Immigrant to Travel Millionaire - Shmulik Kravitsky

Welcome back to another episode of the Clappy and Frank Show. Tonight we have with us a wonderful guest, somebody I know my entire life. No stranger to the world of travel, Rabbi Schmul Krvitzky from Sky 2000. >> Schmoolik Kritzky. It's it's it's uncomfortable for me to say somebody that's old enough to be my grandfather, my father for sure. >> Is it rabbi or just regular? >> What? >> No rabbi. >> You know, early in my career, I worked for CO. I did some COVID reporting. I caught a smil on the street. I did a little video, you remember? >> And I I I was about to charge you for it and I didn't. >> Thank you for not charging me and thank you for uh being on our show today. >> So Kitzky, Sky 2000. My entire I'm almost 40 years old. My entire life I remember him being a travel agent. How did I remember him? This is before internet days. This is before cell phone days. There were only real travel agents that printed you real tickets. So the best way to advertise if you were inavich was to advertise in the t list had a yellow pages. Well there was a white pages and the yellow pages in one. The yellow pages were the advertisements and the white pages were the phone numbers and then there was a section of all the around the world their phone numbers. So before the internet if you were going to a country I guess you would get a calling card called the Anyways make a long story short for entertainment I used to read the advertisements. You went into the whole world. >> Really? I'm not the only one. >> No. >> I thought I was the only one in the world. >> Before YouTube, Tik Tok, and Instagram, what do you think you did to entertain yourself? >> Me and my baby sister were reading. Me and my baby sister used to read the Tist ads. Now, the Zist ad there was a full page ad every year. It was It was yearly. It was a big thing. Zakist >> and there was a sponsor, right? Is that true? >> We'll talk about it another time. >> Okay. >> There was an a full page ad every year of Sky 2000. And it was >> the cartoons, right? >> So, the cartoons. So, the cartoon that I remember the best growing up cracking up. I was sitting on my kitchen island cracking up and then showing it to each member of our family was this old couple on a blimp. But it starts off and the wife says, "Well, somebody offered me a ticket to Israel for $1.99." And the husband, they're on a blimp, they're hanging in the air, and the husband says, "Maybe you should have offered $2.99." >> Well, and blimps are a lot more >> a hot air balloon. >> Clap. Blimps are a lot more expensive. It was it was like I found online the internet just came out and I found online a ticket for $1.99 and he says okay buy it whatever and then the last picture is it was a black and white man Rosenlot did it for me with his pencil black and white and then in the end of it they say well maybe we should have buy 2000 for $2.99 when they're hanging in the air like Well, as a real luxury travel agent note, the hot air balloons cost a lot more than 199. >> When you're trying to get with him to Israel, it's somewhat >> it's probably going to be 30 $40,000 to get a hot air balloon to Israel. >> Point point being I see >> it was creative and ahead of his time in terms of >> I'm still talking about it 35 years later. Point being is that you stand out from most travel agents because you use comic come comedy and humor to advertise and it's something that you still been doing for almost four decades. Tell me when you went into the world of travel agencies, what made you decide to use the world of comics? >> What made him decide to come and travel? >> We're going to get to there, but I want to know because every week I get WhatsApps with all his comedies. How did you get so big into comedy? I knew that just regular advertisement, regular ads are very expensive and I can't afford it. So I had to do something different and that was different. >> Comedy to stand out of the box. >> I don't know if it's comedy, it's more comics, it's more different. It was like conversation. There's also things that that you can say or bring across through comics that you can't with a regular ad. Regular ad you have to say square comics you can say whatever you want and it's with a smile again like I >> you wrote it yourself. >> Yes, I'm doing the comics now in the back of the of the crown edition. I'm doing it myself and I hear that pushet lately people are taking the crown edition into their hands and they're going to the last page to see first of all what is this week's comics. >> My 12-year-old son comes to me to show every Friday night. The first thing he does is take the crown edition and he goes and he looks through it and I always see when yours he looks to see if it's funny and what it says. >> Oh, so hold on. You write in the weekly Crown Heist newspaper. You write a joke or only your ad? >> A whole new comic ad >> about travel. >> Yeah, about travel every week. >> Every week for years. >> No, I editions now. I did. >> No, you've always been doing comedy for years. The crown edition is the last couple of weeks. You're saying >> we have a hard time finding guests. Well, no, I'm sorry. We start our show just me and Clappy. We realize you have nothing to talk about anymore. We have to bring guests. So, we found a we found a shortcut how to have content every week by having guests, but you have to actually think of a new joke related to travel. How I mean, how does it come right away? You have to think about it all week long. >> I I can show some of my last ones each of them. It doesn't have to be a joke. It's just has to be >> all travel related. >> Interest all travel related. I have now another 12 ahead. You're going to Yeah. I hope that you will be nice enough to place in your social media. They're coming in every week another one. >> Wow. Very impress. You're a creative. Oh, so your daughter's also creative. She writes >> the entire family is very creative. >> Your daughter writes books or right? >> Writes books, illustrates books. She has a podcast. She has a she gives seminars. She's a mas. His son-in-law runs the entire terra. It's a very it's a very gifted family. >> Who's the first guest we ever had on the show? >> First guest. Men, the first guest. son-in-law. Wow. The you're a first of many, Rav. Kvitzki. >> Thank you. >> What's the hardest part of being a travel agent >> for those people? People still use travel agents. Were you at the show? >> Yeah. This is this is a lot of what I'm writing in those comics is why using again a travel agent. Why from different angles? The hardest part of being a travel agent. I don't know. is there. >> It's all it's all roses. >> Well, it's it's service. It's uh there sometimes uh people are truly appreciative. I'm talking about uh people which are bothering after a trip to drop a 10 12 line notes. It was great. Thank you very much. We recommend you it was amazing. It was very good. And some of them are just, you know, Jews >> looking where to complain and how to complain. I I just mentioned we had this week the the the Jetcom uh conference of travel agents we had this week. So I mentioned there that uh the most bizarre one was a lady in the 70s that called me after coming back from Israel screaming. All I saw from the windows of my luxury hotel in Rallay are some old city walls. And my sister-in-law claims that her travel agent got here in our hotel in ocean view. >> Now that's a comedy. >> How do you respect that? >> It's a real story. >> Maybe she's suffering from dementia or something. She his sister, I'm sure, was in Tel Aviv. She didn't cap that little detail, but >> oh my god. And she probably took down your your >> Did she take down your ratings with those comments? >> What percent of people travel used travel agency? Would you say 5% 10%. >> Uh, and why would they use it? >> Until Corona until Corona numbers were declining. By corona, people had no choice. They went back close to 100% to travel agents and they realized that it's worth it. It's interesting. After they tried it, they saw that there's somebody to talk to. They saw that there is somebody that knows how to take take care of problems, knows how to uh answer questions, knows how to help when uh sugar hits the fan. So they stayed around other ones. >> I had a crazy story when I was engaged 15 years ago. I went to London. >> Was that the crazy story they got? >> No. When I when I got engaged when for in London months into my engagement I went to London to visit the Kawa and the family make a party there and I had a travel agent that I used in Crown Heights. Nice guy. And for weeks I had in mind that my trip back to America is let's say 7:05 in the afternoon. back to New York City and that's I don't know why I didn't even bother looking for weeks it was engraved in my mind 7:05 and I get to the airport and it turns out that the flight was like 5:55 they said you're not getting on there's nothing to talk about right the second I got I got was getting out of my father-in-law's van they said go home there's nothing everything's closed gates closed nothing whatever so we come back to come back to London where we lived and I called up the travel agent now in America it's already you know it's it's it's earlier on but I don't want to go to sleep it's already it's getting later and he calls He tells me, "Izzy, go to sleep. Go out to eat. Do whatever you want. I promise you, you wake up in the morning, I'll have you on a new flight. Don't even think about it." And it was such calm and it was so easy. Yay. Set me a bill months later for like 200 bucks or whatever. And I was the happiest 200 bucks. But that's when I realized we might be in the 2020s now, 2026. But when you have a travel agent, you have somebody that's working for you that's here to help you. If I would have booked it online, like I wouldn't even know where to turn to. tell us a little bit of why people should use a travel agent and how it could really help them in times of uh difficulty. There's a lot to talk about it from different angles and we're going to do it later, but let me give you a off top of my head a bunch of things that you simply can get by me and cannot get online. Right now in the non-stop American market to Israel, there is no child discount. I have in some non-stop flights a 15% child discount. It's >> 15% >> to offer you. >> It's a lot of money. >> Uh when you're going online to buy tickets a family, four, five, six, seven people when it's a pretty full flight, zero chance that you know how how to put your family together. You guaranteed scattered throughout the plane. We have the convictions and the knowhow in a very close to 100% to put to put you together. Um insurance we're very very big fans of buying health insurance when you're going away because h if something happens aboard it's could be losing tens or maybe more thousands of dollars. >> Who said that? Bruce said that know >> Bruce said that people should have travel insurance. However, we have a program where kids under 18 up to nine kids or family are absolutely free >> for health insurance. >> Kids accommodated for travel insurance. Travel insurance absolutely free. >> Somebody books tickets to you. >> They don't even have to book tickets. I mean, they can call me for health insurance and get them for the parents. You mean travel charging a service charge if you didn't buy the ticket? Travel insurance. You mean? >> Yeah. Travel insurance. So, the kids are free up to 18, >> guys. Sky 2000. Free travel insurance for kids under 18. free. Well, first we get to talk to this guy. So, >> Pesak, it sounds funny, but they just opened up now the seats for PES next year. >> 2027. >> 2027. All the families which are going in bundles 3, 7, 12, 15, 20 people going every year for PES know that they have to buy tickets in advance. Otherwise, they will not get the seating. They will not get the price. they will not get the the flight they want because within a very short time it's being so >> hold on one second I have to interrupt we're not even shuis and you're pushing pes tickets >> yes because if you going for pes for sure that's you to Israel already now withal you're going to pay $2500 a ticketa online is about $2,000 a ticket I'm still offering this week $1,500 ranch and like almost 16 usually if it's available in the pig dates and $200 less for children. >> This is something you can