Yaakov Berger - Boruch Perlowitz 2020 The Jewish Platform

[clears throat] >> Welcome back to another Thursday night live here at the Jewish platform. I've made many great discoveries, but by far the greatest discovery that I've made was finding the amazing Yakov Burger. And tonight we have the privilege of having Yakov Burger here on set with us tonight. Yakov, how you doing? We are live, right? Yakov, you always got to do this. All right. All right. Calm down. If you are watching this, please call your local law enforcement agency. Baruch coerced me into coming and doing this. I I I really No, we agreed upon it. No, we didn't agree on anything. He He hasn't fed me in days. No, no, no, Yakov. We were supposed to do last Thursday night, but you're not here since then. If you can hear me, please. Mom, don't throw all my stuff yet. I will get out of here one day. I promise you. Baruch, hey, you're right here. How's it going, Yakov? Good to see you. Guys, let me tell you something about Yakov. Yakov is that one that always Every time on set and then he's acting for me, of course now on Desperate Measures and before that on The Skull of a Genius, but also all these little gigs that he does for me all the time. Yakov always lights up, whether it's the WhatsApp chat, whether it's it's on set, before set, or whatever we're doing. Um speaking of lighting up, what Why isn't there a fire here? >> Yeah, right. So, we were going to light the hook. Wood fire. Oh, there is no fire. >> going to light the fire up and then we decided it's about 70°, we're not going to light the fire up. >> don't want to revisit The Skull of a Genius sitting here in I don't know how humid or hot it was outside and sitting here. We actually discussed this on the on the the when interview in the interview. We talked about how hot it was in here, but anyways, I'm sorry. You were You were um Exactly. For those that For those that didn't realize, yeah. >> Please continue pumping up my ego. It's pretty It's pretty good. I'm done. I'm done. Just rub Oh, you're done? I'm done. I'm done. You You interrupted the flow. Yeah, you go ahead. For those that don't remember, for those that have or haven't watched The Skull of a Genius, this is where we filmed the scene that's inside the the bedroom in the hotel in in the end. in the end >> in the end in the Oh, in the end. in the in that scene. Oh, in the end. Yeah. So, how did I discover Yakov Burger? Yakov is a professional voice-over artist, narrator. What else do we call that? A voice actor, perhaps. Voice actor? A voice-over, you said that already. Uh this is not multiple choice. >> Voice under? Right. Voice Voice under If Actually, it's interesting because uh it's not really voice under, but if I'm not in studio, I will actually go under my bed and do recordings because it's the sound is much more muffled than under there. I mean to say that it's, you know, the carpet is absorbed. You're about, you know, 6 in from the bottom of the bed to the floor. So, it's It's It's a It It really absorbs the sound very well. So, it's So, wait a minute. You mean to say when we hear your whatever it is you're recording >> under the bed. the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation, you're under your bed. >> the bed, yes. Does it ever happen that your wife comes out and like starts vacuuming under the bed while you're doing the recording? >> I'm the one that vacuums in the house. Okay. So, make a quick story short, I needed a borsa. I needed an actor for The Skull of a Genius and I was I was desperately trying to find somebody and suddenly I dis- I I was going through somebody's status, Moishe Schindler. Great Great Great Moishe Schindler. Great Moishe Schindler, Greatment Media. I was go- I was looking at his status and I see this guy. Yakov Burger was just doing his He was doing his voice-over, but you weren't just talking doing a voice-over. You were acting it out. So, if I may interject, this is with that when I tell people that the hashgacha of how we actually met. So, we're not going to go into the entire the the the long version that I tell people the hashgacha of how I got to meet Baruch Goldberg, who hired me for Reb Carlebach to do the voice-over, and then you got to me, but And then you got me connected to Baruch Goldberg. >> Baruch Goldberg, Bunny Album and everything, right? I'm doing another job for him on Sunday. >> hashgacha is amazing. And just how everything how everything And I got Okay, once we're discussing it, just because of the sake of It's really kind of here, just the hashgacha of how it how everything evolved. Uh Baruch Goldberg had called me um Okay, incidentally, I've been doing voice-overs for 20 years. Not trying to pump myself or anything, but just, you know, I've been doing it for about 20 years, Baruch Hashem. Thank you, Hashem. We're going to get into that in a second. We're going to get how you got into it. >> Yes, I sure did. Um the um it was on a 12:00 on a Friday afternoon, and Baruch Goldberg, who was an alumnus of Reb Schechter's Yeshiva, he called me up all desperate and said, "Hi, I >> Desperate Measures. Desperate, of course. Every Everything's Even that or The Skull of a Genius. You hear these references throughout everything. I'm supposed to be looking over there, right? Well, you can look at any of the cameras that you want. No, no, no, that's Oh, not that one. I'm sorry. Okay, it's my camera. That's your camera. I'm not going to take your camera. Um So, I I was It was a Friday afternoon. I was literally on the way out of the office, but I heard that he was very, very upset and he needed help with something. He told me that they were having the net the following night, Motzei Shabbos, they were