Mensch of Letters

Ep 14 - Suck It Up, CW

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0600

This week: Exposure therapy for secondhand embarrassment, making dick jokes about angels, Dean doesn’t know how to destroy a hard drive, the return of Buffynatural, and the JJ Bittenbinder school of vampire hunting.

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Ep 13 - The Spider-Man Routine Accomplished Nothing

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:00:00 -0600

This week: Scenes that aged like milk on a radiator, the era when they cared about demon possession victims, mid-00s homophobia that turned into real bisexuality, rescuing a kid from ghost-induced drowning...2!, and Jules’s boyfriend Special Agent Victor Henriksen.

(Supernatural Season 2, Episodes 10, 11, and 12)

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Many thanks to Lulavet Arnow for her help with our audio editing. She can be found on Twitter @palmliker or @spacetrucksix.

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

Ep 12 - Every Simple Human Vice and Virtue

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0600

This week: Little sibling crimes of being taller, a sprinkling of daloy politsey, Sam gets snubbed by the FBI, Elijah the Prophet is playing with your dogs, and the covenant is just Eldest Daughter Disorder writ large.

(Supernatural Season 2, Episodes 7, 8, and 9)

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Ep 11 - Infinite Salt Protection Tube

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:00:00 -0500

This week: The boys could both benefit from some weed, emotions are little brother nonsense, apologies to Jules' mom for ragging on philosophy, the haunted post office episode we should have gotten, and debating the merits of different hairstyles.

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Ep 10 - Demon Hunter's Quarterly

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:00:00 -0500

This week: A Lulav-ly guest star, worms and Worms and vurms, kings breaking necromancy prohibitions, no such thing as scars or head trauma, and the math of plane crashes vs. serial killer clowns.

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You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Special guest Lulavet Arnow can be found on Twitter @palmliker or @spacetrucksix.

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

Ep 9 - The Honeymoon Phase

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 10:00:00 -0500

This week: A living fossil of mid-00’s television, all questions and no answers, ghosts as a diaspora metaphor, what if it was more like X-Men, and everything is fresh and not yet beat into the ground.

(Supernatural Season 1)

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You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

Ep 8 - Demons Creating Literary Symmetry

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 20:00:00 -0500

This week: Clown foreshadowing, a list of impossible things, making holy water wrong, people who are unimpressed with the Winchesters, and Trivial Pursuit: Sammy’s Psychic Powers edition.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 21 and 22)

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You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

Ep 7 - The Haunted Portrait of Theseus

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:00:00 -0500

This week: Dean and Sam aren’t WASPs, a one-scene heist movie, Jules goes full Pepe Silvia over G-d as an author, Elijah is NOT a vampire, and it’s wildly easy to trick John Winchester.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 19 and 20)

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You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

Ep 6 - Hit Those Parallel Buttons

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0500

This week: Jules is probably not getting murdered by a daeva, Dean is Miette-coded, our new plastic surgeon OC, sometimes the solution is arson, and 19th century Wisconsin newspapers were totally on the cutting edge of photojournalism.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 16, 17, and 18)

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You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

Ep 5 - Throwing Away the Whole Suitcase

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0500

This week: Keeping ghosts secret except when we yell about them in public, hearteyes for THEE Cassie Robinson, Dean is totes nailing his priest impression, where are they getting entire State Trooper uniforms, and For Sale: Chekhov's Guns, Never Fired.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 13, 14, and 15)

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You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com. If you like what we're doing, you can support us on Patreon! For as little as one dollar a month, you can get a special role in our Discord, exclusive access to bonus content, and more.

Get your creative hats on, because Jupernatural Week is back! Running from October 2nd through October 9th, it's an entire week of celebrating the canon and fanon Jews of Supernatural. Draw some art, write a fic, put together a playlist, and share your favorites far and wide. We can't wait to see what you make!

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

Ep 4 - Ghost Corpses

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0500

This week: Is it gay to sit on furniture?, teen girls with rock salt shotguns, we have a grand old time ragging on John Winchester, Mensch of Letters does not (wink wink) condone piracy, and a sorcerer is just a wizard who’s a dick.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 10, 11, and 12)

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Sorcery, idolatry, and leading people astray as linked concepts
History of the Hasidic Movement and Shabbatai Tzvi (who was proclaimed by some as a messiah a century earlier and whose movement heavily influenced the formation of Hasidism)

Ep 3 - Something Something Repression, Something Something Overbearing Fathers

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:00:00 -0500

This week: Dean (thinks he) looks young enough to be a college student, a ghost leaves out of embarrassment, Sam Winchester: Tarantula Whisperer, bad anthropological practices, and garbage disposal-based nightmare fuel.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 7, 8, and 9)

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Kosher Locusts

Ep 2 - A Swarm of Evil Bees

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -0500

This week: The Ackles ass equation, bad puns from demons, roasting the writers’ awful takes on gematria, real and metaphorical mirror demons, and Jules has become lawboy.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 4, 5, and 6)

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Ep 1 - The Unending Misery of Being a Supernatural Fan

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -0500

This week: Dean has two nickels, the timelines are already a little mysterious, a Hannibal/geography tangent, tricking vampires into going to a mikveh, and the narrative is not in the CW.

(Supernatural Season 1, Episodes 1, 2, and 3)

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Life-energy gone awry
Lemony Snicket interview
Cool Guy post
Obligation to teach one's children to swim
“The Talmud also specifies that parents should teach their children how to swim. In the ancient world, where much travel occurred over water, swimming was a necessary survival skill. In modern parlance, this commandment means that parents are required to teach their children whatever self-defense skills are necessary for survival. In her book How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household, writer Blu Greenberg recalls an ugly incident in her neighborhood in which a number of antisemitic teenagers attacked and beat a group of Jewish teenagers. The local rabbi's response was a sensible one, and entirely consistent with the Talmud's ruling. "The time has come," he in effect told the parents, "to teach Jewish kids karate."”
- -- Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pg 538, 1st ed.

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com.

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.

Episode 0 - Introduction

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:00:00 -0500

Welcome to Mensch of Letters, the first, best, and ONLY Jewish Supernatural recap/review podcast. This week: our premiere, which consists of an introduction to your two hosts, Jules and Iscah.

You can also find us on Twitter @menschofletters and on Tumblr at menschofletters.tumblr.com.

Our intro music is Fun Tashlikh and our outro music is Szarvaszo Stomp, both by Yid Vicious, who you can find at their website yidvicious.com, where their music is available for purchase.