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The Heart of Chesed: Uri Kirschner's Journey of Giving · None of Your Business Podcast

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  Both, right. It's the reality.
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  No, no. Either one of us is right.
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  You have to take a side. Yeah.
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  Give me a minute to make my argument.
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  I would either appreciate it. Yeah.
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  By the way, take a side, don't play both sides.
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  Don't don't play K dots business Oshi none of your business
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  Michael. It's the None of Your Business
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  podcast. Hosted by Michael Anoshi.
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  Welcome back everybody to another fantastic episode of the
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  None of Your Business podcast. Thank you again to the Prime
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  Source Production team for always being there by our side
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  and making sure this train is going down the right track.
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  Does that make sense? That's first time you said I
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  know where you whip that. From I just like.
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  It why are you trying something? I was thinking of a train.
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  Do this for a long time. Honestly, it was working.
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  Everything was working seamlessly.
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  Last night in A5 you whip out some train track I woke up at.
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  4:00 in the morning from a train and I couldn't believe it.
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  It was just random. But anyways, we are joined here
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  by a new guest, guys. Uri Kirchner, hurry, welcome to
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  the program. Or you're a longtime Wesley
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  Hills resident. Did you grow up in Wesley Hills?
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  No, no move to as the hills like almost 30 years ago.
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  Oh, OK, Straight from Brooklyn, but I grew up in Washington
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  Heights, OH. So you're a yucky I.
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  Guess I am. OK, that's a fun fact, by the
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  way, that most people I think know, right?
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  If you're watching tonight's, you're a yucky.
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  So Ori, you know, I see you around a lot and you're very
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  popular guy in the community. Oh, thank you.
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  Not only because you work out every day probably and yeah, but
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  also because you have this 100 ride that's coming up soon and
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  I, I, I want to hopefully get to that.
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  I appreciate all the gear that you brought for us today, but
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  she looks really good in it. I really.
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  I look good on anything. No, that looks good.
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  But these colors are really like standing out, like it's, it's
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  noticeable, very discernible. Yeah.
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  And it fits very nicely in my head, I have to say.
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  And I'm getting a lot of stuff lately, Michael.
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  My closet's filling up. I have all different various
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  caps and and sweatshirts and polo shirts.
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  I don't want to compete with prime source stuff, but looks
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  good together. Yeah, yeah, Prime sure that wear
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  this by this is obligatory. I have to wear this, but this is
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  very comfortable. I like it.
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  Thank you for bringing it. So Ori if anything.
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  Else I live in three more courts.
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  Just tons of stuff. So there's a lot of things that
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  I know about you, a lot of things that I don't know you
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  about you. I'll tell you, I did a little
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  bit of research online. There is another Ori Kirchner
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  that's in a get out. His middle name is Alfred.
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  Do you have a middle? Name.
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  No. That is me.
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  Is that you? That is me.
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  There is no. Different picture than Alfred.
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  Gerscher Well, I hope it's a good one because I it couldn't
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  be another a real 1. And I have to say, like my, I
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  would never have thought that my middle name would have come out
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  on this podcast. Yeah, I mean you ChatGPT you
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  when it comes. Up.
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  Yeah, OK, there you go. A lot.
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  Of interesting things came up Yankees, some of which I'm not
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  going to mention here. Oh, great.
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  No, I'm just kidding. Everyone's always you mentioned,
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  you know, from the Yankees community.
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  They they always, Stefan can tell you they they like those
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  middle names which are very embarrassing.
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  Really, is that a thing? What's the most embarrassing
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  middle name? Like my sister was, you know,
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  Margaret, Gretchen and the you don't, you don't use those
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  nowadays, right? Yes.
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  It's Mildred. Exactly.
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  Yes. Stephen Charles.
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  Was it Charles? Oh, really?
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  That's not so big they. Well, his father loved all the.
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  Royal love your war. Are you a Tannersville guy?
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  Also a. Big time.
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  I'm glad you bring that up big time.
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  I'm the president of the shul there.
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  Wow, you're wearing a lot of hats.
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  A lot of hats. You're a real estate attorney?
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  Real estate attorney, right? Your middle name is Alfred.
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  Right. You're yucky from Washington
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  Heights. What?
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  And Tannersville and Yucky for some reason go hand and yes, why
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  is that? What?
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  What happened? There, that's a great question.
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  Rev Breuer is really starts with him.
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  Rev Breuer, who is my great, great, my great grandfather,
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  when he came from Germany and lived, brought the community
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  from Germany to Washington Heights.
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  He, they needed somewhere to go for the summer.
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  So he started going to Hunter, which everyone knows some Hunter
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  mountain. So he started going to Hunter
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  for a few years and then and they had actually a shul that
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  you talk about a long time ago, over over 100 years ago, around
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  in the 1950s, not 100 years ago. And he moved a few miles over.
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  He started going to Tannersville, and with some
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  other families, they started the shul called Anjay Sharon, and he
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  became the rabbi there. So because Rabbi Breuer was
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  there, a lot of people from Washington Heights started going
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  with him. Because Washington Heights isn't
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  a place you really want to be during the summers.
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  Just not a pleasant place during the summers.
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  I got to tell you, I was there once for a weekend.
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  It's not a place you want to be. At a weekend either.
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  That great during the winter. Washington Heights.
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  Ever. I know so little about the yucky
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  history community. All I know, and I'm sorry, I
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  hope I'm not, I don't want to offend you or anything like
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  that, but when I like think about Yankees, there's something
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  off there. There's something like they're
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  very different. I can tell you I.
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  They're almost like in their own little stratosphere, doing their
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  own thing. Are they, dare I say, practicing
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  a different religion? No, I get a lot of ways.
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  I get what you're saying, but it it starts with Riftsham, Shafal
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  Hirsch. I don't know if you know that.
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  I've heard the name SO. Riftschafal Hirsch is more,
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  let's say, well known from Germany.
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  He was very, very strong against the reform movement.
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  He really maintained orthodoxy throughout Germany, and he was
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  the reason why orthodoxy survived.
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  His grandson was Rev Breuer. Rev Royer was Rev Shampsville
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  Hersh's grandson who brought that ideology of Torem Derek
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  Heritz into America. But what is that ideology like?
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  What do they do different? Like what do they stand for
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  that's unique? Like what makes someone like,
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  what are some of their traditions?
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  What are some of their characteristics like?
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  What it really does start from term Derek Harritz and Stefan
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  is. Sorry, what does that mean?
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  I'll tell it to you so Tory M Derek Harritz was really the the
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  I don't want to use the tagline. It was the basis of so much of
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  what rush I'm sure followers was standing for and fighting for,
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  which was how do you align from kite Orthodoxy, halacha in a
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  modern world? It's very hard.
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  So when Enlightenment and Haskullah was very popular in
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  Germany, we were losing Jews constantly, right?
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  The the Jewish people were getting lost to all the modern
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  and enlightened Germany. So Rabbi Schwellersch had to
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  find a way to say, listen, the Torah works within the modern
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  world. And he showed how Torah in Derek
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  Herritz. Derek Herritz is, let's say,
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  your job, your practice, your work, but that Torah works with
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  it. And not just that Torah works
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  with it, but that everything in Derek Herritz is found in Torah.
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  He always said that Torah is the blueprint for the world.
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  So whether you're a doctor or a lawyer or a gym guy or a biker,
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  anything can be done within the parameters of Torah.
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  And that is really what term Derek Herritz meant.
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  So that's why getting back to your question, Yankees are very
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  into having a profession being contributing to society,
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  contributing in a professional in an economic way, but very
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  strong and maintain him and hug him and hug him are very
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  important. The Ashkenazm that they have is
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  very important. So the Yankees that maybe you're
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  thinking about, which I like you were saying different.
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  They, they're very stuck to the old ways of our traditions of
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  Menhagam. So our old Menhagam, and I can
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  tell you a few of them, Stefanos are different.
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  Like, for example, my sons and my grandsons will come to shul
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  wearing a talent. Yes, something I've noticed.
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  Right, that's a mimic that we have they.
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  Also come exactly 3 minutes early.
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  I come exactly 20 minutes late. So another thing is I'd say the
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  Vimple. The Vimple is another Yakish
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  mimic, the Vimple, the Vimple. So you may use Agarthal to tie
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  up his safetara, right? But we use something else, which
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  is a beautiful Minnog. When a boy goes to his breast,
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  they usually wrap the legs with some material.
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  So they what we do is we take that material and we make it
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  into a long like say 30 foot long cotton piece of art with
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  his name and his birthday and brachas and you got the latora
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  kupa mazum tovim and it's done with pictures.
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  And that is what we use to wrap all the Safetara in the show.
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  It's called a Vimple. Instead of a Garth, we use a
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  Vimple. And there's actually like, what,
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  maybe two or three people left in the world who make them, and
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  my mother is actually one of them.
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  Shout out to his mother who made my vimple.
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  That's right, Vimple's. You got a Vimple.
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  I have a Vimple. You're sure?
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  Of course, my son's a Vimple. I feel like I want a little.
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  I feel like first I love that word vimple.
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  I wish I would have brought you pictures because they're
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  beautiful. We need to say the word.
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  And suddenly. I don't know man, before the
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  thing away from. That.
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  But here's another beautiful part of that minhug boys.
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  I don't know if you did it, Stephen, but when they get
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  married they're very often wrap that vimple around the chuppa.
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  I see. So it's the same one that they
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  had when they had. Exactly by my son's wedding
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  last. How much my mother charged for a
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  Vimple. I think $600.00, I think it's a
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  beautiful, it's expensive. So I yeah.
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  So I think when you say like they're different, I think it
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  was a. Very much high time and a very
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  nice picture. By the way, so far so good.
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  Keep going though, I. I think that's why I did.
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  No, but it's true because I know, you know, I'm involved.
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  My children aren't and all that. And Brooks, and we've married
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  our four kids and I have another daughter in the market now.
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  And when people see like, you know, yaki, like, what is a
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  yaki? Some people don't even know what
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  a yaki is. But Yaki's just someone from the
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  German, usually the Kahala Sisuran shul, who has min hug
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  him like I wait three hours. Let's say I don't wait six
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  hours. I'm jealous.
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  I'm like by. The way I could get him that
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  bandwidth. Yeah, that.
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  I'll take a Vimple for that hour, yeah.
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  But that's why people marry into the yakis, because if you marry
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  Yakish boy, you're getting 3 hours.
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  Love that, by the way, that's. The worst is if you're a Yakish
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  girl and you marry someone, you go into six hours that's.
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  Yeah, yeah. So you guys do the three hours
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  things, but I also notice I don't know many Yankees.
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  I know a few here and there I come across, but they all seem
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  to have very similar styles and personalities.
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  Like there's something rigid about them.
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  They're very particular, very proper.
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  OK. But you know, Stefan is Stefan
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  like that? I don't get started.
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  Exactly. Stefan is like a subset of the
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  yak. He's like an exclusive.
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  He's. But he's blue blood, Yakich.
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  His family goes way back. OK?
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  Stefan's grandfather and my grandfather were best friends.
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  Doesn't shock me. It doesn't.
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  Say, Stefan, what makes you yucky?
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  My last name. OK, his.
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  There you go. Yeah.
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  I'm saying it changed. I mean, it's like, OK, the same
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  thing. It's it's, it's definitely
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  evolved into a new practice. Yeah.
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  And it's listen, this is much less as time goes on.
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  Are you proud that you're a Yankee?
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  I'm very proud of like what my family.
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  Do you guys have like a reunion that could get together once a
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  year old Yankees come there a convention?
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  No. Is there a convention for
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  Yankees? Where dinner used to be like
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  the. Convention you.
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  Know it's like a oh really? They don't have that anymore.
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  But I I believe that the rigidity that you're talking
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  about comes from that we always were very Medoican Armin hug him
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  right. And like you said in the shul,
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  like they're very careful not to talk in shul and the proper
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  decorum for shul. Yes.
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  And like you can't get in it. You can't get Naliyah in Breyers
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  without a tie. You can't get called up and
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  Chavez. Without a tie, it's improper.
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  Yeah, it's not covered. So they have all these different
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  hugging for covered basic messes.
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  And I think that like permeates into people's personality that
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  they sort of look rigid. But if you know a lot of yaki's.
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  I want to give a shout out to 1 Yaki that I know and I'm going
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  to call him out because he deserves it.
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  And this is one-of-a-kind family and they happen to be a very big
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  entrenched in the yucky community.
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  Maybe you know them, the Meyer family.
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  I don't know who they did you know them?
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  Sure, a bunch of kids. That is one thing about Yankees,
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  by the way. A lot of them know each other
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  of. Course, I think we all.
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  They're not a big community. How many Yankees are there?
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  I mean, you can't. No, no.
