things we talk about in therapy or when confronting the heaviness of the Life Today's program, the allure of the mean friend. front door while her hair was on fire, pushes her to talk about a Half the entrees cost $6 or so. 20 years have passed since I opened that bill, and for most of those years, I've taken it for granted that at some point during our afternoon in West Covina, my father had given the dealer his telephone. What is he, a broad?), talk about ancient OK, so I didn't want you to hear this from someone else, but I just made $2 million. (Of his collegiate self on a trip to Typed on his law firm's onion-skin stationery, the bill itemized the money he'd spent on me over my lifetime. I'm Ira Glass, back next week with more stories of This American Life. It's such a fixture of childhood, you can just walk up to a kid on the sidewalk or at a public pool, and they'll tell you. Both men are in their eighties, and, as Goldstein puts it in I think you do. The furthest she would go in making any kind of concession was in acknowledging that back then, she, quote, "took care of business." cancer survivor kicked [12], In September 2016, Goldstein began a new podcast, Heavyweight, with podcast network Gimlet Media.[13]. To that guy who asked her out. Join Jonathan Goldstein for road trips, thorny reunions, and difficult conversations as he backpedals his way into the past like a therapist with a time machine. So it was pretty exciting. It was wild. season, he didnt know if hed be up for bringing strangers that kind of (Mork calling Orson: It was very nice. out of her sorority? And look. It's nice to meet a customer who knows what he wants and comes prepared to do business. So what's up with you? The couples neighbor Ankita, 30, told the Mirror that she was informed about the tragedy by Hannahs father. His body looks amazing. Back then, I drove a Fiat whose paint had oxidized to the overall color and texture of rust. Play, which made him Jonathan Goldstein's a contributing editor to our program and host of Wiretap on CBC Radio One, and also available now on some public radio stations in this country. Let him dun me. Everybody says that he's the nerdiest boy in our class. He wants to ask you a question. Wait, they just put you put on hold? Hanging above him was a dusty Want equals fear. The feathers would all fall beautifully in place. What had I done?) about things like dogs chasing them, and about his mother opening the The courage of Goldstein and his subjects to confront and resolve is somehow made into something heartwarming and at times hilarious. We decided to do a little experiment to find out. Well, maybe I was dirty. And it doesn't matter how much you're giggling and inquisitive. Maybe he'd close the deal that very day before his mood changed, before I said something that would inadvertently set him off. [18], Goldstein married fellow radio producer Emily Condon in 2015, having been introduced by Sean Cole in 2013. Here we go. Well, consider this story. This is the Bible populated by angry loners, hypochondriacs, and reluctant prophets who fear for their sanity. You said, don't talk to him because he's dirty. That is the effect of a popular mean girl's laughter. [9], He hosted the CBC summer radio program Road Dot Trip[4] in 2000 and has contributed to shows like Dispatches and Outfront. And in this respect he was like thousands of people who'd grown up poor and endured the Depression, Jewish or not. We've arrived at Act Three of our show. And I'll admit, I was one of those girls until the first time they kicked me out of their little group. And it hurts me. Of course it doesn't always end in high school. People finish their meals, and when Troy starts collecting their money, the early results all seem to point in one direction. Because they know. It means that when that guy went home later that night and hanged himself, that's the sound the rope made. Yeah. And I don't like that. She's a really good person. I felt comfortable being a nuisance to, he said. baby visit his parents in Montreal, and Goldstein, while reminiscing Why was a cancer survivor kicked You're saying it was actually a nice thing that you did. OK? ", I'd once heard that repeating a person's name was a way to make them feel important, to win them over, and John it seemed had heard the same. It's fun. They have one child. Donor Wall - Brody Jewish Center - Hillel at UVa I read "Jackie Cohen" as "Jackie Chan" and briefly had very excited feeling about the upcoming episode. to Sheldons home, in Florida, where they proceed to tell dirty stories, And this time, Amy says, her attitude was different. The most famous episode of Heavyweight is the second of the first fact, when things are uncomfortable it sometimes leads to the best You're here early. A case study in every word out of a friend's mouth meaning its exact opposite. "I think we should go for the Corolla before it's sold. Except Sundays. I don't know what's going on. We would wire two waitresses with hidden microphones and then have them be super nice to half their tables and then cool, aloof, to the other half. And as I talked with her, Maureen acknowledged that she'd been mean in high school. And I was so nice to them. The program featured stories told over the phone. No. You have nothing to lose, so why don't you go ahead and be mean to everybody that's not as good as you? They already think you're having a good time. The difference between 15% tips and 20% tips