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00:00:06.799Ellie Liebewitz.
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00:00:13.439Ellie Lieberwitz here on And Here's Modi.
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00:00:17.039Uh Ellie is a part of this.
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00:00:27.839Like is that describe it well?
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00:00:34.320No, that's totally people like sometimes I'll do like corporate shows, and people are like, oh, do you perform for like non-Jews?
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00:00:41.600And I'm like, yeah, I'll do like like corporate show is tough because it's like two owners of a like two clacidish owners of a nursing home.
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00:00:44.399And then like they're 10 non-Jewish employees, and you gotta make everybody laugh.
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00:00:46.960And I'm like, You guys don't go to school enough, do you?
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00:00:49.520No, no, I I've I've been to those types of shows.
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00:01:01.439But you're you're a part of this whole like whole um breed of new comedians or just I just just the younger, I guess the the younger of the Jewish comedians, no?
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00:01:04.000Because you consider yourself a Jewish comedian, right?
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00:01:07.519You don't, it's not like I'm a comedian who happens to be Jewish.
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00:01:08.319You are a Jewish comedian.
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00:01:12.879I very much lean into a yarmulk on your head.
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00:01:16.959Yeah, because if I did this, you would be like, oh, he doesn't look Jewish at all.
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00:01:19.040Like I know it.
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00:01:25.599Like, like if I did just change everything about myself, my name, my face, my nose, like my my hairline, my my height.
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00:01:33.120Like, but but but but like you're also also in this crew of young Jewish comedians that are coming up now.
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00:01:42.000It's insane between Dovey and Mickey, uh Mikey, yeah.
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00:01:43.519Mikey Greenblad, right?
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00:01:54.159And that's why, that's why I'm the I'm the obvious.
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00:02:02.719You're you're you're you're you're representing you're representing the Jews that I run into the airport in the airport, and they go, hey, I'm a big fan.
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00:02:04.239I'm like, oh, where are you going?
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00:02:06.400You go, for what?
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00:02:08.800Uh I take care of all the nursing homes there.
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00:02:13.280Like you're you're you're you're representing that crew of people, which is a good crew.
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00:02:16.319I I no, I say sometimes on stage, I'm like, I know what I look like.
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00:02:18.639I look like the guy who tells you what page David is on.
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00:02:21.840You know, I said you I I look like a poster chop for IBS.
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00:02:22.240I get it.
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00:02:23.280Like it's it's fine.
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00:02:24.960Like I but I leaned into it.
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00:02:26.000Like that's that's my stuff.
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00:02:33.840And no, I I and you're you're hysterical.
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00:02:36.719And I've known you for how like a a bunch of years.
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00:02:41.919I think I I I think that we did one gig of a paysach many years ago in Orlando.
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00:02:48.960I opened for you at like a super Hasidish, Yeshivish place, like Passover getaway in Orlando.
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00:02:49.919I think it was the first time.
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00:02:58.159And I saw you, I I was working working as a camp counselor on Last, uh, not Laszco, Biltmore, uh in uh Arizona back in the day.
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00:03:02.960I was where I think I was like seeing, I'm like, oh my gosh.
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00:03:06.800Like I was just like impressed by the just like the performance element of it.
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00:03:07.439Oh, thank you.
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00:03:08.560So I was amazed.
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00:03:15.520And you're always a good comic that like because what whatever whenever I'm on stage and I get off, you oh you always come over.
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00:03:19.840Here's a few taglines you might want to work into the joke.
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00:03:22.639And you and you and you and and sometimes they're they're really good.
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00:03:25.360Thank you.
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00:03:32.719Um, and uh and so you're you're funny, you're you know how to you you you have good comedic timing, and you give a good show.
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00:03:43.759I really want to plug you and let people know that you are if you cannot afford me, ladies and gentlemen, Ellie Liebewitz, Walding comedian.
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00:03:50.719Uh if you can't afford me and you want to have four comedians, get Ellie, get Dovey, get Mickey.
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00:03:54.479I why'd I call him Mickey?
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00:03:55.039I don't know why.
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00:03:58.639Mikey, he's doing great too, right?
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00:04:13.280Yeah, and I'm and yeah, there's a whole I mean listen, I I mean we've uh I mean you and Ewan pave the way for like you know, in terms of you know, the you guys have been doing this, and we're like, oh my gosh, I just remember seeing you perform.
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00:04:16.879I'm like, oh my gosh, like there's a way to do it, Jewish comedy.
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00:04:19.040Yeah, there's an there's a need for it.
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00:04:23.360Yes, because absolutely every event that's Jewish has a comedian in it.
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00:04:41.360There's not anybody, any tragedy, any any happiness, tragedy, a wedding or uh uh a disease, uh they're raising money, not there's always do Jewish love to bring bring a comedian, bring a just whatever, it'll be fine, it'll be good, it'll be yeah.
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00:04:49.279I mean, I've started saying on stage, I said, you know, it's but been a rough couple of years for the Jewish people, which is something that we could have said for the last 2,000 years.
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00:04:53.279I mean, like when has it ever not been a rough couple of years?
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00:04:55.279Yeah, it's always been a rough couple of years, yeah.
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00:04:59.439I I think it's been a great couple of years too, you know.
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00:05:02.319It's also miracles have happened too in the past.
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00:05:03.199Yeah, yeah.
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00:05:13.759Oh, there's there's but there's such a catharsis that people, especially after October 7th, immediately there was such a need, there was such like this fear and tension and like being able to like help release that tension.
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00:05:20.000I just remember doing one of those first shows, and it was just like you just felt like the room, like it's energy, yeah.
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00:05:23.600I I felt it during COVID.
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00:05:31.439When COVID, when you just come in coming out of COVID, yes, and all of that, you know, and then we and the Jewish community came out of COVID a lot different than the other community.
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00:05:48.240Yes, and so we were doing shows, you know, in backyards and in all kinds of well, I was yeah, I was I did like I think a hundred shows over Zoom during COVID, which was nuts, which was a hundred shows during on Zoom, but also do a live shows, which yeah, we came out of it a lot earlier than everybody else.
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00:05:56.959Yeah, I mean I there's also a correlation with how the more religious you are about Judaism, the less firm you were about COVID and vice versa.
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00:06:02.240So like people are like still wearing masks and they're having a Zoom Seder in in 2029, you know?
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00:06:13.839There's there's like a whole element of it, like of the the COVID restrictions were much more like people took it more seriously because like we already have our Jews are like we already have our rules, you know?
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00:06:16.800I I I think I don't I I I don't know.
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00:06:24.800I I'm we uh all I know is that we were doing uh shows way before it was allowed to be doing shows.
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00:06:25.839You were allowed to be doing shows.
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00:06:29.680Yes, I I was that's it's not oh no no for sure.
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00:06:31.040I am a statement.
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00:06:37.839I was doing shows way before it was allowed to be doing shows, and and and by the way, it was okay, it worked out fine.
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00:06:42.800No one got sick, no one, everybody, it it wasn't as crazy as they made it to be.
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00:06:55.920It's not that they came together to to talk about how sick everybody is, they came together to have a laugh, and that's the uh that that's the amazing thing.
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00:07:00.959Just the well, even the being togetherness was such a difference.
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00:07:08.000Like the first time people were together, like like like whatever more than a hundred people was like people are like, how do I do this again?
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00:07:09.839Like there was a little bit of like getting used to it again.
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00:07:10.879Right, it was very weird.
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00:07:33.279You know, we it's funny because I'm I'm going back now into theaters where um the Broward Center, the uh in Chicago, where I remember doing shows where they had people in in six and like uh the in in groups of six and then space in between and like masks, and all of a sudden now I'm I'm in this thing that's packed.
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00:07:37.439But I remember that it's it's it's it I can't believe it was our lifetime.
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00:07:49.920I I said it, I I look at like again, doing zoom I again, I did mostly Zoom shows, but like doing the zoom shows and the whole COVID experience was like it's like looking at my self-up pictures like that.
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00:07:50.560I had braces.
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00:07:52.800I was like, oh my god, I was that was what it was.
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00:07:58.399Like what and it was like semi-normal for most of us, but uh okay.
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00:08:15.600But your world now, your your your your comedy group of these comedians that are now doing comedy for Jewish audiences, you guys are in a different world than when I was beginning because you guys have social media, yeah.
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00:08:32.960So you are produ so I only did shows, I did shows at the comedy cellar, the comic strip, all the comedy clubs, and then I got the cat skills, whatever's was left in the cat skills, and then I got the um all the synagogue shows, all the fundraiser shows, all of those, but they came looking for me.
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00:08:35.679You guys are putting them together, yeah.
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00:08:40.000You are um especially dovey and and putting together shows.
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00:08:41.919I just did a show in the five towns with you.
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00:08:46.799We did a show in the five towns is this place called the cheese store.
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00:08:59.120Yeah, and it was it used to be a cheese store when I was growing up in the five towns that no one ever went into, and now it's a it's a dairy kosher restaurant, and they just put up a stage, put seats.
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00:09:02.320There was like 250 people or something in there, if not more.
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00:09:05.120Something like it was a very big, it was packed, it was great.
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00:09:09.840And I got there on the on a Sunday, and they had a show there on a Saturday night.
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00:09:16.480All right, and everybody kept telling last night they were so great, last night they were so great, but tonight they're not that great, tonight they're not that great.
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00:09:21.519It was a it was a great audience, but I guess the night before it popped much more.
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00:09:22.799Yeah, it was a little difference.
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00:09:23.840There was a big of a difference.
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00:09:30.080Also, you're comparing yourself to previous sets and yeah, but like it was just so funny how everybody's like, because then last time they were really good.
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00:09:42.879Last night they were they were if no one would have told me anything, I'd mean this is just a great show, but you guys were telling me how different the show was the night before, and there was so much more because it was a it was a Saturday night show coming out of a holiday.
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00:09:48.960People had needed to get out of their parents' house for the for uh for a circus, right?
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00:10:01.360And then and then they um and this show, but this show was fine, and um, and it was it was crazy.
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00:10:05.039First of all, there's a there's a guy who's a doctor on the show.
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00:10:06.240Yeah, Maserick.
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00:10:07.360It talked into the mic.
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00:10:09.039Uh Jerry Jeremy Maserick, right?
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00:10:13.360Jerry Maserick, who comes over and he says to me, My brother is a huge fan of yours.
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00:10:19.039He's a gastrologist that listens to your podcast while he's doing uh colonoscopies.
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00:10:27.679He told me that he had to get approval to listen to Jewish to listen to my my podcast while they're doing colonoscopies.
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00:10:29.679Um, and it was under Jewish music.
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00:10:32.879They were able to play Jewish music in the in the room.
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00:10:37.919And so he's while he's looking inside people's dochases, he's got the the podcast going.
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00:10:47.840And his brother is a is a cardiologist who was funny, who's a they're funny and doing stand-up, and like, yeah, I'm like, wow.
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00:10:49.200I I was I'm shocked.
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00:11:00.799I'm like, if you're a cardiologist and you're also doing stand-up, I was like, you didn't get fulfillment for being a cardiologist that you gotta do this extra hobby after all the all the medical uh you know qualifications you've done.
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00:11:02.000Like I was amazed.
