Episodios

  • Ep. 100: Forgotten Hollywood Moguls: Nicholas and Joseph Schenck – with author Michael Benson

    Ep. 100: Forgotten Hollywood Moguls: Nicholas and Joseph Schenck – with author Michael Benson
    May 12 2025
    Michael Benson is the author of more than 60 nonfiction history and true crime books. His latest is Moguls: The Lives and Times of Film Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck, co-written with Craig Singer.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Moguls
    https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9780806543086/moguls/

    Michael’s Books
    https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001HCVE00?ccs_id=5e6cd248-fe92-413d-b0c2-58a9b6ae537b

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    https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
    https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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    38 m
  • Ep. 99: Wrestling is My Gimmick – with WWE legend Barry Horowitz

    Ep. 99: Wrestling is My Gimmick – with WWE legend Barry Horowitz
    May 5 2025
    Barry Horowitz’s professional wrestling career spanned nearly four decades, including memorable runs in both WWF and WCW. His new memoir is titled, Wrestling is My Gimmick: My Life on the Wrong Side of the Three-Count.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Wrestling is My Gimmick
    https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/wrestling-is-my-gimmick/?srsltid=AfmBOooLYziMK4_FDTKxdPzDyRNYfpRhEOG7JUpe6w511-Pu-gfOZw2I

    Barry Horowitz’s Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Horowitz

    Barry Horowitz defeats Skip
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyt67OuO3jw

    Barry Horowitz vs. Goldberg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMsAqwgxSM8

    Hakushi & Barry Horowitz vs. Skip & Rad Radford
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipWVcR99Y5Q

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    https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
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    25 m
  • Ep. 98: Einstein in Kafkaland – with graphic novelist Ken Krimstein

    Ep. 98: Einstein in Kafkaland – with graphic novelist Ken Krimstein
    Apr 28 2025
    Ken Krimstein is a cartoonist and graphic novelist whose latest book is Einstein in Kafkaland. He previously authored The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt; When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiography of Six Yiddish Teenagers; and Kvetch as Kvetch Can, a collection of Jewish cartoons.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Ken’s website
    https://www.kenkrimstein.com/

    Einstein in Kafkaland
    https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/einstein-in-kafkaland-9781635579543/

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    Atheists United Studios
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    45 m
  • Ep. 97: Jewish History through Humor – with author Rob Kutner

    Ep. 97: Jewish History through Humor – with author Rob Kutner
    Apr 21 2025
    Rob Kutner is an award-winning author and television writer whose credits include The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Teen Titans Go!, Ben10, and many more. His latest book is The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Mike Tomren

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting
    https://posthillpress.com/book/the-jews-5000-years-and-counting

    Rob’s IMDb
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1243193/

    God’s Gang
    https://godsgang.com/

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    Jewish Museum of the American West
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    Atheists United Studios
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    19 m
  • Rugrats Passover Special – with actress Melanie Chartoff

    Rugrats Passover Special – with actress Melanie Chartoff
    Apr 14 2025
    Melanie Chartoff voiced Didi Pickles and her mother Minka on Nickelodeon's long-running cartoon, Rugrats. She was also Principal Musso on Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, a cast member on Fridays, and a guest star on Seinfeld, among other credits. More recently, she authored a memoir, Odd Woman Out: Exposure in Essays and Stories.

    A Rugrats Passover – commercial
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAm0b16TMQ

    Melanie’s website
    https://melaniechartoff.com/

    Odd Woman Out
    https://www.amazon.com/Odd-Woman-Out-Exposure-Stories-ebook/dp/B08KFNH246

    Thank You Very Much – trailer
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2aZIOwylo

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    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
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    18 m
  • Ep. 96: Rod Serling: The Twilight Man – with graphic novelist Koren Shadmi

    Ep. 96: Rod Serling: The Twilight Man – with graphic novelist Koren Shadmi
    Apr 7 2025
    Koren Shadmi is a cartoonist, illustrator, and author of The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television. Among his other books are Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula and A For Anonymous: How a Mysterious Hacker Collective Transformed the World.

    Koren’s website
    https://www.korenshadmi.com/

    The Twilight Man
    https://www.humanoids.com/series/233

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    Jewish Museum of the American West
    https://www.jmaw.org/

    Atheists United Studios
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    26 m
  • Ep. 95: Is the Toxic Avenger Jewish? - with Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Ep. 95: Is the Toxic Avenger Jewish? - with Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
    Mar 31 2025
    With recent news that the long-awaited reboot of The Toxic Avenger will finally be released in August 2025, we thought it would be a good time to revisit a question some have been asking since 1984: Is the Toxic Avenger Jewish?

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    The Toxic Avenger (1984; full movie)
    https://tubitv.com/movies/655405/the-toxic-avenger?start=true&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed

    Toxic Crusaders (first episode)
    https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200006906/s01-e01-the-making-of-toxie

    Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews
    https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/L/Lloyd-Kaufman

    Troma Now
    https://watch.troma.com/

    Lloyd Kaufman on Amusing Jews
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2t5NuxujXo&t=2040s

    Mathew Klickstein on Lloyd Kaufman
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Z7UJmfCK8&t=1954s

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    24 m
  • Ep. 94: Jewish Masculinity & Popular Culture – with historian Miriam Eve Mora

    Ep. 94: Jewish Masculinity & Popular Culture – with historian Miriam Eve Mora
    Mar 24 2025
    Miriam Eve Mora is managing director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan and author of Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century. She’s also co-creator of JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience, a comic book and pop culture convention celebrating diverse Jewish themes, characters, and narratives in sequential art.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Miriam’s website
    https://www.miriamevemora.com/

    Carrying a Big Schtick
    https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349625/

    JewCE
    https://jewce.org/

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    Atheists United Studios
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    45 m
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