 Right ready really right ready really made 40 here So how accepting how comfortable are you with other people's valability, right? So you make mistakes and I'm sure you want other people's understanding when you make dumb mistakes But how do you react when other people make dumb mistakes with you for example? This morning I got an announcement at 946 a.m. Luke from YouTube our team has reviewed your content Unfortunately, we think it violates our terms of service. We have removed the following content and How are your content violated the policy content that advances false claims that widespread fraud errors or glitches Changed the outcome of the US 2020 presidential election is not allowed on YouTube, and I thought that's funny I've done all these videos Denying Deriding degrading deconstructing claims of voter fraud and now I'm giving being given a YouTube strike Regarding voter fraud so I wrote back on through the appeals process And I also clipped the announcement and posted it to Twitter within 10 minutes The appeal was upheld and the the strike was withdrawn. So I Don't know about you, but I make dumb stupid idiotic embarrassing mistakes all the time for example this week I got kind of snippy with people and Turned out had no reason to get snippy. So I got snippy with three separate people and I got all pompous. I remember I I was seeing this girl circa 1992 and She'd come up to my parents home where I was living. So she'd met my dad and I asked her like, how would you compare compare my personality to my father's and she said well He's not as pompous. So I got on my high horse this week I got all pompous and I was totally wrong Just completely wrong. I just didn't get it Luckily, I was not as obnoxious as comes habitually to me I was getting in trouble with this. I mean the first time I entered school on a consistent base of second grade My teacher put it my first report card Luke is always very willing to share his opinions with the class, but he needs to learn to be a More considerate of the slower thinker. So I've always delighted in using my brain to tear other people down But this livestream is a fantastic opportunity for me to make amends to people like Elliot Blatt So instead of tearing down Elliot Blatt's commitment to natural foods and natural fibers I'm now going to use this live stream to build Elliot Blatt up. So I'm gonna build me up I'm gonna build you up. We're gonna all have a Freilich a time. We're going to celebrate Purim together It's Purim is basically the book of Esther. So Esther Remember she won what a beauty contest got to spend spend a night with the king and became queen. So It is from the Hebrew Bibles the story of a Hebrew woman in Persia Esther born as Hadassah But becomes known as Esther She becomes queen of Persia and she thwarts a genocide of her people The story forms the core of the Jewish festival of Purim During which it is read aloud twice what's in the evening. That's tonight and again the following morning So the book of Esther and Shira Shira and the Song of Songs the only two books in the Bible that do not mention God. So I've been watching a lot of NFL films on YouTube and I was watching a program on Everson Walls Last night. So he was a Dallas Cowboys He was a Dallas Cowboys Cornerback so he wasn't drafted. He was came out of grambling All right, and it was I think historically black college and his 40 yard dash time It was 4.71 Four points. I mean that's terrible for a cornerback. So that's that's why he didn't get drafted now You might primarily know Everson Walls for getting beat by Dwight Clark in 1982 so I was watching this with all of my community. I was living in Northern, California at the time so January 1982 I was about four months into my first time at public school Placer High School and I gathered with friends and people in my community watching this game The San Francisco 49ers turned the ball over six times So earlier in the season they'd beaten the Cowboys 45 to 14. So this is the NFC championship game the previous NFC championship the Philadelphia Eagles had laid the smackdown on the Cowboys and The next year's NFC championship game the Washington Redskins would thrash the Cowboys This was the closest that the Cowboys came to getting back to the Super Bowl Under quarterback Danny White. So the 49ers half the team had the flu and they turned over the ball six times But the Cowboys still could not win and of this famous Pass Everson Walls there is looking up at Dwight Clark making the catch So Dwight Clark was about four inches taller than Everson Walls in December of 1985 I carried covered a San Francisco 49er versus Dallas Cowboys game at Candlestick Park and after the game I went into the locker room the 49ers locker room then the Cowboys locker room and The entire Cowboys defensive backfield. They were all shorter than I was I mean often considerably like four or five inches Smaller than I was I mean tiny little people not like Seattle Seahawks and they're they're usually rather tall strong Defensive backfield the the the Cowboys defensive backfield universally smaller than I was and I passed Tom Landry in the hallway and so I stopped and he was being asked about Skip Bayless. I think Skip Bayless had written some columns Bayless was a column writer for a Dallas newspaper at the time and Bayless had written some columns I think suggesting that Tom Landry was suffering from dementia because Landry would call these slow developing plays at the one yard line and you don't call When you're when you're on the opponent's one yard line, you don't call slow developing plays you call very quick hitting plays and On the other hand, he was calling these quick hitting plays at like the midfield when you should Perhaps try something more elaborate. So he's getting confused Landry was calling all the 49er plays So here here was Tom Landry being interviewed the first time I encountered it and he's talking about skip Bayless All right. He's saying oh, I haven't spoken to skip for like three years. That's what Landry was saying in his slow Texan draw Anyway, here's Everson wall now Everson walls made the tackle here He is in 1989. He left the Dallas Cowboys. He didn't like the new Jimmy Johnson regime and so he went over to the Giants which is coached by Bill Parcell's and He switched from defensive back to safety. So walls had gone undrafted and he was slow 4.7 140 yard dash time incredibly slow But in his first season as a rookie for the Dallas Cowboys He had 11 interceptions. So that was the the 1981 season and in that NFC championship game Against San Francisco. He made two interceptions at two interceptions in one game But he's perhaps best known for being posterized here by Dwight Clark The super catch as the 49ers knock off the Cowboys 28 to 27 But it's of course this reminds me of the book of Esther and the festival of Purim So the festival of Purim the Jews get back at their enemies the Jews thrash their enemies the Jews slaughter their enemies in the tens of thousands so Sometimes in life, you're the Jews like this is Dwight Clark. He's the Jews in the festival of Purim here catching the ball He's the winner and sometimes in life you're Everson walls and you're just looking up as You're looking up at a face like Richard Spencer as you're getting beaten down now For the Giants in the January 1991 Super Bowl Thurman Thomas was breaking away for a touchdown and the only thing that stopped him was that Everson walls Who was probably 40 pounds lighter than Thurman Thomas? Makes the game-saving tackle and preserves the New York Giants victory So I think Everson walls vastly prefers this sports illustrated cover of him exalting after the Giants beat the Buffalo Bills 20 to 19 first of four Super Bowls in In which the the bills lose like what right after another they lost four Super Bowls in a row first of the Giants Then to the Redskins and then two to the Dallas Cowboys So I love the the spiritual message here Sometimes you're looking up at a face like Richard Spencer looking down at you and then sometimes you're the face in the clouds looking down at everybody else Is speaking to be in Jewish, you know this weekend was the big holiday. I'm keep or that's where Jews Where this is the holiday where God really sits down cracks open these books looks over your life and He says hmm. All right I'm gonna let you live another year if you've been good and this is the one where you fast, right and you fast Which the idea I think is to keep your mind on God rather than anything else like you just don't even stop to eat You're thinking about God for 24 hours. Yeah, this is a huge final exam all the Jews pile into a temple Nobody eats everybody's breath stinks because they're not eating But everybody loads up before sundown right because I was visiting a friend out on Long Island and The rain we were trying to have an early dinner the restaurants were packed with Jews Everybody walked in and said the same thing. I thought this place would be empty Yeah, so It's a whole thing like I know every Jewish custom and everything, but I don't follow them like I Was so indoctrinated as a kid. I had to go to Hebrew school every day after school almost every day And so what is in me now is I never got turned on by the religion was a horrible experience You know the teachers were horrible. They were terrible people. I they smelled. I didn't like them I had one teacher who smelled so bad. I couldn't take it. It got I think it was his breath or his body I don't know what you come up with sweet sweet that they named me sweet. First of all, fuck you My name is Howard. Why can't you just be Howard? Why do you have to have a separate? I had to give you a Hebrew name But why? Robin None of it made any sense. It made no sense. It made me anti-Semitic almost Gonna make you anti-Semitic or a multiple personality I mean I got so resentful I had to go to this he was first I put a full day in school and I was no rocket science at that school I was doing bad enough at that and then to spend your entire free time in this fucking Hebrew school learning a language It was ridiculous. I learned how to read Hebrew, but I don't even how to translate it So what's the point? You just spoke it. You didn't know what it meant. I speak it. I can read it I can read off the Torah, but but so what I don't know what it means. It's not like learning Spanish Well, you know the translation Yeah The first day these teachers give me a name. I remember the teacher though. He wasn't such a bad guy He's completely out of touch Sits us down. He goes, I'm gonna give you all the Hebrew names So we go to like a mark mark with your name is Mendel Which all the kids which you really love because I'm called Mendel Because you're Mendel because Mark is a Mendel. That's what he's a translator. He goes, what's your name? I go, Howard It's always head almost like You know what I mean? He's like, all right, you're Svee How do you even spell that? Svee And it's just it's like it's horrible. Svee It's just a disgusting name, right? I mean he wants to be Svee You want to punch me in the head It's down to me. I don't have a hard enough time with girls. Now it's to me And then he tells you and then this temple was so concerned it was conservative temple You know, which means it's hardcore Yeah My parents did everything wrong. I mean, you know