Episode 92: The AH"M crew debriefs after shows in Israel and Paris.
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Episode 92: The AH"M crew debriefs after shows in Israel and Paris.
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Speaker 1:Okay, this is our first podcast back after the war in Israel has broken out, just to when we've all been physically and mentally. The day the war broke out, leo and I were leaving Israel. The bombs landed at 6.30 am. We did not get out of bed because the Xanax was still tailing off.
Speaker 3:No, Modi. I looked at you and was like is that the alarm? You're like, it's just a test, and we went back to bed.
Speaker 1:We were in Jaffa. We were in Jaffa at the Satai hotel and thank you very much to the Nakash family. Big shout out. They are so sweet and made us feel like family. It's their hotel. They were all there and they were just so, so nice. And they were there and we had breakfast with them that Saturday and then the second bombs went off and we saw the patriots meet them in the sky Right. What are they called? What did you say? The Iron Dome?
Speaker 3:Yeah, is that what?
Speaker 1:I say Patriot missiles. No, I don't know. Is that what they're called?
Speaker 3:Let me just to paint the picture a little bit. It was Sukh, it was Sukh, sukhot, sukhot, the last days of Sukhot. It was the last days of Sukhot, so we were eating in the Sukh outside in the courtyard of the hotel.
Speaker 2:And in the morning? In the morning, we were having breakfast. At what time?
Speaker 3:10.30. 10 ish AM so it was like.
Speaker 3:So it had fully started at that point and the sirens went off and I look up because we're outside and I could see the Iron Dome missiles being deployed and I could hear them and everyone gets up to run into the basement and I turn, or I get up to run to the basement, I take a few steps, I look back. Modi is still as a statue at the table sipping his coffee and I was like Modi, we should probably go and he goes by the time we get back up. It's going to be cold. The coffee.
Speaker 1:I don't like coffee. I don't want to come back to cold coffee.
Speaker 3:That was 10 AM on Saturday.
Speaker 1:If I come back to cold coffee, the terrorists have won. If I come back to cold coffee, it was. It's their win, but we did not know it was what it was. We, for some reason my phone was on, do not disturb. My cousin was calling me to tell me this is not a regular bombings, that they send over rockets. They have invaded Right. This is a war, right.
Speaker 2:So that's I. Can you just take us that back? Just for the people who are not familiar with the fact that many times in Israel there are flare ups. Yeah, there are missiles and violent flare ups and most Israelis are fairly immune to this. It's a crazy way to live, but this is how they live, and most Israelis do what Modi did.
Speaker 1:No, most Israelis go into the bottom to the bomb shelter until they get the all clear. I don't know, you know what? To be honest, I've never been an Israel during a drill where they had to go into the show.
Speaker 2:I can tell you because I hear it and. I hide under the table or like lock myself in the bomb shelter and the rest of the Israelis are doing what Modi does, which is like it's fine, it's OK. Yeah, you, I don't know how I was talking to you. I was Leo and I were. I mean, I don't know how you didn't completely fall apart.
Speaker 3:I remember I, to my credit, I did remain fairly calm. Yes, well, he did.
Speaker 1:We kept it together. Are you talking about? We had a flight at four pm that day. Yeah, it wasn't being canceled. It was an air France flight and air France I think one of their plane out of there Right, and we went to the airport and it was very calm.
Speaker 2:Were you freaking out Like because you probably had a deeper understanding that he?
Speaker 3:did, he didn't.
Speaker 1:I had a deeper understanding. I had a deeper. I knew what was going on. I had to keep it cool. I did not want you freaking out. I don't freak out, so you don't freak out.
Speaker 1:I was the one deep in the news and Twitter and I knew my cousin put me on what's happening real time and when we're talking to the taxi driver not the taxi driver, our driver that we had our driver he was talking to me. Did you notice how he only spoke to me in Hebrew the last day? All the other times he drove us he spoke in English because he wanted you, but he was telling me what was going on and the kibbutz and all that stuff and he was getting real time information. So I knew what was going on, so I just kept it cool.
