Purim at the Orlofsky’s ft. Yaakov Orlofsky (Ep. 226)

hi this is D rowski and welcome to the rabbi olowski show and whether you're watching with our friends over at her any time wherever you watch or listen to your podcast as always it is a pleasure to have you along for this experience and this is of course our special perm edition of the rabbi olski show yeah and we have a special sponsor for this special PM edition of the rabbi olowski show nishas well that changed fast sched malas mosob grinberg RKA griel grber Zev Ben Yehuda Weinstein and and mayem Yeshua to all of Cl Israel by a vid mosha and mind freed I just on a personal note want to say that the Freds are just the nicest people in the world and such good friends and we go back many many years and they they go back with my wife's family back to the old days in Q Garden Hills andem they should have only Sim and wonderful things and their families ruas and Yeshua and so for our I I I rack my brains no I rack my brain I only have one I know it seems like I have two but I only have one brain and I rack it before for him to think what can I do that will be a very special perm Edition and I said I know the return of yakob orlovski ladies and gentlemen you know in the first year uh I think yako was our first guest and he may have been our only guest and he's been back several times since he's a fan favorite of the rabbi olowski show he hasn't been here in a long time and I said my gosh perm is coming up who better than they hav in yakob in fact we did a perm uh show twice once in America and uh once during covid one of the most pathetic uh Productions that we ever had it was uh terrible but I don't hold you responsible for that that was uh because we were on zoom and we kept zooming in and out of uh you know disappearing and stuff but anyway welcome to the show yako verovski thank you okay that was a great opening well I'll tell you that's the kind of clever rep part that we're looking for on this pum edition of the rav previous shows uh you had me on and I didn't stop talking and then I wasn't invited back for years so we try a different approach this time just see how that works out thank you there was there was somebody who was speaking at a Mala Mala and if you've ever been to these events events you know they this one speaks and then this one introduces the speaker and then this one introduces the introduction and they they speak and speak by the time the guest speaker got up it was 12 o'clock at night and he got up and he said I was invited to be the guest speaker but apparently I was meant to be the guest listener good V and he sat down to tremendous Applause my friend RAB David Frankl who is the re good of the five towns who um uh was on our show live podcast in New York so he was once speaking at a bar mitzvah and there were many many many many many many many speakers and he got up and he says you ever see kids who say I'm the fastest uh runner in the world I can run around the entire world in a second watch want to see it again because I bet I'm the fastest speaker here tonight want to hear it again once again the trend is a BL so that's why you know I've said this and I want this on on record I don't want any hisp uh when I die because I hate speeches and so I just don't want to have to be there you know make a big scham and speak whatever you want I won't be there hopefully you know we edit this part out absolutely not I want this on record I hate hispan I don't want to be there I don't want to listen to any speeches just just put me in the ground as quickly as possible anyway but uh so that's why they have to sit through speeches so anyway uh so yakob what do you want to share with us as we approach PM we have to take pm and make it meaningful this is always the challenge of everything in a vus Hashem is to make it meaningful so what you been [Laughter] doing oh listen I was thinking this time um I don't know if we ever ever done this I don't think we did it at least not in this way maybe sing yeah I did a few on you did a few of those yeah we had EZ here right literally sing the whole bench so we could start trying to sing the Milla see how that goes there you go but you know different people have different experiences on porm everyone does their porm the different way they do their sudas and so on I was thinking maybe we could share a little bit of how you know at least growing up how we had our PM over here well we're out of time thanks so much everybody well we don't have to hit all the way to the end I have to say I remember all the perms except one year when I remember the year you don't remember I got drunk I don't remember getting drunk because I I don't get drunk as a rule and uh and I just don't remember and and I remember they videoed it and the kids always said to me do you want to see the video and I said no I have not seen the video to this day but but I was the only one that I don't remember so uh uh yeah so that was the one thing we had this uh video camera yeah that we used to video and you could just rece it on that little screen every poor morning somehow find yourself sleeping somewhere and then you wake up you know wobbling in the morning and right away you run to the video camera and say okay what' I do what' I do last night oh okay I remember when P I woke up and found a pregnant nun sleeping on my floor so that I do remember he's a famous guy today yeah yeah very all right well we won't mention him by name but uh well so I'll tell you you know how a friend we just give you a shout out anyway kidding we're kidding anyway go he's a singer name a singer um you know how PES comes people start cleaning and preparing you know from TU bishvat you clean it up yeah not not us I mean we used to like was like a week before PES and then everyone's like oh my God it's p off in a week and then that house was a Ruckus I mean literally till after we had 11 kids it's very hard to clean with a lot of little kids running because as fast as you clean they you know destroy it again there was one year remember oh gosh we had done a particular room and then a kid walked in there with like some kind of sprinkles that were dropped it and they rolled all over the place H one second it's moment I have a heart condition anyway yeah well listen you always used to do the big sponger you know the big sponger there's a apparently you know now it's this room over here you can't really see it so well I would get down on my hands and knees yeah but it was it was the whole house like we used to everyone used to clean their room and then we used to all move out and then do the living room dining room kit whatever the all the all the shared rooms and then you know the last day was the big sponger now I grew up with the big sponger that was that was the pay off you take out all the drawers move all the beds and then just like rubbing and doing like okay we're going to clean the but then throughout the problem is that if when you do is the spoil sponger and you don't do the other room then it just tracks back in right so you have to do everything at the same time otherwi you know so you could do the first cleaning but uh right so so this is this is what I thought that you know this is the only way to do it the big Spong up uh later on in life you know especially when I was married and then PES comes and my my wife is you know super extra clean and neat and stuff like that like yeah I don't know how much you even have to clean for basa but okay fine we do the whole cleaning and then I'm like I don't know I don't know if we have time we have to do the big sponga she's like what's the big sponga I was like what got to move everything and then just flood the