#129: Behind the Bima: Joey Newcomb

Florida rabbis Ephraim Goldberg Philip Moskowitz and Josh Brody are taking you behind the bema the BRS Rabbi schmooze about contemporary issues and talk to special guests who give up behind the scenes look at how they got to where they are and what keeps them going welcome to behind the bema good evening Wednesday at 9pm I'm Rabbi Evan Goldberg joined by Noah me myself and I will sometimes sometimes the avoida sometimes behind the Bima you're buying the beam alone sometimes you bind the Beamer with friends and Companions and peers and colleagues and sometimes in life you're never alone so tonight Rabbi Efron Goldberg joined by my dear Reborn the almighty together bringing you and taking you behind the bema so grateful that you are here and that's why I'm never alone I want to thank our sponsor for tonight a very meaningful very deeply meaningful sponsorship I dear friend Michelle diamond and family who are sponsoring behind the beam of this evening in honor the second year at site of 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privilege of bringing on our friend Joey Newcombe of Joey who's been lighting up the world lately with his positivity and his cheer and his smile and the whole thank you Hashem oh thank you Hashem song and it's much more than a song The thank you Russian movement and there's some people who are cynical but that's only because they're uncomfortable but if you're able to lean in and realize they're all life is thank you Hashem we surrender we submit he's in charge he's in control of everything then thank you Hashem so I thank Hashem for this fun journey of behind the Beamer that we're still doing thank Hashem for the opportunity to teach you room I hope if you listen behind the beam you take advantage of the other times and opportunities we have to be together the prices you're living with them in 10 minutes and so much more and uh thank you Hashem wow all of life if you woke up this morning modani then that is one big thank you Hashem so thank you Hashem for your joining without any further Ado it's a privilege to welcome my good friend Robert Joey Newcombe what a great stress we have oh we're going over there the hey look at Joey newcomer of Joey Manish thank you Hashem for going behind the bema with us long overdue we're so excited to be here to be spending time and I have to start with this how you doing over there where'd that come from how'd that start you were breeding your moniker check it out in your status check it out and you're always that's your greeting where'd that come from Hawaii over there how you doing over there you know the truth the matter is it my growing up in New York you know you bump into those type of people you know my uncles they used to speak like that heavy I remember my Uncle Jimmy he used to speak like how are you doing over there what's going on so at some point like you know it became a schtick in my life like I used to purposely do that for fun and then Mama started to stick and like it just became a thing I don't know I it's great I love it you know everyone's got to have personality it's got to shine through they've got to be the unique selves you don't compete or compare with others and that's that's who you are and that's that's what makes you so lovable to so many people that energy that you spread that you share and that you take everywhere you go so I'm sure there's so much to talk about how you got into music and your childhood and your connection to Hashem and amuna and kahama and the issue that you're being and the people that you're inspiring and the music we got a lot to cover so hopefully you are comfortable sitting back but let's start with something unusual about you you are one of the few people in the world you got to be one of the few people in the world who wrote a song about a pickle myself I should have thought I should have brought a jar of pickle by the way you should know recently a lot of the concerts that I uh that I sing at they they present me with a jar of pickles like you know it's been a couple of times already where I didn't even have to say anything and they were like here's pickles the one you do that song so you could crack oh so give it give us the background to that song who writes a song about a pickle so that actually started from a meme so I'm not actually the actual founder there's somebody else who's the founder that started from me there was this video that went around of a guy at a wedding citizen guy sweet guy and there's a video of him and he he like he's eating this pickle and it the crack like when he bites it like like that crunch Mamas and and the face that he has with it was kiilu like he went straight to gun Aiden Mama's passed all the alums went straight to the the average themselves the type of guy so it was it was such a funny video because he was like oh it cracked on the pickle yoy and a bit the oil and became a meme so people started doing it people started making videos of themselves I saw somebody have like the janitor in his school do it so I so I said to myself like this I'm like there's no way that Jews just start doing something for no reason being we're such an eternal people even if if it's the most silly thing in the world we're such an eternal people that it has to have roots and deep places as to me right like Republican or something says like when Newton started calling calling yup Dev throughout chats it's not called yamtivity you know even the third you know a Terrace but uh when when Jews started calling ayanta which means when you didn't just start doing something it has to have a deep premium stick of meaning even if it's silly so I'm like why are we why are we going nuts over the craft and the pickle I thought to myself and then I came to the conclusion I'm like this is Mama this is the whole life because what we thank Hashem we don't just thank Hashem for the pickle you could thank our son for a pickle and move on but we think our step down to the finest detail of the pickle which means not only did he give me a pickle he gave me a pickle that has a crack could have made a mushy pickle but Hashem made a pickle that has a crack also am I making any sense over here you make a lot of sort of Joey you a half sour full sour what kind of pickle what's what's the best pickle the best crack from the pickle I'm actually a half sour guy a lot of disagree with me thank you bright green half sour with a good deli sandwich I'm right there I'm right there with you so if somebody asked you if Joey you got the beard you got the pie is what type of are you is there a particular particular is this part of your youth is this part of your family's masora are you what they call a new what type of you should know when I when when I first came onto the music scene somebody said where are you your breasts love you this you're that I said it's exactly what I wanted I'm the type of guy that I wanted that nobody could figure out what I am you cannot put a title on me you know what