The Most Eloquent Politician: With Aron Wieder

there are bureaucrats in Albany who decided how you are going to educate your children they know better than you and I'm telling them that no you know better than [Music] them none of your business Sushi none of your business Michael it's the noneof your business podcast hosted by Michael anoshi welcome back everybody to another amazing episode of the noneof your business podcast today we are joined by my friend my politician my neighbor Reb benion Aaron weer it is an honor to have you here with us Bui this is the first time you've ever met heard his name thousands of times and I've seen pictures of him all over but you didn't go out to vote many many years but I've never actually met Aaron prle I've never actually spoken to him so I'm very excited did did you vote in the last election I I typically vote for the local Village politics for that those types of things okay but uh listen you know I'm here to get sold I'm here to see if I'm going to expand my my voting to assembly are you a rabbi well I I went to KY but uh unfortunately anyone that gets indicted they all of a sudden become a rabbi yeah it's true all the non-jews they think that you know everybody's a rabbi all Jews especially the post when they talk about a Jew it's Rabbi this like I'd like to clarify to all of our listeners that are not familiar with this that to become a rabbi you need to know how to keep kosher very very well the difference between meat and milk and mixing it together and the laws that are attributed to those thousands thousands of laws so many different laws it doesn't make you a certain type of person a personality or doesn't make you a leader of a congregation it's a yeah it's a degree in understanding and even after you have a degree you still have to do what they call a shush in other words you have to be sort of an intern for another Rabbi for a nice amount of time to know how to actual put all of that knowledge into practice right so it's it's it's an extensive process speaking of I'm I'm curious what kind of degrees do you need to be a politician um well some would say how to promise and not keep those promises uhuh unfortunately but uh it's like any other profession you really have to love what you're doing and it's very very very very tough all those you know blink stuff you see on TV as being a politician that's only about 10 or 20% of the job there's much more to it and it's very grueling and grinding to be a politician everybody everybody thinks they can be a politician everybody thinks they have it in them well at home I'm a politician I mean with my friends I'm a politician right you in business I'm a politician in friends you have politics always right real politics is is very challenging you know in order to even be a candidate you know how how many doors you got to knock you know in order to become um a candidate in New York state you need to get uh for example to to become an assembly candidate uh you need to have 500 signatures of people that signed that they would like to see you on the ballot and that's knocking on maybe a thousand doors or even more than a thousand to get those 500 signatures and you better get like seven to 800 signatures because if some of the signatures are not valid you get all the ballot so oh that I actually did this how many but wait how many signatures did you get to be a politician at home zero there you go by the we have very little uh say at home forget about getting signatures um you know that I did this once you remember somebody ran for office yeah remember somebody YY man of course yeah of course he ran for the I think the mayor of Spring Valley is right yes so he hired me I was like uh I don't know 17 years old at the time he hired me to go oh you shouldn't say that I shouldn't say that because I think you got to be 18 so I must have been 18 I I know I was around 17 18 so I was probably 18 and uh he gave me a clipboard and he gave me all the addresses and I walked from door to door and knocked on people's doors and the first question everybody asked me is like why should we vote for this guy and I didn't know a whole lot about him I didn't know much about politics either but I had my pitch you know he prepared me I had my little my talking points and uh I I pretty much you know used my sales abilities at that that point already and I got him over 100 signatures wow personally so and I I understand what you're saying it's grueling you know and some people are not very nice they're pretty nasty to you as well and some people keep you and they talk and they talk and you're like I got to go I got other people you I got other fish in the sea here I got to catch so it's an arduous process it's not so simple that's the first test many many people who want to get into politics they don't get into politics by not passing the first test to get on the ballot right and even once you get on the ballot you can get off the ballot by people challenging the petition you got to know that whole process and every few years you sometimes have to start again if you want to change your like you're doing now why don't you tell our listeners what's happening in your world right now can you summarize it for us well I'm a Rockland County legislator now for uh over 12 years I've been elected for four times last year was the fourth U term uh that I got elected for and I'm currently running for the New York State Assembly I already passed the first hurdle which is to get on the ballot on the Democratic line and I won a primary so I'm the Democratic candidate for the 97th Assembly District and I'm looking forward for people to uh vote for me on the campaign Trail and coming uh let's let's see if he's getting our Vote or not but before we talk about your you know your politics and your views what does an assembly man do can you share a little bit about what the role is well it's uh it's like the Congress for New York state so the New York state has uh uh you know three branches of government which is the executive branch that's the governor then they have the legislative branch which is the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate and then you obviously have the court system now uh the uh assembly branch is where we make laws we pass the budgets and that's essentially what an assembly person does and how many of you are there on the state senate none like how mean like me yeah no one going to be the first one like me that is going to be this role of assembly man is a new role no no he's he's he's answering you like a good politician I love it we're gonna have fun here today by the way U I just want to say how many like exact exactly exactly 15 there's many there's many 150 yes wow but you 150 I do have to tell you I've been it goes per District the entire state is divided by 100 and I run for the 97th Assembly District got it got it I I want to tell you I've been following you for quite some time and uh I'm fascinated by we've been friends yes yes yes we we have been friends and we are we're following each other I know that you were the uh the chair for the budget and finance committee you there's a lot about you a lot of layers that I don't think that people realize when uh just talking to you for just a minute and all the different nuances of work that you've done on behalf of the community and I'd like to talk about that for a minute specifically about the school board when I moved into Rockland County I I didn't even know what I was in for I went to one school board meeting just because I was like everybody else why am I paying so much in taxes and I'm not able to take advantage of any schooling systems and I learned a lot about your private taxes did you know this ushi your private uh taxes that you're paying on your house goes for special ed it goes to pay for books and the most important thing for us at least as it pays for busing and it was you know it was questioned back then I remember when we went to the Schoolboard meetings that oh why should we pay for private schools busing and I I was just shocked I was like what do you mean I'm paying taxes every year where a majority of the taxes are going to public school which I'm not taking advantage of and I elect to go to private school I get that it's our choice it is our choice advantage of the public school sure sure but we're we're at least allowed some rights right give us the damn something give us give us something give us books hear that we're getting a little busting in the private right so can you explain that because I remember being there and you fought and you really really fought you forget about knocking on doors you're you're a master negotiator you're a master networker you're a master salesman you're a master politician I've seen this firsthand but the school taxes drives me crazy you know what people tell me I do a lot of career guidance for people in the community and they tell me oh what should I do where should I live I always tell them if you can't afford it and you know now that you're planning on having a lot of kids maybe this little town here is not for you I mean you can't afford $30,000 in taxes maybe you should think of going to a town like in Florida or in Ohio where they have vouchers and you could pay for you can get your school uh uh bills paid for right maybe you can shed light on that uh that whole Topic in general well the government has to function and there is an important role for public educ ation there's no question about it you know you invest in education you invest in the future of any country and that's you don't even need data for that but how do you pay for that someone has got to pay so they came up with this grant system that it's going to be paid by property taxes okay so people have to pay their fair share uh for of taxes okay this you know no one is dis that but for whatever reason in East Ramapo and that's something I hope to address in in in Albany East ripo is considered to be one of the wealthiest School District in the entire state of New York wow and what happens when you're a wealthy District the state gives you much less funding to help support the school district if the state gives less funding for the school district who ends up paying we do the local the now the reason why we're considered to be one of the wealthiest School District in the state is because they have this