From Comedy to Courage: Eli Lebowicz Joins the Carpool!

From Comedy to Courage: Eli Lebowicz Joins the Carpool

If you have ever wondered what it looks like when one of the funniest people in the Jewish world sits down with three dads who have absolutely no idea how to use Google Chrome, wonder no more.

Comedian Eli Lebowicz joins Jon, Asher, and Dave for what is without question the funniest episode The Carpool Guys have ever recorded. Eli is the mind behind J Sketch, the Jewish comedy account that has produced some of the most shared and quoted content in the Orthodox world — Jewish Jeopardy, the Sium sketch, the supplies to Israel video, and dozens more. He is also one of the sharpest voices in Jewish comedy working today, using humor not just to get laughs but to make real points about Jewish identity, antisemitism, and what it means to be proud of who you are.

But this episode is not just a comedy interview. Eli talks about how J Sketch got started, how he comes up with his Torah-based material, why he went to Israel to perform during the Iran war, and what it actually looks like to fight antisemitism with humor in 2025. There is a genuine conversation about Jewish identity and what it means to be proud of who you are — wrapped inside one of the most chaotic, hilarious, and completely unscripted hours this show has ever produced.

Also in this episode: Dave catches a tiger shark and attends a Trevor Bauer game in the same week, the guys do a Shabbos lunch together for the first time and Jon melts the ices, missing giraffes in Virginia, Asher's mother prefers the recorded version of him, the origin of the Sota joke, a Paroh bathroom theory that may be too long but is definitely funny, Dave's colonoscopy note, the Twizzler straw debate, and the most important question of the episode — how many holes does a straw have?

Oh, and Eli's Netflix special will be called "Remind Me After Shabbos." Mark your calendars.

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⏱️ Chapters with Timestamps

0:27 — Welcome + What Are We Thinking About This Week

6:51 — Eli Lebowicz Joins the Carpool!

13:37 — The Secret Origin of J Sketch

25:06 — The Evolution of Jewish Comedy: It's Not Just Stand-Up Anymore

36:47 — The Origin of the Sota Joke: Mortal Kombat Meets the Parsha

50:45 — Eli During the War: Comedy as a Frontline Tool

57:35 — Upcoming Shows: Chai Lifeline Alumni, Cheese Store Singles Event, Catskills Summer

57:53 — Five Rapid Fire Questions

1:04:24 — Question of the Week: What Is Your Road Trip Go-To Snack?

1:11:22 — Thank You Eli, Closing Shoutouts, and How to Find Eli Online

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Besides for yourself, who is your favorite Orthodox Jewish comedian? I like how you think myself is my favorite comedian.

SPEAKER_07 0:10

I reject the premise of your question.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

Hello and welcome to the Carpool Guys Podcast, where three dads just trying their best talk about life, work, family, and all the detours in between. We've made mistakes, lots of mistakes, but we've also learned a few things along the way. We don't have it all figured out, but that's never stopped us from sharing our two cents anyway. The Carpool Guys podcast is hosted by Asher Dworetsky, John Ackerman, and Dave from Flatbush Tenenbaum. Buckle up, it's carpool time. Alright, welcome back, guys. We have an awesome show coming up. Uh comedian Ellie Liebowitz is joining us today. So that's really exciting. But uh before we get there, what are we thinking about this week?

SPEAKER_01 1:11

Dave, you go first, man.

SPEAKER_05 1:14

So two cool things happened last week. I'll say them extremely quickly. Uh last week I went on a fishing trip with my with my brothers and my father. Ooh. Is that a bad thing? And we went for striped bass. Was that a David Day? No, no, night. 7.30 p.m.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

Because David Day is a whole day to yourself.

SPEAKER_05 1:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:33

7.30 p.m. to 1.30 a.m. And we were going for striped bass. And I kid you not, there were hundreds of sharks brought on the boat. Very few striped bass. So these sharks, just for anybody who actually knows these sharks are more sand sharks. They don't have teeth and they're harmless. Not great way, but one of the sharks that came on the boat was a tiger shark.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Oh, that's dangerous.

SPEAKER_05 2:01

Tiger sharks do grow do grow between eight and twelve feet.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:06

And had a full set of teeth, even though it was it was still a baby. It was still it was still um, you know what what was it? A tiger shark.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

No, it was a what kind of shark? You said it was still a b-baby. Baby shark. Shark do baby. Okay, moving on. Moving on. Moving on. You said it. I had a long time there.

SPEAKER_05 2:30

So it was at least three feet long, and it was and I but it had a full set of teeth, which I thought was incredible. The other thing, speaking of uh of a sea animal or lake, um, I went to the Long Island Ducks game and we saw Trevor Bauer. What's cool about Trevor Bauer is that he already since the game, he's since signed now with the Mexican League, so he's no longer in the Long Island Ducks. He's missed that opportunity.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

We were going to a game in this in July from Camp. Oh man. He signed for the first time. Do you think that means that he was that he was booted from here, or is this a step up for him?

SPEAKER_05 3:09

This is where he was last year or two years ago.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

So is this a step up?

SPEAKER_05 3:13

It's a step up from the ducks.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

But he keeps to bouncing around. It's not good when you're hesitating on if it's a step up from the ducks, by the way.

SPEAKER_05 3:21

Usher, what's going on this week?

SPEAKER_01 3:23

So I you know, I have a lot, thank God, going on. We're going to we're starting up at camp, ended school. I want to just shout out all of the incredible people who work in Hank. What a beautiful year we had. And not an easy one. We moved into our new building, but thank God it was such a beautiful year. But you know, what I have on my mind, it's funny you said your animals, Dave, because I saw a story on the news today that I cannot get out of my head. And I'm curious your takes on it. Virginia giraffes young giraffes were missing since 2025. We're found today. How does a giraffe go missing? Like it's a huge I understand if I went missing. Okay, okay. But how does a giraffe go missing? Was it missing in the zoo? No. It was somebody like took it. Wait, so someone's Attorney General's office says missing giraffe calves linked to the natural bridge zoo have been located and placed in a facility that specializes in giraffe care. The calves disappeared in 2025 and were found following an extensive investigation. If I went missing, I don't think anybody would care. But anyway, John, what's on your mind this week?

SPEAKER_02 4:34

So we had a great Shabbos, and for the first time since we started the pod, we had the three of us together for a Shabbos lunch, which is a ton of fun.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

It was like our annual dinner. It was great.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

It was like an annual dinner, but lunch. Um and I had like one job. My wife said, okay, go get ices for dessert. So I went to Stop and Shop, picked them up, put them in the freezer, and I don't know what happened. But uh Shabbos Day, we went to take them out. They were melted, not frozen at all. That's weird. And I felt like I let everybody down, like I let the podcast down, and that's been eating at me.

SPEAKER_05 5:07

It makes you feel any better. I didn't know those ices were in existence, so I wasn't expecting them.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

We also, Dave, have a WhatsApp group that you don't know. But I want you to know, John, we were walking home, and Gavi, my youngest, turned to me and he said, That was so much fun. But I'm really sad about my ices. So you let him down.

SPEAKER_02 5:32

I, Gavi, fan of the show, Gavi, I'm sorry that I that I let you down. I know that the kids listen. But uh I next time, you know, in a year from now, when we do our next our next child lunch together, uh I am here with the ices. And uh by the way, shout out to myself. We had a problem with the freezer, and guess what? I fixed it. So I just want to throw that out there. I fixed the floor.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Was that the reason why they didn't freeze? Yeah, it was. We had a problem with the freezer.

SPEAKER_05 6:01

I am the worst at computers, and somebody, there was a secretary, this was like, I'm waiting for the IT person to come because they know how to fix my second screen. And I said, I'm pretty good at that. And I unplugged the back and re-plugged it. Wow. So wow, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

Wait, wow, you work technical genius. You work seven days a week 24-7. You also have a second screen. It's a thing. It's a thing. And you also have a second screen. Wow. Everybody has a second screen, though. I have one, but I never used the second one ever. Ever. That would be like a great idea. Ron just got a fancy rap screen. You could tell us all about your rap screen.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

I did get a fancy rap screen, but uh that's not what people want to hear about. We've got comedian Ellie Leibowitz coming up.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

We actually did interview him before we did this. He was phenomenal. It's a great interview. I think this is gonna be our funniest episode. Definitely our funniest episode for sure.

SPEAKER_02 6:51

All right, ladies and gentlemen, Ellie Leibowitz. Alright, there he is. Ellie Liebowitz. Welcome to the Carpool Guys podcast. Okay. I'm not trying to be mean.

SPEAKER_05 7:05

Did you spike up your hair for this episode? Oh, he totally did.

SPEAKER_07 7:10

It's your three tucks of hair. You worked on it.

SPEAKER_06 7:14

I wanted to show up.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

That is gel.

SPEAKER_06 7:16

You put gel in your hair, didn't you? As much hair as I have. We'll take an extra moment. No, I want it to be like.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

We really appreciate that you worked on it for us. It was very nice of you.

