Halloween comes early to the Twilight Lounge as the boys discuss their relative ambivalence toward costumes, parties and being aged out of the trick-or-treating parenthood club. Also debated: beards, public nudity (and fanny packs), what a homeless guy smells like after six month, Monica Lewinsky’s relationship to Talmudic Law and the crazy kids of open … Continue reading Episode #27: “Death has no face. Death is blank.” →

An incredible(ly mundane) series of events finds Rosen arriving at the Twilight Lounge at precisely 12PM, in time to discuss hot beverage consultants, Eric Burdon’s Hawaiian shirt, playing poker in a sukkah, Rosen’s new love for ceiling fans, getting feisty on Facebook and whether $5.4 billion to rebuild Gaza is a good idea. Still life: … Continue reading Episode #26: “Nobody can manage time like you.” →

Is Rosen actually a secret New Yorker cast adrift in a land of slow-moving Californians? Are courtesy laws really the foundation of civilization? How does one properly atone? Does it require an icon of a cute cartoon goat? These are only a few of the questions answered in this episode. Would you mock this shoe? … Continue reading Episode #25: “If I didn’t know you I’d probably mock you.” →

Is skipping a podcast to drop your daughter at college Good for the Jews? It’d better be. Rosen and Goldbrener return after (another) week hiatus to discuss cars, bicycles, Goyim, and Bibi Netanyahu’s speech before the United Nations. Iran or ISIS: you make the call. Rosen’s Mac is not only ineffective; it’s also undersized.

Our long national nightmare is over. (Is it) Good for the Jews? has returned! Enjoy a look at golfing in Nevada, dive bars, 13-year-old Scotch, unconventional Bar Mitzvahs and exactly what it takes to be a Jew. This dogma-free episode is brought to you by Garageband, teenagers about to leave for college and whoever can … Continue reading Episode #23: “They were fun! They were hip!” →

What happens when Goldbrener shows up stressed-out and Rosen shows up in a bad mood? Disparaging remarks about Mick Jagger, Catholics and hippies, that’s what, plus serious questions about undergraduate-level classes in Grateful Dead Dancing, what happens when your girlfriend takes you to church, how to convert to Judaism and the value of the Jewish … Continue reading Episode 22: “Jew Jew Jew! Every step of the way.” →

The boys are firing on all cylinders this week as they ask the question: “Are teenagers capable of empathy?” Rosen reveals the utter depths of his character during his early 20s. From there it’s off to the Middle East again, where “Islam for Dummies” is required reading for a few Amazon.com-surfing western-born jihadis. Also teenagers? … Continue reading Episode #21: “I was a miserable little punk.” →

Sadly, seemingly insurmountable audio issues mean episode #20 may be lost forever, but that doesn't mean the boys can't saddle up for a non-Gaza Crisis-themed GFTJ and call it "Episode 20B," then take an hour focused instead on Rosen's crisis of faith, ubiquitous ice buckets, exactly what makes a culture a culture and, of course, kugel. Kugel everywhere. #kugel

Faced with a facilities crisis, the boys invite political consultant and NorCal AIPAC bigwig Sam Lauter into the Faux Twilight Lounge (AKA Rosen's basement), where Goldbrener and Sam engage in a high-level discussion about politics, Israel and AIPAC's role in each, only occasionally interrupted by Rosen's inane non-sequitors.

Rosen's obsession with the movie "Boyhood" takes the podcast in a Seinfeldian direction, away from important topics and into a forest of minutia, where musings on music, parenthood, short, dense, weird dogs await. Also, Goldbrener reveals "the funniest thing he's ever heard."