house all at the same time and get down and scrub and stuff and she looks like I'm crazy like everything's clean what why do you have to I was like no no this is pain you got to do the big sponger where we on the big sponger so apparently that's not Universal the big sponger lot of things I found that are not Universal so uh like for example not everybody washes all the windows for PES or just in general P okay because apparently you almost never find a glusa yaa stuck on the window itself however I have found them on the Tristen so that for sure you have to do yeah yeah well I I had I had a different standard in fact when I was growing up um I remember my uh we would have to me I don't mind making PES I don't mind the cleaning I don't me the cooking the shopping that I mind switching back oh that to me is a nightmare that's terrible that is absolute nightmare but when I was growing up and I was a teenager and I was an fbt a flaming baluba so my father would Moi yandi you know have some matah and whatever and a cup of coffee you know and then he to me well good night I'm having humm in the morning and I would stay up all night you know packing everything up taking everything washing everything you know everything there's there's a there's a system to winding down which my family did not understand you know there shouldn't be any pots in the fridge by this point you should have switched into there should that y forget about it I know a guy like that that what he does is you know AR they already do all the dishes well because one of the hardest parts is that then you had a a day y or two day y you know wherever wherever you in the world and then you have all the dishes and all the pots and everything you used then you have to wash it and you're just waiting for it to till it dries you have to dry everything it's like a double job so he you know Arab they do all the dishes and everything like that they try to cook whatever they could just in you know pans in the oven and then everything's dry they just use you know uh you know like you said or whatever you know paper goods and so on yeah and by the time it comes in then that whole part is done yeah so uh my house we didn't do that so it was up to me all night going way until early in the morning so I knew my father was serious he was going to come in and have comments in the morning that kitchen in fact I had these uh my my parents my father grew up very poor and the onlyi had from his mother were these two plates that he got in the Five and Dime Store you know his mother they were offset printed you know and they were like a little blurry you know one was matah one was was uh the Seda plate and that was his yusha from his mother and uh we used to have to carry it up from the PES closet and it was understood it was never stated but it was understood that if you broke those plates you don't have to explain just leave just go pack up whatever you can and get out because that's it that was all he had right there you know so uh so that was that was a pad all by itself you know so as the years went by we rubbed it in bubble wrap and and cardboard and stuff but every time we carried up there sh going to K with the rope tied around him in case he died you know anyway so the the reason the reason I mentioned this is because that PES we couldn't start you know so in advance but purm started by us like two months in advance at least you know first you got to decide a theme and then you would have the family discussions about the themes of Po everything everything was a theme by us and this was hard because if if it wasn't like the theme then nobody was happy and you had to keep rethinking it and replanning it then exactly so far no one has done my theme that I've always wanted to do right the carrots yeah I wanted to start collecting carrot bags and um and then put the Shas and carrot bags and have everything based on carrots and then have everyone dress up with carrots and it still hasn't happened one day one day M hasem now that everyone's out of the house it's just us and schlomo so you know he'll uh when he when he moves out so then we could do carrots me and me and [Laughter] EMA that sounds like a fun porm there you go well so the first themes that were just you know based on ideas were twist TST with the name or stuff like that eventually after a bunch of years you know you run out of the themes and then just went into color schemes and stuff like that and you basically did all the colors and I mean what's left I mean besides the carrot bag it's starting not to look so bad one year we had a p mulish and we did threes everything was in threes right so uh that was exciting and I remember at one point eged was advertising that they changed all the color of their buses to green and your Ro again so they and had that big Olive so they didn't Olive orski now your Rog orski and they did that for right with all the green stuff that was a lot fun all right so so it starts it starts with a theme right you got to do the theme then you got to figure out the Shas that always has to go with the theme yes all right and then you always write some sort of letter SL poem whatever now I have to say this is an odd form cuz you know most of the poems that you get people don't they don't have a gift for it they really should just write from the you know exactly that's what I don't even do from I just write my last name that's it m and then you're done I don't even write my name this way they just going to hand it to somebody else who knows where it's going to go go right happy porum you sent you sent the sh and then you get it back from like five people later you you sa which is great because I like mine better you know but uh and you're always left with so much like when I was younger you used to make like a hundred of them the whole living room was filled with whatever you well I've worked hard to alienate most of the people in my life so there m much less people to send it to but of course you end up with L sh M you know yeah but so lots and lots of them you're always stuff left with a ton of stuff all the sh of stuff you get from people and then all the stuff you you had that you know you have left and at the end of the kitchen it was just like piles and piles of this stuff and we're always hoping that maybe one of the you know organizations that collect money you know food for the poor will come and like but you know they don't always want all the humet and then you just left with piles and piles of them there was a a guy krma who does bris um yeah of course for older he does it for adults does it for adults uh the first time I met him is you have a lot of people from the former Soviet Union who didn't have brism and so he does it for them and when you reach a certain age you can't sit on someone's lap you know you have to have like a what do you call it a uh operating room you know and doctors and stuff and so uh so I paid for a bris once a whole bris and so he made me a sandic and uh it's amazing you scrub up you wear the scrubs and and you hold the head they're doing it and um so uh he used to come by after perm and collect all the little bottles of wine oh because after the brist he would make like a you know wow I went to this one you know he's so after you have a suda and you have a Raa it's a very slow as you can probably imagine when I was there the youngest one kid who was getting it was 15 the oldest was a man who was 76 wow had a bris Meer wow they all seemed pretty happy it's amazing they were dancing pretty slowly yeah anyway yeah so they used to take that I have okay I I I don't uh I don't pretend that I um you know about my background but I I grew up uh in a conserved