Speaker 1: This is the most traumatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Shaloam everybody. Chris Harrison coming to you from the home
Speaker 1: office in Austin, Texas. I say shalom because today we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about one of my favorite shows that
Speaker 1: I just binge watched and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: you are as well. It's Nobody wants this on Netflix.
Speaker 1: It came out back in September, and I think it's
Speaker 1: really picking up more and more steam. It's with Kristin Bell,
Speaker 1: Adam Brody, Justin Lupe and Timothy Simons, who is so
Speaker 1: good as Sasha. He was great and deep as well,
Speaker 1: but he's I mean, this guy just crushes it. But
Speaker 1: Kristen Bell Adam Brody and the premise of this is,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll just give you the thirty thousand ft
Speaker 1: level if you haven't watched it. Adam Brody as a young, cool, hip,
Speaker 1: good looking rabbi, Kristen Bell is agnostic, and the two
Speaker 1: fall in love and then you know, mayhem ensues. But
Speaker 1: his caused and created so many great conversations in and
Speaker 1: out of the Jewish faith. Little known kind of backstory
Speaker 1: with me is that so my mom is Jewish and
Speaker 1: so I also grew up kind of in and out
Speaker 1: of the Jewish faith. I am a Christian and I
Speaker 1: was baptized with my son. But I also celebrate and
Speaker 1: celebrated my entire life the Jewish traditions, Passover and Hanikah,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And and that means a lot to me
Speaker 1: as well, and that that side of my family and
Speaker 1: that side of myself is very important, and it's I
Speaker 1: don't I was wondering if it struck maybe more of
Speaker 1: a chord with me, because you know, I was watching
Speaker 1: my Jewish cousin's date and in and out of the temple,
Speaker 1: and then I was not in the temple, but I
Speaker 1: was dating and would you know, be with people in
Speaker 1: the Jewish faith, And it was just really interesting to
Speaker 1: have these conversations and to now see it all play
Speaker 1: out and nobody wants this. I just thought, this is funny,
Speaker 1: it's fascinating, and I thought, who could we bring on
Speaker 1: to talk about this? So you know what we did.
Speaker 1: We found two really cool rabbis from different parts of
Speaker 1: the country. But lo and behold, they actually knew each other.
Speaker 1: There's Rabbi Joshua Bennett, who is at Temple Israel in
Speaker 1: Michigan and he actually had this well, I, you know,
Speaker 1: I would say she didn't study under him, but attended
Speaker 1: temple with Rabbi Joshua's Rabbi Leah Sternberg. And Rabbi Sternberg
Speaker 1: was raised in Michigan, so that's where she went. But
Speaker 1: she then studied and worked in California in Colorado. And
Speaker 1: Leah is an assistant rabbi at Temple Bane in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: And they are young in hip and cool themselves. But
Speaker 1: I just wanted to have them. Have them on today.
Speaker 1: Let's let's lighten the load a little bit and talk
Speaker 1: about not only a great show, but how real is it?
Speaker 1: What's missing? What hit home to these rabbis about their
Speaker 1: own faith and about people dating outside of their religion.
Speaker 1: So we dive in today on the Most Dramatic Podcast
Speaker 1: with Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Josh. Rabbi Josh, Rabbi Leah
Speaker 1: joining me now, Leah, I think you're in New Jersey, Josh,
Speaker 1: You're still in Michigan, right, correct?
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1: Guys for joining me. This is look, why have one
Speaker 1: rabbi on when we can have both?
Speaker 3: I love that and happy to be here very happy
Speaker 3: to be here as well.
Speaker 1: Little backstory here, Rabbi Leah, I know you're in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: but you studied under Rabbi Josh. Is that correct?
Speaker 4: I actually grew up and was my teenage years at
Speaker 4: Temple were with the Rabbi Josh and so you could
Speaker 4: say studied, but really grew up there.
