Dream Big Out Loud: An Acting Dream - A Father’s Journey

In this episode, Morah Tziri sits down with Ruchy, an aspiring young actress who’s already dreaming about life on stage.

Joining the conversation is her father, Itzy Zeig, who has appeared in numerous Jewish films and theater productions.

Together, they share:

• How Ruchy discovered her love for acting

• What it’s like growing up around plays and film rehearsals 

• Behind-the-scenes stories from Itzy’s acting world

• Why it’s important for kids to follow their passions

A fun, inspiring look at big dreams and creative talent.

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Transcript

Welcome, Joke, And Announcements

SPEAKER_06 0:00

Hey kids, welcome back to the next episode of the Incredible Kids Podcast. My name is Laura Seary, and I will be your host through this incredible journey. We are going to meet many incredible kids. They are going to share with us their stories. Some of them super cool and different like you've never heard before. And some you may today are important, but all of them incredible. If you have great ideas, email me today at iKidspodcast at gmail.com. And now it's time for Incredible Day! It's time for the joke of the day! Yay! Today's joke is brought to you by Salva B from Baltimore, Maryland.

SPEAKER_10 0:42

What do you call a penguin in the desert? Lost.

Kids Share Future Dreams

SPEAKER_06 0:52

Hello everybody, and welcome back to the next episode of the Incredible Kids Podcast. Today I am so excited to share the most incredible conversation that I had with Ruchi and her father, Itzi Tig. Ruchi is an aspiring actress. She would like to go in the footsteps of her really cool father, who you might know from shows, live plays, some in English, some in Yiddish. Today we get to meet both of them. And stay on till the end of this episode because there's a special segment at the end with a fan favorite of Incredible Kids, Doctor, now Doctor, you used to think it was Mr. Judah, and Dr. Judah and I have a very, very exciting announcement for the Incredible Kids audience. In honor of Parem, we are releasing another Ari story. So listen on for details. But first I must say that this episode is made possible by our friends at Rachel's Place. I'm gonna remind you again that tickets are now live for the Jolio production at the end of February and beginning of March. So don't delay and get your tickets today. Hey, that rhymed. RiseCharitableProductions.org. Also, be sure to check out our newest Incredible Kids video, Let's Get a Haircut. Shlomo and I go together to get him a haircut. And then we have some flashback memories to his very first haircut not too long ago at his Upsharon. Full video available at IncredibleKids.org. Incredible with a K. I'm sure you'll love it. And be sure to send it to somebody that you know who often gets nervous or scared before getting a haircut, especially that first one. We asked our listeners, what do you want to be when you grow up? And who inspired you? Here's what they had to say.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

Hi, my name is Panina and I'm 10 years old. What I want to be when I grow up, I wanna be like a babysitter, like a preschool teacher. I got inspired from everybody thinking me from babysitting their babies.

SPEAKER_12 2:54

Hi, my name is Sarah. I'm 11 years old. When I grow up, I want to be an organizer because I love to organize.

SPEAKER_07 2:59

Hi, my name is Mel, and I'm six, and I'm awesome, and I won't be a fight of my own.

SPEAKER_10 3:06

Hi, my name is Lion, and when I grow up, I want to be a graphic designer. My aunt inspired me because she's a graphic designer. Hi, my name is Sir Hali when I'm 11 years old, and I want to be a lawyer just like my father. Hi, my name is Hannah. What I want to be when I grew up is an author. The person who inspired me was my teacher. She's an author and she always read us her most amazing books.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Hi, my name is Hannah and I'm 12 years old, but when I grow up, I want to be a teacher. And my mother inspired me most to be there.

SPEAKER_11 3:38

Hi, my name is Maham, and I'm seven years old. I want to be a Hathaman because my father inspired me and I like to do a lot of hotel and I love incredible kids. Hi, my name is Johannes. I'm five years old. When I grow up, I wanna be a painter because I love to paint and I love incredible kids.

SPEAKER_09 3:59

My name is Howie. I'm six years old, and my neighbor made me wanna be um a pet watcher because they have a pet.

SPEAKER_07 4:09

Hi, my name is Vita and I am ten years old. When I grow up, I want to be a billionaire.

SPEAKER_09 4:15

I'm an email and I'm four years old. And when I grow up, I want to be like mercenary. Um like people feel good.

Meet Ruchi: Confident Young Actress

SPEAKER_06 4:29

Testing, hear me? Yeah. I have an issue with my mic. It's like very delicately balancing right now on like one leg. So you could hold it with your hand. I could, but I'm nervous that like you're gonna hear like extra muffle, you know? I think we figured it out now. I think I'm good and I'm comfortable because I'm kind of like leaning on my desk a little bit. But it's so good to meet you. I want to hear how you introduce yourself. Take it away.

SPEAKER_08 4:51

So my name is Rachi. I live in Desnut Ridge, Rahitzig, Zeke, whatever. How do you pronounce? You said it two different ways. Yeah, so usually you say tzig, but a few times people say tzig in English. Uh-huh. So it's like the tzig is like the chassidish pronunciation. Like my cousins and everyone pronounce it like that, but like two people pronounce it tzig.

SPEAKER_06 5:15

Cool. Okay. So you live in Chestnut Ridge, which is part of Mancy.

SPEAKER_08 5:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 5:20

And tell me about yourself.

SPEAKER_08 5:21

Okay, so I have a very big sense of humor. I'm very talented in performing and acting.

SPEAKER_06 5:28

I love that. You caught my attention. I always say if you want to be interviewed, if you have something to share, then you can send me an email. From you, I got a special letter in the mail.

SPEAKER_08 5:37

You got mail.

SPEAKER_06 5:38

My mother also emailed you about. And your mother emailed, exactly. Your mother emailed me saying, What's your address? And then you sent me a letter in the mail. It's posted right here on my wall so that I can remember that you're the next one on deck. Your letter came with pictures, photos of you, photos of your family, and then you wrote such a sweet message. And one of the things that struck me is how you described yourself. You were so comfortable with yourself. Like you just said right now, I'm talented. Not in a way that you were showing off. You could tell just even from reading your letter how comfortable you are with yourself. And I love that.

SPEAKER_08 6:12

I also wanted to say that I'm a twin with a boy. So before a boy was sticking his head in the Yeah. Hi, twin. His name is Shimmy. How does Shimmy feel about you being on a podcast right now? He feels very jealous. I can understand. I know, but my father said that. Like one time he acted on play with my father, so I was very jealous.

