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Tonight on OU LIVE w/ David Pardo: Dr. Howard Zvi Goldschmidt President, The American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem "How Israeli hospitals are handling Coronavirus" Eli Lebowicz Standup Comedian "I actually have Coronavirus"
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the meantime like to introduce our next
guest dr. Howard Koh lachemann dr.
Howard Goldschmidt is this is a long
he's a senior cardiologist at the
Cleveland Clinic Valley Heart and
Vascular Institute in Ridgewood sub
specializing in interventional
echocardiography for diagnosis and
minimally invasive treatment of valvular
heart disease but dr. Goldschmidt the
reason you're here in particular is
because you're also the president of the
American committee for Shaarei Tzedek
doctor welcome I rabbi Pardo it's great
to be here his amazing than I wish I
wasn't here to discuss Corona but you
know we've got to make the best of
everything what can I tell you it's on
everyone's minds might as well dig more
in so if we want to ignore Corona for a
second I wouldn't mind getting to know a
little bit about Charlotte etic its
history your history its history and
Jerusalem that's been there for a good
long time in your history with it
so Shaarei Tzedek was founded about a
hundred years ago a little bit more than
a hundred years ago after money was
raised by Jews in Frankfurt and
Amsterdam
the first director-general was dr. Moshe
wallop who came from Germany and founded
the hospital in the old building on
Road the hospital has had just a handful
of director generals since him and it's
been a very important job because each
one has advanced the hospital by leaps
and bounds my family because of our
German Jewish origin has been involved
in the hospital for 60 years but both of
my grandfather's were deeply involved
one of my grandfather's was on the board
another one of my grandfather's was a
classmate in Germany of dr. Schlessinger
who was the second director general but
all the director generals were Yankees
were German Jews no just just the first
the first to buy that the the charter of
the hospital said that the head of the
hospital II that the Director General or
the president of the hospital would
always be somebody who was an Orthodox
Jew it was it was chartered as a
hospital under Orthodox cause disease
and in fact there are only two other
hospitals in Israel they're under what
he could hold him and in a column is now
part of Shaarei Tzedek oh that's part of
how Charlotte said it grew in the last
ten years we absorbed beaker : and right
now the old beaker Hall and site next to
mayishan room is really mostly a
maternity hospital they has some
outpatient services but it's essentially
a maternity hospital and all their
inpatient doctors and services were
brought over to our main campus and buy
it through dawn hazing
so this is not the first time the
hospital has lived through a crisis of
some sort they've been unfortunately
many crises in Jerusalem over the past
century all the way honest difference
but it can we can start during World War
one when people don't know this but it
during World War one people in Jerusalem
were starving that the Turks really cut
the city off from food and all of Israel
was starving it was also a locust
infestation dr. Wallach was able to buy
a few dairy cows and behind the hospital
he had a little dairy farm where he
obtained milk that he gave
to all the children who were patients in
the hospital and basically any other
children that came to shirah ascetic
lunchtime would get milk from doctor
those are the pictures of the the milk
the milk jugs in the hospital i I don't
know those pictures but I would guess so
and I've seen those pictures and one of
one of the many places where the Turks
surrendered to the British was at
Shaarei Tzedek and dr. Wallach was there
then you know flash-forward to 1948 the
wounded were constantly being brought to
Shaarei Tzedek and were being tended to
a tirade senic unfortunately there was
no place to bury the dead in jerusalem a
shot rights that i even established a
small cemetery behind the hospital and
then flash forward to the sill there
what is the there's the cemetery is
still behind the old Jaffa Road building
diagonally behind it it's behind the
fence it's really not accessible unless
you have permission to enter well and
then we you know shall I said I took
care of Jerusalem during the three
intifadas our trauma centre was was
known for being great and Swift and and
wonderful at saving lives of course some
people died my first year working at
Shaarei Tzedek was in the last Intifada
that they called this stabbing Intifada
and I remember being down on the ground
floor when ambulances would come and I
would see our Director General who was
then the head of the trauma unit
professor Marion rushing into the trauma
center
so Coronas not the first crisis but it's
certainly unique in what ways it is is
it unique in what ways has charted setec
