My Unorthodox Life (2021) s01e04 Episode Script

1
[tense music playing]
Like, what deep, dark, disturbing things
is she sharing with everyone?
[Ben] I just opened a page and there's
it references one of her escapades
- [Batsheva] Oh God
- Literally just opened a page
Why don't you try, like,
skimming for our name?
[Ben] Um, yeah
Should I be nervous?
Your face doesn't look so happy
"Then it was time
for Batsheva to start dating."
"She was 18 years old."
"It still hadn't occurred to me that
marrying someone off at 18, 19 was wrong."
"That was the way the Torah and what
Hashem wanted, and that was that."
"I gave her a vibrator as a gift
and told her that she should
figure out how to have an orgasm."
"I wasn't having any daughter of mine
miss out on the pleasures of orgasm."
This is very uncomfortable, Batsheva
[Miriam] "When Batsheva met Binyamin,
they were in love,
and they were both 19 and super horny."
"There was no way on Earth
negiah
to the point of having sex
outside of wedlock."
Why Ima knows this, I do not know
"They came to me" Oh, that's why
[chuckles]
"They came to me month after month
begging me to let them get married."
"I was also filled with inner sadness
that these two young kids
who didn't even know how to have sex
were forced to marry just to have sex."
Is that too much?
- Uh, which part? [chuckles]
- Let me just continue
[laughs]
[Batsheva] What's interesting about books
is that they're all from, like,
one person's perspective
- You know? This is her perspective
- [Ben] Mm-hmm
[Ben] Right
Jesus
"After they got married,
Ben came to me with another issue."
"Ben, clearing his throat
after much hemming and hawing,
looked me in the face
and said, 'Can you help us?'"
"'We can't figure out how to do it.'"
'"We tried last night
and nothing happened.'"
Oh, my God
I'm gonna I'm just going to stop
That's like, I don't know
It's extremely uncomfortable
I'd like to talk to her
We don't need to have
our explicit sex life in the book
[Ben sighs]
[upbeat music playing]
I'm lookin' pretty ♪
Hot damn, I'm lookin' fine ♪
Wanna get with me ♪
I like when I have the balls in my pocket,
it looks like I have wrestler thighs,
and I'm into that
♪
[Julia] Gentle, young man! Gentle!
- [growls]
- [Julia chuckles]
I just need to let off some steam,
but I have no idea what I'm doing
Let's warm up a little bit
No pressure. It's not the US Open
- [Robert chuckles]
- [Julia] Whoo-hoo!
Silvio says we need to pick these up,
so let's not get too many in the trees
[Julia] What do you think happens
if they read it
and they're super angry or unhappy?
Right. These are questions
that time will answer
[Julia] I'm so nervous!
You think I should I bring it up
or they'll bring it up?
- [Robert] Um
- Should I wait for them?
I think yes, I think for sure
Just 'cause I'm standing here
doesn't mean I want to play!
Looked like you were ready! Sorry,
I misread it. I thought you were ready
- Oh, my God, you're running?
- Motherfucker!
- [Julia cackles]
- [Robert laughing]
Okay. That was great tennis,
let's have a drink
- [sighs] I'm dead
- That definitely warrants our pizza lunch
Look what Aron wrote me
- Want me to read it out loud?
- Yes
"I love you for who you are,
Ima, not for who you were."
Aww, that's amazing
- Isn't that so nice?
- That's really lovely
He saw I was freaking out yesterday,
and he writes this beautiful message
- Yeah
- He's the greatest. [inhales deeply]
Okay, I get very emotional about Aron
Um
It really touched my heart,
you know, especially after everything
that's happened the last week
And worrying about him
and the whole fundamentalism thing,
to have him write something
like that meant so much
He's the best
I really love my kids
[Julia] It's lunchtime, let's do it
Oh my God, that's so good
I didn't see anybody today
How was your morning?
[Shlomo] Me and Miriam
were taken on a journey
Taken on a journey?
[Shlomo] Through your life
[sighs] So, can we just kind of discuss
the elephant in the room here?
