Cheet girls, Cheetah sisters.

What a week, let's just say it.

What a century.

Yeah, I'm Sam Sanders.

I'm Saeed Jones.

And I'm Zach Stafford, and you are listening to talk about what's happening in the Middle East.

We're going to talk about Palestine and Israel. We need to, we have to, and I've been itching to have this conversation with my sisters.

We're going to get deep into all of the misinformation we've been seeing online about this conflict, but we'll also discuss

just how it feels to watch all of this through our phones and how people are getting through.

It's going to be a heavy conversation and a

heavy episode, but it's a conversation that needs to be had and I'm honored to

get to have it with Zach and Saeed. And to say, you know, listeners, we took a

week to pour into each other, to read, to listen, to talk,

and to figure out the best way to have this conversation, because we were having it with ourselves,

and you know the show

Saeed always reminds us perfectly that you know it's our group chat but we know with our group

chat you know we have to be considerate of how we bring it to life so we've been taking

that time and you know we're really happy that you're willing to be

on this journey with us today kind of explore this very complicated topic that we will be diving into.

Yeah. And I think we realized that the only way we could really have a candid conversation,

which is to say for us to speak freely, confidently without, you know, constantly kind of politicking our way

through every clause and phrase was to focus on what we responsibly feel

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