formula they take the entire School District's property value they divide it per public school student that number is called the wealth of ratio now in East ripo there's about 8 to 9,000 public school students and and there is about now 25 to 30 maybe even more than 30,000 private school students wow so they don't take all these private school students into the equation only the public schools however the property value of all these private school students where they live goes into the equation therefore we're one of the wealthiest school district and the state does not give us the proper proper support and funding if we would have changed the formula to truly reflect the wealth of the East Ramapo school district we would have gotten millions of dollars more and we would have been considered to be one of the middle middle taxed locations in the state and that has been going on for years we have been short changing when I say we I say the kids the students of the public school and the private schools and that's a shame people in Albany the politicians in Albany were are taking cover by divide and conquer dividing the public school population and and VV the private school population to fight so they don't have to come up with a solution and that's what's happening in how much of our taxes is going to what exactly do you know the uh the majority well the sales tax mortgage tax and all sorts of taxes you know but I'm talking about a half a million dollar house right half a million to million dollar house and it's 20 to $30,000 in taxes that's the reality of Rockland County and my question to you is what what is going to where is it so so the uh property taxes on the property ends up paying either three municipalities or four if you're in a village you end up paying Village taxes town taxes County taxes and school taxes okay so if you're not in a village you only pay for the town County and uh school taxes uh the line share of your property uh taxes depending where you live is is the school tax another way could be anywhere between 50 to 60 to even 70% of your school of your property tax that could go to the school again depending where you live that's the lon share the smallest amount of your property tax is for the county and believe it or not um I've been on the county uh legislation now for a couple years I'm I'm chairing the budget and finance committee which is responsible to putting together the budget which affects your property taxes last year we had a property tax decrease I think is it was an historic accomplishment it hasn't been happening for but percentage wise we're not talking about a lot of money meaning because it's the smallest a smaller amount smallest portion of the proper it's an accomplishment I like that word decrease when's the last time anything around went down it doesn't make me feel good I'm sorry being honest I appreciate it thank you please work on our School vouchers and let a leave the garbage and a little win sure that's okay sure we could celebrate the wins you have 24 hours to celebrate your wins remember hours that's it we we going to chew gum and walk at the same time exactly you can do both as long as we're walking on sidewalks and we're getting our garbage picked up uh you know from the front which I like you know I learned something in Rockland County which I think I believe is in every town or County and maybe you can clarify this it's a little secret word that people don't talk about unless you're in the real estate industry and that's called un Incorporated mhm right so it's like you have properties and I'd love to know the history of this so like you know you had what does that even mean what you have a development you have a community neighbor who's unincorporated and he could sell his house my neighbor it's the weirdest thing and then the person after him is no longer an uninor they're part of Pomona I'm part of Pomona they're part of Pomona and in the middle there's like four or five houses somehow they're unincorporated what does that even mean and we'll get to that in a second I hope you can shed light on this but what I learned is that for example you need 35,000 square ft of a property in order to have a house right with a pool let's say right that's what you need to have a property so if you have 70,000 square fet on a property you can subdivide it into two properties right you can then sell one off or you can make a house for your kid or whatever you're into right so however in unincorporated ripo if your property is the same size you can do a lot more in fact right near where we live a school is going up on a property that was meant to be a house yep that's unincorporated ramp right right that's the what I'm talking about understand this process you sh light to this unincorporated simply mean that you're not in a village Rockland County is comprised of Five Towns Orangetown ripo clarktown havestraw and Stony Point okay so the town has jurisdiction for the entire town and that includes zoning that's the important part now the there's a there's a process where um a neighborhood they get together they want to become a village now all of a sudden they become incorporated as a village pona I'm sorry what's the advantages of becoming a village because now you're about to say why some are choose not to be part of the village so the well it goes the other way around in other words there was a town and then you you can decide to become a village or dissolve a village correct uh there was a village that got dissolved in in I believe in Clarkstown recently and what are they dissolving what kind of services do they they not have anymore so you have the same service in other words you have the same Services you have to provide the same which is you know policing garbage pickup and know but if you have your own village now you can make your own zoning so it's all about the zoning it's mostly about the zoning but then you have other little services that you provide such as garbage pickup such as snowplowing right and all the little things that a municipality would give now if you become Incorporated become a vill now all of a sudden they take the responsibility for it and there's certain amounts certain portions of your town taxes that you don't pay anymore because those are the services so mostly the properties and the houses in a village are a little bit more expensive than the unincorporated the ones that are only in the town of rampa now I believe there's maybe over 20 villages in the entire County and about 11 of those 10 over 10 is in the town of R the reason being is because those Villages were created to keep certain population out of the village Visa the zoning MH so if you look at all these Villages they were creating in the 1970s the 1980s some of them in the 1990s so they can create their own zoning because they don't want multif family the opposite they do want multif family no no no they didn't want like caser Village when Village was strictly because they wanted to control how they can grow and they wanted to Builder and new Square was the opposite reaction but if you look at other Villages amand amand the whole the whole they had a lawsuit I believe it was a federal lawsuit because they created all sorts of zonings to not be able to build a sh Robert fredman was my previous RV he's the one that fought for that and won yes so if you can't build a Sho now all of a sudden a certain segment of a population is not going to be able to move in because on shabas you can't drive to the Sho right so you're not going to walk an hour two hours to a location where there is a Sho outside the village so all these Villages were created at a time where they can control the zoning and in that way it was done the way it was done there therefore rampa has the most Villages but uh I would say in the last couple of years things have changed in Rockland County we've learned how to live together how to work together how to grow together and um it's just a great place where to be I'm just curious do you find it challenging for you personally you walk around looking so beautiful you know representing you know uh the Jewish people and and the community as well is it a challenge for you in County before he answers that I think we should almost uh accentuate this question I want you you seem very well spoken you're very eloquent and you really are and obviously I imagine English wasn't your first language I imagine I could be wrong but I don't think so but more importantly I can also tell that what we're talking about here is very basic local politics knowledge that you know maybe the Casual person like us knows a little bit about we obviously don't have too much knowledge in this space I can tell you have a lot of knowledge we're just touching on the surface of what you know so this didn't happened on its own this was something that you acquired over the years and you seem like you come from a background so I'm curious how this all started for you like where did you even get started I'll allow it to happen let's take a step back is what he's saying yeah we do that step back understand his story who are you how did you get to where you are you knocking on doors yeah I've seen looked face plaster all over the place I knew who you were with years and years ago I heard of your name and most of us there we all know your name you made a name for yourself talk about I mean talk about Grassroots efforts I want to hear how you did it yeah how you started and you know so I got started into politics um by mistake in other words um I didn't really follow politics maybe a little bit of national politics but that's about it I got drafted I got drafted by a great person uh the late Rabbi yakob harowitz I don't know if if you heard that name he's no longer alive uh he ran an organization uh which his son robt by herar which is now in charge and they do great work for the entire Community for schools and so on and so forth so um he he he started having issues with the school district with the schools the private schools and all sorts of services and the friction and the tension between the communities and he kind of decided that I would be the right person to to be on the school board what were you doing then uh I was in construction that's that you know I was in development in in the city uh I had a little mail order business on the side I had no clue