I feel, like, massive tension
floating in the air,
so clearly you guys have read something
Do you want to tell me how you're feeling?
You want to ask me questions,
you want to say something?
Um so, like, yeah,
when it comes to stories about you,
it's very impressive and open,
but the more semi-issue that I took
was when it comes to stories
about, let's say, me and Batsheva
and it's coming from your angle
Right
Stuff that pertains to you and is
your story, it's your business to tell
I would never tell you to not write
something about yourself, it's your thing
But part of my experience is you guys,
I can't not include my children
Everyone has an opinion
on how they want to be perceived
and on how things happened differently
We did find something
that we would like to not be included
- I think I we found the same thing
- On page 145
About me and Ben, personally,
in our own sexual experience,
I don't think is anybody else's business
But you understand why I have to
why I wrote it?
[tense music playing]
It was very graphic on some things,
and I don't think it needs to be graphic
- [Julia] Really?
- Yes
I don't remember it being graphic
- Can you reference that?
- Yeah, I'll show you
- So I don't want it read out loud
- Yeah, that's fine
- Right, this
- [Julia] Okay, that one sentence?
- [Ben] No, like I told you before
- [Julia] About Okay, oral sex
All of that, I don't think
I don't want to hear the explicit details
of my sexual experiences
Why do you think she got so upset?
I think for Batsheva, revisiting
the times where you weren't around,
she still had
those feelings of abandonment
I think I know it's a lot for her
to revisit and relive it
and I just think that her sensitivity
towards it is so hyper
Got it
Um, and I think that it was a very
hard time for us and even more so for her
[Julia] Hey, mamacita
How you doing, you okay?
Yeah, I just I didn't want to be,
like, sitting there listening to you
Ben kind of said that,
you know,
even reading the passages you did
kind of brought up
all the stuff that happened between us
when I first left
I thought we were, like, past that
and everything
I'm just wondering
if there's any residual things
that you still want to talk about
about then,
or, like, if it's brought up bad memories
or, you know
I understand why
you're sharing your story
I'm sure it's going to be
extremely inspiring to a lot of people
The reason I don't want to read it,
and, like,
seeing Ben flip through the pages,
and, like, skimming different things,
and seeing my name pop up, it's just like
I feel like that was a very, like,
dark place in our relationship
- [Julia] Yeah, that was terrible
- It was really sucky
It's still too close to, like, everything
that I did experience with you
- That it's not
- It brings back sad memories
You had one set of beliefs
until you were 20,
and then the person
you trusted the most said,
"Okay, everything I've taught you
for the past 20 years is a lie."
But when I was teaching that to you,
I really believed it
because it's what I had been taught
I'm even talking about, like, pre-that
I thought we were talking about the fact
frum stuff
that I had taught you
No, you always told us
that we were your greatest joy in life
and that it was the best job you ever had
So it was, like, confusing to me
to understand why you weren't able
to be there for me as a mom
during that time
I loved being your mom!
It wasn't about that, it was
about not being allowed to be me
I mean, look,
what we went through is crazy
Everything I wanted to do was bad,
and so after years and years
And yes, of course,
it didn't mean that I loved you less
and it didn't mean
that I didn't love being a mom
because it wasn't about being miserable
being your mom,
it was about being miserable
not being myself
I didn't know that when you were going
through it, that you were so miserable
You were married
You were starting your own life,
and I had no life
I had lived my entire life for my children
and I had put back
all the misery that I felt,
because I wanted you guys
to have a good childhood
But at a certain point,
it was literally life or death
If I hadn't gone the day that I did,
I would have killed myself
Hearing, like, how terrible, like, your
What you were going through
and how you didn't want to live,
like, I you know, I didn't know that
I understand that, like, you weren't able
to be there for me as a mom
In order to get yourself out,
you needed to be mentally on your own
I wasn't
able to explain to her what I was doing,
because I myself was not well,
but seeing her deal with her own pain
and the memory
of how alone she felt when I left,
she was justifiably angry with me
It makes me so sad
It was really hard to go through
and I have closed that chapter of
Closed it because you don't
want to think about it
or because you really understand now?