Speaker 2:I spoke to Leo and he I was like are you guys okay? And you said, yes, we're on a plane. I was like, oh my God, thank God, I couldn't. I thought you guys were stuck there, I was freaking out and then hours later you still hadn't taken off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was the craziest delays on this flight and not from like because of the army said don't take off. It was just safety issues with the plane, like they needed a new part or something for the plane. We don't know that, but we saw them doing work on the plane. The guy who made the announcement did it in English. Because of safety issue we have to delay and like, what's safety issue? The safety that we can't take off? It's too dangerous. So safety because one of the parts of the wheels isn't OK and they brought us on. And when we were checking on the plane we saw that they you know that thing that reads your boarding card. It goes bleep, bleep, bleep.
Speaker 3:It wasn't bleeping, but people were going through. We were going through and I clocked that when I was walking on the plane I said that didn't bleep, that didn't do the little light thing that it usually does.
Speaker 1:Then we were on the plane and there was a crazy delay. Now keep in mind they're teasing us what this thing happened In my mind. I can't believe we're about to take off in this war. Ok, but we get to the boarding and they took all the kid strollers on. You know, the moms come and they put the kid stroller in the bag.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I was oh OK, good, and the crew came. There was a full crew on the plane. There was a crew on the plane, they took the strollers. We are good to go. Then there was another delay we're going to start boarding in an hour. And boom, so we go. We got a sandwich. We came back, we get on the plane. The thing wasn't working. You can tell it wasn't working and the plane was overpacked.
Speaker 3:It was oversold because it was the last flight out, but people were freaking out.
Speaker 2:Wasn't everybody in the airport hysterical? No, they weren't. They were.
Speaker 1:Everybody was keeping it together. Yeah, it was keeping it together. The next day we saw the videos of just mayhem at the airport.
Speaker 2:So videos, so it but wait we didn't, so the thing stopped.
Speaker 3:The main thing that was the issue once we had already boarded and you and I were in our seats that we I put together from listening to the flight attendants and they made an announcement over the thing that the machine that had scanned everyone's boarding cards basically stopped working halfway through the boarding process and because it was the last flight out, they had to oversold the flight. So there were more people on the plane than there were seats, so now they had to go through and check everyone's boarding passes manually to make sure that everyone who was supposed to be on this flight and in the end there were people riding in the jump seats.
Speaker 1:I never saw a passenger in a jump seat. Have you ever seen a?
Speaker 3:passenger in a jump seat. It's unsettling.
Speaker 1:There's this whole cabin behind the pilots cabin with two or three seats, and they packed them in there too. Those are people who are family of people that worked for that air fans in Israel. Anyway, we finally took off, we landed in Paris and then we're just like we had one day before our shows and we're like what do we do? And thank God, we just did the shows.
Speaker 2:And the shows were all sold out and people had flown from all over the world to come see you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we were all. By some coincidence, we were always scheduled to leave on that Saturday when everything started, which is thank goodness, or else we wouldn't have gotten out because we wouldn't have been able to get a ticket. And so you did six shows in Israel for the Kobie Mendel Foundation, which is an amazing organization who provides emotional support services to people who have lost a family member to terrorism.
Speaker 2:Wow, they're going to be very busy right now.
Speaker 3:They're going to be very busy, and so ironically, you were in Israel doing those six shows. We ended the shows and then we were going to go to Paris. We had four shows in Paris that had been sold out for months and I would say, because of everything happening, they were about 70% full. The last one was no, but the people were a little scared. People were DMing us saying we're scared to come out. It's a Jewish event.
Speaker 2:But you made a decision.
Speaker 1:I knew I was going to perform and it was the craziest thing to sit in the back. Well, I was in the back of the theater. You open the door and you can see what they're doing. And you see an entire audience on their phone looking at a war, kids being decapitated, prisons of this, the kids that were at the rave. They're watching all of this before and then the lights go down. Thank God there was an opening act David Azria.