but the one thing that I that I loved was to have the thrill of an experience whatever the experience might be um whatever it is I like you can travel to Zimbabwe you don't have to become the assemblyman in the 97 District I'm saying or this is only he has much bigger aspiration yeah I meaning we're going to get to that we have we have we have the lightning round that we want to get to or you can travel awit or matous or bookal has an obligation to do at one point which I did I probably traveled over I don't know 20 30 uh maybe more 40 uh concentration camps wow wow I didn't realize there was that many 40 oh there were hundreds or many hundreds many many yeah hundreds concentration you need to go more even even even aidz people talk about aitz aitz was comprised of three big right conc Camp alitz B canal and and and bua and they had I don't know if it was in the T or maybe even more than that little satellite satellite concentration camps wow because they had all sorts of companies and and and factories all over the place and as opposed to having the Jews walk every day to the location they created a little concentration camp next to the factory wow so yeah but but the the many concentration CS which I traveled and that's kind of a hobby that I have but um well I I I got the phone call ironically now that I think of I got that phone call from from him I still remember must have been maybe 17 years ago I was in the longterm parking lot of the Kennedy Airport traveling to a concentration to a trip one of my trips solo traveling concentration camp look at that so that's like subconscious funny you remember exactly where you were at I remember where I was I already that was a pivotal moment for you I already parked my car getting my luggages going all the way up to the elevator to take the uh rail to the to the to the airport wow so I get this phone call I didn't even pay attention he said do you want to be on the school board it's it's a great experience you could do a lot of good stuff and I said hey hey why not and that was the end of it I came back that was the beginning of it yeah the end of that beginning of something tremendously end of the conversation and then I come back and then all of a sudden I I see I thought that you you just get on the board I mean I don't know how that happens and all of a sudden I see people collecting signatures with my name and I call them out say what is this all about he says yeah you to be on the board you got to get going to be an election said there's going to be an election I what do you mean and and I I lost that election really I ran and I lost the first thing that you ran for I lost you lost and I could tell you now if you don't get on the ballot that's the first test but like the real true test like you know is winning a test yeah is to run and lose who if you can lose your first election you run that and and you could and you run again that I know many people who ran once lost never ran again I said the same thing the experience of running for office having little kids at home late at night the results are coming in and you got to come home and they're still up they want to hear did you win or lose and you say you lost and the look at in their eyes it was like devastating I'm not doing this again what did you tell your what did you tell your family when that happen I lost that's that's it I lost move on that's got to back to construction and and and the and and and this and you know the most difficult part was I lost by like 20 votes I mean it was like it was you know had we done just and the first time I ran for office I had no clue what I was doing we had no clue what we we doing all sorts of things the stuff that you think you got to do to win an election and and there are so many things you saw my sign plasted all over the place yeah guess what signs don't vote so that's a a little ele of the election there's so much into an election that and you spend a lot of money right oh tons of money you're talking about running for office you got to become a schn you know what a schn means a beggar a beggar to run for election you got to beg people for money wow you got a fundraise and for votes oh that's a whole different thing but you'll get a vote a politician is the ultimate snard house oh Big Time wow but they don't do it themselves they have their campaign managers no no no not the beginning the beginning you're all by yourself yeah but you have to go to events you know you have to be the one on stage and talking to people even even if you're not in the beginning if you don't if you can't be a scharer even if you're the president of the United States you still have to beg for money yourself right campaign manager fundraisers those are stuff yeah I have people who are helping me get you know fundraise but I got to talk to them I got to shmoo with them I got you know you got to do all those stuff to get elected let's get right into the lightning round we have something called the lightning round where people have given us suggestions of doing uh it in the beginning of the show so that you know there's a very nice weather outside there no lightning today the lightning round the lightning round that we like to call you do you have another name that you'd like to suggest for it okay the fire route yeah no then no go back to light go back to lightning okay so the lightning route is brought to you by Prime Source expense experts let's not forget there our wonderful sponsors that helps make all this happen and we thank uh everyone all the partners and all the people that are behind us and uh we love what we're doing and let's get right into it so we're going to ask you a series of questions and the rule is as follows it's very simple you get one opt out where you could say none of your business but the rest you must answer okay or we throw you out of here W he's ready okay okay he almost seems too eager by all right we're gonna start with this how many times have you gotten away with something because you flashed a bad or a business card how many times more than once it was more than than once and uh you know um I'm not going to say that's one of the perks and I'm not going to say I got away with something you would think you got away with I would rather say that I got a break you got a break I like that I like that diplomatic where that's good and and we're learning how toti I was about to say that yeah the way to articulate and make it sound better better I got a break he's looking at with it I love it I love it that's great that's awesome I love it that's awesome your aspirations for the highest office would be president or anything under that I would say I'm not running for office as I'm running for the new State Assembly if you run for a position and you think for the higher position you're probably going lose the one you're running for absolutely one step at a time another amazing political answer I like your answers I really do but there is an answer to it and I think I would like to see in my life doesn't have to be me but I would like to see in my lifetime AIC person or even even David I even said David I would like to see David in the Congress a religious person it would be nice I I think there were religious people in Congress but I'm talking about from the schms right you know from the inner circle type of people that understand our pain and challenges to be someone from our real from the communities to be in US Congress amazing yeah in my lifetime and I think it's gonna happen I'm just curious on that which is our next question is not politics start over again what are you doing if I can do copy paste of my life which means you're going to get exactly what you had up until this point nothing better but nothing less I will do it on a heartbeat well so the answer is probably going to do the very same thing I did till now and I and I if I if I can ask one thing from Hashem is give me exactly the same thing I had till now with all the issues All the Troubles all the problems this is a Happ but but nothing less nothing less I should have the same Michael in my life rinse and repeat who's the not even rinse could be repeat okay who's the most crooked politician you know well I know quite a few politicians that got indicted and convicted some of them went to prison people will say that's the most crooked politician you know yeah would you say so no let's not say anything I guess so are you I'm running for office you know are you a reader oh tons of B what's your favorite book actually my favorite book um my favorite book would be um its biographies you know no no novels biographies uh this the author slip but this a an American Author that have written so many books one of them 1776 um I got to remember his name I used to have I used to have his book in my car and at every red light I used to read really really um you got what's the name of the book he had many books that he's written make a note of it we'll Circle back Google 177 76 the author of 1776 okay uh the author of 1776 is David mum McCullum that's it yeah he he's he's one of my favorite authors okay David McCullum check him out you know I I I almost wanted to I I wanted to meet with him and I just didn't get the time you know what that's exactly my next question and and my second to last one which is aive or dead past present future one person you'd want to sit down for lunch with I I always wondered you know we believe in Mia is gonna come there's gonna be who's gon Resurrection Resurrection who's going to be the first person you're GNA run to see in how does he there's going to be so many my goodness yeah you mean me personally yeah my dad I mean you know someone who's resurrecting you wouldn't want to see how mosha rain he L first my dad then I'm going to go to mosha oh then mosha rain yeah are you saying mosha is that your answer no I don't know what about arini you're not going to want to see pick one who who's you going to we go to all them I don't understand there's only going to be there's going to be limitation there's going to be a line the Eternal world we have the Eternal time we have plenty of time oh really so Messiah comes one at a time you're saying Messiah comes we live forever supposedly isn't that the way it works we're not going to end we'll bring on someone that understands that topic better by the way this might be like a little bit of