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  There's a lot of. There's a lot, yeah.
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  And there are Yankees communities now in there to
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  stroll and really New Jersey and Baltimore, different places.
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  Yeah. Like, I wouldn't say it's highly
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  growing, but people you. Guys don't like live together or
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  make your own little community? No, but right all over.
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  That's not true. We had a community.
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  We had. It was Washington Knights.
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  Yeah, everybody. There's still, there's still is
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  a community of Washington. And you have Tannersville for
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  this. Do Yankees support Yankees?
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  Do do you guys like give business to each other?
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  Like do you have automatically when you hear someone else's yak
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  you feel connected to them? Do you guys hate each other?
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  Sure, there's definitely connection.
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  Hate, no, but there's definitely connection without the yakis.
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  Listen, why else would I? No, because like I see this,
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  like see this a person from curious year old from Monroe or
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  from Williamsburg, like if they have an opportunity to give
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  business to someone who's not from the community or somebody
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  who is, they will they will give precedence to somebody who's.
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  Connected. I don't think we.
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  Have that kind of camaraderie between each other.
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  I don't think so, but just by the definition of someone's
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  yakkers and they probably grew up with each other in Washington
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  Heights, you know what I'm saying?
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  Yeah. So we'll you'll probably know
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  the families and you're somehow probably related, you know, like
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  Stefan's grandfather, for example, like created the
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  bakery, the bakery and all the, you know, the big Runa bounce
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  company. And so he was a staple there and
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  my grandfather was the rub there.
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  And you just know each other. Any and you mentioned the Myers
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  right some. Wonderful people.
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  Well, he was my favorite representation of what Yankees
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  are about. Very much the.
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  Kind of lives that they live. I have to say I'm a fan.
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  I'm a fan and I might need to request if I can join this club
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  because I'm big fans of this family.
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  But they were just a dynamic family.
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  The hospitality is is off the charge, by the way.
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  They're very they're pretty well to do.
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  They're pretty well to you'll never know it.
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  They're very regular, plain, simple people.
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  They don't flaunt anything and they're always there to help
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  someone else. Just really kind, good-natured,
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  quality people. And one thing that stands out
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  about them is that they were Yankees.
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  They were big, big Yankees. It's funny you say that because,
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  like, the way you're describing them is the way I would describe
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  most Yankees that I know. Really understated.
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  A lot of them have money. You don't know it.
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  Not private jetting all over the place makes sense makes sense.
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  So that's something that's a good stigma that you know is
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  positive. But listen, we spent a lot of
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  your time on on Yankees. I appreciate the education I.
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  Appreciate. I appreciate you bringing up
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  Tanzvi. I love Tanzo.
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  Tanzo is a very soft heart. My spot in my heart.
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  I love it. Yeah, I've been going this how?
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  I'm 53, so 53 straight summers. Wow.
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  My kids are going up there for shopping as we speak.
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  What is this Tannersville? Tannersville One where
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  Tannersville. You guys have a house there like
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  it's a fantastic. We have a number of houses,
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  yeah, everything centers around the shul, but there's there's
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  actually 4 shules already. There's a casita shul, there's a
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  big labavage shul, there's a beautiful day camp we have.
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  Yeah. My mother's been there for 70
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  years already, you know. It's are Yankees particular
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  about marrying other Yankees or they don't?
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  Care. So that used to be much more
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  like that. But it used to be like that.
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  None of my kids married Yankees. Did you attempt at least to
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  like? I'm always interested was.
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  That on your list of things when you're at the qualification.
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  No, see if you can get another Yankees now, but the girls are
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  looking for the three hours. I would say that and some of my
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  son in laws are seriously considering taking up that
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  minimum you. Have a pretty popular
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  son-in-law, Maishi Tischler. Yes, I'm very proud of my no.
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  I called all my son in laws. I.
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  Called him before the show here today.
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  Oh seriously? I'm getting a fun.
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  Fact. Oh, that's not good.
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  That's not good. He for sure mentioned the gym,
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  I'm sure. But by the way, he goes to the
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  gym with me. What gym is this?
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  Maishi's in that gym. Who's the guy?
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  In Maishi, who is he? Leshie Tischler No, no, no.
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  Stop it. Ishie, stop it.
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  I don't I don't know Meshie Tischler mom.
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  He's like the number one wedding singer.
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  The number one wedding singer? Yes.
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  Yes. That's not Liebish Meltzer
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  anymore. Not for the litfish.
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  Does he have records? Does he put out music?
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  Well, he does. I guess he didn't reach you.
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  Yeah, he started a little while ago, but his, his, he has a.
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  Beautiful voice. Give me one of his songs, one of
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  his popular. Songs.
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  No, it's not about his popular songs.
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  It's about how well he sings at wedding, exactly.
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  And how he performs at a wedding and how he brings his energy and
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  his just. It's beautiful.
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  And not to say that Barry Webber doesn't kill it at every
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  wedding. Right.
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  But Maishi Tusler is known to be the wedding singer.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  Besides that, he's been coming out with his own, I think.
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  He's the best wedding singer, right?
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  Now the best. Yeah.
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  So yeah, I mean, you're a father.
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  You ask me. What is your charge?
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  What is your charge for a wedding?
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  I don't know. It's a good question.
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  I don't know. Is it in the 1520 thousand?
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  Rate. No, no, it's definitely under
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  10. He's not the best.
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  No, no, no, I had the most. We had somebody on not too long
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  ago. He charges $18,000.
• 15:41
  Because he's a musical sensation nationally, worldwide recognized
• 15:45
  with albums. Yeah, more.
• 15:46
  No, but. The boy, yeah, but the boys
• 15:47
  more. All the Poseidon want the boys
• 15:49
  who are the singer who's energetic, beautiful voice pumps
• 15:52
  up the crowd. He's an entertainer also.
• 15:54
  But he has a crazy voice, really beautiful.
• 15:56
  I would love to hear and my son but.
• 15:59
  He gave, but he gave your daughter six hours.
• 16:02
  He did, exactly. Voice nice.
• 16:03
  Mirror. Oh yeah, if she could take on
• 16:05
  three, he would in a second. You could do those things, by
• 16:08
  the way. You can adapt.
• 16:09
  I do have relatives who've done that, yeah.
• 16:11
  Go in from. 6 Does he do this for a living?
• 16:13
  Imagine. Yes.
• 16:14
  That's this full time game. Yeah, yeah.
• 16:16
  So a little, a little bit more about your background.
• 16:18
  So you're an attorney and you start?
• 16:20
  Real estate law. I have a a firm called
• 16:21
  Silverberg and Kirchner almost 30 years.
• 16:24
  Proper name for a law firm? Very, very yes.
• 16:28
  Mayor Silverberg is my partner. Oh, I know Mayor Silverberg OK
• 16:31
  from Forshay. Yep, very nice.
• 16:33
  OK, so now she's excited. Yeah, we've been partners for
• 16:36
  almost 30. Years.
• 16:37
  I don't know him. I'm talking as if we're friends,
• 16:39
  you know? You know about Neftali's son,
• 16:41
  Neftali Silverberg. Isn't Neftali your father?
• 16:43
  The father? Yeah.
• 16:45
  Mayor is the son, correct? Yes.
• 16:46
  Yes. OK.
• 16:46
  So you guys. Of course that's it.
• 16:47
  I grew up in Forshay. I know that.
• 16:49
  So he doesn't know me? Probably.
• 16:50
  I know him. And he was very cool.
• 16:52
  He was always very happy. He was always, you know.
• 16:56
  Is he yaki by any chance? No, Oh, he went to Brewers, but
• 16:58
  he's. Nice, There you go.
• 16:59
  See. See I we met.
• 17:00
  First in Brewers. I'm starting to get this down
• 17:02
  pat. Dad is also very well known.
• 17:04
  Yes, very. Very involved in the community
• 17:06
  in a lot of. Ways the activist
• 17:07
  philanthropist. He's part.
• 17:08
  About I wanted I wanted to talk about a lot about the the test
• 17:11
  of things that I do. But when I was preparing to meet
• 17:13
  you guys, you mentioned it, you brought it out right now.
• 17:16
  His father, Naftali Silverberg is I always consider him for
• 17:19
  sure my mentor, my mentor in the world of has said he is he's
• 17:25
  fantastic. He's a he's a great example of
• 17:27
  Yankee, but not being Yankee. He's he's a strong attorney.
• 17:29
  He's a successful real estate owner, developer, attorney but
• 17:33
  has so much has done so many fascid projects and how old?
• 17:37
  Is he? He's got to be real.
• 17:39
  Yeah, I. Remember when I was growing up?
• 17:40
  He was. Older Michael's mayor's already
• 17:43
  if I'm 50. Not mayor.
• 17:45
  How old's Natali? He's got to be in almost
• 17:46
  seventies, 80s. No, he's in his 80s Fifty.
• 17:48
  Sure. And he's still involved in that
• 17:50
  Salah, and I'm on the board with him and at Salah.
• 17:52
  And he's, he was the president for a long time.
• 17:55
  He's great. Yeah, that's the family.
• 17:56
  So you started off as an attorney.
• 17:58
  It's the first thing you did you.
• 17:59
  I had career started working for Silverberg when I came out of
• 18:03
  law school and then we became partners a few years later and
• 18:06
  never looked. Back.
• 18:07
  Oh nice. What kind of law?
• 18:08
  What kind of law? Just transactional real estate
• 18:10
  buying, selling, refinancing. Not criminal, that's a boring,
• 18:14
  not the fun stuff, only the funds, not the stuff I see on.
• 18:17
  TV tell me what gets fun. I always say it's not the real
• 18:20
  law stuff, it's not like the courtroom litigation stuff,
• 18:22
  which I would be terrible. At Tell us a fun story that
• 18:24
  happened with you as a lawyer. I will tell you, I'm glad you
• 18:27
  asked that. I can tell you a great story of
• 18:29
  1 of people always say what's your most memorable closing?
• 18:32
  I think my most memorable closing was Michael and I had
• 18:35
  like a three day closing. Imagine you've been writing real
• 18:38
  estate Closings, right? Yeah.
• 18:39
  Business, I mean, how big was our transaction?
• 18:41
  It was, it was actually a flip. So it was, let's say a fifty,
• 18:44
  $55 billion flip of a hotel. It went from day through night
• 18:49
  to day through night. It went constant.
• 18:52
  But everybody constant we. Grew bank lenders we had to
• 18:54
  miss. Bricks you were revolving
• 18:56
  around. Everyone's in this room, all you
• 18:57
  do is kept on bringing the food. Wow.
• 18:59
  Interesting it was nonstop because with all the different
• 19:02
  parts to this, it was it was nonstop.
• 19:04
  And how much money was this flip?
• 19:05
  You said over 50 million. Yeah, I thought we said billion.
• 19:08
  That's what I wanted to record it, right.
• 19:10
  OK. So $50 million flip.
• 19:11
  All right. But that's not the exciting
• 19:13
  part. The exciting part is that I got
• 19:15
  a kidney stone during the closing.
• 19:18
  Oh boy. And I get them sometimes and I
• 19:20
  got it's excruciate. I don't know if any of you have
• 19:22
  had it. Hospital, you should never have
• 19:23
  it. Heard about it?
• 19:24
  Excruciating pain and has tried to go through it, but I
• 19:28
  couldn't. So they rushed me to the
• 19:30
  hospital from this closing and it started giving me fluids and
• 19:35
  then Michael showed up like half hour later.
• 19:37
  Or I need you at the closing. I took the bag and we went to
• 19:40
  the closing and I finished the closing.
• 19:42
  Yeah, with the bag I hooked up, yeah.
• 19:44
  Like your IV bag? Yeah, they're liquids.
• 19:45
  I needed liquids so. Wow, so.
• 19:48
  We got that closing done. That was probably the craziest
• 19:50
  closing, yeah. A lot of money at stake,
• 19:53
  sometimes you gotta suffer through it 100%.
• 19:56
  And he did. You want them to hire you again?
• 19:57
  You've been some good ones. So take me through your career,
• 20:01
  your life, because I know that you started getting involved in
• 20:03
  a lot of organizations. You started one here that we're
• 20:05
  going to talk about, but how did that come about?
• 20:08
  You know, it's not so simple to start an organization.
• 20:10
  I could tell you from experience.
• 20:11
  So I think it really does start in Washington Heights and with
• 20:15
  the Yankee background. I think so.
• 20:16
  Like I was telling you, my grandfather was with Breuer.
• 20:19
  The amount of hesed that went on through Washington Heights,
• 20:23
  through the Breuer family, through my through my, the
• 20:27
  Kirchner family for my grandfather.
• 20:30
  I I'm Stefan can tell you. Do you remember the the Gemiles
• 20:34
  Kesed blood drives like that stuff?
