Trump Brokers Peace in the Middle East & Declares War Against Antifa in Portland? | Hunter Prosper

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Speaker 16 Let's get right into the biggest story in the world.

Speaker 20 This is one of those sentences that you almost never never hear, but there's good news coming out of the Middle East.

Speaker 22 Major breakthrough in the Middle East. President Trump was the first to announce that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a deal that could lead to the end of the war in Gaza.

Speaker 23 This is more than Gaza. This is peace in the Middle East.
It's been an incredible thing.

Speaker 24 Over in Gaza, Palestinian men and boys ran into the streets clapping and cheering.

Speaker 25 In Israel, a similar scene of joy.

Speaker 26 That's right.

Speaker 20 A peace deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas, and it's based on the framework Donald Trump proposed, which means another thing you almost never hear, and I can't believe I'm saying this.

Speaker 14 I gotta give Donald Trump some props here.

Speaker 30 You know,

Speaker 31 it doesn't happen a lot.

Speaker 27 In fact, I can only think of this, the COVID vaccine, and Home Alone 2.

Speaker 31 Don't get me wrong, this is astonishing because if this peace holds, it means the guy who couldn't stop a fight between Gary Busey and Meatloaf brokered peace in the Middle East.

Speaker 28 So, Trump, when it comes to peace, you did it.

Speaker 21 I mean, you also did a big portion of the war, but you did the peace, too.

Speaker 21 It's like how white people did slavery in America,

Speaker 33 but they also ended slavery in America.

Speaker 28 And I just want to say thank you.

Speaker 11 Thank you.

Speaker 17 Either way, this is a reason to celebrate. And look, if this deal holds, maybe we should

Speaker 17 give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 36 Or, or, or, and you won't like this either, we let him burn the Epstein files.

Speaker 19 He only gets one, but he gets to pick.

Speaker 11 All right

Speaker 14 Now maybe you're wondering how the world found out about this peace deal.

Speaker 16 Was it a grand announcement like the Treaty of Versailles, or like the end of World War II, where nurses and soldiers met up in Times Square just to make out?

Speaker 37 No,

Speaker 16 no, this is Trump's America, so it was much stupider.

Speaker 25 At the White House yesterday, the president interrupted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seen handing him a note and then whispering in Trump's ear.

Speaker 25 Photographers catching the handwritten message: We need you to approve a truth social post soon so you can announce deal first.

Speaker 39 Wait, they plan his truth social post?

Speaker 29 So when I see one all misspelled and half in caps at three in the morning, that was the plan?

Speaker 21 It's like scheduling that you're going to shit your pants.

Speaker 32 But you know what?

Speaker 17 If he can resolve the conflict in the Middle East, maybe he truly is the president of peace.

Speaker 40 Maybe some of that peace and tranquility is going to come back to us.

Speaker 41 President Trump's sending National Guard troops into American cities. Trump is insisting that troops are needed in cities like Chicago, Memphis, and Portland.

Speaker 42 We have an Insurrection Act for a reason.

Speaker 43 Damn.

Speaker 21 This feels like he made peace abroad just so he could bring everybody back to whoop ass here.

Speaker 36 I mean, a president hasn't invoked the Insurrection Act since the LA riots, which for Trump is actually a surprisingly recent precedent.

Speaker 17 Usually he's invoking something that hasn't been used in 300 years, like the anti-witch you can toss a bitch off a cliff at

Speaker 17 of 1692.

Speaker 34 But what's happening in Portland that requires Trump to send troops in?

Speaker 20 Well, Trump held a big meeting yesterday to explain why.

Speaker 42 It should be clear to all Americans that we have a very serious left-wing terror threat in our country. Radicals associated with the domestic terror group Antifa.

Speaker 31 Antifa?

Speaker 37 That's who you're declaring a domestic terrorist organization.

Speaker 16 That's tricky because while there are people who identify as Antifa, it isn't really an official group. They don't even have a website.

Speaker 17 Like my cousin's baby has its own website

Speaker 19 and that's an ugly baby.

Speaker 31 Its voice changed in the womb.