a morbid thought but at some point like it might scare you a little bit supposedly they say the world is never going to end it's going to keep on going and going and going and a human brain has a hard time to decipher that and process that because we need to see an end for everything like otherwise we can't process it this is going to be what's going to keep on go I'm not sure that's forever it's never going to stop every there's no stopping but it goes on and on and on and on it's that's pretty wild if you think about it yeah I guess whoever whoever think we're going to have plenty of time created that version whatever we want whoever we want you know we'll have plenty of time I've gotten myself out of answering a question right away did you say we thr it around he distracted us he's a master of you're a professional you're a professional a real professional so so the answer who who who I would like to sit down you know you know it it I think I believe it's with anyone else it's it depends when you know there are certain times I would like to meet this guy that guy the other guy you know right now who's on your mind uh no one actually no one all right let meet somebody right now I can't right now we're giving you the choice think for a second who would you want to meet who's the one person if you picked someone who would that be who's the the one Donald Trump who would you want to meet right now honestly yeah only honestly the person that I would like to meet today if I had the choice is a um last night someone came over to me I was in parking lot knocked on the window and people know I'm I'm I'm very very very involved in about the Holocaust I read hundreds of books traveled 4050 concentration camps I've interviewed Holocaust survivors on camera um know about every camp camp and most of the camps and you know I almost met a Nazi who worked in awit I almost met him and in the end he pulled out and he's no longer alive really yes you know that would have been fascinating it would have been fascinating but he he wasn't part of the killing machine but he worked in the administration seen it firsthand he uh he seen the actual gassing I'm not so sure but regardless so you didn't meet him let's move on the kid the kid the kid there's a guy a guy knocked on the on my window and he says he started asking he says look my grandmother uh was an aitz and she and she was um she was always told us that there was an uprising in aitz and the inmates blew up actually blew up one of the gas Chambers and she saw it she was in the she was uh in the Kennedy La um camp in the as was sub camps where I'm going to go into all of that and he says I always wondered if she was just you know imagining stuff dreaming I never heard there was an uprising and the juice blew up the I said yes that's actually true and uh and it happened it's a whole story about it it's a very fascinating Story one n he got killed they actually shoved him into the oven um so I asked him is she alive he says no she passed away like 3 four years ago and I was like I wish she would have been alive because I wanted to interview someone who actually saw and knew about it knew because she was she was in the Kennedy log and they told her when it's going to happen they had to kind of coordinate the whole thing and I was thinking to myself gosh if she would have been alive so today it would have been that lady Mrs Greenfield whoever she is may may she rest in peace was that her actual name yeah hi maybe we're related oh she's a she her her her her grand grandchild is a guy and he goes even with Zak okay okay we still might be related specific by the way of a person that you would want to meet but I can see why and I can see your passion about this topic in this conversation no but but I I truly believe that like these kinds of things they change over time with everyone just for just for like who would you want who would you who would you want to meet today this this guy by the way I mean he's the real deal see how he turns the question on you no no just to prove my point though that it's I'm embarrassed to tell you who I would want to meet because after what you just said I can follow that because the person I want to meet like you know I was G to say Michael Jordan something like that you know and uh I guarantee you in 10 years from I guarantee you 10 years from now it's not gonna be Michael Jordan probably not it would be Babe Ruth if I really think about it probably not Michael Jordan I probably pick someone else but um I have to tell you just on your point there are very few people that are left in general that were alive during the times of the we're coming towards the tail end of anybody that's really left once we lose the last few people we're just going to have the memories to go by we're not going to have that firsthand experience people and that might change things because you know there's a lot of people that deny the Holocaust as is you know and it's only going to get worse over time we get more desensitized to it as we get more removed from that story after a 100 Years it'll be a century old I mean I I I'm very scared very nervous that it might lose its you know I well that's that's that's unfortunately the the life cycle yeah and then what can we do about it you got to preserve it how do we preserve it I think the Holocaust is the most preserved uh occurrence in history right um M between between museums testimonials books videos and everything right uh I go and speak to kids and to adults uh I do a slide presentation about the Holocaust really I'm going to do one uh tishu at night in the Shiner Sho oh wow um so the last thing I always tell thank God for Tish abov by the way or no one would know about the Holocaust I feel like every Tish abov all we do is watch movies about the Holocaust but no it's it's it's good I'm just I'm I'm poking at it because I believe that the Holocaust is a topic that needs to be discussed much more than just do you watch movies may ask see you have to okay so you watched Oscar's uh scher's list oh yeah of course so you've seen the movie have seen the movies that's you I'm talking about you know you there's there's a lot lot of information a lot of educational stuff in in in in this yeah osar you know but but but that was a very popular movie obviously but uh it was an American classic it was a there's so many others about the Holocaust which is uh which is important uh and and and you know like I said it's the most doc so I go and I speak to uh to uh to students to kids to adults and I always finish off with this and some of them are only 17 18 years old that you should go and try to find that one Survivor and just listen for their experience because there was going to come a time where you're going to have to say I've heard it myself uh I've taking all my kids to a Survivor and even I try to get a Survivor that has their number tattoo that many around so they could say I saw it myself and I've hearden uh so that's extremely important the one message uh that people can take from this podcast if you haven't yet met a holocaust Survivor just go and do it go talk to them go listen ask them about their experience because you will one day become the person that is going to have to bear witness to their experience so so you'll be able to say I've heard of myself and there will come a time where people are going to say there not too many people around who have heard it right firsthand it happens to be the my my kids school every single year they have a program it's called names not numbers and it's done by the 8th grade and they do all the production they have bring a production crew in they're bringing people teach them how to interview and everything like that and they bring in Holocaust Survivors and the kids interview these people and they they prod a video every single year what a great idea it's an amazing program I've heard about it before thank you yes absolutely which school is this that does this is n sure a that's beautiful I think every school needs to adopt something that has to do with witnessing or like you said hearing it from from you know our entire religion is based on the most Witnesses ever this is what it is our entire basis the foundation of of who we are is that we had millions of people that witnessed something together that's what sets us apart from all other religions in the world they passed it down to so it's a re it should be a requirement for schools to have this pass on I love what you're saying you know step Spielberg did so many uh documentaries on people my grandparents as well and I remember when he did it and hearing that testimony from my grandparents was was something that will never I'll never forget it shaped who I am today in terms of that I've done uh I would say between 60 to 80 um videos myself videos interviews would you like to come with me today to to a assisted living facility here where my Rabbi Rabbi Burger's mother who's almost 100 years old she's not only a Survivor she has 100% recollection of everything that happened was she in a concentration camp yes and she speaks about it she was in Bur um B I think she was in berken now you know she has a tattoo she has a tattoo then if she was in Burk yeah and I'll tell you what's interesting just real quick is because he's a Cohen so he can't come to uh he could my my Rabbi Rabbi burger and he couldn't come to the uh concentration camps himself and so I was sitting with him on the phone and when I have to tell you when I took the tour there I put on uh noise cancelling headphones by the way guys I recommend this to anybody that does this I put on the noise cancelling headphones and I listened to somber Jewish music and I walked around by myself for a half an hour and I just wandered and the reason why I did that is because the authenticity is not really there anymore it's more like a museum like there's a glass wall and you see the shoes and but when I sat down I sat down at the steps of one of the bunkers behind me and I had a visual of the Wall of Death and it was a very moving time for me in my life and I was sitting there on the steps and I called my Rabbi and I said hey Rabbi I know your mother was a Survivor I just want you to know I know you're a Cohan and you you don't you've never come here I want you to know I'm sitting here at the steps and I have have a vision and I'm looking