No, I understand. You couldn't It wasn't
You wanted a different life for all of us
and these were the steps
you needed to take to get there
I have my version of my story,
because I lived through everything,
but you were my daughter
living through that
and that's
a totally different perspective
You have every right to it
This has been weighing on me,
this fear that we're gonna go backwards
and it's gonna harm our relationship
I am genuinely so grateful
that my children are all so different
and they're part of the process
and that if there's something
in the book that bothers them,
I can change that
I don't want to hurt them
I'm really happy we had this conversation
Yeah, me too
Let's hopefully never have it again
You know I love you, you're the most
important thing in my life
I've been extremely inspired
by you and your journey,
and I'm very thankful
for everything you've done
- Baby, I love you so much
- And
To hear that she was so unhappy,
I didn't know all of that information
I didn't know why she left,
I didn't understand it,
and now I can see my mom
is a person just like I am,
and she is so amazing
and I have so much to learn from her
[Julia] I'm sorry, babe, that you ever had
to go through any rough spots
- But look where we are. Look at this
- I'm very thankful
[upbeat pop music playing]
- [Batsheva] Love you!
- I love you
I'm wakin' up to a brand new day ♪
I'm shakin' off what the haters say ♪
'Cause there's nothing you can do
That's gonna take my swag away ♪
I'm gonna have a brand new face
They won't recognize me
One of those people,
they're gonna undo the wrappings
- If your face is by your butt, then yes
- What are you doing to my butt?
You're having a butt treatment
Lord in Heaven
[Julia] Are you excited
for your treatment?
- Yes, I'm so excited
- I have a surprise for you. Beep-beep
- A surprise?
- Yes, baby
[Robert gasps]
Let me explain our history of procedure
- Robert tries everything
- [Robert] Mm-hmm
If he doesn't die
and he likes it, then I try it
Oh, that's such a good way
of describing it
- To you!
- To you, to you!
To us!
To our faces
What are you having pumped in yours?
I'm not We're not doing faces
For the 19th time, we're doing butt cheek
Today, I figured Robert
would like Emsculpt
because it's not actually a procedure,
it's just like this electronic signal
that gets sent to your muscles,
makes your muscles contract
And I knew Robert,
who loves exercise as much as I do,
he's gonna be obsessed with it
- Is it painful?
- It's not comfortable
- Is it like, uh Will I get aroused?
- But neither is working out
- If you would
- As it pulses my butt?
If you get aroused from that,
I don't want to know about it
[Robert laughing]
- [Batsheva] Hey!
- Hi!
- So nice to meet you
- Same
- How are you?
- You look beautiful. I'm good
I'm helping Elite put together
a social media guide,
and, like, one of the parts
we want to focus on
is helping models who, like, don't
really understand social media
kind of finding their way
with, like, Instagram poses,
or how to hold themselves on TikTok,
and things like that
I am currently a part-time student at FIT,
the Fashion Institute of Technology
I'm studying marketing, which is
really helping me further my career,
and now I work at Elite
as a social media consultant
Took my mom a long time
to hire me in this position
She wanted me to get to a certain
follower count and place in my career
where she would view me
as a content creator and influencer
I have officially reached
one million followers on TikTok
I feel very thankful
that I've finally gotten to that point,
and I am helping Elite develop a program
to share all the knowledge
and expertise I've learned
to help their models
to develop their social media,
gain followers, and gain influence,
and really change the industry
Definitely when I'm shooting a campaign,
I put together a mood board,
but it would be a good idea
to have, like, a Pinterest board
of, like, go-to poses
So I would say, like, maybe, like,
we can do, like, a standing pose,
like, how to create triangles
It just, like, makes a photo
a little bit more interesting
Dope! The fact that you
already made a mood board,
- which I do for myself too, is amazing
- Oh, thank you
As I've seen my mom grow
and leave the community
and kind of pursue
this really incredible life,
what my mom has shown me
is that there's so much more out there,
and there's so much opportunity,
and I really want to be successful
I want to be a CEO,
I want to be in the business long-term
- Thank you, good luck with the rest!
- Thank you!
