‘I Try to Be’: Yankie Markowitz Drops Wisdom and Fire

you want a kabad girl um many times I'm uh I I would I was considering it I mean especially if she knows because I think is awesome I think the mindset is definitely awesome in many ways I might not agree with everything but I think that there is a tremendous amount of like openness Heights is fantastic the energy the energy is lit say lit L how do you feel about Trump visiting the oil the M for talk is yeah we're that that he came um we're excited if anybody comes but it's not for our excitement when you come to the O you're coming to the re it's an intimate moment yeah you're a major foodie so what's your favorite restaurant and what's your favorite food I don't have a favorite restaurant um I really don't it's like a child right every restaurant like it's it's wherever you go you make it a good time you know you've probably taken over your lifetime thousands of flights what was the uh scariest experience you ever had there's the experience of once where I thought the plane was going to grash like literally like e was shaking and I thought the thing but that wasn't the scariest time the scariest the scary that wasn't the scariest thing cuz that there was one [Music] time welcome to another episode of positivity today I have the honor and help me welcome The Honorable Yan Martz Rabbi Yan maret I always call me always says don't call him Rabbi but you know but for me right I call a I say Rabbi that's the me and a rabbi somebody that teaches stuff so that I can be a talud and in many ways I feel like you you taught me a lot of lessons and I feel like a tal a talet I feel like and um me and yane go back so if you have a podcast teaching people things or trying to help people with something and helping them learn about another specific topic that makes you also a teacher yes so that t becomes the teacher right and I and I would say that is is this is what it means to learn something and for some people that means learning the Torah but I think that what God wants what Hashem wants is for us to learn to learn new things so when we're having this conversation and we're sharing valuable things um people learn stuff or they can learn a lesson just by find out how valuable it is yeah by what I'm saying but even just by seeing sometimes humility or sometimes seeing the or we're going to talk about what you do in this house that alone can be the biggest lesson the biggest inspiration they can say oh I heard on the podcast with Yan M he's going to have 40 people in the first night of sickness I also want to be that way and then and then it's an inspiration and these you know people things register shout out check out these new glasses these new mugs what do we call this what is this called uh uh it's a tumbler tum but I call it a positivity cup and this thing prevents from falling like it doesn't flip over it it holds it either cold or it holds it like uh or hot it's hot or cold it's stainless steel on the outside uh so I didn't need ice technically no but the ice will stay ice for a very long time basically you'll notice the ice stay there probably till the end of the podcast or or longer we're going to find out yeah so I'm middle of your introduction by the way so I'm just saying all right no that's okay feel free this is perfect by the way you're making this much more fun than I uh very casual yeah it is it is very exactly how it is Ellie called me say you're available for podcast yeah I said not really I'm building the Suka how about afterwards I said I have I could try to move something around right I'm like okay I said I'll let you know soon but like you think in your head yeah you let him know soon he's he last minute you know told in the car I said I'm going to call him back cuz I want to show him that this time I'm really serious yeah cuz I I asked we we went back and forth probably 10 or 15 times and every time I message you you're either overseas or somewhere in another country or state doing uh doing loans and promoting SBA Loans right and um and you asked me a few times are you like class minute with everybody and I said I am no I am I the last resort it's like when everybody else p on that's what you let's see what Yanke is doing tonight no not at all and I told him not at all but I said you are the busiest person from all the people that I that I did ask because I had a few people like this that I asked them two three four times you know are you available today that day whenever you asked usually usually I'll tell you why because I'm very raw I'm very in the moment we're we're taking this two nights before cus and we're going to put it out on cus like it's and that's two nights before it doesn't even see I know this week it's like right so like like I am always in the moment so for me if if I schedule a podcast next week I don't know how I'm going to sometimes I do schedule it later out but I try to keep my schedule usually light and fluffy and then just uh and then just take it as it is so yeah product yeah yeah perfect and it doesn't really spill that much just a little that much if it spills we have a problem right yeah sorry finish your introduction I keep interrupting so the introduction is about two years ago I met Yan a show and he was one of the speakers and immediately when I saw yanii as most of you recognize him I also recognized him and I was like hey how you doing like it's so nice to meet you finally in person um and he's like he's like oh it's so nice to meet you too and he's like and I see you know he's like walking a little bit back and forth and he's like yeah I'm going up to be on the panel now and in two minutes and I'm like wow so okay so how are you so calm he said like what do you mean like what's there to be nervous about so the first the first I was talking about gamarra I was talking about a topic that I know okay the first impression that I got from yanki is that he's a very calm person and Yan is is and he is a very he's a successful businessman a CEO an entrepreneur um who does multiple different business ideas who is M out of many many people in both in his house and and in general many many people that I know you do a lot of um and you're always here to help any person your numbers available out to the public and you take every single call anybody that wants to call with any kind of problem whether it's alone or it's just uh ask if they can come here for for a meal um so it's it's with great honor that I invite Yan my good friend to the podcast to have a conversation with them thank you Yan for doing this it's a pleasure to be here in my home thank you yes absolutely thanks for inviting me so the first thing I have as a question if are you finished the introduction yes it was a very nice introduction thank you very much I think it was a little bit more kind than it should have been but thank you um this sweatshirt does what exactly so I want people wearing a sweatshirt that has short sleeves it's almost like the gloves with the holes for your fingers no that's that's a great question actually um I'll tell you so there's it's like an invisible scarf right right so so there's two answers I'll give you number one it's meant for when the weather is like it's outside now like no 50 50ish right so it's not freezing freezing to the level where you're like freezing but it's coolish right I just want to mention I offered let's do the the podcast in the Suka this warm sweatshirt was probably like like my sweatshirt yeah this warm sweatshirt would keep us no it's better inside yeah when because it's for this weather yeah so that's basically the reason that's one but two is because I I love hoodies like I I enjoy the the idea of a hood you wear aood you ever used this part cuz most people don't I never yeah yeah I sometimes do if it gets cool and my