Yechiel Jacobs chats Fame, Comedy & Fighting Jewish Hate!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Heil Jacobs. I just did an amazing podcast with Shanell

(00:02):
A Mari on the Chanelle in the City podcast. It
was an awesome, funny, great, meaningful, deep podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Go check it out episode of Chanelle in the City
on iHeartRadio. I'm your host, Shanella Mauri and we have
such a special guest here today. I know I say
that about all my guests, but this one's truly special.
He's a stand up comedian, hilarious and a social media sensation.
He's also a Jewish and Israeli activist helping us Jewish
people through this these hard times.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Please help me.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Welcome the talented, the funny, the handsome, the next Justin
Bieber Jewish version. Ya Heil Jacobs. Everyone, how are you?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I'm doing good. What an intro that was? That was great. Really,
I'm blushing, thank.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
You, thank you.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You're first of all, I'm blushing, and I'm like pushing
forty and you're twenty three years old. Everybody talking about you.
You are literally going viral, which to me is amazing
because I grew up as an Israeli Jewish.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
You know, my dad's Israeli Iraqi.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
My mom's a Jewish Columbian woman and so we're Sparta
and growing up, especially in comedy, I had a really
hard time kind of admitting I'm Israeli, just like being
proud of it. And then, of course since the horrific
what happened, the horrific attacks since October seventh to the
Jewish people in Israel. And by the way, I know this,
we're gonna get into how you don't take sides. It's
more like you're talking about educating everybody about what we

(01:20):
went through as a nation. But what I admire about
you is that you took you took what happened that
was horrific and made it something's funny and made people
understand that, you know, hate is not the answer. Right,
So talk to us about what inspired you to start
doing those videos, Like how did you become proud of
being because your Israeli as well?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Right? Yeah, so I was. I was born in Israel,
but I moved when I was very young. When I
was born and a half, I moved to New York
and then just recently, so I grew up in New
York and just recently moved to Florida, and I live
in Florida. The way, the way it all happened, was
I mean, it happened through frustration, like it happened through
October seventh, happens crazy amount of like everyone was just

(01:59):
was so depressing and everyone's doom scrolling every time you
like when on social media just got more and more
depressing and like and it was just and and and
on top of all this, seeing all these like videos
that are anti blatant, anti Semitic, anti Israel, spreading such
crazy lives that are like so be on false, I
felt like someone needs to respond to this in a
way that almost like you feel like you're you're expressing
yourself properly, or you feel like like said, letting off steam.

(02:22):
So I'm like, you know what, I'll do it, and
I did it. A big part of it was just
being frustrated with what I was saying, so I figured,
let me do this. And at the time I was,
I was imitating Sebastian Maniscalco, the voice the you known
it's so everybody's doing good today, like that voice, Let
me do this character. And the beauty about this character
is that Sebastian's character he doesn't give a crap. It's meaning,

(02:43):
if something is wrong, he will tell you it's wrong.
He isn't hurting your feelings. It's not about that about
this is wrong. Here's why. And he'll make you look
like an idiot, you know what I mean, that's the
beauty of it. So it was the perfect character to
expose these idiots and these these blatant lives. So I
went with it. I just did My first video was
the Around Them month after October seventh. I'm like, it
is the enough doom schooling, let's take action. Let me

(03:03):
just let me just express myself in through this character.
And I did a response video to this lady. She's like,
if you have Ben Shapiro and Amy Schumer on your side,
you're probably on the wrong side. And then I responded,
if you have hamas Isis and the Taliban on your side,
you're probably on the wrong side. You know. I did
that video and it exploded like three hundred thousand views

(03:23):
in a week. And I never had like a presence
on Instagram, like I like my private account. I never
was like making like it was crazy. Just blew up,
and I just did more and more, and that's said.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, like did you think so? First of all, I thought,
that's fascinating that you picked Sebastian. You're right as a character,
because at first I was.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Like, why him?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I know he's funny, but that makes sense, like because
you're not. He doesn't have any fear and he does
tell the truth as opposed to other comics. Yeah right,
But also, like, did you think.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
It would blow up like that?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Because a lot of people strategize those kind of numbers usually.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Was so right. So I think the beauty of it
is that it was so unstrategized and it was so
un planned, and it was coming from a genuine place
of like something needs to be done, and I'm going
to do this whether or not it gets views or not.
I did it just for like, like to send to
my family and my friends to like, hey, let's make
fun of this person who literally just like is saying
the most crazy things after we just had our families kidnapped,

(04:15):
massacred and least things. This is what they're saying after this,
here's a video of me, you know, kind of sticking
it to them. And it wasn't like it wasn't like, Okay,
how am I going to get more views? I wasn't
even in that world until it blew up and I'm like, Wow,
there's actually something here. And then I started being like,
all right, let me try puting out a post every day,
let me see how many how many people I can expose.
Let me look for the craziest videos to respond to.
Then it kind of turned into more of a strategy.

(04:36):
But in the beginning, it was completely just expressing myself
through this frustration that everyone was feeling. And I think
the beauty of the video is when people watch the
videos like that's what I'm thinking, Like this kid is
saying what I'm thinking, and it's so like refreshing for
people to see that.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, totally, that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Literally, you have the courage to do that, And that's
what's been so hard, Like do you ever get scared
or have you gotten scared sometimes?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Or fear, oh my god, people might not like me,
or oh my god, there's.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
So much ch anti semitism and my you know, that's
what goes through our heads, like we cared so much
what people think, Like how did you stop that for yourself?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Like I'm not going to care.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, So I definitely I definitely had a big fear
for sure. In the beginning. It was the number one
fear right after that was just like I'm gonna look
like an idiot, you know what I mean. I never
like did this publicly on a public platform, like and
I'm like, what if I do this and don't find
it funny? Like who's this kid? Like this is weird?
This isn't funny. And then the second fear, because it
was the second fear didn't become a fear only until
actually started getting views of what about the haters? I mean,

(05:30):
I didn't think about haters because I was I wasn't
expecting myself to even get to positions to have haters,
you know what I mean. So and then and then
that second fear kind of kicked in. In the beginning,
I was at around like five thousand followers. I was like,
I think three weeks into starting this thing, and and
my video started really getting to the other side, which
was really good, but also like I experienced a lot
of backlash. I got death threats, my mom got messages saying, hey,

(05:52):
we're gonna find you and your son like like crazy,
crazy things. And at this point, I'm like, this actually
might be really dangerous because like I'm being very open,
I'm being very very honest, I'm not holding back at all.
Do I want to do this? And I came to
the conclusion basically saying, like what I'm doing, I'm one
hundred percent confident this is the right thing to do,
and I'm not going to let this stop me. And
by me stopping, that justifies and rewards them for their haye,

(06:16):
and I'm not going to do that. So I'm confident
what I did, and I just full sended it and
then thank god, it started getting more towards the prosal
side and blew up.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
But also I love it because it was also mainstream,
like for example, comedy clubs. I mean, you know, you've
been doing comedy now and now you're headlining the actual
main clubs in New York City, the hardest clubs you
could ever break through, and you just did New York
Comedy Club. And it's not like everybody's so like pro Jewish,
I'm saying in general in comedy, it's not like that,
they're not really going to be like yeah, and you
killed it, Like how did that feel that you were like,

(06:44):
you know what, I'm not going to stop. I'm going
to continue and look now where I'm I mean, this
is inspiring me and I've been in it for years.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know, it's thank you.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, you're very inspiring. I got to tell you, it's
very inspiring.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Thank you. So the comedy, the comedy stand up comedy
bit is also just like this is just guy throwing
me like here, take this, take this. I'm like, okay,
what am I doing that? You know?

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Did you ever pray for it?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Or no?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Like it wasn't like did you ever like specifically pray,
Like listen, I want to God give me what I.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Need or give me.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'm very I'm very like I love. I never want
to like let an opportunity go. So if I feel
like I have something, I really want to capitalize it
as much as possible, and I don't want to The
worst feeling for me is like oh I could have
done this, or if I would have worked a little hard,
I could have gotten that. So anytime I'm getting an opportunity,
I want to say yes and just like let's do it.
So the way the comedy even started, this whole thing

(07:33):
started like none of it was like a strategy. Like
I said, I wasn't planning on doing any of this.
The comedy started like my video started really picking up
people like, Oh, this guy's hilarious, Like this guy's really funny,
and they were they were doing the show at the
laugh Factory in LA. They were having like Elon Gold
a few like like pretty big Jewish comedians or like
in the pro Israel space comedians. They were going to
do a show at the laugh Factory in LA and

(07:54):
they and the manager reached out to me, the organizer.
He's like, hey, do you want to do a fifteen
minute set? And I'm like, I never did stand comedy
in my life. Sure, let's do it, no problem. And
I had like a month to prepare. I'm like, hey,
let's do it. I was super super nervous, but I'm like, okay,
it's like and obviously I learned very quickly that it's
not like doing a video at all. In stand up
comedy is a whole different world completely. So I ended

(08:17):
up doing the show fifteen minutes. Said, I went up there.
I was super nervous. The second I got up on stage,
all the nerves left me. I felt so comfortable. My
routine was perfectly set up in my head, and I
enjoyed every second of it. Was amazing. I'm like, wow,
I've been interacting with the crowd and the way of course,
you know that feeling of like you give a joke
that you created and the response is good and you're

