Bad Hasbara - The World's Most Moral Podcast - Bad Hasbara 55: Matt and Adam’s Excellent Adventure (Livestream)
Episode Date: October 8, 2024Daniel Maté is on assignment, so Matt and Producer Adam discuss whether Israeli soldiers’ deaths in their assault on Lebanon constitute deaths or “murders,” as Senator Marsha Blackburn claims, ...the kayfabe of the US State Department expressing diplomatic concern to Israel, and a solemn goodbye to the celebrities we lost along the way.Please donate to Muslim Aid USA: https://www.mausa.org/Subscribe to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/badhasbaraSubscribe/listen to Bad Hasbara wherever you get your podcasts.Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5RDvo87OzNLA78UH82MI55Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-hasbara-the-worlds-most-moral-podcast/id1721813926Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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And welcome to Bad Hasbara, the world's most moral podcast.
I am your world's most moral host, Matt Lieb, and I am alone, sort of today.
Unfortunately, Daniel could not join me today.
He had a last minute family thing he had to deal with.
And as it turns out, I'm not family.
So that was kind of messed up to find out.
This whole time, I thought I was like, essentially, you know, that we was brothers.
But apparently that's not the case, which means today is going to be a classic bad Hasbara.
That's right.
Remember back at the beginning when it was just me and a camera, just talking about my feelings to nobody.
And now you're all here.
And I'm still talking to, well, not to nobody.
I'm talking to you guys.
But I am alone, except for I will be having my wonderful producer, super producer, Adam Levin here talking with me.
But first, let's get the other stuff out of the way.
That stuff, what is it?
You know what it is.
Five stars in a review on all of the apps in which you can do that.
As I mentioned before in the last two episodes, we are under attack here.
at Bad Hasbara, we are under attack by the forces of apartheid Israel on Telegram.
They started giving this show one star on Spotify, which is, I think it's very funny
that they had to listen to a little bit of an episode before they gave stars.
I would like to hope that they listened to it and went, oh, shit, maybe I'm wrong.
and gave two stars, you know, or, you know, one and a half.
But because of that, our, like, rating went down or whatever.
It doesn't matter.
Point is, is this is just another way for me to tell you, give us five stars.
That's how you can fight back against the machine, the war machine.
We are under attack.
Here's what I love about this kind of podcast.
Is there is a contingent of people who listen and watch this podcast, who if I say,
we are under attack they're just like oh yeah yeah we got to fight and this is mostly this is mostly
a podcast in which we just make puns and dick jokes and talk about israel it's not it's not really
like a you know like a newsmax steve bannon's war room type bullshit but it is so much fun
to tell people i'm under attack um i should probably save it for when eventually one day i am under
attack um but for now five stars in review on all of the apps also today's episode sponsor is
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they don't know that i'm plugging it but i feel like uh you know we should do it anyways uh what's up to
all of you out there
Soundboard
Crazy Jude
Hell yeah
Let me turn that up
Crazy June
There we go
So this is a
live stream
So that means
I will be
Looking at
The what do you call it
The chat
And I'll be saying things like
What's up chat
Which is what streamers do
You know like
Like Hassan and stuff
Sometimes I'll just see him be like
Sound off in the comments chat
I don't know if he says that, but it'll say something like that.
So I'm going to do that.
And sometimes, you know, I'll just, I'll just, like, put one of your things up.
Like, someone said, a crazy Jew.
And so that's why I...
Crazy Jews.
And I did that.
Anyways, you know, this is what this podcast is going to be like for this episode,
the October 7th birthday special.
Now, I want to address that for first and foremost.
you know, for anyone out there who's watching and is going, wait, wait, wait, wait.
What is this?
Are you celebrating a terrorist attack?
No, that's not what this is.
October 7th is a very, very special day in the Leave household, as it is literally my daughter's birthday.
And I'll tell you, a year ago, she celebrated one year old on October 7th.
And I got to say, really was one.
of those things where when she was born it was not a uh september 11th ish birthday type of thing
it was just a date in the calendar um and that's right thank you it was my daughter's birthday first
uh thank you chat for saying that she she was born 22 she turns one uh this happens uh you know
There's an attack in Israel, and all of the sudden, not just my baby's birthday changes, you know, the meaning of the month and the number, but also my life changes a lot.
A lot of people's lives changed, obviously.
I'm not putting my life over anyone else's, but I will say this did start a trajectory that led me to eventually in December of last year start this podcast.
So that's why I was like, of all the days to do a live stream, I feel like today is a good day
because today is going to be, I would say quite possibly one of the most annoying days of the year
for me and for a lot of people out there who are seeing this date be used in order to push for
continued bloodletting in Gaza and in Lebanon and soon in Iran and it's like annoying. It's very
annoying. It's very annoying because as much progress as it feels like we've made in terms of like
people slowly starting to realize that like, hey, you know, maybe Israel isn't the like the good
guy here. Maybe they're not the actor that we should be rallying behind. In fact, they seem to be
kind of beyond just being the aggressor, they seem to be the oppressor.
And as much as I am heartened by the amount of people who are talking about it and finally
seeing it soberly, it seems like no matter how much time has passed, whether it be a month
or almost at this point a full year, people in both our institutional media and in government
are going to all do the thing
where they rally behind these talking points
about how this day
is essentially a new Holocaust
Remembrance Day. And if any of you
watched the Naomi Klein episode
that we just did,
you know that that kind, presenting
October 7th as some sort of, you know,
Holocaust Part 2
is not only like disingenuous,
it is dangerous and
anti-Semitic because
comparing
that to the Holocaust is insane.
Thank you for those of you in the chat
who said the Naomi Klein episode was awesome.
I agree.
She was incredible.
What a great episode.
Occasionally we'll get a booking that I'm just like,
do they know what kind of podcast is?
Do they know that I do a lot of...
I want you to come...
Like, that's kind of half the podcast.
And then they'll come on.
And instead of being like, what am I doing here?
They'll actually engage and have an amazing conversation.
And then in those times, I realize that I am not just a vehicle for dick jokes.
I am more than that.
I am also a vehicle for balls jokes.
Just kidding.
Thank you so much, Philippe Post Gilbert for $4.99.
Thank you.
That's right. Super chats.
You can do super chats.
If you feel up to it, you know, you pay money and then the chat goes on the screen.
I don't know.
Feel free.
Do that.
I love it.
It supports everything, including the bouncy house that we paid for for my daughter's birthday.
Thank you so much, Nate King.
It's been.
Oh, it's Ben Jim and Netanyahu.
It's Ben one week since you looked at me.
This is an old broadcast joke.
You guys don't know about the broadcast me and Vince Mancini,
my friend Brendan and our friend Brett and Ben.
There was a lot of bees.
We did podcast for years.
