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Welcome to another episode of positivity. I'm very excited for this conversation. Recording this video after the episode. We had a beautiful conversation about multiple occasions where Schlami field um grew up in and his career in social media's career path change that he took from going from toidesh as you can see. Um I very much appreciate everybody that's here and watching the episode. Exciting news. We're starting a new thing from this week on. Um, every week we're going to do a raffle for everybody that comments on uh the YouTube video over here. We're going to be giving away $100. We're going to send a zel to the winner. $100 a week if you comment. Make sure also that um if you do comment, make sure that you also subscribe so that I can actually find your channel. Um, this week's winner, I have over here an app that um finds the winner. Um, so here we go. Uh, Shimmy Straser. Shimmy Shimmy Straser, which is an Yiddish Shimmy Straser 345. Thank you for commenting. 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Um so yeah, have a good time, stay warm, and uh stay healthy. Welcome to another episode of positivity. I'm super excited to be here today and talk to you all and bring up a very crucial guest field. >> Thank you for having me. >> A pleasure. I know him for many many years and he is he has a very interesting unique story from from where he uh grew up in LA. He was in Virginia for a while. Now he's here in Lakewood area. and from how he went from lidish to right or modern toish toides and and why and I want to hear that story. Um he is also a very talented content creator. He had a podcast for a while and he does beautiful content. He has on social media uh what is it now close to 100,000 followers >> or more 50,000. You do Tik Tok also? >> Funny. I had a Tik Tok account with almost 10,000 followers. Yeah. >> And they banned my account. >> Okay. Tik Tok and reach out, you know. >> So, we're very excited to hear an inspiring story, see what motivates him, what drives him, um what he does now. He opened his own company where he does social media management specifically for um musicians and artists, musical artists in the music industry. But you would you would probably take on other opportunities if somebody needs know a random account as well. He has a company that does social media management. >> So I'm very excited to hear how a young entrepreneur I think you're 21 or 22 right >> 20 20 >> to hear a shina story a nice story of the why he made the choices that he made. So I'm very excited for that. Shout out to our sponsor of this episode the dream raffle. You guys have been following my status a lot. The dream raffle is the apartment that is giving away a million apartment. It's going to be a a raffle and it's an apartment in Shalime, a beautiful luxury apartment. I've been doing this for the past 8 years. 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Which means you buy one ticket, we'll give you two. >> Oh, wow. >> Buy five, we'll give you 10. [laughter] My bubby would be proud. But uh what can I do? Any case, so this is this is very very good. This is our eighth year. Eighth year that we're having this raffle. We've given out apartments. We've given out cash as you mentioned. If someone doesn't want the apartment, they can take cash. >> Hashem, the dream raffle. It's it's a great >> It's really a dream, right? It's a dream because it's a good price and it's a value that lasts forever. >> What if somebody wins and they say, "I bought the ticket because I was watching your your uh podcast because of you." I would be truly honored. >> Should they invite you for kdesh? >> Yeah. And I think so many people always wanted an apartment in Israel and this is your chance. You know, if it's basher, you buy that raffle. You did at least your >> You just have to buy one ticket. We'll give you takes care of the rest. Everything you do. >> Thank you. >> Okay, so back to the conversation. Um, how are you? How you doing? Thank you. >> Where did you get such a nice record? >> I just bought this last week. >> It's very very nice. Love the design, the fit. You look amazing. >> Thank you. You have this. That's the new. >> Yeah, everybody is talking about this. The aloe. I have the matching pants also. >> Fancy. >> And I have a half zip. This is This year, every year it's a different. Last year was psycho bunny a lot. This year, this is it. The nature. So, >> the socks also the socks has. >> Thank you. Yeah. And especially with this comfortable carpet here >> that we have here in the Westwood studio is um I feel like I don't choose anymore. If you want, you can also take off yours. It's up to you. >> I don't think you want me to. >> Um let's start with the story. You grew up in LA, right? What's it like growing up there? Most of our listeners are from New York, New Jersey. How how was it growing up there? >> So, I didn't really grow up in LA. I was born in LA. >> Okay. And then when I was 7 years old, we moved to Denver, Colorado. >> Oh, okay. >> So, I really grew up in Colorado >> and then we moved back to LA >> 3 years ago. >> Uh-huh. Okay. So, what's in Denver, Colorado? Anything happening there? >> Not really. No, there's a nice I mean, it's small. It's out of town, but I would say uh 150 200 families. >> Oh, wow. Okay. Okay. >> Three different sides. So, I'm not sure exactly the the numbers, but the yeshiva was maybe 75. My father was Arabian. That's why I moved there. >> Mhm. Okay. >> And there's one one uh >> do people go there to like to the yeshiva or the students the yeshiva is from locals out of town. >> Colorado is where on the map? I don't even know. Where is it near? What's the closest state to it? >> Utah. >> Utah. Arizona. >> Arizona. The four corners that touch states >> something like Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. [laughter] >> Um, is it fair to say I mean you've been to more states than a lot of people now at this point. Is it fair to say say