(08:37):
enjoying your president was amazing. It was amazing. And I'm like,
let's do this again. And then we're like, you know what,
let's do a full on show at the New York
Comedy Club. We do two shows, you sell out a
two hours. I'm like, this time I'm headlining. It's a
forty five minute set as opposed to a fifteen minutes set.
I'm like, okay, let's do it then. And now I'm
like doing as many shows as I can.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
That's amazing. And you're gonna be at Westside Comedy Club.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Just letting everybody know, right, you're gonna be August twenty five,
and the two shows already, the nine pm sold out
and the six pm is sold out.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's super excited for that one. We're gonna have you
performing there. We've got Chanelle Omar.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
And Felicia Madison.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Felicia Madison, I'm really excited.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
I'm so excited and everyone's and then we might we're
gonna tune in, but we're gonna maybe add another show
for Monday night. So I'll let you like tune let
your followers and everybody tune in. What do you think
is the I guess the uh the biggest positive thing
that happened from stand up comedy and and the viral videos,
but also then the negative.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well you did discuss the hate, but like the most
positive thing, the.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Most positive thing, hands down is making for me was
making it's Jewish people, but also just people. And it
just people on the right side of freaking history, on
freaking history. It's coming out now, people on the right
side of It's. It's it's making people laugh and smile
during one of the hardest times in modern day history.
That's what it is. It's it was, it was I've

(09:59):
gotten endless ssages and the most meaningful messages I've gotten.
There people saying I have not laughed since October seventh,
I've been depressed and sad. I've seen your videos. You
made me smile for the first time. Thank you so much.
And people use my platform as like it's like a
little like not like a therapy session, but just like
you're feeling down, you go to your feel Jigger's platform,
laugh a little bit, and then continue your day. It's

(10:20):
like an amazing thing that I could have that effect
on people. It's like, for me was the biggest thing,
especially now in like kind of such darkness that you
could I could fit laughter and in a way that
it's also it's not just making fun of things. It's
making people laugh, but it's bringing out some major points
and proving some major false things like exposing to stupidity
at the same time while peeking people laugh while making

(10:41):
people feel like, you know, it's like comic relief. You know.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, how let's talk about a little bit about that.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
You know, your thoughts on what's going on, because of
course there's so many different things. It was October seventh,
and now there's more anti semitism because of that. I
don't think a lot of people understand it, especially the
pro pro Hamas protesters. I think they think we're taking sides.
It's not like about even taking sides. Of course, our
hearts go out to the innocent civilians on both sides,
but it's more about terrorism and like not letting Hamas,

(11:09):
which is their goal is to kill all of Jewish people.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Right, It's like you're always talking about what we're thinking,
but we can't say out loud. You know, yeah, what
are your thoughts about everything? And like how can we
change it for the better? How can we come back,
you know, come together.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's it's it's very tricky. I feel like this is
like a vicious circle that just keeps happening within, you know,
with the Jewish people, we get to a point where
where things are good, we start fighting within each other.
Things get really bad, we come together so well, and
we come together like a real big family. Things start
getting a little bit better, and then we start fighting
again and the circle keeps going on. I think for

(11:46):
us as a people, we have to continue really sticking together.
We have different you know, we have different perspectives, we
have different opinions, whether it's political, whatever it is. But
at the end of the day, we realize very quickly
the second we get attacked, we only have ourselves to
protect each other. I think that's what brings us together.
But we have to remember that when times are good,
we have to continue being together. I think that's a
huge thing that we have to do as a people.

(12:07):
And then we see like blatantly, like October seventh happens.
The first thing you would think is like, Okay, at
least these people are going to be like apologetic or
feel bad or like, at least we'll have some sort
of like the world will be like, guys, we have
to relax. Why are we speaking so hard on the
Jewish people? Guys, let's chill. And then all of a
sudden they're making videos saying, how October seventh is our
fall out too? For seventh didn't even happen October seventh,
we'll doing a genocide? Is those in apartheid state? They

(12:29):
saying only blatant lies like that's what they're doing. Like
that's like a realization, Like, guys, we really need each
other and we have to keep that.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's a beautiful answer. Why do you think I felt
the same way you did? Of course all of us did.
I think I thought we were all going to come together.
I thought the feminists, the lesbian feminists would be you know,
the women's rights would be marching for us. But it's
almost like we're part of the We're the only part
of the human race that shouldn't be respected because a
lot of times we learned to walk away and keep
our mouth shut. Yeah, a how important is it for

(12:58):
us to stand up more so now, but be like,
why do you think there is so much like why
do you think they relate so much more to the
underdog of the Palestinians and not the Jewish people.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I think there's two reasons. I think there's two reasons.
One reason is God said so God literally said the
Jewish people will be hated always until like literally until
Michie Company said, like a iako is a will always
hate the Jewish people. That is the reality. That's right.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Will answer number one, right, and well, which comes to jealousy, right,
I would assume.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, you can say it's jealousy. You can say it's
just an embedded hatred that was is there. Jealousy is
a way of sort of not justifying it but explaining it.
It could be it could be jealousy. And the second
thing is is misinformation, which is huge. The other side,
the pro comas side, is so good at spreading misinformation.

(13:48):
They've they've perfected it. And and for them, all they
do is anytime you see any bit of information that
makes it is a look bad, they take it and
they send it out as quick as possible. That forces
Israel and US people on social media to be automatically
on the defensive side. So now we're fighting a war
that we're on the defense the whole time, and we're
pushing back because we're constantly getting all these lives put
at us. We have to explain why these lives are

(14:09):
not lies. Then we have to bring in the truth.
In order to bring the truth, you have to verify things.
Verifying things takes time. They're not verifying things, they're just
doing whatever makes is Or look bad, or whatever makes
the Jewish people look bad. It's a very it's a
very unfair war that we're fighting. So all these people
that are I wouldn't even say anti Semitic, because a
lot of these people that we call them anti Semitic,
they're not even necessarily anti Semitic. They're just misinformed. They

(14:29):
don't have the hatred towards the Jewish people. If I
saw what they were seeing and I didn't see the
other side, I didn't see our side, I would probably
also hate Israel. I would also be like, Israel's doing
a genocide. Israel's because they're getting seeing all these videos
of like innocent kids being blown up without any context.
People of this happening lies saying that Israel's training dogs
to rape women, like just crazy things that they're saying,

(14:49):
right and just and if you say it, if you
say it often enough, people just believe it. So that's
I think the second the second answer, Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Agree with you.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
I think that's you know, And also Israel goes hard
and people aren't prepared. Listen, I always say, and my
dad always raised me, when when they come for us,
we're gonna go harder because we don't have a choice
because they literally want to kill all of us. It's
not like let's just throw the word genocide around, you
know how. Like that's why I thought it was funny
when you put the wig on and you imitate these
like supporters that don't even know why they're there to support,

(15:17):
Like Dills will go interview them on the street if
you've seen those videos too, and he's like are you
even here?

Speaker 1 (15:22):
And they're like, I just you know, yeah, I love
I love Palestine. It's my favorite drink at start about
like literally.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
My right right, And that's the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
And also that's the other thing, is like because raised
as a Jew and as an Israeli, we're always taught
that's what's wild to me, we're taught to like be
kind and not fight if we don't have to obviously,
and not start or or do the lush on horror
or or put people down or make fun of them.
But at this stance, I feel like God is kind
of pushing us to, like you got to stand up right,

(15:54):
Like in this situation, it's almost like okay to be like, no,
you can't talk badly about the Jewish people, Like what
are your thoughts on that? Well, my legend too right,
You're like right, and you're saying, I mean, I come
from a modern Orthodox family, but me too. I've been
struggling with religion at times, and now more than ever
since October seventh, I'm like, no, I gotta I gotta

(16:14):
stand with our people, and I gotta pray and I
but I also got to stand up for myself. Like
sometimes I make like quirky, like snarky jokes towards the
pro supporters in comedy, and I'm like, you, you don't
even have a fight a lug in this fight, you know,
to like my black comedian friends, like I love you,
but like stay with a different war, like you are
not fighting the Palestinian war with the proha mospital.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
You know what I'm saying, like things like that, your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
My I mean, my my thoughts are It's totally fine
to make fun of people. I'm more than okay with them.
Every single one of my videos make me finn of
But it's it's first of all, comedy is comedy and
the fact that we're I use comedy, I think right now,
comedy is the biggest weapon that we have in the
social media fight, the biggest weapon we have. Well, everybody

(17:00):
wants to laugh. So when you have a video out
there that's funny, laugh is whether you're Indian, whether you're Chinese,
whether you're Mexican, whether you're black, whether you're white. People
like to laugh. So if you put a video out
there that's funny, people are gonna want to watch it.
They won't share. They want to make other people out
the one to share. So now if you can use
that laughter but at the same time brings some facts
explaining why Israel is legitimately not being a genocide, why

(17:21):
Israel's literally not in apartheid state. At the same time,
suddenly these people are laughing, but they're getting information like,
oh my god, Israel's actually not that bad. Israel actually
doesn't do this, and they're getting kind of all these
little like all these things that they wouldn't have gotten
before because they're not interested in Israel, but they are
interested in laughing, so I think, and a great way
of making people laugh is by making fun of the stupidity,

(17:41):
is by calling people out when they do something wrong,
which is okay. And I think we need to be
so sensitive about being like, we don't make fun of
his hair, don't make fun of it. It's okay to
be like, no, you just said something that's so wrong,
and I'm gonna make a funny comment about you as well.
At the same time, you don't have the right to
go and justify Paris leaders. And then I have to
be like, listen, I respect that your hair is curly,
but also you know what I mean being that, like,

