Hot Mic (Ep. 133)

hi this is deborah dolofsky and welcome to the rabbi alaski show and whether you're watching with our friends over attorney time or wherever you listen or watch your podcast we are so happy that you've decided to take out time [Music] to uh to spend it with us is such a of course i haven't said this in a while and uh i want you to know i do not take for granted the fact that so many people take out time from their busy schedules to listen to anything that i have to say it is such a school i know so many people who would give anything to be able to have the opportunity that i have to be able to speak to so many of you and uh it's uh it's a school it's such a host that i'm i'm honored and touched by the people who take out time to uh to watch or listen to this podcast and i shouldn't should give you a physic we should have good things and that we are sponsored this week anonymously leo initiative and an appreciation to abralovsky for all flavor that you exude i am just exuding that taste of torah that flavor truly a kid of hashem i hope so i really hope so that's what we're trying to do i really try to do this to be with kardashian yeah it's uh i don't know if i ever told you why uh i started doing this there was a number of motivations but one of them is a former talmud of mine who who gave me musser and said you know you don't have a shirem out there for the general public i said well when i somebody hires me to speak and they film it they put it you know up on uh you know until anytime or anything like that says no you should sit down and just do this for people without any other consideration and that was really the impetus to start uh to start the podcast and um uh it's really in his class uh i can mention his name it's a talmud and a friend mayor strobel he's in baltimore and uh this this uh all the many many people who gain from this it's really in his house please keep it up you inspire and give real physics to thousands of people on a weekly basis because bro one complaint i was on a plane recently listening to one of your classes on my headphones it was so hysterical that it caused me to start laughing out loud not cool well you got off easy because robert label scharfman who was one of the pioneers in women's education told me that he used to jog listening to my shirt and one time he laughed so hard that he fell down literally fell down on the street uh somebody else told me they were listening to it and they were laughing so i then was going to a car accident so he says really your recording should come with warning labels this is true but um but it is always endearing to see people listening on headphones you just see somebody like living and no one knows why it's because we're all in this together and i am there with you okay thank you so much thank you so much i will try not to be so funny what can i do it's one of my christmas that i carry yeah i was once working someplace and one of the co-workers was remarkably unpleasant to me more so than one would expect under normal circumstances there and i really tried to to reach out to him and finally he says you know why all the other people in this organization hate you i didn't know that they did hate me but i said why this is because you're funny how do you think when you know we're out there working with the kids and they say why aren't you funny like roloffsky and i looked at him with as much seriousness as i could muster and say i'll try not to be so funny so uh so i do apologize for those who have suffered accidents from laughing out loud yeah gosh okay i hear a sad story sure you do um i i used to give a shirt years ago when there used to be public shoe room and stuff uh in the hard enough every other motif office and uh at one point we had a lot of people coming a lot of people um and uh and i was approached more than once by somebody who said to me yeah why do you give this you're such a big time such a big comic-con you know there are plenty of people who give a better share than this i could give a better share than this more than one person said this to me shames the condition i should be giving that so i said no that people come because i'm funny oh oh you mean you tell jokes you like a clown like you like you do like jokes like okay so i'm not i don't know how to tell jokes i teach playwright oh i didn't realize it was a comedy show okay now i feel better this happened to me a few times so somebody was there once and they were horrified on my behalf they were like whoa why would you like to talk to you that way i said do you understand what a network you have to be if you go over to somebody and say i should have your share why don't you start a share because nobody will come that's why nobody wants to listen to you so if i say to them well it's because my torah is so much sweeter and more interesting than anything you have to say what am i going to do make the guy feel dead so i told the guy well i told you oh okay you're a joker you're a jokester you're a clown yeah you feel better now so what'd you do you bet you you pushed me down and felt better about yourself you feel good now good that's all i want i want you to look away happy don't worry about my coven i left it to uh i hosmet over my family all the time we fight about it constantly and i said i don't want any hispay than when i go because i've been mustered so many times already in my life how many times i've been introduced and and the introductions are so over the top sometimes i get up i i don't even say i say you know i am so impressed with myself now that i just wish that i could be you so i could be sitting in the audience listening to me i said make a schlosher shift put me in the ground as quickly as you can and then make us make a sloshing let everyone sit down have coffee and cake and let everyone