Still do that podcast with a couple of the OG members.
For those of you asking about who we're going to get on next,
I know a lot of people want Hassan.
I just did a panel with Hassan that I moderated.
It was Hassan, Felix Biederman, that guy, Seamus, whose last name has got a lot of letters in it.
I don't know exactly, but Seamus, so he was in Beirut and bedded there for a while, as well as some other people from Palestine Legal and UCLA Associate Professors.
We just did a fundraiser with them, and it was really, really fun.
and we, I think we raised $17,000, which was, which is awesome.
And yes, Hassan, yeah, he might come on.
I don't know.
We'll see.
You know, I'll DM him and be like, hey, what's up?
And he'll probably be like, hoggers or whatever, you know.
He's young.
He's a young guy.
And by the way, I just want to say this, since we are live streaming.
And live streaming is, from what I can tell, most,
about conflict engagement.
Hassan, I'm taller than you.
You may be big.
He's a big guy.
I'll tell you right now, he's a tall dude.
But not that tall.
Six foot six.
He's like, what, six, four?
He's got the muscle.
And I'm sure he also can jump really high.
He's better at probably sports and basketball,
you know, like just anything athletic.
smarter possibly i could see that he seems pretty smart whenever i tune into the stream he's like
you'll say a smart thing i'll be like oh that's crazy because he's so strong um but it's never ever
going to be taller than me and that is something that you should consider when you're like oh
who should i support have you considered supporting the tallest guy how about that how about that
ladies and gentlemen and everyone else so i want to introduce our uh second co-host our most moral
producer and for today's stream our most moral co-host ladies and gentlemen and everyone else
welcome producer adam what's up dog what's up young people skibbitty toilet and so on
hell yeah skivety toilet i finally watched this
have you seen skibbitty toilet
is there a real toilet
I just know the words
yeah no it's like a music video
toilet I know Ohio
podium
you ate
can you explain Ohio and podium
I think Ohio means bad
because it's like the middle of the country
podium is is good
because like you're on the Olympic podium
Oh okay
and uh and then boy there are some other ones that i can't remember riz someone said riz oh
i if i could just get just that much i just want a little riz me up raise me up baby grong
i you could riz me down i would take it i'll take a riz down at this point any uh just
adjacentness to riz would be sick did the kids say sick anymore i don't know uh some people are asking
where is Daniel once again Daniel
had a family
emergency that he had to attend
to so he could not be here
for this episode
I'm pretty sure
it was Daniel who was texting me and not
Mossad
you never know
you never know
but yeah so it's just going to be me
and producer Adam today
and that's fine because this is a live stream
you know what I mean like shit
you know happens
all right low stakes
there's
I would venture to say no
stakes
like sure
I think the only thing that is
creating stakes
is a fact that there are
from what I see
only than creating stakes
is that butcher box
subscription
hey
go to butcherbox
butcher
I don't know
one day
we'll get an actual sponsor
the stakes right now
are the
that there's
519 people watching
which
that's fucking sick
I mean, that's great.
Yeah, you're saying what's up to the chat?
Sure, yeah.
Hell yeah.
Thank you, Chad, for being here on this very special day.
So, since I have you here, Mr. Levin, can I give your first and last name?
I don't think we've ever discussed that.
We've been doing it for a long.
Have we been doing it?
Yes.
Okay, all right.
Okay, well, then six, six, six, six.
I just want to make sure, you know, I don't want, you know, this was, you know, some
people are like all podcast but don't give my last name i know people do just they they got total
fake names it's the whole thing really i should get one of those yeah i know do you have to talk to
somebody no i think you just you just lie to whoever you're talking to and you just say oh my name
it's gregg you know and then that's it okay that's how you do it let's start with um i just want
to discuss a tweet with you that uh i think is listen this has been a year of
gaslighting a year of double speak that I would say is so heavy-handed that if it were
fictionalized, I would roll my eyes and say, like, we can do better than this. You know,
let's go in for a rewrite. Like, just the most insane attempts at obfuscation of reality. But a few
days ago, Marsha Blackburn,
Senator from Tennessee, did what I would say
is probably
should go down in the Hall of Fame
of Hasbara. The Hasbawal
of fame.
Like, this is one of those
tweets that I was like,
have you ever seen the room?
Tommy Wazzo's movie The Room? Sure, you're
tearing me apart, Lisa. You're tearing me apart,
Lisa. Quite possibly
like the worst movie ever made, but it's a movie
that's so bad that it's good. It's like
just hilarious. If you haven't seen it, please
see it. It's a scene in which every scene is worse than the next. And as you're watching it,
you're like, how are they going to fuck up the next one? It's riveting. It's truly riveting.
This tweet is like the room of Hasbara in terms of it is so terrible. It packs so many lies
so efficiently that I, well, I'm overselling it now. So I will just play it by play it. I mean,
show it on screen for everyone and I will read it. This is from Marsha Blackburn. Let's do it.
Eight soldiers were murdered by terrorists in Lebanon.
As we approach the anniversary of October 7th,
we must fully support Israel's right to defend itself.
Man.
So let's break that down a little bit, bit by bit,
because I think it warrants that.
Eight soldiers were murdered by terrorists.
in Lebanon. It is crazy to me
that no matter what the Israeli
army is doing,
it is
to kill an Israeli
soldier is always murder.
Sure. Yeah. No, if somebody like
breaks into your house and
you hurt or kill them
in defending it,
yeah. And you're Arab.
And you're Arab.
Yeah. They have
They have to hold out like one of those pantone swatch guides next to your face and see if you're a terrorist.
That's right.
Yeah, it is, it's, it's wild because I just like, like I said, every single part of this tweet is incredible.
They were murdered by terrorists in Lebanon.
So just to be clear, the terrorists that we're talking about are either.
Hezbollah or any sort of state-backed army or militia that is literally being invaded by Israel at this very moment.
And just like having, ending it with like, this all reminds us on the, you know, as we approach October 7th that we need to fully support Israel's right to defend itself.
They were literally on the offense there.
they're literally invading the country they're they're they're going in this is like they're
they're accusing lebanon if i can pull a soprano's reference please uh of doing what janis referred to
as topping from the bottom exactly exactly um for those of you don't know just watch the
sopranos and you'll understand what we mean by topping from the bottom
Shout out Ralph Sifaretto.
Yeah, it just, it's so crazy to me because it's this completely inverted reality in which Israel doesn't just have the right to self-defense, but it has the right to self-offense.
Like, it has the right to go in and do an offensive maneuver on foreign soil.
and if they suffer any deaths whatsoever, it is immediately like, wow, way to do anti-Semitism.
You really murdered me as I was doing a one-sided act of aggression against you.