conservative. I mean, what do I look like? Jui Jui Steen? But they didn't practice conservative Well, they went to the temple, but they didn't practice anything in the house. We didn't observe the Sabbath All of a sudden I'm superdue. They're not, I am. They're so fucking nuts It was always you. You had to do everything Hey, I have to go to the black school because we are not afraid of black people. I am afraid of black people I'm afraid. Sorry. I don't want to get beaten up because you're trying to prove a point I don't know what my mother was thinking. My mother's not an observant, Jui. My father's not an observant, Jui They stick me in this fucking loony bin of a town where now I'm going to temple like a conservative thing every single day Once you look at your kid and say, what the fuck am I doing? I hated it. I want to hang myself But they told me you won't be bar mitzvah then it's also based on superstition You won't be bar mitzvah. Oh my god, I won't be bar mitzvah I was so paranoid. I thought at 13 God visited you in your room And then he tells you the secrets of being a man because God knows my father didn't describe to me how to be a man I didn't know one fucking thing. I figured God, it's in God's hands Oh my goodness My father never sat me down and explained how things work And the bar mitzvah's important? Why? Exactly. Why? You mean you don't know? I don't know. My father never went to me. This is why I want you to be bar mitzvah. I'm proud of you for being bar mitzvah Okay, so I think most everything has substantial genetic origins So I think some people just have a religious impulse and other people just don't have a religious impulse Just like some people have a musical impulse. Other people don't have a musical impulse Some people love to watch football. Other people that's the most boring thing in the world So it sounds like Howard Stern is definitely one of those people without much of a religious impulse Okay, so a little bit here from the book of Esther So in the Hebrew Bible it came to pass in the days of Ahazuerus So there's no evidence that any of the events in the book of Esther actually happened Okay, and so King Ahazuerus, the king of Persia throws a big feast and he gets drunk And he commands his assistants to bring his wife, the queen, before the crowd And to, you know, show off her beauty So he wants Vashti, the queen, to come before the crowd naked to show off her beauty But she was not down with this And so the king got really mad and he didn't know what to do with his wife's contempt And his advisor says you can't let her get away with this because then all women are just going to disobey their husbands So his advisor says that there'd be a royal commandment go forth from you And that Vashti, she would no longer come before you And the king is going to give everything that she has to the new queen But first there's going to be a beauty contest So let all the young virgins be sought for the king I don't know, why did the king want the fresh ripe peach? Why did the king want the old morty peach that the dog is sat on? Why was it so important to the king to have a virgin? Why not get a woman with considerable skills who's been with like 40 different blokes And then she can take all those skills that she's learned and she can share them with the king I guess the king didn't want invidious comparisons between his own performance and the other blokes So he sent officers all throughout his kingdom, gathering all the fair young virgins into Shushan into the royal palace And they had eunuchs looking after the women And they got all purified and they got all cleaned up And then every night the king would get a different virgin And he was going to just plow his way through all these virgins until he found the right one So finally Esther's brought before the king and she's awesome, she's like totally rocks his world And the Bible is somewhat discreet, they say that she obtained kindness from the king Well, Esther goes before King Ahasuerus After she had been sitting in this beauty palace for 12 months And then she got all the purifications, she was covered with oil of myrrh And six months worth of being covered in sweet odors and other things for purifying the women So I guess they got really douched And then every maiden came to the king for one night And then whatever she desired was given to her after she'd done her maidenly duties But Esther came along and just totally rocked his world And became real favorite of the king We got Duvid coming along a little later to explain the story to us Gee, how do you feel about this? Did you like it? No, it didn't matter to him, he didn't look into things He never looked into things, your mother raises you, not me What am I, a fucking dog? What am I, a pecky guy? You're just here My dad didn't sit and explore what might be going on in my life It was my mother's place to do that My mother was, you know, I don't know, I think she whacked out Why would she send me to a conservative temple to go train every day to read fucking dumb Hebrew? What, it meant nothing to her? Why would it mean something to me? I could have been fucking Jimi Hendrix Instead of two hours a day in that stupid temple I could have been two hours a day studying guitar I would have been fucking Clapton Hendrix Now, I wonder, let's say Howard got to spend that time learning Hebrew with a rabbi that he liked If he was around people that he liked Then I think it would have been a totally different experience So whether or not you're staying in a particular synagogue or church Or if you're religious or not religious I think a lot of it has to do with the kind of people you get to hang out with Same with political orientation Right, a lot of it is just aesthetics A lot of it is, you know, what crowd do you then get to hang out with So if you've got half a dozen friends at church It doesn't really matter what the church's doctrines are If you've got half a dozen friends at synagogue Doesn't really matter the ritual practices Or the Torah teachings or the esoteric wisdom None of that matters, if your friends are there, you're gonna be there So I remember once at a modern Orthodox synagogue The rabbi got up and he talked about how we had all chosen him to be our spiritual leader And I thought, what the hell? I never thought of you as my spiritual leader This is just a synagogue where my friends are at, I'm here I think very few Jews go to Shul So that they can then anoint that synagogue's rabbi is their spiritual leader I don't know, maybe 5% of Jews probably consider their rabbi their spiritual leader The primary reason Jews go to Shul is to talk to other Jews to be with their friends That's far more important than the spiritual leadership of the rabbi Or talking to God Listen to this bullshit Really observant Jews, you know, like whacked out Jews Like real super-Jews who obviously can't get through life without praying or something Right, and wearing a costume Right, wearing a super-hero costume You wear these long sit-sits, you know what I mean by sit-sits? No, I don't know what a sit-sits really is You know what a talus is? The shawl? Yeah, yeah, yeah You know those tips of the shawl the Jews have? Long sit-sits That's it, that's it That's called sit-sits And so I come home And now to go to regular school, I gotta wear sit-sits all day underneath It's almost like the Mormon secret underwear Secret sit-sits, life isn't hard enough for me now, I'm wearing secret sit-sits You know I would sit there and eat, you know, you're not allowed to eat pork if you're religious Jew I'd eat pork chops With your sit-sits With my sit-sits on It made no sense And now I think about it, my mother would go Ah, look at you sit-sits She would laugh She'd laugh at it like, I'm doing this She's the one doing it She had a favorite for you to go Ah, sit-sits, look at this, sit-sits, and he's eating pork chops She's goofing on me for the fucking thing she put me in But she made you the pork chop Yeah I'm telling you, I lived in a bazaar with her I had to get the fuck out of that house To this day, I don't know what happened to her Oh my goodness Okay, thanks, God, a little testy On the duvet and Charles Moskowitz show today If I conclude that the politician that we had to buy off Only did what we said because we bought him off I'm an anti-Semite Actually, that is an anti-Semitic conspiracy It's an anti-Semitic to buy off a politician to Order that they do things for the Jewish people in Israel No, it is anti-Semitic to suggest that Rich That she said that the Holocaust made her feel warm and fuzzy Do you think that was a nice thing to say? I don't think she said that Look it up, look it up It was in all the media I know it was in all the media, but I don't think she said it It's on tape I know what she said You know what she said And do you think that reflects what she believes about Israel And about Jews? I think it does I wonder why the media, by the way, didn't get into that About her Instead they're talking about the stupid comment made by That Congresswoman from Georgia about lasers and something You know, but I mean to me That, you know, Tlaib's attitude is much more harmful And much more dangerous and much more hateful But anyways Says the white Jew First of all, you don't know my racial background And secondly, as a Jew, I know when I hear anti-Semitism I can smell it No, you don't As a Jew, you have no special authority on knowing what anti-Semitism is And like any other Jew, I can No, if there's anti-Semitism You as a Jew don't know I'm a Jew, I know that that's extremely dangerous And it's dumb How as a Jew, do you have some special sense about anti-Semitism? What logic do you have? The same way that if I were black I'd know what racism looked like You know, it's kind of an instinct And by the way, I use that term very carefully I don't claim that, you know, in this sense I actually agree with Dr. E. Michael Jones Who says that groups like the ADL They'll call anyone an anti-Semite If they don't count out of the left You're calling me an anti-Semite here And you know I've been black before You're looking at someone who's done a hundred times more And you're still calling me an anti-Semite You know that I've done You're still calling me an anti-Semite You're just calling me an anti-Semite Even though I've been black more than Israel for you You sound like you're spouting exact things That I hear coming out of Hamas And about the radical left who is anti-Semitic Now, I don't know I should keep this secret If I help Jews raise a bunch of money And donate it to politicians In order that they do what they want to do But why are you spouting Hamas as part of the one? If you're so pro-Israel Why are you spouting atrocity propaganda Against the state of Israel And emphasizing negative And this business about the rich Jews Is why the United States supports Israel This is classic anti-Semitism One thing, if a child does not speak on behalf of money People are better off knowing Apparently you do Well, yeah, that's probably why These people want to speak to me and not you Because you can't write a check You don't know anyone who can write a check Do-vid knows a lot of people who write big checks They don't write a check But they say you don't know anyone who writes big checks That's probably why these people Want to speak to me and not