By popular demand: Modi standup special and Red Hot Chili Peppers docu
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.
This week, the team takes our listeners -- and our boss -- up on their recommendations.
After Borschel-Dan asked listeners for their favorite stand-up comedians, we received a deluge of responses. We decided to launch our stand-up tour with "Modi: Know Your Audience," which is available freely on YouTube. While both had heard of the very Jewish performer, this was their first-time watching a full-length show.
Next, we discuss "The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel," which is now streaming on Netflix. The documentary sheds light on the origins of the still-hot band and focuses on its original guitarist Hillel Slovak. Born in Israel, gifted guitarist Slovak was the catalyst that brought both bassist Flea and lead singer Anthony Kiedis to the music world. For our duo of reviewers, it was a chance to revisit their high school soundtrack.
Stick around to see who got the "oy," the "meh" and the "not bad" marks in this week's The Reel Schmooze.
The Reel Schmooze is produced by Ari Schlacht and can be found wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's The Real Shmooze, where you find all the entertainment news and movie reviews as you can use. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Amanda Borschell Dan, here with their movie maven Jordan Hoffman, straight from New Jersey. |
| 0:19.4 | Hey, how are you doing? How are things over there? I wake up in the |
| 0:23.6 | morning. I check the Times of Israel homepage and I go, and then I say, well, things are still bad. |
| 0:31.1 | How many times in the last 48 hours have you raced into a bomb shelter? Well, number one, I don't |
| 0:36.2 | race. I saunter because I just |
| 0:38.0 | locked that way. But, no, I actually slept last night in our safe room with the four-year-old |
| 0:45.2 | cuddling up with him. So so is not to have to race, but there were a few sirens. And I'm a little |
| 0:51.9 | bleary-eyed. I also donated blood yesterday for the cause. So maybe |
| 0:56.8 | that contributes to my more airheadedness than usual. But we will definitely endeavor to create |
| 1:04.5 | the best program possible. And Jordan, how are you doing, my man? Because your voice was eight, |
| 1:10.4 | right? Well, I feel silly, quetching because, you know, you've got missiles pointed at you and then our, you know, I feel for the civilians of Tehran who have done nothing wrong and have missiles pointed at them. |
| 1:24.5 | And but I do have a question because we do get emails from a lot of our listeners and I noticed |
| 1:29.1 | and this is wonderful a lot of our messages are signed you know from work people listen at work |
| 1:36.0 | and send a quick email and it says you know Dr. Janice Goldstein MD or whatever so we have a lot |
| 1:41.7 | of doctors listening which is fabulous so I thought wait to a Jewish program there have a lot of doctors listening, which is fabulous. So I thought, |
| 2:03.3 | wait, to a Jewish program, there are a lot of doctors. There may be one or two lawyers as well. Yeah, maybe, maybe. And a couple of CPAs, although my CPA did a great job this year. I'm getting a return like you wouldn't believe. All right, listen, so here's a deal. I, the other day, I'm fine. I'm well, but the other day I got a little sick and I vomited. This happens in life. People vomit all the time. It's not great. I don't |
| 2:09.3 | look forward to it. But it was no big deal. I had a little bit of tummy. But here's the thing. |
| 2:14.3 | And this was not always the case. When I was younger, this was not the case. When I have what they call in the competitive eating world, a reversal of fortune, you know, when they do the July 4th hot dog eating contest and somebody throws up, they call it a reversal of fortune. When I reverse, when I have a reverse, my voice is shot for days. |
| 2:36.7 | Literally, the next day, I sound like Miles Davis. |
| 2:41.3 | I'm totally, you can't hear a word I'm saying. |
| 2:44.3 | And even now, it's been, it's been four, pretty much four days, three and a half, four days. And I'm still a little, |
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