Hey, everybody, welcome to the Empire Files podcast and exclusive patron-only show. We're doing a few times a month now, Abby. This is Mike Prysner, of course, here with Abby Martin, host of the Empire Files.

What's up, everyone?

Just wanna say welcome to all the new patrons who joined

just in the past couple days

after our new video on the Saturday Night Live

Israel Joke, which is the topic of our entire discussion

on the podcast today.

And I just wanna say thank you, of course, to all the patrons.

Of course, you are a patron if you're listening to this.

You're really making all this stuff possible.

You know, the videos we do have no ads on them.

We don't make any money off them.

They're meant to just be free, important information for everyone to be widely distributed.

But we do this patron-only podcast is like our only locked exclusive content so we can

actually run the whole video operation that we're doing. So while we're, you know, so heartened

that many of you have decided to become patrons, to be honest, we're actually still in the red.

We're not bringing enough every month that's actually paying for all of our expenses,

all the people that make this show possible, all the other expenses associated with it.

So most people are at that $2 a month level.

If you level up to $5, even if just a fraction of you do that, that would help us immensely.

But we're so happy to have you here.

And we're really excited to talk about today's topic because it's one that, you know, is very deeply felt by both Abby and I, something we experienced together pretty intensely.

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