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00:11:03.440He sent me his set.
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00:11:04.879I watched, and I it was funny.
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00:11:06.000Yeah, he's funny, yeah.
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00:11:07.200He's great, he's just funny.
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00:11:10.799And so all these different shows that you you you you're you're pulling together.
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00:11:11.919It's it we didn't have that.
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00:11:19.120Like we didn't we couldn't pull together a Jewish show because we didn't have like social media and that we didn't have the followers we had now.
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00:11:20.000And right.
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00:11:31.360It's I feel like it's like it's like the uh back in the day when like Seinfeld talks about like starting out with like Gary Shanling, how like in the 70s and 80s when they started out, they're like, this wasn't a thing before the comedy boom.
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00:11:34.559Like, we didn't think this was a career that you could do.
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00:11:46.480Like it was just like, oh yeah, we enjoyed telling jokes, and like now it's in the 90s, yeah, completely not Jewish shows, but in the 90s, Amsterdam uh Holland was going through a comedy.
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00:11:50.080Holland was in the 90s where America was in the 70s.
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00:11:58.799They began doing comedy shows and they had a comedy club, and in different universities, they would do uh comedy nights and they would tape one show.
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00:12:11.360They had the show called the Comedy Factory, and um and they didn't want to have comedians that were uh from Holland because the comics didn't want to do it because once they did their material, they couldn't do it anymore.
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00:12:14.399Right, you're burning because the show aired.
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00:12:22.159We taped it on Thursday, it aired Friday, and boom, we were like instant celebrities in Holland.
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00:12:35.360Then we did a tour, then we went touring on a different like in The Hague and um Rotterdam and Amsterdam and all the other cities, and we were celebrities because the entire everybody already saw that show.
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00:12:42.000It was so so the comedians that were Dutch didn't want to perform right because they ruined your material.
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00:12:45.440You burned your you burned 10 minutes of like of your act, yeah.
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00:12:51.679Um, and so so so I got to experience like a comedy boom in Holland.
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00:13:02.240That's so funny that like the like 20-year delay of like Europe, it's like Israel has the 30-year delay, like they're just getting the Simpsons now, and like no, I'm I'm kidding, but like the the culture, the culture different.
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00:13:04.799No, there's certain things that are like they're culturally, they didn't get it yet.
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00:13:05.600I mean, I think it's better.
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00:13:07.519That used to be the case.
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00:13:15.840My used when I went when I was growing up in Israel, you were getting like everything was always like the movies came half of your life.
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00:13:17.840Now they're getting it before, right?
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00:13:20.080Whatever they got rigged up over there.
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00:13:26.799I have uh Toby Ruby, and I and it and now I get everything from Netflix, all free.
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00:13:28.240Everything's coming in free.
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00:13:28.720Yeah, yeah.
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00:13:31.600They they're they're way ahead of anything happening here.
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00:13:35.279Yeah, they're getting it from the studio before it's edited.
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00:13:36.320Yeah.
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00:13:44.240Speaking of cardiologists, we have to talk about you had surgery.
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00:13:44.720Yes.
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00:13:47.200You had a miracle happen in your life, no?
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00:13:54.639I had I I think the miracle is that I was born in 20 in the in the 1989, and that I lived through the 21st century.
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00:13:55.840That thank God medicine.
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00:14:03.200Meaning if I was in the 1500s having a leaky like tricuspid valve in your heart, that's a really tough thing to live with.
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00:14:08.799But thank God I was some uh, you know, I yeah, I had I had I had open heart surgery in the summer.
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00:14:10.879So for for me, it's like this.
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00:14:16.399I'm on I a half hour a day am on social media.
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00:14:20.480I just flip through whatever it is, and you popped up.
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00:14:23.360And I was like, oh, he's gonna do a little sketch, he's gonna do something.
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00:14:24.399What's what's he gonna do?
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00:14:29.039And it's like, hi, I'm having open heart surgery.
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00:14:30.320Was it open heart?
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00:14:30.879Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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00:14:31.840Yeah, hi.
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00:14:42.240I'm having open heart surgery, and um, so you might not hear from me for a few days, and um, yeah, and so uh, you know, it's all good.
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00:14:45.759And I'm like, hi, what's up?
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00:14:46.480I love it.
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00:14:48.320Okay, and I put you out of the way.
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00:14:50.799I there's a list I have when I pray in the morning.
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00:14:52.559I have a list of people who I pray for.
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00:14:58.720For and and and what's good about my list, ladies and gentlemen, is once you're healed, I take you off the list.
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00:15:05.519Okay, because in my synagogue back in the day, this used to drive me insane.
00:15:06.240 -->
00:15:09.840My synagogue, Sixth Street Synagogue, amazing place.
00:15:10.000 -->
00:15:17.279It used to be old school, like an old, old school where everybody when I began there like 30 years ago, everybody was super old.
00:15:17.440 -->
00:15:33.440And they had that thing where they did the mishiberos for the old people, and people would come up with their names, Bachibas Refka, Khani Bas Getl, you know, and and then and then the people came up with lists, like full, full like and then I once took someone's life, I go, Do you know that half the people are dead?
00:15:33.679 -->
00:15:36.159You you're doing a mashabair for somebody that's dead.
00:15:36.320 -->
00:15:50.080It's like voting, it's like so so once somebody has their Rafu Shlema, their healing, and they're good, you're you're off the list, and I have another list of miracles I have seen.
00:15:50.240 -->
00:15:51.519So now you're on that list.
00:15:51.840 -->
00:15:52.240Oh, thank you.
00:15:52.320 -->
00:15:52.799I appreciate it.
00:15:53.279 -->
00:15:53.759So yeah.
00:15:54.080 -->
00:15:54.720No, thank you.
00:15:54.799 -->
00:15:59.519Uh I by the way, when after the war started in Israel, you know, I would say this joke.
00:15:59.600 -->
00:16:01.279I said, guys, I want to talk for a second.
00:16:01.360 -->
00:16:04.480Like, when are you allowed to leave a Tahillum WhatsApp group?
00:16:04.639 -->
00:16:06.320Like, what's the what's the protocol?
00:16:06.399 -->
00:16:08.639Because like it you get this notification.
00:16:08.720 -->
00:16:15.440It's like, oh, Ellie Lee Witz has left the Tahillum for IDF soldiers WhatsApp group, because you know, you probably joined the Nature Carta WhatsApp group.
00:16:15.519 -->
00:16:18.960Like, it's like there's there's a there's a you know, it's a little dicey.
00:16:19.279 -->
00:16:21.679What a niche joke that is.
00:16:21.919 -->
00:16:25.679That that you what the what the one you just did now that he joined the Nuturi Carta.
00:16:25.840 -->
00:16:30.480Like no one's got I mean, whoever gets that is gonna be like, wow, I can't believe I got that joke.
00:16:30.639 -->
00:16:32.639I'm just telling you, I pay a mortgage doing comedy.
00:16:33.519 -->
00:16:36.399Oh, yeah, you are you are a working comedian.
00:16:36.559 -->
00:16:40.720You are there's nothing, and I'm telling you, and people get him, he's funny.
00:16:40.960 -->
00:16:43.519Um uh so neat.
00:16:43.679 -->
00:16:46.399The message, well, the messages I got from heart surgery, like, thank God.
00:16:46.480 -->
00:16:50.159I posted it also just because, like, hey, I usually post pretty frequently and whatever.
00:16:50.240 -->
00:16:54.000And also just like, I don't know, extra tefelo would probably help, you know.
00:16:54.159 -->
00:16:58.559And uh I just get all these messages, and a lot of people were like, oh, we're fish lamo and all these things.
00:16:58.720 -->
00:17:01.679I get one message from one guy, I didn't even know him on Instagram.
00:17:01.759 -->
00:17:08.000He messaged me, he says, Hey, um, I also had a leaky valve in my heart because I'm also a little fat.
00:17:08.319 -->
00:17:11.519Um, and I said, I was born with it, but thank you so much.
00:17:12.240 -->
00:17:14.640Oh my people, they don't know where to stop.
00:17:14.880 -->
00:17:15.839Oh, Jews tacked.
00:17:16.160 -->
00:17:21.440They don't know where to just hey, great job, but I could have lived without that joke.
00:17:21.599 -->
00:17:24.160No, you you know, instead of just do a great job.
00:17:24.319 -->
00:17:41.599Yeah, well, no, uh, after the war, one of the when comedy wasn't really happening at the beginning, I started like encouraging people to put on tefillin every day, got people pairs of tefillin, it became a nice little campaign, and I got a message like on Twitter or X, whatever, and somebody messaged me and said, Hey, I'm not a fan of your comedy, but this fillin' your thing you're doing is beautiful.
00:17:41.680 -->
00:17:44.880And I said, I didn't need the first part, you could have just given me a nice compliment.
00:17:45.119 -->
00:17:45.599Exactly.
00:17:45.680 -->
00:17:47.440It's so true, it's so true.
00:17:47.599 -->
00:17:49.119Just give the compliment.
00:17:49.759 -->
00:17:53.359It's a Jew, it's a Jew, it's a Jewish way of I have to tell.
00:17:53.440 -->
00:18:04.319Like, I did a show for you know in the five towns and like Woodmirror last week, and like for older people during the day, and after the show, I'm I must have gotten six people said, Can I give you some feedback?
00:18:04.559 -->
00:18:15.599And I'm like, Why this is gonna be which is why I said the Torah ends with it says that there would never be a prophet like Moshe Rabinu Moses, and there never will be there never was one, there never will be another one.
00:18:15.680 -->
00:18:19.200And the subtext is, and even he had a hard time with the Jewish people.
00:18:19.519 -->
00:18:21.119Yes, yeah.
00:18:21.440 -->
00:18:28.319Um it's uh it's it it I've done shows like that where where it's in the afternoon for an old age home.
00:18:28.400 -->
00:18:29.839This is a thousand years ago.
00:18:30.079 -->
00:18:38.480I did a show it's some it's like a there's a nursing home on 108th Street or something, all the way uptown, or maybe 180th Street, I forgot where it was.
00:18:38.720 -->
00:18:43.039Yeah, yeah, probably Washington Heights, probably the Portryon-ish area that probably makes sense.
00:18:43.279 -->
00:18:46.559Yeah, anyway, I got there and the room was empty.
00:18:47.200 -->
00:18:49.839There was there wasn't anything there because they were all in wheelchairs.
00:18:50.000 -->
00:18:50.240Yeah.
00:18:50.400 -->
00:18:56.400So they brought them all in wheelchairs, and um Joey Adams was in the audience.
00:18:56.559 -->
00:19:02.319He was this old cat skilled comedian that was uh at the it was at his at the end of his life.
00:19:02.480 -->
00:19:04.240His wife was Cindy Adams.
00:19:04.400 -->
00:19:06.559She had a column in the post, I think.
00:19:06.799 -->
00:19:21.119Maybe I got the name wrong, but sounds familiar, but all of a sudden you're you're you're working the back of the room and people are being wheeled in, and there's like uh their their wheelchairs have the IVs and and and it was an amazing show.
00:19:21.599 -->
00:19:26.400And it was an amazing show, and you focus on the people who are laughing, yes, because they can.