SPEAKER_06 7:28

Yeah, well, nothing like frantically being like, hey, where's my microphone? Nope. I don't my son stole my cord. Okay, great. Let me let me let me uh log into Riverside. Great. Oh my Chrome is my Chrome is too outdated. Okay, great. Let me try on Safari. Sorry, we only let you use Chrome and Edge. This is this what being a 90-year-old man feels like? Yes. Yes, it is. Horrible.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Welcome.

SPEAKER_06 7:53

Horrible experience.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

And you're younger than us, so let me tell you, it's really bad.

SPEAKER_06 7:57

It's like my Chrome has been out of date for centuries, and I just say update, and I have no idea why it never updates. And it's just like your Chrome is out of date. So there's like an old Louis CK joke where he's just like, he like goes to the doctor, and the doctor's like, gotta do these exercises every day. He's like, Yeah, then the pain will go away. He's like, No, you just gotta do them now every day. That's pretty much your life.

SPEAKER_02 8:18

That is our lives. It's so true. Welcome to old age. Yep. Ellie, welcome to the show. It's really exciting to have you here. It's all I see, by the way. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_06 8:30

I know. No, there's a there's a Simpsons episode where like, I don't know, like, oh, they're like at Hitchy Scratchy Land, and then one of the robots is like an axe and chops off Homer's two hair.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

He's like, my hair!

SPEAKER_05 8:40

Will it make you better if I like draw the same thing? No, no.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

This is tremendous podcasting, by the way, as Dave is fixing his hair for all the.

SPEAKER_05 8:48

No, I'm not fixing my hair. I drew the same thing, but it didn't come off the same.

SPEAKER_06 8:54

Did you guys see Toy Story 5 yet? No, no, not yet. I know this is not the Disney podcast. For the record, for the record, it was excellent. But it's but it's all it's for adults and not kids.

SPEAKER_05 9:09

I heard it's sad.

SPEAKER_06 9:11

It's sad in some ways, but I'm saying it's like I I tweet I I wrote a joke during the movie. I brought my son to see uh Toy Story 5, and he's like, Is this an intervention?

SPEAKER_02 9:23

Is this not like T rally you'll go somewhere and uh you're doing whatever, and all of a sudden the joke pops in there, you're like, I gotta write this down, and the family is like, What are you doing?

SPEAKER_06 9:32

Do you know what I felt like like having to like pull out my phone or during a movie that shows you that how terrible technology is and be like, Let me write this joke down? That is what happened. I mean, I need to bring a notebook with me just in case, you know, if if like uh the uh lightning strikes. No, because you have to catch that line. What are you doing shabbas?

SPEAKER_01 9:51

There's probably a lot of weird stuff that happens on the invisible guns.

SPEAKER_06 9:55

First of all, that there's that that's why my album and Netflix special will be called Remind Me After Shabbos. So good. Because that is the perfect title that's for everybody, but a comedian, that's the most applicable title of like I go to my wife and I say, Wait, wait, wait, wait, tell, remember these jokes and whatever. And then after Shabbos, she'll say, I was supposed to remind you of something. And I'm like, That's very good.

SPEAKER_05 10:19

It's actually funny you say that because uh you just reminded me from that story, John. You were supposed to remind me to tell you something unless the Shabbos to remind you to tell him to tell you. And I don't remember what it was. Oh, from our Shabbos line. Oh, yeah. You were supposed to remind me to tell you something, and then Asher said he'll remind me to tell you. None of this happens.

SPEAKER_06 10:41

But this is this is but also this is the solace of watching the movie Toy Story. Five, I'm not spoiling it, but I just like I was like, oh, we have a little bit of a defense of this because we have Shabbos. So it's like it's talking about like you know, toys versus like technology. It was like, yeah, we have a whole day where like people are still playing with toys.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

I hear that's because the next Toy Story movie, actually.

SPEAKER_06 11:01

Not to get Well, I said I said I said it's a movie sponsored by the Shabbos Project.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

That's true. I I think only recently did I s really begin to understand the beauty of like Shabbos because of all of the crazy technology that distracts us. And it's like you turn it off, you're like, and even the 3D Yantif, I'm like, goodbye, phone. I don't want to see you for three days. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_05 11:24

Let me remind you some people in this group have their phones 24-7.

SPEAKER_02 11:30

Dave is 24-7. Elliot, I I don't want to tell you, but Dave is really important, and he needs to have his phone on him all the time.

SPEAKER_06 11:38

I think I what's compared to seller guys to like a kid who like got permission to go to the teacher's lounge. Like, hey, by the way, just so you know, like you're allowed to be in here.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Somebody asked me the they're like, what does Dave do for a living? He's that he has he's on cold 24-7. I'm like, I I think he manages you know homes for for abuse. Oh, okay, I I I really didn't know. And like, yeah, he's an important guy.

SPEAKER_05 12:04

I don't want I don't want to knock anybody, but when Stroll Room first came out, they also started walking around with the walkie-talkies, and I felt like they went full blast. Like their volume was the loudest. You have to hear in the middle of dominant that their walkie-talkies were set to the highest level. The highest one.

SPEAKER_07 12:24

All their entire instead of a ringtoner, instead of a thing that should just say I'm important, don't you want and then and then Kaberum came along, you know.

SPEAKER_04 12:33

Somebody on Bradley Street needs a boost somehow.

SPEAKER_06 12:38

By the way, me when me, Ami, and Mikey did one of our Jay sketches for like this organization about like dealing with like very tough questions, you know, like like wills and halachic wills and stuff like that. And like I'm like, uh the scene is I'm trying to like have a serious conversation with my family, and like my the the scene is my yeshiva's brother is like, can you just like what's that mean? It's like three phones.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

I'm just requesting if I ever join Hatzella, I want a special edition one that just says, I'm a middle child. Please pay attention to me. That's what I want.

SPEAKER_06 13:12

Can't you know Gary Goldman's uh bit? Gary Goldman is a bit where he says, I'm such an empath and I care so much about people's feelings that whenever I see like close-up magic, I can't appreciate it. Like, so like he said I went to a show and a guy pulled a card out of an orange, and instead of appreciating it, I was just thinking, like, you must have been such a lonely child.

SPEAKER_02 13:37

So, Ellie, you just actually you mentioned you know doing uh J Scatch um with Ami and some of the other guys. How did that get started? You would been doing stand-up for years, and all of a sudden we're seeing you with these other comedians. So give us a little uh secret origin.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

One second, before you get started, can we cameo just like as extras in the back? Just whatever. Shameless ask.

SPEAKER_06 13:59

I want it's a shameless ask. The amount of requests that people are like, if you need someone to count, or like be like, hey, you want to collaborate and like write with you wanna write with the guy in the back picking his nose.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

I don't need anything special.

SPEAKER_06 14:12

So I would really love to do like an LL sketch and you need like a thousand extras, but like you gotta get that LL center.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

That your seat is optional on L Al that would be amazing.

SPEAKER_06 14:22

Just in general, just an LL sketch to me. Is that I I really want to do a I want to do a parody of the Liorsuit Chard safety.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

But you could also do it in his musical chairs and everybody gets up from their chair, that would be amazing.

SPEAKER_06 14:34

So I th I I think at the beginning of like I like remember after October 7th, like there's like two like cowboy guys from like Montana went to Israel. There's a story about these two like ranchers to like because there were all these people who were in the loop in the army and they couldn't like take care of their farms. Okay. So like these ranchers from Montana or whatever went to Israel. But uh, I just wanted to do a sketch of these guys who were like the most Christian people in the world, and then two days in Israel, they're like they're like smoking, driving a cab. It became Israel. Um tell us about J Sketch.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

How did J Sketch get started?

SPEAKER_06 15:10

So J Sketch, yeah. So J Sketch started, it actually started with me doing comedy full-time in 2023. So 2023, which is uh so I tell people I I I I had a conversation at a shop with Snow, I said, Oh, so this is my fourth year of doing comedy full-time. Everyone's like, So you've been doing it four years. I said, I guess so. I'm into my fourth year. It was like a low on the cloud. I was like, this is stupid.

SPEAKER_08 15:32

That's good.

SPEAKER_06 15:32

So beginning of 2023, I did comedy full-time. And it happened to be that I had met Ami when he was doing stand-up, like a little bit initially. He wasn't doing it so much. Um, he was doing his music and other things and a big Instagram following. And uh I met him at a gig at stand-up in New York once, and then I met him uh at Vacation Village in the Catskills. Um and uh you know, we were talking, and I basically started with talking to him, saying, I had this idea in my head of like of a sketch, but I don't know how to make it happen. My idea was Esther's told in by Mortal Hyde, don't tell anyone you're Jewish, but what if she's like Fran Dresher from the Nanny? And it's like the most that that was my like concept of the idea. And I'm like, oh, this is it's so funny. Spoiler, I have another idea of Abraham working at his dad's idol shop. To me, that's to me that's so funny. And he's like, hey, he's like the guy, he's like it's like tires where he's just terrible at selling idols.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

That's that's the sketch that you guys did on Yomats Mode was so perfect. It was so hysterical. I was like, that's my Rebbe, both of them.

