Welcome to the Empire Files podcast.

This is Abby Martin.

And Mike Prysner.

Been a while. I always startner. Been a while.

I always say that.

I always start off.

Been a while since we did a podcast.

But it truly has for a good reason, Mike.

Yeah, you know, we've, as any of you following the show, know, we're just deep in trying to finish our new documentary, Earth's Greatest Enemy, which we are seeing the light

at the end of the tunnel.

About two months ago, we had our first rough assembly cut of everything, which was over three

hours long, all stuff that we liked as contained vignettes and little scenes, but we realized there's no way we could show people a

three-hour movie. And it's not something we want to do that to you guys. And it's not something we

wanted to break up into a miniseries because, you know, like Gaza fights for freedom, you know,

we wanted to make sure this was a self-contained film that could be used for community organizing and

activists and events and things like that for many years to come.

And so that's much harder to do with a mini-series.

So we wanted to make sure it could be in a single documentary film, all the information that we wanted to present.

Yeah, so it's taken several months just to try to pare it down to make it feasible.

So we have cut over an hour.

And so it's now, so we, about a few weeks ago, we got our second rough cut, which was a more reasonable length of around two hours.

And so now we're really just kind of going through.

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