Welcome to Unorthodox The Universe's leading Jewish podcast. I am one of your hosts,

Leah Leibowitz and we are still on summer haters which means that as you're

hearing this I'm probably sitting by the pool somewhere,

because as you know, I don't like the beach, and I'm probably doing the only thing that I know

how to do by large bodies of water, which is read a book. so today it gives us such great pleasure to give you

a taste of probably the funnest Jewish novel you would read all summer all year heck in a very

long time it is called Goyhood, and Stephanie and I are joined by its author, New York Post, reporter, extraordinary Ruven Fenton.

He has been covering breaking news for the New York Post since 2007,

and this book of his, his first novel,

is uproarious, hilarious, and really asks a great question, which is, what happens if a very Jewish

person wakes up one day to figure out, well, sorry, but maybe you're not really Jewish.

It's what happens if Jack Kerouac met Woody Allen,

and I hope you'll enjoy the conversation Stephanie and I head with Reuben Fenton.

Roving Fenton.

Roving Fenton, welcome to Unorthodox.

It's a pleasure to be you.

Thank you so much.

So your day job is covering breaking news for the New York Post.

So tell us a little bit about what that job is.

If I look through your byline page, it is just like, whoa, a lot of news, not all of it good.

We're working for, it should be said, America's greatest fucking newspaper.

Oh, stop, stop. The only one I read seriously.

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