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This is I Doubted Podcast with Brittany Page and Jesse Dallamore.

Welcome to the show, everybody. Episode 888 of I Doubted a podcast.

I'm your host, Jesse Dallimore, joined today by your other host, Brittany Hage.

So the headlines this week have been chaos and dominated by the conflict going on in Israel and Gaza.

And so I think it's hard to not start the show talking about it.

And I think that kind of signals what I've been seeing on social media,

which is that there's a lot of pressure on people.

Like if you have a social media account, even if you're not a media person, even if you don't work in this field, there's like pressure on you to make a statement.

Yeah.

Like you're managing your own personal PR firm for yourself,

even though you maybe don't even have a large platform or whatever. And it's strange to see

celebrities who have no expertise or education about international affairs opining and and making statements and then getting

in trouble for the statements or sharing pictures of Gaza being bombed and saying that they're

praying for Israel and then having to delete it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, it's just been a very strange time to be online this week.

But it's also just been tough to see the horse, the terrible terrorist attack that happened in Israel.

Which was terrible.

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