JL;DR SUMMARY In the podcast episode titled "The Republikud & Labocrats? Edition," Noah Efron, Allison Kaplan Sommer, and Don Futterman discuss the need to potentially reform Israel's election system to eliminate small parties, the concept of Israelis sorting themselves politically, and the promotion of an openly gay IDF officer to the rank of Major-General. 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'.