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800+ Palestinian Teachers MURDERED, Israel Attacks Southern Syria and Paramedics in Lebanon Targeted · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_01: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_02: We're going to get to the next part of Fuck Israel,
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  SPEAKER_02: which is what Israel is doing in the region outside of Israel to fuck
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  SPEAKER_02: with everybody else.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then, of course, and what they're doing to fuck with the Palestinians as well.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I even brought a little humor.
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  SPEAKER_02: A little humor, a little levity.
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  SPEAKER_02: But before we do, not so much levity.
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  SPEAKER_02: Middle East Monitor,
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  SPEAKER_02: over 800 Palestinian teachers have been killed by Israel in the last three years,
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  SPEAKER_02: according to the Gaza Education Ministry.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, let's blow this up.
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  SPEAKER_02: Make it here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's give her the sidebar.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, here we go.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel again has killed more than 800 Palestinian teachers and injured
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  SPEAKER_02: over 3,300 others since the start of its massacre on the Gaza Strip in October
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  SPEAKER_02: of 2023.
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  SPEAKER_02: In a statement ahead of World Teachers Day observed annually on October 5th,
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  SPEAKER_02: the ministry said educators across the occupied Palestinian territories are fighting
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  SPEAKER_02: a real battle for survival to protect the right
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  SPEAKER_02: to education amid systemic targeting.
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  SPEAKER_02: The education sector in Gaza and the West Bank has suffered comprehensive genocide
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  SPEAKER_02: since the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the ministry said.
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  SPEAKER_02: The ministry said more than 170 teachers remain detained in harsh conditions on top
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  SPEAKER_02: of the ones murdered and injured.
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  SPEAKER_02: It said movement restrictions and harassment at hundreds
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  SPEAKER_02: of checkpoints are We've been talking about that and we talked
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  SPEAKER_02: about what it was like for a woman to have to drive from one area to another,
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  SPEAKER_02: have to go around Jerusalem and that stopping at the checkpoints,
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  SPEAKER_02: it could take hours or days or they could be arrested or killed.
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  SPEAKER_02: Every time they do this, they take their lives into their hands.
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  SPEAKER_02: Under the 1995 Oslo II Agreement,
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  SPEAKER_02: intended as an interim agreement, yeah,
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  SPEAKER_02: interim for 40 years,
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  SPEAKER_02: 30 years,
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  SPEAKER_02: the West Bank was divided into areas A, B, and C.
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  SPEAKER_02: Area A is under Palestinian civil and security control,
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  SPEAKER_02: while area B is under Palestinian civil administration and Israeli security control,
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  SPEAKER_02: Area C,
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  SPEAKER_02: which accounts for about 60% of the West Bank, remains under full Israeli control.
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  SPEAKER_02: Fuck Israel.
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  SPEAKER_02: The ministry said abuses against Palestinian teachers have been accompanied
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  SPEAKER_02: by severe financial hardship,
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  SPEAKER_02: undermining their material and psychological stability
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  SPEAKER_02: as Israel withholds Palestinian tax revenues.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they basically do it for free.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nobody's making any money there,
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  SPEAKER_02: like barely enough to survive on barely what's remaining there
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  SPEAKER_02: and what Israel's allowing in.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, the West Bank's a little bit different, but not much.
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  SPEAKER_02: The
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  SPEAKER_02: funds are taxes collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Authority
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  SPEAKER_02: on imported goods and transferred under the 1994 Paris Protocol.
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  SPEAKER_02: Except that what imported goods?
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel began deducting sums from these revenues in 2019
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  SPEAKER_02: and subsequently halted transfers,
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  SPEAKER_02: worsening the PA's financial crisis and its ability to pay public employees salaries
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  SPEAKER_02: in full.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, part of the entire idea is to break down Palestinian society.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's their goal.
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  SPEAKER_02: Clearance revenues account for approximately more than half
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  SPEAKER_02: of total Palestinian public revenues,
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  SPEAKER_02: making their withholding a major obstacle to paying salaries,
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  SPEAKER_02: providing public services, and meeting government obligations.
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  SPEAKER_02: They want to crash it.
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  SPEAKER_02: They want people to be unemployed.
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  SPEAKER_02: They want people to feel despondent.
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  SPEAKER_02: They want people to feel like they have nowhere to go,
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  SPEAKER_02: and they want to sell everything they have and leave.
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  SPEAKER_02: The ministry...
