Old School: Ep. 305

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Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, we’re throwing it back. Our Gentile of the week is writer Chuck Klosterman, whose new book is The Nineties. He tells us why the 90s were the last real decade, plus what it’s like to earnestly promote a book about an era when apathy reigned supreme. We, on the other hand, are happy to be commercial sellouts—we’re giving away copies of The Nineties on our Instagram and Facebook accounts. We love to hear from you! Send us your 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. Check out The Tab, Tablet magazine's new printable weekly digest. Laid out in an attractive PDF for reading on a tablet or desktop, or to be printed, The Tab takes you into Shabbat and through the weekend, for free. Get your copy at tablet.ag/tab. Want to book us for a live show or event in your area, or partner with us in some other way? Email tsinger@tabletmag.com. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Sponsors: 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.

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0:00.0	This is Unorthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast, I am your host, Mark Oppenheimer,
0:06.5	joined as ever by my co-hosts, tablet editor at large, Leah Liebowitz, and deputy editor
0:14.7	of tabletmag.com, Stephanie Buttenich.
0:17.6	Oh, hello.
0:18.6	Today, on the show, we're going Supremo-Premo Gentile, our Gentile of the Week, taking up
0:23.8	the whole interview block, straight out of North Dakota, Gentile of the Week, Chuck
0:28.8	Closterman.
0:29.8	One of my favorite pop culture critics, he sort of, he began as a pop music critic and
0:33.3	then transcended that, and now he's just a critic of everything.
0:35.8	There's nothing he won't criticize, and his new book, which is marvelous, is called
0:39.6	the 90s, and it's his master treatise on the decade that formed yours truly.
0:45.5	If none of this is appealing to you right now, listen anyway, because we will win you
0:48.8	over to our geek fest, our love, our ode to the 90s.
0:52.2	You like I'm going to our ode as if I've co-opted his book.
0:55.5	Before we get to all that good stuff, let's have some good stuff from the Upper West.
0:59.7	How are things at Buttenic North, Stephanie Buttenic?
1:02.0	Things are great here.
1:03.0	Baby Edith Cohen is six and a half months.
1:05.0	She's really, really cool.
1:06.2	She just learned this week how to yell.
1:08.3	She just yells things now, not when she's not mad, just sort of like a little bird.
1:12.6	She squawks a lot.
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