Peace of the Puzzle: Israel & Lebanon Are Talking

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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As the U.S. tries to get Iran back to the table for peace talks, diplomats from Israel and Lebanon meet in Washington. Brian Hooker is released from a Bahamian jail without charges, telling ABC News he’ll keep searching for his wife Lynette. And a suspect heads to court after being accused of attacking the home of OpenAI executive Sam Altman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	9-1-1, where is the emergency?
0:02.7	It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey shore.
0:06.7	Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge.
0:10.0	A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern.
0:14.9	Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?
0:17.6	At this point, nobody knows.
0:19.6	Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was
0:24.7	once pitched as a movie, plays out in real life. I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio. Listen now
0:34.1	to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:45.3	It's Wednesday, April 15th. You think the U.S. and Iran are unlikely to strike a peace deal? These countries have been at war for almost 80 years. We start here.
0:51.3	Israel and Lebanon meet for peace talks in Washington.
0:55.3	We discovered today that we're on the same side of the equation.
0:59.5	Why, this could be crucial for the entire Middle Eastern conflict.
1:02.9	The man arrested after his wife disappeared is released by the cops.
1:07.1	My one job was to look out for her, and that has not happened.
1:13.2	Our team was there in the Bahamas to catch up with him, and the guy who made Chat GPT
1:17.8	comes under attack from real humans.
1:20.4	They say that he lit a Molotov-style cocktail and hurled it over the front gate.
1:26.0	A suspect goes to court for allegedly targeting his house and he's not the only one.
1:32.0	From ABC News, this is Start Here.
1:35.5	I'm Brad Milky.
1:43.4	Remember how last week, the U.S. and Iran came to a ceasefire agreement?
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