00:19:26.559 -->
00:19:30.319The other ones might not have the energy to laugh, but they're having a great time.
00:19:30.480 -->
00:19:44.400And I did the show, and I remember one lady asked uh she was blind, she asked to feel my face just so I could uh I um I I just so she could like kind of put together what I I look like a little a little bit.
00:19:44.480 -->
00:19:53.759Wow, you know, and it was those are the shows you do so that God can reward you like 100% for for all the all the lots and all the yeah.
00:19:54.240 -->
00:19:56.319This is like okay, let's get the scales a little bit.
00:19:56.640 -->
00:20:00.319Yeah, this is exactly what God put you on earth to do, is is that show.
00:20:00.480 -->
00:20:02.240That that's why you're here to do that show.
00:20:02.319 -->
00:20:04.160Everything else comes as a gift afterwards.
00:20:04.400 -->
00:20:05.599I'm saying this past Saturday night.
00:20:05.680 -->
00:20:16.640I literally did a show for a family in their living room because the father for the father's birthday, who has like Parkinson's and like really he can't speak anymore, but he's his mind is all there and like they loved it.
00:20:16.720 -->
00:20:24.640And like you're like, wow, this this thing that got me kicked out of class in second grade is actually helping people is like an amazing thing.
00:20:24.880 -->
00:20:27.359I've I've done those private shows too in a house.
00:20:27.519 -->
00:20:29.599Yeah, and um crazy ones.
00:20:29.920 -->
00:20:31.200Oh, they can yeah, it's insane.
00:20:31.359 -->
00:20:35.039I it's it's so hard to even explain this to other comedians like that aren't Jewish.
00:20:35.200 -->
00:20:35.519Yes.
00:20:35.759 -->
00:20:40.400Um, I I I did once one show on Park Avenue.
00:20:41.279 -->
00:20:47.440No, on on Fifth Avenue, overlook the apartment was the apartment was half a block long.
00:20:48.160 -->
00:20:51.119It was two floors, there was a service entrance.
00:20:51.200 -->
00:20:53.920They you just and still at the end they're haggling at a price.
00:20:54.160 -->
00:20:54.720They haggling.
00:20:54.799 -->
00:20:55.440No, no, no, no.
00:20:55.519 -->
00:20:56.960She paid, she was very sweet.
00:20:57.359 -->
00:20:59.279Um they see no, I never had a price.
00:20:59.680 -->
00:21:06.960Um they uh they they and um and the the it was an 80th birthday party for the grandmother.
00:21:07.039 -->
00:21:08.559It was at a Shabbat dinner.
00:21:08.720 -->
00:21:14.559They had about uh 20 adults and maybe 11 kids, and it was for the grandmother.
00:21:14.640 -->
00:21:17.200Yeah, and the adults were like, Uh, why is this happening?
00:21:17.279 -->
00:21:17.920Why are we here?
00:21:18.160 -->
00:21:19.680But the kids were having a great time.
00:21:19.839 -->
00:21:25.039And the grandmother was looking at the kids, and she was she was her enjoyment was watching the kids laugh.
00:21:25.279 -->
00:21:30.400So I focused on the kids, I made the kids laugh, whatever it was, got the money, and that was it.
00:21:30.559 -->
00:21:32.960This was years, years, years ago.
00:21:33.119 -->
00:21:47.759But it's those little gigs that like really But it's part of the training reps, also, because like you're doing those types of gigs and they don't always go well because how can they necessarily like you're it's not the right setting, it's not you know a nightclub, whatever.
00:21:48.000 -->
00:21:55.039And like those will be like, okay, fine, I'm doing this other show in the future that's not as bad as that one sometimes, you know what I mean?
00:21:55.119 -->
00:22:01.680Like I performed for like an IMAX theater of Chasidim over Pesach one year, and like just horrible situation.
00:22:01.759 -->
00:22:02.880But I'm like, you know what?
00:22:03.039 -->
00:22:04.640I have a story now.
00:22:04.880 -->
00:22:19.599Yeah, I I think I can actually say, you know, you know, when you when you come up when you come up in in your career, there's like highlights where you one of my highlights in my career was that I was able to say to my agent, I am no longer doing commercials, do not send me out on commercial auditions.
00:22:19.680 -->
00:22:21.599I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm good.
00:22:22.000 -->
00:22:22.720I am good.
00:22:23.119 -->
00:22:23.839Thank you very much.
00:22:23.920 -->
00:22:24.640I appreciate it.
00:22:24.799 -->
00:22:30.000If they want me and directly, I will go, but I am not auditioning for a commercial.
00:22:30.160 -->
00:22:36.799This is like in the early 2000s, and um and this year I think I'm not doing any pay-soft programs.
00:22:37.119 -->
00:22:38.319That's here, that's yeah.
00:22:38.799 -->
00:22:47.440After maybe I want to say 25 years of like flying all around doing Passover doing programs, and don't get me wrong, I love those programs, they're amazing.
00:22:47.519 -->
00:22:51.920Yeah, but they're like it's it's it's uh It's a mixed bag.
00:22:52.000 -->
00:22:54.880They could mix it because also listen, they have to.
00:22:54.960 -->
00:23:01.680I I kind of say that sometimes the programs they get entertainment the same way that you entertain your kids in Holomoid.
00:23:01.759 -->
00:23:03.279They're like, What what are you?
00:23:03.359 -->
00:23:04.880Uh your Crayola factory?
00:23:04.960 -->
00:23:06.640Okay, just two hours of them not eating.
00:23:06.720 -->
00:23:15.759Like, just it's something to fill the schedule sometimes where it's like, um I mean like sometimes people go because also the way people walk in.
00:23:15.839 -->
00:23:27.200Like when people go to a paid show, and you know this obviously, like people opt in to come to the show, it's so much different than them just like, I guess we'll walk into the room and see what's happening.
00:23:27.359 -->
00:23:28.960Like somebody was asking me about a casino night.
00:23:29.039 -->
00:23:30.559Why are casino or casino shows?
00:23:30.640 -->
00:23:31.920Why are casino shows so bad?
00:23:32.000 -->
00:23:39.839I said, because they're gambling, and they're if you walk have people be like, I guess I'll see this, that's not people that are like fans of yours necessarily.
00:23:40.000 -->
00:23:42.079And it's like a very different challenge.
00:23:42.319 -->
00:23:47.839Okay, so a casino show you're performing for people who are literally taking a break from losing money.
00:23:48.000 -->
00:23:48.240Correct.
00:23:48.400 -->
00:23:50.640So their mind is completely not there.
00:23:50.880 -->
00:23:57.119Um at the Passover shows, they did not, they came a lot of people told me that we we came because you were on the program.
00:23:57.200 -->
00:24:01.119We were choosing between this and that, and we chose you because we at least we knew we'd see you.
00:24:01.279 -->
00:24:01.359Right.
00:24:01.519 -->
00:24:03.200And so, so it wasn't like that.
00:24:03.440 -->
00:24:03.680Right.
00:24:03.759 -->
00:24:10.640I I just I just mean that in terms of like they're also there, like their kids are there, and it's like there's no big that this is their babysitter.
00:24:11.119 -->
00:24:19.680No, I it's there is come on, there is not do you know how lucky we are that when we perform, there is four generations in front of us sometimes.
00:24:19.839 -->
00:24:22.960There's the great-grandmother, the grandmother, the daughter, the kids.
00:24:23.119 -->
00:24:25.440It is it's that's Mashir energy.
00:24:25.519 -->
00:24:26.400Are you crazy?
00:24:26.640 -->
00:24:28.720No, I know, but it doesn't, it's it's still challenging.
00:24:28.960 -->
00:24:30.079So do you know what's funny?
00:24:30.160 -->
00:24:34.559So my my really close friend, uh, we have a close friend, Mateo Lane.
00:24:34.960 -->
00:24:36.240Uh he's a comedian.
00:24:36.319 -->
00:24:38.720He's a gay we're Jewish comedians, he's a gay comedian.
00:24:38.880 -->
00:24:40.960There's no he's he's that's what he is.
00:24:41.039 -->
00:24:41.759He's hysterical.
00:24:41.920 -->
00:24:47.119He could work anywhere, he could do a Jewish room, he's hysterical, just but his being is just hysterical.
00:24:47.279 -->
00:24:51.599So he I even though I'm older than him, I'm like the younger sister.
00:24:51.920 -->
00:24:57.680So like when he did Radio City Meet Music Hall, we went kind of to see the wedding hall.
00:24:58.480 -->
00:25:00.400It was like we're gonna work with a deposit.
00:25:00.640 -->
00:25:05.039Yeah, he so uh we're the same age, and so he goes, Come, I want you to see radio music hall.
00:25:05.359 -->
00:25:17.279This is where you have this, this is where the bedecken is, and this is where the you know and we we got the run to get the like to get the vibe of what energy uh what radio city music hall is.
00:25:17.519 -->
00:25:26.880And one thing that we were blown away was every one of his every one of his fans, it was the most three deep.
00:25:27.440 -->
00:25:28.799It was one or two people.
00:25:28.960 -->
00:25:33.759Many people bought tickets on their own, like, oh I'm a I'm a Taylor Lane fan, I'm gonna buy a ticket and just go.
00:25:33.920 -->
00:25:37.200And then they were like, you know, couples, and look, three people.
00:25:37.680 -->
00:25:44.319But it wasn't like the biggest challenge challenge we have is everyone's I need 16 tickets, I need eight tickets.
00:25:44.400 -->
00:25:44.799It's Jews.
00:25:45.039 -->
00:25:48.079I'm bringing it Jews reserving a seat at the movie theater just with the coat.
00:25:48.240 -->
00:25:49.279Yeah, with the coat down.
00:25:49.519 -->
00:25:53.200No, I need 12 tickets because I'm also this is also my Chevrolet.
00:25:53.839 -->
00:25:56.319It should change your motto to bring the friend that brings the whole Chevrolet.
00:25:57.759 -->
00:26:00.319Yeah, I mean, it it it's what a gift that is.
00:26:00.400 -->
00:26:01.680What an amazing no, it's amazing.
00:26:01.759 -->
00:26:11.759Our net I don't think people understand the network, the Jewish network inherently is like crazy that you could just go into any city and just be like, hey, is there a chabad here and whatever?
00:26:11.839 -->
00:26:13.279And you're just like greeted warmly.
00:26:13.359 -->
00:26:14.640It's like it's it's amazing.
00:26:14.720 -->
00:26:21.279And the and the connectivity of like people don't understand, like what non-Jewish weddings probably have a what, 200 people, maybe, right?
00:26:21.599 -->
00:26:22.240Like, I don't know.
00:26:22.319 -->
00:26:26.799I I would imagine I was like, Yeah, that's a very small Jewish Orthodox wedding.
00:26:26.960 -->
00:26:28.160Like there's no way.
00:26:28.640 -->
00:26:31.920Yeah, but um okay, but what wedding is okay, they can go either way.
00:26:32.240 -->
00:26:47.759I'm saying, I'm saying the amount of the amount of people that are how who we're connected to is I'm I'm not saying I'm not saying I'm not I'm not saying that there's just Jewish people who just want to buy a ticket and go on their own, but I'm just saying I'm for me, I'm talking personally, I just think it's amazing that they it's a family event.
