Hi everybody. I'm Joanna.

And I'm Jenny.

And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

And man, what a time to be alive.

Yeah, I don't even know how to begin this, Jenny.

It's been a really rough few weeks.

I feel for anyone in this world.

Yeah.

The news cycle and, you know, what is happening in Israel and Gaza has sort of permeated

into every aspect of, specifically, I think, social media, not just the news.

And, you know, as a, as as a Jewish person it's been very it's been

impossible to remove myself from from this and it's also been impossible to

impossible to to process and deal with this without I feel like eyes on me.

Yeah.

There's been like a surge of anti-Semitic comments sent towards me, which is like in the grand

scheme of things is like nothing with the horrifying things that are actually happening

to people right now. But it does for me, because I'm not sure how you feel about everything.

And honestly, I don't think in this episode we should be talking about like foreign policy

and history. Because can speak for myself.

I'm not an expert.

I'm trying to educate myself more.

I'm trying to understand different perspectives more.

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