Speaker 1: And that's I love that. What a great story. But
Speaker 1: I also like too because of the topic we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about with Nobody Wants This, this show that
Speaker 1: I quickly became addicted to like many others. And maybe
Speaker 1: it's because you know, my my mom's side of the
Speaker 1: family is Jewish, so I grew up with this feeling
Speaker 1: in this this idea that you know, Jewish, the Jewish,
Speaker 1: you know, congregation would like only seek out to marry
Speaker 1: and date Jewish people. I went through this when I
Speaker 1: was in high school. I remember I was dating a girl,
Speaker 1: Julie shout out to you, but I remember her mom saying,
Speaker 1: I know you're only half Jewish, honey, but that's good enough.
Speaker 1: That's close. And and that really typifies what we were
Speaker 1: to dive what we're diving into today with the show
Speaker 1: Nobody Wants This, and hopefully you guys have seen this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've talked about this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I binge watched it, I think in two nights
Speaker 5: with my wife. So if I loved every minute.
Speaker 1: It is, it's because look, it's very safe. It's a
Speaker 1: very safe, simple watch. As people say with books, it's
Speaker 1: a simple read. This is a very simple watch. Leah.
Speaker 4: Yes, I also watched it very quickly, and I have
Speaker 4: I'm currently on maternity leave, so I have plenty of
Speaker 4: time to sit and binge watch, and so I also
Speaker 4: went through this one very fast and quickly became obsessed
Speaker 4: with it as well.
Speaker 1: Well. First of all, Mazeltov. Second of all, the you know,
Speaker 1: it was interesting because I remember sitting with my cousin,
Speaker 1: my Jewish cousin one day, and she was trying to
Speaker 1: date and telling me, you know how hard it is.
Speaker 1: I grew up in Dallas, So Dallas as a beautiful
Speaker 1: Jewish community, but as many communities, it's small, it's tight knit,
Speaker 1: and you know, everybody knows everybody, and so she's like,
Speaker 1: it's very hard to date, you know, within the community
Speaker 1: because everybody knows everyone. You know, we are fourth generation Dallas.
Speaker 1: Our grandparents are very high up in the temple and
Speaker 1: wonderful people, and so we just everybody knew them, right,
Speaker 1: And as you see this many times in a Jewish community,
Speaker 1: it gets very difficult and she's like, I only want
Speaker 1: to date someone who is of the Jewish faith. Where
Speaker 1: do we stand on this now? In modern times? Modern dating?
Speaker 1: Is this still the way? Is it still? Do you
Speaker 1: see this with the folks that attend your temples? Josh,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you in Michigan.
Speaker 5: First of all, I think it's important for us to
Speaker 5: recognize that the Jewish community is not monolithic. So there
Speaker 5: are different versions of the answer to this question. If
Speaker 5: you were to ask somebody in the orthodox world, the
Speaker 5: more traditional world, they would say, we only marry within
Speaker 5: because it's.
Speaker 2: Proliferating the provision and the community.
Speaker 5: But then you know, you move to the more liberal
Speaker 5: side of Judaism and the rules are shifted a little bit.
Speaker 5: So one of the big differences in our movement, the
Speaker 5: reform movement, is that we accept naturally anal descent or
Speaker 5: patrol and ial descent. So if one of the partners
Speaker 5: in the relationship is Jewish, then the kids are Jewish
Speaker 5: according to our traditions. So we see a lot more
Speaker 5: inter faith marriages. Personally, I would say about fifty percent
Speaker 5: of the people I marry are marrying somebody who's not Jewish,
Speaker 5: But I always ask them to think of whether their
Speaker 5: partner is Jewish adjacent, are they Jewish friendly?
Speaker 2: Are they Jewish connected?
Speaker 5: And in those cases they tend to be supporters of
Speaker 5: this idea of marrying somebody for another faith.
Speaker 1: Lee, Are you finding that as well? And I know
Speaker 1: you spent time in California in Colorado as well, you
Speaker 1: know you think of those typical kind of liberal areas.
Speaker 1: Are you finding that?
