844 - Journey to the End of the Night feat. Kavitha Chekuru & Sharif Abdel Kouddous (6/24/24)

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Downer ep. Skip this one if you’re already in a shitty mood

Really hard one to listen to

This is a real tough one. Appreciate you guys telling their story, our dog-shit media won’t.

Sharing on now?! You guys are killing it with the guests. Hope Matt is doing awesome. Thanks as always, guys.

America herded people into bombing zones and killed them in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Left them alone the entire war, then nuked them.

Owen Jones of the UK also interviews Kavitha & Sharif, if one wants additional info on this & the US complicity-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQi6hkVY8Yo

Evan gerskavitch is a spy lol

I feel so powerless, so angry, so tired, so devastated. And I'm just an American on my phone. What the hell can we do?

Fuck. We need a popular front

In tears on the bus, Hind, the biscuit in the little cold hand.

eSIMs for Gaza is this great org that will take donated eSIMs (like you’d get when you travel to another country and want data on your phone) and get them to people in Gaza. The first time I did it, it took forever to get activated, or they’d get used very slowly. More recently, I have someone who goes through 10 GB like every 3 days. They could be hot spotting for other phones, but I was wondering if they were uploading a bunch of video. Pretty sure there’s no way to find out. They stopped using it for two weeks and I thought they might’ve gotten bombed, but then it started back up. Find how to donate at gazaesims.com

Thanks dudes for highlighting this documentary and doing this interview. I had to go punch paper towels in the back room at work after this episode.

dude it's gonna be so awesome when Israel insists to have a delegation at the Olympics. just rotate that shape in your mind before it happens

Fun fact: you have to type the entire title and press search to find this on YouTube. No suggestions up to the last letter. Tell me that isn’t intentional.

Geezus, you casually tap on what you think is a Movie Mindset ep. about a little known James Mason flick, and then WHAM, the cold bucket of reality douses you. Thanks fellas. I’m shook

One thing I’m wondering is what is Hamas’ military capability at this point? Is there a force challenging israel in Gaza at this point?

This is dark & horrible stuff. We all need to hear & witness it, however. The US gubbmint along with Izrael will go down as some of the worst war criminals in all of known human history. And pieces of shit like the corpse-eating, dead-eyed ghoul Blinken, Matt Miller & "Admiral" Kirby are proud of that.

The IDF soldiers posting their war crimes to Tik Tok has a sort of precedent in the U.S.: in the early 20th century, people in a small town that just had a lynching would take photos of the lifeless victim hanging from a tree (with a smiling crowd usually around him), and then vendors would make POSTCARDS of those photos, and people would mail them to friends, like it was a vacation postcard. You know... "Having a blast! Wish you were here!" Obviously this was not a "war crime" but it was an out-in-the-open violation of both Federal and, usually, local law, but no one was worried about being caught or arrested, because the South got to lynch with impunity. Northern Democrats needed those votes.

Great episode.

Jesus fucking christ. The account of Hind’s call is just harrowing, infuriating, tear-inducing. No words. Thank you for drawing attention to this doc.

Thank you to Sharif and Kavitha for the difficulty and sincerity of their task. Hind’s story and it’s transcription alone was too much to bear. I couldn’t hold back a scream and tears. How can people do this to each other, how can people endure this? The scale of horror is debilitating and incomprehensible.

This was a good episode and I hated every minute of it 🙏

I love when the Chapos are goofy—they are so funny—but the episodes I actually relisten to are the ones when they are able to channel, themselves or through guests, the absolute moral outrage that is this world. It helps me to feel less alone.

That quip about pakistani kids reminded me of that britbong from the 1870s who said he grew to hate seeing blue skies because of his experience documenting the drought-famines in india

Not to be a nerd but I can't think of anything else to say so Will asked if it's possible for US military to be serving in the IDF. It's possible, but unlikely for someone in active duty unless they're assigned in a direct capacity. To go there on their own they'd need to get approved for leave, and this would be an especially unusual exemption. Reservists and guardsmen could do it on their own time but they'd also probably need authorization. As for special forces or CIA, impossible to know for sure. I've seen pictures of soldiers with US flags but that's not really conclusive. I don't think the extent of US involvement in Gaza will be known for some time, if ever.

1. Oof. This was a hard one but so glad you covered it 2. I am always so thankful (? can’t find the right word) for the disgust and frustration in Will’s voice when he talks about what’s happening in Gaza. I think it represents my feelings well and I’m glad it’s being put out in the world. 3. Man, the conversation about the kids being shot and blown up. This genocide is so fucking pointless and whenever I stop and really think about it it makes me feel like I’m actually going insane. 4. Great episode. I always crave the funny ones but appreciate when you do these hard ones.