Speaker 21 You put your ear to his mom's stomach and you just heard, I'm coming.

Speaker 32 So no website, no brick and mortar store.

Speaker 31 So if you're sending troops to Portland, how sophisticated could Antifa be?

Speaker 24 This network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them.

Speaker 32 Wait, what?

Speaker 33 And they're here?

Speaker 12 She made Antifa feel like the Power Rangers of terrorism.

Speaker 38 They got some of everybody.

Speaker 29 They got MS-13, ISIS, they got letters, numbers, Hezbollah, Hamas.

Speaker 32 I don't know what TDA is, but they got some of that too.

Speaker 37 Okay, Christy Noam, you're Homeland Security.

Speaker 47 You got to get out there to Portland and take care of business.

Speaker 48 Christy Noam went on the roof of the ICE building to survey the scene.

Speaker 28 Okay, okay, that doesn't look that scary, but you have to remember how scary it is for her to encounter a farm animal when she's unarmed.

Speaker 32 But you know, you know these cities.

Speaker 17 They look innocent during the day.

Speaker 32 I bet you that was just the Antifa that doesn't have jobs.

Speaker 15 All right.

Speaker 38 At night, at night, that must be when Antifa comes out to do all the nasty terrorism.

Speaker 29 Let's look at Portland at night this week.

Speaker 29 All right, all right.

Speaker 46 Fear is a powerful drug, but so is MDMA.

Speaker 19 Listen, Trump, I'm trying to be an ally, but right now, I don't really see dangerous criminals.

Speaker 21 I just see virgins.

Speaker 43 All right?

Speaker 40 And I'm not sure we need the military for that because everything that they claim is happening in Portland, it's all happening on one city block in front of one ICE building.

Speaker 32 The rest of the city is completely normal.

Speaker 20 I mean, it's still Portland.

Speaker 49 So it's normal, but it's like Portland normal.

Speaker 30 You know what I mean? Like,

Speaker 16 there will be a naked guy with a handlebar mustache riding a unicycle down the street, but that's supposed to be happening.

Speaker 15 All right?

Speaker 16 So far, all I've seen is a guy in a chicken suit and an episode of Barney.

Speaker 15 All right?

Speaker 18 But maybe there's something I'm missing.

Speaker 42 The amazing thing is, you look at Portland and you see fires all over the place. It's like

Speaker 42 the movies where you have these bombed-out cities. I don't know what could be worse than Portland.
You don't even have sewers anymore.

Speaker 43 There are no stores in Portland?

Speaker 11 You're telling me if I type stores in Portland into Google Maps, it'll just be like, nah, nah, this is one of those store cities.

Speaker 34 Nah, we're not doing that nasty stuff over here, okay?

Speaker 32 Also, not having stores isn't exactly the worst thing about a war zone. No one was looking at Hiroshima like the devastation was incredible.

Speaker 21 Not a single Bob's discount furniture left standing.

Speaker 38 But here's the thing, Trump.

Speaker 16 I don't think the situation in Portland is a five-alarm DEF CON one bust out the windows type of emergency.

Speaker 38 And I don't think you think that either.

Speaker 34 Because this whole meeting, where you're talking about how dangerous Antifa is, you all look bored as hell.

Speaker 31 Trump is falling asleep.

Speaker 17 Pam Bondi got tilted her neck up to stay awake, you know?

Speaker 32 Stephen is yawning.

Speaker 21 The most radical person in the cabinet look like he drained, you know?

Speaker 21 He looks like he's sitting at a piano recital after his kid finished.

Speaker 29 Also, you would think that if we're all about to die, Antifa will be the only network on your mind.

Speaker 42 ABC ABC is terrible. NBC is terrible.
MSNBC is dying and CNN is dying like a dog. MSNBC is sick.
They're sick. I would say CNN is not quite as bad as MS.
Poor CNN. They're so pathetic.

Speaker 42 Beautiful black women are wearing a MAGA hat last night on television.

Speaker 36 Come on guys, all right?

Speaker 17 The plan is to scare people about Antifa.

Speaker 27 You're not going to do that if you keep trailing off about hot black women you remember.