SPEAKER_06 16:39

Everyone's everyone's like, yeah, you nailed you nailed the Nebbi rabbis. I was trying to just play myself. It was but uh thank you. So that's also sometimes the distinction. We're all like friends. It's I I say it's a little bit like uh the three stooges sometimes, but like sometimes they're shemp instead of curly. You know what I mean? So Jay's sketch was like me, Ami, and Mikey together. And I I had known Mikey also from like you know, the Jewish comedy world is very small to begin with. At one point I was talking to him about it and about that Esther sketch, and then we like, you know, we all we realized like Mikey was living in New Jersey, and Ami lives in New Jersey, and I was in New Jersey. We were able to make it happen, and then slowly we just able to like have hey, we gotta do like hey, we have a shivuist idea, and then we did the shivuist share and stuff like that, and then things things built, and then we did like a restaurant sketch, not the restaurant one with the mashka, the restaurant one where like a Jewish guy goes to a non-kosher restaurant, and they're like, Can we get you anything to eat? And he's like, No, I'm fine, and he has like a whole bag of like herrings and like Tam Tams, and like he has like a light to check for bugs, and just so over the top. That one that's still that's still one of my favorite ones. Um, so we started doing that, and then Jovi started doing like stand-up more and getting more involved in general. We've also had Jovi as a guest in some of them and like Liz Glazer in some of them. I felt like people were like, oh, that J sketch of Jewish Jeopardy. Like, that wasn't technically a J sketch. Oh my god. That was like Jovi, Jovi really wrote a big portion of that, or or most of it. And like we I helped with, I was like, I knew Ami could do a Debbie Beshefkin, so it's like you have to do a video clue as Devin Beshefkin. That was like a couple, I had like a couple key contributions to that. Um, also the funny thing on that sketch, the Jeopardy is like every like in the WhatsApp chat of like, hey, what should we wear costume-wise? You know, Liz is like, okay, I have like a multicolored keep, I'll bring a guitar, and Ami's like, I gotta address this. And I asked Obi, I was like, what should I wear as like Howie from Woodmere the Accountant? He's like, just come as you are.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

My kids, my kids know that by heart. They will literally repeat it line by line.

SPEAKER_05 18:37

And it's funny because a few weeks later, I actually went to a um a simcha that was that was more of the tikkun uh type uh type uh simcha. Oh sashalom. Literally, when I saw when I saw my first uh, you know, multicolored yamka, you know, on on the security guard, I couldn't help but laugh because I was thinking about that skit.

SPEAKER_06 19:02

I get so much joy when there are certain uh imprints that I have in that. Like I'm like, okay, the final Jeopardy, I was like, Liz has to be the one to do to instead of doing Tequit O Love, she does Yeushonidas from like I was like, I I had to like add those things, but yeah, people coming up to us and saying, like, okay, I love like Jewish Jeopardy, or people like, oh my god, the send it from like you know the Israel supplies, or like people still say Sium. I mean, I don't know if you have the see you know you know the Sium one, right? The funniest part about the Sium one is that Rabbi Moshe Weinberger from H Kodash, who's like a very serious rabbi, who's a good sense of humor, on one of his shear remote, he's talking about the nine days, and he says, the nine days stuff is coming out. He's like, I don't know if you've seen this, you know, sketch, and he like gives this whole two-minute like talk about it. He's like, but he says it's Nowish Kite, so I try not to remember it. Then he gives the whole plug for it, and he like gives the whole thing, and then he says, and then he says, uh at the end, he says, Well, all I'd set is aside, and I said, That would make a great name for a comedy album. He goes through all the beats of it, and he's just like, I I try to, it's Naurishkite, so I try not to remember it. I'm like, oh, we made we we did it, we got it. You made an impression. But I also think that's the best way of I mean not like we're trying to give Musir, but like that is the subtle way to do it. Where it's like, hey, maybe these siums are l losing, you know, losing the forest for the trees when you're like, hey, you can't go a week without eating meat for a second. So you're like, I'm gonna learn this this thing just so I can have a party during the nine.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

I think you guys are right on on that, and you did that in the Yom. I I don't remember it was Yomats Mod or Yomushalam, I can't remember. Yomatsmo, Yomatsm. It was Yomatsmud. You did that so well when you were like, oh, uh, you know, of course I haven't made Aliyah yet. It was so sharp and yet like veiled and fine.

SPEAKER_06 20:48

Well, well, I had well I had the I I I think for some of that, I mean, what I think we really bring to the table, uh, you know, and I saw I include this with like Dovey's content as well, or like uh if you Reggie Reggie Shorts on uh on Instagram, like is really hitting the pulse of the from community in a real way that really hasn't been done, I think, in a very uh good way before. There is the level of like, you know, it's like when West Wing mentions YU, it's like they made fun of us, but they mentioned us, you know. So like, but there is like the bar has been pretty low for from content.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

That is John and I's origin story. We became friends over the West Wing. So you know tickets are magic words.

SPEAKER_06 21:26

I I still I love Josh Josh Mullen on Twitter. His account used to still used to say, I ruined the West Wing. We agree. That's great. Uh that's so funny. Yeah, so um, but I'm saying like hitting the pulse of like of of certain things. We released a video for the uh sending supplies to Israel. Like we're like, okay, we have to talk about the war, you know, October 7th, after October 7th. We couldn't talk about October 7th itself because it's too sad and too horrifying. But we're like, okay, what's an angle that we can find that is um that's making fun of what we can make fun of? Of, like, okay, the American response of just like, let's send deodorant and send what we can and be ridiculous and send is send bomba and Israeli products to Israel. Like all the things that we can do because we're like, okay, this touches on this is what everybody in most of our circles is talking about and thinking about, and on their minds, this is what we're gonna do. Like, I I I still would love to do a video about um the stress between summer camp and school in August, where you're just like everybody's just like, what what do we do for these three weeks? Whatever. So there are I mean, I I really wish, and this is I I hope your reach is there. I wish there was like some you know uh benefactor who's just like, Can you just make all this content for these things? Because there's so many ideas we could do. I would love to do it. It was just a matter of like, you know, uh Ami's, you know, doing Tucker Carlson and whatever. No, I'm saying, like, uh Ami's all, you know, all over the place.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

He does it almost every day, no? He makes like a video.

SPEAKER_06 23:02

Where I'm just like, how do you use Google Chrome? Like, you know, so that's but I'm saying that's how Dovey built up his thing. That's how that's how you really build it up. You post and it's like it's like your own TV show of like, okay, what's what's it's the Amy show, and it's like what's and what's you know, what's Dovey talking about today? And I think in a very smart, intelligent way, because I think you know, you're con people know meaning it's it's I think that's gotten to the point with like J Sketch also, that like people can be like, hey, I'm gonna watch this even if it's 11 minutes for that Jeopardy one, or or even if it's six minutes for something else, people are like, I'm gonna watch this because I trust the payoff is gonna be like when you see a Pixar movie, not to do a callback, but but that's when you see a Pixar movie, you know for the for the most part, you can trust it.

SPEAKER_03 23:45

Please asking you not to talk about Pixar anymore.

SPEAKER_05 23:54

Listen, that was our last episode of the other podcast.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

I'm very pet at Dave. I'm very pet at Dave because they told him not to bring it up, but Ellie, you brought it up. So it's free game now. Go ahead, Dave.

SPEAKER_08 24:09

I love it.

SPEAKER_05 24:11

Listen, Rosher and John know for every 20 messages on the WhatsApp, you might get like a one-word answer from me.

SPEAKER_06 24:20

And I didn't call you because you're dealing with three hot telecoms again.

SPEAKER_07 24:26

But I for somebody with so many phones, you really don't use any of them.

SPEAKER_05 24:31

So I'm sitting there. I come into that podcast, and and and I and I heard like you picked the topic, Pixar, and and I'm sitting there like, wow, these people like like really did research on these things. I have like a list of like one-word answers, Toy Story One, Toy Story Two, you know, whatever you want to just fill in the blank, and then all of a sudden you're like digging deep for like 20 minutes about about the story. I mean, I mean, like how did I get myself into?

SPEAKER_06 25:06

I would have loved to be out of more interesting rewatchables, you know, but like I think one thing that you're that I'm hearing is that is that the comedy has changed really.

SPEAKER_05 25:16

It's not just the stand-up gigs, you know, you have to be out there every day on the on the social media. I mean, Osher had likes to call out it's not Vines anymore, but those videos are very You say Vines all the time.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

Three times, four times?

SPEAKER_06 25:31

Vines like everyone's like, are you talking about GameCube? Like every time.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

I think it died in 2014.

SPEAKER_06 25:38

But that by the way, that is the thing about comedy that Mitch Hudberg, uh, all the shall has a joke where he says, if you work at you work as a comedian and then you work really hard to be a comedian, people are like, oh, can you act? And then he's like, that's like that's like if you worked really hard to be a chef, and then people are like, Oh, can you also farm? So that's what trying to do comedy, and like I'm like, hey, I I worked on these jokes really hard that I wrote on Twitter, and then somebody just steals them and whats up. And uh, and then but but like now it's like hey, can you also video yourself doing this? And I'm like, no, I can write these jokes because I don't have other skills, and that's it. But uh, yeah, so so you have to be kind of like uh balance a lot of things all at once.