SPEAKER_06 6:33

And yeah. This is something that happens all the time. Like you always have situations where one sister or brother, you know, especially if you're a twin, but even if the regular siblings get things in people are always jealous of their siblings. Is that usually how they explain it to you? Your parents? Yeah, kind of.

SPEAKER_08 6:49

They say, like, remember when you were this and that, Berkie was so jealous, but now she has something, so you could be happy for her. She was happy for you and we were proud of you when you were acting in the play. Now you could be happy for me them on the podcast.

SPEAKER_06 7:05

Everyone has their moments to shine, right? And this is yours. This is gonna be your special moment. It's exciting. This is your moment, so make sure to wanna Right away you mentioned when you grow up you want to be like your father, who's an actor. I'll be the actress. Well, yes, you'll be the actress or a performer. Well, what is the difference between an actress and a performer?

SPEAKER_08 7:25

Actress acts on like lady plays and movies, and a performer like makes songs and CDs. I don't know, I think so.

SPEAKER_06 7:33

One is like part of like a play, and the other one is like doing their own show, basically.

SPEAKER_09 7:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:38

Doing their own act. That makes sense. How old are you? Eight. It's always exciting to meet kids who are so like confident with your talents and skills, and then you kind of like already have these big dreams for yourself as a grown-up.

SPEAKER_08 7:50

I tell you something really, really funny and cute why I want to be 18 already. Okay. Because my mother said that when I'm eighteen, I could have nail polish on my nails for my hands, and my mother has, so I also really want. So so now I'm 18 I could have.

SPEAKER_06 8:07

Definitely one of the perks of being a grown-up is nail polish.

SPEAKER_03 8:10

Ooh la la.

SPEAKER_06 8:12

So you and your brother are twins. Are you the oldest in the family?

SPEAKER_08 8:15

Yeah, I'm two minutes older than him. I always like say you have to listen to me because I'm two minutes older than you. Two minutes, hey, that's something. Yeah. What language do you speak in your house? To my mother I speak English. To my father, Yiddish and English, to my brother, Yiddish, and almost nothing English.

Twins, Languages, And Classroom Plays

SPEAKER_06 8:32

Wait, what? I speak English and Yiddish. Different people, you speak different languages too. Yeah. Got it. How do you make that decision? It just happens that way.

SPEAKER_08 8:40

So to my brother, I have my twin, I speak Yiddish, and to my father Yiddish and English, my mother English, and my sister English and Yiddish. Because these two years adults, you went to English speaking um playgroup. Now she's in daycare Yiddish speaking. So we want to learn more Yiddish. Well, I guess it's pretty much like to the boys you talk Yiddish, to the girls in your family you talk English, except for Yeah, no to all my friends and school neighbors I talk English to Let's talk about how you want to be an actress.

SPEAKER_06 9:12

What kind of skills do you need to be a good actress?

SPEAKER_08 9:15

I need to have more confidence and not be shy and like talk louder. I actually talk loud by like um school a little bit, like my teacher calls up to more explain stories and parson stuff.

SPEAKER_06 9:28

When your teacher calls on you, you use it as an opportunity to practice being confident to talk louder and all that?

SPEAKER_08 9:35

I like to do it. I always raise my hand when she says she needs someone to act something out.

SPEAKER_06 9:41

Does that happen often in class? Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 9:43

Really? What kind of things do you act out in class? So like one time my teacher called on me, we said a story, and it was like we went in repetitive, but I need like I need uh to feel for my daughter. She's not well, you have to promise me and whatever. Like that type of stuff.

SPEAKER_06 10:00

That's so fun. That's amazing. Yeah. Sound like you have good teachers. Very good. You know, I want to tell you that I actually still remember. When I was in fourth grade, I had a teacher. Her name was Miss Fivelson. I have no idea whatever happened to her where she is in the world right now, but I thought she was the coolest person in the world. She was the English teacher, and we were learning social studies about slavery in America. And the highlight of the year was that our class put on a play. Everyone was different parts. The play was all about slavery in America a long time ago. Anyways, I was the second to main part. I was Uncle Tim, the plantation owner. I was the one who was mean to the slaves. I don't remember a lot of details about elementary school, but I remember that teacher. I remember that she made me feel so important. And I think that was my first time ever really acting in a play in front of all the parents and everybody. And it was really scary. I had stage fright, but I also enjoyed it very much.

SPEAKER_08 11:00

Yeah, so we learned social studies. We learned about the 1800s already. We're holding by the 1850s. So every time.

SPEAKER_06 11:08

Did you say you're holding by the 1850s?

SPEAKER_08 11:10

Yeah, I don't know. So cute. I'm up to the 1850s. I love how you said that.

SPEAKER_06 11:15

It was delicious. Yeah, keep going.

SPEAKER_08 11:18

What was happening in the 1800s? 1800s, just to go out like for a play date, they were gowns. They had to just sit up straight and they couldn't fidget like that. Yeah, they were very stiff. Trying to be like a good manner young lady. Mind your manners, lady. And in the 1850s, we started reading a book about her name is Kristen, and they were like puffy dresses, and she got lost.

SPEAKER_06 11:45

She came from some She's the American girl with the braids.

SPEAKER_08 11:49

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_06 11:50

Did she have like braids that were in a circle, like pigtails?

SPEAKER_08 11:54

Was it an American girl doll book? So your teacher reads those to you in school? Yeah. That's really cute. They made that part of the curriculum. Yeah, and by the end of the year, when we learn all of it, we're gonna make a play of the 1800s to 1850s. That's very cool. I hope I got to see some pictures of it. We also made a science play, and I was Jupiter, so like I said that Jupiter has a big storm called the Great Ritzpa, and through Libra, my classmates, he said Jupiter has over 60 moons. 63. Yeah.

Acting Memories And Learning Through Theater

SPEAKER_06 12:28

I only know that because I used to teach kindergarten. Kindergarten burned science? I used to teach about the solar system. I loved it. And should I tell you something really interesting? I just read yesterday in the news that Israeli scientists just discovered that Jupiter is much flatter than they thought. Flatter like during the water. Like not as round, I guess. I literally saw that in the news yesterday. Israeli scientists just discovered new things about Jupiter that apparently are gonna help science in some way. I don't really understand it, but I was like, wow, Jupiter, let's go. Jupiter's in the news.

SPEAKER_08 13:02

Other classmates said that Jupiter is a gas planet, and other classmates said that it's the biggest planet, the largest planet in the solar system.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

Go, Jupiter!

