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wherever you listen to podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Chutzpad, real life lived better, where each week we apply

Jewish tradition and a little bit of pooh-poo to talk about something that is live in our lives.

I'm Rabbi Shira Stuttman.

I'm Hannah Rosen. Shira, I think you're doing that thing like you pass a cemetery or you're doing a kind of, God forbid, thing. So you need to put a little like, like, fud, foot, foot, like you need to put a little like spit in it. So let's try it again. You're totally right. That's right. How is that? Was that better? We'll take it. Okay, good. We're just trying to put people on the mind of like, you know, I'm a little kid in the car, I'm passing by the cemetery, I'm crossing my fingers, or I'm doing something in that vein. We'll get to that later. But first, I have a question for you, Chahara. Yeah. Did you have a baby shower for any of your kids? For my first kid, I had a baby shower and I regret it.

Do you regret having the kid?

You regret the baby shower?

What do you regret?

No, I just went out to dinner with her last night.

I'm very happy she exists.

Oh, good.

That's amazing.

All sorts of things about it.

It's so goyish.

It's like there's something so goyish and kind of heteronormative.

And I feel bad for the gay people I invited to that baby shower who had to sit there and like,

you know, not that gay people don't have children, they're just something so like, I don't

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