• 20:36
  There was just always something. I think hesed was a big part of
• 20:39
  my family. My grandfather used to do it
• 20:41
  like the Brewers and it was just always in me and my parents
• 20:44
  always, always having guests are from the Yu program with the
• 20:48
  Iranian buckram coming every Friday night.
• 20:51
  I was raised on it and that's it is my passion.
• 20:53
  I love it. I always I say like, if only I
• 20:57
  like I didn't have to work. I would love to do my projects
• 21:00
  all day, all day. Hatsala, the 100 ride, Perry
• 21:05
  Hill, all these other the what I was talking about before with
• 21:08
  the weightlifting. There's so much that I've
• 21:10
  started involved with. No, no, I wish I could do it all
• 21:12
  day this. Happens once, so his phone.
• 21:14
  Even though I turned the drunk, Yeah.
• 21:16
  So never. Happened, by the way, for the.
• 21:18
  Record, we edit it out. We need to happen every, it
• 21:21
  happens every podcast. So it's so inappropriate.
• 21:24
  I think it's so inappropriate. You want to take it.
• 21:26
  He's literally talking about like so many test organizations.
• 21:29
  You're right. He's about to like lay it on
• 21:30
  thick and your phone rings. Hold on a second.
• 21:32
  My sheet, we went through that segment already.
• 21:33
  We're good. Thank you.
• 21:37
  No, so I think I just grew up with it and I love it and
• 21:41
  actually married my wife who's huge at it as well.
• 21:44
  She runs a fantastic with her friend.
• 21:47
  She runs a fantastic organization called Mindy's
• 21:49
  place and if you've ever heard of it, Mindy's, Mindy's Place,
• 21:52
  what is it? It's in my basement.
• 21:55
  It's a fantastic ladies second hand clothing store, which is a,
• 21:59
  a client has to, let's say be referred by their of or by an
• 22:03
  organization and then they get vetted out and, and then they
• 22:07
  come to the store. It's downstairs in our house,
• 22:09
  but it's a beautiful boutique store.
• 22:12
  It's and the clothing that they take there is only like top line
• 22:16
  secondhand clothing. And the people who come there
• 22:20
  purchase the items. They don't get it for free.
• 22:21
  They purchase it for $3.00 an item.
• 22:24
  And I'd say in the past 10-11 years, they've, they've given
• 22:29
  out and distributed over 10,000 for sure pieces of clothing for
• 22:33
  sure much more than that. And it's in memory of Mindy
• 22:35
  Cohn, who is my wife's great for a very, very close friend who
• 22:38
  was NIF Terrace around that time 1011 years ago.
• 22:41
  And this is a beautiful for her. So my wife does that.
• 22:45
  That's beautiful. It's just, it's, I don't know.
• 22:46
  We love it. We love it.
• 22:47
  It's the best thing in the world, you know?
• 22:50
  You know you really like you're start.
• 22:52
  You're crushing me. Undersold him.
• 22:54
  You're saying you're? Crushing me.
• 22:55
  You need to stop there. You you bring people on the
• 22:58
  podcast. This is like our 46th episode
• 23:01
  and we've met so many people and like you hear their stories and
• 23:04
  how they're talking. And I don't know you that well.
• 23:07
  And I'm just getting to know you a little bit and I'm hearing
• 23:09
  about your passion projects and I want to get into all of them.
• 23:12
  I want to learn what exactly what is that they do.
• 23:14
  But like this is what you're busy with.
• 23:15
  Like this is after this podcast, I'm gonna go back to my desk and
• 23:20
  then I'm gonna go back to my life, which is not what you're
• 23:23
  doing. But I you're making me feel bad
• 23:25
  about myself. I really am.
• 23:27
  I I'm serious and I say this all time.
• 23:28
  It's true, Michael. I say in the podcast all the
• 23:30
  time is that you there are so many incredible people in this
• 23:33
  world and in our community that are living next.
• 23:36
  So they're walking amongst us. They're just busy about other
• 23:38
  people. I gave a 10,000 dresses.
• 23:40
  I set up this program so people can't afford it and can still
• 23:43
  feel good about themselves. He's thinking about other
• 23:45
  people, his wife's thinking about other people.
• 23:47
  And it's just like, it's amazing.
• 23:48
  I feel honoured and inspired that I'm a part of this
• 23:51
  community. So one thing that I'm even that
• 23:53
  I'm, I can call myself a Jew and that there are like, I really am
• 23:58
  your honour just for letting me be a part of it.
• 24:00
  Grabbing onto. People, that was a compliment.
• 24:02
  I appreciate it. I wasn't sure where you were
• 24:03
  going with this. Was it a compliment for me like?
• 24:05
  Not for you. Oh.
• 24:06
  No, because I bring in guests that do good.
• 24:08
  Things for the guests there. And it's a compliment to us.
• 24:10
  Oh, OK. The the, the the the Jew is the
• 24:12
  glory. For the community.
• 24:13
  Of the Jews, yeah. Is just an amazing podcast for
• 24:16
  bringing it all out. Yeah.
• 24:16
  So we know that me come through all this.
• 24:19
  Crap, but I was I walk away sometimes feeling like what you
• 24:21
  know you were number. I need to do better.
• 24:24
  You were number one at the bowling league for the camp.
• 24:26
  Fund, right? That's my credentials.
• 24:27
  No, that's that was my credentials.
• 24:29
  You heard that. That's good that I won a bowling
• 24:30
  tournament a couple of times in a row and I'm proud of it and I
• 24:33
  have the trophy in my office to come prove it to you.
• 24:35
  But like, that's my claim to fame.
• 24:37
  Yeah, well, you know what, I think you have like 15 years on
• 24:39
  him, so you got a couple of years.
• 24:41
  To that's what I'm saying, tomorrow's another day.
• 24:42
  Good, good I can do. It by little little.
• 24:44
  But I digress. I digress.
• 24:45
  No, you're not the guy. One thing he said is so true.
• 24:47
  Like you don't realize who's involved in what.
• 24:51
  Like unbelievable. When you start speaking to
• 24:53
  people, there's so much of this that goes on.
• 24:55
  There's so many people, let's call them regular people who are
• 24:58
  doing huge things, huge things. There's a guy I know in my shoe
• 25:03
  like I I might, one of the passions is to give out to Phil
• 25:06
  and it's called Perry Hill. It's my name in front of and
• 25:09
  name, memory of my father. And he was very into Civitar
• 25:12
  Mazuza. I, I love getting filling,
• 25:15
  giving them out to people that need filling.
• 25:17
  There's a guy in my shoe nobody knows.
• 25:19
  He gave out over 400 pairs of filling on his own.
• 25:23
  And I only found out 'cause I had a question which came back
• 25:25
  to him. This guy's doing huge things.
• 25:27
  You don't know and. And they're rampant.
• 25:29
  They're all over the place. Like I was telling him I we live
• 25:32
  next to each other. I don't really know him.
• 25:33
  I don't think I've ever seen him before.
• 25:35
  And I'm just hearing about these incredible.
• 25:37
  I've seen the 100, right? I have seen that.
• 25:38
  Good. I'm glad that you've seen that.
• 25:39
  Obnoxious, by the way. Good.
• 25:42
  Obsessively, I've seen that it. Couldn't be enough.
• 25:44
  They've ruined my day once, no. Let's back up for a second.
• 25:47
  We're. Going to get there in a minute,
• 25:47
  but I'm just saying like I've seen and, and here he is.
• 25:50
  He's right. Like these are unknowns.
• 25:52
  These are not people that are touting everything that they're
• 25:53
  doing. They're not advertising it.
• 25:55
  But any Jewish community matter where in the world you are, no
• 25:58
  matter where in the world you are, there's going to be half,
• 26:00
  half the people that are giving, half the people that are taking.
• 26:03
  But it's, it's a, it's a mathematical equation that
• 26:06
  works. And that's what makes our, our
• 26:07
  nation so great. And I think secretly that's what
• 26:09
  people are jealous of us. They don't hate us.
• 26:10
  They're jealous, they hate us how jealous they are of us.
• 26:13
  I think that's what it comes down to because no one is left
• 26:15
  behind in the Jewish community what no one's left behind.
• 26:18
  Why? Do we do it because?
• 26:19
  Why do you do the? No.
• 26:20
  Why do we all do this? Yeah, yeah.
• 26:22
  We're very, we're part of a very small club.
• 26:24
  We have to stick together. We love each other.
• 26:27
  Everyone loves each other at the end of the day, you know?
• 26:30
  Stefan, sometimes we don't. Yeah, well, the.
• 26:33
  I see mighty dish up there. I the I wanted to hear a song.
• 26:37
  It's one of the secret sauces, I think also in general of being
• 26:39
  happy is giving. And it's, you know, something
• 26:42
  that just like, right when you're part of that in a world
• 26:45
  just we're happier people. In general, but we say it in
• 26:47
  Nishmas every day, that Shem created the world with Hasid, so
• 26:51
  that's why we thrive on it. Yeah.
• 26:53
  The more you tap into it, I think you're tapping into
• 26:55
  creation. So I have to tell you where you
• 26:56
  know when I'm driving on the road, whether it's in Muncie or,
• 27:01
  you know, anywhere else, not so much in Brooklyn, but and
• 27:04
  sometimes you ever space out while you're driving a little
• 27:06
  bit all the time, you know you. No, seriously, sometimes I
• 27:08
  wonder how did I get here? OK, I don't remember the path.
• 27:11
  Right. Also, especially when you're
• 27:13
  you. Never had that before.
• 27:13
  That's. My wife, she says.
• 27:14
  That's all I do. Right.
• 27:15
  So we've all been there. Especially when you're following
• 27:17
  ways or whatever. Yeah, it happens.
• 27:19
  So, you know, on the side of the road, you have those little
• 27:21
  bumps that wake you up sometimes, you know, like, oh,
• 27:23
  thank God, those those are there.
• 27:24
  Right. I have to tell you, those little
• 27:26
  bumps have saved my life probably 10 times already.
• 27:28
  Yeah. That's why they're there.
• 27:29
  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But you know what else is there
• 27:31
  on the side of the road? Bikers.
• 27:33
  I can't tell you how much they frustrate me and I, and it's not
• 27:36
  because I'm not a biker. And I know everyone's going to
• 27:38
  think that and I just have to tell you, it's so dangerous what
• 27:41
  you guys are doing and it's just, it bothers me and I just I
• 27:44
  want to bring it out because of course the husted part that
• 27:47
  you're doing from it we can talk about in a minute, but what
• 27:49
  about the dangers of? It and also I will add to that
• 27:52
  before you answer, they feel very and all of it.
• 27:54
  They feel very entitled as well. The bikers like they get upset
• 27:58
  if you as a car give me the road.
• 27:59
  You didn't go further around him and far enough and like they
• 28:02
  feel like I'm here just as much of A right as you.
• 28:05
  No, no, you're not. I'm driving a vehicle, an actual
• 28:08
  motor vehicle. I'm driving, you're riding a
• 28:09
  bike, you you should be at the sidewalk somewhere and the
• 28:12
  somewhere like they also feel very entitled, like they get
• 28:14
  upset at you if you don't respect them and their space on
• 28:18
  the. Road It's bad enough that the
• 28:19
  larger riders are wearing these spandex suits that are.
• 28:22
  So difficult to look at. Which, you know, that's that's a
• 28:24
  whole. You said there's other
• 28:26
  challenges. Please tell me what?
• 28:27
  Else no, it's it's actually worse than you say, you know
• 28:31
  what about the roads are wet? So you're told me just like
• 28:34
  you're on the side of a busy Rd., but then you've got wet
• 28:36
  roads and you've got potholes. Then you've got the our tires.
• 28:39
  We're not talking about mountain bikes here.
• 28:40
  We're talking about Rd. bikes. I'm not up to the feeling bad
• 28:43
  for the bikers themselves. It's even more dangerous.
• 28:45
  No, of course, now I know the how do you deal with the danger?
• 28:47
  So I'm saying I'm, I'm curious about the laws, you know, you're
• 28:49
  a. Lawyer.
• 28:50
  Yeah, there is law there. Are what is the law?
• 28:51
  I mean, if I'm going on a windy road and there's no room for a
• 28:54
  biker and I have to move to the other side of the lane,
• 28:56
  literally to oncoming traffic to protect this biker.
• 28:59
  Like if I've gone away a go Kart on the street, I'm sure a cop
• 29:02
  will pull me over. And let me tell you so.
• 29:04
  Unless like a bike they allow to like what's the what's the?