00:26:47.839 -->
00:26:48.559They come to it.
00:26:48.640 -->
00:26:52.559It's like you know, it really, it really, really is amazing.
00:26:52.799 -->
00:26:58.960Well when you when you watch, yeah, it's like when you watch a show, you're like turning to the person with you or you ask you get do you get involved in politics political stuff?
00:26:59.119 -->
00:26:59.279No.
00:26:59.519 -->
00:27:03.920I Israel-wise, which I guess is I I tweet a lot on is about Israel and stuff.
00:27:04.079 -->
00:27:11.599And yeah, and and I just because also like on Twitter and X, it's like a obsessed pool out there, like anti-Semites are crazy.
00:27:11.680 -->
00:27:24.160And like whether or not you're making a difference and you're just per talking to other people who are pro-Israel like you, there is a very big thing of like the same way like you're performing for a show and you don't know if if they're not laughing, you don't know if they're enjoying it.
00:27:24.319 -->
00:27:30.960There are people who are recognizing this and appreciating what you're doing, even if they can't say, Hey, I like what you're doing.
00:27:31.119 -->
00:27:37.599Like, people say it's good for you to be in the trenches and like fight this uh you know anti-Semitic thing going on.
00:27:37.839 -->
00:27:38.880So there's that.
00:27:38.960 -->
00:27:58.799I mean, from a politics standpoint though, like, and I posted something about you know the mum before the thing about Mamdani, before you know the the election, but like you're also you're risking alienating a bunch of your potential fans too, because like absolutely that's not your b I I don't I feel as it's not um it's not uh it's that's not what I'm here to do to give you political opinions.
00:27:58.880 -->
00:28:06.720I'm just I obviously support Israel and support Jews and and just but but but I do it through comedy, yeah, not through my political opinions.
00:28:07.039 -->
00:28:12.559Um but so but that's something you have to navigate as well in into in today's yeah to in today's world.
00:28:12.960 -->
00:28:18.000But we we were talking before about how even though it's the same place, the shows are completely different.
00:28:18.319 -->
00:28:19.200Yeah, right.
00:28:19.359 -->
00:28:22.240So I I I I think I spoke about about this before.
00:28:22.400 -->
00:28:25.759When I had the three shows at the beacon, my my my mom came to all three.
00:28:26.079 -->
00:28:33.920And so she, whenever she would come to like a like a show where there were two in the same night, she'd see one, she goes, Why am I gonna stay for the second?
00:28:34.319 -->
00:28:35.119I just saw it.
00:28:35.279 -->
00:28:42.240And she began to understand like the the every show is different, the vibe is different, the people are on or off, or or what whatever it was.
00:28:42.400 -->
00:28:44.000Especially, you know, I just did two shows.
00:28:44.160 -->
00:28:51.200I just came off the road and I did um two two nights of two two shows, and the late show, they just they had no energy.
00:28:51.440 -->
00:28:52.960They were laughing, having a great time.
00:28:53.119 -->
00:28:55.200But to laugh anti-Moshiach energy.
00:28:55.519 -->
00:28:56.640No, I'm kidding.
00:28:57.359 -->
00:28:58.720To laugh, you need energy.
00:28:58.880 -->
00:29:00.480You need to be able to ha ha ha ha.
00:29:00.559 -->
00:29:02.559You're engaging your core, you're laughing.
00:29:02.799 -->
00:29:05.599You see people who aren't la when they're tired, they just go like this.
00:29:06.079 -->
00:29:06.720Yeah, it's good.
00:29:06.799 -->
00:29:07.200That's very good.
00:29:07.839 -->
00:29:08.480Is this a nine o'clock?
00:29:08.559 -->
00:29:09.359Is this a nine o'clock show?
00:29:09.759 -->
00:29:11.359It was that it was a 9 30 show.
00:29:11.519 -->
00:29:20.240So by the time I hit the stages, or it was almost 10, and then blah, blah, blah, and it's
11:30, and they are exhausted.
00:29:20.400 -->
00:29:22.319Yeah, exhausted, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:22.720 -->
00:29:25.599It's every yeah, every every show is a different thing.
00:29:25.759 -->
00:29:30.480It's it's amazing how it it changes so much from show to show.
00:29:30.640 -->
00:29:30.799Yeah.
00:29:30.960 -->
00:29:37.440And like, and even if uh, you know, even if somebody has seen you, they're like, No, no, no, there's something different that you'll do.
00:29:37.519 -->
00:29:39.519Like, I'm going back to communities that I've done before.
00:29:39.759 -->
00:29:41.920And I'm like, oh no, I'm adding to my material.
00:29:42.000 -->
00:29:48.880Somebody said to me, I'm not posting, I'm not checking what you're posting the last like next two months because I want to see you and like be fresh and whatever.
00:29:49.200 -->
00:29:50.559But you have a lot of skits you do.
00:29:50.799 -->
00:29:51.119Yeah, yeah.
00:29:51.359 -->
00:29:57.599So uh one of the things that the last two years, me, Ami Kozak, and Mikey Greenbelt, we did this this thing called J Sketch.
00:29:57.680 -->
00:29:59.680We start doing these like little videos as I was.
00:30:00.079 -->
00:30:01.680On Instagram and YouTube, everywhere.
00:30:01.839 -->
00:30:06.480Um, and uh they're like little, yeah, viral, like thank God it's gone pretty viral.
00:30:06.640 -->
00:30:09.039These like sketches about Judaism, pretty much.
00:30:09.200 -->
00:30:14.240And people people really uh one of them was about about uh prepared rubber for Shabbat.
00:30:14.400 -->
00:30:20.960I mean, there are that there are things that everybody can relate to that in the Jewish world, but could someone non-Jewish watching this, are they gonna get anything hacking?
00:30:21.279 -->
00:30:24.319Well, there's there is a bunch, so that's the thing that we have so many different topics.
00:30:24.400 -->
00:30:26.720Well, again, it's like 25 or so that we've already done.
00:30:26.799 -->
00:30:27.039Yeah.
00:30:27.200 -->
00:30:33.519And uh really credit to Ami, who's really doing a lot most of the editing on a lot of these, and like it's really does a phenomenal job.
00:30:33.599 -->
00:30:35.519It's like really a whole production for some of these.
00:30:35.680 -->
00:30:40.960Um, yeah, there's one, I mean, one of the famous ones we have is uh we have like a job interview.
00:30:41.039 -->
00:30:46.400I'm like starting like like about to start a job in September, and they're like, All right, so you'll start right after Labor Day, right?
00:30:46.640 -->
00:30:49.279And they're like, um, I actually got a couple holidays coming up.
00:30:49.359 -->
00:30:52.160And it's like, uh, okay, so you'll start the week after.
00:30:52.240 -->
00:30:53.279I got a holiday then too.
00:30:53.359 -->
00:31:01.200And like the entire thing, and people are like, oh my god, I'm sending this to all my not my my non-Jewish employees, uh, non-Jewish employees, and here's my schedule.
00:31:01.519 -->
00:31:15.359And and like it what I think it really does is really helps Orthodox people feel seen because there's a lot of not great media out there in in terms of representation and like helps Orthodox people be seen.
00:31:15.599 -->
00:31:15.839Yeah.
00:31:16.079 -->
00:31:19.039We are so seen and so seen in a positive way.
00:31:19.279 -->
00:31:24.000Oh, that's sorry, seen in a no, because we're doing it from a we're not phoning it in.
00:31:24.079 -->
00:31:40.960There's because a lot of, I think what there's an issue with a lot of Jewish content out there that's like pretty like it's like trying to be too broad and trying to hit every single, and there's so many different types of Jews, and they just miss the mark because if they're like, I don't know, it's just it's still very very vanilla, very bland.
00:31:41.039 -->
00:32:02.480I call it milk toast Judaism, very like, you're not you're not really doing this, as opposed to like, no, let's talk about going to a kosher restaurant and the intricacies of a if you're or you're going to a kosher restaurant and like all the hubbub and and whatever goes on there, and like how it's a little embarrassing bringing somebody not Jewish to a kosher restaurant, you're like, uh, yeah, get ready for this.
00:32:02.559 -->
00:32:03.680This is a whole experience.
00:32:03.920 -->
00:32:05.359And people appreciate that, I think.
00:32:05.440 -->
00:32:10.960There's a really big enough audience that I wouldn't have a career if like there were there those people are out there.
00:32:11.039 -->
00:32:13.839And and also you also don't know people's religious level.
00:32:13.920 -->
00:32:24.720Like, even if you're let's say not necessarily observant or whatever, and you're just like into you're into the idea of you you you grew up like this, like the Shabbat one, right?
00:32:24.799 -->
00:32:25.839The getting ready for Shabbat.
00:32:25.920 -->
00:32:28.559The amount of people are like, oh my god, how did you have a camera in my house?
00:32:28.799 -->
00:32:35.680Like, as in like this is their lives growing up, and because whatever, there's certain things that just resonate with people.
00:32:35.839 -->
00:32:39.279And we also kind of feel if you don't get it and you don't get it, it's fine.
00:32:39.440 -->
00:32:41.279Sorry, yeah, Hamevin Yavin, you know?
00:32:41.359 -->
00:32:41.759Yeah, yeah.
00:32:42.000 -->
00:32:46.400And uh I'm I'm gonna do my my my insider baseball uh juice speak.
00:32:46.480 -->
00:32:49.920Um yeah, so I think I think that these are they were so much fun to do.
00:32:50.640 -->
00:32:52.880We really like resonate with like a lot of different topics.
00:32:52.960 -->
00:32:57.599We did one about like the the she room, the the classes people go to on Shavuot night, right?
00:32:57.680 -->
00:33:06.480They always have like a bunch of different like rabbis giving like different like lectures essentially, or people throughout the and they're always like the most clickbait of titles that don't make any sense that are not connected, you know.
00:33:07.359 -->
00:33:15.599Like it's this we we we pretend pretended one, so we made one like Kanye, Corbunot, and uh and whatever, and Korak.
00:33:15.759 -->
00:33:19.680The real issue with Shabbos elevators, like stuff that like has no connection.
00:33:20.240 -->
00:33:41.599Answer but specific to people who but but I but again that's who we're talking to, and I think that that's okay because I think I was remember watching a John Mulaney special a couple years ago uh and I remember he was talking about Catholic Mass and he said, and I went to this Catholic Mass for the first time and they changed a bunch of stuff, and he's like, You guys know, and I'm like, How lucky is he that a billion people are Catholic?
00:33:41.920 -->
00:33:52.640No, but so so the brilliance there is the brilliance there, he it's a very brilliant thing that comedians can do when they can bring you and explain to you what is happening, right?
00:33:52.799 -->
00:33:54.400So he's bringing you into Catholic Mass.
00:33:54.640 -->
00:33:58.720If you've never been to a Catholic Mass, he's teaching you, he showed you that right again.
00:33:58.799 -->
00:34:05.440My friend Mateo Lane has a whole bit, he's a gamer, he plays those games, which I've never in my life once touched or done.
00:34:05.599 -->
00:34:12.159But he has a whole bit about it, but he brings you in to his show and he explains it to you as you go along.
