New Wave: Ep. 349

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week on Unorthodox, do Jews celebrate Valentine’s Day? Our Jew of the Week is returning guest David Sax, who joins us to talk about his newest book, The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World. Our Gentile of the Week is writer and surfer (and surf writer) William Finnegan, who talks to us about his memoir, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, and his experiences reporting on war and poverty around the world. We love to hear from you! 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. Merch alert! Check out our new Unorthodox tees, mugs, and hoodies at tabletstudios.com. We’re back on the road! Find out about our upcoming events at tabletmag.com/unorthodoxlive. To book us for a live show or event, email Tanya Singer at tsinger@tabletmag.com. 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. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

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0:00.0	This is on Orthodox. The universe is leading Jewish podcast. I am one of your hosts, Mark
0:07.4	Oppenheimer, joined by a couple others. Tablet, Deputy Editor, Stephanie Buttnick.
0:11.5	Happy Valentine's Day.
0:12.9	Happy V-Day, and Tablet, Editor-at-Large, Liel, Liebowitz.
0:16.0	Mazevalentine.
0:17.0	And it is known as Tuba Av, where you are from, but here there's more chocolate.
0:21.7	And today on the show, our Jew of the Week is a return guest, the author David Saks, who
0:25.5	I think is a profit. He joins us to talk about his book, The Future is Analog, how to create
0:29.9	a more human world. And the G-O-T-W, The Gentile of the Week is another profit, Bill
0:34.5	Finnegan, who talked with me about surfing and also how to report on Warren Poverty. Two
0:39.7	things he does really well.
0:40.7	At the same time.
0:41.7	At the same time, which is why I love him. But before we get to that, everybody go surfing
0:47.4	in impoverished USA.
0:49.6	We are recording on Valentine's Day, to air day after, day after, Morgan Morgan Valentine's
0:55.2	Day.
0:56.2	And I just have two things I want to say about this. One is, people often say, like, do
1:03.9	you have a beautiful Valentine's Day tradition with that beautiful wife and this beautiful
1:08.3	friend of yours?
1:09.3	I tell people often saying this.
1:10.3	My beautiful Valentine's Day tradition is not fucking celebrating Valentine's Day.
1:14.5	The most gory issue of all of it.
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