British Invasion: Ep. 80

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Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, we check in with Jake Turx, the now-famous Orthodox White House reporter who asked Trump about anti-Semitism. Our guests this week are Leah Green and Freddy McConnell, co-hosts of The Guardian’s “Token” podcast. Leah is mixed-race—her mother is Jewish and her father Nigerian—and Freddy is transgender and gay, and on their show they discuss topics like sex, gender, and race with frankness and humor (and British accents). We talk about whether Jews are white, find out the worst thing you can say to someone when you find out they’re transgender, and debate anti-Semitism on the British left. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, behind-the-scenes photos, and more! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we'll share our favorite notes on air. Music Credits: "Unorthodox Theme Song" by Golem "Yakety Sax" by Spider Rich and Boots Randolph "D'Bronx Tanz" by Tres Tristes Tango "Hello City" by Barenaked Ladies "Thorn in Your Side" by Namoli Brennet

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, there's some really bad words in English that we're going to say.
0:04.7	We also might say some in Hebrew like,
0:06.6	Koss and MacArs.
0:08.6	Whatever that...
0:09.6	That's Hebrew.
0:11.6	Whatever that was. Anyway, you don't want the English versions of that to be heard by your children send them out of the room and
0:17.4	Then we'll go on with the show that's my karaoke song
0:20.5	The moment it came out is like that's my song. It said amazing
0:23.1	my best friend Leslie said oh she's just being Molly next time we hang out I will
0:29.3	redeem myself my heart can't wait till then.
0:33.0	And the award for best podcast goes to Radio Lab, hosted by Robert Krollwich and Jat album Oh wait wrong envelope sorry best
0:47.3	podcast is unorthodox yeah we won guys we won I'm sure this joke will age really well
0:52.4	by the time our listeners I'm sure this joke will age really well by the time our listeners. I'm Mark Oppenheimer joined
0:55.9	as ever by tablet deputy editor Stephanie Butnik.
0:58.3	Finally. We're back to the right order and tablet senior writer Leah Leibowitz.
1:02.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:03.0	Our guests this week are a Jew and a Gentile,
1:05.0	Leah Green and Fred McConnell.
1:06.0	They are the hosts of Pocun,
1:08.0	a podcast from The Guardian newspaper in England.
1:11.0	A podcast so frank that they make even us blush.
1:13.8	Those are black and trans like they really have everything.
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