A Very Annoying Podcast (Ep. 312)

Hi, this is David Alowski and welcome back to the Rabiowski show. And whether you're watching with our friends and producers over at Tony Time or wherever you watch listen to your podcast, as always, we are excited to have you along for the experience. And as you may have noticed, we are still not back in our regular location. Uh we're in the same room, but um I told you we had some electrical problems because of the tremendous storm that took place. And it turns out that the central box that controls the electricity, you know, they have these little spots around, we opened up all of them and they're not there. And finally, my son-in-law who is an electrical engineer. Shout out to Israel Mayor Orbach. If anybody needs your electrical engineering, he's not an electrician. He's an electrical engineer. So, if you're like building a building and you need electricity put in, he's the man. Anyway, he went through everything and he said, "It must be behind the bookcase." Now, you've seen that bookcase filmed so many times and you know there's a lot of sparum in there. So, we had to take out all of the sparum and move the bookcase. And sure enough, after we moved about three of them, we found the little box. And he says, "Don't put any of them back yet." So, I don't have my bookcases back. All of them are piled up in the back room over there. And uh and now my wife is telling me that, you know, we should use this opportunity to get new bookcases. What can I tell you? I was brought up cheap, you know. So when we bought the bookcases originally, we bought what's called ceit, what they call in America paceboard. you know, it's basically sawdust that's glued together, you know, because we figured eventually we're going to put in uh permanent bookcases, you know, and build something in. And that was about 35 years ago. And these bookcases as you do your sponge on the floor, you know, it wears away and turns into dust. So, the one at the end is literally tilting like the uh Tower of Pisa. And my wife was very nervous that it was going to tumble over. But I found, if you ever seen this toy called Kapla, which are these little wooden things, if I bend it forward and stick it over, I think it's just fine. But my wife decided to ask the handyman to screw it into the wall. And of course, that was the bookcase that the electrical circuit was behind, so we had to unscrew it to take it out. So, uh, so I can't put my sperm back yet. And, uh, that's going to be the theme for our podcast today. I'm starting you off before we begin. But first, our sponsor Yehuda and Kana Kravitz Hakarov to Rabiolski for continuing to bring to Israel. I don't know about this week. also Nishma's Hindelen Israel whose yard site is the 27th of Tes and ine should have an aliyah. Just before I get down to what I want to talk about this week, uh I have to give you an update. If you have been living under a rock for the past 6 months, I am making a Pesak program up in Tavaria in the Nokiner. I've made a video of the hotel. You can see it. You can go to their website, see more about it. As my son-in-law said, you've been planning this for about 30 years. That's uh when I say my my son-in-law, that was Momo Kutkus, who's really very involved and involved in different things. And he says, "You're like a spring. You're all wound up. You've been waiting to do this for 30 years." And I have. Every time I was a Scotland residence, I said, "If it was my program, I would do this." So, we're doing that program. Anyway, we have 150 rooms available and uh we've sold 50 of them and uh I know there are a lot of people who tell me, "Oh, I'm coming. I just haven't uh emailed. I haven't called. I haven't taken care of it." We want to see you there. Please, please, please. It's going to be very exciting. I I have to tell you, I can't tell you how excited I am about this program. And uh I am only one uh you know there used to be this group of highwire performers called the great wellenders. You know what I mean? And they would do all these things. I'm only one of the wellenders. You know there's I come from a a group of extremely talented people in my family. We're going to maybe have some little interviews with some of the people going to be doing things. But it's going to be great. It's going to be fun. It's going to be exciting. And it's interesting that I noted one of the appreciation comments that we're going to read at the end uh actually was about the basic program. So if you're thinking of coming, please please you can go to my website there. You can just click on it. It'll take you right to to how to register and um we got a lot of stuff planned. It's going to be so much fun. Please consider coming. Okay. So, as I was uh realizing that I've got these bookcases jutting out, I've got all my swarm uh piled up. And I just realized how there are so many things that just annoy me. I have a I have a pretty low annoyance tolerance. I don't get angry because I always had a terrible anger problem and I worked many many years not to get angry but I haven't reached the point where I don't get annoyed. Now being an angry person one of the tricks we use is when we're angry we say I'm not angry I'm just annoyed. But I know the difference between anger and annoyed. I mean I got angry at my kids once. This this story is maybe 30 years old. And I was I yelled at them so much that I I lost my voice and I had to give a shar that night about Ken. And I got up there and I said, "I'm sorry. I lost my voice preparing for this year. I was screaming at my kids." So I know the difference between getting angry getting annoyed. Just little things that get you annoyed. So, um, Zebie Calfman, who is very involved in the podcast scene and he's got his finger on a lot of different kind of stuffs, who by the way is coming to the Pesak Hotel. So, uh, you know, if if you know him and all of his many talents, you'll have a chance to spend some time with him. But, um, I I said to him, you know, I'm thinking of doing a podcast just