics, it didn't go great. It did not go great. But the NBA playoffs have been twists and turns and drama. And I wonder if the ratings are good because, I mean, expect the unexpected has been...

really, really what you could get these NBA playoffs. I mean, you don't know what the hell's going to happen night after night, who's going to win. And I think that's great. I think the Celtics going down two games to nothing and the series being where it is now is great. You know, nobody had on their bingo card that the Cavaliers would be down getting destroyed. Nobody, it's been a great, it's been a great playoffs, even if it hasn't gone your way. Of course, the one thing that has been

Sort of apropos, the one thing that has been sort of like clockwork is Draymond Green freaking out. Draymond Green going totally fucking nuts. The other night when they were Steph-less, Steph Curry, Chef Curry, last name rhymes with flurry, suffering from that injury. I hope he gets back ASAP because they're not going to do shit without him. And Draymond, I don't know if he didn't want to play or he can't control himself or

Or maybe he didn't want to play and he literally can't control himself. Or he doesn't know. I don't know. But he got another technical foul for flailing. Listen, dream on. If you're shooting the ball, you go this way. Basketball's not a game where you go this way. You do karate chops, broad sweeping karate chops.

Anybody there? He's like, you don't know the game. He'll say that to like other people. You don't know the game. I know the game enough to know that when you shoot the ball, you go this way. When you pass the ball, you go this way. It's not you shoot the ball and then you go out this way. We know what you do, Draymond Green. The world knows what you do. Basketball fans, whether you like it or not, whether you think that the fans know the game or not. Online reporters, we all know whether we played in the NBA, college, college.

High school or even NBA 2K, even NBA 2K. You never see a guy go like that. You never see like if you're playing old school Akeem Olajuwon, he does like a dream shake and then goes just like this. Only you do that. Draymond Green, you're the only person who does that consistently. Hitting people, smacking people, making a pass, and then going this way. You fall, you don't go like this, you fall and then you go like that. That's only you, Draymond.

Who I need to congratulate. Draymond Green, I need to congratulate. It's not getting as much coverage as it should be. Because you can say what you want about Draymond Green, but he is the 2025 Hustle Player of the Year. The official NBA Hustle Player of the Year. He didn't win Defensive Player of the Year like he was campaigning for a month ago. A month ago in Draymond years is like... Because so much happens with Draymond Green. Like a month ago...

Like you could just go like, like it's a whole list, a laundry list of things that have happened with Draymond Green in the last month.

But after his getting kicked out of the game for damn near assaulting, I don't know who was on him, and then cursing out the referees. And it's to the point where it's like, yo, he doesn't just go, man, fuck you, man. Fuck that call. He's like, fuck you, you motherfucker. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about, you dumb motherfucker. You stupid motherfucker. And I'm bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep. And you bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep. This is Draymond Green.

And they have to let it slide because if the referees gave him the technical fouls for the verbal abuse that he deserves, he wouldn't be in the NBA. He wouldn't be in the playoffs. He'd be suspended for not one game, multiple games. But he knows Draymond Green as nuts as he is. He knows that the NBA wants and needs Steph Curry to be in the best position to succeed. It's not fixed, but the NBA and the referees know that.

Without the step, Steph Curry is great for basketball. Steph Curry is great for ratings. This fucking lunatic, this psychopath is an integral part of the team. If he's not on the team, just like in the 2016 finals, when you got suspended, there's a chance that they might not win.

The NBA wants to see Steph Curry make it as far as he possibly can because Steph Curry is box office and Draymond Green is on that team. So he uses the fact that the NBA and the referees understand that we want Steph Curry. If we want Steph Curry, we need to keep this fucking psychopath on the court as much as possible. And he's a fucking psychopath. You're fucking nuts.

And after the game, he refused to do press, but he called the little mini press conference. And Draymond Green said, I don't like the narrative of y'all trying to paint me out to look like an angry black man. I'm not an angry black man. I'm smart. I'm educated. I'm successful. I'm a great family man. This, that, and the third. And you weaponize race. Nobody said you were an angry black man. People have said and think you're out of your mind.

You're fucking nuts. You have some sort of, why don't you get on a mood stabilizer? Prozac, I'm back on my Prozac. Okay? I was on the Effexor, on the Lexapro, now I'm on that Zach. I feel great. My energy is great. Draymond, why don't you get yourself on a mood stabilizer? It's not going to affect you on the court, but maybe it'll affect you.

In a positive way, so you stop flailing your arms, karate chopping opponents, and then verbally assaulting and abusing referees. And when you verbally assault and abuse referees, you want to weaponize and say, people are trying to make me out to be an angry black man. Nobody, hey listen, some people might want to make you out to be the stereotype angry black man. I'm making you out to be a dirty fucking player.

who seemingly has no control of himself, who's a grown man with no control of himself. And you are educated. Allegedly, you are a great family man. Allegedly, you are very successful. Allegedly. And with all that going, you're also totally out of control on the basketball court. And all those things could be true and are true based on what we see. We don't know you at home.