at this wall and I just you know I needed to talk to you I needed to talk to a friend the rabbi he goes well if you want you could look around for Bunker number and I forgot the number you told me I think was 32 that's where my mother spent her time during the concentration camps I turn around and I am sitting on the steps of Bunker number 32 wow I couldn't I started to cry I told my Rabbi I'm like I can't believe this I'm sitting here at the steps of your mother's place where she had and I'm looking at it I have my headphones on and I was listening to music and I have to tell you that's my advice for anyone that goes listen to some music and get into your Zone you know some people say go when it's cold or when it's raining so you can feel that Vibe and I don't say it's wrong to do that but it's very very difficult but that's what I went through and I invite you to come and let's go have a conversation with her because I'd love for you to ask the questions and for you to do the interview was she was was she ever interviewed she was interviewed and and um she talks about it and I'm going to go with you yeah but I I we got to do it on camera if it's about two-hour interview if I do it's a two-hour interview really yes I do a half hour half hour pre the Holocaust talk about her parents the town the are you in in an hour I'm in yeah I'll take your right hand but but not today though we got to no we got to do it no but I want I do want I do want to say good but first of all guys she's 100 you know the joke when a guy you know the joke when a guy when a guy turned 120 you know the joke when the guy said to him you know have a great day you know like you know but I'm saying we have to go say a chabas to her at least can we do that oh absolutely let's go meet her but I would like to set up because I'm doing that all the time I would like to set up a time but it's got to be a it should be a two-hour win I'm dedicating I'm on behalf of prime source and the noneof your business podcast I'm dedicating our team Stefan you're in and we will go with our production team and we will record it and I think it will be amazing for people to see it especially coming from you because you have experience she speaks ask me the questions English English she still makes potato latkas for her son Benny where's she from she's from uh right now she's from C she was from California way she from back home you'll find out let's not give it all away you we we'll do the interview wow and I love it but let me say something else I'll tell you a little bit about my first experience I went to aits I started going to asz maybe 20 25 years ago when no one basically went there it was literally it wasn't really a museum you could just walk in there wow and no one was there now it's a museum now you got to get a ticket months ahead otherwise you can't get in it's it's like millions of people a year they made it into a business and like you said it's very commercialized people fly in from Israel as tour guides to give tours by you got to be like I used to give tours in aitz I I did Private Tours and in other camps my donik and yeah so the first time I went to aitz I didn't tell my grandparent who by the way both of them are still I I both of them are still alive my grandmother my grandfather my mother's parents and um one of them went through alwiz ended up in mat house and then abeny and then one of them one of my grandparents my my grandmother she was on the way to our streets but there was during the negotiations of kasner and she came back and they pulled back the Tren so she never ended up in owitz and that's how she got she survived a long story she went on dead marches so I didn't tell them that I that I'm going to ales because I knew that they're still traumatized about it and they didn't want me to go back it's like a dangerous place and this goes back like 25 years ago but when I ended up in and by the way when I go to aitz I walk around with my Talis that's how I walk around really yeah I've been I could spend there all day long but with my Talis wow I put my Talis on I don't know you saw the Israeli people from is they walk around with flag sure I walk around my flag interesting I walk around with my flag that's the Talis I like it and and and in years years back I used to have people come up to me and have come because it's strange I I walk around with a Talis so you you know you have I had the Talis so that's my headphone that's my that's my I'll add the Talis you add the headphones no no but I'm saying you say you got to have a the noise yes yes the noise cancellation your Talis is your noise cancelling I love that by the way absolutely love I walk around my Talis and and um some there and it's like very empty and I call my grandfather I say I say Z you know where I am no where are you I said I'm an asit where you're an aitz you know it's like a dangerous place I said no Z I'm here I'm an outs don't worry it's okay and you know nowadays they even have like hotels in the in the area back then they didn't even had the TS I stayed like in a in a house or someplace like a school so I'm there and I was then all of a sudden he says tell them that yis led tell them that yis is alive so I say Y is alive he says louder so I say y he says louder so I'm there now with myw go screaming of the top of my lung y every time I go back to AIT I have to scream like one time wow amazing that's really amazing so you know the biggest uh like retribution is you take any of the Nazis uh into Monroe into kirel and show them what's going on over there to see how we're thriving and to see you know I always said the Jewish Nation if you think about it's post 80 years now and how we've picked ourselves up and how not only have we rebounded but we're actually excelling as a nation oh yeah almost more than anybody else in the world that can say something like this there are other nationalities that you know till today are struggling and they complain and yeah they've had hardships in the past as well but they haven't yet gotten their act together we as a nation we should be very very proud I mean we're excelling we're we're very far Advanced and from where a short period of time ago 80 years ago decimated I want to say yeah half of Judaism a huge number was wiped out wiped out I mean most people would never recover for such a thing not only did they recover but you go to Israel and you see what's happening over there you see we've built in a short period of time uh it's fascinating it's a very it's a testament people but just to put it into perspective we haven't yet replenished the six month wow just to put it into important we are not yet to the point where we were preor War II as far as the amount of juice wow so you're say in 80 years 80 plus years we haven't yet we have less Jews now than we had PR yet the Six Million that we lost we we are not up I think I saw a study maybe like we're up to five million wow we're we're definitely trying I mean the average amount of uh non-jewish children that are born into a family I think it's two or less I think you're talking about Monroe and it's very impressive I mean your knowledge that you have in politics and in the world you know culture this is fascinating a lot of information in your head over there in other words we started we didn't know if you're going to vote for me now you tell me you're going to vote for me I'm I'm V it I'm a v in I might vote twice for you by the way is that legal can I do that can I vote twice I we we should cut that out can I you should do it but cut it out of the interview all right very good you know I'm curious getting back into politics you know I talk about this because it's just interesting to me that we're you're a Democrat uh I'm a registered Democrat I like how you said you're a registered Democrat yeah register but your your your views your followings your how how do you how do you look at it how should we that's what I want matters ferally to be a Democrat I would well that's what I'm asking I'm curious how you you know figured it out as a registered Democrat with all the views that they have how do you balance that I would say that I'm more like a Kennedy type of democrat you know a moderate more like a a middle of the road moderate Democrat but aside of me and aside of the national um you know uh politics of it in the state of New York we talked about a New York State Assembly talked by the New York State Senate and then the governor 2/3 of the New York State assemblies are Democrats 23s that's a veto proov assembly 2third of the Senate are Democrats the governor is a Democrat the Republicans in the state of New York can't get anything done anything your local elected state representative can't get anything done I remember the time I'm not going to say names uh a Republican state official called me a County elected official to try to help him with something in the state because he was a republican he couldn't get it done I as a Democrat have had more influence and and relationships to the powers that be in Albany to make things happen so in the state of New York so no matter what your views are it or love it super annoying love it or hate it super annoying you have to be a register Democrat said like it or love it yeah you said love it I hate it you got to pay attention was it was there ever a time where it was a little bit more even or was it always dominated by by democrats you know they good apples and the better apples yeah yeah I understand you don't you like to look at it in a positive way and never invite negativity I love that oh yeah have to I'm going to adapt that by the way I like that I like to say it again it's they're good apples and better apples and there are better apples exactly bad apples right there's no bad apples it's not love it or hate it right love it or like it love it or like it I'm I'm going to adapt that I like that a lot and um I don't I don't hate it by the way by the way it's trademarked so oh it's trademarked okay you know you know going back to politics we had one more question that we had that I I want to almost finish with it's only one question yeah that yeah none of your business yes it used very smart very you are smart he saved it for yes he knew he knew he knew he didn't just give it that right away very good go ahead ask I want to know in your phone who's the highest appointed contact