Speaker 4: I agree, I second everything that Rabbi Josh said. There's
Speaker 4: much more, especially in the more liberal Jewish streams, willingness
Speaker 4: to not just accept in our faith coupled in our
Speaker 4: faith marriages, but to do so in a way that's
Speaker 4: really welcome, not just accepting, but embracing of. And I
Speaker 4: would agree easily half the couples that I interact with
Speaker 4: that are looking for someone to officiate their wedding, our
Speaker 4: inner faith couples and not just inner faith couples that
Speaker 4: are looking to be married in a Jewish setting by
Speaker 4: a rabbi, but as so far as for a rabbi
Speaker 4: to co officiate at times with a non Jewish clergy member.
Speaker 4: And that's even the next step. And so that's a
Speaker 4: big conversation of what does it look like to not
Speaker 4: just have a Jewish home, but for truly an inter
Speaker 4: faith home. And that becomes a little bit more controversial
Speaker 4: and a little bit more talked about. But I'm absolutely
Speaker 4: seeing it more and more.
Speaker 1: That's good. It's you know, as I say told my cousin,
Speaker 1: you know, I said, look, and my grandparents, as devout
Speaker 1: as they were in Judaism, they were so welcoming of
Speaker 1: everyone in our house. And as my grandmother would say,
Speaker 1: love it spoken here. So if you know, if you're
Speaker 1: a good citizen, a good person like you're, you're welcome here.
Speaker 1: And they would visit with you know, nuns and priests
Speaker 1: and and they they really had an open mind, which
Speaker 1: was pretty amazing considering, you know, the fifties and sixties
Speaker 1: and seventies when they were you know, so high in
Speaker 1: the temple. This show, what's interesting with the show is
Speaker 1: that it's a little different. We take it to another
Speaker 1: another level, which is the rabbi himself. First of all,
Speaker 1: have we seen a rabbi this hip and cool? Do
Speaker 1: we do we run across this at all at Temple
Speaker 1: as Adam Brody. Maybe not as handsome as Adam Brody,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: I mean, of course, Leah and I we're we're those
Speaker 5: cool rabbis.
Speaker 2: That's what Josh.
Speaker 1: You are stunningly handsome in your own kind of Marlborough
Speaker 1: man kind of way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, this is the joy of the show
Speaker 5: is that he's, as they call.
Speaker 2: Him, the hot rabbi.
Speaker 5: And I mean, I'll tell you a story from when
Speaker 5: I first came to Temple.
Speaker 2: It was my very first high Holidays.
Speaker 5: I walked into the sanctuary wearing my robes, went up
Speaker 5: onto the beama, onto the podium. My wife was walking
Speaker 5: in behind, and there was a mom who said to
Speaker 5: her daughter, Oh, look the rabbi.
Speaker 2: He's hot.
Speaker 5: And then the daughter turned to her and said, oh,
Speaker 5: he's the rabbi mom.
Speaker 2: Leah.
Speaker 1: What do you think about how they have portrayed Adam
Speaker 1: Brody as this young, hip, cool rabbi.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 4: I think that it's not just the hot rabbi. I
Speaker 4: think they're portraying him as a relatable rabbi. I think
Speaker 4: that there's the misconception that rabbis look or talk or
Speaker 4: act a certain way. But as somebody who got ordained
Speaker 4: from rabbinical school and started working as a rabbi, I
Speaker 4: was twenty seven right when I started, there's something about
Speaker 4: being a relatable rabbi that felt really important to me,
Speaker 4: and that it's very clear that Adam Brodie's character is
Speaker 4: also portraying, whether intentionally or not, right, we don't know
Speaker 4: what he's actually thinking about it, but there's something It's
Speaker 4: not just the hot rabbi, but it's the relatable rabbi
Speaker 4: and the what we'll call as people describe as the
Speaker 4: normal rabbi, right, that they're a person in addition to
Speaker 4: a rabbi, and that that's something that he's showing.
