It's been a while between drinks! We've been busy with all sorts of boring non-podcast related things but there is SO much to cover and we need to get back onto it.

Fun cookerbashing will resume soon. Don't you worry - that's coming. So much to laugh at. But in the meantime, the middle east has gone bananas and it's worth discussing. I don't know shit about it and Jack is busy - so I've recruited a mate - Yaakov Aharon - to help us understand it.

Yaakov comes from an ultra-orthodox Jewish background and is a citizen of Israel - but he also believes in Palestinian self determination and a two state solution. So we are going for the centre on this one.

While we mostly discuss the relationship between Israel and Palestine from the Israeli perspective, we do try and stay in the centre of things. But we do expose some pretty nasty business from the Israeli side - the one we expect better from.

The chat went Joe Rogan level long so I've cut it into two parts. Second part should come in a week or so!

I hope you all learn something from this and any hate mail can be sent to theconditionalreleaseprogram@gmail.com

Much love. Enjoy!