Ambitious Crossover Attempt

Noam and Jen tackle the issue of inflation and How Much Does It Cost To Make Chicken Soup At Home, a staffer having sex in a Congressional hearing room, the horribly sad friendly fire deaths of three Isralei hostages, and our thoughts on the Apple+ show Silo at the halfway point of the first season.

And as we allude to at the end of the episode, there may be some schedule disruptions over the first few weeks of January (no, it's not gonna be THAT kind of scheduled interruption) but we will keep you informed.

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Jen and Noam discuss how Hanukkah is pretty awesome, the Israel - Palestine war bringing the chickens home to roost at elite US universities, idiots not knowing what from the river to the sea means, rape apologists, current Argentinian president and recent Jewish conversion candidate Javier Milei, Jen makes a pitch for Jews to become libertarians, and some other stuff we're forgetting.

And as we alluded to at the end of the episode, there may be some schedule disruptions over the first few weeks of January (no, it's not gonna be THAT kind of scheduled interruption), but we will keep you informed.

Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now, follow us on Twitter for updates.

https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover

Noam and Jen discuss the silliness of using a DNA test to identify one's nationality, the Israeli military intelligence failure that led to 10/7, viewing Gaza and the West Bank as two separate entities, the rise of 10/7 truthers, conservatives being weird about gay couples having children, George Santos being kicked out of Congress, Representative Jayapal trying to weasel her way out of condemning Hamas, the death of Henry Kissinger, and the developing situations in Venezuela and the Red Sea.

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Jen and Noam pick up where they left off last week with a discussion about the Israeli hostage swap, how Egypt is getting sick of Hamas, how Jen is sick of Hamas sympathizers being gross on the internet, the newest revelations of what lies beneath Al-Shifa hospital, evidence never being enough for the people asking for evidence, pizza not being a traditional Palestinian dish (but is indeed awesome), and the meaning of community in Israel.

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Noam and Jen… absolutely forget the discuss the bin Laden TikTok trend because the IDF started releasing damning footage from Al-Shifa hospital, including hostages and underground tunnels. They talk about the footage, non-believers, people who are mad that developments do not travel at the speed of social media, the need to ensure nobody will get blown up, and various other things irritating them.

And to get back to our roots, we chat a bit about Gen V and how it is both surprisingly good and avoids the spinoff show curse.

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Jen and Noam discuss…a whole bunch of random stuff. MrBeast makes the internet mad (again) by being a decent human, governments that waste humanitarian money on God knows what, random bits on the Israel - Hamas war, people having to live in the world they created (and losing their jobs because of it), the proper way of wearing a tallit, Hamas' mastery of packaging propaganda, and a bunch of other stuff.

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Noam and Jen discuss the push to make "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" a call for happy fun peacetime instead of the call for genocide that it is, how Israel is not ethnically cleansing Gaza, Hamas being an awful government, nobody really caring about Palestinians, and the potential for engaging people in your DMs.

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Jen and Noam spend yet another week discussing the war between Israel and Gaza, mainly because people can't stop acting like jackasses about it. From idiots rippinng down posters of the kidnapped, telling Jews to stay indoors, and crying for a "ceasefire", it's been a long week.

On a brighter note, we do discuss how the embargo on Western media reporting on how horribly Hamas has been treating Gazans seems to be lifting.

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Noam and Jen return to discuss more things Israeli - Palestinian war, like Western mainstream media getting caught showing their whole ass by repeating fake news from Hamas, applying critical thinking to implausible stories, journalistic malfeasance, the need to make the IDF and Hamas morally equivalent, the absolutely insane wave of antisemitism from this past week, and the (hopefully) upcoming reckoning over the progressive and "free Palestine" movements.

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Jen and Noam return after a small Hamas-induced hiatus to discuss the horrifying situation in Israel, history, the stated purpose of Hamas, what the "free Palestine" movement is really about, why the modern state of Israel exists, Jen getting shouty about how pro-Palestine activists don't care about Palestinians, examining pictures of dead babies and murder scenes, and some other things we're probably forgetting. It's been a long week and a half.

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Show notes

This is the Tablet project that Noam has been working on this past week - collecting stories from survivors, family members, and ordinary people who saved lives during the Hamas massacre:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/testimonies-archive-voices-from-israel

The hadith that Noam mentioned from the Hamas charter:

"The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, 'O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.' Only the Gharkad tree would not do that, because it is one of the trees of the Jews."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Charter#:~:text=It%20quotes%20a%20saying%20of,%2C%20come%20and%20kill%20him.'