that every state has a Jewish community >> inad everywhere? >> Okay. Right. >> But besides >> Mhm. >> probably I don't think Utah does. >> No. So it's only like half of the states have Jewish communities. like a >> definitely a a large percentage of them. Yeah. >> Mhm. And how is it growing up in a state where there's only 150 families, meaning you don't have the convenience, you don't have the groceries, the restaurants, the or even the the conveniences that people have. I don't know if they had like I know for Eden it always matters the a hospital or urgent care, >> right? So we I never grew up with it. So >> like in Denver, we would freeze our milk in the freezer. We'd buy like a bunch and then freeze it. So it doesn't spoil. >> So I never grew up. >> They even had kosher milk. >> So there was one on like a half hour away, one of the other sides of towns >> that had a few. >> They had one small kosher Jewish uh grocery and they would import. >> Uhhuh. >> So we would buy a bunch. I think everybody did this. And then freeze it. >> Probably even like UPS. They ship a case of milk or something and a freezer in a fridge truck and and like you said, you freeze it and it freezes well. Milk. >> Yeah. It's so interesting because I don't think for most of the listeners they don't what it means. >> It's a whole different life. >> I I I'm trying to imagine it. I had for a while a phase where I wanted it where I wanted to live somewhere. Maybe I still want that. >> Why? >> I don't know a house in the woods. You know, sometimes you drive I once drove down to like even just like Maryland and you see, you know, you're driving, you have a house, a mile later another house, a mile later another house. 20 miles later a Walmart. You know what I'm saying? Like it's so but but but it teaches you that it's just you and and Hashem, you and the world. I'm saying there is >> but when it's like it's correct community. >> If if you are dying and going into septic shock, no, you don't have a tula 30 seconds later. Fine. This is not this is not but it's not even a concern to those people. Those goyam live there till 150 and they're just fine. They don't care. They what I'm saying like it's a certain mentality. The average Eid grows up with anxiety. That's why we live so tight to each other. We want to be able to yell out of the windowsum and somebody's coming to help you. I I I know at least my brain works that way. I'm not going to lie. I want to live where there is happening so that just in case, >> you know, somebody can save me or help me. And I think a lot of people live that way. >> Maybe they don't want to admit it, but >> also besides for that, a lot of lot of the yen are are very more than go I think are into hack. >> Mhm. >> What's going on? Yeah. Things are police down the block, everybody goes and watches it. >> These types of things and in the out of town, you don't really have that. >> Correct. Cuz we're exposed to danger. Any any danger or or action so to speak makes us poke out the heads what's happening, >> right? >> Every news in the world that happens, we're like, are they coming for us? Like it's and it's not even consciously, it's subconsciously. Like our brains know. We grew up with the stories. So there's a certain we're we're afraid somebody's yelling on the street. You turn around to check, you know, did they mean me? Van how many times you have you're walking on the street and you hear somebody yell out of a caroo and you're like yeah, you know like they meant me like it's not like that. >> Um so how what was your favorite part of growing up and in you know like a place where there's nothing? >> I have midas now. I think that's my favorite part now. >> No, for like >> I think my favorite part of growing up out of town is that I had a certain >> that I wasn't like everything I had to do everything like everybody else. I was able to do my own thing. Nobody cared what you do. >> Yeah. >> Do you wear what you want? You don't have to wear what he's wearing. >> Right. >> I think that's probably my favorite part about >> Is there appreciation basically for the people around you and for the little you have? You know, >> most definitely. Yes. >> Uh-huh. And why do they choose to live there? They're just comfortable there. And And is it growing or shrinking? >> I don't think it's growing or shrinking. I think it's just staying. >> Uhhuh. >> Right now, maybe >> sometimes one more family moves in or whatever. >> You have the the coy, they bring in one more family. >> Yeah. >> But it's not really growing. It's not really shrinking. >> Mhm. >> But um yeah, there's definitely that appreciation. There's also like appreciation for another person cuz not >> here everybody's in a rush. You always nobody else matters. You go where you need to go. You're in a rush. There's that. There it's a community. The whole communities >> helps each other out. You know what I'm saying? There's not a lot of people. So, you have to be there for each other. >> Correct. Right. Right. Whether it's charity or just knowing each other or a Shabas afternoon, you have to be familiar with your own neighbors. Right. >> Um it's so interesting and by the it's a beautiful thing about Jewish people or Kalisru that that's how we are. We come to a place where right away looking for the next seed. You know for a while I was considering buying a house where there's no other yeden and I was like maybe there is a and I was trying to research to see even one Eid. It would have made me feel better. >> Um what about LA? LA I think has like 20,000 f like it's LA or 5,000 families. I heard maybe 20,000 Eden. How with >> definitely much much bigger. There's there's also aided community in Denver. There's no community. There's one you know who he is. Mo Williamsburg. What's his name? He's friends with >> Yeah. >> You know what I'm talking about. >> Okay. >> Get said. So there's no community and then LA has they have they have fewish. >> Okay. Then there's a bigger fish and then they have a community