household and we went to treating uh it's hard to do here in erra I think maybe you could do it in m and Malad you know and uh they wouldn't be surprised if you showed up on Halloween into trick or trade give you something but uh and and when I was growing up we used to do it and my grandmother my mother's mother would come by after Halloween and steal all our candy and take it to the hospital give the sick children we had to like try to yeah we had to H and my attitude was like charity begins at home but my grandma Grandma took all my stuff you know we had to like try to hide anyway but uh yeah so by so so by Pur you remember what we used to do at the end of perm well whoever was still around whoever was still around open the sh we wouldn't let anyone eat you know how people start now I can't do this anymore because as soon as the sh comes people start right away munching at it and taking yeah well there's all the grandkids and stuff it's different it's not just the grandkids it's children now have no respect for tradition but I used to put everything in the back of the kitchen you weren't allowed to touch it and when the whole sudu was over and we cleaned up we would take out all the Shas and we would lur shot yeah we would say what were these people trying to say and uh you know what was their theme and what they trying to do here you know what I mean you know and so like you have the people who like do the you know the orange with the like little piece of bumba fur mouth and like two little tofes and stuff and the two long pretzels what these people are saying is that they really don't care about you you're just not that important you really should cultivate better friends I still remember uh give them a shout out to tenes they used to send for Shas like sliced roast beef yeah and uh by the way those out there we still love you and we love to get those are the kind of friends you need to cultivate the roast be people and try to squeeze out the bumba bzly people yeah but listen the the best with those sandwich is people would just come by with like some sort of sandwiches you know or breakfast type thing that they come in but you have to eat it right away right but you know what per PM is like that because you go to the Milla and then you start your sh all day whenever the Su is by us was usually always at the end of the day and somehow you got to just figure out food throughout the day but you're not making anything you're not cooking anything and then I mean what are you going to eat I mean you you're just drinking and you got to eat something and the come in my son is mayor for reason or for reasons that are unclear to me people go crazy over his cold cut sandwiches very good very good I don't know what but it's really cold cuts what can you do with I mean you don't need a lot a nice fresh roll but he takes he takes like a baguette and he slices it and he he has some ketchup some some sauces I don't know if he puts some Co I don't you know just he does that the two people go crazy over it they just eat it all up you know I mean but what else do you need a nice fresh roll you know with some some sauce a little whatever that fake meat that they put in there you know some pickles I mean this is this is not American cold cuts this is Alter roast yeah I think makes a fine snack treat yes and then there are people send the breakfast and they have like you know you know yogurt and granola and those kind of things and right you know sometimes you actually get like bagels and and right you know cream cheese and stuff you know very exciting chocolate all the chocolate cholate so somebody once comes his wife was learning how to do chocolate um scul he brings by and it's all these very fancy like you know chocolate things from that I go wow this is unbelievable and I ate one and he almost had a heart attack I don't think he planned on anyone actually eating it he supped to put it on display you know so uh anyway but then we would sit down and we would put it out so you know you'd say okay well cans go over here bottles go over here you know boxes of bumba and ble and stuff boxes there's and then there's all like the loose nuts you know now you don't know where they've been and who who packed this well listen this is this is true about almost everything you know people send baked goods and stuff you know but if you don't like personally know them I mean you know right what if you know some you know little kids were you know dirty little kids I mean I don't mean that in like a bad way but yeah ex when kids come home from like a a baking Cod right exactly you want to he's like here digging into the D right and no no no I there was a side like that once where he's in Italian restaurant and and the chef goes to the bathroom and doesn't wash his hands afterwards and he sees him like pizza I'm not so hungry yeah it is it is a problem whenever like the little kids bake aala and they bring it home and they say oh I made this myself let me take some antibiotics first the same side all well and and and then there's the whole costume so when everyone was older and stuff then we to do like family costumes so or certain kind of ideas now being the only boys you know they usually did all the girls and then we could just get away with like just putting on a mask or you know a funny tie or something like that yeah and throughout the years it got bigger but when when we were younger I mean I had this great idea of wearing like a black suit a white shirt and a black tie and going as a Mormon how about that a funeral yeah that's how the Mormons dress yeah so but but listen when we were younger I mean that was a lot of kids yeah everyone has to do a school costume but then the day costume oh and school there's like two of them right there's one for the party and then there's one for the thing and then there's for the day and the night you can go crazy yeah but you you did it you have kids now yeah but you know write them online yeah usually I mean it's simpler comes to the house uh they're excited for day it's a buck and a half and you know what I mean it is what it is I mean when we were very little buck and a half you can get a costum for a buck and a half no no I mean to say it's like expensive just just a figure speech you used to get these Customs they were expensive yeah yeah they are $3 yeah and I mean it's like a onetime use I mean yeah no one want using it exactly so if there's cousins and you know their kids you could try to you know but when we were very little you guys used to be creative with the costumes try to set us up you know with some goad you still traumatized tell the story no no tell the story you want I wasn't talking about me I'm not talking about me I'm just saying yakob was three he might have been two you might have been two I don't remember what it was and you were going to six I was six you not I don't know there's a picture somewhere I you either two or three and you were going again and so he was like you know okay like you know it's going so she took a red uh jogging suit which she thought looked Royal and she took an apron tied around your neck like a cape and made one of those little crowns out of aluminum foil and put on makeup you know and that's it oh and a and a made out of aluminum foil and uh and the little tender pulls up and every kid is dressed like from the cast of a Hollywood uh you know uh historical drama big F and your mouth just drops open so you came home and you he say so how was it he goes oh very nice this one was you know this one was H and this one was a clown and this one was he goes uh and you goes no kii was M goes well what were you I was just nothing and the trauma remains