Speaker 17 So, look, I'm not saying that there's no such thing as Antifa, but I look at Antifa the way I look at Bigfoot.

Speaker 20 It's big, scary, and tearing up the Pacific Northwest.

Speaker 17 But all we ever hear about is what the people who believe in it think is happening.

Speaker 34 In fact, if you were going to make a doc about the Antifa that Trump believes in, it would look a lot like this.

Speaker 11 It hides in the shadows.

Speaker 52 A giant, hairy terrorist group.

Speaker 51 There are many who believe that not only is Antifa real,

Speaker 51 but they've seen it.

Speaker 52 Tracked it. Sam Cleveland, a witness who saw it.
Antifa.

Speaker 5 Just days ago.

Speaker 9 I yell like a really super deep, loud yell.

Speaker 9 What exactly is Antifa?

Speaker 51 And how did this phenomenon begin?

Speaker 9 Something like a person,

Speaker 52 but not a person.

Speaker 52 Seen very often closing stores in Portland.

Speaker 51 And with various stories about sightings or about footprints that really are pretty widespread in many, many communities in the United States and in Canada.

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Speaker 13 My guest tonight is an ICU nurse, creator, and New York Times best-selling author of Stories from a Stranger.

Speaker 3 Please welcome Hunter Prosper.

Speaker 58 First of all, thank you so much for being guests, but especially my guests.

Speaker 20 Thank you so much for being here.

Speaker 44 So you are an ICU nurse and like a content creator on top of that.

Speaker 35 And

Speaker 3 do you make both groups feel bad about themselves when you're around?

Speaker 36 I mean, because when you're around content creators, like creator is a, you know, it's one of those words where it's like a big word for a thing where you're making like entertainment.

Speaker 44 You're making like just content and stuff like that.

Speaker 58 So then when you throw in, I also do ICU.

Speaker 53 Yeah, it's like my blue chip. I can.

Speaker 11 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 36 Also, when you're at the hospital, it's like, I mean, we're all ICU nurses here, but I have millions of followers.

Speaker 11 Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 38 Now in your book you are talking to people and you're asking them questions.

Speaker 20 These questions take them to places that reveal something about them and I'm wondering if you if you think talking to people in the way that you do has made you a better nurse.

Speaker 53 Yeah that's a thoughtful question Josh. Honestly I think they've both helped each other.
The questions that I ask all of these strangers are the same exact questions I use in the bedside.

Speaker 53 You know when I'm with a patient, especially in the ICU, you have two patients and and you work with them for 13 hours a day, multiple times a week. And so how's the weather only last so long?

Speaker 53 You know, I mean, you have to start being able to understand what kind of conversation the person wants to have.

Speaker 53 And so the questions in this book and many other questions that I ask, they are all bred from me being a nurse.

Speaker 53 And without being able to do these stories, I wouldn't have been saved from the burnout that I was experiencing from the ICU.

Speaker 53 But vice versa, making content as well, being a content creator, as you would know, it can cause its own type of burnout.

Speaker 53 And without having nursing, I wouldn't be able to step away from the content side as well. So they fill each other's cup.

Speaker 45 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 And when you talk about one filling the other's cup, did you ever have any sort of...

Speaker 44 I'm trying to figure out how to word it.

Speaker 44 There's almost like an imposter syndrome that can come with success, and there's almost a worry about what you're doing right when it comes to, I imagine, nursing.

Speaker 8 And so that's also the same way that you could have that sort of upward spiral, you could also have a lot of doubt in your life.

Speaker 18 Like, is that something that you struggled with?

Speaker 53 Yeah, I'll say, Josh, that working as a nurse, that's one of the few fields that can really humble you. I spent a lot of my time with people at their lowest part of their life

Speaker 53 and doing things that would be seen as like,

Speaker 53 you know, a dirtier job. And having been in those situations and looking around me and being like, I'm caring for this person at their most vulnerable moment, it's never made me feel too above anyone.

Speaker 53 It's always made me realize that we're all on this together.

Speaker 45 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 47 Because

Speaker 44 I'll tell you right now, just, you know, nurse to potential patient, right?