you have I I don't want to say on on the air I really don't want to say on the air because you know it's it's a very high elected official yeah it's a very high elected official have you ever had to use it cell phone uh no are you are you allowed to use it if you need it oh yeah I got it you got it you see him he's a guy that preserves and saves Hees right he waits for the right opportunity he's not going to waste it I got it but it's a very very high elected official how did you know still an office well still an office yes yeah so um you know you know how a lot personal cell phone a lot of my friends like to say you know we're all us Jews are two calls away from Donald Trump you know because everyone always likes to say they know someone in the family a brother a sister an uncle I don't think that means much because you could be two calls away but you have to actually know the person intimately you have to have ex Leverage leverage now that they ask me I'm I'm probably two calls away from Trump but it doesn't say much I'll tell you why because I know people who know his son-in-law Kushner right and I'm sure a lot of people know people who know Kush sure sure and I and I probably know two people who can pick up a phone call to to to Jared Kushner yeah they would say two away it's not amazing it's not getting very far but it's good it's good it's better than most what what's you know I'm curious it doesn't say much you know listen you know what you accomplish is important two calls away from Michael Greenfield might be something I mean you know what what are some of your proud accomplishments that you've done over the years oh tremendous amount I I would say one of the things that I did actually was probably the first thing I did as a county legislator yeah which goes back yeah over 12 years right it it was a flood mitigation project uh it was a project that cost the county between 12 and $17 million I don't remember what was the end cost maybe even $20 million a big project um and it took out hundreds of houses from the flood zone literally people was one person who got killed as a result of a of of of of the flooding in the area with a was a they got killed by lightning you in in Spring Valley from person uh she got killed because there were floods and then one of the P power lines went down and she got electrocuted um and we resolved that issue I resolved that issue and the reason I say one probably I've probably done hundreds of stuff little private for individuals I had a case last week that I I don't want to say on a I got to resolved for them it means the world um you know and and the person even left me a voice note last night out of the blue thanking me by the way it's a thank leg job only 1% people call you back and they say thank you so if you can't do the job without getting uh the thank yous you shouldn't get well on behalf of our thousands of listeners I want to say thank you you're welcome yes TR thank you yes but but I would is a thank l so theas time you're in public service you get all the hate and you get zero credit yeah it's some sometimes all the time but I will say this that project was a project that I had to deal with a federal agency okay a state agency we had to deal with uh the uh Army Core of Engineers the dec and we had to deal with the County Drainage agency we had to deal with the town and the village five municipalities oh my goodness that project has been going on for years course it is promising people that they're going to do something about it every elected official in Rockland County for years ran on that platform I remember the county executive vanderhof uh was one of the stomping grounds was in Spring Valley in that area that he's going to resolve the flooding in the area and so on and so forth but it was so difficult the Army core of engineer wanted one thing the DC wanted another thing the draining agen had a different idea to get it them all I remember we had one meeting in Westchester I remember I what I did was it's interesting you know we could talk it talk no no no say it I want to hear so what we did was what I did was one of the things I wanted to prove for the dec in the elmy cor of engineer is that the flooding in the area ended up in a stream that ended up in a Reservoir in New Jersey that went for drinking water so one time in the flooding I went I took like a five gallon water bot right uh and I filled it up with water and obviously the water was terrible because it was from the road it was sewage backup it was and all this water ended up back in the Stream and kind of ended up in that Reservoir in the Jersey so I brought that that that bottle of of five gallon water I put it on the table and they were like it was yeah know 30 and and they were like what is this I said that's for people to drink that's the drinking water and that brought along and they looked at me like hell is wrong with this guy and uh I said you know what this is the water that ends up going back into the stream in the reservoir that's being used for it and it's not healthy you could go and test it I think that was the pitch and I think that's kind of clinch to get them on board because very creative of you it it was very difficult bottom line is had they had to redo it all over again in other words do a project that you have to have a federal agency a state agency that meeting was in Westchester because it wasn't even in Rockland and then because there were located I remember with the state agency they had their office there so we made it the meeting was scheduled there and then the County and the town and the village I was so naive at that time that I thought I could accomplish it that I actually tried nowadays I don't think I I would try and it was so we had to get like uh 30 40 easements from people to allow uh the county to do work and convince them to sign away some of the rights of the property wow uh and and had all people in there talking about people you know people are upset with you we had meeting in the room because everyone had a different idea how how to resolve the issue right all of a sudden uh everyone was an engineer everyone was an architect everyone knew about the the science of of of of floodings and we had I remember was one of these house meetings in people went away neighbors all upset because everyone had a different idea in the end we had to choose one if we're going to put the it's a whole different thing how we got it done in the end we got it done we got it done and people were like you see it's not going to work you know you should have done it my way in the end it worked and to this day one of my strongest supporters are people in that area right those are the people how could they not be who sign who signed my petitions and those are the people and they couldn't some of them you know wanted to sell their houses and they couldn't well because people knew there this is how you get fans this is what you got to do you got to politics doesn't pay well right we oh right it's public knowledge is there a salary for the job for the assemblyman job oh yeah but do you get an increase what do you mean fig I'm saying you're moving up getting increase one salary the problem that you have is the only way you get an increase is if you vote for it yourself right that never looks good and no politician wants to do that so what happens is but politicians do it all the time well they vote for for the committee for their for their whole team to get for your own bonus yeah they do it all the time well they did recently well the mayor put up a vote for increase for the trustees and for the for the mayor it's it's it's very it's very very difficult when I went when I got on the legislature you know it's very difficult to get people to to to vote for it because they're afraid that their opponent is going to use it against them so all of a sudden the staff we try to take care of the staff it's only fear they get a decent amount so the staff they get increases over the years and all of a sudden honestly if you go to Albany it used to be a time the staff used to get paid more than the elected official right wow okay so uh and and and that's how a lot of these politicians get into trouble well maybe they get a drug they need the money maybe they should pay them in advance a decent salary so they don't have to even think about this do you have any side hustles what what is the side hustle bringing income other than other than you know I I don't have a Car Wash sh oh by the way that went viral I know yesterday I was at an event and then people were like did you see the kid with a who drives there his his Spanish worker yeah yeah and then but they said but he just got hired that day yeah everyone knew what's Happ he was a new employee he has more than this kid has been doing this car wash business for a few years now 13 years old and he has sucessful car older brother works for him sometimes as well so you don't have a car wash no I don't have a car wash what was the biggest that you got from from any of your campaigns that you've ran oh there's a Max there was a Max how much is the max the max for the New York State Assembly is per race in other words for the primary the max would have been $3,000 okay and now for the general it's $3,000 that's it uh yes and i' and I've I've gotten but there's but there's brothers sisters uncles aunts children but got like well yeah I've gotten from a husband and a wife 3,000 each so that's 6,000 right right so that's that's the biggest amount um you know I probably would have been able to get more uh people appreciate the work that that I do people appreciate the fact that you get the right person into into office and the only way to get you know you know you know what I think the biggest industry in the United States is is the election process how much money did uh vice president Harris uh raise in the last C 8 something million you know crazy amount of num 48 Hours ridiculous why why do you think people pay off all this because it's a good investment influence it's a good investment to elect the most powerful people in the world to elect the right people in office yeah because they want to come on the none of your business podcast and say which cell phone number they have of the highest level so I want to make a prediction here okay I want to make a prediction today I think there was a real chance