you You agree? I don't know what the hell All I know is that you are spouting Classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories Because I have a bunch of I'm a classic anti-Semite Because I know a bunch of rich Jews That write big checks That makes me anti-Semite Yeah, but it's what you conclude from that I don't doubt that there were If I conclude that the politician That we had to buy off Only did what we said Because we bought him off I'm an anti-Semite Actually, that is an anti-Semitic conspiracy It's anti-Semitic to buy off the politician To legally In order that they do things For the Jewish people in Israel It is anti-Semitic to suggest That a rich Jew is why Americans and American politicians Support Israel Yeah, I say that's anti-Semitic And it's false Well, what if it's true? We had a meeting We were there And we wrote a really big check And the person said We're going to do what you said There are people who write big checks For a lot of things That doesn't mean that That's why they support Israel They support Israel Because American people support Israel And they want to get re-elected It says a man who never wrote a check It says a man who looks at the Gallup polls And it looks at everything It says a man who never wrote a check So you're saying How do you explain the fact That the Gallup polls You're saying that they do it It shows that the vast majority Of Americans support Israel You're saying that the politicians Are doing it because they think It's the moral of this No, I'm saying they're doing it Because me and a bunch of my friends They think that the politicians Is doing it because they want to get elected And they look at the polls They look at the Gallup polls And they say The vast majority of people support Israel And I want to get elected So I support Israel Whether they personally do it or not Is almost beside the point Politicians do what they have to do To get elected Sure, Israelis contribute money to them Or Jews That's not the main reason They want to get elected The mayor of Boston wants to get re-elected If he came out against Israel He wouldn't get re-elected Because the vast majority of people In the cities support Israel It's just that's why What they're responding to Look, I happen to know something About this, David Because I ran for Congress More than you Politicians take a look at I support Trump who doesn't back-lose I appreciate you running for Congress Good man, but like Trump I'm going to back the winner And I'll have to lose her They triangulate when they run for office And say this group supports this And that group supports that So here's what I'm going to do Because I want to get elected I'm not saying I did that But I'm just saying the most You're less popular than a gay Jew You're less popular than a gay Jew What are you talking about? I mean, most politicians Didn't Barney Frank destroy you? Yeah, but so what? The point is that I'm talking about my experience Of being on the inside of this thing And seeing You got destroyed by Barney Frank You're going to put that on your resume? I don't think that Barney Frank Was destroyed me because he's a gay Jew I think he destroyed me Because he's a big liberal politician And a cult figure in Boston And that's hard to take on The point is that, you know What about Sheldon Adelson All the money he gave And he clearly said he wants you I mean, his policy was clear Sheldon Adelson gave money And he made one demand And it was about Israel And you're saying all these Republicans Sheldon Adelson gave this huge amount of money to They didn't actually do what they did For Israel because Sheldon Adelson Gave them the money They did because it was the right thing to do And they just gave the money Because why not? And you're saying like, no You are spitting in the face of the Jews Who wrote those checks by saying what you're saying No, again, I didn't say that they did it Because it's necessarily the right thing to do Although I think They did it because they wrote those checks And you're spitting in the face of those people Who wrote those checks They want to get elected And the vast majority of people support Israel If the vast majority of people did not support Israel Then there would be no amount of money To make them support Israel They're going to do what they have to do To get elected And the vast majority of people Support Israel in the United States Now that may change in the future I don't think it will But the fact is that that is why they do it Now the fact that Jews lobby them And give them the money You have lobbyists from all sides Giving money They're trying to get different things to happen The fact of the matter is At the end of the day The politician has to get elected They have to look at their constituency They have to ask what their constituency wants And they have to give it to them Or they won't get elected That is how that's why Biden That's how Biden's not going to sign that letter That's how Biden's not going to sign that letter And that's why Biden's not going to sign that letter What does that have to do with it? Because we've said yes Look at his constituency How he got elected And his constituencies do not want him Signing that letter And covering up for Israel's secret nuclear deal He won't sign it Fine The point is, first of all Biden's poll number is less than 50% And secondly He's not going to be elected Because I'll get kicked off YouTube Putting that aside He is going to be pro-Israel, ultimately Because every American president Has been since Truman Because that's what the American people support Not because of some Because his grandkids are Jewish Not because of his own self-interest Because his grandkids are Jewish Because he's going to do it Because it's the moral of the right thing I did say that He's doing it because of his Jewish grandkids He said it himself He's doing it because of his own Jewish blood Charlottesville He's scared for his own Jewish grandkids Good to him I don't know if he's doing it Because he morally supports Israel Some politicians do it And some don't He's doing it because politicians Again Because he's scared for his own Jewish grandkids That I commend him for that But the point is that politicians Ultimately respond to What the American people want Because they want to stay in office Okay, let's welcome Duvod onto the show Duvod, that's a great show You did with Charles Moskowitz When did you do this show? I'm not Why am I not hearing Duvod? Okay, let's see It's probably on my end So let's check settings There's my microphone Hang on, Duvod It's on my end Let's go with this Okay, Duvod, try again Test, test, happy born Yep, yep, yep I can hear you now Thank you Okay, Duvod That was a great show You did with Charles Moskowitz Tell me about it Can I just ask real quick Are you live on YouTube? Yes For some reason My YouTube is being blocked Or something like that Yeah, YouTube's really weird lately I don't know why Like searching I'm putting your name in And it's just not showing me that you're live I'm clicking on your page And it just won't load I don't know if anyone else is having that problem But okay But yeah, every Thursday I've been talking with Charles For a few months now And I saw the news today About this possible letter That Biden's supposed to sign About covering up for Israel's Nuclear program That he's hesitant to sign So we were just talking about it And kind of like Devil's Advocate Charles Was given like the Hezbollah You're like general Like yes, America should do everything for Israel And not because it's a favor to the Jews But because it's good for America And I was kind of You're giving the Devil's Advocate Where it's like I don't even, you know America might control Israel Oh, they might just be bluffing There may not be Nuclear weapons at all But I thought there was a good discussion Leading into Purim Yeah, so Purim is One of the happiest of the Jewish festivals I have many happy memories of Purim Starting off with, say, my first memory Of celebrating Purim with the community Was at synagogue Ohhev Shalom In Orlando And it's a conservative synagogue And there's just so much joy In the room It was a month before I moved to Los Angeles So this was Late February 1994 And just a wonderful time There are many fun customs People dress up on Purim There's a lot of singing and dancing People give each other gifts of food There's a special Purim Suda Special Purim meal Do you have any memories of Purim That particularly stand out for you? Yeah, I mean my first major Purims Were in Israel Because I became a Bolsheva largely Through going to Israel And, you know, so in Israel It was almost mayhem I grown up in Detroit Been to stadiums and bars So it wasn't, I wasn't scared or anything But just like everyone got trashed Like drunk And I was kind of joking with Luke Everyone turned into a charity collector Like all of my friends, everybody in Yushiva All of a sudden, you know, like it's Purim And I think I was in Israel A good few months from Purim Before I really celebrated Purim For the first time And I was already in Yushivan I probably, you know, tried to learn through The Talmud There's a Masekta on, you know, McGillus I knew what was coming But if you're in Jerusalem Or Borough Park You know, Brooklyn, you know, maybe London Probably LA also But not the same as, you know, like Brooklyn probably where you have Hasidim And it just becomes a completely different world It's a festivity And if you're in more Orthodox areas The charity collecting becomes immense Like that's one of the main things of the holiday And also the Shulok Monast Is the idea of giving gifts to the poor So, you know, you go to the houses And visit all your friends And there's really no other time like that In Judaism You're saying you just knock on people's doors And, you know, like, it's Purim I'm here And, you know, like, make a brokha And you give Shulok Monast And, like, so I remember the first Purim in Jerusalem I went to, like, everyone I knew's house All, like, I'd been there a few months And I'd probably eat in at, like, 10 different people Shabbos And I went to all of them basically And just gave them Shulok Monast And, you know, as you get to know More and more people But so it's probably the most festive, fun Jewish holiday That, you know, the theology behind it And I mentioned to Luke, you know, in the chat about I never headed into me to collect for charity But I was saying, you're supposed to collect for charity And you're supposed to give to the poor And to people who need And so generally, like, if you pray with each other Every day You might not know Like, you really could tell sometimes who's in need of help And who's not And Purim's the time to have the more festive generous spirit So if you're, like, modern Orthodox And you're in a place where everyone's supposed to be Upper middle class And, you know, so if you fall under that status And are in need of help of money It might be within reason that, you know, people wouldn't know about it And it would largely be kept secret And, you know, people might But in the more Orthodox culture Usually the people with needs are more known Like, you know, there's families, there's people And, you know, so Purim people have become really generous Or, you know, like generally in Orthodox culture Getting married is a really, really