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.
 
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https://www.korenshadmi.com/
 
The Twilight Man
https://www.humanoids.com/series/233
 
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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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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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Jaime Weinman is a cartoon historian and author of the book, Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-Engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite
https://utpdistribution.com/9781989555460/anvils-mallets-and-dynamite/
 
“The Walky Talky Philosophy of Foghorn Leghorn” - book excerpt
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2021/10/anvils-mallets-dynamite-the-walky-talky-philosophy-of-foghorn-leghorn/
 
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Steve Stoliar is the author of the classic memoir, Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House. He also wrote for TV shows like Murder, She Wrote, Simon & Simon, and Sliders, and has written and produced documentaries including Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge. His latest book is Salamis & Swastikas: Letters Home from a G.I. Jew.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Steve’s website
http://stevestoliar.com/
 
Steve’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0831485/
 
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Richard Bernstein is a reporter, foreign correspondent, and cultural critic whose latest book is Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Richard’s website
https://www.richardbernstein.net/
 
Only in America
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703276/only-in-america-by-richard-bernstein/
 
The Jazz Singer (1927)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMvn8Ws-l0c
 
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Michael Skloff is a composer best known for “I’ll Be There For You,” the theme song for Friends. His music is heard on many films and TV shows, as well as on the stage, in concert halls, and even in synagogues.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Michael’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0804488/
 
“I’ll Be There For You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2TyVQGoCYo
 
Friends Final Music Session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_AvlCW-sNg
 
Dream On – theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zls2YQDGIqY
 
Michael Skloff – Composer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRvXNpF9rHk
 
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Nancy Cohen is a “multi-un-disciplinary” filmmaker, artist, and activist. Her candid documentary, My Dinner with Abbie, was filmed with Abbie Hoffman at Sarge’s Deli in Manhattan in 1987. She is currently in post-production on a film about love, obsession, and John Lennon.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Nancy’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169642/?ref_=tt_cst_dr_1
 
My Dinner with Abbie – preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQ_g__C8uw
 
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Mathew Klickstein is a prolific author, filmmaker, and pop culture historian, whose latest book is Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews, part of the Conversations with Filmmakers Series of the University Press of Mississippi.

Lloyd Kaufman has been making independent movies for over 50 years as cofounder and president of Troma Entertainment, and is responsible for the likes of such schlocky “midnight movie” fare as 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒄 𝑨𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓, 𝑺𝒈𝒕. 𝑲𝒂𝒃𝒖𝒌𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑵.𝒀.𝑷.𝑫., 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙪𝙠𝙚 ’𝙀𝙢 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝, and 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐 & 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒕.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Mathew’s website
https://www.mathewklickstein.com/
 
Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/L/Lloyd-Kaufman
 
Troma
https://www.troma.com/
 
Troma Now
https://watch.troma.com/
 
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Jodi Kornfeld is rabbi of Beth Chaverim Humanistic Jewish Community in Deerfield, Illinois, and co-editor of a new book, Contemporary Humanistic Judaism: Beliefs, Values, Practices. 

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Contemporary Humanistic Judaism
https://jps.org/books/contemporary-humanistic-judaism/

Jodi's Bio
https://bethchaverim.net/about-beth-chaverim/our-rabbi

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