Speaker 2:Azria, david Azria, he's a.
Speaker 1:Jewish comedian and he's never had the opportunity to perform for an all Jewish audience. He was in heaven. Oh that's so nice. He went on and he got them and then I went after him, addressed the issue right away and then for an hour and 15 minutes they just were not in their phones and not in the war. And then we sang Hattik at the end of every show and we I was very proud of you when you did that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was very proud of you too. I was watching from here and I really thought it was a gift that you guys gave to people to be able especially the Jews. We often, you know the humor gets us through.
Speaker 1:Yeah, At the meet and greet we had people coming over to us. I'm from.
Speaker 3:People flew in.
Speaker 1:People flew in for this from Copenhagen, germany, england, italy, spain, and this one woman came from Romania and she said to me that she was getting her Hebrew again. She goes, it was just good to have a have sick. A break, a break, yeah, just a break. We didn't forget about the war, but we just caught our breath. We laughed a little bit, we talked about raising money and we sang Hattik, for we were united and that was. And then we went back into worrying about everybody.
Speaker 2:I mean the darkest.
Speaker 3:It was like doing a show after 9-11.
Speaker 2:That's exactly I mean, that's exactly which I did.
Speaker 3:Which we did, but you did.
Speaker 1:A comedy seller did open up. Two or three days after 9-11 happened, the comedy seller opened up and we got on stage and we but it's true that if you don't do that, they won. That these barbarians won If you don't keep living, then they won, don't you think?
Speaker 3:I mean, I get you have to be respectful and there's mourning and people have died, but I think to cancel the shows would have been the wrong move, I agree.
Speaker 2:I think that if people don't feel like they personally are in a place to go see a comedy show, then that's fine. That's your decision, which I respect 100%, but I think that to be able to provide that for people who do want to come see it is incredible and it was a Jewish event.
Speaker 1:You know it was for a moment. For an hour and a half people were as Jews and allies, People who brought their friend who isn't Jewish and people who are just fans from online that came to see it because they just love the Jewish comedy, and we were united for an hour and 15 minutes, an hour and a half, and it was just. It was a machine energy 100% 100% Did you see Pete Davidson's thing on us.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:About it the cold open. Yeah, I feel like that. That was beautiful, Basically what we were trying to do in Paris.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that for me personally in these, you know, the darkest of dark moments and this is certainly one of them I've is that you look for the helpers. You know, you, what I one of the rabbis that at my son's school said that he was scared of the dark. He remembers when he was six or seven years old and he was scared of the dark and his parents gave him a little nightlight and it was the tiniest little light. He couldn't believe how much light this tiny, tiny little nightlight gave. And he said if you can find that right now, that that's what it is. It's just you need a little bit of light. It's the only thing that can get people through these. I mean, it's horrific.
Speaker 3:The only thing for me, it more, I mean it's been. The news is obviously horrific, but the discourse and the opinions of people in my immediate social circle that have come to the surface During this have been really just so disgusting and hard to deal with. The gay community has just especially the gay community, because I guess the gay community obviously for many reasons leans quote, unquote left and all these things. And so in that silo of political beliefs lies this like pro Palestinian view, right, right, which I understand, but there's a time and a place to say context or this or that, but not after thousands of people were brutally slaughtered, slaughtered and they, it's, yeah, it's just everywhere, I think.
Speaker 2:I think that the very important thing to address for me is to be pro Israel is not to be anti Palestinian right, like you can be. I'm not anti Palestinian people at all. I'm anti Hamas, and that's a very important distinction, and I think that what I've had a similar experience to you, but I think that one of the things that I've learned is that people really don't know what the fuck they're talking no idea.
