How David Sacks Found God in Hollywood

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I got an Emmy for my work on The Simpsons and a Golden Globe award for uh a show called Third Rock From the Sun which was about aliens impersonating themselves as human beings and that show had a lot of Torah in it for me I felt like the best way that I could say thank you back to God was by keeping shabas I think all of us feel deep down that something is missing and kind of the more sensitive we are as human beings beings the more we're in touch with that aspect that we feel is missing and a lot of us don't know what to do with that sense you know and we try to fill it with different things and Nothing fits and the reason Nothing fits is because it's a god-shaped hole the only thing that fits is God if you're watching this episode on YouTube or Spotify let us know in the comments with the word fire five lucky winners will win the brand new Kut book by riply besser and arts skull and you'll see how it ties into skull and you'll see how it ties into David's life in this thoughtful episode Emmy and Golden Globe winning writer David Sachs known for The Simpsons Third Rock From the Sun Malcolm the middle and more shares his unique balua Journey this isn't a story of dramatic Visions or Divine interventions but one of introspection love and deep realization that Hashem has been orchestrating his life all along from Harvard to Hollywood and Beyond you'll also hear about AR and an incredible organization dedicated to educating inspiring the Jewish World bit Bean a Powerhouse in business Innovation and software Solutions twillery whether

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1. 0:00I got an Emmy for my work on The Simpsons and a Golden Globe award for…
2. 4:3679th Street and my grandmother went she saw rip schomo she loved him she brought my…
3. 9:42you so I want to keep it moving take us through your experience and and I…
4. 14:47and forth just the conversation was so quick and clever that if you were able to…
5. 21:02is wow okay and then as you're doing that you think you're going to stay in…
6. 26:07very toric fascinating at what point did you start I guess shifting into the from life…
7. 31:15pleasure entertainment and Nothing fits and the reason Nothing fits is because it's a god-shaped hole…
8. 37:56from a line of rabbis from rebi manako of Kut her last name is Morgan Stern…
9. 43:11because you have this such a unique position because it's definitely I guess in the from…
10. 48:19a standup person you know you've got to take some of that on you too not…

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