(18:02):
it's like, let's let let's get to the real, the
real stuff here. So you know, I'm not talking about
being openly racist, of course, not don't be right, but
as far as like like I as far as making
fun comedy one of the biggest parts of flities, you know,
he is making fun of things. That's what comedy is.
And a beauty of me, I'm making fun of stupidity.
Like a thing that I learned through this whole thing
is that if you try to fight stupidity with seriousness,

(18:26):
you're almost justifying the stupidity. For example, if someone puts
a video out there saying, you know, Israel doing a
gene side and they're just killing as many Palestinians as
possible and they just want to blow everybody up, and
then you respond by saying, well, actually, realistically speaking, they're
doing this this, And suddenly you're having a conversation with
somebody who says something so blatantly stupid. The best response
is to respond with comedy, which completely dismisses the stupidity

(18:48):
and explains why they're wrong. So a response would be like, lady,
you're an idiot. How on earth Canisual be doing a
genocide when the population of gods increased like four hundred percent.
It's not before you know what I mean. Suddenly it's
like it's like you're not you're you're not justifying what
they said. You're throwing complete to the side, and the
viewers are like, oh, one hundred percent, this lady is
an idiot, and this is this is the fact, you
know what I mean. So that's like comedy is super

(19:09):
super powerful.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
I love that and that really you do such a
great job with your videos doing that because not everyone
can do that. You know, everyone's like, oh my god,
like I love you feel Jacobs, how does he do it?
And sometimes there's not a formula, like you said. Sometimes
it's also like natural and who you are and testing
the waters. You know, Sebastian, has he ever seen the
videos that you've done or has.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's probably like one number one question I get. So
I don't. I don't know whether he's seen it or not.
I've had three different people tell me that they've seen
Sebastian personally, whether it's in the street or whether they
know him, and they'd be like, have you seen this
kid who's been impersonating your voice? And each time he
said no, But he's bound to e actually be like,
who the heck is this kid? You know? And search
it up. So it's very possibly seen it.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
I'm not sure that would be a great collaboration. One day,
we should manage to.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Get him in the back of the Tesla's hilarious. Yeah,
but what are you thing?

Speaker 2 (19:57):
I'm like, what are you doing it's like, well you
at your twenty years young I'm seeing the twenty years
younger person. That's hilarious. Yeah, talk to us about the
Tesla because you've got a lot of famous people in it.
Michael Rappinport, Emily uh No, Montana Tucker.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Right, Montana Tucker. Yeah, so we had Michael Rapport. Yeah,
it's been Thank God, this opened up so many doors
that I've got to meet so many cool people. And
and I think also this whole Israel, this whole Israel
thing brought so many different people together, you know what
I mean, like like Michael who would have thought Michael Rabbitport,
Montana Tucker, Joseph Haddad for Emily Austin and then like
some you know, Elon Gold like you would never have

(20:36):
it happens because that's the way the Jewish people work.
The second we need to come together. We come together
and it's beautiful, it's amazing. And through that I've I've
gotten to meet some really cool people. So yeah, we
had first ever celebrit had in the back of the
car was with Michael Rabbin Fort, which is super cool.
He was doing a show in Miami and and he's
like and I was like in touch to my head.
I love her stuff. And then he's like, come to
my show. I came to the show, and then afterwards
we did a video. The next day we did a

(20:57):
video together when he came in the back and like
it was so cool. And then we have Montana Tucker
and I did, Josef Haddad and and some some really
cool people. So it's been it's been really really fun
and all these people. It's amazing to see like like
everybody coming together like with a passion and with like
we're all fighting for the same thing. And whether you're
whatever you believe politically, it's irrelevant. We care about staying alive,

(21:17):
and we care about having the right to you know,
be ourselves without having to worry that's stabbing us on
the way to whatever we're doing. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
I men, Yeah, that's exactly. That's yeah, exactly. That's the point.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
It's not about political or religion, and we accept by
the way we were raising and you're right, it's not
even about race at this point. People can make it
all they want about race, but you know, the Jewish
people the whole point, we accept everyone for who they are. However,
I tell people the reason why you ask why we're
so close knit is because if you're gonna try to
kill all of us, why do you think we're gonna
come to you?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Like?

Speaker 3 (21:44):
That's why we're small, you know what I mean, Like like, yeah,
I'm gonna call you.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I'm gonna call I'm gonna call a proha Mosu person
to come pick me up when I know he doesn't
like me.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
It just doesn't make any sense, you know.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, but uh, what any celebrities you've wanted to work
with or you wanted to collaborate with like that you've
been dying too.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
So I'd love to do something with Ben Shapiro, hopefully
God willing so that that would be really cool. God willing.
Emily Austin's in the works. That would be cool to
have Emily there. And then I would love to go crazy,
like if I would get like Arnold Shorts Figger in
the back of the tesla, that'd be crazy. He's awesome.

(22:28):
He's awesome, and he's right. Since the very beginning, he
was super you know, supporting to the Jewish people and
to Israel, and he did some great work in the
very beginning, incredible like he came out like right away,
he didn't hesitate to get him. I would need to
get a cyber truck because he's so freaking massive, so
instead of the regular stuff he's I would love to
get him.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
That be so cool.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
What about like any like do you want to get
into acting more from this profession? Like do you see
yourself more in entertainment as in general like mainstream kind
of like or do you want to stay specifically with
the Jewish people?

Speaker 1 (23:00):
I would like I would like to I would like
to branch out. I would love to branch out. I
like to see what I'm capable of doing, like the whole,
this whole thing. My strategy has been yes, you know
my strategy, Like opportunity comes in, yes, let's do it.
So if I would love to try acting, I love that.
Like some of my skits I'll do where it's not
meeting the test of doing a thing, I'm actually acting
out pretending to be like this this pro Coramas supporter

(23:20):
and then pretending to be like an actual Comas guy
or whatever. It's like doing different accents and different things.
And I love My favorite thing to do is skits
where I'm actually acting as like as a character, so
I think acting as in like in the bigger world,
I would love it.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah, you would be amazing. Honestly, you'd be phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I mean, and thank you.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
And of course the fans like how has that been?
Also since so dating girls, like does that become an issue?
Like everybody you know, flooding your dms?

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Like, how has that been?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
So it's I mean it's been. The whole thing has
been super cool. Obviously, it's like i'd be like, oh,
it's so hard, so many d No, it's been amazing,
Like I think that's so cool. I have a lot
of mothers trying to send me up with their daughters.
They're very persistent.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
How is that going?

Speaker 1 (24:05):
It's good these women, these women are they're good. They
have their they're like super like, hey, just following up
on my last message, you know, you know, like consistently pushing,
don't it's it's it's it's it's cool. It's the whole
different world. In the beginning, people weren't sure if I
was gay or not, because my characters were like, what
are you doing? You know what I mean? So you

(24:25):
were I had a lot of guys, a lot of
guys hit on me, and gay guys are so persistent, right,
it's impressive. They are so persist Like girls would be
like like, hey, I think you're cute. Gay guys like
I'm taking off for dinner when and where else? Make
it happen. I'm like, I'm not gay, but I might
be because you're good. You're good at what you do.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
That's amazing, it's so cool.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Do you have like a do you have any tips
for dates, like for women out there in general, how
to deal with men or how to keep a guy.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
I mean, I don't know what. I don't know how to,
so maybe you can give us advice, like what what
do we what should we do? As women? She would
be too.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Persistent, not persistent, So that's a tricky question. I mean,
I'm so non qualified to answer that, but if I was,
I would say that it really depends on the person
because some guys would be like I love a girl
who's like just straightforward and like honest and like she's
very like, hey, I like you, So I like for me,
I like a girl who is like very open. A
girl is be like hey, I really I really like
her whatever it is, and she's not necessarily I'll make

(25:21):
the move or whatever it is, but but that she's
she's not playing too hard to yet. But some guys
will be like no, no, it gives me the ick
if the girl's too much like you know out there
and like I need her to be like heart yet
because I love the game, you know, Yeah, I love
the Yeah, well I'm both for the wife, you know
what I mean, rock on. So it really depends on that.
It depends on the guy. It depends on the guys.

(25:42):
I can't say there's like a just be real, that's
just be real because because if you have to pretend
to be somebody else to be to get somebody, then
you're not getting the right person.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
That's a beautiful answer, and I agree with you. No
matter what, you can put the mask on and then
you don't right, You don't have the right person for
the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Are you right?

