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  • Ep. 116: 30 Years of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist – with pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein

    Ep. 116: 30 Years of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist – with pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein
    Sep 8 2025
    Mathew Klickstein is an author and pop culture historian whose books have covered such topics as Nickelodeon, The Simpsons, The San Diego Comic-Con, and Lloyd Kaufman, president and co-founder of Troma Entertainment. His recent article, “SQUIGGLEVISION! 30 Years of Kvetching from the Couch of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist,” is available at Paste.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    SQUIGGLEVISION! 30 Years of Kvetching from the Couch
    https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/dr-katz/squigglevision-30-years-of-kvetching-from-the-couch-of-dr-katz-professional-therapist

    Mathew’s website
    https://www.mathewklickstein.com/

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    24 min
  • Ep. 115: Outlaw Rock & Roll Photography – with photographer Julian David Stone

    Ep. 115: Outlaw Rock & Roll Photography – with photographer Julian David Stone
    Sep 1 2025
    Julian David Stone is an author, photographer, and filmmaker whose photography is collected in the coffee table book, No Cameras Allowed: My Career as an Outlaw Rock & Roll Photographer. He also has two novels: The Strange Birth, Short Life, and Sudden Death of Justice Girl; and It’s Alive!

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Julian’s website
    https://www.juliandavidstone.com/

    No Cameras Allowed
    https://www.juliandavidstone.com/home-1

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    20 min
  • Ep. 114: Desegregating Glen Echo: A Black-Jewish Alliance – with documentarian Ilana Trachtman

    Ep. 114: Desegregating Glen Echo: A Black-Jewish Alliance – with documentarian Ilana Trachtman
    Aug 25 2025
    Ilana Trachtman is an Emmy award-winning documentary director and producer whose latest film is Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
    https://www.aintnoback.com/

    Ilana’s IMDb
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1196719/

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    22 min
  • Ep.113: Maria Lani: The Woman with Fifty Faces – with Jonathan Lackman and Zachary J. Pinson

    Ep.113: Maria Lani: The Woman with Fifty Faces – with Jonathan Lackman and Zachary J. Pinson
    Aug 18 2025
    Jonathan Lackman is an author and art historian and Zachary J. Pinson is an artist and illustrator. Their new book, The Woman with Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & the Greatest Art Heist that Never Was, is published by Fantagraphics.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    The Woman with Fifty Faces
    https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-woman-with-fifty-faces

    Maria Lani website
    https://marialani.com/

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    29 min
  • Ep 112: Dr. Wertham’s Crusade Against Comics – with author Harold Schechter

    Ep 112: Dr. Wertham’s Crusade Against Comics – with author Harold Schechter
    Aug 11 2025
    Harold Schechter is a true crime author and professor emeritus at Queens College whose latest graphic biography is “Dr. Werthless,” illustrated and co-written by Eric Powell.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    “Dr Worthless”
    https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3012-934/Dr-Werthless-HC

    Harold’s website
    https://haroldschechter.com/

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    31 min
  • Ep. 111: Are the Ferengi Space Jews? – with author Miriam Eve Mora

    Ep. 111: Are the Ferengi Space Jews? – with author Miriam Eve Mora
    Aug 4 2025
    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. Her chapter, “The Jewish Case for Fereginar,” is published in the book Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Jews in Popular Science Fiction
    https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/jews-in-popular-science-fiction-9781666901467/

    Carrying a Big Schtick
    https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349625/

    Raoul Wallenberg Institute
    https://lsa.umich.edu/wallenberg

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    37 min
  • Ep. 110: Talkin' Jewish – with podcaster Jonathan Rosen

    Ep. 110: Talkin' Jewish – with podcaster Jonathan Rosen
    Jul 28 2025
    Jonathan Rosen is co-host of Pop Culture Retro and host of The Jewish Lens. He’s also the author and editor of several books, including Night of the Living Cuddle Bunnies and Coming of Age: 13 B’nai Mitzvah Stories.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Jonathan’s website
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v5E05jPfVs

    Pop Culture Retro
    https://www.youtube.com/@PopCultureRetro

    The Jewish Lens
    https://www.youtube.com/@TheJewishLens

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    21 min
  • Movie Review: Superman or Super-BLAND? – with comic book scholar Roy Schwartz

    Movie Review: Superman or Super-BLAND? – with comic book scholar Roy Schwartz
    Jul 21 2025
    Roy Schwartz is a comic book historian, former CNN regular contributor, board member of the American Jewish Historical Society, and author of Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero.

    Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

    Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

    Is Superman Circumcised?
    https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/is-superman-circumcised/

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    https://www.royschwartz.com/

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    32 min