Speaker 15 I'm like,

Speaker 50 I'm bad about going to the doctor, and I think it's because in hospitals, there's a lot missing of what you do.

Speaker 58 Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 18 When you go to the hospital, when you go to the emergency room or something, it's like you already have your own fears.

Speaker 50 Like,

Speaker 20 when I've had to go to the emergency room, sometimes I'm genuinely afraid that the nurse, the doctor is going to be like, that's new.

Speaker 29 I don't know what that is.

Speaker 11 You know what I mean?

Speaker 44 But at the same time, I think if someone

Speaker 34 was sitting with me and they were not just necessarily even asking me questions about myself, they were asking me interesting questions, thoughtful questions, and they were getting to know me as a person, I think I wouldn't even notice the shot.

Speaker 8 I think I might be like, ow.

Speaker 36 But like it's in the middle of telling them about my life or something.

Speaker 53 Yeah, that's the part of nursing that I fell in love with.

Speaker 53 The first time I ever shadowed a nurse, obviously she did medicine and she took care of the patient in that aspect, but really she healed them through her words.

Speaker 53 Like she made the patient feel comfortable in an otherwise very uncomfortable setting. And that's what I always wanted to strive to do since that day.

Speaker 45 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 18 I mean, this book...

Speaker 11 Yeah, no, I'm for real.

Speaker 58 This book is broken into sections and the sections are questions. What made you ask these specific questions of people?

Speaker 53 Yeah,

Speaker 53 I wanted an array of questions that run the gamut of emotions. And like I said, these questions are the same questions I ask my patients in the hospital.
But

Speaker 53 whatever the question is, no matter what question I use, it always has to be open-ended, of course, and it has to cover an emotion of some sort.

Speaker 53 And that's what the purpose of this whole book is, is to show that our experiences, extremely unique, okay?

Speaker 53 The experience you've gone through, I can't relate to, but what we can relate to is our emotions. So you felt pain, I felt pain.
You felt love, I felt love.

Speaker 53 Anxiety, anxiety, like that's what connects us as a species is this emotional experience that we're all going through. So the human experience is a very much so emotional experience.

Speaker 53 And I hope this book shows that that's what connects us.

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 11 Liz?

Speaker 18 You know, when I look at your work overall, I sort of see how

Speaker 8 In America, especially right now, there's like a deep polarization.

Speaker 47 There's like a

Speaker 58 dehumanization of

Speaker 58 people,

Speaker 44 whether it's immigrants, trans people.

Speaker 34 You know, you just see a lot of

Speaker 9 like

Speaker 58 breaking of connection and everything, and there's less community than there should be, and there's less connection than there should be.

Speaker 58 And so when I look at everything that you do, I just see a lot of that, which is admittedly not a question.

Speaker 44 That's more of a compliment.

Speaker 47 That's just, I should have

Speaker 47 ended it

Speaker 59 with the question mark, but that's just how I feel about it, you know?

Speaker 3 Because I think you're doing two things that are incredibly difficult, and I don't even know which one is more difficult than the other.

Speaker 47 Because being with people in these like very, very vulnerable moments has got to be hard.

Speaker 44 It's got to take a toll on you.

Speaker 44 But also when you ask someone a question, when you are learning something about someone, that's also very difficult because you might not like what you learn, you know, especially

Speaker 32 you're with people who

Speaker 44 are not in, they're not in a time where you show your best anyway, you know?

Speaker 58 And so

Speaker 34 I can't imagine how you,

Speaker 44 whether it's decompressed or how you recover from that thing. Like you talk about burnout with content creation or nursing, but it's like,

Speaker 3 is there ever something that's like so genuinely heavy for you that you don't know where to put it?

Speaker 53 Yeah, that's another great question, Josh.

Speaker 53 I suffered from burnout a lot in nursing, and that taught me how to compartmentalize, but then learning that compartmentalizing was also burning me out because you have to kind of separate your humanity from what's really going on and that wasn't working for me.

Speaker 53 So what I learned was there's silver linings in every single person's story.