having an event for Reb Schechter's Yeshiva. They were going to have They were having a PowerPoint presentation, and the fellow that was in charge of it, he backed out, and they decided to reach out to Baruch, and he had never done anything like this before. He asked me that he needed help with voice-overs, and he provided me not with an actual narration, but the script that he provided me with were the slides that were going to be presented at this PowerPoint presentation again the following the following night, Motzei Shabbos. I told him, "Baruch," I said, "Don't worry about it." I said, "We'll get through this." I actually stayed an extra hour in the office. I worked it through with him, and it was uh it was a big success. And Baruch and I hit off uh very uh very well, Baruch Hashem. Fast-forward a few years later, Baruch Goldberg hires me to do a voice-over for Reb Carlebach Shlita for his Yeshiva. So, and this is where This is where we get to what Baruch was talking about. And this to me was the most mind-boggling part of it all, because, you know, my character Borsa was the >> [laughter] >> That was Borsa, right? So, so here I am, and it was like a 15-second or a half a minute a half a minute clip that Moishe Schindler um Baruch Goldberg hi- hired me for Reb Carlebach, Moishe Schindler was in charge of the the Yakov production and so on. So, Moishe Schindler, so he he posted this, you know, this half a minute clip of me doing a voice-over about Reb Carlebach really, really needs your help. His Yeshiva Tiferes And the other Yeshiva, they need your help. And And Baruch is looking at this, and he's like, "You know what? That would make a perfect Borsa." And I told him that my Spanish was like >> I was like, you know, "Please, Reb Chaim Kanievsky's son, [clears throat] Maran Sar HaTorah, he really needs your help." And from there, Borsa. And And from all the films that I've made, I'm sorry, but Borsa is definitely the most evil character in all of them. I'm saying in The Edge, we had the mafia guys, right? The terrorist in Desperate Measures. If you don't watch it yet, I don't want to any spoiler alerts. >> the bad guy in 180? >> [snorts] >> I know there was a They were the terrorist so I don't know. >> 180, the terrorist so I don't know. But nobody yet had wanted to cut off the head of a 13-year-old kid to sacrifice it. So, that was our Borsa. So, you are a voice-over actor. Now, I know people they leave kollel, they say, "I'm going to go into real estate. I'm going to go into kollel again." Many different things. I I've never even heard the concept of a voice-over actor. I mean, in the film world. How did you decide to go into voice-over acting, and how did you actually get there? That's a good question. Uh so, the truth is that it's more of my second job, my hobby, if you will, which I really, really enjoy a lot. I met a lot of great people over the past many years. Um my my main job is in >> from the great people. You said that, not me. Yeah, of course. Baruch, come on. There's nobody like Baruch. There's nobody like Baruch, and I mean that in a positive way. Oh. Even though he hasn't fed me in a few days, I am the ale, you know, see earlier. Um so, I do work full-time for a tzaddakah organization. Uh the Sephardic Food Fund. I've been there also for about 20 years. Um so, what happened? So, I used to do kiruv work for Project Gesher Lakewood Links. And or Lakewood Links Project Gesher. I have no idea what Uh not necessarily in that order. And the kiruv organization. Lakewood, we do have that in Lakewood. Um So, one day, the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation called up the office, and they asked They spoke with one of the secretaries. Uh actually, her name was Mrs. Ora Nasava. Give a lot of credit to her, because this is what really propelled me to my voice-over career. And they asked if there's anyone that could do the intros for their Chazak hotline. Meaning to say, they had these 5-minute snippets every day that would play of various rabbonim, rebbetzins, and so on. So, she threw my name out and I got in contact or Columbus Community Relations got in contact with me and that was the beginning of it all, which was basically it went something like to this extent. Today's sheer is given by Rabbi or Rebbetzin so on and so forth. In the previous sheer we discussed this and this topic and so I mean obviously I'm mixing up the words it's been a while since I've seen the script. And that's that's where it really started. But that wasn't it wasn't in a full How old were you at the time? Were you married? Were you single? Or 20 years ago? >> married. Yeah, yeah, I was married. I was married already. It was just after we were to have our first child in in 2000. Uh 2000 it was about 2000 2001 I think when I started doing it. Forget the exact >> 20 He's 21 years old now. Are you you're not trying to date me here. I don't need No, no, no, no, no. But but but he just big movie just went to strong this Um yeah, let's say about 20 21 years. Um So, I saw that I had a knack to do this. Um again, this was I already you know I yeah, I wasn't working at that organization. I mean again it's 20 years ago things happen somebody just happens to them. I got greyer. Got new new new new set of new new jacket new pair of pants. So many things have happened in the past 20 years. Um but at any rate um where was I? Um a lot of ums here. >> You're talking about the guest show. >> no so right now yeah no but put it moving right along. So, I saw that I had a knack for doing voiceovers. This is before I actually took lessons for it. So, I actually spoke to my rosh yeshiva I learned the riverdale by river moskowitz shlita and I told him about this