I'm saying but but this is the first time I'm saying this on the air but the truth of the matter is I do now over the last few months I was mustabic to a certain rep in a very deep way um and you know the one I met him one time in in the five towns and that really lit the spark for me to connect to him and then I started learning his tire and just got deeper and deeper to the point that I went there to throw a couple weeks ago weeks ago for Shabbos just to be by it literally I went there just to be buying his name is Morgenstern sure you heard of them I got my baby you gotta get some of these oh that's good stuff so so I it literally so like if I had to choose now if I'm accustomed of a certain rabbit he would be the rabbit like if I would say the rabbit right now that's what it would be but but it it does go back in the roots like my father had long past and a beard and a Becca for a certain kufa you know but always beard in a long phase um and you know when I went to see for school could see them and there are Roots Somewhere In My Father's Side in Bells there are roots and bells and uh obviously my parents were very connected to Casitas in a very deep way I remember there were certain circuses Bar Park we used to go around to the rabbis Hollow mine so it was always a a uh yeah I mean you could say I grew up with it but my parents of all the two of us so like we didn't speak Yiddish at home we didn't grow up in the pits of of of Williamsburg you know I'm saying we didn't we didn't grow up uh see them but but maybe we did grow up to see them like you know who said what speaks what is it that that you find you know we'll come through in a second you love this everything is landing they have take off the other they had my meal they didn't have my meal you follow your statuses and life is all big every day what's the Avada but before we get to the avoid that what you mean by that what what connects you to see this if somebody doesn't learn panemis if someone doesn't what are they missing in their life what did you find that's giving you life if I had to boil it down to one word I would say connection now there are a lot of people that will tell you that they have connection without it okay it could be but for me specifically you know I mean besides for you know growing up and being in Seattle and everything was was deep and meaningful besides for all that you know I only really got into it later on in life and when I was in Yeshiva in America as I started Mata Shabbos I started going to marsburg because we would finish Shabbos and and he was still going on shall show this so we would take a bus to him and we would walk inside it was dark and like you ever imagined back in mezubish like Doyle gathered around the balchem or whatever you could imagine it would be like it was squished in the room it was dark you couldn't move and and it's quiet and you see people shuckling could barely see anything and then you hear that ever oh I don't have any speaking and speaking the others and like I didn't even know what he was saying but it was somehow going right in it was unbelievable and then the goodness and then so for me it added a certain Dimension to being a yid of of obviously heart and feeling and emotion but but it's so much bigger it's there's so much more meaning than just going through life with the road with I wonder what the words are but just just making it happen with the rule book it's much deeper than what it's the difference between living in black and white and living in color you know the rules of the black and white but the the color living in color is getting into the panemius into the kishkes is the depths of things the reality the authentic I wonder if Timaya once on a Mote Shabbos I was by my daughter for Shabbos and you shall I am again 45 minutes later drove there and it was Pitch Black they were saying saw my phone I recorded it because I wanted I still have it I still have it then the lights okay but it was it was married dick it gives you energy for forever to be present for that so that speaks to me so so when you say Avida what's the avoid of my trip to California being delayed what's the avoid of the crack from the pickle what do you mean by unpack that word avoided for us yeah and avoid the I think the biggest question that you'd always have to ask himself is what's they have either right you'd always have to know what what's happening right now right uh Robina United in Paris he says which means is that you always whatever you're doing whatever you do in life you have to figure out what's the avoid there right now meaning there has to be an alpha I did to everything a year there's not a a simple thing there's nothing that's random there's nothing that's a waste of time even even vacationing even enjoying even relaxing is all for the sole purpose of being able to go back to work vacation in and of itself is not necessarily the end it's a means so everything has an avoided so the biggest question is what's the avoid you know but I I always like to I remember there was this fasemus um that says like the whole world is like a martial like you go find the muscle everywhere to some type of avoidance I always like to do that like what's the outside of land it was the avoid of taking off what's the avoid of going through turbulence and then coming out and seeing the clear picture there's there's always Michelle on that you know obviously obviously it's lighter it's light and it's it's the island likes it and enjoys it but you know there is another there is enough either you know I've seen the avoid is the mindfulness what am I taking out of this how am I gaining from this it's not Stam Nothing in life is stem right a guy got all upset at me because at one time I was I was driving in Brooklyn you ever got stuck behind the garbage truck in Brooklyn that's a big idea let me tell you that's a serious outline because there's no way to go around them so because his car is on both sides par so you're pretty much there until he finishes the block so I posted on my status I was like what's the avoid of getting stuck behind the garbage truck uh the guy was like relax not everything is so deep you know he got all mad at me though but the truth the matter is the island was coming up with some good stuff that was coming up sometimes whenever you're right that people they answer they send you answers people yeah sure sure sometimes I choose to post the responses sometimes I don't but but people people get that we get the wheels turning you know you change the vocabulary if you get people thinking about Nevada you're not frustrated you're stuck behind the garbage truck you're welcoming the opportunity to work on savanas on patients so if you live life as an avoid that everything is an opportunity there's no such thing as a frustration right let's talk music if you've uh you've broken through and and everybody knows you and everybody Hops and pops and dances and skips and your music is Manish lifting lifting the shamas where'd that