SPEAKER_10 13:14

Super Jupiter Jupiter.

SPEAKER_06 13:18

It's so great that you did it through a play because it's making you remember all those details. Through acting, you definitely know more information, right? Do you have any opportunities to act out of school?

SPEAKER_08 13:30

One time my brother and two of my neighbors, they were making like a plate.

SPEAKER_06 13:35

Just on your own, you make little plates. Like with my brother and my brother's friends. They're a good audience to practice on. I love hearing about kids who entertain themselves. Because like sometimes kids forget how to do that, and that's like really sad. So I'm happy to hear that that's still happening in your house. So we're gonna meet your father soon. I know that you have a lot of respect for him, probably as your father, but also as an actor. And obviously you said right away that you want to be an actress or a performer because you're so proud of your father for doing that. What is it about him being an actor that makes you excited?

SPEAKER_08 14:06

So, like, my father could tell me parts that nobody could know yet. And like I went into the major rehearsal and I saw it.

SPEAKER_06 14:16

Let's meet your father. You wanna bring him in? Yeah. Hi, nice to meet you.

SPEAKER_04 14:22

Hi, hello, hello.

SPEAKER_06 14:23

Why do you have such a fancy mic?

SPEAKER_04 14:25

Because I have a podcast as well. But it's not Yeah, but it's uh for Bonoolum for couples, infertility.

SPEAKER_06 14:31

Well, okay, I knew that you had something to do with boneolam. You had a podcast with Shmili Younger.

SPEAKER_04 14:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 14:37

And then it didn't take long for me to realize that you're a very well-known person who does a lot of amazing things. I didn't know about your own podcast. Is it in Yiddish?

SPEAKER_04 14:45

Um it's both. Uh, depends who I interview, but it's basically for couples that's going through infertility. So it's on a website, it's uh private thing, so it's very confidential.

SPEAKER_06 14:54

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 14:54

But it's it right here.

SPEAKER_06 14:55

So we have all the no one gets that kind of microphone like on Amazon the night before. You got lucky, Rochi.

SPEAKER_04 15:02

Yeah, I'm very lucky with Rochi.

SPEAKER_06 15:05

We just finished talking about or started actually talking about how acting is such an inspiration for her, and she wants to keep acting. And obviously, she mentioned that you are one of the main reasons for it, and I knew that because I'm looking at her letter right now that she sent me talking about how she has acting in the family, and she sent pictures, those photographs. So we're excited to meet you. I'm not gonna introduce you too long because you could do a better job at it yourself, but your Ruchi's Tati, what are we calling you?

SPEAKER_04 15:36

Okay, my name is Yitzhak, they call me Itsi. People call me Itzy, Itzy Tig. And I think that Ruchi is inspired by the acting because I decided when I was 12 years old that I want to be a health counselor and I want to act. And I did it, Brahashem. So I always say for Ruchi and for my son, whatever you decide you want to do, you can do, and will do. What?

SPEAKER_06 15:54

Love it.

SPEAKER_04 15:57

Do you say it?

SPEAKER_06 15:58

You don't have to whisper, you could talk out loud. There's no secrets.

SPEAKER_04 16:00

So what do you want to say? Tell me. Yeah. But I always tell it to dream big. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 16:05

Always dream big. Dream huge. Dream out loud.

SPEAKER_04 16:08

Hello. So, yeah, so I enjoy really what I do. I was a head counselor for years. I don't do this anymore. Now a little bit in the summer. I used to be for years in the mountains. Now I'm local in Muncie. Stamazoy, my my day job is Boy Noilam or coaching. Life is enough. I tried to put a fun in it and make it exciting and just have fun. So working on projects and movies and plays. Plays are mostly in Yiddish, the movies in English, so probably the English-speaking people know me better from the movies. And here we are.

SPEAKER_06 16:35

Mishbacha magazine had an article, maybe Last Pesach. I don't remember. It was one of the fat magazines, like when they had like way too many pages. It was like all about the Yiddish plays. Are you in those plays?

SPEAKER_04 16:46

Yes, yes. There's a few companies, but yeah.

SPEAKER_06 16:49

I could not get over it. There was like these extravagant costumes. It's like a different world.

Enter Itzi: Craft Of Acting And Big Productions

SPEAKER_04 16:53

People don't understand what this is. This is almost a million-dollar project. It's for months and months and months, and it's a real art. It's real art. It's not just, you know, a few out there going on stage and making crazy. It's a story and a lot of thought put in in the story to have a good message. I always say that life is like a movie, and everyone has a part. Sometimes you have the main part, sometimes you just decide and you see what's going on. And that's why people like so much movies and plays because people like to experience things. So I enjoy to give for the audience an experience. And when someone sits for four hours and sees a show, the plays is a live show, so I get the feedback right away from the audience. They like it, they enjoy it.

SPEAKER_06 17:33

But to see people watching it and seeing that they're enjoying the cry.

SPEAKER_04 17:37

You feel like you have 3,000 people in a auditorium and a theater. You feel it. But uh the movie you can express yourself more. You can give your talent more, you can be acting and on stage is more performing. But both has the malas and has their beautiful parts, but it's a very, very big project that it's months and months and probably 200 people involved in the production itself.

SPEAKER_06 18:06

Really, really cool. Yeah, I remember reading this and I was like, wow, like, how did I not know about this? I just want to say something to you, like as the Tati over here of these kids. For some kids who are listening or anyone who's listening, it's the over here, Tati. You mentioned that you work for Bone Olam. So for people who don't know what that is, sometimes husband and wife are married and they so badly want to have a child and it's taking time and it's not happening right away. And then Hashem gives them the children that they want, sometimes in a very miraculous way, and sometimes they need the help of people's Tadaka and people's tfilos. And that's the organization, Boni Olam, which is very special, that you work with. I heard that you waited for these precious children that we get to see these your oldest two right now. I heard that you spent some time waiting for these children, divening for these children to come. And now that I'm like watching you interacting with them, it's moving, it's touching. You seem like such a loving father, and your kids clearly have a lot of respect for you. I want you to tell everybody what it's like to have these beautiful children after waiting for them.