talk as much as they want about me i won't be there but by the lava you're still there you have to listen you know because i don't need anymore so someone says somebody has to speak i said i'll record something hi everybody uh i guess if you're here i'm not anyway i just want to say a few final words about myself first i want to check to see who didn't come because i'm going to come back and haunt you just take a look around i might even do it be something special anyway well we really we really deteriorated quickly this week doesn't we anyway in the last podcast we said that we would like to speak certainly until shavuous and after that we will see um but uh certainly shabu is i would like to uh during these weeks we learned peer kevos like i said there is a minute to learn it the whole summer so i might keep going but i just want to pick out like one idea so i spoke something from pericalic last time so now i'll take something from perrick bays right at the beginning historical [Music] an eye that sees an ear that hears and everything that you do is written in a book you know we say that during the sound of tokyo yeah and they open up the safer and every everything you've ever done or said is inside of that book the people make mistakes in life and one of the reasons people make mistakes in life is because they don't believe that it makes any difference nobody's listening somebody's listening hi today there are cameras everywhere they can follow you yeah they can go from one security camera to the next the next and see where you are that's unless you're really important then they can just follow you with satellites they have satellites that can zoom in and read a license plate from outer space i saw this clip i don't like to get political because you know invariably uh you're you'll end up upsetting somebody i don't want to get political but you know but what can i tell you you know you just see things sometimes and you just you just have to learn a muslim everything is the vice president united states kamala harris [Music] has this tendency to laugh at inappropriate times in a really wild way like really scary you scared scare me anyway the first time they impeached donald trump because they did it twice of course but the first time they impeached him um they uh they just showed uh a series of clips of every democrat getting up going this is a very serious and solemn occasion we're not taking this lately this is serious and some everybody uses the same word serious and song and then they cut to the people the media this is obviously a serious insomnia everybody's ain't serious but i have this clip with a talking too i don't remember mcconnell or who it was and kamala harris is behind him doing her silly laugh he turns around there and says you know my camera and she right away turns it up and she looks at the camera and goes this is a very serious and solid occasion hey you know how many careers have been ended because people didn't realize that the mic was still on back in the uh age of radio there was a character called uncle dawn he was a children's show yeah he used to speak in rhyme and music and it was like when i was like you know anyway the show finishes but the mic was still on he says so he's doing this like little boys because oh and you don't want to have a bad face what if your face would freeze that way nothing wants you done and that when it's all done you hear this voice are we off good that'll hold the little black till next time [Laughter] they realize it was a camera they didn't know that it that it was still being recorded people don't realize that famously president reagan was making his weekly address to america and he was testing out the mic and he says well russia even as we speak the united states is sending bombers over to russia to flatten your country what do you mean the mic is on there have been moments like this because we don't really believe that we're being watched all the time yeah this guy runs a stop sign the cop pulls him over he says didn't you see the stop sign he says yeah but i didn't see you because uh you know we think we think without being watched normally there aren't consequences the person came out uh from the supermarket so their car was hit there was a note on the windshield and said i was backing up and i hit your card there are people watching they think i'm writing down my name and phone number i'm not because we don't really believe anyone's watching okay i've said this many times i had a rebel who once said that every person has a purpose in this world yours is to be a bad example and i've always tried to live up to that yeah i was at a bar mitzvah the i was just about to say krishna and the video that i came and filmed right on me did i say that [Applause] i took my hand the way the camera was born and my first thought was wasted of perfectly good those who are rebellowski show official ronaldo's have noticed that every now and then the um recording is edited i guess slight very in when uh speaking but uh you yeah right you're able to tell if you're if you have an eye for these things so someone says well we should uh take the uh you know maybe we should make a blooper reel of all the outtakes what do you think is in the outtakes you think it's something that i had enough sense to realize i shouldn't say obviously not if you've been listening you know what is it for it's i'll tell you what he takes out michelle the producer really the person who makes the rubbery elastic show happen i remember somebody wrote once i was complaining like you know oh there hasn't been a video in a while i said my staff is one person mikhail and he has a job and he learns and he has a life and out of the goodness of his heart he does this as a as a gift to clyde israel you know let's not have any complaints you know and he