come from when did you start playing music where'd that musical Talent come from I started playing music yeah I always make sure to have a guitar on handy you know because if I bring you know we have to do one round of thank you Hashem for the island now for sure [Music] there's always a reason for thank God absolutely absolutely so when's the first time you picked up a guitar and why first I think there were guitars had to have been around seventh or eighth grade also a unique story I don't know if I ever said this on the air we always loved music growing up you know I know my mother's moving to your neighborhood when you get a chance to ask her she'll tell you all about it we had we had Journeys playing we had Cowboy playing we had every type of music we had really will like a Mendy World MBD I'm afraid we're always big music people but the first time a guitar showed up on the scene was I was about seventh or eighth grade and my father decided he's getting a guitar I I don't remember to this day for what reason it was it was just completely random if I remember correctly just the guitar showed up and of course it ended up in my room so I was like I you know I don't know if he got it to learn how to play guitar but I picked it up and I'm like no I like this I like this and at the time I was uh I don't know how to say this I started getting into some other type of music if you know what I'm saying you know what I'm saying some other type of music which the avoid of that music may not be the best type of avoidance you know what I'm saying oh is it on here no we're good avoid the Kasha that type of music as we yeah avoid the culture so so you know but but Lamesa drives you especially in the Guitar World you know I'm saying the 60s 70s type of stuff you know uh a little bit of Zeppelin over there it drives you to play drives you to play so I I started like seriously like learning guitar there was a couple of books lying around of how to play guitar so I started really taking it for real um and within a few months I was actually playing nicely this was in eighth grade and you know I got into that type of music and in ninth grade I remember it was I was in a certain Yeshiva for one year in ninth grade didn't really work out between us I ended up in Sharia Rosen for the next three years in that other Yeshiva in that YouTube I went to for ninth grade they weren't too happy with the concept of playing guitar and chilling out whatever so like I didn't really have a chance to play there they held it was Bittle David you know Amish but when I went into Sharia Rosen there were guitars all over the place and in fact they pushed extra curricular stuff so I actually took everything to the next level I started seriously playing guitar for a couple of years that's where it all started with a guitar about seventh and eighth grade through high school I actually got really really good playing and playing and playing and playing and playing and uh and then when once we got to be smedrish and somebody introduced me to real deep stuff the holy brother you know what I'm saying I got introduced to a couple of his albums even though growing up we heard of flomo we heard of the main naguna you know I never really got into it for real I was introduced to a couple of albums and then like everything you know every Thursday night we were sitting there getting ready for Shabba singing you know this is chill again and then for the rest of my my years in Yeshiva I was the comsets guy you know Thursday nights in Yeshiva I was diving in Kamal Shabbos we would do I used to love going with afshi Weingart we would sing and we would sing and you know obviously music has a deep way of connecting as everybody knows in the world right and then are we getting up to the professional part yet or are we still yeah sure absolutely so it's it stayed like that for a while you know I was just uh I just enjoyed playing guitar but I never had any plans to be like a uh singer musician publicly known never in the plans even when I got married it wasn't on the plans I played guitar I enjoyed it if there was a couple of cover around we would jam we would fabrang we would sit Mata Shabbos and and and sing deep the gunum slim the old old city and then at some point I think it was a few years into my marriage we had it we I was in Kyle we're learning at kylo and then a guy yitzy hey look a brother yitzy yitzy gross he saw me play we had a little we had a little hagiga chanukkah for the coil and I was playing and the island got into it it was givaldi and he looks at me he's like you know you play you play nicely you play like good you could probably like lead something professionally and I'm like oh all right so he says is making the shower Brothers how much his job is maybe you'll come play and I'm like got paid 200 bucks for that I came I stacked up my heimish a little speaker that I had from my bedroom growing up Bailey worked I put a mic and we bring the mom and she was beautiful we were singing We were dancing we were clums at saying it was Beauty the next night this guy's friend calls me up and says hey I heard you do shove roughness and I'm like all right like I said this is I did the same thing I slept my little speaker and we jammed and we had an amazing time before you know it like little word of mouth stuff started happening people started calling me for like miniature events uh maybe comes with his backyard see him type of thing people started calling I went I remember I went to Sam Ash I bought like a speaker I bought a pole I bought a mixer I started getting all costume I started slapping the the sound the whole life for a good like two three years I was doing these little word of mouth events until at some point I'm like you know what I have songs I've written I always love music I've written a gun and I've written songs and obviously I knew they were unique and different but I the the one of my one of the cover that used to call me for events with the grosses and I knew that Donnie gross was an up-and-coming Studio guy so I called Danny gross I said you know what I have songs should I put in an album he writes back no I'm like what do you mean I call him up he says every every guy and his brother wants to put out an album today it's not worth it it's not worth the investment it ends up costing you so much and then you don't even make it back and who knows if anything's gonna take off and I'm like Mom it's like he just like canceled the whole idea so I kept on making it nuts I'm like why don't you listen to some of my stuff and he's like all right send me some stuff maybe we'll do a single Donnie if you're hearing this you know this is the visor right there I sent him I remember I sent them [Music] it was a song about after this that I wrote I said to them I remember like I I didn't check my phone like an hour later I see I have like three missed calls from Donnie Grove I'm like what's going on over here three missed calls daddy girls I called him back he's like okay this is