also. Yeah. >> They have restaurants, grocery, kosher, >> right? They also have I think and they have this organization called Mogam which like goes around >> just making sure nothing >> is happening. Right. Right. >> Yeah. >> Uhhuh. Okay. Um, how is life over there? >> Jewish wise or like Stam LA? >> Stam LA. >> I hate it. >> Yeah. >> Too liberal. too too much homeless people. You walk down the block, there's a homeless guy. >> Yeah. >> I don't I don't I don't like it. >> Uhhuh. And Jewish wise, >> Jewish wise it's much better than >> Yeah. They have a nice area, a community, a play probably multiple places. No. Or one. >> There's a few places >> where Eden situated themselves. Chil and everything. >> Yeah. >> Uh-huh. Okay. You also uh you also lived in Virginia for a year. >> How was that? Virginia is closer to us. It's about 6 hour drive. I've been there for like and stuff cuz there's a beach. Yeah, there's a beach over there >> and it's a little bit warmer. It's on the way towards Florida, >> right? >> A lot of people stop by when they're going to Florida. They shak >> right. Okay. So, what Yeah. So, what was what was life like over there? >> So, first I was there for Yeshiva in 12th grade. >> Okay. >> A few years ago. Then last year I went back. They asked me to come back as a dorm counselor. >> Uhhuh. Why did you go there to Yeshiva? Um, it's a good yeshiva. They they have a good system. It's to to help kids that are not uh I don't want to say help cuz help sounds like uh >> who want something unique. >> Yeah. And don't fit into the regular system. >> Uh-huh. Right. Where did you go to school? Through Colorado, LA. >> So, Right. I was I didn't even go there. I was in Baltimore for a year. I was in Muny for a year. >> Mhm. >> And until I then I went to Virginia. Right. And you were homeschooled. Colorado has >> went to Yeah, they have one. >> Uhhuh. >> It's not so big, but they have like 10 15 kids a class. >> Uh-huh. Okay. Wow. >> And yeah, that's where I went for school. >> Mhm. >> Any rich people live there in in Colorado? >> I don't think money. No. >> Uh-huh. Um, Virginia. So you so you went back to be a dorm and how's Yiddish over there? Is there there anything? Nothing, right? >> No, it's like 50 families maybe 40 families. It's nothing really. The community is also like dying out. It's falling apart. >> People are moving out. The kids grow up, they move, you know, >> right? >> So there's nothing really. No, there's nothing. There's no grow There's no store. They have like a kosher aisle in the in the Publix. You know the Publix. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's [snorts] it. >> Right. I was just this week in Miami and it's crazy what they have over there cuz Miami is like Yeah. Like they have I heard once over 100,000 uh Jewish people in in there. And then somebody explained to me I met a nice guy Hershidans here and he was like he was like you have to understand there's the winter birds people that come just for the winter. There's the vacationers. Like you can have at some point you can have over there like hundreds of thousands of Eden like it it mish feels like and they have a whole section on Collins Avenue where it's just Jewish stores like it's crazy >> liquid or >> it's yes mish mish like it's it's insane and I was I went to Hollywood Hollanddale for Lord there's kosher restaurants everything everywhere like it's it's crazy >> um even Orlando is a big thing but it's a big for vacationers. Yeah. Throughout the year there's about 100 200ish families. Tampa is a nice community. Um >> is also there. >> Yeah. Eventually you'll have maybe Okachobee if something happens over there. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> It was last time. >> No, no, [snorts] it's done. I don't know if I could say this, but you could cut it out, right? >> Yeah. >> Um UDL Statski was making a promo video yesterday for his album. >> Yeah. And so I went to help him out and uh there was something about Okachobee in the promo video. I'm not sure what it was, what happened, but >> Oh, because he did something about Iratra. Yeah, he told me about it. He has a new music video. >> Yeah, >> it's about so maybe he was mentioning maybe that's going to become a [snorts] >> Yeah, Yiddi is fine. Yiddi is a good friend of mine. I like him. We can leave it in, I believe. But um but Okachobee, I'm very happy for them. Let them let them try something. And apparently it's something that is that is needed. I'll be honest with you, I didn't visit Okachchobee, but being in in Florida for a couple of days. Huh. Okobee >> is a real place. >> Yeah, it's happening. >> Oh, I know that. >> Yeah. So, being in Florida for a couple of days, I was like, there is something about it now. Especially when it's January and it's 10° here and 70° there. There's something about it. >> There's something about >> there or it's like warm. Huh? >> Feels much like the summer or it's like warm. >> It's It's warm. Just warm. It's not summer and the winter there. I mean, it could get, but for the months of January, February, those two, three months, it's usually highs of uh 70, I would say, 70, 80. >> Um, during the summer, it can get 100, 110, also like 105, whatever. It can get humid. Like, there's miles and for me, I had a very nice experience in Florida. I'm not talking about Okachobee. Um, so I hear you. Virginia. So Virginia, you enjoyed. But Lamas, now you're back here in Lakewood. What do you enjoy about Lakewood? >> Everything. I love Lakewood. >> Yeah. >> What's there not to like about Lakewood? >> Mhm. >> Everything's here, >> right? >> There's people, there's there's restaurants here. There every block you go. >> Yeah. >> So it's it's it's happening, >> right? It's definitely happening. It's a beautiful community. I was speak last night. I was driving like on the garden state. I was like, it's so funny. You go off one exit and you have this whole No, you know what I'm saying? It's like why here? What? But that's how it is and >> and it's beautiful. Um, so