Amanda Seales on Palestine, Hollywood Hypocrisy, & Carving Your Own Path | Friday Night Semites

[@CC23411]

Again...AMANDA AT HER BEST!!! She has always been like this. Even in her evolution, she stands on her intellect and is unapologetic about her standing on the right side of things based on her being informed!!! Just love her, great discussion ❤

[@LXSeaV]

What a beautiful group of people to see together. Sammy and Amanda have been major lights of integrity and humanity to me the last few months.

[@Fard3]

In Amanda we trust ❤

[@JemLeavitt]

Thanks for the fantastic podcast. Would highly recommend.

[@guirlandagirl]

Thanks for making this. There’s so much we still have to learn, but thanks for leading the way.

[@Tellyafriends94]

I’ve been looking forward to this dropping since I saw the announcement! Hello Josh and fellow Palestinian Sammy

[@MzElena23]

Appreciated this episode so much and of course having one of my favorite humans, Amanda Seales as your first guest is *chef kisses*! MORE OF THIS PLEASE AND THANK YOU 🫶🏽

[@Old_MsNan]

As always Amanda is a GEM. You can always rely on her to speak her truth, whether you like it or not. And when she said "The Never Ending Story", that gives me LIFE🎉🎉

[@ananda-b3u]

New favorite podcast in the rotation 🙌 Thank y’all for such a great discussion! Looking forward to next Friday.

[@Zee_533]

Best first Guest. ❤ u Amanda

[@nourkhaled8888]

Thank you guys Free Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤

[@Jimin-xl5fd]

Free from who 🤣🤣🤣

[@nourkhaled8888]

@Jimin-xl5fd From Hungarians and Russians claiming they are native to Egypt and Palestine. We Egyptians had to fight them to get back sinai and be free. You know books, go and read them. It will benefit you in the future and will not make you write a comment like that.

[@Jimin-xl5fd]

@@nourkhaled8888 honey im from israel, i can teach you some history that you dont know 😂

[@nourkhaled8888]

@@Jimin-xl5fd A colonizer teaching me an Egyptian about history. Is that a joke ?

[@nourkhaled8888]

@@Jimin-xl5fd how many c,hildren have you k. .il, led today? From your profile I'm afraid you will take Korea next and claim that 7000 years ago you had a grandfather who lived there.

[@norahmcg09]

best first podcast ❤ Amanda

[@elvisiscat]

🙌Love this. And so psyched lioness Amanda was your first guest.✊☮️❤️🇵🇸

[@maenoaf6428]

Thank you to all three menches 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@phelopita9471]

Really enjoyed seeing Amanda being her amazing self( her brilliance)❤

[@Jimin-xl5fd]

What brilliance 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@yads5678]

This popped on my feed and immediately hit play. A fan from the get-go. I've seen some of Sammy's stuff on Instagram, and Josh looks super familiar. I'm sure I've seen him on film. This was fun and insightful. Amanda is great. Looking forward to your content. Great start! 👌🏽 🍉

[@SherryZein]

It says أحلم دائما which translates to "I always dream"

[@elvisiscat]

@@SherryZeinHi, I think you meant to answer under another comment. By the one who asked the translation of Sammy’s shirt?

[@sarahussein5342]

Amazing podcast! love the name! keep it up guys.

[@seguefischlin]

This was awesome. I don't know who this woman is, but she gets it.

[@nahrainjohn7312]

Ahhh the Assyrian shout out. I feel seen ❤️❤️

[@Samnas83]

Petty intellectualism 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼, can’t wait to watch more episodes Friday Night Semites 🤣😂

[@yasishirazi2683]

That was awesome! Great first guest! Love the teaching, the laughs & the mango.