Speaker 1: So clearly, I'd be interested to know enough to, you know, someday,
Speaker 1: would love to talk to the writer, the creator of
Speaker 1: the show because as someone who did grew up around
Speaker 1: the temple shout out to Temple Shalom in Dallas, as
Speaker 1: someone who did I as a child, I remember the
Speaker 1: prototypical stereotypical rabbi elder, you know, the the slow speaking
Speaker 1: Hebrew and the low, you know, base voice. But I'd
Speaker 1: be interesting to know if that was intentional because there
Speaker 1: is a movement. I've seen that in at Temple Shalom
Speaker 1: as well, where there's a young female rabbi and things
Speaker 1: are I hate to use the word hip, but maybe
Speaker 1: modern and revised and Leah, I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: seen that elsewhere in the country, but it seems like
Speaker 1: there is that movement which is wonderful to see, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's what they were actually trying to capture in
Speaker 1: this show.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
Speaker 4: I think about to be honest with my own friends,
Speaker 4: my friends from rabbinical school, that are if we're out
Speaker 4: and not right at work or at some professional obligation,
Speaker 4: that you wouldn't know we were a group of rabbis, right.
Speaker 4: Like one of my favorites is, you know what it
Speaker 4: means for the rabbi in the show to go to
Speaker 4: a bar on Friday night after services, And I have
Speaker 4: certainly gone to a bar on Friday night after services,
Speaker 4: and that feels like a very normal thing for me.
Speaker 4: Right that sometimes Friday night means working a Shabbot service
Speaker 4: and then going to a shabat dinner, but sometimes it
Speaker 4: means working a Shabad service and then going out with
Speaker 4: my friends after and either of those are very normal
Speaker 4: Friday nights for me.
Speaker 1: Wait, you're human.
Speaker 3: It's right, It's.
Speaker 4: It's about being a human, a young human, and a
Speaker 4: young human living in a vibrant city with a nightlife
Speaker 4: and with a social life. And what that looks like
Speaker 4: is something that felt made his character feel so relatable
Speaker 4: to me and like a humanizing aspect of the Rabbinant.
Speaker 1: And Josh we mentioned about, you know, kind of the
Speaker 1: modern take. You know, depending on again on what temple
Speaker 1: you go to and your particular proclivities and what you think.
Speaker 1: But more and more you're seeing people date outside their religion.
Speaker 1: But what about a rabbi. What if one of you
Speaker 1: were interested in a you know, she's agnostic in the
Speaker 1: in the show, but say Catholic, could be Episcopal, could
Speaker 1: be anything. How would that be looked upon at temple.
Speaker 5: It's such a complex question because it obviously depends on
Speaker 5: the circumstance.
Speaker 2: I think it happens.
Speaker 5: There are rabbis out there, single rabbis who are dating,
Speaker 5: and maybe some of them are finding love with somebody
Speaker 5: who's outside of the faith. The question is actually both
Speaker 5: how the congregational would respond, which I think is always
Speaker 5: going to be bad at first.
Speaker 2: Right, it's going to be controversial, it's.
Speaker 5: Going to be a scandal, and then how does the
Speaker 5: rabbi deal with it? How does the rabbi bring that
Speaker 5: person into the community. And quite frankly, it's hard to
Speaker 5: imagine somebody wanting to date the rabbi that wouldn't be
Speaker 5: at least interested in learning more about the faith.
Speaker 2: And that to me is ultimately the answer.
Speaker 5: If the rabbi is going to bring someone from outside
Speaker 5: of the faith into Jewish tradition and into the congregational
Speaker 5: life and they want to deal with us as the rabbi, welcome, I'm.
Speaker 2: Glad they're there.
Speaker 1: And Leah, one thing that is very real that also
Speaker 1: they hit this note well, is the coconut telegraph at Temple.
Speaker 1: The Jewish community. Word gets out and gets around.
Speaker 4: Quickly, So I would add to that first of course,
Speaker 4: gets around quickly. And there's no hiding when you're dating.
Speaker 4: Somebody knew at the beginning of when I started working
Speaker 4: at my current synagogue, I wasn't in a relationship.
Speaker 3: I was dating.
Speaker 4: And it's very real that when you tell somebody you
Speaker 4: are a rabbi and you're dating. And I was living
Speaker 4: in New Jersey, but just adjacent to New York City.
Speaker 4: I was living just across the river, so I was
Speaker 4: dating in New York and in the New York area.
