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Intro: why?
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Two gay Palestinian men with too many opinions and not enough patience for explaining ourselves. While our people endure genocide and struggle for liberation, we’re here to shed light on the everyday lives of queer Palestinians in the diaspora—our joys, contradictions, petty debates, and deep feelings. This isn’t a defense, it’s a conversation. Join Khalil and Ali as we navigate it all with humor, honesty, and absolutely no filter.
INTRO/OUTRO MUSCIC: DIVA @NOISEDIVA
GRAPHICS: IMAN WWW.ABSTRACTALI.COM
EDITING: KHALIL @ARABFORLIFE12
CREATORS: KHALIL & ALI ---> @FEEDINGSEAHORSES
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Transcript
Improving Webcam Setup
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I
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invested in a light and it really helped. Oh, nice. Nice. That's good. It attaches to my webcam. It shows.
Introduction to The Olive People
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But anyway, welcome to the Olive People, guys. Hi.
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I'm Ali. Oh, yeah. i forgot to say names. I'm Khalil. And I'm Ali. And we are the Olive People.
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Yeah, I
Discussing Queer Palestinian Representation
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think this is just a little introductory. to start off the YouTube page, the podcast listing, like why are people, why are we making this? Why are people here?
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Why you should watch us and hear us yap. I feel like we are just being like the queer Palestinian identity politics, like representation um um I guess, two gay Palestinians just like out and about in diaspora.
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And I think that there is a lot of content right now about Palestine, Palestine, that's centered around the genocide. um And that is obviously super important. And we don't like shy around that fact.
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But there's also not enough representation of specifically queer Palestinians. And also just queer Palestinians just like not talking about things that are like directly related to that all the time. Like
Mix of Personal Stories and Opinions
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what our lives and what our opinions and what our thoughts and feelings are as human beings like everybody else rather than us constantly defending ourselves and from whatever opinions, like this is just like us putting our brain rot into the world.
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Exactly. Brain rot. To me, I feel like the show, the Olive People, is to perfectly, as you said, encapsulate like the experience of both the Palestinian diaspora as well as people who grew up in the Middle East who are now living abroad in the diaspora. And also just an opportunity for us to talk about nothing.
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And um like we talk about Dubai Bling. We talk about Ramadan, we talk about. It's literally whatever we want to talk about. and you're i there's from Because there's people out there who don't think we exist.
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Right. Like, generally speaking. Right. Who don't know what we think about, what we want. Obviously, everyone's experience is different, but this is just our experiences and our stories and also...
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What makes us laugh? What makes us cry? What makes us angry? and yeah, it's a pleasure to get to do that with Khalil. It's a
Personal Agendas and Estranged Parents
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pleasure to do that with Ali.
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Also low key, I feel like I have a little bit of a like agenda that perhaps people that do know me, if they do listen to this podcast, they pick up on things like my estranged parents perhaps might be listening. And it's like, you know what? Like take notes.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Creative Journey and Community Building
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And yeah, I'm excited to go on this creative journey, see what we discover both in terms of ideas, but also in terms of community and getting to interact with all of you.
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i feel
DJ Persona and Comedic Elements
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like any kind of project you learn a lot about yourself. Absolutely. Absolutely. Also, just to plug, I'm a DJ. So if you have any gigs, that's my agenda.
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My DJ name is Feeding Seahorses. feeding seahorses i am i'm a jack of all trades master of none but you can um find me at arab for life 12 on instagram i think it's really fun over there yeah i want to be like we'll be at the but at the our instagrams will be linked my my talent is like Being a Kardashian in the way that it's just entertaining. Just like it's there's nothing there's nothing complicated to it.
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It's just the gift of gab. And that's what I got. Gabbing. Gab vibes. Gab vibes. Absolutely. Personal opinions. Don't take our advice. Comedy, comedy, comedy. Everything's legit.
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We are not professionals. We don't know what we're talking about. This is fully you hearing the conversation between two individuals and we're just sharing it Not our responsibility.
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We found two people named Ali and Khalil and we're impersonating them. Yes. So i I have no idea who those people actually are. um This is a full parody.
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I'm pretty sure Ali was like a sheep farmer. feel like that's his alter ego. I think... Khalil was last seen working in a factory um somewhere in the Yukon in like a woodworking factory.
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Nice. That checks.
Excitement for Podcast Journey
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Makes sense. We're excited to, I think I said this already, but just in case I didn't, we're excited to go on this journey with you Please tune in, watch us anywhere that you would watch your podcasts and yeah, follow us on social media.
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Bye. Okay. okay I'm going to play the outro. Do it.