No Kavana? Say it Anyway (Meaningful Tefila #5 - Ep. 151)

hi this is doug dolowski and welcome to the raboyolowski show [Music] and whether you're watching with our friends over at tour anytime whoever you watch or listen to your podcast as always we're happy to have you along and this episode is sponsored anonymously in honor of my wife's birthday his wife's birthday not my wife's birthday my wife just had her birthday um and uh it uh it was a big one you're not supposed to mention a lady's age but let's just say that there is a minute to make a big celebration when you pass this birthday because according to at least one shita you're not curious because as it says in pakistan i don't want to say which birthday she celebrated but just uh the children made her this beautiful celebration and uh one of my sons moshe yehuda who you saw on the waterbury music episode um which at this point is the highest watched episode because evidently he has a lot of friends [Laughter] and uh that's our number one episode as it happens so he composed the song and my sons and son-in-laws all sang it uh i would put up a copy just so you can hear it because the brilliance of it is really something uh that's unique i remember just watching they made a music video out of it and i thought what a talented group of uh people my family is it's uh it's amazing anyway so uh so it's not my wife's birthday it's his wife's birthday anonymous mrs anonymous and um uh which is a partial my best friend role model and most fabulous mother of our children may hashem grant you many years of simha nachas and true closeness between you and me and you and hashem isn't that beautiful what better gift is there to give a loved one on their birthday than to sponsor a rabbilowski show um we're slowly trying to put together the numbers it's hard to get it down but there's about 10 000 people who listen to this show and uh the torah and i i would say as the song goes torah and simcha ready to go right because uh a lot of people just write and say how much simcha they get from this show how much happiness and in this day and age we need simcha we need to be happy so all that of course should go towards mits hashem your your wife's birthday and it should be a tremendous thing for all of you okay we're uh we're doing tefila we mentioned uh we're in the middle of a series and uh i started off by listing the different types of things you can do with the tevilla the sheva and bakasha now i want to start getting into um a slightly more practical thing there's uh as i mentioned that tfila is called avodah shabalive avodah it's it's work it's effort feel it does not usually come easily to people it's something that you have to struggle to achieve and to make meaningful i heard a story many years ago i'm not going to say it over in the name of the person i remember hearing it from because i met the fellow years later and he heard that i quoted this story in his name and he didn't remember saying the story so i won't quote it in his name anymore uh but that's okay this has happened to me before where i've heard things from people and even though my memory is not the best i do remember this because it made a deep impression on me and the person doesn't remember saying it i can relate to that people quote things back to me that i don't remember having said my daughter was just listening to a uh to a share and the fellow quoted me saying something i have no recollection ever having said and uh i see it's the kind of thing i could have said it was the famous camaro with represent which says we pray that had a student he had to repeat everything over 400 times for him to understand it and one time he told him listen i'm gonna have to go to a chevy brachas afterwards and he said it over his usual 400 times and the boy still didn't cop he says my high what's different today because i was nervous the whole time you were gonna leave he says okay i'm not gonna go i'm gonna stay till you get this and he toured it another 400 times and the bosco came out and said you know we prayed there is uh a venom haber the question is that he asked is why didn't the boy get a bus call so he says babilovsky gives an answer because the bosco didn't want to have to repeat itself 400 times no i have no recollection of saying it but it's the kind of thing i would have said you know so uh in fact one of my most famous expressions uh that i use when i'm teaching massive shacharim is that most people live the life that happens instead of the life that they want i don't ever remember having said that but uh when i taught in seminary the girls had a board where they would put up their favorite quotes of the week and i happened to pass it by and i saw a quote from me and it said most people live the life that happens instead of the life they want i said that's brilliant i don't remember ever saying that so now i quote the board instead of quoting myself because i just don't remember yeah that's what happens sometimes you forget your own thing there was a famous western actor called john wayne and he had this particular way of walking and this particular way of talking so there's this guy rich little who's an impersonator and he says one time i was on the lot and john wayne says little come here i come over and say yes mr wing says i forgot how i do my walk show me how i do it [Laughter] uh i remember reading when they made the uh the song we are the world so they pulled out a whole bunch of different music stars and one of them was uh bob dylan and everyone knew how bob dylan sang because i would not be so learned everybody i'm not like a rollins stone i know this because uh one of my brothers used to listen to him when i was in high school and he would blast bob dylan going like this and i would lie in my bed with a wet washcloth on my eyes and pray for death but uh it was you know so by the time he was doing where the world he he didn't talk that way and they had to remind him how to sing it like bob dylan because he wasn't singing like bob dylan anymore right so the person who told me the story doesn't remember having told me the story so i won't quote