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Because you know, the Jewish community, we you know, we're
kind of trained to be in relationships or get married
at an early age. Are you now that you have
the career happening though, do you feel like you want
to take some time? You're young, but do you have
like an age where you're like, I want to settle down.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
I want to have kids. I want to have a
family or kind of it's still we don't know yet.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
We don't know yet. It's really I'm really just going
with the flow right now. There's there's so much going
on that it's like marriage for sure is not something
that I'm really thinking about right now. But again, if
I meet the right person, it's all about meeting and
report there's I can make. I could say all I
want and be like, yeah, when I'm twenty five and
this is many kids, but it's old to God, and
when I meet the right person, it will happen.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I'm men, I'm praying for that. Hopefully, thank you, one
day you will be inviting us to your wedding God willing.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
I'm.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I mean not yet. We got to pray.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
There's there needs to be miracles. But you know, it's
hard dating in New York City, so it's good. That
was great advice for people out there. It's just like
depends on who you are, but like, don't play the
game because you never know.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
What you're real. Got to be real and somebody doesn't
like it, then obviously not the person for you.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Right, I was gonna say, right, how important is it
to be your authentic self? Because you seem like you're
always your even when you're acting, you seem like your
authentic self.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Like yeah, so it feels very natural to me, and
that's why I also went with this character. When I
did the voice, I felt like I think of content
in the voice, I'm literally a different person, like my
regular person. I'm very like, like how are you next
to me? You know, very polite. The voice is like
what are you doing? I don't I can't handle the stupidity,
like what I literally like, I feel like a different person,

(27:28):
which is crazy. So that's why that's why the character
felt so right to do it. But it feels real,
you know.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
It's like an alter ego, but like really yeah, like
you feel it.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, I feel I really. And there's certain characters that
do it all. Even when I do the when I
do like the oh my god, like I love come
like I feel like that person. I genuinely feel it.
There's certain characters that when I do them, I genuinely
feel like that person, and I need be like, Okay,
I don't relax, like too close, you don't get too
attached to this character.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
But I think because we don't have that in US,
you know, and that's why you're so relatable because I
think you portray these we have different characters in US,
and I'm not afraid to put it out there. And
so that's also like, that's amazing, you know, any character
you're working on, any new character that you're working on now.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
So I've always done. I've always done like a little
kid like I do, like for like the Shabbat table
with my family Friday night, I was like voices, different
skits and things. So I have like I do like Spanish,
I do French. I like the Russian Borat King Julian
from Madagascar, like all these different like voices that I
love to do, so like it'll come in like I've
throw them in some videos. Also, I love the videos

(28:31):
where I like bringing a whole bunch of different characters
and like let them work together to create this like idea.
I love that, So you should watch.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
You should do the thing. Matt Raife kind of did it.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Not that it's but you would do a great too
of like your different characters sitting in a table and
just feeding off of each other in a sketch.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
He did it's a great idea to you.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
He did it now for his promo for like the
super Bowl coming up and oh no Netflix special coming up,
but he did his different characters. I feel like you
would do so great. Like back and Forth would be
such a great viral video too.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, that'd be fun. That'd be really fun.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
We're gonna wrap up soon, but I'm gonna I'm I'm
gonna get Felicia on soon. The other thing I wanted
to talk to you a little bit about is in
terms of celebrities not supporting pro Israel or not supporting
what happened since or condemning October seventh, how do you
feel about that? Like is that did that personally offend you?
Were you kind of like what's going on? Why is
why aren't more people with a platform talking out on this?

Speaker 1 (29:28):
So I don't feel offended by it because I never
I never would expect it, you know what I mean,
Like we're a place where it's like, it's not it
wasn't a shock. I wasn't. I don't think when this
happened people are like, oh my god, so and so
didn't say anything. It's like it's like, okay, so and so,
I didn't say anything like that was kind of expected.
I do. I like to put myself in other people's shoes.
I do understand it to an extent. Obviously, when you
really break it down, it's crazy that no one said anything,

(29:50):
because what happened is there was literally a Tirist attack.
They massacred whoever they saw, whether you're Jewish, whether or
not Jewishly, it didn't matter. They mask whoever they saw.
They kidnapped people from a whole bunch of different other countries.
The most horrible things went down. Any person with a
platform would should be like, guys, this happened. It is unacceptable.
It's absolutely unacceptable. Regardless what you think politically or not,

(30:11):
you cannot go around massacring people. It's like, on a
surface level, it's like, of course, now if I put
myself on somebody's shoes. It's like someone has a very
big platform. They don't really know. Like first of all,
they're hearing two sides right away, like the other side
right away came in and be like no, no, it's
justify I No, No, it didn't happen. No, they're lying.
So now you're imagine, like imagine when you're that big
celebrity and you're getting this information suddenly, and you know,

(30:32):
whatever opinion you give, you're gonna get backlash majorly. So
the smart move as a celebrity, the smart thing to
do is just don't say anything that's me putting them
in myself in their shoes. Do I agree with that?
Absolutely not. I don't agree with it, But I understand
why they did what they did or why they didn't
say anything so that I could understand it.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, exactly, Like if we understand it, I think you
get less angry about it, and you can also come
from love more, you know, because sometimes I also get
like really offended if a fellow comedian, well, either challenge
or I'll give you an example. It's like coming up
with the whole, the whole narrative of like that Jewish
people are white supremacists, and then I'll say, no, that's
not true. You're getting false information. I mean, like we

(31:10):
even we even had to fight through white supremacy. Do
you know what I'm saying? Because so many different Jews Jews,
we're not white, you know. And I'll always joke like
and say, I'm not really white. I look white, but
that's not And so they don't know how to they
don't know.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
How to respond.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
They'll be like, you know, the Jews do this, or
the Jews get everything, And so I agree for your celebrity.
That's you not You don't want to get involved. You
shouldn't say anything because you might make it worse. You might,
you know, promote more danger. That's that's another thing about
the danger.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I was going to ask you, like when comedians say
f Israel or f the Jewish people on stage with
your jokes, is that promoting danger or is that okay
too because it's supposed to be comedy. See that's where
I'm like, are you promoting more intests? You do that
because you don't have to do those kind of jokes
like you do different jokes. You're not promoting violence, you're
not encouraging That's my point. I can't believe people didn't
come together to say violence, no matter what, is not the.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Answer with any group of people. That's what was so hurtful,
and that's what made it so anti semitic.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
You know, right, It's an interesting point you brought up.
It's like we're talking about how comedy is, like that's
what it is. Making fun it's joking around. But then
it's like, okay if they say something like is there
a line like someone says f Israel or like kill
the Jews or something like that, right, you know there's
a line, and I think I think people know, like
there's a line, like you'll never catch me saying let's
kill the Palestinian. You know, I would never say, you

(32:26):
will never catch me saying let's carpet bomb Gaza. You
will never catch your saying that, because that in my
human brain would not find that acceptable. And I think
people know that, and there's a fine line, but people
will use it as an excuse to be like no, no,
you can't say this because there's there's a fine line.
Like there's a fine line, and I think it's more
obvious than people set it out to be. It's like

(32:47):
like like we'll I'll make jokes about about how like
about lies about the you know, fake things that people
are saying about Palestine about Israel, but I won't blatantly
say something so crazy as to like like kill the Palastini.
Of course, not like that's I would never think that
in Palestinian people have everywhere right to live and survive
and live in the land as well, and then if
you want to get the whole conversation of why, where, why,
why the conflict is there in the first place, and

(33:08):
we could go into every single priest offering that they
completely deny because they want one state solution. We could
get into that. But on a surface level, I'll never
make some blatant comment like that because it's completely unacceptable
and I wouldn't do that. But that doesn't mean that
in comedy you can't make fun. You can't Joe, of
course you can, but viewers discretion is advised, meaning like
the person themselves need to know, like, Okay, there's a line,
and people people are smart enough to know what it is.

(33:29):
But people people like to use the excuse of like, no,
there's the fine line. You can't say this because it's
insulting candidate, Like you know, there's I think there's common
sense involvement.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
And it's also a double standard. Like there was a
comedian she was pro Hamas she did say those things
kill I mean, uh f Israel and we agree kill
all the Jews. She literally made jokes about it, and
she was booked.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
More in comedy and entertainment.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
To me, I'm like I understand it becomes popular, but
in what world does it not apply to the Jewish
comedians or Jewish people? Like why can't we say certain
things that are funny? We would never say that, like
you said, we would never promote insight danger. I wonder
in your opinion why you think.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
I love how you're like.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Because I never expected it with the celebrities to come
forward for us too. I think I still expect people
to do the right thing. I think that's my problem,
you know what I mean, Like, I'm still shocked, I'm
still surprised, but we shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Right, right, But that's that's a beautiful thing, the way
you think. Also because there are celebrities that did step
up to the plate, right, and we can't discover there
are people that that that that with your mindset, actually
you know, did didn't did what you expect them to do,
And that's amazing, And there are those people and I
don't know, it's it's a very interesting thing. It's the

(34:38):
way media works is that the more dramatic something is,
the more scary it sounds, the more sad it sounds,
the better itselves. So whatever we see, of course, there's
anti semitism in the world. Of course there's there. There's
a lot of hate, and things are Things are intense
right now, very intense, I'm not gonna say no. But
things are also exaggerated and things are also not always
as bad as they seem. And I think that's important

(34:58):
to know because media makes the money by the more
dramatic video is like just logically speaking, that's just the
way it works. So when we see all these people
like the whole world hates Israel, the whole world hates
the Jewish people, I strongly disagree with that, and I
think Eurovision was a blatant proof to that. For example,
in Eurovision, when it came to the majority votes, Israel
came in second place in Europe. From majority votes from

(35:19):
all other countries, Israel came in second place. That's literally
everyone saying, like, you can't say the whole world hates Israel,
and then Israel comes in the second place from majority
votes from around Europe. That's like crazy. So obviously there's
there's a silent majority. I think the sound majority has
their head on their shoulders and they're normal straight thinkers
and they're like, wait, no, this is wrong and whatever
it is. But we don't hear them because they're not
exciting for the media.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah, exactly, No, that's beautifully said. Anything you want to
clarify in terms of, you know what, people from the
other side, what they can or anybody who is against
Israel and the Jewish people right now, what can they
take away from this conversation and what do you want
to kind of put in their heads that they can
accept us more and be more united with us as
as humans.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Really, so for the jew for is really people listening
to this or yeah Israel everyone?

