Noah Colwyn and Liz dissect The Lobby, Al Jazeera’s unreleased doc on Israel’s influence, while joking about their chaotic prep—confusing 8-Mile for the topic, blaming a misfired Canary Mission leak on a botched mailing list, and mocking a Polish history series. Hyung Chomsky joins as producer, framing the discussion as a "birthright trip" into suppressed media, exposing how institutional power shapes narratives behind closed doors. [Automatically generated summary]
So today, today, well, I went to go watch 8-Mile if you'd fucking let me finish.
Today, today, today, we are recording an extra special episode.
It is our breakdown of the film 8-Mile, right?
Is that what you're supposed to watch?
Liz?
You told me to watch a movie, and I had two things written down.
I had 8-Mile and some Israel bullshit.
I can't remember which I was supposed to watch.
So, I just watched 8 Mile.
Is that cool?
What did you think of 8 Mile?
What did you think of 8 Mile?
I didn't finish it, but it seemed pretty good.
That guy looks exactly like Eminem.
It's fucking crazy.
It's very, it's gritty, isn't it?
I do not believe that Gritty was in it, but yeah, it was pretty good.
I watched the first 15, 20 minutes.
It's crazy because Eminem, like, the CGI that they did to make that guy look like Eminem straight up could have been out of Star Wars.
It was fantastic.
It was a bit.
It was Eminem.
I don't know what game you're getting at.
I never know what the bits they're doing are.
There's an 8-mile game?
Hey, Brace.
Hello.
I'm excited, baby.
I'm excited.
I know.
You love Red Arch.
Talking about Israel.
Mm-hmm.
I'm schnauzed up, baby.
I'm ready.
I'm ready to rock.
It's good because I get to talk about my people.
Whenever we talk about, when we do our eight-episode Polish series, we get to talk about your people.
History of the city of Danzig.
No one is going to want to listen to that.
Or is that called Gdansk?
That was pretty cool.
They renamed it that.
No one would want to listen to a Polish series.
Well, that's true.
Fuck, I'm trying to think of a Polish joke right now.
But what I should say is Polish series.
Well, yeah, they tried to record it, but unfortunately, they recorded into an actual Apple instead of the Apple podcast app.
That's stupid.
Anyway, I'm Liz.
Hello.
My name is Brace.
Hi.
We are joined, of course, as always, by producer Hyung Chomsky.
We've got an Israel episode today.
Yeah, yeah, we're back.
We're back with our old friend, Noah Colwyn, who's joining us to talk about an interesting case.
Interesting case of a documentary never seen.
The documentary is called The Lobby.
It was originally supposed to be put out by Al Jazeera, which means the Jazeera in Arabic.
And It's a fantastic documentary.
We got the link down below.
But this is basically the story of that documentary and the story of why you have not seen that documentary.
So, without further ado, let's hop on the airplane and go on our birthright trip, baby.
Zoom Zoom!
Oh, bad jewel pod.
Oh, Lord.
Returning Guest00:01:03
Sorry, I know we have company too.
This is humiliating.
Welcome.
Liz, you do it.
We got, who do we got?
Oh, God.
Praise.
Where are we going with that?
We're going with it, baby.
Oh, my God.
All right.
All right.
Fine.
Welcome to True Non.
We are joined today, special guest, returning special guest.
It's your second time on the podcast, Noah Colwyn, contributing editor at Jewish Current and the co-host, co-producer of Blowback Pod, series about the Iraq War, which is excellent.
Noah, how's it going?
Going good.
Going good.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks for coming back.
We didn't scare you away the first time.
No, no, no.
I'm always excited to come back and talk to Jews.
Also, I'm so sorry for leaking your address and parents' first and last names to the canary mission.
That was my bad.
I thought I was signing you up for a cool mailing list.