These are true tales of grit and chutzpah, told by the iconic men and women who lived them. Hosted by breakout comedian Aaron Berg and produced by DIGA Studios in partnership with Maggievision Productions, Badass Jews is an interview series that mixes humor, pop culture and heritage like never before. All manner of ass-kickers - from business tycoons to Hollywood stars and Olympic athletes - get their moment in the spotlight. This is a show that subversively deconstructs stereotypes and clichés while celebrating the remarkable achievements of people who have gone against the grain and left their mark.
This week, audio documentarian Andrew Davidsburg returns with the true tale of tough-as-nails abolitionist August Bondi, an all-time badass jew. Written and Produced by Andrew Davidsburg. Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Talent Booker: Dan Resnick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Host Aaron Berg sits down with prolific music executive Steve Rifkind to get insights on what it takes to make it in the music industry. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host Aaron Berg welcomes back historian Andrew Davidsberg for a deep dive into the unbelievable life of a lady secret agent who risked it all. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Aaron gets deep with a Seattle rapper who survived a hard life and continues to crank out the hits after converting to Judaism. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host Aaron Berg keeps it real with an indie record executive who hit big with the underground gangsta sound coming out of Brooklyn. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This week on Badass Jews, sex, drugs and Nazi-punching are on the menu when host Aaron Berg welcomes Fallout Boy guitarist and evolving badass Joseph Trohman to the show. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on Badass Jews, Host Aaron Berg sits down with the most decorated and lethal Detective in NYPD history: Ralph Friedman. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host Aaron Berg and guests The Schwartz Brothers, tell of their conservative upbringing in Judaism and their unique road to NFL glory. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host Aaron Berg gets into South Florida culture, pivoting from child acting and Jeffrey Toobin with director Billy Corben (Cocaine Cowboys, 30 for 30, the U) as he discusses his new HBO documentary movie, 537 Votes, which captures the madness in Florida around the 2000 presidential election recount. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today, Aaron welcomes the newest member of the Badass team, Historian Andrew Davidsburg, who tells us why he was compelled to document the story of little known badass jews throughout history (abolitionists, boxers, pirates, etc) - and how we're turning their stories into an exciting new segment for the podcast! Then stick around for a taste of Badass Jews through history! Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host @aaronbergcomedy welcomes 5'8" lawyer turned NBA head coach Darren Erman for a tale of determination and sacrifice that went into achieving a dream that shouldn't have been possible. Silk City Hot Sauce - use code: badass Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Author, television producer and Upper East Side bad girl JILL KARGMAN joins Aaron to share stories about the BRAVO series based on her life, writing Momzilla and Odd Mom Out, why Hasidics hate her and how she wound up in Anne Frank's attic. Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host Aaron Berg pulls up a chair with a badass businessman and comedy club owner to learn about how he navigated building websites for rival gangsta rappers, becoming a chess champion, amassing and losing fortunes and struggling to fit in with his Jewish peers. Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host Aaron Berg goes one-on-one with 4x Olympic Gold medalist, WNBA icon and outspoken advocate Sue Bird for a conversation around how she processes her identity and how she rose to the top. Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host AARON BERG welcomes prolific, rabble-rousing documentary director MARC LEVIN (Bangin' in Little Rock, Slam, Brick City TV) to the show for his take on how his Jewish identity, and willingness to risk life and limb, took him from ultimate outsider to award-winning director for HBO, LeBron James and gangsters of all stripes. Executive Producers: Aaron Berg, Josh Swade, Tommy Coriale, Patrick Smith Audio Engineer: Ian Sorrentino/Little Bear Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Breakout comedian Aaron Berg welcomes the biggest names in Hollywood, politics, business and pop culture for conversations centered on the true stories of struggle and success that made them badasses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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