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This week we talk about An American Pickle, a new comedy premiering on HBO Max that features Seth Rogen in a dual role: a Jewish emigrant from Eastern Europe in 1919 America who falls into a vat of brine at his job in a pickle factory, and his great-grandson in 2019, a sad sack app-creator who has trouble coping with the reappearance of his perfectly preserved forebear. You may have heard of it because of Seth Rogen’s recent comments about growing up as a Jewish kid who was ‘fed a huge amount of lies about Israel.'