Howard Teman is a world-renowned tattooist and poster artist who has a series of lithographs depicting pop culture icons from film, television, music, comedy, sports, and more. He designed t-shirts for bands like Bon Jovi, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Cypress Hill, and can be heard playing piano and percussion on the Guns N’ Roses albums Lies and Use Your Illusion II.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Howard’s website
https://howardteman.com/

Meet Howard Teman
https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-howard-teman-t-man-tattoo-studio/

Tattoo Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkVeTSt8Io

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https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

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https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Jennifer Laderman and Jed Laderman are the daughter and son of television and film writer and producer Fred Laderman, known professionally as Fred Ladd, who was responsible for introducing anime to the Americas. Ladd adapted Astro Boy, Gigantor, Kimba the White Lion, Sailor Moon, and other Japanese animated series for English-language television.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Fred Ladd’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0480456/

Interview with Fred Ladd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA60xlW-oyk&t=1133s

Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/astro-boy-and-anime-come-to-the-americas/

Cartoon Research – remembrance
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/fred-ladd-the-godfather-of-astro-boy-1927-2021/

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https://www.coolshul.org/

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https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Dustin Ellis is an animation writer and producer whose career began at Warner Bros. Animation, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, and Universal Cartoons. He’s best known for the holiday special Babak & Friends: A First Norooz and the PBS series Mixed Nutz.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Dustin’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254813/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Babak & Friends – A First Norooz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed4VeXx7_tU

Mixed Nutz – playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19MzyB012R8&list=PLWMfGPrOv5mc1gZWfmQiaGTXg7z3k6mXk

Curiosity Ink Enlists Dustin Ellis for Animated Originals https://www.animationmagazine.net/2022/03/curiosity-ink-enlists-dustin-ellis-for-animated-originals/

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Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Gary Lassin is the founder and curator of the Stoogeum in Ambler, Pennsylvania—the only Three Stooges museum in the United States. Gary has been president of the Three Stooges Fan Club since 1986, and is the author of a new book, A Tour de Farce: The Complete History of the Three Stooges on the Road.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

A Tour de Farce
https://stoogeum.com/book/

The Stoogeum
https://stoogeum.com/

The Three Stooges Fan Club
https://stoogeum.com/fan-club/

Slap Happy: An Inside Look at the Stoogeum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewUowWKPqM

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https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

EC Comics, Censorship, and The Unwanted – with historian Robert L. Reiner
Robert L. Reiner writes about, curates, and exhibits original comic and fantasy illustration art with a focus on popular culture, censorship, and social change. His new book, The Unwanted, is an illustrated adaptation of a previously unpublished Otto Binder story, written in 1953.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

The Unwanted
https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/robert-l-reiner/products/otto-binders-the-unwanted

What, Me Panic? Celebrating Angelo Torres
https://societyillustrators.org/shop/books-media/si-publications/signed-what-me-panic-celebrating-angelo-torres-exhibition-catalog/

The Eve of Judgment Day
https://www.brandeis.edu/peacebuilding-arts/publications/newsletter/2023/the-eve-ofjudgement-day.html

Collectors' Talk: The Art of EC Comics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHt8QYw2laM

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https://www.coolshul.org/

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https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Artist Katie Herzog is a ranch owner and descendent of German Jewish cattle traders who established a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley over 150 years ago that is still in production today. Her artwork is found in numerous collections, including The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and the Tom of Finland Foundation. She’s been written about in publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, The Advocate, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Currents Exhibit – Monterey Museum of Art
https://www.montereyart.org/exhibition/currents-katie-herzog/

Katie’s Website
https://www.katieherzog.net/

Impact Profile – California FarmLink
https://www.californiafarmlink.org/story/impact-profile-katie-herzog

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https://www.coolshul.org/

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https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Graig Kreindler is an artist known for his oil paintings depicting baseball. His work has appeared in nationally distributed books, newspapers, and magazines, including the United States Postal Service book Play Ball! His paintings hang in the Bob Feller Museum, the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, and many other public and private collections. He’s a recipient of the Norman Rockwell Museum Award, the Illustration Award from the Society of Illustrators, and other honors.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Graig’s website
https://www.graigkreindler.com/

CBS Pittsburgh – feature
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/video/fan-nation-graig-kreindler-painting-past-pirates/

New York Times – feature
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/arts/design/27fiel.html

Wall Street Journal – feature
https://www.wsj.com/articles/perfectionist-graig-kreindler-paints-baseballs-greats-1432307415

ESPN – interview
https://www.espn.com/radio/play/_/id/29675840

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https://www.coolshul.org/

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https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Fred Agree is a resident of Alaska and the first Jew to complete the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Fred’s Iditarod bib and other ephemera from the 1984 and 1985 races are on display at the Alaska Jewish Museum in Anchorage. He also designed the Alaska license plate for Iditarod finishers.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Faces of Iditarod
https://faces.iditarod.com/fred-agree/

Iditarod Finisher’s License Plate
https://iditarod.com/where-did-the-official-iditarod-finishers-license-plate-originate/

Slightly to the Right of America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-01/27/030r-012700-idx.html

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https://www.coolshul.org/

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https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Kathi Diamant is a broadcaster, author, professor, and director of the Kafka Project at San Diego State University. Her book, Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant, has been translated into several languages. More recently, she authored Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Kathi’s website
https://kathidiamant.sdsu.edu/

Kafka Project
https://kafka.sdsu.edu/

Kafka’s Last Love
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathi-diamant/kafkas-last-love/9780465015511/?lens=basic-books

Heart of the Zoo
https://shopzoo.com/products/copy-of-heart-of-the-zoo-how-san-diego-zoo-director-chuck-bieler-earned-his-stripes

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https://www.coolshul.org/

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https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Mastaneh Moghadam is a filmmaker, licensed clinical social worker, and executive director of the non-profit Cross Cultural Expressions. She wrote and directed the film The Djinn in the Pen (2020) and wrote the screenplay for Wake Up Sleeping Beauty (2023).

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-Engineer: Mike Tomren

IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1886346/?ref_=nmfm_nmfm_nm

Cross Cultural Expressions
https://cceccc.org/

The Djinn in the Pen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMg-7b6w96U&t=36s

Wake Up Sleeping Beauty (Farsi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0CMxXzJilY&t=1418s

Wake Up Sleeping Beauty (Russian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjjzn0Lrmj4

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https://www.coolshul.org/


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https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios