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Get a taste of our podcasts through the new Reboot Presents channel with our Replay special. Visit our favorite episodes of podcasts past. Every two weeks we will release a favorite episode from our podcast archives, each offering a humorous and insightful guide to Jewish ideas and culture. Previous podcasts include The Kibitz, Kasher v. Kasher, Closening, and In Quarantine with Steve Bodow. Subscribe now to catch them all and be the first to know about our upcoming series launches happening ...
Your hilarious and insightful guide to Jewish ideas and culture. Join journalist Dan Crane and comedian Jessica Chaffin (Ronna & Beverly) as they explore activism, Jewish atheism, anti-semitism, love, sex, comedy, death and more with guests like David Wain, David Baddiel, Rabbi Sharon Brous, the Sklar Brothers, Tiffany Shlain, Moshe Kasher, Joel Stein and many others. A project of Reboot.
Ronna Glickman & Beverly Ginsberg are the best-selling co-authors of You'll Do A Little Better Next Time: A Guide to Marriage and Re-marriage for Jewish Singles ("It says Jewish in the name -- but it's for everyone!"). These outspoken fiftysomethings from Boston, who can be seen regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA, dispense their unique brand of relationship advice while interviewing/interrogating celebrity guests. Looking for the archives? All episodes older than 6 month ...
Despite his tiny, fleeting epiphanies, host Drew Droege has no idea what his morally bankrupt friends are going to tell him. Painful tales of forbidden desire, embarrassing stupidity, and downright garbage are spun together in search of a larger truth. Lower your expectations.
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Replay: In Quarantine with Steve Bodow - Ronny Chieng Would Try Parking Garage Standup At This Point
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To mark Chinese New Year, we are revisiting Season 2 Episode 6 of the In Quarantine with Steve Bodow podcast originally aired in September 2020. After five months quarantined in Sydney, the Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng tells host Steve Bodow about returning to NYC, why Australia kicked our corona response ass, and what Chinese New Year can…
To ring in 2023, we are revisiting Season 1 Episode 2 of The Kibitz Podcast, originally aired in January of 2016. In this episode, host Dan Crane focuses on transitions, religious and gender fluidity and what being a Jew means at B-Mitzvah age and now. Featuring guests: Zackary Drucker and Micah Fitzerman-Blue (Transparent), Christopher Noxon, Mish…
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The Jewish Bizarre - The Strange World of Nasology and the Jewish Shnozz
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In the mid 19th century, “Nasology'' emerged, a pseudoscientific belief that claimed that you could tell a person's personality type by the shape of their nose. Dr. Eddy Portnoy and Dr. Tony Michels get into the nitty gritty of the satirical origins of Nasology, its impact on the Jewish community, and what exactly the deal is with the stereotypical…
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The Jewish Bizarre - Jewish Geniuses, Idiots, and the Greatest Mohel
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Throughout history Jews have earned a reputation for being highly educated, after all, Jews have won 20% of the Nobel Prizes despite being only .18% of the world’s population. But are there really more Jewish geniuses? Our own geniuses, Jessica Chaffin, Dr. Tony Michels, and Dr. Eddy Portnoy look at Jewish scholars and Jewish idiots throughout hist…
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The Jewish Bizarre - The Tonsil Riots and Other Jewish Uprisings
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Dr. Eddy Portnoy and Dr. Tony Michels dive into the Tonsil Riots of 1906 - an uprising led by Jewish mothers in New York City after their kids were operated on without their knowledge- the Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902, and other Jewish protests that are absent from the cultural lexicon. Plus the largest funeral to ever occur in New York City, invent…
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The Jewish Bizarre - Jewish Anarchists and the Yom Kippur Balls
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In the late 1880s, young Eastern European Jewish immigrants had discovered anarchism, Marxism, and other such ideologies that had radicalized them against religion. In an effort to protest religion and expose the lie they thought it was, they threw outrageous balls throughout New York City…on Yom Kippur. Dr. Tony Michels, Jessica Chaffin, and Dr. E…
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The Jewish Bizarre - Only Murders in the Shtetl
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In December 1875, a Jewish woman named Sarah Alexander is found dead in a Brooklyn cornfield, her neck slashed. The investigation and murder trial sweeps the nation and forever changes the perception of Jews in the United States. Dr. Eddy Portnoy, Dr. Tony Michels, and Jessica Chaffin dive into what happened and why the case was so intriguing. Plus…
Two brothers, a rabbi and a comedian, try to figure out how to do Judaism during a pandemic. See if you can figure out who’s who.By The Kibitz Podcast
A tight, 15-minute set of jokes from Dan’s nana, who passed away this week at the spry age of 97.By The Kibitz Podcast
Is there something peculiar to Judaism that makes us think about death differently? With no proscription for a definitive heaven or afterlife, how does that affect how we live our lives and think about death? Are Jewish rituals an effective way of dealing with grief? Are there better ways to think and talk about death with friends and family? In ou…
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A Catskills Kibitz w/ Moshe Kasher, Michael Showalter & The Living Sisters
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"A Catskills Kibitz,” our first ever live Kibitz event, was held at the “World Famous” Kibitz Room at Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles on the second night of Hanukkah and featured standup from Moshe Kasher, a conversation with Michael Showalter and a performance by the Living Sisters. We also set a world record for the most number of people to eat a pa…