[@tatica822]

Loved this interview and looking forward to more episodes. Thank you all for creating this platform

[@eiseishere]

Nooooooo fucking way Amanda and Sammy are in the same room woooow. I would have never thought thank youuu🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@carazen]

Thanks so much for this. I am a big fan of Amanda, what a humanist to her core and also loves the animal kingdom which gets overlooked so much in the era of 'I'm a Dog person'. Loving dogs doesn't make you an empath by default. The world needs some humour IQ and it is so underrated and should be studied more. Aww Sammy mentioned Just For Laughs which doesn't exist anymore. We are still flabbergasted as to why such an integral festival folded. it happened after October 7th btw..just saying.

[@zabuma]

If you haven't seen Amanda Seales live, please do, she's incredibly talented and funny! So excited to see Sammy live soon 😁😁

[@Friday_Night_Semites]

Please like, share and subscribe!

[@NadzHas]

Popped on my timeline, immediately clicked, no regrets. Loved every thing about this Amanda always a fan 🍉

[@AMA21212]

I loved when she said "I don't consider all comedians to be artists & I don't consider all people to be brave" woof 👏 Saying a lot in a few short words. This whole episode was ❤‍🔥 You all did a phenomenal job & thanks for the education & laughs! 🙌

[@KimonoKenny]

RIP Aaron Bushnell ❤

[@JScoble]

Thank you for making this excellent show! 🎉

[@HepCat333]

Yay! Keep going. Love it.

[@fatimaiqbal3452]

Amanda is a true light

[@myoshi88]

Excellent conversation! Great first episode!!

[@2Pakistan7]

Seales Squad ✊🏽💚

[@Friday_Night_Semites]

Please like, subscribe and share!

[@sabrinalee9101]

The conversations we need. Happy to subscribe

[@sparkofgenius3372]

1st time viewer. Dope discussion. I learned some new things. LOVE THE COMFORT LEVEL. Toss the couch. Up your set. Keep BANGING them over the head with the humor & knowledge. PROPS TO ALL!!! Keep Amanda.

[@kiltersystem]

This was every bit as good as I hoped. Definitely going to share on all my anti-genocide groupchats. Also, does anyone know what that the Arabic on Sammy's shirt translates to? I'm learning the Levantine dialect and always like to ask when i encounter a new word. Also fyi, the broad stripe on the keffiyeh represents the vibrant trade routes that Palestine had historically.

[@najwaalsadi]

I will dream

[@T4nicah]

This interview gave me knowledge AND nerdism! And I LOVED it!

[@dxxxdxxxd]

Such a very informative discussion! Thanks for sharing humanity ✊🏿🖤

[@iamjograd]

What a great pilot ep! Great job guys

[@NicoleMaxali]

Amazing and informative first episode! Like Amanda said, these spaces are needed and necessary. Kudos to everyone that makes this show possible. And yaaaassss to MORE artists creating their own projects outside of the "system". We support you, y'all!! ❤❤❤

[@lisaflores8801]

Amanda ❤, great conversation !

[@thejulieesmith]

Amanda is a total treasure! Awesome 1st episode. Thank you.

[@SuperIsadam]

Loved this. Thank you for the breakdown on the origins of the term "anti semitic".

[@Jimin-xl5fd]

Thats what amanda is honey, stop making excuses 😂🇮🇱

[@mikaelabell513]

I love this and look forward to the next one! Is it going to be made available as a podcast? I'd love to be able to listen on my podcast player.

[@Friday_Night_Semites]

It's currently on Spotify!

[@vacationrentals.thepurplerose]

Amazing i could have listened all night. Was sad when it ended!

[@Shurouq2]

Thank you

[@fatimaaden5033]

Loved this❤

[@Kelsey260]

Love amanda ❤❤❤❤

[@amerbinjarrah4427]

I hope she’s a regular guest

[@cosmosapien1091]

what a great conversation. love to you 💖

[@FanMail-fk1fw]

Brilliant 🤗

[@nikkivn4219]

Love her !

[@willrichardson519]

Semitic and human solidarity!

[@raquelr8775]

Lol 😂 I just here and I am laughing!

