The Shabbat Show - Episode 43: The Super Bowl Tailgate Episode, Always be a Champion

[Music] hello everybody welcome to another episode of the shabbat show great to be with you again uh welcome back another week for those of you who are in the northeast hope you're climbing out of the snow storm for those who are south or you missed the storm yeah god bless you have everyone had an incredible week it's it's february which means almost march which means almost april which means spring is around the corner and i cannot believe how long we've been together this is a special weekend especially for those that grew up with this it's super bowl sunday on sunday at least if you were like me growing up and sports was the center of your life as a kid this was always a special day for you i always wondered why this wasn't a jewish holiday it's got all the properties to it you know what i'm talking about the food kickoff is run sundown time you know men and women always separate it's very very orthodox it's a it's always been an exciting time and the show is all about this the show's all about not just the game of football but the the concept of sports the concept of sports the concept the metaphor of how what we can take out of it the metaphor of life that's what we're going to talk about today not just the game but the principles what we can take from the game what we can take from sports for those who play sports or follow sports you know exactly what i'm talking about if those who don't stick with us because this show is so much more than just the game in particular and so i'm excited for today's show we've got a great show coming up so excited for it this this week's show is once again sponsored as a program of the carl enoch goldman center for jewish values and we thank jay goldman for his consistent sponsorship and his partnership in the show we have a show dedicated in someone else's memory as well you know i mentioned them on the show before but dr stewart and andrea heitman are founding partners and supporters of project inspire everything you see in project inspire has their fingerprints on it i know them personally and they are incredible people who have the jewish community and the jewish nations sort right in their minds and everything that they do um and it's an honor to be able to know them and for them to be connected to us and us to be connected to them unfortunately dr heitman's mother passed away this week and we're dedicating this week's show in her memory so the show's also dedicated and loving memory from this is gloria heitmann alas alam rifka simon boss mikhail and so we've got a lot coming up uh a big announcement in two weeks we're gonna have a three day event the incredible project inspire convention is going to be online february 18th to the 21st got a crazy showcase of hours of inspiring speakers presentations real talk concerts presentations a ton of stuff we've got a two-hour shabbat show coming up which is going to be hopefully amazing you gotta check it out you look at look at the flyer it's gonna be awesome two weeks um from today so just mark it down not to go anywhere two weeks there'll be an a a souped up shabbat show that i hope you'll like and the whole whole whole conference come to the whole convention and we got a great show for you like i said super bowl weekend it's time for us to sort of take something that has been the pastime of every country and suck out the benefits suck out the principles and metaphors so that we can be a little bit more closer to being a champions in our own lives we've got a great lineup for you we've got ellie lunzer who's with us and from elp productions coming at us live from tampa yeah we're gonna get a live hookup over there and see what's going on now um the pregame festivities we've got izzy from the famous koshers izzy's smokehouse in crown heights he's with us here abe schoenfeld of outer stuff the guy who makes the call if you ever watch the games and you know that when the winner the team you know the winning team you know they win and two seconds later they've got the t-shirts we got the we got the guy who makes the call and went to print those t-shirts the one who's doing all the apparel for it so we got him it was great we've got a great guest on we got uh jeff schwartz uh jeff schwartz is a a football player we got an actual football player here uh who was with us uh who did an incredible interview with us he was a giant he was a panther he was a chief he speaks about some of the lessons that are that's taking place uh that's taking place every second on on the field we got a new segment coming up called portion pointers uh we got a lot of stuff going on here great new music and it's gonna be a great show so stick with us and we're honored to have you on and we thank the president inspire team for putting this together and we look forward to it okay let's get going right away ellie lunzer is with us live from tampa the super bowl uh place right now he runs a world renowned and award-winning sports marketing consulting firm based in new york city firm specializes helping brands and organizations achieve their goals through the power of experience through talent booking and management in the sports entertainment sectors uh through brand enhancements and event production management i know ellie a long time he has the ability to bring some incredible talent into into your brand so we're gonna give you his information afterwards before i do let's go out to ellie ellie welcome to the show thank you thank you so what's going on over there give us where you are uh give us the scene the feeling out in tampa right now everything's great um we're at our headquarters our company headquarters uh super bowl week at the hard rock hotel in uh in tampa uh we got him just a couple days ago and uh there's so much excitement going on um not only throughout the hotel but all over tampa and uh and you know we're we're so appreciative for the 13th year to be involved with super bowl uh with a handful of different uh pro athletes um currently playing some alumni that are playing um some of the events that uh we were able to pull off socially distant and outdoors here in florida uh thanks to you know all those folks in the higher-ups that were able to do that and uh and this is what we're doing we're excited it's great to be here so give us the give us the scene over there with covid what is is does it still have the same excitement as in the past are people more reserved what how do you see the super bowl now vis-a-vis what it was in the past so um yeah i mean the the number one difference is the amount of activity that's actually going on uh both in the corporate world um for the brands and corporations that are usually coming down and uh companies that send their employees and clients to the super bowl for incentive programs um etc but um you know this super bowl is just amazing it's the first time in history that the host team is actually uh hosting um the super bowl and and they're in the super bowl so that you know for the the city of tampa that's a win-win um wherever you go i mean the buzz is all over the place um we the events that um we already put on and the events that are going to go on throughout the weekend are all obviously social distance uh covert precautions cdc guidelines etc um and you know people will buy to them um i i think that i think that you know it's great opportunity for for the sport and for nfl and for the history