Josh Turek

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931 appearances 8 recordings 5 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 21 Aug

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Pod Save America · Total Eclipse of the Harp · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah, in sixth grade I left public school and and went to uh uh a small private school that my my my aunt was running.

Uh only had a handful of kids in there, eight, nine kids.

Uh and then I went back and finished uh public school.

I went back for uh for high school.

I I've I've run into a handful of them.

It it it's tough growing up disabled.

It's it's tough growing up uh in in the kind of economic situation that I grew up in.

I have run into a few of them.

Uh I don't I don't hold it against them.

You know, you're you're young, you're a kid.

Uh we all make mistakes when when we're that young.

There they were they were probably going through a lot themselves.

But I will say this.

I certainly would never want to go through again what I went through.

I mean, the 21 surgeries by the age of 12.

I spent a lot of time up at Shriner's Hospital by myself, you know, full body cast.

You can imagine a full body cast as a kid in the summer heat in Iowa with the humidity.

And we didn't have air conditioning through the whole house.

So you're taking a hanger just to try to itch yourself.

So I went through uh some really, really tough times, but what I believe is

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