Speaker 1:So the gay community, when they are voicing their opinions out and saying just whatever they're, they're posting, they're reposting somebody else that they've no idea what they're saying, they've no idea what Hamas is, and and they don't they think that they're an oppressed people, just like the gaze or a press, and if they can run around, run around Gaza with their gay flag, hey, we're also a press fine, doing that.
Speaker 1:Just explain to you that gay people in Gaza and the West Bank are thrown off of buildings. That that's the treat when you've come out, if you say you're gay, if you have found out that you're gay, your treat, your, your. The next move is they throw you off a building, literally. So now when you run around saying Free Palestine, anti Israel, just keep that in mind. Whereas in Israel, you have your gay month and gay parades and gay rights parties and all of that stuff. So just keep that in mind when you're screaming Free Palestine, gays for Palestine, and just pull it together. Understand what the hell you're saying.
Speaker 2:So this is the thing, is that they think that this is that Hamas is like if this is not just happening to Israelis, right, like this is in the charter to come and kill anything that also represents the West. There are people who are kidnapped. It's not just Israelis in there.
Speaker 1:No there are citizens of over over 12 different kinds of more.
Speaker 2:Including an elderly couple that used to sit at the border and bring Palestinian people into Israel for medical help. That's what they did. They were retired and every single day they would sit at the border and bring in people and then, until they were finished with their treatment, and then bring them back. These communities, these Kibbutzim that were massacred, most of these people are very far left wing. These people are pro Palestinian.
Speaker 1:They worked with them, the people that were watching the people that watched the borders, the eyes on the borders. So the same people working and then the next day coming across. For a year they were plowing the fields and doing whatever they were doing, and then the next day they're running across with machine guns. So they were in shock, but it's just.
Speaker 2:It's horrific really. It's really just.
Speaker 1:And you have to really find how you're going to help.
Speaker 2:That's. I think that that's really it goes about how are you going to help?
Speaker 1:I'm going to help by giving relief in comedy, donating portions of our income to organizations that I have worked with and I know are good, and obviously with Leo's permission as well and it's our money that you know, it's our income and that's what I will do and people who feel that they need to post every single thing that's going on. If that's how you feel you're helping help, I'm not going to be putting pictures of bombs going off on my page.
Speaker 2:And people don't get to dictate what you say or what you put. It's like.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:You go, build your platform and do whatever you want to do. I am doing what I'm doing Right.
Speaker 1:Make sure you're helping somebody, just make sure that your Whatever you're doing is helpful, not hurtful. That's right, right, that's the main thing.
Speaker 2:But also read your history and understand what's going on, because it's easy to make blank statements and they're not accurate. You know, and like I understand, that not everybody has as deep ties to this country as I do, and that's fine also, but if you want to have a conversation, try to have a conversation that is going to be beneficial and helpful to the future of this fucking world.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's just the lack of critical thinking skills and people calling Israel, saying that Israel is committing genocidal acts when it's like, well, there's only one side that called for like an international day of Jihad, and it wasn't Israel. And this morning I was doing research and the second, anthony Blinken, secretary of State, releases a report every year on genocide, and I read five of them, including the People's Republic of China, what they're doing to Muslims in China forced sterilization, mass incarceration, murder, torture, etc. And the thousands and thousands of people who have been killed in Myanmar, in South Sudan and Iraq and Syria. I've never seen any of these pro-Palestinian people talk about any of those actual genocides that are happening. But when Israel defends itself now, it's genocide, so it's. People can't even unpack their own anti-Semitism and how they're viewing these issues, and it's. I saw a flyer for a rave in Brooklyn that was raising money for a Palestinian hospital which is fine.
Speaker 3:I don't whatever. I don't see anything wrong with that. I mean, whether the money goes to the actual hospital, that's another thing. But they call it the anti-fata rave, like they don't understand the language that they're using has really strong implications and just so you?
