02x07 - Home is Where the Haart Is

[bunniefuu]

[frantic music playing]

Did we find my blue sunglasses?

No, I went through all the glasses.

So strange. I just wore them.

[Julia] Today is the big day.

We are going to Texas.

My only happy moments

and happy memories from my childhood

are in Austin, Texas.

I was born in Moscow, Russia.

And before my family moved to Monsey,

we lived in Austin.

What I've been going through with Sylvia

was taking a toll on all of us.

So to have an opportunity to go away

and share happy memories I have,

I hope is going to bring us

even closer together.

Let's go, let's go!

[Miriam] Okay.

[Nathalie] Do you have your passport?

Or whatever you need as an American?

I have an ID.

-Thank you.

-My pleasure.

[upbeat music playing]

Guys, we're in Texas!

-[Miriam] Whoo!

-We're in Texas!

I'm so excited.

Look, guitars! It's the South! [laughs]

Do you realize I have not been back here

in almost 40 years?

We kept kosher

since I was, like, nine years old.

Like, I never got to taste Texas barbecue.

I want pork. I want barbecue

for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I'm so excited! I can't stand it! Ah!

I've been talking about Austin

to my kids for years.

I haven't been back here

since I was eleven years old.

And I am flooded

by so many memories.

I was three and a half

when we left Moscow.

When my parents saw

what communism actually was,

they became completely disillusioned.

And that's when they started

studying Judaism underground.

They were caught,

and my father was imprisoned.

And at the same time,

Russia was having a massive hunger.

So America gave Russia grain, and Russia

released a bunch of Jewish prisoners.

So that was my parents,

and we all moved to Texas.

I remember everything.

It was pretty crazy.

[upbeat music playing]

[Miriam] Cheers, guys.

-Cheers!

-[Miriam] To Austin!

-To Austin!

-[Shlomo] Yeah, cheers.

[Miriam] To all the Bs.

Barbecue, beer, and b*tches.

-[Nathalie] Burgers.

-[Miriam laughs]

[Shlomo] Okay.

[Robert] Hello!

[all] Hello!

Roberto!

[Robert sighs]

This is a cute house!

Oh my God! Ranch style realness!

[warble tongue] Yas!

-[Julia] You got your Sonic!

-Of course I got a Sonic!

We're in Texas, baby!

This is a Route 44, Diet Dr. Pepper.

Easy on the ice,

add diet cherry and vanilla.

-[Miriam] Got it.

-Okay?

[humming]

We are home at last, Lord! ♪

Yes! I'm so happy

to be back in Texas, honey.

Where the wildflowers bloom,

the belts are big,

the t*tties are bigger,

and we are all in our hats.

I got the joy, joy, joy, joy

Down in my heart! Hey-hey! ♪

We're in Texas now, baby.

So excited just to escape

all the noise of this lawsuit

and hope to God that Julia can take

a moment to get away from all the drama

and just have fun with family.

I heard there's this barbecue place

called Cooper's.

-[Miriam] What's Cooper's?

-I don't know.

-[Batsheva] BBQ.

-Oh!

Cooper's Old Time Pit.

-Ooh! I love a pit!

-[Nathalie] Oh!

I love a pit. Girl!

Maybe here in Austin, Texas,

I should go on

-[Robert] A date?

-[Batsheva] Oh!

[Robert] Yes! I love that for you.

I'm gonna have to look on my dating apps.

-Am I gonna find any men in Austin?

-Let's see what's on Grindr.

-[Miriam] A pecan cobbler sounds good.

-We went from barbecue to Grindr!

Different kinds of meat, people!

[Robert] Girl! They both go down easy!

-[Miriam] Oh!

-I'mma tell you that much!

-Different kinds of meat.

[laughter]

["This Is My Time" by Klover playing]

[phone chimes]

[Ra'ed, on the phone]

Hey, babe! How're you doing?

Are you

30 minutes into a melatonin?

[laughs] What's going on?

-The time difference.

-[sighs]

Okay, well I just wanted

to update you on my meeting that I had.