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  SPEAKER_02: Urged the international community, the UN,
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  SPEAKER_02: and the education and human rights organizations to take urgent action
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  SPEAKER_02: to curb violations and provide international protection for students
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  SPEAKER_02: and education personnel.
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  SPEAKER_02: Of course, sadly, that's falling on deaf ears.
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  SPEAKER_02: It also called on unions worldwide to press for the release of detained teachers
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  SPEAKER_02: and withheld financial entitlements to ensure educators can live with dignity.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'd like them to even be able to live with schools.
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  SPEAKER_02: But Israel blows them up every time they find out there is one.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because fuck Israel.
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  SPEAKER_02: I saw this and wow, this one was a tough watch.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I want you to watch this.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is more about life in the West Bank.
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  SPEAKER_02: So let's find out what this lady has to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because of the Israeli occupation.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't wash my hair because of the Israeli occupation.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of our tanks.
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  SPEAKER_00: We only get water every 15 to 20 days.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hence the tanks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're out, you're out of luck until the next refill.
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  SPEAKER_00: These water tanks are a staple on Palestinian houses in the West Bank to combat
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  SPEAKER_00: the chronic water shortage.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the problem isn't that there's not enough water.
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  SPEAKER_00: The problem is even our water sources are under occupation
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  SPEAKER_03: and it's all controlled by the Israeli government
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  SPEAKER_03: and private Israeli corporations,
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  SPEAKER_00: who allot Palestinians less water than the World Health Organization recommends.
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  SPEAKER_01: But why?
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  SPEAKER_01: What are they doing with all our water?
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  SPEAKER_00: Funneling it into neighboring illegal settlements,
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  SPEAKER_00: where Israelis have a continuous supply of water and consume more
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  SPEAKER_00: than double their Palestinian neighbors.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to top it off,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Israeli company that supplies Palestinians in Bethlehem and Hebron with 70%
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  SPEAKER_00: of our water is reducing that amount even more.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't wash my hair because of the Israeli occupation.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I saw that on Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was like, I didn't see anybody else talking about that.
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  SPEAKER_02: So let's bring that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's someone there.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's the reality of what we're dealing with.
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  SPEAKER_02: But oh, it gets worse.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, I think that this is one of the things that while all
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  SPEAKER_02: the narrative nonsense was going on about the plane, This also was happening.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israeli army shells village and opens fire on residential areas in southern Syria.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, this was on Sunday, October 4th.
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  SPEAKER_02: Southern Syria?
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  SPEAKER_02: Wait, what?
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  SPEAKER_02: I thought they were friends with Syria now and Jelani's like their buddy and what?
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  SPEAKER_02: Huh?
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  SPEAKER_02: Hmm.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, not so much.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the Israeli army on Saturday shelled a village in southern Syria
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  SPEAKER_02: and later opened fire on residential areas during a separate ground ingersion.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, according to AA.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israeli artillery struck the outskirts of Abedin village in western Dara province.
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  SPEAKER_02: There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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  SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_02: Abedin lies in the Yarmouk Basin in western Daraa and was repeatedly targeted
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  SPEAKER_02: by Israeli artillery in September.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israeli forces also entered an area of West Stadia al-Hanout village
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  SPEAKER_02: in southern Kunitra province with two tanks and other military vehicles
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  SPEAKER_02: and opened fire toward residential neighborhoods.
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  SPEAKER_02: So what did they all abandon them?
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  SPEAKER_02: How did they not hit anybody?
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  SPEAKER_02: Is that just by freak of luck?
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, Israel continues violations on the Syrian territory since the fall of
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  SPEAKER_02: the Assad regime in late 2024.
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  SPEAKER_02: Syrian President,
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  SPEAKER_02: not al-Shara,
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  SPEAKER_02: it's Jelani,
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  SPEAKER_02: Raised the issue at the 81st UN General Assembly,
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  SPEAKER_02: saying that Israel had carried out about 500 airstrikes and artillery attacks,
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  SPEAKER_02: more than 1,200 incursions, and roughly 300 arrests and detentions since late 2024.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they see it as an opportunity to take part of the territory,
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  SPEAKER_02: but I believe they want all of it as part of the Greater Israel Project.
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  SPEAKER_02: Next, we're going to have a little bit of levity about Lebanon.
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  SPEAKER_02: If you have not seen this guy before, this is Sami Obeid.
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  SPEAKER_02: He is a Lebanese-Palestinian comedian.
