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The Power of Oil (Ep. 307)

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is David Olowski and welcome to the Raviolski show. [applause] Thank you studio audience. In honor of Kaneka, we have a special studio audience for everybody to make you think that this is actually coming to you live [music] and uh actually this is all AI generated. And uh I don't know why someone just showed me that there's some sort of thing now called the real Rabbi Olowski. I I don't know what that is, but apparently there's a fake Revolki little kabur of guys from the mirror who come Thursday night. I you know we talk about things from the parish show. There's two guys there who know like everything I've ever said between the two of them, you know. I started telly hear this one and they go no. I was like oh my gosh I still have some material left. [laughter] It's like squeezing blood out of a rock. But every now and then you come up. I tell you the truth. I'm, you know, married 43 years and every now and then I tell a story. My wife's like, "I never heard that one." You know, I was like, "Yeah, there you go." So I I've been saving some things go." So I I've been saving some things so you don't get bored before the 50th. You know, after the 50th, I don't really care because uh uh I'll mostly forget where I am and what I'm saying. I'm almost there, but I have another seven years till I'm totally out of it, you know. And uh I end up, you know, with one of those yamas. My mother always used to say to me, "Why do you think when people get old they talk with a Yiddish accent?" And I said, "That's my experience." Anyway, so hello Mama T. Anyway, um she goes, "You grew

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  1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olowski and welcome to the Raviolski show. [applause] Thank you studio audience.
  2. 6:13had the seda, you know, the house they made at Kosha Pesak and he'd start the
  3. 11:56these children to take home please for the love of God put in little metal things
  4. 17:02oil? There is no taha oil anymore. Why would you do that migdalai? You broke down
  5. 22:42fresh pesto. I don't know if I ever gave my pesto recipe. I don't know if
  6. 28:23there's nothing you can do. You brush it off and it just forms a glaze. So
  7. 33:38procedure to make it look like they didn't have a brisa. Now, I don't know what
  8. 39:18to we assume your hands are tame. So you have to wash your hands. So you
  9. 44:24what we get our pleasure from. At least that's what it's supposed to be. And one
  10. 50:06the Kurds for years. They wiped out the Armenians. Are you angry at Turkey?" You know,

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