- Have a good day. Bye
- All right! You too!
[blender whirring loudly]
Hi, babe
That's loud
Sorry. How was your call
with the posing and stuff?
It was great. Speaking of, like,
careers and stuff, what
No, I'm not speaking Yeah?
I don't know
when it plans to pick up again. I mean
People are just
not coming back to the city
Like, people are leaving
the city faster than they're coming back
Usually it's busy because students are
going to school, getting their first jobs,
people in general move
before the school year for their kids,
and, like, there's nothing happening
I think because of COVID
So what's have you thought about
what your plan is going to be?
I've thought about switching industries
I don't know to what
That's a thing to discuss
Maybe something that brings
in a consistent paycheck
[Batsheva] Mm-hmm
Part of the reason I went into real estate
is because you really just need
Um it's the educational requirements
You just need a high school diploma,
which I have. I didn't go to college
I didn't try different things,
see what I liked,
see what interests me,
see what didn't interest me
yeshiva
and you're surrounded by people
learning everything you're learning,
you don't feel sort of the lack
of secular education as much
- But when you start working in the
- Outside world
Or the real world,
you do feel a little bit handicapped
sometimes in certain areas
You have to give me a little time now
to, like, figure it out again
because it might take time for me
to get to where I need to go
Well, I mean, obviously, I want you
to be happy and do something you feel
I want to be productive
This is not my ideal situation either
[Batsheva] It's hard for me
to see Ben like this
'cause I know that
he wants something more,
and he just feels lost
and doesn't really know what to do,
and I know that
that's a really shitty feeling
So I want him to find
his place and his calling
[Ben] Sorry,
I don't know what else to tell you
- [Julia] How you feeling?
- Like I need to be nipped and tucked
[Julia] Let's do it
[doctor] Hi, guys
- Hey, it's so good to see you guys!
- Hey!
- Good to see you
- [doctor] Great! So
Emsculpt is like doing
20,000 squats
in 30 minutes
Okay. Is there be gonna be, like,
any butt-related side effects?
- No butt-related side effects except
- [Julia] You have a beautiful ass!
This is something I've never done,
but I want to do it. I love it all
Give me a cream, give me a laser,
give me any type of machine
You've got an LED lamp?
I'll sit under it. You've got a syringe?
I'll put it in my face
I don't care what, give it to me!
- [doctor] Here we go
- [Julia laughs]
[Robert] Okay
- [Julia] Robert!
- Hold my phone
- [doctor] You got it?
- Let's say a prayer
- [Robert] So what's going on top of me?
- [doctor] The paddles
- Ready?
- I'm ready
[doctor] Go to 30
[Robert grunts]
- Okay!
- [doctor 2] You can get over 50
- There's no
- [Robert] I can do over 50
- [doctor 2] Go
- [Robert] I love things over 50
Oh, my God. This is [laughing]
- It feels like electro-shock treatment!
- [Julia laughing] Baby!
- [doctor] Be back later
- [doctor 2] Thanks for the entertainment
- Thank you so much, guys
- [doctor 2] No problem!
- [Robert grunts]
- [laughing]
[Robert] That was a heavy one
[Julia] Robert, after this,
how about you do me a favor?
[Robert] Okay
[Julia] When is the last time
you went on a date?
[laughing]
- Do you even remember?
- Uhh
Mmm probably like
- Truth, don't bullshit me
- Three
I think four years ago
Four years!
The thing with Robert is that he is,
like, the greatest person on Earth
and he doesn't see it,
and it drives me crazy
Go out on a date, just enjoy yourself
Stop worrying so much
Get out of your head and into the bed
Come on. I want you to go out
I want you to have a life
[Robert] I don't want to go on a date
- [Julia] Why?
- I don't know why
I'm not thin, I'm the opposite of thin!
Look how much weight you lost
You look amazing
- No
- Now your butt is gonna be tight
- What else do you need?
- I look like a roast chicken
I think in in the long-term,
in in a five-year projection plan,
I think I'm gonna be open to dating
but at the moment, it's not a priority
I'm focused on what we're trying
to achieve at work
It's very important to me. I want us to
Can I just say that
you said the same thing four years ago
[in low voice] "In my five-year projection
plan." Five years are up, baby
No more nonsense
- There's no ticker on this!
