Eye of Newt: Ep. 110

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, we're totally bewitched. Our Jewish guest is novelist Alice Hoffman, whose new book is The Rules of Magic, a prequel to her bestselling 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was made into the 1998 film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. She tells us how she re-immersed herself in the magical Owens family 20 years later, the ways in which her Jewish background influenced her interest in rebellious women, and why it's important to her to redefine the popular mythology of witches. Our gentile of the week is a witch and priest in the Minoan Brotherhood, who studies neo-paganism at Harvard Divinity School. He tells us the difference between witches and pagans, how he planned to celebrate Samhain, the pagan festival also known as Halloween, and why eye of newt is something you might already have in your kitchen cabinet. Join our new Facebook group! And sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, behind-the-scenes photos, and more! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we may read your note on air. Follow us on Twitter: @tabletmag , @markopp1, @liel, and @stuffism. This episode is brought to you by Harry’s. Get a free trial shave set—including razor handle, blades, and gel—when you sign up at Harrys.com/Unorthodox.

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0:28.6	unorthodox all caps.
0:31.6	Hey J crew we're back in our cozy studio.
0:35.0	We're wearing our fall, we're wearing mufflers and sweaters and fleeces.
0:39.0	And that's just going to mean that we have to use some lewd language
0:42.0	because we're being ourselves.
0:43.7	We don't have our guard up. You get the idea. So we're just going to, we're letting it all hang out.
0:47.3	So send the kids out of the room.
0:48.9	That Stephanie, Stephanie, like, what are you talking about?
0:50.7	I'm like, how am I letting it all hang out if I'm wearing just like so many layers right now?
0:53.6	You're having some hang out. The point is you're actually hanging out.
0:56.5	We have cabin fever. The point is you've had your obscenity warning.
0:59.5	It's a lot of like all, I'll say all.
1:02.1	But it's like if I'm in the middle of I kind of like I'm a little
1:05.0	heated about something and I'm like and then all of a sudden and I was like whoa
1:08.0	and I'm always like I try to like catch it and put it back in.
1:13.3	Does Ben shoot you this look like, I thought I'd married a girl had been finished at Duke, the fine Methodist institution down south.
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