Speaker 1:one of the headquarters of Hamas is in a children's hospital.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So just, you can't, but they don't know that. But hey, let's rave for Palestinians. My heart ble-. I I've been around the world and you see people sitting in cafes, and that's what, that's the goal. People just want to sit chill in a cafe, have their gig, have their stuff, and and I'm sure there are people in Gaza who do wish just they could just be, have normal lives, but they have been taken over by by Hamas, of course and you know Hamas does, does the brainwashing and making sure that they that their main goal is to kill Jews and at the same time, they also give them food and adab.
Speaker 1:What out of an electricity and water. And water comes from Hamas, because no cuz Israel comes from no, but Hamas, hamas pays. Yeah, these, these people. The house was a Hamas hospital. You're seeing the Hamas Children's Hospital, even though Hamas is doing they. It's like your, your kid. They're captured by Hamas, but they're also there. They're being held hostage. Being held hostage Basically. Yes, that's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3:Well, it's my fourth time in Israel and it was the only time that I felt, you know, semi unsafe.
Speaker 2:I'm I. I have news for you. You weren't safe.
Speaker 3:No. So I mean, I think one of the most Bizarre moments that I've experienced was we were in this room at the at the Satay in Yaffo, and we had a beautiful corner room that was looking at the beach and we had these like French doors that opened up and we had all the windows open and I was. This was after the alarm had already gone off, and so now we were trying to get to the airport. So we were packing and I looked downstairs and there were lines and lines of SUVs coming to like basically evacuate people.
Speaker 1:Well, they're about that creating. Bruno Mars was at our hotel and so he was.
Speaker 3:Yeah, bruno Mars was at our hotel because he was doing three nights at a stadium in Tel Aviv. Needless to say, the last night was canceled, but we were like we can't die in this hotel because Bruno Mars is here and if his he dies ill overshadow any press. We would have gone.
Speaker 1:I've been a footnote. It brought up my that if a bomb would have hit the Satay and Bruno Mars would have died, no, I would have been like. And those are Jewish community now Bruno Mars.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was watching his whole entourage because we had been in the hotel for a few days now. So we like knew, and by few days, nine days, yeah, we were there for a long time, we moved in.
Speaker 2:We were in Israel for nine days, maybe 10.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and so I'm looking at. I'm standing at the balcony, I'm looking outside, I have the windows open, I'm looking down. I'm seeing all of these people hair and makeup people like you could tell dancers, choreographers, just people who are were there to do this show for Bruno Mars getting into these vans, and it was right after the sirens had stopped. And then, no, actually think, at the same time, sirens were going off.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and they call off nonstop the call for prayer then started because we were in Yaffo, so the call for prayer mixed in with the sounds of the ocean and the sounds of these people below me getting into these Cars trying to evacuate, and the sirens.
Speaker 2:That's it, was that's Israel.
Speaker 3:It was. I will never forget that that.
Speaker 1:That is you just goes how it was, because the Friday night we were sitting in the Sukkah with the Nakash family we were just the father, by the way is hysterical jokes and funny. And not only that. He does this thing where he cracks himself up and he tells a joke.
Speaker 1:That's the best with Shaul and Ariel and it was we just Were cracking up. We had the most amazing Friday night in the Sukkah just laughing, telling jokes. I knew I was on when I saw Shaul's wife Gloria crack a smile. She just sits like this and all of a sudden she just like I told a joke and she's just like started laughing. I could see in her face she's like I cannot hold this laughter back and she laughed and the next day it just, it's just so insane. You it's. I went, I think, some of the best shows I've had in Israel. No theater was under not 900 seats. Wow, gorgeous theaters.
Speaker 3:The shows in Israel were insane.
Speaker 1:The shows were in these beautiful theaters. New theaters in in Beth Shemesh oh my god, there's a beautiful theater there. You can smell the newness.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was brand brand new you can like smell.
