Anti-Semiticism with Comedian Kira Soltanovich

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2013

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Comedian Kira Soltanovich (The Kira Soltanovich Show, You Did This To Me) joins Story Worthy to talk about Anti-Semiticism, Jewish heritage, and her jokester father in law.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Kira Soltanovich, and yes, it's true.
0:03.6	You listen to a Storyworthy, and guess what?
0:05.6	So am I.
0:06.7	I'm in the future.
0:15.6	Welcome to the Story Worthy podcast.
0:21.1	Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Sfini.
0:32.8	Welcome to Storyworthy.
0:34.3	My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanas Fini, and we're coming to you from the Museum of Tolerance on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. Hey, that's a good one, Honest. I'm impressed. It is a good one. It does. I've never been there because it sounds like the least fun museum on the face of the earth. It's true. An important museum, but not fun. Not fun.
0:54.5	And every time you go to LAX, of course, you pass that on the 110 South. You pass the exit for the Museum of Tolerance. Oh, right. And it makes me think, you know, welcome to Los Angeles. Come learn about, you know, the persecutions. Well, we keep tolerance in a museum. We don't practice it. No, not so much. Not in the streets at all.
1:09.9	No, not while we're driving.
1:11.3	All right, Honest.
1:12.0	All right.
1:12.5	Fair enough.
1:13.3	Our guest tonight, Kira Solana, We don't practice it. No, not so much. Not in the streets at all. No, not while we're driving.
1:11.3	All right, Honest.
1:27.7	All right. Fair enough. Our guest tonight, Kira Soltonovich. She brings forth the topic, Hansis, anti-Semitism. Funny. Anti-Semitism. Here's what I know. Tell me what you know. You can spell it a couple of different ways. Interesting. I know, and they're not wrong.
1:28.5	But, you know, where I grew up a couple of different ways. Interesting. I know. And they're not wrong. But you know,
1:33.8	where I grew up outside of Pittsburgh, it wasn't, we didn't, I'm sure there were Jewish people,
1:40.2	but because I grew up Catholic and in this tiny, really small, rural community, it just wasn't on my radar. Now I'm living in Los Angeles and my daughter doesn't have school today because it's Rosh Hashanah. Right. So you see. And you are not Jewish. No, I'm not. And your ex-husband is not Jewish. I'm not Catholic. Well, they always say the thing about that my Jewish friends and I have like four of them. If I get a fifth one, I have to drop one out. I can't have more than four. Wait, that's not true. You know more comedians than what are you talking about?
2:03.3	I'm kidding.
2:03.7	I'm kidding.
2:03.7	Oh, okay, okay, okay.
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