of the game you know you know you you're an individual uh who gets to spend a lot of time around celebrities and athletes and so you probably are able to opine on what's really going on right we get to see athletes sometimes when they got their uniforms on when they're performing on a field we don't really know them we don't see them we don't see them behind the scenes and you do give us a little bit if you can i'm gonna ask two different questions i'll ask them one at a time but i want to get your perspective on the good and the bad you know like give us if you can what you've learned about some of the habits or some of the traits of successful individuals that have reached a certain level of professionalism in their lives are there traits that you can take away and apply to our lives the answer is yes and the answer is you know everyone is is an individual you're talking about a professional athlete um you know who becomes a champion per se um the common denominator is is that they have determination and will they want to really really succeed in their craft um a lot of sacrifice they put sacrifice into into their lives into their bodies into their families there's really no no second place for them they really kind of you know just want to succeed and go to the next level um i also think that you know it's not about only the field or the court you know we'll talk about the field now with nfl and the court with you know the nba um but you have to be a great person you know off the field and off the court as well and and that translates into what kind of athlete you are on the field as well so i think that uh that's super important to keep in mind it's funny how you know sometimes you see people and when they're in the spotlight they are um they're one way and then behind the scenes another way do you find that as well that uh you're constantly disappointed by some people who you thought would be more professional but you know sort of behind the scenes you you see their true colors yeah dealing with with pro athletes and celebrities on a regular basis you really see you know true colors and there are folks that um first of all they're human beings um it's not i would never want to be in in their shoes but you know what we can do to help them um in the spotlight and add a spotlight within our pr initiatives that that we work on um some some of them are different and some of them are the same um you know a guy like michael jordan right is the top of the world um you know if someone were to go up to him and ask him for an autograph he'd probably say no right and that would disappoint a fan or kid that looks up to um a guy like michael jordan whereas someone else can be the opposite you know magic johnson is the nicest guy in the world and someone goes up there and wants to take a picture an autograph he's thrilled to do that um so there are guys that that are definitely different on and off the field and on and off camera amazing uh do you have any one particular athlete that you you could use you think that you can think about that you learn something specific from um that you respect and what did you learn from him i have an interesting one uh you know we work with odell beckham jr and he doesn't have the greatest rap you know within media and within uh you know the sports world and fans in general but he happens to be one of the most genuine real pro athletes and individuals uh more off the field than than on the field um i would go on a bench you know i would go as far as to say that he is a match with what i've seen him do um you know in the nonprofit world with kids at risk um and just dealing with day-to-day people that are are not involved in sports so he's he's actually one uh good example that that i would give wow and he's either for those who aren't fulfilling who he is he's a giant now he's a cleveland browns so he's got some good street cred in terms of where he is a last question ellie how how do people find you um you know in case people want to use your services to book talent to grow their brands it's a great opportunity people that may not know that this is available to them so give us like where do people go how can people reach you uh super i'm i'm very easy to find just ellie lonzer on instagram uh we have a website ellie lonzer productions and uh and an email events at ellie lenser productions and there you go yeah and we got you actually we have uh your flyer on our our site right now and you can really check it out i know ellie for a very long time and it's it's really a unique way uh to promote your brands and your company so you should definitely check them out ellie thanks so much for what you did for us this show and and thanks for what you're doing continue being you uh some of the stuff that we didn't get to cover here is um your faith and how you carry it everywhere you go and um you know i was talking to our good friend abe schoenfeld and he was telling me that you guys are tweeting and texting each other like how can i pray minha and what would mine do for shabbos and you know the fact that you guys are wherever you are you never forget you know the one above so we're honored and and keep on shining your light in this world man yeah doing shabbos every time we travel to different award shows and and games is uh is actually a highlight uh highlight for myself and and my team to really stop the 24 hours that we're working during the week and and on the weekends and and and really do it do it right charlie who are you going for kansas city or uh tampa oh we'll go in kansas city all the way man you don't bet against papa homes i got you i got you all right we'll see you sunday night yeah all right thank you brother we appreciate you being on me enjoy and that was ellie lunz there's a great guy he's out there i'm really interacting people all the time we've had the opportunity to catch up a few times it's amazing you know it's important that we appreciate sports we don't get too lost in it it's important that we realize it's just regular people trying their best but we learn something from it and one of the things that we can learn is this what he said this incredible lesson of determination hard work and sacrifice um we're going to hear this a couple times later on i think throughout the show this idea of just sort of pushing past yourself and and really wanting to to develop your craft whatever your craft is right whatever that is in your life we all have roles to play we all have roles in our families and our relationships um in our spirituality and we have to make choices if we want to be champions and the concept of trying to achieve greatness applies depend no matter what your ultimate goal is we just hope that the goals are aspirational enough they're they're lofty enough and so this this really are the lessons of life our next guest um is is a little bit different you know when you think about super bowl a lot of super bowl's not just about the game right a lot of super bowls about the food that's that's how most people i think come super bowl parties i don't know if there'll be superpowers this year but typically when you go to super bowl party um usually half people are there just for the food um and we figured why not include in the super bowl show somebody who is an expert at food uh in this particular barbecue we've got izzy edelman on and izzy is an award-winning smoke he he owns a world award-winning smokehouse in crown heights um he is a pit