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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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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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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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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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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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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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