about all the stuff that annoys me. He goes, that's a great idea because everybody's like me. We all get annoyed and you know these other people who do podcasts, they're all so positive. This is wonderful. This is great. This is that. No, it's just annoying. Yeah, right. We all know, we know what annoying is. Kids can be annoying. You know, it's not it's I don't mean that in a bad way. We love them just the same, but sometimes we wish that they wouldn't keep poking us. That's one of the things that always annoy me. Poker is, you know, these people who poke you and sometimes they poke you hard and it ends up hurting my chest. That's almost as much fun as the people who slap you on the shoulder. Say, "How's it going? What's going on?" You know, or they slap you on the back. And I'm I have a low tolerance to pain and I bruise easily. So I put that up with the people who when they shake hands with you, they like squeeze it trying to break the bones in your hands. So these are just little things. None of these things are serious. These are not serious problems, you know. And uh sometimes people tell me stuff that they fetch about and I say, "Listen, if at the end of your life that's the worst thing that happened to you, you'll die a happy man." None of these things are serious. They're just annoying little annoyances that are put there to uh challenge us and see how are we going to react. So sometimes we have momish really serious things that go wrong. And then there are things that are not so serious. They're just annoying. Like over Shabas I sort of bit my lip and it was right at the tip over here. And I don't know if you noticed, I have a little space between my teeth and it keeps getting stuck in this space. So, it's never gonna heal. I don't know what to do about it, but it is just annoying. So, I have put together this will be a very annoying podcast. I put together just a list of things that annoy me to share with you because frankly, I can't afford therapy. And this is uh this is my podcast. I get up and I talk about things that bother me and uh get off my chest. I feel bad for people. I've mentioned this in the in the past that a uh prominent psychologist told me that most of his job wouldn't be necessary if people just had somebody to listen to them. And uh me, I'm so lucky. I get to sit and talk to thousands of people every single week and share my thoughts. A lot of people don't have that. So these are just little annoyances. And it was it was well the first one that took place that I'm going to share with you that gave me the inspiration for this podcast and I thought ah should I do it? And then Ze Calfman said go for it. So I said okay here it is my friends. This will be an annoying podcast as I share with you a bunch of things that annoy me not serious things. And the first one was that I was trying to open a roll of toilet paper. Now again, I don't know how many of these things are local terra, but for some reason they glue down the beginning of the toilet paper and I can't pull it open unless you rip off like a whole thing of toilet paper. What are they protecting it from exactly? You know, um I I'm working on uh Gimlvat. I'll be turning 67. uh working on a couple of things that when I turned 70, but one of them is 70 things I've learned in 70 years. And one of them is something I learned from a cipher. I'm giving it away is the cipher said to me, he was looking at my straps and he says, "You're tying them too tight, you know, and then you stick it in on the bottom and uh and that wears away, you know, the the the paint the on the on the ritsu." He says, "Just roll them loosely and put them in the bag. Once they're in the bag, they're not going anywhere." I have to tell you that was a life-changing piece of advice. It was absolutely brilliant. So, uh, in 3 years you'll hear a positive podcast and I think, gosh, once the toilet paper, you know, roll it up, put it in the little bag there, when you take it out, what do I need a glued clown for? Now, this is another thing which again, I don't know if this is true in America or not, but I know it's true here in Israel. When you open up a a package of tissues, which in itself is very hard because it's almost impossible to open up anything that uh has been made to pull open in Israel. In fact, there's an old joke. The Israeli Air Force developed a new plane and the wing kept falling off and they didn't know what to do. And finally this one person said, "I'll I'll tell you how to fix it." He says, "Are you a aeronautics engineer?" He says, "No, but I know exactly how to do it." He says, 'What do you do? And he says, "Give me a drill." And he drew a small line of little holes all the way along. And sure enough, it never fell off. He said, "Why?" He goes, "Cuz nothing in Israel opens on the perforation." So you're sitting there trying to pull open the tissues. You know, you're ripping it. Once you have it open, the tissues are upside down. You It's not like in America, I used to buy a box of tissues. You pull out the first tissue and each tissue comes. These are upside down. You have to like pull out three tissues and move them all around. You can get out a tissue. How much technology does it take? They do it in America. Just to be able to pack the tissues so that one comes out after the other. All right. Now, this is definitely a Israeli experience. Uh, coming from America, I found this absolutely shocking. Everybody knows that if you buy an 8 oz honey, let's argue an 8 oz of honey for $5, I don't know what the prices are. Actually, my daughter uh Mindy ended up being on the prices, right? And she didn't know the price of anything, but she won a whole bunch of stuff that she's still trying to sell. But anyway, she um she went with a group. She she works for uh Mora and NYU campus and she took them to Los Angeles and they went to watch the prices right and everybody was trying to get picked and they picked her of all people and she never saw the prices right. She never heard of Drew Carry. She knew the price of