People will focus on the parts of the podcast with the crying, Ethan's absurd apology, and Hasan playing defense for outrageous media clips, but I would like to bring attention to a couple of bits from the podcast's first half that I found to be particularly amusing when Hasan is caught off guard by plain statements of fact from Ethan.
First, at roughly 38min in, Ethan points out that Arab neighbors have been trying to destroy Israel since the moment of its inception:
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As Hasan says, the Nakba refers to the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948. It literally translates from Arabic to "Disaster/Catastrophe". Israel's establishment was in accordance with the 1947 UN proposal that would've also established a neighboring Arab state (presumably to be called Palestine) if it weren't for the Arabs' rejection. Before then, everything was under rule of the British Mandate and then the Ottoman Empire before that.
The text of the Israeli Declaration actually implores Arabs to stay, coinciding with Israel's current 20% Arab population, but back then there was a mass migration of Arabs out of newly-founded Israeli territory anyway, largely to get out of the way of Arab neighbors coming in to kill all the Jews in the Arab-Israeli War, declared on the same day as Israel's statehood.
Second, at roughly 1hr36min in, Ethan says there's not just Israelis and Americans who are genocidal, but also Palestinians too:
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The back-and-forth in these nine minutes is pretty much what the whole first two hours is like.