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah, everyone really listening in whether you're Jewish, whether you're not,
Like how can we all come together, or your tips
on educating them on how Israel is not about you know,
war like everyone's saying we are, or Israel's not creating
genocide and.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
How can we get them to understand both both sides.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
So I would say, someone who's not Israeli is someone
who doesn't really know what is someone whoever's tuning into
this podcast doesn't really know much about what's going on.
I would say, take the time to look at both
sides and really really you yourself before you make an opinion, like,
really look into it. And I think and I'm very confident.
I'm happy to say this because I know that we're
on the side of truth, and I'm very confident that
if you look at the history and you look at
what's really going on, even right now, it's very obvious

(36:43):
to see that Israel's on the right side of history
and Isoel's really doing what's necessary, and like, Israel's actually
on the right side of things. And I think people
will realize that those are for the people that aren't
necessarily know what's going on or not Jewish or not
ISRAELI to actually look into it and really look at
both sides. Don't be so quick to see this video
of a bunch of dead people and be like, oh,
is THO doing this for no reason? Or is all

(37:03):
you know did this on purpose? Is doing that? Like,
really look into it, and for those people that are
that are already on our side, or those of you
that are Jewish or is really is to number one,
keep smiling and just be happy and enjoy your life.
And number two is keep being together. Even when things
get better, and God willing, things will get better and
everything will will calm down and will be peace and
things will be good. We have to remember that we

(37:24):
have to sit together because we are we are each
other's only hope, so it's super important to stick together.
That's the that's the message I will give over.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
What are What are your tips? I guess for people
to want to be successful on social media? Like what
how should they start?

Speaker 1 (37:40):
First? You've got to get really angry. That's number one.
You've got to get pissed off. And then and I
don't know, I think I found. I found social media. Obviously.
Number one thing is you have to have good content. Yeah,
but let's say let's say let's say in case you
have you have good content. You want to do things
that are relevant, meaning updated things. If I did a
video of something that was like a week old, I

(38:02):
would see and even though it's hilarious, bitter and I
felt like it's such a good punchline, thing is great.
But if the news itself is not updated, it completely
gets like the algorithm slows it down. It's not as exciting.
You can do a video that's not such great content,
but it's not something relevant, it will go And I'm
telling you firsthand, like I see it. That's number one.
Number two is you have to be consistent I try
to post really every single day. I try every single

(38:23):
day at a certain time, I'll try to post it,
and if I missed that day. On average, I post
about every other day. But it's being consistent. You want
to show the algorithm. You want to show Instagram, social
media that you're there to stay and you're something that
they could rely on to get people to view and
come to their platforms. That's another thing. Consistency, content and relevant,
like things that are relevant and have fun when you're

(38:44):
doing it. I enjoy it because people can see when
you're actually enjoying.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
What you do, Like, don't be so angry and serious.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah, don't get too angry. You know.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Sometimes I'll just do like I hate post and I'm like, wait,
I thought this was a joke, and then I realized
I just was ranting.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Where's the punch?

Speaker 1 (38:59):
You know?

Speaker 2 (38:59):
So yeah, And then sometimes when I watch your videos,
we get so inspired. I'm like, I want to talk
like him. I want to character voice And now I
think I'm you and seen as a bastion. I'm like,
what would you hail do? How would he tell my
ex boyfriends in the basement at.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Up? You know what I mean? Like, so thank you.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
That's great, Like, it's great that you're inspiring people to
be confident, be.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
And you really do it with grace. I gotta tell you,
it's hard, but you definitely do these things. I think
white people watch your stuff is like you have a
line that you don't cross, and that's what's amazing. You
literally can say something funny, say something smart, and then
you're not really even if you offend whoever, because we're
always gonna ffend somebody.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
It's not it's comedy, the comedy, communist comedy, comedy, commys comedy,
and like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
How do you deal with how did you deal with
the hate and and the the noise? How do we
block that off our audience? What's your advice to us
if we you know, people are hating on us, people
are telling us you can't do this, you can't post this,
you know, how do you block that out?

Speaker 1 (40:00):
There is no blocking it out, there's no bab. You
have to learn to live with it. You can't block
it out. It's and I think as sooner you realize that,
like I realized it also, I'd I'd hate from I
just i'd hate from obviously for the opposite. The most
painful hate you can get is from your own side.
The most hate painful, No problem, You're you're you're a
pro Commas guy, and you're saying you want to kill me,
and Hilo is writing all these crazy things. I have

(40:21):
no problem with that. I expect that from you. That's
okay when you have your own side, even constructive criticism.
But even construct they're coming from a good place, and
I know they're coming from a good place. That's harder
for me to swallow than it is death threats, you
know what I mean, Because because these are the people
that you're doing it for. So for that, but by
the same time, also when you're doing it for these people,
these are this is the most important opinion as well,
because these are the people that you're actually trying to

(40:42):
make laugh and you're trying to hip up. So but
but there is, but there is hate on When you
get hate there, there's there's no way of ignoring it.
You have to learn to live with it and to
deal with it and to not take it too seriously.
You don't take life too seriously. You know, you got
to do what you're do what you're doing, and if
you're confident what you're doing is the right thing to do.
Just go ahead on yeah, like not give up.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Because I did a show it was called I don't
know you. I mean you're young enough to know. It's
called Princesses of Long Island. It was on Bravo a
long time ago. It was about six Jewish women and
a lot of people in our side was like, you
need to be an example for the Jewish community.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
I'm like, well, if you left it up to me,
that is not a good idea, because we're all human,
you know, like we will grow up.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Like that's the whole point why they wanted to show
that show was that, like Jewish people are just as
normal as everyone else, Like we have the same trials
and tribulations, and so I get I get it. I
had it in a smaller scale because it was a
one time reality show. It wasn't when social media was
that popular. But I understand. I think that's great advice.
It's like it hurts the most when it comes from
your own You want to please everyone, but you know,

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and there's times where people say to me Chanelle, what
if I'm not doing enough? What do you say to
those people, like I'm not getting involved enough to fight
against anti Semitism.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
I'm not posting enough videos. Is that okay? Is that
not okay? What do you what do you say?

Speaker 1 (41:56):
If they still not doing enough? Then do more?

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Right?

Speaker 1 (41:58):
I think it's very simple. If you feel like you're
not doing enough, do more. I think that's it. I
think it's or it depends on the person. They really
want to do more, they'll do more, like you have
to pudge yourself to do more. But some people also
just they want to feel like they're doing enough, which
is okay, and they just need Like some people will
ask you that question hoping you'll be like, what are
you talking about. You're doing so much, You're amazing, and
I love you, I love you, I love you, I
love you, know what. So it depends on the person,

(42:21):
Like the person genuine wants to do more, do more.
And if you feel like you are doing enough, you're
not getting recognized for that. It's a different thing. But
but do as much as you can, do as much
as you can, and and just be happy. That's it.
Just be freaking happy, you know, Just enjoy life. We're
here on this earth. Don't think life so seriously. Obviously,
we do our part and we do the best we can,
and that's okay if we can't do as much as

(42:41):
we need to do or as much as we're expected
to do. But the end of the day, no matter
what you do, just come back to being happy, because
that's what it's all about for everybody.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
I'm men for that, because you know what, right, we
get so fixated on the social media, the followers, the popularity,
and you're right, sometimes you make it, sometimes you don't.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
But it's okay.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
If you see somebody like you know, being such a
great activist, that's great. And if you can't do it
the same way they can on your brand, that's okay too.
Like you said, just do more, whether it's secretly or
on social whatever.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
You need to do, but be happy. Be happy.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
A couple few questions will wrap it up soon, I'm
sure mental health. So we talk about mental health. What
are things that you do to cope with mental health
in general? Like when you're getting anxiety, if you ever
get anxiety, if you're getting you're feeling let a little
bit low.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, I definitely get an anxiety. And I'm a big
I'm a big overthinker. I always think my mind is
always racing on what's your sign I'm a gemini.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
Oh love that. That's a great sign.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'm uh so I have a
slip personality. I don't know if you can.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Tell always entertaining though entertaining, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
I'm definitely a big overthinker. For me. What helps me,
which I don't know if it's it's necessarily the best thing,
but for me, like I only feel better when I
get it, when I get whatever is bothered me done,
like meaning whenever when I get things done, that's when
I feel best, Like we'll gives me anxiety is when
I feel like I have so much to do and
like I need to accomplish it, or overwhelmed, like I
like you can't even talk to me until I get

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that thing done, like I won't have a conversation, which
is which is good and bad. It's good because it
really pushes me to do a lot, but it's bad
because a lot of the time I'm just like stressing
about things like can you get this done? This needs
to be better whatever it is. But sometimes when when
when I'm really in a good mindset, which is probably
the good advice is I'll come to a point where
it's like Okay, you know, you can do what you
can do, but just relax enjoy things, like don't think

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so much into it, don't be so serious about it,
like like go play tennis. I love playing tennis. I
love like you know, I love. I love dirt biking,
I like camping, I love nature, I love seeing sunset
like those things Like this is very simple things I
love doing. So like if I get stressed out, I'll
go do one of those things and be like, ah,
this is great. Like I could be stressed out and
I can have fun. Like fine, so it's not that
bad to be stressed out. But yeah, I don't know

(44:50):
what advice. I just gave, no idea.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
You got to have other hobbies.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Speaking of dirt biking, I'm very similar to you. I
love dirt biking. I did it, yeah in Australia. It's
like the best therapy thing you can Once you're on that,
once you're doing it, you just forget about everything.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
I can't explain. It's like so therapeutic.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Are you are you thinking of like a bicycle or
with with the motorcycle. The motorcycle, yeah, that's your bike.
What are we going?