anything and she won like a a whole showcase. Anyway, she goes, "I don't know how. I just guessed, you know, seat desire." So, in the end, like Drew Carey comes over to like, you know, shake her hand or say something and she runs to go to be be with her girls and they were all dancing on stage. It's good night to see. It's uh I don't know which episode it was. It was last year, but uh it was in May, but very exciting. But anyway, I don't know the prices of anything, but let's say for argument sake, if an 8 oz honey is $5, then a 16th ounce honey is going to be less than $10. I don't know if it's going to be $9, $8.99, $8.50, but when you buy something larger, it's going to be cheaper. This is, of course, one of the whole concepts of going to Costco where you buy yourself a box of cornflakes that's supposed to last you somewhere between 6 and 8 months. These big gigantic boxes. I don't know how you pour it into the bowl, you know. And the idea is when you buy in bulk, it's cheaper. But in Israel, when you buy a 500 g honey, it costs 20 shekels. And when you buy a uh kilo, double that, it'll cost you 50 shackles. Why are they charging? Why do I have to buy two small ones and that works out to be cheaper than having to buy a big one? I No one has been able to explain this concept to me. There's another thing that annoys me and again I this is not only in Israel because I've had this in America too. You make a right turn. The only thing you do is make a right turn and then you have to make a left turn like immediately. But it's across six lanes of traffic. So you make a right lane and you have to now it's hard to merge in America. in Israel, forget about it. Because even though there are people who are willing to give away land for peace, when it comes to driving, every Israeli says not one inch. I have a friend of mine w turned onto the highway and it it was the bus lane, but that's where it turns into. And he was trying to move over and nobody would let him in. And they took a picture, send him a ticket for being in the bus lane. And he shows him there's no place to move. Nobody would let me in. What do you want me to do? It's uh it's a tough thing. I So what's the solution? I don't know what the solution is, but you got to come up with some way for people who are making a right lane to get across six lanes of traffic, you know, in in in less than 7 seconds. I don't know how to do it, but just thought I would share that one. And on the subject of driving, how come people drive at night with their brights on so that I'm blinded when traffic in the other lane is shining in your face? I I had this uh tyber once to get like a one-way mirror windshield so that it would shine back at them. Someone said, "No, but that's very dangerous." And I was like, "All right, fine." But but I am annoyed about it. Um, okay. Advice to people who dive in long. Yeah. Don't stand in front of the door. Nobody can get in or out of the shaw because you've decided to dive in your motor es. And and don't wherever you stand, do not stand behind me. If you know you're going to dive in a long estate, go to the front. Stand in the front. You're obviously very you belong on the mis wall. Go up there and dive in. Don't. Now is not the time for Nova. You understand? I'm going to sit in the back. No. Do not do that. You're blocking everyone. And And you see these people who who keep doing this like just keep turning around every 5 seconds. There must be a message in there for you. And yet they do it day after day, week after week, month after month. We know that you're just dabbing in the front. Um, and on this subject, of course, this is one of my pet peeves. I've talked about it many times when you see someone get on the express line with a cart full of groceries. So, okay, all of us have been guilty of when it's 10 items going on with 11 or 12 items. You know, we're Moraeta because we say, well, you know, I saw somebody once go in with a much more than 10 items. I said, it says only 10 items. He goes, I only have 10 items. These are the dairy products. These are the canned goods. These are the fruits. This the vegetables. Okay. But people get on with a with a whole cart. Now, sometimes I have to be down. Sometimes when there's nobody on the express lane, I have seen the person call over someone and say, you know, next in line, just, you know, come and do it. And then someone with three items comes over and thinks, oh, the guy did a terrible thing. He was called over. Right? This happens to me on rare occasions when I fly that if I'm uh flying uh I'm in the economy line and there's nobody on the business class line, they might call you over and say, "Okay, I'll take you over here." You know, so people might look and say, "Oh, are you in business?" "No, but they called me over. I didn't do anything." Yeah. But, uh, I'm talking about people, you see there's three people in front of you with two or three items and you go on with a whole cart. Maybe they're handicapped. So, there is a rule in Israel that if you're over 80, you don't have to wait online. But these people are not over 80. And the only handicap that they have are emotional handicaps which make them unable to sense other people in this world besides themselves. I think I think that handicap is called ga egoentricity. But again you can see if a person has a problem okay I understand but that uh if there is if there is any handicap like I say it's either emotional or mental but uh but there's no there's no obvious handicap there. Okay this I have in America but much more in Israel. you have to make a left and there's a very long line. So what do people do? They move up in the lane next to the left lane which is only to go straight and as soon as the light changes they cut off everybody. Now now that's bad. But when there's like three or four people doing this and you miss the light by like three cars because these people decide not to follow the rules. The most annoying thing is that I didn't think of it, but uh you know, nobody wants to have to