Torah Smash! The Podcast for Nerdy Jews
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Torah Smash! The Podcast for Nerdy Jews
Episode 28 - STRANGERAMA
May 10 2023
Torah Smash! The Podcast for Nerdy Jews
Episode 28 - STRANGERAMA
Good news, everyone! Exodus is full of travelers, but never did we expect to travel so far into the future! We love fish out of water stories, but when Moses decided to name his son Gershom, meaning “stranger in a foreign land,” we wonder if that stranger also became a delivery boy.
00:01:32 Exodus 2:22 “A Stranger in a foreign land”
00:04:08 We’re going into the future….again!
00:06:00 Philip J. Fry, the Planet Express delivery boy of 2999
00:07:48 Favorite fish out of water stories
00:09:25 Favorite Jewish fish out of water stories
00:14:29 Futurama’s Jewish themes
00:16:24 But is it a Jewish show?
00:23:31 Dr. Zoidberg’s heritage
00:30:31 Futurama’s genius writers
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