205: Big Girls Don’t Cry, With Rafael Shimunov
Pod Yourself A Gun - A Rewatch Podcast
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In "Big Girls Don't Cry," originally aired February 13, 2000, Chris Moltisante has been signed up (by his girlfriend, Adriana) for a class called "acting for writers," in which the teacher immediately informs the class that "the actor is an instrument for conveying ideas."
As funny as Paulie in Italy was, Christopher in acting class might be even funnier, whether it's crushing at improv, expanding his range with James Dean, or getting offended by the mere sight of one of his classmates' dumb faces (could you blame him? Mitch from Hartsdale is the worst). Is David Chase better at making fun of therapy or at making fun of the arts? Meanwhile, Furio has come to America, Big Pussy has been passed over, and Richie Aprile has moved into Tony's mom's house with his sister, Janice. Once again, this is one of my favorite episodes and it ends with an all-time great tracking shot scene of Furio unleashing strangely humorous ultra-violence.
To help us discuss it all, we have this week's guest, Rafael Shimunov, from JFREJ (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice) and The Jewish Vote. I hope he loves our dumb theme song! As always, you can email us at Frotcast@Gmail.com, leave us a voicemail at (+1) 415 275 0030, and support the show by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/Frotcast. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Matt Leib. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Vince Manseini. |
| 0:02.5 | And this is Pod Yourself A Gun, |
| 0:05.5 | a Sopranos Podcast |
| 0:06.7 | where Vince and I go through every single episode of The Sopranos |
| 0:10.1 | and talk about it. |
| 0:11.7 | It is a real, I mean we're innovators. |
| 0:15.0 | The way I like to look at it. |
| 0:17.0 | It's the first time it's ever been done and probably the last time |
| 0:20.0 | that anyone will ever do it. |
| 0:22.0 | Our guest today is a Raphael Shiminov. How you doing |
| 0:26.7 | Raphael? I'm doing good. I'm excited. I'm excited to have you on I know you from the the Jewish activist Twitter |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah, that's definitely one of my Twitter's yeah. It's a very specific thing |
| 0:41.9 | but it's like one of those things where, you know, there's, it's a small community on Twitter of like Jewish activists, Jewish anti-Zionists. |
| 0:53.8 | It's like very specific, you know, subculture of Twitter. |
| 0:58.5 | And so you, I know you from J Fred's Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and you're the |
| 1:05.9 | co-founder of the Jewish vote which is an org isn't that also Sophie E? She's also, is she? |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, yes. |
| 1:16.5 | Sophie, well, she's not really involved with the Jewish vote. |
| 1:18.7 | She helps a lot. |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:21.0 | But yeah, she's deeply involved with Jay Fred and she helps a lot with both, but yeah, that's the electoral arm. That's where we throw it down with with politician. |
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