wait online. Jackie Mason used to do a whole routine. You know, says Gentiles love waiting online. They don't care. They get online. They s wait online. A Jew is waiting five minutes. Why is there a wait? Why am I waiting here? Why is there a line? No, nobody wants to wait online. But uh wait your turn. And that's why you always have that situation where when they come up, they want to try to cut in front of you. And they're always nice people. Let them in. You know, I feel like there are rules, my friend. You play by the rules. Um, who's in charge of numbering the pages in magazines? How come the story is on page 26 and page 26 does not exist? I'm flipping pages. They're counting ads. They're counting this. They're counting. I can't figure out the page numbers. And there are streets like that. Much more in Israel to be fair. But I was in New Jersey and on one side of the road was number 14 and on the other side was 27. Okay. Who's working out the number? So here in Israel, it's because different things were built and they all turned in together. So it became one long road so that you're driving from Gula and it turns into King George and King George turns into Keranius and Keranius turns into a micrio and it's one long road but they were different neighborhoods that all joined together. So, I understand why the numbering might be off, but um when they have a brand new neighborhood, why can't they figure out the the uh numbering? And just on the subject, doesn't anyone realize there's a problem with old new utric in Brooklyn? Is it old or is it new? So, there's evidently must be a new new utric. And this is the old new utric which is like in Prague where they have the alter no the old new shaw. So they made a new shaw and then they made another new shaw and this was the old new shaw. So all right but that doesn't bother me so much cuz I I grew up with it and you just expect it. Do you ever buy a bag of potato chips and when you open it up there are three potato chips inside and the whole bag is filled with air. Okay, there's got to be something wrong with that. I understand when you buy a box of cereal and it says some settling may have occurred. So, okay, you fill it up and then, you know, with the shaking it, it settles down. But the whole potato chips bag only has three in it. The rest of it's all air. Why isn't there a law against that? It's got to be a problem with it. And uh and on the subject of bags, why would you make like a snack bag or a bag of cheese or any other kind of bag that you cannot open? You're pulling and pulling until finally the whole side rips open. Okay. So, you understand if something is like a a solid box and you need a knife to cut it open or something, you know, but bags like this should be able to be made to just pull open. I shouldn't have to rip the whole thing apart. And one of my favorites is, you know, sometimes they have one of these bags where you rip off the top and then it has like a little zip lock thing to close it afterwards. But when you rip off the top, it still doesn't reach the zip line. So you have to now still cut it after you rip it off. There's a little little spot there. Rip it off. So this goes, I guess, originally with the perforations in Israel, but I think I've had this in America, too. Yeah, you you should make it so that it pops open. I don't think it's too hard. This wasn't even on my list, but now that I'm talking about this, um, in the good old days, cans were cans, and you had to use a can opener to open it up. And now a lot of cans have this little ring on it, but it's it's a very delicate procedure. You have to pull up the ring and then pull forward. Now, um I have diabetes, so I have neuropathy in my hand. So, it's hard enough, but once you get it and you pull it, if you don't pull it right, then the ring pops off. And I need a can opener. There's got to be a way to make it so that doesn't happen. And also, do they have to sharpen the side of the lid that comes off so that it slices your finger if you're not paying attention? I'm sure we can come up with a way to make the little thing on the inside there dull. My gosh, look how many fetches I have. It's unbelievable. I I used to go to uh Misha Shapiro and Porish. I had come by and I remember what I always had something to fetch about and complain about, you know. So one year he says to me, I said, "Yeah, I got one for you." And I would get him upset every single purum this year. I remember he says to me, he goes, he goes, I said, Kent, yeah. I said uh uh Ramadesko was a neighborhood that had been a secular neighborhood and was slowly turning into a karedi neighborhood. So uh the buildings were mixed, you know, there was half like young couples and half older secular people. And uh and this guy says to me, I'm living in one of these mixed building and another family is having a a party poor night. They're drinking and singing and carrying on and it's bothering the older neighbors. You could see they keep opening their doors and what's going on and they're whispering to each other. They don't know what to do. So my wife went up there and uh to tell them listen you know it's and she started screaming at my wife and mind your own business and do whatever I want. Then the husband came out and started screaming at my wife and he goes I wasn't sure what to do. I told her boy did he get upset? He says there's no Indian to drink at night. There's no Indian to have a sea at night. He says you know these these are spoiled brats. Someone should give them a slap. You know how away this behav I got them all worked up. So, okay, this doesn't apply so much anymore because the from world has woken up to this, but there was a time I'm going back years when if you were from person, it was dregur to get a Brooks Brothers shirt. And of course, no Jew would ever go out and pay the full $50. He waited till they went on sale three for $100 and he'd wear these Brooks Brothers shirts. Everyone knew it was Brooks Brothers because there were these little lines, you know, uh on on