this is a different mindset this is it this is a whole different thing let's do it let's put out this thing though now we did the first single we did a second single a third single and then the album came and on the album was thank you Hashem and that was that was the end of that and that's what took off that that launched the career when did you start writing the music when was your first song that you wrote because you had been keeping it inside was that frustrated to write songs and the only one in the world who knew them were you I mean talk about navoda Mama store that you right from the shama you're writing these songs and and when you wrote them you weren't a professional musician so you didn't even think you would ever see the light of day and even when you became a professional you were holding them close to the chest so when did you first write those songs and what was it like to hold them close without sharing them so the truth of the matter is it wasn't that bad because I really only started writing way later on which is very close to the takufo where I actually started putting music so I never had a feeling of like I have stuff that's going nowhere because I never really wrote even throughout my entire High School I never wrote songs I never believed that I had the class to write songs I actually remember it was a wild thing I wrote something this might have been like one of the first songs I wrote it went something like [Music] foreign [Music] and I wrote it and I sang it to somebody and somebody's like that's great and I remember to this day it's gonna sound like funny I don't know maybe it won't sound funny but that unlocks something that like that look of of hey that's a great song I was like oh so I could write it's very unique this is a huge site sometimes like people people have locked up potential and sometimes it just takes a good positive word right give somebody the physic and that could unleash big stuff like I I never wrote I really never wrote I thought it was one of those things either you have it or you don't have it and then that first song where a guy was like that is amazing and like whether he meant it or not I don't know I was like really okay great the next day I was writing and writing people think that you write a big check you give a great job opportunity some big Monumental things sometimes you put in a good word putting a good word of a word of encouragement and you you open the world for a whole person you gave them the confidence and the self-esteem they needed and then through them they changed the world for other people all because of a word it doesn't cost anything it doesn't cost anything to compliment but it changes lives changes lives to this day I never forget that like oh that's a great song like it's that I remember vividly the story where a guy you know I was like really I just started writing once I had that confidence it's confident that the lack of confidence locks things up you know once you have what's that process well walk us through the process of writing music it comes to you when you just see it it takes time over days weeks months you're developing you're changing a connection a little here a little there where did you sit down and you defca with the guitar and you're like I'm not getting up until I have a new where does where does it come from somebody writes their own songs I can't speak for everybody else because it could be everyone has their own Derek and uh but for me all my stuff was written in 20 seconds like every song was lit was literally an experience and then boom it happened which means I I never the few times that I was like you know what let's write a song Let's Open up at the hill yeah open up a hill let's open up or knock on there open it up oh there's some good words pull out the Guitar let's make a song for never worked never worked for me there however that have that type of talent they're composers that could do that for me it just I I never it was always and I have videos to attest to this I have videos I have a video of me it's fast as I'm writing open my eyes which is a song that was on one of my albums I have a video of me in the hospital with yasi hacks as I'm writing butter refuse so meaning it happened at the moment there was an inspiration there was a certain feeling obviously it takes certain you know creative juices and it could be that your head has to be working a certain way with rhyming and with and with fitting words into sentences and you have to have a certain rhythmic ability to be able to write it could be but as far as you know the way I've done it is that all my stuff were written based off some type of inspiration the other I heard a good Tire I was in a certain motive I've written tons of songs on these trips when I went to Europe when I went to artists Roll by the Kimberly so they all usually happen within a 20 second time span there's an inspiration we need a boom here it is you ever have the inspiration 20 seconds and then it's gone there are songs I've written on Shabbos that I still can't remember there as long as I've written that job is just one song I got lucky because we monitorized it the whole Shabbos in Costa Rica it was a song when we were in Costa Rica we were sitting around with the coffee shop this afternoon and the the special children's center from New Jersey well now they're in the five towns also the special children's had there was a couple of of the kids that were there so there was this one of the kids the sweetest kid his name is Alfred and and he was just like by himself dancing in the middle of the room nobody was singing those mirrors he was going at it and I'm like I'm not going to leave Alfred by himself I went over and I started talking to him but there was to nothing we were just talking me and me and hey look at Alfred suddenly I was like we need something so like and we made this started singing it we had a whole circle it was a beauty wow in fact we were going to call it Alfred's or but we ended up calling it to Costa Rica but but we we got together with a few guys and we sang it throughout the entire Shabbos so that until yeah but but there are there are songs and the truth of the matter is is that there I remember there are times where I'm like on the plane and am I thinking about the avoida that we're gonna do and I'm like oh and certain words came and I started humming like and and if you look at my voice notes and the voice notes in my phone it's a long list so there's probably tons of stuff that's completely forgotten and lost Donnie once told me we should just go through the voice notes and then see if we can find anything yeah who's your musical inspiration when when if you say somebody's influenced your genre your style your music creativity is it is it somebody first of all negot kuffa is is it somebody does that have an influence do you ever go back to that because the sophistication of that music is so different than Jewish music and the Jewish musicians who's the inspiration of