master and he brings a local twist with a southern tradition combining his simple ingredients to quality meats to create a unique and laid-back experience to all the barbecue lovers he's achieved a war that's amazing what what he has done i had a chance to catch up with him earlier this week check out this interview with izzy we're just a restaurant that happens to be kosher and i consider ourselves one of the top small houses here in new york we're gonna get ready our famous pastrami this is the briskets we use here at um the smokehouse and this is gonna be done for our pastrami as well most of this is a source from the midwest uh brought to here feels like a nice fat cap if you look look at the marbling as well we're going to talk about what goes in our pastrami brine and what does not go in our pastrami brine this pastrami essentially is a rough pastrami is not a piece of meat it's a coriander black pepper based rub that you put on the meat once the meat is done to pickle you got a pink salt over here and this sort of ensures that no bacteria protects the meat here's sugar we got our fresh garlic here some honey here we have a blend of spices which obviously knows coriander based grinded black pepper so big in new york when they came over from europe a lot of the jewish people you know they opened up the delis that was an affordable way of you know people to eat brisket will go in here and see you in two weeks so once the pastrami is done curing after two weeks this is what it'll look like pretty much so this is what just went in and this is something that's gonna look like that has been pickled for two weeks we'll come back after a week and a half we'll start to check the briskets um at that point already it's pretty much pickled as they say so we'll let it dry overnight i will go ahead and rub the meat and we'll put in the smoker again anywhere from 12 to 18 hour cook [Music] you're pretty much curing it sort of to preserve it and then you're making that piece of meat and something so delicious almost like a mommy in its own version pretty much so when you take the texas style then you take the juice and the deli when you combine those two it's just getting a phenomenal amazing product and just something that people obsess with now check this interview ad head with izzy check this out from with izzy sports is is really a metaphor for life it's not about the ball um whenever you see someone who's achieving life there are there are clues there are reasons there's there's there's principles that are behind the scenes what are some of the ways that you approach barbecue which is enabling you to achieve your success that you think are principal that we can learn from and how to become successful in anything that we're doing in life put into effort surround yourself with with good people is the second thing i would say you know you are the four or five people you hang around with that's that's who you are that's what you hang around with and right and if those people are good good people or people you could lock up to people who can help you in life you know that's going to be a big part of your success but again like don't don't let anybody tell you that you can't do anything you know especially for me you know i had no experience in the food industry before and i honestly had no idea what i'm doing and looking back at what i was doing i didn't think pretty much that was it was insane but i look back at it back then going into industry i don't know anything about the hardest industry pretty much to go into which is food and i'm not going to say that you know you know we're successful because we're open up first for you know six years almost and i'm no by any means rich but i'm happy to go to work every day and you know you know i say the biggest thing for somebody when they want to either change a career or something is that i look forward to tuesday and wednesday like i do for thomas and sunday and if you dread going to work on monday or tuesday you're doing something wrong obviously some people have no choice to have a family to support but for me you know i'm very lucky some people got to meet and yeah fortunately how important is it for you that that every detail works a big reason why that in kosher there haven't been a lot of smokehouses that have been trying to emulate me or i mean tried because just the effort like i could tell you in a very short simple like we have to get in a very high quality expensive p p piece of meat that meat has to be now inspected that mean it has to be seasoned that mean has to go into smoke enough for 18 hours you have a 20 minute window where from after 18 hours to pull it out where it's at that perfect temperature you pull too early it's not good if you pull too late it's dry then that has to go into a warmer in the morning and have to be good for service for dinner then telling us to carve it has to make sure that that piece is good there's so many processes along the way that if you're passionate and you're not meticulous about the process it's going to show on the product versus other industries or other businesses or other foods it's not like that you know mcdonald's is more of an operation which i commend them and i wish i could learn that one day but there's too much meticulous um you know details going on that if you try to skip it it's going to show out on the product and ultimately you know really just it's about hard work for my team and i and and i'm very fortunate that that family's involved and helps me out it's just a hard process and if you're going to try to do shortcuts people are going to tell i think there's also there's a misconception that if you fail in life you know that you're a loser and like ultimately the the greatest people you know uh you know historians in the world or whatever it is like yeah ex how did someone older give you that knowledge that that something was a mistake or something wasn't wrong it's by the mistakes that people made and that's how we learned so the idea is that you want to you know you know over and over and try and fail and make sure it doesn't hurt you too much and you've got to learn from that that's it thank you knowledge let me ask you a question what is it do you think about barbecue everyone seems to love barbecue you know you walk into someone's house and someone's like hey let's barbecue i was like that that's amazing like it's something about the what is it about barbecue that seems to be this great unifier from all types of people you know what it's it's one of the only things in the world i would say that goes back to when you know when man was first created that you know how did the person eat when they first created they made a fire they they grilled some meat that part of you know cooking with fire has gone down from generate you know until now and that hasn't changed and that's just the that's something that burns with inside somebody you know so just people you know correspond to that versus other stuff is like new and you know gimmicky and and different and on top of that you know when you when you put in when you see somebody else putting that effort or that passion into something you make just people get excited over it like you know like just even let's say with italian pizza you see somebody making neapolitan pizza in a wood-fired oven they're dough it's like you almost you're getting excited with the person you know what they're doing the process people sort of you know could relate