the cuff that you could spot them in instant. I didn't know that until uh somebody's at my shop said he goes, "Oh, Brooks Brothers." I said, "How do you know?" He goes, "Look at the cuff." Anyway, you spend all this money and it feels pretty thick. It's not iron cotton. And I don't know, after about five washes, the whole cuff phrase is coming off. It seems to me like if you pay that much money for a shirt, that shouldn't happen. Now, this this doesn't happen so much anymore because my son uh who's uh much more of a fashion plate than I am, he says, "No, nobody buys Brooks anymore. Charles Turit and he offered to get me some Charles Tur, but they don't have a pocket. I need a pocket to be able to like keep my phone, my pen, my two dot zoot which is my identity card which you have to carry in this country in case they stop you and say let me see your papers you know so you have to I don't have a so you keep it in your in your trouser pocket and then the phone goes off and you don't really hear it because I never keep it on ring on I keep it on vibrating when I feel it vibrating it doesn't mean anything cuz I always feel parts of my body vibrating. I never know what it is. Anyway, I don't know why they would make such expensive shirts where they fray. Okay, this is just an a a philosophical question. I don't know if there's an answer to this. Uh where do my uh cutting knives and peelers go? Why am I constantly buying cutting knives and peelers? Why are they always disappearing? So I have a theory. The theory is that like when you peel potatoes and you peel the carrots, you know, Arab shabas and the peeler is there. When you sweep all of it into the garbage, you sweep the peeler along with it or the cutting knife along with it. This happens to be a gamorra and bum mitzia where it says if you find a little knife uh in the garbage, is that considered heer? And I considered he know apparently thousands of years ago people were still sweeping their little cutting knives and their peelers into the garbage. So, uh there's got to be a way. Uh I'm thinking maybe uh they have those uh air tags that um that you're supposed to be able to identify something. You can find it on your phone and uh which is a absolutely terrible story. Should I tell it? I'll tell it. Absolutely terrible story. It was at a SIMA. Somebody wanted to make a video and I have a phone, my American phone, that has video on it. So, my wife took my American phone and gave it to uh somebody to film. At the end when they were cleaning up uh at the end of the evening, I said to my wife, "Where's my phone?" And we all searched around and nobody could find it. And so we went through the garbage and couldn't find it. Somebody tried calling it was there was no place to be found. Yeah. Was not in the house. So my son-in-law said, "Oh, I had taken out the garbage." So I guess it got thrown away in the garbage. So I said, "Listen, I'm pretty sure I have a backup." You know, whatever it is. But my wife of course felt terrible. So she called the sanitation number and they said, "Okay, that garbage bin." Now they redid the garbage in Jerusalem. They dug these big big holes and they made these gigantic sleeves that go into the ground and everyone dumps it in. So there's no way to get it. I guess you could get someone who's small enough and drop them down the chute to go through all the garbage, but then you'll have to wait till the morning when the garbage people pick up the giant chute and drop it into the truck and hope that they're okay. So, so my wife told them, he says, "Listen, you know, there's uh I threw we we lost something in the garbage. It's in this garbage can, you know." So, they said, "Okay, they're coming tomorrow." And uh just be there when the garbage men come, sanitation workers, and uh you know, tell them where it is. So sure enough, early in the morning, she goes up and she says, "It's this one." And they lift up the giant sleeve and instead of dropping in the garbage can, they drop it on the sidewalk. An entire long sleeve of garbage. Now she has to figure out which are our bags of garbage, go through all of our bags of garbage until she finds the one that had my phone in it. And I really told her, I didn't think this was necessary, but she felt it was. And then she had to clean up all the garbage and put it back. I would have come up to help her, but I was giving a share at the time. And uh but uh I definitely gave him moral support when she came back after after she took a shower. Anyway, so uh that was the only time that I actually lost a phone. But you know, peelers and and uh knives, that happens a lot. I find this happens with a lot of different pieces of silverware, teaspoons, forks. I think as people leave them in things and then when they throw away the leftovers, it goes in the garbage with it. My mother had given us this one uh particular set of silverware. And I found that the teaspoons was the exact size to measure out my coffee. I only use fulgures instant coffee and uh I have to have the right amount otherwise it's too weak and then I might as well drink tasteless choice but uh uh or just add some brown food coloring to the water but um so I had to right amount and one by one we lost every single piece I'm down to one spoon one teaspoon and I guard it carefully in my coffee drawer to make sure it doesn't disappear every now and then the cleaning lady cleans it out and I find the spoon someplace else and I have to quickly retrieve it and make sure it makes it back into the drawer under my constant supervision. Yeah. Anyway, so those stuff get thrown away. I don't know what the solution to this is. In America, it's also true, but here in Israel, you can buy watermelon one of two ways. You can buy a whole watermelon or you can buy it alsin. It's cut in half. Now, when it's cut in half and there's a half a watermelon, I know you can get this in America. They wrap it in aluminum foil. You can see right away if it's mushy and you can lift it up and smell to see if it has that distinctive watermelon