Mo Amir

They give me like this, just, you know, when you're getting squeezed by a kid that's like lost their mom and dad and they're like missing a limb, you're like, ah, I don't know.

You're like, I quit.

You know what I mean?

Like this is nothing else matters.

Like, of course I have to, you know, um,

amplify this.

There's no other way.

And again, this is part of the beauty of stand-up and making television.

And I was in a unique situation where I had a TV show where it's a Palestinian family that's living in Houston and that you get to tell this type of story and the stand-up of it all, it's what makes the art fun or interesting or challenging is that you're able to walk this tightrope

Well, it hasn't before.

So it's been going on for 80 plus years.

So I'm, of course, I'm always hopeful.

I never lose hope.

But, you know, you could tell people's intentions are not, haven't been right for a very long time.

This has not just happened after October 7th.

This is super annoying that it just keeps, this is like the thing where people look at where it's,

You could say 100 years.

It's been over 100 years.

I mean, since World War I, since they were fleeing there as refugees to come to Palestine and they were taken in, colonization, and I don't want to have a history lesson here on the show, but it's been going on for quite some time.

And Palestinians have been under a pretty brutal occupation in the West Bank and living in apartheid.