Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper. And I'm Matt Taini. How's it going Matt?

It's good. I have a new I have a new life strategy. Oh what's that? I don't follow the news

unless I have to for work. 90% of your time you spend working I feel like? Right but I only now look

at the issue. I'm actually interested in which would be I mean it varies from day to day but like

for instance I just didn't even know any of the stuff and Gaza happened right which is terrible for

them but but great for you yeah I mean me much happier and now sadly you have to learn about this

I know I know I had to I had to cram not just because it's in the headlines and we want to be a

responsible citizen and not just because we're going to be talking about the stories but sadly

sadly for you and apologies but sadly for you we are going to have indeed Abby Martin on the show

who is a amazing journalist host of the Empire Files and the director of Gaza Fights for Freedom

which is a great documentary we had around before to talk about it but we're having run again

for a couple of reasons one of which speaking of things that you care about Matt you kind of

care about content moderation and censorship am I right do I know you well enough after over a

year working with you yeah and Betmiddler stories Betmiddler stories are a little lower on the

carometer but yeah yeah it's there that's something you don't know unless you work closely with Matt

that's the thing yeah right that's a that's a secret fascination of mine exactly yeah yeah so

and she of course that that film is sadly more relevant than ever because of what's happening

right now but also interestingly enough she and she predicted this actually on on my show on the

Katie Halper show like couple months ago she was saying that they were going to release

Gaza Fights for Freedom for free she's like if they let it stay on YouTube that is and it's still

on YouTube but as she'll get to as we'll talk about with her it's it's certainly not as readily

accessible as it would be without certain things happening on the part of YouTube right right yeah

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