David Cooper (host)

Yes.

And who knows what they're going to get?

Yes.

When you Google yourself, what kind of chaos happens for you?

He's mine too, Rabbi David Cooper.

We've tried to have him on the show.

He won't respond to our emails.

I don't know where you get off saying I'm more famous than you.

You are the number one Ask Jeeves in the 90s, David Cooper, that we could find.

You know, your field of study, Slavic languages and literature, is at the commercial break you were telling me you do Czech and Russian literature.

I got to admit, as you said that, I'm thinking, boring.

And then you started getting into one of your research areas, like forged manuscripts in the Czech Republic.

I guess it wasn't called the Czech Republic then.

And all I could think of was your research is super cool.

Do you want to tell me about this specific thing that you studied?

So these people in earnest wanted to create a rich history for their language, which had kind of been like glossed over.

So in kind of like with good intent, they wanted to show they had a rich history, but no history was to be found.

So they forged it.

For someone who's never dipped their toe into Slavic literature, like what is the gateway drug?

Who is the gateway drug?