It's so insane. It's so insane. And then I love it too because like the the whole part of calling any act of resistance by either an Arab's
state or um an arab state within a state like you know hasbala or like any any arab who is
doing self-defense or you know yeah uh they are immediately branded a terrorist this is like
very recognizable war on terror post nine 11 talk you know i i'm american so i was like raised in
that i know that type of islamophobia that type of racism
I think what makes to me, Hasbara, like, stand out.
What makes it different is the murdered part.
That's the Israeli part.
Because, like, say what you will about the United States and our constant interventions in the Middle East and our, you know, absolute decimation and genocide of the Iraqi people and, you know, our occupation of Afghanistan.
understand. When soldiers were killed, we said soldiers were killed. We said they were killed by
terrorists, but we said killed. I mean, I'm sure someone said murdered. Well, it's just,
it's all that settlement building. So I think Israel has a lot of experience in reframing
from, you know, building settlements. They've been sure, sure. They do a lot of framing. They do a lot
of framing. They got a lot of contractors out there. Pardon me while I just get rid of this crowbar
I used to get that in. It was good though. But yeah, no, it's any, any, uh, death has to be reframed as
we're the victim of something. Uh, even, even, uh, in a situation like this where Israel is,
uh, saber rattling and waging one-sided, uh, wars. And, uh, it's about to pull,
the U.S. and the entire
Middle East region into
who, I mean, who can even conceive?
Who can conceive at this point?
I don't even want to predict
because it's, you know,
I don't think I could have predicted
any of these actions
in Lebanon. I truly thought
that they would focus.
You know, like you're ethnically
cleansing Gaza.
You'd figure, guys,
you know,
Make a master list of things you need to do and focus on the thing.
But no, they were like, no, we can do this.
Let's multi-front this shit.
Yeah.
And it's, yeah, but just going back to the murdered thing, I feel really like why that strikes me as particularly Israelis,
because it's this thing of the perpetual victimhood of Israel, the perpetually, no matter what is done by a
soldier. It is always perceived or it's always touted as self-defense by its, you know, it's
big bad boy, the United States, you know. Yeah, you hurt my hand with your face when I was
punching. Yeah, exactly. And I just, you know, I just, I look at that and I go, like, this is like
the very, I'm sorry, but very funny, particular type of Israeli, like, mission.
where it's this it's like a psychiatric thing where they they truly have to at all times be told
um that they uh that they are being victimized you know it's just they they constantly need
this narrative of victimization because it is i think the only thing um at least in the minds of
like liberal zionists in the united states you know state department and everyone in u.s government
it's the thing that they can best use to sell continued expansion and continued, you know, expansion of this war and continued regional aggression is like, well, you guys are, you know, facing an existential crisis at all times.
You guys are being murdered left and right.
You guys can't even, you can't even walk down someone else's street with a gun in your hand shooting at civilians without people trying to threaten you.
you know so yeah you can't even uh paint an explosive to look like a can of food and then blow up
children with it it's uh you can't even you can't even infiltrate the uh you know the pager and
walkie talky supply line uh and then do a mass terrorist attack killing uh women and children
and uh you know uh has fall of operatives without people you know yelling at you and
threatening your life. They threaten you.
It's unbelievable. It's in
this day and age you can't carry out
a supposed precision attack and
kill the leadership
of people you perceive
to be your enemy, but also then say
you have to indiscriminately kill
thousands of people with 2,000 pound bombs
and then people are all of a sudden
protesting, these
anti-Semitic protests?
I'm very anti-Semitic protesters.
I mean, come on. They're doing
anti-Semitism. Wait.
Well, yeah, it is, it is just like, it's such a specific mindset, and it's so, I mean, obviously, if the results weren't so, like, horrifying, it would be purely entertaining.
If they weren't doing it for the sake of what I would consider to be, like, morally, not just abhorrent, but, like, acts that should cause disgust in any normal human being, you know, then I could say, hey, look at these funny people.
way that they're you know as one of the
people in the chat said they're cry bullies
um you know that's
they they they they shoot and cry
it's their whole thing
it's just a nation of it's a nation of fucking
cops man it's
it's just copaganda
that's this is this is the
same thing you see with
police where at least
in America you see like this constant
you know we are under attack
we have a very dangerous job
and constant and it's like
The police in the United States aren't occupying force.
The police in cities and, you know, I'm sure sheriffs, counties as well, are occupying forces.
This is what they do.
And this is the constant thing, the constant refrain of the police is, you know, you, is that they're under attack at all times, you know, whether it's from, you know, doing a traffic stop in which someone,
move too fast to get their wallet and you shot them or you know whether it's uh from college
campuses where people are going around spray painting a cab on stuff you know it's uh it's this constant
you know narrative of victimization yeah well and but it's angry victimhood where it's like
they're forever uh demanding to speak to the manager and we're the manager um but it you know it's it's it's the
lady you see calling 911 in a video where she's like, I saw some black people and I think they all had
machine guns and they were casing a house on the street. I mean, while it's like, you know,
a kid selling chocolates. Right. It's a kid's birthday party or whatever the fuck. Yeah. Yeah. It's,
it's, it's, uh, it's Karenhood. It's just Karenhood. It's that's, it's, all of these things are
describing essentially Karen. Yes. And, um, you know, I remember feeling,
you know, when a bunch of a rash of Karen videos would come out and after a while I was just like, you know, you know, hey, you know, some of these, some of these Karens are just mentally unstable. Like, you know, what are you going to do? They're just scared people in general. But then you see where Karen, being a Karen goes wrong. Like, you create a country of Karen's, you know, and then you have to ask yourself, do Karen's have a right to exist? I don't really know, Doc. Yeah, maybe we should disconnect the phone line to the manager.
Honestly, maybe they should not have the privilege, maybe we should not be giving them billions of dollars a year, billions of dollars a year, and give them direct access to the manager because they constantly are calling the manager.
Yeah, they're constantly getting free Starwood Hotel loyalty points from us.
We need to stop the flow of congressional appropriations of Starwood points to them.
Yes, yes, no Starwood for you, Israel.
um yeah man it's uh it's just crazy yeah to uh back up a little bit and get uh just a little bit more
information on marcia blackburn one of my favorite moments in like twitter lore is uh the time that a few
years ago uh marcia is like a just a constant racist just someone famously won't ever debate debate an
opponent and just you know it lives and dies by tennessee race
Yes, 100%. And I forget if this person is a particular diplomat or ex-diplomat of China, but he one time replied to her under a tweet, this is the most racist and ignorant U.S. Senator I have seen. A lifetime bitch.
Wow.
lifetime bitch she got the amazon prime lifetime warranty i love a lifetime bitch oh my god so yeah
you know shout out to shout out to him for kind of calling it on just the lifetime part of it
at least she don't stop i wonder if that's if that's like an idiom in chinese it's got to be it's got to be right
Like there's no, there's no way, because it's too, it's too good, it's too unique that I'm like, no, they probably all say like lifetime bitch, but like in Mandarin.
