We’re The Thankers

Who knows where he was from Reb Matisyohu? Where was he from Gateshead, England? We got Lally. We have Lally from beautiful person. Beautiful Lally's. Well, Lally has brought to the shame of so mature, so nice, so people love him. He brings such a cheer makes you [applause] walk into a room and he's so nice to people. He's like nice and welcoming and kind and just brings a whole room like becomes brings his vibe like literally the energy brings in a room is beautiful. It's a big source that we have in Yeshiva. It's appreciated a lot. So, Reb Matisyohu Salomon came from England and he made a tremendous impact in America. Beautiful Yid. And Reb Matisyohu Salomon asked his nation if everybody can please come to Shea Stadium. I happen to be a Mets fan. So, tell me to come to Shea, I'll probably come anyway, but he invited everybody to Shea Stadium. Today it's called City Field. Us old timers still call it Shea. But, he invited everybody to Shea Stadium. And he said he wants to talk about technology. A godol like that asks everybody to come where in. So, me and Reb Oberlander drove to Shea Stadium. It's funny because Reb Oberlander was on time to everything and I don't tend to be and we went early by Oberlander time and we were sitting in Shea Stadium. There was like barely a minyan. And I like I told him you see most of clients are more like me, not like you. We were like the first ones in the stadium. It was very funny. It was like empty. 50,000 people came. But, when we came and I like a little bit I showed him that clients are more like me than like him, but he was he was outstanding and he was on time. The bottom line is we went to Shea Stadium for this rally for for to speak about technology. One of the one of the leaders of of American jewelry got up to speak and he pulled one of the all-time cool moves I've ever seen in my life. He gets up to speak. There are 50,000 people there and he says most of the speeches were in Yiddish. Came out everything was in Yiddish. First of all, he spoke in English. I thought that was pretty cool to begin with like I can understand better. But he also says he starts his speech, I had right Overlander on one side of me and a Satmar on the other side. We'll call him Yailish. I don't know if that's his name. I'm not making fun, but he's a Satmar Reb Yailish was the Satmar Rebbe. We'll call Yailish on one Satmar Tzaddik and Reb Overlander on the other side. The speaker gets up and he says I want to speak to the security detail and to the and to the ushers. He speaks in English and he says I would like to speak. There were probably 2,000 I'm estimating. 50,000 Yidden and maybe 2,000 in between, security, a lot of security, and ushers, people taking people to their seats. I don't know. Maybe less than 2,000, a few hundred. There were a number of there. This leader gets up, the speaker gets up and he says I want to speak to the security detail and to the ushers in this room right now. Cool move. He's not talking to us anymore. And he says you're probably all thinking, who are these crazy people? We've rented Shea Stadium for every many millions it cost and we're here to talk about technology like we're worried. Are you What? Could you imagine by we're having a meeting like worried about cars? Like cars came out. Uh-oh. They had like the iPhone, nice phones, gishmack. And you have 50,000 people who are gathered cuz we're worried about technology? I want to introduce ourselves to you. You probably think we're quacks. So, let me introduce ourselves. He starts saying the history of our people. Mitzrayim, Yetziat Mitzrayim, Kabbalat haTorah. I got goosebumps. Till October 7th, till Simchat Torah, almost 2 years ago. At that point, Hamas is my rebbe, my book. Hamas taught me we're Yidden, Anachnu Yehudim, I feel. Yetziat Mitzrayim, I feel. Kabbalat haTorah, Hamas reminded me. That speaker, Zach, spoke about Yetziat Mitzrayim. He was telling security detail, "Yoelish next to me and we're both like Whoa. It was such a brilliant move cuz if he would have said to me, "Kaylish, let me tell you who we are." You want to tell me Kabbalat haTorah like He said it over to security detail and me and Yoelish were just listening. It was like It was so It was so crazy. Mordy, I felt it. It was like so sincere. He was telling the security detail. And like, "Let me explain who they are." All of us, 50,000 people remembered who we are then. It's