Benny Friedman & Joey Newcomb: Putting Our Soul In
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
Joey Newcomb and Benny Friedman are talented artists. They each light up the world in their own way. They also are a blast to be around. Benny with his witty personality and wise words & Joey with his contagious jokes and deep inyanim - together they are so insightful and also fun.
Aside for brining so much simcha and music to the world, on a personal level, they are both kind and tremendous mentches.
In this episode, we discuss the power of music, the iyan of the avoidah, the value of friendship, how everyone has struggles and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | I really believe people are listening to this or watching this and I'm like they hear you saying that or they okay but come on you're famous and like you haven't made everything's easy for you everything was easy for you |
| 0:10.4 | I mean if I would start to go through the seoyness that you know personal |
| 0:15.9 | familyness different stuff I'm saying you would just because the guys running |
| 0:20.6 | around Fabrangin that means that everything's perfect in his life. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm saying the oil has struggles, oil and has in yonim has things. |
| 0:26.5 | The people are set in this world to be metachin, you know? That's what we're doing. We're all |
| 0:30.7 | pulling through. It's that time of week again and welcome back to |
| 0:33.6 | inspiration for the nation and there's a lot of singers out there but not every |
| 0:38.1 | singer has something to say. They have what to sing but they don't all have what to say. But Benny Freeman and |
| 0:45.0 | Joe Newcomb have a lot to say. And you've probably seen them together at some point in your life, |
| 0:51.9 | whether it's by a wedding or on social media, and I love the dynamics |
| 0:55.8 | between the two of them. They feed off each other's energy, and they come from such different |
| 1:00.3 | backgrounds, but they, obviously both singers and are both working on how Joey |
| 1:06.0 | would say is, they're a voida and what their mission here is, whether they're a schliach or a schliach. So in this week's episode I got to sit down with both of them in the one and only |
| 1:17.8 | Donnie Gross's studio. Think of how much amazing incredible music comes out of there. |
| 1:21.8 | So sorry for the people I'm |
| 1:23.2 | talking to the actual space that we did it in was really incredible and this |
| 1:28.6 | week's episode is in memory of Shim and Deva bin yaku schlima as well well as Miriam Sarup as Yach of Mosha. |
| 1:33.7 | And also thank you to our sponsors. |
| 1:37.6 | This week we have Rabbi Devad M. Cohn again, you'll hear like that mini-ish interview that I have with them in Middle, so stay tuned for that, |
| 1:45.5 | and also the groundbreaking book talking about personal privacy, which you'll hear more about in this episode but right now it is Joey and |
| 1:56.2 | Benny time. |
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