Chutzpah and Soul: In Memory of Lenny Bruce
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCHUTZPAH and SOUL: STAYING SANE in an INSANE WORLD Standing up to Power with Rants, irony, satire, parody, sarcasm, and outrage• Channeling ethnic energy of Jewish, Latin, African American, Italians, and all others
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CHUTZPAH and SOUL: Season Two Episode Eight: FRANKLY SPEAKING: BARNEY FRANK
March 24, 2020 22:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBJohnny interviews Barney Frank, member of Congress from Massachusetts 1980-2012, now retired in Maine, but as vibrant and opinionated as ever. He's writing a book on the legacy of John Maynard Keynes, the British economist who rescued the world and the U.S. from The Great Depression by stimulating economic growth via government intervention. Barney argues that Keynes' economic mantra is now counterproductive because the emphasis on growth is accelerating economic inequality worldwide. He a...
CHUTZPAH and SOUL: Season Two Episode Seven: BERNIE'S BOSTON BRIGADE
March 14, 2020 23:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBOn February 29, 2020 Leap Year Day, three days before Super Tuesday, we joined thousands of citizens on Boston Commons for a Rally for Bernie Sanders for President. We interviewed a range of citizens to understand their profiles, motivations, demographics, and personalities. Our intent was to go way beyond the mass media's generic, boring, stereotyping, and lumping together of who Bernie supporters are. Let's face it, the mass media often mis-characterizes events to fit their pre-existi...
CHUTZPAH and SOUL: Season Two Episode Seven: STOCKHOLM SYNDROME, MAGA Muffins, & American Political Mishegas
February 18, 2020 19:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBJohnny berates the Democratic Party for not halting the Presidential campaigning for ONE DAY and focus collective energies on TRUMP REMOVAL...to THE DONALD on STEROIDS rally in Iowa where he threatens the MAGA MUFFINS that if they don't win big there in November, "your farms are going to hell." onto "banana republic" example of Colombia, NARCOS the Netflix series on Pablo Escobar... to the wisdom of Timothy Snyder, Yale History Professor author of ON TYRANNY warning institutions are VULNERA...
CHUTZPAH and SOUL: Season Two Episode Six: TWO JEWS BLUES, Part Two
February 10, 2020 01:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBJohnny Goldin and Lio Speigler continue the dialectic search for common ground. Two guys who really care about the past present and future of the Jewish People and how Jews interact with the world. Johnny makes a pitch for making Judaism "user friendly" to attract converts providing new DNA and preventing demographic erasure; while Lio speaks of a mythical purpose for Jews as an essential spark to keep the world in balance. He seems to believe that if Jews embrace that spark, Anti-Semitism ...
CHUTZPAH and SOUL: Season Two Episode Five: TWO JEWS BLUES
January 30, 2020 03:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBOn the Bridge: Brooklyn Bridge January 5, 2020 two Jewish activists/ podcasters meet in the midst of the March of 25,000 against Anti-Semitism on a windy cold but bright skies Sunday. Johnny meets Lio Speigler, Israeli born video and podcasting guy who is interviewing random folks on the Bridge. We meet and hit it off and the rest is history! Two Jews three opinions as they say...we engage in intense verbal and historical jiu jitsu via phone and neither one's opinion is changed. Despit...
CHUTZPAH and SOUL: Season Two Episode Four: ON THE BARRICADES
January 24, 2020 03:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBThis fifty minute tour de force of Johnny "Soul" Goldin, Host/ Producer, comes smack in the middle of the Senate Impeachment Trial of President Donald J Trump. Improvised oral essay, diatribe, rant, appeals to logic, and cathartic invocations of the need for sanity in an insane world, ON THE BARRICADES takes the listener on a journey from the existential demand that the Democratic Party organize mass ralies, and finally drops you right into the front two-seater Jaguar driven by Austin Powers...
Chutzpah and Soul: Season Two Episode Three--THE WORD FROM SINAI (Allen Sinai, Wall Street Expert
December 28, 2019 02:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBInto Johnny voice over By The Rivers of Bablyon Sound Bite: Allen Sinai- I understood the greed that motivates Wall Street... Intro of Allen Sinai by Johnny who says "we'll cover the waterfront" Section One: Bad Habits, Bailouts and This Magic Moment (The Drifters) Section Two: The Fundamentals of the Market Section Three: Even the upper middle class are getting screwed Section Four: Recession Predictions and the World Economy Section Five: Lehman Brothers Crashes and Burns - Allen is th...
