“I GREW UP ULTRA ORTHODOX JEWISH “
Therapy Gecko
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4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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A caller shares his experience growing up in an isolated religious community and the absurdist point of view it caused him to develop, and I read my favorite geckmail email in the history of this show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | Hello? |
| 0:07.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:08.6 | You hear me, Guck? |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, what's your name, man? |
| 0:12.6 | Uh, call me Steve. |
| 0:14.3 | Steve. |
| 0:16.4 | Steve. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm cool with Steve today, too. |
| 0:18.7 | I think it's a good name. |
| 0:21.3 | Can I tell the people what it is that you texted me? Is that all right? |
| 0:26.2 | Yeah, that's cool. That'll give a good start off point. |
| 0:29.3 | You said, hey, Gek, I want to chat with you about growing up in ultra-Orthodox Judaism, |
| 0:37.3 | and now I have landed somewhere in between an absurdist and a nihilist. |
| 0:42.3 | I left the fold years ago, managed to make a life for myself on the other side. |
| 0:50.0 | I was curious, I wanted to hit you up about this because, well, a few things is, you know, I grew up in, um, some, let's call it reform Judaism. |
| 1:00.4 | Uh, but I was around a lot of like Orthodox Judaism. And then also now I'm, you know, living in New York. I'm around. I see a lot of a Orthodox |
| 1:11.0 | Judaism. And I find it, I find it fascinating because it, yeah, it's always like, |
| 1:16.6 | um, seems to be like intentionally isolated from like the rest of the world. So I'm curious, |
| 1:25.5 | like how your experience growing up in that has been. |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah, so I actually did grow up in New York City. I grew up in a small sect. I'm not going to be |
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