Podcast Episodes
Back to Search‘The Marvels’ and the Future of Marvel
It’s been an interesting and somewhat challenging year for superhero movies, with the once seemingly invincible Marvel Studios showing signs of wear…
2 years, 3 months ago
It’s Not Whether ’Next Goal Wins’, but How You Play the Game
The new sports comedy ‘Next Goal Wins,’ directed by Taika Waititi, is based on the true story of American Samoa’s soccer team as it attempts to over…
2 years, 4 months ago
Lifting Up ’The Fall of the House of Usher’
The new miniseries on Netflix, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ is many things all at once: a love letter to Edgar Allen Poe, a gothic horror maste…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Rabbis are (Still) Cray-Cray for Tay-Tay
Taylor Swift’s long-awaited “Eras” tour was not only the pop cultural event of 2023, it was one of the most successful concert tours in music histor…
2 years, 5 months ago
Special Episode — Israel at War
You know that Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky are lifelong friends, but did you know that they met as teenagers on a youth group summer trip to Israel? And…
2 years, 5 months ago
Tradition and Change is ‘Elemental’
Disney and Pixar’s latest animated feature, Elemental, became a sleeper hit at the box office this summer. Using the interaction of various elements …
2 years, 6 months ago
Judaism and The Hollywood Strikes
Back in May, film and television writers went on strike. Actors joined them on the picket lines in July, leading to the longest strike in Hollywood …
2 years, 7 months ago
Inviting God and Tradition to ‘My Bat Mitzvah’
Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky seem like they would be the target audience for Adam Sandler’s new Netflix movie, You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah. B…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Summer of Barbenheimer
It’s official — ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ are this summer’s unlikely “it” couple! This summer, we’re all obsessed with the World’s Most Famous doll …
2 years, 8 months ago
Grin and ‘Bear’ It
The Bear, whose first two seasons are currently streaming on Hulu, follows Carmy Berzatto, a rising superstar in the culinary world, as he seeks to r…
2 years, 8 months ago