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Where are we going through?

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Something? I would love to.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Everyone looks, I mean, like, what do you mean you
dirt bike? Like all the comedians are like, shut up,
you don't dirt bike.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
I'm like, that's super cool.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Is there things we could do it? Like around I
don't know here.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
So in New York along with my I go with
my dad. Me and my dad we went to this
place it's called Lost Trails. It's up I think it's
upstate New York. It's like acres and acres of his
open land, gorgeous mountains like you go through like they
have like these there's like lakes and everything and you go.
I remember when I went with my dad, it was
most freaks feeling. We're both on these like dirt bikes
and open like scenery and it's also tough to rain. Also,

(45:50):
it's like, you know, you're physically challenging, but it's exciting
and it's your nature is so fun.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
So we got a book you.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
We got to make it happen and book you at
a comedy show there headlines You're going to up State
New York, New York and then dirt bike or we
could just dirt bike.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
I would love to do that with you.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yeah, comedians on dirt bikes. We could start a thing.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Really, you're you're brilliant cat a clone for herself. That
h okay, and.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
Your parents also must be proud.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
I love your mom. By the way, we're gonna parents
talk about your mom. Danielle Jacobs, she's hosting the show.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, she's gonna be hosting it. Super excited. She's great.
People are jill.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
About that that. She's like, I'm like, you're gonna be
a natural. She's gonna be great.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
I mean, on August, only a Jewish comedian will bring
his own mother to host the show. That's how you
know I'm Jewish.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
That's hilarious. She's like the Jewish Chris Jenner, the Mamager.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
I love. Yeah, she's gonna do it. She's a natural.
Like obviously, what I have doesn't come from nowhere. It
comes from my parents, like my both my parents are performers.
My mom's naturally, she's always she's hilarious. She's been doing
this for years, Like she's a do you know her?
She has a character, the Rebitson.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
Yeah, that's I loved her. I love her characters. You
learned it right, you got it from obviously.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
You just naturally like from her stuff, like she's always that.
And then my father, he's like a magician. He like
performs like in front of like audience. As a young age,
I would join his performances like I remember it's like
seven years old and we performed from like four thousand
people like juggling, like you know, so I was cool. Yeah,
it was awesome.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
That's so awesome. And then like is he proud of
that You've made this such a big thing too, Like.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Yeah, my parents are super proud. I'm very lucky, very
very lucky. They've been Like my support system is incredible,
my sister, my parents, my whole family, they're they're amazing,
very very supporting.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
That's suporting. So yeah, you've been around it through a
young age.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Have you ever thought about doing like an opening for
the for your dad at his magic shows, or even
doing more skits with your mom?

Speaker 3 (47:43):
Like has that ever been something?

Speaker 1 (47:46):
So not so much like like thank god, the it
really kicked off. I'm so lucky. I've been doing stand
up comedy for like three and a half minutes and
I'm headlining these massive, like these big name comedy clubs,
Like it's crazy it's like super creaty, so thank god,
Like I don't I'm not like I'm not looking for
different ways to like do shows. I'm more just like
going for the like the big shows, which is which

(48:08):
is super exciting as far as doing skits, like yeah,
like I use kids with my mom, we have some really,
so when we do together, we have some like gold
comes like absolute gold and the bloopers of our videos
you die, like we because we're having so much fun
with it and like we're genuinely like just so in it.
It's a lot of fun. Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
And it's like a family affair and you guys get along.
It's cute.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
I like that because sometimes families aren't supportive of like
the entertainment or the comedy.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
So it's nice to see that you guys actually do
things together.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Yeah, yeah, amazing support.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
Anything else that you want to plug in that's coming
up for you.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
So I have a show coming up in Canada yep,
on the twenty second of August. Thank god. Both shows
sold out, which is really exciting and then really exciting.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
So cool that you're like literally spelling out.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
You're like it's everybody, it's crazy. I'm so grateful. It's
the coolest thing in the world. And then I have
them to September fifth, I have a show I'm performing
in Florida, d Dania Point improv in Hollywood. I have
a show there, which I'm really excited about. And it's
local also, which is great. It's like a five minute
drive from my house, Like I don't have to fly anywhere.

(49:15):
That's gonna be cool.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
That's so you should do also that you feel Jacob's
I'm sure you're thinking about a tour, right, Like would
you be open to a tour?

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Yeah, I mean like now I'm like sort of doing
a tour sense of like I'm kind of doing it
one by one. It's probably a smart dude to sit down.
There's planning all the days and let's release it. Let's
make it happen. Yeah. Right now we're kind of doing
like show by show and it's kind of I kind
of like it. Also, it's like, oh, show just pops up,
go go, go go, or show just you know, like
I like that spontaneous exciting to be like, hey, guys,
guess what I'm performing in Nebraska on the seventh. It

(49:47):
was like, oh cool, you know I love that. Yeah, exciting.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
That's really cool.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
No, seriously, you've been amazing, Like I continue doing these
videos because you're helping me. You're helping a lot of
people out there, obviously, and and I think it's so
amazing how you're doing it. We also have again, I'm
gonna repeat the show we're doing together. You're headlining West
Side Comedy Club August twenty fifth, the six pm and
nine pm show. We just added a nine pm Monday night,
the twenty six. Do you want to say anything about that?

(50:13):
A little shout out? Are you excited?

Speaker 1 (50:15):
I'm very excited. It's gonna be fun New York City.
I did it. I did one show New York. I
did two shows in New York City. The energy there
is awesome, so much fun, great people, and there's a
lot to make fun of. So it's gonna be a
really funny show.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
How funny is that three women, three Jewish women, older
women are opening up.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
I thought that was hilarious.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
It's great, it's great.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Everyone's gonna be like amazing. We have a couple of
fan questions. We got Jamie from Florida.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
She wants to know.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
She's like, yeahil I love you so much. You've gotten
me through my hardest days. With all due respect, what
is your type of woman? Oh, what is your type
of woman?

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Interesting? What's my dabe. It's a tricky question because it
really depends on the personally. I'll tell you I have
on type, and then I'll meet somebody else and then
I'll be like, oh no, this person completely not my type.
But I'm very attractive this person whether it looks with
his personality. But I think in general, just on a
surface level, it looks wise I'm into normally like like
brown eyes, I like the darker features, you know, petite,

(51:15):
that's more like my look and personality, personality, like very
easy going. I need someone that can appreciate my humor
obviously because if they don't, seem to be a very
awkward relationship. So someone that can, you know, someone that
could really lifts me up. That's what I need. But
again it's a tricky question because it's like why I
can tell you what it is that I need and
then exact appolute will come along and I'm the marrying

(51:36):
that person.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
So yeah, I'm similar. It depends on that.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Do you think Guys in general it depends on personality
or men in general could be superficial or again, it
depends on who we're talking to.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
I think I think it depends. I think it really
depends as far as looks wise. Obviously guys. Guys are
on a surface level more like right away to look
at looks right, and then they'll decide okay do and
then to get step further. But also, if you meet
a girl that isn't necessarily your type, but I said,
I see your girl. It's not my look, but her
personality is just like whoa you know, that's like, that's

(52:06):
a big attraction as well.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
That's awesome. That means you're not such a superficial person,
which is great. You have more depth to you. That's
what you need. Yes, do you like a funny girl?

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Because a lot of people say, you know, a lot
of men will say, you know, I don't like a
funny woman, or I'm not attracted to a funny woman,
or you know, there's a lot of stigma about women
being funny and not funny.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
How do you fink definitely attractive funny girls for sure?

Speaker 3 (52:26):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Yeah, because it's also being like a funny girl is
also you're smart, right being funny, there's there's there's there's
comedians are very not not for me. I'm saying in general,
comedians very clever. It's very clever. To make people laugh.
You have to be pointing out clever things, like so
a girl being funny is indicator that she's she's smart,
and I have them to like smart women. That's not thing.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
That's a great answer. Yeah, we have another.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
We have another question from let's see we got oh.
Zach from Kentucky wants to know when you do the videos.
When you do when you imitate Sebastian on your videos,
your whole hilarious. Is it something that you plan in
advance or it's in the moment and how do you
plan it?

Speaker 3 (53:07):
We probably do so it depends.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
It depends on the video. But most videos will be
like I'll get a wake up in the morning and
be like, hey, I want to do a video today.
I'll go quickly on TikTok. By the way, my TikTok
thinks that I'm Propostinian on purpose because it feeds me
all the ridiculous videos that are Proposedinian and then I
can do response to them. So I'll wake up in
the morning, I'll go I'll find a video that's super
super like extremely to one side. Relevant has to do

(53:32):
like all those things that we mentioned before, fits those boxes.
I'll take it, and right when I see the video,
right away my mind's racing, I'll come up ready with
like some line, what do they look like? Comparisons? Why
they actually wrong? Who can I bring in? What? Everything?
I'll get in the car. And then the improv comes
in as well, So it's a little bit of both.
Like I'll see the video already start repairing in my head.
And once I'm in the car, and I mean character,
Once I'm in character, that's where the real stuff comes out.

