Bad Hasbara - The World's Most Moral Podcast - [EXCERPT] Daniel and Jacob Berger
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Hi everybody, you're about to watch a portion, a taste, a mouthful, and a moose-bush, actually a rather large mouthful, of our recent Patreon-only episode with Jacob Berger.
I do this because I love Jews. It disgust me the way Zionism is hijacked Judaism. It tries to make us a monolith. It's disgusting.
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Fuck, I did I...
Where the fuck were you?
I'm sorry.
He said smilingly.
See, Matt was late for this Jacob Berger interview.
He didn't get to join us.
He had some things come up.
They sounded like valid reasons to me.
Listen, I, uh, I have a baby.
We're going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But Matt and I hung out for another full 45 minutes or so, made fun of some wacky Hasbara.
Here's a little clip.
And because it disemployed.
important for us to tell you that you are going to get the glimpse of the peoples of Israel in all its
entity.
Hold on, hold on.
In all its what?
In all its sanity, bro.
That's so funny.
You're about to get how normal and sane we are.
Everyone ready to get, are you ready to get not crazy?
Yeah.
Let's get ready to normal.
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Tell us a bit about the
activism you've been doing
since October 7th.
And then we're going to take a look at one of your wonderful man on the street videos that you've been making.
But tell us more generally.
Absolutely.
So just to give you a sense of who I am, like I said, my name is Jacob Berger.
I'm a TV film actor, content creator, an activist.
I used to be a social worker before I became an actor.
So I've always been very motivated by social justice issues, fighting for the oppressed, all those types of things.
You know, people called me a sellout when I started making content for Black Lives Matter.
in 2013 and you know they called me a sell-out now to jews because i'm supporting
palestine um i came out day one after october 7th making a story post first i was like
guys this is horrible what happened but we need to remind ourselves this does not happen in a vacuum
that Palestinians have been oppressed for 75 at that time 75 years in october um can ask you a quick
question though jen yeah yeah yeah how's the selling out thing going for you are you really capitalizing
I mean, it is, it's the obvious money move.
We all did it for the, for the material rewards.
I mean, Daniel, I don't know if my George Soros check got lost in the mail or one or the checks from Iran,
but I haven't gotten any yet.
And like, it's really annoying because like everyone keeps saying I'm making all this money from,
from supporting because everyone knows obviously also, you know, I work in TV film and Hollywood.
Everyone knows that the industry is run by, you know, Palestinian Muslims, you know.
So obviously, like, I'm making the smart career choice speaking out.
obviously. Yeah, 100%. I mean, look, HR, I think, there's been some turnover. So, you know,
some of the internal correspondence, the accounting, but hang in there. I mean,
but anyway, to finish to answer your question. So like, I, a week after October 7th,
I made a statement, a video statement, like a four minute long, like a Jewish American perspective
on, on Israel, Palestine. And it went viral. It got, it got like a million views on my
Instagram. It went viral on TikTok.
And that's like when
the Arab Muslim world started
noticing me and stuff. And then I went
out to D.C. later that week
with a if not now
and Jewish voices for peace.
And we, you know, it was very nice
to be around other
anti-Zionist Jews who feel
the same way and it was very moving to be there.
And then I just started working, but
they weren't really my pace. Honestly, I have
kind of issues with some of the
the pro-Palestinian Jewish organizations
I feel like a lot of them are really just there
for to make themselves feel better
like they don't actually want
resistance and revolution
and so I think it's just like okay I'm not one of
the bad ones like you know like
they do a lot of cool things and stuff like that
I'm not trying to hate and we're all allies but I think you
understand what I'm getting at like they're not
revolution that's why I really much
the Muslim organizations
like within our lifetime
and things like that people are really trying to create
disorder and stuff in the world
Yeah, you're a disruptor. I really get that about you. And I think whatever you think about
different activist organizations, some are to my taste, some aren't, but everyone doing what they're
best at, to me, is generally speaking the best principle. So a group like standing together in Israel,
for a lot of people, that's just not sufficient what they're calling for. And I get that in their
context, they're putting themselves actually at quite a bit of risk. And they put their bodies
on the line and there's a fair amount of collaboration going on but anyway i want to talk about
you and what what is it about you how did you grow up and come up that this kind of physical
confrontation style of activism this you know this uh what can we say agitation of fecal matter
um is uh is is your go-to like what is it how does that i think it's just because like you know
i go to a lot of these rallies as i go to rallies every weekend it was funny at first people thought
I was undercover cop
because I do look like a cop
like a tall white guy
at a Muslim rally
like you know
but then when my first video went viral
they were like oh he's with us
okay like cool
you know like I don't go out of my way
looking for Zionists
but they like to come to our rallies
and like try and harass
our people and stuff like that
and you know we have a group
of Orthodox Jews are always with us
and obviously they're religious men
they're not gonna get aggressive
they literally
they'll have the bad faith conversation with these people
that I refuse to have
because the reality of Zionists feel so comfortable
going up to the Orthodox Jews in our rallies
because it's like, okay, I can say
horrible genocidal things to this guy
but they won't go up to someone who's Muslim
or Palestinian and say the same because they know like...
