JUST JOSH: "Staying Sane on Israel"
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.6 β’ 863 Ratings
ποΈ 16 June 2025
β±οΈ 58 minutes
ποΈ Recording | iTunes | RSS
π§ΎοΈ Download transcript
Summary
Anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Palestinians, Hamas, Israeli Arabs, diaspora Jews, Gaza, and now an all-out war with Iran. It's head-spinning, trying to make sense of Israel right now.
Today, Josh comes to you battered and bruised by the slings and arrows of a national pile-on. He wrote the lead opinion piece in the big thumping weekend edition of Sydney's and Melbourne's biggest broadsheet newspapers, in which he argued for diaspora Jews to stop reflexively making excuses for Israel.
The backlash has been as savage as you'd expect on a topic where nuance goes to die.
From the fallout, Josh takes a crack at wrestling with tribalism, group-think, moral honesty, and the unfolding Israel-Iran war.
Watch this conversation on YouTube. And you’re missing out on our best ad-free content if you haven’t popped over to the Uncomfy Convos Substack page.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Pardon the interruption, but I'm excited. I'm excited. Old Uncle Zep's is waiting by the mailbox for my true age test to come back. I've done it. I've popped it in the post. This is a true age test from true diagnostic, which is going to reveal my true biological age. It's an indicator of how fast you're aging internally. It predicts your |
| 0:22.8 | risk for serious diseases. And I've done it. I'm not going to tell you what happened. Actually, I don't |
| 0:26.0 | know what happened yet. I haven't got it back. But nearly 90% of biological aging is in your hands. |
| 0:30.6 | It's things like lifestyle and your habits and your environment. So the true age test, which I did |
| 0:35.5 | by just putting some drops of blood onto a little card and mailing it off will not just give me like a single number to tell me how old I am inside, |
| 0:43.4 | but it'll show me how quickly my heart and brain and liver and immune system are aging. It's |
| 0:49.0 | personalized, it's actionable, it comes from the top scientists at Harvard and Yale and Duke to hopefully help me |
| 0:55.3 | slow down aging and reduce my risk of disease. As always, with these things, you're helping |
| 0:59.6 | this show if you avail yourself of our unique offer. If you care about protecting your health |
| 1:04.8 | and want to find out what your real age is, head over to true diagnostic.com. Use my my code, Josh 20 to get 20% off your entire order or |
| 1:14.3 | subscription. That's Truediagnostic.com and use Josh 20, Josh 20, Josh 20, at checkout to get 20% off. |
| 1:21.0 | Your future self will thank you. |
| 1:26.3 | Goody, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. It's never been particularly |
| 1:32.6 | undangerous to try to hold a nuanced and sophisticated position about Middle Eastern politics. |
| 1:39.5 | But Ho Nellie, now is definitely not the time to try to straddle that fence. |
| 1:44.9 | Everyone seems to be pretty hunkered down in their opinions about exactly what's going on between Israel and Iran and Gaza and is the whole world sleepwalking into some conflagration that is going to end in World War III. |
| 1:58.8 | Tucker Carlson's worried. |
| 2:00.3 | I'll tell you that for nothing. |
| 2:01.6 | I don't know if you've been keeping tabs on old tuck, but he ain't happy with Israel. |
| 2:06.3 | As far as he's concerned, those Zionists and the Ukrainians are just trying to drag the good |
| 2:11.0 | God-fearing people of the United States into World War III. And Tucker has quite a lot of allies |
| 2:17.0 | on the left, the anti-Zionist left, |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 16 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Josh Szeps, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Josh Szeps and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright Β© Tapesearch 2025.