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

Eitan Levine - you know him, you love him. He's a popular Jewish comedian, political commentator, and the man behind the beloved "Jewish or Antisemitic" series.

This episode goes deeper than expected. Eitan opens up about the sarcoma that shaped his teens and twenties. He also delivers a blistering and hilarious critique of how Jewish organizations spent money after October 7th — and why he thinks it backfired.

Follow @eitanthegoalie on Instagram and check out his work at www.eitanlevine.com

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda

03:41 From celebrity journalism to Jewish comedy

06:00 Cancer at ten and the Russian leg-lengthening device

14:00 Manischewitz Matchmakers and reinjecting Jewish joy

23:00 Why the post-October 7th messaging failed

30:00 Watching Trump press conferences from a bomb shelter

33:00 Jewish or Antisemitic: New York City edition

38:00 Find allies before enemies

40:00 Brad Lander, endorsements, and showing up in city government

43:00 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination

Adam Malev has performed at over 1,000 stand-up shows, built an app that maps every open mic in New York City, and once did a full minute of 9/11 jokes on Kill Tony. He's a proud Zionist, the self-proclaimed last Jew in his family's lineage, and — brace yourself — a genuine, non-satirical Zohran Mamdani voter.

Margarita was sure the "Zionist for Zohran" bit was a joke. It is not. This episode is a real-time reckoning, a lot of laughing, and zero eye-to-eye. They stay friends anyway.

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda

05:04 From EY consultant to full-time comedian

07:30 Building Comediq, the open mic app

09:00 Last Jew in the family

13:00 Zionist for Zohran, explained (and not satire)

17:00 Affordability, potholes, and the case for Mamdani

20:00 Synagogue buffer zones and Jewish safety

24:00 The @Antisemitism account and manufactured outrage

27:00 Kill Tony regrets and the Jewish Kanye West

31:30 Closing Remarks & Guest Nomination

Arno Michaelis is a former Neo-Nazi turned activist, writer, and tremendous ally to the Jewish people. He was a founding member of a racist skinhead crew, lead singer of a hate metal band, reverend in a violently antisemitic church — and then he walked away, worn down by exhaustion and undone by the kindness of the people he was taught to hate.

Today he's a Buddhist, an author, and a peer specialist at Parents for Peace who talks pissed-off young men out of the abyss for a living.In this episode, Arno explains why every extremist ideology, left or right, eventually converges on hating Jews. And why that's not a Jewish problem to solve.

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda

02:45 Storytelling and the work of Parents for Peace

07:30 The archetype of "Joe Pissed Off White Kid"

11:00 Arno's childhood, addiction, and the roller coaster of hate

18:00 The night his newborn daughter changed everything

22:00 Regret vs. remorse — the mechanism of real change

25:00 How white nationalism recruits today

31:00 Why every extremist ideology converges on Jew hatred

36:00 Whose problem antisemitism actually is

39:00 Arno's question to Margarita

41:00 Closing Remarks

Raheel Raza is a Pakistani-Canadian author, journalist, and president of Muslims Facing Tomorrow. She'll help you understand everything you'd like to know about Radical Islam. She's testified at the UN, spoken at Harvard and Oxford, and visited Israel 14 times. She also happens to be one of the warmest humans you'll ever meet.

This is the conversation where Margarita finally gets to ask the questions that feel too "icky" to ask — about dhimmitude, about why Western Muslim leaders skew extreme, and about how Jews and Muslims can actually still be friends. Raheel answers every single one with patience and zero PC filter.

Learn more about Raheel's work at www.raheelraza.com

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda

02:30 From Karachi to Canada — finding the Jewish world through Anne Frank

05:10 Why the Jewish-Muslim conflict isn't religious

07:40 Inside the Council of Muslims Against Antisemitism

11:00 Defeat radical Islamism, defeat antisemitism

15:30 Hadith-based Islam and the politics of extremism

20:00 What the Palestinian diaspora gets wrong, and the promise of the Abraham Accords

24:30 What Jews can actually do — Rabbi Sacks, samosas, and culinary diplomacy

32:00 Canada's "polite pogrom" and the Mamdani problem

38:00 Dhimmitude vs. reform Islam

44:00 Raheel's three-question litmus test for any Muslim you meet

49:00 Closing Remarks

Marina the Marathon Princess has run 76 marathons, finished multiple Ironmans, and walked the entire length of Israel. Her running joke, pun intended, is that she's one of the slowest people doing some of the hardest races in the world. Marina is an activism trendsetter who printed "Stand With Israel" on a race shirt years before October 7th.

What started as a couchsurfing trip to Tel Aviv with a giant backpack turned into a years-long love affair with Israel, the Hebrew language, and the runners who cheer her on at every kilometer. Learn from Marina about what it takes to do the hardest things with the biggest smile.

Follow Marina on Instagram @marathon.princess

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda

02:30 From investment banking to 76+ marathons

05:15 Willpower is overrated — systems and mental tricks for endurance

09:00 The Tinder match that turned into a love for Israel

12:45 Printing a "Stand With Israel" shirt and losing followers

15:30 Why people who visit Israel walk away changed

18:00 What people misunderstand about being Jewish

21:00 Reclaiming Zionism and reframing antisemitism as conspiracy theory

24:30 On Nice Jewish Runners

26:00 Closing Remarks