does such a professional thing do you even watch the video you have to go if you haven't seen it uh the podcast with the video uh of the raviolovsky theme song he ran around and got people to play and he videoed it and he spliced together he made a music video out of it yeah so so what does he take out he takes out things like um i remember i uh i was talking to um [Music] somebody what was the guy that i was i was doing oh okay fine so i was talking to him because you don't have to watch that you have to watch robertolovski slowly lose again you know or um the upstairs neighbors are dragging the chairs across you know or outside one of those trucks go by that we have a usual there's an old man again that every sound system has to be left over from the 1920s [Music] is uh it's all part of uh we uh we we are suspicious of technology clutter's awesome in the tigers we're always suspicious you know so there might be a soundtrack going by so they take it out you know but uh you know when rush limbaugh passed away um so they pulled out you know the people who didn't like him they pulled out a bunch of quotes that he had said and someone pointed out he was on the radio for three hours for five days a week for 30 years how many people can have that body of material and not say something silly or say something that comes out wrong or you know listen there's no question that if somebody wanted to take me down they could you know go through all of my uh recordings and pull out a line here online it's been done people have done this oh come as a surprise there some people don't like me really surprised i'm such a likable guy but uh you know so they'll put a line over here or a line over there or something they said like this and you know hey there was one guy online who was doing this whole attack on me and my good friend and neighbor yitzi shapiro decided to engage and he went after the guy i don't know because it's just it's a rabbit hole that you'll never come out of you know there was one guy who was attacking me and i would write these emails and he'd write longer emails and i would write emails back and my wife was like why are you wasting your time i said i want to see if i can get through this guy at the end he was masking with me and then on his his website he wrote this whole blistering attack against me so we had never had a conversation i was like but he went after this guy he just kept going and going you know so he says you're taking things that he said out of context you're taking you know this line and that lane the guy says it's called fisking like if you give something a fancy term suddenly we don't call it like being revived somebody and you know being saying multi-shamra and ripping them apart and you know it's so interesting that the right at the beginning of uh time he talks about you know how um shimon goes over to reuben and says you know levy said this about you so he goes over the lake and he says you said the following he says no he never said that so he goes back to shrimp and he says why are you lying to me he says no no he did say it let's go and confront him together and they go and they said the lady you said this i heard you say this that's not what i said and said like that you you changed the whole inflection you changed everything so rubric says ah you're lying to me forget it because context matters yeah the i think it still exists there was a tv show called jeopardy which was a famous thing but they give you the answer and then you have to give the question the answer to me the form of question okay so they had celebrity uh jeopardy and there was this comedian robert klein who was on the answer was the first president states so he beeps in and he says george washington so he says it has to be in the form of a question so he goes george washington the inflection there's an old joke like that you stole a chicken i stole a chicken look he admits it so of course context counts inflection counts all these things do the um [Music] israel that says how could i couldn't tell moshe or better what miriam said it's not less legendary and we know that coach barrical keeps the tiger right there shabbos right thomas rufus i think it is asks uh ruby kiva how can our ship make it rain he's moving from one retrust to another he's carrying on childs showers it says hashem earth's lawyer it's all one was trustworthy he didn't just say listen he's god and he can do whatever he wants obviously god chooses to play by the rules so how could he speak and says [Music] if you say something true it's just you can never say anything true you always color it you know i was probably on a plane once and they were showing a sign film and they had subtitles at the time but to know it that otherwise of course you might never watch these things but um but uh george got uh spritzed in the eye by a grapefruit and so his eye was like twitching you know [Music] so he's like you know we're thinking of uh hiring patterson for the job oh yeah yeah he'd be great for the job he's a hard worker you know he says oh i understand [Laughter] but your expression your inflection remember reading the shock when he wanted to find out about sugar he would drive down to see the person face to face so he says maybe i would call you up he's a i'll come to you he says not order my transition he said so i could call him you could call me he says you don't get the same response as when you see somebody so i always felt that way with with the online show and we give you know the lawsuit.com we sponsor and when people turn on their cameras it's a whole different experience because you're there's something dynamic taking place there are people when i'm sitting here just looking at a bunch of black screens you know i feel like i'm in a black lives matter rally you know i just have a bunch of black