SPEAKER_04 19:04

Um, I think like everything that you're waiting for, and you get it, it's something special. But I always tell for a couple we waited almost eight years, seven and a half years, and Berhashem, we're lucky, and we now have four children, and Abschal von Watte, but it's very tough. It's not easy, costs a lot of money, and it takes a toll, and I'm happy to give back now and being in the organization and make sure that the journey should be the easiest possible. The circumstances we can't change. There's a passion in my prayers that brings the skies. I don't know what's going on as Jamayam. I have no idea, but I know for sure that waiting for kids is a gift for the kids. Because I am not the father that I would be what I would have right away, children. It changed me, it changed us. Now, in hindsight, I can say I'm grateful for waiting eight years because I am very proud, the father I became, and my wife is an amazing mother, and we both say this all the time that this is something special, and because we waited so long for it, we don't take it for granted.

SPEAKER_03 20:08

Well. Give me children who give love.

SPEAKER_04 20:18

I think even don't get me shulm wrong, people have kids right away, they have very good fathers and very good mothers, and they're not taking their kids for granted. But I see also parents when they have a kid, child by in the 30s, it's a different connection than they have a child right away. We were older when we started. But Burch Hashem, Bur Hashem, I'm very grateful that we're now here.

SPEAKER_06 20:36

Yeah, what a bracha. That's beautiful. I want to say, and I hope I don't make this uncomfortable for you that I'm saying this, but very hard for me to make me uncomfortable. Now I'm gonna try harder. I got a really sweet video from your wife of Ruchi when she found out that she was gonna be on the podcast. And for the listener who didn't see this video, because I posted it since then, your wife told me that you guys gave permission. I always ask because I don't know, it could be private.

SPEAKER_04 20:59

By the way, the reason I'm here is only for Ruchi. I really, I really I do everything for her, almost.

SPEAKER_06 21:03

Wow, it's amazing. In the video, it's very sweet. Ruchi comes in, and there's a few things I noticed about this video. Number one is that when Ruchi comes in the house, she is coming in from the snow, she's wearing boots, and she does not walk into the house tracking wet snow all over the house. She wipes her feet on the mat. This has nothing to do with me.

SPEAKER_04 21:22

This is the mother.

SPEAKER_06 21:24

Kudos to your wife.

SPEAKER_04 21:27

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 21:28

I'm gonna grab a page from her book. So I told my kids it snowed here right after that video came to me. And I said, Remember how the girl in the video was so excited to go in her house, but she patted down her feet before she came in and took her boots off. So they're like, Stop, mommy, stop saying that already. So she comes into the house. Her mother says, Guess who emailed me? And she goes, Mauriziri! Because she's waiting to hear if she got accepted for this interview. And then she immediately runs into the next room where she goes, Tati, Tati, and then you walk in. I'm like saying it like this is a play, right?

SPEAKER_04 21:58

I was working out actually from this office. Where we're sitting right now.

SPEAKER_06 22:01

Okay, here we go. Back to square one. You walk in and she goes, Tati, and you go, What? And then she says, uh, Mortsi, you know, guess it, whatever, more tiri. And it's very exciting. And you're like, yay, that's so exciting. So after I posted it, people were commenting. And I shared it because there was something so sweet and so delicious about this moment. And there's something about when I see a parent and a child having this together, and I'm like, wow, that's so beautiful. And it inspires the parents to want to be there more for their children. And somebody wrote something in the comments, and it really touched me. She said, Notice the way the father, and this is where I'm making you uncomfortable. Notice how the father, the second his daughter says tati tati, and she's looking at him, he right away bends down to her eye level and he puts his phone in his back pocket. Like you had been holding your phone and you put your phone away and you're looking at her. So I'm not here to write you a mitzvano, but I'm saying this because it was such a beautiful moment and I was like, wow, and I watched it again. It's so easy to get lost for us. And this is for any of the mommies and the daddies out there who are listening, and it's normal, right? We got so distracted. But like you said, you waited for almost eight years for these beautiful children, and now that you have them, you're not losing sight of those diamonds in your life. I think that was so special.

Bonei Olam, Waiting, And Parenting Presence

SPEAKER_04 23:08

Don't think I'm always that good, then I really try.

SPEAKER_06 23:11

I didn't think so.

SPEAKER_04 23:12

But my point is I was with children for a lot of time. Like I was in head counsel for 12 years, and I think also that it's not only that I understand kids more than most parents understand because if someone is an electrician, they know electricity. If someone is uh a booker magachir, they don't know so much this age kids. I was so m so many years, and I know that looking at them means everything to them. And I know that I don't need to give them more than three minutes and I can go back to my office and I gave them what they need. A lot of times it's just information that you know and that makes the change. So I don't think I'm the special, special father. Yes, I have a special thing that I subconsciously that I'm not gonna take it for granted. We're all human and we have to try, and the phones is not an easy thing, it's not easy. And in general, Bahlal to stay focused with the kids. And I always say this for couples that wait it, don't bash yourself that it's gonna come a day you're gonna feel like you snap. It's normal. Kids, it's not easy. And I always say for my children, and if I do, I'm sorry. I'm human too, and they are fine. And all the kids should know it. When a tati and a mommy get upset sometimes, they're human, they're not upset at you, and nothing is wrong with you, and you're perfectly fine, and it's okay, the same that you get sometimes upset, and you know, and we have to work on ourselves, and we and it never stops, even when you're an adult, you have to work on yourself.

SPEAKER_06 24:22

Yeah. So you said when you were 12, you already knew that you wanted to be an actor. Why was that so exciting to you as a kid?

SPEAKER_04 24:28

That's gonna be interesting for the kids. I always loved to sing, but I couldn't. And my mother told me that It'sy, you're very talented and you have so many things, but singing is not your thing. So I just was looking for an alternative, a place to where to be able, and I went to camp and I saw plays and I felt like I think I will be very good at that. And I was, and I also connect with people. Plays and acting and communicating and getting feedback. Everyone likes to do something that they're good at and they're successful, and I felt that, yeah, I think I can do this.

SPEAKER_07 24:56

I can wanna be no won up.

SPEAKER_04 25:04

And the same thing is when I was in camp as a head counselor. I saw the head counselor and I thought to myself, I think I can be a very good head counselor, and I enjoy it. And I actually was a very good head counselor for nine years, Borgas Champ. I always tell for my children, don't doubt yourself. If you want, if you really want, you are going to get it. I have so many stories in my own life, my personal life, even having children. I never questioned myself that we are ever going to have children. I was like, of course we're going to have it. It's not easy, it's very, very tough. We had a hard journey, but the dream is there and this is going to come. Sometimes it takes longer. The idea of opening my podcast also took like almost a year and a half till I couldn't, because it's delicate situations and who's gonna come up and it's very private. But you don't give up, you don't give up.