How has our understanding of history been curated by the choices of photographers, journalists and historians? This episode features curator at the International Center for Photography in New York Maya Benton talking about the photos of Roman Vichniac, and Yiddish scholar Eddy Portnoy discussing what he calls "The Jewish OJ trial of the 1870s” from…
Was Moses tripping when he saw the burning bush? Are psychedelics the key to unlocking the mysteries behind Jewish texts? And did you hear the one about the rabbi who did LSD with Timothy Leary? Featuring Rick Doblin founder and Executive Director of MAPS—the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Plus an excerpt from our friend Mos…
We continue our discussion of immigration and refugees with Mark Hetfield, the CEO of HIAS: the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Back in 1882, HIAS was formed to assist Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe. Today, HIAS is leading the charge against the Trump administration’s attempt to ban most refugees from coming to the United States.…
When Donald Trump issued his first executive order to curb immigration from majority Muslim countries, it seemed to strike a chord of eerie and disturbing familiarity with Jews everywhere. To put this in perspective, we’ll hear a story about Jewish immigrants fleeing Germany in 1939 trying to come to the US, and we have some stories of Jews on the …
Why did a Jewish philanthropist put up a million dollars of his own money to get Jews to move to Alabama? And ten years into his experiment, does he consider it a success? And as synagogue membership declines across the US, how do we define a Jewish community? The Kibitz speaks with Larry Blumberg, the man behind the program offering $50,000 for fa…
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Name Dropping! w/ Michael Feldman & Jeremy Rowley
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This week, we're cracking out our own celebrity scandals and naming names! Hollywood may never be safe again. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
Author AJ Jacobs explains how we’re all mishpucha, and we discuss his new book, It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree.By The Kibitz Podcast
What did Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers and Wilt Chamberlain have in common? Why did Jews on vacation need so much entertainment? How did the Catskills become the epicenter of Jewish middle-class vacationing and why did it collapse almost as quickly as it began? Who's putting baby in the corner—and why? Hosts Dan Crane and Jessica Chaffin explore the hist…
Your hilarious and insightful guide to Jewish ideas and culture. Join journalist Dan Crane and comedian Jessica Chaffin (Ronna & Beverly) as they explore activism, Jewish atheism, anti-semitism, love, sex, comedy, death and more with guests like David Wain, David Baddiel, Rabbi Sharon Brous, the Sklar Brothers, Tiffany Shlain, Moshe Kasher, Joel St…
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Back To School w/ Danielle Morrow and Joel Spence
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This week, we reminisce about horrible teachers, creepy classmates, weird plays that we created, and literally going back to school. And yes, we give Rodney Dangerfield and Sally Kellerman shoutouts, of course. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
Can Jews be atheists and still be Jews? Hosts Dan Crane and Jessica Chaffin host the second episode on this question, featuring a conversation with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie of New York City’s Lab/Shul.By The Kibitz Podcast
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Smacking Clown Legs W/ Roz Drezfalez and James Urbaniak
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We're sliding down a super nerdy actor wormhole this week, as we reveal our gaps in formal training that we've replaced with wigs and "energy". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
Can Jews be atheists and still be Jews? Hosts Dan Crane and Jessica Chaffin explore the question of Jewish atheism with Rabbi Susan Goldberg of LA's Wilshire Boulevard Temple, president of American Atheists David Silverman, British comedian David Baddiel, and founder and president emeritus of the Secular Coalition for America Herb Silverman.…
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Winning The Conversation w/ Larry Dorf & Margee Magee
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Believe it or not, we're talking football! But rest assured there's plenty of chatter about Cujo, acid, karma, blankets, and Sarah Jessica Parker too. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Too Much Sauce w/ Julie Brown and Jessica Chaffin
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This week, we are inundated with too much noise, too many smells, too much craziness. And it's partly Gene Wilder's fault. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
Season 2 Preview: Reboot’s Jewish-ish podcast is back for season two with actress and comedian Jessica Chaffin (Ronna, of comedy duo “Ronna & Beverly”) joining as co-host with Dan Crane. Named “one of the Top 10 Jewish Podcasts,” by Moment magazine, THE KIBITZ is about asking interesting questions—some big, many little—and exploring all you’ve ever…
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Les Enfants de Mountain Dew w/ Adam Slapin and Andre Hyland
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We were all brats who consumed too many sweets, had filthy tongues, and terrorized our elders. But at least we don't describe ourselves as "woke". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Fire Signs w/ Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Jack Plotnick
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This week, we are triggered and empowered and ready to own it all. Plus we play a surprise game where we find our spirit animals! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Flicks n' Tricks w/ Kyle Buchanan and Dhruv Uday Singh
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This week, we chat a little about movies and a lot about sex!! Tune in for filth! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Pollyanna And The Prostitute w/ Liz Bolton and Michael C.