face is cool or I just go into a place I don't want anyone to recognize me not that this does much but um but it's just it's cozy that's what I'm trying to say the fabric the fabric and and this is cozy I do have that problem I I would ask you how do you deal with a problem I you you always say that it's not a problem not famous but at the end of the day people know you and you don't always have patience to that person that's going to come over and say hey where you from again and then you have to sometimes it get it gets annoying um so how how do you approach people uh when it happens to me I appreciate it because that means someone saw me somewhere saw the advertisement which means whatever money those advertisements are not free uh so the fact that you're spending money and someone recognizes you then so for me a it's a compliment I'm worthy enough to be recognizable and I'm happy that my advertisements are working right so yes sometimes when you had a red light and a guy rolls down the window and he like yeah and people are starting to beep and he one question have a E Loan and you go into that rent but for the most part I'm very happy if someone recognizes me means that it'sing what I'm doing is working right I once heard from the go I think from Shaquille O'Neal you know right the baseball player yeah he's a basketball player basketball player yeah so he saying um no you said it with such confidence I didn't want to for you but yeah yeah no right you could absolutely I will so so um so he was saying that somebody asked him the same question how do you have patience you go out there and people meet you how do you have patience he said it's very simple if I don't have patience I simply don't go out I understand that part of my identity is that when I walk the streets people will see me and it's not just that people will come you know it when you walk on the street Yankee people see you they feel like they won the lottery it's like oh my God that's the guy right they're like this is my lucky day it's true I think it's a good feeling I mean jaquille Neil happens to be like 72 or something so if he was walking around if he wasn't Shaquille O'Neal and he was 72 people would still stop and stay it's not like you wouldn't get noticed you know yeah yeah that's true the travel cuz this can be fun um what you like the travel so it's an interesting question the the idea of travel sounds to me fun but it does get like under my skin it does you know scare me a little bit it gives me a little bit of anxiety like going somewhere I don't know where I'm going to be who I'm going to meet I speaking to my friend I like to be home home is my is Comfort my comfort zone my safe Zone and and that's not so good I understand no no it's very good doesn't want to be home everybody wants to be home but the the travel if you're going to travel for leisure then ad it's always you know yeah it's fun um the way I I just speaking to a friend of mine he's and he asked me if I'm going for suus to is I said no I like go for PES suus I love to be in cron Heights cron Heights is fantastic energ the energy is lit you say lit it's lit uh Crown Heights has an energy in Tish that you don't find anywhere right anywhere and I've been in Isel I've been to South Africa I've been to Australia and on sukus we have tala and laich I don't know if if they do that in Tom's River what's tala tala is something the instituted in the early years where we go out to different neighborhoods people walk to the Bronx people walk to Manhattan people walk to Queens people walk to Williamsburg to B Park to I remember seeing yeah so we walk to different different communities and we share the SIM together you bring from us and a from their communities and we share together right it says such beauti yeah yeah in in what's the we say in the in the no no it's the only that we say right yeah we don't say that about P we don't say it about right right this is all about so I yeah I want to actually get into that into yeah into the into and how you approach it we can go straight there we come back to travel later um what is do you are you going to why you bring it up because okay no we're talking about the the the he was talking about going away for so we segue into this rabbit hole Yeah but I was bring up he can't unless he goes mention travels business class and you know I go with my f we I sit in the regular seats and I'm not saying it's easy yeah but it's 12 hours yeah how many times have we been in a situation for 12 hours where it's whatever it is you can sit in traffic sometimes just for four hours to sit in traffic and then you have to go and sit by a a wedding you didn't want to go to right or barid and it's over after it's done with you you know we have a very shortterm memory yeah and you can see that with shiv shom and you could see that with any any tragedy we forget things very quickly yeah our president to be hopefully he got was tried to be assassinated twice you forget about it right now you're going to speak about something else today saw I don't know if it was a third time yet but they met a guy with gun guy with guns these days outside neighborhood if feel somebody it's used to be a walkie-talkie now it's a yeah I wouldn't call it an attemp it could be it wasn't attempt yeah it could be it was a possible attempt right that they they let him go but that's California whatever point is we forget these things so the the bad part of the travel you hopefully forget you won't forget but you move past that and and focus on the good part of what you're doing there right I think for me it's it was more like a mental blockage from before going I was like I don't know what's going to happen it's too much Unown fear nothing to fear of fear for me it it used to be way too much fear now I'm a more open to it but it used to be way too much fear like I'm not I'm not going to have anybody there I'm not going to have my friends my family uh that's the best but you go and you meet the new people right right so you have to be really open you have to really yeah um what is so what is uh uh you're when you mentioned what's the beauty of tala are you actually going or how do you do I go yeah now why do you even oh so where you going so years I've gone to Williamsburg I used to go to the brother re I don't know if you know oh wow I'm saying you're bringing it up because you see them go or you're bringing it up because you're actually going to go or something like that I didn't remember why we brought up tala no you were saying that it's very nice to be in Crown is part of it's part of Simka where do you get to see it when you're home here what do you mean we walk we walk you have thousands of of course this year this year okay where are you walking I'm going to walk to Windsor Terrace or to Williamsburg I don't know yet how far walk is Williamsburg Williamsburg is about an hour hour and 25 minutes depending on where it is really so that's a 3 Four Mile Walk each way it's a three yeah it depends where you go Williamsburg and is also big today right if you're going to division or if you're going to to the so you're walking there and you're obviously coming back or you going Shas and now you sound like some of the jokes they make no why going Uber back oh like here inab everybody makes that joke I was once so no I'm meaning if you go shabas afternoon but shabas is no we don't goas we go on second day so if it's not no so if it's it's not shab this year it's three day on but if it's not then you can stay over this always the same day oh you could stay over I was once twice happened to end up being on tala I I walk to Manhattan okay so my Zeta was in the hospital one year he was in Mount Si yeah so that's onund and it's goes a little bit further but I was on West 100 Street okay and so we walked there