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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Our Diamond Jubilee - with Ira Glass

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

News, Yonit Levi, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Jews, Religion & Spirituality, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Israel Podcast, Middle East, Jonathan Freedland, Documentary

4.7770 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We’re celebrating - and you’re all invited! After all, it only took sixty episodes of Unholy - and seventy years on the throne - to convince Jonathan to discuss the monarchy favorably. This week’s special guest, Ira Glass, set the gold standard for podcasts with his award winning "This American Life", he is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize - but if you ask him, he doesn’t really consider himself a celebrity. Glass talks with Yonit and Jonathan about being the non-traditional voice that reinvented radio, about journalism losing its grip on the truth, and- naturally- about letting down his Jewish parents by deciding to not be a doctor.  Plus, in the Chutzpah category - they say Bat Mitzvahs are the rite to adulthood, but these invitees may have taken that too literally. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142 Subscribe to our blog: https://unholypodcast.substack.com/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Unite Levi of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.

0:14.7

And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.

0:18.2

And we are unholy two Jews on on the News from Keship Podcasts.

0:21.3

How are you doing, Jonathan?

0:23.1

I'm doing very well.

0:24.1

I'm very excited because we have broadcasting royalty on Unholy this week.

0:30.2

Our very special guest is none other than the founder and boss of this American life, Ira Glass.

0:37.7

And that is very exciting.

0:38.9

And it's nice that you mentioned the word royalty, because I assume, knowing you so well,

0:44.2

that you are now camped outside Buckingham Palace, waiting, sleeping there for three days,

0:49.3

waiting for a glimpse of Her Majesty or her procession.

0:54.0

You find me in my sleeping bag with a lawn chair in hour 38 of my vigil of monochism on the mall as I wait.

1:04.0

Please send me a picture of that imaginary image.

1:07.0

Yeah, there's going to be no photograph of that.

1:10.0

In my little corner of um north

1:12.8

london actually it is there are two reasons why there is not a huge amount of bunting and flags around

1:18.0

here and i would say as yet people long-time listeners will know um very harady neighborhood and they

1:23.7

you know they're not big on royal jubilees particularly so there there's no red, white and blue bunting for that reason. But also, I live in this area, this borough, Hackney is known for its radical tradition. And it's, you know, these things are often notional. But I do notice walking around, there is just less of it here than in other parts of the country and in parts of London. There are a few places where you can

1:48.3

see the Union flag, etc. And usually for Jubilees, there have been, because remember,

1:53.2

there have been quite a few of these Jubilee's. Normally there is a street party at the

1:58.0

non-Haredi end of the street. And I'm not kidding, this street has a

2:01.3

Kharadian and a non-Hahredi end. And the non-haredi-end, there's usually a street party. I haven't

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