funny that sometimes telling somebody else reminds you of what you The Mesillas Yesharim writes that sometimes the more public something is, the less you know it. Crazy line. He says, "Kefi pirsuma davar." The more public, the less you know it. I once walked home from Yeshiva years ago and I remember chapping this Hashem and I almost fell on the floor. I was staggered. This Hashem we know was became like real to me. It was like It was like a reality. There's something called that's interesting, Avram. There's something called chochma and something called daas. Chochma's intellect. Chachma's I know. I'll give what's chachma and what's das. We davening in the first prayer in Shmona Esrei, Sim Chaim, we daven for das. What's das? What's das? What's chachma, what's das? We say chonein da'as, Hashem gives das. If you tell your little child Avram that fire burns, it's a piece of information. You tell your youngster. You call your youngster, you show the fire. Say burns, hot. It's called He's a little he's 4 years old, she's 4 years old. Your youngster, Yosef, has has a piece of information. Fire is hot, that's called wisdom. Welcome home, Yudi Langer. Wow. Thank you for yeah, thank you for being here, Yudi Langer. Thank you, THANK YOU. >> [applause] >> AMAZING. YUDI, WISDOM IS THE INFORMATION. If you tell your 5-year-old that fire is hot, they now have chachma, they have a piece of information, Jamie. Das is when the first time the kid touches a hot stove. Now they have das. It's emotion The word I'll use is emotional reality. I know. It's like It's like it It hits you in a way it's not information. You emotionally live with information. You tell somebody, "We got to tell you I know already." Das is when you live with that information. Like when when that tzaddik, when that speaker said to the by Kabbalas HaTorah, "I knew the chachma before. I didn't learn a new thing. I had das." People ask why we sing a lot in Woodbury. "What are you singing by Muslim? What's happening?" A lot is I want to activate das. I want to learn ideas, but they could be like an idea. I find that singing helps me like connect to something and relate and process something and it relate to it in a way of das. I want my I want my fingers to know it. I want every part of me to know it. By the way, a lot of friction helps you know it deeper. When you when you hit friction and you have to like work on it, you can know something deeper. That's called das. And what that speaker did at Emunah Tzion Solomon's gathering is I knew about Kabbalah Torah, but it was like a theory. It was like a piece of information. When he said over to the security detail, we were all sitting there, and it wasn't lost on any of us that these guys must think we're freaks. And when he explained it to them, I was able to listen cuz it made sense. He was explaining to the guy him. And I was like, "Oh my goodness. We're really Am Yisrael. We really have a mission. We really were born for something." Kol Yisrael are Yidden. So, this person who describes at the beginning of Bikkurim, our people and the formation of our people, why is he doing that? Do Before a person puts on tefillin, you don't say, "Let me talk about Kol Yisrael and the formation." All of a sudden, by the mitzvah of Bikkurim, which is when the farmer brings his first fruits of the seven minim to the Beit Hamikdash, he speaks about the history of our people. And the simple p'shat is cuz we were formed for this. This is literally identity, who we are. We're the thankers. So, when he does a mitzvah of thanking, he says our story. Let me please express who we are. I want to introduce myself. If you want to know what I'm What are you busy thanking? That's who I am. We're from a group of people who are thankers. Now, thanker is not a superficial, external thing. Say thank you. To be a Yehudi is that people that have a capacity to live in the space of appreciating the kindness of Hashem. Literally to live in that space of gratitude. To have the yeshiva das, the menuchas hanefesh, we're people of gratitude. What's the shidduch of a Yid? What day Every day has a shidduch. What's the shidduch of Shabbos is the Yid. The Yid and Shabbos are considered a zivug, a shidduch mamash. Shabbos and a Yid. Shabbos is an expression By the way, another name besides thankers is the Am Mekadshei Shvi'i. We're the people who sanctify Shabbos, the name of us. We're the Am, who are we? Shalom