Happy Returns: Ep. 293

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Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on Unorthodox, our national nightmare is over: Stephanie returns to the show! We talk to comedian Alex Edelman, whose new one-man show, “Just For Us,” is about the time he infiltrated a white supremacist gathering. Edelman, who was raised Orthodox, tells us about starting to wrap tefillin again during the pandemic, his work on Saturday Night Seder, and why some Jewish comedians miss the mark for him. “Just For Us” runs Dec. 1-19 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. Then we visit Sherry Herring, New York City’s latest culinary import from Tel Aviv and Liel’s favorite place on Earth, to sample chipotle tuna and piri piri sardine sandwiches and learn about the Jewish love of smoked fish. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation at bit.ly/givetounorthodox. Send comments and questions to unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave us a voicemail at (914) 570-4869. You can also record a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us. 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! Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, mugs, and baby onesies at bit.ly/unorthoshirt. Want to book us for a live show? Email producer Josh Kross at jkross@tabletmag.com. Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Sponsors: Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards recognize 15 extraordinary Jewish teenagers from across the United States with an award of $36,000 to honor their initiatives to help change the world. You can nominate a teen today or they can apply directly by January 7. Visit dillerteenawards.org/unorthodox to learn more. Harry’s is a great shave at a great price. New customers can get a Starter Set—which includes a five-blade razor, weighted handle, foaming shave gel with aloe, and a travel cover—for just $3 at harrys.com/unorthodox. Rothy’s shoes are stylish and sustainable, and now they’re available for men too! Get $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/UNORTHODOX.

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0:00.0	This is Unorthodox. The universe is leading Jewish podcast. I am your host, Mark Oppenheimer.
0:07.3	Join us ever by tablet, editor at large, Liel Lieberwitz, Liel. It's so good running
0:12.1	this two-man show with you. What's going on? Catch me up on, you know, what's the
0:16.2	haps?
0:17.2	I think today, as we've done for the last nine or 14 or 26 weeks, let's talk about
0:23.0	Jen Martinez and being middle-aged men and why we don't believe that being introverted
0:29.0	is a real thing. What do you think? Do you think listeners would like another week
0:32.1	of that?
0:33.1	I think that definitely after all this time what they really want to hear is more about
0:36.4	us going on, about Corderoi and how the kids have terrible-tasted music. Can I tell you
0:41.5	how sick of us I am? It is time to make Unorthodox great again.
0:46.5	Oh my God, is it? Does my Zoom screen lie? Could it be Stephanie Butteck? Guys, I'm
1:02.5	back. I'm back now. We're going to be fine to all the people who message me saying,
1:07.5	I can't listen to the show anymore without you. All the people who are like, when are
1:11.4	you coming back? So glad you had to be here. You need to be back on the show.
1:15.1	Can I include these feet? We were also texting and we can't listen to the show anymore.
1:19.6	I'm talking mostly to you too. I hope you were up to something important in the time
1:24.1	that you abandoned us to our own masculine devices. Yeah, I was up to something good
1:29.6	kind of important. Yeah, I have a baby now. All right, the funniest thing is my last episode
1:35.3	on the show was the pregnancy episode and I actually recently listened to it for the
1:39.4	first time because as our listeners know, I basically had a baby during that episode.
1:44.5	Yeah, thanks for helping out on the edit, by the way. I know. I really left that on
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