interesting idea I had about doing voiceovers and he gave me his blessings and I I went to Manhattan I went to a studio that taught for for radio commercial and I took and I went there for the for the initial consult. They saw that I have what it takes and you know there are different packages. So, it was like I think it was eight lessons or 12 lessons and obviously in this in in the voiceover industry there's there with any industry you're always learning. You're always learning in any industry. Um and there's so much more that I that you can learn and you I could have gone back to schooling for this and so on. Eight to 12 lessons later it was enough for me to make my first demo. So, the demo is the most important thing in the voiceover industry. That's what really sells your product. And we had the demo there was like six or seven different styles of of advertisements if you will and I sent it out to like 10 people and the first >> no WhatsApp in those days. >> No, no, no, no, nothing, nothing. And no no no cellphones in those days. They didn't even have sliced bread. That's how far back >> [laughter] >> No, so they they >> So, this was in 18 what? This was in 18 18 18 I don't know whatever. Um the the the the person the first person that picked it up was Chaim Rosen. I sent it out to I I looked up one of the Lakewood pages or telephone books whatever and the I sent it out to people that were involved in you know making videos weddings videographers and Chaim Rosen at the time of Chaim video he was the first person to pick it up and he called me called me about it. And interestingly enough the first real voiceover gig that I did one of the first ones but it was a major one for me was for Bonei Olam. Chaim Rosen was at that time producing at that time going back 20 years so you know >> I I didn't Bonei Olam was in existence 20 years ago. Right, so Bonei Olam has been in existence for about 21 21 plus years. They're they started off in Brooklyn. They about 20 years ago again that time well that's that time frame is when they started the Lakewood chapter. And Chaim Rosen had produced a his first Bonei Olam video was shown at Chateau Grand. Oholei Olam Shalom. Oholei Olam Shalom I don't know if you remember that is. I don't even know. You know where Chateau where Evergreen is now? >> Chateau Park, right? Evergreen, right? All the stores there now that used to be a Chateau Grand was a big catering hall. And Bonei Olam had their first Lakewood dinner in Chateau Grand. I believe that's the name of the name of the place. And Chaim Rosen showed showcased an amazing video on Bonei Olam at the Rabbi Leib Hill the great great Rabbi Hill. He was the he narrated that first video. Then a couple years after a couple years after that that's where Chaim Rosen had picked me up um to do the voiceover when we had the next Bonei Olam um dinner and yeah I mean that the rest is history really. That really was what propelled me to my career. Interestingly I was actually interviewed by by someone on who has a very well known LinkedIn a member a Miss Malya Feigelson and we were talking about this and it was it was interesting point that she helped me bring out is that that we didn't have children right away as well. We actually have six beautiful children and it was at the same time that you know I my it was very interesting that you know I I was I began to I had begun to get involved with Bonei Olam volunteering to help them out and at the same time I got involved in the voiceover industry and the first voiceover industry I did was for Bonei Olam. So, a lot of things I think were falling into place together and that's really that's where it started. And Bonei Olam Shalom you know I've done many many various institutions. I'm also like like >> [clears throat] >> I'm that guy that's either known as wow what a voiceover or Here we go again. How many times a week does that guy disturb my supper? So, I great story anecdote. So, I walked into the walked into my house one day after one [snorts] evening after a long day at the office and the phone rang and I picked up the phone and I hear hi I'm calling on behalf of and I slammed the phone down. I'm like I don't even listen to any of this. And I and I stopped a second and I said I I just hung up on myself. I was like How many people get to hang up on themselves? >> It's amazing. It's like it's great. What a freelancer I am. So good about it though. >> [laughter] >> But yeah, so that's that's you know that Bonei Olam And then recently Okay, you've done some small acting gigs before I discovered you. Right. And now Bonei Olam Shalom I'm saying Well the You're on some really big you're on my my two big films which were bestsellers. Bonei Olam Shalom Yes. There's Lakewood and Hollywood. And I'll settle for Lakewood. I'll settle for Lakewood. And what about Hollywood? That's not a thing. >> your next question? >> [laughter] >> That's I just I just incidentally just to mention what you what you said earlier. So, I was in two Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation made for Tishrei videos. I was in a Chaverim video. Um and then obviously I was in two of your amazing videos. I'm also you're on a I I hired you for two live streams that I did. Um at BPJCC >> for the Chassidic we did it together with Chaim Reich right and then Zami uh [snorts] Zami Begun and Chaim Freundlich who was his brother. And then we did for the Chassidic thing with Ari Abramowitz. You were hired for the home show thing and for the game show for RCCS last year. And we have your clips on on going around on social media all the time whether pro-masks or anti-masks anti-masks I'm pro I'm pro-life. I'm pro Whatever whatever floats your boat. >> [clears