Sure, but it's definitely something we should pick up.
Yes. Just real quick, let's look at that chat. I just want to, I just want to keep it going with the chat.
Rachel gave $10. These folks need therapy, not their own super special clubhouse country.
yeah i mean listen there's limits to therapy though i will say this you know in terms of like i agree
that they need therapy but like step one is ending apartheid and then we'll then we'll see what
therapy does yeah well they they need their credit card cut up yes exactly exactly you know they need
to get that credit card cut up and they they need to i'm sorry but we got to kick them out of the house
They got to figure out a life on their own.
It's, you know, it's, there's plenty of things to look forward to, you know, you make an alliance with fucking, I don't know, Brazil or whatever.
Get Beebe out of there.
Let him do dancing with the stars.
Exactly.
And, you know, let's get a, I don't know, a non-ethnocentric government in there.
Yeah, that would be nice.
That would be nice.
We'll see.
We'll see.
But for now, just everyone, please feel free to remind the world, Israel bad.
And stop voting for these fucking monsters.
At this point, you know, it's been a year, right?
And like, I'm someone who has been like following this for like a long time.
And so when this day happened a year ago.
I first thing I did was kind of like wait and see like I think I tweeted one thing I think I tweeted like you know I was out celebrating my daughter's birthday and I wrote like really rude of Hamas to do this on my daughter's birthday but it was one of those things they could have waited till after the cake yeah at least let us cut the cake and then you know do whatever um but it was um
you know, I was sort of seeing the way that a lot of people were engaging with this out of the right out the gate.
And I understood it, you know, either for good or for bad, if you were, you know, super Zionist Israeli, you know, like this is a huge act of terrorism.
And you are, you know, of course, well within your rights to be posting about it and being like, you know, this fucked up.
what the fuck and then also people who were just like essentially celebrating it you know people are
like yeah get them and all of it i was just like yeah you know i i understand where people's minds are
uh depending on what their view is on this thing but me personally i was like i got to wait and see
you know what this is what's happening here um and i uh was really shocked and kind of heartened uh
As to how quickly that people went from like, and when I say people, I mean like human beings, not like celebrities and or institutional media figures and or Washington.
Because obviously, I would say a majority of those folks still have not moved an inch.
But people in general, after a couple of weeks, because immediately after October 7th, there was.
this incursion into Gaza.
And it marks the beginning of this phase of Israel,
ethnically cleansing Gaza and carrying out a genocide.
And I was heartened by the fact that so many people were starting to be, like,
willing to talk about it, maybe, you know, not like publicly,
but the people I was talking to, you know, on an individual level who were reaching out to me
because, you know, I had started posting more and more about it.
And, you know, it felt, it, I felt a little bit of hope,
just a little bit of hope that, like, a public opinion change would matter.
How foolish.
How foolish.
And I think this is kind of what I, you know, like, just in terms of discussion here,
fucking, I, I get torn between whether or not a public opinion change is what.
what makes the difference.
I still believe it does make a difference,
but I think there's just nothing, you know,
there's nothing that will,
there's nothing more depressing than having public opinion
on your side and having these strongholds of power
in Washington and institutional media.
Well, yeah, it can, it only makes a difference if there, if the stakes are big enough for the people who really make policy changes because, you know, the people at large obviously don't make policy changes.
Right.
But if, if it was felt that an election was in danger, which it doesn't feel like right now, then that that might sway a politician.
If it felt like there was a, you know, some amount of massive funding that, you know, that a politician was going to lose because they were going to lose the favor of some mega donor, some like, you know, Soros, Sheldon Aedelson type donor, then that, you know, public anger can be, you know, a component of that.
because, you know, because those people are, like, they want to be liked as much as anyone else.
Sure.
Yeah.
But, yeah, I don't, I don't think public furor alone can sway it.
Yeah.
No, I mean, again, and that's, you know, obviously that's something that I knew.
I think for me, where I diverge a little bit is that, like, I feel like an election is very much at stake.
You know, the Democrats, I think.
may be able to
to beat Donald Trump
in November.
I think the only reason why it may be possible
is because of the fact that
Donald Trump is
also an ardent Zionist, Islamophobic, racist
piece of shit, you know, Israel supporter.
So, you know, people who,
if that's their issue, you know,
you know, they're not going to vote Trump.
They're not going to vote Kamala.
They might vote Jill Stein or Cornell West.
But I swear, it's like, it feels to me.
And, you know, I don't know that much about electoral politics.
But if Donald Trump said something like, we need to end Israel, I feel like he would win in a landslide.
Am I crazy?
I'm probably crazy.
I'm just thinking about how many of his supporters
are such ardent Christian Zionists
that they might drop him.
But I am also thinking about the amount of people
who would see it, even if they like, you know,
maybe disagreed with the rhetoric or whatnot.
I mean, that's Trump's whole thing.
People would disagree with the way he frames stuff
and his hostility towards saying his lack of decorum
and still vote for him
because he has the guts to say the thing.
Now, of course, in reality, the guts to say the thing,
everything he says is just the same sort of Islamophobic
or, you know, the same sort of like migrant panic thing.
Islamophobic and anti-Semitic.
Right.
Get you a candidate that can do both.
Get you a man who can do both.
This is for sure a, you know, product of me.
living in my own bubble here but yeah i think the like that i don't know it feels like
popular to me i could be wrong i'm probably wrong i think the prevailing uh end of the
conflict thing that people hope for at least sort of in my in my limited uh you know sphere of people
i talk to it's like the the name brand solution is two states right um and i i think that
that the, like, the idea of the elimination of the state of Israel is a bridge too far for the public at large.
I think that, you know, mostly people want just like, can I stop hearing about this?
What's the, what's the thing that makes this go away and I can watch Dr. Odyssey?
Yes, yes. And it's two-state solution.
No, 100%.
I guess what I'm not saying, I'm not saying, you know, what if he, what if Donald Trump or Kamala
Harris actually said end Israel.
What I'm saying is that what if they showed any kind of balls, like significant balls,
a nice round ball.
Hangers.
Hangers, dog.
Straight fucking old man talking to you for too long at the gym locker room balls.
Yes, we're talking speed bag to the ground.
We're talking one of those soccer practice balls where you-dragging them.
Yeah, I'm just saying a happy sack on a string.
balls, right?
Like, what if they actually
materially
threatened Israel
with actual consequences for doing what it does?