-Oh my gosh, tell me.

-So it's actually really good.

But also, um, a little scary, so

These guys at Daniel Hoff,

I sent them some recordings of me.

And basically

they're, like, ready to sign me.

After I delivered

some materials to the agent,

they decided that, yes,

they do want to sign me.

This is what every little theater kid

ever dreams about,

having an agent on Broadway.

As excited as I am to, like,

have this huge step come to fruition,

there is a big, big elephant

in the room in that

I am committed to the Haart Sphere.

I don't know how I can do both

at the same time.

What?

So they're gonna start pitching me

to casting agents next week.

Shut the f*ck up. You're waking me up.

My melatonin is going away.

Oh my God. I feel like I have

to tell Julia at some point on this trip.

My brain is not there right now.

My brain is, like, "Robert on stage!"

All I want you to do is just win a Tony,

an Emmy, a Grammy, and an Oscar,

so we can be an EGOT!

Oh my God, you'll be so jealous

if I get on Broadway. Oh my God.

I am jealous. I'm not gonna be jealous.

I've been jealous.

[Robert laughs]

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.

[both laugh]

[upbeat music playing]

It's a new life, it's a new life, yeah ♪

It's a new life, yeah ♪

It's a new life, it's a new life, yeah ♪

It's a new life, yeah, it's a new life ♪

-[Miriam] Let's go!

-[Nathalie] Here we go!

-[Julia] We're going to see my house!

-Yay!

[Julia] I'm very excited.

You sit in the back.

I'm gonna sit shotgun

so I can find where we're going.

I'm so excited. I'm gonna show

my family, my kids, where I grew up.

[upbeat music playing]

[Julia] We're gonna go see my house.

Hopefully, we can knock on the door

and someone will let us in.

That would be so cool.

Let's do this!

[Robert] Is anything kind of sparking

a little bit of

[Julia] Yeah, totally.

-[Shlomo] Okay.

-[Robert] Here we are.

Oh my God, this is so crazy!

This is where our family's first part

of being in America started.

Guys, this is where I grew up.

The last time I was here,

I did a report on Walt Disney.

Did you use the internet to do the report?

-Did you read books?

-No, there was no internet, silly.

-There was no internet?

-[Julia] No.

[Miriam] Whoa.

I used to hide behind bushes with my bike

and try to find mysteries

-'cause I wanted to be Trixie Belden.

-Aw!

I have no clue who that is.

Trixie Belden was a girl detective

who lived in the Adirondacks

and she solved mysteries.

But I like Trixie Belden

better than Nancy Drew

'cause Nancy Drew is too girly for me.

I was a massive tomboy. Sound familiar?

-[Nathalie] Me too.

-Yeah, we're all tomboys here.

[Julia] Guys! Guys! Guys!

This is where I lived!

[Robert] Oh my God. Are you serious?

[Julia] I am serious.

-[Miriam] There's a little gate.

-[Julia] Aw! They're not home!

I'm so disappointed that I can't go inside

because living in this house,

those are my only happy memories

of childhood.

Those are my only normal memories

that I have before I walked out the door.

So to see it

here in front of me like this,

it's a really special moment.

-[Julia] Well, we tried.

-Yeah!

-[Shlomo] It's a cool area.

-You get to see it again.

I know. I can't

These are the only happy memories I have.

-[Batsheva] Aw.

-What about us?

[Robert] A little Julia playing

You know what I mean.

As a kid, childhood memories.

-Shlomo's about to shed a tear.

-Don't get offended.

-You're my best memory.

-Thanks.

-[Batsheva laughs]

-Aw!

Let's go back And you!

-Oh my God, all these needy children.

-[Robert] Get in there.

-Hey!

-Hey! It's okay!

Hey! [laughs]

I'm not worried about that.

[upbeat music playing]

[Shlomo] Who's hungry and slash thirsty?

-[Robert] I'm kinda ready for a drink.

-[Miriam] Ready for a drink.

[Robert] We're doing a flight.

It's a tasting.