big thing And collecting money for people getting married According to Torah, you're required to help them To look forward or duvid during our down times You know, if we're working for a tiny bit of money And someone comes up like, you know, I'm trying to get married I'm collecting money You're really required to give And all these things So Purim is the time, like, you're allowed to beg You're supposed to beg And the bigger player you are Is directly seen by how you publicly give away money And so, like, in the Orthodox culture And, like, Jews, like, generally people keep it on the down low Of how much money they have Like, there might be certain people that have, like, big houses Or nice fancy cars Or whatever that will flash you with money But, like, generally the Jews can be People keep how much money they have Like, somewhat on a down low And the people who have larger sums of money You know, probably don't want all that many people Knowing about it But, like, Purim, if you want to be a player I don't know if, you know, Luke will validate that he's seen this in L.A. I've said it many people's tables Like, you know, saying people will set up stacks and stacks of money And if they're rich, they might be $20 bills In some cases, $100 bills That's very rare Most people dollar bills But, like you're saying, like, anybody who comes and asks I'm gonna give money to And, you know, if it's only, you know, like, Brokashem I was able almost every year to give at least a dollar Like, since I started working You know, like, even if it was a few hundred dollars When I was in Brooklyn I would go to the bank And get, like, hundreds and hundreds of one dollar bills And in fact, I used to get, like, 50 cent pieces And dollar pieces And two dollar bills And, like, I remember one year I gave away $4,000 on Purim And it was fun It was, like, the funnest thing I ever did It was very fun Like, as a Purim, people were collecting And I had, like, some success in business And, like, literally for, like, hours I was just like Like, $20 bills And it's saying, like, You only see that on Purim And, like, if you're a little Jewish kid Like, that's your, that's, you know, like, saying There's, like, you want to be a random But it's saying, like, I want to be rich I want to be that guy handed out money, like, that In Purim's really the One time a year you may see that I don't know if you've had similar experience like that Yeah, it's a time of great generosity Now, I mean, there's an exuberance With which Jews celebrate a lot of their holidays And the way that they wear their emotions On their sleeve Compared to Anglo-Saxons So I don't know how much experience you've had With wasps, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants But they don't tend to get as rowdy Certainly not with their religious celebrations As Jews I've made hundreds or thousands But I've never lived in a place Where they were anywhere near a majority You know, like, they were probably The one, the last I've met Lived in places where there's more Jews than they are Right, so, what about my point That there's a raucousness to The ways Jews celebrate That you don't usually find among More button-down Christians Yeah, I'm saying, like, Luke May have never experienced it But if he went into Shul on Purim Some drunk dude would have his Arm around his shoulder And be like, you will sing You will dance You will not leave synagogue till I make you sing and dance And, like, there would probably be Someone on his shoulders Like in the video, like Rabbi Botech Is on the shoulders of Cory Booker Like, there would be some cussed On the shoulders of Luke Ford, like that Oh, yeah, no, that's That's pretty normal In modern Orthodoxy Well, only on Purim, though Maybe at a wedding, but I was saying Really only on Purim, that would happen Purim, a wedding Trying to think Oh, half Torah, I mean On Simka Torah, there's Tremendous amount of drinking and celebration as well Yeah But it's not like, you know, like You don't have, like, random casetum jumping on your back At the Maybe if you were in, like, Crown Heights, but I said Like, it would only be Purim Or an event where, by saying Jews Dance and have Simka like this Pretty regularly, not, like, every Every day or even every week But every few months But if you're, even if you're, like, a Yakey Even if you're the most Conservative of all Jews It could be like this In your celebration and form Same, like, it's what the text says The text clearly says In the Talmud Adela yoda, adela yoda Until you can't tell the difference between Mortify and Hummin So even, like, the most modern Orthodox Or in, like, reformed synagogues Yeah, they don't like people getting If they don't like people getting drunk there You know, maybe they don't have a celebration At all or no alcohol But it was saying, like, this is Purim This is what it says in our books And you could reasonably Expect to find this Among any group of Jews on form Yeah, but there's A huge difference between Hasidim Mitnagdem So Hasidim, Mitnagdem are the kind Of anti-Hasidim in Orthodoxy The modern Orthodox Conservative and reform There's just enormous amount of difference In the spirit with which they celebrate So the Hasidim are the most Emotional in their celebration Like, the modern Orthodox are Incredibly restrained compared to the Hasidim Just as even the way modern Orthodox Celebrate Purim will Will appear exuberant to Typical European Christian Eyes and then Conservative and reform You know, far more buttoned down Than even the modern Orthodox So there are pretty Drastic and graphic variations In emotions between Hasidim And everyone else when it comes to Purim I mentioned this too because it's Purim and There's a Carlina Rebbe in Los Angeles Maybe you or some of your listeners The Carlina Rebbe's son Went out to California like Ten years ago and opened up the base Matrish and One of the larger Hasidises Of Russia, they pronounced their words Like Litvax Light features in general And they're known for Yelling during Davenin But in Jerusalem They're a very big Carlina There's maybe even over 10,000 Carlina Hasidim in Israel And they're one of the larger Groups in Jerusalem And the Rebbe On Purim Pours huge cups of this What's called Sheva, Sheva, Sheva Which is really just like some cheap whiskey It almost made me throw up Just to smell it And I remember waiting in line And the Rebbe literally poured me Like half a cup Like four or five shots worth Of Sheva, Sheva, Sheva And it was like And as they like And they do it every year Even in Brooklyn The custom goes back hundreds of years But really all Hasidim do it's called the Shikertish And You could see from anthropological Perspective the camaraderie Getting so drunk and everybody dancing And singing with arms around each other That is You know, somewhat like the cultish, tight-knit Culture of Hasidim But even Jews in general And mentioned like if you went to A liberal synagogue Like certainly in Detroit We had alcohol And you would probably have like An African-American Converted Judaism Putting his arm around you Like Shmueli Boteak Because that would be the dynamics In Detroit But it's possible and likely Actually to have chanting And you can't have singing without that Without like chanting And if no one Can get the people chanting It's not going to really happen Sometimes you can put on a DJ So in modern Orthodox You need a band really I used to promote Jewish music But if you have a band On holidays Jews will get like that That's what we do Not all Jews And you know like Luke's been doing dafiyomi I've done dafiyomi Multiple times It says some crazy things there In like some of the theology Insights of like What it really means to be a Jew Comes from And even like anti-Semitism I was saying From a healthy Orthodox perspective Forum is basically the holiday To think about anti-Semitism To think about it all year Really, forum is You know like You could dress up You could deal with these issues Get drunk, let it out And then you got to go back to work And You know there's a certain nature to I don't call it the utility From like a group strategy Of forum Versed like the theology of A lot of times So the Gomorrah itself says that A lot of statements Nicknas I forget the exact Aramaic But like when you enter alcohol Comes out the secrets And there's another statement like Anger, money And alcohol releases people's Secret, but there's reason Like getting drunk has a value And it's religiously controlled There was just a survey they put out In Jewish papers that actually High school students Have a worse alcohol problem Than even the Goyim In a certain area they did a study And alcoholism was actually higher among Orthodox Jews than The Goyim, but there is the utility To that That was well known in the Talmud And If you're acidic, you might Be required to get drunk And that's like a health reason Or they're usually careful And like very rarely do people Get injured and I'm sure like Every cynic I have on Porum Has like multiple Hutsala members I remember I threw up like this guy Actually threw me up once actually And Karlan Stolen stuck his finger down my mouth Enforced me to throw up But I say like So it's not like haphazard Where people are doing stupid things We're gonna get injured But yeah, there's a utility to that And the Talmud talks about it Yeah, it's a crazy time now Modern Orthodox synagogues Are increasingly alcohol free Precisely because Of The downsides of Teenagers getting drunk So it's very common for Orthodox Jewish kids Teenagers to get together with their Rebbe And the Rebbe Will get them drunk on Porum And these are 13, 14, 15, 16 year old kids So the Modern Orthodox have responded By increasingly Modern Orthodox synagogues are alcohol free On Porum, which An alcohol free Porum seems like A contradiction in terms Yeah, so ironically Modern Orthodox synagogues usually have Very good kiddish clubs and alcohol But yeah, I think even the ones here locally Are probably alcohol free on Porum And people don't need to get together People don't need to get together on Porum And they don't need to get drunk Especially modern Orthodox people Are usually Upper middle class And have nice houses to get together To do that As we're in the Orthodox It would be more likely That the whole congregation Would get together and drink There's pictures I used to put them up on my facebook Of just like hundreds And hundreds and hundreds Of people were drinking wine bottles In fact, you know, like Jews You know, so like medicine, but Jews are very famous For wine making and quite good at it And even some of the best wineries In Europe were at least owned by Jews Some of them even Master mined by Jews Wine is part of Our religion like that In Brooklyn you had religious exemption Like, you know, suddenly we're Jews This is part of our religion kids uh alcohol and I'm not sure the exact law and uh you know to crack down on that and most places in the U.S. will recognize religious exemption. A lot of khabads get in trouble because like a lot of khabads have you know like it's college and people like to get drunk and khabad they have for bringings and like to drink and there could be god forbid a lot of underage drinking. Some khabads will get an exemption though that it's a religious gathering and yes like i'm a Jew and even though there's