Welcome to the Rush Hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride.

Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, today's guest on the Rush Hour podcast is a touring comedian

heard on NPR The Moth and has a podcast called Parenting is a Joke. It's my friend

Ophira Eisenberg. How are you? I'm doing. I'm doing great. You know, I try to crush that

intro to take care of my guest, make you feel at home. I look up your name. I Google you.

Ophira means gold, I hear. Oh yeah. So it's like the ongoing joke that, well, King Solomon,

let's go that. That's how old this name is. That's how old this. King Solomon named his first gold mine

Ophir, which is the masculine version of my name. And yeah, and then because of that, all my childhood

with older brothers and sisters they would be like your name

needs treasure let's bury it or they'd be like your name means gold you'll never live up to that

you know i like um because you that the the you're you're you're you're you're you're you're you're

raised jewish as a religion or very i mean by the, my older brothers and sisters were raised more religiously.

I was raised more culturally.

So we went to synagogue on the high holidays, but I never went to Hebrew school.

I'm the worst.

You know, I think of, because I think of my Jewish friends as with my Catholicism.

It is cultural in New England versus there's like the people that really go to church

and then there's like, I'm Catholic.

It gets two different things.

I mean, basically when I moved to New York and I have a joke about this, when I moved to New

York, I was like, oh my God, everyone is more Jewish than I am.

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