Porn names are always fun... if for some reason I were to go into porn, my porn name is not hard to figure out. It's funny that my porn name is just my actual last name- Mike Staber, pronounced (stay-bur) becomes Mike Stabber... So I got that going for me. lol
Every time I listen to your podcast, I feel right at home, I'm not Jewish but I'm definitely adjacent. My life really has been influenced by Jews, from friends to therapists to fellow musicians- I'm a classical pianist. My grandpa is 99 and will be 100 in June. He served in WW2, in the machine records unit for dday, the US Army IBM punch card machine operators. His mind is still sharp so he told me about his roll in the Normandy invasion. A few years ago he told me about his most profound experience in being part of the 2nd Army that liberated Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, the first camp liberated by the US, the first time the US discovered what was happening to the Jews in Germany. My grandpa said he went into the camp and described the emaciated Jews still alive, barely. He said the Nazis had deserted before the US got there, but they found out the commander of the camp was hiding in the town nearby and brought him back to the camp. My grandpa saw the Jews beat the commander to death with a milk stool. The look I saw in his eyes while telling me the story was haunting. My grandpa is one of the small percentage of ww2 vets still alive today and him being able to tell me about what he saw at Ohrdruf is very important. I'm able to keep the story alive for future generations when all the vets are gone.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing this story. I am so grateful for the men and women who served in the army and helped liberate the camps. W Rowe them everything.
I think Jews should reclaim the initials BDS for Bari (Weiss) Derangement Syndrome. She seems to generate this bizarre rage amongst a certain subset of people.
I was touched by the Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs collaboration onstage (watched the clip after, not live) because I always loved the song and their duet was just magical. More than a rebuttal to the stupid WashPost article, it was symbolic of how wrong and evil the neo-segregationist movement is. That’s tied to and is a corollary of the neoracism you discussed on the pod, but a specific and pernicious application of these boxes elite theorists and their idiotic followers are trying to shove us into.
It should have simply been a beautiful performance, but in a world where a certain elite consensus is seriously entertaining the idea that we should question whether a black woman and a white man should be singing the same song, the beauty and generosity of the performance blows that up.
Does that mean these stupid discourse is over? No, of course not. We have a lot of stupid people and they have a lot of fad following followers, but stupid “cultural appropriation” and other neosegragationist ideas lose just a little bit more credibility and collapse a bit further in the light of truth.
And that performance was pure truth and beauty.
Thanks again for an interesting and wide ranging (and funny!) conversation.
Coleman’s feelings about slavery made me think of cognitive theory. His perception engenders gratitude and admiration; whereas, for someone else, the same historical fact leads to bitterness and anger. What you focus on, you become.
Porn names are always fun... if for some reason I were to go into porn, my porn name is not hard to figure out. It's funny that my porn name is just my actual last name- Mike Staber, pronounced (stay-bur) becomes Mike Stabber... So I got that going for me. lol
Every time I listen to your podcast, I feel right at home, I'm not Jewish but I'm definitely adjacent. My life really has been influenced by Jews, from friends to therapists to fellow musicians- I'm a classical pianist. My grandpa is 99 and will be 100 in June. He served in WW2, in the machine records unit for dday, the US Army IBM punch card machine operators. His mind is still sharp so he told me about his roll in the Normandy invasion. A few years ago he told me about his most profound experience in being part of the 2nd Army that liberated Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, the first camp liberated by the US, the first time the US discovered what was happening to the Jews in Germany. My grandpa said he went into the camp and described the emaciated Jews still alive, barely. He said the Nazis had deserted before the US got there, but they found out the commander of the camp was hiding in the town nearby and brought him back to the camp. My grandpa saw the Jews beat the commander to death with a milk stool. The look I saw in his eyes while telling me the story was haunting. My grandpa is one of the small percentage of ww2 vets still alive today and him being able to tell me about what he saw at Ohrdruf is very important. I'm able to keep the story alive for future generations when all the vets are gone.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing this story. I am so grateful for the men and women who served in the army and helped liberate the camps. W Rowe them everything.
I get the sense that the people who should have imposter syndrome, don’t (Kendi, DiAngelo 👀)
I think Jews should reclaim the initials BDS for Bari (Weiss) Derangement Syndrome. She seems to generate this bizarre rage amongst a certain subset of people.
Great conversation!
I was touched by the Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs collaboration onstage (watched the clip after, not live) because I always loved the song and their duet was just magical. More than a rebuttal to the stupid WashPost article, it was symbolic of how wrong and evil the neo-segregationist movement is. That’s tied to and is a corollary of the neoracism you discussed on the pod, but a specific and pernicious application of these boxes elite theorists and their idiotic followers are trying to shove us into.
It should have simply been a beautiful performance, but in a world where a certain elite consensus is seriously entertaining the idea that we should question whether a black woman and a white man should be singing the same song, the beauty and generosity of the performance blows that up.
Does that mean these stupid discourse is over? No, of course not. We have a lot of stupid people and they have a lot of fad following followers, but stupid “cultural appropriation” and other neosegragationist ideas lose just a little bit more credibility and collapse a bit further in the light of truth.
And that performance was pure truth and beauty.
Thanks again for an interesting and wide ranging (and funny!) conversation.
Coleman’s feelings about slavery made me think of cognitive theory. His perception engenders gratitude and admiration; whereas, for someone else, the same historical fact leads to bitterness and anger. What you focus on, you become.
Great podcast ladies! I’ve been following Coleman for a while and have always liked his common sense 🫶🏻