uh smell to it. But when you buy a whole watermelon, you have no way of knowing. And I cannot tell you how many times and I followed all the rules. You thump it, you listen and this, you wet, you look for the cream color on the side, all this stuff, and it comes out totally tasteless. And you bought like a whole watermelon. There has to be some way to develop a device to be able to put it on the side of the watermelon and to like check the flavor content or something. I don't know how to do this. I'm I'm not uh I'm not that creative, but uh those of you who uh have an inventive spirit, I think you should get to work on this cuz this is what's important cuz people care more about watermelon than almost anything else. On the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel, they took a poll. What was the greatest thing that Israel achieved in 50 years? And it was seedless watermelon. So, we have a suggestion of getting like a metal straw and sticking it in and pulling out some of the watermelon and then tasting it. But I don't know how happy they will be. This is sort of like going into a bakery and taking a bite out of every Danish till you find one that you like. But assuming you could do that maybe with like a hypodermic needle, you could do that and then just extract some. That might be an idea. Okay, look how much stuff there is to fret about. I bet you I'm not alone. I bet a lot of people are listening going, "Yeah, yeah, me too. I also that also annoys me." Okay. Um, okay. I don't I don't know if ladies have this experience. Uh, gentlemen have this experience a lot. And especially if you live in a firm community where you walk into the coat room and there are a hundred black overcoats and 100 black hats. And uh sometimes people put their name in the hat or they put uh their initials. Uh sometimes there's a little label. Sometimes they put it right into the band itself. Yeah. Um, but uh the little labels tend to fall off, etc. But people don't usually do that with their overcoat. I have not had my name in my clothing since I went to camp when you had to have name tags on all your clothes. My mother used to take us to a camp store and we'd buy everything there that we needed for camp and they would sew on the name tags for you so everyone knew who everything belonged to because when they take everything and just throw it in the laundry and you find some, you know, six-year-old's uh undershirt and try to figure out whose it is, you know, when there's uh 50 six year olds. Not not that easy. Everybody had to have a name tag. But since then, I really don't put name tags in uh in any of my clothing. Yeah. Uh that went out with uh when I used to have to wear nose plugs. My wife still teases me about this because I never learned how to swim. Uh it was too complicated for me cuz you have to be able to swim and turn your head and take a breath and put it back in and take a breath. And I couldn't get a breath in that amount of time that I turned my head. So, I would like do the crawl halfway through and then I would just get up and go like and breathe and swim at the same time. I'm sure there's an art form to it, but I never mastered it. And then and because I'm gasping for breath, the water would go in my nose and you know, it was very uncomfortable. So, I had nose plugs. I mean, if that's not a recipe to for a kid to get beaten up in camp, go swimming with nose plugs. That's almost as good as, you know, the kid with the glasses with the with the band-aid holding it together in the middle. So, that's why I don't go swimming. And, you know, my wife would always say, you know, can't you take the little boys swimming or can't you take the kids swimming? You know, I was like, nope. She goes, well, you don't have to go swimming. You could just stand in the pool, you know. I was like, yeah, well, go and put on a bathing suit. years ago and stand in the pool and drive home all my terrible memories from trying to swim with my nose plugs. No, thank you. Yeah. Um but uh but I can't. It's happened to me more than once where I come out and my overcoat is gone. There's another overcoat there that's not mine. And then you go to this moral dilemma. It's raining outside. It's cold. Should I take his overcoat? And then hopefully we'll switch it. So, I don't do that. I go out. I get rained on. I'm freezing cold. And I come back hoping that at some point someone will notice the mistake and put it back. And they never do. I'm always forgetting my overcoat. Yeah. When I do when I do wear one, I have to go. I don't often wear an overcoat because I usually go from my house to the car, from the car to wherever I'm going to and then back into my car. So, but if I have a little distance to walk or something, I put on an overcoat and then when I take it off, I must always forget to put it back on. And and when I'm halfway home and I suddenly realize, "Wow, it's really cold." And then I say, "Oh, I left my overcoat in wherever I was." And you have to go back and get it. But sometimes you get all the way home and you realize it. and uh you're pretty far away. So I guess I'll get it next week when I give a shear there and uh have to get back my overcoat. But okay, but that's my own fault. But people who are taking my overcoat just cuz they didn't take the time to look or they take your hat and the one that's left behind is much smaller than mine. So, didn't the person notice that my hat was like falling down over their eyes? Uh, not everybody is an observant Jew. I can't explain this phenomena. This has happened to me later in life. It didn't happen when I was young. I would put on my fillin, my yacht fillin. I pull it really tight and I'd wrap it around. I put it on and halfway through dabbing. It's falling off my arm like literally drooping. In the middle of doving, I have to take off my tillin. And it's really weird when you take off your tin yard and you still have your fill in. I have to put it back on again and tie it on. Sometimes this happens to me twice during domining. I don't know