Incredible episode. Thank you

INB4 someone tries to cancel Chapo over this episode title. For real though, great episode.

I feel stabbed in the guts everyday when confronted with this. I really hope this is a turning point, that all this horror isn’t in complete vain

Great interview, thank you for boosting the Fault Lines documentary.

I hope Israel develops an Israel-sized sinkhole. I hope Matt Miller goes caving in Nutty Putty. Thanks for this episode.

On the most important issue of 2024 Biden and Trump are the exact same. If Trump was president though maybe a lot of the lib non Zionist morons would be pro ceasefire. Israel would prefer Trump and the republicans and biden and the limp dick dems still bend over for Israel. Shows you who really runs this country. If you vote for either major party in 2024 you’re part of the problem.

Thank fucking God for DemocracyNow! The single solitary news media source in the West worth a damn has been proving it's worth every single day of this conflict. I'm convinced the blue-no-matter-who crowd are simply not paying attention. No human could listen to Hind and convince themselves this is the lesser evil.

Good work boys. Hoping for a really funny Guys.

It should be a rallying cry to stop the endless reaction to particular crises and instead redirect that energy and outrage into the formation of a non-electoral political party aimed at overcoming the present system. There will and have been thousands of Gazas at this point. Reacting to each and everyone as if they aren't connected is draining the political will to do the necessary thing to end this cycle once and for all. I have yet to see even an inch taken in this direction. I'm afraid we are doomed to be passive witnesses to the continued cycle of atrocity.

I work with kids every day. Their heads are intact, no blood in their mouths, and the walls dont cave in with missiles. They go home safe every day. And it feels so fucking crazy! That's the way it should be! Who could fire tank shells at kids!

Episodes like this really make me miss Matt. He always had a unique perspective on hope, even with something as horrifying as this.

I will never condemn anything Mena does to Israel, or the west.

I can’t listen to Matt Miller speak without having the urge to throw up. Just a stream of lies from the most reptilian spokes person of a demonic regime.

The thing that really makes me happy is that Will's intentional fucking-up of his mic to troll the fans so that EvErY wOrD SoUnDs LiKe ThIs takes precedence over the seriousness of the subject matter. You could've made this listenable and you chose not to, Will. It's appreciated.

Yeah, I was crying my eyes out throughout this one. Dont know if I can bear watching the documentary but I'll try. Thanks for making me cry at work like an asshole, guys

really good episode and incredible movie, we have all terribly failed the Palestinians

I hope Iran and Hezbollah send the IOF to hell

It’s jarring to experience the anger toward and hatred for the people who are committing these crimes and the people who are allowing these crimes to be committed, then to have nothing to do with that energy so all you can do is just allow it to dissipate from your body. It really sucks

The reason we all enjoy the nihilism is episodes like this

Documentary is horrifying, important work but so difficult to watch

Damn

That 28 minute mark solemn Felix voice just hits different

What can you say except death to israel?

I dunno I've got the stomach for this tbh

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Following up episodes after having Seeking Derangements on with this is always a bit of whiplash. Thanks for covering this

Great episode. It’s stories like this that make, even an atheist like me, wish there was a god (if for no other reason than the expectation that Biden, Blinken, Miller, Kirby, Sullivan, McGurk, Austin, Netanyahu, Haggari, Gallant, Ben Gvir, Smotrich- and every hack journalist, soldier, intelligence official and bureaucrat who conducts this genocide- will rot in hell.) Who would’ve guessed that a media outlet sponsored by a Gulf Monarchy would put our supposedly “free press” to shame? Great interview and I send thanks to the journalists of Al Jazeera for keeping this slaughter in the headlines. Free Palestine. Fuck Israel. Fuck the IDF. Fuck Biden.

Expect rage.

The hatred I feel in my heart toward the very easily identifiable and trackable individuals responsible for this genocide, including members in the Biden administration who propagandize these utter lies, will not be quelled until their heads roll from their bodies. If there is a god, they will not die of old age.

Is this a sad one? I am not ready to lock in for that right now.

Goddamn the thing about hind saying she didn’t want to get the dress dirty just put me in tears. Fucking heartbreaking. I can’t imagine that being the last exchange with my own kid. Fucking a hell, man.

Christman4ever

Give Iran a nuke

Fuck the IDF

Slops up! 🤙

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Solidarity forever

Oh fug I'm sdreaming chabo chab hauz