And in a way that wasn't
mealy-mouthed, in a way that was
genuine in a way that pissed
off
Zionists and not just the psycho
ones who get pissed at everything, like the liberal
Zionists. You know, it pissed off
them like pissed off people the two state people right um i i do feel like again this is just my mind
this is just you know my bubble or whatnot but i feel like showing the kind of uh i don't know
showing chutzpah i think would go so far because there are so many people i hate to use
the phrase silent majority but i swear to god there's a silent majority
of people who are just like,
like they're getting to the point
where people are asking, genuinely asking,
does Israel run America?
And, you know, it's, it's,
it's one of those things where I'm sure there are people
who listen to this podcast who are like, I don't know,
I think Israel runs America.
And it obviously divorces the subject matter
from the kind of, I don't know,
geopolitical realities of,
of imperium, right, of empire.
And so people, they don't understand why they're seeing, you know,
someone like Biden or Kamala Harris, allowing Israel to do essentially whatever it wants
and then saying, but we want a ceasefire.
And so they rightfully assume, I mean, by rightfully, I mean, they understandably assume,
well, I guess Netanyahu is.
more powerful than the United States. Instead of what the reality of it is, which is like people like
Kamala, people like Trump, people like Biden, they share the same goals with Israel. That Israel doing
the things it's doing is bad for public opinion, but it's good for America, quote unquote.
You know, it's good for their own, I mean, because at the end of the day, this is this is all about
the western hegemon, the United States, owning all the shit and controlling the regions.
You know what I mean? It's also about, you know, who stays in power in this country and who keeps the
money flowing. It's the same thing like Democrats do, you know, with the police, like after George
Floyd, you know, where the Democrats are saying, you know, ostensibly they ought to be sort of
with the people. But they come out and say, actually, we're the most police.
loving. We're going to give the police more money because then they can't flank us from the
right. And so, you know, and the police unions can't say that we're soft on crime. And it's the same
sort of thing with Israel where it's like, nobody wants to be Cory Bush. Nobody wants to have
APAC primary them. And, you know, everything comes down to maintaining power, maintaining the flow of
goods and services, you know, and, and Israel is our military outpost, like in the crudest
terms in the region. It is our beachhead into the Middle East if we have to like go wreck shit
over there. Yeah, yeah. And and I think, you know, but that's why, you know, I feel like
maybe it's just, I think we've instilled an amount of ignorance in the general.
like electorate with when it comes to this issue uh people are so ignorant of empire people are
so ignorant of uh the united states is like geopolitical foreign policy goals that what ends up
happening is you've made everyone just dumb enough to believe the jews control the world you know what
I mean, rather than the United States is the most powerful country in the world. You know what I mean?
And it's, it is, uh, whatever, uh, its allies are doing, uh, it is only done it with the blessing of
the United States. And there may be, you know, individual, you know, spats, you know, fucking Netanyahu
hated Obama. And Obama, you know, uh, and, and his state department.
did the Iran deal is a little bit of a fuck you, but also, you know, I think as a way of
kind of keeping Israel in check in general, which I think was also in the interest of the United
States. But, you know, in general, personalities aside, they put principles before personalities,
as we say in like 12-step programs, put principles before personalities. And that's what the,
that's what the U.S. does. And they go, listen, the principle here,
is controlling the world.
The interest here is making it so we have no competition, you know, in, you know, on a global
stage or a regional state.
Yeah, maintaining the status quo is the most important thing.
Yes, maintaining the status quo.
But it's just so funny, it is why, you know, I think no one has respect for Democrats
when it comes to this issue because, you know, with Republicans, they get to just be
genocidal they get to just be bloodthirsty um they don't have to they do often if it you know
but they don't have to be uh cry bullies about it they could just be regular bullies but i want
the democrats are like double secret backflip right wingers yes yes exactly uh and it's like
watching watching them squirm as they try to not say doesn't matter what they do it's what
It's in the interest of us.
So sorry, not sorry.
So I want to play this interview from 60 minutes that Kamala Harris did in which the interviewer asks a question that I think he would only have asked if it wasn't at this point mainstream to be thinking, who's wearing the pants in this relationship?
Right.
And so I'm going to play a little bit of that for everybody right now.
We supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid, and yet Prime Minister of Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course, the Biden-Harris administration, has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire. He has resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon. He went in anyway. He has promised to make Iran pay for the missile attack, and that has the potential of expanding the war.
Does the U.S. have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?
The aid that we have given Israel, allowed Israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack the Israelis and the people of Israel.
And when we think about the threat that Hamas...
I'm sorry, those ballistic missiles, what were...
What are other missiles meant to attack?
I love this idea that like when Israel like post pictures of like these missiles sent by Iran are meant to blow up our people as opposed to our Israeli missiles, which plant trees.
Yeah.
And our peace missiles are peace missiles.
They show up and kaboom everybody gets a new car.
Like the fuck are you talking about.
Hezbollah presents Iran, I think that it is, without any question, our imperative to do what we can to allow Israel to defend itself against those kinds of attacks.
Now the work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles, which include the need for humanitarian aid, the need for this war to end, the need for a deal to be done, which would release the hostages, and create a ceasefire. And we're not going to stop in terms of putting that pressure on Israel. And they lie to our faces constantly?
All we do is keep cutting checks.
It's so funny to watch, to watch trying to appeal to, you know, the ceasefire crowd or whatever,
whatever the fuck she thinks she's trying to appeal to while simultaneously just not saying
the thing is like, this, everything we do diplomatically here for the, you know, whether it's like
the ceasefire talks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
This is theater.
This is for you all to think we're doing something.
Yeah, well, even the we want them to act in a humanitarian fashion is all K-Fabe.
Like, you know, it's been clear that, you know, the State Department and the president have known since the beginning, you know, that Israel was blocking food aid, that Israel was killing civilians, you know, with wanton abandon.
But there's this garment-rending performance of, like, we are using every lever at our disposal to inveigh upon them that they have to respect norms.
We are the nation that respects norms so much, and so they have to respect norms like us.
And, like, that's all a performance.
Yes, 100%.
It is all a performance.
And again, because we've seen people like Anthony Blinken make these similar mealy-mouth statements, you know, like the difference being that he was involved, you know, talking about this publicly early enough that he didn't have to ever say ceasefire, you know.
But doing the same thing, you know, we care about aid and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then DropSight comes out with this, you know, investigation in which they find that Blinken approved the policy to bomb aid trucks.
according to Israeli cabinet members.
And it's just like, you see that this is all bullshit.
It's all fucking fake.
It's all for the sake of you believing that United States.
Oh, you know, we're just doing the best that we can.
But, you know, hey, we're trying.
You know, it's not like we can wave a magic wand, you know.
We can't wave a wand.
and make it, you know, Israel stopped getting our money and bombs and guns.
Yeah, we've got to keep the CNN storyline going of the moral America.
Yes, yes.