SPEAKER_09 25:46

Keep on trying, never give up.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

I think the main reason that I connected to it is because I connected to it. Meaning to say it worked for me. I'm a people's person, I connect to other people. Someone told me like I acted on the desperate measures. I was a father, the son went off the deruch. So I felt we always talk about the kids that are struggling, and we never talk about the parents that they love the children, they just don't know what to do. And I had a chance to be this character, and I got so many feedback from parents that wow, you helped me so much, like just to show some love for the kids, and we can accept you and all kinds of things. So I connect with my character very much, and therefore I connect with people.

SPEAKER_06 26:22

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 26:22

And that's what I like.

SPEAKER_06 26:23

It must be hard because when you're given in a play a certain role, right? It's like this is your part. You have to like kind of pretender that person while you're acting in order to do a good job.

SPEAKER_04 26:34

No, no, I don't do that. What do you do? I pretend that I am in this situation. Like me being in this situation, I'm not imitating. I'm being me. But now I'm let's say Nitri Ruv. So my n shumma, my way of thinking, it's it'sig is Nitri Ruv now. It's not like I'm imitating Ravaismandel.

SPEAKER_06 26:54

What's Nitra Ruv? What is that?

SPEAKER_04 26:55

Nitre, Nitri Ruv. Rab, uh the Ruv, Nitra Rov.

SPEAKER_06 27:03

Yeah, I'm a foreigner.

SPEAKER_04 27:04

Nitra Rav. So I didn't imitate Rabbi Weismandel. I was myself, and I was going into the position that I'm a rabbi now.

SPEAKER_06 27:12

So you do that because it's easier?

SPEAKER_04 27:14

That's like no, because that's more authentic. Because that's real. I'm not making up stuff. I'm not in my head. How is the rabbi doing this? This is what I do now, so I'm doing it. Happens to be I have a longer bird, but I have a back kitchen.

SPEAKER_09 27:29

I don't need your back kitchen. I don't need your back kitchen.

SPEAKER_04 27:32

I have a costume, but I still me. I always say actor is not imitating. That's a different talent. Acting is being. I'm being this character, I'm going through. Let's say in desperate measures, my son wasn't in jail. So I went into that. That my real son, my Shimmy or my rookie, is in jail. How would I feel then?

SPEAKER_06 27:49

Hasholom.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

Has Vasholom, but not like I went into the cave.

SPEAKER_06 27:53

You have to imagine that.

SPEAKER_04 27:54

Yeah. So when I saw the character in jail, I almost saw my son.

SPEAKER_06 27:58

That's freaky. In a way, it's freaky because you're actually imagining everything to yourself. So then it kind of messes with your brain.

SPEAKER_05 28:04

Yankee, I promise you, we'll get you out of here.

SPEAKER_06 28:07

Do you ever have a hard time like bringing on like real emotion? Like, let's say you're in a scene that you need to cry. Like, how do you make yourself actually cry?

SPEAKER_04 28:14

So let me tell you a secret.

SPEAKER_06 28:16

Rookie, listen up. You know the trick to that?

Authentic Acting Versus Imitation

SPEAKER_04 28:18

Happens to be that crying, I know I can, because I'm a very emotional person, so I can connect to my emotions.

SPEAKER_06 28:23

So you could cry on demand? If I really get you into that state, you could start crying.

SPEAKER_04 28:27

Almost, almost. But there is a mint cream that you can put in to bring tears. This is a little secret. Sometimes you need it, but I only use it once for that. But usually I can bring tears. Because if you're gonna close your eyes and you can imagine something, let's say you're in a forest and a bear is in front of you, you're gonna start to breathe fast. You're gonna start to feel it. Because when you imagine something, things in your body is changing. So if you're doing the acting like I am doing, that you're imagining that something you are going through, you can bring the tears as well. If you are just imitating someone, then it's not real. You're just imitating something.

SPEAKER_06 29:01

So you really have to see something in your brain or like uh convince yourself I am there.

SPEAKER_04 29:06

I am going through this challenge right now.

SPEAKER_06 29:08

Ruchi, you think you could do that? No. Not yet. Not yet. I like that answer. I like it. Did you have any training? How did you learn how to do all the things that you're describing now?

SPEAKER_04 29:18

I am a very big researcher. I like to read. I didn't have training officially. I never went to school, but I read a lot and I watched a lot of documentaries. I research a lot about it, and I always say that if you have it within you, if you make some research, you can get better. If you don't have it, you don't have it. But not everyone has it.

SPEAKER_06 29:35

Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 29:36

It happens to be, I always tell my children that happens to be that my talent is something that people can see. But everyone has some talents and not everyone can see it. But that's the situation here.

SPEAKER_06 29:46

Do you get recognized a lot?

SPEAKER_04 29:47

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I went to Gatesit and there was like everybody that went to photographs that was like actually shocked. Since I'm acting in English, and I used to act only in Yiddish, it's a smaller community, it's like 300,000 people. Once you got out in English, you're all over the place. I went somewhere with my wife to show you, and I I had like uh seminary girls. Whoa, whoa, they wanted the pictures. Like, okay, it is what it is. But yeah, so it's what do you do when you meet people?

SPEAKER_06 30:12

Like, how do you handle that?

SPEAKER_04 30:13

How I handle? I don't need to handle that.

SPEAKER_06 30:15

Do you think people come to you and say like you get excited, or you just kind of put on your sunglasses and walk by?

SPEAKER_04 30:20

Oh no, no, why should I? I have no problem to say hi, and I know what it means to them. And I know when I say hi for someone that I admire, I also want you to look at me. Just takes a minute, and actually I feel recognized and I feel significant. I feel that my work makes a difference for other people.

SPEAKER_06 30:34

That's a really nice answer because I feel like a lot of people would not say that. Like it should make you feel good. Not like a show-off, but it should make you feel like I I'm doing something important.

SPEAKER_04 30:44

Absolutely. If no one is giving me compliments, I would feel very miserable. Like if I'm doing something and I'm not getting back the feedback, it's gonna be hard. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 30:53

Yeah. What's the next show or play you're gonna be in?

SPEAKER_04 30:56

We're working now in episodes. Anash, An Sush Lamani. Yeah, it's a new uh like a new community, and we're starting in a new group. The first episode was out already. It's on Muslim music.

SPEAKER_06 31:07

English or Yiddish?

SPEAKER_04 31:08

This is English, and I'm working on another English project that we're gonna start after Paisach, and it's gonna be aired on sickness. And then the next Paisach we have a Yiddish play.

