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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we mean without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblad, and this is Bookworm.

Today I'm happy to have as my guest, Moshe Kashir.

This is a real first for Bookworm.

I've spoken to some of the most prominent intellectuals

in America and in the world, but I've never before spoken to a stand-up comedian. He's the author

of Casher in the Rye. I happen to be down at the wonderfully reopened uncapperey, you know,

it's Sunday nights at 8 o'clock down at

First in Hope. And I thought this guy was so hilarious. And then when it turned out he had a book,

I just couldn't resist. Now tell me, with both parents being deaf and one of them an Orthodox Jew, the other

abducting you to live in Oakland and for punishment being sent back to theodox sections of, is it Brooklyn?

Sure, yeah.

It's the deepest of pre-Nazi war, Brooklyn, the Stedel, the set of Yentel, as I call it.

And was this a recipe for disaster?

I mean, did everyone around you know that you were going to be trouble?

Well, I think that's what, yeah, I think that that's one of the themes in the book is this

idea that I don't know, I keep chicken or egging through this entire book. How did I go down

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