- [mocking grunt]
Yes, there is a ticker
- Let me set you up with someone
- [machine whirring]
I'm not ready
That's gonna be a no for me
- Please, please, please!
- No
- I need more time. I can't do it now
- Come on!
- [laughing]
- [grunts] This is quite a sensation
Do they offer this for the penis?
[both laughing]
- [Julia] A motion sensor for my hands?
- [tech] Yeah
[Julia] So my avatar's hands will move
the same way that my hands do?
[tech] Exactly
I'm scared. Is this really how
it's supposed to be?
Not under my hair?
Okay, let's have some fun
I'm excited because there's
this new technology
There's these CGis,
these computer-generated images,
there's all these avatars out there
And people are like, "Oh my God."
"The fake people are going
to replace the real people."
"Our talent
isn't gonna have work, blah, blah, blah."
But my opinion is, "Why not utilize
new technology in our own interest?"
And so what I'm doing is I'm creating
the first ever fully CG agency
of my existing talent
So instead of avatars replacing my talent,
avatars are just going to be
another tool in my talent's tool kit
to build themselves into brands
and to create longevity in their careers
Punch, little jab. Little jabs
- Hey, babe!
- Hi, what's going on?
The creation
of my digital kick-ass avatar
Oh my God, even in your heels
By the way, it's the most exercise
I've done in seven months
I'm sure. [laughing]
I'm just going to change
Just hold on one second
Did you see what I was doing?
- It was really
- How cool is that?
So this is the future
I like change, change is good
- Gonna add that in your book?
- I can add that
It will be 1,470-whatever pages instead
- Uh, anyway
- Yeah?
- I did want to talk to you
- Yeah?
I'm pregnant
- Are you serious?
- No, I'm joking
That was so not funny
- Why would you do that? That was so mean!
- [laughing] I wanted to see your face!
Unless you're in your thirties,
in which case I'll be very happy for you
Thank you
What I really wanted
to talk to you about was Ben
Oh, okay
Real estate has been dead,
so he feels crappy about it
This is a perfect moment
for him to kind of reassess
what his future will look like
And I'm happy to talk to him about it
What my goal has always been
for my kids is to learn from them
what it is they want
and then help them get it
The reality is,
99% of people who leave the community,
they're not equipped
to deal with the outside world
They have no education
Batsheva changed career paths many times
until she found what she wanted to do,
and I was completely behind her
in every path that she chose
Look, it took me till I was 42 years old
to go and force my way into a career,
so, you know, I have no judgment on that
and the same holds true for Binyamin
I want him to have a good career
Of course, I'll give you everything
and you can have everything that I have,
but the greatest gift I can give you
is to help you guys become really
self-reliant and financially independent
- I'm making money now!
- I know, I'm so proud of you
- But I want you to never rely on anybody
- I know
- I know
- Ever, not even me
[upbeat music playing]
- [Julia] Hey, my love!
- How are you?
Whatcha doing?
I am choosing pictures
for my new asset management company
Let me see what you're taking from
- I love this one
- Yeah
because it's like you
against the elements
and also, FYI,
you are swimming with icebergs
It also just shows you're a leader
and you are an adventurer, explorer
Maybe that is not what you want
to convey with a fund, but [laughing]
That does make a good point,
but I really love this photo
That's a different story
[Julia] One of my favorite things
about Silvio is that he's never bored
He likes deep-sea diving
and he loves whales
and his idea of vacation
is to go to the middle of nowhere
and commune with nature
- Guess who's coming?
- I don't know. Who's coming?
I have a shadchan coming to the house
- You had what?
shadchan
- What does that mean?
- A matchmaker
- A matchmaker?
- Yes
Who are you matching who with?
Guess who? Take a big deep guess
Who has not gone on a date in 200 years?
- In 200 years?
- Yes. Come on
Robert?
- Very good! Correct!
- Ohh!
Robert, it is amazing news!