here I would put I would wager some money on this yeah I would have to get some odds how about $3,000 3,000 Ma I would wait for some money that Aaron is going to make it to one day I really don't see why not I really I really think you have the tools I think you have the skill set you have the presence and I think you can get the support I think you can get there you're the second person to tell me that only the second I don't believe that my grandmother said it was I have good company I see I really believe that Aaron I mean you know doesn't have to be tomorrow it doesn't have to be next year but I mean you're on a very nice path you know and uh you you certainly have the passion for it I think you have the makeup for it um I'm a fan I think you I appreciate that I'm curious all all the work that you do you're a family man right I mean how how do you disconnect what do you have rules on how to help people and be a family person at the same time great question um I'm forced to disconnect every sh okay only Shas not during the week unfortunately um and and and that's the only down part of it that it's it's it's not easy to disconnect to go on vacation very rarely go on vacations when I go on vacation I disconnect but 2 weeks ago I got a phone call 2:00 in the morning your phone is on at night yes so I got a phone on ringer yeah you keep the ringer on yeah my wife doesn't doesn't doesn't appreciate that but but I try to keep it low so I got a phone call I sometimes get an emergency phone call so I got a phone call 2 o'clock in the morning I'm just saying it was just two weeks ago I pick up the phone and I and I was like what happened and he was Oh I thought this this is your office number I think he knew was my number and I said okay so what was the issue he had a problem and he just kept him up at night he couldn't sleep about it I need to talk about I need to talk to someone about it I think that's what it was uh is he the most stable person obviously not but uh it's a it's a 24-hour business people I go to Sho and people start talking about the problems they have you go shopping people talk about do you ever think about I don't want to go into the Supermarket or into this Sho because you know too many people are going to bother me I'd rather you know pray here or shop here or never but and and and it happens all the time right if if if you get elected you have to understand and really I'm not going to say that you have to accept it it comes ter yeah it's not just you it's your family that has to accept it well is your wife supportive of a you political career very very much though and and um she would go shopping people wouldn't know because she obviously she's she tries to keep it private but then if she would say her name people say are you related to Aaron weer because it's not such a common name it's not like Greenfield you know but but uh so so she would she are you related to Aaron weed she yeah that's my husband so a lot of time people would say oh he helped me he I know so many he helped uh and that makes her feel good you know wonderful so so so um it's it's something that maybe I should work more on how to disconnect during the week but shabas off limits even if and sure people come and talk to me I would listen and I would say call me back on Monday or this the other I'm not even GNA yeah I can't take notes I can't you know tell them how to resolve I think it's disrespectful in a sh for anybody to talk to another person on shabas about their business and you know the biggest example is a lot of times there are people in the sh that you know um are in a position that they can give business to other people in the sh and they use that opportunity to throw in their you know the little sales pitch in like you know kiddish whenever it is are walking you know next to each other hey let me walk you home you know I think it's very inappropriate this Hot Topic it happens all the time and I can appreciate I can appreciate what you're saying is I'm shabas I understand I'm a politician and I I get it I have an office for a reason 9 to5 job call me Monday through Friday people sometimes don't have the social cues and the etiquette to leave you alone I kind of agree with you but I kind of disagree with you because and that's the reason why people feel that they um that they they have all the rights to approach me at any given time all time every day seven days a week because they don't think of their problem as a business related issue they think of it as a problem someone has a problem with u not the go with either with court system with with the sheriff with the health department with well you're saying essentially what he's saying is that you know it's okay to have a rule not to talk business on shabas the challenge is that most people they connect politics in their personal lives as not business and they're saying I need your influence I need your help I have a challenge they're not looking at it that way they would go talk to the RO for me it's business but they would go talk to the rough with a problem they have during sh right you know I disagree I don't I don't let don't like it no no you're I don't care if it's make it any I'm not I'm not disagreeing with you I'm trying to be a m you understand which is I going to explain what that is that the person who comes and talks to meas he doesn't think of it as if he's talking to me about a business well maybe we need to teach people that because going to Sho is not a trade show going to Sho is not a conference and going to Sho is not Congress and it's not the political office if you have something to say that you need help with call me Saturday night call me Sunday I'm with ushi on this I love that your meeting your meeting that day is with God that's your meeting yes yes yes and by the way my Mee oh I could refer him to God you say I don't know Aaron I want to tell you something if you asked me to hold up a sign to campaign for you my sign would say please do not talk to Aaron Politics on chabas that's what I would hold a sign I I'm not talking about politics or per don't ask him for a personal favor on sh listen you know the rabbis used to it because that's world and quite frankly I have to be honest with you I have a pet peeve and when it comes to shoes and and and this is for for all of our non-jewish listeners you know the the weekend when we go to synagogue and we're there and we're all congregating together and at the end of prayer it's a very common theme amongst all of us is that you go to the rabbi and you shake his hand and you wish him a good shabas and you wish him you know you say hello to him him well you wish him well yes and a line generally forms of people that are waiting to say to wish him well right and have these C people who have I'm sorry Thea to start talking to the rabbi about their personal issue while everybody's waiting behind them I stand there and I push people along and I tell them and I and I act I actually make the announcements in my Sho and one of the things that I reiterate get you to come to our Sho one of the things that I reiterate and I want you to know and I want you to adapt this please I reiterate is don't rush home give us five minutes after everybody says they're hell and they're and they're being nice to each other you want to stick around afterwards and and shmoo for 5 minutes that's okay but stop disrupting the flow of people it's very very selfish Aaron I think you need to adapt this and tell people please call me after shops even if it's a personal favor you need that time off oh no I I I tell this I said call me call me during the week and I'll try to take care but uh don't even let them get their point out don't don't even start yeah don't let start they talk to you about something after sh Shas please the Shas yeah exactly you need a mental break you're in the business of helping people that is your business but I'm in the business of getting their vote wow wow you see that's a good that that's a good debate that's a good debate no I'm going to hear what they say and afterwards I say okay I think I can help you but call me after he's always on I see so you're I was about to say you're always I disconnect yeah but you're listening to them though you're still allowing them only when I'm sure sure sure then I I I I I the the meal right yeah you go home home you go to the Tish I go Tosh every Shas night beautiful it really I'm the where in the SCH in for the right for the Tish I'm the wow the the things you do for vote no I'm Jing how many people go to that Tish oh it depends in the summer and the winter yeah he could have anywhere between 100 to 200 people there okay wow that's not bad not bad I was you know once you get a thousand or more but it's that's like a big number anyone who knows a scenti his father you know he's known in the is it the singing is it the it's everything The Ripping of the kala and the throwing of the Gil the fish or it's it's it's I haven't been to it I love years and years I used to go when I was younger I used to go to Tish Friday night but I I haven't gone I mean anyone that goes to Israel and must visit it that's where I went last I was in Israel I think gidan is about 10% of the experience I have at a wow wow Heaven you think heaven heaven is about 10% of what that's very subjective everybody has what you know they they consider to be you know heaven for them completely detx refresh regroup rinse on shabas it's amazing it's the biggest Matana I get when I see a very very involved politician and there are many not only Aaron weer and the non-jewish I literally have pity that they don't have shabas yeah we talk about this all the time on the podcast all the time is that the non Jews that don't have shabas it's very hard for them to it's impossible to do it they it's like take for example if you were to take Wednesday to be your showers right you can't make it happen right you just can't right you can't act it out it's not the same it's e have it's like a Matana that hasem gave you yeah it's a gift it's defin what's your next big agenda what's your big goal get elected to get what what are you what's your issues that you kind of running on two issues that I'm going to focus laser laser focus speak into the camera and tell them let's talk to the people what is the issue talk to us that we fighting for and what you're two issues one