you can see online that the prices >> a $2,500 ticket you're offering >> a $2,000 ticket for 16 and 1400. So you're selling $500 cheaper than LL directly in this case. >> The Nash family. Yes. >> In this case and yeah, it's it's a short time offer but whatever is indeed planning to go to Israel next year PES and there are many many families like that. Now is the time to >> do you think the other airlines will start flying right by uh by next pesa? Uh the bad news came in this morning that American airline which was together with Delta and United to be starting to fly around 8 September 8 to 12th. They pushed it off now American to January 6th >> 2027 >> 2027 which means that the the the ticious season at least American is out and the feeling is that Delta and United might follow. How many airlines besides archa lal fly to Israel including with a stop? Are there other European stop with a stop? 50 over 50. Any airline that goes to his hub and continuing to Israel. >> So other France does to Paris. None of them are flying to Israel right now. None of them are flying from Europe to Israel. >> From Europe to Israel only >> from Europe to Israel. All the Lufanza group British. No, not >> Hold on. Hold on. Let's let Let me moderate this right now. If Israel Clapman wants to fly to Israel from America, I have two options. Archa and LL. There's nothing else. >> I have a third option which I'm not getting engaged in. And this is buying a ticket to Europe and then buying a separate ticket from Europe to Israel. >> From Europe to Israel. Flying which airline? generally Israia and >> Isra that's a local airline there. >> Oh, there's an airline in Isra that flies to Israel from some countries called Isra. They do not fly out of a New York or New Jersey or American hub. >> Do you sell those tickets? You don't. >> I I sold a lot of their tickets in the war now because people >> So only three only Israeli airlines are flying to Israel. No one else. >> There are also some other airlines that doesn't help you. some uh >> Turkish >> from no from Pakistan, Dubai, some some stuff like that. >> But I just want to make something very clear. This concept of two round trip tickets is bad. I personally try to totally not engage in it because the schedule of the Israeli airlines because of the war and everything is a friendly suggestion. It's not cut in stone. When you misconnecting, Delta doesn't care, >> right, >> what's happening with with the other ticket. If you're misconnecting it, you're losing the Delta ticket and bye-bye. >> Unless it's a code share. >> There is no connections, co-chair, nothing. It's two separate tickets and therefore nothing much worse that they had a few times. I'm sure everybody knows that once in a while you checking in at a suitcase in America to get to destination. You coming there, they're telling you, I'm sorry, it was overload. You're going to get your ticket your suitcase tomorrow. So if you're staying in a country tomorrow, it's not a big deal. They're going to deliver it to your hotel, to your house. But it's two separate tickets. You can wave bye-bye forever to your suitcase. You will never see it again. So therefore in my eyes it's only lal that has like five six flights a day and archa >> who has better food lal ora >> lal has a different uh experience reputation background has Wi-Fi but archa for price point are doing very well. >> What about food? Let's talk about the food >> food. Why should I know anything about what people say which one's better? or you don't want to come. >> Uh no, it happens to be that they uh took very a very good cater from here. Kia, they are by the way the only airline that offers you mahadin without asking for it. The whole plane from here is 100% >> me and Mishi sat down with the owner of Aria in his office in the city. We had a beautiful meeting for a few hours. >> Yeah, Nakash. They seem like very nice people. >> He said he picked them in, right? Or he worked with them. >> We spoke about so many things. I don't I don't even remember they own they own so many companies. I think the airline they I don't even know if they remember that they own it. >> Aria is for sale. They're selling. They're looking for the right. >> So I'm just saying my >> Do you want to buy the >> I don't I don't know if I want to buy an airline. But my maybe Spirits. Maybe I'll buy Spirits. My question is as follows. Many people I know say they will only fly lal because when it comes to flying to Israel, security is a major risk. I mean many flights have been hijacked going to Israel over the last 70. There was a few famous >> just one >> how many flights were was hijacked going to Israel >> the famous Putner's flight was was was hijacked >> the last 30 years >> there were stories of flights being hijacked you saying they were all 30 years ago >> before you were born >> okay people take cons you know security is a big risk when it comes to Israel is lal the safest airline in the world or or would any airline be just as safe >> lal has better trained security peopleal has uh some stuff on their planes and some of their planes which has to do with anti-missile. Nobody talks about it. Nobody deliberates about it. >> So we'll talk about >> but no but Alia is a Israeli airline and the right people in Israel are very much so uh making sure that any Israeli airline should be taken care of properly. Perhaps not in the same level. >> Money means nothing when it comes to your safety and security and your life. So should people say I'm only I should only care about safety and just fly alone. It's worth saving 100 bucks. >> I I for example happens to be that the person I married 42 years ago is flying next month with our Kia to Israel. >> I I I I flew a lot. I mean, >> why would why would an airline want to work with a travel agent and have to pay them a commission? Why don't they just only want to book people through their website? >> Well, they all tried and failed and came back. >> Okay. >> It was a time about eight, seven, nine years ago when United went to zero commission. Their lines were clocked. Their customer service satisfaction went down. They couldn't handle it. and they started in the back door to consolidate us through this through that. They maybe one day they will be able to >> handle it but right now I I don't think they are. >> Do you charge a service fee on top of the booking your commission? >> I'm giving a price that's the price to sell for it. Many times it's going to be by far below what you find online. Many times it's going to be more than you're going to find online, but many times going to be the same. I'm not uh into the can you get cheaper than what they see online. It's not my clientele, but uh generally speaking, I'm saving people a lot of money. Many times I'm not so-called having a service charge. I have my price. Go in the market and see if it's good enough for you. I will sell you a ticket. >> If there's issue at 3:00 in the morning, you're up. They call you and they bother you. How does it work? >> It's very interesting. Until Corona, uh, for decades, I had a live answering service, which I still have today also. >> Live answering service. An agent picks up 3:00 a.m. >> I still have agent picks up 3:00 a.m. But most of the business was done over the phone and a little bit emails. Um, and they had instructions that has to be used the word emergency, urgent, death in the family, whatever it is to wake me up. But we have there's a lot of stuff like that also. >> Uh, I'm by the way, one of the things that I'm very strong with is taking care of getting a veil to Israel even on totally sold out flights. I have a lot of set with that. So um >> so you're up there's availability three >> so so so until corona was mainly a 9 to5 operation and the rest was answering service which I was answering when I feel like it only in the urgent things so b more or less what happened with coron to do during corona that I started to develop my WhatsApp relationship with the clients I can show you I have today in my business WhatsApp over 5,000 in connections. >> Wow. >> And uh it's turning the whole clock upside down. So basically when it's not Chavez and I'm not in shul even if it's 11:30 at night and I'm getting a WhatsApp if I can I will answer it. Not committed but somehow I'm very accessible on WhatsApp. >> Very responsive very accessible on WhatsApp and and people like it. If I'm not answering at 11 o'clock at night, so I'm answering the next morning, but they they have that feeling that they have direct ask and also if it's a small question when you calling it's a whole gun somebody says would you rather not call to drop a question and remind me how many pounds am I allowed to take to Israel with a text so people do it much more often and it's easier to have the peace of mind to double check how many pounds are you taking not to be overcharged for >> do you mostly focus was in Israel. >> Again, after Corona, somehow I went from 60% Israel to maybe 80% Israel. >> So, just imagine what I'm going through in the next in the last two and a half years. >> I find in life that when I deal with in any business I'm involved with, people that specially focus on one or two fields are the best. A guy that's a ma, you know what they say, master of what does it say? Uh, master of all, what does it say? Uh there's an expression all trades master of none. The people that pretend to know everything. So when it comes to Israel, you are the guy. But I have a question. You mentioned a moment ago that you have a expert and people god forbid a family member dies, you could get them onto a flight right away. Even you said the word a soldout flight. Now that's amazing for god forbid somebody that's mourning. What scares me about that is that I have tickets to Israel in the next couple of days. I'm flying with my family. The flights oversold, oversold, oversold. First, business, leg room, everything is sold out weeks ago. I watched that flight carefully for many other reasons. So, you're saying that if, god forbid, somebody want >> I'm going to grab you by your beard and throw you out of the plane and put the land on and you're going to get compensated. >> No, but my question is if there's only 272 seats on a plane and everybody thinks they're getting on, how could they how does an airline bump somebody? Explain. How does that work? There is no real fair way, but the simple way is to offer compensation. >> $1,000, $1,500, a free ticket. And usually Jews that got two libras because they were free are jumping on the offer to get the free ticket. So they're going to they're going to bribe them. >> Yeah. there. Therefore, it's going to be more expensive a ticket I will get because when they giving me that oval ticket, they have to take in consideration it's going to cost them because they have to bump somebody and paying for it. And there's a 100% success rate that somebody eventually will take money and get off the flight. >> No, nobody is going in nobody's lap. I mean, so no, what I'm saying is if they need to get a guy on a fight, his father died, they have to get him on. You said they offer >> What happens if they offer $3,000 voucher and nobody gets up? What happens? >> I don't know. But >> they get it. It works. Another question about this morbid topic, but it, you know, it happens. When somebody has to get a body to Israel, they call you. >> No, >> that you do not deal with >> that does directly withal, but they call me for the tickets going with the body. >> Going with the body. Do you know what they charge to get a body to Israel? >> Money. >> How much? some money. >> No, more than a regular ticket. Much more. A little bit more >> like between business and coach. >> Between business and coach. So if regular is 15, coach is four, this is like 3,000 maybe >> probably. >> What's the biggest the worst clients to have to deal with? clients that that that have time on on their hands >> and you're you're their therapist, entertainer, uh spouse. I guess you become all them. >> No, with years. Listen, I sold my first ticket January 7th, 1994. >> Oh my god, you've been doing this for way too long. So I got some experience and >> 32 32 years >> I do. You're good with math. Nice. So I do profile certain potential clients and I'm sending them nicely to my competition. Do you get a referral commission or you get punished? What's your So your your accent is Russian. What's your