00:34:12.239 -->
00:34:20.480In my comedy special, my my first special, I I I I explained everything to the person who's not Jewish in the audience so that nobody would be lost.
00:34:20.719 -->
00:34:24.880And it's an extra good joke because then you have the it's an extra pop on the joke.
00:34:24.960 -->
00:34:25.199Yeah.
00:34:25.280 -->
00:34:30.719So so it's um it's yeah, but you you being able to yes, you can't speak in.
00:34:31.199 -->
00:34:32.800But you cannot explain Korach.
00:34:32.880 -->
00:34:33.199You can't.
00:34:33.360 -->
00:34:34.719This yeah, I don't know.
00:34:34.800 -->
00:34:37.280I think you just explain explain Korach to me right now.
00:34:37.440 -->
00:34:37.920Korach?
00:34:38.079 -->
00:34:38.400Korach.
00:34:38.559 -->
00:34:39.840Korach, the person on the Torah?
00:34:40.000 -->
00:34:40.480Yeah, yeah.
00:34:40.639 -->
00:34:41.039Yeah, okay.
00:34:41.119 -->
00:34:49.280In one of these when the Jews are in the desert, yes, mo Moses had Moses had a cousin who was very jealous and started a rebellion.
00:34:49.440 -->
00:34:49.519Right.
00:34:49.679 -->
00:34:51.519And he said, you know what, this is unfair.
00:34:51.679 -->
00:34:54.880And Moses said, you know what, I'm sick of this rebellion.
00:34:55.039 -->
00:34:57.440The the world is gonna do something that's never been done before.
00:34:57.519 -->
00:35:01.519I'm not gonna make it funny, but the world's gonna do something never fun, it's gonna swallow up you.
00:35:01.599 -->
00:35:06.079If if that happens, then you'll know that I'm the chosen leader and God is really behind me.
00:35:06.239 -->
00:35:11.519And that's what happens as soon as he's done talking, and everyone else is like, Oh god, all right, I guess he's right, real.
00:35:11.679 -->
00:35:13.360I don't know, but that's Korach.
00:35:13.599 -->
00:35:14.000I don't know.
00:35:14.159 -->
00:35:21.760I mean, yes, this is some of these esoteric things, and there are but like there are ways to make like the first Jay sketch we did was Esther, right?
00:35:21.920 -->
00:35:24.239We did about uh the Purim story, right?
00:35:24.400 -->
00:35:28.000And which is like I I don't know how many people who aren't Jewish know about Purim.
00:35:28.159 -->
00:35:28.719Do right.
00:35:28.880 -->
00:35:31.519So so you you but it's fine, but it's Purim.
00:35:31.679 -->
00:35:35.440We start with Purim because because I said to Ami and Mikey, I said, I have this idea.
00:35:35.599 -->
00:35:41.039I said, what if Esther, Esther Mordechai in the top in the story, tells her uh you can't tell anyone you're you're Jewish.
00:35:41.119 -->
00:35:44.079And I said, What if Esther was like Fran Dresher and like from the five towns?
00:35:44.320 -->
00:35:50.559There you go, over the top, and then it becomes hilarious when Human's like nice to me and she's like, sorry, I'm showing up, like I don't touch whatever.
00:35:50.719 -->
00:35:52.880And like that from there, it builds.
00:35:53.039 -->
00:35:57.119And so I I think there's a level of way you can, you're right.
00:35:57.199 -->
00:36:02.000You if you can write it intelligently enough to get it, it's like a Pixar movie.
00:36:02.079 -->
00:36:08.639You can make it for the adults and the kids, if you can make it for the the people that get it and the people that don't get it, then then you're golden.
00:36:08.880 -->
00:36:09.920But don't get me wrong, too.
00:36:10.000 -->
00:36:17.119Also, if you want to just go off on like completely something that nobody that's not a douche is gonna get, do that as well.
00:36:17.280 -->
00:36:18.480Put that clip out there as well.
00:36:18.639 -->
00:36:29.039Yeah, yeah, and just like yeah, when they were doing Dafyomi about Sota, well the a woman who's accused of adultery, and she has to drink like this like like water that's like ground up with God's name in it.
00:36:29.280 -->
00:36:34.559And so I said the way I say it, I was like, I was like, you know, Sota, it's like you know, it's a woman who's accused by her husband of committing adultery.
00:36:34.639 -->
00:36:35.519We don't know if she did it.
00:36:35.599 -->
00:36:40.320So what she does is she drinks this special water, and if she committed adultery, then she explodes.
00:36:40.400 -->
00:36:41.280You know how you do.
00:36:41.519 -->
00:36:46.719And if she didn't commit adultery, then they have the most awkward car ride home in the history of the universe.
00:36:46.880 -->
00:36:47.039Right.
00:36:47.199 -->
00:36:48.639Like, should we talk about what just happened?
00:36:48.719 -->
00:36:51.360You're gonna tell me if you need to pull over you're feeling bloated or anything, right?
00:36:51.440 -->
00:36:59.199Like, so like, but I was able to make that, and people loved it because I I I was able to learn that lesson of like explain it a little bit and make it funny.
00:36:59.360 -->
00:37:06.159Because like, yes, even your from observant, you know, Torah readers are gonna be like, I don't remember this so well.
00:37:06.320 -->
00:37:06.639Right.
00:37:06.800 -->
00:37:21.280So to be able to I I think the best, sometimes the best audiences are people that like went to day school and then aren't observant anymore because they still they have the memory and the knowledge of it, and then they can laugh about it.
00:37:21.519 -->
00:37:24.000It's the oh oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
00:37:24.719 -->
00:37:38.000The best thing that when you do something like that the the the most interactions we get like with the podcast is when I quote something from the Torah from the completely different place, or I can pl I can I say that Abraham said it, but really it was Moses that said it.
00:37:38.480 -->
00:38:01.840And they come in you apicyrus, you you goi, you how do you even think it wasn't Moses said this, or other all they'll be like, hey, we really did this and this and then that usually well usually anything I say it was the Rebbe said it, but it's but you know, but um Yeah, because I said Jews like something more than laughing, and that's correcting people.
00:38:02.159 -->
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00:38:58.880 -->
00:39:00.320Uh yeah, yeah.
00:39:00.639 -->
00:39:01.840He's not listening to this.
00:39:02.000 -->
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00:39:10.719And uh they're a part of our family, and we thank them very, very, very much for being uh in in the and here's Modi family.
00:39:10.880 -->
00:39:11.199Yeah.
00:39:11.679 -->
00:39:12.000That's great.
00:39:12.320 -->
00:39:14.079Who's sponsoring you guys for all your stuff?
00:39:14.320 -->
00:39:15.199So we have different ones.
00:39:15.280 -->
00:39:19.360So we we started in the last uh year plus of doing different.
00:39:19.920 -->
00:39:30.079We kind of like are like, okay, if we could find a way to make a sponsorship um possible, but we've had you know daily giving, which is a di I idea.
00:39:30.239 -->
00:39:35.599This guy, Jonathan Donath, he started this idea of do giving a dollar a day to Sadaka automatically, and whatever.
00:39:35.679 -->
00:39:36.159We did that one.
00:39:36.239 -->
00:39:47.119That's like you know, all these Sadaka phone calls you get and emails you get before you know uh Rosh Hashanah, you always get these things that are like, uh yeah, we want to uh send uh soldiers from the IDF to uh New York Jets games.
00:39:47.440 -->
00:39:48.079Like what?
00:39:48.239 -->
00:39:52.239And then look, that's that's that seemed like a good use of money.
00:39:52.400 -->
00:39:55.440Uh so then we did like a real no, so then so that's the thing.
00:39:55.519 -->
00:40:05.840And we did we did one for like um like called Ama Tai, which is like dealing with like end of life, like like making like a lack like Will and like your what your like your your the wishes you have.
00:40:06.000 -->
00:40:07.519And we're like, how do we make this funny?
00:40:07.679 -->
00:40:16.320And then we said, Oh, let's just do a family talking about hey, like a family, because a Jewish family doesn't want to talk about like, especially if you're like you know, superstitious, they'll be like, no, no, no, whatever.
00:40:16.400 -->
00:40:17.440So, like, we gotta talk about dad.
00:40:17.519 -->
00:40:18.400I'm like, what's going on?
00:40:18.480 -->
00:40:18.880He's fine.
00:40:19.039 -->
00:40:21.440And then you look at him and he's like, he's like not doing great.
00:40:21.679 -->
00:40:31.360And then, and then uh, so but like the parent, the one guy, uh like Ami plays this as like the super yeshivish with the guy who has like three phones and he's like, Yeah, I don't want to talk.
00:40:31.599 -->
00:40:32.639Listen, I gotta go, I gotta go.
00:40:32.719 -->
00:40:34.880Let me let me tell me on WhatsApp what's happening.
00:40:35.039 -->
00:40:39.599And then the mother who's like in denial and whatever we made it, but we made it funny and important.
00:40:39.679 -->
00:40:41.039So there's those are nice things.
00:40:41.199 -->
00:40:47.840Um, we've done for like um again, we the the kosher restaurant one was uh Mayor Punym, which does soup kitchens in Israel.
00:40:48.079 -->
00:40:49.199I know Mayor Punim very well.
00:40:49.519 -->
00:40:58.480Yeah, so the the the premise was because their soup kitchens in Israel are designed to be like restaurants so they to keep people's dignity so that you don't have to like feel like you're getting you know charity.
00:40:58.639 -->
00:41:07.280So as soon as I heard they're like restaurants, I was like, oh great, let's do an idea where somebody who isn't Jewish comes to a kosher restaurant to get the full kosher restaurant experience.
00:41:07.519 -->
00:41:09.039Do you know that Marepanim?
00:41:09.199 -->
00:41:10.559I did an event for them.
00:41:10.639 -->
00:41:14.239They they provide uh kosher food all over Israel.
00:41:14.480 -->
00:41:15.679Not kosher food, food.
00:41:15.760 -->
00:41:15.920Yeah.
00:41:16.800 -->
00:41:22.800They provide food for people all over Israel, and I hosted a cantorial concert for them.
00:41:23.199 -->
00:41:28.079So they brought me, they had all of these like um like cantors.
00:41:28.400 -->
00:41:30.880It was in a synagogue in Long Island, and I was the host.
00:41:30.960 -->
00:41:45.039Like I would I would do a little shtick in between the the and it was great, and there was lots of money, and they uh Ossem, the big Israeli company that does uh give them they just didn't miraculous world, miraculous, miraculous world.
00:41:45.119 -->
00:41:45.760Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:46.000 -->
00:41:51.199No, so so we've we've really found a bunch of sponsors for different, you know, videos.
00:41:51.360 -->
00:41:55.199I mean, part of it is trying to get them, you know, attention and whatever, make it make it fun.
00:41:55.280 -->
00:42:08.320I mean, we would love to have just general sponsors that can so we can keep doing what we're doing to like you know really make ideas that don't necessarily have to tie into this idea of like whatever their company is and just have kind of a general sponsorship.
00:42:08.480 -->
00:42:10.880But like, but they're really fun to do that these these sketches.