why. Has nothing to do with the knot. It's And I pull it as as tight as I can. I mean, I'm ready for a blood transfusion. By the time I pull it so tight, that still droops. Now, it happens in my tential ro, but that you can just pull back and bring it back on. But the problem is that like if I if I'm not quick on the uptake, someone's always pointing uh uh uh you know, your fillin's not straight. And then there's always a clip of people who say, "You're feeling straight. Your head's not straight." Thank you. I've never heard that one before. Thank you very much. But uh I don't know why this is. Why? Why am I telling drooping? Yeah, I'd like to say it's because I lost weight and so I don't have as much meat on that arm over there. I guess I'll have to do some more arm curls and build up the muscles so that the phone will stay where it's supposed to be. But uh I I don't have a good solution to this one. I have sparum that are uh 50 years old. They're pretty frightening. Uh, in fact, I had to move my shaws because uh, one of one of one of the producers of the show said, "You can't stand in front of the bookcase with the ripped up shaws." I said that ripped up shaz I bought when I was 14 for $35 from Z Burman very well sadik labra who was mary me you know he he told us go out and buy sparum and he had a deal with z bur so for $35 I got a shas and it's obviously not the highest quality and it's fallen apart over the years and one person said to me what could be more beautiful than having a picture of a used shas behind people know that you actually used it. But okay, I had to move others for him. But I was just learning with somebody. But I have a a giant shar and tour that uh when I was running Long Island CSY one year they I think when I was leaving they bought they bought it for me. A big you know this big gigantic shar which you know how often do you get a chance to use it really? But uh I was learning uh I was learning tour kosh mishbah I hadn't done it full disclosure I never went for y and yen I don't know dionis and there are pages missing inside now I'd like to tell you that when I got the tour I went through every kick counting the pages there was I don't even think the place that that that we got it from is open anymore where it had to be like 45 years ago. I I don't think anybody, you know, these people are still around. But what am I going to do? Come back with a tour from 40 years ago and say, "Hey, there's some pages missing." I have a microscolus like that, too. Which I didn't notice, but when you get to Dvarim, there's like six pages missing. And and it repeats other pages. So, whoever the genius was that was putting this together just took the wrong pile of of uh pages and and put it all together. So, uh what do you do? So, I'm not going to get rid of it. Well, why isn't it in order? Uh I mentioned this that uh when I went to art school um they have a very special binding process and I was very impressed and they said because our is we do not want our farm to fall apart and uh gosh when you walk into the average base mush every book is rebound something as soon as they buy it they rebind it because they know that they they're using cheap bindings. Why? Why can't you put in a good binding from the beginning? Few things really push people over the edge as much as walking outside and a car splashes a puddle all over you. You I I know women who they had to go to aa they had to go to, you know, whatever it is. They're all dressed up and they're they're walking and somebody splashes a puddle over them and like that's it. You know what I'm going to do? I have to go home now and change. I'm never going to get back. What it took me to get out of the house with the kids and everything. You can usually see these puddles. You know, do do you have to hit the puddle? Now, I understand little kids love to jump in puddles. That's why mothers try to give them boots because they know as soon as there's a puddle, a little kid has to jump in a puddle, you know. But you're old enough to drive a car, you shouldn't have to go into the puddle. Um, and uh I don't think that takes a lot of consideration. Uh, I can't I can't figure this one out. And again, I don't know if this is a strictly Israeli thing. They make these flowers. They look like big daisies. I don't know what they're talking about. And almost every bundle of flowers that you buy, unless of course you go to a florist and you pay double the price and you pick out which ones you want. But if you're buying flowers from one of these hoppers, Arab shabas, you know, and you get you get one of those bundles, they always have these flowers in them and they you put them in the vase and within 3 hours they all fall over. all like the the stem is made out of something that was made to droop. Now I guess if you got only those flowers and you just had a whole vase of drooping flowers, maybe it's some kind of a statement. Um my daughter Esther who uh has a keen eye for detail because we didn't give her Prozac when she was a child. So I say that with love. But I have certain kids who are perfectionists. You know, what can I tell you? You know, she she was making a sense bar mitzvah and she made like 70 salmon flowers and then she decided they came out too well done. So she made another 70 salmon flowers so that they had the right color. She says when she gets these flowers, she takes a wire and sticks it inside of the flower to make it stand up. That to me is too labor intensive. See, uh these are liies. They they don't they never droop, you know? Get something nice and hard. Why do I have to have flowers that droop? And every bundle has them in. Who's in charge of the kapra flower? uh union. Someone should call them up and tell them, "Leave out the droopy flowers. You're not helping anybody. Um I don't know why, but uh I can count on the finger of one hand and still have four fingers left how many times I sent ties to the cleaners with a stain and it came out." And they always say, you know, "Oh, we'll we'll do your tie." But the