and we took shifts in the family so I walked there mhm and I walked back and I wore the wrong shoes I wore shoes like this shoes my God it was torture it took me it should have taken about 4 hours and change it took me 6 hours the total trip the total trip no to go there one way I walked back the walk the walk back killed me it was hot it was on PES it was on PES it was on PES we do it PES we do it we do it on on and I said I was walking back a m b kill yeah I'm on bleer street and I you know driving you get to know your way around I was walking I didn't know how to to walk to the bridge and I had to take the Williamsburg Bridge and I could walk through Williamsburg and I didn't know so many people in Williamsburg at the time or where they lived it would have been nice to stop and then take a drink yeah and I'm walking and it's pesak and a guy tells and I was wearing shoes it's called boat shoes so guy tells me and I was coming from Mount Si and he I don't know if he saw hasem sent me this Mal and he tells me and he's eating Chinese food from a Chinese stand near there and he tells me when the when the Jews left Egypt they also wore boat shoes so I said no but when they left Mount Si they did he like yeah I'm like yeah that's where I'm com from you just walk from Mount Si he's like yeah oh I would have walked with you like what's your name he tells me Robert or something I said what's your name tells me shoy I said shoy so where did you grow up he grew up up Minnesota and moved here and before you know he's starting to walk with me and I said you know it's PES he goes yeah I know it's PES I know I said where do you live he tells me in Williamsburg I'm like so do you know how to get to the bridge he showed me how to get to the bridge he ended up walking back with me from bleer all the way to Crown Heights came to my house for the suda wow yeah came to my house for the soda kept in touch after p a little bit put on Etc and uh he moved he moved somewhere weird I don't know he was an interesting guy wow but from that opportunity I was able to bring a yid in to have a y meal rightful had matah that I think that's also one of the things that kabat people respect is um if with inviting people even though they will come with a car I think this is a controversial top he walked with me right now I understand but you don't invite somebody who's coming with a car so you're allowed I just asked you're allowed to tell you're allowed to have them for y but you don't invite that's what my was we will have them for y yeah basically shabas and if they come with a car that's own prog I don't have to stand there and look at the car or see the car and it could be they walked yeah you just know that they know I from I walked from Mount Si it's very easy for this person to walk from Williamsburg in fact many times you ever walk around your house on the phone for an hour exct I don't realize right it's the same why don't you wear sneakers when you walk to tala this year when if you're going to Williamsburg you're also going to wear so again that was a mistake yeah okay no but today and I figured I was wearing wearing my satuk my my uh kapot and my hat and I didn't want to walk with sneakers I didn't have black sneakers at the time yeah want to be classic I know I didn't want it to to now I have black sneakers so now I wear black sneakers you won't know the difference wow if you walk with white sneakers and you see someone W with white sneakers I didn't want to so every y there's many groups that go out to Bar Park Williamsburg Bronx how far the Bronx bron bron is probably a good 4 Hour 5 Hour walk 4 hour each way each how do people do this four five hours means I'm not those people I can't tell you I was walking so one year another year my Z was in the hospital it was same year and but it was on suus and I was walking so I walked to Williamsburg I went to a few friends house I had the suda we did I did hus in Williamsburg mhm and I went another show along the way till you get to the bridge I get across the bridge and I see people are coming back cuz I was going to do the night shift I was on 34th Street by NYU by Z was there and I was going to spend the night there and come back the next day when my cousin will take over so I was walking back and as I'm walking I'm seeing people coming back this is already 11 12:00 at night people are coming back from the Upper West Side Upper East Side yeah the Bronx literally till and then uh I got to the I got to the hospital about 11:30 went upstairs I checked in with my Zeda I my cousin went back and then I bring with my Zade a little bit and fell asleep I went downstairs for a cigarette and I see some more Yen some more laas walking back wow yeah impressive um I think it's just insane I'm trying to think about how these people walk so much some of it some of them are insane I don't know it's far so Windsor Terrace is not that far it's 45 minutes maybe okay so who organizes the groups and how do people know where how you're going to Williamsburg for example where you meeting I go Williamsburg go to any SCH no no setup you just go to a show of course I have friends who are so so inviting and they all invite me come if you're coming please come have a have a bite to eat have the in windsday in no in Windsor is in Windor there a yeah in Windsor Terrace is a it's my cousin so if you're walking to wind you have to make a stop sit and come I go there by Windsor Terrace we go there we do a cus there they close off the street the police are are amazing close off the street the whole Community the whole neighborhood from not come out and then we come back and we finish the so then you come back here we go to 770 have a chance K he danc with other dancing the whole night over here it's lively man right it's lit no it is it really very very exciting but the groups that go out to Bronx willbur do they meet by the sh they have a station there and there's there's shers there's SCH you in Williamsburg I'm not set I could tell the the the brother for example I'm coming or not he's more than happy to take you you walk to any shoulder more than happy for your come inside dance a little they know who we are they know you're here to to spread the the idea is to dance but you're also singing on the way usually and share Sim and share encouragement right with other with other youen right wow that's inspiring yeah right and also you guys have is here so that's not onlyl not only if you come itself without music without music with singing and dancing singing till 6:00 in the morning right that is known right like you have the whole world coming to see inside the go inside you the know that's happening yeah people come look it says uh you should see the joy such a kid see the joy basic take the water night if to see it yeah what does it mean how can you see you see it physically just like you said you see your face in the ad right right they know they know what's happening know it's a real person you come and see the how do you feel about Trump visiting the oil I know when I saw it I was like I was touched by it I was like wow that's a nice thing CU I know I went to the oil by the this is my oil story if you want to hear okay listen to this I went to the oil for the first time wrote a Kitt set the hilum and it was very felt very spiritual for me I had a a nice time I drive back I'm alone in the car I'm on the on the BQE and I'm going 75 and a cup pulls me over she comes out she's not happy and she tells me sir you going 75 miles an hour and I'm like you know so sorry I just didn't realize and I said I tell her it's the first time I'm getting a ticket so you know you know okay let me see your license I give it to her she goes back to the to the car and I say I tell myself I'm coming now from the oil there's got to you know everything