SPEAKER_05 26:20

What what would you say is your favorite joke or your favorite, like, like this is gonna be like amazing and a completely bomb.

SPEAKER_07 26:30

Oh, of mine.

SPEAKER_05 26:31

Of your favorite thing, like like I mean, I I sometimes will will give a speech here and there, and I'll and I'll say something, and I'm like, this is gonna be great. Everybody's gonna laugh, and then I can talk about whatever I'm about to talk about. And then nobody laughs, you get a bunch of blank stares, but in my head, I'm like, that was hilarious.

SPEAKER_06 26:47

Can confirm, by the way. Right. Um, I'm trying to think of myself. No, all my jokes land all the time. Uh I'm trying to think because it's it's also like when I'm trying something new, which is why it's it's convenient. Dovey has a lot of these shows in like the five towns at the cheese store, which are like really he calls it the joke server practice.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Does he go because the coffee is good?

SPEAKER_06 27:10

Like no, because it you can't the the reason he goes, I mean, and I understand this, is because there's no open mic for Jewish jokes. I can't go to an open mic and be like, guys, kiddoshana, am I right?

SPEAKER_05 27:20

Like it's funny you say that. I proposed to my wife doing stand-up at an open mic, and my problem was I had a heckler. So every single joke I said, he would he would say, That's not right, that's not fair, and I didn't know how to really respond to him.

SPEAKER_06 27:40

Well, why do you have your mother-in-law join you at the show?

SPEAKER_05 27:44

My mother-in-law is my biggest fan. I have to give her a shout-out. On every single thing that we post, she's the first person to like it. But it did take her a year and a half to realize we had a podcast.

SPEAKER_07 27:56

She also has three phones.

SPEAKER_01 27:57

I called my mother on Friday. My parents live in Azul, and I called my mother. I hadn't spoken to her in a couple days, and she didn't pick up the phone. Then she calls me back a little bit later, and she goes, I'm so sorry. I was actually listening to your podcast, and I didn't want to, I was in the middle of something, and I actually was finding it very interesting, the story you were telling about this lady who was adopted. I didn't really want to pick up the phone when you called me. I was like, I don't know how to feel about that. On the one hand, thanks for listening. On the other hand, I'm really insulted. Asha, she prefers the edited version of you.

SPEAKER_07 28:28

I enjoy the recorded version of you.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

Exactly. I can turn you off. It's nice.

SPEAKER_06 28:33

That's like the uh that's like that feels like the uh the story of the covering the guy who yells at his wife for not get having the right holo cover. You're like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_05 28:42

You know it's actually I'm a person anybody who knows this knows I win contests like crazy. I've won over hundreds of radio contests. It's literally insane. It's not normal.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

How many Croton watches you have?

SPEAKER_05 28:54

I have a picture of me with three turning point of the game Mets watches. You know, so I actually think I'm the reason why they stopped sending watches. My wife was talking to my mother, you know, like being a good daughter-in-law. And uh there was a contest that I really wanted to win. I wanted two phones for it. So I said, get I said, hang up, hang up the phone. And my my wife's like, I'm talking to your mother. She's and I'm like, hang up the phone, she'll understand, she'll understand, hang up the phone. And she's like, she's like, no, I'm not doing it. And I went outside, I came back, I was all upset because I lost the contest. Uh and she goes, you are a hundred percent wrong. And a few months later, I go to my mom, we we I go, can we speak to you for a minute? And she goes, Yeah, what's the matter?

SPEAKER_01 29:38

Wait, were you with your wife when you asked your mom?

SPEAKER_05 29:40

Yes, a hundred percent. I had to prove a voice. I'm not gonna do it. If I told you that, if Avi told you, like, can I hang up and call you right back? David wants to win a contest, what would you say? It's 100% cool. Do the win the contest and call me back.

SPEAKER_06 29:56

So that's also why wives are terrible stenographers, where like, you know, they'll just be like, my wife will be like on the phone and be like, Ellie wants me to hang up right now. It's like that don't say it like that. That's not what I said. That's not like have the court reporter read back what I said. I just say, can I talk to you for a second? I always find it ironic when athletes like, you know, when they lose like a parent or something, and they're playing like the next day, and it's like it's what my father would have wanted.

SPEAKER_07 30:23

It's the most unjuwish thing ever.

SPEAKER_01 30:25

I love that, and when the whole team, the guy literally dies, he you know gets flattened by a bus, and he's like, It's what he would have wanted for us to continue playing the game. If I was Mirta Sham, one day I will become a professional athlete, and I am gonna write in my will, please do not play the game I die. Please don't. I don't want you to. It's not what I wanted.

SPEAKER_05 30:46

Do people that are passionate about other careers do the same thing? Like the garbage men the next day says, It's what my dad wanted.

SPEAKER_06 30:56

He said, I want you up at 4 a.m. Doing the job nobody wants. Wait, you were saying it what my favorite joke. Oh, that doesn't that doesn't mind. I mean, I always thought that one of the things that I think is so funny is uh a joke about uh the the the uh Makos. You know, there's a Madris that says that Paro in Egypt he only went to the bathroom once a day because he wanted everyone in Egypt to think he was a god, so he only he only went once a day. First of all, I'm I'm older now, so like going to the bathroom once a day, very impressive. I'm just saying. Like I did when I was younger, it was like you're supposed to say a hundred buccals a day. I was like, I say I show your answer like 10 times a day. Like, you know, so I said that Paro would go to the bathroom once once a day very early in the morning before anybody would see. So, and it says that before, you know, the play of Dom. It said Moshe would go to Pa went to Par with the Bank of the Nile River and and tells Paro, because of your stubbornness, God has turned all the waters of Egypt into blood. You think like Paro pulls up his pants and he's like, So are you saying I don't need to see a urologist? Because that is amazing news. And like to me, I I don't know why it doesn't always work. Maybe it's too much information. I think it's too long. I think it's too low. It's too long. Okay, that's fine. Cut it a little shorter, it's fine. It's just cut a little shorter. I gotta ask you to do it.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

I would say if it was me, I would I would throw in hemorrhoids in there. I think that's more relatable. But that's so much grosser and so much more gross.

SPEAKER_06 32:17

I just love the idea. I love the idea of him checking and then like I also like have a version where it's like, hey, call uh Susan cancel.net went with Dr. Steinberg. It's only a plague of Barak Hashem. Like, you know, like maybe maybe that's maybe that's the angle. Send me the recording of this. That's very good.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

It's unfortunate that didn't lead.

SPEAKER_06 32:35

No, I'm saying, like, again, it's also like I had a I remember I had a joke years ago where I said, How about you know, knock shown? It says that Noxhawn probably may not have won it before he jumped into the Yamsoof. Uh, you know, it it went up to his like his like head and like it didn't split right away. I was like, that must have been a really awkward, like, I don't know, 45 seconds where everyone's like, dude, it's water! What are you doing? And his mom yells out, he's not a good swimmer!

SPEAKER_07 32:58

I remember telling that joke many years ago, and somebody said, You can't make a joke about Nashon.

SPEAKER_06 33:05

I got another Mitch Hadberg joke. He said, I guess I was on television and a guy saw me at the airport. I was next to a guy and he said, Hey, I saw you on television, but he never did not say with a nod. He thought I was good. He just confirmed the fact that I was on television. And then I saw the guy, I turned away from him and I said, Hey, I saw you at the airport about a minute ago, and you were good. And uh, so so no, so that whole song about the Rebbe like keeping playing, you know, playing, and I told that whole joke, and then I did the show for like older people in like the middle of the day at 12:30 in the afternoon. Very uh ideal time and crowd. I said I was supposed to do 42 minutes. I did about 31 because I was banking on laps. And uh and after the show, I I first said I said six people came up to me and said my favorite thing to hear, which is can I give you some feedback? And I said, I would I would love feedback. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

I love it when people come after ice being, people come over like, you know, I think I'm like, okay, here we go. Oh, of course, of course.

SPEAKER_06 34:06

So so so one of the bits of feedback I got was somebody who came up to me and said, after the re the ninth match, they said, Don't make fun of Rabane. My son's a Rebbe, okay? And he's like I want you to know. I'm a Rebbe. I love it.

SPEAKER_07 34:21

Anybody, anybody normal can understand. This is a hypothetical scenario.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

That is what humor's all about.

SPEAKER_06 34:27

Don't make fun of this thing. And uh, yeah, no, there's whatever. I'm working on a whole bit about Moshe Rabeno. That's my bigger, bigger choice of Moshe Rabeno.

SPEAKER_01 34:36

Well, you do you know Ari Murzoff? I don't think so. He's a Rebbe in in Florida. I think he works in Moroshaw, so I was inspired by him that he used to put on his test or still does, write a joke that I would laugh at. Now I write, please write a non-racist, sexist, appropriate joke that I would. For some reason, they don't read well, so it's always racist and sexist, but it's really funny. I can't repeat any of their jokes right now, but they look at me, they're like, Can you read my joke? And I read it, and I'm like, please don't laugh.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Don't laugh.

SPEAKER_01 35:07

Don't laugh, don't laugh.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

It's really funny, but don't laugh.

SPEAKER_06 35:10

Oh, you have to sit there as you read it with them?