screens i'm looking at over here i'm talking to myself you know it's uh less fulfilling you know so when you see somebody so then you can see from their inflection you can see from their expressions you know says the boy comes on time for happening that's different responses yeah it's the same word but uh it's a completely different meaning that went with it if you put it into that context so there's cameras that are recording us people are listening all the time you never know what's being said and many politicians have been caught in situations where they said things that uh they didn't mean so the way it was said i was once given a shirt and now when i speak on a sensitive topic i tell people not to record it because i i've been burnt so they give the tape to somebody and they edit out selections and uh oh robiolowski said there's a realization that yeah it's not what i said you have to put it back into the context but did you say these were yes [Music] that might sound kind of strange but the person who translated the saint james translation of the bible into english was actually sentenced to death because he left out a knot in the ten commandments i don't know which thou shout he wrote but left out the not yeah it makes a big difference yeah so uh so you have to understand that you are always on you've always been recorded somebody's always listening everything's written down i heard of i'm not getting one stellar joke about what it would be like an olamide and it's indelicate i apologize in advance i'm not trying to be indelicate but again i heard this somebody said to me he'll probably be because what are you gonna do he gonna get [Music] yeah there's so many different barriers they have something like it's like it doesn't fit in any category so like everybody's like yeah okay i'm okay with him he's got to be somebody who i imagine if a chef comes you know he'll be wearing like a gold robe and a crown it's like you know okay we don't know what to do with him [Laughter] so um in any event uh the um [Music] uh this guy um he loves big beans unfortunately it gives him gas you know terrible guess so his wife has forbidden him to eat beets but he's passing by one of his favorite restaurants and he sees there's a sale you know and baked beans and he can't help himself so he goes in and he has beans he knows he's gonna suffer the consequences of it later but you know not everybody always appreciates the consequences of their actions did you ever see somebody you know the shabbos meal and they bring up dessert and they say something like i'll hate myself tomorrow now why would you do something that you already recognize is going to fill you with self-loathing and the answer is because i'm not considering the consequences you know so uh so he gets home he's trying to figure out he's going to cover it up and his wife's waiting for him he says honey i have a surprise for you he says really he says yep but i'm going to blindfold you i don't want you to see the surprise okay blindfolds him leads him to the table and sits him in his chair and he says i've got something special that i'm with sir okay he's sitting there he hears his wife in the kitchen and so he you know switches position to pass gas you know and he waves his napkin chase it away does this over and over again you know and finally his wife's coming in so he's with jose you know he says okay honey you know we'll take off the blindfold now and it was a surprise party for him a dinner party and all of his friends and relatives are sitting around the table with lots of absolute horror on their faces like says that's what it's going to be like in alabama you're suddenly going to have to confront everything that you said everything that you did or all of your actions because everything was recorded you didn't realize it was being recorded if you knew yeah it's a scary thing it's always on you know not one of my best moments i admit i've had i mentioned uh i think in the last podcast that you know i always had an angry problem and one thing that would always set me off is injustice and justice gets me very upset when you when you see somebody taking advantage of somebody else especially when it's somebody who's a stronger person and a weaker person it infuriates me fills me with a sense of righteous anger okay but the key there is not the righteous it's the anger right okay and i pull up and as i'm pulling up before the car has come to a stop the shiva opens the door and takes me by the hand and says we have an emergency come right now so i come in and there's a han holland meeting and uh there's this kid who's uh you know a little bit of a uh i don't like to use the term but he's not one of the cool kids we'll use that yeah i'm one of the cool kids and uh you know there were some cats that he divided to a friend i guess because they have a lot of other friends and it was with the friends and they would take from the leftovers from yeshiva and they would feed the cats like this you know anyway there was this real tough kid i if you remember the comic strip but nancy he looked like sluggo you know and those little caps that he would wear on the side of his head man like this yeah it was like one of these really mean kids anyway he decides to start torturing this kid and uh he tells him i'm gonna kill your cats he comes in one night there's a knife in his pillow and there's a noose hanging over his bed he says tomorrow you're going to find one of your cats hanging from this you know yeah anyway he um he's it pushed it pushed him he goes to the kid and he starts confronting him you know and you know the guy opens up like a shakes up a soda opens up and spritzes it all then and so he pushes the kid and the kid rips his shirt and it's like this is during a serious meet you and the kid is showing the shirt he's