JL;DR SUMMARY The podcast episode "The Bullets, Ballots and Breastbeating Edition" features Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Don Futterman discussing Israel's near encounter with war with Gaza before elections, reflecting on the intense election campaign, and exploring why Israel's Right is associated with pride and the Left with shame. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

• At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
• This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
• Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
• But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
• And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.