Speaker 53 So whether you're talking to someone and when I speak to these strangers, it's without question two to three hours long every time.

Speaker 53 Throughout that two to three hour journey, there is a lot of tragedy. But

Speaker 53 if you can gather the ability to look at this person and say, but they're here telling me the story. They survived this event that they're going through.

Speaker 53 That gives me a sense of almost pride to say, like, we're humans. That shows how strong humans can be, how resilient they can be.

Speaker 53 So when I go home after hearing a tragic story, I'm not so much sad as I am uplifted to know that person survived that.

Speaker 44 When going through the book, you've explained to me how you came across the questions in your mind that you want to ask and everything, but were there any stories that particularly stuck out to you?

Speaker 49 Because

Speaker 49 the book is full of them.

Speaker 53 Yeah. Yeah, that was hard because we interviewed hundreds of strangers.
It was me and my fiancé, and she traveled the country with me. She was my photographer for the book, by the way.

Speaker 8 And she's a nurse, so she's not a photographer.

Speaker 53 But so we interviewed hundreds of strangers. And so even dwindling that down to the hundred that are in this book was very hard.

Speaker 53 But then to even get more specific, the ones that resonate with me, all of them, but I will say there's a few that pop mind, and one of them is, I guess I should preface with, I told a little bit of a lie when I say everyone in that book is a stranger.

Speaker 53 There's one person that's not a stranger in that book.

Speaker 53 My grandfather was battling a terminal illness when I was making this book, and when I found out about his disease,

Speaker 53 he was a man of few words. It's always been my mom and I.
She's the most important person in my life.

Speaker 53 And if I ever needed a father figure, which I didn't because she was everything for me, but if I needed one, he was that person. My grandfather was everything to me.
His name was Jimmy.

Speaker 45 I'm trying not to cry, but

Speaker 53 he was everything to me, but he was a man of few words. And so we didn't, we connected, but it was always because everything he said was so wise, but it was one sentence at a time.
And it was great.

Speaker 53 He'd say one sentence, I'd love it, I'd hug him, I'd tell him I love him, he told me he loved me, and then that was that, but it was always one at a time. I told him I wanted to do this book,

Speaker 53 and he said, buddy, I would love to. And we spoke for hours, and it was the first time in my life I'd ever spoken to him for hours.

Speaker 53 And he told told me so many things about him that I never would have known if it weren't for this book.

Speaker 53 So I guess in a way I'm trying to say I want this book to not just be a book of strangers but I want it to empower the people reading it to ask their loved ones these same questions.

Speaker 53 Because it's often the people that are closest to us that we don't know the most about.

Speaker 53 We think we know because they're next to us and we think we know everything about them but when was the last time you really did ask your grandfather what's the most painful thing you've ever been told?

Speaker 53 And so to do something like that, it was that story I'm always going to remember it. And And now his face is on the cover of the book as well.
And he's on a New York Times bestseller.

Speaker 53 So that's really cool. He's like immortalized, you know.

Speaker 36 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 59 I'm fully, fully with you.

Speaker 58 I appreciate you being here so much. I appreciate the work that you do.

Speaker 44 I appreciate that you've made this because this, whether you know it or not, this will teach someone how to ask questions and it will do the thing that you're talking about, you know?

Speaker 47 because it's

Speaker 58 such a perfect example of what we should be doing anyway.

Speaker 58 You know, there's so much pain, there's so many people that are like reaching out, there's so much loneliness and everything, and there's no need to be lonely because we're all here, you know.

Speaker 44 And I think looking at this is a real reminder of that.

Speaker 58 So, I appreciate you so much. I'm thankful that you're here with me.

Speaker 35 Thank you, Jimmy. Yeah, thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 11 So,

Speaker 13 you know, I like to do something special every time I end an interview.

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Speaker 16 I'm going to ask you for a hug.

Speaker 48 I'd love that.

Speaker 34 Okay, but we do, just for camera, need to basically stay within this frame.

Speaker 36 So I will need to hug you from across the desk. Okay, so

Speaker 30 all right, coming in. Okay.

Speaker 11 That's good stuff.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

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