to that as a jew do you have a spiritual lens on what you're doing um one of the greatest satisfactions that we get here is that when people come to you know to our store right and they tell us that you know you know until you know i've had non-kosher before and huge people and this is literally better than i've had before and the fact that they're now knowing that they could eat a kosher meal instead instead of having them to feel like they have to go betrayed to eat uh you know to fulfill their needs or their you know their cr crate cravings whatever you want to say and the fact that they come here they able to kosher i feel like you know that's my mission and that's one of the few small things i could do really you know getting getting more people to eat uh kosher food really amazing and not feel like they're lacking anything so as you'll prepare for the super bowl there'll be those people that are going to barbecue do you have any tips that you can give to i don't know what they can do that's a little bit different this year than they haven't done before don't get caught up with uh with the anxiety of having to prepare a meet on time i think just making sure that if you're you know it should be an enjoying thing you're barbecuing with the family with friends and it shouldn't be very stressful enjoy you know life's too short you know don't go plan for a week and then you know sunday the game comes you're all burnt out and not be able to enjoy yourself just whatever you do make it simple make sure you're having fun and really that's it as far as what you want to grill it's really you know whatever you you know it's all up to you really you know whether you want to keep it simple with wings or chicken and go crazy with steak or with a brisket you know smoking 18 hours which i don't know if i recommend you'll be tired when the game starts it's all about enjoying the process because ultimately if you're not going to it's not going to be enjoyable process you're not going to grill again you're not going to barbecue and and you know it's supposed to be one of the things that you enjoy sitting down you know um with a clumsy style you know friends and enjoy if it's not that then um then i don't see what what's the point really izzy thanks for being part of us we appreciate being on the show continue doing what you're doing and continue shining your light on this world man thank you for having me i really appreciate it have a great day and awesome shot of us on a great super bowl sunday thank you and that was izzy uh he's he wants some significant awards he's telling me stories of the texas i guess like the upper-ups that the the great you know the leaders of that world coming into his steakhouse and it was really great stuff you should check him out um and and well he's doing here and his food is probably off the charts and i can't wait to be able to to get that as well um remember this it's it's 8 24 in a couple of minutes or we're gonna get kahoot here's first of all two things uh we'd love to hear from you uh feel free please on my facebook page or on zoom just drop us to shabbat shalom it's always a highlight people to hear uh where everyone's coming in from so please feel free to do that give us either one zoom my facebook page or shabbat shalom where you're from um and remember kahoot's coming up so to get ready because it's going to be intense we're already in the competitive spirit it's super bowl sunday bring the family around i know by by my family they're already trying to compete um just it's kahoot.it or download the app on your phone so when we play the game you can watch it and then play on your phone that's what my kids do at least so uh check that out it's coming up in a couple of minutes i'm giving you a head start so that when we call kahoot in the next you know five minutes you're ready to win and hopefully this week we'll play we'll have uh either some of our our usual players and some of our new players we're excited about that now there's a new music video that came out a couple of days ago and it's catching fire around the jewish world it's produced by kiva bolson from for the waterbury connecticut yeshiva super powerful speaks about in the game we've got separate teams but in life we all want to be a part of the same team it's called it's it's called only love sung by zevi ginager and joseph zeidel uh check this a new music video out how much more are we gonna take how many nights do we have to lie awake how many tears are we gonna cry we can't wish until the world runs dry but what happens when the sky above runs out of every single shooting star and what if every good intent and only meant to go so far only love only love can save us now keep the wolf from burning down [Music] and see us for who we are [Music] if only there was only love how much [Music] how many bridges could it cross instead of birth why do we find it hard to forget were so blind identity [Music] down down [Music] is if only there was [Music] so what happens when the sky above runs out of every single shooting star and what if every good intentions only meant to go so [Music] down far down to the ground [Music] [Applause] [Music] wow thank you so much that very powerful video you see it here on the show first let me tell you if you haven't seen that before that was gonna powerful and we thank all the producers that of that video for for their message which came across very clearly excited to get going it's now 8 30. you know it's time for it's time for kahoot get it ready kahoot.it on your app let's get those juices flowing over here remember to go to 375-3932-375-3932 that's kahoot we'll get the game started get the super bowl edition of kahoot coming in while we do that let me show a couple of shabbat shaloms to rachelle and michael kurzner shabbat shalom from toronto shalom uh rifka is on with patriots rock it's going to be fun with her let's see if she can pull off the victory today joan kodesh shabbat shalom to you rm shabbat shalom to you murray levy shabbat shalom to you shabbat shalom to the novaks from toronto henya from toronto shabbat shalom to jerry and eileen hirsch from milwaukee wisconsin shabbat shalom to beth from maine the mervis family from silver spring i don't know about you but i'm loving crisscrossing the country with some good jews tammy salmon from birmingham alabama shabbat shalom two two or three minutes everybody sign up for kahoot while we do this couple more minutes richard and leia beside from toronto mark and michelle mandleman from montvale new jersey lair pearl from new york city shabbat shalom to you silver family in highland park you guys ready okay let's get going kahoot here goes first one first question for kahoot chicken wings the popular super bowl food which part of the chicken isn't kosher the hind the sinu the esophagus or the whole chicken's kosher which part of the chicken is in kosher is it the hind it's a new vein the esophagus or the whole chickens kosher shabbat shalom to rm's open baltimore shabbat shalom to linda from boston shabbat shalom to helen to helene from boca raton shabbat shalom here goes answer is oh chicken's kosher that's split that's split in half the whole chicken's kosher excited sable eight in jerusalem someone's playing if someone's playing from jerusalem right now i think it's like two in the morning you do you deserve to be on the board the novak family the bessettes and aviva okay first one and this week's torah portion is the