• 29:06
  What's the word? Unless it's a highway, or unless
• 29:10
  it's a highway like Palisades Pkwy Thruway, bikers are allowed
• 29:14
  to be on any on any public Rd. So However, you're not allowed
• 29:18
  to be two bikers wide. So when you see guys like
• 29:21
  schmoozing each other on a Sunday ride in front of
• 29:24
  Wellesley Kosher on Route 3 O 6, they're not supposed to be two
• 29:27
  bikers wide. And I've often been on rides
• 29:29
  where cops pull us over and give you tickets for being two people
• 29:31
  wide. You can only be 1.
• 29:33
  You might have seen these pelotons of bikers.
• 29:35
  They're all one person wide, so they are allowed to be on the
• 29:39
  road. You are.
• 29:40
  You do have to make room for them because they could be
• 29:42
  legally be there, but they're not allowed to be two people.
• 29:44
  Beyond the white line. They have to be Yeah, I don't
• 29:47
  know. They can't be on the actual.
• 29:48
  You sure they can't? They can't.
• 29:49
  They can't. They could be in middle your.
• 29:51
  Side of the. White So I have to drive behind
• 29:53
  him and go at his. Feet.
• 29:54
  Well, you have to just watch out for him, really.
• 29:57
  But you're not gonna. Legally, they can do that.
• 29:58
  But not on highways. Or I understand I forget about
• 30:01
  highways which. Sometimes happens and I've had
• 30:02
  it on the 100 ride. Hey babe.
• 30:04
  One time when a guy ended up in the Palisades.
• 30:06
  And what happened? We lost him, we lost him.
• 30:10
  What did he ended up? We were in.
• 30:11
  Harriman Park, and we're looking for this guy.
• 30:13
  He was a Brooklyn rider actually.
• 30:15
  And where is he? Thank God we got a phone call
• 30:19
  from him. He's at like exit 13 on because,
• 30:21
  you know, at the bottom of of Harriman Park.
• 30:23
  Is that entrance on? Yes.
• 30:24
  You automatically end up he. Was on the palisade.
• 30:26
  OK, it makes sense now. Thank God he stops there.
• 30:29
  You can't be. Right, but it is.
• 30:32
  No. Though as far as the law is
• 30:34
  concerned. Did he not realize that he's the
• 30:35
  only person, like, on the road, like, you didn't notice?
• 30:38
  No. Because it is a sense of
• 30:39
  entitlement. Yeah, exactly.
• 30:41
  And some guys love being by themselves.
• 30:42
  Like wait, I'm ahead of everyone.
• 30:44
  I don't know. So the dangers are definitely
• 30:46
  there, yeah. They're worse than your neighbor
• 30:48
  by the. Way, which happens to be your
• 30:50
  rabbi, right Center. He had an accident too.
• 30:52
  He did right so so my other neighbor did as well.
• 30:55
  Right. And these these can get.
• 30:56
  Two neighbors and he, she, she had a worse one than he did.
• 31:00
  She was riding in Hammond Park. That's more dangerous riding a
• 31:02
  motorcycle or a bicycle. Gotta be a bike I would have.
• 31:06
  To say bicycles, motorcycle. Motorcycle, the speeds are
• 31:09
  because of the speeds. Right, right.
• 31:11
  Yeah, but they're both pretty dangerous.
• 31:13
  But but this, this, this neighbor of mine on the other
• 31:16
  side of every center, she hit a deer going down in Hammond Park.
• 31:20
  With her bike A. Deer.
• 31:21
  Not a squirrel, a deer. Wow.
• 31:23
  And she got hurt and there are accidents and you have to be
• 31:26
  very, very careful. And that's why I represent her,
• 31:28
  who's a big part of our ride. The whole Huff Cay is very much
• 31:31
  into promoting helmets, even for little kids riding little bikes.
• 31:34
  It's their thing. Helmets is their thing.
• 31:36
  OK. Yeah.
• 31:36
  All right. So that's a nice.
• 31:37
  So there are precautions that we take, but we pray to God and you
• 31:41
  know, I was going to tell you this hundred ride has nice them
• 31:43
  all the time, and that's our biggest nace, Billy Einhart.
• 31:47
  What is this 100 ride for What? What is the cause about?
• 31:50
  How did this come about? Why did you start?
• 31:52
  So you meant Rabbi Center. It really started with Rabbi
• 31:54
  Center. You've heard of bike for Kai.
• 31:56
  So when you know, when guys sort of fall out of the age of the
• 32:01
  softball every Sunday and you, you sort of mature into the age
• 32:06
  of bikes, It's the way it is like when guys start to turn 30
• 32:09
  ish, that's the right time for bikes because you're no longer
• 32:11
  running to 1st so fast. But on a bike, you can still get
• 32:14
  great exercise and not too dangerous other than being hit
• 32:17
  by a car, you're not going to pull anything.
• 32:19
  So that's we all started getting into biking in our in our
• 32:22
  neighborhood and was the hills and we had like 10 guys doing,
• 32:25
  let's say bike for high and you have to raise a lot of money for
• 32:28
  bike for high. So Ravi center was like saying
• 32:31
  to me was on a Shabbos. It must have been in May 11
• 32:35
  years ago. He said, Ori, it's beautiful you
• 32:37
  guys are doing, but you know, we have an IAM in Muncie.
• 32:42
  He says it like almost hurts me that we're sending between just
• 32:45
  our shul, hundreds of thousands of dollars out of our community
• 32:49
  for a great cause. But we have our own an IAM that
• 32:52
  we're dealing with here. I want you to make a ride.
• 32:54
  He didn't know anything about it.
• 32:55
  So I want you to make a bike ride 100% for our community.
• 32:58
  Beautiful. Love that.
• 33:00
  For Rockland, for. Love you Ruby Center.
• 33:01
  That was Ruby Center's idea, and we were ready in May.
• 33:04
  I was like, Oh my gosh, I don't have that much time.
• 33:06
  But six weeks later we had our first ride, and that was 2014.
• 33:11
  How many people were on the 1st? Ride, first ride had I think
• 33:13
  3939 riders, but we already had jerseys and we had SAG support
• 33:18
  and we had some police escorts and we started in Yeshiva Spring
• 33:22
  Valley. I think we ended in Yeshiva
• 33:23
  Spring Valley. We had a nice loop and we called
• 33:26
  it the Hundred Ride because not that it was 100 miles or 100
• 33:30
  kilometers, which it's not. It's a choice of 3050 or 80
• 33:33
  miles you can choose. It's called the 100 ride because
• 33:35
  100% of the money we raised, 100% of the money that the
• 33:38
  rioters raised goes to the Sedakis.
• 33:41
  No overhead local, no salaries to Sedakis.
• 33:44
  We collect every penny we make goes to Kupas Ezra 50%, Tom
• 33:48
  Prashavas 50%. That's it between between Koopa
• 33:52
  says and Tom for Chavez, you've got Muncie come.
• 33:54
  Shout out to Robbie Rosenstock and Robbie Mashinsky.
• 33:57
  Absolutely run these organizations.
• 33:58
  Phenomenal, beautiful idea. So everything we do is for them.
• 34:02
  Everything we do is. For them, how much do you raise?
• 34:04
  So our first year we didn't raise much.
• 34:07
  We started like 80,000 then it went to 100,000 and last year
• 34:12
  was ready over half $1,000,000 a year.
• 34:14
  Wow, that's a lot. By the way, how many?
• 34:15
  Riders How many? About 11 years.
• 34:17
  We're so proud. That's like, how's the Hashem?
• 34:20
  We get millions of dollars. Half. $1,000,000 How many
• 34:22
  people? How many riders?
• 34:23
  We typically have between 100 and 130 riders.
• 34:26
  This year. Investments.
• 34:27
  Hashem will have more, I hope, for some of the new things that
• 34:31
  we have. What's the barrier of entry?
• 34:33
  Mail, mail, I see, although there's a big push for a ladies,
• 34:39
  right? OK, big push for.
• 34:41
  Understanding why not? Why not?
• 34:42
  Why shouldn't? So I looked into it for this
• 34:44
  year. Honestly, in all honesty,
• 34:46
  there's just not enough from lady riders in Muncie.
• 34:50
  How do you know? Let's.
• 34:51
  Prove them wrong guys. My wife.
• 34:52
  Is put the word out there maybe? She knows the.
• 34:54
  I want to say the main reason is because unfortunately, the
• 34:57
  reality is that the men raise more funds.
• 34:59
  All right, Think about all these organizations.
• 35:00
  How many events have done for women versus men?
• 35:02
  You know they started now, Muncie.
• 35:04
  Well, recently. What we are doing is we're we're
• 35:06
  making a kids right. We're extending the 100 ride to
• 35:09
  a kids ride as well, which is going to the kids raise the best
• 35:13
  money. That's a nice yes.
• 35:13
  That's and there's so many Kalayahara in there and we're
• 35:16
  going to do a smaller. Ride I can't wait to get a phone
• 35:17
  call from your kid and you know. Boys and girls.
• 35:20
  Another yeshiva, another ride. Why not kids, boys and girls?
• 35:23
  I was just saying, why not in months?
• 35:24
  We started recently. I know Stefan, you know about
• 35:26
  this. You're a fan of it.
• 35:27
  I'm a fan of it. I think it's great.
• 35:29
  I think in a lot of ways it's a little bit lame also, but
• 35:32
  there's certainly something about it where they're doing
• 35:34
  sports, organized sports for girls, they're making football
• 35:38
  leagues. Our neighbors.
• 35:39
  They're making basketball leagues for girls like it's
• 35:41
  always been geared and oriented around the boys, making sure the
• 35:44
  boys have a. We have a Football League in our
• 35:46
  neighborhood. Yeah, my daughter is on it,
• 35:47
  Yeah. She loved it.
• 35:49
  We gotta be more inclusive that way, you know?
• 35:51
  Definitely. So, yeah, so that's the hundred,
• 35:54
  right. And this year's our 11th year,
• 35:56
  last year was our tenth. It was a big year for us and
• 35:58
  this year will be emeritus and bigger.
• 36:00
  And you run this, this organization?
• 36:02
  So Rabbi Center gave us the idea and I, I, I ran with it with my
• 36:07
  wife Tippy and Maishi Goldblatt. We, we have a very small core of
• 36:12
  people that we have a lot of help.
• 36:14
  Everyone's volunteer, nobody's salary, nobody takes a a dollar
• 36:17
  between Maishi Goldblatt, myself, my daughter-in-law and
• 36:20
  Nikki Kirchner, center and Sippy that we're basically the core of
• 36:25
  it. Then we have volunteers which
• 36:27
  help us. This year we really wanted to
• 36:30
  expand and get into so many communities in Rockland that
• 36:33
  I've never touched. You know, with the growth now of
• 36:35
  of Fields and Havestor and Airmont, there's so many places
• 36:39
  we've never been there that's. A.
• 36:41
  Great idea. So I called Morty Becker and I
• 36:43
  had Levy Osinski and they are. Smart.
• 36:45
  Very smart. They're.
• 36:46
  Helping us out there June 29th. OK.
• 36:49
  Just once a year. Once a year, one day a year,
• 36:51
  and. If you we live in Rockland,
• 36:52
  it's. Always this Sunday.
• 36:54
  So I got to be out of we have June 29th.
• 36:57
  Yeah, don't go near this year. We're starting in.
• 36:59
  Is it a Sunday? It's a Sunday.
• 37:01
  The one day that I have to literally be in local roads,
• 37:03
  console back and forth, all of us are going about, you know,
• 37:06
  carpooling and this and we're gonna have to deal with the do
• 37:09
  you worry of riders. Up with or anything.
• 37:11
  Like that it's it's www.thehundredride.org.
• 37:15
  It's the number 101 00the100right.org.
• 37:19
  OK, cool. Yeah, well, I'm sure Stefan will
• 37:21
  include. So that's the hundred, right?
• 37:23
  It was Representer's brainchild. Beautiful.
• 37:25
  Very, very nice. Is there like a winner?
• 38:03
  Like who comes in first? Was the you have that.
• 38:05
  No, no. But it's it's usually the same
• 38:08
  person who comes last every year.
• 38:10
  I have to say, of course it is. If you had winners, maybe she
• 38:13
  was. He's walking his bike towards
• 38:14
  the end. No, he.
• 38:15
  He's an incredible person. I'll give him a shout out
• 38:18
  because he loves it, isn't it? He's calls himself the Bris
• 38:20
  Rabbi. His name is Ravi Sepolitz.
• 38:22
  He's at Sadik. He raises money in Fountain View
• 38:25
  and all these places for the 100 ride constantly.
• 38:27
  He's at Sadik. He's also a mole and he's very,
• 38:30
  very passionate about the 100 ride and he's always on all of
• 38:34
  our jerseys. You'll see the Bris rabbit.