aleichem. Let me introduce myself. Oh, we're the Shabbos observers. What is Shabbos? So, I'm a Levi. The us Levi'im sing a song on Shabbos, Mizmor Shir L'Yom HaShabbos. And the song of Shabbos is Tov L'Hodos L'Hashem. A person enters the space that Hashem that Hashem really makes that Hashem's running the world. To be thankful to Hashem, to see the kindness of Hashem, to see we're in good hands. I had a maiseh in yeshiva. Can I tell you a maiseh? I was made I make kiddush every Friday night. And I had a maiseh in yeshiva during kiddush the second-to-last Friday night of the yeshiva. For whatever reason, I was in like an anxious zone. And guys were talking loudly in the dining room as teenagers should and could. They were talking loudly, excited, Shabbos people were all like there was a buzz. And I was in a stress I was in like this tight mood. And I was trying to make kiddush and I was stressed and I felt the pop in my neck. I I ended up pulling I pulled I I had a pinched nerve. For 7 weeks I was in agony. The last week of the year and 6 weeks I was in agony for 7 weeks. I pushed it I I had a pinched nerve. And it happened to me during kiddush. And I want to express that the whole kiddush for somebody to I'm not ripping myself. We're human and it's normal and that's what I want during Kiddush specifically is to be enveloped in a calm. I picture somebody is upset at his family during the Kiddush is the opposite of Kiddush. Kiddush is a space. Sham created the world. We're in good hands. Accept accept people around us. Accept how things are. There's such an irony that during Kiddush I was like stressing. And then I got injured. Not that Hashem punishes. Not Hashem not telling Hashem not Not that Hashem's vengeful. What I want to say. Hashem teaches sometimes. To me it was very eye-opening during Kiddush that the moments of Kiddush is to try to to to smile. It's to try to be present to deep acceptance and appreciation to the world Hashem gave us. That's what the essence of Kiddush. That's the essence of Shabbos Kodesh. So this is segulah that it will reach us. It will connect to us. We can have all the brachos of the world, but what Hashem is saying it will reach you. You'll be able to be to absorb the brachos, to feel the bench, to feel somebody who's bench, to to have that yeshuv daas, that tranquility, that menuchas hanefesh, to feel the brachos of Hashem. This I want to say when we want to teach our children gratitude. We want to teach our children gratitude. My father My father I'm finishing up Kaddish. I'm in the last couple of weeks of Kaddish. And the whole year I I'm thinking about my father. And a middah that my father was wild at was gratitude. He was a tremendously grateful person. We used to go to a Pesach hotel. I use this example cuz it's something that stuck out to me. We would go to a Pesach hotel. The waiter was treated with crazy like not just respect. He was celebrated. There was a tremendous gratitude. Not a forced chill. Wasn't like be grateful. Say thank you. thank you. It's like a space with tremendous appreciation. I want to say somebody could be cynical about our people. They rented a park. There's a beautiful organization that helps Rebbeim and Morahs out classes they leave. Beautiful organization. We're a very cool people on Israel. And they made a whole organization celebrating the teachers of our children are to be appreciated. And they made an organization where they help out Rebbeim and Morahs. And they rented an amusement park for for for the Rebbeim and Morahs. And a security guard told us that he never got so many thank yous in his life. Now, you could say all the people who tell kids say thank you were there. Now, you could be like somewhat cynical. The truth is that we're big thankers on Israel. The police, if there's ever a police near a shul on Yom Noraim, you know how many thank yous the guys get? Now, if somebody wants to be cynical, could be I'm not a cynical person. I actually think that it's a middah of klal Israel. It's It's who we are. It's who we are. We're the thankers. If a police is around the Jewish community, the amount of thank yous they get. A fire person, the amount of thank yous. Somebody wants to be a cynic, be it It's your shiyachus. The emes is that we're thankers. That our people are big big thankers. That's who we are. We're the ones who say thank you. An amusement park, if they add up and they're