shifted to accommodate the new health
crisis well we've never had to deal with
an epidemic of this proportion and no
one in the world has had to deal with an
epidemic of this proportion but you know
we we are prepared for it you know the
professor marine who I just mentioned is
also a colonel in the IDF and he's been
the head of the IDF's field hospital
went to the Philippines and to Haiti for
the natural disasters the World Health
Organization has cited the IDF field
hospital as being one of the best in the
world and professor marine is involved
deeply with the World Health
Organization so he is accustomed to
dealing with the types of natural
disasters and emergencies which had some
analogy to the current via virus
situation the Health Ministry just came
to Shara ascetic this week to check
things out and said that we were better
prepared than any other Hospital in
Israel which is good because we are now
in the unfortunately the top three of
hospitals caring for Kovach patients in
terms of numbers of patients that were
caring what does it mean to be prepared
meaning how well has was that mean for
the hospitals I mean increasing the
number of beds or they they basically
cleared out some some words they set up
three separate Ward's each word has 20
patients each ward is sealed off and has
a glass door that leads into the ward so
that the nurses can watch from outside
the pen and not have to spend too much
time in contact with the patients
because aside from taking care of the
patients we have to protect our precious
nursing and medical staff we have rooms
in between the glass door and the
nursing station where the medication is
brought in and some and the patients
were well enough to come out actually
bring the medication in and help
distribute it to the to the other
patients the less sick ones of course
the nurses are back and forth all day
but we we've used some of the less sick
patients to help with the patient care
and during the first few weeks of the
epidemic and when we just had one of the
wards there was incredible camaraderie
between the patients within the ward
yesterday I spoke to one of the nurses
there and this is a terrific story her
name is Rachel Gomorrah she was an
oncology nurse who volunteered to work
in
in the coveted ward as soon as it opened
and that's different from most hospitals
where nurses have to be assigned to
taking care of Corona patients and she
told me this heartbreaking story of the
first death in Israel from the virus
it was a Holocaust survivor named Rea
Evan and he had been in the unit for
weeks or a week or more and was slowly
getting worse but he still had a good
personality and he was still talking and
he and all of the other patients there
loved him and and sadly the moment that
he was dying and he was you know passing
into the next world he was surrounded
not by his family because in no Hospital
in the world that family allowed next to
these patients he was surrounded by all
of his new friends who he had made in
this ward and that's that's the type of
story that happens at Shaarei Tzedek all
the time the camaraderie between
patients is not unique to coven yes I've
seen times where wherever I've walked
into what some of the older hospital
rooms have three beds in the room and
you'll have two Israeli men and one Arab
man and and they'll all be chatting away
and that's that that's normal and you
know Israelis when they meet each other
in the hospital they they'll always have
someone in common even you know even if
it's it's a Yemenite Israeli and an
Ashkenazi or who comes from Tel Aviv and
the phrase that they always use is
kyboots gali up the in gathering of the
exiles and you know that Israel is one
big family
mentioned earlier and I I wanted to ask
more about Kobe mentioned when I started
working at Shaarei Tzedek but my my
impression is that you work here in
North Jersey right Italian right so can
you you you you work there you were
Thyer
for the last five years I've been
spending the month of February there
every year
volunteering as a cardiologist in the
jeselsohn heart center at the hospital
and I'm very lucky that I was able to
arrange that it I had started visiting
the hospital when I was vacationing in
Israel years before I would stop in I
would sit in on their fantastic coronary
care unit morning conference and as long
ago as maybe 16 years ago and I always
wanted to have something to do with the
hospital in cardiology and as time went
on and I visited more and more I got to
know people there and the last chief of
Cardiology I sat down with them and I
told them what I wanted to do at that
time I called it a mini sabbatical and
he said there's no reason you can't do
it let's go and he walked me down six
flights of stairs to the personnel
office introduced me to the nice lady
who helped me get a temporary medical
license and less than a year later I was
there and this proceeded your your term
as presidency right I became president
just in July of 2019 and you're spending