00:42:10.960 -->
00:42:30.079I mean, we we did I mean with the one of the best ones we did was a we did a paysach program Fire Festival, you know the Fire Festival like we made a Paysoch program Fire Festival documentary of like a PASOC program of like of like you know a shady guy and whatever, and it was like and the idea was like all right, we thought it was a Pesoch program in Jamaica, we didn't realize it was Jamaica Queen.
00:42:32.320 -->
00:42:32.960So fun.
00:42:33.440 -->
00:42:33.920Oh my god.
00:42:34.079 -->
00:42:39.519Yeah, so um we uh we what what's what's what's coming up next with you?
00:42:39.599 -->
00:42:44.320What's what's I mean I'm I got a pretty busy December, thank God, you know, things November to March.
00:42:44.400 -->
00:42:46.400I'm gonna be in Scottsdale, Arizona.
00:42:46.559 -->
00:42:49.440Then I'm doing something with Dovey uh in for Eula.
00:42:50.079 -->
00:42:50.719Scottsdale.
00:42:50.880 -->
00:42:52.880Uh it's called Beth Tefila.
00:42:52.960 -->
00:42:54.719It's like every you know, a lot of shoals have the same name.
00:42:54.800 -->
00:42:59.760They just have like a randomizer that like but-da-da, show them rape amuna, like every single show.
00:43:00.000 -->
00:43:12.239So it's I think it's called Bass Tefila in in Scottsdale, Arizona, and then I'm doing a show for Eula in LA, uh, and then something for Berman in Silver Spring, and then Beth Tefila in Baltimore, and then the BRS Poker Tone synagogue.
00:43:12.320 -->
00:43:14.159Um, that's like one week.
00:43:14.320 -->
00:43:15.760Yeah, it's one one week in December.
00:43:15.920 -->
00:43:16.880My wife's gonna kill me.
00:43:17.039 -->
00:43:17.920But that you know what?
00:43:18.000 -->
00:43:21.920No, it's just I'm gonna weigh the whole week and like it's uh a bit challenging, you know.
00:43:22.239 -->
00:43:23.280It's but that's the best.
00:43:23.440 -->
00:43:25.519Uh aren't you on the high when you I love that?
00:43:26.000 -->
00:43:28.960I understand, but I'm saying my wife's just like, hey, when are you coming back?
00:43:29.199 -->
00:43:30.159Because you have three kids at home.
00:43:30.320 -->
00:43:32.719Yeah, and then I say to you, where are you going for paysack this year?
00:43:32.880 -->
00:43:34.960And then I I kind of try to balance it up.
00:43:35.039 -->
00:43:36.480But yeah, I got three little kids at home.
00:43:36.559 -->
00:43:38.559Is she is she on board with what's going on with you?
00:43:38.800 -->
00:43:40.400Yeah, it's just tough.
00:43:40.480 -->
00:43:43.519I I it's also hard because like I've done a lot of different jobs.
00:43:43.599 -->
00:43:45.840You know, I worked at BH because you know I needed more material.
00:43:47.360 -->
00:43:49.119You worked at BH.
00:43:49.280 -->
00:43:49.840Yes.
00:43:50.079 -->
00:43:52.079That is that is miraculous.
00:43:52.239 -->
00:43:52.559Why?
00:43:52.719 -->
00:43:54.159Tell me, what did you do at BH?
00:43:54.320 -->
00:43:56.800I was you were the guy that stocked the candies.
00:43:56.960 -->
00:44:00.159I was the modern orthodox token modern orthodox guy.
00:44:00.320 -->
00:44:01.840No, there's a bunch of modern orthodox guys.
00:44:01.920 -->
00:44:03.599I know, I know, I know, I know I'm kidding, but everybody thinks.
00:44:04.960 -->
00:44:07.599Those of you who don't know, and I I'm wow if you don't know.
00:44:07.679 -->
00:44:12.719No, BH is is pretty BH is this camera store that is literally a world.
00:44:12.880 -->
00:44:15.280It's a world of uh a camera store.
00:44:15.360 -->
00:44:18.559It is all electronics, yeah, everything.
00:44:18.639 -->
00:44:18.960Yeah.
00:44:19.199 -->
00:44:25.519And um, they're obviously online, but they're also uh they're really much online, but they have the physical store.
00:44:25.760 -->
00:44:28.960Brick is like Santa's workshop, but with like Hasidic juice.
00:44:29.360 -->
00:44:35.119And whatever is happening there is uh whoever's running that should be running America.
00:44:35.360 -->
00:44:41.280It is so tightly run, and you you walk in there, there's a lot of chasidim and a lot of like Santa's workshop.
00:44:41.440 -->
00:44:44.800Yeah, but you also see people who who aren't Jewish working there.
00:44:45.039 -->
00:44:45.280Yes.
00:44:45.440 -->
00:45:08.000There's I saw Indian people, I saw a lady with a hijab, I saw uh there's a lot of like a lot of people, a lot of people, and they all know what they're doing, they all know what it is, they very they're very knowledgeable, and and then whatever you order, it kind of comes on this conveyor belt that goes throughout the store and it gets to the front, and the way the woman's waiting for you, and they just say your name, and here it is.
00:45:08.159 -->
00:45:11.199And it's it's so well run.
00:45:11.599 -->
00:45:13.199It's so it's so impressive.
00:45:13.519 -->
00:45:15.760You're gonna have sponsors of an ANH and BNH.
00:45:16.159 -->
00:45:18.159They don't call they didn't call, but yeah.
00:45:18.239 -->
00:45:20.079Uh no, it's it's it's really well run.
00:45:20.239 -->
00:45:24.480And they're with create they're closed all of Pesach and Circus, even Holomoid.
00:45:24.719 -->
00:45:26.400It's the entire first of all.
00:45:26.480 -->
00:45:27.920So it's it's a major store.
00:45:28.000 -->
00:45:32.559And if you're a camera person, you want to see the physical camera before you buy it, so you want to go there.
00:45:32.719 -->
00:45:37.119But if you go there on if you're visiting New York and you go there on a Saturday, it's closed.
00:45:37.280 -->
00:45:37.440Yeah.
00:45:37.679 -->
00:45:38.239Friday night.
00:45:38.400 -->
00:45:40.079They literally have to warn people like our sketch.
00:45:40.159 -->
00:45:51.440They literally have a schedule to say, by the way, just so you know, and then like we would come back to work after you know after the Hagim, and like people just email be like, Who closes for the entire for nine days during October?
00:45:51.679 -->
00:45:52.079Right.
00:45:52.320 -->
00:45:53.280It's crazy.
00:45:53.440 -->
00:45:54.800And they still function and make money.
00:45:55.039 -->
00:45:55.599And they still function.
00:45:55.760 -->
00:45:56.880I think that's part of it though.
00:45:56.960 -->
00:45:58.000Meaning they literally, they're wet.
00:45:58.159 -->
00:46:00.639You can't, I don't think you can buy anything on Shabbos.
00:46:00.880 -->
00:46:07.519It literally says Oh really, like you can't check out, or you order the order's not fully processed until three stars come out in months.
00:46:07.920 -->
00:46:08.320No, whatever.
00:46:08.400 -->
00:46:10.320It's like till Shabbos is over.
00:46:10.480 -->
00:46:12.400You can't uh you can't, yeah.
00:46:13.039 -->
00:46:14.079No, you can you can go.
00:46:14.480 -->
00:46:22.000You can buy, you can buy it, it's not gonna say hey, whatever, but like the order is not like processed until after after whatever.
00:46:22.239 -->
00:46:24.159But they don't tell the people that I think it does.
00:46:24.320 -->
00:46:24.639It does.
00:46:24.800 -->
00:46:25.199I think it does.
00:46:25.280 -->
00:46:30.239I've never I've never tried it, but um, you know, it's one of those things, it's crazy.
00:46:30.400 -->
00:46:41.920I remember when when I I had a mortgage once, I I refinanced the mortgage with this Jewish company, and we were going through like when you when you do do a mortgage, it's like a it's like a an acronym of signing nonstop.
00:46:42.559 -->
00:46:43.280Nonstop.
00:46:43.599 -->
00:46:54.320And all of a sudden I just I'm I'm an autopilot, and all of a sudden I just see like a page and I just see something in Hebrew and like a like a Hajjgaha, like a symbol or something on it.
00:46:54.400 -->
00:46:56.800I'm like a like a little tree.
00:46:58.719 -->
00:46:59.519I go, what the hell?
00:46:59.599 -->
00:47:01.760I got I pulled it and I go, what is this?
00:47:02.639 -->
00:47:08.079And it's because when Jews lend money to Jews, you're not allowed to charge interest.
00:47:08.800 -->
00:47:16.000But this allows them to charge interest because it is a livelihood and it's not uh it's not like uh it was like a business.
00:47:16.079 -->
00:47:18.639And I'm like, I go, wow.
00:47:18.800 -->
00:47:22.719I go, do people ever pull he goes, no, no one ever just to just sign and keeps going.
00:47:22.800 -->
00:47:25.760But like that's why they stick it right in the middle, so you don't you don't know.
00:47:25.920 -->
00:47:27.280Yeah, it's so crazy.
00:47:27.599 -->
00:47:30.000But I guess I guess you can do whatever whatever they no.
00:47:30.079 -->
00:47:34.000I mean that's that's no, it's also a normal thing to charge interest on a loan.
00:47:34.159 -->
00:47:36.960It's just a matter of like a lachic, whatever.
00:47:37.199 -->
00:47:38.320Yeah, yeah.
00:47:38.559 -->
00:47:41.280So but I mean I mean, imagine this clip goes out, Jews don't know.
00:47:41.440 -->
00:47:46.960I I was gonna say this is all over they're like this is fully this is the thing that we're gonna do.
00:47:47.280 -->
00:47:54.320Well, that's why I said like you're not on, you're not the fact that you're not on like Twitter or whatever, you don't even understand how bad it is from an anti-Semitism standpoint.
00:47:54.400 -->
00:47:59.360Like you have like Candace Owens and these like Tucker Carlson, and they're obsessed with like the Talmud.
00:47:59.599 -->
00:48:05.119And I'm just like, is this like like the Gemara that you think like they're like, oh yeah, you know what says in the Talmud?
00:48:05.199 -->
00:48:10.239I'm like, I'm pretty sure it's like mostly about oxen goring things, and they're like, No, no, no, it says the goyum are the worst.
00:48:10.320 -->
00:48:12.400I'm like, I'm pretty sure it's mostly about oxen.
00:48:12.639 -->
00:48:24.239Like I this so I wanted to do an idea of a sketch or something like of like you know, a Talmud, all these anti-Semites going to a daffion sheer, waiting for the excitement of like we're gonna finally learn the Talmud.
00:48:24.320 -->
00:48:28.239And it's just like, so when is the first time you can say creation my at night?
00:48:28.400 -->
00:48:32.559And like when your ox books on his property, is it his ox?
00:48:32.960 -->
00:48:35.199Yeah, and they're like Candace, when does this get exciting?
00:48:35.280 -->
00:48:38.480They're like, No, I swear it's great, but you gotta get to 50 pages first.
00:48:38.719 -->
00:48:39.920Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:48:40.000 -->
00:48:43.039Um there's a lot of I think that's what we do.
00:48:43.360 -->
00:48:49.440I'm saying, but the J Sketch My Comedy is very much a Jewish prideful, I guess you say, you know, the Mashiach energy type of thing.
