HeyJaredREEL TALK with Daizy Gedeon
Introducing the relaunch of a touching and uplifting, human interest series called REEL TALK. Brought to you by award-winning, independent journalist and filmmaker, Daizy Gedeon, who dives deep into REAL STORIES with REAL PEOPLE from Lebanon and across the world, and provides…
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S4 | E14 - DOES NAZI GERMANY HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST? (opens the original)
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A surgeon stood outside the US Embassy in London and called Israel a “genocidal settler colonial entity.” Within days, he was suspended by his hospital and arrested at his home. I sit down with Dr. Ranjeet Brar, consultant vascular and endovascular surgeon at King’s College Hospital, to discuss the speech that triggered the fallout, his fight over free speech, and his legal challenges to the NHS’s use of the IHRA definition of antisemitism. We also discuss his account of what happened to a colle
S4 | E13 - TOP U.S. ANALYST: "ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MISTAKES" (opens the original)
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IS AMERICA LOSING CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST? In this episode of Real Talk with Daizy Gedeon, Daizy sits down with Dr. Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and African Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The End of Ambition, for a candid conversation about the U.S.-Israel war with Iran and its wider consequences. Dr. Cook argues that what began as an attempt to eliminate a strategic threat could instead leave the United States facing a deeper regional crisis — from th
S4 | E12 - The Jewish American Israel Banned for Life (opens the original)
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Can a Jewish American find more brotherhood in Beirut than back home? In this episode of Real Talk, I sit down with Jacob Berger, Jewish-American content creator, humanitarian, and outspoken anti-Zionist voice, to unpack his second trip to Lebanon — from paragliding over Beirut to preparing to cross the "yellow line" into South Lebanon. Jacob has spent the past week travelling a country he was once warned never to visit, using comedy, satire, and raw honesty to challenge the narratives he grew u
S4 | E11 - FERGIE CHAMBERS FED 500 FAMILIES IN GAZA (opens the original)
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In this episode of Real Talk, Daizy Gedeon speaks with Ammar Al-Kahwaji, the 19-year-old founder of the Sumud Project, joining us from Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Ammar has been displaced eight times since October 7. His home, school and community in Bani Suheila were destroyed, and he now lives with his family in Al-Mawasi. Yet amid unimaginable circumstances, he has continued working to help families across Gaza. Since launching the Sumud Project in May 2025, Ammar says he has completed 49 h
S4 | E10 - NETANYAHU NEEDS THE WAR. TRUMP NEEDS IT OVER. (opens the original)
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In this episode of Real Talk, Daizy Gedeon sits down with Rami Khouri, Palestinian-American journalist, political commentator, and Senior Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, to examine the starkly opposing domestic and strategic pressures driving Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, and regional leadership today. Within a single nine-day window, two diametrically opposed political realities collided: while Benjamin Netanyahu depends on sustaining conflict for his political su
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