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Esther Friesner is a prolific and award-winning science fiction and fantasy author known for her humorous style and thematic focus on gender equality and social justice. Her many books include the Nobody’s Princess, Sphinx’s Princess, the Chicks in Chainmail series, and Threads and Flames, a YA novel about a Jewish girl caught up in the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Esther’s Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Friesner
 
Esther’s Goodreads page
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/33502.Esther_M_Friesner
 
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Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
 
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Aaron Fruchtman is a musicologist and composer whose work examines Jewish film composers during Hollywood’s Golden Age. He holds degrees in music composition from Berklee College of Music and the University of California, Riverside, and a doctorate in musicology from UC Riverside. He also earned an Advanced Studies Certificate in Music for Motion Pictures and Television from the University of Southern California.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Aaron’s Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Fruchtman
 
Sounding the Shofar in Hollywood Film Scores
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbcd1px.14
 
Projections of Musical Jewishness: Composers of Hollywood's Golden Age
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2500c312
 
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https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Jeff Treistman is founder of the Jewish Comics Library of Seattle and the author and publisher of Graven, the library’s newsletter. He also has a Substack blog, Son of the Wicked Child.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
JCLS Website
https://sites.google.com/view/jewish-comics-library/catalog?authuser=0
 
JCLS Catalog
https://www.librarycat.org/lib/JCLS2023
 
JCLS – GoFundMe
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jewish-comics-library-of-seattle-stimulus-package/donate?modal=share&source=btn_story_donate
 
Graven
https://jewishcomicslibrary.substack.com/
 
Son of the Wicked Child
https://jefftreistman.substack.com/
 
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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Andy Muchin is an occasional freelance writer and host of the Sounds Jewish radio show, which has aired weekly since 2010. Sounds Jewish is available on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio-J.com, and PRX, the Public Radio Exchange.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Sounds Jewish
https://exchange.prx.org/series/32262-sounds-jewish
 
Some of Andy’s journalism
https://forward.com/authors/andrew-muchin/
 
https://www.jta.org/author/andrew-muchin
 
https://jewishjournal.com/author/andrew_muchin/
 
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Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
 
Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Jerry Sroka is an actor, writer, and producer known for his roles in Godspell, Antz, The Wild Thornberrys, and many more. His latest film is Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story, co-written with and co-starring his wife, Mariette Hartley.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-Engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Jerry’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820293/
 
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story - website
https://ouralmostcompletelytruestory.com/
 
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story – trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZhr78gRcI
 
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Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Seymour Chwast is one of the most highly-regarded graphic designers in American history. In 1954, he founded the design group Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins. Seymour has executed hundreds of advertising campaigns, designed multiple popular typefaces, and illustrated numerous books. His new book, an illustrated adaptation of Mark Twain’s War Prayer, was just published by Fantagraphics.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Joey Angel-Field
 
Seymour Chwast Archive
http://seymourchwastarchive.com/
 
Push Pin Gallery
http://pushpininc.com/index.php
 
Mark Twain’s War Prayer
https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/mark-twains-war-prayer
 
Seymour Chwast – Offset 2012
https://vimeo.com/54076897
 
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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Jeffrey Braer is a creative marketer, media developer, and brander of food, themed entertainment, consumer products, and companies. His long list of brand partners includes Barbie, Apple’s Beats, ABC, Disney, Doritos, Sanrio, Amazon, Mattel, NBC, Universal, Toyota, Sony, UPN, Betty Crocker, McDonald’s, Good Humor, General Mills, Minute Maid, Coke, Smurfs, NASA/JPL, and many more.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Jeffrey’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0103774/
 
Jeffrey as Skeezy in Last Action Hero (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDxSHMlNnnc
Spiderman (2002) - Stuart Weitzman Billboard Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiaTyUcu5VM
 
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) - Hermes Purse scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYzLjqgppMY
 
Madagascar - Universal Studios Singapore – Jeffrey helped develop this ride 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw4uR30wbDI

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

Theodore Bogosian is an award-winning independent filmmaker and television producer who’s been directing, producing, and writing long-form documentaries for PBS, the New York Times, Discovery, and other networks since 1978. His latest documentary, Live at Mister Kelly’s, about the famous Chicago nightclub, is a collaboration with David Marienthal, the son of Mister Kelly’s co-founder, George Marienthal.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Theodore’s website
https://theodorebogosian.com/
 
Live at Mister Kelly’s – trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ4pOmvWH30
 
Live at Mister Kelly’s – website
https://www.misterkellyschicago.com/
 
Archives of Mister Kelly’s – The Newberry
https://www.newberry.org/news/archives-of-mister-kellys-iconic-chicago-nightclub-to-be-preserved-at-the-newberry

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https://www.coolshul.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
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Josh Frank is the author of Fool The World: The Oral His­to­ry of the Band Called Pix­ies, In Heav­en Every­thing Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers, The Good Inn, a novel co-written with Pixies’ frontman Black Francis, and Giraffes on Horse­back Sal­ad, a graphic novel adaptation of an unmade Marx Brothers movie penned by Salvador Dalí. He also built, owns, and oper­ates the Blue Star­lite Mini Urban Dri­ve-In movie the­atre in Austin, Texas.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Giraffes on Horseback Salad
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539900/giraffes-on-horseback-salad-by-josh-frank-adapted-with-tim-heidecker-illustrated-by-manuela-pertega/
 
Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In
https://www.bluestarlitedrivein.com/
 
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Atheists United Studios
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Stan Zimmerman is a writer, producer, and director best known for his writing on The Golden Girls, Roseanne, and The Gilmore Girls. Stan wrote for both Brady Bunch movies, co-created the Lifetime sitcom Rita Rocks, and has written and directed a variety of theater productions. He also has a new memoir, The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Stan’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0956785/
 
Stan’s website
https://www.zimmermanstan.com/
 
The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Girls/Stan-Zimmerman/9781954676619
 
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Atheists United Studios
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