This means we are getting
somebody to take care of him!
You don't have to babysit him
the whole day!
- I don't babysit him, my love!
- He'll have his own life
That's amazing!
[both laughing]
- Bring it down a notch, my love!
- That's amazing!
- I love you!
- [Robert] Knock, knock!
Hey, my love
Hey Robert,
do we get you even in the bathtub?
- [Julia] Don't forget, be home by 3:00
- Why?
- [Julia] Robert's birthday party?
- Why I don't remember that?
You have selective memory
when it comes to Robert
Robert with his own life
Can you imagine? I figured you'd be happy
I'm totally happy
- [doorbell rings]
- Hang on. I think that's the matchmaker
Jessy, can you get the door, please?
Wish me luck
- Hi! I'm Julia
- Hi, I'm Cindy!
- Lovely to meet you
- Thank you
- This is my husband, Silvio
- And again your name is?
Cindy, but they call me Cinderella
- That's my nickname
- Cinderella, okay!
- Bye, my love. Here, please have a seat
- [Cindy] Thank you
I've got a challenge for you
- Okay
- Are you ready for a challenge?
I'm always challenged
every day of my life
[both laugh]
I have an amazing
Like, literally my best friend
He's really, really special to me
He doesn't actually know
that I reached out to you
or that I called you
or that I'm trying to set him up
I asked him to come over. He thinks
he's coming here for a work meeting
- Mm-hmm
- Please, help me get this man a date
I'm gonna try to help him
as long as he's open with me,
- and we can get him
- He probably won't be
But I'm gonna pull teeth
I'm very good with pulling teeth
- [doorbell rings]
- [Julia] Ready? Here we go
- [Robert] Hi
- [Julia] You're looking very chic today!
Thanks
[Julia kisses]
- I want you to meet a friend of mine
- Nice to meet you
- Nice to meet you. You're so handsome
- [Robert] Oh, thank you!
- And colorful as well
- Me? Colorful?
Why? You have color
on your beautiful shirt
All the colors of the rainbow
Your parents must be very gorgeous,
because you're very handsome
Oh wow, thank you. I'm sorry,
I-I don't think I was properly introduced
[Julia] I did. Cindy
I do matchmaking here in New York,
Florida, uh, Venezuela, Chile
You name it, I do it
Israel, any town, any little city
- You're here to meet with Shlomo?
- No, I'm here to meet with you
- With me?
- [Cindy] With you!
Isn't that strange?
This is not at all what I want to do
This is not how I want to go about it
Can you meet me
in the Hamptons this Sunday?
- No. No, I don't want to do it!
- I'll send you a driver
You're so lovely and so sweet
Thank you so much, but this is not at all
what I want to do. This is
His mouth is saying this,
but his eyes are saying, "Set me up."
[Cindy] Right, his eyes are glowing
Why are you I don't want to do this
I thought we had a conversation
where I told you why I'm not comfortable
to do it, and now here I walk in
I don't remember this conversation at all
I have no memory of this thing
I think you do want to date
Yeah, but it should be on my time frame,
on my schedule, not on yours
Its not about schedule
I think the reason you are not dating
has nothing to do with schedule or time
I think it has to do with insecurity
and not realizing your own self-worth
Jumping off in the deep end
is not the way for me to go
- Yeah, it is!
- Pinky toe into the pool
Then you're never gonna go into the pool
I want you to fucking swim!
[tense music playing]
I'm not ready. I want to focus on work
I'm not comfortable going out
Those are all excuses!
This idea that, like, I have to go
on a date to find happiness
is the most ridiculous thing
I've ever heard
I don't think you'll find happiness
on a date. Going on a date, to me,
means that you're self-confident
and secure in who you are
and happy with what you look like
That's the only way to prove it?
It can't be in a boardroom,
it can't be doing what I'm doing,
building the business?
- I got to go on a date?
- Yeah
- I want to see you get vulnerable
- That's ridiculous!
It's the same story you tell
about yourself and the community
"My success is adjacent to someone else"?