to this day well there is there's like a class P there that we had and you see them all the stuff and I'm just sit there with like down just looking down but it's totally out of control it is it's it's crazy it's just crazy and if you have a lot of kids and you know shamies you know what Yami do they put on a Turkish Fez that's it that's what they do that's that's funny that's a funny farm costume probably goes back to when the Turks were here so like to them that was yeah that was some of them are still living in that era it was it was in Vogue back then you know so okay so you have the costumes and all right this is preparation preparation right now you live in your so the fast doesn't fall right into porum it's the best thing yeah best thing about living right the first thing when I moved down I live in bmes right the first the hardest part on porm was that because you go straight from the Tinus into exactly exactly and like and it's not like when I was growing up where kids had these little groggers now they had these gigantic four foot groggers and they've got air horns you know and and they shoot all the cap guns and Military gr explosives M16 so halfway through you don't care about humm you want to kill that kid over there now to be honest as a kid your head is killing so he a kid I used to be that kid I mean we used to bring pots and pans and just bang and stuff you bought us one time you know what I mean different kind of like uh right to come to bring up to the Miga and stuff and I mean you can't just sit in the living room and like take the P I mean you know so they're at the Shool you know you're just a kid you're just doing doing the noise and people want to kill you yeah yeah but but at least it's better you're not going from a Tinus you know yeah yeah that's that's that's rough that's rough right and I feel like you have that extra day because if it's not porm yet then you have life and everything you know goes on regular and then you just okay it's porm right away and you got to get you know here I still cannot comprehend that on shushan purm this is the only place we're doing PM like to me it feels like this is PM for everybody and and on regular PM when the whole world is celebrating PM I to me it's nothing right I just don't even understand how that works right so uh I can't think of any other time but it's like this you know but because you're supposed to have some sort of like suda ready at night time well we're we're good at that right always have some kind of su right well I'm saying when I was my whole childhood there was it always just take short ribs yeah glazed with like honey and stuff like a sweet whatever used to cook it for hours in the oven and then used toib yeah and we used to just demolish it just just the menu the the shame Shaya yeah you know I mean yeah I mean that's that's because I wanted to eat the no I mean I wanted to be milk I mean who even wanted to eat the meat but you know little K cheese and a tomato what else what else does one need you know I said that you sh me you know I said how do you you know I said what are you living on you know what I mean he heads up the I say no money there you know I said yeah because to you supper is like you know a piece of bread and uh you know tomato and kaija cheese k cheese who could afford C cheese tomato and piece of bread a little butter you know fine go she what am I a gav it's a different thing you know when we first moved here Israeli invited us over for supper and the main course was ptim which uh for those of you in America is orzo and our kids were like where's the food what is this they don't do they Israelis do a big lunch and they don't do a supper so it's like a shogy story when he went to shambas to the we have a cousin shraggy clouted and he was invited to a family and may sh for suda and they put out the bread and put out the dips and they put the fish and says you want another piece of fish he says oh I'm leaving room for the main course everyone goes he goes uh you know I will have another piece of fish but that's okay because you know I had a nutritionist one of my nutritionists that I went through um she says I don't understand you from people how what you even thinking says you sit down you have bread and you have all the dips in the salads that's called a meal I remember when I I was here you go out to a flawful store you got a Kus plate humus a couple fluffle balls and that and till today by the way this is this is that's a su that's a su so you just ate a meal then you bring out the fish and the soup that's another meal then you bring out the main course in the side dis that's another meal they the amount of calories in the dessert in the you eat four meals on a Friday night so uh yeah but I'll I'll tell you something you know I I've I've I've seen my share of uh Fitness Experts and so on you know but the majority of them that I went to they're humongous they're huge people and it's just very hard hard to accept you know from someone like that who comes and tells you listen you're really fat you got to do a diet you know what I mean eat whatever half a yogurt some popcorn and whole wheat bread and whatever and like like what do you eat I mean you know I'll have I'll have what he's having yeah half of that I mean that's not genuine that's your uncle Jason's Story you know when when the uh after one of his heart attacks so uh he had to had to lose oh he had to lose weight in order to get the heart transplant that was you get on to the list he did he lost a lot of weight yeah so he went to the first nutritionist and uh she was very heavy so he says you have nothing to tell me and he walked out then he comes to the next one and she was really skinny and he says you have no idea where I'm coming from why should I waste my time listening to you he says I was Heavy I lost the weight I said I come from a very heavy family I've been watching myself my whole life Wow says okay talk yeah that's how it goes yeah but listen I I don't necessarily understand that because uh someone could be good at what they do even though they my friend R Redman told me that when his brother was in medical school the guy who was teaching about lung cancer was a chain smoker and he's sitting there puffing away going look the X-ray you can see the disease LS coming from the smoking so a person can know it yeah yeah no no no I'm not saying that they're necessarily wrong it's just a little harder to accept you know yeah I especially when they call you hug you know personal experience when uh when you broke your toe that time I said I know already what the is going to say he saids no matter what you're doing whenever you go to when you're really heavy and you go to the doctor doesn't matter what you're coming in for you know strep throat you know go well you know what your problem is you need to lose weight you know so what time I go in and they said you know what the problem is I said I'm not getting enough red meat no that's not the problem so so you were outside when he had a broken toe you know it was in the pool I was kicking whatever and I ended up kicking the metal ladder going up and I broke uh one of my toes yeah so I I was telling you this story so we go to the doctor and sure enough he says well you know what your problem is and you just burst out laughing it's not funny it is to me yeah well I I didn't prepare you well for Life anyway but it used to be a lot different when I when I had jobs because I had students right well but till till today this happens so we I didn't get to the day so so night time right you do the mill H right so you're not coming in out of a fast right right so and a lot of like your McGill is very