about a month a year you said a month a
year I spent almost a full month between
February and March and then I'm they're
easily in the spring and in the fall
I'll stop by and work there for one or
two days just to just to catch up with
people and and stay in touch with with
my colleagues there so tell me what have
you learned from your Israeli colleagues
that you haven't from or wouldn't from
your American colleagues how are the how
are the doctors how's medical practice
in Israel different well I don't know
that much about medical practice in
Israel I know a lot about medical
practice in cardiology at Shaarei Tzedek
and I can tell you that that they had a
fantastic team in cardiology and for a
number of reasons the doctors there tend
to have many more years of training than
their counterparts elsewhere in the
world they they usually do five years of
internal medicine before doing a
cardiology which which is different from
the
us where it's usually three years of
Internal Medicine they do a full
cardiology fellowship of three or four
years in Israel and then most of them go
to either Europe Canada or the US and do
another two years of extra training so
these are really super skilled
cardiologists with great training
because they spent so many years
training there the team is used to
working with each other there's not that
much turnover so everybody knows
everyone else's strengths and weaknesses
and the teamwork is fantastic and every
day in the morning there's a conference
spending a whole hour going over the
complicated patients that are in this in
the hospital for the last few days the
ones that came in the night before back
and forth discussions arguments and a
lot of decisions are not made by just
one doctors they'll be made at that
conference in the morning how is um I
know I know testing is very different in
Israel and in America another there's so
many different what Israelis are
treating the response to corona
differently than Americans can you speak
to that what why is that
well Israel started the quarantine much
earlier than everyone else and they
their initial approach was to try to
hospitalized all the initial cadre of
patients who were positive for the virus
in order to contain the virus but after
a while that the virus was still spread
but I think that initial containment
helped right now Israel is not acts
anywhere near accelerating as fast as
the other countries that have suffered
from the virus that the testing works
differently if somebody is sick they
call muggins of it out um the ambulance
service and tell their symptoms and
their story an infectious disease doctor
hears the story and decides whether it
sounds like it's the virus the
paramedics then go to the patient's
house or apartment and swab the patient
right there and they stay in quarantine
until the results come back so that
that's that's done a lot to help contain
the infection and I think Israelis are
doing a good a good job with social
distancing except for some areas that of
course we all know about which are
lagging behind yeah hopefully improving
try to Shem so as the as a president not
as the cardiologist who does many
sabbaticals but as the president what's
your what's your role I sure I said what
do you do there well as at the United
States my role is a I'm a spokesperson I
do what I'm doing right now I sometimes
go to synagogues and address them and
talk about Shaarei Tzedek the I attend
board meetings I'm involved with running
running the the charitable collection
organization of course we have a
fantastic full-time professional staff
headed by Rachel Wulff our CEO but I you
know I give my input and then then
there's what I do in Israel which is you
know doing cardiology at the hospital
when I'm there I'm always getting tours
of new departments so that when I come
back to the US like and speak with
first-hand experience about what goes on
there you know I visited their neonatal
ICU and toured around there so I have a
good understanding of what a fantastic
program they have in that department
and what one has been the financial
impact of the coronavirus on choice Eric
well first of all Shaarei Tzedek is is
not supported by the government to the
extent that most other hospitals are
because it's officially a a charitable
organization and a private hospital so
oh lord Shaarei Tzedek has gotten much
less funding from the government it's
not funded by the state it's not funded
by
Municipality some of the other hospitals
are also quite cool in health
maintenance organizations so Sharon
senic has always had to raise its own
its own income a lot of the income from
chareth hr8 said it comes from their
outpatient clinics which actually cost a
lot more for patients and for huland
than other clinics but everybody's will
it wants to go there because they're
specialists are so outstanding so what's
happened with the viral epidemic is the
outpatient clinics have shut down and
that's almost 50% of the hospital's
revenue well which is a big hit to the
