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Oh, yeah, yeah, Sarah.

Oh, it's so nice to see your face.

And welcome back, everyone, to Khutzpod, ancient texts for modern times, here this week with Sarah Podemski. And so grateful for it while Josh is in rehearsals as we speak for Leopoldstadt on Broadway.

We wish him lots of luck. And we'll see him again around Passover time. I'm so excited for him. I can't wait to see it. I know. Me too. Maybe we should do a chutzpahd night at the theater. Totally. That would be great. And then we can all heckle him because he heckles me, you know, on this podcast. So I think it's only fair. That would be

great. Yeah. We'll sit in the front row and we'll just be like, hey, hey, you. Did you ever do

live theater or have you always been a film and television person? I did. I started with

live theater when I got out of theater school and I loved it. And then somewhere along the way,

I got really bad stage fright.

Oh, wow. So you haven't been back? No, I haven't. I'll do like readings if like I know someone who's doing a play, like, well, you know, I'm happy to do that. But yeah, being in front of an audience gives me

so much anxiety. It happened overnight once. And I was like, I don't think I, I don't think I can do this. You're making me wish that you had been on the podcast and we were talking about Moses, when God first comes to Moses and was like, go down to Egypt. And Moses is like, uh-uh, I can't do this. But maybe you'll come back next year when we talk about it again and like sort of like

how those feelings of fear at being in front of people can affect you and shut you down.

Yeah, totally. I mean, I'm not going to say never again, but I'm going to say at this moment,

I'm very happy behind the camera. Or sorry, in front of the camera. And one day, God willing, maybe who knows, behind the camera. Maybe that was like the camera and one day god willing maybe who knows

behind the camera maybe that was like a ferreidian slip as they say it's true it's what i'm manifesting

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