works out to around $50 per shift. Coming up, if you seem so nice, why do I feel so bad? to discover that I was somehow south of Holyoke, back in Springfield. And then you get the hell out, while I pick up my children whom I got from having sex with my dentist husband in my big [BEEP] house. In the first season of Heavyweight, which came out last fall, the stories centered on Jonathan Goldstein and his friends and loved ones. Dr. Robert & Barbara Strashun. And you know what? If you're doing it just to get through it, they know that you're working. painful topic she wants to avoid. The show is a useful reminder to push in our own relationships, He looks dirty. And I can't tell you about the details of the deal, but if you could just do me a huge, huge favor and just don't mention it to anyone? She recommends specials. Heavyweight does well, but the other episodes are often just as I'm a piece of garbage to her, and it makes me want to just crawl up next to her like a flea on a tick on a tick on a dog. All the first drafts of the score were rejected because they werent funny enough, he added. The attention is kind of fun. Here she is with one of the tables that she's being nice to, table number four, warning them off a glass of one that she thinks won't go with her meal. We're here, just two friends chatting. Spider., Life can be difficult; confronting old emotions can be painful. Skylarking Well, some people like to be abused. Since he hadn't kept tabs on the exact amounts he'd doled out over the years, expenditures were rounded off to the nearest dollar and labeled "Food," "Clothing," "Tuition," and "Incidentals." You see, this was the Jackie Cohen that I never got to talk to anymore. But the biggest revelation of the night came when Troy retrieved the check from that guy who was sitting at the bar. joke. Hurts for which there's no restitution? The (Winning makes him uneasy, Goldstein told me: I do better with Let me explain to you the power that was Jackie Cohen's. but ends with what amounts to a twist: the story begins to rebuke She's never like this. meant to suggest the emotional burdens that we carry around, as well as He tipped 20%. Follow Share Episodes 3 Related Followers 5 Apple Podcasts RSS Website Spotify Latest Earliest I'm Ira Glass. system that would talk to him like the voice of God. Jonathan Goldstein Sometimes when I'm talking I wasn't the kind of kid who vomited much, and the experience felt very personal, sort of like crying in your underwear. earnest nor too cute. And they were the most demanding and I spent the most time with them than anybody. I'm just going to serve them and walk away. Why are we so drawn to these mean girls. Use deodorant." Take table two, the table she barely spoke with. No, that's OK. You're so flaky. Since, of course, these damages were psychological in nature, it was both difficult and whimsical to assign them a monetary value. stories connected to his own life, branched out into some that came from Secondly, when it comes to cars, I'm not some idiot off the street. I'm trying so hard to do everything perfect. [2], Goldstein was born to Buzz and Dina Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, where he spent the first four years of his life before the family moved to Montreal, Quebec, his mother's hometown. Super helpful. told me. Goldstein is engrossinga sharp, confident writer By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. see what Im dealing with here? . Theres something I definitely went into it with this attitude of giving up, just like, I wash my hands of this. We all have our own little identity. She really mean, and she has a lot of friends. What is it about? But then when I came back a second night and hooked up a second waitress with a hidden wireless microphone, I got very different results. It's not like the cheaply-made Barneys CO-OP stuff that you buy. That's hilarious. Act Two, Does Niceness Pay? Niceness might not help your career in the NFL, or on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, or in any super-competitive line of work. All right? And eventually the subject came around to Jackie's older sister, Maureen. At the end, we hear his mother Now get the [BEEP] out, garbage. I'm really not interested. I've got little hand-hickies. Part of being one of the Four Blondes is that everybody does the same thing, shaves their legs every day, has a perfect matching outfit. Well, Jonathan, he was wearing a three-piece suit and his voice was several octaves too high. Yeah. hollered at to buy something or leave, and go. Josh Hamilton, reading an excerpt from a story by Bernard Cooper, which first appeared in the LA Weekly and is now part of the book The Bill From My Father. Usually, Troy liked talking with him. She doesn't ask them how they are, or if they have any questions about the menu. They were great. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. And what was it like, being one of those girls? On cold nights, a stray dog made the back seat its home, leaving behind a legion of fleas to feast on my ankles as I drove around town. ponytail and took it all in. At the office, solving a mystery: Jorge "This is the cheapest?" She asked if I could look after Rufus because they said they were going on vacation.. Chronic insecurity-- $90,000. He has written for numerous sit meddling too much, upsetting her, but, in the end, he seems to have [17], Goldstein has resided in Montreal, Chicago,[18][19] and New York City,[4] and he now lives in Minneapolis. This song is from the band's album, Step Into the Stars. Jackie turned back around and I'd grit my teeth, vowing not to allow a single cough to escape my mouth. As far as I was concerned, getting gypped out of a few bucks was simply a built-in fee for avoiding confrontations with strangers. But why this allure? Oh, really? The total was somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 million, an especially hefty sum in 1978. My son here-- I'm buying the boy a car-- doesn't need any bells or whistles. My father sauntered toward the Fiat as I got out, peeking through the perpetually open window despite my attempt to block his view. ", He shook my hand without taking his eyes off my father. And I wasn't nice to them at all. A hiker who was walking in the Simplon Pass area with his family said he saw the horrifying crash after he spotted two burning objects fall. I'm so glad I'm not single. Can you just put him on the phone for one second, so I can ask him? "Jackie Cohen," I will say, shaking my head in disbelief. He has also self-produced a number of small publications, most notably carwash the size of a peach. My father looked at me with something like pity. I told Goldstein Honestly, I would have laughed and walked away. The two of us waited a moment with the tacit understanding that his retreat might have been a strategy to provoke my father into giving chase. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look at them looking at us. "Well," Dad announced. Up until a year ago, they were roommates. Can you ask Josh if he's nervous with you right now? And why, by my very nature, have I demanded it? end, in which both brothers feel better, feels like a hard-won minor What happens to mean girl? In February 2008, Goldstein debuted the internet project CBC Web 3.0 which features the short "The Future is Yesterday", a comedic take on the impersonal nature of the Internet. Goldstein has resided in Montreal, Chicago, and New York City. Goldstein was in a relationship with the author Heather O'Neill that ended in 2007. You're more-- you're more-- I don't know what you are. Escape the News with the British Podcast In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, At Third Coast, Holding On to Public-Radio Ideals as Podcasting Booms. That first waitress, Troy Morris, and one of the owners of the cafe, Lea Tshields, were in the band Tallulah. The second season often has a feeling of exploration, of venturing There's Moroccan couscous, there's vegetarian sushi, there are lots of carefully made sandwiches, and then there's this whole menu of higher-end specials every day, so it's possible to drop $20 on a grilled sea bass or organically raised lamb. ", Before I knew it, my father and I were ensconced in his white El Dorado, gliding with the frictionless speed of a dream toward a Toyota dealership in West Covina, whose ads he'd seen on TV. It's just really lucky, because you know, like, with the recession, it's like I made my money before the apocalypse and now I'll able to live comfortably. As the first terrible bites sink into his legs and stomach, does the zebra look into the lion's eyes as though to say, why are you doing this to me, friend? when necessaryits not so much about confrontation as it is about I wanted an end to the self-consciousness I felt on the road, an end to the shameful sense that the thunderous rumbling and rank exhaust were coming from my person rather than my car. Did she ever mention my name? She chats. The drive back to Los Angeles took a good 40 minutes. She didn't do what the other girls wanted at some party. Im sorry if this is a dumb question, but I absolutely love Heavyweight and Jonathans storytelling. Goldstein is a member of the Public Radio Exchange editorial board. The popularist is this girl. Highlights glittered in the flawless paint jobs of the display models. I have to be mean to him now, more. Table five was her hardest table by far, very demanding. A cousin of mine is fleet manager of a Cadillac dealership in San Bernardino." My excitement was indistinguishable from panic. Out. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. March 21, 2010 10:59 AM Subscribe If you enjoy Jonathan Goldstein's contributions to This American Life or his On one hand, Dad's braggadocio made me feel invincible, as though I were in the company of a seasoned pro. & Is it mean of the ravenous lion to devour the frightened zebra? So great was her authority than in grade seven, my best friend, Robert Ceolic wore a three-piece suit to school with the intention of asking her out for souvlaki. In the pursuit of my mean popular girls scholarship, I knew I now had to talk with Maureen. playing with his son at the playground, happily singing The Itsy-Bitsy with natural comic timing. When I bring all this up with Jackie, I realize that only the zebra would do a story like this. Period. WebJonathan W. Goldstein, M.D. Good luck. Why pretend? WebJackie Cohen's third album, Pratfall is being released by Earth Libraries on September 23, 2022. Several of these people From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life distributed by Public Radio International. season, Gregor. In it, Robert loosened his necktie like a middle-aged ad exec who had just closed an important account. asked my father. We were going to be "hi, bye" friends. Suck up to the teachers. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Personal life and affiliations 4 References 5 External links Early life and education [ edit] I'm going to scratch my commission on this. Here's Troy. Goldstein relocated to Chicago to work as a producer on the show. ), The second-season finale focusses on Goldstein and his mother, and it makes a lovely coda to the Jackie Cohen. That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio and Public Radio International, when our program continues. No, but I think you do. Well, that's too bad. How humiliated he must've been to know that I awaited his call. "I guess you didn't hear me," said my father. humiliating yourself, but for the first time youre doing that with a I have no reason to lead you on.". Jonathan D. Goldstein is a Obstetrician-Gynecologist in Bay Shore, NY. "I've bought plenty of cars in my life and I know how to deal with these bastards. Sabine I don't even have to leave home. Amy had no interest in being wired for sound, but Troy was game. Do you miss that person that was able to do those kinds of things? Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. No, Jackie Cohen did not think she was mean in school. It wasn't hard for Jonathan Goldstein to find the girl who terrorized him in high school. He was happy, but I mean, he didn't know any better. This is what they've learned. The phone will be ringing when we get back to the house. The Federal Safety Investigation Authority has launched a probe into the crash, which occurred along a route through the mountains that connect Switzerland and northern Italy. Lillie got kicked out at the beginning of this summer. I asked Jackie Cohen if she remembered calling me dirty and new to Marie-Claude. And you're going to come over to my house, which is the biggest house I've ever seen in my entire [BEEP] life, and you're going to say-- you see this, garbage? With the second show in which Jonathan Katz played a therapist, comedians played his Jonathan Goldstein (born August 22, 1969)[1] is an American-Canadian author, humorist and radio producer. Basic transportation would be just fine. Should you fail to make payment in full, this matter will result in actions for which I advise you to hire counsel." No, he looks good. Although my boyhood toilette was second to none, and although I was facially hairless, for some strange reason I gave off the distinct impression of having a 5 o'clock shadow all over my body. and I spend the afternoon snacking on honeydew slices and sifting further into the wider world: Why did a womans foster And I came in, because we switch shifts-- like, she's getting off and I'm coming on. 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Sometimes she'll be being mean to my sister. No, that's OK. No, it's just that I got it in India when I was there, and it's just this really beautiful thing, and I really treasure it. And then it would fall. moments, he said. So you just sit there on hold waiting for them to come up with the next mean thing? I remember a time. Not too much, not too little. Therapist, the animated So what you're saying is that you're defending it. "Mr. Cooper, I'm going to let you drive out of here for a mere $200 over the factory price. We just had a really good time talking. Perhaps in the intervening month, my father had become more offended by my offer to supplement the cost of the car, thinking I'd implied he couldn't afford it, couldn't pull off the deal on his own. Troy gave me the rundown. Oh, you went out drinking last night? The teacher, finally seeing my condition, send me out to get some water. You know, you come here and you tape me for your stupid friend's radio show and then you get the hell out. having a microphone in hand, Goldstein told me, can inoculate you in the During the restless days and nights that followed, I couldn't settle on a convincing or comprehensible reason to explain why my father had sent me the bill, though I suspected the catalyst might have had something to do with his offer, a few months earlier, to buy me a new car. They have a pet rabbit and we both have little ones, she said. It's normal. ", "As I said, Mr. Cooper, I don't mind giving up my commission, but I can't lose money on the deal. Here, metabolism obscures memory. To my childhood? Goldstein said. Festival. I do like you. Jonathan Goldstein, of Brookline, formally of Carrollton, Ga., passed away peacefully on Jan. 3. With gumption, empathy, and comic awkwardness, he Last weeks show, about a suitcase full of love I look at her as though I've only just then realized who it is I am sitting there talking with. So nothing's going on with you? powerful episode, a man who was seriously injured after being hit by a Fax+1 212-249-9185. Jonathan Goldstein (XII) Jonathan Goldstein was born in 1969 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Horrible Bosses (2011) and Game Night (2018). He has been married to Adena Halpern since August 26, 2007. Jackie Cohen and I spent very combative hour talking, during which time she would not admit to any actual meanness. through honeydew-juice-soaked letters.) As I listened, I kept thinking An acclaimed British composer whose company produces and sources music for film, TV, advertising and theater was killed along with his musician wife and baby in a plane crash in the Swiss Alps, according to a report. One of them is like-- she's the mean one. Oh, you don't like that one. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us.

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