different than the rest of of the world because they had a day of Po and somehow whoever can somehow streams into your schim on porm I don't get it okay people want two days of porm yeah I know people who say like could I be somewhere and then drive somewhere else and try to miss the P yeah that's right yeah to me it's like staying your and then just before just before drive to be ches and yeah there and then you can missp him all together you know I hear that more than having two days of P him you know but that's what they have a lot of people in they go to to so your your mcgilla reading is different the experience is different a lot of people are coming in already drunk you know already after a whole day of PM right that's different by us no one's coming in drunk or hopefully not right to to to the rest of the world's Milla so the night time is usually starts off Cal not So Much by you guys and you always had your mcgilla yeah my grandfather's mcgilla yeah at least as my father told me m he say he says his grandfather's mcgilla and uh and I would take that along with me old old mcgilla very all patched up a few times yeah all right good and that was on a serious not because one of the little pieces fell off so I have a hole in it now oh now still well it was all patched up but then one of the the patches fell off so I have to uh it back on yeah anyway right all right and then I mean that basically sums it up and then we're finishing up the the Shas preparing them right okay the morning are you a early dominating guy a late dominating guy early not every sein okay not of a se but I you know I if you go to a late mcgilla reading then your days it's half over by the time you get home you know and they have all those you have all those sh already outside your door you know when you're leaving to go to Milla reading you know and then you have to track the people down to give them a shalas whereas if they come to the door you can quickly do the switch you know well let me you you believe in that if someone gives you sh you have to give them back you don't have to right but it is you know expected and what if you were not prepared says uh by um by the gifts you give to the you know that uh whatever you give if the guy doesn't give you back you could even be toying him and based in because you know expect to do it but my parents when we had a bar mitzvah or something they would keep a lift list of the gifts you know based on and that they don't know how much to give when they went to their B that's how we did it and then if somebody didn't keep up you know right but if someone comes and you're not prepared you didn't think wasn't on your list what do you do then I always make some extras okay five people came in 10 extra people right so once upon a time that was a problem so then you you make a quickie you know you P pull some stuff together you know and you know hand of the garbage so you take this out with you drop it on the way out so uh yeah you can put something together I mean then you make a zombie shal Manus you know where you raid other people's shal Manus and stick things together and right but they they see it's not the theme right I mean obviously obviously they know so there was a time there was a time like you said when we used to we used to make like 60 Shas but you know now we're down to about four alienate just about everybody in our lives and so uh not a problem yeah moving right long so then you come back from Domine and whatever okay Theus whatever Starts Now the way you always had it here always took out whatever alcohol you went around just set set the table and then slowly slowly throughout the day you would have like groups and groups of students coming by yeah that's when I had students yeah but that still happens today when I see her on porum yeah yeah not so much no well you know I I've never been a big fan of the tatim you know come on Collective so say you you you you let them know you the bouncer well I mean listen sometimes you would let them know fiercly exactly when people come like a MCH and they want to collect and they tell you what it is and they sit down like mention okay but when they come in and do the Dr drunk routine you know now some of them it's not a routine you know and they come in they're spilling stuff and that I said get out of my house this is not you want me to give you money when you're acting like animals what I don't give money to animals you know here's some oats and get out so uh okay part of it is I'm a cranky old man that's part of it and I always was even when I was young you know but part of it is I you know don't come in here and act like a bunch of bamas and then expect to to that I should give you stalker that's not stalker you know so there are guys who come in like mention sometimes they dance a little bit you know sometimes they just sit down say over you know okay that's men I understand that you know your uh your cousin Aaron would have a board where he'd put down money and then you get to spin and if it's a certain number then he'll double it and if not then you lose it you know like they're on the phone with the rash go I don't know what should I do what should should I spend do I not this is what he's giving me you know she was like I spin I'll say well what what happened was with that story I think a whole the whole like Yeshiva came to him and then he basically let every kid Spin and then whatever that came out then he told him you have one spin two dice if you get I think over over under a five or whatever you lose it 567 it stays and then higher than that I double it and I think then was a large amount and what happened was with that story if if I remember correctly the Y sh it was a whole story back and forth at then he said fine just someone should spin it and he spun it and he got a three and he lost all thing and first he's like oh that's it it's over and whatever was hold to then he end up giving him the double anyway really yeah yeah that this is how the story goes I don't know I I wasn't there but this is the story but they said to roll and they lost everything I would buy one of one of my my big Thrills and I would take you sometimes I go to m Shapiro every pm and uh he of course he had a whole Tish going there and he had nuts nuts and gim on the table which is a Min because Esther only ate notar she said she was vegetarian and so uh that's all that she ate because uh she didn't want to have any trafe and um uh so he would have all that out have the different bottles and things like that remember one year I came back I had bought a on the plane they had a Johnny Walker Blue it was a blue label yeah I was there you were there yeah I bring it in then was like for for you know he opens it up he pours it for everybody and everybody at the same goes I don't get it was like what why is this so much money this is terrible that alone was worth it the money was worth it just for that reaction you know it's like what is this you know so um yeah but I would go I would go to go TOA and uh and uh so one time a tat came in yep I was there yeah and he says just just get out so they were Israelis and they fought with him yeah but he ended up giving them money of course he did yeah so after they left I said if those were Amic they would have just crawled out they would just slunk out of the door because because Israelis you know they come in with this with this AIS you know what I mean so but if I remember I think he was saying that it's not mitz he says that's what he says he the poor people he says my of Y him this is you know he says so when should we come tell me when I'll come back take the money and never come back here you go goodbye and