tell me about your journey from being like yeshivish. I guess I guess for you you I guess you weren't really you were always a Jew. So it didn't maybe matter much for you. I don't know. Tell me. >> So, right. I was always a Jew, but I grew up in Denver, Colorado, so there was no and there there's nothing. Uh, >> no, I'm saying when a Jew, I mean, you the focus wasn't on what I'm wearing, who I am. You're in Colorado over there. Nobody's like, "Oh, that's a that's a guy." I don't think that that's the conversation. It's we're all Jewish people here. That that's what it >> right. But the transition, I mean, I got made fun of by everybody for transitioning. Of course, it's going to last five weeks and then you're going to go back. Also, when I like I was trying to curl my pace and it didn't curl because it was behind my ears forever. >> Oh, wow. >> So, it didn't like look normal. You know, I had a had a down hat with a short jacket and a and a and a gau. >> It looked off. >> Wow. >> So, whatever. There was But listen. >> Wow. >> Here we are. >> Yeah. That's one thing that I love and respect about the modern community because my kala is from five towns, you know, modern is that in my opinion, maybe I haven't seen enough, but from what I've seen for them, it doesn't matter what you do. The outside doesn't matter. It's like if you're you have good midas and you're a Jew, that's it. That's all they care about, >> right? >> That's really what matters. like you know again it's you have some people trying to to I don't know maybe this some some say it's a very rich community whatever like it's not doesn't matter but there's something about it that that it's just the focus is you're you're you're a Jewish person what made you gravitate toish like why make it an official transition and you know >> so basically I never connected to the I never connected to everything It's more cult. It's more serious. It's more everything's learning to learning to and there's >> Yeah. >> Yeah. There's mitzvah also. You know what I'm saying? >> I never connected to that. So, >> I just, you know, I started going I noticed that that I was going a little bit >> away, but I never wanted to go off the D because you know what I'm saying? I believed in Hashem and >> Yeah. So I decided that there's only I could either go for the D or go more or something else more something else whatever you want to call it. So I became at first I became it was just like a statement like you know what I'm saying it's and then I came to my mi and I started going to visions a lot I was dabbing in visionets >> I went into the rabbi and I became close to the rabbi a little bit so I became visions >> wow >> very nice so now you're visionets >> I'm a vision >> very nice wow that's so beautiful I love it impressive In in short and if you have to explain to me in in 30 seconds what's the difference between lidish and mentality or yes and >> mentality meaning meaning what >> like the style what's say you didn't connected that but you connected to what do you think is the difference >> it's more it's more >> when like hashka wise what's the difference >> hashka wise it's more or less the same >> but It's more gishmak. It's more to be. Yeah. It's more v. It's more >> everything is done with a gishmak >> more than oh you have to you do it because you have to do it. You know >> understand the way I explain it is that lidish specifically is or yes is they take things literal. So like as right it's they don't like forid it's till the last man right or or right it's like they take it literal m the will say I don't know my rebs at 12:00 I can also d at like they don't they don't take things literal now you can say it's a bad thing because then you're skipping lines and boundaries fine but I think that that's the that's the difference between >> Lidvak and The same thing is with Torah, right? It says you should learn, right? So the lid takes it serious and says, "Okay, I have to learn all the time night sh like the says, okay, it's very nice. I can learn as much as I can learn. Obviously, I'm not going to learn day and night. So I'm going to learn as much as I can. I'm going to do have my 30 minutes a day, 5 minutes a day." So, you know, there's now uh there's a new campaign kato where you can actually get yourself a free cipher raam. Um I'm going to post the details in the description actually. Um and then you there you can learn that Rambam has sham on on the whole tora. So you can learn everything over there and they have like raffles on the you can get prizes. It's a whole campaign and and I love that because there's there's so much perspective and so many different ideas that you can that you can look at and I think that that's uh beautiful. So I think that's how that's how I define and especially if you start learning into the of if you start learning the like the to understand how chilled how the mentality was always how poetic they saw life in Judaism like it was such a different perspective and that's that was the whole concept of the bostov. like it was 250 years ago and things were literally dying down because everybody was just doing stuff because and he said, "Okay, we need a fresh wind, a fresh something new, something >> and then obviously is not what he founded. He he made kabiras and kuas and little groups and today we have it turned into as manus describes it kahillas like it became a cahila of of people that's not aidas and that's not a kabir >> and that's so but but again respect each for their own I'm saying in a sense it just climbed away it flew away a little bit from what what it was intended to be like the bashento wasn't a reba with thousands of them just shocking. >> Also, if you look in this, it's exactly what you were saying before that you do what what you could do to connect to >> D. Correct. Exactly. I think I think that got lost. I think that got lost because today it's I think that a lot of is like it's like a it's like an army base. It's like we're we're following one specific