Speaker 4: When you tell somebody you are a rabbi, whether they're
Speaker 4: Jewish or not, that immediately either draws them in or
Speaker 4: it pushes them away, and you don't have to get
Speaker 4: further past what do you do for work?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm a rabbi.
Speaker 4: It weeds people out that have no interest in dating
Speaker 4: a rabbi, and so.
Speaker 3: Is it a I would agree with Rabbi Josh.
Speaker 4: When he says that somebody has to want to date
Speaker 4: a rabbi, or be at least be willing to engage
Speaker 4: in the Jewish faith if they're willing to say yes
Speaker 4: to a second, third, fourth date with somebody who's a rabbi.
Speaker 4: I would also say that no matter who the person is,
Speaker 4: that again, people talk. The synagogue talks. The first time
Speaker 4: you bring them to a synagogue event, everybody is going
Speaker 4: to be talking. I've experienced that firsthand more than once.
Speaker 1: It's your red carpet. I remember my own wife Lauren.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, we're going red carpet official tonight. Get
Speaker 1: like here, you have that conversation. That is y'all's version
Speaker 1: of red carpet official yep.
Speaker 4: And when I the first time I brought my now
Speaker 4: husband to the synagogue and I had to okay his outfit.
Speaker 4: I had to tell him who to look out for,
Speaker 4: what sort of things to talk about, what sort of
Speaker 4: things were off to talk about, prepared answers to hot
Speaker 4: questions he might get. So it really is there. Somebody
Speaker 4: has to want to do all of that in order
Speaker 4: to get to that point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh, the kids call it the hard launch. That's
Speaker 1: one thing in the show. I don't think they hit
Speaker 1: that hard enough of like the hard launch would have
Speaker 1: been as a rabbi, especially an aspiring rabbi. He was
Speaker 1: looking to become the head rabbi, he would have been
Speaker 1: a little more thoughtful about the hard launch.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 5: But it's not just about introducing a dating partner. It's
Speaker 5: the fact that people are watching us all the time.
Speaker 5: They are watching what we eat, they are watching where
Speaker 5: we live, they're watching.
Speaker 2: How we act.
Speaker 5: I cannot tell you the number of times that I
Speaker 5: have made mistakes of not recognizing that somebody was watching me,
Speaker 5: and it could be disastrous depending on what the circumstance
Speaker 5: is I can't tell you all the stories because it'll.
Speaker 2: Be the last day of my career. But you know
Speaker 2: there are stories to.
Speaker 5: Be told about people seeing us behaving maybe not the
Speaker 5: way you would think a rabbi should behave.
Speaker 1: No one looks good eating linguini. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: There's no there's no really pretty way to eat spaghetti.
Speaker 1: What I also liked about the show Nobody Wants This
Speaker 1: and Adam Broding's character is the layers to it, all, right,
Speaker 1: there's the emotional, there's love, and then there is the
Speaker 1: aspiration of it's a business decision. You know we think of,
Speaker 1: you know, people of God, rabbis, priests, whatever it's like. Well,
Speaker 1: they also are trying to ascend, not just metaphorically, they're
Speaker 1: also you know, literally trying to ascend and become a
Speaker 1: leader of bigger congregation and take over a synagogue. And
Speaker 1: so I like that they also touch on his career
Speaker 1: aspirations because that's real.
Speaker 2: It's it's really a huge part of the story.
Speaker 5: And I'm glad you mentioned it because there are two
Speaker 5: pieces to me that are equal opposites. One is the
Speaker 5: scenes at the summer camp where he's trying to be
Speaker 5: cool with the kids, and she's trying.
Speaker 2: To be cool with the kids.
Speaker 5: And quite frankly, a lot of my career was working
Speaker 5: with teenagers, trying to be cool with the kids. But
Speaker 5: the double edged sort of that is that in being
Speaker 5: cool with the kids, you might say something do something
Speaker 5: that's inappropriate. You know, there's actually a great story from
Speaker 5: when I was younger.
Speaker 2: I thought it was the cool Rabbi.