• 38:35
  I was hoping he's bris rabbit because he's a mole enough,
• 38:37
  yeah. So he does not give up, even if
• 38:40
  it's 1000°. He will finish the ride without
• 38:43
  being supported and he usually comes in.
• 38:45
  You've done bike for high though, right?
• 38:47
  Yeah, many still do it. I, I, no, I did bike for high
• 38:50
  many years and I still do TNR, which is another ride.
• 38:53
  We do a lot of rides. Beautiful.
• 38:55
  You're you're a big biker, you're biking a lot.
• 38:57
  How how many miles is bike for high?
• 39:00
  So bike ride is 2 days. OK, so that.
• 39:03
  Right. Yeah, the first day is like 75.
• 39:05
  It's like 175. And they have like 700 riders or
• 39:09
  something, right? So you're pretty good, by the
• 39:10
  way, for a local community bike gang.
• 39:13
  And I think the potential is so much bigger.
• 39:15
  I think all these communities which we haven't gotten to yet,
• 39:17
  it could be very big. And everyone has.
• 39:21
  Stopped and then the kids ride is going to be huge too yeah
• 39:23
  yeah I. Like that actually about the
• 39:25
  kids ride. It exists in Lakewood, They've
• 39:28
  done one in Lakewood, which is really nice.
• 39:30
  So we're gonna try that this year in Mr. Shem.
• 39:33
  Nice. Wow.
• 39:35
  Yeah, so I. Have to tell you that growing up
• 39:37
  in Brooklyn, biking was everything to me, right?
• 39:39
  So we lived on a bike. We rode from one town.
• 39:42
  Did you grow up on a bike? Michael, I have like 2 more
• 39:45
  minutes left enemy to talk about bikes.
• 39:47
  And then I'm just curious. And then I'm, I'm maxing out.
• 39:50
  I'm just saying. Like I could cut it out now.
• 39:52
  I was just curious about you riding a bike as a kid, no?
• 39:54
  Yeah, I rode a bike as a kid. Yeah, but you know.
• 39:56
  Rode bikes? That's not your mode of
• 39:57
  transportation. But as adults riding bikes, you
• 40:00
  know, I don't, I don't play with Legos anymore, you know, and I
• 40:03
  get it. But you do it recreationally for
• 40:05
  exercise or you're doing it for a cause.
• 40:07
  Never mind, go ahead. But what I was talking about at
• 40:09
  the beginning, when I was saying obnoxiously and incessant, I was
• 40:12
  talking with the people. That does their whole life is
• 40:15
  bikes like bike, bike, bike, bike.
• 40:17
  It's coming out of my ears or nose, right?
• 40:18
  It's just that's too much, correct?
• 40:20
  It's too much. There's a lot of any.
• 40:21
  Too much of anything is is annoying.
• 40:23
  I think, actually I think that works that way in anything when
• 40:25
  it comes to health for some reason, you know, like when
• 40:27
  someone's, you know, the old. Thing no, but it's a fake
• 40:29
  exercise it's not even real exercise you're not really
• 40:32
  getting the blood, you know, flowing and.
• 40:34
  What are you saying it's a? Real.
• 40:36
  You're not lifting weights, you're not doing real cardio.
• 40:39
  It's the easiest cardio to do is to is to ride a bike.
• 40:41
  Yeah, try going up a hill in Rockland County, see what
• 40:44
  happens. Yeah, we got some material
• 40:45
  sales. Very, very difficult, Very
• 40:46
  challenging. I don't know but you.
• 40:48
  You know, I must have traumatized a little bit because
• 40:49
  I was growing up. I.
• 40:50
  Oh, now we. Want to talk about I didn't have
• 40:52
  a bike? There we go.
• 40:54
  No wonder why you changed the. I'll be honest, I'll be I'll
• 40:56
  tell you a story. Actually, we're going to get you
• 40:57
  a. Bike I might make you.
• 40:58
  Quite a little bit I was making. I was, I was about, I don't
• 41:02
  know, 11 years old, something I was before bar mitzvah for sure.
• 41:04
  So 1112 some that range. And I didn't go to summer camp.
• 41:08
  I didn't go to summer camp. My parents couldn't afford to
• 41:10
  send me, so I used to just stay at home and keep myself busy and
• 41:14
  find things to do. My neighbor who just got a bike,
• 41:17
  a brand new bike, and he was going to sleep away camp.
• 41:21
  So I thought, oh, you're a sleep away camp, like I'm going to be
• 41:23
  home, any chance I can use your bike while you're going away?
• 41:27
  He said. Schwartz said don't just ask my
• 41:29
  father, you know. Anyway, he said, OK, come pick
• 41:32
  up the bike. So this is the day he's leaving
• 41:35
  the camp. I, I'm, he lives on my block.
• 41:39
  I'm walking to his house. I'm all excited.
• 41:41
  I'm going to get a bike. And it was a driveway up.
• 41:44
  It was an uphill driveway. And I remember walking up the
• 41:47
  driveway and I, I go into his garage and I take the bike out
• 41:50
  and I'm starting to walk it down.
• 41:51
  And my friend's father walks out of the house and he sees me
• 41:55
  taking his bike and he tells his son, his sons, I don't want to
• 41:58
  say something and the people might know who it is.
• 41:59
  He tells me, what's your friend doing?
• 42:02
  What's what she doing? So I'm giving him my bike for
• 42:04
  the for the summer and if he breaks it, who's going to pay
• 42:08
  for it? Do me a favor, put the bike back
• 42:11
  in the in the garage. Is what he's scarred.
• 42:13
  And I had to, I had to pick the car, the the bike back into the
• 42:16
  garage. And I walked home dejected.
• 42:19
  I was bawling. I was crying.
• 42:21
  And you know what? My father bought me a bike that
• 42:24
  summer. I don't know where he got the
• 42:25
  money. I don't know how he did it, but
• 42:27
  he saw what, you know, what it meant to me.
• 42:29
  And he felt very sorry for me. He felt very.
• 42:31
  So he probably stole the money, but that's OK.
• 42:33
  He did. He did what any good father
• 42:35
  would do. He went out and he made it
• 42:37
  happen. He made it happen.
• 42:38
  But that's by the way, I'm not really so scarred from this.
• 42:40
  That's why I hate bikes for many other reasons.
• 42:43
  I'll tell you that's one of them.
• 42:44
  I'll tell you that it's not about the bike and I could get
• 42:47
  you being bored by the bikes. Some guys speak about biking
• 42:49
  like any other sport, incestly. It's about the that's Sedaka and
• 42:55
  about the what it is. I'm telling you that this ride
• 42:58
  has Nissan. I've personally experienced
• 43:00
  Nissan with this every year. It's a tremendous amount of work
• 43:03
  and it's it's it's back breaking and I never have the time for
• 43:08
  it. But every year you experience
• 43:10
  Nissan with this ride. And I mean for example.
• 43:14
  We see it, first of all, almost every year.
• 43:17
  It's supposed to be terrible rain on the day of the ride, and
• 43:20
  it's not something you want rain for the day of the ride.
• 43:22
  First of all, it's dangerous. No one comes to the BBQ which
• 43:24
  is. That's your nemesis, the rain.
• 43:25
  Exactly. And if it rains, I'm not doing,
• 43:28
  I don't want to do a rain day. It's just it's bad.
• 43:31
  Almost every year we get rain and in 11 years, only once has
• 43:36
  it rained that we couldn't do the ride.
• 43:38
  And this, this rabbi supplements.
• 43:40
  It was like our first and second year, like the second he crossed
• 43:43
  the finish line, it started to pour.
• 43:44
  It was like, and it was like, Oh my gosh, Hashem loves the 100
• 43:47
  ride. And then one year, so every year
• 43:51
  was supposed to we never get the rain.
• 43:52
  But one year, maybe 2-3 years ago, we was predicted to have a
• 43:58
  hurricane on the day of the ride like a serious monsoon
• 44:02
  hurricane. So the night before we're
• 44:05
  sitting there huddling together. Yosef Zup makes a big part of
• 44:08
  the right. He does He runs all the medical
• 44:09
  for us. He's fantastic of his center.
• 44:11
  We're all sitting there. We even had meteorologists on
• 44:14
  the phone with us from bike bike for high referred me to but the
• 44:19
  night before the riot and determining it's going to be
• 44:21
  bad. So I Vicente said the psychosis
• 44:24
  we're cancelling the right. It's never happened.
• 44:26
  You're cancelling postponed. We postponed it till the end of
• 44:29
  August. We made double the money that
• 44:33
  year. Double we.
• 44:34
  Had more time. Because we had another month to
• 44:36
  do it, we made two more parties, a lot more people started
• 44:39
  finding out about it, and the tadaka doubled that year.
• 44:43
  So Hashem loves the 100 ride. Hashem loves you.
• 44:47
  He loves you and everything that you're doing, what you stand
• 44:49
  for. And obviously He's assisting you
• 44:52
  and He's, you know, he's being an accomplice to everything that
• 44:55
  you're accomplishing, you see, but he loves you.
• 44:57
  It's about other organizations. So you do 100 ride.
• 45:00
  What else do you do? I'm on the board of Atzala, but
• 45:02
  Atzala doesn't need any. Yeah.
• 45:04
  What does that board? Don't know about solid do
• 45:05
  exactly. We'll know what Atzala does.
• 45:07
  Who runs that solid out? Here so has she Wuensweig is on
• 45:11
  runs it now you 2 on the months yet so yeah since I since I
• 45:14
  joined Rockland solid also split.
• 45:16
  Are you a solar member? No.
• 45:17
  No. How many atzalas?
• 45:19
  Are those guys are awesome? I can't do that.
• 45:20
  I just not in crazy. Every school has 2-3 members in
• 45:23
  Muncie. Yeah, every school's got those
• 45:25
  two. Those are special and.
• 45:26
  They're very special people. I think my wife could be 1, but
• 45:29
  I'm not and cobot Washington Heights.
• 45:30
  You know, we had lady, had solid members.
• 45:32
  Really, we had ladies in that solid well before there was even
• 45:35
  thought of. Shout out to my mother.
• 45:36
  Was she? Yep.
• 45:37
  Your mother was a solid member. Her and Ruthie Katzenstein and a
• 45:40
  couple. Of other women here, we had lady
• 45:43
  because all the Yakish guys are always working.
• 45:46
  You know, there was no Yakish guys sitting at home or in
• 45:48
  yeshiva. So we had no one in Washington
• 45:50
  Heights for calls. So we had ladies on calls.
• 45:53
  Say that again, the men didn't want to go to Kohl's because
• 45:55
  they were too big. They weren't there.
• 45:56
  They were out of work. They were in the city, local.
• 45:58
  No one was in Washington Heights.
• 46:00
  They were all working. I thought you were saying like
• 46:01
  they're, they're so rigid. The Yankees, even when I saw the
• 46:04
  call was gone. We're giving.
• 46:05
  I have a schedule I have to follow.
• 46:06
  Not rigid that we had ladies. Fit that in from 4:30 to 4:45,
• 46:10
  I'll take the call. It's.
• 46:11
  A great point, Dory, by the way. But because they're that they're
• 46:13
  not rigid that they had. Yeah, Meaning there are, I think
• 46:15
  there are Ozala's somewhere around the world that are just
• 46:18
  women. Now.
• 46:19
  Well, they started it right. They have it now.
• 46:21
  Wasn't a lot of politics in Brooklyn about this?
• 46:22
  There's a lot of politics about Ozala, every There's a lot.
• 46:26
  We're going to soon get the CEO of Ozala in our program.
• 46:28
  Does that take up a lot of your time being a board member of
• 46:30
  Ozala? No, no.
• 46:32
  Do you know you feel Kalish? No with.
• 46:34
  Them. Isn't he the CEO of Hatzalah?
• 46:36
  He is, but it's Hatzalah is in segments, so if he's on the
• 46:39
  board of just Rockland County, he would not know of the.
• 46:41
  It's crazy to me that it's still not all under one umbrella,
• 46:45
  right? And like it's not all branches
• 46:47
  under 1 corporate entity. It's crazy that's all
• 46:49
  independent and all operates individually.
• 46:52
  It almost doesn't make sense to me.
• 46:53
  I think those are all so huge I don't know they.
• 46:55
  There is an app that came out recently that allows you to call
• 46:59
  into Hatzalah anywhere you are in the world and it's cool.
• 47:03
  Those might be because so much of what Atsala does in each
• 47:06
  community is controlled, not controlled under the auspices of
• 47:10
  the rebuttum. And I think how do you have
• 47:13
  universal rebuttum, right? You have rebuttum who are master
• 47:17
  on that hatsal and this that's all.
• 47:18
  And we work within our hatsal, our our rabbinical board, and I
• 47:23
  think all of them you. Can't have universal.