ten commandments the first commandment is to honor your parents don't eat pig don't have any other god or know that he is god shabbat shalom delay and richard from toronto shabbat shalom to jen from georgia i'm heading my 15 seconds left i'm hitting my my facebook now to my good friend michael weingart from germany who's up watching the show dorian houseman shabbat shalom rita rubin from boca rana adler shabbat shalom to you guys thanks so much for tuning in watching everybody watching here it is the answer is know that he is god know that he is god people got that one right that's great excited sable stays on top novak family moves up the bessettes shop shopsies and aviva okay let's go here we go third question super bowl is the most watched television event of the year with approximately how many viewers how people are watching super bowl you think on sunday 15 million 100 million 250 million and a billion people super bowl sunday how many people are watching the game 15 million 100 million 250 or billion it's now i just got word that it's three in the morning in germany we thank michael for tuning in nine seconds left how many people are watching it how you are watching this game two seconds left the answer is a hundred million people splits down the middle a hundred million people are watching the game let's see what oh excited stable stays on top of the novak filming the bessettes there's some climbers okay big a wherever you are you were the highest climber in this round let's go to the final round this nfl team owner built a reputation a regulation size football field and a sports campus in jerusalem dallas cowboys owner jerry jones the panthers owner is david tepper new england's owners robert kraft and the philadelphia eagles older jerry jeffrey lurie who built a football field and a sports campus in jerusalem who was it jones tepper craft or lurie and the answer is three seconds left of our game and the answer is yeah robert kraft robert kraft let's see what this did to our numbers today let's see where winners are third place kahoot is toronto congratulations to the family from toronto that's playing the novak family they're from toronto too so far canada's killing on super bowl sunday and the winner is excited sable eight i think this is the first time js shift and ben ceon shows up excited table eight i think is the first time that he's he or she has won so identify yourself please so we give you a proper shout out before we continue i wanna give one more shout out that last video uh which was so powerful was actually created produced by the son of our very owner by yaakov giniger riakov ginger so anybody knows is sort of the man behind the curtain he's the wizard of oz he's really the one of the biggest drivers of the show and so we give him a shout out and a special shout out to his son man talent runs in the family so congratulations for such an incredible video and it's an honor to have you on the next interview is with a great guy uh abe schoenfeld abe is the vp of production for outer stuff remember i was telling you about the story of the man who gets the call when the pre-t-shirts are being made produces all the apparel uh that's that's our stuff in fact we've had the the principal on the show uh saul werdiger is on the show a couple times talking about what it's like to be a shabbat observant jew in these moments he managed a managed production for all four major sports leagues of children's apparel married for 22 years with five children you could use any of the same uh logos and he has them everywhere and he's really one of the key figures in this period of time that's behind the scenes in the apparel and super bowls uh check out this interview that i had with abe earlier this week so tell us a little bit about your company and its relationship to not only football but the super bowl so i work for outer stuff my father-in-law saw wurtiger who you had the pleasure of uh having had on the show sure times um so we make all the children's apparel for all the four major sporting leagues for the nfl nba nhl major league baseball we make the official license jerseys and team apparel that's sold on all the websites nfl.com and we make all the apparel in related to the super bowl into the events as well and you've had the opportunity to see a lot of athletes and and players in your experiences can you give us you know because at the end of the day you know sports i believe is a metaphor for life right and people have achieved success in sports because they're achieving they're hitting some principles what do you find to be some of the things you learn from people that you've met that have achieved success in this area that you think is just principles for life uh one of the most important things you know especially about us being in the business and our family being in the business is we're you know us being jewish we're very proud about that and people respect that tremendously because we don't hide who we are and we don't hide our religion we're very proud of that and people from the top people in the league all respect the fact that we're jewish that we keep shabbat and that we eat kosher and i mean my father-in-law i'm sure has told you many stories about different events and things that happened at the events and at games world series super bowls where people went out of their way to make sure that we had accommodations for shabbat or to have kosher food at the games because they respect that about us you know i as a kid growing up i always was i mean obviously you know i would stay up obviously not on shabbat i would stay up till whenever it is to watch the final games especially if there was you know the yankees or the giants i would always be amazed that like you know five minutes later they got t-shirts on and i'm like wait how did that happen like how did they know like like how does it work like do you have them both you don't got to tell us if you don't want to you could say it's a state secret i'll share it with you it's okay so obviously uh the way it works is they they draft up and they design uh the apparel for the winning team of all the winning teams um i could actually show you not the super bowl because that's confidential but i could show you you know the afc champions if you could see that right but if the bills had one oh wow that's great um so it's like a template you know you got the same thing they're playing the box the the box one had the uh packers one oh that's great so you do you print these do you print them or you just have them ready yeah so we print a very small percentage of the t-shirts ahead of the time just the players and whatnot just so you get a little bit of players for their kids for for for like the in venue for let's say like the stadium this year is a little bit different than other years because there's really less people at the events and in the arenas but we usually do a percentage in advance that that gets sold to the stadiums and sold to the surrounding stores uh for both teams or for you know for everything everything that needs to go and we have people just on standby as soon as the game is over you know it's done a few years back it was a few years back i think it was the uh broncos panthers and they were like blowing out the broncos were blowing out the panthers in the game they were up by like 30 points at halftime and the printers kept calling me abe can we start printing can we start printing and i said no you can't