a 21 limit uh age limit as a kid that my parents have okayed it and the rabbi has okayed it and it's part of my religion if you're a khabad I mean I don't know if you felt that but I think there's actually been court cases and back and forth with the khabad houses and alcohol and minors from a legal level here in America. Yeah yeah because whenever you have drunkenness particularly public drunkenness you often have uh some unfortunate consequences so what is your relationship with alcohol? How drunk have you been getting on? I used to get really drunk on form like I used to you know get drunk nearly to throwing up and you know because I really wanted to lose myself and I mean in Israel in Yashub and I said there were there were doctors and people it was and like I never had a health risk on form and there was always plenty of people around um and that's why I said there's a different like you're in a modern orthodox area where the you know it always matters how the Goyim so to say view the Jews but to say like you know saying like Luke real Judaism is getting as drunk as possible so that you can't tell the difference between Haman and Mordecai it is your obligation your convert to orthodox Judaism like you're not going to lose your conversion because you don't get that drunk but like yes that's what we do if you truly want to celebrate and feel for them you're supposed to get that drunk so it's okay like you know if you're in a place where there's a lot of negative values on the Jews you might not want to portray that message and you want to say like no I mean we're not backwards we're not drunken people but like in Brooklyn um where Jews run our own neighborhood and there's ethnic like there are no wasp there you know like you're saying there's no real English speakers they're saying crown heights our neighbors are um you know whoever the African-American Caribbean's in in Burl Park the neighbors are you know Chinese uh Arab uh Dominican Italian um Jews are are relatively publicly you know drunkards in this sense at least on the holidays not really drunkers I'm saying like Jews don't really get drunk besides on poem but it was saying like yeah we always have alcohol at our events and it's part of uh the religion and saying the state usually never caused any problems and even on poem um you know there's usually police all over the place you know especially now with security and the you know like in LA probably also um but certainly in New York or Israel you know like even the Goyesh police in New York they understand its poem and the Jews are going to be so drunk that they're losing their mind um but that's okay that's our religion and that's how it's portrayed the police officers in Brooklyn who are in specific neighborhoods they like this is the Jewish religion this is our Jews celebrate um and we could do that because uh you know numbers and power as we're in LA um you know Jews might not have that much power in LA relative to New York like that or we could be like yes this is this is our Judaism this is how we want to celebrate it and we demand legal exemption well there's not being occasions in in LA when Orthodox Jewish kids have gotten drunk and and blocked traffic it created public disruptions uh you could even call it a hallool Hashem the the police have had to be called but uh Jews do have a lot of influence in in Los Angeles so we have something like 600,000 Jews in Southern California we have a pretty substantial Orthodox Jewish community of about 50,000 Jews in Southern California probably about 40,000 Jews Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles so uh what about the hanging of Haman this is sometimes disturbed non-Jews that in Brooklyn for example there will be you know aphagees of Haman and his songs getting getting hung have you ever seen this yeah I saw that a few times and and you know there's definitely religious um precedent for such a thing I don't know you're like I'm not sure if I've seen like I've never seen a respectable rabbi do it but like if you're in a larger orthodox area like people will do it um you know usually they're troubled people who do it but it's within the line of the holiday and then there'll be like rabbis like well yeah that is kind of what the books say and uh and you're just to mention the the difference between LA and New York like half glitz and saying Jews have a lot more power in New York than LA and I did as a businessman my my panosah for a while was building permits and I did it more for uh commercial developers construction people but I knew the Hasidim that did it for the the the synagogues and in Hasidim there's multiple synagogues and groups they're more than powerful enough to get streets shut down and have police protection so if you're in Burl Park even if you're like a minor like one of like 300 synagogues you know not even like you know Bob of a huge Quesidus even just like a normal synagogue could get the streets let down even young Israel near my house so we had the streets shut down we had police protection so you know forum you'd have to purposely be making trouble I would assume in LA that is no problem in most areas getting the streets shut down and even having police out there and if so yeshiva students were drunk blocking traffic it was because they were idiots because uh you know there's no reason for that yes that's true so what do you make of no mention of God in the book of Esther may you if you want to answer that you can if you just the generic answer no I don't I don't have a generic answer so what's your answer um well I mean the lesson is kind of God behind a providence that there's a multiple understandings and we've talked about this before one of them is dispensational that it was a different dispensation than among the earlier prophets where um you know we know that Mordecai in Esther or at least Mordecai is a is a prophet where I think we're told that um but we're not filled in on any of the conversation between God and Mordecai God isn't even mentioned in it and the actions of it are kind of behind the scenes and we only know about it because you know because the book presumably because Mordecai is telling us this and in a prophetic way that it's more like God's message in whatever way Jews understand that um but as opposed to most of the books of the prophets is like in God speaks and says tell the people this there's no mention of God um so the you know the basic lesson is that God is there even when you don't see him that you don't need a prophet you know like the leader to then God told me that God uh you know works behind the scenes or through the leaders of the Jewish community uh for our benefit um in all circumstances and that's possibly you could say it was a dispensation that it was uh always that it was used to be like that it used to not be like that and then at a certain time the level of prophecy or communication of God got less some I think people say because it didn't happen in Israel because the book of Esther occurs in Persia and so some people explain that the prophecy or style is you know morphed due to that and uh you know there's multiple explanations but you know usually that's also kind of the secret of porum and anti-semitism in general saying like there is a God and God works behind the scenes and like we're going to win because God's on our side and you know saying like you could make fun of it and say that even you know me myself like that's not how I explain Judaism but in a simplistic way you could look at it it's like yeah we're going to win God's on our side that's the message of the porum story trust the leadership trust the plan now one of the frustrations I had talking to Adam Green is that he seems to look at Judaism as Christianity without Christ and so I wasn't able to communicate with him that there are all sorts of teachings and rabbinic sayings and doctrines within Judaism that don't necessarily play much of a role in the ordinary lives of Jews for example the the doctrine of the Messiah it's definitely a key dogma a key teaching in Judaism but I think I've been in in Jewish life for nearly 30 years and I don't recall ever having a serious discussion of the Messiah with any Jew it's it's not really something on the lips of most Jews it's not something that they think about so any any responses to what I just said yeah well Casino definitely think about it more and when you have a role of a Rebbe where the Rebbe is supposed to be some sort of proto messianic figure and you know Chabad maybe to a you know the largest degree but any large Hasidic group where the Rebbe is this you know international larger than life proto messianic figure where you could picture that Messiah is going to be something like our Rebbe and I'm not sure like in Los Angeles you might not have people that are orthodox or karate like that who gather and have large tishes and gatherings regularly where you would look at any of the you know major rabbis or even Hasidic Rebbe's as like a proto messianic figure but I would assume even in LA even like you know your local Rabbi the Talmud itself says that you know your local Rabbi at your local synagogue you should look at in some sort of proto messianic way and so if you're more Hasidic or Kabbalistic you say it's happening behind the scenes whether people realize it or not if you know like you go you might not think about Messiah but you go to your Rabbi and your Rabbi is a proto messianic figure and your Rabbi is connected into international Jewry in a way that you may not know or be capable of understanding and it's definitely you know sort of say like behind the scenes like that where the Rabbi is like a vehicle or you have leaders of the Jewish community that are a vehicle to the larger global Jewish world what's happening in Israel and like God forbid you know when Israel's at war and you have like briefings of you know what's on the scene in Israel or when there's anti-Semitism you know the leaders of the community have to come out and brief the community about the threat of anti-Semitism or something like that where you have a concept of this proto messianic figure who wins for the Jews you know like we expect the Jews are small people and we're persecuted and we're not really liked but we believe like that you're like that somehow we're going to win anyways and you know but and that's because we look at our leaders as proto messianic figures I don't know if you you know you ever thought about it like that I understand that that's way some people think about it it's not it's not a way that I have thought about it now on Purim it's very rare to encounter an Orthodox Jew who's not in a happy and generous frame of mind is that is that fair to say it's required I was saying like if you're a believer in Judaism and you're normally a miserable unhappy mean person you're required to fake it and try your best to be happy on porn you know something like it's like you know the Soka it's it's just a mitzvah you know it's like putting on to fill in it comes and there's a requirement to do it and you know saying like I have a disposition that is the opposite of that it's hard for me saying it's porn you have to try it it's a mitzvah it's a requirement now of many strange things in the book of Esther one is that a nice Jewish girl Hadasa Esther becomes caught up in this beauty