[Batsheva] I wanna try your Paloma.

Yeah, same.

I'll catch that flight.

Shlomo, you're sharing germs.

Is that okay with you?

I don't mind sharing germs

with, like, family.

I mean, if you just think

what's been in Batsheva's mouth recently.

[laughing]

Only beautiful things.

[laughs]

-Big, beautiful things.

-[Roberto] Big, beautiful things!

[waitress] This is the Old Fashioned.

Stunning!

This is one Spicy Matador.

[Julia] That's me.

[Robert] Was it worth it, memory lane?

Yes! I've been wanting to do this forever.

[Robert] What did you get out of it?

Just reminds me how far I've come.

-[Robert] Awesome.

-And where I came from.

One of the things that

I try not to think of too frequently,

but sometimes I can't help myself

is what would all of our lives

have been like if we stayed in Austin?

When my parents came to Texas,

they became attracted

to Lubavitch Judaism,

which is a very, very religious,

ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism.

Within three years of living in Texas,

I went from being a normal American kid

to being the only kid in my class

who covered herself from head to toe

and wouldn't go to any friends' house

because they didn't keep kosher.

And since there was not a fully religious

Jewish school in Texas,

they decided it was time to move

to a full-on religious Jewish community.

What would my life have been like

if we stayed a part of the outside world?

I would probably still be talking

to my parents.

It really gets me angry when I think

about those things. So I try not to.

Okay, guys. Now that we all have

our drinks, I want us to make a toast

to the next chapter and to Haart Sphere.

[all] To Haart Sphere!

-So Miriam is gonna be the CTO.

-Programmer.

The chief technology officer.

Robert is the COO.

How do you feel about being a CTO?

My original plan was to do school

for another year. You knew that.

-Yeah.

-And so

If that's what you wanna do,

then that's what you should do.

I know that and so it's really

a decision I have to make.

It is something I have to think about

because I did wanna continue studying

'cause I am young and I still have

so much more to learn.

Then there's this huge opportunity

that I don't want to pass up.

So it is something

that I've been thinking about.

I did not know that Miriam was

questioning being a CTO at all.

I had no idea. I thought

she was ecstatic about the idea.

I'm hearing this. I'm asking myself

if I'm doing the right thing.

I made an assumption.

If it's an incorrect one,

we should rectify it immediately

because if she wants to have fun, my God.

I'm so on board with that.

[cellphone rings]

Hold on one second, guys.

Hello?

Hey. Okay.

Tell me everything.

I had no idea you, like,

weren't fully on board.

Feels like I'm waking up a little bit.

A lot of adultness is coming.

I'm in my first super long-term

committed relationship.

And now I'm about to found a company.

I just feel like a really

like adult all of a sudden.

It's just hitting me

and I can't go back a bit.

Once you say yes, you can't undo it.

I know that this is a huge responsibility.

And that is scary.

-I'd be stupid to say that it wasn't.

-[Robert] Right.

Do you believe you could do it?

I do.

Then I think you should do it.

I don't think it's smart to throw out

this opportunity if I was you.

[Miriam] It's just a lot.

[relaxing music playing]

-Hey, girl.

-[Miriam] Hey.

-[Batsheva] You look so cute!

-[Miriam] Thanks!

I love it.

-Yeah, I'm wearing your outfit.

-I know.

Do you have lip gloss for me, by the way?

This one?

How are you feeling

after the conversation today?

I know that my mom

is giving me a huge, huge opportunity.

I know she wants the best for me,

but I'm gonna have to figure out

what I wanna do.

As your big sister, I also want you

to, like, experience things and enjoy them

and not be so hard on yourself. Like,

you have to always be bigger and better.

And that's why I love Nathalie for you

because I feel like

she chills you out a little bit.

That's one of the reasons I love her.

If you do decide

to go with being a CTO at 22, which is,

like, a crazy, incredible

-amazing thing

-Yeah.

I would be so proud of you, but you

wanna be able to enjoy all those moments.

Yeah.

-Very important.

-Yeah.

