#23 Exit & Return, Part I

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Shulem Deen was a 22-year old and ultra-religious, a Hasidic Jewish person, when he bought a computer and signed up for America Online in 1996. Until then he'd never had a real conversation with someone outside his community. Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how the internet ruined his life and how it might save it. Thanks for listening! Subscribe to our podcast at http://www.itunes.com/replyall! Sponsors: Mailchimp (http://www.mailchimp.com) Blue Apron (http://blueapron.com - coupon code 'reply') Harrys Razors (http://harrys.com - coupon code 'reply') Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is reply all.
0:05.0	Show about the internet.
0:06.0	I'm Alex Goldman.
0:14.0	This week we've got an amazing story from our producer, Shruti Pinmanati.
0:18.0	Hey guys.
0:19.0	Hey Shruti.
0:20.0	It's, I don't want to oversell it, but...
0:22.0	I would like for you to oversell it.
0:24.0	Oh, done.
0:25.0	This is a story of the internet destroying someone's life completely.
0:29.0	And it's the story of the internet transforming someone's life for the better.
0:33.0	And it's the same person.
0:35.0	Shruti, you want to take the story from here?
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	So in the part of Brooklyn where I live, this neighborhood called Williamsburg,
0:41.0	there's the expected kind of Brooklyn-ness.
0:44.0	There's hip stores on bikes, you know, vintage shops and tattoo parlors.
0:48.0	And just a couple of blocks down from that, there's this entire other thing happening.
0:55.0	It's as if you stepped into the 1800s.
0:58.0	The people here are all hasetic.
1:01.0	They're orthodox Jews and they all dress in this particular way.
1:04.0	So the men are wearing long black coats and hats.
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