SPEAKER_01 35:13

They make me after they don't care what they got in the test. They want to see if I enjoyed their joke.

SPEAKER_06 35:18

That's like Tele Cosmo. That's like, you have to say it to Artora, and I have to like it. Yes. Wait, uh, but that actually that reminds me, I think it's a very long-winded Mike Kaplan joke, but Mike Kaplan is one of my favorite comedians, and he's one of the best comedians who nobody's ever heard of. He spells it M YQ, and he's really phenomenally brilliant. So he has a joke where he says, you know, people always come up to you and say, Hey, can I do my joke at you? Just a lot more racist. So they just go up to you and tell jokes. So like this woman says, Hey, I loved your joke, like, can I give you a joke? And you're like, I'm like, alright, ready. How is this? It's always racist. He's like, How is this gonna be racist? This old lady comes up to me and she says, uh, she says, What kind of pants does Mario wear? And I'm just thinking to myself, okay, how is this gonna be racist? Okay, Mario's Italian, uh, but he's made by Japanese sushi pants, that's not a thing. I'm like, I don't know, what kind of what kind of pants does Mario wear? And she says, Denim, denim, denim. I'm like, all right, nice, that's good.

SPEAKER_05 36:15

That's good, I like that.

SPEAKER_06 36:18

And she says, She says, uh, how do you find Will Smith in the snow? She says, You look for the fresh prince. And then I'm like, Oh, you got me again. And I was like, and then, and then she says, you know what, lady, thank you so much. She's like, Yeah, I just wanted to, you gave me such a nice laugh tonight with your jokes, and I just wanted to return the favor uh because you see had gave me such a good night out, and normally I hate juice.

SPEAKER_07 36:47

It's like perfect. So perfect.

SPEAKER_01 36:49

I'm gonna fanboy a little bit. I want to know how how the origin of the sota joke, because I love it. I also think it is brilliant that you have no segue whatsoever.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

It's unbelievable. You just go like, what the deal with the soda? Basically in the show notes. I think it's fun. You did a show.

SPEAKER_01 37:13

You did a show in West Thames. I think we were all there. I was you weren't there, Dave? No, I never heard of him.

SPEAKER_05 37:18

Why would I go to the show?

SPEAKER_01 37:20

Wow.

SPEAKER_07 37:25

Yeah, why would I go to this Pixar enthusiast right now?

SPEAKER_00 37:28

No. Anyway, and you get up there and you tell this joke, and you're like going through it, and you throw this out there, and I was I really was dying. I was dying. I could like you all you did say was like, and then the the driving home, that must be the most awkward conversation. And who's gonna give this couple a baby? I was dying. So how do you get there?

SPEAKER_06 37:51

So the origins of it, because I you by the way, I used to like read through the parsha and be like, let me, I used to, I don't know if it was like I wasn't trying to do key roof, but I like read through the parsha and be like, let me come up with a joke about the parsha, like each week, or something like that. And like think of it like that. Like, I just thought I just re-re-read something that like sometimes I'll search like Facebook or Twitter or X, whatever, and I'll just like search for the thing. So, like Korak, for example, right? I so like I searched Korak and it just says like Korakh was like, Hey, do you want to have you wanna do Glila? And Korakh's like, that's it, I'm out of here. Like, that's a set of so like sometimes sometimes it's just that simple where I'm just like I'm thinking of these scenarios. So for Sota, I remember um at some point reading it, and I was thinking about the idea of like, hey, so like she like blows up and whatever. So the original version of that joke, at least the the core of it, and I probably posted this on Facebook, like a as a this in in words, just saying, like, um, I said, I bet watching a sota explode must have been horrifying. But I bet there was like one guy in the back who was like a huge mortal combat bat. He was like, fatality. Which which, if you hear it, if you hear the recording of that joke, I say, I bet watching a sota explode, and then I just kind of trail off and I never come back to the original thing. But like I'm realizing I was like, I mean, I guess I can re- re uh reshare that because Mortal Kombat's back, but uh, you know, but yeah, so that was the original thing of it. I'm just like imagining because I remember playing Mortal Kombat as a kid or number two, where it's like there's a like there's a um like katana, one of the characters like kisses kisses the guy, and he like blows up, and I'm just like, oh my god, that's what's like you know what I mean? Like when you when you hear Torah stories as a kid, you have this like visual, like like A sub is like Roger Klotz from the show Doug with like crazy red hair. There are certain people, like you know what I mean, you think of like the biblical character, you think of like a cartoon that you know of when you think of these people. So that's so like me coming up with like a partial joke or like something where I'm like, hey, um, like a partial bit or uh something about the Torah. I just I like to think of uh behind the scenes. I mean, one of the one of probably uh the big influence in the most recent years or the last I don't know 15 years, this guy named Simon Rich. Simon Rich who's a former writer for SNL and he like wrote with a lot like like with John Mulaney and whatever. It's a bunch of books. So he has this book, it's like little vignettes, little like two-page, three-page little things, like mini scenarios. And he has so his his book called Ant Farm, and what the the opening thing, it says the ride back to Bearsheva, and it's Abraham, and it's like walking back after the Akea. Oh, yeah. And Abraham's like, You're not gonna tell your mom about that, right? You want to go for ice cream? Like, that's very, very good. Which which again, so that so that's like an amazing thing. If I was ever giving somebody's like, you should give this sheer on Anshivuis about Torah, and I was like, I would love to give like the 3 a.m. slot. I would do it like called like awkward moments in Tanakh. Like just like these, these like things that we just kind of take for granted that are just like, what? Let's take a second and think about that for a sec.

SPEAKER_01 40:57

I just want to caution you because I gave the 3 a.m. slot on Shibus. It was terrible.

SPEAKER_06 41:02

Well, of course, you're you're competing with you're the only thing that's harder to compete with with Jews than food is sleep.

SPEAKER_05 41:08

Sleep, yeah. Speaking of the Parsha, you know, I I I appreciate sometimes I I read in the Jewish press, it's almost like they f only follow you. Because like every other joke in the Jewish press is from your Twitter account or X.

SPEAKER_06 41:23

Oh, the memes, the memes of the week. Yeah, the memes of the week.

SPEAKER_05 41:26

So you had you had the one, it was perfect, it was it was a perfect fit because you had the Women Yama one with the Mirago.

SPEAKER_06 41:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which which again I have to say I stole from myself because I hate it. No, because I I searched an old picture. There's an old picture of uh Ellie de la Cruz uh and Jose Altuve standing next to each other, and I said, Oh, the Canaanites and the and and the spies. And then I was like, oh, this is perfect, like Wemby. Like I was like, this is great. Like, yeah, so I was able to do that. But but no, well, I realized that the key to getting in the Jewish press is make sure to tweet a good joke on Monday or Tuesday before press time. It's like if it's if it's Thursday or Friday, I'm like, that's what you used? I had such good ones. I had such a good one on Friday morning.

SPEAKER_05 42:09

Literally, every other one is you, and then one of the things.

SPEAKER_06 42:12

And then there are ones that are like general ones that are like, why are you like tweeting like Jags and Hinkle?

SPEAKER_01 42:17

So my wife, uh my wife pulled out a Ellie uh Liebowitz impersonation, but we we are our our in-laws are friends, the wild ones and the wolves. They are who go all the way back into being that sukkah with the thing that drops down before they made Aliyah.

SPEAKER_07 42:33

But my wife said we have to give a lot of context. We made a lot of context.

SPEAKER_01 42:37

There was like this secret string in the sukkah where your father-in-law would drop it down and it would whatever.

SPEAKER_06 42:44

It's a candy basket. If you sing or either var Tara, they like for the kids. It's like a magical uh candy you know, candy basket that lowers. It's a really nice, uh nice man hike.

SPEAKER_01 42:54

My wife was watching the parade with me. Of course, we we have our choice words to say about uh certain mayors and whatever, but she saw what he was wearing in the jersey. First, he was wearing his shirt, then the jersey, and then his jacket, and he's like, he's dressed like a Rebbe. He is absolutely dressed like a Rebbe.

SPEAKER_06 43:10

I a few people said that to me. They're like, Oh, you're he's like a Rebbe on field trip day or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

And I feel like you've said that before. You've said the parade, I feel like you talk about it. What is what are parade Rebbe's wearing today?

SPEAKER_06 43:21

Well, it's really funny because when you said the parade, I was like, You mean the Israel parade? So I was like, I don't think Mamdani would be. No, they didn't make us, it was just for a matter for time and it was another one. Yeah, I there it was there was some other good one. I feel like Raba David Bashaker was the one who really started this trend of like kind of like quote tweeting, like picture. Pictures, memes, and then just being like, hey, let's repurpose this for Judaism. Like, still one of my favorite ones was when uh Charles became king, and he's wearing like the purple robe and the crown, and I just said, When your kid finally becomes Shabbat Saba.

SPEAKER_02 44:16

We we talked about uh Twitter and and Instagram and all the different social media pieces that you're involved with. We we put out a couple social media clips and in a video just of the Israel parade and the amount of uh really.

SPEAKER_01 44:31

It went super viral for us.