SPEAKER_06 31:16

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 31:17

Yeah, Mukhashem.

SPEAKER_06 31:18

Do you have to do a lot of the practicing like at crazy times?

SPEAKER_04 31:21

So it depends. The live show is harder to practice because you have to remember, you have to be in it. And when you do a movie, you do a lot of shots. So if it's not good, and you can look again the papers, the script, and start again. So it is easier to remember your script in on a movie. When it comes to a play on stage, it's a lot of work. Yeah, it's months and months of going and practice.

SPEAKER_06 31:43

It's crazy. I memorizing parts is one of the things that I can do.

SPEAKER_04 31:45

Just memorizing where you're coming from. It has to be coordinated because it's everything on the same spot. I have to have not only my costumes, I have to have someone with the bags. Whatever I need. Like I in this scene, I need to have money in my pocket. I don't have it in my pocket. Someone is bringing it to me. So it's a lot of things that has to fall into place.

SPEAKER_06 32:00

Well, amazing. Thank you for explaining all these things to me. While I'm talking, I could generate a hundred more questions, but I want to bring Rochy back.

SPEAKER_04 32:07

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 32:08

Rochy, can you share with your father something that you noticed about what he's busy with that you can hope to copy one day?

SPEAKER_08 32:17

So, like going out, I like going out a lot and just practicing and practicing. My neighbor had a like a play, so for three or four weeks, she practiced and practiced the whole day. So I wanna be like going out and practice and practice whole day in school like that. Yeah. You wanna be busy? Is your father very busy? He's usually home when I'm home. He's home laps with another father's and Wow, that's a win-win answer.

SPEAKER_06 32:46

Somehow you could be busy and then have your daughter say you're not.

SPEAKER_04 32:51

Yeah, I'm busy at night.

SPEAKER_06 32:52

That's gold right there.

SPEAKER_04 32:54

I'm flexible with my job, so I can I can be there. Yeah, my kids are lucky more than me.

Recognition, Rehearsals, And Life Balance

SPEAKER_06 32:58

Well, thanks for joining us. Can't wait to see you in the next film.

SPEAKER_04 33:01

Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me and having Ruchie, and you guys are doing an awesome job, and I can't wait to hear. Ruchi's getting to become popular. One minute, one minute.

SPEAKER_06 33:08

Even more popular.

SPEAKER_04 33:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 33:09

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SPEAKER_08 34:49

And now back to Rochie. Gonna be interested. I know. Because I'm gonna keep on dreaming bigger stuff, and by the time I'm gonna become 12, I'm gonna get ready.

SPEAKER_06 35:01

Yeah, and you know what? I noticed about your father is that he said he had dreams as a 12-year-old. He wanted to be an actor, he wanted to be a head counselor, and then when he was older, he actually did both of those things. The thing about talents and being a dreamer and a doer is that it could always change and you could always have new goals. Like your father had no idea that Hashem would say, you know, that he would have struggles with having children. And now he's doing all this amazing work for Boniolam.

SPEAKER_09 35:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:26

So it doesn't really matter if it was something that you dreamed when you were little, it's just the fact that you're dreaming. I want you to speak to a child or an adult who sometimes feels uncomfortable with themselves.

SPEAKER_08 35:41

They should always look up to their parents and see what they're doing and copy their skills, and they could become good at something. They should practice being not shy.

SPEAKER_06 35:53

You think that someone who's shy could become not shy?

SPEAKER_08 35:56

Yeah. Because when they're older, they start meeting more people and they start like getting more confident.

Sponsor Message: Jolio Musical

SPEAKER_06 36:04

You don't have to be an actress if you are afraid to act, but you could at least become a little bit more comfortable and discover something new about yourself. Rochi, it was so much fun to interview you. This time together was so interesting for me. It was so good to meet you. It was also good to meet you. Have an incredible day. You too. Bye. Bye. It is now time for our special segment with Dr. Judah Alcabez, our returning guest, an improv therapist, always here to bring on the laughs. If you're a new listener to Incredible Kids Podcast, I suggest you go back and find the very old episode with Dr. Judah so you can hear the Auri story and be all ready for our grand announcement.

SPEAKER_01 36:54

Okay, so um I guess.

SPEAKER_06 36:55

So I'll welcome you. I'll welcome you.

unknown 36:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 36:58

When you have two podcasters in the same podcast virtual room, we don't know who's supposed to interview who. So I'm gonna interview you. Is that okay?

SPEAKER_01 37:06

As long as I can interview you while you're interviewing me.

SPEAKER_06 37:09

That's what happens. Okay. Welcome back. For those people who don't remember Mr. Judah, Mr. Judah hails from Florida. He is Dr.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Judah now, right? I'm a doctor, but I can't do that. What are your doctor of social work?

SPEAKER_06 37:21

What is that actually like why?

SPEAKER_01 37:23

Because I like getting mail that says Dr. Alchopez.

SPEAKER_06 37:26

I understand that.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

So I wanted I so I went to school for six years. I would wake up early in the morning and work on it, all these crazy assignments, just so I could get mail that says Dr. Alchopez.

SPEAKER_06 37:36

Makes sense. Totally. I know the feeling. The first time I got a wedding invitation that said Mr. and Mo Mayer and Siri Price on it, it sparked so much joy for me. That's true. It's true. So, Dr. Judah, I introduced you to the Incredible Kids audience, I think it was two years ago already. It is still an episode that we talk about, we laugh about, we imitate, we quote. We did a comedy sketch there about our favorite character, Ari. Arguably, Nokie might also be our favorite in our household.

SPEAKER_05 38:06

Nokie, that one.

Ruchi’s Takeaways And Big Dreams

SPEAKER_06 38:09

Actually, me and the kids went to Baskin Robbins ice cream drive-thru. I said I'm challenging myself to order ice cream like Nokia and not break until she gives me the ice cream, and I'm even gonna say thank you like that and everything and see how long it goes. It was so hard to do that voice while not laughing. Try it. Try it at home.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

I've been trying it at home a lot lately. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:31

Trying not to laugh while you're doing it?

SPEAKER_01 38:32

Or just doing Nokia's in our story, right? Ari is the main character and then his two friends, Yossip Dilbert, and Nokia. So Nokia turned out to be a lot of people's favorite. And so really this Purim episode it's got a lot more Nokia in it.