And it's just like, oh, God, you just get to a point where you go, like, all this mealy-mouth talk does is delegitimize yourselves.
sorry, but it's like you're delegitimizing. I don't know. There's something to me that
seems inherently dangerous about playing dumb, about pretending. And I understand why they do it
because they're Democrats. And the whole point of being a Democrat is to pretend that you are the
good progressive people. Sure. Democrats are all about telling you how they wish they
could do something for you, but I can't do it. There's a Senate parliamentarian. He says that you can't
make $15 an hour of federal minimum wage. Excuse me. I need to go trade stocks based on what I learned
in the Congress. I just heard that this stock's about to go up. So if you'll excuse me, I'm going
to continue being a millionaire. I need to go make my NVIDIA position. Yes. Invidia.
They are doing well, though, right?
Sure, yeah. Nancy Pelosi's made like $15 million. That's right. Yeah. Oh, yeah, because they also were, uh, they got the Taiwanese, chips, chips. They got them good chips. Sure. The microprocessors or whatever. The cron. The cron. The chronic. Yes. Yeah. No stems, no seeds, no sticks. Sure. A real sticky yikes. Mm-hmm. Um, but yeah, it's just, you know, it's just, it's fucking embarrassing. And, and, and, uh,
you know, I hate to constantly be the one to, like, bring up the anti-Semitism thing.
But it is just adds to it.
It makes everyone just go the Jews control the world.
And that shit to me is a direct threat because, you know, it's just like you're spreading,
you're spreading that kind of ignorance.
And it just helps the entire Zionist project, you know.
It helps them out when you start making people in the diaspora.
Just assume that Israel is the representative of all Jews.
And then people go like, I don't like what Israel does.
I guess I don't like what.
It bolsters anti-Semitism.
A hundred percent it does.
And I just am like looking at that.
And I'm seeing the role of not just, you know, the Israeli government,
but the United States government in doing that.
And I'm just like, I'm not.
fucking crazy here.
I am correct about this.
Everyone in the United States
government does not give a fuck about
anti-Semitism because
anti-Semitism to them has one
definition and it's anti-Zionism
or anti-Israelism or
anti-letting Israel do whatever the fuck
it wants. And so they don't care
if they bolster
anti-Semitism. They don't care if they add
to it. It doesn't matter to them
because at the end of the day,
everything they say that sounds like
anti-racism that sounds like, you know, progressive, whatnot is just only a convenient cover
for whatever the fuck serves their interest. And sometimes in this country, something that serves
U.S. interests and serves like the interests of humanity can line up. I do think I just got to,
oh, sorry. Go ahead. Yeah, but most of the time, I feel like it doesn't and it just makes everything
worse. What are you going to say? Nothing smart or good.
but just that I feel like I just got a preview
of when you get dragged away to a mental institution
screaming, I'm not crazy.
I'm not crazy. I'm correct.
That's just yelling.
I'm not, I've got to play this thing.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to play this thing.
I'm not crazy, crazy, crazy.
Ah!
Cool, cool, everything's normal and good.
Everything's normal.
Everything's good.
It's just crazy that story about Anthony Blinken of proving the policy to, like, fucking bomb the aid trucks.
And it's like, again, it's all under the guise of, well, if they have been deemed by Israel to have been hijacked by Hamas, which, according to Israel's own logic, everyone in Gaza is Hamas.
Yeah, and also what about the aid truck that the U.S. used to infiltrate the Nusirah?
camp isn't that capturing a truck's right oh all right $20 thank you big ol and meo i'm at the point now
where i have far more trust in me caliph's twitter commentary on middle east current events than i do
in any explanation from the u.s federal government by the way she'd be a great guest for the show
100% i would love to get me on the show um and yes i know i know it is uh it's
crazy. And it's a year since she
tweeted that tweet
someone tell them to
stop shooting vertical
videos when she said
something like someone tell them
to go to film horizontally please
and she had a mad
trouble for that. Mad
trouble which is like that is
you know I think any other day
is a shit post that is
hilarious and the fact that she tweeted
on that day it became like
we must end her
career or whatever although i think she was
podcasting shit so it's like what are you going to do and her i mean i don't know
they they definitely like uh were able to you know um fire her from some shit uh
but yeah i i would be interested in in mea califa being on the show she seems uh
she seems brave i'll say that she'll say some shit although i have to go through all the
tweets you know you never know sure as long as she's not you know
fucking saying any racial slurs
of people.
But she's not.
I know she's not.
I don't know.
I don't go to those kind of websites
and I don't know what happens.
Neither do I.
I don't, yeah, no.
I've heard,
I only read about her in People magazine.
I only go to McSweeney's.
McSweeney and I only read the shouts and murmurs
from the New Yorker.
Cartoons are a little spicy for me, though.
is a little too biting dude there was a cartoon did you see that new yorker cartoon recently that
totally owned me no oh my god dude oh wait yes i did see this i don't think it knew it owned me
but it was like after after reading it i was like do they is this about me i got to let me see
if i can find it it was it was just uh yeah here it is right here
I just want to say this is one of the meanest things I have ever seen The New Yorker do.
Here it is.
It's a podcast about me and my buddy discussing movies,
but the catches we also sort of joke around.
Why does he look exactly like me, dude?
It's like they merged you and Jordan Morris.
Yeah, I know.
It's me and Vince Mancini together into one slight,
Totally chubby Jew with a mustache and a, it's me, dog.
Although for the sake of this podcast, I'd cross out discussing movies and change it to Israel.
Yeah, no, they should have put like one of those 7-Eleven yardsticks at the door so that you can see 6'6, definitely Matt Lee, put some headphones on you, really sell it.
I wouldn't be in a coffee shop talking to a girl.
I would be
alone in
my room
talking to my mom
on Zoom.
But I think
that's a lot
to fit into a cartoon
so they just made it.
The point is
this is anti-Semitism.
How is this not anti-Semitism?
Unbelievable.
You're on notice, New Yorker.
With that shit.
Dear Yorker.
Yeah.
Dare Yorker.
Dare Yorker.
Oh, my God.
God. Thank you. I do clearly shave. Thank you for pointing that. Tom Jones is back. Or no, who wrote that? Neal Mick. The chat's going fast. I just want to shout out to that chat. 852 people watching. I think that's good, right? I don't know. Yeah, absolutely. Matt, this guy, Noel gave money. And I don't remember what episode we did this in, but we could probably put this on YouTube, right?
