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2.20 Esther and Mordechai Walk Into a Bar (w/Tayler Swift + many others)

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Chutzpod!

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality

5.0531 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week on Chutzpod we celebrate Purim! We embrace the gallows humor (pun intended) and joy of the holiday by highlighting five up-and-coming Jewish comedians (Orli Matlow, Sam Morrison, Becca Nix Tham, Evelyn Frick, and Dylan Adler) and their favorite Jewish jokes. Plus a megillah reading and, of course, a spiel.

Episode Time codes:

(13:00) 1st Megillah Reading by Scott Weiner

(20:15) Orli Matlow Joke

(22:00) Sam Morrison Joke

(24:40) 2nd Megillah Reading

(26:00) Beca Nix Tham Joke

(28:00) Evelyn Frick Joke

(31:15) 3rd Megillah Reading

(33:00) Dylan Adler Joke

(36:45) 4th Megillah Reading

(38:41) Daniel Olson Parody Song to Close (Tayler Swift)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, chutzkwad. We know you love thoughtful Jewish conversation. So there's another podcast we think you should check out. It's called Being Jewish with Jonah Platt.

0:09.6

Jonah has the kind of conversations that don't feel reactive or hysterical or trapped in hot takes. He makes space for complexity instead of trying to win an argument.

0:19.1

Jonah talks to artist, public figures, thinkers, Jewish and not, including Seinfeld's

0:24.4

Jason Alexander, former hostage Eli Shurabi, comedian Modi Rosenfeld, CNN's Jake Tapper, and Cindy

0:32.1

Crawford.

0:33.0

The podcast is about the beautiful and complicated parts of Jewish life.

0:36.7

So if you want something smart, expansive, and grounded, check out Being Jewish with Jonah Platt on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:46.9

Or visit BeingJewishpodcast.com. Welcome, Sarah.

1:05.8

Welcome back, everyone to Hutzpod, ancient texts, modern times, porum edition.

1:14.6

Love porum.

1:15.9

Do you? Do you have like, um, porum memories from growing up?

1:19.8

Yeah, we, we would dress up. I'm sure that it must have been with Hashemar, Hudsonia,

1:24.3

or in Toronto that they would have like a poor party for the kids.

1:28.6

And then I asked my dad and he said that his parents had like a huge porum party with all of their

1:34.9

friends every year where they would dress up. It was like a huge like at a hall catered all that like

1:40.6

of just a big shebang. And I thought, oh, that must have been so nice for them to, like, have that community and just have a good night out and all dress up and celebrate.

1:50.6

I don't know how much of the actual story they were celebrating or that they knew. I don't know if it

1:57.0

was just a chance to, like, get together and drink,, but and dress up. But he reminded me of that.

2:01.9

And I remember seeing photos of my grandparents dressed up and us dressed up as kids.

2:05.8

Yeah.

2:06.5

Yeah.

2:06.8

Well, for those of you who are newer to Porum, we will explain the backstory behind what Sarah's talking about.

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