deal? >> Yes. Uh said I >> we shall be talking about it. I was born in 19 >> Your humor is definitely Russian. >> 62. Is that a compliment or insult? >> It just is. >> I was born in suburbs of Moscow by seven generations family. I mean I'm I'm Kane and I'm Rubashkin and I'm >> you related to Hy Wayne Rasin. >> No, Danny Ruskin married Rasin. She's a robashkin but Henny is not is not not not related and uh yeah grow up until the age of nine. The only real friend that I had in Russia that I was allowed to like totally communicate with openly was Mel Canelski from Elizabeth New Jersey. We had Mamemed which was coming in in one day to me and one day to him. Reberel Rickman Oliver Scholam which was >> Errol Brickman. >> Rebel Rickman >> Rickman >> he was with in in Yakatin Islav and he was coming a day to me a day to him and Muhammad was a a classmate of the >> classmate. >> Did he give you inside stories? >> I was too small and too stupid not to ask. But >> yeah, but but by by the time I understood the questions should be asked, it wasn't with us anymore. And I would say that when I was probably seven or maybe eight years old, I start that I want my own tail. Okay. I want my at my own timing and you know the the the Judikica story in Moscow was closed. So the only place to get uh timing was in the Sheamus. He he was very capable rebel Rickman and he knew how how to bind things. So it's I going to try to get you some. He comes back to me and tells me listen I got a small very beautiful tim. I will know how to rebind it for you to be a fresh binding, but it's missing a few pages. So, if you will tell me that if I'm binding it with some blank pages and you will go ahead and write in the missing pages, I have I I have a deal for you and I agreed and I accept it. >> Oh my gosh. You brought the timing? >> I brought it with me and this is the timing. >> Must be like 55 years old. It is much older. He gave it to you like 55 years ago. >> 1960 when you found it in Sheamus. >> I could sell this for a lot of money. >> And you can see >> you're you're >> that my handwriting of a kid >> uh 8 years old in Russia filling up the missing the missing pay as I promised. >> Wow. >> Real did you also go to a regular public school? >> Absolutely not. >> You didn't go to public school? >> Absolutely not. My mother my mother bribed some doctors that gave her settled that I cannot hold number two and I cannot be in public school. So the teacher was coming I was doing the homework. I was doing the the curriculum and the teacher was coming once in two weeks taking the set of the old mbarot and getting in the new ones. >> I never saw school in my life. >> Wow. >> What age? There is in until you left nine. >> You left Russia when you were nine years old. 1970. >> 1971. >> 197. >> And this is a book about nice handwriting about Yadm about Russia Jews in Russia. And here in the back you can see a picture of me the night before Sheres. >> The night before what? >> Oper. I had very long hair and after that they couldn't leave long a long long pay so they took a picture with me with the pers just the one night that that was allowed >> to hold and over here over here you have me and my sister learning underground with moanel from England all over what age did you leave Russia and how did you get out >> nine >> how did you how did your family get All Anash basically left between Tavis and Elmed Olive. There was no Nash left in one shot. >> What's Loly? >> 71. >> So they everyone mascar letting >> How' they get out? >> Get it was a time that they just let out. >> Russia decided one day they were being easy gone. >> Ga was left there. Lifet was left there was left there aim. But the crowds >> they tried to get out >> left. I think that the rabbit didn't let him. >> So 1971 the Russia decided all the Jews are allowed whoever whoever wants. >> It was a very big wave and all the Jews >> Israel or America where people end up going. >> He went to Israel. >> Then everybody went only to Israel. >> Everyone went to Israel. Some >> they went they went well >> with they were they went a week in Vienna like five days a week in Vienna. from Vienna which was enough people there are playing a loud play was coming to pick him up and bring him back but about public school there is a story which I'm always repeating do you know Mim Leven from >> course from Kensington yeah >> he had a father all over a very holy Jew salman and I was probably seven or eight years old my sister Sara was two years younger My parents left, you know, there was no child abuse in Russia at the time. They they left to their business and locked us, you know, home alone, seven or five and warned us not to let nobody in. And here we see that uh from the we had a very long path especially like from from the outside of the front uh yard until the home. We should have enough time to see who he is, what he is coming in to put oursel together. And we see that that Jew, he was without a beard, I think at the time. Shim's father is shleing a heavy suitcase. You know, there were no wheels at the time. You were sleing. There was no WhatsApp at the time. You couldn't let know that you're coming. A horse was just coming into another horse's hand and dumping himself on the couch. That's how it's worked. And we see that guy coming in and we I saw him home. I knew that he's trusted, but I'm not allowed to bring nobody in. And also not my my mother told me not not to let nobody into the house. And also I have to be in school. It's a secret not in school. As a matter of fact, it was hanging my suit. They were going in a regular suit. the kids to school with the Lenin uh emblem here with the leather backpack everything was hanging in a obvious place that everybody that comes into the house that's uniform and backpack >> so he cannot know that I'm not going to school so so how are we handling >> even with the doctor's note you couldn't >> he can't know that I'm not going to a whole different world >> so the genius decided that the we had like two two entrances that my 5 years old sister will let him in through the main entrance and I will put on the uniform with the whole go sneak out from the bed door wait until these are coming back from school and then they're going to come come in like I'm coming from school sitting there in the bushes sitting and tired and annoying and they are not coming out and they're not coming out I still decided enough. I can't I can't do it anymore. I just going to come in and say that I had a headache. I I cut school short and I'm coming in and all of a sudden when is there Shola on Sunday? >> There was no school on Sunday. >> I had no idea. I was so insolated, so not a part of this whole system. I did not know that there is no school on Sunday. >> What percent of the Kabad kids didn't go to school versus they went and they still had a Jewish education? >> A few a few in the a few a very few that didn't go to school. >> Didn't go. All these Kabad kids did go >> go they were fighting for shabas. They were covering the hands. They were that there was there was a very few. As I said the Canelski, Rabbi Canelski didn't concern. There was a very few. >> What percent of the people in Russia fried out versus stayed from >> German communism? >> What people left the religion would you say? >> Well, obviously during the 70 years of communism was a very big percent >> 90% 95. >> I don't know numbers. I really numbers >> but you can see the sephm from 130 years ago. How many of those names you hear on the street now? It's a very small percentage. >> She's saying five 10% stayed from >> I don't know numbers but I >> guesstimate. No guesstimate. >> No. >> Okay. >> Not a lot. >> But you didn't go to school growing up because you were at home. Your sister also didn't go to school. >> No, my sister was underage. >> At what age? At what age? >> She left when she was seven. She was underage. So what made your parents be so strong that you're not going to go to a Gisha school? My parents got married with a clear decision that this house will be a house of te a house of no school a house of murus nefes that's where they grew up that's what they knew and that's what they did and that's what they believed in to all the way to the full extent um as far as frying out and and educating kids in Russia in my generation so Already when I was in Israel, I asked my father once what who was easier to to raise as a f kid, me in Russia or my brother which is born exactly 10 years after me in Kabad in Israel. So what was the answer? >> I'm going to guess Israel because if not you wouldn't have not asked the question. So the answer is Russia because he said over there everything was clear. We are different amo. You cannot ask me how this kid is not uh is not keeping and you cannot eat any ice cream because we are different. We are different. We are we are we are different. Here he says, "Your brother comes in with the curse that they picked up in school." >> And I'm totally in horror asking him where is that coming from? And he quotes me what am I telling him that you cannot be like him. So in that sense they somehow managed to do a better job there than it's possible to do in the f in the free western war. And uh yeah I mean my regular answer outside in the street was I don't know. What's your name? I don't know. Where do you live? I don't know. How old are you? Yan. I don't know. And it was like just imagine that you are a drug dealer and you have to expose yourself to >> I think by the way we are drug dealers. People are addicted to the show. I just want to let you know. >> Just imagine that you're a drug dealer. Modern >> day drugs. Last night last night I'm walking back from show. >> I'm on Albany on Leffort. This guy stops. He's like he's from California or something. He's like, "You don't understand how much I love your show. I'm addicted. I love it." And he goes on and he's quoting episodes. I was like, "It's beautiful." And then he's about to cross leopards to go back up towards like Empire. And then he says, "AND MY PARENTS ARE THE SAME ADDICTED AS I AM." I was like, "Send them my regards. My parents are the same addicted." So people are addicted. >> We do sell drugs. I'm just letting you know. >> It's legal. >> So I'm sure that your kids don't know about it. You are risking a lot by the five-year-old and three-year-old should know what you're doing because they might be questioned. >> My parents did something which were totally against the law. Totally against the law and they choose to trust the kids with it. They choose to tr that we going to follow this I don't know system. >> What what did they do that was against the law? >> Anything to school? >> No, he did. What did your parents do for a living? That was his question. My father is a was a math professor and my mother was a housewife and she did some uh jobs. >> He wasn't so one second. He wouldn't send you to school but he actually taught in school. >> He miss he was in university. >> My father came back to when we went to Israel. My father got a job in univers in univers in Bereva and he was teaching with a hat which I don't have on me with a jacket and starting the day with writing bes on the on the l on the board with a Jewish date every single time I saw dozens of those pictures. It was a real math professor physics math. The Kitzkys were always geniuses. You, your wife, your kids, they're all geniuses. So I'm now your father was a math professor. It's all adding up. Adding up >> from my wife. Um, she she's a granddaughter of of PVER, which is definitely one of the biggest geniuses that Tim Kim ever had. >> Wow. >> So what happened? So in 1971, you got you were 9 years old. Your family left Russia. You went first to Vienna and then they made flights to Israel and that's where a lot of them they moved to Israel >> and and the Reb wanted us to go to Nak. My father had a very very nice offer in Bilan with a fourbedroom apartment in Nebra withella there and when he heard from Zusha Zushimovski he came to the airport and said that the rabbl they went to the roads in were not paved at a time yet you know it was a real hole in the wall but my imulg is still living in that same apartment that we got when we moved 55 years ago. How do you become a travel agent? >> Interesting question. We really came to is to America after I married my wife which had America was born here. Really she was Israelis born here. I worked