(53:54):
Because I'm in character. That's when, like all of a sudden,
I'll make a comparison that I wasn't even thinking about,
but just because I'm in character, it will come out
and then I'll use that.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
So it's not even do you care about it being
perfection like or once it comes out in that moment,
that's it you post.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
No, I definitely care about perfection for surely. I feel
like even if I get a great line in, I
feel I could have said it better. I'll redo it.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Got it. It just looks that's the beauty of it.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
It looks like it of course in the moments.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Is so cool.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Yeah, yeah, that that is for sure. It's like, for example,
I'll do videos where I'm making comparison. Let's say a
lady looks like a chair, like you look like it,
and I'll look away on purpose as if I'm thinking
a chair, you know what I mean. So people are understanding,
like how do you come up with that? Like what that?
You know what I mean? I love that And sometimes
it will actually be on the spot, but a lot
of times it's it's it's already in my head and

(54:39):
then I'm making it as if it's like off the
top of my time.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
That's awesome. What do you for your for your stand
up bit in Toronto?

Speaker 2 (54:47):
I'm in Canada right, It's Canada and West Side Comedy
Club and everything you're doing. Is there a specific concept
to your show? Because I know that there's something specific
that you always do, like a concept of the show?
I do you like the actual stand up?

Speaker 3 (55:01):
Where's that inspired from?

Speaker 1 (55:03):
So the actual stand up? It's just my it's my mind.
It's like what I find funny. It's things that I
have funny, Like my my stand up routine is maybe
like ten percent and has to do with Israel Palace.
Everyone thinks like my whole thing would be Israel palising,
but it's not. Actually ninety percent of it is just
funny situations that I you know, like like regular putting
on an airplane, Mother's day, this, that, like random things

(55:25):
that I would just find find funny and I can
make it dramatic and make a bit out of it.
So it's just very, very random. It can be about anything,
absolutely anything. If I feel like it's okay, you people
laughing like.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
I use that, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Well, you're amazing. Thank you so much for being on
the show today. Where can everybody follow you? Where can
everybody get tickets as well for the next couple of shows?

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Yeah, let us know all the good stuff.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Okay, so you can follow me Jacob Zikiel on Instagram,
also Jacob Ziphil on TikTok, Jacob Japhiel on YouTube. It's
all the it's all the same handle as far as
tickets for my show. If you go link in my bio,
all the links are there. You'll see Toronto, so you
see our New York show, You'll see you'll see every
show will be there. Link in my bio and yeah,

(56:09):
you can send me a fax at one one five
or his only fans only fans right that we have
to plug in as well. That's you feel, Jacobs, because
I don't want to be two obvious, you know, I
have to be like low key I to speak my
way in there.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Well, would you do it only fans? If you had it?

Speaker 1 (56:25):
You gotta pay to find out. Yeah, I'm not going
to give away the good.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
Smart man.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
You're right.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
I would just like offer it and then they'll be like, Okay,
we're gonna pay one ninety nine. You're right, I'm gonna
get Felicia on the on the line. Do you want
to get just one second? We'll wait one second. Sure,
we're back with the amazing, hilarious Yeahill Jacob's viral sensation.
We're also here with the hilarious, the talented, the funny
Felicia Madison. Go check out her special right now YouTube

(56:52):
three point.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Two million views. It just hit hilarious housewife bits.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
You can check her out very really and we are
both featuring and opening up for the talented Yahiel Jacobs.
Felicia Madison, how are you?

Speaker 4 (57:06):
I'm doing great now that I got my Wi Fi
up and running.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
In the Hampton.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
She's also the talent director of Westside Comedy Club. And yeah,
we're both opening up for you, Yahil, so talk to
us about how that's feeling for you, Felicia, and then Yahel, I'll.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
Let you jump in as well.

Speaker 4 (57:19):
I'm how opening up for Yahila. I'm super excited. I
can't wait. We got like two sold out shows and
a third one on the way and a big admirer
and love what he's doing, so I'm honored and excited
to be opening for him.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Thank you. I'm super excited. Do I jump in now?

Speaker 3 (57:38):
I'm just jump in.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
I'm super excited, and I'm like, I'm so like, I'm
like humbled that I have like like two like seasoned,
hilarious comedians that are like that I'm doing a show with,
which is super cool. So it's gonna be a lot
of fun New York City, good energy, good people, and
I can't wait to perform with you guys. And he's
super cool.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
I'm just glad he didn't use the term old season
like a good choice of words, very diplomatic.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
What a Jewish boy, right, Like this is how you
should all be raised, everybody.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
I tell Alicia.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Though we're not old. She looks like she's literally twenty six. Anyway,
she looks gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
And yeah, you guys look amazing. I'm going to say,
you guys amazed. How do you guys keep it up?

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Keep keep it up? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:27):
How do you guys both feel like the fact that
it's you know, three of us are Jewish people and
we're doing shows that are sold out. You know, Felicia,
you know how hard it is in comedy in general
to sell out a show. So how important is is it?

Speaker 3 (58:42):
Is it that we're all doing it together specifically for you?

Speaker 4 (58:46):
Well, I mean I think I think it's great that
we're all doing it together, and I think it's great
that it's selling out. I love that the community has
always been great and bonding and together, so I'm not
surprised is that it's doing so well. And I think
everything that's happened in the world is made everyone even bond. Uh,

(59:09):
everyone's bond even stronger and better. Unfortunately, that's maybe the
silver lining and this horrible situation.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Yeah, you Phil was talking about that and checking and
talking about the fact that when the hardest times comes together,
the Jewish community we stick together. And then right, you
were saying something about that, which, if you want to
elaborate it on that that school.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Yeah, you know, I was saying that we're Jewish people
are very good at coming together when times are tough,
but we're really going to work on coming together when
times are good. That's that's the main That's that's a
big thing that we need to do, because when times
are tough, we realize that's only the Jewish people that
have each other's backs, Like, it's just us that have
each other's backs, and we realize that. So good to
do that even when times you're good to be together.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
Well I'm excited, Yeah that I've noticed that you've come out.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Of your car. Yeah, this is new for me.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
I'm outside of the office, wearing your wings and venturing
out into the world.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
I love you know, it's crazy, so nerve wracking. I've
never seen like a wall in the house before. Crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
It's so weird seeing you without like the white and
the like the tesla background.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Yeah, that's so cool.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Was the tesla Like, so you were were you driving
to the Tesla in general, it's just your car and
you were just like, hey, let me just do all.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
The Test is actually my dad's car, So I'm living
a lot basically what's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
I love it just like every Jewish boy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
So so yeah, it just kind of my first video
did in the Tesla and just became like that. I
was just like the thing. Now I do videos in
and out, but like the Test is like the iconic
spot for me to do a video.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Yeah, the Tesla is like the hot thing, huh for like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
It's good lighting. Also doing a video and a car
is good, it is.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
How are you dealing with all the attention and change?
Has it been a big difference in your life? Like,
are you finding that people are stopping you on the
streets now?

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Yeah, Yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely been a big change.
It's it's super cool, very exciting, a little bit overwhelming,
but it's it's it's awesome and I feel very very lucky.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
You must have tons of girls hitting on you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
I said that too, I said that she Felicia has
two younger daughters. I'm just saying, not trying to play
Jewish matchmaker, are you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
A Jewish woman by any chance?

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
Trying to set my daughters up there and never ending.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
They're beautiful of the mother.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
It's super exciting. I'm very excited for you, very happy you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Thank you so much, guys. I feel the love and
I appreciate that thing and so.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Cool that you sold out.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
I mean, I got to say, that's to me, I think,
and Felicia you can correct me if I'm wrong, because
you you see this with talent all the time. I mean,
you book a lot of comedians right that have been
in the industry as well for a long time, and
they don't seem to sell out. What do you what
do you think is the secret and why do you
think Yahil has the magic touch?

Speaker 4 (01:02:03):
You know, it's interesting you just kind of never know.
There's a lot of people that you know, don't translate
from you know, Instagram, TikTok, fame to live fame. And
I think it's the relatability. I think it's people feel
a connection to him, and I think they you know,
he's kind of like out there saying what everyone wants
to say. He's super hysterical, and I think people are

(01:02:27):
just can relate and want to support him.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Yeah, is this is this shocking for you?

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
You feel like selling out literally every show you promote
because like of course doesn't always translate so organic. Clearly
you have organic following, right because a lot of people
say people buy it whatever. But literally, how does it
feel to be like selling out every show?

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
It's it's super exciting, super exciting. I was not expecting
this the first the first show I did, like my
own show, not the Lave Factor, when I did the
New York Comedy Club, like real, I was like nervous
to kill let's do it, and then like to sell
out two shows and literally two hours both shows were gone.
I was freaking out. I'm like, what the heck just happened?
And like the agent who set it up was like, bro,

(01:03:08):
like I don't know what is going on. This is crazy,
Like it was so surreal, and it is surreal every time.
Like it's not like I haven't gotten used to it,
and I hope I never do because it's it's super cool,
and I hope it continues to sell out. I think
I think the connection is that people, it's not just
a comedian, it's a I can create a connection with
people during a very very difficult time. So there's there's
an emotional connection as well, like this is the guy

(01:03:30):
that got me through some really really tough times. This
is the guy made me laugh during some really really
depressing times. So it's there's almost like a like a
loyalty following. It's not just a regular fund, it's like
a passionate following. So I think that really helps as well.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
Yeah, well I hope that soon you can switch your
team because we don't have to deal with any of
this ridiculousness anymore. But you're doing a great job and
you must get like a ton of hate as well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Yeah, yeah, exciting.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
She says it as a statement too. She's like, you're
always realistic, which I love, it's true.

