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Big Mouths: Ep. 202

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, comedian Nick Kroll returns to the show to talk about 'Big Mouth,' his raunchy Netflix animated show about puberty, now in its third season. He tells us about hosting Purim talent shows with 'Big Mouth' co-creator Andrew Goldberg at their Jewish day school in Westchester, NY, explains how his own adolescent experiences influenced the show, and shares his bar mitzvah horror story. Our Gentile of the Week is Sarah Blake, author of the novel The Guest Book, which tells the story of the uber-WASPy Milton family over three generations, centered around the island in Maine that the family bought during the Depression. She tells us how the story was modeled on elements of her own upbringing, describes how the few Jewish characters who appear throughout the book ultimately change the course of the Milton dynasty, and speaks candidly about what it's like to be a WASP in 2019 America. Come see us on tour! Copies of The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia will be sold and signed at each event: November 2 – Detroit, MI: Unorthodox live show November 3 – Detroit, MI: Panel event November 4 – Denver, CO: Book talk and Unorthodox live show November 6 – Houston, Texas: Jewish Book Fair signing and teen event November 14 – Margate, NJ: Book talk November 17 – Cincinnati, OH: Unorthodox live show November 20 – Dresher, PA: Book talk November 21 – New York, NY: Book talk November 22 – New York, NY: Shabbat book talk December 5 – Port Washington, NY: Book talk December 7-8 – Encinitas, CA: An Unorthodox Shabbat and Unorthodox live show December 9 – Phoenix, AZ: Unorthodox live show December 19 – St. Louis, MO: Book event Like the book? Leave us a review! (Amazon or Goodreads). Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com or leave a message at our listener line: 914-570-4869. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group. Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baby onesies at bit.ly/unorthoshirt. This episode is also sponsored by J. Press. Get 15 percent off your first order when you use discount code Unorthodox15 at jpressonline.com or in one of their retail stores in New Haven, New York, or Washington, D.C. Offer good through December 24, 2019. Get ready for Thanksgiving with KOL Foods. Go to kolfoods.com and use the code UNORTHODOX to receive a 10 percent discount on your next order. Order before November 3, 2019 and you can get $1 off per pound on all whole turkeys with the KOL Foods Thanksgiving Early bird sale.

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podcast. I am Mark Oppenheimer joined as ever by my fellow hosts tablet deputy editor Stephanie Butnik

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back in the saddle first one up back at Argo Studios what do we say is this our first time

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at Argo Studios in 5780 because we've been on the road we've been doing it from other places

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I feel like I haven't been here I didn't even know what floor to get off on I had that moment too I was up 12 tablet senior writer Leoibovitz also here and the Mary chishvon to you. I love a roshkodeshchevans right?

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It's just there's nothing quite like a roshkodesh Keshvan.

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You had me a chishvan. It's crispy it's autonomy. Two incredible guests for you today, we sat down with Nick Kroll for the second time.

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We're just talking about his Netflix show Big Mouth, now in its third season.

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And I like the first time where we talk about Eichmann, this time we talked about funny shit.

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And Stephanie spoke with Gentile of the week, Sarah Blake, about her novel, The Guest Book.

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She's a real Gentile.

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Is she really?

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