Funny Girls: Ep. 325

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week on Unorthodox: ‘Funny Girl’ casting shakeups, letters from camp, and more. Our Jewish guest this week is Michael Uslan, who produced the Batman films. He talks with us about comic books as literature, and what makes Batman different from other superheroes. Our Gentile of the Week is Iranian-American comedian and “Fake the Nation” podcast host Negin Farsad. She tells us about being mistaken for a Jew and shares her upcoming projects. We want to hear from you! Take our listener survey and be entered to win a Russ & Daughters gift card: tabletm.ag/survey2022 We’re looking for contestants on our kids game show podcast Hebrew School! Do you know a curious kid aged 7-12 who wants to be challenged with fun Jewish quizzes and games? Go to tabletm.ag/hebrewschool for more information and to apply. Send us emails and voice memos at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave a voicemail at our listener line: (914) 570-4869. Remember to tell us who you are and where you’re calling from. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Join our Facebook group, and follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our recording sessions on our YouTube channel. Find out about our upcoming events at tabletmag.com/unorthodoxlive. Want to book us for a live show or event in your area, or partner with us in some other way? Email Tanya Singer at tsinger@tabletmag.com. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, Jacob, we are finalists for two podcast awards, but we need your vote.
0:10.6	It's the signal awards, which are listeners' choice, which means we need you to choose
0:14.3	our across the USA episode from Louisville, Kentucky.
0:17.3	You can vote for that at tabletm.ag slash vote on Orthodox, and for our sports podcast,
0:23.2	the franchise.
0:24.2	You can vote for that at tabletm.ag slash vote on the franchise.
0:28.6	We can close this October 5th, so don't wait.
0:31.1	Please, get us to the gold.
0:33.0	You can find both of those links in the show notes, and thank you so much.
0:36.7	This is on Orthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast.
0:47.8	I am your host, Mark Oppenheimer, joined as ever by my co-hosts, tablet editor at large
0:54.0	Liel Lieberwitz.
1:01.0	This week on the show, returning Gentile of the Week, comedian, podcaster, fake the nation
1:07.4	host, Nigeen Farsad, and our Jew of the Week is Michael Uslan.
1:13.3	He's the executive producer of all the Batman movies, and he's the first college professor
1:18.0	of comic book studies.
1:20.1	I don't know that we can ever prove that.
1:21.7	I think somebody has professed comic books before, but we're happy to give him that for
1:26.6	today and for the purposes of this extremely good interview.
1:31.6	Before we get to all that good stuff, here we are, it's July, the kids are way at camp
1:36.1	that's supposed to make our lives easier.
1:37.8	May I tell you about the mail I've been getting, Liel and Stephanie?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tablet Magazine, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tablet Magazine and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.