he gave like uh it's like 50 or 200 I like remember like a respectable amount I was like yeah this have to yelled at him and said this is a terrible minigan I want no part of it then okay here's the money he was special yeah yeah but perm was and perm you can get away with stuff yeah you know sometimes Amy Cohen told me that one year he he dressed up like rudna and he was not happy didn't think it was funny you know another time uh my friend Z told me that he did something won't go into the specifics says [Laughter] but otherwise you can ask him stuff and you know yeah yeah yeah I remember one year he says to me nothing to complain about so I started on something and he got all upset angry again it was it was amazing so so R nisso who was just on the on the podcast you know he says much he goes I don't know he doesn't like perm you know he doesn't he doesn't he doesn't think it's funny goes that's because he understands what perm is really all about you know yeah you know the gamar gives three reasons why we don't say Hollow on on per one is it was out very one reason is the Milla is the hollow the third answer is cuz not such a happy holiday when it opens the B destroyed and the and the Jews are in GIS and the evil King a in charge and when the story ends that's all the same so that's not what we usually call Gula oh so we didn't get killed which is a good thing don't get me wrong on that but it's not a real Gula the way we think of a g you know and and that's why it's it's seeing in the darkness I I I I really have to mention this because in the mat that we're in right now after all these terrible tragedies and and the war and everything that's going on you know people wonder how do you do perm but that's what PM is PM is finding the Sim in the darkness and the of and that's what per is so even in the in the bad times that's when you have to be able to find a in the darkness so uh I was just to kill the entire mood but uh but I know people wonder about this I remember remember there was one year my friend YY Rubenstein who was also on one of our live shows um it was there was uh in y this was during Rabin when he was prime minister uh the 18 bus blew up on a Sunday morning and horrible thing bunch of people were killed and uh so they said so they rightwing said that's because he didn't close theim so they closed theim next Sunday morning the 18 buth somebody blows themselves up they said well that's us the next week on Tinus Esther a guy blows himself up in a mall in Tel Aviv a whole bunch of kids and their Customs that killed it and there was a whole question should we have perm or not and he was at the time he was in Manchester in the in the university and he came in you know all perck and he says that is perm perm is when it doesn't make any sense when you when you see all the tragedies be able to find that's what perm is all about so D in a year like this when the enemies of Israel are working so hard to try to destroy us that's the time that we have to find the s in the darkness okay just so i' throw that okay KES timing it's all about the timing I mean I mean you had all the podcast for this and this all right I'm just saying okay listen it's your podcast we go to the afternoon that was uh by the way he he called me Rabbi nissle before he uh published the book yeah because he wanted some stories but I told him like the stories he knows he know yeah everyone knows but there some of them I I can't I can't tell right like I don't you know it's not my place to publish them well I always say over I say you knowa said this to me I believe in confidence so let me sh up he should have known better to tell me something in confidence like what do you think you know so uh reminds me special there was there was this Australian comic had a film called Crocodile Dundee and he comes to New York and and and the person was taking him says I have to go to my analyst said what's that he goes what somebody tell you promis to so you feel better he goes oh you mean like Mike who's Mike Mike runs the General Store and if you have anything embarrassing or that you feel beard about you tell Mike and Mike tells everybody else and then you don't feel embarrassed anymore cuz everyone knows about it so if you want to share something with me in confidence you know I do this some I speak say you know so and so was running the event told me something in confidence I'd like to share it with everybody right now I don't think I don't think he would have a problem to say you know what I mean I just I don't know I don't know cuz he was we were there he told us stuff you know when we he didn't want this stuff I assume not because no one else I mean he didn't say anybody else that I know unless everyone knows somebody snuck in once to ask him a question and they had a recorder and they recorded him and then they open the police investigation against him you know yeah terrible so uh and also W with Rosa there was nuance and so when he said something he had to understand what he meant yeah you know and uh you couldn't just take the words at face value you know you had to you had to Le shot you know I heard a story from army Cohen Cohen's son and uh and he said uh that when salic gave the first gar to women in stering college so there was a meeting with the gor and they were like what do we do about this so they said TOA Feinstein you're his you're his cousin call him up so he calls him up he comes back and says he says he didn't do it so H says if a man like that says he didn't do it you to believe him but what do we do with the picture in the Alam Journal so I as this R ter Moshe nephew he says you don't understand the r that wasn't a gamar here why because they all sitting with garas and he wasl right that's not called a gar if you understand what a gar here is then you'd understand that wasn't a gar here you know so you have to learn sometimes you know you know so would say certain things and you had to understand you know there were times that he would say something and it wasn't totally clear and people would ask him and he'd say you can't figure this out for yourself he was very much and you know I gave you the I gave you the say this not work it out you know yeah so uh so there was one time after year people were saying something I said I don't think that's what he meant you know yeah yeah that's what he meant so I go up to him and I said you know there were people saying this whoever those people are tell them they have no to learning they shouldn't mean because listen I'm still in trouble when you sent me after somebody I'm not doing nothing over here I'm I'm backer you want to say something you do it yourself I've gotten into enough trouble with you the next guy I'm awall never again when I uh I had been teaching in in h in is and then when I moved over to so one time they had me speaking to a group at night and I'm coming in was it's pretty late and no is coming up the stairs he says to me in my book you're a wall I said it's 10:00 at night on a moi choas I'm coming here to speak in you Yeshiva what are you talking about I didn't know what to say but you mention awal so anyway so uh yeah so then so then P so we used have people come by you have people come by you know uh yeah I have the tell me do when I used to teach in I used to teach in seminaries and yeshivas and you know I the boys for the sud and I had I had it was one year when I was teaching a seminary and like 30 Seminary girls wanted to come for the you know each one called separately and we were like we were young then we were like sure sure sure we set up tables and tables and tables and we just spent the whole time running around serving you know and one by one the