honest, to me it's poshut. They get much more thank you from you, much more. It's who we are. We're in the space. Now, I want I want to say that that's a middah of am Israel. It's We're the thankers. But my my my bracha and my mission to us is we should really be in that space. To me, Elul is about returning to being more who we are. I want to be in a more calm happy place of being a thanker. There's a the madrish says about Paroy that Paroy was a kafri toy to Yoysef. Yoysef saved his country and he wasn't in a space and Yoysef walked in the room to be full of gratitude. And since he was a kafri toy to Yoysef, he was a kafri toy to Hashem. So, he said me Hashem. And the madrish says that if we're makir toy to people around us, we're makir toy to Hashem. I want to say that let's get back to ourselves. Let's be thinkers. But to really be in that space. When we receive. By the way, the cook that becomes like an obligatory, you know, they in every camp and yeshiva you call out the cook out of there. Everybody give a thank you. I'm not talking about that. Do you know Alan walks in the room? I promise you often Alan walks in here and I have feelings of like very warm feelings. He cleans our yeshiva. He cares about our yeshiva. I have very warm feelings. It's not like everybody say thank. No. No. Do you ever like stop? He goes around and he cleans. He cuts the lawn here. He cuts the lawn here. I'm just asking to be present to a truth. He actually loves the yeshiva a lot. Do you know Alan for a year he he's I'm telling you the emes I don't know how much money he gets a month. It's not a lot. He hasn't been well. He's physically not well. He he's a human being. It's not anybody's business how much he gets a month. Do you know Alan for close to a year gave me a third of his salary that he wants to spend on bachrum in the yeshiva who have needs. A third of his salary. 1/3. Alan hands me for close to a year. The guy who works here. A third of his money he wanted it to be used for bachrum in the yeshiva. Do you know that? Now, first I want to say he's in a yeshiva, of course he became big. He's inspired by here, of course. Alan is more god-fearing. That's first it's pashut. He's in a yeshiva. He likes the place. He feels the place. It would be embarrassing if the janitor didn't become holy. Do you know our janitor? You could ask Alan. Do you know he gives me a third of his I believe a third of his salary. Now, he gets other things. He gets free board, rent. He gets so that it's not a third of the money he gets, he gives me per month that the guy should should be able to buy things. You know that, Mark? You know this already. For almost a year. Now, first of all, I I'm pointing out that of course he's in a Yeshiva. Of course everybody the custodian, the guy who delivers the food should become closer to Hashem. That that the nurse comes to Daven with us every morning is in a Yeshiva. Of course it's that way. It's inspiring to be around the netz pasha like that. But what I want to say what I want to say is be in the space of gratitude. Somebody cares about us and works for us and gives to us. There's a simple space to be in. I think we get overwhelmed with thoughts and we don't slow ourselves down. There's a Yeshiva that we ask people to like dig in or to be present to their thoughts. You'll find gratitude inside of yourself. Anybody who just slows down things and is willing to look inside, you'll find gratitude. Gratitude to parents. Say thank you. Let's find that space inside of you that's very appreciative to your parents. By the way, parents are human, make mistakes. They also brought us to the world. They also care about us more than anybody in the world. I promise there's a space inside of us that's very grateful to parents. Like very. We're trying to go to that space, to be present to that space. That's very grateful. I have challenges, you have challenges. There are things we're very very grateful to our parents who love us, who appreciate us. It's a space inside of us that's true, that's deep, that means something. Try to enter that space. with Siyata d'Shmaya. The bracha should reach us, should be present to us. We should like feel them and experience them. That's That's so I I want to give this bracha to us, to me and you. I want to also to bracha and a mission. It's interesting. Rebbe Nachman says to take all the Torah you ever learn and turn it into a prayer. There's deep