hospital now what we're anticipating
unfortunately is a surge in the virus in
the next month and a half
right now the hospital has 50
ventilators on site that are usable the
Ministry of Health came this week and
met with the executives of the hospital
the top doctors and told them that the
projection is that they may need a few
hundred ventilators after the peak of
the surge in May because on these
patients when they have respiratory
failure stay on a ventilator for ten
days two weeks and even longer so we're
going to be accumulating patients on
ventilators as you as everyone's read a
ventilator cost fifty thousand dollars
and that that's a lot of money the the
state is going to help us with the
ventilators but we need all the other
equipment to build a new ICU to take
care of these patients and what we want
to do to protect our staff is we want to
put in a lot of remote monitoring
equipment TV cameras microphones so that
the staff is protected from the virus
while they're taking care of the
patients and all of this is going to
require a lot of funding we've gotten a
lot of donations from within Israel but
we need donations from the u.s. to I
know this is a terrible time to be
asking people for donations because
people's only income is threatened by
this virus
there are people who still have some
disposable income and I'm hoping we can
get some donations I have the addresses
behind me it's a csz dot org slash
Verona that's American committee for
Shaarei Tzedek dot work / corona and
we'd appreciate any help we can get
doctor I was gonna ask where we can find
you then you're right that that is the
address of a CSV or excel at Corona
doctor thank you for sharing these
stories and thanks for sharing your time
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one le Leibovitz Ellie Leibovitz is many
things to many people for most of all
he's a comedian Elia there I'm here he's
not just a comedian his comedian who is
living through coronavirus and I don't
mean the way I am so my huh my angle
your angle I'm a comedian living through
coronavirus I I would put that on a card
oh yeah Hatcher am a go it went okay I
think you should clarify that rather
than I'm like because we're all moving
through this whole situation but I think
I actually had symptoms like as a
a week which not to scare anyone cuz
thank God I'm doing okay I mean you'll
hear me cop a couple times maybe
hopefully only a couple times during
during this conversation but thank God
you know considering how I'm doing okay
I'm doing some virtual shows but I don't
have any taste or smell I told my wife I
said what yeah I said hey you know I
don't think I have any smell she says I
know you have to take a shower and
that's that's how it's gone I was
thinking it was gonna be like you never
had any taste that way please
oh nice that's even more even more
cynical maybe yeah maybe I'm just
projecting my my own life that I lived
through I'm like in the earpiece the
Secret Service situation you know thank
you thank you I've been using one that's
on Bluetooth in it it just scares me
anything that I have to rely on another
thing falling apart but yeah also I'm
living out my childhood dream of
pretending to be a security individual
like yeah yeah
so nothing nothing like following a very
serious doctor situation and then have a
comedian right the it was a tasteless
pairing if you will so uh so tell me you
went you went public last week about
having coronavirus Y posted it on
Twitter you folks know I say Twitter's
pretty public
what's with it and you asked you asked
for people to I mean I thought this was
very nice one sadistic these stigmatize
I think it's pretty wild
I mean you know I hate and not in the
shoes but when people get it and they
won't tell people so good of you to let
people know what was the weirdest
question anyone asked you when you
solicited questions I said what's your
favorite baseball movie it's like that
seems unreal like there's like how do
you most people are like how do you know
and again I haven't gotten tested it's
very difficult I think to get tested and
also I
I have I had most of the symptoms or
last week I had a fever I had chills and
I and then I woke I got on Tuesday I
lost my sense of smell and taste which
would have really scared me if I didn't
realize here that was one of the
symptoms like I think that like any a
basketball player that uh leaked all the
microphones lost his sense of taste so I
guess that's me - can I get meat up for
doing that but I and then I have a cough
and I had like some body aches so other
than that I thought those were pretty
much all this most of the symptoms and I
just figured that there's a lot of fear
going on with this whole situation
everybody's very scared rightfully so I
just figured if people could hear from
someone who has it and is doing I'm
doing relatively okay you know I feel a
little bit weaker and a little more
lethargic but I can have a conversation
mess I've been coughing a lot but other
than that I'm I'm doing okay I hope your