Yeah, they feel comfortable going up to an Orthodox Jew
and saying you should have died in Auschwitz.
With you, with you, it's a little bit more iffy
because you might do something, you know?
Yeah, so that's why like I'm a New York Jew
like I don't play around with that shit
So, like, that one video, I don't know if you've seen it
with the blonde ladies who's screaming at them.
You're not real Jews.
They're killing you're not real Jews.
I was like, lady, we're all Jews here.
Like, look, I don't care how much of a scumbag Zionist.
I think you are.
I'll never try to invalidate your Judaism and say you're not a Jew
just because you support genocide.
Hey, Blondie, Blondie, you're as Jewish as me.
With that Nordic-looking face.
She was as a Semitic as a Chinese person.
Like, let's be so for real.
Like, that's why it's crazy to me.
like people legit think like we Ashkenazi Jews like myself who come from Russia and
Ukraine and everything like that that we're from Judea and that well I'm like bro we're not
we're not like stop it like it's just so disingenuous and like you know I just have certain
questions that I do to piss like the Zionists they they hate me because I break down every
single thing about oh it's about hating Jews and not like no I'm Jewish like
I do this because I love Jews.
It disgust me the way Zionism is hijacked Judaism.
It tries to make us a monolith.
It's disgusting.
I've always stood up for the oppressed.
My grandfather, Arnold Wolfe, he was a famous rabbi of Chicago.
He marched with Dr. King, civil rights leaders, always on the forefront with things.
If you look at history, Jewish Americans have always been at the forefront of important political
and social movements.
So I'm just carrying in that tradition and don't believe, I don't know.
anyone really believes the Zionist lies anymore,
I'm pretty sure it's only them in their
echo chamber that they
believe this stuff. And that's why what I do is important
because I also have, like a lot of my content,
a lot of my audience is predominantly black and Latino.
And through no fault of their own,
a lot of them had no knowledge or history
of this conflict of Israel, Palestine.
And when I started getting messages
from people saying, Jacob, you really educated me
on this topic for free Palestine,
like all day long, you know?
Well, it's a shame.
It's a shame Kamala didn't hold one of her international relations classrooms on this topic.
She could have said, Israel is a country.
Israel is a country.
It's a small country, you know, the way she did with Russia and Ukraine and explained it to everybody.
I mean, it's so good what you're doing.
You're educating people.
You're also giving voice to the rage as, let's eat a condition under the coconut tree, says Adam.
Shout out to producer Adam Levin.
You know, there are so many different.
different reactions, I think, to emotionally speaking. This genocide, these horrors, this, this horror
show that we're seeing brings up rage for some people or at some times. It brings up grief.
And there are some commentators that are sort of, they're really good at channeling the grief.
I think part of what Matt and I do is we channel the absurdity, you know. But what you're doing
with your, it's like you're giving a, a rageful, strong masculine, if I'm allowed,
to say that version of version of an american jew who can like really i'm really i'm really just
matching their energy quite honestly daniel because they'll come in there screaming like like like
you're you rate baby you're not i understand the third you're not just like you're like yo lady
shut the fuck up like i'm from new york i'm a actor comedian i'm going to say funny that's why they're
like go back to gaza i'm like lady they would love to go back to gaza they're Palestinian but
Israel will not allow Palestinians the right to return.
Like, they run right into the point, you know?
This is why I could never do what you do,
because if someone shouted me, you rape babies.
I'd say, no, I always get their consent.
You know, see, and that, like, you see, like,
that's just where my mind goes.
Don't clip that.
Don't clip that.
No, but it's good to troll them.
It's good to troll them.
Yes, I, that's what my brain glitches when people say absurd things,
and it glitches, you know.