Speaker 1:The new is so new. And then Israel bet. The Hyal, which looks like Afghanistan, is one of the best theaters for comedy in the world. It's a low ceiling, 900 seats. No one's really comfortable, so they're focused and it's a. Cohen. Came to the show from Fowda, captain I you. And it was do my mother material in front of him, which is which is fun, fun and just it was like wow, it just all changed, like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it all changed like that. I really feel like Nothing's ever going to be the same. No, I really I don't know I've been like my head is so deep into this thing.
Speaker 1:I'm sure. And when the Yom Kippur war broke out, people said there's nothing to be the same again. And then it got the same. And I want also also. But it wasn't live streaming. You weren't streaming the war, yom Kippur war. You got, you waited. The people came out at night and they told you on the news what's going on.
Speaker 3:And that was your social media is a new front of front line of war and I just want to say that, like people have been DMing Modi being like you should like specific videos, like you should post this, you should share this, and it's like really horrible graphic Imagery and, on one hand, I think it's important that people see that and understand what's going on, but on the other hand, I do think it's a balance that you have to strike between it becoming just fodder for social media and you become desensitized to what you're seeing. Like our brains are not equipped to be dealing with that sort of imagery 27 also.
Speaker 2:It's like First of all. For half of these people, this is just like porn to watch.
Speaker 3:It's like some people don't yeah, don't yeah.
Speaker 2:You watch it, but then, like you, go on with the rest of your life. First, of all. It enrages me that people send you things. You have to post this. Fuck you. You post that. Don't come over to my house and tell me what I'm supposed to say and what I'm supposed to post. And it's really well awful to send people videos like that that they are not prepared to see. Like you can't just do that.
Speaker 3:We also had to manage our messaging very carefully. I mean, I was texting our you have a publicist now and an agent. I was texting all these people. We also had shows that were happening, so we had security risks that we had to take into account. We had to. You know, you have a certain number of like Cache when you have an audience online and you have to choose wisely what you're going to Cache it in on.
Speaker 3:And we had to make very clear communications about the shows, whether or not there's a happening when we had to recant, when we had to reschedule a show, we had to make a post about that.
Speaker 3:We had to be very careful what we were trying to say, not because we were afraid of saying the wrong thing, but because there was a lot of things going on and we didn't want to overshadow it.
Speaker 3:Um, I and there's another thing I want to say is that I received personally a few messages because now Modi fans are following me saying that what I was posting on Saturday when we were leaving Israel was insensitive, because I posted in my Instagram story a photo of my plane seat and I wrote in the caption I've never wanted to be wheels up so badly and I didn't mean it to be insensitive, and I got a few messages saying that it was gloating and I shouldn't be proud of that and a few other things, and I guess I just want to apologize. I didn't mean for it to come off that way, but it was a scary situation and I had literally just posted the missiles going off over our head at breakfast. So people were DMing me and asking me like, are you okay? So I was kind of just trying to give like updates. I wasn't trying to like make light or like you gloat or anything okay, can I say something?
Speaker 2:first of all, people can say to you whatever they fucking want. I would love to see what somebody in your situation who was caught in the middle of a terrifying war would not have also been. I would like to leave. Yeah, like I mean, I don't think you did anything wrong and I think it's outrageous that I'm sure none of these people I will bet have ever been to Israel during a war on a tarmac with a siren going on, it was scary. It was scary, but yes, you have nothing to apologize for. Like how?
Speaker 1:no, it's, it's not. If he feels he, if you feel it was uh people have no idea what they're talking about. We weren't hit yet we weren't hit yet with how social media. I haven't been posting jokes or or stuff, because it's it just but so we, it didn't, it didn't it didn't hit us yet how this is gonna be on social media so one slide.
Speaker 3:I said one thing. I said I have never wanted to be wheels up so badly because, if I'm being honest, it was one of the longest, most stressful days of our life, trying that Saturday in Israel. And then I posted another thing um, that was a picture, that of the graphic on the menu that said Tel Aviv to Paris. And then I wrote where the last flight out of Israeli airspace. And then some people responded to that like and you're proud of that, and I just want to be like I'm not Jewish or Israeli and I don't speak Hebrew, like are you suggesting that I stay and fight? Like I don't understand what you do.