SPEAKER_06 38:49

Yes. Isn't Nokia like a pasta dish? Yeah, I love that. So exactly. I was trying to make it it's like a potato pasta. It's kind of like mushy, you know what I'm talking about. So my kids never saw it before. It's especially ugly because the store only had green Nokia left, you know? And I was so committed to making this dish that I was like, it will be fine. Anyway, so I serve it at the meal and my kids are looking at me like, what in the world is this? And I was like, it's Nokia, and one of my kids goes, Oh, that's nice.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_06 39:19

So we want to share some really exciting news with everybody pre-Purim. So let's get into that.

SPEAKER_01 39:24

Yes. We've been secretly, not so secretly, working on a brand new full-length story for Purim, a journey that Ari and his friends go on that is wild.

SPEAKER_06 39:34

I don't think the world is ready.

SPEAKER_01 39:35

They're not.

SPEAKER_06 39:36

They're not ready. You're not ready.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

No.

SPEAKER_06 39:38

Is there anything you could share? Can we spill anything?

Dr. Judah Returns: Purim Story Tease

SPEAKER_01 39:40

Yeah, I don't want to spoil anything, but there's some characters from the first episode that come back. They're definitely our new characters. Let's just say the last one was like very school. This one is just wacky wackersons just for perm awesomeness. When I was a kid growing up, I have two older brothers. We lived in an area of Queens that there was no kids to hang out with. We had nothing to do all the time. But we had a tape recorder. We used to just press record and make up stories with characters. We made radio shows, wild stuff.

SPEAKER_06 40:09

Kids these days will never know the joy of a tape recorder.

SPEAKER_01 40:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 40:12

Do you think they sell them on Amazon? A basic rectangle tape recorder. Right. Slick. And then they could retape themselves a thousand times with a simple cassette.

SPEAKER_01 40:22

I have said to my brother what I would give to get those tapes. We had these shoals and like guys who would come in collecting money, and then this other guy comes in and yells at them, This is a show, I'll not a playground. All the stuff that we would see at shoulder, we would just record it onto the recorder.

SPEAKER_06 40:37

I think you should start looking for them.

SPEAKER_01 40:38

They might have gotten taped over. That's a thing you used to be able to do.

SPEAKER_06 40:41

Right, right, right, right, right, right. I had a tape that I found a couple years ago, and a preschool mora in Baltimore said, Oh, I use tapes all the time. Like I play all the old mitzvah stories. So I went to her playgroup to try to play it. And at the playgroup, I broke the tape. It like it unraveled. Remember like when the brown stuff comes out?

SPEAKER_01 40:58

You didn't have a pencil? You didn't.

SPEAKER_06 41:00

And it ripped. No, it ripped. It ripped. Every listeners out there know how to repair it. I still have it. And the reason why this tape is so important is because it's the recording of me when I was in first grade singing the monashtana on 1010 Winds News. What? Yeah, and I was trying to play it for my kids before Pesach because I have it. They sent it to me in the mail afterwards, says 1010 Winds on the tape. For anyone who's listening, that was a very popular radio station. It's me with a really cute voice singing Manashtana. In the background, there's a man that says, This is Tiri Frank singing the traditional four questions. Today we're going to interview Marcy about her matzo ball recipe. She says that they're fluffy. And then you hear this lady going, You take the matzo meal, and in the background, you still hear my voice.

SPEAKER_01 41:40

Thank you for that illuminating report, Marcy.

SPEAKER_06 41:42

This is Howard Liberman 1010 Wind News.

SPEAKER_05 41:44

That was his name.

SPEAKER_01 41:45

Howard Liberman. Howard Liberman, if you're watching this, remember that, kid Chewy. She was amazing. The matziboy soup was delicious too. You know what I'm like leaning though? You were you when you were little, and I was I when I was little. Like we're just bigger versions of. Right. Horem is by far my favorite holiday. It's just like the funnest day of the year. You just eat awesome food, you give each other food, you dress up in costumes, so you get to be ridiculous, and then you get to make jokes about stuff. Oh, and also we're not totally selfish. We're obviously giving other people food, but part of it is like give money to poor people. So like never forget, this isn't just about you. And then at the end of the day, we get together and we sit down and we eat more food and make more jokes. Come on, what's better than that?

SPEAKER_06 42:37

It's a dream. There's another aspect as well. It's that the whole month of Adar is supposed to be a celebration. So it's not just the one day of perm. The minute it's Rosh Chodesh, everybody goes into crazy mode. What better way to celebrate Adar than coming out with more hilariousness?

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Yes. That's why I wanted to make sure that we got this story out for Rosh Chodesh so that it could be like part of your preparation for the mitzvah.

SPEAKER_06 42:59

Mm-hmm. We're gonna have this episode. It's gonna be about Ari and his friends on an adventure that you did not see coming.

SPEAKER_01 43:05

Should we choose what the title is? I think we could. I think we could.

SPEAKER_06 43:09

I think we should say, but it makes it more exciting. I like waiting for things. I like I like anticipating.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 43:14

Are you a surprise person or an anticipating person?

SPEAKER_01 43:17

I am an anticipating person.

SPEAKER_06 43:19

Why would you just only be excited by a surprise? It's so much more fun to look forward to something.

SPEAKER_01 43:23

It doesn't really add so much excitement for me, like to be surprised by something. Like I would plan my own surprise party and then be surprised.

SPEAKER_06 43:29

It's another fair point, Irene. If it's like that awkward moment when people surprise you and you want to tell them, like, guys, you should have told me, but you can't because they just worked so hard on the surprise, so you just pretend that it was the best thing that ever happened to you. But I can't. If there was an experiment, like a poll asking people, what do you have rather known about this? I think everybody can say that they'd rather not be surprised. Right. That's my guess.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

Right.

SPEAKER_06 43:53

Especially when the surprise makes you angry. Like sometimes leading up to the surprise, they like drop things that make you upset. So then you spend like two weeks feeling like nobody cares about my birthday. Yeah. Or like they're not gonna come even though blah blah blah. And then all of a sudden it's like surprise, we're all here, and you're like, that made me go through two weeks of aggravation for a four-second surprise.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

I don't like surprises so much. I like getting excited about stuff, and I'm really excited about this story. You have a character in the story.

SPEAKER_06 44:21

You know, it's very important that I come back into this story. That was like a huge highlight for me.

SPEAKER_01 44:25

Yeah. Your part. Well, I can't give anything away. I keep running into that. Yeah. You're part of the part of the story.

SPEAKER_06 44:31

So what's the name of the story?

SPEAKER_01 44:33

The name of the story is Ari and the Golden Grogger sound effect.