him but uh i remember hearing this story uh ben gurion who was prime minister in the early years of the state um had a uh had a friend who uh who was uh from and uh he was meeting with ben gurion and at some point he looked at his watch he noticed it's coming to time of mincha and he says you know david you have to excuse me and he goes in the corner and he does what is known in the vernacular as a quickie minecraft we've all we've all done these on occasion where we suddenly realize uh kind of pressed for time or in a situation and the plane's about to leave you know you got to do a quickie minika you know he goes in the corner he does a quickie mancha and when he sits back down then guardian looks at him and says you called that a milka it's a very interesting insight you know um ben-gurion famously said when they wanted to recognize reform in israel he says the shul that i don't daven in is orthodox there was this uh attitude at one point in israel it was a strong sense of uh of of identity you know it's either real it's not that's it i mean i go i mean i participate but at least i know what it is yeah so uh so you know what it was is you call that a milka yeah um there's a book called skull caps and switchblades about this uh from fellow who teaches in an inner city school and he didn't want to wear his yarmulke so uh he would wear a cap and the first day the principal who is he describes him as a very tall large black gentleman calls him in and says the dress code is you can't wear a cap in the school put on your yarmulke sometimes sometimes we need other people to remind us you know what's really important so david mcgregor says to him you call that a minka he says no but because i do that three times a day every now and then i come up with a meaningful feeling he says if you can say you've had a meaningful feeler once in your life then i agree it's worth doing that three times a day every day of your life to say i've had one real feeler somebody has to have a time i don't have kavanaugh anyway why should i buy the davening i'll wait till the spirit hits me the spirit moves me and then i'll dub it so because slime says i'll give you a marshall most of the jews in europe lived in small villages now if you got a town of 50 people you're not going to be able to support a lot of businesses uh out of town communities uh want to have the pizza place if you don't have a kosher pizza place you're not on the map yeah i i spent the showers in denver this is years ago i don't know the situation today um but uh i went out to denver and uh one one thing i noticed is that there's no air oh call me crazy i've gotten used to breathing [Laughter] it might be a bit of a luxury but that's me i like to breathe i the whole time i'm panting they keep telling me drink and i said i'm not thirsty i'm dying there's no hair people people in denver get used to it yeah but um um so uh when i was there there was one restaurant on one side it was milking someone said it was flashing that was it and i was asked a number of times uh how come new york jews don't move out here to denver i said well based on um the air air flight that i had in order to reach this mile high mountain uh you're really inconveniently located you're not near anything you're in the middle of the mountains that's one thing i said but besides that why would a new year jew move here they said what do you mean we have lakes we have swimming we have hiking we have water skiing we have fishing uh we have i said okay okay let's back up new york jews don't want to do any of that [Laughter] when a new york jew goes on vacation they find some resort hotel and they sit in the lobby that's it they find a chair and they sit there for a week and they say when's lunch i said that's it they want to do two things they want to shop and go out to eat that's it you've got one restaurant here that's just not going to be enough yeah i said this once to someone i knew in flatbush i said i don't know all you're doing brooklyn is go out to eat all you do is go out to eat he says how could you say that he says my rebbe came in from richmond i went to the airport and i picked him up you know i brought up to brooklyn i said really and what did you do so we went out to eat i appreciate it yeah i find i was talking to somebody from brooklyn and i said i'm going in with my family and we're trying to decide what sites to see you know do we want to see uh you know the empire state building uh statue of liberty you know and we had like a brooklyn day you know what should we go to he goes well of course go to pomegranate for those of you not from the new york area it is a very large supermarket i said are you for real you want me to go to a supermarket because it's not just supermarket you know they've got uh they've got uh um mayonnaise in a tube that comes from europe i said is it better than hellmann's because no then what do i want it for he says well they have aged meat uh they have edible flowers you know i said you know what i'll watch the yalili video and i'll go through all the aisles and see what's there yeah well i need to go and see a supermarket yeah it's a different perspective when it comes to food yeah so if you don't have at least a kosher pizza place you're not even on the map nobody's going to come to your community so there are towns where they raise money to open a kosher pizza place so that they can be considered a real a real community yeah so uh very exciting so uh so if you're a small town you can't support a lot of things hard to keep a kosher pizza place going so a little shtetl as i probably had you know butcher who would check the chicken you know before yanta maybe a cow um probably maybe i had a baker at a grocery store well it was about how much could you support 50 families yeah so one thing they didn't usually have was a watchmaker there's 50 families how many people are buying watches and how much watch repair is there to do so there were traveling craftsmen who would go around from statel destato they had a circuit and they'd come into town okay maybe there were 50 watches in the town maybe less so you got a