I have these Zionist influencers who will make a video about me,
And all I'll do is repost it.
I don't even make a real video.
And then they start crying victim when my community goes over there and disrupts their echo chamber and starts commenting how they're genocidal freaks and everything like that.
And then they're crying about it.
I'm like, I didn't docks anyone or anything.
I just literally report like, don't shoot at the king and then miss and then get mad.
And I bet they're fans of Libs of TikTok.
That's all she does or that's all she used to do.
In any case.
And they're all cowards on TikTok.
big on TikTok. I have a bigger following on TikTok and I'm very active. I go live
every day. I go on panels. 99% of the people, oh yeah, well, everyone loves me. But 99%
even the Zionists love me. I have them give me gifts and stuff like that. I'm like, look,
if you want to stick around, make sure you subscribe. You'll never miss a live. You can hate on me
every time I'm on live. You know, it doesn't get under my skin because I've been on the internet
for many years. So this is not new to me. This is not new territory for me in that regard.
Man, if you can get Zionists to subscribe to you just because I've had
I just give me money.
Because they can't get enough of...
That's like someone being your sugar...
It's like Howard Stern.
That's like someone being your sugar daddy
and hate fucking you at the same time.
It's that Howard Stern effect.
Like the people who like me, watch me
watch me for two hours.
Like, you know, it's that same sort of like...
Good for you.
Effect, but I forgot where the point is.
Well, that's what happens on this show.
We forget the point and then we just find a new point.
I want to get to one of your videos,
but first, have you heard from any...
Because I've had some people tell me that my content has, in some ways, deprogram them
or at least help them along in a deprogramming that was bound to happen.
Oh, yeah.
I get messages every day from Jewish people that tell me, Jacob, I feel so alone because
all my family are Zionists.
But seeing you so boldly state unapologetically, like, I do not support Israel.
We are not all Zionists.
That gives me the confidence to speak out.
And I also get messages from Arabs and Muslims who tell me, Jacob.
I thought that all Jewish people were Zionists
because that's the only experience I've had
but watching your videos and seeing the comments
make me realize that we can be that we're
you know that we can be together
that's not the case so the work I'm doing
honestly Daniel I'm not trying to be
grandiose but this is far bigger
than me at this point yeah I just happen
to have a platform and I'm a Jewish
American and it's my duty because at the end of the day
the way we change the things the way America
treats Israel and Palestine
it's going to fall on us American Jews
We are the ones that have to push the ball.
You're not just an American Jew.
You're a New York Jew, which is to, that's the top of the mountain in terms of American Jewish identity.
This is where we landed.
This is the default accent, you know, the cadences of New York, of American Jews.
And it's also the real Jewish state.
And that's why, yes, it's definitely the real Jewish state.
I always talk about like the Jew states, like New York, California, Florida.
Yeah.
But, you know, one thing that the Zionists constantly.
do and when I get into a little panel
discussions that they try and
devaluate my Judaism. They say
you're a self-hating Jew, you're
a Capo, you're a Jew, you're a
Jew, literally calling me a
judan rat without any irony
at all knowing that the Nazis literally
called us Judean rats.
And they're like they, it goes, the irony goes
all over their, like they don't even realize.
And the fact that they call me a
capo, it just shows the self-victimization
complex of Zionists
that they feel like, because for those
don't know, I'm sure your audience probably
does know, but Akapo was the
Jewish guards in the concentration camps
that helped the Nazis' day-to-day
operations and basically
you know, sell-up.
So in their minds...
Sellouts who sold out under
extremely dire situations
where their own survival... So in a way, it's
also a kind of hatred
of victimhood because of the
compromises people make under the
fucking conditions of Auschwitz.
So Daniel, it's just to land the
plane here. It shows their level
of victim mentality. They think that as an
American Jew right now, that we're in the same
conditions of Nazi Germany, that we're
people literally think I'm walking us
into the, like that, I'm gerbils walking us
into the gas chambers. Like, do you have any
like, that is so fucking offensive
to our ancestors. Like, my family came
here before the Holocaust, but like,
it is just gross the way that they try
and use that analogy.
That, because I say free Palestine, because I don't
support genocide, that I'm a copo
somehow. Like, that is absolutely nuts.
Well, it tells you how divorced they are from, yeah, Adam says,
if we're the sellouts, then Zionists think they're the punk rockers.
How divorced they are from the actual history of the Holocaust and what it really means.
And religion, too.