overflows right everything you have a reaction what's the word cause an effect right action reaction action there's an equal re I'm just sitting in the car I'm like I'm just imagining the feeling of just not getting a ticket you know she comes out she says sir this is not the first time me getting pulled over I see you we pulled on the Staton Island Expressway I see you got a ticket on this other Highway nowhere in New York City is the speed limit 75 clearly you have a speeding problem get out of here and she hands me over the paper and I'm like I'm looking through it I see my registration I see my license I don't see the ticket you know cuz she's she's like yelling at me you know she told me don't lie to me I'm like she's clearly upset and there was no ticket so I said Thank you rabba and uh and now I'm a full-blown for real you know but so how did you feel about Trump visiting the oil I thought I don't know if he went to visit the oil as specifically to visit the oil I think he wanted to pay respect for for October 7th for the victims and he figured where is there a holy place in right New York I guess somewhere local where you could go to to pay his respects they came to a right uh in terms of of which part of that the fact that he he looks as the oil as a place of religious substance I I think it's quite obvious am I happy that he does it sure everybody realize if he doesn't what do IAD in general like what's the mikah talk you guys are was it like no was it like a moment for you guys was it like a a for me it was that's what I'm saying for me I was like wow nice you know his daughter came the last election to so so it wasn't so from the M for talk is yeah that that he came um we're excited if anybody comes but it's not for our excitement when you come to the oil you're coming to the re right It's let's called it's an intimate moment yeah right so understand it's Trump you have to take pictures when you went I don't think anybody took pictures of You by the oil no there's no pictures allowed so it's it's an intimate moment it's for him for him and whatever he prayed for and and discussed with the rebba that's he looked very emotional I mean uh I saw one picture and yeah wow I didn't I didn't I didn't care that much about it happy he went if he went to the SAT I'd be just as happy do you have a personal favorite oil story that you had for yourself that you want to share for myself for my personally friend of mine client he had a he had a great one for me he was uh in your situation he was the middle of shim mhm and he was going out with a girl and he couldn't make up his mind and he wanted to he wanted to move forward and whatever reason he couldn't and basically she gave him ultimatum yeah you got to decide yes or no it's going on too long yeah so he said let me think about it and just give him time let's say it was Tuesday he says uh I have I want to answer before shabas mhm came before shabas goes up says I'm asking you one favor give me till Sunday says Fine on Friday night he said he couldn't he almost didn't go to sh he was he was always mench for making this decision he went to SCH and his friend saw me said what's wrong with you he told him what's going on I had says so what's go to the reab WR a p and figure this out yeah he said right that's it the whole shabas he made a learned woke up early went to DAV didn't speak G some red n shabas shabas came boom went into the car didn't turn on his phone that's shocking right didn't turn on his phone he had a a mission he's going straight he went to the a he sat down he wrote his pond he's in the zone wres the pond everything he goes inside takes the mintion and goes inside and his heart G gave over his heart and he was reading every word he read his P finishes his pond and he rips it up to put inside he's standing in the oil for an hour hour and a half he was in a different world and he gets up his pond he finishes and he picks his head up to leave right across from him is his now his wife then his col to be wow she had no idea that he's going to be there he had no idea that she's going to be there both came with the same both at the same time they did not know each other were in the room right they didn't know that they were there he didn't see her he didn't see her she didn't see him when you walk I don't know who was there when you're there you walk inside you do your business you're you're there for the RAB yes many times you're not here by yourself you know sometimes I used to go at 2:00 in the morning because there's a very rare chance said someone's going to be there but there's always someone there and he looked up and there she is there she is wow that's one of one of beautiful yeah so maybe I should I should go there maybe I'll find go I'm going to kill the story there's another great story a friend of mine he's a B of A okay I don't want to kill it so much I all I'm going to ask him for this maybe we'll do it on a different podcast to go through it but short answer short story is he was a mam at the time and he used to go once a week to the O he was newly married his sh sh her second year and he his wife calls him and tells him tonight we're going to my parents house and he's in the oil by the oil if you go outside the oil anybody would know there's a video of the rabbi playing the whole time different videos of different people coming Etc and uh he comes out and he's watching and his wife says we're going to by my parents tonight it's no problem we'll be there around 7 and then someone comes by the up for dollars and he wants to give up a PA of apparently a very famous saer in bar Park not I don't know the name I don't want to kill it whatever reason is theb did not want to accept it and he's Tri to explain Tob how this of is so CER rash it's like two in one yeah and till he basically for tell him I don't believe in this Mah I don't believe in this uh this PA and thank you it's not would never accept gifts from people if he did he would pay for it m fine comes home and is not there comes late and tells him a story that you'll never believe what happened to me he found out that he never di in film there was a scandal of Aer in his uh his neighborhood that from when he Mitzvah either there was no par again I don't want to don't quote me on this but there was something wrong with this that he needed a new P of this were puzzle right he pulls out his new pil same per the guy was trying to sell the re because that's how it's ker andash combined and he realized this is why he was there and he his father-in-law who not tells him he tells him by the this video this this is the you got it from right goes yeah how do you know because he came to them the didn't accept it right so he called up theer and he asked him for a regular bear and he tried to explain again why how this is the mess yeah and he said no so and that's another story that I haveen like that he got the right PA film because that day there's things that happen I personally don't have a specific story like that happened to me right the question is if I go to the reab if I'm going to get aabad girl like is that or or can I get also from that I don't know that I don't think is it's up to the iish right yeah you want a kabad girl um many times I'm I would I was considering it I mean especially if she knows you [Laughter] yeah because I think kab is awesome I think the mindset is definitely awesome in many ways I might not agree with everything but I think that there is a tremendous amount of like openness and uh open-mindedness I don't think anybody could argue with that yeah no it's just nice I mean there's some things that that are um that are uh maybe controversial or some things that that no meaning that the the the mainstream them have a little bit looser I would say um in terms of their day-to-day life