I want to welcome everyone back to the Piquino show for the first time.

We've been on streams before together, but not on this show.

Hunger the Die Merchant.

How are you doing, hunger?

I'm doing great, man.

It's a great pleasure to be on the show for the first time.

Well, thank you for coming on, and I apologize for asking you to come on and discuss a subject

for your first appearance that is so yeah well I'm sure people can look at the title of this and

know that this is this is going to be one of those talks it's's going to be very personal to you. So, well,

let's, if for people who don't know you, why don't you explain why this is a personal discussion

to you? Right. So if anybody doesn't, hasn't seen me on OGC, Pony Express Radio or other streams

I've been a guest on, my name's hunger. I am a Lebanese American, born and raised in the States, but descendants of two Lebanese parents.

My father escaped the Lebanese Civil War in the 70s.

So that's how he got here.

My mother stayed for the entirety of the war there and then married my dad came to came to America.

But yeah, as everyone who follows the news and our favorite democracy in the Middle East knows,

there's a big conflict going on.

And I have the interesting experience of I've lived in the Middle East. I wasn't born there, but've lived in the Middle East I wasn't born there

but I lived in the Middle East as a teenager for about eight years you know very very

long time very formative experience and so I know the region pretty well and I met

and I've met a lot of people at that time like I've, I've met Palestinians whose grandparents or great grandparents were kicked out of Palestine. I've met, you know, Syrians who left during the Civil War in Syria. Like, this is a very complicated, you know, tense political region. But I mean, it's a very, it's always a very interesting part of the world that most

people don't know a lot about, except, you know, outside of, you know, the GWA and oil.

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