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Two Nice Jewish Boys

#137 - The 'Freier' Behind 'The Daily Freier'

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

1.7804 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Every culture has a hierarchy. And there’s usually an extra special place reserved for people at the very bottom of the ladder. In Japan it might be the selfish, in America perhaps the freeloader, but to us Israelis it’s very clear who’s at the bottom. The Freiers. Freier is a Yiddish term that’s been absorbed into everyday Hebrew. It can be loosely translated to mean, a sucker, a fool, a pushover or a dupe. Whatever it is, if you live in Israel long enough, you develop a sixth sense of sorts. You can smell a Freier from a mile away. And sometimes, the smell is you. The Daily Freier is an online satirical blog founded by Aaron Scheer. Aaron made aliyah after serving in the US military, and decided to stay in this land of suckers. We’re super excited to have him on the podcast today to talk about, what it’s like to become an Israeli.

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0:00.0

I'm Aiton Weinstein.

0:01.4

And I'm Naor Menninger.

0:03.0

And you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.

0:10.8

This podcast is made in collaboration with the Jewish Journal.

0:18.2

Every culture has a hierarchy.

0:20.4

And there's usually an extra special place reserved for people at the very bottom of the ladder.

0:25.6

In Japan it might be the selfish, in America perhaps the freeloader, but to us Israelis it's very clear who's at the bottom.

0:31.6

The Friars.

0:32.6

Friars is a Yiddish term that's been absorbed into everyday Hebrew.

0:36.6

It can be loosely translated

0:37.9

to mean a sucker, a fool, a pushover, or a dupe. Whatever it is, if you live in Israel

0:43.8

long enough, you develop a sixth sense of sorts. You can smell a friar from a mile away,

0:49.4

and sometimes the smell is you. The Daily friar is an online satirical blog founded by Aaron Shear. Aaron made

0:57.3

Aliya after serving in the U.S. military, he joined the IDF and decided to, no, Aaron did not join

1:03.8

the IDF, but decided to stay in Israel in the land of suckers. We're super excited to have him on the

1:09.2

podcast today to talk about it and what

1:10.9

it's like to become an Israeli how are you man thank you for having me wow that was uh arduous but

1:16.7

we got through it yeah thank you for having me and we have new mic whoa we have new mics and they

1:21.1

are amazing things still getting used to them yeah thanks to the jewish journal for getting us the

1:25.6

did you all listen to the the Chappelle show growing up?

1:28.4

A little bit, yeah.

1:29.4

Okay, he had a fake mixtape where the entire tape was him saying,

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