throat] >> Um you're wilding so that now how about we cut for a quick commercial break break and we'll be right back with more Yakov Burger. Ha dark cheese. Don't mix it with ha dark chocolate. >> we we have we have our own commercial that we're going Oh, we do? Yeah, yeah, okay. So, sit down. We'll be right back with more Yakov Burger. >> [music] [music] >> Welcome back. Now, Yakov you've been doing this for 20 years or something like that, right? >> Something like that. Shoo. Can't imagine. You have no idea. So, was there anything any like really big event that you've done not not I don't know event or or campaign you were part of or something that you felt that really resonated with you and something that really touched your heart? Any big people that you've met? Let let me hear I'm saying you get to meet a lot of real kosher people. Um stars really big campaigns. Tell me that industry were there any any incident that sticks out? No. Nothing. >> [laughter] >> This was supposed to be the home run segment. Oh, man. I mean, baruch Hashem. I mean, I really I I really thank you Hashem for allowing me to be involved in this industry because Wait a minute. My my heart skipped a beat because like this was supposed to be Um next question, your honor. >> [laughter] >> No. Okay. Um no further questions. Um I'm like you know you know I'm a run of the mill kind of shidduch. Yes, no, boo hoo, boo hoo. That's it. Finished. Um speaking of Rephael, to me you you talking about meeting personalities? I I you know baruch Hashem I I I've been like I said I've been doing a lot of work. But uh I got to meet Reb Kanievsky, you know. I did That was a major That was a real major fundraiser. Uh that was 2 years ago. Um you know, I I can't really pinpoint one particular thing cuz I've baruch Hashem I've done a lot of work, you know. What was this past year with the whole with with COVID and whatnot. So, everything was so much I mean, there was so much virtual platform virtual stuff going on. And my baruch Hashem my younger brother David, so he basically helped me up the ante and through my LinkedIn account I used to post on my LinkedIn account that I worked for this stock organization, but it didn't really garner much attention. [snorts] When we switched it up that my first job would be voiceover, all of a sudden it started taking off. Now, mind you, I don't connect with 30,000, 40,000, 50 I I don't have that many connections. >> Yeah, like 200, 300,000. No. No. That I'm all right now. But but the the the few thousand connections that I have on LinkedIn was something that really helped me meet so many people within the industry this past year. Um I don't want to name any too many people cuz I don't want to take away any like No, no. We knew each other. >> Right. We knew each other before LinkedIn existed. >> You just got on LinkedIn actually. You just needed to get >> I just I just Yeah. You just wanted cuz you wanted to advertise us for measures. >> Right. Um but people like I don't really like I don't want to miss out on anybody, but uh Yoel Trigger, you know, from Yali. >> Yali. Um and my Moishe Shingle scheme uh Moishe Neuhaus doing great stuff with Oldaf. >> Yeah, with Oldaf. Oldaf. There you go. Oldaf. That That was a great >> Oh, right. You had You did a Oldaf commercial. Moishe Shindler, that was a funny one. That was a cute one. Um How about we just >> Moishe Mandelbaum is just >> I think we should just play that that that Oldaf before he back. >> Yeah, we we have that over here. >> Yeah, that'll be a great addition. >> Um so that Moishe can put it on. Moishe, could you get the Oldaf commercial with Yaakov Burger falling down? Let's get it on over here. So, that was I'm assuming that was Oldaf on green screen. But it's cute. It's very cute. >> Who said? I don't know. They provided me with towels actually. on green screen. I you should also make that it was such an amazing video that he did that I had to I it it was like you know it was on green screen and now I had that you know I was in that position and I fell back, but I had to keep on looking at it over and over again like I couldn't figure out how they did it where it really looked like I was falling off of it. Oh, you weren't You weren't on a chair. >> flat. I was sitting No, I was sitting on the floor. I just had my feet crossed together like I'm in like a yoga position. >> I can't do that anymore. Right. Well, I don't know. Yeah. >> used to have I got it. And I mean a yoga position and and I I like holding on to the safer and just like holding my feet together and just fell back. But how you created that cuz it was really you know. You know, the truth is talking about voiceovers, so there are many different styles of voiceovers. I remember my demo there was this um It's raining on Monday. It's snowing on Tuesday. I got to get away. Whatever whatever vacations, you know. And then there's the the Jewish philanthropic fund, meeting your everyday charity needs. That style So, what I'm trying to bring out is that in voiceovers there are so many different styles obviously. You can't just be that you know very can't be very linear. Not linear that's the right word. Uh or or monotone or just you know This is my voice and everybody No, that's better than my voice. No, the voice is the voice. There are different there are different types of voices, but in terms of style there is more There are happier ones. There are more sad. There is more uh Then there's the BMW 5 Series, the ultimate driving machine. That was something I did for my demo as well. But because most of my work has been for the firm world, there's a typical style that you do. Working with people like Moishe Shindler gave me the opportunity to