at a time for five >> with Israeli people here and in the for we decided to come for a year to continue what I did as a bokhar and the finances didn't really work out by him you know the like many other mas that uh and the rent was to be paid Oliver Scholam shops Gordon was my landlord on 6 866 Parkway and he got the situation. He was a little bit working with me but at the end of the day I had to >> that's the Apple Bank building. >> It they rebuild it. It used to be it used to be Apple Bank. >> Yeah, it's Apple Bank but it used to be a bakery there. If you remember opening bakery were going at night sneaking in the back >> to get some 35 cents opening. >> How much 25 cents for a Danish >> magazine was there downstairs. >> So >> then had you Why do you pick travel agency? That was the first >> Wait, wait, wait. He's getting there. So he ran Gordon wanted rent. So I understood that that for now I have to do something to to the cover and a good stroll of America I don't know if they have it now had the organization there a lady somewhere a borak which you're paying her $10 and you're sitting here for four hours she's giving you a crazy questionnaire of 7 million questions and by the end she can tell you what is the most uh suitable thing for you >> so what I will tell you is that our good ro still has a job placement It was before job placement test job evaluation. So I went there many years ago and I could tell you how aggressive and good they are. See the guys, one of them didn't even know how to use a computer. He had everything on notepads. I told him I needed four. >> I told him I need a job desperately. I could tell you was he picked up the phone. He was ringing their own. I left there and I went to meet with four companies on the spot. I I'll get to that. And it was a lady and by and by the end of day came out the first one was a lawyer. Second one was a travel agent and the third one was I don't remember what I had zero English which which I really have zero English till now until AI came and helped me a little bit. I definitely travel agent. I don't know h how you becoming a travel agent. So I went to the next step which is the job placement and I got a job by Avon Feller A to Z luggage. A feller was a literature guy Berliner guy that had seven fancy luggage stores in Manhattan. >> I'm talking about Hartman Tumi you know >> Tumi is very good. >> All all of them. >> I have a Tumi suitcase. >> Yeah. It was at the time at the time was $200 a suitcase when Samsonite was 25. He has seven of those stores. >> It's worth it. >> You're gonna find his name. He was the one he was living in 1418 when Rabb Tisha in the morning. You're going to find the Rashim that the R fellow which was living across the street run to the Reb's home >> winner lived in 1418 President Street. >> There were many fisher here living there at the time in in in the 60s. So he is the one that run to the rabbits and to to the rabbit to tell her that his mother is not good. Anyway, so I was managing a store for him without English, without nothing. He just needed a trusted guy. I go to store told told him that their impression is that they're going to be good and without English. I got to manage a store on 23rd and Fifth Avenue luggage store. And over there I saw people coming, buying, traveling, talking about travel. I got in I I bumped into Ed Travel agent course $300 20 sessions across the street after work exactly I'm finishing five uh 530 so I said I'm so much around travel let's try it by the end apparently the value of the course is probably at the time $1,000 she gave it for 300 because she was trying to get the clients from us and she was offering us 20% commission. She should get the 80% after that. But we learned it later. I I learned it. That's how I That's was in >> If you don't mind me interrupting, what did they teach you in a travel agency course? >> I had the time. >> I'm just curious. >> How to write a ticket and how to calculate the taxes. >> It was a few a touch of Saber. Saber was >> I don't know. It's like what does it mean? Saber. What's Saber? >> Saber is the reservation system for travel. >> It's not click click click. It's >> We are still on. Everybody uses it. >> We are still in DAS. We dust operation. You know DAS before? >> I heard of old computers. So it's still dust. >> It's 2026. >> 2026. Really the real travel industry is going and does because you need to have in a split of a second a confirmation number. Two agents are trying to get the one seat and one of them is getting it 100% confirmed and the other one is out. Windows is not that strong for that. D is much stronger. >> There's no screen. I'm working I'm working with codes the whole day. I'm not working with the mouth. I'm working with codes. 6p and item er is the end of the record >> and WC1G. Will you change the first leg to G-Class? Everything is codes >> still. >> And are they ever going to change it? >> Well, there is a way to click the younger travel agent. Some of them are turning this DOS into clicking. But it's not it's not the same thing. >> The real thing is does that. >> Somebody's trying to get an upgrade. >> It's this phone, right? >> Let's get the phones muted. That sounds like an alarm. >> No, just >> so the codes, there is rules, there is attics. >> Most travelers you say still are using DOS. >> Older ones for sure. The system runs on DOS. >> It's running on DOS. And >> there is there is a way to do it digital window. >> But you're still using just that you have a front face that's back end. >> A front face. That's exactly the word. >> Interface. Wow. >> And >> and she she taught you this. That was part of the course. >> She taught me everything. We we were writing tickets. When you write a ticket, you have to write the text that goes to the airport has to go to the city has to go to the states. It was a whole job. And then I for the next year of 1994 I was doing it part-time. I had a uh I forgot her raise. Her maid name was Silus. Her husband is English. Uh and she was working in a company that I hooked up with to sell their tickets as a freelancer and she was living in Kern Heights. She was bringing me in a bag the paper tickets. I should be able to give it to the clients. >> Mhm. >> Hold on. We're going to take a kid to me. I'm sorry. >> We're going to get a a short intermission now. We're going to be talking about our sponsors. First of all, I want to just say the the sponsors are calling us nonstop. We have two mega mega mega companies competing to be the official official corporate sponsor of the entire show that their name will be across the entire mug. We have two very very very big conglomerate companies fighting over it. Why is she where's the negotiations holding to be the official corporate sponsor? >> It's hope it keeps on going higher. >> Since this week is a travel guest, >> since it's a travel guest, people want to travel to luxury kosher destinations. >> What's like the most luxury brand? >> People always like when I'm going to be rich, I'm going to go to a KMR program. It's I've been hearing about this KMR program. KMR KMR. So KMR is now a sponsor of tonight's show. Now, KMR, because they're known for their high-end baked goods, they have their own bakery, which is called Brew House. >> So, Brew House is a corporate sponsor of tonight's show. Let me see what this cake looked like. Moy, >> this thing is heavy. Well, look at the box. >> Oh, they're not cheap on the cheese. Let me tell you, if I would have known, I would have not been fleshic. >> White chocolate. Pick it up. Whoa. >> Belgian. Probably Belgian. >> Belgian. Yeah. Yeah. He told me three layers. >> Triple layer. Let me I'll pull a piece out. >> A piece. A cake like this probably cost a couple hundred bucks. No, that's not I think it's around the uh I don't want to say what's in that front >> here. But your your flesh >> flesh. You got to You're going to tease me, huh? >> Tease me? >> You're you're the food consumption. >> I'm going to have to wait till the morning to get a piece. >> You going to have a piece or no? >> Not Not a piece that a piece of a piece. >> A piece of a piece. Are you going to die or what? Yeah, I have a mentor in Israel which is playing with my brain. >> Oh, here's a place. >> It's triple layer. Look. Clap. Check it. Triple. >> Oh my god. >> A piece of a piece. >> Oh, so here we have like a whole piece of chocolate on white chocolate on the top and then under that we have three layers of cheeses. >> Craziness. Belgian. And the it's just >> if you can't afford 50 grand to go to a kayak, you can get at least a shoo cheesecake. >> Exactly. >> Is it enough chocolate here to make a chak? >> I would say it's 100% shahak. I don't see anything else besides cheeses. >> Well, yeah. This is really >> what's I don't know. I'm not a rough, but it looks like it's a wish I could answer. Amen. I wish I could feel like I'm part of the action. Barak Warner told me he's shipping hundreds of cakes around America for corporate gifting. Their Brew House Cafe where they're going to be making everything will soon be open. >> Oh, they're going to open Brew House Cafe on Kingston Avenue to the public all year round. >> Mhm. >> Oh, I'm looking forward to that. >> Oh, chocolate. >> Brew House makes their own chocolate. >> Check it out. >> Look at this. Looks like a fancy gift. It looks like >> get these get a few of these for my clients. Oh my gosh. >> How good does this look? >> How good? You should get this for your for your top clients now. This looks like a real >> look. You do corporate gifting at all. >> And what do you give? What's usually your go-to item? >> Oh, look at the paper. How classy that looks. >> That's all the details. >> Does it say KMR in it? >> Says Brew House KMR. Oh, it does. Brew House KMR the paperwork. I'm trying to be creative. >> What was this year's past corporate gift? >> A handmade uh cell phone holder from uh Mrs. Rapkin here does uh >> Oh, glass. >> Not the glass. Whatever it's called, the the >> resin. >> Resin. resin with a plate of the name of the person inside the resin. >> That's That's nice. >> Kaiser flat cracks. The biggest invention in crackers in the last hundred years made here. >> I'm sorry. Clap. We have to How do someone order the brew house? >> Oh, how does somebody order the brew house? So you go to, let me see here, brewhousecafe.com. >> Bers R U H O U S >> B R U H O U S EF.com >> c a f.com. >> You can check out their menu, different cheesecakes. They're open to the public starting tomorrow. Call them. They have their bakeries on Kingston Avenue. to reference tonight's Sunday night >> and hopefully we're going to release >> hopefully tomorrow Monday early because trou is a Thursday we can't release >> we need a little a little more time for the KR does it get more caution of a sponsor than KMR >> it's a very classy we're very >> it's like Simpson jewelers you know Kmart is it get any better or no >> top of the line >> where's your next is Coke and Pepsi >> you say Simpson's one I didn't I didn't hear >> I was speaking to them we're discussing it about wearing uh wearing their watches on the show >> a Simpson watch >> no Simpson Rolex card Awatch. >> Will the GDRO approve a Simpson watch >> just for that? I'm sorry. >> Cafe.com. >> Yeah. And uh B ruh and you get buy KMR. >> Anyway, big honor >> again. All the people that were on their PES program getting a cheesecake. It puts you on the level of the Pesak people. >> Moving on to Kaiser. >> Moving on to Kaiser. Kaiser flat cracks is the biggest invention in the world of Kdish crackers since the creation of the world. Made here locally switch over yet. >> Everybody's switching over. Every show is switching over. >> And I mean >> it's not sure. >> And what better way to pier clap >> with what? >> I'll tell you something. Their cracker doesn't even need anything. >> You don't need anything. Just cracker. >> You know what's funny? Today I was at I was I was at UBS Arena and this guy pulls me over. Oh, the Clappy Frank show. Blah blah blah. >> So little spicy. Little spicy. No. >> So there was two ticket brokers hopefully going to come with their shonu to like sports tickets brokers, concert tickets brokers. Very heavily business. I've discovered he said 50% of sports tickets and concert brokers are from >> Wow. >> 50%. And he said there about two and a half thousand exist anyway. So >> oh flam another one of our popular