He's probably, he's his daughter's in the commercial. Draymond Green is probably a great dad. He's probably a fun dad. His daughter probably makes him get ice cream and pushes him around. He's probably the sweetest dad you could possibly be. But on the basketball court, you're fucking nuts. And I don't even think it's angry. I think you're a dirty player. I think you have an inferiority complex.

I think you'll do whatever you need to do to help your team win, which is a good thing. And I also think you need to be on Prozac. At the end of the day, I think it all comes back to Prozac, J. Mike Green. It has nothing to do with you being an angry black man.

Okay, it has nothing to do with being successful, educated or not. It has to do with Prozac and therapy or Lexapro or some sort of mood stabilizer. Who am I to diagnose you? But I can tell you one thing. You can benefit. You can absolutely positively benefit right now during these playoffs from some sort of mood stabilizer.

Because you're out of fucking control. You have some sort of tick, some sort of impulse control disorder. I ain't a therapist. I ain't a doctor. But I can say that if you went to 10 therapists, 10 doctors, 10 psychiatrists, they would all say, based on your behavior, year after year, playoff after playoff, they would all say, this fucking guy...

certainly has at least, at very least, some sort of impulse control disorder. Anger issues? I don't know. Is it anger? Is it contrived? I don't know. For me, it seems like some sort of mood impulse control disorder. And that's what I'm saying. Prozac. Get yourself some Prozac, man. I'm back on it. I feel great. I look great.

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What else is going on? There's something that I wanted to bring up last week on the podcast that I forgot or I don't remember. But Tim Waltz, Tampon Tim, Tampon Tim Waltz from the great state of Minnesota. He's back talking. So is Smokin' Joe Biden, Cadaver Joe Biden, Jill Biden, respectfully. They're out there. I believe they have a $30 million book deal. $30 million. Come on, Joe.

Dr. Jill, what are you going to tell us that we don't already know? $30 million. Crazy. Crazy. But Tampon Tim from the great state of Minnesota, Tim Waltz, who was going to be vice president, might have been vice president of the United States. And going back to all things Israel, all things Jewish, all things hostage related, I feel in my gut, I really, really feel like in my gut, the hostages that have been returned since Trump died,

and even right before Trump started, I don't think that they would be back. I don't think that they would be back if Kamala had won. In my heart of hearts, in my soul, I really don't feel like Israel would be safe right now. And I certainly don't feel like they'd be in as good a position as they are now. And I say good with air quotes because...

You know, things are still really, really, really, really, really, really, really not great across the board in Israel right now. The people are unbelievable. The people are resilient. The people are magical. And Israel is going to be OK and the Jews are going to be OK. But things are not great in Israel right now, with at very least the fact that 58 hostages are still in Israel.

captivity, I really believe that if Kamala won, more hostages would be in captivity. But Tampon Tim, Tim Waltz, he's been, you know, out speaking and talking and showing up at this place and that place. And he said something the other day at some interview, which was wild. Yo, Tampon Tim, you're crazy. Coach, Coach Waltz, Coach Waltz said, I'll just, uh,

I'll play it. I would argue because we did a lot of amazing progressive things in Minnesota that improved people's lives. But I also was on the ticket, quite honestly, you know, because I could code talk to white guys watching football fiction. Tampon Tim Waltz said, I was on the ticket, quite honestly, because I could, and he did this. I could code talk. He did like this. I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their trucks.

Am I the only one who finds this offensive? You could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their trucks. You speak jive, Tim Waltz? That means you speak jive. So you're like, I could code talk. Like, I speak both languages. I could speak to Kamala Harris, and I could tell the white guys fixing their trucks that this is okay. This is okay to do this, you guys, because you obviously don't speak the same language as me.

My president, Kamala Harris, does. And I'm here to be the interpreter because I, Tim Walz, I speak jive. You know what I'm talking about, jive? Remember the movie Airplane? You speak jive? Yeah, I speak jive. You speak jive, Tim Walz? You code talk?

You co-talk to white guy. Tim Woltz, let me tell you something. My man, I said this once before. You're talking about this football, yada, yada, yada, all that stuff. You ain't Bill Belichick. You're not Chuck Knoll. You're not Bill Parcells. You're not Sean Payton. You're not John Grudy. You're not Vince. You're not a football guy. Like when I think of football guys and I hear you speak and talk, you're not that dude. You're not that dude. I don't know what level you're

Football, you coached, and it's great. Listen, Tampon Tim, it's great that you coached anybody. I coached. I coached. But do you see me getting jobs?

For the big three coaching the big three G League WNBA and all that stuff like I'm I'm coach Walt Come on, man. I coached all some people have people call me coach Rappaport. I'm a champion chip coached I coached 13 year olds to the only championship that most of them probably ever had in their life I was a part of that and I put the fucking battery in there back. I said we can beat these motherfuckers Okay, we're gonna win this fucking chip and we're gonna win this fucking chip today. I

I ain't Phil Jackson. I'm not Bill Fitch, Billy Cunningham, Pat Riley, Jeff Van Gundy, Stan Van Gundy, respectfully. I'd code switch for white guys speaking, who watch football, fixing their truck. This is why you lost. This is that goofy, wacky shit. This is that goofy, wacky shit. Tampon Tim, you code switch. Anyway, done.

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