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
And how are you coping with that? Does that get
you down?

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
So that thank god. Like in the very beginning, of course,
like the first time someone telling you that they want
you to die, it's like it's an experience, you know.
So it's something new to me, but I've really gotten
like I don't want to stay used to it, but
I'm so like I'm still not phased by it because
I know what I'm doing is the right thing, and
of course the hate is kind of like almost like
a justification, Okay, if you're doing something right, Like it's

(01:04:33):
getting to the other side the fact that these people
that literally want to come us to run for government
don't like you, It is a very good indication that
you're doing something right. So I think I don't I
don't get bothered by the hate at all. I was
I was I was telling I was speaking on the
podcast we were doing earlier. I was saying that hate
coming from our side, which I think I haven't gotten
any of that I've gotten, like constructive criticism, that's a

(01:04:54):
lot more difficult than getting hate from the opposing side.
So that's even even constructive criticism or like you shouldn't
really say this or you shouldn't do that's more difficult
for me than someone saying Hitlo was writing you back,
you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
I was just talking to someone about this the other day.
And comedy, the whole purpose of comedy is to get
people to be able to talk about very very difficult
conversations without getting angry. So you make it palatable and
funny so that people actually listen and hear as opposed
to shut you out. So I really think that that's
what you're accomplishing with what you're doing. So hopefully, hopefully

(01:05:32):
some of these haters are not hating anymore at.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
A little bit less. And I think most people that
were on the other side to begin with, hate me
a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
To be honest with you, they're just jealous because of
the charm and the way, and they're like, I don't
I love when you're like, get a job.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
So can you talk to this a little bit about that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
When you tell Felicia, you know, when we watched his clip,
he says to the pro Hama support is get it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
I can't do it as well as you, but get
a job. That's so a job?

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
What are you doing? Get a job? Why do you
say that?

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
Why does that speak to all of us?

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Because that's that's what it's like. It's like saying what
you're saying, you're so dumb, like you're obviously doing nothing
productive with your life. Go do something productive. That's the same. Basically,
it's like stopp being annoying. Stop thing stupidity, Stop explaining
to this showing the whole world that you're an idiot.
Get a freaking job. Okay, what are you doing? That's
what it is. It's just like it's like, what are
you doing? That's that's the feeling. The feeling I get

(01:06:29):
when I say it is like you're an idiot? What
are you doing? That's what it means?

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
Or good or no Ivy League school.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
That also is not the same, Like, oh, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
That's amazing. What can we see from each of you?

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
You think on the on August twenty fifth, and we
just added the August twenty sixth show. We're gonna let
you heel promote that soon. But what do you what
can we expect from both of you on your sets?

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
Well, I'm very curious to see what the makeup of
the crowd is going to be. There's gonna be a
lot of young men. I'm just going to be trying
to find a guy for my daughters. I have a
feeling there's gonna be a lot of admiring young women also.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
So I have a son, So he's a great catch
by the way too, and you probably would be best
friends with him. I hail you guys would play and
he's a poker player, right professional?

Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
Yeah, we are allowed to say that, right.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
When you say when you add professional, it makes gambling
a lot core.

Speaker 3 (01:07:29):
Everything's professional to me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
And I'm like professional, ohone, your son, I told Danielle
I'm like, can you clone your son?

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Everyone's like, why do you need someone to be fifty
years old? Though, like that's too old? Like something. We
got to talk about this, but yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:07:43):
Professional professional clown doesn't make me sound better though.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
Perfectly, But we're not clowns, comedians, aren't. I love people
say we're clowns.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Yeah, but how do you both feel?

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Actually on that topic, when someone says, oh, tell a
joke for me on the spot, or do your impression
on the spot, or uh, you know, dance for me,
kind of clown when we know that comedians we take
our art very seriously.

Speaker 4 (01:08:05):
Anyway, Well, yeah, hell, now that you're on the road
and people are going to start asking you that what
I always say, someone told me to say, is I
you have to have two drinks and give me twenty bucks,
and then I'll that's great, that's very good.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
I might need four. That's really good.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
Yeah, that's really funny.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
I used to like I used to do like at
dinner parties. People always used to say that I used
to In the beginning, I would do it, and then
my husband he sort of became my dinner partner agent
and he's always like, it never works. It never works
in the States, like you just don't do it, so
he always like interrupts and says she's not doing it here.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Yeah, I felt that also. I think it's almost I
find it a little bit like, I don't say disrespectful,
but like rude to be Like it's like if I see,
like if I meet somebody like I'm a doctor, like
fix me. You know what I mean, you're a Jewish mother.
It's not your fault, but I'm saying other people it's

(01:09:08):
it comes like. But also it's difficult to do it.
It's but it's good practice, like if you could something
like make a joking on the spot to do it,
but it's very difficult.

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
You need to do very That's another good way to respond,
like if you know the guy's an accountant, said, yeah,
I'll do it after you do my.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Taxes exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Yeah, But how do you guys feel about the And
we touched base a little bit about this, but anti Semitism,
how do you think we need to fight against it?
Because sometimes I don't know about you both, but I'm
scared even to post some things and then get backlash.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
We spoke about this in the comedy community or entertainment community.
But how can we all together try to fight it
and speak up on it where it's not taboo to
be a Jew.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
That's how I feel. It's taboo to be a Jew,
which it shouldn't be.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
But I'm just like, it's interesting, I have noticed no
anti semitism in the world lately.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
Right, I don't want to so dramatic.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
I'm so dramatic. I'm like, and I'm gonna you're like,
what comments are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
But it's it's it's it's something that's like, it's interesting.
It's it's not easy to there's no like right answer.
I feel like it's like how to dealing with it?
I think humor. I said this earlier, but I think
humor is a great way of dealing with it. Because
I was saying, how when when you hear something that's
so like blatantly stupid or blatant anti semitic or blatant
lie to respond with like a serious video or like

(01:10:32):
serious about it, It's like you're almost justifying the stupidity,
like giving it a conversation versus at adding humor. You're
being completely dismissive to the stupidity. And then you could
bring the actual facts why it's wrong. I think that's
a good, good way of dealing with it, and that's.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
What comedy is all about.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
Yeah, not all you want to chime in fully shows.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
No, I think he's doing a perfect job. I mean
for me, it's a little different, as you know, because
I also run a business, so I have different variables
that I have to be concerned about, right for sure. Yeah,
but I commend you for being uh being the spokesperson
for all of us.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Thank you, and we're praying for better days.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
Amen, And then come to our show.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Yeah, if you want to plug in the show right
now you feel let us know you can come obviously
August twenty fifth sold out, right.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
Please show August twenty fifth sold out. August twenty sixth.
Is we're doing Monday Night? Is that was that the plan? Yep?

Speaker 4 (01:11:30):
Nine o'clock. So come on out support and we're gonna
laugh until we're crying.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
Yeah, and you feel even said it's like part of
his set is like yes, ten percent pal sign Israel,
but it's also other stuff right that they can tune
in and.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Yeah, yeah, but we'd too, Yeah stuff, it's stuff that
you would never find. And now that you never find.
There's none of the stuff you've seen on social media.
It's completely like a different situation, you know. So it's uh,
you might find like more frushing or just different or
keeping it funny and entertaining and uh and different.

Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
What's this? What's the strangest confrontation you've had so far
since you've been doing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
This, strangest like meeting with with people in the street.

Speaker 4 (01:12:14):
Or yeah, or online?

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
What's like? The whole thing to me is strange. It's
also new. Yeah, it's all it's all very new. I
don't know the whole thing is. It's just one big
new experience. That mean a lot of cool people.

Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
Well it's just beginning. It's just beginning for you. So
it's all very exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
I told him he's the I mean I shouldn't. I
mean it's a compliment, but he's like the Jewish Justin Bieber.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
He's gonna be he's gonna be like I'm telling you,
we know you're a star. You learn Justin Bieber, which
he is as cute as oh yeah, you're right he does.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
He was as huge as you feel. But you can
That's why I do not forget us at West Side
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
I only do shows.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Let's like comedy club. What are you talking about? Other
comedy clubs? And I'm just kidding, but.

Speaker 4 (01:13:05):
Support a Jewish a firm run by a Jewish woman.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
And check out by the way, Felicia Madison Special. When
you have a chance, you're gonna laugh so hard are
you're gonna do? It's called better than all right, I'm
like guy with to keep on telling him.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
Uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
You guys are like, it's called better than Wait.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
I love it how you're like and you're like, hello,
I'm human, Like I haven't.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
I have social media. I've seen some.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
So yeah, I love how I just say it in
front of my brother. My brother's thirty two, and my
mom's like, I told you not to use these words
in front of him. I'm like, you mean, like I
this is the world now right?

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
So okay, looking.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
Forward, looking forward to seeing you and in person. So
it was a pleasure of meeting you on zoom you
as well.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
It's gonna be great so great to meet you same.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Take care so excited guys, all right, all right, thank
you guys.

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