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Works from PRX, wherever you listen to podcasts. Shalom, Sarah.

How am I am I?

How am I?

I've been a roller coaster these last, you know, Josh goes away, Sarah comes.

Now Sarah is leaving and

Josh is going to come back. And so it's a lot. But I want to start with you. How are you?

I'm good. I just realized that you and I are always in different places when we record.

We're like, where are you? Where are you? I've been in Los Angeles, Toronto. I was up north in

Ontario. I'm in Vancouver now and you're like Aspen, Mexico City. Perhaps you knew the

following when you got into the world of acting, but one of the things I didn't realize when I left

my job in the pulpit is that the life of an itinerant rabbi requires a lot of travel.

So yeah, I'm always in different places. And I guess that's true for actors as well. Well, right now, I am an Aspen where I am

serving as a rabbi while they are in between rabbis. And it's really beautiful out here. And the people

are really quite beautiful as well. So I mean that on the inside, if perhaps also on

the outside. And what are you doing in Vancouver? I'm shooting the third season of Resident

Alien on sci-fi. So yeah, here going to work. And yeah, I like working in Vancouver. It's so

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