[Batsheva] Miriam is 22.

I think she's figuring out

where she stands in life

and what she wants and what her plan is.

And that may be totally different

in the future

because there's just a lot to learn.

This is a great opportunity working

with very successful entrepreneurs.

Yeah.

[upbeat music playing]

What do you think if I did

off the shoulder here?

And then like, what about something like

Mm, now you seem like

a Middle Eastern woman.

Oh, that's a good thing.

We could do some type of fold and push.

Do I look like a yenta? No?

What if we belted it like this?

What does that look like? Too much?

Different.

Different's not very helpful.

-[knocking on door]

-[Nathalie] Come in!

-[Julia] Hey, you look so pretty.

-Hello! Thank you.

I'm just choosing what

necklace I'm gonna be wearing.

[Julia] What are you wearing?

'Cause this one is more, like, glittery.

-Oh, it's blue!

-Yeah.

-So it matches my

-Perfect, yes.

-Can I ask you a question?

-Totally.

So you know the conversation

we had at lunch?

About Miriam being my CTO

versus going to school?

Yeah. Oh yeah, today.

I'm worried that she is becoming

the CTO to please me.

-That it's not what she actually wants.

-Yeah.

She's not gonna tell me.

-She doesn't wanna make me feel bad.

-Yeah.

That's not what I want for her.

I want her to do what she wants.

So has she spoken to you at all?

Like, do you know?

So I do think from the talks

that we've been having

that she would love to keep going

to school, but I also think that like

this whole metaverse thing, she loves it.

-Yeah.

-You know, she does love it.

Well, okay, so what if you don't mind,

if you feel, even an iota,

Miriam doesn't actually want to do this,

but she's pleasing me,

her mother, please tell me.

Because then I'll make up

an excuse for why she shouldn't do it.

Miriam and I, we are very similar

and we're both people pleasers, right?

She inherited that from me too.

So I just wanna make sure

that she's not people-pleasing here

and choosing to do this

because she thinks it's what I want.

-I feel right now I couldn't tell you

-What she's thinking

A hundred percent.

I don't think she knows

what she's thinking.

But if what she's telling me

she wants to do

and what she's telling you

she wants to do is different, let me know.

-Yeah.

-Okay?

-Okay.

-I want her happy.

-Okay, yeah.

-She deserves everything.

I mean, look what she's done.

I mean, she's just

-I know. She's the best.

-Literally.

I think so too.

-So keep me posted.

-I will keep you posted.

Thank you, mamacita.

[funky music playing]

[Robert] Look how good I look

in the Texas sun!

[Julia] You do look so Oh!

You look amazing. Look at you, sexy beast!

Sexy beast!

-[Robert] Okay, Austin. Here we go.

-Smells yummy!

-It does!

-Delicious!

[Robert] I may have overdressed.

[Julia] Oh my God. I'm so hungry,

and I'm so excited.

I'm gonna order for everybody.

-Robert, it's per pound. How many pounds?

-Get a pound of everything.

[Batsheva] How do we

so we eat on a plate?

[Miriam] Oh my God,

the potatoes are really good.

Can you pass me some beef brisket, please?

[Batsheva] The ribs are good.

Sausage is amazing.

[Miriam] We saw your childhood home today!

I was so happy that I recognized it.

How's it feel seeing it all again?

Really good.

-In what way?

-[Robert] Yeah, why good?

Because it's a happy memory for me

and now I could use some happy memories.

Does it make anything

you're going through feel

-less intense or smaller in any way?

-No.

No, you know what I was thinking?

I'm thinking that maybe in some weird way,

this is good for me.

Because I always say I'm a fighter.

But have I ever really been tested

by, like, someone who's evil,

who has no boundaries,

who will do whatever it takes?

Like, have I ever been tested

to this extreme?

And I realize that I haven't.

And the other thing I realized,

which is so embarrassing

but true, and I have to face it,

is that I'm a victim.

I-I made myself crazy,

bent myself into pretzels,

did everything he asked.

He yelled at me

and humiliated me and tried to diminish.