[@raquelr8775]

got here*

[@ebinstructor]

Thank you for this🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@elsaanderson1176]

Awesome, glad I found you guys! To me it's an interesting concept - "we need more leaders" - maybe it's a cultural thing? Leaders as a concept feels very US, even if we broaden it's meaning to include everyone. I get what you're saying though and I think we're on about the same thing but from different aspects, when I talk about solidarity. We need more solidarity and that also means that anyone can, and thus should, step up when needed, after ability...I think that's what you US people are saying right, we need more leaders? Amanda: *About committing to your own course* "Do you feel liberated by that?" Sammy: "100%" Amanda: "Tell me more." Sammy: "1000%" That cracked me up! I don't think that maths joke was intentional, but if it was - smoothest ever. If it wasn't, subconscious math jokes feels very next level! And, btw, Darth Vader flipped sides. Kinda big deal, duh..? Actually, twice if you think about it. Han Solo sort of flips sides as well, from not taking sides - just trying to keep a low profile in the world as it is - to doing so, to the only side possible to agree with. I'd say that switch is very symbolic for what's needed to rebel status quo, power status such. (And STAR WARS should be seen as a reflection of the whole liberation era, not only the Vietnam part even if that's important.)

[@classictalkies]

This was great. Looking forward to next time.😊

[@abhinanda577]

Subcribed from one of the madeup countries on Earth the so called hungary... may your work prevail! Respect and Hugs!

[@SJDC9911]

This was great. Teach us more yiddish 😊

[@owlspottedwingii]

Great conversation.

[@naomisolomon3979]

OMG turn the Harriet Tubman piece into a KZbin short. Please OMG it's gold.

[@maryjane2965]

Yessss Amanda❤

[@semprebella13]

Listening to Amanda Seales is just fucking thrilling! A powerfully intelligent and very funny woman is the best! (And she has such a pretty smile. )

[@CJ-xl3dh]

4:12 BTW ;the people of the island of Gozo in Malta also spesk:understand Aramaic. Gozo language is a little different from mainland Malta

[@miyeon8945]

Love this ❤

[@berniedurnheim]

Sooooo gooooood! Thank you!

[@CristinaAmazon]

“Once you go through those doors, you an op.”✊🏼

[@ororoji]

53:24 “Schande” and “Mensch” are both words of the German language. Yiddish is what Jews living in German-speaking areas adopted in the Middle Ages and then took with them as they migrated to Eastern Europe. Later Slavic and other Hebrew words were added to the Yiddish common language 🤓💡

[@mattjohn4731]

Great interview 🇵🇸 Do u think Goldthwait is a mensch? I do but I heard some dark stuff here and there. But I'm very sold on you, Sammy and Amanda 😅

[@archaeomom]

Mazel Tov to you both 🙏

[@mymiphone1841]

Love Amanda ❤

[@sadaspahich6612]

# Free, Free Palestine 🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸

[@andreaus.]

1:03:47….I... Am….SSOOBBIINNNGGG!!!!! 😫🤦🏾‍♂️🙌🏾😆👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😂

[@camilaperez9030]

Loved it!

[@Sam-l5c5r]

Wow this was so much fun to listen to 😂

[@jayjones1004]

WE HAVE TO PROTECT AMANDA SEALES at ALL COST ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@yrahmed]

14:16 😂😂😂 deep cuts

[@lovelyday6500]

Hamitic language family is a family of Afro Asiatic languages which include Libyo-Chadic, Egyptic-Semitic, Cushitic and lastly Omotic . These group of languages originate and are spoken in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, West Asia and Malta.

[@SaudiaYoung]

So good!!!!!