your music I would I would have to say I would have to choose a mix of schlemakalbach and Abe rotberg Avery Rottenberg is the the complex but the English and the and the expression of it mixed with Simplicity of schleiman because able to give you an easy low part an easy High part and somehow it just hit the deepest places so the simplicity so like my two rebels in in in music is you know if I had to pick from the other side you know I would say the Beatles you know what I'm saying beetles interesting I was thinking more you know my wife is incredibly Musical and she plays music but she could hear a song and play it right back to you she plays the piano she plays the drums she doesn't play anything anymore but she's very very musical so she only listens to the Jewish music and she understands the caduce of music and obviously but but she says that people who are very musical especially if there ever was a goof of their life that they were exposed to other music it's hard they missed something because because Jewish music is only a few chords and Jewish music as gevantic as it is and as deeply as it touches you but from a musical standpoint the sophistication of it it's not the same so do you ever you know you take out your guitar you're playing the same what is it four chords six chords five chords whatever the chords are of Jewish music they say I'm not a musician it's only a few you ever take out that guitar and go back to your days of Zeppelin and Hendrix and and Beatles and and want to play a little bit uh a little bit different more than just a few chords you could complexify you know if that's a word uh Jewish music you can play Fancy chords I wrote a song um in between roshani and Kipper and it had like a piece like this it went like foreign [Music] I don't really go but I mean if I'm playing here and there for the sake of for the sake of a lot of times like by an event especially especially when I know that it's going to grab the crowd and they're going to go nuts from it I'll do something like I'm sorry I keep on picking it up and put it at that I'll do something when I find myself in times of trouble comes to me speaking words and wisdom let it be right yeah but the truth the better is is that is that I once heard I once heard from exotic that the levia really owned music the kayakanagina was on Battle of Ian so when there was a destruction of the base I make this and now there's a siren even in the avoid of the VM that's why you'll find that Jewish music won't live up to unfortunately non-jewish music right because this because levium lost ownership on it that's foreign Jewish music is going to be Mama's you get lost in it it's gonna be so beyond but I I once heard a Zug like that they say over that San Diego said such a thing but again you know you know I'm not whatever I you know you learned to knock one star of knuckle wasn't into listening to it you know what I'm saying but right everybody has their own avoida and uh does everybody appreciate your genre you haven't got any pushback that people think that it's influenced by the other side or the genres to to Sticky or to pop or to to get pushback about it no no no no no not like that which means I don't think anybody thinks my uh style of music is influenced by the other side no not by the other side but even within Yiddish music that it's not the it's not as I don't know what the right word is no other I usually get compliments that it's very baton you know I'm not putting out um again I'm never the type to judge and I love everybody and everybody has their own the kudas that they need and there's room for everything but if I'm just talking in my own little world I don't my music is more influenced by kalbach and Abe it's always or like you know even like thank you Hashem it's it's it's Gish Rock it's Labor Day you know it's not pop it's not club nobody's doing a mash bet to to right right also also I try to keep that all my songs are meaningful and have deep messages so I I never get that type of pushback you know from people that get nervous from positivity it's too good too much positivity so talk to us about that because the messages are very positive and people get lost in it it's never too late it's super powerful and I know that it could change my mood if it comes on on the mix if I put it on you want to listen to it you need to pick me up so how does it feel when you get that feedback people listen to your music and they tell you that it impacts them it changes their music's powerful powerful transformative Force what kind of feedback do you get which which song gets the most feedback well definitely thank you Hashem if you're going to choose about the most feedback that definitely thank you yeah um but outside of that when I get like real deep meaningful feedback and again this taught me something beyond what I ever knew in my life is that again we always knew that music the classical music yeah it's powerful connect everybody loves music the most tone deaf people listen to music it has nothing it talks straight to you in the shop it doesn't have to do with being Musical music is so powerful um but it taught me something that as much as however powerful I thought it was is that much more powerful I I've gotten I've got I I spoke I spoke with Aton cats the other night about this nikuda like like wild stuff I've gotten emails let's let's say thank you Hashem during covert there was a lot of unfortunate outcomes right so but but for the most part if anybody sent me a video it was like a guy coming home from being in the hospital for a while with coven and finally got released and he came home and he's walking they're rolling him out of the apps all and everyone was singing thank you that was most of the videos I got right but there was one message I got that was more meaningful than any of those which was a mother who's expressing to me that unfortunately the husband slash father did not make it this is gaval and and she wanted to thank me and I'm like why she's like I want to thank you for the song Thank You Hashem it really it's helping us and I'm like what do you mean she said every morning every morning I sit around with my kids before I send them off to school and there's no father every morning before I send them off to school we put on thank you Hashem and we dance around the table me and my kids and it's been bringing us and it's helping us get through this hard time and they go to school and I'm like that's that's higher than than any coming home story wow wow wow that's among the resilience the resilience of a year I I told her I was like you know what's unbelievable you're not sitting on the floor and seeing how bait mishamaya Murray you know it's not it's not tissue singing thank you Hashem you're singing thank you you know what that says about a yid the resilience of of regardless of what happens I know that it's the type that that hit me hard that Mama me hard and then and then I have my sim somebody uh I have a song called may I you know you know