pageant she becomes one of a long train of women who spend the night with the king this this seems completely contrary to traditional strict Jewish sexual morality how does this happen and how does this you know get put in the bible because the you know Hashem the you know biblical the narrative the sages are people who understand the material world for what it is so there's the recommended behavior and then there's the flawed behavior of even from the better of us so you know things like you know minor sins so it's even major sins cat forbid most people commit them multiple times over their life and so when the Torah says this is the proper behavior there's no exemption the Torah is very clear about what is right or wrong but the Torah you know it's not it's not for dummies like the Torah knows that people don't follow the rules people make bad decisions that's why we have a repentance process and even you know Purim is like Yom Kippur you know the famous Torah like I'm sure you've heard that before that Yom Kippur they say is like Yom Kippurim and so some of the capitalists will say that Purim is even higher than Yom Kippur itself because because Purim will be the ultimate forgiving of sins that the Torah knows people make serious serious mistakes and it causes bad karma it causes conflict and people escalate conflict people kill each other people all these things the Torah is well aware of it and so there's no contradiction when the Torah says that people engage in extremely bad behavior that's the message of the Torah is saying that we have free will and you have to write the opportunity to engage in good or bad behavior and and then it gives a moralistic message usually the good guys went in the end yeah now we we're going to talk a little bit about COVID and Orthodox Jews so we're about a year into COVID Orthodox Jews tend to have large families so probably four or five kids would be about average among American Orthodox Jews so Orthodox Judaism is a very communal religion and I would suspect that Orthodox Jews are much less likely to engage in social distancing so I wonder how much the Orthodox Jewish lifestyle has been affected particularly in the United States over the past year has there been a disproportionate impact of COVID on Orthodox Jews and how will they move forward any thoughts on COVID and Orthodox Jews yeah I just mentioned if I sound a little irritable it's because I'm fasting I had a little bit of liquid I don't want to get sick but you know because Purim is you know God forbids almost a tragedy it's a tragedy that was averted behind the scenes by you know Jewish leaderships and prophets and Hashem's miracles but because it was you know almost a tragedy we're supposed to fast today so if I sound a little irritable it's hopefully Luke if he's fasting as easy fast also so COVID-19 like I said but when it first started you know like the strategy of having a bunch of kids that it'll be unlikely or you know I think I said this when it first started we talked at the beginning and I think my predictions have largely been correct that Orthodox Jews will do quite a bit to do social distinctions you'll see some mask wearing you'll see you know like some plastic things and some more hand washing and things like so from Orthodox Jewish Catholic perspective they've changed their life substantially in terms of social distancing but in terms of what like the CDC is recommending it's not even close and Orthodox Jews probably suffered extremely disproportionately bad possibly even worse than African Americans from COVID-19 when the numbers are all all through God forbid maybe tens of thousands of Jews in America will have died from it and and probably half of them maybe will be Orthodox Jews so you know like that we've seen papers the numbers you know there's probably reasons why the leaders of the Jewish community feels not good to release that and it might especially that Orthodox Jews are tending to you'll realize that they're just not going to be able to keep social distancing that's not the strategy they want to employ if the government is trying to force them to do it they're in opposition to that and from their perspective that's not the strategy that they think they should be employing you know I saw Kim Iverson was talking about Florida versus California where basically California has always been locked down and Florida has been open but California is just as bad as Florida but because Jews live in urban areas Jews you know like we're respiratory people we talk all day and we probably also have a lot of comorbidities things like diabetes being overweight you know like God forbid in the Orthodox Jewish community especially the more Orthodox maybe modern Orthodox you know might you know belong to a gym or be more fit but like yeah I mean there's a lot of health comorbidities a lot of diseases that disproportionately affect Jews that unquestionably the Jewish community the on Orthodox Jewish community is taking a substantially big hit in terms of deaths but and sickness and effects but you know God forbid you know like you're not going to stay a person with a bunch of kids loves their kids less but that's the strategy and that's the idea of having a bunch of kids and Orthodox Jews are probably right that they were able to largely weather the storm with the you know what what they did increasing social distancing and they may have let's say five times as many Orthodox Jews die then as secular Jews like you know people like me who basically quarantined for a year straight and it could be that you know from Reformed Jews who live in suburbs that Orthodox Jews are going to die at a rate five times more but they largely maintained their lifestyle got through it and God forbid because they have big numbers they could take the fatalities and you know so I wouldn't put that like no Orthodox Jewish leader is going to get up and say like you know let's take the strategy because we have big families that can afford to take the hits but from like a basic biological or strategic level it makes sense that if you had big families that you would you know look at it differently and take a different strategy yes okay uh duvid this is great any any final words for today yeah happy poem so uh in like an hour here sun's going down and uh you know if you're a believer you know that uh it's the prayer and the mitzvahs on Purim that cause good things to happen to us the rest of the year so like the cabalist right the reason you know you should give money to the poor people because uh that's the right thing to do but you know the cabalist will say like it's a charismatic mechanism that it causes good things to come to a person who engage in these behaviors so you're saying a lot of Jews are superstitious and saying like okay I'm going to give money to the poor because it's a mitzvah I'm required to like no because I believe in superstition and because I know God's going to pay me back a hundred times full for what I give today versus on a normal day and there's an even anti-semitism that from a pure belief perspective like we read the book of Megillah in whether the Jews win or the anti-semites win that's determined by God on Purim that's the meaning of the holiday and like obviously repressional people and you know but it was saying from a superstitious per pure believing level I mean there's Rosh Hashanah but generally like when you go to synagogue and you read the Megillah and you're thinking about that like God is going to decide whether the Jews win or the anti-semites win I don't know if you look at it that way um yeah that's great okay yeah thanks duvar thanks for powering through during a difficult day of uh Jewish fasting prior to the festivities tonight I'll talk to you later my friend okay happy problem okay happy Purim to duvid all right let's uh have a look here in person education's apparently white supremacy we have to give the teachers we have to give the students the parents a date of what we don't have to we don't have to give anybody any date we don't have to do anything that we don't want to do right now that's what you don't understand I don't know where you're getting their information of who's telling you that we have to make a decision today but that is not how this works we do not I know that you're new to the school board I'm not saying this is a slight to you but we do not have to make a decision today 70 to 80 percent of them have answered the survey they want to come back to school so this is what we're going to do. For the 70 to 80 percent of where I think I would like to know geographically from which school sites which language groups and how we conduct it this feedback where please give it to me before I can make a decision I can't make one I cannot make one and I will not make one you're welcome to abstain I believe right there's no reason to be nasty with me miss Riley and we can present it for both and try to if you wish to vote no you are more than welcome to or I know what I'm welcome to do you guys I do and I know that what we're doing is wrong so how are we forcing people that seems like a very white supremacist ideology to force people to comply with you know I can form just letting you know privilege check it you guys I'm at so I don't want to be a part of forcing anybody to do anything they don't want to do that's what slavery is I'm not going to be a part of it powerful powerful powerful what's going on here in Brooklyn a religious display in borough park is raising some eyebrows but Jewish people in the neighborhood say otherwise they say their curing display is just a symbol of a miracle for the Jewish people and is nothing offensive news 12s and rike kareya was on the scene and has more people in the predominantly Hasidic Jewish area borough park was celebrating the last day of Purim but this display of 11 mannequins being hung across 12th avenue has offended some people news 12 was contacted by a viewer about the hanging men plus people walking by the religious display said it offends them but they also didn't know what the Purim holiday means another neighborhood and that was done people would have comments to say about that I don't know I think it's kind of like ridiculing that's how I would see it however some of the people celebrating the Purim holiday say otherwise they say the 11 mannequins represent a miracle for the Jewish people we tried reaching out to the rabbi of the synagogue but he was unavailable however the religious displays about an evil king and his 10 sons who were hung for trying to persecute the jews man named by the name haman and he wanted to kill all the jews and in the end they hang to hang him and all his sons instead so that's just a celebration that we celebrate that this was the story that happened in the past and even though some people say they're offended by the 11 mannequins hanging behind me but people in the neighborhood say you shouldn't be offended at all it's just part of their Purim celebration reporting from borough park I mean yeah the guy's lynching it's just part of Purim celebration you shouldn't get all upset about it I mean why can't you party like Cory Booker and Shmueli Boteak here at a butthouse at Oxford University and why can't everyone just party like this Shmueli's parties are I always thought he was setting me up for something let's