Keep Calm and Carry On

In the prologue, we revisit unreleased parts of a conversation we recorded in preparation of our very first episode, back in August 2014. Mishy Harman – inexperienced, star-struck and decidedly uncalm – sought guidance and advice from his radio guru, Ira Glass.

Jordan never thought her summer in Israel would end the way it did. An independent-minded college student from a conservative family in Arkansas, she had already ventured far afield. But little did she know that one fateful and horrifying moment in 2012 would forever change the course of her life. Seven years later, sitting with her partner in their Jerusalem apartment, gazing at an orchid and a copy of ‘The Little Prince,’ they recount their love story. While they tell it with the same light-hardheartedness as the next couple, there is also a lingering sense of an ‘original sin,’ of a relationship born of a place it shouldn’t have. Yoshi Fields brings us an unlikely tale of persistence, stick-to-it-iveness and resolve.