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Chag Sameach and welcome back to Ami's House, coming to you live during Sukkot, a week of miracles. And what a miracle it was: an Omani co-pilot tried to stab the pilot mid-flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv and take down the plane. Israelis on board stormed the cockpit, restrained the terrorist, and an Israeli plumber safely landed the plane. I used this as a "reality reset" a reminder, in all the internet noise, of who the good guys and bad guys actually are. I also broke down the Gaza drone footage propaganda playbook and why starting the story in the middle is how they manipulate you. Then, because this show has range: a Groyper drops an article claiming Candace Owens might just be a big ol' lesbian and I have thoughts. Lots of them. Plus impressions of Trump, Tucker, PBD, Norman Finkelstein, Jordan Peterson, and Abdul El-Sayed all reacting to the hijacking story. Don't miss it. Head over to Patreon.com/AmiKozak for exclusive content and stand-up sets, and grab your merch at KozakStore.com

This Yom Kippur, I couldn't let it slide. Brad Lander stood up in front of a crowd that includes Hamas supporters and asked Jews to atone for a genocide he manufactured and then had the audacity to call it a confession. I broke down exactly why that's not just wrong, it's an inversion of everything he claims to stand for. And then we got into Norman Finkelstein, who had to think about whether rape and mass murder on October 7th were wrong. I also define what I actually mean by "self-hating Jew" because the term gets thrown around loosely, but these two? They earned it. Stick around for listener Q&A, some off-the-cuff rap battles, and a few thoughts on why there's never been a real partner for peace.
Gmar chatima tova, may we all be written into the Good Book of Life.
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Shana Tova, everybody. We're in the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur a good time to reset, reevaluate, and apparently talk about Macklemore getting dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour. Honestly? Best thing that could have happened for him. Nothing makes you a martyr faster than getting kicked off a tour. But to the people celebrating it as a truth-telling moment, you might want to ask yourself where your information is actually coming from before you're that certain about your moral stance. I got into the difference between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism this episode — right-wing is like male aggression, they'll tell you exactly what they think. Left-wing is the feminine version: I love you, I love the Jews, Shana Tova, here's a video with Jewish kids eating apples and honey while everything coming through the gates is trying to destroy you. That's Mamdani. And then Norman Finkelstein sat down with Tucker Carlson this week, which is the horseshoe theory completing itself in real time. I also finished the new season of Fauda, if you need a reminder of why Israel is fighting this war, just watch it. It's incredible and it'll hit close to home. We closed with some AI optimism and a Trump impression on data centers, because why not. Shana Tova. May we all be written in the book of life.
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Abdul El-Sayed made the rounds on The Breakfast Club and said absolutely nothing. No limiting principles, no prescriptive ideas, just platitudes, it just shouldn't be this way, we need to do better, working people, disrupt the system. I broke down why this empty left-wing MO never goes away and why the podcast circuit has become exactly what it replaced. Then there's Brad Lander, who showed up to a Palestinian rally and got called a ball sack. I can't make you love me, Brad and they never will. We got into JD Vance at the Republican Jewish Coalition dodging the Tucker question by condemning Fuentes and defending Rogan, which completely misses the point. Fuentes never had influence over you. Rogan is besides the point. Tucker is the issue. Norman Finkelstein was on saying Jews who support Israel deserve the antisemitism coming their way, I addressed why that starts from a false premise. And I did the Milo Yiannopoulos deportation impression, a Mamdani breakdown on his "death just kind of happened on 9/11" tweet, plus impressions of Tucker, Gavin Newsom, Ro Khanna, Andrew Wilson, Jordan Peterson, and a very honest attempt at Hassan Piker that I'll admit didn't totally land.
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I jumped on for a bonus live stream because this couldn't wait. A clip of JD Vance at the RJC is circulating, he's asked about Tucker Carlson and his answer is that we should be able to remain friends with people we have political disagreements with. I have a problem with that framing. The objections to Tucker are not political disagreements. We're not arguing about tax rates or military policy. We're talking about lying, simping for Putin, calling Hamas a political organization, smearing Ben Shapiro as a dual-loyalty Jew who can't be trusted, Holocaust revisionism, confusing an entire generation about who the good guys are. Those are ethical disagreements. Behavioral disagreements. And framing them as simply political is either deeply confused or a deliberate dodge. I also get into what happens to a movement when it refuses to draw ideological borders, look at what happened to the left and the rise of the DSA. Conservatism means conserving something. You can't do that while giving cover to the people actively working to destroy it. This one had to come out. I'll be back for a full episode soon.
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