You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

As a long-time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is

important to the world as China. I'm Jane Perlase, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York

Times. On face-off, the U.S. versus China will explore what's critical to this important global

relationship, Trump and Xi Jinping, AI, TikTok, and even Hollywood. New episodes of Face Off are

available now, wherever you get your podcasts.

Music get your podcasts. Hello, everyone, Stucker here, and welcome back to the History of Everything podcast.

Now, today's episode, we are not going to be joined by Gabby.

Gabby is actually at work here.

I am joined by a new guest that is specifically here for the purpose of talking to us about all the different things that are about, well, probably fumbling with my words at this point for what it is I'm going to be doing.

It's been a while since I've had to do an interview with someone. I mean, I guess this isn't the case of an interview.

It's a conversation. Do you want to like go ahead and introduce yourself so that people know what it is that they're getting themselves into?

I guess I can fumble around too.

Hello, everyone.

My name is John.

I'm a Jewish Israeli historian.

And I guess I'm here to talk about Jewish history and history.

So John had reached out to me a couple days ago when I had talked about stuff under the 14th century.

If you'll remember the book that we did a couple weeks back when it was how terrible the 14th century was and all the different kinds of chaos and crap and everything that occurred in it.

Well, during that period, there was a lot of stuff that happened to the Jews, which, to be fair,

when we're saying that, that's not exactly saying much when it comes to history.

I mean, John, you could probably agree with me on that note that's saying, oh, yes, and during

...