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Throwback Thursday: Ep. 42

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, the '90s are back: The Intifada is all the rage at UC Irvine, 90210's Andrea Zuckerman is on our minds, and a Clinton is running for president. Our Jewish guest is BuzzFeed News national reporter Amanda Chicago Lewis, who covers the burgeoning marijuana industry and the politics of legalization. In lieu of a Gentile of the Week, we read from a Jews for Jesus pamphlet left in the lobby of our producer Julie’s apartment building. We love to hear from you! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/UnorthodoxPodcast.

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It's the perfect coffee table book for your proud Jewish home,

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and it covers everything from Jewish history pop culture holidays and of course food

0:14.2

all with our trademark irreverence and love our publisher is offering a special

0:18.8

20% discount on newest Jewish and their entire Hanukk shop. So head to Artisan Books.com

0:24.0

and use the code unorthodox at check out.

0:26.5

That's Artisan Books.

0:28.1

Discount code, unorthodox, all caps.

0:34.0

Hey Jews and other find human beings, this is unorthodox, a weekly

0:38.0

podcast from tablet magazine.

0:40.0

I'm Mark Oppenheimer, joined ever by Leo Leibowitz.

0:43.4

Shalom, Shalom, Shalom.

0:45.8

It's a three Shalom morning for Leo.

0:47.7

And Stephanie Butnik.

0:48.6

Hey.

0:49.8

And so one hay morning.

0:51.1

Yeah.

0:51.5

Our Jewish guest this week is the seraphically named Amanda Chicago Lewis,

0:57.2

who covers the pot industry for BuzzFeed.

0:58.9

I think she's the first ever National Pot reporter for BuzzFeed. First and you know she's not going anywhere

1:06.2

she's she's the woman at BuzzFeed if you want to know about the weed industry

1:09.2

and she's amazing. I mean she's falling in the footsteps of you know Edward R Morrow who started out as

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