PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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Roxanne, a new service in Germany offers customers the opportunity to, quote, "rent a," what?
ROXANNE ROBERTS: All right. So the rent a girlfriend thing has been done.
SAGAL: It has.
ROBERTS: Rent a wife has been done.
SAGAL: Yes.
ROBERTS: I might need a hint.
SAGAL: Better reserve now, they get really booked up during Hanukkah.
ROBERTS: Rent a Jew?
SAGAL: Rent a Jew.
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SAGAL: Yes.
ADAM BURKE: Germany is doing this?
SAGAL: A company in Germany is offering people...
ROBERTS: (Laughter)...
SAGAL: ...The opportunity, for a small fee, to talk to a Jew because, according to their website, few Germans know a Jew personally.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Really? I wonder why that is? Can't imagine.
TOM BODETT: (Laughter) So, of course, renting one is a great way to break the ice.
SAGAL: Yes, exactly.
BODETT: Start that relationship over.
SAGAL: Yeah.
BURKE: Also, they had the opportunity to call it Juber (ph) and they missed it.
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SAGAL: Come along, Germany, get on it.
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