Oorah-thon: BoyZone Interviews

roll out the red carpet of Welcome to the boys of boy Zone thank you very much for coming yes it's wonderful uh this is always definitely a highlight of tonight where we get to see some of the boys and girls that your donations are going to help we have a bunch of them here with us in the studio tonight uh let's start with yoseph yoseph James uh who's uh who's sitting opposite from me here uh tell us about your connection with Ura with boy Zone tell us where you are where you came from uh tell us uh tell the people really what what they're doing by donating money to Ura I grew up in uh massao Long Island obviously not such a Jewish place and I came to Ura and uh they brought me to a place called Dar I think everyone's heard of it I just I can't I couldn't be happier today it's the best the the the decision I made to become Yeshiva Bak because of was the best decision in my life and just so people understand where were you where were you before uh Dar where were before a place called Hank in a place called Hank Okay and uh and and now you're in Dar and you're learning star man what are you learning this you're learning Bas so you midd learning basa and and where was your caser with I mean how did they find you how did you find them uh actually I heard about the p uh I didn't go on that but uh when I found about that I found out about the camp and I decided to go to the camp uhhuh and you were in boy Zone uh this past summer yes you were boys and what was that experience like it's just amazing now which what would you say is your F your favorite part of the the the camp I mean I know that they have so many different types of activities everything the whole atmosphere is just it's it's Boone what can I say uhhuh that's wonderful and now you're learning in in in darkra um you have next to you uh we just met outside mosha right right mosha you're also a boyone camper and you're the kid uh your parents warned you about um uh and then tell us tell us what Boone was like it was a great experience um I can't recall anything better than that I mean I've been to different camps before you I didn't find I didn't find the interest of going back cuz I didn't have so much fun I went to Boone and you know this is the first time I'm actually looking forward to going back to to the same camph and what was what was the what was the biggest draw that you had in Boone what's the greatest thing about it my cashier you know I was able to finish I was able to finish a whole learning with my throughout through Myer you know I made a c on shabbaton what Miga wow [Applause] wow [Applause] hey he said he finished a you have to sing okay continue you know how many M you know there are 60 m in sh so you finished one so we want to wish you that you should finish the other 59 wow yeah and this is and for one understand it wasn't that you this is a CER that you kept up uh with Boone over the year do you keep up with your counselors with your staff members I call my counselors from time to time you know I keep in touch with Rabbi Moses you know and everybody and where were you and where were you to shabas you just came in now or you were you were here um actually I'm in Lakewood and for shabas usually every week so last week I was I had this to be Rabbi Moses for shabas that is a and the good food too if I understand and so uh so that's that's a mosha story uh who else do we have over here we have uh we have Shawn right I go to V Sean how you doing I'm good and you I'm good I'm good thank you thank you no one have asked um uh so uh so tell me uh what's your relationship been with Dura and how uh and how has that been for you I love it and I found it through a brochure from my brother's school that's how you found a boy Zone and you went there and what was it like was it what you expected was it different more than what I expected more than what you home away from home home away from home and and and we do you write the brochures for them and and how do you uh how do you uh what would you say is the best part of Camp what was the Everlasting friendship with everybody wonderful wonderful and uh what about the I mean you know I know it's a fun camp but what about the the the the spiritual aspect of it what do you find uh that that was like I kind of liked it you kind of liked it okay that's good are you going to go back this year hopefully hopefully that's wonderful that's wonderful and uh your friend sitting next to you I remember you from last year I think right what's your name uh Joey Joey Joey speaking to the mic Joey we want everybody to hear you so uh so Joe you're a you're a you're a boyone veteran from what I understand right how many years have you been in Camp uh since the beginning since the beginning and 73241 15742 is the number to call now 7 32415 7402 okay within the next half hour we're going to start picking winners so you got to call now yeah or or of course you could enter at all times at www.org and be entered into a $500 raffle Special by those people and then our a regular number is available this moment at 1877 7 that's 37's auction 18777 auction I just want to draw the word picture of over here for you as we're going to listen to Joey in a minute but we are sitting here in the studio with boys from boy Zone they have the smiling happiest faces that you could imagine each one looking forward to go back to boy Zone next year and Joey tell us more about your experience thing best M I ever boys was um like before I came to boys when I used to fast for like just like another into the mic when I used to fast for Tish it was just before I went to boysone it was just like a regular regular day it didn't really count but once like you you once you get to the camp you really feel the nine days and uh what they do is they they have a bonfire they they have a bonfire and they read a right by the bonfire so like you really feel you really feel the the on the camp and know you felt the destruction of Jerusalem the destruction of Jerusalem but then like the next day everybody all the counselors everybody you open everything up and then you see the you see how how much they care and how much how much how much like a a simple holiday that I really I really never thought of it before they really could be something so holy that's unbelievable Joey let me ask you a question do you bring this Spirit back to home when you when you go home I try I try yeah you see that's what Ura does the mood creation of UR is just unbelievable