Transported to South Florida, I contend with racist bullies and kosher wine. A portal to an enchanted world opens, and I cavort through various promised lands with Mel Brooks and other 2,000-year-old men. We conclude with a drama entitled “Death in the Catskills.”

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Music heard in this episode includes “Hello, Schmendrik!” by Morris Goldstein, “Hava Nagila” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” from Tikvah Records, “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” by Emil Stern, “Florida, The Moon and You” by Carl Fenton’s Orchestra, and George Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” performed by Jason Weinberger and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony. Also: "Hava Nagila Sly Violin" by Musical Production, “Broadway Bigwig” by Art and Robin Munson, “Me and My Mullet” by Felipe Adorno Vassao, “Brookline Chair Lift” by Steve Rice, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” recorded by Mike Fielding, “Back to the Forties” by Andrea Damiano, and other selections licensed from the Pond5 Media Collection.

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