corporate sponsors flam which is around >> can I finish what I was about to say call >> can I finish I was about to say >> so the guy's like how do you make money one ticket broker asked me like how do you make money on the show he's like oh you got to see them eat that food on the show and you'll understand very well how they make their money. >> So a video producer asked us not to eat food but we're not tasting the food from the sponsor because it gets them nervous. So, we're going to try to keep the eating to when we talk about the sponsors. Although the the food that we have is so delicious, it's hard not to eat the entire time. So, one of our most hush of a sponsors is Flam. Flam's been around since 1918. It's a Hisha company. They're in the freezer section in grocery stores across the entire United States, including in places that it's very hard to find kosher food. They make it their business. They're like, they make sure that they provide kosher food in states that are hard to have kosher food. The hot dip is always delicious. Let me taste it again. >> It's good. It clears up the >> cleans the pallet. >> Cleans the palette after the heavy cheesecake >> that you didn't try. >> The sour pickles they say are the best in the world. >> Your grandmother >> and passed by their truck last week. They did a rebrand. Their trucks now are like this pink across the truck. Everybody talks about their rebrand. Whoever did that rebrand just genius. Look at this. They stand out. That re You ever saw such a beautiful rebrand. It ain't no 1918. >> It's hot stuff. >> It's hot. >> The real deal. Flams is just so delicious. >> You know, a lot of people told me they've been trying Kaiser crackers ever since um they heard on our show. >> Everybody's car was dirty the whole winter. It snowed, it was rainy, it was dirty. People forgot what they drove. But now that it's beautiful outside, everybody's pulling their cars out of their garage and they're like, "No, we need a new car." The biggest topic in Schuler Chabas was cars. People are going to the country. They don't want their cars breaking down. People are going away for shvuis. Guess what? You call wheels to lease the week of Shvis. You could call them Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. They'll have a brand new car in your driveway before Shvuis. You call Saul or Izzy at wheels to lease. They got all the numbers, the Pilots, the Odysseies, the Genesis, the GV80. They have a crazy deal. They say that their deal on the GV80 is lower than any other dealership in the world. Wheels to lease. Any luxury car you need, your kid needs a Sonata. Your kid needs a Rogue. Your kid needs affordable car starting at 200 bucks a month. Wheels to call Solzy. Today, somebody called me up. They had an issue with a Honda. They needed an extended warranty. They called up Izzy Herman on a Sunday. Problem was resolved on the spot. You need a car wheels to lease. >> Our first sponsor ever. >> And our first sponsor ever, CH Butcher. CH Butcher not only has a Manhattan restaurant in Brooklyn on Troy Avenue, the most delicious food in the world, they also have a deli on Albany Avenue with the most amazing food in the world. >> Cage Butcher the restaurant on Troy. >> Yeah, it was a few times. >> Few times. Take her mean when I need to take out Rab Blau. Where else can I take him out in the world? That's the only that you would eat in the restaurant >> under the right. >> Did you think you'd be so the biggest in the world? >> Biggest in the world. Did you predict that or it came as a surprise? >> I love him for what he's not worth for what he does. >> You're going to clap. >> Western blow. He lives two doors away from me. My properties I wish I owned the propert so much. >> If you wouldn't push my daughter to push me to the show, I wouldn't be here. You know, >> clap. Can we talk about another travel agency on our show? >> They don't compete. They don't compete. >> Okay. Shal said he's He's doing 80 90% Israel tickets. >> Okay. You're into the Caribbean or not so much. Not at all. Okay. Good. Now we get to pull them out. Pull out the goods. KGB. >> Central Travel is a very very unique travel agency. They make ready-made vacation packages in the best hotels in the world and they throw in airfare, car rentals and a lot of the places have kosher food as well. So you could do the Altier Bay Harbor in Miami, Florida. >> Kosher breakfast. Kosher five days, four nights, airfare for two included. Deluxe King kosher breakfast $1,875. Like we said, it's almost more expensive to stay home. That's central travel. A >> great location with all the restaurants there in Bel Harour. >> They're running a special to the St. Regis in uh Player Cara, Mexico. 4,200 bucks. Airfare, 5 days, ocean view, airport transportation included. >> You've been to Mexico Caribbean or no? I went to Mexico a few times. The the Caribbean, not not yet. >> They have a deal going over here in the Dominican Republic. 49.87 airfare for two five days. Uh it's a luxury pool. Um transportation included the whole thing. Bako, you do nothing. You just WhatsApp them. 845202775. You give them your information. They book your entire vacation. All you have to focus on is having a good time. >> Next one. We have another boom. We also have >> Panama City 3,300 bucks. Airfare for two, five days, four nights, transportation, king-size, everything you need. Bako Miko Carl. Central Travel. Reach out to my friends at info@ centraltravel.com. >> Mishi Ilawitz. >> Mishi. Mishi is the greatest. >> We met his partner also. What was his name? Sweet friend from England. >> But he was on a WhatsApp video call when he was a sweet guy. >> I saw you called him recently to for a question on travel. Yeah, people. Yeah. Yeah. People call me. Yeah, he's good. If you want to go to a crazy destination for an affordable price and not have to do any work. >> Let's make it clear. If you want to go to Israel, >> Israel 100% specialty. >> Yeah, we still have a lot of >> I know you I know are very successful cuz somehow we managed to get our key airlines to donate like 10 tickets to the forum. So >> tell us about that. >> If you don't clap it, I'm going to make it clear. If you don't sell any tickets or very little, the airlines will look at you. If you sell a lot, then you start saying, "Please donate tickets for this, donate tickets for that." >> It's not about It's not about >> It shows that he's he does very well. >> It's not about quality. It's about Hashem gifted me with uh talents to network and to get contacted with the right people. I'm Bor Hashem. As you can see, I showed you I sent you on a firstname basis with the CEO of Alal and CEO of Ara and CEO of Israel and with the head management here in Israel and in America. It really doesn't matter what you know. It really doesn't matter what your volume is. matters who you know, how well you represent that your clients are important to you and reported to them. And I I can sit here for 20 hours and uh share with you how those connections, those relations helped my clients in places they didn't even dream that it's possible to be helped in endless amount of things. And that Schlim thing was one of those except of of those examples. Oberlovich which is the CEO of Aria was here for a short visit and at the time Ara was going only three times a week and he had they have no Wi-Fi. He had to go back with United because he needed to go to certain day where was not traveling. He had Wi-Fi and he apparently was not too busy on the plane and it was six o'clock in the morning here and he sent me something. I sent him something. We started to chat on WhatsApp and Hashem helped me to ask him O let's do something for theim let's put I mean let's face it American jewelry if you're not counting the reform movement is Lavich when Lubavich is calling me to asking for a ticket for Israel and I'm ask and I'm offering archa he says aria who so let's do something for for the I have to say that I was asked by one of the organizers, individuals of the I should try to get him 10 free tickets and I approached Alal first and unfortunately they were not in a position to help me. So that's why I approached him and we're chatting here and chatting back and forth and in the end of the way we got 10 tickets for free for theim $770 ticket for the spouse which is >> very cheap >> half price today and three free nights in Amahad hotel all paid by. >> Wow. The deadline was to to complete travel by May 31st and then the war broke out. So they were generous enough to extend it to September 10. And those days uh we lucky in the first look that actually are getting their tickets. This is a very very big deal. But by volume I don't think you you can get that. You were wrong. You're getting it by connection. But volume helps build the connection I think. >> Yes, sometimes and sometimes other things >> you really they really they really >> it came from a sincere caring place. I'm sure that's what helped >> caring for the client. All those people know >> that Shmulik isn't there to make a backer right away. Shulik is sincerely caring for the client and will fight for every little thing. Will not take no for an answer. will make sure that uh they should be happy with the satisfied with the deal with the flight with the airline and they appreciate that the similarity to us. How did all the asoneim finding their way in the hospitals with with the doctors? It's very simple. They are not everybody is fearer. There are many asia which are small like the lady >> just for reference you're talking to Rafer is one of the fa most famous guys in the world that helps that helps with doctors in Israel >> this lady that was killed now coming back from the col she was a small asking one of the hospitals in but she was getting everything there from the biggest professors money no no no subject why because she she was sincere and they saw that she was sincere and All those top people when they smell somebody is sincere they work with him they care for him they help him and Hashem granted me with to be sincere to care for my clients I have very few clients that left me for all those years whatever starts continues because my service is sincere is honest is all the way true it's it's caring And all those executives see that in Borashem. That's why I have a getting for things that other people with much larger value than me are not there to get. >> Some of the popular questions that are coming up now with this whole situation with Iran, which is not a week or month or even year thing. There's a lot of friction and tensions going on between Iran and America, Iran and Israel. And like when we booked tickets now, I'm going to Israel in a few days from now. We waited till the last second to book because my wife kept saying, "What's going to be if there's gonna be a war with Iran? What's going to be if there's gonna be with the war with Iran?" At a certain point, we booked already. Now we're going in a few days. >> And now you know that going to be now. I don't know that there's not going to be. And also, if I go, how do I know I'm even going to be able to come back? What's the parameter? I'm asking for the whole world is thinking about this. What is the parameter now? Is it should people book now? Are they going to get there? Are they going to get stuck there in Israel? And here's a double. The second part of the question is is that the last time there was a war, people had to get back to their families and their businesses and their teaching jobs and they came back through very dangerous ways. They came back through other countries and a lot of those airports don't seem safe. >> And what are the refund and credit? >> One second. I want to first know. >> We're going to do it one by one. >> One by one. Yeah. >> What are you checking? >> I'm trying to find something. One of the If you're going to give me one second, please. >> That's funny. Before he came on the show, I thought he was >> You have to You have to read that. >> Read this loud. Starting from the top top. >> One of the two cartoons. When is the war going to be over? Is the flight on March one of his cartoons? >> Schmoolik, is the flight on March 22nd still operating as scheduled. God, please give me for a few minutes. I don't see how I can handle it without it. When will Iran run out of missiles? When is Natbag going to open up? What's that? Nutbag put in his can you get me on