I still kept doing everything he wanted.

And, you know, reading Miriam's affidavit,

where she said how she saw me shrink

and change my voice

and be more subservient to him.

-Are you gonna cry?

-Yeah, I'm gonna cry.

[Julia] If you're gonna cry,

I'm gonna cry.

[Miriam] I felt that way for a long time.

I didn't even realize that living through

what I was living through

was not normal or that this is not a way

a man should behave.

[Julia sobbing]

[indistinct]

[Julia] I'm sorry

you had to go through that.

Yeah, I know. And that's what I realized.

Like, if this hadn't happened,

I would never have been forced

to look at myself in the face and say,

"Yes, you're strong

when it comes to business."

"But when it comes to someone

you care about, especially a man,

you are weak as f*ck."

That's not weak, Ima.

That's not fair. That's

Like you say,

if someone's wearing a miniskirt

and they're victimized,

it's not their fault.

Never blame the victim.

The never blame the victim

applies to you too.

You're not a victim. You're a survivor.

You survived this and you're gonna thrive.

I literally got lawsuits

in three different courts

in two different states

going on at the same time.

When you're fighting for your survival,

that swallows the rest of your life.

Everything else is secondary.

You're literally fighting

for your survival.

And I need people on my side.

It's shitty that I have to experience it,

but if I come through this victorious,

then I will know

that I can live through it.

-Even if you're not totally victorious

-You're still very strong.

-[Robert] You still

-No, I am going to be victorious.

That is not a question.

Okay.

He's gonna be sorry for the day

that he f*cked with you.

You have proven to be

an extraordinarily loyal son.

Shlomo stayed up with me

and he would just hang out

until he saw I was okay to be by myself.

-And you really, you showed up.

-Family first.

You showed up, and I don't forget that.

And I know now

that no matter what happens,

when the sh*t hits the fan, you show up.

Thank you.

To showing up!

To showing up!

-[Robert] To showing up!

-[Julia] To family!

[Miriam laughs]

To real loyalty!

Anywho, how's the pie?

[upbeat music playing]

-[horn honks]

-[Miriam] Oh my God! Robert! It's a bus!

-He's driving a bus!

-Oh my God!

-[Miriam] Oh my God!

-[Julia] Oh my God, I'm so excited!

-[Miriam] It's huge!

-And look, I match. It's brown.

So Robert is taking us all to his family.

I'm so excited.

He has a massive family.

They basically run Wichita Falls.

And guess what? He's driving us,

all of us, in an RV! [laughs]

[Robert] How I'm driving this,

I have no idea.

This is the last will and testament

of Robert Brotherton.

If I die while driving this thing,

I'd like all my earthly possessions

to be buried in my sarcophagus.

Love you. [kisses]

-[Shlomo] Are we there yet?

-[Julia laughs]

This is so cool, Robert.

I have never driven an RV like this.

I mean, to say that my driving record

is not clean is an understatement.

[bump]

-[Miriam] sh*t!

-[Shlomo] Shiitake mushrooms!

[Miriam] Okay, what? Whoa!

I am going to throw up on this trip.

[Robert] Well, I'm excited to see my fam.

Are you gonna meet your sib

your half-siblings?

Oh, you mean adop

the biological siblings? No.

[Julia] Have you spoken

to your birth mother since then?

I texted her on Christmas.

-That's nice.

-Yeah.

That's about it.

By the way, I am so, like,

crazy excited to see your family.

How is it with your mom and dad,

now that he's remarried?

Well, he's remarried.

She's seeing someone.

-Really? Do we get to meet the boyfriend?

-I don't think so.

Do I get to meet your dad?

I don't know. He doesn't live

in the same city, so I don't know.

Like, can your mom really adopt me

because my mom doesn't speak to me?

-Let's see if my mom

-Your mom adopted you.

Let's see if she speaks to me

after I show up with eight people.

[Robert] I think it's been at least

six months since I've seen my family.

I'm so happy I get to just wrap my hands

around Ross and my mom and everyone.