is the most important one now in the community not just in Rockland County but Statewide is the issue with the what it's commonly known the the equivalency issue in other words there are bureaucrats in Albany who decided how you are going to educate your children they know better than you and I'm telling them that no you know better than them and we're going to take care of that that's issue number one and the second issue is the formula change for the East Rambo School District we are being short changed you are being short changed you are paying much more in property taxes than you should the state is sore changing us and we're going to accomplish that we're going to change the formula and we're going to get our fish year wow that's my promise not that I'll get it done but I'll do everything and anything to try to get it done just not on that changed my mind you're not going to you're not going to Congress you're going to the Senate Let's do let's go big let's think big why are we setting bars over here at the you know not going to go vice president you know president yet let's go to the C let's get him let see doing what it 100 people let's make one of them L weer start the first fundraiser let's get the money let's get the money rolling in you get the F first fundraiser if ALC could get into office and some of these people like seriously Congress you know if they can get into office like this I mean anybody can do it right a monkey could technically do it you know so yeah yeah I'm saying that I'm sorry you know like you look at some of these people some of these politicians and they just got a bunch of like-minded people together and they got the votes you know and they got into office I think Aaron weeder can be based on that barometer could be the president okay Michael I think you could be the president B based on that barometer thank you I'm not sure if that's a compliment or an insult no it's an insult to a that's that oh okay all right I I appreciate that Aaron it was a pleasure having you here I don't know if I have the age to become president oh he said you have to be old now behind it's the going rates that's that's what it looks like um you know I I I find it fascinating though and and kind of interesting that people forget to do their job because they have another job to do which is you're in politics you're fighting for policy you're fighting to make change you're listening to all the challenges and there's work that you need to do but then suddenly you need to pause your entire life to fundraise and to get votes and suddenly the business of helping people is transformed exactly and takes a back seat you see it every day in politics it's a very interesting balance how does that work he's right I was wonder if the president they're running for president are you actually working and he takes off the next four or five months right traveling all around the country yeah one second do you not have the most important job in the world that's probably the most demanding job you could just take off for four months to off fundraise like who's running the country in the meantime it's crazy it's very very difficult and the most challenging part of an elected office is the fundraiser very very difficult and you would find that a lot of these you think oh how did that person get into office you read up on that person and then you see that person was very good at fundraising it's sad by the way in a way because you know you find some of the most grandest rabbis that were running major major schools and they had to pause their life to fundraise to travel and fundraise and I guess there is there really is no answer the answer is that it's part of life it's what you have to do you have to balance it money makes the world go and this is why I keep saying to everyone sales networking communicating is key to everything yep whether it's politics whether you're a lawyer or doctor it's Universal single thing of the world has a sales aspect to it you have to at some point solicit something at some point you have to convince someone of your thought process it's a sales game it's always a sales game and then you got to Market it now you got to spread the word you got to get it out to the masses you got to educate people right you got to talk to people you got to market sales and marketing and Michael you always say this and it's it's it holds true wherever you turn I don't care what business you're in I I don't care what it is that you're doing in your life sales and marketing from Sports to business to Media sales and marketing yeah the overall is networking communication and you do a stellar job at it all I have to tell I love how you just transformed so how he like soon as looking into the cam and he's like in his acting mode right away and you were felt like you were really talking to people I felt like I felt what you were saying and you you immediately changed what a transition by the way kudos to you that's that's why a good politician can fund raise Monday at 9:00 a.m. change policy Monday at 10: p.m. at 10: a.m. yeah you have to yeah yeah it's unbelievable Aaron thank you so much for being here it was a real pleasure and an honor and uh I had a great time I had fun and I I I liked what we learned and I I'm looking forward to more we say it's going to be for an hour Aaron this was amazing and um before we end I must say that there's uh I've learned a lot and I'm excited but I also learning about the people that you know and uh you know some of them that you weren't sharing with us but what we' like to ask the none of your business podcast is for you to recommend someone that you think would be a good guest on our podcast someone who can also bring information and growth and positivity someone that we can learn from someone that is uh close to you that you can recommend to be on our podcast who would that be uh I would recommend a good friend of mine a colleague uh County legislator Ider tummy Jager no I know tmy oh I know tummy well sure okay great guy I you know a little little known uh secret about tummy is I bought a motorcycle from him and I would love to get him on the podcast that you have yeah one of them one of them I have two and I would love for him uh to talk about all his you know um hobbies that he has that would be interesting you know what let's get him on the phone hi I'm with uh uh someone you sold a [Laughter] motorcycle hi tmy Hi how are it's Michael Greenfield we're actually on the podcast Now with uh Aaron weer and we asked him who would he recommend to come on the podcast and guess what name he dropped but but why don't you tell me the tell him the great things that talked about him oh he'll come on he'll hear he'll hear it when we uh stream it so I re I highly recommended you I voted for you to come on the podcast and I'll tell you what I I tell everybody else I got a th000 votes in the last election but if everybody who told vs for me I got 2000 well well so don't say that you'll come on the podcast come on the podcast when are we doing this win yes all right fantastic I just legisl on the legisl so I'm just just by the time you come he'll be an assembly so it'll be a whole different story looking forward that was easy that was very easy we get him through to a second person on the road over here yeah take take out that cell phone of yours who's that person just flash us just flashes for a minute just so we can see I know that politicians oi are well spoken but to have aish person from the community so well spoken like Aaron weer it was breathtaking I didn't see it coming I did not see it coming I got hit like a freight train with him because I had a little bit of somewhat lower expectations and this is just because he's a Democrat no no no no he's a local Democrat there's a difference which we've learned um but just simply because the way he carries himself the way he looks yes you know judging a book by its cover for a moment and without really getting to know him I I was very pleasantly surprised as we were speaking to him that this guy's actually someone that not only accomplished a lot but had a lot of challenges right it wasn't easy for him because langu English was not his first language right it wasn't his first language and he is in a position where he needs to speak to large crowds knock on doors he needs to knock on doors and he needs to be able to you know influence people with his words yeah which is a very difficult thing to do and it's not your first language and he he does it very well and he's very knowledgeable he actually really cares you can tell that you know a big part of why he's doing this is because he wants to make a difference and he wants to enhance people's lives and if there would be more politicians like him the world would be a better place I don't know how many politicians are in it for the right reasons a lot of them are in it simply for the power and for the fame and he's really in it because he cares about the community and you could tell just by the work that he does on the side where he interviews Holocaust Survivors that tells me a lot that tells me that he really is in it to make a difference and I look forward to what's going to become of him and how our community is going to grow with him yeah one of the things he said was that he one of the dreams that he has is in his lifetime he would love to see a religious Jew in Congress as a congressman and I told him I said why don't why don't you go for it why don't you be that guy don't rely on someone else you know filling that vacancy you can absolutely be that person I believe that I think that on based on the trajectory that he's already on and the things that he's already accomplished and where he's going he he's thinking about being in the in the Senate of the state of New York which is a pretty big deal um it's only the next natural move I think I really hope that he took it seriously and he's going to he's going to go for it I'm sure he can Garner the support from people I'm sure the people will will prop him up he needs to do it someone needs to do it and why not him and definitely with someone like him it'll speak volumes to our community and it'll make us uh it'll put us out in a good light and a positive light and we will continue to grow from it and it'll be true to the theme of our podcast where we're growing together so let's keep growing