• 47:25
  That one of my people. Like to support Israel or not
• 47:26
  I'm. Saying I understand, but there's
• 47:28
  also drawback to it. They're missing out on a lot of
• 47:30
  that volume that they can leverage all together.
• 47:32
  A shout out to Ellie Roe. Ellie's incredible with that's
• 47:35
  all the air. What they do is I I spoke we had
• 47:37
  some things over Pesach. He was amazing.
• 47:39
  What? He's an amazing guy.
• 47:40
  There was some people that needed help on Pesach and I
• 47:44
  called him out of just just desperation.
• 47:46
  He was incredible. He was offering.
• 47:48
  He got sprinters and yeah, he's like, I didn't think sourceful.
• 47:53
  I didn't think I was gonna reach him.
• 47:54
  Like, why would I even reach him?
• 47:55
  Yeah. And picked up the phone.
• 47:56
  He's. Accessible.
• 47:57
  He helped us. Yeah, he's also another.
• 47:59
  Wonderful person. If people are crazy, they do
• 48:01
  beautiful. Fasted and also like such
• 48:03
  outrageous, outlandish things that we do for others, like
• 48:07
  thinking about what he's doing. He's flying people on private
• 48:10
  jets for medical reasons, like on a whims notice.
• 48:13
  He's got helicopters, he's got Humvees, He's got like all kinds
• 48:17
  of gadgets and equipment, expensive stuff.
• 48:19
  Expensive, expensive. And the fact that somebody even
• 48:21
  thought about it to say I want to do this.
• 48:23
  Were you involved? Were you in a in a cemetery here
• 48:25
  in Muncie? Oh gosh, where'd you get that
• 48:27
  from? Is that a?
• 48:27
  Thing, I think a little birdie told.
• 48:29
  Me, I was there was a there's the what's it called?
• 48:32
  A harsh Shalom. What a new cemetery.
• 48:36
  We're trying to find out all the little things that you're
• 48:38
  involved in. That's comes from my legal work.
• 48:41
  I represented the buyers of that cemetery, the land, which for me
• 48:45
  was the first talk about, like doing things that you don't know
• 48:47
  anything about and yeah, getting it wrong so that I'd.
• 48:50
  I had never represented people buying a cemetery before.
• 48:53
  I learned a lot of new things about cemetery.
• 48:54
  I actually just met a guy in the Rockland County that's his Him
• 48:57
  and his family all owned cemeteries.
• 48:59
  It's an immediate get him on the program.
• 49:00
  Fascinating. I imagine there's not great
• 49:02
  tenants. So I imagine it's, I think it's
• 49:05
  a great. Business.
• 49:06
  It's a dying business, yeah. I wish I had like a butt of
• 49:10
  chicken. But yeah, I had to learn on the
• 49:13
  fly on that one how to how to buy, buy.
• 49:17
  It wasn't a cemetery yet. They it was just a big land
• 49:20
  purchase. They wanted to use the cemetery.
• 49:22
  So you. They knew in advance they're
• 49:23
  buying the property to turn into a correct right.
• 49:25
  So how do you, how do you can you do that anywhere?
• 49:27
  Like can you just get land anywhere?
• 49:29
  And just turn it into a cemetery.
• 49:30
  You would think so. I imagine not.
• 49:31
  You can't, right? New York zone in New York.
• 49:34
  There's two laws in New York which I found out about 1 is it
• 49:36
  has to be minimum of 10 acres and the second is it needs to be
• 49:40
  attached to an existing cemetery already.
• 49:43
  You can't just like take over Palisades Mall.
• 49:46
  Well, you probably could take Palisades Mall because there's a
• 49:48
  little cemetery there, but you can't just take any huge 10 acre
• 49:51
  thing and turn it into a cemetery.
• 49:53
  It has to be. Add to another.
• 49:54
  Resistance every. So they found this this the some
• 49:57
  Christian cemetery behind it and unfortunately.
• 50:00
  I feel like eventually you run out of options eventually.
• 50:03
  So that's why they did this but. You're going to have to start
• 50:05
  something like how many attachments to a.
• 50:08
  Cemetery sheet are there because I need to draw up I need to draw
• 50:10
  up contracts and stuff for this and I'm like trying to find
• 50:13
  attorneys who've worked in this how many people have done
• 50:15
  cemeteries there's there's not that many cemeteries new
• 50:17
  cemeteries that come up in New York.
• 50:20
  So I did a lot of research trying to find the proper
• 50:22
  documents and. Is it a lucrative business like
• 50:25
  IS you? Think about it.
• 50:27
  I imagine it's a little supply and high demand.
• 50:29
  Not just that, but think about the little amount of space that
• 50:32
  people are paying such a big amount of money for.
• 50:34
  And I found out which I found that through unfortunate
• 50:37
  circumstances. There's different prices for
• 50:40
  different people and for how fast you need it.
• 50:43
  Like God forbid if something happens tragically, you know,
• 50:46
  one minute to the next and you need something.
• 50:48
  There was no plan. They didn't know that this
• 50:50
  individual was going to die and they want a good spot or they
• 50:53
  want they charge you more money because.
• 50:55
  Emergency rate, yes, I never heard of.
• 50:57
  That yes, yes, I'm sorry to say it, but it's very political
• 51:01
  also. We'll find out.
• 51:01
  I'm going to bring that guy. There's a lot of politics
• 51:03
  involved also if you want to get buried in a certain like.
• 51:06
  Area. Especially if you want to get
• 51:08
  buried in a certain type of. You're allowed to.
• 51:10
  It's crazy. And these people, like they take
• 51:13
  the trading price based on how much they think they can get
• 51:14
  from you. It's almost like a used car
• 51:16
  salesman. They're judging on the spot how
• 51:18
  much they think they can get. Wow, yeah, I never saw.
• 51:20
  That and it's and it's. It's not like uncommon practice.
• 51:23
  Supposedly, that this is I'm. Gonna get someone.
• 51:25
  In this is the world of how it works in cemeteries.
• 51:28
  I can answer those questions. Now if you prepaid, if you
• 51:30
  prepaid. For it I could refer someone
• 51:31
  that. Owns cemeteries.
• 51:33
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Someone in the community in
• 51:34
  Rockland? I actually, it's not even the
• 51:36
  first now that I'm thinking about it.
• 51:37
  I also represented someone who bought a cemetery narrity strol
• 51:41
  so so I can refer you to a few cemetery people if you're really
• 51:45
  interested. Most people haven't asked.
• 51:47
  We're dying. We're dying to we're.
• 51:48
  Dying to know all. Right, all right, all right.
• 51:50
  Most on the cover that's a different thing.
• 51:52
  So that's amazing. You to cover Khadija work is of
• 51:55
  course amazing. Yeah, we should get someone with
• 51:56
  cover. Khadija.
• 51:57
  Yeah, Michael, on the. Board now the person who I'm
• 51:58
  thinking of, his father was in cover Khadija and then his
• 52:02
  brother is in a funeral homes. Apparently there's a law in New
• 52:05
  York that you're not allowed to own a cemetery and a Funeral
• 52:07
  Home. Really interesting.
• 52:10
  Yeah, don't. Doesn't the cemetery have if?
• 52:12
  You, like I said, we'll get someone on the program.
• 52:14
  I'll learn a little. I'm on I'm on the Kevra Khadija
• 52:16
  of Brewers really. And I can tell you honestly,
• 52:19
  there's nothing that you will have done in your life that
• 52:23
  makes you feel the Hassid when you do a a Tyra.
• 52:28
  The first Tyra that I did was actually in Tannersville.
• 52:32
  Crazy story. My father was on the Havre
• 52:35
  Kadish. She asked how these things
• 52:36
  happens because people's parents do it.
• 52:37
  So my father was on the Havre Kadisha in Brewers and we were
• 52:41
  in Tannersville for the summer and turns out there's a Jewish
• 52:44
  guy not from a Jewish guy who dropped dead on the golf course
• 52:48
  in Tannersville and and his family wanted a Jewish fur.
• 52:53
  So my father came to the house. He goes, hurry, I need you.
• 52:56
  I go, why? He goes, we're doing a tire.
• 52:58
  I go what? I've never done a tire.
• 53:00
  I don't know what I'm doing. For those that are listening, I
• 53:02
  don't know what to hire is. It's a purification process that
• 53:05
  we do for people that die before we bury them.
• 53:07
  It's very intense, very laborious.
• 53:09
  They really thoroughly clean the body.
• 53:12
  Yeah, really. Thorough is like an
• 53:13
  understatement of how you have to clean the body.
• 53:15
  So my father just took me to this Tyra in a garish Funeral
• 53:20
  Home in Tannersville and it was very hard.
• 53:26
  I don't know how many details I you guys want me to get on a
• 53:29
  podcast. No, no, I don't know if I want
• 53:31
  to. Hear the yeah, right.
• 53:31
  You want to hear I want to hear he's right.
• 53:33
  You can always edit, right. Go ahead.
• 53:35
  There's there's the bodies need the they need covered during a
• 53:41
  Tara and respect. And this wasn't a from person.
• 53:45
  This was a person who was Jewish but not affiliated at all.
• 53:49
  And like before the body even came to us, he had his eyes had
• 53:52
  already been donated to science. He had that on his card.
• 53:56
  So when we received this, this, this body, it already was in a
• 54:02
  very, very difficult state to do a Tyra on.
• 54:05
  That was my first Tyra. But afterwards I, I remember
• 54:08
  saying to my wife, I was saying, I have never felt so holy as I
• 54:13
  did after that Tyra. Because who's thanking you?
• 54:16
  Nobody's thanking you. Ultimate kindness.
• 54:18
  It was amazing. And then I joined right after
• 54:21
  that I joined and Berksham, I don't do that many.
• 54:25
  Wow, what's it, what's what's coming out of you know, your
• 54:29
  world in terms of other. But there are things coming like
• 54:33
  the the the Perry feel is coming, which is which is that
• 54:38
  that's filling in memory of my father.
• 54:41
  Like I said, my father was very into who's nifter.
• 54:43
  Which is what you'll buy a pair for anybody that.
• 54:45
  Wants No. It's a much better idea.
• 54:47
  It's a much better idea, Perry Feel is when, if someone
• 54:52
  experiences, I hope you guys have never experienced this, but
• 54:55
  if your father is nifter, right? So my father was nifter and I, I
• 54:59
  got his feeling right. But not only did I get his
• 55:01
  feeling, I got his father's feeling because my father never
• 55:05
  threw away his father's feeling. So when my father was nifter,
• 55:08
  Stefan remembers him. I got 3 pairs of filling.
• 55:12
  What are you doing with those filling?
• 55:14
  You're not giving them to your son for his bar mitzvah because
• 55:15
  everyone gets their son a beautiful new pair for the bar
• 55:17
  mitzvah. I'm not wearing them because I
• 55:18
  already have mine. So everyone just puts these
• 55:20
  pairs of filling into the basement and they get, they just
• 55:23
  gathered us. I'm telling you, most people you
• 55:25
  know will have a few pairs of filling somewhere in their
• 55:27
  closet or in the basement. You probably do.
• 55:29
  And they're not being used. So Perry Hill asks people to
• 55:33
  send us your filling and I will take these filling.
• 55:37
  I get them checked, we bring them to a cipher.
• 55:40
  He checks them, he's biting them.
• 55:41
  Sometimes they're usable, sometimes they're not.
• 55:43
  We rate them. We we fix them.
• 55:46
  We rate them. We put them in a beautiful new
• 55:48
  bag and we give them to organizations in Eric TSRL,
• 55:53
  organizations in America where they need filling.
• 55:56
  There's an endless demand. Barksham in Eric TSRL right now,
• 55:59
  but filling. And the beautiful thing is that
• 56:01
  if someone donated those film to me, we take them and we put them
• 56:05
  in a beautiful bag with the that person's name and his yard site
• 56:09
  on it. So when this boy and Eric
• 56:10
  Tesraul is putting on filling, he sees this person's name every
• 56:13
  time he puts it on. Really nice.
• 56:15
  But that's one of the things we're kicking off.
• 56:16
  It's been going on for a little while, but we're.
• 56:18
  Trying. You want to like totally degrade
• 56:20
  me. You want to totally strip me the
• 56:21
  little dignity that I have left? No, I just I No, that's not.
• 56:24
  I can do this full. Time, Michael, people are like
• 56:28
  getting creative also in ways how they can help you.
• 56:29
  Yeah it's not just like the good old fashioned here's 10 bucks go
• 56:33
  buy yourself something nice you know it's like let me do
• 56:36
  something meaningful right as well some it's going to touch
• 56:38
  your heart it's going to you can help two people at the same time
• 56:40
  you. See a need?