Oldaf, you know, Oldaf or he we also did something for I forgot what the name of the the one of the famous companies that sell sukkahs. So, we did something together. The twins of France were on there and I did also this quirky type of the voiceover. So, that like That's the stuff that I I mean I enjoy all of them. I enjoy working for the stock organizations and it's and it's you know in and of itself it's a mighty good thing cuz if I'm able to inspire people like the Bnei Akiva video that we were part of Bnei Akiva that video event but the Bnei Bnei Akiva live >> live event. Where you did the you were voiceover of the Megillah reading. That's right, which Very big voiceover. And by the way, and I'm still able to do that one pasuk for Megillah reading. Aha. Something like that. That's it. That's all I know. That's the extent of my Megillah reading. But I'm I'm available for the next few years. I'm It's not I'm not booked. I'm available. It's not even the full pasuk. The pasuk continues to say >> Right. Right. Right. Right. >> So, just the half pasuk. Right. Just Achashverosh till Haman. Okay, but then um you know, you know, we we did this video for Bnei Akiva and again because I was personally involved with Bnei Akiva helping them out and having gone through that experience, so there was a half minute clip in which I shared a certain experience in it and it was very impactful. I think it actually brought in a lot of money for that organization. That was on this on this Bnei Akiva thing. >> Yeah, for breaking the silence. Your video that you put out. >> interviewed me and it's interesting because of all the you know Well, a voiceover a voice actor, that's really what it is cuz you might think who? You're you're not necessarily you know, I was interesting I was taught that that that let's say you're a vegetarian. Or you're or you or you only eat dairy and you're trying to do a commercial for a meat product. So, how do you get yourself into the mindset of advertising a delicious hamburger if you know that you know you don't eat you're a vegan you don't eat that. So, in your mind you're supposed to think of something that is really delicious that you like, anything. I don't know, a veggie burger, let's say. Or a tofu burger. But something that you really enjoy and then once you get into that mindset then you can sell that product like that you know delicious something because you're thinking Well, that's what acting really is. So, you know, in most of the things that you do you you put yourself into that situation even if you're not really there per se. I mean, you have to be there cuz you're selling the product to an audience that you know they they primarily just hear you. Uh they don't see you. But this this this is a real interview. It wasn't just a voiceover for Bnei Akiva. Right. It was an actual >> It was an actual yeah. It was personal to me and so on. But anyway, yeah, so. Perfect. Now >> Carry on. Now now that we got to place that you're not just a voiceover actor, baruch Hashem you do many um I don't know if you're a comedian yet. Would you Would you go into that field? Of bakhanus. What What What is a comedian called? Would you go into What's a comedian called? Like the field of a comedian. What do you call it? Would you Would you go into comedy I guess, right? Right. Usually that's what comedian comes to the word comedy, so that's probably what it is. I I thought that it was doctors that do comedy. I thought. It depends if your name is Nimitzky or not. Oh, no. I'm sorry. We don't Oh, we do. We have dark humor. That's right. >> Are you from Latvia? Of course I'm from Latvia. Well, what's the question? Are you trying to insult me? >> and you came here to live the American dream. Ah, to live the American dream and earn big bucks no less. Of course. The um the Uh for those that didn't realize that was those were some of Yaakov's lines, right? In Despicable Me. That was my persona. I'm really not a bad guy. I'm really not a bad guy, right? You have a very difficult time. >> Don't ask my wife and children if that's true, but I'm really not a bad guy. Um um so now so by me it's more of a spur of the moment type of thing. I mean, I could be just walking around like an inspiration. Like even though in the voiceover industry it's not necessarily about animation and doing different voices, it's just taking your natural voice and using different expressions like I mentioned earlier whether it's happy, whether it's sad, whether it's pensive or thoughtful, you know, that's that's just using the natural voice. But then there are also you can go into different type of characters. Um and a lot of times if a character comes to my mind, I'll I'll I'll you know just you know hit the recorder on my phone and just put it on there so I shouldn't forget that. >> And that's precisely why the Desperate Measures Skull of a Genius way out production WhatsApp chat is riddled with voice notes and videos of And and it take and and really all the crazy stuff that we posted on that chat a lot of it was just like spur of the moment stuff. You know, I was just in Dallas for for for a Pesach with my family. And I I bought a cowboy hat and like it's very interesting that you know you you and and I I I my understanding is that with actors and and and in the world of acting it's almost like when you put that costume on it you you can actually fall into character. You know, I you know, I sent a whole bunch of clips of me that I put that cowboy hat on and it's like you or I see that like only you can prevent forest fires. And I really think that that you know the clothing really does something when you do that. And actually so that cuz you know Yosef Guttman who you know we