And just, you know, feel at home again

during this, like, very crazy time.

Here we are.

You are now entering Wichita Falls!

[Julia] Yay!

[Robert] There it is!

-[all] Yay!

-[Julia] Okay.

Two, four, six, eight

Who do we appreciate?

Robert, Robert! Go, Robert!

[Robert] We're here!

-What is up?

-[Batsheva] Oh!

-There's a little doggy!

-[Ross] Oh jeez!

-[all] Hello!

-[Ross] For the love of

[Julia] You cannot even fathom

the level of my excitement

at meeting Robert's family.

Like, I've been hearing

about Mitizi's cooking

and his aunts and his nieces

and his nephews and his uncles for years.

-Oh, man.

-[Ross] I can't believe you guys are here.

[Julia] I'm so happy to be here!

And I get to see Ross again.

And I love Ross. He's so cute.

[Robert] This is the, uh,

Robert Brotherton appreciation room.

If you ever thought

I didn't have taste or style

-Oh, my word!

-[Robert] Kindly note.

-Are you wearing makeup?

-[Julia] Good pictures.

-For sure, I was.

-[Julia] Why do you have a toilet plunger?

-That was the thing.

-[laughing]

-[Ross] He was dancing.

-[Robert] I was dancing with plungers.

-[Ross] That was his twirler.

-You danced with a plunger.

What chance did I have to come out

as this like straight, normal boy

when I was placed in tap shoes,

dancing with a plunger? I ask you.

[Robert] Okay. So the first room

is gonna be

-The Miriam and Nathalie bedroom.

-[Miriam] Okay.

We do have some fun friends

for you to meet!

-Oh, this. Is there any

-Oh Lord! [laughs]

[Miriam] Um

[intriguing music playing]

-This is fun to wake up to.

-[Robert] This one is named Miriam.

That one is Nathalie.

-[Nathalie] Great!

-[Shlomo] Is that a real g*n?

That is. I shot that one two years ago

and I shot that one three years ago.

[Robert] I'm most excited

to show the family

all about where I came from

and give them a real taste of Texas.

'Cause I'm sorry, Austin,

I love you but you are not real Texas.

This goes here.

-[Miriam] My gosh.

-[Mitizi] We're gonna do a buffet style.

-[Batsheva] Oh my Lord!

-Yes.

This is just what we need

after our four-hour-and-a-half drive.

[upbeat music playing]

Thank you.

[Robert] Those are called Mitizi potatoes.

[Shlomo] These are amazing.

Rob wanted this chicken dish. I'm like,

we're Texas. We're eating red meat.

-[Robert] There you go.

-[Miriam] That's good.

[Miriam] Oh my gosh.

What kind of pie is that?

[Mitizi] It's apple.

[Miriam] That's my favorite!

[Mitizi] Okay. Have you ever had

apple pie with cheese on it?

-[Miriam] No!

-[Mitizi] Okay.

[Robert] This is a Texan thing.

It's really, really good.

Who wants the first bite?

You two share this big piece.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

I can't lie. I have obviously eaten

a piece of pie with cheese on it.

But I don't know what Mitizi is smoking,

offering everyone

a piece of American cheese on apple pie.

This is not something we typically do.

She's going, like,

Deep South for this moment.

[Batsheva] The pie is amazing.

I like the cheese.

[Robert] I appreciate it,

but also I'm shocked

these little kosher fabulous people

have not run for the hills.

In Texas, we're eating like Texans.

[funky music playing]

What are we listening to?

-Country music.

-I like the music!

[Julia] Gonna go two-stepping.

I wanna dance!

Dance! Dance! Dance!

[Miriam] Mom is already

on the dance floor!

I'm excited to dance. I love to dance.

It's my freedom moment, you know?

It's being It's free. It's freeing.

[cheery music playing]

Julia's super into it.

She is swishing her hips

from right to left,

north to south, east to west.

Batsheva's there, you know

I'm not sure if I'd call these moves.

She's definitely moving, but, um,

I don't know if she's constipated.

