FOR THE LOVE OF GOD: If the Founder or CEO gets invited to do a podcast ... DONT MAKE IT A 45 MINUTE AD. I don’t get why people do this. The whole medium is about opening up, being real, having some banter, sharing stories. And they keep bringing it back to their software, their product, their new book. This is the opposite of good marketing. Be great. Be useful. Be funny. Be interesting. That’s the best marketing. And you won’t need to pitch the product the whole time. But some Founders and CEOs just only know how to be in robot PR team mode. Please use your brain. If *you* listened to this podcast, would you find value in it? No you'd skip through it, rolling your eyes at another on-script CEO just parroting a bunch of talking points. And the worst part, most of these people are not Fortune 500 CEOs. So there's not some huge risk of saying the wrong thing, upsetting Wall Street etc. I've had this happen before as a podcast host. Plenty of times over the last 10 years. Sponsor company wants to have their CEO on. Random PR pitch wants to have the Founder or key executive of this AI company on to talk about AI trends. And it's always the same thing: boring, no substance, and a thinly veiled pitch for their company. They never have any energy, never ask any questions back, just ends up being another piece of corporate marketing slop. Like when the CEO of Farmers Insurance gets to speak for 5 minutes on a PGA Tour broadcast (but you're not the CEO of Farmers Insurance). Marketing 101, do not do that! Be likable. Go off script. Use this as an opportunity to build trust, get people to know you, and think "hey, that founder was actually awesome, I gotta go look up their company." But instead we are always so short term focused. Thinking a podcast appearance will somehow lead to 6 new MQLs this quarter. This is another reason I am GLAD AI is eating the funnel in marketing and creating a sea of sameness. The only way to win moving forward is going to be to LET GO of control of your brand.

This post is for those who care about truth. If you don’t care about truth, keep scrolling. These people aren’t anti-Israel because they see a genocide. They see a genocide because they’re anti-Israel. If you still believe the lies about Israel, there are only two options. 1- You were duped and you don’t know it. 2- You know the truth but refuse to let it get in the way of your Jew hate. The lies about Israel and the Jewish people are getting more absurd by the day. The Jews run the world? Really? Is that why the Jews are on the receiving end of more hate than any other minority? Is that why the media is openly and blatantly obsessed with Israel and its vilification? Is that why literally every top podcaster constantly spreads antisemitic rhetoric? Is that why half of Congress hates Israel? Is that why Jews are being harassed and beaten daily on the streets of Western countries? Because the Jews are just so powerful? (By the way, if 15 million people can control your life, well, what does that say about you?) Israel is committing genocide? Really? Is that why the population of Gaza has shown consistent growth? Is that why Israel drops pamphlets and sends text messages to warn civilians to evacuate a location before Israel attacks? If Israel wanted to commit genocide, Gaza would have been erased on October 8th, 2023. Israel is starving Gaza? Is that why Israel has sent in millions of tons of aid, which is clearly shown in thousands of photos of obese Gazans pretending to be starving? Go look at photos of Jews in the Holocaust or Israeli hostages upon release if you want to know what starvation looks like. Israel is an apartheid state? Really? Is that why there are two million Arabs living freely in Israel and literal anti-Israel Muslims in Israel’s parliament? Is that why Arabs can be found in every part of Israeli society from entertainment to sports to the judicial system to politics. Israel is a colonizer? Really? Is that why Israel is the size of New Jersey in a sea of Arab and Muslim countries? Is that why Israel has given land including Gaza and offered much more land for peace, a gesture that was always rejected? Because it wants to expand? Israel wants to annihilate its enemies and does not want peace? Really? Is that why Israel accepted The Partition Plan, which gave the Arabs a state alongside Israel from day one, a plan that was rejected outright by the Arabs? Is that why Israel evacuated 10,000 of its civilians and gave Gaza to the Arabs, which they then used to create a terror base run by Hamas? Israel kills Arabs indiscriminately? Really? Is that why people claim Israel dropped 200,000 tons of explosives on Gaza, which, according to them, killed 70,000 people? How do 200,000 tons of bombs not kill millions? How do they not erase Gaza? Unless those are precision bombs meant to minimize civilian death? Israel is an ethno-state and Zionism is racism? Really? Is that true about the 57 Muslim states too? How about the Christian countries? Also racist or only the Jewish state that was established after the Jews were butchered by the millions? America should stop sending aid to Israel? American taxpayers don’t need to pay so much money to Israel? Really? US aid to Israel, $3.8 billion, accounts for 0.054% of America’s federal budget, $7 trillion. And 86% of US aid to Israel has to be spent in America. Now go research how much Israel gives America for that microscopic and insignificant percentage of its foreign aid or read what the US ambassador has to say about this topic. I’ll save you the effort. He says the US is on the receiving end of the US/Israel relationship. Israel is lying about 10/7? Really? Is Hamas also lying about it? Are thousands of Gazans also lying about it? Because they proudly declare that it was their best day and that they’d do it over and over. Israel is killing Christians? Really? Can you name one? A single name of a Christian targeted by Israel? One? “Settlers” in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank) are terrorists and are no different than radical Islamists? Really? Please give me a list of 20 names of jewish terrorists and their victims? While you’re at it, find me a single Israeli official who condones violence against Arabs in Judea and Samaria. I’ll wait. There is no such thing as Jewish terror. Sure, there are some teenagers who commit crimes and are condemned by literally every Israeli. Comparing that to hundreds of millions of Islamists who commit terror and are barely condemned by any Muslims is just dishonest. Here’s the real truth. Every single accusation against Israel is an admission of guilt. Literally, take any one of the above allegations and you’ll see how the one guilty of it is Israel’s enemies. Genocide? 10/7 was (attempted) genocide. Apartheid? Jews aren’t allowed to go into any Arab town or city without being lynched. That’s apartheid. Starvation? That’s what Gazans did to Israeli hostages. The pictures are available if you’re interested. Colonialism? Go look at a map of the Middle East and you’ll see who the real colonialists are. See below. It’s not that complicated. Ethnic cleansing? Go look at how many Jews lived in Muslim countries and how many live there now. That’s ethnic cleansing. Literally, take any accusation against Israel and you’ll see that it’s an admission of guilt. The truth is there has never been a more moral army than the IDF and a more legitimate state than the state of Israel. You’re welcome to disagree but then you’d be wrong. Go ahead, try to disprove anything I said. Or give me any other accusation against Israel and/or the Jews and I’ll debunk it in less than 10 seconds. If you want to know the real truth about Israel and the Jewish people, it’s pretty simple. Take what the media says about Israel and the exact opposite is the truth. You’re welcome. Questions?

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