Yosef is the main character in Desperate Measures. So and he did a phenomenal job phenomenal job. And he actually corrected me when I when I put the cowboy hat the first time I sent that a video. So I didn't have that real southern twang. He actually told me how to correct he got to have that a twang the twang you know and then so you which word do you put the twang in and which you know but no but it's a lot of fun and you know what listen you know one of the things that's very important and you know, I know we're segwaying segwaying from one topic to the next. We need to have a lot of simcha in our life. It is one thing that this past year taught us is that we don't have enough simcha. Cuz I can you you I I rest assured that if we would have had more simcha in our lives a lot of the anxiety and depression that we suffered through would not have happened. That was one of not not not I don't mean to get too political here that's not the point of this conversation. We have to do understand so when you focus so much on the news it's all about negativity negativity negativity negativity. One of the great things that I loved about acting on the Skull of a Genius acting on Desperate Measures and me together with people you know, I've been in office the whole day but I'm getting this force of helping out people do tzedakah. But you know that we take this break and we're acting and we're and I'm meeting new with I'm meeting new people and you know, we became like a whole family and and new friends and new family. It was such a breath of fresh air and you know, obviously we have to be serious here on set you can't you know, you can't funk around half the time cuz you got to get things done. >> Half the time we we end up funkening if that's a word. >> By the way Desperate Measures when the when when the CD when the DVD comes out it's going to be a double DVD you're going to have 3 hours of bloopers and like an hour and a half of the real thing you know, it's just that that's just the way it goes there there's a camaraderie and there was humor and everything. >> a lot of fun. It was so good to go through the years and do >> think that the best part I'm actually going to put that clip on right now was when you accidentally poked yourself with the needle just to show that the bloopers. We're going to kind of mushy could you get that blooper on for a second? And it's takes time together we don't have that much people but we can work Okay I I got I got I got my finger in the didn't put it up. That was beautiful though. I thought that's part of it. Back over here. So your finger's okay right? I'm saying. Yeah I think so. Yeah okay. You know what I said ouch. Ouch is a good word. Um I I actually think what's funny I don't know if you remember this when during the shooting scene which was a very technical scene. It was this a once it was a it was a it was only a one one time shot. You had to throw the rock or something. >> Right I threw this big rock at the same time. It's like so what happened was we we we we did that take not the throwing just the falling down all together me my assistant Sam and Yanky falling down to the ground. So at one point we kept on doing it so many times it was 12:31 too I think it was I think it was still in the I think we were still in the studio. We're still we're still filming. It's 3:00 in the morning. I was so nervous because I had to I I had this metal thingy in my hand and I had to throw it at the mirror and I'm an okay baseball player but far from a perfect pitcher. >> you miss it and hit the wall >> I I hit Yosef in the head. Yosef was standing right here. It wasn't so bad. I'm just kidding Yosef if you're watching this. The truth is we could have filmed it again from the other side. Get Yosef even if he had like a big black and blue mark on this side you could have just filmed it the other way. But I The first time the mirror didn't even crack and the second time and the third time and the fourth time and the fifth time. And the second time Oh that's right that's right that's Yeah Baruch Hashem that that was just a very complicating scene but you were saying you rule Yeah so you know we were only like in we were at giddy hour late hour another late hour right one of those Baruch Like like what what what's early hour? The late late late late night show with Baruch Perlowitz. You know. So that seems to be the the the the story of Baruch's life. Um not just kidding. Um I'm actually not kidding. The um so we we we fell down on the floor and then then it's like I just I had it then like it was a serious scene we're really filming and then it's like I picked up my glasses and I like I had them hanging out like over there like cuz we you know I fell like cuz the bullet shot and then and then Yosef looks at me and he just like lost it. >> [laughter] >> I said come on like you know that was such a great scene and you know but you know Baruch Hashem Baruch Hashem it's been a really great great ride and with the help of Baruch Hashem we're going to go we're going to do this many many more times we're going to bring excitement and joy and kosher entertainment to you that are across the world. Even though you can have the occasional I'm not allowed to do this. I'm not sure if you're going to have that on the okay whatever. Moving right along. Yeah okay. And let me ask you I I want to say I want to I want to I want to I want to emphasize this point. In the world that we live in today in the world that we live in today there is listen I don't tell you what goes on there. I mean there's plenty plenty of entertainment plenty of stuff that you know, kids adults get their hands on. And I felt one of the most important things about producing films