Bullied. Threatened. Uncancelled.
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We are sorry to bring you the sad news of the death of a hero.Itamar Alus, has died from a short illness aged just 41. He leaves behind his wife, 4 children and the dozens of people whose lives he saved on October 7 in Ofakim, Israel. Itamar, a border police officer, was off-duty when he heard gunfire in his home town on the morning of October 7.Sixteen terrorists came to the city that day, planning to murder and take hostages. Thanks to his heroism, and that of his neighbors, all 16 of the terrorists were killed and no hostages were taken. He saved the life of a Rabbi and an IDF soldier by shielding them from gunfire, he saved the life of the Biliya family, who were hiding under the solar panels of a neighbor’s roof. He was brave and he was selfless.We met Itamar when we went to Israel to interview the survivors of that horrible day.That is why we are honored to tell his story in the OCTOBER 7 play. The world needs more Itamars. Itamar’s story is the backbone of the play and we hope that you can come to the Kennedy Center on January 28th to see his heroism on stage. Please go to the link below to get your tickets. And we need your support more than ever. The mainstream media is trying to bully us. CNN and The Washington Post have written, asking if we are cancelling because Trump has declared artistic freedom at the Kennedy Center and lots of other cowards have cancelled.Their threat is clear - cancel the Kennedy Center performance of OCTOBER 7 or we will come after you and your cast and crew. We told them what they could do with their threats! We will be proudly bringing the OCTOBER 7 play to the Kennedy Center. We are bringing true art to spaces where the truth is needed. And Washington really needs the truth right now. You can read our statement here. And Hollywood’s committing suicide but no one seemed to notice. The Golden Globes were at the weekend celebrating movies that no one has ever heard of. Watch this week’s show where we try to find a nominated movie we have actually heard of.And Phelim saw the whole of the loon. Watch the show to find out what that means, and witness Phelim’s X war with an 80's pop icon. Make sure to buy tickets to see OCTOBER 7 the play at the Kennedy Center by going to october7theplay.com(also linked below). And please consider making a donation to the Unreported Story Society so that we can keep bringing OCTOBER 7 the play to audiences around the country, and hopefully around the world. We currently have a matching challenge going on so any donation that you make right now will have double the impact. Please use the link below. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit so your donation will be tax deductible. And please remember that we love hearing from you so please subscribe to our channel and leave a comment wherever you get our content and you never know, we may read it on the show.Also, as you make your New Year’s resolutions, please consider subscribing to our Substack as one of them. It’s the easiest resolution to fulfill just go to our Stories.io account through the link below. Please go to this link to buy tickets to the play: https://october7theplay.com To donate and take part in our matching challenge please click here: https://secure.anedot.com/unreported-story-society/eoy_2025 To subscribe to our Stories.io substack please click here: https://phelimmcaleer.substack.com
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| 0:00.0 | Itimar Alut, who was an off-duty border police officer on that day. |
| 0:06.0 | On that day, he was off duty, but he heard the shots. |
| 0:08.3 | He could hear this gunfire. |
| 0:10.1 | And he thought, you know, and he immediately realized what was going on. |
| 0:12.9 | They were under attack that two truckloads of Hamas terrorists had come into the town of Afakim. |
| 0:17.8 | And he went out with a pistol. |
| 0:56.2 | Hello, my name is Anne McElhenny. And I'm Phila McLeer. And welcome to the Ann and Film Scoop. First scoop, 26. It is the first scoop of 2026. Happy New Year, film. Happy New Year to everybody out there. Happy New Year, yes. Yes. Yes. How was your New Year film? What if we do for New Year? Very, very little, which is my favorite thing to do. I love that thing that people have and we'll put it up on the screen. I got the last two tickets to the sit at home do nothing idea on New Year's. We didn't go anywhere. No, no. Do you think anyone enjoys even young people? Oh, I think the young people go out on New Year's. We didn't go anywhere. No, no. Do you think anyone enjoys even young people? |
| 0:58.2 | Oh, I think the young people go out on New Year's. |
| 0:59.9 | I think it's the whole thing with young people, yes. |
| 1:03.4 | Yes, I have such clear memories of myself being a young person and going out. |
| 1:04.4 | I didn't say they go out. |
| 1:05.3 | Do they go out? |
| 1:06.9 | I say, do they actually enjoy it? |
| 1:18.1 | Oh, yes, they think they have no sense of death and mortality and, you know, they just, they just think things are going to go on forever, whereas the rest of us are finding this toll of the years very heavy going. |
| 1:28.0 | And actually, that is actually kind of a very funny but incorrect way of segueing into the very first thing that we want to talk about, which is that we got really sad news at the beginning of the year, the death of Itamar Alus in Israel. He died of |
| 1:34.5 | natural causes at the age of 41, but he was a true Israeli hero. He was really the backbone of |
| 1:39.3 | our play, October 7, which we'll talk about. And we'll come back to that. Let's go over what else is on the show. |
| 1:45.3 | Yes, what else is on film. |
| 1:46.6 | What I'm going to talk about is that to understand René Good, |
| 1:50.3 | the killing of René Good in Minnesota, |
| 1:52.1 | actually to understand the reaction, |
| 1:55.0 | the strange reaction to the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota |
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