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And second, I want to let you know that this episode is a re-release.

A while back we released an episode about Hamas

and then after 10-7 we added a new intro and re-released it for obvious reasons.

But also, four months ago, we first released an episode about Israel and how they handle

it when soldiers and civilians are

captured and kidnapped. And recently I re-listened to that whole episode and it hit

differently in a dramatic way it feels like it was a different

world that's because it was a different world back then we had no idea that this

episode would become so nightmarishly relevant so soon.

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