start until it gets close enough that i can gamble because what happens is that the team that loses we actually um we actually the nfl requires us and we send it to a third world country as a donation for impoverished and and poverty-stricken people so that that they do get used occasionally but not sold right then i'm right exactly that's amazing you're making one of the most important calls in the game i can imagine you like looking at the bench going like uh he called a field goal he's never going to be brady go to the presses like that's pretty big we had that two years uh three years ago when the uh when the patriots played the falcons right oh my gosh that's exactly right they came back well i thank you for being on and more importantly i thank you for being who you are amazing thank you for having me and i really appreciate it and um i'm happy i was able to share some of that with you amazing thank you and that was an awesome interview the full interview is actually if you go on the shabacho.com you're going to watch the full interview of izzy of abe and then of our next guest as well um so you should check that out there's actually a great story at the end of this in that full interview where he abe speaks about that game if you remember the falcons played the patriots and the falcons were up like 28 3 in the fourth and the patriots had this crazy comeback and they were calling abe saying quick print and he's like hauled off hauled off hauled off and literally because he held them off they saved basically printing super bowl champions for the falcons so uh it's just such a great story there you can check that out on shabbat show.com you know this week we got a new segment that we're introducing it's called portion pointers every weekend on shabbat we read from the torah portions of the week we want to give you a short insight on the portion and to help you this week we've we've got rabbi hananel wiener he's the ceo of age campus boston you found the instagram social media as the rabbi cooks he shares deep lessons in judaism delicious food and recipes and fun times with friends he works with jewish college students from harvard boston brandeis north eastern umass be proud and knowledgeable jews check out this small piece from rabbi weiner [Music] hello my friends it's great to be here today for project inspire and the shabbat show i'm rabbi kanano i'm also known on instagram and otherwise as the rabbi cooks i have a great show with food and torah and judaism and fun friends and all kinds of things please feel free to check it out today we're talking about something incredible football i'm a big big sports fan i've always loved sports i've always played sports i love sports and i try to take lessons from judaism out of the sports extract life lessons from sports tied into everything else in my life this week we've got the parsha of yisro the torah portion that we give the ten commandments whoa the ten commandments awesome everyone's heard of them before what's in them you gotta look to find out but one thing we do know is that they're rules huh rules we don't like rules we're the jewish people we go against the rules all the time only kind of kind of really we do like rules rules are important if you don't know the rules you might not be playing the game that's certainly the case when it comes to football you have to follow the rules you follow the rules you can win one penalty you go against the rules can lose it all you gotta follow the rules judaism says that the torah is the rule book for life it's the instruction booklet for life the torah means instructions for life that's what the word really means and if these instructions if you play by the rules you can win the game and if you incorporate the rules of life into your life you can have a magnificent life it's the same with football it's the same with cooking it's the same with life if you want to have an incredible experience you follow the rules and it can be amazing now it's game day we've got to have some incredible foods hopefully you've been seeing behind me all these incredible foods they're all on my channel by the way you want to learn how to make them you can but make them on game day all the rules of cooking to make incredible food follow the rules of life to have an incredible life the torah it's right there it's waiting for you to take it to incorporate and integrate its lessons have a great game day have a great life we'll see you soon thanks project inspire the shabbat show back to charlie harari thank you rabbi for that message we really really appreciate it our next guest is jeffrey schwartz jeff schwartz um is a former nfl player we had a chance to catch up with him give him like the inside ask him for the inside look at the game before we go into the interview check out this video of jeff schwartz jeff and mitchell schwartz they are an anomaly two brothers who made it all the way to the nfl they're both defensive linemen and they're also the first jewish brothers ever to make it to the pros now they just wrote a book called eat my shorts or a story of nfl football food family and faith now short time ago i spoke with co-author jeff schwartz one of the things that surprised me was you didn't put on the pads or played organized football until high school you know a alignment to do it and then to plan a not too successful a high school program and get a d1 offer d1 offers out of it is all but unheard of um have you come across anybody with a similar story except maybe somebody some giant that played abroad here just could run a 40 in two seconds or something i never heard a story like that yeah yeah it doesn't happen very often you know i think our size obviously kind of got us noticed i remember going to a usc football camp and i shook on the coach's hands and he kind of saw my size in my hand and decided to look at my name tag and saw who i was and he started following up i think that's the kind of the way it starts and luckily we were blessed to have this size and the strength and be able to play football so starting so late never really hurt us if we were a little smaller or different statute maybe it would have hurt us but it ended up working out for the best well certainly for you and mitch it has talk about uh you know you mentioned your name tag and part of your book talks about your faith openly from your perspective um when you went to college and even more so uh when you went to the pros here you're an anomaly as you said you and your brother probably make up about 40 of the players right now in the league that are jewish um how much did maybe any of the comments either surprise or even take you aback from people either didn't know or just didn't even know some of the offensive stuff they may have been saying you know i really haven't encountered too many offensive comments but i am surprised by the amount of players who've told me i'm the first jew they've met uh you know maybe they grew up in a rural part of of somewhere where they didn't meet a lot of jews um i do like the questions a lot of my teammates ask interesting questions about the faith about uh kind of the nuts and bolts of judaism and then i've got some weird questions though i've been asked if i celebrate thanksgiving and that's an american holiday so yes i celebrate thanksgiving and uh you know just like things like that i mean like light-hearted i've never really encountered much anti-semitism uh or you know guys outright not liking me