yeah sure and so you know that my big my Yeshua comes from iron when I come to a place of just nothing I can't I'm Bittle I can't do it anymore the yeshua's come when you cook when you mama so I have a song about it a well-known kid actually calls me up and he says that his daughter is having a hard time with him he's been dating for a while and he said there was a specific experience where they were coming home from a date he no uh she came home from a date and it was once again bad experience done not going out again and she was just broken she was and and they went for a drive the father said me and my daughter we went for a drive to chill to schmooze to hang out and we put on may I and this is what he tells me put on my iron and he said we sat there and we cried and we cried and we said and we said Mama and I'm like I'm hoping this could be a follow-up that happens to be two weeks later he told me she's engaged happens to be admonished it happens to me it worked out that way like but even if it didn't even if it didn't that's not the point is is that I realized the Kaya but you never know you might never know what you could do for somebody all that all it told me was a crismore put out more music more music and more music don't stop that that's what it taught me it's it's not regular through the music I know you teach we'll get to that you're ready and the workmans are very groaner and inspiring people but you could you could you could give a dresser you could give a share you could write an article and you could teach I mean what you taught me I in you gave a whole Shear in that song all right well you just described about my father and daughter they sat through a sheer clothing they stature they said they sat through a whole Shear by listening to the song that's a tremendous so which one which one is more gratifying to you when you open a safer and you learn with someone you're giving sheer in the Yeshiva talk to us how did that come to me how'd you become a Rebbie Reb Joey yeah I mean rubber groener what can I say the hell you're up at groener he he gave me the opportunity we were first married living here I was learning in Kyle and uh I found out about this you'd Rabbi Groner I forgot how it went down he knows the mice are better than me but somehow we ended up schmoozing and somehow it turned out that there were a bunch of kids that were showing up to his building officially to Diamond chakras that's what they would tell their parents they would tell their parents that they were dominant chakras and then they would go to Yeshiva down the block and uh which was a different Receiver right uh but they would go to the basement they would schmooze and they wouldn't die and they would hang out and they would take food or whatever and then so one of the guys in the Yeshiva told me one of the guys in the Yeshiva um cold and why don't we lock these kids out what are they doing they caught me in a waste of time they're not dominating they're eating the lock about lock the basement door that was the eight lock the basement door so that they don't have the option to do that sort of a Cronus as in in this place we don't lock we don't lock doors in this place right right then I was like oh this is my type of you oh all right I'm a girl's my type of guy so what does he do Rabbi Groner he says we're gonna bring a minion downstairs and we're gonna make it their minion and they're gonna run the minion and they're going to be in charge of who's laning on Monday and Thursday and they're going to be in charge of who dominated we're going to set up a rotation or we're going to bring breakfast after diving and give them a whole breakfast and our right should I just we're going to sing the gun and before you knew it we had this beautiful minion happening downstairs you know I don't know if their Yeshiva was too happy about it because you know what I'm saying the levisa that's that's when we met because he ended up hiring me as one of the madrika what do you call it one of the uh overseers of the Midland right you know so that's when we met and then we you know then he ended up we ended up doing First Data and then I started teaching in Yeshiva it was years ago so what do you love more what's more gratifying to you now giving a sheer in the Yeshiva or singing a song what do you look forward to more I think I think it's the same I think it's the same avoid the Rebecca told me he said yeah is it frustrating do you feel that they're competing does one take away from the other do you wish you could just sit and stag and give sheer and the music is competing do you wish that you weren't an Yeshiva you could just be doing music does it feel sometimes like you're divided um it doesn't feel that way but it definitely is that way but it doesn't feel that way which means is that obviously because because of the schedule and the busyness of music and and and doing gigs and obviously it's a partnership for my family as well so it's it's it's it's it's double it's you know obviously it's besides for the spa and the Allah it's also which is but um it definitely conflicts it definitely causes that I can't be around a lot it definitely causes that night I'm for sure not around for night Santa definitely causes that when I get back at two three in the morning I'm not getting up in time for the Seder I'm governing a later chakras it definitely conflicts it definitely conflicts but but uh you know we work it out we work it out you know obviously you've got to do what you got to do but when I do show up I try to make sure that we we learn and we should die again you know do I wish I could spend more time teaching like like actual teaching or maybe not maybe maybe this Global form of teaching through Nagina maybe that's maybe that's what David still wants from you know who am I to decide um wherever I'm going is what Amos wants me to go so I even saw from my old career what that's the avoid of that day whatever he takes you that's the avoid I even say for my own career Obama has nothing to do with me the whole way I started doing gigs was Mama's random as long as out of nowhere there was no plans for it I was planning to do care of we were interviewing an out of town cure of cuddling yeah why I had no plans for this different type of care we're doing care of a difference just said take care of it's a different type than that first gig happened people don't realize how the how hashema's mom is like meaning wherever they still wants you to end up that's what you're going to end up obviously whoever names that wants you to end up you can end up and that's why whatever whatever it is that's happening I have to look at it like you know if it's conflicting with actual teaching okay so maybe David still wants to do that I'm trying to support the family and I'm trying to be much beer so it all goes together who's a artist that it would be a dream to collaborate with who do you wish of a Jewish musician who's no longer in this world or in this world now well you wish you could