Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, interesting time in the world right now. I
Speaker 1: Nazi demonstrations on bridges, Anti Semitism coming to the forefront,
Speaker 1: very very widely discussed, thankfully. By the way, topic, Um,
Speaker 1: it's a sensitive area to discuss. So I am Jewish.
Speaker 1: My mother converted because my father's side, my uncle is
Speaker 1: a rab was a rabbi in Israel, very religious parents
Speaker 1: my father had. This is going to sound ridiculous, but
Speaker 1: culturally to uh anyone Jewish from New York. In the
Speaker 1: last fifty years, my family owned the Knish Kanash, which
Speaker 1: is a small all catering Jewish catering company in Queens.
Speaker 1: But kindition is a dying breed of um Jewish potato
Speaker 1: square hot food like on the go food that the real,
Speaker 1: the authentic ones around, but the newer ones that you'll
Speaker 1: probably you can see on some hot dog carts are square.
Speaker 1: They're amazing. I haven't had a good condition so long.
Speaker 1: It's like mushy potato inside this. Uh, how do I
Speaker 1: explain it? Almost like a Jewish and Panada outside. But
Speaker 1: it's different anyway. So culturally I'm very Jewish and my
Speaker 1: father is very Jewish, and um, the reason my mother
Speaker 1: converted was because they couldn't. No one could have children
Speaker 1: on that side of the family, and so when my
Speaker 1: mother became pregnant with me, it was a big deal.
Speaker 1: And for me to be Jewish was a big deal.
Speaker 1: So I am not religious. Um. And my father's brother
Speaker 1: was extremely religious, very strict, and the parents really kind
Speaker 1: of in that way, favored him. My father was more
Speaker 1: of like the hot shot and he became a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame trainer. Um. But like I said, his brother,
Speaker 1: his brother was a rabbi in Israel, And all my
Speaker 1: Jewish relatives and queens reach out to me, and I
Speaker 1: am not The word Jew right now is very controversial because,
Speaker 1: as Michael Rappaport said, people shouldn't people that are not
Speaker 1: Jewis shouldn't be able to say Jew. Like you'll hear
Speaker 1: people say I'm a good Jew, I'm a bad Jew.
Speaker 1: If on holidays they go to temple, or if they
Speaker 1: fast on Young Kapor, which is the day that everyone's
Speaker 1: atoning for their sins, so they fast, you know, you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be suffering. There are a lot there's a
Speaker 1: lot of meaning in every religion. But that's why people
Speaker 1: are walking on Saturdays and don't religious Jewish people don't
Speaker 1: use their phones or work, and you can't get in
Speaker 1: touch with them at shabbat Um, and so people will
Speaker 1: say good you and bad you within if you are Jewish.
Speaker 1: So Um, I grew up with a stepfather who was Catholic,
Speaker 1: so I also went to church. So I've had a
Speaker 1: sort of mutt upbringing of religion and thus ended up
Speaker 1: not being religious at all, but being spiritual and cultural.
Speaker 1: So culturally, many people would think that I am Jewish.
Speaker 1: I have a last name that's Jewish, I have family
Speaker 1: that's Jewish. I am Jewish. My daughter is technically Jewish
Speaker 1: because it's on the mother's side. And I say Jewish
Speaker 1: because I would have normally said the Jews have been through,
Speaker 1: but now I'm saying Jewish because people have taken license
Speaker 1: to say Jews, and there it's in a derogatory manner
Speaker 1: like um. Obviously, the the N word is is an
Speaker 1: evil word that you can't use and it's destructive to use.
Speaker 1: But some people would say the word word blacks, which
Speaker 1: is saying Jews is like saying blacks. It's just derogatory
Speaker 1: in nature. You just can tell um. Not if I
Speaker 1: say to Paul, you know a good Jew or bad
Speaker 1: or it's bad for the Jews. People say it's good
Speaker 1: for the Jews bad for the Jews. It's something that
Speaker 1: I could say, but I won't anymore because we want
Speaker 1: to lead by example and because this is a conversation.
Speaker 1: But entering into this conversation is because I'm a person,
Speaker 1: not because I'm going to quote unquote dying out on
Speaker 1: being Jewish. I'm going to pretend that I observe every holiday.
Speaker 1: I don't. I do not. I am not a religious Jew.
Speaker 1: I've never pretended to be. I've gone to temple for
Speaker 1: people I've been in relationships with, UM have observed. For
Speaker 1: that reason, UM, I respect who I am and culturally
Speaker 1: what I would normally say the Jews have been through.
