A Survivor's Story Of October 7th
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
We have BIG news for you.
We are excited to announce that Abby Polin, aunt of Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, will be joining us at the Bowdoin performance of OCTOBER 7 the play.
As a family member who has lived through the unimaginable pain of October 7, Abby will speak about her family’s experiences and the urgent need to bring the remaining hostages home.
Here is a message from Abby who was in the audience when the play ran off-Broadway in New York.
"I would like to thank all those involved in bringing OCTOBER 7 to Bowdoin. When I first saw the play in New York in June, 2024 I did not know quite what to expect but was overwhelmed by the authenticity and intensity of how the producers clearly portrayed what happened on that horrific day in Israel... The unedited and raw transcripts from interviews with victims, soldiers, and first responders, that were used for the verbatim play characterized what my family experienced being a family of a then severely injured hostage. My nephew Hersh Goldberg Polin was one of the beautiful six young people murdered by terrorists in the tunnels in Gaza after being starved and tortured for 330 days,” she said.
“It is important for me to come to Bowdoin to continue to keep up the awareness for the necessity to bring home NOW the remaining 48 hostages being held in Gaza. Everyone from all nationalities, religions and beliefs should have the opportunity to see OCTOBER 7 the play to see what people experienced that day and to gain a better understanding of the situation in that region of the world."
OCTOBER 7 is our verbatim play that consists entirely of the words of those who live through Israel’s darkest day when Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people and kidnapped hundreds of others.
We traveled to Israel after that day and spoke to several of those who lost loved ones, those who survived the attack, even those who fought back.
You’ll be hearing their testimonies if you are able to come to Bowdoin on Sept. 18.We are trying to fill up more than 600 seats at Pickard Theater on Bowdoin campus, so please register. We look forward to seeing you there.
Or send the link to someone in the area who can come.
You can register here: https://bowdoin.campusgroups.com/bowdoinconservatives/rsvp_boot?id=1953570
We thought this week we should bring you one of our interviews with the October 7 survivors.
Assaf was having the time of his life at the NOVA music festival until rockets started to fall. Then he witnessed friends being murdered but he found love and grace and God in his fight for survival. And Britain has really shown its tyranny over free speech when it arrested comedic genius Graham Linehan for tweets about the Trans madness.
We had him on the show last year and thought we should rerun parts of that interview now. It is chilling how they want to destroy those who disagree with them. And uber liberal, uber journalist Malcom Gladwell who has made a very lucrative career warning about alleged “social contagions” and how they can be seductive and dangerous now admits he kept quiet because he was scared of standing up to the big bad Trans madness - the most damaging social contagion of all.
Aw poor little Malcolm. And he wants us to feel sorry for him.
Meanwhile, people like Dr Miriam Grossman have been shouting the truth all along, while navigating the risks of being a therapist going against the status quo in her field. And we love hearing from you and if you leave a comment wherever you get our content, we may read it on the show.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I started to see the car just slowing down and I could hear gunshots. |
| 0:08.0 | I could really hear gunshots and I looked and I saw a gunfire. |
| 0:15.0 | I could see the fire coming out of the barrels from the weapon from the from the weapon barrel I don't know |
| 0:22.4 | where to say it I could see the fire that they are shooting to terrorists |
| 0:32.5 | hello my name is Anne McElheny and my name name is Phelan McAleer, I believe. |
| 0:55.4 | And welcome to the Anne and Phelham scoop. Yes. Did we have a good weekend? Did we have a good weekend? We, oh, yes. Well, actually, let's look. We were second billing at an event. Second billing. I would say the warm up act. I would prefer to say that we were the warm up act for David, for David Mammoth, which is pretty cool. |
| 1:11.7 | The genius playwrights and thinker. Yeah, no pressure. No pressure on us at all. Absolutely none. Yes, we're the warm-up act for perhaps one of the greatest living writers in America in the world. David Mamet, who wrote the screenplay for the untouchables. Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross. |
| 1:12.1 | I mean. |
| 1:13.8 | Extraordinary. |
| 1:14.6 | And everything else. |
| 1:19.5 | Remember that play we went to see of his two set in the White House where he had the brilliant bit about illegal international adoption? |
| 1:24.3 | You know, he's just, he's just, we've had lunch with him or breakfast with him a few times here in L.A. He lives in L.A. And, you know, he's one of these guys before he, he comes into the restaurant, before he sits down, he says three really intelligent things, you know. Original things. Yes. You know, more than more original than anything else. Yes, extraordinary person. Anyway, what's on the show this week? On the show. On the show, we are bringing our verbatim play October 7th to Bowden College in Maine. That's on September the 18th. Yes. So please. If you know anyone in the area, if you know anyone in the area of Maine, whatever, please get the word out or in the surrounding areas. So it's in Brunswick, quite close to Portland, Maine. |
| 2:03.5 | So if you know people in the area, please encourage people to come out. |
| 2:06.0 | We've got a really large theatre, the Picard Theatre, beautiful theatre at Bowden. |
| 2:10.6 | So we'd really like to fill it up. |
| 2:11.8 | This is part of our college campus tour. |
| 2:14.4 | Yes. |
| 2:14.7 | You know, Bowden did have encampments. |
| 2:21.5 | The administration has been actually wonderfully accommodating to us. |
| 2:21.8 | Yeah. |
| 2:25.8 | I think they see the need for balance. |
| 2:28.1 | Balance, you know, two sides to every story. |
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