SPEAKER_02 44:33

Right. For us, we considered it super viral, but the crazy amounts of uh there were like five people who watched it. It was crazy. Exactly. Um but it was crazy because for us that was really like our first foray into like wow, we're we made it because the sheer volume of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic stuff that we got in response was like wow, really super eye-opening. And you've been in so many ways using your comedy as like a frontline uh defender of Israel here. But what like how do you how do you do it? I'm sure you get more than your fair amount of people who, for every joke you post, have you know something about Israel they want to say or something about Jews. Like, what is your online interaction like right now just with the masses?

SPEAKER_01 45:17

Can I just tell that story first that what happened the other day? When we posted about Jalen Brunson that I relate to Brunson because and he must be Jewish, because I'm sure he didn't tell a story. Relatively short. So the guy posted on on uh was it it was on Instagram? He's like, Zionism is dying. You guys only have 150 followers. We're like, that really hurts.

SPEAKER_00 45:38

Why'd you painful?

SPEAKER_02 45:41

Not so much the Zionism is dying, but him making fun of our follower account was really, really tough.

SPEAKER_06 45:46

I think I I think I got something like yeah, I got like mean me a mean tweet that's like, you're just a bald fad Zionist. And I was like, ah man, wait a second, we'd have hit me right in the right in the core. Just like I visited my uncle last week at Chicago, and he's like, You look pregnant. I was like, oh, thank you so much. I'm so glad I made this visit.

SPEAKER_05 46:05

I actually had had a positive interaction. They said, I'm not too lazy enough to commit genocide. Right.

SPEAKER_02 46:12

We had told a story about Dave being really lazy, and the guy writes like, not too lazy to commit genocide, are you? We're like, no, he he is. Very good.

SPEAKER_06 46:22

So that's actually one of the things I I also to tie back to like kind of jokes that don't exactly work, is like, I'm so glad anti-Semites are so off base with their thoughts of like you guys control the media, whatever, because if they knew the half of it, they would be so much more anti-Semites. They're like, no, no, I'm using three phones to call in for this radio show.

SPEAKER_07 46:43

I'm returning, I'm returning this Walmart fridge at the end of the summer.

SPEAKER_01 46:48

Don't tell anyone like Unfortunately, I think they know about that one, unfortunately. No, well, no, but I'm just gonna go. Who is this guy who did didn't some guy do this video in Wall in uh Williamsburg or Curious Yoell or whatever?

SPEAKER_06 47:00

No, but that guy, yeah, but that guy right, he already went somewhere else, and then he's like, I'm doing a scoop on Liquid and whatever, and you're like, but but uh yeah, I I don't know, just certain things, like well with Brooks Brothers, like Brooks Brothers like, we don't accept returns anymore from these. Or like 7-Eleven Slurpee Day says, We don't have any more, guys. Just stop. Just stop. We're living it to this small cup, not the kid who looks at this giant cup.

SPEAKER_01 47:25

So ha is there do you respond to them when they post these nasty things?

SPEAKER_06 47:29

It depends what you're again. This is also like where I think um I this is like this also ties into the J Sketch stuff because what J Sketch does really well is that we're very clear of who we are in terms of we're not trying to paint this broad brush and be like a, you know, uh, I call it like BuzzFeed Judaism, like we're like, oh, you know, this like catch-all, like like again, not just Tikun Alam, but like this like g filterfish, mazzle, bagel. Like, first of all, I hate when people say muzzle instead of mazzle stuff, that drives me up a wall. So you have to be proud of who you are and like be staunch in your beliefs and who your audience is. And the same, so the same thing, like where it's like, I'm like seeing this like Brad Lander guy is almost worse than Mom Donnie because he's just like I don't know if you're following this thing, but he's just he's the Jewish guy. Yeah, he's the guy. Not just he's the Jewish guy, he's just like clearly like like the Rebbe wearing a hat, be like, look at me! Like like the Steve Buscemi, how do you do, fellow kids? Like clearly trying to be cool, as opposed to Mom Donnie, who you may hate his guts for his politics, but he's charming and has integrity not integrity, but he's he's cool.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

He's ruining the parade for me. This I've been waiting for. I understand. I have been waiting for this for what I think right now is I think it's 10 days that I've been a Knicks fan, and he ruined it for me.

SPEAKER_05 48:55

Well, I can't give a proper shout out, but somebody, somebody, the the one of my favorite lines on that was hate to break it to you, like my bagel's not Jewish.

SPEAKER_06 49:07

I think it was Surry Sorry, Story Merzel, I think. I thought that was funny. My bagel's not Jewish. Well, that's well, that's but that but that's that's the whole thing that I'm talking about. That's that's also my my fire we're we're all this is all part of the same parsha here, where it's like, my if your entire Judaism is bagels or whatever, and that's all you are, then your Jewish identity. So it's like, and that's what bugs me when it's like if you're a Jewish person and you've never been to Israel, you know nothing about Israel, you don't really observe anything and all that stuff, and you're like, I'm gonna weigh in on Israel. I don't think you get to. It's like it's like working at McDonald's and be like, as a chef, like that doesn't really let you do that. So some things is so the same thing where like, oh, by bagels are Jewish, and it's like, okay, like, yeah, you're gonna be the type of person who's like, oh yeah, anti-Semitism isn't a thing. It's just, you know, we don't hate Jews, we hate Zionists. So you hate 85% of Jews? Is that what you mean? Like, and and sometimes it's just like a level of logic that like just isn't taken to step, and and that's why, like, you know, what whatever the anti-Semites are saying about the Talmud, I'm like, hey, you guys may want to read the Talmud a little bit more. Because like, I have very clear arguments when people say this, like somebody said, Oh, the World Cup, like the you know, Pal Israel killed all the Palestinian athletes, so they can't do the World Cup, and then I just wrote, like, hey Grac, what happened to the Israeli athletes in the 1972 Olympics? And like and then somebody, and then and then somebody's like, Well, you're just a genocider. I'm just like, follow my logic, the shaky Vataria of this gibara here, and like that, and that is Jewish humor, and that's where it comes from, is like step A to step B to step C, and that's why we should really agree on the show.

SPEAKER_01 50:45

It is very beautiful what you are accomplishing in that in that way and fighting the good fight. But on another on the other part of it, you know, we all noticed that when the most recent Iran war picked back up, um, you had you had done these shows in Israel, these Kassid shows, and that and you wrote about it on LinkedIn, which is where I see a lot of your writings, and you wrote, you know, uh this is the thing that I can do to help out. Like, and every and you I think you encouraged everybody to like dig deep. What is the thing that you can use, your creativity, it doesn't necessarily have to be your money, whatever it might be. And I actually found that very, very inspiring because you were saying, like, uh look, I can make people laugh, I can give them like a little bit of a distraction. And I I thought that was really, really inspiring myself, and I appreciated that you posted it in that way. And I always liked your humor, but that made me like you even more. And that was I I liked it. Thank you. I mean Bomba.

unknown 51:43

That too.

SPEAKER_06 51:45

But that also, by the way, how hilarious was like Israel during like when everybody was like sending supplies and I was like, Hey, did you pack this bag yourself? Uh, my whole sisterhood packed it for me, okay? Like, but it's like, can you just be the Israel we know and be cool for like a second? Because like, whose side are you on here? You know, you know these 200 bottles of deodorant that say I'm Israel high on them? They're not all for me, okay? No, so I I mean, no, but that that was kind of the impetus of it a little bit where I I realized, you know, I would I would message people if you're like, I'm like, like, listen, I'm in my house in New Jersey, and it's like, as much as like I see the the hate online or like you know, the day-to-day, it's like scary what we're reading. I'm like, it's nothing compared to what anyone in Israel has been going through the last few years. And I'm just like, you know what? I like how hard it is for me with my kids in general. Um, let's imagine how hard it's they've gotta be to like run back and forth to bomb shelters all the time. I'm like, okay, let me think of something to do, especially since it was better on perim time. And I was like, oh, perm like it's probably gonna be very weird for most people, and I don't even know. I was like, it felt like COVID all over again.

SPEAKER_01 52:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 52:55

So I I was like, okay, let me do what I can in the smallest way. And like, God did not give me the talents of how to keep up with technology and Google Chrome, and He's gonna say, Okay, you should, you know, do this for people, and and it's literally the least I could do that I'm like, hey, let me take like 45 minutes and do this, and what's a practical, intangible, you know, thing I can do other than sending sending Bob. Right.

SPEAKER_01 53:24

But it was real, it was beautiful, and I thank you. I commend you for it, and I hope that it inspired others. It certainly inspired me. And just utilizing whatever creativity that we have. I tried to call my mother, she did not pick up the phone. I just want you to know.

SPEAKER_07 53:37

She said I was listening to your podcast.

SPEAKER_01 53:40

She might have actually been watching your show, and she's like, that's the son I really want.

SPEAKER_02 53:44

Ellie, thank you so much. This has been so much fun. You've been you've been uh so great in joining us. Before we wrap up here, where can people find you online on Instagram?

SPEAKER_06 53:53

Uh my Instagram is Ellie Comedyagram, because I'm terrible at social media.