Speaker 5: I'm taking trips to Israel and around the country with
Speaker 5: our teenagers, and I was playing a game where you
Speaker 5: actually replace the word one word of a movie title
Speaker 5: with genitalia.
Speaker 1: Part oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 5: It's great fun until I came home and one of
Speaker 5: the parents was waiting to talk to me about the
Speaker 5: game that I had played with their child.
Speaker 2: Right, So, people, on one hand, I want to move
Speaker 2: up in my career. On the other hand, I want.
Speaker 5: To be cool and hip and engaging, and they don't
Speaker 5: always match.
Speaker 1: Leah as a younger rabbi feel that part of the show.
Speaker 1: Did you relate to that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there is the balance of being like
Speaker 4: young and cool and being who I'll say, being who
Speaker 4: you are, right, it's not who you are at that
Speaker 4: current point in your life. Right for me, at the
Speaker 4: current stage I am in my life, I'm very different
Speaker 4: in my personal life than how I am then maybe
Speaker 4: what I'll be right twenty years down the line. But
Speaker 4: I have to be thinking about where I want to
Speaker 4: be twenty years down the line in making the decisions
Speaker 4: that I do now to reach that point in my career.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So I think he very much is balancing it, and
Speaker 4: you see him having a really hard time with balancing
Speaker 4: that because he's thinking about where he currently is and
Speaker 4: dating and in this relationship, and he wants to be
Speaker 4: in the moment of now of being with this woman
Speaker 4: who's not Jewish but who he's really having fun with
Speaker 4: and who he's really starting to potentially fall in love with.
Speaker 4: And he's thinking about that in the now, but in
Speaker 4: the back of his mind he has, oh, where am
Speaker 4: I trying to be? And for him it's not twenty
Speaker 4: years for him, it's maybe a year or two, and
Speaker 4: knowing that that might not line up. And so it's
Speaker 4: a very real thing to say, where do I want
Speaker 4: to be in five, ten, fifteen, twenty years in my
Speaker 4: rabbinic career? But where am I right now? And how
Speaker 4: do those things blend together and how can I keep
Speaker 4: them separate? And he's really showing that.
Speaker 1: I want to play and I won't pick either one
Speaker 1: of you. So jump in if you have an answer
Speaker 1: to this. Hits and misses with the show, nobody wants this.
Speaker 1: What hit where you're like, oh wow, they really hit
Speaker 1: the nail on the head in the Jewish faith or
Speaker 1: a temple or what have you? Or what missed? What
Speaker 1: was the one where you're like, come on, like, that's
Speaker 1: a bridge to fall that never happens. Did anything stand
Speaker 1: out to you?
Speaker 5: For me, the hit was the scene when Kristen Bell's
Speaker 5: character walks into the synagogue for the first time and
Speaker 5: every woman is introducing their niece and.
Speaker 2: Talking about their daughter. That obviously exaggerated, but it's real.
Speaker 2: It's real.
Speaker 5: Everybody wants a piece of the rabbi. That's a real piece.
Speaker 5: The other part that maybe hit home really but also
Speaker 5: was challenging was the Tova Felche character Bena Right. I mean,
Speaker 5: it might be real, but also was a little cringey
Speaker 5: because it was a little too real.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure we want to show that out
Speaker 2: in the real world.
Speaker 5: So for me that she did a fabulous job of
Speaker 5: the character, and it was also a little hard to stomach.
Speaker 1: Leah anything, I.
Speaker 4: Think there were so many hits. There really were. I
Speaker 4: think one of the missus was similar to what Josh
Speaker 4: said with the some of the depictions of the Jewish
Speaker 4: women in the show that hold on some stereotypes that again,
Speaker 4: I you know, there's many different reasons why a woman
Speaker 4: might be angry, including if you know there's a new
Speaker 4: woman who comes in and is dating your best friend's ex.
Speaker 3: Right, naturally you aren't going to be the friendliest.
Speaker 4: But some of the depictions of Jewish women that are
Speaker 4: tropes throughout the show is I think a little.
Speaker 1: Bit hard interesting.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think there were. I think there were a
Speaker 3: lot of hits.
