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The Afterburn Podcast

#122 The Taliban Unveiled: Insights from 'Hollywood Gate' | Ibrahim Nash'at

The Afterburn Podcast

John "Rain" Waters

Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

5961 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Documentary filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at joins The Afterburn Podcast to share the extraordinary story behind Hollywood Gate, his harrowing year embedded with the Taliban during their rise to power in Afghanistan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Five minutes later, the Secret Service came to me and they said,

0:03.0

you need to come with us with all of your footage.

0:05.0

I'm like, what do you mean? I'm definitely not coming with you now.

0:09.0

We have the parade, I shoot the parade, and then you take whatever you want after the parade.

0:12.0

It's like, and then he went and he came back and he said, okay.

0:16.0

Swiss for me is the clock I should not stay in this country anymore.

0:20.0

I just don't find my ticket.

0:21.6

And he's like, I can't find my ticket for the plane.

0:24.6

He's like, I can book on your one.

0:26.6

We'll book this one and he put me in an airplane.

0:28.6

And I left the dawn that was leaving in 40 minutes.

0:31.6

Release to you, we're away from the left,

0:32.6

040 and 5,

0:34.6

for takeoff.

0:35.6

Seats high, out 2 to zero eyes. We're clear for kickoff. Clear for the airspace.

0:38.9

Hi, for check. Two. I was going to have you on. My program, careful is at 3,5, 4.6.

0:44.8

Turn it. That's on.

0:46.2

Next, I'm sure. Six-time. Thirteen thousand. I'll argue some of that.

0:50.7

Whatever one. Thank you for joining me. It's honored to have you on here. I'm looking forward to our discussion today. I stumbled upon your film Hollywood Gate through an ad that got fed to me on Facebook. And I'm so glad it happened because I think the conversation today we're going to have is really important. I'm really curious to hear about your experiences. And I think we can have a good discussion about really probably the last 20 years where we are today and some things that have transpired over the past two decades.

1:16.6

Thank you so much, for having me.

1:18.6

It's a player being here.

1:20.6

Yeah, absolutely.

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