showing the stains he's showing the news he's showing the knife he's showing the note and sluggo is watching through the window in the door and i was seething there's a general rule do not speak when you're upset always come down you know parents feel like they have to say thank you so much it's not always true in fact they used to write a comment and i said i can sum it up now very short don't say 90 of what you want to say [Laughter] i was boiling and what i should have said is let's stop and consider and talk this through but the shiva who was agitated right so he sends the kid out brings the kid right and uh and tried to keep my cool yeah and i said i said what happened well he was taking food from the yeshiva and i tried to explain to him that it wasn't right that you really need rashus from the hollow before you take me this whole thing just made this whole story i saw the shirt i saw the note i saw the knife i saw the nose i gotta look at you a liar how could you sit there and look at me and lie are you a liar you know that this never happened you know what happened tell me the truth i was really very upset it was like no i'm that you're not telling me the truth tell us the truth so okay okay i did it i said fine fire the yeshiva fire yeshiva so he said where should i go i said where should you go this is seriously children you're torturing a uh uh poor kid you're gonna go to get hell that's what you're gonna go where you're gonna go what do you think the books of life and death are open what do you think coach marvel says when he's looking at you i was i was very agitated anyway he leaves the room and he was uh he was laughing because he had a thing recorded and recorded the whole thing and played excerpts that's always the key you play excerpts and uh it was uh you know it was a terrible thing he eventually left the yeshiva but the damage that he did to me personally was tremendous and all i could think about were those words and picky of us if i knew i was being recorded would i have reacted the same way probably not probably not but you're always being recorded the tape recorder is always on the video camera is always filming hakuri's borough is writing everything down nothing is forgotten [Music] you have to just always picture that and so always picture that the camera is going the microphone is there it's right in front of you what would you like to say these two boys were writing a telegram and you know you paper word so they're trying to figure out how they could possibly say it in the least possible words i'm saw this and he says uh if we only appreciated that every time we spoke what do you need to say yeah especially if you know that everything you're saying is being recorded we are very distant from our words today i want you to think about this you read some of the classic novels thousand pages they took a quill they dipped it in the inkwell and they wrote until the thing started to go and then they stopped there right and dipped it in page after page amazing amazing accomplishment i can't even i can't even imagine what that would be like i started school in 1964. we already had ballpoint pens i think that didn't matter i didn't need a pen i used a pencil but by the time we were old enough to use pens they had ballpoint pens my mother went to school she had an inkwell you know it was it was an amazing thing we take it for granted now but when you had to take the time to sit down and write that down and then you would edit it and edit it again they published at one point the gurus hashem by the maharao his rough draft and you can see what he considered putting in and what he took out and what he uh referred to it is i think i have that word right intimate something that was a little more special you get to see the thoughts that went into it the process that went into it until you ended up with the finished product so uh you have to think right there's an old expression and i i'm sorry i'm sure my fact checkers out there will bring it for me but you know the expression is not everything that you think should be said and everything you say should be written everything that's written should be published yeah because uh people don't don't always think it through is this the best thing to say is that the best thing to do and we just speak and that's the problem today with emails or whatsapp or texting or anything most people don't even have time for capitalization punctuation they can't even spell the whole word gr and the number eight yeah where and the letter r and the letter u okay people can't even write okay they just write k okay is already an abbreviation martin van buren was known by the nickname of old kennebunkport yeah and he used to uh shorten it to okay so uh they came right okay okay people just right away send things off and they they don't give a lot of thought to it unfortunately and then it comes back you know people go through people's tweets i'm not sure what that is because they've never been on twitter but you know they go through people tweets and things that the people just wrote as a free association years ago and they dig him out and say oh look what he said when he was 17 let's destroy his life fire him and destroy his marriage and do whatever we can to destroy this person because it's something stupid he said at 17 yeah hi okay so we have to work on our leadership and our sense of awareness hashem is always there hashem is always watching us and we should always pay attention and that's it for this episode if you want to find out more about the show go to my website rebeloft.com you can leave a message you can really comment uh you can sponsor an episode you could send an email uh you could do uh lots of stuff yeah and uh that's it everyone should have a wonderful week this is davidolovsky and this is the ruby alaski show