you could work with you could sing with you could put out an album with you could do a concert with how could I not say this how can I not say Kaaba but one of my dreams actually partially came true you know Abe Rottenberg to me was always like I could I could sing every Journey song word for word except for the new Journeys I'm still working on it you know the old ones are Gears of the Yonkers as I remember all the words but like I need to uh But but so when he when he asked me to sing on Journeys five that was like I was like I'll retire right now that's it that's it for me that was that was beyond you know that was the most amazing you were the Hall of Famer that was amazing that I was able to sing a journey so that one happened that dream that Vision happened but to be able I can't imagine what it would be like singing with schlemen you know yeah and that's the music you put on let's say you're putting something on because you're you're washing the dishes you're you're preparing a sheer you're whenever you're driving on a long drive so you put a that's the music you listen to do you listen do you listen to Joey Newcombe only for feedback purposes like if I did no sometimes I'll tell you the truth I'll tell you a very interesting first of all if when I go in the car and I'm listening to music a long drive I'm usually listening to call Buff or Journeys that's it I I I I know I'm a Big callback Maven I know a lot of the Old MacDonald doesn't know you know I even I even got a song that eight times didn't know Akon if you're watching this remember we were snoozing the other night I heard a recording of it so I I listened to a lot of Karbach and a lot of Journeys but I do listen to my owner Gooden and I'll tell you something interesting I was schmoozing once with reviasi zakotinski sure yeah I was I was expressing them I forgot what I was telling him lately am I feeling the iris I forgot I was feeling like an in a downer type of massive Arabia looks at me is like sometimes you gotta listen to your own Laguna I'm like whoa you can't just write to yourself you know if you believe this sometimes he and it hit me I was like sometimes you gotta listen to your own I almost thought about writing a song to the words sometimes you got to listen to your own song you know yeah so so after that I was like you know what maybe I should talk like listen to may I and maybe I should listen to it's never too late I wrote These from an inspirational Place why just because it's me I shouldn't listened to it anymore right right that's the most authentic you you're listening to your own voice that's powerful it's very powerful um talk to us about your cheerfulness Yo Joe yo you're always happy you're always smiling you're always cheerful does Joey Newcombe ever get in a bad mood Joey Newcomb ever yet Joey Newcomb ever loses temper Joey Newcomb ever get down and depressed uh you know how they say the wife knows more than anybody right so if you ask the wife she she'll tell you all the real opinions right but in in reality in reality I fight them simcha I don't know it's hard for me to explain because because I don't know if it's a personality thing I don't know if I was brought up that way maybe like I don't I never think about it too deeply I'm never like hey you know It comes naturally someone who knew you when you're a child would say Joey Newcombe was always in a good mood a happy smiling cheerful laughing I think so I think they would tell you that I'm remembering back to Camp days I'm remembering back to uh school days always joking around with Islam always having a good time if I'm bringing yeah I don't know also also you know when you learn the third of them knock when you realize the importance of it you know you realize that the uh the dangers of sadness and downness is the start of a of a long dark Road you know and especially you know right before she actually see a lot of people are struggling with depression right which is the last tactic it's it's a it's a big strong tactic of the HR he wants people to be dead he doesn't want people to feel positive and good because if you feel positive and good you'll end up doing good things I don't know where this comes from but I've always been driven maybe it's from my parents quiz I've always been driven to to make somebody else smile like I've always been driven to do that like I I I'll go out of my way to act more sugar to make silly faces that I had the craziest dance and when we were in Yeshiva everybody knew I had this dance called the Raha it was sugar and a dance I used to do I was always driven to try to make other people happy you know obviously you have to the person has to be happy himself you know the the greatest comedians that were always making other people happy unfortunately we know somebody so right person always has to make sure that the SIM card is genuine which I hope it is and and always be simple always frameless how do you get yourself a cell phone you got another gig you got another customer you got another wedding you got another concert but it's tired you're tired yeah I know you're at one point you had polyps in your throat how do you get yourself if you're not in the mood what what what's the average how do you get yourself in the mood so that the people get chewed up so two things number one is you it is I'll always feed off their energy which means for me it could be I'm singing thank you Hashem for the hundredth time that day yeah but when I walk into that place and I start thanking Hashem and I see the kids their eyes Mommy and everybody's like oh he's singing thank you Hashem and the eyes light up in the face of whatever you immediately feed off that fresh energy so it's the mail of fresh right over again right because for the crowd it's fresh even if you it's not so you just feed off of that but um but the other husband would be is to be a pile of lemon I know that these people are waiting for me to fabrain and I know that Vibes are everything as we all know Vibes are everything people sense Vibes people in a second sense mind as I get the Matthias this is just the reality is is that people get sense in a second so if if I know that somebody has hired me to do an event and they're and they're waiting for this and they're relying on me that I have to even if it takes some serious message and even if it takes pushing beyond what I'm feeling that's what I gotta do because that's what they need and that's what they're waiting for so it's you have to be a pile of them you know you get nervous you ever get nervous going up to perform you get nervous you ever get nervous uh maybe a couple maybe a couple because it's like an intense moment generally most of my events is is more like light but but not even by Jacob because I once you have the confidence of what you're doing like I'll get more nervous if I have to speak than if I have to sing but I don't know if public speakers also lost that initial nervousness which means I don't know how it works but it could be public