The Big Night
Producer Jonathan Goldstein made every girl he ever dated watch the home movie of his family's Rosh Hashanah dinner he made when he was 17.
2002 / Jonathan Goldstein / WBEZ, USA
Producer Jonathan Goldstein made every girl he ever dated watch the home movie of his family's Rosh Hashanah dinner he made when he was 17.
He hoped that seeing his family life on film might make the women more sympathetic to his shortcomings.
The Big Night was produced by by Jonathan Goldstein for This American Life .
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Jonathan Goldstein (@J_Goldstein) was the host and creator of Wiretap which ran on CBC Radio for 11 years. His new podcast for Gimlet Media is Heavyweight.
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