stain's still there. I can't get a stain out of a tie. And I'm I I like my ties. There are certain ties that I really really like. And you get a stain on it and then you say like, "How noticeable is it?" And I still wear it. How stained does it have to be till I get rid of it? How embarrassing is it? Yeah. It was so interesting. Somebody once uh wrote in a question. They say, "How many ties do you have?" Yeah, I actually thought maybe take out all my ties, but I don't want to. But uh but you know, as you get a state on your favorite tie, why can't you clean it? There's got to be a way to be able to clean a tie. So, uh anyone knows uh a good method for this, but uh as somebody once said, you know, ties are basically bibs for adult men. Instead of spilling it on their shirt, they spill it on their ties. There is a uh a mall in Miami Beach. Uh what's it called? A very very fancy mall. Basically, only drug lords from South America go there. But you could pay like $3,000 for a tie. And I thought to myself, imagine spending $3,000 on a tie and you get a stain on it. So, I mean, I buy my my ties at Burlington. And I used to get them three for $10, you know, actually three for $5. Now it's three for $10, you know. So, it's not such a big deal. But if you find a tie that you really like that really goes with the outfit, you get a stain on it, you don't want to get rid of it. So upsetting. This one, again, I don't know if this is a strictly Israeli experience. Um, when my son was 12, my son Yakov, he's been on the podcast. I took him to America and then we stopped off in England on the way back and I said to him, "Be careful because in America they drive on the right side of the street and in England they drive on the left side of the street." And he said to me, "And in Israel they drive in the middle of the street." And the older I get, the more I realize how true that is. Why? Why? I'm not talking about where the it's tight on the side, but they just look go down the middle of the street. What are you afraid of? You end up taking up both lanes. Just move over a little bit. And when you see me coming, so then move over. And this is a similar attitude. And again, I don't have this in America. There are people who shop and they leave their shopping cart right in the middle of the aisle so you can't get by. And they're like standing there staring at the various types of tomato sauce to decide which one to get. And they're all basically the same, you know, and I have to say, "Excuse me." You know, and then they give a sigh and they move their card out of the way so I can get by, you know, just just move it over. And the last thing that really annoys me, probably my biggest complaint are people who complain. You know, when you listen to these people complain all the time. I can't stand complainers. They annoy me so much. Now, it doesn't bother me when I complain because that's how people are. I used to dive in in the Boston base medish and it was so packed. There were weren't I lived on Rojin. There weren't too many shuls around. I'd go there. It was ridiculous. My wife at one point said, "I'm going to ask a shila that you're not allowed to go to a sh because you come back so miserable. You ruin chabas for everybody." You know, I used to get there and it was packed. No seats. So, you find a place to stand, you run around, you find a kish, you find a a sitter, and then you you find a place to stand. And then more people come in. I remember one time I took three steps back and somebody slipped right into that spot. I couldn't move up the situation and I was like, what? Why you if you didn't if you came to show on time, you wouldn't be doing this. You come in here late and you steal the couple of inches that I have. Of course, there was certain times that I came late and I slipped into a little spot and I hear the person behind me sigh and I think to myself, what a son is. Shouldn't you be happy that another yid is coming to schul? What's the difference between two instances? One is me. So when I complain, it's okay. But when other people complain, boy does it annoy me. All right. Well, I don't know if you gained anything over here. All I know is that people who spend their time complaining, it's because they don't take time to appreciate all the good in their life. So, I put this together just because, like I said, every now and then you get annoyed like when you try to open a tissue package or something. You're not really complaining, but uh people need to quickly refocus on all the good on their life to make sure that this doesn't happen. As always, my producer sent me some comments from listeners regarding your best question short. Well, I agree with your premise that interesting packaging is a good way to attract people. I disagree with what you said about the Pesak program. I don't know if I've mentioned this, but we're making a Pesak program up in Tavaria. Pesak with Rab with the Olavski family. you really should come. It's going to be a lot of fun. The fact that you don't advertise five-star entertainment is part of what attracts me and I believe that that would attract a Rabolofski type crowd. These are people who are less showy and more interested in what's important. Midos learning Torah while still having a good time in a nice place. I could not have said it better. from someone who has listened to your shiior and podcast for many years. Thank you, Mrs. Olowski. No, I'm just kidding. Kana, I hope you're coming after all that. Looking forward. Hi, Rabbi Olowski. My wife and I listen and watch your shorim all the time. We really enjoy them. We laugh through all the jokes even when we don't understand them. Somebody told me, I've told this in the past, someone told me they were at one of my sh and everyone's laughing. And the guy turns to the person next to him and goes, I don't get it. And the other guy goes, neither do I, but they know it must be funny. And it's in them that they didn't get it, but not that I'm not funny. 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