Speaker 1: There also is no way that any of us can
Speaker 1: understand whether we have grandparents who talk about stories at
Speaker 1: the at the dinner table, um or uh, you know,
Speaker 1: photographs of people in our families that uh are Jewish
Speaker 1: people that have suffered. It's impossible to really understand what
Speaker 1: the Jewish population has been through. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: stuff that sort of said. The Holocaust has just discussed.
Speaker 1: Some people deny the Holocaust happen, like there are crazy
Speaker 1: people out there, but we're getting more and more educated.
Speaker 1: So if there's one thing has been that this conversation
Speaker 1: is and people just are on the surface, like we're
Speaker 1: posting quotes on Instagram, that's great. It's just like doing
Speaker 1: relief work, where I'm like, we're posting a link on Instagram. Great,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Like what's happening? So there has
Speaker 1: to be a conversation. And I keep hearing I stand
Speaker 1: with Jewish people. Anti Semitism is wrong. Like that's like
Speaker 1: saying stealing is bad. We know that, Like, what are
Speaker 1: we actually talking about? So I don't talk about this
Speaker 1: person anymore. I'm not saying this being's name because I
Speaker 1: don't want to feed the beast. I have been guilty. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't know I was guilty. I thought this person
Speaker 1: was a marketing genius because they had entered into different
Speaker 1: areas and been so successful. And often, by the way,
Speaker 1: people that are very talented in one area are destructive
Speaker 1: in another. They are not mutually exclusive. But calling someone
Speaker 1: a genius is typically something that's positive. So I feel
Speaker 1: responsible for talking about a person in a way that's
Speaker 1: positive or giving a platform even about them negatively. That's
Speaker 1: the that's the big converse station that's happening. Not only
Speaker 1: the anti Semitism is wrong and stand with being Jewish,
Speaker 1: but the platform being given that I am here for
Speaker 1: because that is something we can really really do something about.
Speaker 1: And it's not just about this person who has spewed hate,
Speaker 1: spewed hate, any person who attempts to divide people intentionally
Speaker 1: wants to label by names. We are not in a
Speaker 1: time right now in history where we need to be divided.
Speaker 1: We are all human beings, we are all people. So
Speaker 1: what are we gonna We're gonna go start just hating
Speaker 1: a group, even the way the politics is divided. Everybody
Speaker 1: on Fox News you know, Democrats are the devil, and
Speaker 1: everybody on CNN you know Republicans are the devil and
Speaker 1: everything they say is wrong and they're just like this divisive.
Speaker 1: You like Megan Marco, that means you must have voted
Speaker 1: for for for for Hillary Clinton or Biden. It makes
Speaker 1: no sense. You can like Megan Marco. You cannot like
Speaker 1: Megan Marco. You can like a person, you can this.
Speaker 1: These divided anger anger harnessing conversations are destructive. It's undeniable
Speaker 1: that racism exists. It's undeniable that anti Semitism exists. It's
Speaker 1: undeniable that homophobia, homophobia exists. You know, it's all this
Speaker 1: is undeniable. But the conversation is together, to unite, to
Speaker 1: be positive, to have a conversation to understand somebody else.
Speaker 1: For a Jewish person to understand what a black person
Speaker 1: has been through, for a black person, a white person
Speaker 1: to understand what a jew for a Catholic person to
Speaker 1: understand what a Jewish person and their family has been through.
Speaker 1: We are going further apart instead of coming closer together.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't make any fucking sense, and it's not working.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't work in politics, it doesn't work in
Speaker 1: in gender, it doesn't work in sexuality, it doesn't work
Speaker 1: in relationships, it doesn't work in marriages, it doesn't work
Speaker 1: in in anything. It's why wars have been like fought
Speaker 1: and lost and lives people have been killed for I
Speaker 1: mean thinking about the crusades like it's endless. So we
Speaker 1: have to really lies, every action and every word has meaning,
Speaker 1: and we make mistakes. You can make mistakes. You could
Speaker 1: say something like you could you say something without being canceled.
Speaker 1: There is you know this thing that's gone on is
Speaker 1: a cancelation with a K, and it's deserved and it's
Speaker 1: a full scale cancelation, Like, what's the cancelation policy? Oh,
Speaker 1: this is a cancelation with a K. It's different. This
Speaker 1: one's fucking to the mattresses. We have literally taken this
Speaker 1: thing down to the sticks. So that's not the conversation.
Speaker 1: Move that to the left. But is it a lesson?
Speaker 1: And that I'm learning to I learned it. It's funny.
Speaker 1: I had a foreshadow me a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I literally said, um, not talking about the ship that
Speaker 1: I think is a bad influence and it shouldn't be
Speaker 1: on the fucking platforms. And the media takes the bait
Speaker 1: and they keep going, it's okay, right about what we
Speaker 1: give us the news. That's some company, you know, severed
Speaker 1: ties with the person. Let's not go add nauseam and
Speaker 1: keep talking about it, because this is how the wrong
Speaker 1: people get elected. Keep talking about it, keep talking about it.
