Episode 11: Golem (with Eric Silver)

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4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Kicking it old school in Dark Age Eastern Europe this week with special guest Eric Silver! We missed out on the manischewitz, but we have lots of Jewish lore, Yiddish insults, and pop culture references for you to enjoy. Find Eric on Twitter @El_Silvero.

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0:00.0	So we are so pleased to welcome today my friend one-time colleague classmate Eric Silver.
0:06.5	Oh that's right you can't see me dancing.
0:08.5	Nope no.
0:09.5	I'm in an audio platform.
0:11.5	Your own WWE entrance dance.
0:14.0	With the fake cheering in the background, of course.
0:18.0	And Julia, what are we drinking today?
0:19.0	Well, we're drinking beer.
0:21.0	We were going to drink.
0:22.0	What were we going to drink? What were we going to drink?
0:23.2	We were going to drink? We were going to drink Manachevitz because why would we talk about Eastern Europe,
0:30.1	Europe Jews without Manachevitz? But of course somehow I can't find it so
0:35.7	yeah it is it is not high holidays here in the Upper East Side so there is no
0:40.9	Manachevids be found so we are drinking today Anderson Valley briny melon-goza which was my choice.
0:47.2	I got it from work super super good.
0:49.2	Somewhat arbitrarily. I mean I like goza I always get goza but there is some that a parietal resonance get out it's salty it's briny and it's all we have just like the Jews of Eastern Europe would have drank
1:01.3	That's as good as takeaway as any of. There's going to be a lot of this
1:04.0	because everyone should just like prep themselves. We're going in. Exactly. I'm going for the
1:09.4	yeshiva crowd to bring them into your podgats. We are so ready and they are so welcome. All right, so we're talking about the golem of Prague.
1:36.0	There are many gollums over time that have been developed by random Jews that have needed them, but the most famous one is the Gollum of Prague.
1:41.1	Okay, hold up. We're going to have you tell us what a Gollum of Prague. Okay, hold up. We're going to have you tell us what a
1:44.3	Gollum is because some of our listeners might not know.
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