get the black guy and I see a line of people lying on the floor and he says okay we're gonna jump over the What kind of crazy tradition is this? Jump a jew? Let's find the black guy and get him to jump the jews You wish you had these kind of jumping abilities you wish your people would go like this but religion this is why I combined it when it came time for me I was able to jump in my 20s and I didn't make a balloon of myself like that just I cleared like eight and it came time for me to make a big jump these parties are I always thought he was setting me up for something let's get the black okay let's pull it together here 40 what's what's next on the list Howard Stern nope let's go with Michael Savage here Michael Savage getting a call from an Orthodox Jew I believe I like Paul from WABC what's your uh what's your gripe Paul David I'd like to wish you a happy parent and I noticed that today Can we do me a favor stop you're calling to complain now you're making believe your call but go on please no I'm just going to wish you a happy parent and I know it's very easy to get a hold of you because today because not a lot of Orthodox Jews are listening so I want to wish you a happy program and I would like you to come to my house for Shabbat because are you stopped with this personal garbage already stop it I don't know you from a hole in a wall so what are you calling about what what what purpose is your life other than to argue that politics is boring and this is it just come and find Judaism you're searching will you stop already with the Purim already I'm not four years old with the hat on my head eating sweets stop with the old holidays they have no meaning you got a Heyman in the White House you're talking about King Heyman like a fool why don't the Orthodox Jews wake up already to the real the real Heyman in the White House screaming yell screaming yell what why are you celebrating the overthrow of someone in Persia a thousand years ago what does that do for you because the Jews were able to what what did that do for us because the Jews were able to survive and live again and do mitzvah which makes the world a better place doctors really and what's going on now what are the Jews doing today God in this world you always say Dr. Savage that there's God no no you're not answering me you're living in the past you're living in a fable you're living in a fantasy like you're four years old what is the point of getting drunk on Purim what are you celebrating we're celebrating that we survived so we could be able to serve God with with ensuring wonderful I'm glad you're serving God now why don't you serve God with the truth and why don't you work to overthrow King Heyman in the White House because how we try people try how what can we do to overthrow King Heyman in the White House how about talking about it how about talking about how abusive he is and how he is the worst friend of Israel in the history of the presidency why did you support him we don't I don't support him I can't stand him I support Donald Trump what does that mean support him I don't know who that a few people support him they do want to ask you to support him I don't know about George Salas and the liberal leftists all right all good you're making a clear defining line I forced you to think today instead of getting drunk on on mushka and dancing like a four-year-old and eating sweets and going into a diabetic coma so I did a miss a mitzvah for you when you sit new high with your doorbell they stop it already you're not going to do anything the reason why we start by Purim is because it's a it's a it's a nice that happened to the Jewish people and that it's nonsense to live in the past that's my opinion live in the present better you'll do better in life celebrate something about today instead of yesterday and please don't make the holocaust your whole your whole existence see this is my problem with the whole Jewish thing is that you define the religion today by events that occurred so long ago that have no meaning you talk for example a Passover about how Jews were slaves in Egypt right why don't you talk about the slaves right now in the Middle East who are being enslaved by Muslims maybe that would be something that liberals ought to put into the Haggadah how this president enables the kidnapping enslavement of Yazidis and non-Muslims in the Middle East then I would say the religion has has some relevance today otherwise it's just an ossification of no meaning whatsoever that's why so many young people are running away from it they want meaning they want presence they want knowledge it doesn't mean the religion has to be defined by the past does it religion doesn't have to be defined by the past a religion definitely has to be defined by the past we won't be without our forefathers with that what do you i'm sorry you're saying that religion has to be defined by the past should not be defined by the past of course it should be defined by the past how else how else would be able to look back or what the greatness of what our forefathers did and if you keep looking back how are you going to move forward if everything is about the present back to savage then what is your life you have no worries you you don't look at your forefathers you basically don't believe there's anything to celebrate about the past if you're all over San Francisco you're well I I don't believe in in marching around talking about king Heyman being overthrown and eating rotten candy and drinking cheap vodka with a bunch of people dancing about the past no I don't now if that gives you meaning God bless you we live in a crazy country so if you want to keep dancing and holding hands and going in circles and dancing about king Heyman I'm not going to say anything about it but I think you're being foolish talk about king Heyman in the White House abusing America today and abusing the world today then I would say the religion has some meaning right now thank you for the call I'll be right okay Michael savage to how it's done and once a year my parents would get religious all of a sudden they never went to temple once a year on this fucking young kipper they didn't do the russia shana thing too russia shana young kipper and the reason they went is because all their friends went they went to tell me oh look at each other's outfits and goof on each other my father would be superju on young kippor and russia shana end up hypocrisy was ridiculous I mean what do you wait why are you superju two days out of the year what is out because you think god is you really think god he's gonna ignore what you did the rest of the year right and if you come in these two days you're okay with me oh my old man would start fasting and I think they wanted to meet a fast did you ever I guess I did I mean I remember being miserable with my father his breath would be terrible my mother's breath because it was all fasting when you're fat you don't eat anything you can't have drink water you know toothpaste yeah because I stink I want to meet girls your life's over not mine and he'd be miserable more miserable than usual sit all day in the fucking temple you know and I don't know what to do oh I would just fidget and just be miserable could you like bring books or no no no no you sit there and read I always bring books like I'll bring like three books on on Yom Kippur if I'm going to be in shore for eight hours straight I'm going to have a lot of books but they'll all be Jewish books they're not going to be you know Goyeshah books they're not going to be you know silly books they're serious Jewish books guys so Loponius meridius maximus is here Loponius I don't have as many friends because I'm not as pretty as I was I've kicked myself at times because I've lied so I will have to learn to stand my ground I'll tell him I won't be around I'll move on over to your town and hide Loponius you be the captain I'll be no one and you can carry me away if you want to no homo and you can lay low just like your father and if I tread upon your feet you just say so Loponius because you're the captain I am no one I tend to feel as though I owe one to you well I've handed all my efforts in I've searched here for my second wind is there somewhere here to let me in I asked so I slammed the doors they slammed at me I found the place I'm meant to be I figured out my destiny at last did I forget to thank you for the ride I hadn't tried I tend to run away and hide and read this language no one understands no one knows what they're reading there's no interpretation leave my mother say you know I really don't get much out of it but they keep torturing me with it well if you don't get anything out of it oh and about reading physics books at shul asia carrera would bring physics books to the pawn set and she'd read physics books on the pawn set they all make up their own rules I call my mother I do when on uh on young kipper you say to somebody good yantov don't ask me what that fucking means I just say it or lashana tovatek that's rashi shana yeah I don't know the different I went through 900 million hours of services and training and I don't even know what that means good yantov or your lashana tovatek I mean it's nonsense it's a secret language for who I don't know who they're doing this for don't torture me I'm an American I love English I'm a word smith and if you've got something to tell me tell me in my language that I can understand so I call my mother I'm good yantov oh look who it is hello you called her and say good yantov I don't know what I say I like to do it smile you're going to temple what you're going to temple um yeah tomorrow your father and I I mean we're gonna go to temple and the temple of ours the the PA system is very bad I can't hear anything I said listen mom what I said mom you have to get a hearing aid it's not the PA system listen it's not listen I know my hearing isn't perfect but that PA system after all they have no money there and they don't fix it and you can't hear anything I go what's the difference if you can hear everything you don't know what you're talking about anyway it's something to do with it it's true but I can't I said why don't you move up front oh please how can I move up front everything I say doesn't make any sense none of it makes so my father and her sit there they can't hear a fucking thing but you say they couldn't understand it anyway it's all a joke my mother doesn't read Hebrew she doesn't know how to read Hebrew she doesn't understand it and my father sits there and he he prays but you heard him speak Hebrew you don't even know what he's talking about yeah I don't know who taught him I'm the only one who actually is capable of reading it because I had all this stupid training a lot of good it didn't oh my goodness just am I you're gonna fast what are you gonna fast fast well look your father and I after all we're old so now we gotta buy on the fast well listen this is this is everyone makes up their own religion so you know a lot of our friends so I used to work a lot of temp jobs between 1995 and 1997 before the big blogging box started rolling in and I wasn't quite in reality I did some embarrassing things I remember on some of the temp jobs I would I'd share copies of what women want my 1996 magnum opus movie production extravaganza and I tended not to get invited back on those jobs like