Josh Peck
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430 appearances
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2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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It's a good time. It's the best one. It's the only reason we go. You guys are going to be great parents.
Oh, yeah.
But is that a, is that a thing getting baptized on your wedding day? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I know it usually happens at birth.
Yeah. You know, religious Jews basically do a version of baptism every month. Really? Do you know that? In which way?
Well, I know, I believe men have a version of it as well, but I know women who are Orthodox in Judaism do something called a mikvah, which is once a month, it's sort of like a dip in a holy bath in a female, like basically an all-female spa in a sort of blessed body of water, and they sort of like do a cleanliness, sort of just a cleansing once a month. I did hear about this.
And you can also do it in a body of water. Like you can go into the ocean and do sort of the same version. It has the same sort of religious value. Amazing. Yeah. Oh, I love that. I want to talk about God with you. I love the clips.
I feel lucky, right? My access point to God and spirituality is the 12-step program. So I got sober at 21 years old. And it's not a prerequisite. You don't have to have a higher power, but it's helpful. And so it's allowed me to sort of look back at what was my relationship with God before that. And I think I always believed in God. I just wasn't sure he was a fan of me.
Like, I wasn't sure he was aware of me. Like, it just, I didn't wrestle with it. I believe that there was some higher thing at play here. But, and for the most part, it felt, when I did think about it, it was punishing. Like, I had done something out of character. I had lied, cheated, stole, you know, in the way we do most, you know, high school kids, young people do.
Like, done something out of character that didn't sit well. I didn't, I talked, you know, I...
No, I just think it was like, I didn't, you know, there's this great sort of modern day philosopher named Alain de Botton. And he talks about that when you have kids, you know, as early as two, three years old, we're teaching them, I mean, basically as soon as they get teeth, right? You're like, you're teaching them about oral care, right?
Like hygiene and how to brush their teeth and then how to, you know, in the bath, how to wash themselves and like comb their hair and do all these things. And we teach these things, and it's an imperative before they're five years old. We don't really teach kids about spiritual health in many respects, right?
A connection with something bigger and access points, however they find their journey sort of reveals themselves. So I just didn't have it laid out except for very sort of...
typical religious sort of you know you go for passover and the high holy days but there wasn't really an access point at a young age hebrew school and uh and so when i finally you know got sober and i started to understand it um for me it was revealed that like uh There was an opportunity to act godly right now, like right here on earth.
And when I act out of character, what I'm doing is I'm robbing myself of that sunshine of the spirit.
And that's like, to me, any of like the, I mean, you could say the Abrahamic religions, but really like Buddhism, Hinduism, and 12-step, and whatever your access point is where like the end result is you're a good person, it's just like...
repackaged ancient truths and it's like whatever your access point is like if the the means to the end is that you're like a good person and you're kind to other people like i'm like cool get there however you need to got it i i was sitting down with this guy and he said something to me that was really really profound and i think you
Well, I think, I guess... That was certainly my thoughts early on, and I think recovery allowed for me to have my access point into spirituality. And, you know, my wife's Irish Catholic. I'm Jewish, right? And so, you know, she says Catholic prayers with my kids at night sometimes. And initially, like, it did strike me just because it was more foreign to me.
Growing up, like, we didn't say in our father or what have you, right? We said, like, we say Jewish prayers. And, but what I realized is, is my wife and her family and like these beautiful people, I'm like, oh, we're just calling it different things, but we're talking about the same thing.
What do you think about, because in recovery we talk about, to what you were touching on before, this idea that faith without works is dead. In the sense of like, I heard early on when I got sober like, your best thinking got you a front row seat in AA. So don't think for a while, right? Just like sit down and listen. Yeah. Yeah.
Just like sit down and listen because, you know, and I remember there was this old guy. He had like 60 years sober, and I would pick him up because he was in a nursing home. He was in his 80s, and I would take him to a meeting, and he fought in World War II, like great gristled guy.
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