because of my faith jeff and i had had a chance to catch up earlier again his full interview is going to be found on the shabacho.com we had a real opportunity to just talk about life through football uh just to give you a little sense of his history he was drafted by the panthers in 2008 he played for them and then he played for the vikings the chiefs which is the team for those who are following in this uh in this week's super bowl uh and the giants and the lions and he offered this book his brother mitchell um is actually a chief right now has been struggling with injuries but was supposed to be playing in this week's super bowl uh and i had a chance to sort of speak to jeff about life football and check this interview out so jeff thanks so much for being on the show we really appreciate it yeah glad to be here thanks for having me it's an honor to have you on you know this is super bowl weekend you know the show is the shabbat show so basically the show is the weekly show that we we broadcast all over the world um just to sort of mark the times thursday nights to prepare ourselves for shabbat and this weekend it's a special weekend because it's super bowl sunday so you know simple sunday's a holiday as far as i'm concerned so it's it's a holiday weekend as a football player it's so it's so a lot of the show that we're talking about is really the depth of the game right it's not just a ball uh there's so much that sports in general but football in particular brings to lessons in life and you know someone who's played the sport you've played it professionally your career is amazing to really be able to speak to someone who's on the inside and talk about the lessons you've learned about being a football player so share with us a couple of things and in particular you know you you yourself you're a professional player which didn't just come out of nowhere you worked your your hardest to get there you were around people that had done the same that reached the professional level what do you think are are the the ingredients if you will of greatness that you see that takes place on the field that maybe we're not watching because we just think people to show up and play that you've been able to see because of of your path so my high school football coach had a saying he would say this to us before game time who will rise above adversity he said before every game and that's often the difference in winning and losing right especially in life a lot of us are dealt kind of the same hand obviously i had naturally gifted body i was able to do that but plenty of other people in my shoes have the same body i do but just didn't work as hard right did not know how to overcome adversity did not know how to overcome hardship you don't know how to overcome when things didn't go well for you don't know how to overcome just the mental blocks you have when you play sports and games look we're going to see a game on sunday that's won or lost in two or three plays right two or three plays here and there and it's how do you you know if you're the tampa bay buccaneers defense and pat mahoney and you call great defense and pamma home still beats you anyways how do you overcome that do you fall in the tank do you bow back up what do you do how do you overcame adversity i think those moments and part of that is how you train parts how you how you mentally talk to yourself all that is part of how you overcome adversity but again i'm telling you like i was i i was a seventh-round draft pick i was drafting lower than i thought i'd be then i got hurt a bunch of i got hurt seven times the nfl six surgeries plus another injury a guy in my position should not play eight years because a guy in my position in seventh round doesn't get the benefit of the doubt that the first rounder gets yeah and first hurt as i got to continue to play throughout all those years over four and really five four and a half sort of teams um in my opinion all comes to how i handled the downs i'll have the surgery my rehabs my mindset um and really with help with family and faith and be able to kind of use those as a back as a kind of a backboard for me as well to me it was how i overcame adversity so let's delve into that because you know not only did you play you were you know you were as i said you're an all-star you were you were you were highly regarded you were considered to be really one of the best at your position and so take us if you can to the field and i i want you to like because you're you're in the game right you they're they're fans you you make a move maybe maybe they call a penalty on you and as a result of your move that 20-yard positive play gets pulled back right someone gets around you what do you use live yeah to enable you to get over adversity in the moment yeah it's a good question um i think a lot of it has to do with with trusting your abilities so you know i was a the way i kind of approach life in general and this i think helps with sports and this takes time right it's not just i'm 34 now it's not maybe it's not really the way i thought at 22 but definitely the way i think now is that if you do the right things okay and this is very much i think in the jewish background of mine and all of ours i should say like if if we do the right thing in life i believe that helps you in the in the bad times right so for example let's say that i've done all the training i have to do for that week right i'm prepared i'm focused and yeah you're gonna get physically beat one time it's gonna happen in a game but i know that i have still put in the work to overcome that if if i did not put in the work for that week right and i didn't prepare like i was supposed to i'm not physically ready i'm not mentally ready then yeah one bad experience could ruin that for us it can ruin for all of us if we go to if we do something in life and we're not fully prepared for and adversity happens and it happens earlier than you think you don't have anything to fall back on well guess what if i get beat for a sack i have all my training i have all my confidence i can still play the game because hey i'm ready to play right and prepared and so i think that when you are when you kind of do what you're supposed to do to prepare for things in life when there are those hardships you're able to fall back on your preparation to get you through it and the more confident you are and your abilities to do any sort of task any adversity that happens you should be able to power through it and so that's the way i looked at it if i got beat first sack it was you know i cursed myself out i walked back to the sidelines my coach might yell at me then i forget about it i get ready for the next play because i know i can still play in this league so you know let's speak a little bit you said you mentioned your faith i know that you're a proud jew i know that you've uh you've spoken about it before you you listen you're you're you you're one of the few man like you made it they're out there do you even have a minion do you have so you're really the few the proud the marines that you're presenting our people on the field exactly yeah so tell us a little bit about how judaism and how your faith has shaped you and what impact has had on you well so i think i mentioned earlier about doing the right thing like i've talked to many of my teammates about their religions religion is is a big part of the locker room you know we and i say this all the time you know people ask me why that