SPEAKER_01 53:58

Um, my It's also hard to spell your last name. I need in my squadron. My website is that's fair.

SPEAKER_06 54:03

My website is elecomedy.com for that exact reason. Because Leavewitz is I say the the dark joke I say is about Leavewoods people say, like, why do you spell it so weird? I was like, oh well, my grandparents had to get the heck out of Europe in a hurry. They didn't have time to double check the spelling. Um, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 54:20

I love dark obligos jokes so much.

SPEAKER_06 54:23

The other one is with like you're like, Are you sure you want to spell your name W-I-C-Z to like my grandfather? And he's like, Yeah, worst case scenario, my grandson doesn't get a bunch of emails that he's supposed to. Um yeah, so my web my website is elecomedy.com. I'm on Twitter uh in the trenches with the anti-Semites at Ellie Lewitz, E-L-I-L-E-B-O-W-I-C-Z. Don't blame me for that. I'm on Facebook if you're uh ready for a colonoscopy. Uh John just had one. John just had one. I had one too.

SPEAKER_05 54:56

Best week of my life.

SPEAKER_06 54:59

Better than Matt Shibuit set 6 a.m.

SPEAKER_05 55:03

No, the truth is is that I, I mean, this is we we we spoke about this, but I I actually left a note for my doctor when he put me out, and when I rolled over, there was a toilet paper uh like taped to my butt with a message to him.

SPEAKER_01 55:17

What's that is this is the second time we're hearing this story.

SPEAKER_02 55:21

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 55:22

I said I mentioned it before. You did.

SPEAKER_02 55:24

That doesn't make it better.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

Nope.

SPEAKER_04 55:26

It doesn't make me.

SPEAKER_00 55:28

We're very proud of you that you have creativity.

SPEAKER_04 55:30

It's lost, call these people.

SPEAKER_06 55:41

I don't remember other words. I think I remember trying when I got like I got my wisdom teeth out pretty pretty late in life, and I was doing like the laughing gas, and I remember like cracking jokes the whole time. And I'm just like, is it I am I killing in this operating room right now?

SPEAKER_01 55:59

Are you doing any shows coming up before we uh get into our rapertoire?

SPEAKER_05 56:04

Can I make one public service announcement before you answer that? Um, my computer said that I have to do an update, and I accidentally pressed an hour. So I don't know what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_08 56:16

We're almost at that hour. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_02 56:18

So what do we have to do? John, do you have to save me? Um you can come back. You you just after you're it might be like an I don't know how long these updates take. Alright, let's do what we can. Don't worry about it. Oh my god. Okay, this is why I won't shut down.

SPEAKER_06 56:34

This is like I had a I had a before I did comedy full-time, I had jury duty at a grand jury on a Friday. And it was the I didn't realize that you could push it off easily. But it was the last, it was the shortest Friday of the year. And I'm like, I'm like literally, I don't know if you know how a grand jury works. They need like 23 people per jury, and they ask if you can be in one of these four juries or you have to talk to the judge. So they did like whatever. I'm literally the game I was playing was counting how many people made, and I was like, guys, we're at 75 out of 92, and whatever. And then they're like, Alright, we're we're gonna take a two-hour lunch break. I'm like, oh my god. It's like so it's like two, it's like the worst episode of 24. I'm just staring at the clock. Um, yeah, but so I'm doing a show on Thursday. I think I think it's a high uh Cam Simpa alumni or High Lifeline alumni in Atlantic Beach with Dovey Newberger. I'm doing a singles event June 30th uh on in the cheese store in the five towns.

SPEAKER_08 57:35

Nice.

SPEAKER_06 57:35

Um I'm doing a variety of different a lot of the shows I do are not like, hey, come and buy tickets to this. So they're like, hey, Shul's bringing me in or whatever. Like if you're gonna be in the Catskills during the summer, I have a couple shows. If you go to these bungalow colonies, the password is 613.

SPEAKER_02 57:53

Like Osher, hit us with five rapid fire questions.

SPEAKER_01 57:59

Okay, we got some five rapid fire questions for you. Ready? Oh boy. All right. This is like an homage to Stephen Colbert, who used to have the question the Colbert questionnaire, which I always loved. Just that it was very nice. Before he jumped a shark. That too. Colbert rapport, you mean?

SPEAKER_06 58:14

The Colbert rapport, right? The Colbert rapport.

SPEAKER_01 58:16

No, he did this on this show recently. Okay, it's just some are serious, some are not serious.

SPEAKER_06 58:20

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 58:21

What is the best cereal?

SPEAKER_06 58:24

Ooh. I like tricks a lot, but my family kind of grew up on like Cheerios, which is like very different. I think like tricks and cocoa puffs are pretty the pretty delicious.

SPEAKER_05 58:35

That's like you age out of that when you're like three. The Cheerios. What?

SPEAKER_06 58:39

Trix and what age Cheerios? Oh no. Oh, so tricks. Locking in tricks? Yeah, tricks. Let's go to tricks. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 58:47

Okay. Where do you like to sit in shul?

SPEAKER_06 58:50

The back.

SPEAKER_01 58:51

The back.

SPEAKER_06 58:52

Of course. Yeah, please. Come on. I'm uh everyone's like, you're a talker. I was like, do you why do you think I say I used to do a tiny deeper on Dom Kipper? Like, why do you why do you think lots do is the thing that I take 20 minutes to say I don't want.

SPEAKER_01 59:07

Alright. Besides for yourself, who is your favorite Orthodox Jewish comedian? I like how you think myself is my favorite comedian.

SPEAKER_07 59:18

I reject the premise of your question.

SPEAKER_06 59:24

I was like, who? Uh I have not done enough therapy to know myself. It's like, uh, was it the Ted Lasso where he asked Jamie Tard, he says, Would you rather be a goldfish or a what does he say? He said, Would you rather be this or this? And Jamie Tard's like, why would I want to be anything other than me? And Ted was just like, I don't think you realize how healthy that is. Yes. Um, I I that that's that's too hard to answer because everybody's got like such good different talents. Like Modi is so good at like the physical, like, like uh almost like Sebastian type of like, you know, physicality to it. Elon Gold's like amazing with like like big joke writing, you know, um and also impressions and like um like Dove's really phenomenal with uh I I'm jealous of how good Dovey is and how how young he is. He's like Dave Chappelle minus the anti-Semitism, you know, where he just like he he's so young and so good so quickly.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:15

What's he gonna do when he has our hairline though?

SPEAKER_06 1:00:18

I I I st I think I'm gonna say in the show next week, I'm gonna say um I am Dovey Newberger's future. But I've I've really started saying at some of these shows is like, thank you. I'm so glad that Doby Newberger was unavailable. And I but uh no, I I he's he's Doby's really uh not that he needs an extra plug, he's just like he's also got like he's got good writing and hair. That's like that guy who's like good at basketball and can sing. Like what? So I don't know. I'm gonna I'm gonna get cop out and say a mix of uh you know a mix of everybody. How much but my favorite, I would say my favorite one of my favorites, like I said, my Mike Kaplan is one of the these comedians you should look up. He's super clever. He has my favorite Jewish joke of all time, which is uh somebody wished me a happy Easter, and I said, actually, I'm Jewish and we don't believe in happiness. And that I think is the perfect perfect Jewish joke that every rabbi should tell.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:22

Alright, you can interpret this joke whether it's Jewish or not. How much do you bench?

SPEAKER_06 1:01:28

Are you quoting my joke to me on purpose? Because like Dave's like, no, no, no, there's this comedian that no one's ever heard of that has a chance. I didn't write this joke. I don't think no, because I literally have a joke about like being out of shape, and I say, like, I'm like, I get so winded when something jogs my memory. Like I said about the gym, and somebody says, How much do you bench? I'm like, I don't know. The first paragraph, that's not us. What do you do?

SPEAKER_08 1:01:47

What do you think about it?

SPEAKER_06 1:01:49

So we do up. How do you take that in any other way? Of how do you how much do you bench? I'm like, yeah, I don't know. Who says who says after you have Sredu? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:02

Do you like to sleep when the room is hot, cold, or room temperature?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:08

Cold.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:08

Cold.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:09

Cold. Like I I had the idea for the always cold pillow. I called it the pillar bear, which is not good. But like, I know Stuart Scott Alveshall did too, but like the always cold is the other side of the pillow.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:20

But I was like, Is there anybody that wants to be sweating the whole night?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:23

Yeah, women. Like I no, I'm just saying, like, I I another sketch again is the basic that's just gonna be a bunch of men are just like going like this, and women are in fur coats, like with icicles hanging from their nose, and they're freezing.

unknown 1:02:42

Alright.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:47

That's gonna be the sketch. Oh, is that five?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:50

What is the most I'm so confused what's happening with you? He wants to leave. What is the most underrated chulen ing?