It isn't about being "adjacent,"
it's about letting yourself be vulnerable
and opening up to other human beings
That is its own form of courage,
and I know you have it in you
and you need to just stop being afraid
In no world am I ready to seek
the advice of a matchmaker
I do want to date again, eventually
But this is not what I need
This isn't about time,
and this isn't about work
This is because you are afraid
to open up to someone
I need to be comfortable with myself
before I can be with someone else
- There you go
- There you go!
I already know the solution,
it's not a matchmaker!
- I guaran-damn-tee you
- You need to go on a date
It was such a pleasure to meet you
Thank you for your time
- He's not listening
- I love you. This is not what I want
- This is weird
- [Julia] You're being dramatic, Robert
- [Robert] I'm going back to the office
- [Julia] Robert Brotherton!
[Robert] This is not how I thought
this evening would go
- [Cindy] If you need me, call me
- [Julia] You're such a drama queen!
[groans]
[upbeat music playing]
I see food coming, just saying
I basically ordered
everything on the menu
[Batsheva] I'm hungry
- Everything in the middle
- [Ben] Can I get another one?
I'm using this for there
so you can still eat it,
'cause it doesn't have any
non-Kosher food on it
- Thank you, Ima. I appreciate that
- [Julia] You're welcome!
Ahh! Hold on
Uh, I had a very interesting day
Like all days
When do you not?
Yes, that's true
But today was particularly interesting
I think Robert's actually mad at me
- Why?
- For real?
[Julia] For real
Robert and I never really fight
We get so nervous
when the other one's not happy
that we have to immediately make up
because otherwise
neither of us can function
This is the first time in our relationship
he actually stormed out of the house
[Miriam] Whoa. What happened?
shadchan
- Like a shadchan?
shadchan
I met her
What is the reason for this?
My personal belief is that he's insecure
about what he looks like, which is crazy
- He looks so good
- Beautiful
If someone likes Robert, Robert thinks
that there's something's wrong with them
I think maybe it's a self-love situation
It is totally a soft-love situation
So the shadchan was
my out-of-the-box idea
[Miriam] Okay
I now have a no-box-exists idea
[Miriam] Oh, God
If he thinks I'm giving up now
after he stormed out
- Uh-oh
- he does not know me
Basically, we're going to have a funeral
- For your friendship?
- [Julia] Not for the friendship!
It's going to be like a funeral
for all his insecurities
and whatever's holding him back
from dating someone and finding love
I'm gonna do something that's
so ridiculous, so outrageous,
and so Robert-perfect
that he will not be able to resist
He'll have so much fun,
he'll feel so loved
that I've gone all the way out
to renting a yacht
So I'm gonna basically tell him
that there is a black-tie event,
and we're going to dress very solemnly
[Batsheva] I have to think of my outfit
Like all black everything
So I need all of your support
so he'll feel so good that we put in
so much effort to make this work
[Miriam] You're so sweet, Mama
Um, that's what I hope he feels,
and he realizes that it's coming
from a place of love
We are going on a yacht
I figure if he doesn't like it,
I'm throwing him overboard
You're gonna throw him overboard?
[all laughing]
[upbeat music playing]
- [Ben] Hello
- [Julia] Hi
Hug or handshake to keep it official?
- [Julia kisses] No
- How are you?
- [Julia] Good
- [Ben] You look incredible
[Julia] You look amazing
Thank you
Julia's someone who can understand,
I think, where I am,
because she didn't find what she was
passionate about until later in life
She's someone who I respect tremendously,
but at the same time,
I am nervous what she's going to say
Julia can say anything. I don't know
She's brutally honest, so I'm nervous
at what she could possibly say
I'm here because I just wanted to have
a proper, official meeting with you
- I brought my resume. Um
- Let me see
I'm fortunate that you're my mother-in-law
and you're gonna help me,
but I also want to prove
that I'm very serious about this
What I really need is to find
something that I'm passionate about,
something I can succeed at,
to provide the lifestyle
that Batsheva wants
deserves to be provided for her
So, again, I really appreciate your time
First of all, I want you to know
that, like, your searching
for a career is very normal
I mean, look at me, I started, you know,
my this entire life at 43
You shouldn't feel bad or upset
that you haven't figured it out yet,
because I think that's part of life
I've known you for ten years
I think I know you pretty well
I think you have two different skill sets
One route that you can take
is more the business development
You know, business route
You're a good salesperson
You're very personable, people like you
The other direction is
you are always very well-dressed
- Thank you
- And I think you have a great eye
So my other suggestion
would be to go on the design side
Um, I know you don't have any background,
but hey, I started a shoe brand
without ever having any background
in fashion, and I did okay
As long as you're willing to learn
- First of all, wow. Wow
- That was my idea. [laughing]
Do you have, like, a a gut feeling
as to which one is more interesting,
or do you want to think about it?
