Animal Kingdom Ep. 13

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week marks the thirteenth episode of Unorthodox, and we’re ready to party like it’s our bar mitzvah all over again. Our Jewish guest is Wayne Hoffman, executive editor of Tablet and the author of several novels. His latest is An Older Man, which follows 42-year-old Moe Pearlman (the protagonist from Hoffman’s first novel, Hard, about New York City’s gay scene in the 1990s), as he deals with getting older and finding companionship during Bear Week in Provincetown, MA. Hoffman discusses bear culture and what’s changed for the gay community since the days of Hard. Our non-Jewish guest is Elvis Harvey, a dog trainer on the Upper West Side who’s gotten to know quite a few Jews since moving his business to New York City from Texas. He talks about the difference between Jewish and Catholic (as well as liberal and conservative) dog owners. We love hearing from you. Email Unorthodox@tabletmag.com with questions, comments, or complaints. We’ll share our favorites on the air. You can learn more about Wayne Hoffman's books at www.waynehoffmanwriter.com/. You can find information about Elvis Harvey at BarkingCommonSense.com. For more Unorthodox, visit tabletmag.com/unorthodox. Email us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com.

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0:00.0	What better way to be proudly Jewish right now than with our book, the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia?
0:07.0	It's the perfect coffee table book for your proud Jewish home,
0:10.0	and it covers everything from Jewish history, pop holidays and of course food all with our trademark irreverence and love
0:16.8	Our publisher is offering a special 20% discount on newest Jewish and their entire Hanukk shop. So head to Artisan Books.com
0:24.0	and use the code unorthodox at check out.
0:26.5	That's Artisan Books.
0:28.1	Discount code, unorthodox, all caps.
0:31.6	Welcome to. caps. Deputy Editor Stephanie Butnik. Hi. Hello, who's in studio.
0:43.6	And then our West Coast correspondent this week,
0:46.2	calling in from LA, Leal Leibouitz.
0:48.8	Boker told me Los Angeles.
0:50.4	Yeah, what are you wearing out there in LA
0:52.0	in your hotel room, Leo?
0:53.0	To paraphrase, the great Marilyn Monroe, I have nothing but this podcast on.
0:57.0	You're in like a velvet smoking jacket with a...
1:01.0	Precisely.
1:02.0	Slippers. Slippersippers and overlooking my empire.
1:05.0	Later in the show we'll be talking with novelist and gay bear
1:08.4	superstar Wayne Hoffman and if you don't know what a bear is in gay culture you
1:12.2	need this episode.
1:14.1	And our guest Gentile, Elvis Harvey, is a dog walker on the upper west side of Manhattan
1:18.5	where he meets many, many people of the Hebrew persuasion.
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