Wartime Cats

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Two crazy cats and one hard-nosed reporter land in Syria right as it is thrown into turmoil. Rasha Elass navigates her way through Damascus amidst government crackdowns and whistling missiles in search of the country she loves.

This story contains graphic imagery and descriptions of wartime violence, sensitive listeners please be advised.

Thank you, Rasha, for sharing your story with us! Rasha Elass is currently the editorial director at New Lines Magazine, where she first shared this story. She’s also working on a memoir about her childhood and reporting days in Syria. Follow what she’s up to on her website.

Produced by David Exumé, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 13 - Episode 24

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0:00.0	Now, Judgment Studios.
0:21.4	First of all, you have to understand I tell him not to do it.
0:25.4	I tell him why not to do it.
0:28.2	My little brother is hardheaded.
0:30.6	Nine years old, gets in his little head.
0:32.6	He's gonna take his little money.
0:34.4	From cutting people's lawns, from wheat and mischalemants garden.
0:37.8	He's gonna not get in the candy, not get comic books.
0:41.1	He's gonna be a good little saver.
0:43.4	And instead, he's gonna buy an aquarium.
0:48.0	Now, I'm 13 years old, so I see the future
0:51.7	writ large, clear as day.
0:53.4	Don't do it.
0:56.5	He does it.
0:58.5	Purchases this huge aquarium with lights, filters, plants, rocks, all the fixings.
1:05.0	And every couple of weeks, we can convince my parents
1:08.0	to take him to the aquarium supply store.
1:10.7	He buys fish, with brand new tank.
1:14.2	First, the zebra deanos, then the betas, the maelies, the damselfish, tetris, angelfish,
1:21.0	fire nose.
1:22.8	And before you know it,
1:25.0	the tank is beautiful.
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