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  SPEAKER_02: Outstanding.
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  SPEAKER_02: Love this guy.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's one of the most courageous comedians working right now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Brilliant.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he does a lot of crowd work and he deals with people challenging him on stage
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  SPEAKER_02: and he'll have conversations with them.
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  SPEAKER_02: But this is a great bit in setting up a little bit of Lebanon that I want to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh-oh.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why is it?
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, muted.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's why.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, let's go back.
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  SPEAKER_03: God bless the people of Lebanon.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I know there's some Americans watching like, which God though?
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  SPEAKER_03: Lebanon is a unique country.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's nearly exactly one-third Christian,
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  SPEAKER_03: one-third Sunni, one-third Shia, which as a mathematician, that's fire, dude.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's like an equilateral triangle.
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  SPEAKER_03: Some might say the Holy Trinity.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I have family from each of those pockets.
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  SPEAKER_03: And yes, sometimes they shoot at each other, but most of the time it's all love, you know?
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  SPEAKER_03: Lebanon comes from the root word Leben, which means yogurt.
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  SPEAKER_03: So really we're Yogurtees because we have a lot of culture, okay?
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  SPEAKER_03: Leaven essentially translates also to white.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I think the Europeans took that a little too seriously.
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  SPEAKER_03: So after World War I, the French came and were like, would you like poissants with your hummus?
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  SPEAKER_03: The French basically ruled over Lebanon for nearly 30 years.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that's why Lebanese are comfortable wearing short shorts.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then in 1943, Lebanon gained their independence.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Lebanese coming together,
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  SPEAKER_03: the Christians and the Muslims going up to the French and being like, au revoir.
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  SPEAKER_00: The French were like, au revoir.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Lebanese have a cedar tree on their flag because
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  SPEAKER_03: the cedar tree represents resilience,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is something that's very important to the Lebanese because they've been
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  SPEAKER_03: through so much resilience,
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  SPEAKER_03: having strong roots, and it's also just like really good quality wood.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you ever hire a Lebanese contractor, he'll build the f*** out of a deck for you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Also, cedarwood oil, the scent.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's relaxing, it smells good, and it's antiseptic.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're like, antisemitic?
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  SPEAKER_03: That's not what I said.
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  SPEAKER_03: Antiseptic means it fights off things that are trying to colonize it, okay?
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Lebanese are the people of trees.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they're tree people.
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  SPEAKER_03: Put a Lebanese person next to a tree, they'll climb the hell out of that thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Israel has been attacking Lebanon for nearly 60 years now.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're trying to get those senior discounts at Denny's.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the Lebanese have been resilient the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_03: People ask, what do the Lebanese want?
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  SPEAKER_03: It's very simple.
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  SPEAKER_03: They just want to not be bombed constantly so they can live a normal life.
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  SPEAKER_03: They want to have rule over their own country without outside interference.
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  SPEAKER_01: Relatable America.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they just want the same thing for their brothers and sisters in Palestine right
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  SPEAKER_03: over the border.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they want to have the title for best shawarma.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is that too much to ask?
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  SPEAKER_03: In the last few days, Israel,
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  SPEAKER_03: in violation of a global ceasefire,
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  SPEAKER_03: has been bombing Lebanon in one of the most intense campaigns we've ever seen.
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  SPEAKER_03: Netanyahu called it Operation Eternal Darkness.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bro, just admit that you're Satan.
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  SPEAKER_02: Operation Eternal Darkness?
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  SPEAKER_02: Who do you think you are, a metal band?
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  SPEAKER_03: That's what Israel does.
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  SPEAKER_03: They target apartment complexes.
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  SPEAKER_03: They bomb civilian areas.
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  SPEAKER_03: They use white phosphorus, which sounds like an Israeli rapper name.
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  SPEAKER_03: I have family in Lebanon, and every time Israel bombs, they go straight to the mountains.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I always call them, like, where are you guys?
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  SPEAKER_03: They're like, we're in the mountains.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, which mountains?
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  SPEAKER_03: They're like, we're not going to tell you.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're like, nice try, Mossad.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everyone in the world is the same in that we just want a normal life, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: We just want a normal life.
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  SPEAKER_03: What makes the Lebanese unique is that for all of these 60 plus years,
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  SPEAKER_03: the Lebanese are the only ones who are able to push Israel out, okay?
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  SPEAKER_03: So what I'm saying, America, get some Lebanese people in Congress.
