Jewtinas with Joanna Hausmann (Bless These Braces: Episode 5)

Writer and comedian Joanna Hausmann (Hamster and Gretel, Bill Nye Saves The World) joins Tam Yajia to talk doing therapy in Spanish, the best Yiddish words, and the smell so bad Tam’s husband passed out.

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Key Moments

01:14 – Tam Yajia And Joanna Hausmann Are Probably Cousins
03:23 – Therapy Hits Different In Spanish
05:30 – Joanna’s Bat Mitzvah Story
07:34 – Intro to sexuality at Bar Mitzvahs
10:33 – Yiddish Has Some Very Useful Words
14:54 – Mashed Potatoes Boy
16:50 – Becoming an Adult
18:40 – Coming of Age: Expectations vs Reality
22:27 – You’ll Never Guess Who Joanna Hausmann Called After She Got Her First Period
24:52 – Periods and Wet Dreams
25:15 – His Body Smelled So Bad He Fainted

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Bless These Braces is a Funny or Die Original Production with support from Common Era

Common Era is an R&D platform working to make sure the Jewish experience continually evolves to meet the present moment, today and in the future. Through explorations and collaborations with creators, builders, subcultures, and social movements, Common Era is imagining and funding initiatives and experiences that offer the world a more expansive Jewish reality.

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Series Credits

Hosted by Tamara Yajia
Executive Producers: Adrien Finkel, Darren Miller, & Ben Rosen
Director of Photography: Gemma Doll-Grossman
Production Manager: Savvas Yiannoulou
Production Coordinator: Ellen Burns
Writer/Researcher: Yoni Lotan
Sound Mixer: Will Harrell
Gaffer: Kishan Patel
Production Designer: Christina Phensy
Art Dept. Assistant: Carolyn Deskin
Hair and Makeup: Brenna Haukedahl
Editor/GFX: Brandon Fryman
Assistant Editor: Michael Wolfson

For Funny Or Die

VP of Digital: Darren Miller
Head of Original Content, Digital:  Ben Rosen
SVP, Physical Production: Whitney Hodack
Assistant to Whitney Hodack: Anastasia Jacques
Director, Legal & Business Affairs: Annie Killen
SVP, Production Accounting: Devi Reichert
Head of Post: Derek Bartholomaus
SVP, HR/Facilities: Taylor Treadwell