social distancing as well really yeah I
haven't left anywhere and the lack of
shower no I haven't gone anywhere in
more than a week
so all that stir craziness that cabin
fever it's gonna be a very interesting
Pesach that's all I'm saying everybody's
everybody but like honestly I know
better be bored and going out of our our
minds a little bit
and with like you know stress then to be
on health so you're still doing shows
right I'm still yeah I'm still really
shows virtually which is a whole
challenge in itself like doing zoom
comedy because you can't have too many
people unmuted or else the audio messes
up and you can't sometimes people will
mute everybody and then you really
aren't talking yourself for like half an
hour but I really feel like people is
that hard because you don't get the
laughs ready because you'd like to
interact mostly the laughs that I I mean
I don't do to a crazy amount of crowd
work normally but I normally you want to
you need that like hey here's a joke
laughs here's a joke laughter so people
are muted you're just like all right I
guess this is good this is bad I don't
know I mean it's a little more freeing
you can kind of try things and just be
like all right like this works like I've
been doing a lot of school shows for
like staff at schools and I could tell
they really need it I mean everybody
really needs comedy right now because I
think in our new society
laughter and toilet paper are gonna be
the new forms of currency so it's but I
could tell teachers really really really
need it and whatever but like it's it
tonight I just did a show for a school
in Florida and they they were really
appreciative they're really nice crowd
and it's a good chance to write like new
jokes and just like I think everybody
needs a little bit of a distraction so
I'm not talking about this thing itself
I'm talking about you know how our new
challenging everything everybody's on
zoom' like you know who knew we should
have invested in zoom this whole time
and it's you know it's pretty incredible
with that teachers and a lot of schools
that really stepped up and just been
like hey this whole thing that you do in
person you're just gonna do that online
now which is kind of incredible it's
incredible that they think that it's
that easy to to transfer well it's not
just that it's that especially teachers
I had growing up would not have been
able to figure out so they couldn't even
figure out the video card with the link
of TV on it you know where you're like
oh there's gonna be a video to watch
great it's only a 45-minute video so the
fact that the fact that teachers are
like all teachers are just like alright
you're teaching your classes on zoomy
and I wonder if like the challenges
gotta be hard because kids still
probably like have the same lies where
they're just like I have to go to the
bathroom you're like I see you playing
xbox right now and finally I know you're
so it's got I'm actually watching both
sides of this because we my kids are in
school unzoom and my wife teaches unzoom
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yeah it's I'll tell you the the the
happiest thing for her is the ability to
mute the entire class in one fell swoop
just one button right life
Yeah right so I don't know if anyone's
gonna really want to go back to real
class real teaching when you have this
these sorts of magical powers sure no I
I definitely I mean I why I wonder if
like because there's got to be kids who
it's gonna be very challenging for kids
to like learn anything and I wonder I
mean this potentially may go on for
months which is gonna be very hard but
also I wonder if there are some kids who
are just gonna like have some gaps in
knowledge where they don't really are
they're just like one subject is just
not covered in their in their lives and
then they're gonna like go through life
and then one day they're gonna get their
job and you know they're be in a meeting
and somebody will be like to them so
yeah for just like a fraction of the
cost we can get these supplies and the
guys gonna be like what's a fraction and
that was a joke Rona Corona I hit that
Corona
yeah exactly well you could just like a
be like oh I'm sorry I
it's like for me like you know I missed
like part of my junior year so I have no
idea what happened after the Civil War
and before World War one I'm just
American history I just like that gap of
knowledge I'm just like reconstruction I
don't know you could write you could go
to youtube and do crash course world
history but no no I'm just gonna remain
this way right jeopardy they're gonna
ask me you know 90s baseball and like
Old Testament and not what happened in
the 1890s what hopes you know The
Simpsons where they they move and
they're there in like this new school
and they ask Bart like oh you're in the
fourth grade and they're just going
through the things that he doesn't know
and they're like party do you know
cursive and he says I know of cursive
and you're not gonna and I thought