Like, my knee-jerk reaction,
I would probably go the fashion route
I love fashion. Growing up,
I got into fashion at a very young age
I was made fun of
for wearing dress pants to high school
- Loafers, button downs
- Really? You never told me!
- Yeah
- Even when you were wearing a black hat?
Yeah, this is when I was 12, 13, 14
- I had a collection of GQ magazines
- No way!
- Did you have to hide them?
- They were on a drawer
I do see a real innate talent
Now, innate talent isn't enough,
but I do think it's something
you could be really, really successful at
That sounds amazing
Let's go talk to Michele
No no time like the present
- Thank you
- Let's get this done
[Julia] Hey, guys!
[all greeting]
[Julia] Ooh, I love this sweatshirt
- So chic!
- Thank you. You look great
- [Julia] Representing
- Of course
- Can I just talk to you for a second?
- Of course
So basically, Ben is, like, obsessed
with clothes and fashion
Right
So, uh, he doesn't want
to be a real estate agent anymore
The only thing he's ever sold
is our apartment!
- [laughing]
- Don't say that
You're so dressed up
Are you
- Ooh, ooh, super soft
- applying for a loan today?
I'm the new elevator button presser
and security guard
Oh my gosh, that's exciting
- You're better than any school
- Okay
- I know it's a lot to ask
- No, that's okay
He's such a good kid
He'll do anything you say
Can you take him under
and kinda teach him?
- Of course, of course
- Binyamin!
- It's official
- Wow
- Michele is going to mentor you
- Yes
[Julia] I expect hard work
You're gonna kiss his toes all day long
- You can whip him when you need to
- [Michele] Okay. What size are you?
[Ben] Uh, 38
Put this on, this jacket
- [Julia] Oh!
- [Michele] Oh, wow!
[Julia] I like that
That looks good
I guess we found the model for today
I'll do whatever it takes
to learn this business
If you need a model
- [Michele] Of course, we're desperate
- Not anymore
Nothing better to learn
You got another fit
I like that can-do attitude, Ben
- There's a changing room behind you
- [Ben] Okay
[Robert] Stand against that wall, please
Great. Maybe one more pose
That was a head turn, less of a pose
Change t-shirts really quickly
Oh, Ben
How do they do it?
[Robert] He looks like he's in the line
for Trader Joe's
- [Robert] Are they a little baggy in the
- [Michele] Crotch?
[Ben] No, I fill them out
And jump
[Robert] An actual jump Oh
Oh! I don't think this is a full-time job
The clothes are looking good
and that's the most important,
but I don't think
he's right for a fit model
- It was a little funny
- No, of course not
He wants to be a fashion designer,
but I thought he took it in stride
You know what?
I remember my first internship,
and I had lots of things that I had to do
that I didn't think were
- Not crazy things!
- Taping people's ass cheeks?
- What?
- Taping people's ass cheeks
Never did I have to tape an ass cheek
[laughing] I don't know
Dream job
[laughing]
I'm takin' on the world ♪
Makin' it a good time
A good time, a good time ♪
I'm hangin' with the birds ♪
Yeah, I'm feelin' so fly
So fly, so fly ♪
Ohh, oh-oh-oh ♪
Ohh, oh-oh-oh ♪
I'm takin' on the world ♪
Makin' it a good time
A good time, a good time ♪
I'm gonna take on the world ♪
Take on the world ♪