the first flight out. How are you going to bring my daughter home for B? Oh my god. Okay. And the answer is >> so the answer is I have to answer you also. My dishes are kind of broken and and I cannot answer you what's going to be tomorrow. I can tell you is that if you're buying a ticket now online, you are not the smartest man. If you're buying it with a good agent that knows what he's doing, he is going to try to do his best by circumstances. That's might still mean that you're going to be stuck two two weeks in Israel. That might be mean that you have to go through Egypt to come back if you're desperate. That means many things. You missed the last one here. It was it was >> No, I have I have to I have to do that. When I have a minion, when I'm flying back through Jordan, >> what's the refund policies? Credit policies with no think. Is it safe to go back through Egypt or Jordan? God forbid if you're stuck. >> Everything was fine. >> Uh, the answer is >> no. People had WhatsApp stories that were scary. What does WhatsApp stories? >> People had horror stories like we'll find out. >> The answer is Jordan less than Egypt. >> Jordan is less safe than Egypt. >> Less safe. there are more picking there. You have to hide more your Jewish identity. There were times that it stopped this war with the previous war they were trying to cut film to make sure that there is no explosive inside film. uh Egypt. It depends which airport, but the only flights I did from Egypt was a hired VIP service to take you to the border through the border into an Ara hired bus that Archa flew from Shamashek to America. >> Wow. >> There was a rumor that nobody knows exactly what happened. I believe something happened there. Someim touched a girl and therefore it was a rumor in the seminaries to say not to fly there to to region because the girls are not safe. But the can try to touch a girl in in JFK also. So I wasn't impressed. But uh generally speaking, you obviously want to try to leave from Israel if you can, but it's a situation where there's weddings, their jobs, their kids that you have a choice with Israeli skies are closed. They're closed. Can you still open? It's my grandmother's 80th birthday. Can you open the sky for me? No, I can't open the sky for you because the skies are freaking closed. >> Refund policies. What are they for the Israeli lines? I know they saw a lawsuit recently. Some lawsuit >> for the fifth time asking. So let's answer. >> Oh, you don't want to >> I just didn't have a chance. So since the war started was a very interesting policy by all the Israeli airlines, no penalty. Typically changing a ticket is two is $375. >> Wow. That's what was before before Corona. By Corona it was waved because of Corona that didn't come back. It came back just before the war when the war started which means that your ticket is to be used for a year without paying a penalty. Difference and fair is a different story. It could be $1,000 difference and fair but no penalty and they really stick to it and they're good about it. >> And the question is who can the flight? If the airline cancelled cancel flights, they have to give money back by international law. This is no favors. And borashem again, people that bought online had a lot of complications to get their money back. Borashem, all my clients that were deserving a refund got their refund. Even though the airlines were busy with tens of thousands of refunds and to stay in line regularly, they still didn't get the money for March tickets. My clients got within a very reasonable amount of time every penny back for flights which were cancelled by the airline. Not a flight that you decided that you can't take because you might be hit by a missile. That's not covered. >> So, if they cancel it, you get your money back. If you booked it through an agent, you'll get it back even quicker. What happens if you're scared to go on the flight because of a war that's going on? What's the rules then? It's you're on your penalty. You're on your own. >> You bought you bought you bought the tickets to a war zone. You cannot come and say it's a war and therefore give you money back. It doesn't work. >> I have a ticket in a few days from now. If if Trump starts bombing the hell out of Iran and Iran starts shooting rockets in Israel and Israel says, "No, it's still safe to fly." And a person didn't buy insurance, they could say it's too too bad. There is no insurance to buy into a war zone for trip cancellation because of a war. No such thing. But again, everybody predicts that if Iran will be attacked, they're going to hit Israel with missiles and as a result of that, the airports will be closed or reduced to like they had >> 50 people per flight. >> Just understand something, okay? coming in flights, it's okay to handle 300 people. In the worst case scenario, they're leaving the the the suitcases at the airport. You're chasing them out 15 minutes, 20 minutes, and they are out of the airport. Checking in is security. It's checking in the luggage. It's it's passport control. It's uh the you know this screening. And then to get into the plane, it takes time. So it's like two and a half three hours which you're risking and there are shelters there but it's not a convenient shelters. So you're risking for three hours. So therefore they came up with the 50 people a plane which should be everything much quicker. >> Who makes these decisions? >> 50 the government. >> Who's the I'm just curious. It's a guy eating potato chips. >> It's Mary Reev with her crew together with the army people. >> Who's Mary Reg? What is she? What's her transportation minister? >> Transportation minister. But 50 people a flight is almost like a closed airport >> because everybody knows somebody in the top there and he gets people to be one of the 50 and to get in a regular person at those 50 is close to impossible even though we got through a few of those over there too. Sky 2000 gets you in. >> But uh don't expect that if the business is starting to fly, you going to show them we going to have the airport open with regular 300 people of flight leaving Israel. >> So how often do you fly? How often do you fly yourself? >> I'm trying to I have biz a 90year-old mother in Israel. I'm trying to visit here right after Purim and Shabas which is her birthday. You don't do America, Mexico, Caribbean, Europe. You'll >> less less somehow. >> So the answer was you fly to Israel twice a year. >> Trying this time I couldn't fly because it was the war. So I don't know what's going to be with that ticket. But I have a ticket for September. >> What's the What are some interesting from friendly destinations that people maybe not know about that you can recommend for vacation? Again, I'm less vacation person, but I have a friend that now came back from Vietnam, and there are a few kabad houses there. Very well operating. Uh, I had also a nephew, which was the one of the a hotel with a swimming pool. I think it's $27 a night >> in Vietnam. >> In Vietnam, >> $27. >> It's a communistic country. The cars are average 60s to 70s. 1960s, 1970s cars, >> but it's a very interesting, nice place, not over over visited and they're friendly to to tourists. And I will say that that's one of the hottest tickets far from here. But I will say that the Dubai is basically closed now. It's not so gishmak to hang out in Dubai. >> Dubai, why >> the war situation with the war? They're being bombed there. Nobody's touring Dubai in Dubai. >> Yeah. Whatever. >> Do they have Do they have restaurants? Are they helping or >> right now? Everything is under the radar. There's nothing. It's It's change. Is not allowed to fly there. Is >> they were part of the They were part of the Abraham Accords. No. >> Right. Everybody was was allowed to fly there. But right now, only the local company there goes to Israel, >> not the Israeli company. if you can and hopefully it's going to come back. >> Yeah. But so this um Vietnam is is is interesting. >> So look, what's your favorite place to travel on vacation? The bangalow colony. May >> across the street from Mayus. >> Oh, you don't go to Mayan? >> No, I I I sold I sold my place in a few years ago. >> It's worth that much money, huh? >> Now I'm renting across the street. >> Two weeks. He deserved them after the three weekends. >> So, what's your f favorite place to travel on a plane to? >> I have a daughter in Arizona and that we're traveling there for uh and and Israel, but when I have a chance, I'm going not a big vacation guy. >> You never were. >> Yeah. You just like to sell tickets. >> This space we we had a very good time in Pomona. We took a house there and we're going there back for >> So you're a vacation enabler but not a vacationer yourself. >> Well, going on Pomona is an hour and a half away. It's like station. >> Yeah, it's it's a whole schle of traveling >> coming from a travel >> being that being that skinny I have to travel business class. I can't travel co >> and as to Israel I'm flying business free >> but all the other destinations it's expensive to fly business. So I am >> so if you're travel agent you always fly the Israel the Israeli airlines will fly will upgrade you if you're a travel agent >> will give me a business ticket. >> Very nice clam you want to come a travel agent. >> What was the the craziest request someone asked you to do a rich guy rich guy girl. And do you like rich clients or you like the middle class? What type of what's your preference? Hashem I have good routes and the right way to work out with all the types. It's a total different approach, a total different uh uh request, a total different price, a total different everything. You know, when somebody when somebody is buying four business class tickets to Sukas now nowadays is paying $50,000 four tickets, right? So when somebody is paying $50,000 for four tickets, so wherever it demands, you are there and you're holding your hand in his hand and you're trying to answer those all the questions and you're double checking and and if he doesn't have an aisle, see that he wants a business class. So you checking three times a day for three months until maybe something will open up and and you'll find it. Um, >> hold on. >> Can I ask you a question? If you if you're flying business, the seat is so much bigger, wouldn't it be less important to have an aisle or am I mixing up mixing up? >> No. Like, let's say Lal is single seats by the windows and then there's an aisle and then there's two sitting in the middle. >> Mhm. >> When a person goes single, he likes to sit in a single seat. he doesn't want to sit with somebody else >> or when when four people are are traveling, they want to have those two two seaters. >> Two two seaters >> are available. So so so that they could >> they could feel like they're part of the family >> a fourth across the aisle. >> But they still want to try to get if it's opens up that that's it. Then you have the uh regular upscale regular business or premium or people which are traveling you know like two business class seats with the family 10 12 tickets in coach. It's a different clientele. They're less demanding but you have to be still. >> So no crazy requests. You never got any crazy request in over 30 years. I don't know what you call as request because I I I my philosophy is that every request is legit. I don't think I ever classified. >> But if they want to but again but she was upset that she >> if she want the ocean of you she's not going to get >> she's not getting the ocean. >> Okay. But anything that has to do I'm very strong with VIP in Israel. There is a VIP private private terminal in Israel. It cost him56 700 depends what. But you don't see this whole terminal tree with your eyes. them taking you with a black car from the steps of the plane, taking you to a private place where you're sitting down and doing the passport control while you're sitting and then you giving him the the boarding passes while you're sitting is sifting ki and and having a very good time in a very fancy lounge while the porter is going back to terminal 3, picking up your luggage, sending a picture, coming back and you and your chauffeer is picking you Many people don't know about that service, but the second they do, >> life changes. >> They get very excited about it because you're paying $12,000 ticket for business and then you're like a schluck standing in line with everything >> for two hours >> and trying to to get you your luggage. So, we are very strong with this whole VIP business. >> It's not included in a business class ticket. >> Of course, never >> never. But and you know there are some people middle class which will go even coach or or economy plus or premium but they will buy the VIP because this whole headache and hassle of going through the checking in and checking out which is a major disaster in high seasons major disaster. People hate it. They'll pay the couple hundred dollar and they're going to buy the VIP. There are people which are buying them VIP even without buying a ticket. They're buying mileage tickets. are buying tickets for my competition online, whatever it is, but they will call me for the VIP because when you're buying VIP, you don't want to buy the line. You really want to sell. >> So, I just want to I just want to say Sky 2000 is not only there to book your tickets and hold your hand, they'll sell you VIP service or if you don't need any of that. They're very good at getting you travel insurance. >> Travel insurance. Currently, I made strong in Israel with car. So, look, >> you we have you have to do a video every week. You told me you wanted us to post your cartoon every week. I think a video of you reading your cartoon is a lot more effective. You're such a strong Russian character. I think you are the cartoon. Maybe that's why you write so well. You just think of >> I I should try. >> I feel like we missed a little bit of how you your personality and how you turned into the travel. I think we missed a little bit of you were not in any school. You stayed at home not to go to the go education system in Russia. You left. You left Russia at 9 years old. So now I want to hear you came to Israel at 9 years old and now you had to be integrated into the school system in Israel at 9 years old. >> You did you didn't speak Hebrew. You spoke you spoke Russian? >> No. In the house they spoke Yiddish. >> Yiddish. >> And I in the age of nine I finished in Russia. I and I luck that's what they learned in in the class. >> You spoke any Russian? because of the street. But in at at the house, my father, for example, spoke to me mainly. >> Today, you speak fluent Russian. >> I speak fluent Russian. I speak flu fluent English, Hebrew, and some English. >> A little French. A little French. >> I I I know how to crucif. >> So you get to Israel and they put you in. >> They put me in a class of five kids. I was two years in Shakan in a class of five, six kids. That was the whole class. The oldest class time in was was a teacher and it was some fun. >> Did you have a hard time never interacting with kids suddenly having to deal with kids? What was that? You remember that experience? >> Yes. I I I I came to Israel. It's painful, hard for me to talk about it, but I came to Israel with one of the prize of the Merish kid was I came to Israel with zero social skills. And and I'm talking about zero so social skills. The first day I I got into the was 2 pm. My father sent me to to the in Alabama. Yosi posner was at the time his father was in there to settle in ah to settle in with the Russian immigrants that are coming. So you went from his uh pocket money for from his savings. He went downstairs and he bought a pencil with a marker and notebook >> notebook and he gives it to me and they were learning whatever was an hour and after that I told him something he didn't like whatever it is and he's taking it away from me it's some funny thing that is his that he paid for it the whole concept of my and paid for it didn't sit with me I never saw I never forgot. And when I grow up, I understand how weird there is that they don't accept the concept or you know the Zag the Zag that built East New York. >> Yeah. Yeah. He was a developer. Yeah. >> Manakam has a brother here in Kona. >> So their father had a folkswagen with a back open back like a kind of a >> pickup truck. >> Pickup truck but a little bit covered. The the next day there is recess and I see that there's like a huge parking lot kind of in front of the apartment which was the school temporary and I see a car gets into that and two kids which is Malaka and Leao are standing on the back uh uh bumper of of the carik is there the third one I mean if two kids are doing it I'm doing the same thing they throw me off that with some stupid explanation that is their father's car. So they are allowed to do that because it's the father's car and I'm not because it's >> so you were in communism. You didn't understand that everybody owns everything >> because of the mass nefish of English kite. I was isolated from other kids. They didn't have a chance to give me skills as is a part of the nefish was my parents is that they could have lose me. They could I could have be totally rewalked from them taken away to orphanage immorality. They would never see me again. That was the beginning. But sides of them was zero social skills. Anyway in in Shiva and Lud, they did not teach one letter in English. When I started to come to to the rabbit of Shamid 77, I couldn't read the signs of Kingston Avenue. Nothing. And I know spelling until now about the same thing. But Hashem helped me like a year ago, a year and a half ago came Mr. AI which I'm talking to and he spelling it for me. So a new world I can I can communicate in English. >> So one second. You know the Russian mentality really really well. You're integrated. You were born there. You're seven generations. What do you think is going to be the end of the Russian Ukraine war? >> Oh, come on. >> Hold on a second. go back to to cartoon. >> Since you have experience with communism, how do you feel about our current mayor more? He's not a communist. He's not a socialist. He's push a thief and a liar. I got a I got I came across a week ago a Tik Tok that says that he within five months brought the deficit of New York City from $8 billion to zero. And he's very proud about it. And a day later, I'm getting a tic tac. Guess how did he do that? Or he's bragging. I didn't put in extra real estate taxes. I didn't tax the the the working class. He borrowed money and crazy interest to be paid up to 2040. That's that's that's not a socialist for Ghana. But we saw I mean communists had two goals to take away from the rich. >> Give it to the poor >> and give it to the poor. They did the first half. He's saying if you're hooked up in the Communist Party, you'll be that's where the money um you like in all these third world countries that have communism. Those people on the top get taken care of. Correct. >> Yeah. Whatever. But it's not uh it's not making a difference. It's not making a difference a lot. >> Being in the business over 30 years, we ask a lot of people that come on the show that have a certain business, would they advise their children or relatives or friends? >> Where would we end off? >> What would you recommend somebody that wants to go into the travel agency industry? What's your advice >> for the last 15 years since the first time that United reduced this commission from 10% to 8% then to 6% uh basically until corona I felt that I will not be able to retire from travel because it's a temporary thing the internet is taking over you know do do you know somebody working as a as an elevator boy >> hold on we had an we just did an episode about elevators 5 days ago. We're very hot on this. >> Do you know somebody which is selling ice for ice boxes? >> No. >> Selling uh some train tokens, cassettes. The feeling was that travel agent is going in the same direction, >> right? >> And then came Corona and again that people came back because they had to and then they realized that. And today I want to tell you there's a network in hillside in Jersey by let's call the first names of five fiveish Yankee >> Yankee used to work for me >> of 130 new young travel agents that came back to the industry and making an >> I mean obviously they're not as experienced as the older guys are. They're not knowledgeable. I used to do it for >> they're not connected as much but young blood came in by the hundreds back to the industry because yes uh even though we feel that we are to leave tomorrow they see that has a future because in in the end of the day service business is a service business in the in the end of the day people that got burned one time two times three times her brother got burned down they see it's about the same price could be even cheaper. Why not? And again, people don't like to talk about it because it's got somehow when you're coming to the other world, the first thing that they asking you is >> you were honest in business. >> But this has another explanation. Did you speak speculate with your religion? that you try to get brownies with your with your religion. So there is a little a little bit speculating with but guys with all the respect there is a how dear are you going and buying a ticket online when you can't buy the same ticket for about the same price and giving not to yank to barrel there's so many lights here how dear do you have the brak to do that and not talking about that this is a stupid move because you have no service where is your religion where is your okay so if more than 20% are more expensive so so have a way to go out but I'm not and most of the cases cheaper or the same price or a few dollars more where is thinking about another Jew and not to mention other sect in other uh boros or sections of Brooklyn there is a section in Brooklyn which I will not mention the name that They are busy with making sure giving their penos inside the community and every dollar they're spending they're trying to spend to take their own contractor and and their own engineer and their own grocery man and and and their own travel agent and their own accountant. And you can see a whole community of tens of thousands of people that simply live with a concept of that whatever we can't spend a dollar with a person that makes that's what they're doing. >> I just want >> we need a little bit. >> So look my good friend Donald one of our future sponsors told me talking about from the from Crown Street. Yeah. >> He has Tashik in the back of his house. He told me he's like >> I try always to use from people and I think he mentioned this point. This I could be my own add-on. >> If you deal with someone outside the community and something goes wrong, you want to go to court or something deal with another from guy his cousin his uncle call him ask him people are first of all you have a >> happens to be that I know his travel agent and she's an amazing person and he does he gets great service. >> He has first of all access to remediate a problem. Also, number two, if you do something wrong in our community, one guy tells his friends, "Uncle, cousin, you're out. You're done. Your your reputation is done." >> Which means they'll want to help you. >> Yeah. So, it's good business to do it in the community. Obviously, shop around. Make sure you're not >> It's good business to give business local. >> Yeah. Because then you have there's there's accountability. >> There's recourse. There's recourse. >> Yeah. For example, >> I'm definitely scared. I'm definitely scared from social media. Uh I never ever do something that should justify bashmere me but I'm afraid from some excuse me idiot which was decided that I treat him wrong and he's going to bash bash bashmere me you know the famous joke goes that two girls are fighting and one of them is saying if you're not going to chill out I'm going to give a pat chabas and the be and going to announce that I saw your daughter going with a soldier he says I don't have a daughter. So it says >> what does that mean >> that you're going to announce next that you don't have a daughter that that that detail. >> So for a full week everyone does that. >> So I'm that scared that somebody social media makes you will yeah will send some something that I don't deserve but you know go prove and go explain that I'm not for it. So definitely social media is a tool that when you're working with your local people, you're secure that you're going to get the best possible service because or else >> my sister has some Airbnbs and she told me unfortunately she thought that the go would be amazing. It's the best thing in the world. She told me these guy there since they don't know you, there's no relationship, they'll quickly give you a one-star review, one star review, hoping