[@lindalincoln1652]

yay! this will be an excellent show.......when they get their honey game in order (o:

[@ameg2707]

😂❤ Free Palestine ❤🫡

[@sosiesosie9162]

🎉Recognizing Semitic Ethiopians @3:20 Amharic of Ethiopia is the second most spoken Semitic language in the world. There are 13 Semitic languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea, ~50 million people

[@nicolemojan]

“WE ARE VOLDEMORT” 😅

[@ZoeyNevermore]

Best Pals in America

[@cherylrleigh1912]

Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics. First used in the 1770s by members of the Göttingen school of history, this biblical terminology for race was derived from Shem (Hebrew: שֵׁם), one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis, together with the parallel terms Hamites and Japhetites. In archaeology, the term is sometimes used informally as "a kind of shorthand" for ancient Semitic-speaking peoples. Source Wikipedia

[@nezarrashed361]

Wow, I’ve been wanting for that

[@610MARYAM]

i like how ur sitting nice style x

[@torialaez4164]

Loved this show❤ What started opening my eyes was the promise in 2011. It was a mini series it started my thinking.

[@willrichardson519]

The start was 1982 when Israel allowed/encouraged christian Lebanese militia to massacre Palestinian refugees. I realised that wasn't so great/er. It took me til 2010 to grow out of my moderately conservative fundamentalist christian upbringing and false economics & political science. I went to the LSofE&Political science 1985/8.

[@Jorod81]

I actually learned about the real Semitic people from Jimmy Dore. So when this clip hit my shorts immediately tuned in

[@maryjane2965]

Guys why is the food so far from Amanda😂How do you offer your guest food only for them to look at.

[@rebellerevelle]

Sammy admitted in his live show that he's a snack hoarder. Like the Zionist propagandists say, it's in their DNA. He joked about it to mock the racist hasbara used to gaslight everyone to deny the intentional starvation of Gaza.

[@Azizelle]

😂

[@milissaleatherwood6837]

My best friend is from Gaza. He gave me a kaffiyeh that he got while he still lived there. It's one of my most treasured possessions. I live in the Olympia, Washington area, which is pretty pro-pali and has been since 2003 at least (when Rachel Corrie was killed). I went south awhile back to get food from this drive in place I love and I stopped to get gas and didn't even think about how people might react. I got in a huge argument with this guy in a gas station parking lot. Washington State, the only place where a 20 minute drive can transport you back in time. Lewis county people are nuts for real.

[@AnonymousSynonymous]

Update: I just started to watch this when I left the comment. Later on, he’s mentioned. Pure coincidence! Read up on German philosopher Nietzsche and his not-well-known condemnations of anti-Semites of his time, including longtime friend, the famous composer Wagner, and Nietzsche’s retracting of their friendship in favor of mocking him in his extensive work. The father of postmodern philosophy, he condemned his sister’s husband, who was an anti-semite Prussian officer. Wagner was a popular classical German composer revered by the nazis 75 years later as a symbol of German nationalist pride. In the 1890s, Nietzsche’s syphilis overtook him until he died in 1900. His work was very scattered and disorganized, as he was working on his latest work when died. He had no wife or benefactor that would inherit his writings except his sister, the wife of the anti-Semite officer, whom Nietzsche disdained. Anti-Semitism was gaining traction in the mid-late 1800s as a popular fashion amongst the elites. It had already existed, as Sammy said, but it was around this time that it became exclusionary to anti-Judaism, due partly to the mistrust of them smongst the German public in regards to their political hegemony over the banks, etc. Later, his sister was the one who ironically inherited and published his writings. But she purposefully cherry-picked his work to validate her anti-semitism, as Nietzsche was a prolific a d prophetic visionary genius, and his sister was ignorant of his philosophy. So the story goes, Hitler admired Nietzsche’s work due to his sheer ignorance of the genius of Nietzsche. For a long time, critics accused Nietzsche posthumously of being anti-Semitic, and so an incorrect rumor went that he was an early proponent of nazism. But it was because he was such a genius that scholars still debate about his labyrinthine ideas and creative work. Due to the depth and breadth of his genius, few people can penetrate the obscurity of his work. And because his sister purposefully published his last work posthumously, it’s often hard to make sense of it because of the incoherency of the way she selected his ideas led to lots of confusion later on. He was ironically conflated with nazis and anti-Semitism, when in fact, he was a very progressive heavyweight, as well as also being a vegetarian and early feminist (in 19th century Europe)!