SPEAKER_07 1:03:04

I don't know if you've gotten up.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:10

What is the most underrated cholen ingredient?

unknown 1:03:15

A terrible question.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:17

What is the underrated? I did not write this question. I wanted to ask you what number am I thinking of? That's uh those are both bad.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:25

What's the most underrated challenge ingredient? Well, it's like I was like, I don't know, I feel like meatless challenge is like a non-alcoholic beer. You're like, what's true?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:34

I had a Rebbe in Israel who made chicken chillant. Did not wasn't a fan. No.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:39

I mean, people have a lamb and challenge, that's at least a good thing. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:42

You know what's funny, Asher? It's funny you say that. We literally, somebody was we were walking home from shoul, and somebody said, I have never had a bad chillant. I'm like, well, you gotta get out more because there's some really powerful chilens. Especially the ones that have that, like, you know, that like tastiness when you when you then he said, and then Avi said, my wife, said, the people who put chicken in their chulin. And then he responded, I don't want to say who it is, he responded, I put chicken in my chilli.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:18

Oh. Yeah, the title called I I Had a Pony.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:24

That was a great idea. Anyway, so we like to wrap up the episode with uh question of the week that Dave proposes to us. Would you like to join this? Sure.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:33

Okay. What number am I thinking of?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:38

Here's the question of the week. So I think he's he's asked us a question in the past.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:45

But I'm supposed to be dieting, that's why he asked me the question, but I'm gonna change it a little bit. Turgle um asked me, because I'm I'm driving up to camp tomorrow. Okay, and he asked me what is your road trip snack? Oh. So road trip snack. So I will answer first.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:07

So mine is a jalapeno kettle potato chips with a big gulp of root beer. So it's not just one food. You can pick up that's a combo.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:19

I mean, well, that you need that that's a little bit of technicality, because you need a drink with a jalapeno for the jalapeno potatoes. Yeah, if you're like I'm having chicken showing, you're like, I'm gonna need a bathroom very soon, but that's not pretty much.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:34

And I wanted to ask you if you were a bidet toilet paper or wipes fan.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:41

Oh wipes, you should know. At the Shabbos table, we were dying of laughter when Dave went off on bidets and there was a lot of detest.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:51

I'm a big, big, big bidet fan. Wi wipes you can't be because like they're gonna clog your plumbing. That's true.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:57

No, I'm not a what what do you mean? It I I I We the Santa M House. Ludical wife's wife.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:05

Ludical wife is a scam by big plumbing. It's just to get peep plumbers in business. You must road trip a decent amount. I I don't know, it's driving to the five towns or pro trip. I guess if it takes 90 minutes in traffic, it is. I I feel like I have a drink guy. Where I'll take like a Snapple, like Peach Snapple, or Dr. Pepper. Or something like that. But I also like, I don't know. I I'm like the type of person I'm just like, I don't know, I'll eat when I get to the thing. You know? I mean, like, I'll perform it at shover brothers. I can I can be like, hey, let me like eat later. I'll perform at a lot of shovel broccoli. And like some a lot of times there'll be like mentions about eat something, but sometimes I'm just like, um, I'm the help. Can I eat? Like I'm at reserve cut. Can you guys just like splurge and get me a steak?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:58

Like, way goo beef. Let's get it.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:01

My problem is I get like the residue all over my pants when I get out of the car. So if I ever had to do like an event and I have my hand marks on my thighs, you know.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:10

You're like, why are there jalapeno chicks in your beard?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:13

And you're like, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:19

A koggle is not a koggle if there's no beard hair in there.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:23

Alright, Jonathan. What is your preferable?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:27

So I think I'm the opposite of Ellie. I definitely have to have a drink. So, but I'm I'm a big coffee guy, so definitely it's gonna be coffee. Um, but I like to eat. I'm gonna go uh pepper jack on a bagel from bagel town, or bagels and apps now it's called. So pepper jack on a bagel from bagels and apps and a large coffee. That's my go-to. I want food. I don't want a snack, I want food.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:47

I just bought actually the pepperjack cheese at Bagels and Apps was excellent. It's good. It's good. Yeah, but I ate it on the side. I had my bagel, and then I you know ate it.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:57

No, toasted bagel with pepperjack, roasted tomato. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:02

Actually, you just reminded me of it. The sad, it's very sad. Can I give my answer? Yeah, yeah, yeah. In five minutes. Um in um your middle child without telling me your middle child.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:14

The guy at the standard be like, could I do the bodishnara? Like the middle child.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:19

See, that's what I'm saying. If Candace Owens heard this conversation, she's like, oh, it's much worse than I thought.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:26

Dave, what was the question? I don't even remember anymore.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:29

What's your road trip go-to snack?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:32

Oh, that was the question? Thanks. Everyone else got it. We all answered, right? Thank you guys. Everybody got a chance to answer. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:39

John, that was an excellent podcast. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:43

Um, so I guess we'll just let him let him do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:47

It hurts in like a deep part of my soul.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:51

Uh Dave, Asher's parents are listening right now.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:54

And so, but like there was an announcement made in school recently about all the summer birthdays, and usually nobody cares about my birthday. It's August 26th, it's after camp, before school, it's like in this forgotten zone. It's terrible. And they forgot my birthday. Oh, it was terrible. So, anyway, the answer to your question is I like something sweet, I like something salty, and I like a drink. So, I am not allowed to drink anything caffeinated after 11 o'clock in the morning because I will not sleep the rest of the day or the evening. I like to take a good midnight, midday nap anyway. Um, so I like my Diet Coke without caffeine. I like Twizzlers. I think that's what we pull and peel. And a bag of pretzels. And a bag of pretzels.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:36

I like I'm sure I'm starting a podcast called What's Your Trauma?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:39

But uh Can I be on your drama? I have nothing.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:44

That works, I'm telling you. It's it's the best of just do you put the pull and peel in the fruit?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:49

And my trauma is like really boring, also. Do I put the what? Pull and peel with the pretzels. No. I do like to put like food by the foot on pretzels. I do agree with you. Salty and sweet does make a very nice kind of thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:02

So you would like those, those um kettle, like the the popcorn.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:06

What?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:07

That is the salty and salty popcorn. The kettle.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:10

No, I don't like that actually. I do not. I just I like popcorn tasting like popcorn, not like sweet and salty at the same time.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:18

What about the Twizzlers? Not the points peel, the regular, and then you bite off the ends, and it's a straw.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:24

Yes, I told you I think Trix is my favorite cereal. I'm three years old. I'm just gonna say I have two hairs left, but I'm three years old.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:33

I'm just gonna say what a couple of years ago, a kid asked me, he's like, I have a really important question. How many holes are in a straw? And it blew my mind. It was like, so that to that question one or two? Is it one or two? And it blew my mind.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:50

Wow. Two This is like if you take apart a ship and rebuild it, is it the same ship? Like whatever that is.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:56

It blew, I could not figure it out. I was like, that is an insane good question. I don't know the answer to the question. Um I would what? What's the answer? Dave's had just explained. I think it everybody says it's one.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:08

I say two. It's one.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:10

I know. I think it's two also. But it's one. This is funny.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:16

Wow, guys.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:17

No wonder people fall asleep at 3 a.m. on shabu.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:22

Thanks a lot. Thank you so much. This has been so much fun. Ellie, thank you so much for joining us. It's been a blast. This was awesome. So fun.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:33

Happy to talk to our movies another time as well.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:37

I think I'm gonna say that for the day.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:43

All right, you can find him on his website, as we said before. You can find him on Instagram, I'm sure on YouTube, on Twitter, all over the place. Ellie Liebowitz. Ellie, thank you so much and good luck with your upcoming projects. Thank you. Thanks.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:55

Keep it up, keep making us laugh and inspiring us. We love it.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:58

Thank you. Thanks so much. Talk to you soon. Bye. Stop recording. I was like, shoot.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:08

I think he was pretty good. What do you think?

SPEAKER_06 1:12:14

I feel like he had more hair last time. Wait, my my my first year. I'm like, what's going on here? Because there wasn't a fourth topic. You picked the topic, didn't you? No, there was like a whole it was like a whole list of them. It was like horror movies, best horror movies. I gave you a whole list of like six topics, and I'm just like, can we do just like you know, best sports moments of all time or something, and just go from that.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:47

Um my god. I thank you because I wasn't on the list.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:52

I mean, I guess started, but I was not on the previous podcast, and now I am about Wait, can I ask the uh can I ask School of Mods? You and Kim didn't broke the instant. So Mike Mike Good reference. Good reference. Mike Kaplan, Mike Kaplan, who I mentioned, he said he he talks about he said, I did Tony O'Brien's Tonight show. He said, after me, the show was over and I broke the show.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:24

Uh yeah, so we we were running low on topics and we kind of rebooted and went a different direction, and you know, so now we're we're the carpal guys. A little different, not the same show.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:37

No, it's uh I think I think like riffing and stuff, I mean, it's always fun to uh to riff on on Nars card and always just you know, just have like free, you know, again if our Shabbos meals can be recorded, it's great, you know?

SPEAKER_01 1:13:49

That's kind of what we're going for. That's right. If you sum if you boiled it up, that's kind of what we're going for.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:55

Yeah, except except that my wife isn't going in the back being like, Can you just get up and queer? Like stop stop entertaining.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:07

Alright, Ellie, thank you very much. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:09

Talk to you soon. Bye.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:11

Doo doo doo.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:14

How do I leave? Oh, hex. I'm on my phone.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:23

That was very good. Very good. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:26

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