Speaker 4: I think the definitely the synagogue scene. I think some
Speaker 4: aspects of the camps scenes some were I think a
Speaker 4: little bit exaggerated, but I think some have felt really
Speaker 4: all about Jewish Camp.
Speaker 3: So so many hits throughout it.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying I want to ask this question without
Speaker 1: really being a spoiler, because the show is kind of new,
Speaker 1: but they've picked it up for season two, which is
Speaker 1: great news, and its first of all, it just I
Speaker 1: just has nothing to do with the Jewish Faith. I'm
Speaker 1: just so excited that just a simple family rom com.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's some language and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, it's just a simple, clean
Speaker 1: watch and it's just so nice to have It's a
Speaker 1: happy film or a happy show. For the most part,
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's just good to have that on TV. Again.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it, and I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: what resonated. We all don't have to be in a
Speaker 1: bad mood and everything doesn't have to mean everything all
Speaker 1: the time, you know what I mean, Like we could
Speaker 1: just laugh and it could be silly. So, without trying
Speaker 1: to give too much away, do we think the Rabbi
Speaker 1: will find love with Kristen Bell's character And we don't know.
Speaker 1: We don't know, but we're heading into season two, Leah,
Speaker 1: what do you think?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 4: I think it's the only way that that it works.
Speaker 4: It's like a Christmas Hallmark movie, like.
Speaker 3: What would that be out? Finding love at the end.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a little a little
Speaker 4: how do we get there is the question, but I
Speaker 4: think they have to otherwise what are we doing?
Speaker 3: Rabbit?
Speaker 2: Josh, what do you think totally totally the same answer.
Speaker 5: How could it end without the two of them staying
Speaker 5: in love and finding each other at the end of
Speaker 5: the story. The question is what's going to happen to
Speaker 5: make those things occur?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and you know, look, there's the moonlighting theory.
Speaker 1: Rabbi Lee, you might be a little young for this,
Speaker 1: but Bruce willis Sybil Shepherd, huge movie or show back
Speaker 1: in the day on Network TV, and it was when
Speaker 1: they finally got together. You're like, all right, well, the
Speaker 1: show's over, so you kind of have to keep dangling
Speaker 1: that carrot and keep running us around. But overall, I
Speaker 1: just I wanted to have you all on. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for having a serious but seriously lighthearted conversation
Speaker 1: about the Jewish faith, about finding love. And I'm glad,
Speaker 1: if nothing else about this show. As someone who grew
Speaker 1: up in and around the Jewish faith and it means
Speaker 1: so much to me and my family, I'm glad we
Speaker 1: can all just talk about this and do it in
Speaker 1: a very fun, loving way.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: I totally agree.
Speaker 5: I'm so happy to be able to talk about something
Speaker 5: fun in a world that sometimes isn't looking so wonderful
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 2: It's good just to laugh and smile and have a
Speaker 2: good time.
Speaker 4: I think, at the end of the day, what this
Speaker 4: one of the things this show has done is brought
Speaker 4: this light conversation during such a tense time in our
Speaker 4: world in so many ways, and it has only brought
Speaker 4: out great conversations that I've had, and everybody's you know,
Speaker 4: finding light in it, as they should in a romcom show.
Speaker 4: And so it's been I've really enjoyed talking about it
Speaker 4: and being part of the conversation. Well.
Speaker 1: As many great rabbis will tell you, many things can
Speaker 1: be true at once. We can take the serious, and
Speaker 1: we'll have to handle the serious in our lives. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, there's love, and it's
Speaker 1: something we all want. It's something we all relate to.
Speaker 1: There's the companionship, and so it's a beautiful thing. And
Speaker 1: so I'm glad that to hear that you guys are
Speaker 1: discussing this on well. Rabbi Josh is in the Midwest
Speaker 1: there in Michigan and you over there in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: So Rabbi Lea, Rabbi Josh, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time. Truly appreciate you taking time out to join
Speaker 1: us here on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Today, thanks so much. Happy to be here, Thanks Chris,
Speaker 2: good to be with.
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