reasons. Why is he turning Torah into prayer? Rebbe Nachman says, "Any Torah you learn, turn it into a prayer." It's very interesting. We're learning Torah here. I want it to be a prayer and a mission. There's a mission to be more present, to be more grateful people, which takes work. Probably need to cry, you need to feel certain things. It takes looking inward. But I also want to be a prayer that Hashem should give us Siyata d'Shmaya, the line of the Gemara Kedushin Maley Hakadosh Baruch Hu Olamo Kullo. Without Siyata d'Shmaya, we can't we won't succeed. We need Siyata d'Shmaya in everything that we do. We need heavenly assistance. The Ribono shel Olam should help you and I be truer to who we are. We're Yehudim. We're the thankers, the people who live in the space of gratitude. We should be more grateful to people around us, and ultimately more grateful to Hashem, who who who's who's the creator of all of us. So that's That's my blessing to the chevra. Yeah. This is something I was around a person I was zocheh to grow up with a father, and a person who was a very grateful person. His gratitude was like very cool. I could tell you this This sounds funny. You You might You might think this is funny, and we grew up with this. He was very grateful. The guy at Toll Booth would like raise his thank you so much. Appreciate. It's like the guy is doing his job. But he My father like was present to that. He let me through. I I couldn't get through otherwise. There was an appreciation to people, from waiters to small things people were doing. Somebody came to the house to fix something. There was like a real space of gratitude and appreciation, certainly to his wife. And he showed up with such an appreciation, like real. Thank you. It wasn't like busy telling us say thank you. I would say one day everybody here tell your kids to say thank you, maybe. Maybe. I hear different ways. I would say the best thing in the world is to really be grateful to your wife. If you're really that way, maybe you'll still have to tell your kids to say thank you. I think they'll live in a certain space. It will come it will flow. They'll really feel gratitude. Of course, there's something I always ask ask I want to end with this. On Guys do trips in the summer. Avi, I'm tremendously Avi did a trip. Morty, they did trips. They Shlaima did a trip. Amazing. Shlai Shlaima Greenwald took guys on a trip. Guys Guys did trips very Daniel the Hebrew took people on trips so that worked very very hard. I always call up ask Avi, I call up all the trip runners. I thank them. But I ask them, give me the name of the guy who's most appreciative. I always need to know who's in the space of most gratitude. I could tell you names that people have said to me. It's a very It's an indicator to me. It's a deep indicator of big things to come. Our kids are in a very cool space. And on two of the trips, I asked He's not here. I'm not saying it to like I'm saying it guy Nissim Silverman. On two of the trips, it was like said he's a big thanker. He's like b'emes. I'm not talking about the guy who's polite thank you. I'm talking about the guy who texts later, like meant a lot to me. I'll say he's not here now. And it's interesting two different trips told me he's the biggest thanker. And I have seen it in Yeshiva. We'll do something in Yeshiva. This is like I It's a It's a testament on his parents. He comes he's like a thank It's a big thing. It's That's the idea. My mission is a thank but he's in that space. It's like so appreciate such a beautiful space I have I asked you this a number of times. I asked Mark Did I ask you this? Yes. I always I'm curious about it. I'm always curious who are the thankers. Now I'm not saying this I almost shouldn't tell you Thank you I'm I'm literally not even talking about saying thank you. It's [clears throat] a matter of space of presentness and I and I dive in for us to be in that space. It's a cool space to be in to appreciate. Yiddy Yiddy has brought it for the Yeshiva my mission given his kishkes. >> [applause] >> I'm curious so curious. Is this Shabbos Is this Shabbos the offer of That's The last Shabbos this man's going to be an offer of for Yiddy. Deserved. A person deserved the Yeshiva to celebrate with him. But I'm always curious Yiddy you're busting I'm not asking you in front of everybody. I'm always curious who's somebody like who's who's my mission who's who's who's a Yiddy's