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  SPEAKER_03: Don't with a culture that can dance.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, they can duck your ass out there.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Lebanese will fight back and then be in the club later that night.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just being like, that was a good one today.
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  SPEAKER_03: We did that.
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  SPEAKER_03: We did that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nobody wants war.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nobody wants to see these bombs dropping.
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  SPEAKER_03: But if the Lebanese continue to be attacked, they will continue to do what they do best.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not let it happen.
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  SPEAKER_03: In what they call Operation Sharmuta.
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  SPEAKER_03: Lebanese are fearless.
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  SPEAKER_03: When they hear the Israelis are coming, they treat it like a game of hide and go seek.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're like, come and get me, mother... One, two, three.
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  SPEAKER_03: God bless the people of Lebanon.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the problem is that when Israel bombs the trees,
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  SPEAKER_02: the houses, the hospitals, and everything else in between, that's not so great.
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  SPEAKER_02: But he's great.
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  SPEAKER_02: Watch more of Sammy.
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  SPEAKER_02: Support him.
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  SPEAKER_02: Follow him.
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  SPEAKER_02: He does good stuff.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't think that he is DNC-tied.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if he does, Macy.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't believe he does.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think that there's way too many Zionists in the Democratic Party.
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  SPEAKER_02: That would really be upset with anyone having an alignment with them.
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  SPEAKER_02: But here we go.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like I said...
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  SPEAKER_02: Targeting the rescuers inside Israel's war on paramedics in Lebanon.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this, again,
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  SPEAKER_02: is a really long article from Israel-Palestine News,
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  SPEAKER_02: which was originally ripped from If Americans Knew.
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  SPEAKER_02: An investigation finds,
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  SPEAKER_02: what a shock,
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  SPEAKER_02: repeated Israeli airstrikes on first responders and medical workers
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  SPEAKER_02: in southern Lebanon.
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  SPEAKER_02: With legal experts highlighting a pattern of deliberate attacks.
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  SPEAKER_02: This sounds awfully familiar.
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  SPEAKER_02: I can't remember.
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  SPEAKER_02: Some place with a G maybe?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is what Israel does.
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  SPEAKER_02: There was no hesitation when paramedics Ahmed Nour and Hussein Jaber saw
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  SPEAKER_02: a wounded man hobbling toward the Lebanese Civil Defense Center in Nabatid
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  SPEAKER_02: on May 12th shouting for help.
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  SPEAKER_02: They ran toward him.
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  SPEAKER_02: But they knew,
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  SPEAKER_02: as most first responders in southern Lebanon do,
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  SPEAKER_02: that fulfilling their duty to save an injured man would put them at great risk
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  SPEAKER_02: of becoming targets of follow-up strikes,
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  SPEAKER_02: or known as double-tap attacks,
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  SPEAKER_02: which I've talked about before,
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  SPEAKER_02: in which a second strike follows a first after drawing rescuers to the scene.
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  SPEAKER_02: The tactic widely used by Israel in Gaza,
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  SPEAKER_02: and now in its massacring of Lebanon, Aims to maximize casualties.
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  SPEAKER_02: And again, remember, Lebanon isn't firing back at Israel.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a one-way firing.
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  SPEAKER_02: So for them to call it a war is a joke.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because a war implies that both sides would be fighting.
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  SPEAKER_02: But when one side is continuously pounding the other one into the ground,
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  SPEAKER_02: leveling entire towns and displacing their families with all they have
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  SPEAKER_02: on their backs and telling them, sorry, you're never going to go back to your home.
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  SPEAKER_02: What do you expect these people to do?
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm not going to go through this whole article.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just incredibly depressing.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I do think everybody should go through this,
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  SPEAKER_02: and I will link to it in the description afterwards.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that was all I had for this portion of the Fuck Israel segment?
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Fine.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's good.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, everyone, for supporting independent media.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because, you know, we need it more than ever.
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  SPEAKER_02: I will see you next Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's what she said.
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  SPEAKER_02: Love y'all.
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  SPEAKER_02: Night, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_03: No!
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  SPEAKER_01: We just fucking lost the stream!
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  SPEAKER_01: I guess this isn't such an awful place Is that what you want me to say?
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  SPEAKER_01: You'll prove it's possible to sleep for days
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  SPEAKER_01: And I still think you're right here awake The cost of living isn't much to make
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  SPEAKER_01: But God, it's so hard to say.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when they told you
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