is and here's why i think it is it's because when you play sports or they're physical right and you have to kind of get your mind in a way that you might not want to do regularly and a lot of people use religion for that right they're able to kind of get their wrap their head around the physicality of the game the kind of the hardship of the game just through religion and i think that a lot of players that's their backbone i love it i think that we can all talk about different religions and we we did i did i talked to a lot of my teammates about religion a lot of us um a lot of them i should say did not really know about judaism and we had some some fun conversations i'm sure but i think for me and kind of gathering how you know i grew up in the faith and other people did is i just think the concept of doing the right thing i know that it's easier said than done but i just feel like judaism like that's the backbone right it's like you just be a good person because you're supposed to be a good person not because of of punishments right don't don't do good because you might be punished later in life do good because you're supposed to do good that's that's what we are supposed to be as humans and you know my wife always says to me that she her number one thing she appreciates about me is that i always do the right thing even when it's hard to do it's what my dad taught me to do and that comes down to just doing things that are tough in life like you my dad early in life in high school i remember i had a problem with the coach let's say he didn't talk to the coach let me talk to the coach 15 years old going to talk to a 45 year old basketball coach about why i'm not playing enough hard to do right like but that was the right thing i had to fight my own battles he's not fighting my battles for me in life and so little things like that along the way and i think that's where the jews impart came in it's just kind of growing up in the synagogue obviously bar mitzvah and i went to a little bit of post uh school after my my bar mitzvah as well my kids are now uh in in the synagogue my kids went to you know still go to jewish preschool in charlotte and i just think like the the idea of doing right because you're supposed to do it you're supposed to be a good person i think it's been really helpful for me in life oh amazing that's really amazing one more question i know that we have a couple you have one more question uh and then i then we'll just there we're good we'll pause i want to talk about your brother right is we got a big game coming up this weekend yeah yeah and you know your brother is uh we're all you know we know that jpp is going to be a big problem for us for the chiefs and without your brother maybe very hard give us a two minute as to how's your brother doing and what's what's his uh status yeah i mean he's been out obviously for for three months now um i would not expect him to play i'm not i don't think i'm breaking much news now um but um you know it's been tough you know because he was so good for so long he was four time all pro and his super bowl last year was incredible he was amazing the super bowl and it was really fun to watch him you know blossom the playoffs um and it's tough right i mean it's any time that that your team wins without you like there's a you know you everyone hates to admit this but i think it's definitely true i've been injured a bunch i know the feeling like when when someone takes your place and you have a value that you assign to yourself right you assign okay i'm this valuable to the team and if someone takes your place and you and the team just continues to win you're like ah i kind of like it's the ego shot right and so it i think it's a little bit i haven't talked to him about that but i have to imagine that that's part of this as well right it's tough to not be out there um when you're winning super bowls when you're wiggling super bowl again and so um i imagine it's been tough for him to not play this year um and obviously you know not play this weekend but it's fun to watch the chiefs play man they're so good they're so good so thank you so much for being on the show and uh really we appreciate who you are and what you mean to us and thanks for shining your light on this world yeah glad to be here thanks for having me go chiefs that was jeff schwartz um like there's so many pieces i hope you guys could see if you go to the shabacho.com um i asked him about uh how much time goes into the prep and the review and i asked him how he gets over the the pain in the moment of making a mistake in front of everybody so you should check out the full video for those who want it i think it's like 20 minutes long go to shabbat show.com this week also on project inspire is mind flex if you remember mineflex is one of project spire's greatest programs it takes place all the time this tuesday and wednesday night we've got rabbi uh robertson rabbi shmuel and robinson bailey braun i know them for a very long time they're unbelievable um and they're gonna be learn to talk about learning to float the all surrounding embrace of joy check them out this week february 9th and 10th 9pm it's going to be amazing and we thank them uh as well for being a part of this and you know i think you know we speak about the game and in many ways that's what shabbat's all about shabbat's all about everything those who've been paying attention but really the opportunity for us to look back at our lives and to recognize that we have to push to become champions the you don't make it to a super bowl you don't have a 100 million people watching you if you're not practicing and trying and sacrificing you don't just you know you don't just roll in and play sports that's not how it works you train and you play and you practice your whole life to get an opportunity just to get up there and play again what's amazing about sports is that the more challenging the game the more important it is what's amazing about life is that sometimes we run away from the challenges when really the challenges are what make us champions the challenges of our lives of the games that we play in each and every one of our own lives to make us the best that we can be no athlete runs away from the game they want to be playing in the game but mean you have our own games to play the games we play is the games of our lives and they're no less important it doesn't matter how many fans watch us god's watching and god's the only fan that counts and shabbat is that time where we get to slow down and drop we get to realize that our weak scent challenges and maybe it's in these challenges that we become who we're supposed to be and by just focusing on them but just going through it so doing this on the boost now but just focusing on it and realizing it's important it'll change us and make us the players that we're meant to be and so for me and my two years i wish you a shabbat filled with greatness filled with opportunity and potential for us to approach life in the same determination that an athlete approaches the game all of us have our own games to blight and each one is just as important as the next so i wish you a shabbat shalom i hope next week to do this from jerusalem with you live but if not hopefully we'll see you back here next week and so on behalf of the project inspire team myself who wish you a good weekend a good [Music] i'll chaves you up and if you feel like you're outnumbered i will let you down we are [Music]