but in many ways the mindset I think of kabas is there I was discussing not this exactly but similar different things about other how very curious you know I don't want to see the other side of the fence yeah but we have different mug right as an example what time do you start ding yeah what time yeah um average 9:00 I was oh 9 o' that's not but I heard 8:00 8:00 8:30 yeah okay but it's 10 o' oh really yeah um I'm C you have different fist I always wonder do you is it the same L I don't know right cuz when I go to Williamsburg for tala and I I don't have a yeah so it's the L is a little bit different so you know I'm curious about different things that but we no there's like certain from it's kind of it's a little bit of All or Nothing um I'm talking by the mainstream uh it's where I'm from it's it's also I think so let's talk about somebody that modernizes right let's say somebody becomes more modern from where I'm from when you're more modern it's kind of like okay everything is good and accepted I feel like inad they they will also modernize but yet stay very I would say spiritual and connected is not not that they will modernize there are people who are more modern you mentioned in your monologue in the beginning that you try to be I try to be I tell I'm not the example of what right should be I'm not mhm I try to be it's a progress that you're constantly trying to work on right right the famous story with pin MH and he was uh in court and they asked him are you you're a religious Jew P was Masia he was unbelievably and he said I tried him and that's Dan oh if you if you are right then you're not doing vo yeah that it is but there's different miles if you look at you want to call Mainstream you go to satmer the they have they have unbelievable for for me it's it's more the mindset I remember I had this podcast with Rabbi Manas fredman yeah and and I was inspired the way that his approach the way uh you know the way he was saying how Hashem uh Waits For You and hasem like all these Concepts now I don't know by the I'm not I don't know if he's even mainstream kabad or or if he's just one Avenue is is a legend okay just checking and uh and and and to me to me it was like wow is this this what they teach in your schools and he said yeah and I'm like wow okay well that's definitely different than than uh than where I grew up I did you ask him that you ask him why is it um I didn't ask him why it is that way I just told him that it's interesting that it is that way and but then again you can't I don't think opportunity what kind of interviewer are you um I I know why it's that way I can answer the question why the because the reason that it's that way is because it is it is unfortunately a lot easier to just follow a broken system rather than to have to go figure out for yourself God or spirituality or even or even Casas so that's what people will just choose to rather follow something that doesn't necessarily work or connect to them than having to go find it in their own words God when he sends us into this world he makes us forget about any everything he wants us to recreate ourselves from the get-go now most most of us get put into certain programming with growing up parents teachers and friends right but it's also our responsibility to figure out what really connects to us and how we are connected to to the TOA or even religion for most people they don't want to go down that rout that route they're they just theout of religion the route of of of figuring it out for themselves so they say I'll be a blind follower and I'll just do things even though I don't think that it's that it's that it works for me or even though that doesn't connect to necessarily what I believe in I'm just going to stay in a in a specific box that's why I think it's it's corrupted in in in many ways so I think yeah it's just something I learned with you should maybe learn with also okay good guy name SCH moosi but you'll have good conversations with maybe you should have him on the podcast yeah um I don't I don't agree with you I don't agree with you just just because you're right there are some people that are just comfortable without any change and they don't want to explore but if the person's happy you know the expression if it ain't broke fix it yeah I know I agree with that right now as we believe everybody should learn and it's a very powerful tool talk to your to understand your Nama connect you to your and then it's always connected to to to Hashem it's always connected there but how do you strengthen that connection there's there's a great small book I started to read um by Robert Kiser it's on sh it's a small book you know the book no oh um I think it's called Stairway to Serenity MH I but great a great introduction great thing about this is a book by by uh Simon Jacobson towards a meaningful life I tell you how many go I've met whove read it and it's based on it's not unbelievable people in the old days would think that if you learn then you're a traitor and you you have to throw rocks at that person today it's more accepted obviously and it's open to anybody right uh I I think everybody wants to feel good about themselves I think everybody wants to have a drink in positivity right they want to right so come drink from the fountain the fountain is there right you need there there is more than one way to learn right and that's where I think the problem is in our education system the that some people we have to uh adjust doesn't mean to adjust and bend that this is acceptable it's acceptable for now till you're ready to move to the next thing right right not you have to first crawl and then walk and then run and then do a marathon right you can't just say okay I'm doing a marathon right well that that doesn't work yeah right when somebody becomes B it doesn't start um have to think about that for a second somebody comes a b forget about the people who are never from and become from how about the ones who are from when off the and come back right that takes a lot of uh mhm think about it they they went because they ran away from this because this was what was it B yes yeah or whatever it was they were uncomfortable with and coming back is a reason because they saw that they probably didn't work on themselves over here right and this is the answer this does have it's uh to use the word for uh modern times no anxiety right or social anxiety because it really doesn't exist if you go to think about it he walk to go to shabas go to whatever songs you sing everybody's sitting there and singing if I ask you to sing a song right now not you necessarily but most people are embarrassing but you come everybody together it's right right one heart one Soul one Spirit one one one nation right well I I think that's beautiful and even according to RAB manma what he mentioned is that became killas became groups that people follow uh either a leader or just just different other people they follow their neighbor and I absolutely agree with that I think that it's a little bit terrifying and it's very scary um to understand that people are not really connected to whatas originated and and started off from um and if they were to really learnis which I actually learnis every week I see the beauty in it I see a shine lately to you I thought was the camera maybe some camera no I I I Ely see the love and acceptance but not not in terms of killas I'm not following a kahill I'm not following a certain people that made a a set of rules but um anyway I want to get into a few questions with you Yan like rapid fire we got we got into deep stuff over here so random questions that I love to ask people that I bring up I thought you're coming to help me finish the yeah we we're getting to it right away um if you were to have to be a in any place in the entire world which means