you're good we're not gonna publicly uh
this is a Kids program Emily I was
family-friendly
which which we have which I watched as a
kid and really help to find my sense of
humor by way parenting also is just
there I said the biggest foresight the
rabbis had was knowing that we would
need four cups of wine
that first say the fragment pace uh
started and that was before this year
but like I feel like parenting is just
really difficult with you know I have a
toddler of a two-year-old and he's just
you know before I feel like parenting a
toddler was just like you know you like
you have a few minutes to yourself on
the couch you're like on your phone and
then I'll send you hear a weird noise
and you just like turn and you're like
careful and you go back to your phone
and it's got to be put with what it's
like now right so Ellie you yeah you're
a Jewish guy and you're funny and you
but unlike most Jewish guys who are
funny you then decided to connect the
dots and take the next step and actually
the comedy on a professional level yeah
how'd you make that jump
um when I went to y-you some friends of
mine were starting they did a comedy
contest like a like a almost like a
talent show comedy contest I was a
fundraiser for camp asked and they were
like anybody that wants to be involved
do it ten people the first time the
first time I did it it was terrible
didn't go very well
the second year they added I want it and
the third year I had it I should have
wanted but I won the popular vote so uh
it was that's that's really how I
started doing which was a joke even
making sense then but only started
making sense in 2016 yes yes well I used
to also say about I said when you know
there's six questions you could ask when
you go up to show my him and one of them
is were you participating mushiya coming
and I was gonna say yeah I was a Cubs
man and that joke isn't funny anymore
since 2016 so yeah things have died I
yeah I started doing it in why you a
little bit more and then I started
realizing that you know I just start
doing these shows called bringer shows
where you do like that comedy club you
bring like you know ten people or
something and you get like a few minutes
of stage time and and then I started
doing more Jewish oriented shows because
I just realized there's so much material
about Judaism
and it just comes easy to me that's what
I think about like I just I I you know I
went to Jewish day school my entire life
and I sometimes don't know what non-jews
like think about like like do non-jews
even own a crock pot like why would they
I or play board games I mean is now
everybody does but before this so yeah I
very much like have this you know Jewish
mindset and I just think in Jewish terms
and sometimes I think that if I I think
a lot of my jokes during church one is
Ray and I worry that God's gonna get all
media can I get me down me and next time
I'm on stage he's gonna make me think of
someone Esther day and one day one day
one damn if you ever have you
performed in front of non-jews I have I
I mean we say my my bread and butter my
wheelhouse is mostly Orthodox Jewish
rooms but or Jews in general that have a
little bit of a background but I've done
like corporate shows that holiday
parties which are interesting those are
always tough anyway like any comedian
will tell you that doing corporate shows
are really tough because like I
performed at an event for like a CEO a
company and like ten employees at his
house and it was like they ma it was
like the closest to like a jester
perform before the King and people are
like how did it go as I almost got
beheaded it's I I do I do some crowd
shows I mean I do it like I said when I
was in college comedy clubs you can't
really get up on stage at a comedy club
in New York and be like a sivanna am i
right but i just right at this point
I've just really developed an act for
mostly Jewish audiences and that's
really unlike my strengths because Judy
Orthodox Judaism is so much a part of
your life but your your our lives that
like you know wake up all right right
shoe on left shoe a shoe right you know
tie your left shoe Rach it's just like
every single aspect you're like you
always have to be focused at what time
it is like did I dive in did I bench did
I say Brava isn't Shabbos is the holiday
as
as a kid like every single thing you
always have to like be aware of time and
it's just if you're Orthodox you and
you're just like a lot of it is so much
a part of your life like you can't just
like think normally like because you're
just like is this kosher is this
whatever so every every aspect has to be
thinking about Judaism I think yeah so
the buyer
why aren't you Sonny Jews were all over
vaudeville Jews were all over radio Jews
were all over Hollywood
like completely outclassed or
represented as comedians with the deal I
mean I think most people tell you it's
probably a coping mechanism that the
world has been really hard for juice
if you've read books or know things or
seen any Mel Brooks movie it's just I