Chutzpah and Soul: Season Two Episode Two
December 10, 2019 21:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBCHUTZPAH and SOUL: STAYING SANE in an INSANE WORLD Standing up to Power with Rants, irony, satire, parody, sarcasm, and outrage• Channeling ethnic energy of Jewish, Latin, African American, Italians, and all others Support the show (https://www.gofundme.com/f/podcast-chutzpah-and-soul-in-memory-of-lenny-bruce?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet)
Chutzpah and Soul: Season Two Episode One
September 22, 2019 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBSection One: STAYING SANE in an INSANE WORLD!: My Intro and Overview Section Two: Johnny's Fantasy National Democratic Party Ticket Section Three: Jay Kaufman: Former State Representative and Passionate Jew Section Four: Jeff Ross: LBGTQ Activist running non-stop for Boston City Council Support the show (https://www.gofundme.com/f/podcast-chutzpah-and-soul-in-memory-of-lenny-bruce?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet)
Chutzpah and Soul: Episode Seven
August 22, 2019 03:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBSection One: The Flight, Boston-Miami-Cali-Bogota Section Two: Dancing with the Colombians Section Three: Cartagena and Tour of Mangrove Forest Support the show (https://www.gofundme.com/f/podcast-chutzpah-and-soul-in-memory-of-lenny-bruce?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet)
Chutzpah and Soul: Episode Six
July 25, 2019 03:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBSegment One: My Dream contains the kernel of a true story of an actual dream at age ten about Mary, my fourth grade classmate and cute smart girl with a previously disclosed crush on me. This dream is recounted within the context of a childrens' chapter book autiobigraphical fiction of the early years of the narrator. Themes reach way beyond into the story of The American Dream, circa early 1960s Montgomery County, Maryland next to Washington, DC, one of the best and successful epitome's of ...
Chutzpah and Soul: Episode Five
June 19, 2019 03:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBThree Paisanos of three different generations, points of view, professions, and values. Introduced by a visit from Uncle Sal, the Italian Uncle, who asked me to make sure to have some Italian American representation and it just so happens that... Segment One: Chris B. Howard Beach, Queens, New York City to 9/11 tragedy to trying to ascertain the motivations of one unique Millennial with deep philosophical mind. Segment Two: Paul C. Quits suburbia and corporate life ex-Army too, for urban e...
Chutzpah and Soul: Episode Four
June 05, 2019 13:00 - 40 minutes - 18.6 MBSection One: Radio Free American shmooze with Paul Jimerson Section Two: Kiddie Land Inspired Disney L.A. memories of Robert Berend Section Three: Toll Booth Operator Extraordinare Latish Wade and Ghetto Survival Section Four: "Lenny Bruce Saved My Life" Johnny Goldin & Tenth Grade Gym Teacher Support the show (https://www.gofundme.com/f/podcast-chutzpah-and-soul-in-memory-of-lenny-bruce?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet)
Chutzpah and Soul: Episode Three
May 27, 2019 02:00 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MBSection One: An Iconic Chinese American Guy Section Two: DIY on Steroids Section Three: The Soul of Memphis Support the show (https://www.gofundme.com/f/podcast-chutzpah-and-soul-in-memory-of-lenny-bruce?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet)
Chutzpah and Soul: Episode Two
May 15, 2019 19:00 - 32 minutes - 15 MBSection One: Shmoozing with my sound tech. Section Two: Latisha Part 1: A Strong Black Woman Section Three: Zacuto: The Spanish Inquisition Section Four: Latisha Part 2: Personality Type and Temperament Section Five: Journey Versus Roadmap: A Beat Poem Section Six: The Ice Cube Theory Of Economic Development Support the show (https://www.gofundme.com/f/podcast-chutzpah-and-soul-in-memory-of-lenny-bruce?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet)
Chutzpah and Soul: Episode One
May 04, 2019 19:00 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MBIntro overview of Chutzpah and Soul with music Segment One: Italian Uncle- Uncle Sal from Brooklyn is the Angel of Interventions and a returning and Iconic figure of my Podcast Universe. The Ultimate Realist and fountain of common sense wisdom Segment Two: American Cowardice, American Trauma, and the Magic of Chinatown- how Jews and Chinese intersect and how Chinatown is the only place to be for Christmas Segment Three: I Learned all about Love from Motown-original poem that captures the ...