you have to move away from Crites um and just live there and be Mak of people yeah where would that be which country so one everybody can be a wherever you are you've come to you've you've seen me at shows I have a p of in there have of cash something yeah yeah so you could be a wherever you go you don't have to to to go somewhere if I would choose it's not about that it's wherever they would send me if you're if you want to become what would be your preference doesn't matter what my preference is is where do they send you wow okay um you're also into art I'm going to keep this in the rapid fire section because I because I can't get it but what inspired you to start doing your own artwork and paintings and stuff like that are they even for purchase by the way or just for people to see not yet if somebody wants to see it where can they see it you have a you have something I maybe posted a few on LinkedIn L on Instagram okay um what made me get into it I just loved it I loved it as a kid is you but you're really good at it I feel like it's not just that you're like doing stuff I feel like with in terms of take making a picture you're good at that I'm I'm not as bad as maybe someone else but I'm not good uh I can tell you from myself that doesn't mean art is subjective you could love a piece of art that I may hate right that's sometimes you see I remember my Z told me once he saw Picasso when he was younger and uh and he couldn't understand it didn't it didn't it didn't work for but for some people they love it like crazy you know what I mean for some people well I feel like your art is very like old aeim you know aeim style my what every artist draws what they feel I grew up in a environment yeah Crown Heights and Crown Heights I have here you have I grew up in a family my parents my grandparents uncles and the way of which I was raised was very much was very much uh being open to different people and if you look in my art you see different all different types of it's not just only yeah um it's a mixture of them if you come now inight and I'll invite you to drive run go in front of 770 there's 3,000 people came in F mhm 3,000 B wow yeah and they're here to spend they don't have place to e I'm going to have quite a few over y wow boys girls um my father for 43 years is already feeding all these guests who come in they don't have a place he was one of them he he comes from from and he has two trucks outside 770 with food give out food really yes so all that inspired me and that's what you'll see just there's giving out food in my art there's there's Sim wow and that's what that's what I like now yane markets most people don't know this but I know it cuz we went out to eat multiple times ready when you invited me um you're a major foodie so what's your favorite restaurant and what's your favorite food I don't have a favorite restaurant um I really don't it's like a child right every restaurant like it's it's wherever you go you make it a good time you know and and I'd say most of the time it's about who you're with it's not about the going to yourself you don't see people sitting by themselves eating and things how about a favorite food my favorite food I very not Prejudice I love everything I like pizza I like steak I like hot dogs I put you know what if I had to pick two I love pizza and I love Hot Dogs wow those are souro Pizza you into that cuz I I feel like it's reinvented pizza for very non Prejudice I love sour I love I love pizza time yeah I don't know if you know Pizza Time on Avenue J no I haven't tried it oh yeah I good pizza oh yeah what makes a good think 81 or 83 on the what's his name scale you know the guy poro yeah Porto he's good he's Jewish also he is Jewish right no and one of his up one of the times he got there was a a b put on the phone with him yeah oh right right yeah I remember that yeah he's good he's very entertaining I'm not sure why but I love watching his videos you know what I'm saying I know what you're saying you just want to see what the next one is I'm sitting you're thinking why am I watching I can't taste any of these pizzas and I want to see if this one's good or not it makes you love pizza that's it he tasted Pizza time yeah okay what did he give it over eight really a lot for him that's a big number he's usually at the six usually it's a big number so pizza and hot dogs must be my two favorite yeah really you like hot dogs I love everything you don't get to be the size without uh no you're you're doing great now but uh I tonight I had hot dog yesterday hot dog never have opportunity it is I also like I had yesterday hot dogs I love chickeni frank and blanks don't make me feel so I don't like Franken blanks why I don't know I just you need the full experience bun I need to be able to put my ketchup my mustard my sour CR my relish yeah there some onion ring um you've probably taken over your lifetime thousands of flights and uh I want thousands but definitely hundreds yes hundreds what what was the uh scariest experience you ever had how much time do you have there's the experience of once where I thought the plane was going to crash like literally like it was shaking and I thought the thing but that wasn't the scariest time the scariest the scary that wasn't the scariest thing cuz that there was one time I was traveling to it was m shabas and no Sunday it was a Sunday flight um 10 years ago probably and I don't know I did not feel good on chav I hope I didn't move the m i I did not feel good on chavas and I had a pain over here yeah but a few hours pasted I didn't didn't die so I figured it's not it's not a heart attack I'm fine I'm not saying anything to anybody cuz if I say anything to my wife I'm going to the hospital and I'm not and miss this I'm missing this trip the next the middle of the night I wake up I almost couldn't breathe took me a a little bit of time maybe it's gas that yeah woke up in the morning I was better still a little bit pain I get on to the flight the next night it's Sun night I'm in the flight and we start going and the pain gets more severe and more severe and all a sudden your paranoia that's in everything my arms oh my gosh am I having a heart attack right I don't want to the whole plane here but having am I having a heart attack just make sure um so I'm I'm sitting there and I turn to my partner and I tell him I think I'm having a heart attack I think I think then he started to have a heart attack and I I don't know what to do so I go up to the flight attendant and I said I I do you have any aspiring because I remember when as a lifeguard or or in a movie you see they take as right all of a sudden every there a doctor you watch three episodes of VR and I go he says oh no I said I think I'm having a heart attack I'm not sure and I heard you're supposed to take so he goes and he brings me what they do have and it says nonaspirin on it this doesn't help I said maybe you could ask are you flying already at this point we're in the air baby we're we're halfway there okay and it's I'm not describing well I'm sweating I can't breathe my breaths are getting shorter my arm is killing me whether it's real or not it's killing me my chest is killing me pain I I said maybe asked the crew the the yeah not the crew the passengers I don't know if we're allowed to make personal announcements I'm like I'm dying here yeah and then finally I couldn't take it and I stood up and I said I think it's time to ask the crew and maybe ask if there's a doctor the plane ironically we're maybe a third of the flight was yiden they were going to a show in in Vegas at least a third of the flight was yiden there was not one hot solo not one that's interesting very interesting yeah and I there's at least 340 on the plane right and he gets on the thing he says we have an emergency is there a doctor