went through three quarters of high
school so even the part that I missed
was nobody I think the world has been
very tough in general for Jews and it's
just one of those things that Jews don't
have a have a like a defeatist attitude
to give up so we have to persevere but
the only way to really persevere is to
like things are so if things are so bad
there's a way we react to it you can say
like oh this is never gonna get better
nothing's gonna ever happen any better
or you could say okay this is what's the
situation in this I'm gonna make a joke
about it and try to cope in that way I
think it's it's a hope it's a hope
mentality a little bit that that even
when things are rough that like they
could get better and I actually think
being a Cubs fan I would say used to be
like I would say it's very someone being
Jewish because you're just like the hope
that even when things aren't great now
one day they'll get better and you know
the Cubs slogan is you be wait till next
year which is literally like like Shawn
above your shrine but so I think that
it's like it's a coping idea in addition
to Jews it's also an intelligent thing I
think I think when it comes I think it's
you know Jews there were people of the
book which is a lot more
expression that we're known as rather
than people that have classes but we're
people the book and we're intelligent
and I think it's a very quick I do a lot
of Jewish humor Rosie's very clever and
that's just one of the many ways that we
have to kind of get through tough times
and that and that's also why I think
what's I've been doing a lot of these
virtual shows because I think a lot of
people are just and stressed out anxious
nervous and that's just about pace on
even about the situation and and they
need some sort of you know thing to
deflate balloon of tension that they
have and humor is a really great way to
do that are you going interesting places
that you haven't been before in this new
virtual era oh I'm staying in my house
but and am I in terms of yeah well
what's what's interesting like I said
it's a little bit more free because I'm
trying things there's normally if I
tried a joke and it doesn't get a laugh
I'm like alright that jokes not good or
whatever but since I can't really
necessarily tell fully if this is
getting a laugh or I'm in a separate
room in people and it's just going I'm
sorry just gonna yeah I'm trying a lot
more things and it's a lot more freeing
to to experiment and say alright let me
try this joke that I didn't really you
know I I told the joke that I didn't I
was like the other night that was not
for a certain crowd that would never
really work I'm gonna say it now and
we'll see but people may hate this or
whatever but I said you know the idea of
Roby mayor Bala nice is this idea that
you know a mayor who like we would dive
in that we hope you lose a lost object
that you you hope that he finds a lost
that in his merit you find the lost
object but I wonder I always think like
maybe every mayor was just great at
finding other people's lost objects and
you just like a little bit of a hoarder
and like he came home and he's like
honey guess what I've been and there's
like if it's five more single socks I'm
out of here like and I have no idea if
that's listenership is gonna hate that
joke but I can't hear anybody laughing
anyways so if you hate it I put myself
um you just to just test you thank you I
resolved I wanted to see if you were
ready to take this job all the way yeah
thank you
wasn't but what what Joe could be most
regretted telling oh boy right here
right now what's what joke am I most
regretted telling I don't know I
I mean I wants to regret telling but
there's some times when like you asked
like if I'm going to different areas and
and I think there are times when I'm
like pushing the envelope I'm making
jokes about the corona virus a little
bit you know I'm mentioning it and I'm
worried a little bit I'm gonna scare
people or like offend people a little
bit I say a lot of times when you
perform for Jewish institutions they
always ask you to do you know stuff
completely like hey you know we can't
really pay you but can you know they try
to really like ask anyway they can do
they can and you know it's you gotta be
careful let's stay in age because they
say things like you know it would be
great exposure for you and I'm like bad
choice of words
you know well your name will be spread
very first know you'll go viral I'm like
okay that's I don't think so
so that's probably a joke that I'll
regret later I I'm regretting it Thank
You Ellie Ellie aware people who are
watching and are falling in love where
do they find you or people that are
hating they can message me also people
wandering around on the internet yeah
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out if you enjoyed if you didn't enjoy
then say nothing and make your mom proud
yeah exactly
just get through this crisis on your own
then but you know whatever
yeah
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