Speaker 1:I go put on like a sign in the form like don't give them energy.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I just wanted to apologize, but also I wanted to say side note, I was so proud of you, the way you handled a us getting out of Israel and then b once we were in Paris. You were such a professional and I'm not just saying this because you're my husband and we work together but like you were such a professional, you were so calm. You understood the magnitude of what was going on, but you also understood the importance of what you were doing. When you sang a hatikva, I mean I was crying um and then you, I was also so proud of, like when the thing and you went with the thing that the ongoing thing in Ukraine happened, you were the first person I knew to mobilize supplies right away to get things to where they needed to be. And again, you did it within a moment's notice. For Israel, you mobilize so quickly. You got donations, you got those backpacks to where they needed to go.
Speaker 1:It was just you were both very impressive and it was no it was very nice to see so but, yeah, and we are gonna keep doing what we do. Yeah, we're gonna keep doing what we do. Um, I don't know. I, um, I will be continuing doing shows. I have a tour coming up, uh, 12 cities.
Speaker 1:Um, a portion of every show will go to organizations in Israel that I believe and know to be helpful Hatsala United, hatsala again to be the dome. Uh, uja in America, because, uja, whenever I do one of their organizations, they always show you the movie of what they did the following year, what they've done in Ukraine, pulling juice out, getting help. I know next year, yeah, when I perform for UJA, I will be seeing videos of we got them this, we got them that. At the moment's notice, we sent this money, we sent that money. That's what UJA does and I will be helping them. And also the Kobe Mandel Foundation, which is an organization I've worked with for over, I think, 10 years and they just help people that have been traumatized and they're gonna be over critical over, over.
Speaker 1:No, they're gonna be inundated oh, right, right, right, yeah, but they're also gonna be doing critical work right now when the, when the daughter, so now Seth and his wife um run the, ran the. They have camps for the kids yeah and the daughter's handling it now and she told me we usually we wouldn't have had if it wasn't for our shows, we wouldn't have had the Hanukkah camp that they had. Oh, the kids, yeah, the Mandel family are very, very special people.
Speaker 3:Thank you for having us. Yes, it was so nice, I don't we? You had done their shows before. I had done their shows before, but I don't think I had got. I had met them before and, um, yeah, they were. They're a really special family, um who went through a horrific, horrific thing, and they're helping people who have gone through whoever and we're going to be going through this now and yeah, I mean they do important work.
Speaker 2:I think that I'm doing some shows. We're going to be donating money from those shows, but it's um. I did cancel a couple of shows because I just didn't feel like I could pull it together to get on stage, but I did reschedule that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:I don't know how I said that was like said to him. I think he's unbelievable he got on stage and it was, and when they had to, yeah, we walked through the protest. We walked through this, this pro Palestinian protest, and the energy there was not pro-palestine. Let me just say that it was kill Jews.
Speaker 1:It was kill Jews and and that is, and I will give one big fat Yashakoyek to the national and local police in Paris. They formed a wall around this protest and they shot tear gas and they, they undid it. They do not want to see Paris become parib, they want to see it be still Paris. And when we asked for the policeman how do we get to to the to Matteo's theater said I don't know, I'm from Nice. They brought us up for this.
Speaker 3:There was a wall around the square, a lot of the Republic Square, I think it's called, and I had never seen that many armed police officers in an urban setting and, uh, the last time I saw that was in New York when those protests were happening, and it wasn't like when you see a pro-israel Protests when they're they wrapped in the flag saying have any, show them a leg.
Speaker 2:And like we've, been a piece on to you.
Speaker 1:Or I'm Israel hide. Let the Jews live. You know, it's literally. They were screaming kill Jews. And they were screaming. You can tell the energy there was insane, yeah. And they were climbing on top of this French monument like showing we are we'll will protest if, even if they did not have a license to it was it was disgusting and some of these student groups on these campuses you saw they put the paraglider on the flyer.