that you're going to refund the money on the rental and this and that. >> It's just said you deal with people not once, maybe once in a million and they had one issue because there's a relationship. >> So it I believe it's very important when you keep it in community, you know who you're dealing with, you know the guy's cousins, the sister, brother, there's some accountability circle that it's going to come back to you. And also with our sponsors, you deal with sponsors. You want to know if they're doing well. Are they seeing results from our marketing? Is it just are they just throwing money out the window or could you just like our show, which I don't mind, you know, but still we we want to know. And there's accountability. We're going to see them again. We'll see them at a wedding. You're going to see the firm world is not that big. As big as it is, you know, >> you're going to see the guy again. The guy's cousins or brother. You're always there is accountability. >> Did I tell you the story? >> No. Guy calls me up. Guy calls me up on Friday and he's like, "Izzy, I know you had on Bellisimo Hatters and you spoke about their kapatas." >> He's like, "Could you find out people that had the kapata?" >> Mhm. >> And I found out a bunch of people that had the kapata and they all had amazing things to say. >> And by mistake, I said that it's $100 instead of $50 off because of the show. And yes, he's like, "Izzy, you told the guy in good faith it's a h 100red bucks off the gap." The guy went today for an appointment. He's super happy. He's telling all his friends. When people advertise on our show, they're not only getting, you know, the the shout out and we tell people about it. People call us up and they say, "Can we get a commercial? We want to buy a truckload of some of their products." People call me up, can I get a line of credit at wheels to lease for their car? We we we work for our clients. >> CH Butcher got distribution in a certain state. I don't want to say just because of our show. >> I want to >> How does somebody reach out to Sky 2000? I can see in a second, but I want to say that um I I mentioned Levias avail. I'm committed 100%. But any day that you want to fly to Israel and you're going online and you don't see a seat available or you see a seat available only business for $10,000. >> I know how to get those seats. I'm not committed, but I know how to get the seats. I have the relationship and I'm getting them to lie. have to go for business to know how many got stuck here and I got my way into to get him there before the so the fact that you see online that a flight is not available it doesn't mean that can't get it for you very simple uh I also want to say that I specializing inim the reason that I work with the and the 10 free tickets is because I work with many and I have Spanish which are handing me their balabatim which are usually buying online because you know they don't have the local good travel agent they're mentioning my my name as a travel agent and borashem there is no one that gave me his balabatim and there was not triple happy and having a real >> I'm sure there's some people not happy I did not I did not get a that gave me a boss and came back complain things are no I'm very perfect >> but I'm doing all possible that in the end of the day we should stay friends you know people are blaming you for things which are not your problem it's not your fault that there is no ocean >> you have relationship with station managers also >> in all the levels station managers >> because when you had Clara the other week she said >> luggage luggage handling >> direct relationship with >> last minute, last minute, you know, coming late and all the because there are pictures all over of me with the CEOs, with the top people, the lower people understand that they should try to help. It's a good idea. So, it's all top to bottom. >> They want to have a job. I don't know. Don't exaggerate. But >> you know, I remember I remember one time a certain organization wanted to get a airline sponsorship. Said, "We don't want to sponsor, but we'll sponsor a table at your dinner for all the travel agents to come." It was either LL or or Ara. It was very interesting. I then I realized the focus they really focus on the travel agents. >> You mentioned before that the only one traveling now from America to Israel is Archa and um and and LA. Are they taking advantage of their monopoly and charging really high prices for their tickets? >> It's a very painful and complicated issue, >> but they lost a lot of money because of the situation >> cancellations. >> And if you if you're show they're losing money by being the monopoly. >> No, no. Because of the war, because of traveling, because of this, it's it's a lot of >> cancellations. All for example during the war lost $4 million cash a day. Okay. So some people see it advantage some. But I can promise you one thing that if the only podcast in the world would be your show, you would charge $50,000 a pop without thinking twice. So you can't >> We are actually we're the only We are the only Simon the only one that got it free >> basically. >> Wow. Thank you. So you you can't blame them when you have a situation where your planes are full and there's much more demand than supply. You're going to go in and sell it for $700 a ticket. That makes sense. I'm a capitalist. That makes sense. That's human. Look, I just sent Clappy today a video of the great Peter Theel, the one of the founders of PayPal and some other great companies. He says a real business creates a monopoly. You have to be so good and so unique and that this you don't have to worry about this competition. This guy dollar cheap $2 will be one of a kind and Allah will have his followers after everybody comes back because as you said security Hebrew cash there many reasons why allow be allowed. >> Although you said kash you said you said that archa is even better because everybody gets it >> from here. Yeah. United will work better with you if you don't want to sing next to a lady. There's things where they were always >> maybe you could help us. We we know that lal has podcast kosher podcast. >> Try to get our podcast on. >> Could you help us get our podcast on? >> I don't think that they have real budget for advertising. >> No budget free. I want when a guy sits in an LL flight, they should be able to go to the channel and listen to you >> to put our episodes. They can have it for free. If you're listening, it's free. Take it. >> I think you can somebody in Israel that might maybe I'm going to have to look into it. >> Um how to contact me. So when I started Why is it >> now? You tell me you have this picture all the CEOs. You're like, "Hey, he's our guy." >> No, he's getting nervous that you're going to start harassing him and he won't be able to book tickets. You ask me your podcast. >> Oh, every hour. Bro, >> when I started the vision, >> he said he answers WhatsApp. 2 in the morning. >> Where's our podcast in LA already? >> There's one question that you didn't ask. What does Sky 2000 coming from? >> Where does Sky 2000? >> Where's the name come from? >> Oh, you started in '94. No, I didn't ask. No, I'm saying you actually start I thought for a second. You started in 1994. So, Sky 2000 doesn't make sense. So, >> go ahead. Guess guess 20. >> Your phone number is 2000. Was the only one available. You wanted a catchy phone number. >> So, first of all, Sky is Kitzki. You >> heard this is your wife, >> right? >> 2000 was I mean 1994 everybody was busy with Y2K. >> Y2K. Oh, >> everybody was busy. Everybody know number 2000 was like everywhere all the time. Before I came in the 60s and the 50s, the phone numbers in Colon Heights has specific prefixes. 753 76 953 774 >> 774 >> 604. So when you know when it's 75 in chronites is 756 Sky SK is 75 the phone number that I got was 756 every child in ter knew the phone number because this was the number sky 2000 759 2000 then when I moved to Manhattan when I the the the 718 number wasn't past niche I I think it's still working but like the WhatsApp is not >> you have office in Manhattan hand >> I have office I'm working from 39 Broadway >> 39 Broadway on the 38th floor downtown next when I'm walking out my office I look the bull in the house >> hold on we did clappy we did the podcast 39 Broadway right around there >> 39 Broadway >> oh yeah >> yeah on the first floor >> so next time talk about it >> oh I'm sorry we're let the address >> no were you allowed to say that we were on the We're announcing it. >> Why not? >> Frankie and I were on the >> Kish Club podcast and they're going to air it. It's very >> 39 Broadway on the bottom floor. There's this like office >> like from the side coming. Yeah. >> So I'm in the store over there. Next time you're coming, let's make a >> look. I didn't see you don't look like a Manhattan guy. I'm I'm very impressed you have an office in Manhattan. Very >> You park in that parking lot across the street. >> Parking across the street. >> First of all, you're not a Midtown guy. You're a downtown guy. They're not you're not so close. You're not close enough. >> 42nd Street for the first 10 years and then we moved to to downtown. >> How many people? Just you office. >> Before Corona was more now was less. But Bor Hashem staff enough staff that he needs >> come to visit. But so so so then I needed a gold number in Manhattan. Go get a gold number in Manhattan. sit down until I found that shik which I sweet talked to and I got 212 in Manhattan 599 33 33 333 >> catchik so even with >> 21259933 and that's the number for my WhatsApp >> even with your >> WhatsApp me and this number 21259933 if it's not chabas if it's not y if you're not in shul if it's not at 3:00 a.m. I will try to answer. >> You said you know how to sweet talk. So even your social skills I guess improved since you were 9 years old >> since you were on Zach's pickup truck. >> Well, the Zach's kicked you off that pickup truck, huh? >> Yeah. No, he should. >> Anyway, thank you our sponsors once again. Will Ciss, CH Butcher, Kaiser Crackers, Flams, the new KMR, and Central Travel. >> That's right. >> How Clappy On the Travel Show, we have KMR and the Greg Schmullik Kritzki. We tried, you should know, we tried a very long time to get a travel person and I'm >> and you couldn't get a sucker >> and I'm happy to say you're pleasantly surprisedly entertaining. >> Thank you. I didn't realize how creative you are are with the cartoons. You were way ahead of your time. Wow. Crazy. >> Again, I want to thank I just want to thank our common friend, the blouse on Maple Street. >> Oh, they pushed them to write. >> They were involved. They were involved. They were definitely involved. >> Definitely highly involved. >> We're going to give credit where credit is due. But they always copy us where we use our podcast. They whenever we get a good studio, they're usually there the day later. So, we help each other. >> Yeah. No, really. If you care about service, call me. If you care about peros of a Jew, call me. If you care about discounts for children to Israel, call me. >> Free insurance. >> Free insurance for up to 18. Call me. And the most important, if you're really seriously planning and going to Israel. This week is the time to save a bunch of >> new videos once a week. >> Call me. >> You're on crown, right? I go every Friday. I go to the mik mik. I go to the house. Maybe I'm going to the days that I have time. I'm going to stop it and make you read off your cartoon of the week. If you read and you smile like that, you see like that that laugh and you say it, you'll go viral very often. I want to say, you know, you read the cartoon on the video on your camera, it's going to go very well. >> I wanted to be done this on on Thursdays or Fridays because that's when Crown Edition is publishing the same cartoon. So, I want to be at the same time. >> We're not sure what Crown Edition is. We only know heard of it. >> It's just clapping. >> Anyways, thank you so much and welcome. This being this is the last uh podcast to be released before. I want to wish everybody the gives everybody before >> take our engineer Ari. >> Ari, thank you so much for always doing always doing a great job. Our bin engineer. >> Brena engineer. This is the closest we get to Brimw is having engineer right Ari thank you so much >> thank you guys thank you you were a real pleasure Yeah. Yeah.