Speaker 1: Give this person a platform. It's a train wreck. We
Speaker 1: have to watch it. It's a car crash. We must watch.
Speaker 1: That's how the wrong people get in power, and they
Speaker 1: get the power to a monger hate, Bring together people
Speaker 1: who are really unhappy with their lives and want something
Speaker 1: to fight and be angry about or be make them
Speaker 1: more famous, make them more money. The wrong people are
Speaker 1: being promoted on these media outlets. So please think each
Speaker 1: time you look at an Instagram, post, at an article,
Speaker 1: at anything in the media. The media has more powerful
Speaker 1: than weapons, is my opinion. I think it is more powerful.
Speaker 1: It puts people in power, It makes people money. Money
Speaker 1: is power, and so unfollowed. First tell the publication you
Speaker 1: know you're talking about this and this is dangerous. Unfollowed.
Speaker 1: Stop feeding the beast. If there's somebody that you don't
Speaker 1: like the role model that they are for your son
Speaker 1: or daughter. Un fucking follow If it's somebody, if it's
Speaker 1: an outlet that's promoting something. And I texted Michael Rappaport,
Speaker 1: I said, stop talking about this. You're adding gasoline. Now
Speaker 1: I know it's good, and you know that you you
Speaker 1: you're saying hateful things that other people want to believe
Speaker 1: about this person. Great, stop talking because you're adding gasoline
Speaker 1: no matter what. Any gasoline is, gasoline anything. When something's
Speaker 1: going on that I don't want to give oxygen, I
Speaker 1: shut the funk up and it's tempting. You want to
Speaker 1: keep talking about it. Let me say my thing. It's
Speaker 1: the most important thing. I want to say this thing.
Speaker 1: It's amazing and I want to tell everybody. And that's
Speaker 1: why I'm not saying names. And that's why I said
Speaker 1: to myself, I need to cleanse whoever it is. Stop
Speaker 1: fucking supporting the publications that are writing about it if
Speaker 1: they are, because that being is not the conversation anymore.
Speaker 1: We don't need to talk about that name anymore. Memes
Speaker 1: and sounds on TikTok. I don't want to hear that
Speaker 1: name anymore because that being has created, actually, what's an
Speaker 1: important conversation about anti semitism. So that's the only silver lining. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's have that conversation. Let's stop talking about that being.
Speaker 1: And we know that cancelation policy with a K happened,
Speaker 1: so check that box and stop sucking talking about it,
Speaker 1: and stop supporting people that are a bad role model
Speaker 1: for your kids. And that doesn't mean those people a.
Speaker 1: Stop supporting those people, stop supporting those products, and stop
Speaker 1: supporting the media outlets writing about them. Stop feeding the
Speaker 1: best beasts. The media outlets are only selling what we
Speaker 1: are buying. You go to Walmart, they don't keep stocking
Speaker 1: up on red Bull if we're not drinking it. They
Speaker 1: don't stock up on cigarettes and alcohol or whatever they
Speaker 1: sell that. You know, if we're that are addictive, if
Speaker 1: we're not buying it, they're not gonna stock up. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna buy it anymore. The media is an is
Speaker 1: an outlet. It's literally called an outlet. What outlets do
Speaker 1: they distribute? You go to the outlets. Any any out
Speaker 1: target is an outlet. But if you go to like
Speaker 1: an outlets store, they're distributing. They're selling. They want to
Speaker 1: move merchandise. Me you, outlets are outlets. They are moving content.
Speaker 1: They will not be moving the content if we're not
Speaker 1: buying the content. So we have to stop absorbing the
Speaker 1: wrong content. It's a discipline. Are you not eating ship?
Speaker 1: Are you drinking less? Are you not smoking cigarettes? Are
Speaker 1: you not doing cocaine? Are you know whatever it is
Speaker 1: because it's bad for you? Are you not eating non
Speaker 1: organic foods? Are you're not eating meat seven days a week?
Speaker 1: Are you not funneling bacon and lard because it's bad
Speaker 1: for you? Right? This is bad for you too. This
Speaker 1: is bad for your kids. If you're consuming ship that's
Speaker 1: bad for you, detox from it. So take it all
Speaker 1: the way into the media. You're consuming. If you care
Speaker 1: about what you eat, if you care about what you drink,
Speaker 1: if you care about exercise, if you care about anything,
Speaker 1: if you care about your body and your mind and
Speaker 1: your soul, stop consuming things that are bad for you.