And religion, too, they don't even read the Torah.
Like, I personally, I'm like a New York Jew.
So I'm not religious.
I'm actually atheist.
I know that people might get mad about that.
But I don't need a religious textbook to tell me how to be a good person
and what's wrong and see what's happening over there.
You know, I'm very much a cultural Jew.
It's like, you know, we celebrate the high holy days.
It's very much part of our personality.
But let's be for real.
This is what you don't need to be a religious person to watch what's happening
and realize that's fucked up and wrong, you know?
Oh, 100%.
I mean, of course, you do have religious people in Israel.
You know, hijack that government.
That was I bring it up was that people try to say we have this biblical connection to the land.
I'm like, if you read the Torah, the Torah literally tells you Abraham is from Babylon.
He was the father of all messiah.
religion. He's Iraqi. He's Iraqi. And it even says in Genesis 12, go forth from your land
to this other, I'm, you know, I'm maxing up a quote, but basically it's like, go forth from your
land, which is Babylon, to this other place where the Canaanites were there. And God told him
the slay the Canaanites. And the Canadianites, I would guarantee you, Palestinians have far
more Canaanite blood than, than me or Benjamin Net Yahoo, which isn't even his real name.
He was born in Philadelphia. The fuck. Benjamin Milibu.
Vusky of something like that.
Something like that.
I have a couple of Israeli friends
who have decided to call themselves
Hebrew Canaanites as opposed to Israelis
because they've, you know,
they're the entire,
in solidarity with the Palestinians of that land.
They don't want to consider themselves
part of this Israeli state.
They're looking for a new,
and they have a YouTube channel.
Anyway, I want to get to one of your videos
because one of the things I also appreciate about you.
I mean, people say you're an anti-Semite
or you're self-hating.
No, man, you made this beautiful video.
which was actually geared towards us Jews
about keeping us safe
on the streets of New York City
like these are safety tips, right?
Yeah, well, why don't we...
I mean, it's mocking the sort of clutching of burrows.
Oh, don't give it away. Don't give it away. Don't give it away.
I don't give it away. Okay.
Hey, everybody, New York Jew here.
And today we're going to be doing part two of this series.
We're going to learn how to mind your own business
and not self-victivized.
I am not afraid.
What's my face on camera.
So before we go into...
this new topic, let's see what I'm talking about.
Please, sir, can you come and help me, please?
I see I'm safe, can you come and help me?
Safe and I'm afraid.
That's pretty wild stuff, right?
Let me show you now, as a Jew, how to walk past a crowd without a problem.
Here, come on, come on, we're walking here, we're walking here.
I'm walking here.
See, there's no problem.
No one, don't give a couple looks or anything like that.
You just find your business.
You just find your business.
All right, so you see how that work.
Now let's try it why having to star David out.
Let's see if we get any different.
reaction. Come on, let's go, we're walking here.
We're walking.
Palestine will never die.
Palestine will never die.
In our thousands, in our millions.
We are all Palestinians.
We are all Palestinians.
Proudly displaying it.
I mean, as long as you don't harass people, it's not going to be a problem.
My family
My family fought Hitler
is not like you Zionist coward
No, free Palestine, free Palestine
Exactly all day
Beautiful
That was part two actually
But yeah, it's still
The message is still there
Like it's the self-victimization
of America, especially New York's
I mean, it's just so preposterous
Like when people in Palestine and Gaza
that literally can't walk the streets
because they're literally being blown up
and you and you miss Darren
on the upper west side want to say you feel
unsafe because you walk by a college campus
and there's some people protesting
give you a fucking break.
Well it's kind of it's like you're just
being not to sound like a dim
but like you're being weird
if you're like disrupting a
protest of people calling for an end to a genocide
by yelling at other Jews that you're not really a Jew
and like, okay, if you want to be a weirdo, fine.
If you want to, I don't know, go to the Met Gala in a furry outfit
or if you want to walk through Central Park in some kind of outlandish,
I'm not coming up with an example, but don't be upset when people like stop you
and say, hey, you're acting a little strange, a little antisocial,
and you're also a, if you want to dump a bear cub in Central Park,
thank you very much.
Oh, yeah, that's a funny, funny, funny story.
I killed a bear and I was going to skin it.
What did he got there?
Oh, no, I was a little ball.
It's just for Carlisdine.
Oh, I should grab my little watermelon, what's it called, the stress ball.
Matt, Matt still isn't here.