day's work maybe two days work you know to fix the watches so he made a circuit around he'd come once every three years so the watchmaker comes to town everyone brings their watches and he starts looking at the watches and he puts him in two piles he says these i can fix these i can't fix so people said what's what's the difference he says these watches when they stopped working they just put in the drawer and left it there it became a little rusted it doesn't pay to fix it i'd have to take out every single piece and sand it down and just buy another watch these when they stopped working their owners kept winding them so they stayed well oiled so there's a spring that's broken or this piece that i replaced but at least it's still in working condition if you dive in three times a day so you keep the machine oiled so that when the kavana hits you when the moment hits you you have all of the skills available but a person that doesn't darven we think we'll suddenly get a moment of inspiration and then we'll open up a sitter yeah you're right if somebody nebuchad is sick or something terrible is going on then maybe you'll reach for you to heal him but a person who doesn't dive in the dominating muscles become atrophied and the gears become rusted and it becomes that much harder for you now to be able to sit down and dive in therefore whether you're diving with cavano or not diamond three times a day and so the saminyanim will be more to your liking and others not there's a story uh with rahulna came and was trying to decide between two yeshivas and this one has these mylars this one had those milers they were trying to decide which one to choose and the footness said sit in each bass madrish and just learn for an hour and see which one appeals to you more because at the end of the day a uh yeshiva is a tsinor it's a pipe that's going to bring down your shepherd of torah and not everything hooks up to every pipe you know there's different sizes and each one has to go and be attached to the one that makes sense for it i say the same thing about mignano now it could be you live in a small town i mean so small that they don't even have a kosher pizza place right so then that's it you don't have much of a choice this is your minion you're going to go you're going to make it work and but if you live in a large community and somebody said to me you should always live in a town with at least two shulls all right i said why a couple of reasons one is if you sleep late you don't go so sure you can always tell everybody i went to the other minion and the other one is that um you know every jew needs a shield that he doesn't dive in it says i wouldn't dive it over there you only have one jewel what do you do yeah you have to make dumanyan but anyway uh so you live in a small community with a small show i grew up in north merrick long island it's amazing some people have heard of merrick merrick is a very jewish upper middle class neighborhood on the water a very nice place i lived in north merrick which was a lower middle class mostly catholic we had a sacred heart school in north america i remember when i was growing up the merrick public library they had audio-visual materials it was a big fancy thing you could do north my republican library had like four books you know i mean if they were out you had to wait just sit there it was much less exciting yeah so um uh i grew up in north america so um my father was one of the founders of the east meadow jewish center which was a conservative synagogue was about a mile away and uh when i got bar mitzvah i didn't want to go to a conservative synagogue anymore so i found there was an orthodox synagogue the anger of north belmore it was a mile and a quarter away this required a tremendous amount of commitment for me because walking was never one of my strong points yeah and i have been wrestling with a weight problem most of my life i in fact had a copy of the first edition of the atkins diet i started dieting uh with atkins when i was 14. and i always had a problem with it so when you're heavy and you gotta walk you know so i would walk a mile and a quarter friday night and back i would walk shabbos morning and back i'd walk from her and off and back because i couldn't get it right and uh that's uh it's a lot of walking of course with chavez yeah for a fellow to whom walking does not come easily so um uh but we decided to go there and it was a small show maybe 40 families i'm not even sure if it was 40 families it was it was a real small show that was it but we were lucky to have that and in fact as i would walk from north merrick there were people from east meadow for them it was three miles to walk they would walk to be able to find a from minion so you don't have a lot of options available yeah uh i had a friend who used to travel around for his business he would send them to different places and uh and he said if when i was in the town i would look to see a kosher shop he's english that's why he says shop i'd look to find a kosher shop and buy myself something to eat and uh and one time i was sent you know my company sent me to this place on long island called the five towns so i saw a closer story one of the guests i'm indeed i walked two stores i saw another coaster shop i stopped to get some id i was nauseous by the end of the block and i didn't even go through the whole neighborhood [Laughter] so if you have a lot of choice that's wonderful no you can try to find a million if you don't have any choice you never need a choice but if you have a lot of choice you have to decide what minion works for me um some people like a minion that goes very slow takes a lot of time gives a lot of time to say things yeah they don't want to feel rushed i feel like uh they're always going through sugar december too fast they don't have time to say all the words they want they want to dive in slowly yeah other people do not want to dive in slowly they find it slightly oppressive they want to dive in fast whether that's uh right or wrong is irrelevant it's just if you put them into a long minion they start to go crazy they start talking they start