00:48:49.920 -->
00:48:53.679Very much just a pride of like, I'm very proudly Jewish, not hiding it.
00:48:53.760 -->
00:48:55.760I can't couldn't hide it if I tried.
00:48:56.000 -->
00:49:00.559And like I'm gonna talk about it and not, and I think that the world respects it more.
00:49:00.719 -->
00:49:14.480I mean, I don't know about me personally, yeah, but when you are waffling about like if you are work at a company and you're like, I have to take off for these days, and but if you like are like wishy-washy about it and you're like, Oh, I kind of keep this.
00:49:14.559 -->
00:49:16.960Like, do you have principles or do you not have principles?
00:49:17.360 -->
00:49:20.320It really means something if this is what you're living.
00:49:20.400 -->
00:49:37.920And I mean, whatever you asked me about politically for a second, like the people that are like only talking about their Judaism to bash Israel, like I have a big issue with because like are you like the you gotta let there's these videos of this guy, like this like you know, free Palestine person going up to somebody, this like Hasidic guy and being like, Hey, we're the real Jews.
00:49:38.000 -->
00:49:39.360It's like okay, great, keep Shabbos.
00:49:39.440 -->
00:49:40.239We're Sitzis.
00:49:40.400 -->
00:49:54.880How do you oh the real the the it's there's like a the um the the the black Israelites that not not I don't know if it was uh one of those, but it was just a guy like yelling at this like Hasidic guy trying to provoke him, being like, We're the real Jews, you know, just saying no, you're not the real Jews.
00:49:55.360 -->
00:49:55.760No problem.
00:49:55.840 -->
00:50:02.480Go be the real Jews, go go produce movies, go find cures for diseases, and go build buildings for hospitals.
00:50:02.639 -->
00:50:04.079Go go right ahead, go be the real Jews.
00:50:04.320 -->
00:50:09.280Not even that, be the real Jews and be like, hey, do you want to like wear tzitsis and put a keep on or like keep kosher?
00:50:09.920 -->
00:50:11.679That's not that's not that's not real Jews.
00:50:11.760 -->
00:50:13.199That's not that doesn't make you a real Jew.
00:50:13.360 -->
00:50:17.920No, no, no, no, but I'm saying, but meaning like he's saying this guy's like walking around in in a Hasidic garb.
00:50:18.239 -->
00:50:20.320You're you're a real Jew because you were born Jewish.
00:50:20.480 -->
00:50:24.000You were born whatever your family pack that or you converted now.
00:50:24.159 -->
00:50:32.000Whether you put on tsits for twilling or whatever, that doesn't make you a there's nothing I hate more than when people come to me and go, I'm a bad Jew.
00:50:32.239 -->
00:50:33.920And say I'm I'm a bad Jew.
00:50:34.000 -->
00:50:37.280I I eat bacon and I I I travel on the Sabbath.
00:50:38.000 -->
00:50:39.199That's not make you a bad Jew.
00:50:39.519 -->
00:50:44.079It makes you a bad Jew if you punch your wife in the face and and uh and abuse your kids.
00:50:44.159 -->
00:50:45.760That then that then you're a bad Jew.
00:50:45.840 -->
00:50:47.599And you're a bad person in general.
00:50:47.920 -->
00:50:50.079But that doesn't make you a bad Jew.
00:50:50.239 -->
00:50:57.920You know, we you whatever you do, taking off those days to keep the Sabbath is there to make you a better person.
00:50:58.239 -->
00:50:58.320Right.
00:50:58.559 -->
00:51:01.360But don't somebody else that might not need that to be a better person.
00:51:01.599 -->
00:51:02.559I think I think right.
00:51:02.639 -->
00:51:13.519I think it's it's a matter of a lot of people lose the forest for the trees and they get obsessed with like certain details of halacha, and then they end up, you know, like completely disrespecting people, and it's not like that.
00:51:13.599 -->
00:51:25.599I think the reason we have so many mitzvot and things to do is because it's God's constant reminder hey, by the way, you're part of this club and you can't get out of it.
00:51:25.760 -->
00:51:26.559And that's the whole thing.
00:51:26.719 -->
00:51:29.119You're wearing a uniform, whether or not you realize it.
00:51:29.280 -->
00:51:38.719And that means that act like a good person and be a respectful human being and all those things, in addition to doing some of these things.
00:51:39.679 -->
00:51:41.360Well, hold on here.
00:51:42.239 -->
00:51:43.920You're part of this club and you can't get out of it.
00:51:44.079 -->
00:51:46.159I'm not sure I'm all the way on that club on that on that.
00:51:46.639 -->
00:51:48.719You think you can un undo your Judaism?
00:51:48.960 -->
00:51:49.599You you don't.
00:51:49.679 -->
00:51:56.239I didn't say undo your Judaism, but but all these things that you do helps you to connect to being a better person.
00:51:56.400 -->
00:52:00.719You're you're you're putting on filling, you're putting uh you're making the blessing on the wine.
00:52:00.880 -->
00:52:05.039It's not because you're Jew, it's because you want to be a better person.
00:52:05.199 -->
00:52:11.920It's a technology that was given to the world to you as a Jew to be to connect to being a better person.
00:52:12.159 -->
00:52:22.960What if you if you do it with real consciousness, if you come to the table, everybody enjoy dinner, then you have nothing, then it's nothing.
00:52:23.119 -->
00:52:25.440It's it's so oh it's so empty.
00:52:25.679 -->
00:52:25.840Right.
00:52:25.920 -->
00:52:29.840Meaning people lose people lose the meaning, and it's supposed to be it's supposed to be a reminder.
00:52:30.000 -->
00:52:34.079Again, I said something like I'm teaching my kids like, hey, why we say a braca on a food on food?
00:52:34.159 -->
00:52:41.760Yeah, it's hey you're remembering, by the way, there are a lot of people who don't have food, and God, everything that I have in this world is because of God.
00:52:42.000 -->
00:52:42.159Right.
00:52:42.320 -->
00:52:55.760And it's it's so there are like many touch points throughout your life, and that's what uh I think a yarmulk is is just like I say the yamakka people say, you know, I I I worked in uh you know with Hasidic guys, and they said, Why do you I was the only one who wore a wedding ring, and they said, Why do you wear that?
00:52:55.920 -->
00:52:57.920And I said, Oh, it's like a yarmulk for your hand, you know.
00:52:58.320 -->
00:53:18.800I saw some I saw a clip, I I don't know his name, and I won't even say his name if I had it, but there's a clip now of this rabbi that was talking about about Mashiach and he's a reform or conservative rabbi, and he's wearing a talus and no yarmka and he's dartioning, and of course, all you can focus about and Judy Gold luckily went into it.
00:53:19.119 -->
00:53:22.639I I I I would never, I don't I'm not looking to start anything.
00:53:22.719 -->
00:53:23.679That's not my scene.
00:53:24.000 -->
00:53:25.280She was like, Really?
00:53:25.920 -->
00:53:26.559Really?
00:53:27.440 -->
00:53:41.199Talas, but no yamah, and he completely has the most demented view of what Mashiach and Mashiach energy is, and he's just and he began to bash Chabad, and it was just like the poor guy, the poor.
00:53:41.440 -->
00:53:49.840I like felt bad for him almost that this is uh This is your altered view, that this is your your living through this world thinking this.
00:53:50.320 -->
00:54:06.400Um and then I saw a clip of of of uh this Iman in a synagogue speaking to I think it was central synagogue and he put a yamaka on and went and spoke.
00:54:07.119 -->
00:54:08.639And the rabbi didn't wear a yamaka.
00:54:09.199 -->
00:54:09.920And and it's fine.
00:54:10.000 -->
00:54:11.679It's I'm just like I'm like, really?
00:54:12.159 -->
00:54:14.719I and you're not and we're not living in a messianic time.
00:54:15.280 -->
00:54:17.840No, there's so to me that's machiachan energy right there.
00:54:17.920 -->
00:54:25.440This this Iman came to a synagogue to speak, to say we can have peace, we can have machine that that that is what Avraham Avinu, that is the whole thing.
00:54:25.519 -->
00:54:28.719I mean, we're in the parshiad of like Avram Avinu, and it's like that's the whole thing.
00:54:28.880 -->
00:54:37.679Is Avraham is this idea of bringing uh monotheism or bringing the idea of hey he gives you know somebody a place to sleep or gives them the food and they say thank you.
00:54:37.760 -->
00:54:38.880It's like no, thank Hashem.
00:54:39.360 -->
00:54:44.000Like this is remember the source of who who is of everything that we have here.
00:54:44.320 -->
00:54:47.440And that's the whole point of that is what Judaism is supposed to be.
00:54:47.519 -->
00:54:59.360And yeah, we've gone a long way away from it in a lot of ways, but to be able to dial back into that, and I I hate politically how Judaism gets abused, and they say, like, oh, this is what the Torah wants.
00:54:59.440 -->
00:55:03.519It's like the Torah says very specifically what it wants, and but like the what does it want?
00:55:03.760 -->
00:55:08.559No, I'm saying it's supposed to be you're supposed to be a role model for the world.
00:55:08.880 -->
00:55:10.800That's what you are as Jews.
00:55:11.039 -->
00:55:12.559You're role models for the world.
00:55:12.800 -->
00:55:14.639And the I I that that's what you are.
00:55:14.800 -->
00:55:17.440You are you are the the wearing the uniform from the company.
00:55:17.519 -->
00:55:18.079That's what I'm saying.
00:55:18.159 -->
00:55:18.880I mean uniform.
00:55:18.960 -->
00:55:21.840I'm so so stop with the wearing the uniform.
00:55:22.000 -->
00:55:24.320We we're we were we were a role model for the world.
00:55:24.400 -->
00:55:25.280It's that's not okay.
00:55:25.360 -->
00:55:29.119That's a very strange way to say it because it was we're the chosen people.
00:55:29.280 -->
00:55:34.079Hashem chose us not to be the greatest nation and to be the most the most powerful.
00:55:34.239 -->
00:55:39.280It was to disseminate la vire ivri, yeah, you to uh all of this amazing knowledge.
00:55:39.519 -->
00:55:39.920Yes, right.
00:55:40.320 -->
00:55:41.599Say this is the truth of the world.
00:55:41.679 -->
00:55:41.760Right.
00:55:41.920 -->
00:55:43.599You're bringing the truth into the world.
00:55:43.760 -->
00:55:47.519No, no, but I'm saying, but you are a representative of the company.
00:55:47.679 -->
00:55:48.320That's what I'm saying.
00:55:48.480 -->
00:55:49.599You're representing God.
00:55:49.840 -->
00:55:50.079Right.
00:55:50.239 -->
00:55:52.320You're representing God, and that's the major difference.
00:55:52.400 -->
00:55:55.760But Christianity uniform is one thing, but it's I mean uniform.
00:55:55.840 -->
00:55:57.360I mean I mean uniform in quotes.
00:55:57.679 -->
00:56:05.280People should seem from what you do more than what you no no, but I but I'm saying, but I'm saying, but it's it's but you what no what you do, you're you're I know you're gonna be.
