Mensch of Letters
The first, best, and ONLY Jewish Supernatural podcast. Tune in each week as Jules (any pronouns) and Iscah (they/them) make a bad tv show slightly better by making it Jewish.
Episodes
15 episodes
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Ep 14 - Suck It Up, CW
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. References:<...
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Ep 13 - The Spider-Man Routine Accomplished Nothing
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 Ag...
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Ep 12 - Every Simple Human Vice and Virtue
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 Seaso...
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Ep 11 - Infinite Salt Protection Tube
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...
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Ep 10 - Demon Hunter's Quarterly
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.References:
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Ep 9 - The Honeymoon Phase
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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Ep 8 - Demons Creating Literary Symmetry
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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Ep 7 - The Haunted Portrait of Theseus
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)R...
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Ep 6 - Hit Those Parallel Buttons
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....
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Ep 5 - Throwing Away the Whole Suitcase
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, Neve...
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Ep 4 - Ghost Corpses
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.
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Ep 3 - Something Something Repression, Something Something Overbearing Fathers
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. (Supernatur...
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1:20:13
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Ep 2 - A Swarm of Evil Bees
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)Referen...
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Ep 1 - The Unending Misery of Being a Supernatural Fan
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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