or any medical professional a doctor comes and a a EMS an em a firefighter EMS guy comes and one NN right yeah yeah didn't have a walkie-talkie yeah so see there they have to get permission from ground control to open up the first aid kit this is something that it takes like 10 minutes that itself could kill somebody yeah yeah they take it out he takes the stethoscope and he's checking me out and I'm like he's like I don't think there's anything wrong with you wow so I'm like oh so and the flight attendants on the phone with the pilot do we have to do emergency Landing he's like I don't think you have to do emergency landing I said so do we have to have EMS should we have EMS when we land he said yeah I said why do I need a m he said I'm fine yeah he says dude we're 30,000 ft in the air I have a $12 stethoscope I don't yeah yeah so is there something wrong with me because I don't think so but check it out when we're down there I don't think you have to do emergency line okay you probably f better just from that no just from you didn't you still felt the same we land we're about this point we're about an hour 45 minutes away all of a sudden we we're 11 minutes away they got they got permission yeah to speed up the plane oh wow they cut off 30 minutes we got there they say everybody please stay in your seats we have an emergency please let them off the plane for a I wish I had your sweatshirt that I could go like this I was embarrassing yeah so let the guys come to the front of the plane I was going is with partner I don't know if you you've been to Vegas that's the fastest airport for me yeah you get there chick chalk you're off the plane right so I run to the front of the plane no Kan is is in right I don't want anybody to see who I am like as if they don't know you already right I get to the front of the plane and the lights turn on I'm standing there and they can't open the door you have two EMS guys you have two uh firefighters there yeah and they can't open the door s there for 3 minutes which feels like 4 hours right get off the plane you hear the guy yeah boom we're going to check you yeah the EMS is standing on the side it's two women and these are two firefighters yeah they rip off my shirt and all it's Glory start they start putting the patches yeah boom boom boom boom boom EKG and I'm sitting there I feel so bad for everybody on the plane they're going to have to wait for me to finish this whole sh but no they didn't have to wait everybody starts walking out while you're sitting at the door there like this with and of course whoever didn't have opportunity to tell me on the plane I'm saying okay this can't get worse they check the EKG everything's good I said I could go they said this is not the greatest equipment you have to go to the hospital you should go to the hospital then why do you put on this equipment to see if but then you'd have to rush me to the fine I don't know if you ever had these things they start ripping it off I know you recently did the laser this is yeah it's pretty painful oh my God yeah now they have to take me out and the EMS doesn't take you until you get out of the airport this is the the Whatchamacallit the the firefighters and they take me and I'm thinking okay I was embarrassed enough what can I do and um I can't breathe so I have an oxygen yeah and they have uh four people around me I have no shirt I'm being dragged around the air report like this on it's it's not a good feeling and they pull over to the elevator and I'm like laying there like this and I turn to this way what's by the elevator they decided to hop a minion my so the whole my is standing next to me watching you pass it and here I get a few yeah and everybody I get into the thing they put on new patches yeah they do EKG they give me liquid nitrogen or uh uh nitrogen they give me tastes good they tell me the machine is saying I'm good wow I'm like that's great so I could just leave this isn't the greatest machine yeah so why are you doing this you I just did this and they gave me a stress test you ever did a stress test no they they like they try to kill you it's they pump you with something you have to run on a machine until you either have a heart attack oh wow pretend yeah says they're overnight in the hospital in the hospital and uh they told me I'm fine in the morning I just I didn't I still felt the same right and they said the first time I took a uber from the hospital I download the app I took a uber what do you usually do in Vegas I take a taxi I go downstairs there's always tax here's the hospital emergency I don't know I took an Uber um it was :00 in the morning um I get to the hotel I take a shower I'm peeling off I said don't take this off I'll take it off myself up slowly slowly i d tell my wife I was in the hospital yeah and I can't breathe but what can I do I go to sleep good six hours I wake up completely fine nothing wrong but that was my worst flight I had so I'm trying to think do you feel like it was that's all you needed a good night sleep the ice is still there still there right yeah thank you um I'm just yeah you see by the way these type of stories give me the anxiety from flying because I'm like I don't want to be on a flight and then 3 hours in with three hours to go I feel like I'm dying and you go through that experience so this 20 hours to go go to Australia yeah know I'm saying like this can be it's tough that's scary but it's scary I'm risk reward how often does it happen how often do people what do you what did you feel like why did you felt like it happened because you were exhausted or I don't know what was wrong with me till today I have no idea you still don't know I still don't know right I still don't know um I've gone to the hospital a few times for that where I thought I'm having a heart attack for the same pain for the same pain mhm and uh that's one of the Reas reasons that sparked me to go to cardiologist and Bar everything is good mhm but the pain comes there right could be gas it could very much be gas and gas can feel like a heart attack or anxiety but I don't know you get anxiety from traveling like make you nervous it wasn't first of it wasn't from traveling so I don't know that it was does anxiety get it gets me nervous when we're late I I don't like people travel with me I like to be there on time on time I don't mean 3 hours before my flights I want to be there at least an hour before right I like that yeah I just learned 50% of people that go to the hospital for heart attack it's really an anxiety attack really they're like nervous or something and anxiety symptoms are the same as a heart attack your heart's racing you feel sweaty you feel tingling you feel the your chest gets tight maybe so shouldn't they tell me that no maybe yeah maybe they did send they sent me a nice Bill oh yeah yeah it's what what's the 50% oh maybe yeah it could happen wow but when the flame um shakes that can also be very scary CU you L you sometimes feel like this plane is just going to no there was one time swo over shaking and up and down and and I was sitting by the wing and I saw the thing sh you were seeing the shaking and I wasn't so scared that was only the only I'm thinking should I put on the seat belt or not what's easy easier for me to swim out where where am I what's going to be easier for me to get out of this plane wow right I'm thinking because if if it if it crash land I'm a very strong swimmer bar yeah all right so midd of the Atlantic I'm more worried about my T and my my my luggage that's underneath the plane how do I find that but in a way it would be cool it wouldn't be one of those Survivor stories yeah no make a podcast as long as you survive Yankee that's all I care about of course that's for should never happen should never happened but I'm not I'm not a scared I'm not