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This week on Unorthodox, we’re heading to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.

Our guest is Matthew Weiner, creator of the TV series Mad Men and The Romanoffs, and an executive producer on The Sopranos. He joins us to talk about why everyone seems to be binge-watching Mad Men lately, as well as what the show had to say about Jewishness in 1960s America, and how it was influenced by his own Jewish upbringing in Los Angeles.

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