Deep questions through laughter is my favorite emotion. In season 2, we're tackling the 8 biggest subjects of life from my latest book ‘Like Streams to the Ocean’: ego, love, friendship, death, work, family, home, and the soul. I'm bringing on the wisest people I know to process these big ideas. And were responding to your questions. So if you have something you want us to discuss, DM me a voice note on instagram: @jedidiahjenkins
How This Man Snuck Into America to Escape Russian Oppression
I met him at a coffee shop. We started talking and his story knocked me over. Oppressed for being a minority, oppressed for being queer, and trapped in a country waging war and drafting its young men... Zhargal knew he had to get out of Russia and fast. So he watched YouTube videos on how to smuggle himself into America. It was complicated and sneaky. And he did it. This is his absolutely wild story of how.
It was brave of him to say a lot of the things he says here, but you can hear that something compels him to keep sharing. I hope you'll honor his bravery by listening to his story.
And I hope this gives you fresh perspective on what it means to live here and what it means when people do everything they can to come here.
*also, I say he snuck across the Rio Grande, which is wrong, it was the Colorado. Ok now go listen.*
2 Sept 2022
Mom on ‘Mother, Nature’: How Do We Love Family When We Have Profound Disagreements
What happens when you have deep disagreements with family? Rifts. Incompatible beliefs. Different political views. Faith or no faith. How do you stay in relationship? How do you love each other without pain? My mom and I have deep disagreements and we love each other. And in this episode, we try to get to the bottom of it all.
12 Jul 2022
Why You Should Write an Ethical Will with Rabbi Steve Leder
Why is it that when we die we leave a document that gives away all our stuff, but not our values, our beliefs, or our personality? Rabbi Steve Leder comes on the show to talk how to write an ethical will, why it should become a cultural tradition, and his new book 'For You When I Am Gone.'
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