JL;DR SUMMARY In this podcast episode titled "The Local Yokels Edition," Miriam Herschlag, Allison Kaplan Sommer, and Noah Efron cover the topics of the ease of getting elected to public office in a democracy, the job security of mayors in major cities in Israel, and Jon Stewart's viral commentary on the Gaza war. 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'.