That's crazy.
We still don't have Matt.
That's crazy.
Has he sent any more excuses?
Do we believe him at this point?
Or is he just genuinely detained?
I think we're doing great without him.
Oh, yeah, we're doing great, but I just want to make sure, you know, like...
He's on a flight to Haifa.
Oh, that's so great.
It was either, you know, take this podcast to the top of the charts or make Alia.
And I think he went for the safe option.
The video that we just showed, that was actually at a press conference after the cops had violently attacked us
when we were doing a protest a couple days prior.
That was in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, which is obviously a humongous Palestinian community out there.
Yeah.
Also, home of Tanurin, one of the best Palestinian restaurants in all years.
Well, we can argue for days and weeks of which restaurant is the best out there.
Are you an Ayat guy?
Well, I have a few people that they feed me at their restaurant, so like fire kebab and stuff like that.
You know, I need to stay loyal to them.
But, yeah, it's just, for a while, when I was doing content, it was all kind of serious.
It was at the rallies.
It was kind of had a very serious tone to it.
But then I was like, you know what?
like I'm a comedian like and these people are being so fucking ridiculous and they're white women tears and their crocodile tears and they're pretending like they feel unsafe I need to I need to roast them I need to do something so I started making comedy content about topic and people really really respond to the first one I did of teaching Zio's out of walk that one did uh like I think 10 million views on my TikTok like you know um wow and and um if people just really respond
I mean, I did one recently where Hamas was literally obo Obo Abba was thanking me in the thing.
Like so it's a really funny skit where he's like, we will bring, we will bring the phrase in Arabic.
I actually had a guy from Gaza to like say it for me.
He's like, and by the way, before we go, we just want to thank Jacob Berger.
I'm like, what?
Like every night, every time we get back from fighting the infidels,
there's nothing we like more than just cuddling up and watching some of his videos.
Wallah, he is the best.
And I'm just like, oh, and then Israel calls, you know.
I have some other videos, too that are like way too.
I had this one where, because, you know, I did this other one where it's like when you're Jewish mom wants you still to have Jewish babies and she sets me up with a pro-paly girl.
It's a really cute skit, honestly.
But I want to do one where I see a kidnap poster and I go walk up to it and I go to rip it off.
And then another hand at the same time, like in the movies.
And it's just like my perfect, like, pro-Pali Muslim babe and we like fall in love.
like it's just you know i mean i have i have a very dark sense of humor there's some things that
i like i want to do but i'm like i don't know they're gonna got a bug out of my doing yeah well and
where did this uh this strong sense of solidarity with the new york muslim community start
were you already deeply connected or was it just you kind of stood up on your on your principles
and that's where you met them yeah it's just where i gravitated towards so like i said the
first week i went out to dc and joined the if not now a jewish voices
peace because, you know, I'm Jewish.
So I was like, let me go with some fellow Jews, see what the vibe is.
But like I said, wasn't really my pace.
So then I checked out within our lifetime, well, Palestine.
And that was way more, like, the messages and the conversations that we're having were way more about, like, they were way more my speed.
So I've learned so much about Islam and Muslims because, you know, I grew up in a post-9-11 world.
I was, I was, I was 17 when 9-11 happened.
and just the amount of Islamophobia
that became normalized in our country
and, like, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's gonna,
I mean, it's, I'm sure it's being studied now,
but like, I mean, I didn't really have any close Muslim friends
at that time for most of my life.
And it was always kind of this weird thing
where it's like, I don't really quite get it.
Okay, they pray five times a day and da-da-da-da.
But it's like, oh, Bin Laden, scared.
Like, you know, like just the typical American, like,
way that we've been brainwashed.
And what I've learned over the last 10 months
has been honestly super high.
opening, just to see that, you know, Muslims do not have hatred in their heart at all for
Jews. This is about Zionism. It is not about Jews, you know, Judaism and Catholic and Christianity
are constantly referenced in the Quran. And just, you know, working together, I'm not trying,
like I said, I'm not trying to be grandiose, but I know, I do know how important my voice
as a Jewish American is, especially when so many content creators are cowards and
refuse to put anything on the line.
And I'm calling people out. I'm not going to say anything
specific. But, like, I just think
about everyone who is rah, rah, rah, Rob, Black Lives
Matter 2020, like making their profile
picture, you know, all this sort of
armchair activism. Maybe they went to
one rally, but they're dead
quiet about Palestine. Or all these
fake liberals who think they're liberal, they think
they're progressive, except Palestine.