I'm literally deriving pleasure

from saying those words.

I went to a h*nky-tonk

and I honkied and I tonked.

I don't know if that's actually a thing,

but I danced the night away.

It was so fun! I wanna do it again.

[all] Cheers!

-[Shlomo] Hey, Rob.

-Roberto!

-[Robert] Hey, Queen!

-Nice belt.

-Thank you.

-I love your outfit. You look so good.

Okay, tell me more

embarrassing Robert stories.

I told 'em about when you wrecked your car

because a tree jumped in front of you.

-Oh Ross, shut up.

-[laughing]

-There was a tree.

-[Julia] That sounds very like Robert.

-[Ross] It's so

-[Julia and Shlomo laugh]

[upbeat music playing]

-[Julia] Here we go!

-[Batsheva] Cowboy Tack Shop.

[Julia] Whoa!

[Ross] Last and always least.

-Shut the f*ck up.

-[Ross laughs]

[clerk] Hi, how are you?

[Miriam] This is so cool.

[Julia] I'm gonna walk around.

You never know

when you need a cowboy hat.

-Here's six and three-quarters.

-[Julia] Let's try that one.

[Robert] That's cute. That's really cute.

[Julia] I love it.

Yeah, we can put some chips and dip.

[both laugh]

-[Julia] Wow, you look great, Shlomo!

-Well, thank you, miss.

[Robert] She's got a big head, this one.

-The biggest.

-The biggest head. My God.

Oh! For sure! I love that!

[Shlomo] It'll match RR.

[Julia] Thank you so much!

That was so much fun.

-Thank you so much.

-[Miriam] Yeah! We got our hats!

[upbeat music playing]

-[Robert] I wish Ra'ed was here.

-[Ross] Yeah, me too.

What do y'all think of Ra'ed?

I like him.

[Robert] You're not sure.

-No.

-You're not sure.

Why are you not sure?

I dunno. I just want you all to myself.

-[Ross laughs]

-Mom! Weirdo.

I think one of the issues that my mom had,

she wants me to have a partner

who contributes to the household

from a financial perspective,

as well as an emotional perspective,

and, uh, that's important to her.

The fact that Ra'ed now has a job

We should see some things

changing for her, I think.

But let's see.

I told Mom about this,

but I don't know if I told you, Ross, yet.

-You know what's going on with work.

-[Ross] Yeah.

Or the lack thereof.

And so I went

and I spoke to an agent for Broadway.

They said that if I wanted to do it,

I would probably have to really commit.

I'm thinking about doing that.

What do ya'll think?

I mean, I like it. It's a perfect time

if you're financially comfortable.

And then Ra'ed now has a job.

So I'm hoping

-As long as he keeps the job.

-[Robert] As long as he keeps it.

And who knows? I might not get anything.

It might be too fake of a dream.

[Ross] But theoretically,

you don't get anything unless you did it.

You can never look back and say you

didn't do it. But it is a turning point.

I think thinking about doing Broadway

and Haart Sphere are like

It's difficult to know

if it's even possible to do both.

In my head, I wanna think,

"Of course, I can do both."

But I know, like,

how demanding a start-up is and

I don't know if it's possible for me

to also have this other career.

I don't know what's possible.

Ra'ed thinks I should definitely do

the Broadway thing.

[Ross] Yeah, I'm sure.

-He'd have to pay the bills and all that.

-[Robert] That's right.

Think about that.

[Robert] Now especially. Someone

other than me has to pay the bills.

That's right.

Richard needs the best in life.

[laughs]

[upbeat music playing]

-[Shlomo] Pretty good?

-[Robert] How are you?! How's it going?

Hi, I'm Julia! This is Mitizi's sister.

[Robert] This is my Aunt Angie!

You look spiffy, spiffy, spiffy!

-You look good! I like your belt buckle!

-[Robert] Thank you.

It's really a beautiful thing to see

my New York family meet my Texas family.

I mean, there are so many differences

between them.

But in a room

where there's food and drink and dancing,

everyone can find something in common.