you know my brother has a minion in west hampstead and he tells people it will go quickly but there's no talking you want to talk go to a different minion here there's no talking we will not drag it out we'll move it quickly but no talking so where there are other people who love to go to benjamin where they're talking they enjoy it i may have told the story uh my rebbe who was makari of me ra my yakov whale does that sound he said there were these two guys talking in show and i said to them you got to come to schuler talk they said sure i could talk and i could dive in at home but i got nobody to talk to i got to come to schuler talk [Laughter] it's a uh it's a challenge i find talking control gets me crazy it gets me very upset yeah my brother goodalia who lives in muncie who's one of my heroes um is a much nicer person than i am now that jeans worked out differently in the family you know i i uh i get a lot of my dad mate he's a really really nice guy he always was anyway he went to a gateway shop at tone which you know gateways makes these chapatanim for from people for inspiration he says i got i got to show a little late so i ended up sitting in the back and i never like to sit in the back because that's where the talkers are i like to sit up front but okay the front was full so i sit down on the back comes to crease the tiger and these two guys are talking and it's disruptive i can't hear so i said please you know i can't hear the laning they said okay a minute later they start talking again so my brother says to them you came to a gateway champion because you want to be inspired because you care you're a little bit more interested in yiddish guy don't come here and talk to the darpaning go outside if you want they said no no you're right a minute later they start talking again so my brother says to them i'm a kohen and in the schools of you not talking during davening i give you a bracha that you should have a large prognosis this year at least stop talking he ended up one of them came over to my brother and said you think all i care about is money and i would have said obviously that was the only way i could get you to shut up but i said my brother's nicer than me and he uh he said no but i knew a person like you would know how to use the money that a kojo baruch who gave you to help clyde yourself but okay i know some people like to talk during davening and and if you've ever been a shul where they talk during divining and the rabbi keeps stopping keep stopping giving those looks the look that they get from certain people in the congregation that if they were on the level of the rabbi would turn into a heap of bones if they were on the level of shimba you would turn into a pile of ashes such hatred that they have they want to talk during david and you could try stopping them but they want to talk people want to talk they got to talk so some people they like that kind of minion other people don't some people like a minion that's very long other people don't some people like a minion where the people are friendly um when i first moved to my new apartment i used to dive in i had a minion that was in a mcclot it was at a bomb shelter and um it was small but if anybody walked in somebody would run over and get them a chair find a spot to put them that they shouldn't have to stand and everybody said kachabas at the end the people were very warm there's another show in my neighborhood where i remember when they put in air conditioning i overheard this conversation they said oh we're getting air conditioning he says i didn't know your shawl could be any colder than it already is it's an amazing thing the rub there was a cohen and i'm a cohen and an aired shell you dukhan every day twice on shabbos i used to dominate during the week on the shabbos for years the rev never said a word to me not a hello not a good job it's not a show nothing now okay some people like that they want to come in they want to darven they don't want to be seen don't give my name don't give my identification don't show my my green pass here in israel they have a green pass if you've been vaccinated uh you can get in you know you know i don't want to show my agreement and i want to be identified other people like it people say how are you what's going on i have a good friend yeti shapiro he's right now working on building a shul and uh and he says in america a shul is your life people become part of a kehillah and you have a place to share your simchas share your tragedies he says in itself and we're generalizing but there's two types of people those who generalize and those who don't so i'm generalizing um it says in israel people just want a shul to david they just go and they dive in and they'll very often go to the closest one and so they don't have to walk too far and uh you know they'll dive over here but to seek out a shure that's going to be a part of you um that's why very often your community is is your building were your friends or your family but the the shield people don't really have a sense of community it's a big problem if bulma's outside said to me that this is uh the worst thing that happened to the american community is that when they started coming on aliyah they didn't establish uh an american vod that could represent americans they uh they got lost lost in the shuffle very often happens and people try to find a place you know i live in harnove and uh not to cast dispersions on harnoff per se like i say this happens in a lot of communities um a lot of people don't know each other robertson este amish started an organization to try to get people to you know have have friends have connections you know come together with things because it's it's such a problem yeah but uh it's also built on the side of a mountain so some people use the elevator hop they go into a building take the elevator up to the next level across the street take the elevator back some buildings don't like this they put up signs it's only for residents people can't use the elevator yeah so um so there's one guy's waiting for the elevator and someone from the building sees him and says uh who are you