narrative and everybody's doing the same and you just get lost. You're just another number, you know? Kashmir's dig meaning the reck on the head. You have to wear you have to wear the >> hat or dig I would say right like we're focusing on the outside. It's right like if you take off the I don't know that like like you have to eat lunch with the hat. I I don't [laughter] I I don't get it. It's like and it's like where do you even take this from? It's like you know you're busy with your hat. It's so important to you. Where did you even get this hat? Like this this crow haters designed it. Like why why are you even obsessed with a hat? It's it's very ignorant in my opinion. It's very very ignorant. Like it's okay you want to wear a hat. Like I I made myself a beautiful stra gold stra made by Stra Mie. Like I'm very proud with the stra. But don't don't get lost for the stra. The stra is just something that was worn when I when I can wear it and enjoy it. I'll wear it. And if I don't feel comfortable wearing it or if it's too hot outside, I'm not going to like I think that and the way I say it, people will say, "Oh, you're being so cold. What do you mean if you you have to wear it?" I don't know where you even take that. Like there, show me the proof to where you take things uh so serious. Um it's incredible. So talk talk to me about content. When did you get into you did podcast for a while and it was very cute your podcast casual different you did it for a while in the van and stuff. >> How how did that go? How did your experience of opening a podcast go? Like >> it definitely brought what's the word? Broadened the my view on what a podcast should look like. >> Okay. >> And if I was to ever open up a podcast what it would look like. But it didn't work out for different reasons. And but it was fun. And it was it was nice. It was enjoyable, you know, for all it lasted. >> But content, it all started basically I used to do different videos. I actually started even before then. I It was October 7th time actually that I was like whatever. I was just posting statuses cuz you know funny different different fun not of me just like memes and different funny videos on my status and slowly I built up a little small following and then actually I met you for the first time a little bit after that. >> Okay. >> And you told me I should start doing videos and me and whatever doing different things. So, I started that and it it went a little bit more than it would, but I opened up an Instagram account. Gets it. I started doing eventually like funny videos, like, you know, skits on like random Judaism stuff, whatever. And it didn't really go anywhere, but I enjoyed it, so I kept doing it. One day, somebody commented on one of my videos. Mhm. >> There was a video that I was I was I was I was making a pizza or something. I don't remember exactly what it was, >> but there was an oven in the video because I was making a pizza. >> Somebody commented, "Y'all are good with ovens." >> Okay. >> So, I made a response video of me saying, "Be very careful with your next words. I'm going to lower your credit score." >> And the video blew up. It went viral. Hit a million views. >> Wow. So I just went with that and I rolled with giving playing into the anti-semitic stereotypes. >> Right. >> And it took off. >> Wow. Uhhuh. So okay. So you're saying you built a page on the on the anti-semitic stereotypes. >> I am their perfect Jew, you know, like everything they think about us Jews, that's me. >> And and and why build on that? Like do you see it as a positive, negative, how do or do you just see it as I don't know followers or followers. >> Right. At first it was just whatever. I was just going with it. [clears throat] Now now looking back and looking actually thinking about it, they actually do see it as a positive. >> Mhm. >> Because >> if they're going to hate us, the people that are hating us are anyway hating us. So I'm just keeping them away. >> Can I take Can I Can we remove the word us and just say the people hating are hating? people hate [laughter] >> because I hate doing the us. It's they're not it's not a us. They really don't care even about the fact that you're Jewish. They're just a hater. Today it's you. Tomorrow it's on a different minority on a different group of people on their own spouse on their own kids. >> I hear that. Yeah, >> that's that's how I see it. But anyway, you phrase it as however you >> I hear that what I'm saying. I do >> like I'm not because us makes me into a victim. >> I'm not a victim. I don't care. Like thanks for hating. Like it's on you. Enjoy. >> It doesn't have to be a victim. You could like the hate and still say the hate. >> No, I love it. Like I Yeah. Okay. >> The people that are hating >> Yeah. >> are going to hate anyway. So my videos, it's just like whatever. >> The people that are like, "Yes, no, not sure. They do hate, they don't hate, whatever." So then they see my videos, they're like, "Oh, so the Jew that has that has a sense of humor." So all I'm doing is and I have actually comments and DMs that there are people that said, "Oh, I didn't like you because this, this, that." But now that I see your page and I see how stupid and the humor and whatever. >> Yeah. >> Now see how stupid it was not to, you know, hate you because of whatever. >> Yeah. >> So I think I'm doing a positive thing, but that's not why I'm doing it. Everyone should just know that I'm doing it because I like I want to be famous. >> Yeah. Yeah. And it's a power and it's fun and it's entertaining and you get to connect with people. You get to have interesting conversations >> and it's and it's nice. I think it's amazing >> and friendly reminder. I I met you know the the mya I met through Instagram. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. Like Hashem was my >> So I always tell people own it. You know, I have so I have so many people, you know, this community of uh leaving Instagram next week for you know, I'm deleting my Instagram. Like, >> dude, stop it. Like, I had one kid that used to do it and I was like I was like, "Cut the crap." Like, I tried to explain him like you work on your boundaries. Don't don't include the whole world in your decisions. Don't post about it. You're clearly not deleting Instagram. You can't live without it. So, just >> no. Acknowledge it% >> and own it. I keep on telling people like even with people that want to do bad stuff like don't don't pretend. Own it. You want you want to be a nasty guy, own it. Ellie Weber can sometimes be nasty. >> The same thing with these these content creators that are all inspirational and I do it because >> I love helping people and I [laughter] true, >> right? It's completely 100%. You see, I I love being honest with my like I have the Acorns app and they have like every time somebody signs up, you get a bonus or whatever. I always tell people it's like sign up because I can make a bonus. Like just be honest. You can make a bonus. Be honest with people. I always tell like with the podcast I always say I do this because I love inspiring people, but I also love to talk and share and it helps me with my businesses. >> Exactly. >> So it's like >> Yeah, honesty is key. So So Wow. So what style content are you focusing on right now? Like today, tomorrow, what are you posting about it? >> Fully this giving into anti-Semitic stereotypes. >> So what what's your next video? Does it come up random or you have ideas already? >> I really the truth is I really do it day by day. >> A lot of times I react to other videos and sometimes I make my own skits but it comes to me whatever I think of it and I do it. >> Mhm. >> That's how I work. I don't have like prepared content, whatever. Do you know how many views in total you've gotten so far? Right. As of now, >> like when Instagram says the monthly 31 million. >> 31 million. That's from last month or from like >> 30 days. Yeah. >> Wow. What was your most viral video in the last 30 days? >> The most viral video in the last 30 days was with this girl that you >> right that as Yeah. She she has a whole channel based on this on approaching and asking Wow. Oh, >> you never heard of her? >> Yeah, I did. I've seen her videos. I never knew who it is. I've only seen a WhatsApp, by the way. I never saw it on her WhatsApp. >> Yeah. >> Wow. She's saying I can make a video with her. All I have to do is put on my Here, basically. >> Pretty much. >> Okay. >> She texted me, "Let's make a collab." Okay. What are you thinking? >> Right. >> Basically, I told her it has to be within my niche, but it has to be your style. >> Like, can't be uh Yeah. Like >> Right. >> Right. Can't be dirty or whatever. Right. Right. [snorts] >> Wow. And she's probably happy that her video got 1.5 million views and you're happy. Why not? >> Video. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. >> Wow. Maybe I should put back on my record for Tam. >> There's a guy in in London who did it. He saw he sells furniture. >> Yes. Co something and >> something. But he's doing amazing. Also viral. >> Instagram is very good right now for people wanting to to get on to Instagram. That being said, if you have a business and you need Instagram, you can reach out to Weber Media or Tashl Field. They also does Instagram. I'm I'm guessing you're not as expensive as Weber Media. >> Probably not. >> Or not. Whatever. You don't do the that class yet. But what's the company name by the way? >> SF Media. >> SF Media. Schlommy Field Media. Very nice. So guys, if you need social media for your business, hit us up. Um, how is it running a business? your CEO. Are you doing it yourself right now? Do you have a team? If you want to share, you're doing yourself. >> Everything right now I'm doing myself. >> I'm very proud of you that you do it yourself because I was literally in this place up until I had like 10 clients. I did everything myself. >> The billing, the the bookkeeping, the posting, the shooting, the whatever. >> Okay. >> And at which point do you think you're going to hire? You have a group of about 10 clients now. That's a lot. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. It's a big number. How do you manage? >> You manage. It's hard. Let's say you have to keep up this guy, this guy, whatever. But, uh, it's >> manage. Um, when do I think I'm going to start hiring? >> I didn't even think about it yet. It's the truth. Not sure. >> Did you get do you get brand deals? Like, do people because you have 50,000 followers, are people wanting to send you jerky tasted and stuff like that? >> People do reach out to me. Mhm. >> Um but then again it's like me and you you and you could go with anything right cuz >> you have that type of brand. My brand is very niche very >> right. So a lot of people don't want to love the products but the way if I was to promote it has to be like that. So glad I have now one one person that that do with me. >> Yeah. A collaboration right? Okay. Very nice. That's good. It's make nice money. Do you get recognized on the street a lot? >> All the time. >> Yeah. From Eden. Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Go Goyamoso. >> Go. >> Not as much as Eden, but Yeah. >> Mhm. You have a specific goal like you want to be at a million followers or something like that or >> as much as possible. >> Right. You're also a singer. So I mean you gave it a nice few songs which were very nice. Remember you showed it to me before it even came out. And you also had a very nice campaign of Keep Schmiffling. >> Yes. Would that make a comeback or you stopped that? Why did you stop that? >> The reason >> I loved it. You went to like Walmart. You gave out keep smackling >> which means keep smiling stickers. Like it was nice. >> Yeah, it was fun. It was cutesy. It was it was whatever. But I stopped it because because of this really. I didn't want it to interfere with this growing. Meaning if this is working and the algorithm is picking it up and people are seeing it and people are following because of it, >> right? And I I