SPEAKER_06 44:38

Da-da-da-da.

SPEAKER_01 44:39

Thank you. We're very excited about it. That's it.

SPEAKER_06 44:41

We're not saying anything else.

SPEAKER_01 44:42

We got nothing else to say about it. Just listen to it.

SPEAKER_06 44:45

It's just gonna be a random, boring story about Ari and his grogger. Another boring story. Ugh. Can't with these boring stories. They're too boring. Let's be more of a boar. That's by the way, one of our favorite quotes from the original Ari story. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:58

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_06 44:59

We say it a lot in our house. Let's be more of a boar.

unknown 45:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

Forgot about that line. All three of my kids are in the story again. My youngest was the guy who said, These are my lions, they don't have names yet. We get him going and he just runs That's great.

Nostalgia, Tape Recorders, And Humor

SPEAKER_06 45:12

All of you listeners can access this really exciting story on the Incredible Kids podcast. If you're a listener who listens on Spotify or on the Incredible Kids website, the story will also be available for 24-6 listeners. There, we're gonna upload it as a story. So you'll find it in like the music and stories section. So if you're looking on the podcast where you usually get your Incredible Kids stuff, this one is gonna be uploaded on the music stories platform of 24-6. So that's where you're gonna find it. So tune back in. And if you're listening to this in like seven years from now, I hope it's still there.

SPEAKER_01 45:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 45:49

Hello, future self.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

Howard Lipperman here.

SPEAKER_05 45:51

1010 Winds News.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

You know I want to add a character into the story.

SPEAKER_06 45:57

Yes, exactly. Maybe Ari and Noki are gonna somehow get on to 1010 winds news or something. Oh, maybe they go in the time machine back to 1010 winds news. Right, that's more serious. Anyone out there who knows how to fix the ripped tape inside of the cassette, please let me know how. I'll pay you.

SPEAKER_01 46:15

Thousands of dollars.

SPEAKER_06 46:16

Doll hairs. Remember that joke? Soon the doll hairs will be more expensive than dollars. Oh gosh. Can you imagine? Remember pennies. I do. I like pennies a lot.

SPEAKER_03 46:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 46:25

I one time paid for a gallon of gas in pennies. I had to go inside. You know, like when the credit card machine's not working, I got one gallon. I took out three dollars and nineteen cents in pennies. For those who are good at math, you already figured out that it's three hundred and nineteen pennies.

SPEAKER_01 46:39

Very good.

SPEAKER_06 46:40

I watched the guy count three hundred and nineteen pennies. He was so mad at me.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

It was funny.

SPEAKER_06 46:45

I remember the gas station, it was in Mawa, which is like a little area outside of Muncie where the gas is a bit cheaper. So I wanted to really save my penny. Penny pinching. Penny pinching.

SPEAKER_01 46:54

Oh, penny pinching.

SPEAKER_06 46:54

There was no like videoing it for a joke. It was just like funny for the sake of being funny. Like sometimes we did those kind of things, you know? Not for the kicks and giggles of the world. It was just for ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 47:05

For yourself, and maybe you told one or two of your friends after.

SPEAKER_06 47:08

Now I'm supposed to say like, but we all turned out normal. But that's not true.

SPEAKER_01 47:12

We all turned out normal. Not true.

SPEAKER_06 47:14

We turned out paranormal.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 47:16

Is that a word?

SPEAKER_01 47:17

It is. I think it means like aliens.

SPEAKER_06 47:19

Oh, anyways, listen to the story. It's gonna be good.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

Listen to the story.

SPEAKER_06 47:23

Listen to the story.

SPEAKER_05 47:24

Listen to it. Okay. Okay, got your list. Thank you so much. You were so kind today. That was the best part at the end when I said, You are so kind. Yeah, I love that. Oh, another thing my kids say a lot is two valves.

SPEAKER_06 47:40

It's a miracle. It's a musical. As a kid, I used to like quote things all the time. So to hear my kids walking around saying, two valves, it's a miracle. It just makes me so happy. Or meth, meth, meth, meth, meth, meth, math. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 47:55

Yes. Oh, I love it. It makes me so happy too. Did you listen to like it was like Jewish story tapes? We used to quote those all day. Like anybody who grew up in that era who listened to it can like just start doing whole.

SPEAKER_06 48:05

Did you listen to the Perm story growing up?

SPEAKER_01 48:07

Which one?

SPEAKER_06 48:08

The Perm Perm story.

SPEAKER_01 48:10

Oh no, I didn't have that. I didn't have that tape. It was a different time.

SPEAKER_06 48:13

Well, that was dynamite. And I know that one by heart. And once I start, I'm not starting because I'll spiral. Yeah. Right. I'll just say the whole two hours worth right now.

SPEAKER_05 48:22

Yep. Hey Dad, is that the guy you said we'll get his house after he gets killed?

SPEAKER_01 48:27

Pipe down, Junior.

SPEAKER_05 48:28

Hashim will always be oh with you.

SPEAKER_01 48:31

I didn't have that one.

SPEAKER_05 48:33

It's a mushkiss.

SPEAKER_06 48:34

It's human.

SPEAKER_01 48:35

I've heard it. I know I've heard it.

SPEAKER_06 48:36

You had to have grown up with it for it to be baked in your bones, though. Like if you listen as an adult, it's not gonna get in your bones the way it's in my bones. It raised me.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

Yeah. We listened to the golden crown of Odanya like a million billion times. And that story is very intense. The Sifrit gets stolen by the Russians and whatever. And they're had the scene with this big meeting where they're trying to figure out do we pay the ransom or not? And this one like overzealous, like younger guy in the group goes, What if me and some of the other young elite we storm the castle and take the sifri toy by force? And then the old Rebbe is like, We even don't know such thing.

SPEAKER_06 49:11

So good. Dr. Judah.

SPEAKER_03 49:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 49:14

We'll meet again in the special Roshkodesh Adar story of Ari and the Golden. The Golden Gragger. I was about to say the Golden Crown. The Golden Gragger. Stay tuned. There's more to come. Well, that's it for today. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Incredible Kids. And make sure that you are reading and subscribing and doing all the things that you gotta do. Also, check out the new video, Sol Mogasa Hirka, on incredible kids.org. That's incrediblekids.org with a K. And make sure that you go to risecharitableproductions.org to check out the tickets for Jolio the Musical coming up so soon. Meanwhile, everybody have an incredible rest of your day. Bye. Till next time. Are you an incredible kid?

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