Yiddy. They're like in the space of appreciation like Yiddy. It means something. I'm not asking I'm not asking you to tell me. No I'm not asking on it. There's guys here so I don't want to pick one over the other I Mosque and Zach It's a cool space. Thankers thankers I have I have a theory Kevra. I Tell me Izzy I have a theory Simcha Avi the whole Hazaras of shots Yid not quiet and we say amen. All of a sudden comes my dim like the whole shul says my dim. I have a theory. I have a theory that he's he's saying, you know, he's he's asking for things, even thanking Hashem, but he's asking specific things. So, kol Yisrael, we listen shema koleinu, hearing, it's like saying it. All of a sudden, mode ani mekanish einhalten, we can't hold it in. The whole tzibbur says mode ani with That's what I picture, the whole tzibbur says mode ani with the chazzan. We're the thankers. Thank you, nobody's saying thank you for me. We all jump in. When it comes time for mode ani, the group of thankers. We're a bunch of thankers, Yidi. When it comes time to thank, we're all in. We're the thankers. I like that mode ani, the whole time we're listening politely to the chazzan. CD comes mode ani, we're all in. We jump in. I remember I like thinking that the room that the room Eliezer, the room of thankers, when it comes to thank, nobody's doing it for me. I'm in. The whole shul, I mekanish einhalten, we can't hold it in. That's my theory, Leli, that we all jump in. Now, somebody could ask, we're we're praising Hashem, baruch atah Hashem, we are saying Hashem is the source. But we're attributing he's the source of things till then. But mode ani is I want to say thank you. I'm just appreciative. all of a sudden we say mode ani the whole tzibbur is shouting. I want to say shh, chevre, shema koleinu, mode ani The whole shul says mode ani. We all jump in, A group of thankers, and somebody's thanking, we're not listening. We're not quiet in shema koleinu, we're jumping in. That's that's what I like viewing on the mode ani derabbonon. what do you hold of that? I think it's I think there's a truth here. Eliyahu, is there truth? I think to me there's a truth. Everything essence of a thanker, I think out of you. Eliyahu wants to know what's the root of a thank you. Like what's the I don't know. I first I don't even want to oversimplify it. Anybody understands that So what is this? How do I get to this space? I think a very There's honesty. There's working out difficulty, being present to stuff. But we could find that space of appreciation. It's a real space. When people I take the time the same thing. We could get so busy doing so much, we forget to like breathe. I think people who pause and breathe find the space of appreciation. Appreciation is part cuz it's true. But not asking thank you is not like a forced Say thank you to mommy. Whoa, whoa. That's what I want for my kids. I That's not my dream for my kids. My dream for my kids is inside. Like mommy, look what he does for us. Whoa. Whoa. The only way to teach that really is to try to be in that space ourselves like real. Real. What do you want? What? What's going on? Lying. This is wild. Go in the kitchen once in a Shabbos and just sit there and think for 2 minutes. It's wild. That help out. It's wild. But I'm I'm sure there's a lot that goes in. I'm sure there's a lot. We have to like think about that what it would take. A lot of times first I want something then I'll figure out what it takes to get there. I'm presenting the >> [snorts] will be we are not to end with some So you have a guitar here? Come up to the front. Let's do a song before we close it out. One ear quick slow. Um I'm going to go to class. Crowded. Crowded. It's the only school that we treat like get guys to come let's go. >> [applause] >> You know what I want to do? We're going to do a thank you song. I want to I don't want it to just be rachman, I want it to be das. We're going to do Oid Hashem? A shira lashem? A shira lashem you like? What is I sing to Hashem. What which one what's the oid Hashem? What's the eight kids? Oid Hashem b'chol libi. I thank Hashem with all my heart. Gabriel Reichman and wrote this song. Let's do it. >> [music] the first time that will join the second time. >> I love you. I love you. I love >> [singing and music] >> you. I love you. I love you. I love you. >> [music and singing] >> I love you. >> [music and singing] >> I love you. I love you. >> [singing] [music] >> I love you. I love you. >> [singing] >> I love you. I love you. >> [singing] >> I love you. 