Harrison Greenbaum does 900 shows a year. The Harvard grad turned comedian-magician has been called "the hardest working man in comedy." He's also the guy who wrote his college thesis on whether jokes can make people less racist. Turns out the answer is complicated — and there's one type of humor that can actually make prejudice *worse*.

Harrison gets honest about the sharp rise in antisemitism showing up in his comments, the audience member who blurted "no" when he said he was Jewish, and why being a grandson of Holocaust survivors makes him want to talk about Jewish stuff *more*, not less. Plus: why so many magicians are terrible, and how to (maybe) reverse-pickpocket a mentalist.

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**What We Discuss:**

00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda

02:09 From Magic Camp to Harvard's Jewish Fraternity

06:30 The Secret Algorithm of 900 Shows a Year

12:00 His Thesis on Whether Jokes Fight Prejudice

17:30 Being a Jewish Comic in a Weirder Climate

22:00 Running Off to Join Cirque du Soleil

25:00 Why Every Magic Show Looks the Same

29:00 The Reverse-Pickpocketing Sting Operation

32:00 What the Jews Bring to Magic

34:06 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination

Chloe Hechter calls herself "the People's Jewish American Princess," and she means it as a mission, not a punchline. Former child actor, recovering sorority girl, and now a comedy creator with 300,000+ followers, she's spent years reclaiming an insult and turning private-school-summer-camp-Murray-Hill life into beloved sketches.But the skits are just the surface.

Chloe opens up about exposure therapy for emetophobia starting at age ten, why she believes Jewish women have to be "ten toes down," and her sharpest take yet: that a lot of Jinsta creators are failing.

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**What We Discuss:**

00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda

04:00 Reclaiming Jewish American Princess

06:30 Becoming a full-time content creator post Syracuse

13:00 Why Chloe wants to manage her own socials

15:00 Growing up the Jewish girl at theater camp

18:00 Emetophobia and exposure therapy

24:00 The camp meds line

28:00 American Jews and the myth of the golden age

32:00 Jewish girls and the trends they started

40:00 Chloe's upcoming book, being a woman in the creator space, and why Jinsta ghettoizes Jews

49:00 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination

Yardenne Greenspan is a Tel Aviv-born writer and Hebrew translator whose work appears in numerous publications and has earned notable awards. She's married to Shai Davidai (yes, that one — Activist, former Columbia professor, and Margarita's viral early guest), but she's built her own formidable kind of activism: humanizing Israelis one carefully chosen word at a time. She's the person you drift toward at every Jewish event without quite knowing why.

In this episode, Margarita and Yardenne discuss the importance of translation, the true reality of activism, and how to always take the high road.

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda

03:27 Growing Up Secular in Tel Aviv

07:15 Meeting Shai & Moving to America

10:30 Post-Mortems on Activism

14:00 The Twitter Fight & Refusing the Bait

19:45 Translation as a Form of Activism

26:00 Vulnerability as Strength

30:30 Raising Kids Under Attack

36:00 Translating Trauma in Kazakhstan

41:00 Message to the Jewish People

44:03 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination