It's Thursday, October 9th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

And I'm going to do something unusual.

I am going to preview the conversation I'm about to have.

And the reason I'm doing this before you have the conversation is you have the ability to skip

ahead and listen to my conversation with Plastia alacquad. But also because in the past, when I have commented afterwards,

it has struck some members of the audience as uncharitable or me getting the last word. So it won't do

this. I listen to a lot of podcasts where they're like, oh, this guest is coming up and here's my

perceptions beforehand and here's how things changed.

So you were going to hear a conversation with a 23-year-old who has been living in Australia

for the last couple of years, who is and was a Gazan and was in Gaza for the first month and a few

weeks of the Gazin war. And what she saw there was horrible. Plastia Lachwad is also identified as a

journalist and there is no rule who is or isn't a journalist. And Plestia Lachquod has engaged in journalism. In that, she reported

what she saw to the world and got a lot of acclaim for it. She has five million followers on

Instagram and she's been on NBC and she's been on many outlets and the Washington Post

did an interview with her. And you could tell why it's compelling because especially early on,

this charismatic young woman threw her eyes, turned her camera to herself in horror and to the

shock and horror around her. And it was terrible. The first month of that war, there was so much

carnage. The carnage has continued, but it was particularly acute very early on.

The Ministry of Health, the Moss Control Ministry of Health, still 10,000 or so casualties. They don't

separate out civilian or combatant, but many, many, many, many people to add more than any innocent

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