girls all left cuz say it's boring of course it's boring you're just sitting here and I'm running around serving your food so like you know what were you expecting exactly you know but the guys uh the guys know how to have more fun so uh well yeah well I mean when we were younger you we used to go at night and we used to do the priel in every place you were you were at you're a big p guy I still believe in it yeah I I when I was teaching guy said to me listen they want me to be in the permi but I'm going to miss time from learning you know I said I think the permi is one of the most important things in Yesa because number one it creates the AK and with comes that's where it says uh it says why was there a greater at because there was a greater and since the says there are three requirements to be able to be one of them is um is if there's more I said so first of all you'll have more learning if there's more I said second of all it's the only way to say things in Yeshiva that have to be said that you can't say normally but you can do it in a per field you know there's opportunity for social critique that you otherwise wouldn't be able to do yeah and I'm a big believer in that I've I I have this dream uh one day maybe I'll do it to to do a permish SPI in Jerusalem you know in one of these you know uh theaters that they have you know where they put on the performances and stuff and do a real performance but I'm an oin but uh have I have I'm constantly thinking of new scenes and new things to make fun of and H it would be such a in the terms of social comment it's like the kls the the kls is the uh by the way they they they quoted me because I spoke about it on the uh in the second edition of their collection and and they can say things that nobody else can say because they're comic strip characters and there and it's a joke but you can marish get in all the stuff that you otherwise can't say and uh cuz it's funny you know it's a joke they're just joking you know and then you can so that's the that is the power of late sun is when it's used for the right purpose so that's why permish bill was always a an important thing and it's almost impossible to impersonate me and it was only one guy who came close right uh my friend uh Mendel Berlin who uh of course uh puts out the uh Torah sweets uh partial sheet you know has been a sponsor here and he did me one year it was just it was very good it was very good yeah very close yeah oh listen it's not like you know but I'm hard to do yeah but even like Trump you know how many videos out there people impersonating how many of them are like really exact yeah right so two that I've seen that are just absolutely perfect just perfect yeah because to do an impersonation there's a lot of different things you have to get them voice you have to get the movements and you have to figure out what would the person say so if I just say something that the person already says that's not an impersonation that's an imitation but an impersonation means you have to become that person and say what would they do in this situation you know so you do uh you know what what would uh Donald Trump be like you know shopping in the Super Market you know what I mean then you have to do all the trumpy lines and you know but uh so uh but that that's that's an odd form that's very hard to do yeah he says Joe Biden when he comes to the dramatic part he starts whispering and this one this one impersonator he says Trump does the exact opposite says what they're doing to our country it's horrible it's really horrible they bring in all these uh people legal immigrants they're doing all these terrible things they're murderers they're rapists was CH that's very good I never noticed that but it's true that's what he does you know so that's to impersonate is uh is an odd form but you know they say imitation is the greatest form of flattery and uh there's no question about it and that is if when you impersonate somebody that means you have to really get into it I heard a story wither years ago I never checked it out I'm not P Crown but um where he was giving a whole draer and this kid knew him and so he like he sat like down at the bottom where everyone could see him but the could see him and he was impersonating whatever he was doing and all of his movements and there you know like this found out afterwards he got he got very upset you know K came to as M and he says I thought about it because you must have been listening very closely if you were able to impersonate everything I was doing you know to be a good impersonator you have to mamish and that's why oh gosh on satday Night Live the guy who did Joy George Bush Elder I don't remember which one it was it was one of the these old SNL people so he says you can't do somebody if you don't like them you can't really impersonate somebody you know because it comes out harsh it's not real if you like somebody then you can you can get into their msus which is what impersonation is yeah all right take me take me to the meal take me to the meal take me to the meal we're already our end and it's not one we SP so all right so we'll we'll wrap it up 15 minutes take me to dessert all right so the meal you got to have KP there was a time you could not buy it here you had to make them yourself MH now you can only buy crepp in Israel before RAB p and yipper it's a seasonal food I don't know why I have life me I can't figure it out American get KP loock whenever you want now you have to be you know and uh and I have to make my own prune hitaj because they do not have prune hitaj in this country they have chocolate they have uh they have uh halva they have strawberry uh they have uh dates but Hamin comes in two flavors either prune or mon poppy seed and no one eats poppy seed sometimes people pick it up by mistake thinking it's a prun Heritage they bite into it they spit it out it's ter I don't know who eats it I don't know why they make M uh funds I think it's just like as a as a party trick but uh but prad they don't have in this country because it's very hard to get Jewish food here they don't believe in Jewish food they have Arab food you can't get Jewish food you know black cherry soda doesn't exist you know what I mean cream soda cream you know Jewish food they don't have in this country so uh they have Arab food but um humus is not a Jewish food it's not a Jewish fruit never was neither is falafel these things are not you know cold cuts they they don't know from cold cuts they don't they don't get it uh but anyway so um so I have to make my own prune one year I couldn't even find a prune filling I had to make my own prune filling stayed in the freezer for a year and we threw it away but anyway how much do you put at the end of the day you know but you have to have klock and you have to have kales which are stuffed cabbage for those of you who grew up like me remember the first time my wife said oh look they made hch I was like what is that you're saying you stuff cabbage you know but uh that's how I grew up anyway so um uh and why do we eat those Foods cuz they're covered Foods they're hidden they're hidden everything is hidden that's why the many I think it's he says he's my your your in-laws are German that is correct that is a rarity for you know never went to the Mikvah maybe K I don't know you know so one morning he's going to the Mikvah you becoming a goes no it was speaking with gretz you student gret was speaking the gret I have to go to the m anyway but he says on Kaneka you spin the drle because the hand is on the top but on Perm you do the Gaga because the hand is on the bottom is hidden so eat food where it's hidden you know so uh and that's why very often