Like, you know, to me, you can't be
a progressive if you don't
support Palestine. It doesn't,
it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't
compute. Well, international affairs has always been a weak spot of the American liberal left.
They don't connect the solidarity struggles here with the solidarity struggles. Now, if you look, or even
just a direct connection, it's not even an intersection. It's like they directly connect. One road
leads the other, but the people in Ferguson understood that their struggle and Gaza's struggle
were interconnected. And the people in Gaza realized that too. You would see, and you see George Floyd
murals on the apartheid wall
in Israel
you know but yeah
I mean that's the other thing is like
if you know anything about history like black liberation
and Palestinian liberation have always been hand in hand
you talk about writing as Malcolm X of
James Carl Michael of Fred Hampton
Black Panthers that's
that's always been a part so
it's really important understand that's why on Saturday
we had a rally for Palestine but it was also a rally
for Sonia Massey because we realized that this is all
interconnected you know the police
the way they oppress people there to protect
the pilot. And NYPD is trained
by IDF. Like, so it's all
like interconnected. Like, you know, that's
what we're trying to do. I want people to wake up.
I want people to get angry. I want
I wake up every day with anger in my
not anger like,
you know what I mean. I'm just very
much like, Matt, and I
wish I could do more, Daniel. I honestly
wish I could do more. I do everything I
can by going to rallies
and making content.
But some days it's just
really hard, Daniel, you know?
Yeah, man.
Yeah, man.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
This is a very hard journey.
And I just don't get it. There's people dying
every day. And America's
just letting it happen. Literally,
I watch kids, people putting
body, baby's body parts, shit's
and bags. And then I get
gasped and told that
I'm not a real Jew or that I want people
to see my, like, it's just preposterous.
I'm sorry to get so emotional,
but this is real life to me.
yeah well there's no apology necessary i mean you're you're a brave man for willing being willing to show
your scars and show your your pain at this we're all feeling it but not all of us have the gift
of wearing our hearts on our sleeves like you do and and this podcast is you know we keep
we keep the pain at bay with an ironic 10-foot pole and i really appreciate you a short movie
no no no no no but that's but that's not a rule that's just me and matt's right you know
handicap really right um so you're you're very very welcome to be passionate here and and you're
right it's to to even stop for a second and consider what's actually happening and what's happened to
our people um as a result what's happened to the the soul of the jewish people that zionism has done
there's so much to grieve and mourn yeah i mean it sounds like because i remember before
october 7th like i looked like when i met someone who was jewish it would be like this
it's the connection like oh we're jews we're mishmuka like we're like you know we have this
same raise and everything but now when i mean jewish people it's like okay like are they Zionists
or are they like you know and it's this loss of community it sucks that like i've had literally
everyone turn their back on me like all the friends i used to have like my best friends
stop talking to me because i said fuck the police because he loves the cops or whatever like
or just people who come out of the woodworks like i'm literally like got a whole new group of
friends now. Like, I'm not really rocking with anyone who's not talking about. I got, I unfollowed
the other day, pretty much all my social media friends because no one, there's so many people
who watch everything I post every single day. They never comment. They never message. And
they'll try and put, oh, I need to go do my research. Bro, we're 10 months in. Don't give me that
research line bullshit, right? You know, it just, it just, I don't know what it's going to take
to get people to wake up and be as passionate as we are about this issue. It just sucks that
Americans just want to sit here in their tiny, comfortable, like, apartment with their air conditioning and their TV and their phone and just own the fuck out.
And it's not normal for me to be on my feed.
And it's like, get ready with me.
It's like, oh, no, no, no.
And then a baby's head literally blown off from his body.
And that, like, it just, that's why, like, I haven't really made normal content the last few months.
It doesn't feel right to go back to my normal type of content of comedy.
Even though I make comedy videos, it just doesn't feel right to me.
Like, but there's so much shit going on, you know?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I just hope that you find a way to take care of yourself through this
so that you can keep it up rather than, you know, burning out, which is always a...
Oh, no, I do.
I keep it up.
I don't feel burnt out anyway.
I just, I need to get it.
I literally cry every day.
So this is nothing that I'm ashamed about.
Like, real men, know how to cry and be it.
It's the fact that I'm in touch of my emotions is the reason I'm so passionate about what I do.
Part of what I meant by healthy masculine when I described you.
So take it as a lot of it.
compliment.