and I know you agree with it we've discussed this before. And a quick films of high caliber of high quality for the from world is that like why do the kids especially call them like especially when kids are off midway through vacation summer break whatever it is let's provide solid good kosher entertainment. So they can say you know, why not to watch the guy just stuff out there let's watch this great you know, Jewish kosher solid entertainment. And that's really where we're at. >> And and I'll tell you like this although disclaimer everything that I do meaning in the world of entertainment I'm a Rabbi Yossi but everything that I do in the world of entertainment is for entertainment purposes only okay. That being said I really try to make it extremely inspirational. I was inspired throughout the story right to make this film Desperate Measures because of the teams that I work with every single day and I really got back from a Rabbi in a big Yeshiva that that works also with teenagers that the bachrum over there were super mispalel and I like to keep things quiet. There were a few Yeshivas that I actually sent the film to to show it for the entire Yeshiva pro bono I didn't charge them for it because I felt that would inspire them and although I do it for entertainment purposes only I just want it to be something silly which which I believe is also okay. I I don't think that there's anything wrong with with pure entertainment purposes but I try to keep it inspirational. I try to do it You want the audience to walk away with something I feel like really you know I mean I you know just again this is not a a Desperate Measures interview per se but but then you know, spoiler alert spoiler alert just I have to say >> No maybe we shouldn't do a spoiler alert. Really? Let's not do a spoiler the the film didn't even crack. Right is that tiny little thing? >> All right all right all right tiny little thing. Without getting to the I don't think people are going to have unless you actually saw the movie. When Yanky you know, runs out of said person's house and you know, his yarmulke had fallen off and then he puts it on again. I can't tell you how many people have told me that the clapping >> all over. And we filmed that >> that because what the point of that was that he's having such a hard time and if you know what he took upon himself that he wants to keep the yarmulke on and he goes back and he says you know what I'm not going to let my miserable day affect the commitment that I made to come back to Hashem. And and that was a very hot scene. We filmed the yarmulke falling off and then for a few seconds we focus on the close up of the yarmulke >> Right where Yanky Yes yes yes and at that point everybody's kind of so it's over? All of his commitment as father and everything's over because he had a bad day and you see him coming back and then there's 3 seconds that he looks at his yarmulke for and then he goes he picks it back up. Right. Right. So basically if you know you know if not we're just tickling you a little bit because Sukkot is not too far from that. And if you figured it out, watch it anyway, right? How? Well, Sukkot. >> Sukkot, yeah. Yeah, Sukkot. Baruch Hashem. So now, um let's let's back up a little bit. You're extremely talented with your voices. I'm saying you can imitate anybody. And if we wouldn't be so um short on the clock, I'm trying to keep the A few people have said that we should try to keep the interviews a bit shorter. Um you can imitate just about any kind of character from You need to call me. >> Call me. Call me. Call me. >> of character. To that Sheldon good old >> Right. Dr. Sheldon Cooper, yeah. >> Right. So, you know what's interesting about >> Dr. Skolovsky. Not not No, not Dr. Skolovsky. >> Evil. Dr. Evil. No, I was talking about um um um Boris Badenov. Boris Badenov. Dr. Skolovsky, genius. >> Yes. Just don't jump out the window. >> [laughter] >> Oh. I I'm sorry. I didn't know I that you don't appreciate dark humor. Oh, that's that's the measures. I'm sorry. I'm mixing up my characters. So, you could At what age, I'm assuming it just happened naturally that you realized >> You you want to know something crazy? People think that I have been like, "Oh gosh, this guy was probably like the last like I can't imagine how many plays he was involved in in camps and stuff." >> I would I would assume that. And I know you very well. >> Zero. See that? That's a zero right there. Was it because in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, they were very very >> No, I just Not at all. I I You know, at Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I went to Camp Carina, Camp Carina for Rabbi Wallerstein. Um but I was never involved in this type of stuff. Uh then I went to Camp Darom for a couple of years. Then I was in Camp Darom, which there's definitely ain't no plays going on in Camp Darom. It's a learning camp. That's where I went to Ru A Ru. I wasn't Ru A Ru, though. So I went to learning camp. And it it just the talent only I only had the opportunity to do this much later in life. I didn't even know where the voices came from. I think just once you started getting more into acting, you know, years later, that's where it started happening. So when you were a bochur, when you were everything I was They know I I I >> No, I'm sure you were smacking guys. You weren't the star in every play. >> No, I wasn't. That's the crazy thing. Yeah, it's pretty weird. No, and I have I guess what's happening now was that for years, like pent up, just waiting to >> [snorts] >> And like then you hear like, "Ah, the angels are singing. He's here. He has arrived. He has come finally, you know." >> It is time. >> It is time. It is