• 56:41
  Yeah, but that's amazing, right? You're helping this guy, He
• 56:43
  want. The guy needs the pairs to fill
• 56:45
  in. Bradinsky love this idea he's
• 56:47
  always got. It's a genius idea, by the way.
• 56:49
  I asked him. He was like, Oh yeah, I have 3
• 56:50
  pairs of you. Like immediately people have.
• 56:52
  It it's a genius idea. Expensive.
• 56:53
  Yeah, to do, but. Yeah, you're uplifting that in a
• 56:56
  shot, mom. You know, that was that was
• 56:57
  Nifter and this kid that's, you know, proud of his fill and he's
• 57:01
  very into it. You know, he's just starting.
• 57:02
  And every time he puts it on, he's looking at this person's
• 57:04
  name. And it's in his you imagine
• 57:06
  instead of so instead of my father's filling, my father's
• 57:09
  filling are actually in the Ukraine now.
• 57:11
  So yes, I gave him to a yeshiva in the Ukraine, but my father's
• 57:15
  film, which would be in my basement on the on the ping pong
• 57:18
  table are now being used by this boy in the Ukraine who sees my
• 57:21
  father's name every day on the bag.
• 57:23
  It's awesome. It's an awesome thing.
• 57:25
  And so I when so I'm very close to the heimts V center in in RT
• 57:29
  straw from centers yeshiva. So he's my classmate from
• 57:32
  Brewers and he loved the idea also and he hooked me up with
• 57:36
  them with with some sight from in there too.
• 57:38
  So and since October 7th, you can't fill the demand.
• 57:43
  There are so many people who were not affiliated before who
• 57:46
  now want to put on films. So for anyone listening, if you
• 57:49
  have a pair of films from someone, how do you get it to
• 57:51
  you? Well, you can go to Perry Hill,
• 57:54
  but it's better to just call me. Can I give my number?
• 57:57
  Yeah, yeah. We'll put out your number.
• 57:58
  On put on my number, you just call me and you can go to the
• 58:01
  website, but it's it'll just go much faster if you call me.
• 58:03
  Right, Right. That's amazing.
• 58:05
  Wow. Yeah, I mean, and this, this
• 58:07
  guy's doing stuff like this, not just me, just you see a need.
• 58:11
  You have more, you have more up your sleeve.
• 58:13
  I know because we discussed earlier about your working out.
• 58:15
  That gym, that's, that one's in the works, right?
• 58:18
  So you go to a local gym here. I go to a gym in New City.
• 58:20
  And it's a special gym. It's a one-on-one trainer.
• 58:23
  Yeah, his name is Hassan. He's a great guy.
• 58:26
  People swear by him. Yeah, that's what I.
• 58:28
  Heard that's so special I heard about it there's.
• 58:30
  A lot of guys in our community who go to him, I could just say
• 58:32
  that there's probably 2025 guys in our community who go to him
• 58:36
  and he's one-on-one training, but there's usually 3 or 4 guys
• 58:41
  are at the same time training and it's it's pure bodybuilding.
• 58:43
  He does weights and bodybuilding, but he's Jewish.
• 58:46
  His mother was Jewish and his father was Iranian.
• 58:51
  So but he's Jewish and he's very, very highly respectful of
• 58:56
  of all of his from clients. And he actually, you would talk
• 59:01
  about Maishi, my son-in-law, Maishi goes to the gym and he's
• 59:04
  very close with him as well. Maishi got in to start putting
• 59:07
  on his film really. This week he started putting on
• 59:10
  and says he's going to do it every day.
• 59:12
  Nice, that's cool. I think Maishi just wants to get
• 59:14
  out of working out so it just gives him a few minute breather.
• 59:17
  So what's this organization you're trying to?
• 59:19
  What's your? Idea.
• 59:19
  So the idea is I've noticed that guy, like we noticed years ago
• 59:24
  how guys were getting into biking.
• 59:26
  So many people are getting into bodybuilding now and I mean
• 59:28
  weightlifting bodybuilding, I don't know if you've seen it,
• 59:31
  but I see it a lot. So there's an organization that
• 59:34
  we're on the works now, which will be a one day event where
• 59:37
  people are pumping iron for Tadaka.
• 59:40
  And the idea is to do it for Almanus in Rockland County,
• 59:44
  which is AI don't think there's a bigger as a host than
• 59:47
  supporting Almanus. So the idea would be it's we
• 59:51
  think it's going to be pump it up, pump it up to lift up.
• 59:55
  We are lifting up spirits of people.
• 59:57
  So Pump It Up will be the next weightlifting Sedaka
• 1:00:00
  organization that you will see in Mitsubishi.
• 1:00:01
  Wow, That's what can I recommend a song that you play in the
• 1:00:04
  background? Yeah.
• 1:00:05
  Pump. Pump it up.
• 1:00:06
  Pump it. Yeah.
• 1:00:07
  Very crucial. Thank you.
• 1:00:08
  Thank you. You don't even know that song.
• 1:00:09
  Yes, I do. Yes I do.
• 1:00:11
  I do. Wow, you're going?
• 1:00:13
  To get Hans and Franz. Anybody know that?
• 1:00:16
  Come on. That's the Saturday night.
• 1:00:17
  Let's say I love it. No hands with friends yet You're
• 1:00:20
  an organization junkie. I just want to put it out.
• 1:00:22
  I. Guess so.
• 1:00:23
  And thank God you are, thank God because many people are addicted
• 1:00:27
  to lots of things and they're not helping others.
• 1:00:29
  They're actually not even helping themselves.
• 1:00:32
  You like you wake up in the morning, like how can I make an
• 1:00:35
  impact? How can I change people's lives
• 1:00:38
  for the better? How can I do something?
• 1:00:40
  And it's because of that mindset, Michael, that attitude
• 1:00:42
  that people like him have is why we're all in a better place and
• 1:00:45
  we're all better for it. We're like we're reaping the
• 1:00:47
  benefit. Thank God it's cool.
• 1:00:48
  You, you know, we're the recipients, you know.
• 1:00:49
  It's cool you watch Shark Tank, right?
• 1:00:51
  And you wonder, like, what's someone going to come up with
• 1:00:53
  now? Yeah, I've seen all the.
• 1:00:55
  Right, already, right. Yeah.
• 1:00:56
  Suddenly someone comes up with the idea like Oh my God, Junior,
• 1:00:58
  why didn't I think? Of that and how is this still
• 1:00:59
  something new that we haven't and that's.
• 1:01:00
  What I'm thinking about now, I wonder how many of our listeners
• 1:01:02
  are thinking, you know what, I have an idea for an organization
• 1:01:04
  like put it in the comments, let us know and let you know maybe
• 1:01:06
  someone will start it because these are some great ideas.
• 1:01:09
  Congratulations to you for for starting this and actually doing
• 1:01:11
  them. I would say the way you're
• 1:01:15
  putting that out there, it's also good to join up with
• 1:01:18
  existing ones. I've found that for me that it's
• 1:01:21
  easier when I have this idea to piggyback on someone else who's
• 1:01:24
  doing something similar. Bring it to your neighborhood A
• 1:01:27
  it'll help you with so much of your startup and B you'll you'll
• 1:01:31
  have the support that you need. I like that idea.
• 1:01:32
  I we've done that around a decade ago, actually 10 years
• 1:01:35
  ago with actually with Tom Keshavis and Kuppa Sesra.
• 1:01:38
  Really it's two out of the four organizations that they help
• 1:01:41
  people get jobs. So we created Rockland Jobs
• 1:01:43
  Network. Yeah.
• 1:01:44
  And that way if anyone needs a job in Rockland.
• 1:01:46
  County. I was.
• 1:01:46
  I was with you at that meeting. Yeah.
• 1:01:48
  Yeah, I remember those. Those.
• 1:01:49
  Used to go going strong, thank God and.
• 1:01:51
  And Michael, you have your own little network of getting people
• 1:01:53
  jobs and helping people. Michael's very passionate about
• 1:01:56
  that. You enjoy it.
• 1:01:57
  It's almost like a I enjoy a. Sport for him, it's a sport for
• 1:01:59
  me. You're watching people help
• 1:02:00
  build their careers. I mean it's.
• 1:02:02
  The anytime someone even mentions an iota about looking
• 1:02:05
  for a job, I mean, go to Michael.
• 1:02:07
  Call Michael right now. It's the biggest you're, you're
• 1:02:09
  actually doing him a favor if you call him because he really
• 1:02:12
  likes helping people find a job because that is the ultimate
• 1:02:14
  hassle. It is if you set somebody up for
• 1:02:16
  a lighter, they could sustain themselves.
• 1:02:18
  They don't have to keep asking for help.
• 1:02:20
  That is the best way to. Have to tell you that lately
• 1:02:24
  I've been meeting a lot of people who don't have any
• 1:02:27
  degrees of any sort and they're in their 20s.
• 1:02:29
  They come back from yeshiva. One of the things I was
• 1:02:31
  thinking, by the way, is to get like a, a boy or two from
• 1:02:34
  yeshiva after school in Israel and talk to them about what it
• 1:02:37
  what now? You know, you went to Israel for
• 1:02:39
  2345 years. You know, you're not married
• 1:02:42
  yet. What are you gonna do now?
• 1:02:43
  What have they been doing for 100 years?
• 1:02:45
  We've always been in this position and we've done quite OK
• 1:02:47
  for ourselves. I don't know about that.
• 1:02:48
  We figured it out. We're very resourceful people.
• 1:02:50
  It sounds we're very intelligent.
• 1:02:52
  I guess not enough people are coming to collect from you
• 1:02:54
  because ultimately it's not true.
• 1:02:55
  They end up not I'm. Not saying it's a perfect
• 1:02:57
  science. You don't have married children
• 1:02:59
  yet, right? No, I Michael, I know does
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  because I've watched your statuses.
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  And when you have married kids, this is something you think
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  about a lot. Yeah.
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  We want them to learn. It's.
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  Not so, by the way. And you're saying, true, yeah,
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  we've done it for thousands of years, but there's a challenge.
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  With it, no. I think the challenge is that
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  the younger kids that maybe even ourselves at one point, but they
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  have high expectations and they want to be rich very quickly.
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  Therefore what that's the problem we have, that's the
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  epidemic. I think that they want to go out
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  and get a freaking job and start building a career for
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  themselves. There's plenty of opportunity.
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  I don't want to hear this. I don't want to do with my life.
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  I have a job, go get a job. There's so many places that are
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  dying for people to come work and they can teach you a craft
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  so this way they can, you know, make you part of the
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  organization. Get started, get going, get off
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  your butt and go to work. That's it.
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  Don't give me this. Michael.
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  He's 22. What?
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  What's next? What, you feeling bad for him?
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  No, you feel bad for him. Don't feel bad for him.
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  If he wants to find a way, he'll find a way.
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  It's not his work. We've all done it.
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  We've all been there. I'll send you 20 guys that come
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  to me in the past few weeks and you tell them the same thing.
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  You'll see it's a dead end because it's not so simple.
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  It's a dead end because they also want to drive a nice car.
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  They also want to have money in their pocket.
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  They want to be no, no, no, Michael.
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  They want to go to Florida 8 * a year because their friends are
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  going. That's what it is.
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  I don't know, they want to just go through the grind like most
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  average Americans do that they don't have this mindset.
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  Like unfortunately, we've inflicted on ourselves in a big
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  way in the Orthodox communities that we've, we've created a high
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  lifestyle for ourselves and it's become the norm in a lot of
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  ways. Both, right.
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  It's the reality. No, no, either one of us is
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  right. You have to take a side.
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  Give me a minute to make my argument.
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  I don't either appreciate Yeah, give me a by the way, take a
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  side, don't play both sides. Don't don't play Ki will if you
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  might both make me. That's what.
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  This is what Yankees do. Yeah, by the way.
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  Well, thank you. I want you.
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  I want to say Yankee. No, but there's just circles at
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  all. No, actually I want.
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  You, because what you're saying is so true.
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  And it comes back to the Yankees, which is they don't
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  believe in what you just said. The Yankees.
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  You have to have a degree. You have to go to college.
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  You, you, you're, you cannot go there.
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  It's all like, my parents didn't let me stay a third year.
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  You have to start college and go to law school already.
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  I don't think you need that anymore.
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  I think there's so much and my mother's going to yell at me.
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  I don't think you need that anymore.
• 1:05:07
  There's so much that guys can do that I see guys doing, but they
• 1:05:11
  just have to have the initiative.
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  And I agree with Oshi this. So we we, we have such high
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  lifestyles that our kids let me don't want to.
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  Let me take you to my point for a minute, and we're going to
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  wrap up in in just a minute. So to my to the point that I was
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  making is the reality is that when they're coming back from
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  school after four or five years and they're about to get married
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  and they need to support a family within two or three
• 1:05:32
  years, you can't just get a job and work hard at it and make a
• 1:05:35
  lot of money. It's just not the reality.
