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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

1290 Ezra Levin and Ophira Eisenberg + Your Good Stuff,Headlines and Clips

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

Racialjustice, Comedian, Democracy, Comedy, Environmentaljustice, Politics, News, Organizedlabor, Standupcomic, Covid, Petedominick, Trump

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Confirmed Guests! Professor Eric Segall, Dr Aaron Carroll, Maura Quint, Tim Wise, JL Cauvin, Ophira Eisenberg, Christian Finnegan and More!

31 minutes Ezra Levin is the co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible. Prior to founding Indivisible, Ezra served as Associate Director of Federal Policy for Prosperity Now, a national anti-poverty nonprofit. Previously, he was the Deputy Policy Director for Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Field Director for Doggett’s 2010 reelection campaign, and an AmeriCorps VISTA in the Homeless Services Division of the San Jose Housing Department.  

Along with his co-founder and spouse Leah Greenberg, Ezra has been featured as one of TIME 100’s Most Influential People of 2019, included on GQ’s 50 Most Powerful People in Trump’s Washington, and ranked #2 on the Politico 50 list of top thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics. He has appeared as a commentator on and/or been interviewed by MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Pod Save America, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, TIME Magazine, the New Yorker, the Nation, Slate, and Rolling Stone, among others. He is the co-author of We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump, published by Simon & Schuster’s One Signal Publishers in 2019. 

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and a Master in Public Affairs from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

1 hour 2 mins

Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR’s comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others.

As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th.

She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more.

Her new comedy album at special Plant-Based Jokes is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Lauded as “hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,” Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show’s material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at “an advanced maternal age.” Her other comedy albums, Bangs! and As Is

She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, HBO’s GirlsGotham LiveThe Late Late ShowThe Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine’s “Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today. 

Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth’s best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth. 

Ophira’s first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press), is a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect Frankenmate. It was optioned for a feature film. 

She is also sought after as a brilliant interviewer and moderator, and has interviewed dozens of celebrities, writers, and actors including Neil Gaiman at New York’s Town Hall; Jane Curtain, Anne Beatts, Heather Gardner, Sudi Green, Alysia Reiner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Crane, Jeffrey Klerik at The Nantucket Film Festival; Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy at the 92nd Street Y; and Nell Scovell and Sloane Crosley at The Mark Twain House. 

Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ophira graduated with a Cultural Anthropology and Theater degree from McGill University. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City’s comedy clubs including the Comedy Cellar, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and Carolines, as well as Brooklyn’s famed performance venues The Bell House, Union Hall, and Littlefield. She resides with her husband and son where she can regularly be seen drinking a ton of coffee.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I am here and I have two great guests joining me today.

0:05.6

From Indivisible, it's Ezra Levin, and then I've got comedian, commentator, and host of Parenting Is a joke, our friend Ophira Eisenberg, who is going to be joining us out in Vegas at the end of the month.

0:17.7

I haven't talked to Ophira in way too long.

0:20.1

We had a great conversation, and you'll love the inspiring and very passionate Ezra Levin.

0:27.0

He starts at 37 minutes, and my conversation with Ophira begins at an hour and two minutes.

0:33.3

But I've also got your headlines, clips, and today's good stuff. Sorry, I'm late, but we had

0:39.6

a great time at last night's hangout. As a matter of fact, I'm going to play a clip from our

0:44.8

great friend Vicky, our queen, inspiring us at the end of the hangout to not give up and to

0:51.4

continue the fight. It's really great. But we also had a lot of laughs.

0:55.3

We panicked. We shared news stories and ideas. We went off on tangents. It was great. If you are a

1:01.6

stand-up subscriber, a member of our community with a paid subscription, you'll be getting an

1:06.6

email as you do every day with a link to two last night's hangout if you want to watch it.

1:11.2

It was really great.

1:12.6

But I'm going to start right now with your good stuff and last night's hangout.

1:17.2

Here was what it sounded like when Vicky said this at the end.

1:21.4

After she said it, I just decided I had to end the hang out because sometimes you have a moment so great.

1:25.9

You just can't top it.

1:27.4

And I know when

1:28.5

to get off stage. So leading up, today's good stuff segment, a dose of good stuff from the

1:33.7

always awesome, Vicki. I just want to say before we go, folks, I know this is heavy. I know life is

1:40.2

hard. And I know this shit has just driven you mad, but please know that there are people

1:48.9

in your corner who are pulling for the same thing.

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