time. >> That was still, by the way, that was still an epic scene. >> yeah. The it is time scene was in Skolovsky, genius. >> Baruch Hashem. You know, by the way, just about it in terms of there are two different things. There's There's I can't even do a solid uh uh imitation of Donald Trump. Meaning, I can hear Baruch Hashem because I enjoy music and have a knack and have an ear for it. So you have to listen to them in order to be able to imitate them. So unless I'm really tuned into it, I can't really do it off the cuff. But like I said before, character type, like Southerners. So there's the Texas type of guy that I can talk like that. Let's say, you know, that's that's not any particular individual. It's more of a character, like um also just know just going to back to voiceovers, where they're they're You have to remember they're they're different pitches, different You can do the Southern drawl with a very deep voice. Or you can do the Southern drawl like Ma Ruby. I don't believe it. He's stolen my beer. He's stolen my beer. He's stolen my beer. >> Right. So so you see there's So even within the character or I'm not again without imitating a particular person, just a particular type of character, a cowboy or whatever it is, there are different ways to do it. Then you can do it with an old cowboy also, like, you know, I don't believe it. The darned Indians are The darned Indians are coming back again. Oh no, get my shotgun. Get my shotgun. Right. So there you see that that's like three different styles. And it's one >> one character. >> Redneck Southern >> redneck cowboy or whatever you want to call them. Yeah, so um Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. So it was later on, once you got into the voiceovers, that you realized that you were actually talented. >> to it. Yeah, yeah. Listen, even in the voiceover industry, my teachers told me that there's voiceovers, but even if you were to use different voices, you still have to train because you still Whatever training I took for voiceovers, that character still has to know the right way to do something. Like Like again, if I were to use example why you why why I said earlier, there there's this famous commercial from Smokey the Bear. Smokey the Bear was a character that talked about preventing forest fires. So there was that one voice. It was a famous actor that he he does that. Only and there's a picture of Smokey the Bear, but his voice is, "Only you can prevent forest fires." But in that sentence with with voiceovers, it's not in the monotonous of "Only you can prevent forest fires. Only you can prevent forest fires." So there's a there's a flow to it. >> There's a flow to There's a science behind it. >> behind it. And that you know, like for example, it Let's say you weren't in the room now. I'm going to turn I'm going to turn around. I'm having a conversation right now, right? I'm sorry, what did you say? No no no no no no. Just listen to me for a moment. Now if you notice, I'm Who am I talking to? You're talking to my camera. Talking to the Right. So what I'm saying is the point I'm trying to make is that you know, you're talking to an invisible audience. So you you have to have a dialogue even though you're not having a dialogue. It has to come across like that. So there's you know, specific training. I mean, it's it's not rocket science, but there's a there's a there's an interesting um lump. There's an interesting science behind how it works. Different lessons, but uh yeah. Let me ask you, Yaakov, as this interview kind of we're running short on our time, is there any word of advice that you can give to an aspiring actor or or voiceover actor? Or just a piece of inspiration. You've been around. You've dealt with many great people. A word of inspiration. >> So if there was one thing that I would tell your audience is that and I see Baruch Hashem myself, never underestimate who you are. Hashem has given everyone a particular talent. It I can't go into every single industry. By me, Baruch Hashem, I discovered that Hashem has has been so good to me and he allowed me to discover my voiceover talent, my acting talent. But there's no such a thing as a person that does not have any hidden talent. And utilize it. Utilize the koachus that Hashem gave you. You have no idea where that will take you in life. And for certain, always thank Hashem. Thanking Hashem, thanking Hashem, thanking Hashem will bring you to such heights. It will make you feel besimcha. You will appreciate what you have in life. And Hashem will shower you a blessing when he when Hashem sees that you appreciate how much that he's done for you. But again, tap into your inner strength because everybody has that. Without a fail, everybody has something out there that can they they can grow from, they can use to inspire others, inspire their family, their friends, the world. And you know, just go for it. Go for it. Well, thank you so much, Yaakov, for being here. Thank you everybody for tuning in. Yaakov, you're an inspiration to the world. All your clips you send out, your voice notes, the amount of tzedakah you helped collect. And of course the acting that you've done. I really appreciate you being here. Thank you everybody for tuning in. Thank you, Mushy Greenfield, our producer, for all of us. Please. Please. I need something to eat. Don't forget to call. We have food upstairs. >> 911. >> [laughter] >> Don't know how to locate me. Baruch Hashem. Thank you, our producer, Mushy Greenfield. >> Baruch Hashem is great. Baruch Hashem is amazing. All you guys, all you guys, all you guys. I love all of you. And have a wonderful Shabbos, guys. >> Wonderful Shabbos, everybody. It's locked up. Baruch Hashem. Rabbi Yudelow.