we'd also make the uh the chicken bka well till today no yeah sometimes that's that's po where everything is hidden everything is you know my friend JY Shapiro he he when it came out on a Friday so you have to have Yuda early so he made pulled beef hondash the first uh for the first meal and uh the main course was uh Alka Sala anyway what breakfast food breakfast food of Champions anyway and now listen you always I mean my hot CH we always had the same guest that was always the base the Bears would would always do it together yeah yeah right and then you had the add-ons whoever was around well when I had tell them I said my tell them that was yes and then just random strangers that was when I was younger when I was younger this was a uh a place that people would just come to after their sudu was finished or when they realized they sudu was losers and uh come here in fact I've had many people over the years relatives and people who come and are absolutely horrified by our PM they just horrified because you know your mother grew up with a perm suda where the family sat her on the table and had a shabas suda you know that was that was the permuda they put out a bottle of wine someone put on a funny hat you know that was it you know and the the insanity that went on over here you know oh where somebody would just suddenly walk in totally drunk with a guitar and start singing you know I mean you know and someone would come in and make a seeum there was all kind and normal people would just look at this and they were like horrified like who are these people and why are they here go I I really don't know who they are and uh they would pass out on the floor and uh you know very interesting and I'm I'm rushing through this a little bit because of the time but then it all came down to the end after the dessert after everything you would always close the lights I forgot about that yeah I was young Still Still till now you know someone said to give that the story when I turn 60 people say 60 is not old and I say I have a beer shishna that says not like you shik that's what that's what my pricky says so clearly you're wrong shim you're very old 80 we're surprised you're still here that's basically what the says right and like I don't know how you made it anyway yeah that's right I forgot because you know I used to run ncsy do kumit we sit down and we do kumzits and you used to start singing then you used to give the story and a different breaks everybody would sing and there was there was a large crowd a lot of people here very inspiring about that yeah well I I don't know try to go back to my room as quickly as possible do wait for the next heart attack why why' you stop doing doing these I don't remember because I stopped teaching so I don't have any TMM you know and my kids most of them live in be chamish and so they have their own sudas and so they just like stop in like you know well everybody comes I mean everyone comes they come but it's not really pooring for them you know I mean it's like they're just keeping the old man company you you know as he sits there and goes why are all the kids making noise but I used to be a lot of fun you used to be exciting you know but those days you know when you're in your 60s and you're in your 20s it doesn't matter who you are it's only so much fun it's going to be so either you're going to Bea and you tell are coming because they want to hear you T you know um or it's your kids who are coming by to you know just to to to see you and you know see how how you doing kind of a thing but uh but to to have that suud of that that's that's something a reanal it has it's a different kind of thing you know so now so who do I have so it's like uh you know a few local kids with nothing you know so like uh when your sister Mindy was here she was always disappointed every per because she remembers hearing the stories of the old days and now it's like we just sit around and like who's getting the soup I'll get the soup somehow every porm this still the house is full there's always guests there's always people like not like it was okay but I'm saying it's never you're never sitting here on a shamas meal you and some of your kids I'm saying you know how they took about that empty nest syndrome yeah I always wonder what that's like I can't even imagine I know people whose kids like grew up and they got married and moved away you know and every shist it's just them you know I imagine what that's like so my my parents when they would go away to a resort you know so you had a choice you could have your own table or you could sit like with couples and stuff my parents always sat with a couples cuz they were a party waiting for a place to happen and uh and when me and you would go away we'd always ask for our own table we don't want to talk to anybody have time to get away and spend time together so it's a different experience you know one day one day we will be there all right well yaka verovski back to the show with memories and embarrassing stories about R olowski and growing up and I don't think it was embarrassing I mean most of the stories were you know yeah left that you know nothing this is I mean this is how it was I find video I guess maybe and put it on I still have never seen it I don't know what what I look like drunk so but uh I think that was the the one year that I don't think anyone else got drunk really cuz usually everyone gets drunk and then you get upset at the drunks and we have to try to remove the drunks and then whoever's left and whatever and then that year you were just I remember you were just out of here you were sitting all day it was I think it was maybe you had a a I don't know I don't know when you started drinking and a lot of people come in they kept doings and by the time the meal came you were ready like that everyone was on you know watch alert like okay and halfway through it was it was gone and then like no one's going to start drinking now it was like okay here it is I'm always I'm always high so to get drunk seems to me like you know and often I'm a s drunk you know well not that year yeah that's why I don't remember any but there is video evidence so maybe you know like I said at the beginning I don't want any hpen but maybe we'll show that since since I I'll probably have a chance to watch it not be able to say anything you know how much more embarrassed could I be I'm in a box you know what I mean like you know anyway so uh so that's it for this week uh we want to thank Yakov lski for coming back and uh really you should be a regular you know wow um Terry wogan I think it is is like the number one Radio Show in um in uh England and my friend why why R why why was a regular on the show oh it was it was just a secular show but he would come on R why why because he's very entertaining you know yeah W Terry wogan I think anyway so uh so he Jo Rogan no no I'm just okay Terry just just I hope I remember correctly I don't know it's English but one time the queen comes to Manchester and goes where's that re WHYY I so enjoy him on the Terry wogan show so he saw it written up in an article so he sent it to to Terry and the next day he was fired really yeah so he called up his people he says why he goes I told you it's Terry's show if the queen is asking about you instead of Terry that's a problem is that was right fo I was speaking some place where was teaching you know a little bit then I gave him a whole tribute then he was fired the next week really yep but yov you can come back anytime you want because uh I don't feel threatened at all because I'm a legend of my just just the the tens of thousands of people 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