Oh, dude, we've been, I've been meaning to put this on YouTube for a while, the Hasbara Barbara's Rubar Barber parody. Yeah, I don't, it's, it's, it's somewhere on my phone. Someone else asked me, like, DM me, hey, where's, uh, that one episode where you discuss like, you know, what blood libel actually is and stuff. And he said, I, I, I, I, you know, relistened to the blood libel episode, but it wasn't there. And I was like,
yeah we probably have discussed that on several episodes and dog i truly cannot keep these
straight um yeah i got it all just sort of leaves my head the moment i finish editing an episode
yeah like really it's just it is gone um i wonder if i wonder if i have it do i have it somewhere
i mean i know it's i can find it i have on my phone um but uh for anyone who who hasn't seen it
you know what if i played it right now is all i'm saying sure but there's no i don't know dog
like i don't even know what episode we did it on it's crazy to me because this show has been
going on now for less than a year and i already have lost track of what the fuck we talked about
on an episode to episode basis you know what i mean sure yeah i i i can't remember a single
thing about uh you know last week's episode no neither can i
Although you should tell people about what's on Patreon right now.
Oh, if you go to patreon.com slash bad hasbara, you know what you'll get?
You'll get a bonus episode of Bad Hasbara, where myself and Daniel Mante and our guest, Will Menacher of Chapo Trap House.
High value guests.
We discussed all sorts of things from Iran's ballistic missile attack, a plight house.
upon the people of Israel slash military targets that they were warned about in advance
and that Israel allowed many of its iron dome defenses to go down so they could land those blows.
But also their blows did have hypersonic ballistic missiles and were able to.
Point is, it's a great, we talk about that and we talk about Tanaasi Coates's recent appearance on CBS this morning
that has been much talked about online.
And at this point, if you haven't seen him being grilled by Tony Count Dukupil,
yeah, he essentially is just told he is a terrorist sympathizer for,
or essentially he calls him an anti-Semite for writing about how he went to Palestine for 10 days
and saw apartheid and Jim Crow first hand.
And people are like, isn't it kind of anti-Semitic for you to say what you saw out loud?
Yeah, it's a great episode. Patreon.com slash bad Hasbara. Please feel free to join the Patreon. When you go to the Patreon, it helps us out immensely. And what do I mean by that? I mean, because we get the monies. Sure. And we'd like that. We'd like the monies.
Oh, when bills go away because they've been paid. It's so cool. No more bills.
Speaking of bills
Yeah, I got more bills now than ever
Because I had to go to that emergency room
For a kidney stone
And the emergency room bill wasn't too bad
It's $350 copay
So I was like, I'm stoked on that
Good enough
They're trying to charge me $1,400 for the fucking ambulance dog
$1,400.
I've been into Ambuli
in my life both of them very expensive it's crazy too because i own the only reason that i called an
ambulance other than the fact that i couldn't move from the pain was because i assumed one of the
things an ambulance does is give you pain meds because i was like fucking i need to be i need to
already be in a hospital getting pain meds and so i called an ambulance because i was like help me
get out of here uh and also give me pain meds and then they told me when i got in they don't have
have pain meds on the ambulance. And I'm like, if you're not Uber for fentanyl, what are you?
What is you? What is you? When I broke my ankle, and this was in Tennessee, so, you know,
maybe it flows a little freer up there. But they shot fentanyl up my nose. They just shot liquid
fentanyl up my nose. You got the good good. That's the good good. Oh, wow. It didn't work.
Oh, it didn't work. Well, the real good good is like IV.
but uh you know sometimes you can sometimes it's good listen i've been drug free for 15 years now
sure uh and so this was my first time in 15 years that i felt an opiate and it was like the first
time in those 15 years that i was like if i do not uh get this i'm going to continue screaming
right um and uh you know what is crazy about 15 years sober is uh that
even in the worst possible pain you can possibly imagine.
Once they give you the fentanyl,
you feel terrible about it.
And you immediately call your sponsor and you tell them,
just so you know, I'm in the hospital.
And I was like, at some point I should, you know, anyways.
The point is, the point is everybody, don't do drugs,
because you'll ruin your ability to have fun on them.
even when you have a kidney stone you won't be able to have fun on them no you just feel that shame and guilt
shame and guilt shame and guilt just you know stay away when on birthright you're prepared i am so
prepared for shame and guilt dog uh someone wrote opiates are meh you're not driven the right one
just kidding they are they're mad they're bad they're they're straight up ohio let's call back
so they're so ohio super ohio um yeah
what else is there i look for the i can't find the it's somewhere on my phone i'd have to connect
it but that rhubarb bar uh hasbar rhubarb song will be coming out on youtube uh as a standalone
so we will play that subscribe like smash smash it yes please do um before we get out of here
um i want to uh since it has been a year since october 7 um i do want to do an in memoriam
section and it's not for so much you know we're not poking fun at any victims except for a
specific type of victim and that is the the celebrities that we lost uh since october 7th uh the brain
the brains that have been melted sure and i want to do that by playing a little song for everybody
Okay.
So, this is in memoriam to the wonderful people who we lost, our celebrity best friends that we lost since October 7.
Okay.
Here you go.
Do you know your lay?
Ever since October 7th?
What happened to your brain?
Since October 7th,
you must be done.
or you're just a bum
because you know
we all say so long
fucking douchebags
yeah
motherfucker suck my dick
I wrote that
you must have got so much play
around the campfire
oh my god dude with an acoustic guitar oh my god i did not get any play what that's a college dorm
classic tears in heaven uh yeah but i was more of a sublime guy when i was first playing and no one
wants to fuck a sublime guy yeah so those are those are all the people we we lost um i mean
who did we have in there we had uh of course we had uh amy schumer
and Sarah Silverman
Josh Gadd
two of the radiohead guys
the president
Luke Skywalker
the ugly guy from Stranger Things
the entire nation
of Germany
sure
you know it's just so sad to see them
you know to see them all
lose their minds
and speaking of which
for those of you out there
who are
our German fan base or
who like are familiar with the internal like local German politics we will be having some
guests on soon to give us a little bit of a Germany update because it is one of those things
we you know have not touched on since I think the episode I did months and months and
months ago with Dan Arrows and it's I feel like there could be a German contingent of
the bad has barra podcasts and they would be able to stream every single day and have brand new
shit to talk about every single day just Germany alone it's like it's crazy the amount of
information I get about what kind of like Orwellian shit is going on over there and just how
insane things are because they also live in this like really funny inverted reality in which
like they are almost literally uh projecting their
own guilt over the Holocaust onto a whole other people to allow a Holocaust to happen to them
instead. And I'm just like, how do you, how do you, how do you do that? Yeah, it's letting all
your, it is scapegoating. It is letting all of your sins escape with something else. Yes. Uh, yes,
yes, it is. It is, that is, it is, it is just crazy. It is, is great. So we will be having
some guests on from Germany or who can talk about Germany.
in a way that, you know,
lets me and Daniel off the hook to,
from the research of it.
Matt, before we go,
I did want to just air a couple grievances.
