Raanan Hershberg
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Podcast Appearances
Bro, people were savages back then. Oh, there was...
Oh, he slapped, the director, Victor Fleming, slapped Judy Garland in the face during a scene. Just slapped her because she couldn't keep a straight face. Oh, my God. Oh, no. And that movie, I wish I could make a movie about the making of Wizard of Oz, and that would show the beauty of the movie, but also how horrible behind the scenes were. Right. Because you had the witch caught on fire.
And literally like lost feeling in her hand at one point. And then they forced her to go back to Margaret, what her name is. They forced her to go back to work the next day, even though she was in the hospital. The original guy playing the tin man got really sick because of the paint they were using. He ended up in the hospital. They just replaced him immediately. Yeah. He got like really sick.
Yeah. No, it's like a it was a.
That the radium girls?
No, no one gave a shit. And in Hollywood, there was no like, the stars didn't have like, Some stars were beginning to have power, but Judy Garland, she was just treated like she was owned by them. You know what I mean?
Like to slap. Imagine the director trying to slap Emma Stone now. Crazy. It's just crazy to think that that wasn't that long ago. I know. And it's, well, the Holocaust also happened. But isn't it crazy? Not too soon after.
It's all... Nuts. Yeah. I love watching old stuff to see the...
Well, every 80s movie, they're like, you got to watch this 80s movie. It's a classic. Then you turn it on. It's like 12 nerds gang raping a woman. It's like every 80s comedy is like a prank. What is this one?
And they're laughing.
Yeah. Well, we're getting better. We're getting better. It's just slow. My cousin had a bat mitzvah. It's reformed. That's where you do the whole service in English, and you have to read part of the Bible, which in conservative you do in Hebrew, but in reform you do in English. Why reform? They're just more liberal, more accessible.
It's usually like a lesbian rabbi eating out her girlfriend on stage and stuff. And there was like the cantors tuning a guitar. And she had to read a part of the Bible, but reformed to it in English. So the 13-year-old girl had to go on stage in front of everyone and read the selected part. And not every part of the Bible holds up. So it was like 300 people, her parents behind her.
And she's just on stage. She has to open to the part. And she's just like... When a slave offends you, you cut off his right arm. And then his parents, her parents are behind her. They're like, that's my girl. And then she's like, when you offend them again, you execute them. These are the laws of how to punish your slaves. And we're all just like in the back. Is that a real quote?
Yeah, or something like that. Yeah, something close to that. Jesus Christ. And that's why you do it in Hebrews. You don't have to know it. So you can pretend it's okay. That's why we do it in Hebrew. You don't know what they're talking about.
It says, give me $100 if you want to be in the afterlife.
Right, right. Yeah, the Latin, that was a big con. Huge con.