scared of flying that that stuff doesn't bother me um boats I could get boat sickness if it uh you ever did a cruise for a week no to me it's paranoid to the to the next I never did it but I don't know I'd love to do it you would love yeah except they have it like once or twice what do you do when you at 3 hours of sleep how do you I for me it's like a de sentence I have a podcast with you yeah up 6 you probably do it a lot you probably work a lot of days on three hours of sleep or a show or you're talking about red eyes you don't feel like you're sleeping during the day sleep walking if you do it for two three days in a row it it catches up one day you still have and then you you have to conk out and get a good you know six to eight hours wow but for one day no one day could do you never not sleep 24 48 Hours 78 two hours for me yeah I'm I always get my sleep I just no I'm just going to tell it straight out I know I learned this Dr Jordan Peterson one of the biggest psychologist you know him um he said that 50% yeah no no like from seeing him he said that about 50% of the people that come to him he sends them home for a good meal or a good night's sleep and to me that hit home cuz so many people that I talk to so many times for me when I struggle in my life I notice that all I need is a good night of sleep and some most people think a good night sleep is five six hours it's not it's 78 hours for majority of people 78 hours ever I understand that's okay people are built differently by the way it's okay it could be that you're for that your 5 six hours is enough there's a small percentage that it works but majority of people need six seven eight hours recommended I I I could agree with you and if they don't sleep it messes every it messes everything up your pro productivity your anxiety goes up your cortisol everything gets not you know what I'm saying I'm not saying somebody's doing well I'm saying for those who are not doing well check your food intake and check because when you don't eat what happens is the body does releases the same exact feelings and chemicals like an anxiety attack so so you're feeling anxiety for one sub reason you didn't eat right how many times do we have it we're all nervous we're having a lot of feelings come up you eat a warm meal and oh wow changes everything I feel so different right again everybody each on their own level and what they're going through in their life but eating healthy EA or eating itself and sleeping well is super important I agree Yan what's your message to the to the world final message what would uh if you can talk now to the entire universe and give them one message we need to do whatever we can to bring mashiach right I think we now more than ever I know it's been said many times in history and uh we need to show support for our brothers and sisters in can I please interrupt and say that right when the war hit a week later or how how many days later Yan was on the Forefront in Israel it was and uh you went to help out people two weeks later you were there in the in the in the camps and you were helping out people raising money doing whatever you can you were there and I asked you are you afraid you're like no I I want to be here now I should be and you went you went a few times no I think you went twice or yeah yeah um and if you have the opportunity to do it I suggest you definitely definitely do it you went to Israel yeah no have you ever been there Israel yeah no I I I I learned you know I learned in Israel for a year and a half so I got the experience where at ISA inam okay yeah so you don't like excuse me I do I do I like to visit it not afraid to fly it's not comfortable for me to travel or to fly I like my comfort yeah it could be could be scared it's fine I understand it's fine you just got to sometimes you got to do what you got to do yeah you should go do some podcasts do some videos speak to the people I know well who's the most interesting person living now in Israel in your opinion there's tons of interesting people living in who's my most interesting I don't have one every I respect every Soldier MH and to me whenever I have opportunity to talk to to any of them not even before the war where you from how are you doing thank you for uh your service over here as well every police officer every every every veteran You' make a good general make a good General yeah could be but the to me you find just like you you say positivity right you're I love you you love yourself enjoy the coffee whatever it is you're saying yeah right so people need to hear that people need to hear that they need to be recog I they need they need a little bit of uh of attention right and sometimes you give two minutes to somebody and you change their world right literally change their world yeah and I try to do that especially in when you're in N you have soldiers kids they don't have a choice right they don't have a choice uh and they do it with the off in the heart yeah open heart right and they're protecting us true they're protecting our um and you are changing the world you are speak to B if you yeah for me it's I'm just saying yeah yeah all right I he calls me here and there but I just don't have the time anyway Yankee yes thank you so much pleasure for doing this this was I you probably noticed that I'm in the zone yet present but I'm in the zone you took me to nice places and I appreciate your time you're very welcome I love this um guys please please remind her to subscribe to the channel leave a comment uh both Yan and I would love to hear your feedback and as I always say we want to hear your feedback you want to hear recommendations if anybody has a nice Jewish girl Ellie he's on the market he's looking right yes you looking is you're available yeah he's single and he's ready to [Laughter] mingle thank you Yan appreciate it you have massive audience here what do you have now 7 million people watch this a day so it's it's interesting not 7 million a day but Millions throughout the month on different platforms and stuff there got to be somebody who knows a girlfriend no there is absolutely there is and in the right time now is the right time no yeah it is if you're not serious then don't you're going to have now a million people looking for a girl for you all right let's do this should we say what I'm looking for yeah what's what are you looking for um I'm 26 so I prefer someone my age or younger okay UMES you want to go out with somebody older than you I wouldn't prefer I mean if it's one or two years older I think that's maybe okay but I would generally speaking I would prefer a little bit younger what if she's older but immature no okay um and I'm looking for someone that's kidish I always say at least kidish a mindset Yiddish speaking because that's my mama Luan and um you want to speak to her in Yiddish yeah okay and she should be able to understand yish my family speaks yish at the end of the day it's an important language May it's a good thing she doesn't speak yish yeah I know but if if not it's a barrier for some people they use that but um most of all to me it's the most important things is as a happy life and growth I feel like I enjoy life I try to live on the edge I try to do fun stuff and I I feel like I'm spiritually connected I'm just I feel like I'm a fun personality I like action I like I enjoy life I always say you know you should enjoy life you should travel should go on a plane right no no I will he thinks he action enjoys life I I I did travel to some places just I went with you to Vegas you like going to Vegas I loved it so you come again yeah yeah I would no absolutely it I I'm okay I know I'll be okay I'm just saying but um so yeah that's what anyway guys thank you so much for joining and uh if you're 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