Please.
You know what?
This is a safe space in which, you know,
this podcast, listen,
we're all equal here.
And by that, I mean, like,
we all have the right to yell at each other.
Yeah, so, you know,
Matt and Daniel,
a lot of people,
will say that they're, like, kind of anti-Zionist enlightened guys.
But I have found evidence that they hired ex-Mosad Black Cube to plant evidence on me.
And I recovered some of the evidence that they planted on me.
I know where this is going.
And so I just want you guys, I want the chat to be my witness.
Don't listen, chat.
I'm saving everything I cut out of the regular episodes to send to the Mossad.
I would never do that.
I would never do that.
I'm...
Do you pay your own voice?
I'm down for the cause, but look at what they're trying to pin on me, chat.
I'm a mercenary.
I would produce a podcast for Russell Brand or Jimmy Dorr.
I wouldn't.
I don't even know Jimmy Dorr.
I know Russell Brand a little, but barely.
I would produce a podcast starring Jill Stein and Louis C.K.
I would obviously.
Auto-tune Jake Paul's dog shit rap music for health insurance.
These are the, this is what they're trying to pillory me with so that I can't bring the truth to you, Chad.
I just want you to know.
I just want to say, I would listen to a Jill Stein, Lucy K. podcast, period.
I think that would be great.
And at some point, I think we just, side note, we might be having, hopefully, her running mate, butchware on the show.
And, you know, that would, like, be sick if I could convince him to maybe start that podcast with Jill and Louie.
Don't elbow me out of this thing.
I got to get this health insurance.
I love that you AI'd your own voice.
Yeah.
Yes, I did.
That's amazing.
Can you make me say anything?
Yes.
Yeah.
Damn.
I'm happy to.
Don't.
I support all of Beebe's policies.
Oh, God.
That's very October 7th to immediately have me saying that.
I love it.
I love, you know, if we're going to live inside of this hellhole, we might as well embrace it.
That's what I say.
Well, thank you guys so much for listening.
to this live stream.
And I suppose, you know,
if there's one thing I could say,
it would be, Daniel will be back soon
and we'll have regular episodes coming out.
One of the reasons we did this live stream
was also because no time to record this week.
And I was like, well, let's do a live stream.
That'll be better.
So, yeah, I want to thank, first,
I want to thank producer Adam
for everything you've done on the show.
you've been incredibly helpful you guys don't even know how much work he puts into this fucking show like the amount of guests we have had whose internet has just been fucked up and like he makes every episode feel a thousand times tighter than it actually is uh and it's incredible um and also uh you know i want to thank all of you out there um
the fact that anyone listens to this show at all.
And, you know, I'll get more sappy once we do it once we get a year.
You know what I mean?
Like at this point, this podcast is still not a year old.
It'll be a year old in December.
So I'll get more sappy then.
But for now, I just want to say, I never imagine so many people would actually listen to this show.
It's one of those things where it was started just borne out of like frustration and depression.
And so, yeah, the fact that you guys are.
all here, uh, watching whatever this is, is something I'm stoked about, you know,
it makes me happy. And, uh, uh, I did this event, Adam, uh, you like I said, with Hassan and,
um, Felix and a bunch of other people. And obviously, Hassan and Felix were the most
famous people. Their people were like, oh my God, is that Hassan? Um, but there was a few
bad Hasbara fans who were there. And I was like, so stoked because I was,
you know it's like uh yeah i don't know fucking i don't know the fact that anyone listens to this
is crazy to me so i i love all you guys and um i love that this day is also my daughter's birthday
and the reason i love that is because uh i do not want this day to be used as a cudgel against
an entire group of people.
You know what I mean?
Like this day being
akin to
the Holocaust, akin to 9-11
and all this stuff. And the idea that
we are all supposed to
rightfully
be, what's the
word, morose on this day?
Melancholy.
Melancholy or just like
I don't know.
Quietly self-reflective
of the, you know,
thousands of year history
of anti-Semitism. I don't like
that it's being used to reframe
the
history and truth about Israel. And
there's something
a little bit wonderful
in my opinion about my daughter sharing
this day as her birthday because
it ends up being not
about this one thing.
It ends up being about
how funny it is
that my daughter who was born pure and innocent
has to now have the Israeli 9-11 birthday.
And it means that every year that I celebrate this day,
I'm going to be tarred as a bad person
because I'm taking this day
and I'm turning it into something that shouldn't be.
It should be a day of mourning and reflection.
And I'm like, nah, bitch,
this is a day of bouncy houses.
new stuffed animals and it will be that until she grows from bouncy houses and stuffed animals
to Disneyland and fucking corn dogs or whatever you know yeah no this is the day you get the big
mamas and papa's pizza the giant one that goes on top of the car yeah exactly exactly
this is not a day where I'm going to allow once again the Israeli government to dictate what me
and all the Jewish people of the world should be feeling.
I'm not going to allow that.
And I now have the perfect reason to not allow that,
which is that it was my daughter's birthday first.
And because of that, it, I don't know, feels special, feels different.
And it allows me to soberly reflect on this day
without the necessary fucking, I don't know,
downtrodden, shoegazing
fucking, I don't know, yeah,
just sad, sad day.
Leave my bloody Valentine out of this.
I'm sorry, shoegaze is a great
genre of music,
but it's a terrible thing to expect me to do
at the behest of Israel,
and I will not allow it.
Anyways,
I love all you guys,
and I love talking to you, Adam.
You're a great producer and a great guest.
and you know there's just we had so many of these uh what do you call them super chats did you did we put
them all on screen yes yeah sick hell yeah so thank you guys but don't let that stop you from
sending some at the last minute people last minute send you can do it I'll play one more song
no I won't don't do it stop stop stop yourself I know some of you are about to do it I'll do it
Because I do got to go.
But I want to thank you all for listening.
Patreon.com slash badhasbara.
Badhasbara at gmail.com.
Please email us.
We've gotten a lot of good emails.
At some point, we're going to do a mailbag episode.
At some point, we're going to do an AMA.
And also at some point, we are going to start announcing the special Patreon-only offers that we have.
you know, certain things that are only going to be seen on the Patreon.
So please sign up.
You can sign up on Patreon for free and, you know, you won't obviously get the extra content,
but you will be informed what that content is.
So if at any point you're just like, oh, fuck it, you know, I want to support this podcast.
Plus, I would love for them to talk about the movie Golda, the Golda Meyer biopic that we will be talking about at some point on this podcast.
So, yeah, patreon.com slash badhasbara.
and bad as bar at g-emal.com.
And all right, everyone,
thanks again so much for listening.
And until next time,
from the river to the sea,
happy second birthday,
Karina Bina E.
I call it Karina Bina.
To my sweet baby.
How's that?
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