00:56:05.440 -->
00:56:08.719And don't get me wrong, I'm posting Tvillon and Talas all day long.
00:56:08.880 -->
00:56:11.440And I and I love that I wear my kaputt too.
00:56:11.599 -->
00:56:13.360But I mean uniform, I but I mean uniform.
00:56:13.440 -->
00:56:15.199I know I know, but I mean uniform in quotes.
00:56:15.360 -->
00:56:16.480I don't actually mean uniform.
00:56:16.559 -->
00:56:21.519I'm saying you are Jewish, whether or not you like whether or not you like it, you are Jewish, people are gonna see you.
00:56:21.599 -->
00:56:23.599As you said, Jews are seen.
00:56:23.760 -->
00:56:27.599You are seen, you better do the right thing because you are getting judged for it.
00:56:27.679 -->
00:56:31.360So you better be doing the right thing and don't forget what that is.
00:56:31.760 -->
00:56:41.119I mean, listen, I've I've I call it this idea that like brismila, the fact that brismila is so common, I don't even know if that's supposed to be the situation.
00:56:41.360 -->
00:56:46.480Meaning the brismila, I think, is supposed to be this idea that like, oh, it's supposed to be a signifier of a thing.
00:56:46.719 -->
00:56:56.159You're like, by the way, just so you know, you are this the but but uh and the world when they see Jewish people, they they it's so confusing to them.
00:56:56.480 -->
00:57:03.679Because especially now that there's all of this internal fighting, which is the worst thing in the world, it is just Especially now, especially now in is okay.
00:57:03.760 -->
00:57:07.199Here is the kind the the the war is is is kind of over, right?
00:57:07.360 -->
00:57:15.519We're in this when there's gratitude and in healing and mode, and then the ultra-orthodox people are protesting to not go to the army.
00:57:15.679 -->
00:57:20.480Yeah, and so like again, we it's hitting our news station.
00:57:20.559 -->
00:57:26.639We're seeing it from all of the the the news outlets that we follow on on social media.
00:57:26.719 -->
00:57:43.199But someone who's not Jewish all of a sudden sees in Jerusalem there's thousands of Jews just getting tested and protesting, and they were doing it so crazily, and they were climbing on the cranes, yeah, and one of them fell off and died.
00:57:43.679 -->
00:57:48.239And I right away said, I mean, he would have been the worst paratrooper in the world.
00:57:48.559 -->
00:57:54.239He would have I mean, it's a good thing he's not in the army to jump off a crane w without a parachute.
00:57:54.719 -->
00:57:58.000Yeah, I I just uh there's I'll I'll tell you off.
00:57:58.079 -->
00:58:00.480There's a there's a story about that that's a story.
00:58:00.800 -->
00:58:02.639They say he might have been killed himself.
00:58:03.039 -->
00:58:04.000You think he killed himself?
00:58:04.079 -->
00:58:05.760I think they heard he like left it out.
00:58:06.239 -->
00:58:10.480Or something, or you or you like told people like I can't handle this anymore, or something like that.
00:58:10.639 -->
00:58:11.119I think.
00:58:11.360 -->
00:58:11.440No.
00:58:13.119 -->
00:58:14.800I no no no no, there were those people that did that.
00:58:14.880 -->
00:58:16.239I'm thinking the one guy who died, though.
00:58:16.400 -->
00:58:20.960I think that's what that's what their stories are coming out that that's what it was, probably.
00:58:21.280 -->
00:58:22.320That's so not what it is.
00:58:22.400 -->
00:58:25.840He just thought he's like, okay, so yeah, I can be a good paratroop and just jumped off.
00:58:26.800 -->
00:58:33.440I said I said my solution to the uh the protest is just have them have the Harediam in charge of the fake pager companies.
00:58:33.760 -->
00:58:40.960Like have them work at the welcome to H and B pagers, where we're definitely not a front for it's an insane thing.
00:58:41.119 -->
00:58:47.679It's it's what's happening in the Knesset, which is destroying, which is which is like the opposite of the Mashir energy.
00:58:47.760 -->
00:58:48.880It's like it's like wow.
00:58:49.280 -->
00:58:54.960Do you know it's so I think the people bringing Mashir today uh is is people who aren't the Khereidi.
00:58:55.440 -->
00:58:58.800I but you're right now, but then then you're not gonna be I mean I'm not gonna be able to do that.
00:58:58.880 -->
00:58:59.679Now you're gonna get your comments.
00:58:59.840 -->
00:59:08.400Yeah, no, but uh, but listen, no, no, it's not, it's just it's a matter of like remember Akht and unity is really important, and that's something that's really, really necessary.
00:59:08.559 -->
00:59:18.239Like it's literally said Josephus, who's like the historian who used to be Jewish, tried to undo his Judaism, being Christian, reported about the the Beta Mekdesh getting destroyed, the second temple.
00:59:18.400 -->
00:59:23.280And he says, literally says something like the Jews were so busy fighting themselves they couldn't fight the Romans.
00:59:23.360 -->
00:59:23.519Yeah.
00:59:23.679 -->
00:59:26.400And that literally, and like, oh, have we learned our lesson of that?
00:59:26.559 -->
00:59:29.199No, we have not learned our lesson from from 2000 years.
00:59:29.280 -->
00:59:43.519It's just like that's our issue, is just, and there's a lot of again, the I think there's a lot of like uh guilt that Jews have, and that's why they're you have I mean, when when humans in New York is protest as showing Nature Carta, like literally and everyone's like it's confusing.
00:59:43.760 -->
00:59:45.280Everyone's like, Great, this is so good.
00:59:45.360 -->
00:59:52.320And you're like, you're just using these people as Jews to be like, look, Jews are anti Israel, and you're like, it's just no, it's really bad.
00:59:52.639 -->
00:59:57.039So it's a gr it's a crazy conversation that I it's not it's again, it's not that's not not something I focused on.
00:59:57.199 -->
01:00:04.400My focus again, your focus as a communion is to Make people who are sad, happy, and try to bring peace wherever you can in the world.
01:00:04.480 -->
01:00:05.920That is your job, Al P.
01:00:06.079 -->
01:00:06.880Talmud.
01:00:07.039 -->
01:00:07.360Yeah.
01:00:07.519 -->
01:00:08.960That is what is written in the Talmud.
01:00:09.039 -->
01:00:09.760That's your job.
01:00:09.840 -->
01:00:10.159Okay.
01:00:10.239 -->
01:00:14.320It's definitely not to tell everybody about political stances and stuff.
01:00:14.559 -->
01:00:16.639Um and that that's basically it.
01:00:16.719 -->
01:00:24.239Tell everybody where, how, who, where they can see you, the wonderful Ellie Liebowitz, and your crew.
01:00:24.400 -->
01:00:25.119And your crew.
01:00:25.199 -->
01:00:25.920You have a crew.
01:00:26.000 -->
01:00:26.719You have a crew.
01:00:26.880 -->
01:00:32.639You have uh uh uh Greenblad and and uh all the it's a crew, you have a little crew.
01:00:32.719 -->
01:00:36.559Yeah, yeah, we do we we do our own shows and and shows together all the time.
01:00:36.719 -->
01:00:40.159And um, I'm on Instagram, Ellie Comedyagram.
01:00:40.559 -->
01:00:45.679My website is Liecomedy, E L I Comedy.com, because Liebowitz is way too hard to spell.
01:00:45.840 -->
01:00:52.400I'm on Twitter X at Ellie Liebowitz, spelled impossibly E-L-I, L E B O W I C Z.
01:00:53.039 -->
01:00:55.360Wow, now I know why you shortened your name to Modi.
01:00:55.599 -->
01:00:57.840Yeah, and you you're available for events.
01:00:58.079 -->
01:01:01.920I'm available for events, you would have you, Jewish events of all types.
01:01:02.239 -->
01:01:06.559Still at a point where you can say, let's just bring him, it's gonna be fun and and do it.
01:01:06.800 -->
01:01:12.480And and yeah, and make your events fun and and bring bring a young comedian.
01:01:12.559 -->
01:01:13.760I don't know if you're young, are you young?
01:01:13.920 -->
01:01:14.639I don't look young.
01:01:14.800 -->
01:01:15.440No, you are young.
01:01:15.599 -->
01:01:17.280I'm younger than you're young.
01:01:17.440 -->
01:01:19.679Sure, but but you're like years wise, you're younger.
01:01:19.840 -->
01:01:20.320Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:01:20.559 -->
01:01:20.719Yeah.
01:01:20.880 -->
01:01:24.000Uh so you know, get and and make it bring comedy.
01:01:24.079 -->
01:01:26.559So you be be the friend that brings the comedy.
01:01:26.880 -->
01:01:29.039Bring the friend that brings the comedy to the event.
01:01:29.119 -->
01:01:29.679Yes, yes.
01:01:30.159 -->
01:01:30.719So do that.
01:01:30.800 -->
01:01:34.719I really wish all of you guys so much success and so and have fun.
01:01:34.960 -->
01:01:36.400Have fun while you're doing it.
01:01:36.559 -->
01:01:37.920Oh my god, have fun.
01:01:38.320 -->
01:01:40.960Um I am on tour.
01:01:41.119 -->
01:01:41.440Wow.
01:01:41.519 -->
01:01:43.039I'm not sure when this is airing.
01:01:43.199 -->
01:01:48.159Uh, God willing, the show at Radio City Music Hall will be sold out by then.
01:01:48.320 -->
01:01:50.639Um uh that's on MortyLive.com.
01:01:50.719 -->
01:01:52.719April 2030 is Radio City Music Call.
01:01:52.880 -->
01:01:55.440But besides that, uh, we're gonna be in Europe.
01:01:55.519 -->
01:02:03.920Uh, not sure again, not sure when this is coming out, but we're gonna be in Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Berlin.
01:02:04.320 -->
01:02:05.599Uh get tickets.
01:02:05.679 -->
01:02:09.519There's a I mean maybe a few left, hope or they're sold out.
01:02:09.599 -->
01:02:26.159And then we have a big, big domestic tour beginning next year with cities all over San Francisco, um Indianapolis, uh uh Washington, DC, everybody's been asking for, and uh 20 more.
01:02:26.320 -->
01:02:32.880So go to ModiLive.com, find a show near you, and be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show.
01:02:33.119 -->
01:02:43.519Um also the merch page, uh mashirenergy.com, or it's just go to my shop on the and get a hat or two.
01:02:43.760 -->
01:02:49.280Just uh believe me, I'm not making crazy money on this, but it just it sparks the conversation of Mashir Energy.
01:02:49.360 -->
01:02:50.239Someone goes, What does that mean?
01:02:50.320 -->
01:02:55.039And you start to tell them what it means, and whatever they whatever, as long as people are talking about Mashir.
01:02:55.280 -->
01:02:57.119That's literally like so important.
01:02:57.519 -->
01:03:00.480Just be speaking about Mashir, because that's what we need.
01:03:00.719 -->
01:03:02.480And um, and uh that's it.
01:03:02.559 -->
01:03:04.239Thank you all very much, and thanks for coming in.
01:03:04.320 -->
01:03:04.800Really appreciate it.
01:03:05.039 -->
01:03:05.679Thank you for having me.
01:03:05.760 -->
01:03:06.559I had a great time.