visiting he says i've lived in this building for six months he says oh welcome [Laughter] so some people want a friendly show where people are are warm and they and they participate in your life but you got to find a place where you feel comfortable going if you wake up in the morning and you're in dread i i gotta go i gotta go to school it's a terrible thing um when i first came there was really only one shull around in the area where i was living and it was ridiculously overcrowded so you'd come to david ing and you had to find a uh sitter you had to find a clemish and you had to find a seat mama cohen so i gotta go durkhen so i go to wash my hands i go to dark and i come back my seat is gone my horse is gone my center's gone so you end up standing for the rest of davening and there's just not enough room you take three steps back to schmonastery and someone slips into the spot oh yeah yeah and i would come back so aggravated every shabbos my wife said i'm going to ask a shiloh that it's awesome of you to go to school because you ruined shabbos for yourself and everybody else because you're so miserable you can't go someplace where you're not going to be happy you got to find a sure um and and as i always say if they don't have such a show start it be proactive you're not a victim you can take uh things in your hands but you have to find a minion where you feel comfortable having said that most of the time when you darven it's not going to be a truly meaningful feeling to get as as david ben-gurion said if you can get one truly meaningful feeling in your life that's an unbelievable thing we struggle we struggle i'm going to talk uh in the next podcast about you know methods to be able to use to try to help you concentrate and and focus on this but but the point is you gotta play to win that's what they say in in lotto yeah in the lottery you gotta play to win if you don't if you don't play the odds of you if you don't buy a ticket the odds of winning the lottery drop dramatically i would say almost to zero if you buy a ticket your your odds are also close to zero but they're a little higher because at least there's a ticket with no ticket what are you gonna do if you don't dive in the gears will rust you're not gonna be able to to to when that moment hits you when that inspiration hits you to be able to do it so the first thing is you have to dive you have to dive don't worry if it's uh as sincere as it should be don't worry if you're just running through it don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear just davin three times a day i think that's how it goes anyway so uh that's it you gotta focus you gotta dive in first thing is you gotta show up you gotta play and then from there we can figure out how to make it more meaningful okay we're up to our question and answer uh segment anonymous asks how do you pick your questions do you reply to people who contact you i pick my questions by whichever one happens to be on the paper that is put in front of me by my producer this is called the scientific method i took journalism 101 it was one of the four college courses that i took in a vain attempt to try to get my make my parents happy and eventually i realized i would never make my parents happy so i wasn't gonna spend four years in college and still have them be unhappy but um uh but one of the things they said in journalism is the most important story is the one that your editor cares about so uh you know if you know his uh his wife is the president of the garden club then for sure write a story about the garden club it's gonna it's gonna make it into the uh into the issue it was very interesting and uh news is uh is always um subjective how it goes so whichever questions i happen to have in front of me those ones they answer our plan is to answer all the questions we have hashem enough of podcasts and it's not like we have been inundated with questions and some of them are easier to answer like how do you pick your questions that's a pretty easy one to answer and do you reply to people contact you yeah i do i do try to reply but a lot of it depends on the question so if it's a short question it's easier for me to respond right away if it's a complex question where i have to give it thought and time so i uh put a lot more uh effort into it so i don't answer it right away and the problem is that you know the little window in my email only holds a certain number of emails and then it starts to drift down to the bottom i actually have to scroll down and find the emails that i didn't answer so every now and then i do that i take an afternoon and i say i'm going to start answering all my my old emails and somebody was like i sent you this question a year ago i said i know but i you know didn't scroll all the way down yet so yeah i really do try to contact them but depending on the type of question um it takes more time by nature i'm more of a verbal person uh writing does not come that easily to me and so i takes much more time so like when my kids you know send me an email or a text i usually just write back and say call me because it's much easier for me to to answer a phone call and express myself than to compose it also emails are uh a terrible medium for communicating and that's why when you find people get themselves into trouble it's because they're responding in uh email talk where it sounds very abrupt because people are not gonna write all the things they would say if they were talking and so they write it very short and you know it comes out sounding harsh at times so i very often will write a reply and i'll look it over and i have to rewrite the whole thing because i don't like the way it sounds so yeah i try to answer all of them but it does take time yoda kravitz asks being that you so often use comic characters as a muscle what are your thoughts on wokeness taking over the comics industry this is such an excellent question and i'll give you some background i basically read comics in the 1960s for those of you who are uh comic book aficionados it was what was called the silver age the golden age of comics was like in the 40s um the just a