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Your favorite trio of ex-orthodox queers are back, and they're deeper than ever! Leah Forster, Melissa Weisz, and Raye are even more heimish, even more queer, and even more YENTA.

We yenta about:

1. Group think in queer and Jewish spaces

2. Wanting to show joy and nuance in the chassidic community

3. Alex Edelman name drop

4. Sharon Brous name drop

5. Chuchie-muchie. Leah's favorite phrase.

6. Mo sold a show to netflix!!

7. Attachment styles. Classic.

8. Learning to have sex...

Dr. Sara Glass is back!! If you thought last week's episode was juicy, wait till you hear this sesh!!! Dr. Sara is WISE. HILARIOUS. AND SO HOT. Top tier Yenta.

We Yenta about:

- Fave Jewish song

- Sara loves Cameron Esposito but she loves us more

- Coparenting with your lesbian ex

- Running into your exes at Dyke Day

- Gossiping with your kids

- The most insane mikvah story

- Faking orgasms

- Sara was...

Yenta Superfan, the eminent Dr Sara Glass, is making her Yenta debut! You know Sara from her blockbuster memoir Kissing Girls on Shabbat, writing for the NY Times, and her work as a leading therapist and speaker for LGTBQ+ Jews.

We Yenta about:

- Sara's life growing up chassidic

- Marrying a man when you're a lesbian

- Heaven and Hell. Light stuff.

- Becoming a queer mom

- Are people swinging in the 5 Towns?

- Why are people queer? Easy question. <...

This week we talk to Emmy nominated comedian, writer, and worm farmer: Ellory Smith!! Buckle up for the HOTTEST worm gossip.

We Yenta about:

1. How hard it is to be a hot femme

2. What does it actually mean to do well in comedy?

3. Astrology. Classic.

4. When your boyfriend is a comedy manager

5. How to demand positive feedback

6. LA standup gossip

7. Jealousy. Ugh.

8. Therapy. Yay!

9. Secrets: Debt, Worm Farming, Jury Duty

Ellory...

It's just Raye and Antonia this week! We needed a break from all these illustrious guests taking the glory! This is honestly one of the deepest episodes we've had in a while. RELIGION. GENDER. WEEPING. GOSSIP.

We Yenta about:

1. Reviewing Hannah Gabsy's gender agenda

2. Standup comedians who film clips on a GREEN SCREEN??! ICONIC.

3. Raye was a hometown hero at JQ pride shabbat

4. Antonia performed at the gayest shul in Atlanta

5. Believing v Doing Jewish Observance

6. What do we think about God? <...

Mateen Stewart (Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) is a hilarious standup-comedian and actor in the LA comedy scene and we yenta hardcore this week!

The struggle of making money in comedy: day jobs and side hustles

Officiating weddings: the craziest ceremonies and predicting doomed marriages

The trauma of losing a parent: how it shapes comedy and life

The journey from theater to stand-up: failed theater companies and supportive moms

Period tracker apps and male birth control 

The highs and lows of comedy: bombing, c...

Jay Jurden is back!! He had so much gossip, we had to give him two episodes. If you thought his Emmy nominated turn on The Problem with Jon Stewart was juicy, that's nothing compared to the juice on this episode!

We Yenta about:

- Flowcharting your audience interactions

- Jay's jokes for the Tom Brady roast

- Dramatic reading of extremely graphic screenplay

- Everyone wants Jay's nudes

- Nude beach story. Classic.

- Jay hooked up in a park. Classic.

You've seen him on the Tonight Show 1000x times, he wrote for X-Men, and he's been nominated for an EMMY. Jay Jurden is on the pod!!! This certified celebrity comedian is also a certified gossip. This is part one of two, because there's just too much goss for one episode. We Yenta about: - Being hot for LA - Behing the scenes goss from After Midnight - Knowing Jerrod Carmichael was gay - How we suckered Jay into doing the pod - John Mulaney is hot - Bisexuality. We're all so bi. - Being comedically bisexual: performing for comedy...

This week we're talking to Charlie James aka Nonbinary Cowboy (Funny or Die, Field Museum tweet writer), who is the most charming biology nerd/comedy writer on the planet!

We Yenta about:

- Looking for a third who has dated trans people

- Writing a book about being a little frog

- Their solo show about their cute little biologist Dad

- Huge revelation: Antonia's biologist parents know Charlie's biologist parents

- Christian youtube influencers

- Dating in Chicago is worse than...

This week we schmooze with the most grounded guy in LA comedy, Eric Schwartz (Tonight Show, opens for Jo Koy, Helluva Boss). Obviously we're all obsessed with The Artist's Way. We Yenta about: 1. Fave Jewish songs 2. How to talk about trauma onstage 3. Being in a relationship for 17 years 4. Tips on posting content 5. Working with Jason Mraz 6. Touring with Jo Koy & the Golden Globes 7. Eric only mansplains a little 8. Antonia's brush with death 9. Raye’s terrible bomb story 10. Eric gives Raye a pep talk aka evangelizes The Artist's Way Eric Schwartz: https://www.instagram.com/eeericschwartz/ Raye Schiller: https://www.in...