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This week, we learn about per diems and rural Australia and yes of course Hayley Mills is involved. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Report Cards, Windfalls, and Impostor Rose w/ Mary Grill and Lana McKissack
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Trust your gut and buy that raffle ticket. Don't trust your kids when they immediately need art supplies. And maybe that sweet summer rose you crave is actually a trashy white zin! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Crawling For Aliens w/ James Adomian and Liz Feldman
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Our parents have embarrassed us at dinner theaters. We believe in aliens. We need to relax and slow down and listen and love and be okay. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe @ smarturl.it/minorrevelations Like what you hear? Check out Fear Based Life @ hyperurl.co/fbl Oh! Check out our survey @ smarturl.it/feralsurvey See omnystudio.com/listener for p…
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Happy Accidents w/ Casey Feigh and Geralyn Flood
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Sometimes you meet an incredible stranger. Or you're surprised to find yourself at an all-boys school. Sometimes we should all behave like misbehaving Muppets. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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There's No Right Answer w/ Rich Fulcher and Abed Gheith
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The hosts of "Gone Riffin'" are here this week to riff with Drew about terrorizing our aunts, confusing our families, learning from failures, and just being okay not knowing what to do next. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Children Of Men w/ Tye Blue and Billy Francesca
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Drew welcomes two of his favorite party artisans to chat about etiquette, filth, and the childhoods that led us all to the dance floor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Get Lost! w/ Mary Holland and Keaton Savage
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Being left alone with our thoughts is terrifying, cathartic, rare, and necessary. Also, children are equally inspiring and the worst. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Hooch! w/ Allison Dunbar and Dave Lyons
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Everyone on today's show just loves those sweet salty savory adult booze drinks. Sometimes we find ourselves wandering the streets looking for back rubs and three-ways. And sometimes alcohol just helps us say yes to life! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Manifest, Shed, Emerge w/ Diana Chang and Stephen Guarino
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We are all in the middle of a huge shift. We must accept the past, embrace the current chaos, and welcome our future selves. Also, Turds On Tuesday! Details inside! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Guilty Little Liars w/ Lindsay Katai and Kelly Nugent
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We tell lies with good intentions, but then we feel guilty. We live our truths without abandon, but then we feel guilty. So I guess we just need to get comfortable being uncomfortable. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Gestures And Gyrations w/ Stephanie Escajeda and Colleen Smith
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What if you had the chance to be a respected yet tortured mime? What if losing your virginity was a cruel hoax? Find out this week on a very mysterious episode! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Live from The Bell House w/ Chris Gethard and Rachel Dratch
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Ronna & Beverly come at you LIVE from The Bell House in New York to get in deep with comedians Chris Gethard and Rachel Dratch! First, we hear about the girls' sojourn through the nation's capital, and then they talk to Chris about his parentage of a goat in college and the most surprising calls he's received on his podcast Beautiful Stories from A…
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Follow Your Bliss w/ Tom DeTrinis and Pat Towne
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Actors want to be funny, comedians want to be actors, everyone’s a writer, Tom hates New York, and we all love Kathryn Hahn! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Navigating Through This World w/ Shaughn Bucholz and Julanne Chidi-Hill
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Hi! We’re Shaughn, Julanne, and Drew- feel free to mispronounce our names or simply call us something else. We’ve spent our lives navigating this straight white male world, so we’re good! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Learn How To Be w/ Wendi McLendon-Covey and Mitch Silpa
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Spring is here, transporting us back to simpler times with the comforting smells of bookstores, libraries, and … wait, Wendi, WHAT happened to you??? Hey world -- learn how to be!!! Mitch Silpa and Wendi McLendon-Covey guest! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Personal Despots w/ Matt Baume and Lauren Lapkus
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Hey kids! Trust your gut! Most adults ARE horrible and wrong! Especially teachers that wear too much make-up and directors that hang out in fast food parking lots casting amateur fight porn. Lauren Lapkus and Matt Baume guest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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How’s Your Pilot Season? w/ Chloe Fineman and Tom Lenk
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What’s the grossest, thirstiest query to ask an actor in the springtime? Tom Lenk will happily inform you, making you want to go out into the desert to do yoga with Chloe Fineman’s deliciously odd aunts! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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The Sun Also Sets w/ Kate Mines and Paul Witten
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Flat tires! The IRS! Grandparents! Baby and relationship woes! Napkins! It’s high drama for Drew and his guests Kate and Paul. Hear them dish the soap! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
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Fighting And Flighting Demons w/ Andrew Carter and Jordan Firstman
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This week, Drew has a skirmish at a terrible Burbank bistro, Andrew Carter tells us about a drunken scuffle from years ago, and Jordan Firstman battles his own envy of talented children. Ding Ding! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Drew Droege