• 1:05:37
  Just telling you why. Did you have to end with and
• 1:05:39
  make a lot of money? I know no.
• 1:05:40
  No, you have to. You're going to make $60,000 a
• 1:05:42
  year because you're going to make. $50,000 Not enough to
• 1:05:45
  raise a family? Why isn't it enough to raise a
• 1:05:47
  family? What's family?
• 1:05:48
  You're 22 years old. You barely just got married.
• 1:05:51
  My point is that what are you doing in three years?
• 1:05:52
  What are you doing in four years in order to grow a in four?
• 1:05:55
  Years you'll make 70,000. Dollars again What?
• 1:05:57
  I'm then you'll make 80,000. Living living an Orthodox life
• 1:05:59
  is very expensive, yes. Because of how we have.
• 1:06:03
  Not because of Florida, because of kosher food, because of
• 1:06:05
  holidays, because of schools. Yes, but not as expensive as it
• 1:06:08
  needs to be. It's the reality though is
• 1:06:09
  expensive. Conversation for another.
• 1:06:11
  Day, you know, I was making, I was making one.
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  One point though, which I'll still make, and we'll get to the
• 1:06:15
  argument another time. Really.
• 1:06:16
  Ozil spoke about this. Yeah, it's the expenses are.
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  Crazy. They're they are crazy.
• 1:06:22
  My point was to you is that it's not enough to just get a job.
• 1:06:25
  And my message is, is that you have to get a skill.
• 1:06:28
  And it's not just about going to school, because I like your
• 1:06:30
  point also, which is go to school in advance and get A and
• 1:06:33
  get a career. But what most people don't
• 1:06:35
  recognize is just because you don't have a career and your
• 1:06:38
  parents didn't push you to go to school or you didn't have the
• 1:06:41
  hindsight to do that, or you went to coal or whatever it is,
• 1:06:43
  doesn't mean you can't develop a skill.
• 1:06:45
  And that is the important message that I'm trying to say I
• 1:06:47
  hear, not to just get a job, to get a skill.
• 1:06:50
  I agree, I like that. I like that you can do that.
• 1:06:52
  There's so much out. There, there's a lot you can get
• 1:06:54
  into H. Factory get a skill, not a
• 1:06:55
  degree. Get a go.
• 1:06:56
  If you can't get a degree, get a skill.
• 1:06:58
  And of course, if you can't get both, then you know, you go with
• 1:07:00
  Oshie's, you know, go work in a pizza store and try your best.
• 1:07:03
  When we hire new employees here, specifically reps, sales reps,
• 1:07:07
  account managers, we in a lot of cases take them right out of
• 1:07:10
  college and we tell them this is like what we always say.
• 1:07:13
  And after years now they were telling us now how true it was,
• 1:07:17
  is that we're actually going to bring you on board and give you
• 1:07:19
  a college education that's going to be useful.
• 1:07:21
  They could do something with it and we're going to pay you.
• 1:07:23
  That's why we do that. We're not going to take your
• 1:07:25
  money. We're not going to charge you
• 1:07:26
  $80,000 tuition. We're actually going to pay you
• 1:07:28
  while we teach you. We don't expect any ROI.
• 1:07:31
  We're not expecting you to to close deals and make money for
• 1:07:34
  us. We're expecting you to learn.
• 1:07:35
  We have to just learn. We want to teach.
• 1:07:37
  We want to be a teaching type of company.
• 1:07:39
  We want you to learn and we're going to pay you while we do it.
• 1:07:42
  And that's called teaching them a skill, not giving them a
• 1:07:43
  degree and teach them a school. Michael, you're very on target.
• 1:07:46
  Kudos to you. I can get behind it.
• 1:07:47
  Let's start an organization, guys.
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  Teaching people skills. Let's go.
• 1:07:53
  We're an organization. Sure it's.
• 1:07:54
  I'm sure it's. You know.
• 1:07:57
  We're going to run. If it is, it's not me starting
• 1:07:58
  it. I don't have a record for
• 1:08:00
  starting organization. We do have a thing that we have
• 1:08:02
  that we've done called the Lightning round.
• 1:08:03
  Oh boy. OK, I didn't prepare one for
• 1:08:05
  you. Instead, we're trying, we're
• 1:08:07
  trying something new, which Oshi and I just spoke about earlier
• 1:08:09
  is let's create a staple question that we asked to
• 1:08:12
  everybody. Yes.
• 1:08:12
  And we're going to start trying some new ones and see how they
• 1:08:14
  stick. I guess one would be easier
• 1:08:16
  than. Yeah, I mean, let's see.
• 1:08:17
  I mean, it depends on the guests, but Oshi, you came up
• 1:08:19
  with a. Question or I liked it.
• 1:08:21
  I don't know if he's going to answer it though, and at least
• 1:08:23
  he's not going to answer it honestly.
• 1:08:24
  Let's try. Let's try.
• 1:08:25
  Yeah. Give us something that you deem
• 1:08:27
  to be really embarrassing, something that you know you went
• 1:08:30
  through in your life, that you've learned from and you've
• 1:08:32
  grown from, but you're kind of embarrassed about it.
• 1:08:34
  That's yeah. That's what I did once.
• 1:08:36
  That's what I said once. That's what happened.
• 1:08:38
  But I'm a better person today. Today I'm a different person and
• 1:08:41
  I know better and I want other people to learn from.
• 1:08:45
  This something like you mean like tactless or something or
• 1:08:48
  just like something which is embarrassing which I got past
• 1:08:51
  You mean tackles that. People learn, try on.
• 1:08:53
  Yeah, I'll settle either way. Right now, I'm not in a position
• 1:08:55
  to make demand. We're just starting.
• 1:08:56
  We're just starting this. So.
• 1:08:58
  So whatever you come up with. I wouldn't, you know, a little
• 1:09:03
  bit you put him in the spot, but it's, it comes back to
• 1:09:06
  Washington Heights, comes back to to Yankees.
• 1:09:10
  When I was a little kid, I, I once, I once someone asked me
• 1:09:18
  to, to, to go get their pocketbook in front of rubbish
• 1:09:22
  Schwab's building. Please go get that from me.
• 1:09:26
  And I said OK, because it was an excuse to get out of school.
• 1:09:30
  So I ran out of school. Rob Schwab's house was up the
• 1:09:32
  block of Schwab. And so I went in front of
• 1:09:36
  Schwab's house and there was no, no person with a pocketbook.
• 1:09:39
  So I rang the doorbell. Stepping knows how this lays
• 1:09:42
  out. I rang the doorbell to Schwab's
• 1:09:45
  apartment. OK.
• 1:09:47
  And Tom, Rav Schwab. Hi Rav Shiman Schwab, Kadu
• 1:09:50
  Ladar, who was already at that time quite advanced in his age
• 1:09:53
  and I rang the doorbell, no answer.
• 1:09:56
  I rang again, no answer. Like after 5 minutes of him
• 1:10:00
  schlepping to his doorbell, he went hello.
• 1:10:03
  I said it's Ori Kirchner. And anyway he just buzzed.
• 1:10:07
  OK, I went upstairs to Schwab's apartment, third second floor
• 1:10:11
  and it rang the doorbell. I thought maybe her pocketbook
• 1:10:15
  was by her Schwab and I rang the doorbell.
• 1:10:18
  I don't really, I don't know how the story's coming out, but this
• 1:10:21
  is just what I love my mind. I rang the doorbell and no
• 1:10:25
  answer. I rang his apartment bell again.
• 1:10:28
  After 5 or 6 minutes, I hear shuffling to the door.
• 1:10:33
  It's a Schwab opens the door himself.
• 1:10:36
  I guess someone's there to help him that day.
• 1:10:38
  And I'm a little kid and I say and he opens the door and
• 1:10:42
  there's an old German of Halau. He says to me, I go, do you have
• 1:10:48
  Missus Loeb's pocketbook? And he goes, no, slams the door
• 1:10:54
  on me. But so I was matriarch, the God
• 1:10:57
  of Ladar to get out of his seat and come to the door and deal
• 1:11:02
  with an 8 year old kid who didn't always do it.
• 1:11:03
  But what did I learn from that? So I learned respect for goddamn
• 1:11:07
  after that. Because I've thought about that
• 1:11:09
  story a long time. I'm 53 and I'm still thinking
• 1:11:11
  about that story. But I stayed in Brewers and we
• 1:11:14
  used to have a rotation every Wednesday.
• 1:11:16
  It was my supposed to walk with Schwab Deshul.
• 1:11:19
  So, you know, I reminded him of that story when I was a few
• 1:11:22
  years older. And I turned that into the
• 1:11:25
  greatest respect that every Wednesday I drew, I walked him
• 1:11:28
  to shul. I put him in the wheelchair, I
• 1:11:29
  put the seats down for him. So I guess your most
• 1:11:33
  embarrassing moments can still turn out to be awesome lessons.
• 1:11:36
  There you go. Where was the pocket?
• 1:11:38
  One second, One second? Where was the pocket?
• 1:11:40
  I never found the pocket, never found the back of it, but I've
• 1:11:43
  told Misses Loeb that story. She loves it.
• 1:11:46
  Of course, hurry, before we end that we got to ask you.
• 1:11:49
  This is a staple question that we ask everybody and we're
• 1:11:51
  following this pattern and we're hoping to get more and more
• 1:11:53
  guests doing this. Who's a guest that you would
• 1:11:56
  recommend after being here on the path?
• 1:11:57
  Did you have a good time? Beautiful.
• 1:11:59
  Yeah. Loved it.
• 1:11:59
  OK. Really loved.
• 1:12:00
  It So who do you think would be a good guest to sit in your
• 1:12:02
  seat? So for sure I, I'm for sure
• 1:12:05
  Robbie Center, my Rev center, I mean both Robbie centers,
• 1:12:08
  they're both super. The I Don't know if you've ever
• 1:12:10
  spoken to Robbie center here. Robbie Center here is a close
• 1:12:13
  friend of mine now because. Ari, Cynthia or I'm center his
• 1:12:15
  brother and I as well. They're both powerhouses.
• 1:12:18
  They are non-stop energy. Both of them have incessant
• 1:12:22
  energy to I mean, I want you to know I'm very close to both of
• 1:12:26
  them. But the representer I, I will
• 1:12:29
  take credit that myself and a friend of mine, Yona, we brought
• 1:12:31
  representer to be the Rav in our shul.
• 1:12:34
  I knew him from Brewers because we were in Brewers together.
• 1:12:36
  He was in the base marriage when I was in high school.
• 1:12:39
  And before he became our Rav, my friend Yona and I went to Robert
• 1:12:44
  Edinski and we asked him should we hire Ravi Center for the
• 1:12:48
  shul? And Rudinski said to us, Rabbi
• 1:12:51
  Center is my Rebbe in chesed. Wow, Rudinski said.
• 1:12:56
  That Rabbi Center is his rebbe in Chesed.
• 1:12:58
  That's beautiful. So every I would recommend Irish
• 1:13:01
  Center. Yeah, the best.
• 1:13:03
  Can you call him and ask him to do?
• 1:13:04
  Sure. OK, go ahead.
• 1:13:04
  Cool. Sure.
• 1:13:05
  I'll call him right now. Go ahead.
• 1:13:06
  Do you want me to go? Yeah, See if he.
• 1:13:07
  Picks up? Yeah, sure.
• 1:13:08
  Why not? Never.
• 1:13:09
  Never picks up for me. That's right.
• 1:13:11
  No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
• 1:13:11
  He's actually very accessible. Most of the times we spend
• 1:13:15
  together is like 11:00 at night in his living room so.
• 1:13:18
  If it works. And I'm sure he's been on the
• 1:13:19
  podcast before. I don't know if he's been on a
• 1:13:21
  podcast. No, no.
• 1:13:22
  I. I I know how MTV has.
• 1:13:24
  Well, his family owns the Huff K, right?
• 1:13:26
  Is that the the organization, the Huff K?
• 1:13:28
  Yeah. That's such a justitious
• 1:13:29
  organization that's worthwhile discussing, No?
• 1:13:31
  One is available to take your a lot more than that.
• 1:13:33
  It's pretty good. Also.
• 1:13:34
  It's not looking good, boys. OK, again, thank you Ori for
• 1:13:38
  joining us. We really, really appreciate it.
• 1:13:39
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• 1:13:56
  Welcome. Thank you for joining.
• 1:13:56
  All right, Beautiful. Amazing.
• 1:13:58
  Thank you very much. That was.
• 1:13:59
  Great. I haven't done one of those you.
• 1:14:01
  Guys were great. Appreciate it.
• 1:14:03
  That's the idea.