some of them are gonna possibly turn into full-time jobs but like there are complaints I guess they they didn't like the quality of the movie I also I gave a copy of the movie to my psychotherapist like I thought it would help her understand me like these are my you know my deepest darkest fantasies you know portrayed for the world to see and she accepted the copy but she never did look at it then I took a box of the movies to Steven s wise temple and handed them out to all my friends at Steven s wise temple I remember Dennis Prager said oh wow in in New York when I get a show they give me a tolus but in Los Angeles they they give me a porno but I was not as discreet with this movie as I should have been I finally came to my senses about year 2000 I made this good Orthodox Jewish friend and he said you should destroy every copy of that movie in your possession and I had to agree with him so later on he said let me tell you about the feeling in our house I don't trust you my wife hates you our kids fear you at least he gave me some good direction with what to do with my spare copies of what women want they're older they take medications and you know it's hard to it's right mom when you uh when you take medication you're supposed to eat with it what is that I said when you take medications you're supposed to eat well you know you're supposed to eat when you take medications what about um so what are you gonna do with well we're gonna go to temple we're not gonna eat breakfast and when we get home from temple in the afternoon we're gonna we're gonna eat okay yeah but you're supposed to wait till sundown right but your father and I rolled in now it'll be sundown somewhere so what is the point in waiting why not eat breakfast and if it doesn't really make a difference why fast at all right and uh Mitch McConnell has just been interviewed on fox news he says that if donald trump is the nominee the republican party in 2024 that Mitch will support him well I get this religious paranoia because I went through so much religious training that literally I sit there and I like like saturday I was like I'm gonna eat breakfast and then I have this inner debate gee should I be eating breakfast I'm gonna what the fuck am I talking about you're not going to temple yeah I'm not going anywhere that's it yeah I'm eating good I ate I ate lunch and you're still here yeah I felt guilty I did well that's ridiculous everyone does their own thing though what so does God look at my parents in the same way looks at me and go well he didn't he didn't go to temple he didn't eat I mean he ate and he didn't go to temple the parents went to temple but they ate early I gotta kill them all like is that what he does I don't know how well it looks to me like God isn't paying attention yeah because you've been not observing for a long time you're still here I just think being a good person and trying to do your best oh no from what I understand with these religions that doesn't count right you gotta you either got a bow or right you gotta do it in the service of your maker yeah I don't know why I had to go to all that religious training my parents are barely religious themselves I don't know I don't know what possessed them to put me in that situation a lot of parents do that though you know it's like make sure in fact haven't you noticed most people don't even get religion till they get children yeah and then it's like the children really get the religion yeah what's the point all right you want to give your kid a sense of God or something or tradition or whatever so go to like a reformed kind of shit yeah yeah I think Mel Gibson saw what women want and it influenced his movie of the same title but you can even more profoundly see the influence on Mel in the what the passion of the Christ so there's a very direct line between apricot sky my version of what women want and then Mel Gibson's passion of the Christ situation where they give you a little bit of religion and give you a little exposure to find something that you actually believe in I remember the second year of Hebrew school in a you know because all this was leading up to this big bar mitzvah if you don't go to Hebrew school you won't be bar mitzvah and like if you don't get bar mitzvah you know it's a big party but what happens if you don't get bar mitzvah you don't get the party oh that was the way I understood it's a huge party it's just for the party where my mom and dad invited all their friends and they all got dressed up and celebrated me being 13 years old they couldn't give a shit about me I don't even have him in my name I'm just some little shit that hung around with my parents it was an opportunity to get some food and some booze and I don't know my dad didn't seem all that proud anyway he's bitching about how much I caught you know they didn't invite his partners they didn't want their whole thing was just a fiasco place I had my permission burned down surprised I didn't burn it down if you could burn it down with the insurance money or something I don't know I don't know what happened there but yeah the second year Hebrew so I had a smelly Hebrew school teacher this guy smelled so bad when he would walk over and he'd go sleep then the name stopped you know it was fake I thought it had something to do with Howard had nothing was randomly pulled out of this guy's ass and this teacher smelled so bad I couldn't figure out if he shit his pants it was his breath his fingers even smell it was it was intoxicating it permeated my entire being when I was in this room with this guy and he would go he would walk over and you had a little blue book all your Hebrew letters all right I write words and Hebrew what the fuck I was doing there I don't know and he'd go sleep and he'd start pointing to my book with his fingers and he said sleep the breath would come out and it would knock you out I was I was dizzy and headache-y because first of all there was nothing to eat after school you're hungry when you're a kid you just spent all fucking day and school you just only had lunch at noon and now it's so I remember when I was in acting when you auditioned for a role they'd always give you a sheet and they'd ask you if you're willing to do for frontal nudity if you're willing to you know be nude from the back so I always had no nudity you know no homo no nudity that was how I rolled in Hollywood and I remember asking Dennis Prager like one audition at water meter kiss a dude and and I said Dennis like I could possibly justify this as just acting but I'm really uncomfortable with this and Dennis Prager recommended to me that no kissing dudes even if it's just acting and I wonder I remember one day at Shaw Dennis Prager said to me oh I hear you're bi no I'm not bi he was just he was just teasing guys he was just teasing but I do remember 1997 I went to a roommate matching service to try to find a roommate and they just automatically put me in the gay section I didn't figure out like why was every what I was calling you know why were they all gay and and one guy he was like a professor of ethics at UCLA but he did want me as a roommate because even though we had a great conversation about ethics he didn't think that as a blogger that I'd earn a reliable income to pay the rent but yeah I had like a dozen gay dudes who they matched me up with to try to find an apartment I ended up getting an apartment with this one gay dude and he used to run a nude cleaning service he would send women who would get naked and clean your house he was on the Jerry Springer show and so so I move in and I told him look I'm straight I'm like I'm totally straight I mean I'm straight in my thinking I'm straight in my my deeds like no homo and so I move in and then we go out and we watch the documentary on Al Goldstein and then we come back and he cooks dinner and then he like he's lighting candles and like creating a certain mood a certain atmosphere it made me quite uncomfortable but I think he was just teasing me and then a few weeks later some I the door there's a knock on the door I open up the door and there's some dude holding flowers and it's like oh I think you want my roommate and and to get in the shower like I had to go through his bedroom so I had a job and so I'd have to come through his bedroom about 6 30 a.m. and they would be like now under the covers you know they just like have their arms around each other but you know the 40 doesn't judge so I told that roommate service look I'm not gay all right yeah I am not gay I'm not gay in my thinking I'm not gay in my loving like no homo and it's like oh sorry they just they just automatically assumed I was gay like what the hell man where why would you even think that like where does that come from three and four o'clock in the afternoon you need a snack I mean what I mean when do I have the tuchess of a lamb I have no muscles like I should have been out playing a sport after school no I'm sitting on my ass yet again no wonder that my ass atrophied you should see you see my muddocks of course it's a miracle I even have any muscle tone back there don't laugh at my ass because my entire childhood was spent sitting either in a classroom at Hebrew school or regular school and I'm resentful of it somebody should have stepped in and arrested my parents no how do they do that these days do they still make kids go to I guess Hebrew school every day after school I was walking on the street Manhattan I saw some kids with the yarmulke and the curly queues and the Hasidic they must be in Hebrew school 57 hours a day all day every day I mean they're completely brainwashed I don't know it should be against the law to brainwash kids you know what let kids when they turn 18 turn to religion if they want it oh god those kids were angry too I remember there was this Jewish neighborhood like an orthodox Jewish neighborhood between me and the library and the Jewish kids with the payas and all the stuff they erected like a toll booth in their neighborhood and they'd beat you up if you didn't pay the toll to get through yeah wow all I know is that 12 years old I had the ass of an 85 year old man these kids weren't in Hebrew school they were manning the toll booth well I would have not rather manned the table it would probably have made more sense to me it was crazy anyway so I sit around all week and resentful well especially on a holiday holiday we can rile me up but then Beth comes me down that's her that's her unique ability you know it's great do you ever talk to the therapist about how you feel about the holidays in your now I talk to you actually oh I think this is something you should bring up you have a lot of feelings yeah yeah I do everything I do I didn't realize it yeah a lot of resentments yeah so I asked my mom if they tanked up on food before you know right dude big uh feed father and I went to Kentucky fried we had our chicken they love Kentucky fried my parents and they're getting the grilled chicken now they like the grilled chicken yeah they don't get the fried why go to Kentucky fried they love the grilled chicken love love love the grilled chicken so what's so special about that grilled chicken it's delicious and the serve it fast it's terrific we love it almost we'd like people in there and we love it we love it you know the other ways haven't discovered no it's great we love it