did see like it took me a little bit I don't know whatever to get to 10,000 followers and at 10,000 that's when I just stopped everything else and just went fully into this and >> the following was faster. >> Right. >> So on my status I do I still do it here and there whatever I put it in because my a lot of my status followers know me as keepling but >> Yeah. Yeah. But it's not really it's not going to I don't think it's going to ever come back or fully going, >> right? What's your next big thing in your opinion? Like what's what are you excited for? It's 2026. We just started the new year. What do you see where do you see yourself being at? [snorts] >> Um hopefully I want to I want to that that's SF media should just you know be successful. >> Yeah. It's a nice can make a nice income. >> Yeah. >> Wow. Impressive. Um, do you think it's beneficial for artists in the music field to have a social media presence? >> 100%. >> Mhm. >> I think it's beneficial for anybody to have a social media presence if you're ever trying to sell anything, >> right? They can do they get bookings of the pages a lot. Yeah. >> Sure. Yeah. And when I started it like four years ago, I I didn't feel like you get many bookings. And I was doing social media. >> Didn't get bookings through social media. >> No, it was it's I don't know why. Maybe he just didn't get booked. So, um, but he had bookings. Um, but it didn't come much through social media. >> Well, started before social media, >> correct? >> So, his clientele wasn't on social media. >> Right. Uh you're saying that the young musicians and artists that you're promoting, excuse me, the Bharam are on social media. Bottom line, no the average yeshiva. You've been to yeshivas now you're you're 20. They are all on Instagram. >> Yeah, pretty much. >> Right. >> And the yeshiv community is not as much, but >> right >> in the most most most places they're on social media. Everybody >> they're using it to find out the news or the hack or they're just it's just entertaining. >> It's entertaining. Some people if if news and hack is really on WhatsApp, >> right, >> between the WhatsApp groups and you know, >> but it's entertaining. People love social media. People love scrolling, >> right? >> I scroll. >> Yeah, I also do. >> But >> I scroll but I scroll for ideas a lot. I mean, if I'm bored, I'm scrolling on YouTube shorts. But if I want ideas, I scroll on Instagram and I just copy ideas, which is the sweetest thing in my opinion. Like you don't have to >> easy. Yeah. [laughter] >> Yeah. I do that also. I copy a lot of ideas. But >> but I scroll for fun most of the time. If I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling for fun cuz I'm not. It's entertaining. >> So you're not that focused on music right now because you're focused on the social media, >> right? I don't know if I'm going to if I'm going to release more music or not, >> right? >> It's up on 246 if you want to. >> Actually, wow, guys. Show me Field on 246 or any other streaming platform, Spotify. >> No, I took it down from everywhere else. Why? Because of this. >> Ah, >> yeah. >> YouTube they actually might still be up on. >> Wow. So, your mum is uh >> fully stopped everything else. Yeah. >> Oh, wow. Was it difficult to give out a song like the music, the money, the all of that? >> Yeah, I mean the money of course it's difficult to depart with. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> But um difficult to give it out. I mean I didn't do much marketing with it. So >> Right. >> I went to the studio. I recorded a few times and that's it. >> Yeah. >> So it wasn't really difficult but really >> Yeah. >> Wow. Impressive journey. You should be proud of yourself. >> And now you're in shadik already by the way. >> No, not you don't feel like ready or whatever. >> No. No. >> But from Instagram you might get good leads. >> People are messaging you for sure. >> Yeah. You never know. >> How do you approach like a anti-semitic uh conversation? >> Most of the times I don't. It depends on my mood at the time. >> Right. If I'm going through messages and I'm in a uh like a schmuck like you know whatever mood and I'm not busy, I'll reply to somebody with like >> somebody messaged me something somebody this I remember clearly somebody went messaged me um where did you buy your followers from? cuz I grew in such a short amount of time that this person thought I I bought followers. And I replied, I said, "I don't buy anything. I'm Jewish. I don't spend a dime. I'm not going to buy followers." >> Okay. >> Kiter the next day, this person sends me back. I didn't reply. The person sends me back something. I don't remember what. And I didn't reply because I wasn't in the mood. Meaning, I reply to DMs when I'm in the mood. I see I see every DM. >> Yeah, >> of course. I think everybody sees every >> DM. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And I enjoy it. But I really enjoy the DMs. The hate, the love. I enjoy them all. >> Yeah. >> The hate really keeps me going. >> Yeah. >> Nice. Right. >> Uhhuh. So, you're not at all focused on it. If something good comes up, you would go out. >> I would. Yeah. I wouldn't pass by, but >> Right. You were always exposed. You were more exposed to speaking the opposite gender probably growing up. No, yes is very strict with these things. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. The the regular litfish isn't as strict, but the sheishes. >> Uh-huh. >> Family is very very very sheish. >> Uh-huh. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> Like my brothers both went to Brisk. >> Oh, wow. >> Top yes, >> right? They learn a lot over there, you know? >> Yeah. >> You don't you enjoy to learn? >> I do, but not like that. >> Uhhuh. >> Not that much. >> You even know how to learn? Cuz me personally, I can speak for myself. I don't even know exactly how to learn. Like I don't I'm not good at with touch. Like you have what I'm saying? >> Like it might have pushed me and yes to learn, but I can't touch. I don't like you give me a cipher. I can't read it. Like I I could figure it out and I can understand every second word. I can probably learnish I can understand because that's very easy. It's very like it's kesh but majority of swam to learn I don't understand. >> It's a regular swam. >> So when people tell me learn you have to learn and you do the duff and do the this I'm like shut up. I don't know. I don't know what you want from me. >> No. And I'm speaking here for probably I would say minimum 50% of people >> right? >> They're like yeah learn. You should learn. What do you want from me? You know what I'm saying? and and and and if you dared to take a cipher and learn it on your own middle of a of a she then you were like punished for it like what do you mean the end of the week on the so how you can't how can you be learning now okay so I'm not learning like you know sorry that you had a bad day in your house and your wife treated you badly thanks for giving it out on me like but again maybe maybe this is my just my perspective I'm not saying that they're wrong that That's wrong. That's just my experience. So, [snorts] I don't know. You enjoy learning. That's what I'm asking. >> I enjoy learning. I do. Um is a little bit harder for me, but also >> Mhm. >> but um I enjoy it. I learned I really enjoy learn, >> right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Who's not? I mean he figured out something uh >> hacked into a an idea that was very not common at his time and now it is. So it's like was on a very spiritual d I mean you know this more than anybody or you're you know you're 20 they everybody's into spirituality no >> not religion spirituality everybody wants to be connected and >> which is a mistake that people make they think Judaism is a religion it's not >> Judaism is a identity you're born a Jew it's not a religion >> right that's true but then there's also the religion part of it >> correct Right. >> Many Jews adopted religion >> but Judaism >> so I I happen to be a religious Jew but in reality it's not Judaism is not a religion >> right >> and I don't necessarily I I whatever like it's it's I think it's complicated but uh but yeah the religious aspect of it I think has grown out of proportion like there's a lot of things happening within religious religiousness that just went off the trails. Doesn't have anything to do with Judaism. You got what I'm saying? It's just done >> taken too far away. >> Taken too far. Yeah. Like it's not Jew. They they call it in the name of Judaism because they need the the the the thing. They need something that they can say do it because of that. >> But but it's not. It's just your own manhogam your own rituals. >> You could do whatever you want. just don't force it on everybody else. >> And that's another reason why I like the modern Orthodox people >> cuz they disrespect >> cuz for them there's no it's not about religious, it's about Jewish, >> right? >> And maybe maybe hate the more. >> Not at all. Why? Why should I Why should they hate? They live a beautiful good life. >> No, they don't. >> Why would they hate was Why do they care? You want to choose to be super religious? No problem. We're living a Jewish life. That's what they do. They're Jewish. Yeah. They do shabas. They're shabas before any is they they do the and they're more strict than anybody. They go to shul more than the go to shul. They dav every day. It's more than what the davin. They they are Jews. I think guys comment in the in the comment section if I'm if I'm wrong on this because I'm not an expert on like I mean that's just what I've seen my my own experience >> here. Yeah. >> When are you going to start talking Yiddish? [laughter] >> I can understand the perfect Yiddish. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. I didn't know that now. >> Oh wow. Okay. >> I can't speak of it. No abyssal. >> Yeah. >> Uhhuh. Okay. I am teaching my uh my own kala word by word. Taught her a few new words. Yeah. Told her >> teacher few good words >> for her to learn. No, she is very quick. She's in college. >> Hard to teach. >> Not at all. No, you you I started with all the like like cute stuff, you know. So all the uh expressions the the the words that you like can't say um in in English you know how do you say or uh like all these little org >> you know what that means >> like certain words that you can't replace those are the words that I taught her what else do you want to share with the world with Kalis we have tens of thousands of listeners >> [snorts] >> I have nothing. I think uh you brought it all out. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> You have a real inspiring story. It's very nice to see how your mom is on your own, right? Like you're here alone with no family. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> I live with friends. >> Right. Wow. Oh, nice. You made something for yourself. a career, a path, uh, identity, a business. >> That's more than most teenagers ever accomplished. >> Yeah. You think so? >> Yeah. >> Okay. If you say so. >> Yeah. How many 20-year-olds do you know that have a career and a following and a identity and chose their own path and a business? I don't I don't know many. >> Everything comes from the end of the day. >> Yeah. You're amazing. All right, guys. We'll uh we'll leave it at that. Thank you so much for your time. >> Thank you for having enjoyed this conversation. >> Um and guys, if you enjoyed this conversation, first of all, please go and follow me. Give him a good word. I'm going to post the link to his WhatsApp status, his Instagram, um so that you can see everything. And as always guys, we appreciate when you like the episode or share the episode or subscribe to the channel. Uh we're now doing every week a raffle of $100 for a random subscriber, $100 cash, send out the the zel and um so you can be the lucky winner of the of this. So make sure that you're subscribed and make sure that you leave a comment so that I can find you. Um thank you guys. >> Thank you.