[@AskiPandora]

I was today's years old when I fell even deeper into why this is so visceral for her... but it makes sense to me either way

[@syckindahead]

Shonda!! Got it!

[@sagalabdirahman9809]

Amanda be knowing 😊

[@xh7_gtL]

What a show ❤

[@sharayahhanson3768]

“I love Kendrick and I tolerate drake” LMFAO

[@sixtyblackmystictraveler]

59:02 YESSSSS!!!

[@AudreyWaple]

Yesss!❤

[@adeelahaffejee7136]

Loved the episode. I am a big Amanda fan, however felt like she was attacking everything Sammy said and thats why he was quiet for so much of this episode. I would have loved to hear more from him, especially since he is a Palestinian and also very smart. He has 2 degrees! She kept saying how smart she is but then made a mistake when Josh asked her a question and called him Sammy. Also there were times Josh asked both of them questions and Amanda didnt even let Sammy answer eg: about the Keffiyyah. As a Palestinian, I am sure he would have given us a proper answer.

[@Jimin-xl5fd]

You are not a "Palestinian" sweety, you are Arab 😂

[@Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration]

No Taxation, Without Representation ANY OUTSIDE INFLUENCE, INFRINGES ON, YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION!!! Our elected officials, Tax Americans when you earn it, when you spend it, when you own it, when you die, over and over. But those same officials, give their decision making Allegiance to REPRESENT, Special Interest Lobbies, when those Lobbies influence the Representatives, with resources, that the Lobbies often acquired using our Tax Dollars, given to the beneficiaries of the Lobby at OUR EXPENSE! WE ARE TAXED, WHILE LOBBIES ARE REPRESENTED!!! Our Constitutional Right of Representation, is STOLEN, while LOBBY Groups are REPRESENTED, and WE are SILENCED! THIS VIOLATES the APPORTIONMENT CLAUSE of the United States Constitution! And until WE THE PEOPLE Wake UP, and DEMAND OUR REPRESENTATION, we will continue to have Legislators, making Laws and Rules, that FAVOR the Desires of the LOBBY and IGNORE the Desires of YOU! ANY candidate, in ANY Party, that accepts Any LOBBY Resources, NO LONGER REPRESENTS YOU! They may say what you want to hear, but they will always REPRESENT their LOBBY Influencers. Until we DEMAND OUR REPRESENTATION, We will Continue to be Frustrated with BAD Decisions, that HARM Americans, and FAVOR LOBBIES! It is up to the American Voters, to UNITE and DEMAND NO MORE LOBBY FUNDS to OUR REPRESENTATIVES! It is up to the American Voters, to STOP UNITING around Parties that are Influenced by and have ALLEGIANCE to Their LOBBY INFLUENCERS, instead of pledging their Allegiance ONLY to their Constituents! ANY INFLUENCE, by ANY NON-CONSTITUENT, INFRINGES and VIOLATES the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT of REPRESENTATION, created by the APPORTIONMENT CLAUSE of the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, which establishes a HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES to REPRESENT the CONSTITUENTS of their APPORTIONED REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT! If they REPRESENT ANY OTHER ENTITY that is not a Constituent of the Apportioned District it INFRINGES upon the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT of the CONSTITUENTS of that Apportioned District. And ANY NON CONSTITUENT INFLUENCE, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, VIOLATES and INFRINGES UPON that CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ESTABLISHED to create a House of Representatives to give a voice to the Constituents in the Legislative Process! This was the ENTIRE PURPOSE of creating and establishing the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES! If they accept ANY DONATIONS, from ANY SOURCE, that is Not a Voter, in their Representative District, WE the PEOPLE must VOTE them Out, and Elect ANYONE who pledges to not accept Any Resources, Any Donations, Any Trips, or Any other type of Influence! BECAUSE, ANY OUTSIDE INFLUENCE, INFRINGES ON, YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION!!! NOW IT IS UP TO YOU! (please share these ideas everywhere)