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So just keep that in mind that it's going to be a little earlier tomorrow. Keep that in mind. Today there'll now be second seder if guys want chavrusas. We'll start arranging bezrat Hashem chavrusas but there'll be second seder. There'll be night supper at 6:30 night seder. After night seder tonight I believe there's a volleyball tournament in the gym for the Chevra. I just thanked the Chevra for coming. Um I like you a lot, Usher. A lot a lot a lot. I think I'm always going to appreciate Usher, but I'm he adds a lot in the Yeshiva. He's a gentle person. He's an intelligent person. >> [applause] >> I I THINK I'LL ALWAYS I always have good feelings to Usher. I met him at a restaurant at a bagel store in Brooklyn. But I'm driving with Usher in Brooklyn. This is just a true story, but right away like we're up blessing my life. Usher is in the passenger seat. I'm in the driver's seat. And I was going to pick up my daughter and I was on the phone. I'm on the phone telling my daughter that I'm running a little late. I needed to tell the next interview that I'm an hour late. Like things were going on. Why late is very part of this that's another story. But I'm on the phone. And and I I'm somehow my my cell phone glitched. The Waze glitched. It said to make a left. It really it was a little further down. It was like glitching and I make a left into a one-way street. It's a one-way the other way and I make a left. I'm on my cell phone, make a left into a one-way, and I pass by a cop who's just laughing. He's waiting at the corner. He's in his cop car and I'm just driving. He starts laughing. I then do a U-turn. The car is coming at me. So I've done I'm on my phone driving the wrong way in a one-way and then I U-turn on a road. You're not allowed to like U-turn in the middle of the street. So I have three like serious infractions. The cop's rolling. He puts on his lights. I'm like embarrassed. Usher just met me. This guy is out of his mind. He's on the phone. Usher was like just nice gentle. The cop puts on his sirens. Okay. So he got me. Three heavy tickets. On the phone, left in a one-way, U-turn on a street not allowed to make a U-turn. And the cop puts on his siren, so I pull over and he pulls his car right next to our car. And what did he do? What does he go? He goes like this. Oh, yeah. He goes like this. So I see and then he drives off. He puts on his sirens, I pull over, looks in the car, we lock eyes. He had He's laughing and he goes >> [clears throat] >> So I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really bad." And then he drives off. So I said to Usher, "What does he mean? I was waiting there. I thought we had a wait like he maybe means he's coming back around." I don't know Brooklyn language. Maybe there's a curse the new middle finger of sorts. I don't know. He goes like this. Usher says, "I think you could just go." That's That was the extent of New York. It's very I think the cop was showing Usher right off the bat we were meeting a little bit Woodbury like you do everything wrong, you get like a this and then go right there. Okay, right there. We talking, don't need punishments. >> [laughter] >> The guy I'm always like thinking about you, Usher. Going to just remember that cop that like the big issue gave me was like be careful next I don't know what this is like. I was really like this like thank you. Well, I think a new thing with cop, no more tickets, just like a little a little mazel, a little rebuke. Be more careful. So now we got it. I can't figure it out. Crazy. A guy Crazy story. What does anybody know like Brooklyn cops? Like what's the deal why I didn't get a ticket? Like is that just Usher having to Maybe you got lucky. It's weird, right? On Coney Island track. The license plate and the guy license It could be so I you just not from here. Could be was you have such a sweet guy in the front seat. I don't know. I don't I can't Usher, what do you think Chad is? In front of a cop, don't try this at home. A left turn into a one-way. He just was laughing. It was like so unlikely. He was sitting right at the corner. I appreciate you here a lot, Usher. It started fun, it's getting even better. Have an excellent day, guys. Have an excellent day. >> [applause] >> I like it, yes, sir.