society of america um the old captain america things like that 40s 50s and then it died out and in the 60s it made a revival and uh that's when the flash went from you know jay garrick to barry allen and uh a whole bunch of different characters changed that's when um uh the green lantern became hal jordan you know um as opposed to uh the old green lantern there were there were different um there were different chains that took place that was when i read comic books i was a kid i escaped into a fantasy existence it was very good for me and because reality was not that great and i i used to read these comic books and i found it very interesting and often educational they deal with a lot of scientific principles and things from history and very very interesting at some point i stopped buying comics right obviously you reach a certain age by the time i was a teenager i was not reading comic books anymore so my comic book years are a very narrow span of time as comic books began evolving and uh including um relationship and stuff like that i would never have read comic books under those circumstances but i did when they were relatively harmless and it was just you know the good guy fighting the bad guy and coming up with some clever way to be able to uh for superman to get mix of pixel x to say his name backwards that's not easy yeah and other kind of things like this but that was those are the kind of things that i read i i didn't really see when they started getting more modern and edgy yeah the edgiest i remember is um spider-man best friend was uh harry osborne who later became a hobby goblin but he ended up using drugs he turned to drug use and i remember it was the first comic book that didn't get the comic book seal of approval there's some kind of little seal they put on because it was too edgy that was considered too edgy so uh all standards are going today obviously so um i never read them but the very fact that you have to turn around these characters and uh morph them into something else is just just terrible the whole thing is terrible i'll give you an example there's this move to make james bond uh black or a woman or black woman or a black trans woman you know i don't know what you know james bond is british he's a british you know fellow you want to make a black superhero there are plenty of them you want to make a black action hero what they were never black action heroes there were plenty of them why don't you make a black action hero that's not enough black action heroes out there in history you have to take th the white guy and and turn him into something else for what and i feel that way about everything why are you twisting it there's a it's an amazing thing because you know if a white person dresses up like a black person that's racist but if you want to take uh alexander hamilton you know and and everybody in the american revolution make them black that's okay that you can do it the other way i don't understand why just keep things the way they are that's the way it is and uh i don't know why they would mess around with it but once once comic books started getting into you know these kind of personal issues and sexuality all this kind of stuff it has no place kids are not should not be reading this um the purpose of comic books is to give people the idea of being a hero and being brave and you know that's that's what's important that's what uh i i think the message was so yeah i think it's a terrible thing and i would urge everyone to boycott comic books that um have messed around in that way i happen to read a news story everyone knows that captain america's biggest villain was uh was uh red skull they both got the same super serum stuff and one of them turned evil one turned good i mean okay you know your arch enemy is always you just in a different form uh that's what the joker is to batman uh that's what um general zod is to superman it's the same character only the reverse flash to the flash that's how it goes so red skull is captain america's enemy anyway they had a comic i only i only read about this in the news where red skull is writing his 12 rules for life which was written as an attack on jordan peterson who wrote 12 rules for life yeah clean up your room take responsibility stuff like this this is red skull so jordan peters and i saw an interview with him and he says so someone said someone goes well i see that they had to make you a nazi he goes oh no it wasn't enough to make me a nazi they had to make a super powered nazi they had to turn me into a superhero nazi not just a nazi a superhero nazi because i say things like clean up your room [Laughter] so yeah these things do not deserve the time of day the the industry has been taken over and like i say it it's always a danger when i make these cultural references but i'm going back so many years obviously to the 60s when that's when i read comic books i may have mentioned this once upon a time when i was teaching in remy centers yeshiva so um i i referenced mad magazine which doesn't exist anymore but um i also read that as a kid in the 60s you know they had this thing spy versus spy he was a little cartoon so afterwards very center said to me you can't mention mad magazine it's uh filled with inappropriate material now i was shocked when i was a kid it had corny jokes and you know silly stuff but it wasn't it wasn't off color now you weren't even allowed to mention it so yeah um uh there when it comes to superheroes i'm i'm only making references to the silva age that's what i'm familiar with i'm not really familiar with the golden age and i really am not familiar with anything that took place afterwards and uh i'm just filling in uh those aspects okay that's it for this episode if you want to find out more about the show you can go to my website overviolovsky.com you can leave a comment you can contact me i'll usually get back to you i might have to scroll um who by the way were the enemies of fantastic four the squirrels anyway i might have to scroll um i might have to uh you know but i will do the best i can to respond uh 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