Everyone can have a good time.

This is, like, you know,

when you have family, this is the vibe.

Like, our families have vibes

that are so different, you know?

I think it's really cool.

I think they called us to the trough.

Should we go eat?

-I'm hungry.

-And have a drink, yes.

We've been eating non-stop.

-[Julia] Yes.

-[Angie] I hear you have.

[Julia] It's been so much fun.

Thank you, babe. Oh, thank you. Perfect.

-[Robert] My God, the brisket's amazing.

-Brisket's so good.

Oh my God, it's the best brisket

I've ever had.

-Why's this the best brisket you've had?

-[Robert] It's very

-Every time you eat brisket, it's better.

-[Julia] I know, really.

That's Texas, baby.

-That's Texas.

-[Miriam giggles]

Texans make the best brisket.

I'm just gonna call it.

-This tops everything.

-It's hard to top a Jewish brisket.

But this is better than a Jewish brisket.

I'm looking forward to the New York Post

or New York Times article

on how you're dissing Jewish brisket.

[laughs]

-I'm still in the Jewish brisket basket.

-No, I'm sorry. This is better.

Jews are good at making brisket.

I mean, I've heard a lot about Texas.

So I was looking forward,

but, um, they got nothing on it.

So, sorry, Texas.

-This is better than Jewish brisket.

-Yeah.

What if it was Texan Jewish brisket?

-Girl! Girl!

-Girl!

That might be

on a whole other level of deliciousness.

[Robert humming]

[Robert laughs]

[indistinct chatter]

[Robert] That was beautiful.

We want you to know you're always welcome

at our family. All of y'all are.

You can call yourself

Julia Haart Brotherton if you want.

-I would love that.

-There you go.

I know you've struggled with

family accepting you and things like that.

-But absolutely y'all are welcome anytime.

-[Miriam] Thank you so much!

You made me feel so welcome and at home.

I think my biggest takeaway from this time

in Austin has been, you know,

reconnecting with my past.

I have seven sisters and brothers.

I literally raised

my sisters and brothers.

They were my kids.

My mother is one of the strongest,

most powerful people I know.

And I miss her.

I miss that closeness we had.

Now, during this really difficult time,

the worst month of my life,

to not have the people

that I love in my life, that hurts.

That really hurts.

Other than that.

-We're gonna turn on music and dance.

-Let's do it!

-Yeah.

-Yeah, boy!

Let's go!

Woo!

[country music playing]

[cheering]

-[Robert] To the sides.

-That was fun!

-[Batsheva] Nice to be with your family.

-Are you having fun?

-I'm having a really nice time.

-Isn't everyone so

-It's been like the highlight of the week.

-Really?

But I'm, like, sad

that I don't have someone.

-Really?

-It's not like I'm missing Ben.

-But I'm like missing having a person.

-That unit. Yeah.

And there's no part of like being

with family that replaces that.

-It's not the same.

-It's not the same as having a guy who

who listens to you in a different way.

Don't you feel, like, Ra'ed helped you

feel okay over the past, like, month?

Over the past month, I swear to God

I talk a lot of sh*t about Ra'ed

and it's my funny thing.

It's his funny thing, like we do that.

There is zero point zero way I could have

gone through

what we just went through.

Being able to go home

and not talk about it.

-Yep.

-Talk about something different.

Do something totally different.

If I couldn't have done that

That's why with my mom, I know she, like

I spoke to her about it.

She doesn't feel like

I was there for her enough.

And yeah, I checked out.

I'll totally admit to that.

But we always had a person whenever

there was a crisis

and I didn't have anyone.

It's not that I don't love her,

I don't support her,

I don't wanna feel, like, her pain.

But, like, I whatever I'm giving now

is, like, all that I have.

This is the most intense thing

any of us have ever gone through.

And, like, I feel like

the way out is forward.

Right.

And I'm happy you're here. And I love you.

-I love you too.

-If you ever need a boy to b*tch to

-Thank you. I appreciate that.

-I will be your fatter version of Ben.

[laughs]

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