Speaker 3:Did you see that? I mean, how can you? Those kids were at a music festival. Those were kids. Mostly people in their 20s like you think they should be held responsible for whatever things.
Speaker 2:You disagree with that Net and yahoos that's not like what Judy gold said it very well. She said um. Most of the people who were killed in the massacre hated net and yahoos policy. Yeah, and Imagine you being killed for policies of Trump or a. Right fine, but just for, for example yes but that, that's what it was.
Speaker 1:But the also showed you that this Hamas does not, it's not looking for. Oh, there's the Jews.
Speaker 2:That like that some of us. It's kill all Jews, oh, but she's a gay vegan and she's fine.
Speaker 1:They want to just kill, and kill and kill. And there's videos of the kids with the machine guns. You know, you see the one kid that has to. He can't pull it, so he's do with his foot, and then he starts to fire it into the air. It's just so unbelievable.
Speaker 2:I know. On a more positive note, I would like to just say that the amount of love and outpouring of affection and concern and caring messages that I've gotten from all of my friends and Egyptian, syrian, black, chinese, jamaican have been so kind, really like, and so touching we've been getting the same ones and also that we have gotten Riding 90 pairs of boots for the guys in the golani brigade in a special force in golani brigade, which is amazing and Backpacks over there like I like to do, just like hand-to-hand.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm working on a smaller scale than you guys are no, you're not, oh, you're not.
Speaker 2:Okay, but you.
Speaker 3:I've seen what you do. You really you. You get it right into the hands of the people who I just don't like.
Speaker 2:I don't like taking money and so I don't like dealing with any of that. So I generally funnel it to a friend of mine who is literally paying on the ground on the other side. I want to see it going like now, right, like I'm. So that's been, and we've gotten messages and videos from all the soldiers who are getting the stuff, which is really beautiful, yes, so thank you, like everyone who's saying something nice like yes, it's, thank you, like I've seen, dr Ibrahim sent us a text.
Speaker 1:Dr, Ibrahim and then, and you know, syrian and and then a lot of people who aren't Jewish. I hope you're well, I hope you're safe. You know this is. This is the good. There's the good stuff and that's it we're gonna be. We can start wrapping this up. I'm just saying we, we're gonna be doing what we do and I'll be doing shows. We're announcing new shows and announcing big show. We're announcing big shows. Big shows or is gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1:It's know your audience tour and I'm telling you right now, this is the time to be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show. Give your friends a hefseck, a minute, a moment to just To not forget about the war, but to take a break, Regroup, unite with the Jewish community at a comedy show. You're the Jewish community of Milwaukee, of Charlotte, north Carolina, of Atlanta, of Brussels, and then the other dates. And you know, and kids on campus, go to the Hillel and the Chabad house, go, be with other Jews, connect with them, go, if you've a JCC in there doing something, be. Don't sit alone in your home on phone, that's not gonna help. Be with other people. And If you can't be at a comedy show, to take that break from from what's happening in the world and the tickets will be available on modi, live calm and and Again. Don't just get tickets for yourself. Get tickets for friends and be the friend who brings a friend to the comedy show Periel.
Speaker 2:I'm on Instagram at Periel Ashton brand. You can find me there and I'll be doing some shows too. We're gonna do a fundraiser at the cellar. Yes, that'll be really great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and and that's. That's basically it, anything else. Thank you again to a and H provisions and to whites and Luxembourg for partnering up with us being a co-podcasters and everybody's like we're back to stay safe. I miss our high and we will. Nation of visual.
Speaker 1:We've been through. We've been through Empire the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire's have tried to kill us with the one still around, and it's because we help each other and we raise money for each other and we will get through this and again. Stay safe, find your, your, your balance with Social media and the war, and I hope to see you to show very soon.