speaking as always so you know what's his name always said the joke Seinfeld didn't he Seinfeld always say that they say the fear of public speaking is worse than the fear of death okay you do it so he said it turns out that the guy who's speaking by the funeral would rather be in the Box it's funny that is funny yeah you don't get nervous that's great I'm nervous no I I I'm doing it I have confidence in the engine no I wouldn't say I got nerves what's next from Joey Newcombe you got new gunum coming out new albums what's next for you definitely definitely so I'm actually working on three albums what album is the malava malka avoida I'm assuming that's what I'm going to call them and I I always felt deeply connected to Milan and I can't explain why I just like could be my shirts on the show I always felt something a certain warm feeling about beloved and and like if you look through those mirrors Shabbos days beers Friday night's mirrors a lot of people know the basics mirrors how many people know malava malka's mirrors so I always had specific ones that I've done and the ones that I didn't know is mirrors do I wrote my own two so I'm going to put out a malava market with me yeah yeah yeah we'll start with that and end with it it's great the second album is a throwback album but a little different than other throwback albums it's more of like my favorite stuff from specific artists the Marshall growing up in the 90s one of my favorite artists was Mendy walled you know Mindy so so uh you know or diaspberry Yeshiva I'd love to ask where she went so my my favorites so what we're going to do is is that we're gonna have different tracks and each track is a long medley so it could be up to 12 to 15 minutes the long medley but it's a fabrangian of my favorite naguna from that artist so if it's the diaspora avoida then for that 12 to 15 minutes where it's me and a bunch of guys just jamming out and comes to sing to my favorite songs from the asper right if it's the Mendy wall that way there it's me and a bunch of guys jamming and fabranging to my favorite songs from Mandy I'm doing a cowboy but also I'm doing a callback one you know so so that album is going to be like medley based and each medley is a long comes it's right it's not long but yeah and then the third album is going to be regular album Joey four okay we're looking forward when are they coming out that I'm not sure I could ever put a date on it as a chef we're gonna we're gonna pick dates for each one I'm not sure I want to sort of get like the the oldies one and the and the uh and the malava milk out first you know put a little break because I already put out three original albums right I put a little break in between three and four with some other stuff and then put out four but we'll see we'll see they can end up being closer together than most albums because I'm working on all three very closely so that's great we're looking forward I have you know what it could be that that this is because it could be you could help me with a certain dig in here you ready for this oh boy one of them are good and it's called the one note and basically it's this one note right well the low part is that's the low part but the high part is one note but the idea is is that even when you're singing the same note over and over again when the chords change it sounds different okay so for example the high part is [Music] alone it sounds boring right but with the guitar [Music] the same note and change the chords and and the whole engine changes so me and Daddy were like we're trying to figure out what is what is the Indian of that maybe you can help me another I don't know we're still looking we we don't have a conclusion of what the Indian of the same note but the chords are changing so it becomes fresh you know it reminds me of Romans NASA then you see him they all bring the exact same core band it's the same note but because boy they're giving their own chord so even though you're playing the same note the exact same carbon and 12 Nasim are all bringing the same thing but when you put your own heart your own chord so now you made it your own it's different it looks the same but it's different the background is different each person is different each nesham is different each heart is different so now it's different maybe what wait one second so you're saying someone second so here you have let's say you have a hundred you didn't in the same room and everybody's putting on the phone looks like it's the same note looks like the same note over and over but because it's on a different arm it's on a different year is the individuality of that person that's making it [Music] it's all the heart that you put into it yeah but for some reason I didn't think of different people because we we kept on trying to come up with one person doing the same thing over and over again yeah it could also be a fourth every day you're a different person so you're saying the same that's right your whole life you're gonna say the same that's right six days a week three times a day 18 times a week is insane answer your whole life the answer is you're a different chord so you're saying the same note but you're a different chord from between chakras and America you went through so much your days you're a different person so even within the same person you're a different person give out these messages in the niggasm yeah oh I love it I love it Joey thank you for your time thank you Hashem for Joey Newcombe thank you for your smile thank you for your joy thank you for your laughter thank you for all the light that you bring to me to us to the world and then it's Hashem I'm looking forward to having a new come on my block in Boca Raton you'll come for the Khan welcomer and I will welcome you back we're so excited give out like amazing Rabbi Goldberg should be monthly enjoy the good weather over there oh no it's hot weather these days but I'm mainly our main Joey thank you so so much all the best all right take care thank you Hashem thank you Joey Newcomb for coming behind the Vemma learning a little bit more about your musical inspiration a little bit about your journey and your talent a little bit about how you compose the music that you share and how you've touched so many people and the reactions that you've gotten it's really uh touches me deeply maybe the most powerful part was how someone once said just one sentence they said one thing that gave you the confidence that gave you and launched your career and through your career your music's had an impact on so many people so you never know you never know a compliment comes inexpensive doesn't cost a lot all you have to do is say a word a kind word and the impact that you can have on others is really enormous so in a Heim Diamond's memory say a kind word give a compliment make someone feel good about themselves and you never know what you will help them become a big thank you again to Michelle to Diamond families for sponsoring tonight and until next time stay happy stay healthy