Blowing The Shofar In Berlin

Episode 90: The AH"M crew reunites after extensive traveling to recap recent adventures in Europe, including Modi's performance for Jewish Culture Week in Berlin.

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Jewish Cultural Week Berlin

Speaker 1 0:00

Know Hell. By TravelPod member onyx Thrire Cold. By TravelPod. Member on prey. Welcome to and here's Modi. Hi everybody, and welcome back to and here's Modi. We are. It's me, Leo and Perrielle in the studio. Thank you to our sponsors, friends, collaborators, A&H provisions Best Kosher Meets, Glockosher Meets and Seth would invite you to visit the factory to see how beautiful everything is over there and hot dogs that are so good. Even goyam understand that it's better than any other hot dogs they're going to ever eat, and their website is kosherdogsnet with a promo code of MODI for 30% off your first order.

Speaker 1 1:17

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Speaker 2 1:39

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Speaker 2 2:00

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Speaker 3 2:03

She's misanthropic. It's been a minute. We were here. We did an episode without you with Jake Cohen.

Speaker 2 2:10

I know.

Speaker 3 2:11

You were away, and then Modi did a solo episode with Cantor Benny.

Speaker 1 2:15

I saw Cantor which was amazing, which was actually very good People sending me pictures of all the weddings that he, that the Cantor, spoke about.

Speaker 3 2:24

I told you, the one-on-ones you did with L11 was also a hit.

Speaker 2 2:29

People love to talk about that. It's very niche.

Speaker 1 2:31

Very niche, but it was great it's great.

Speaker 2 2:34

I loved watching that. I've also been getting DMs about this Cantor that you they're like. Yeah, it's like infamous Cantor people writing in their connection.

Speaker 3 2:47

He did my cousin's wedding Wedding. I got one too, yes.

Speaker 1 2:51

But he and they're sending me the pictures and he was, he was iconic, he was like this Amazing, he was amazing. Yeah, that was a good episode.

Speaker 3 2:57

But now the three of us are back. A lot has happened.

Speaker 2 3:00

A lot.

Speaker 3 3:01

Bonjour, and Periel was in Paris, israel, berlin. I mean, where do you guys want to start?

Speaker 1 3:09

I think we should start with Berlin. It was so epic we were in Berlin and we were brought in for Jewish Culture Week Berlin. Yeah, we were right, we were brought in for Jewish Cultural Week Berlin and we it was our first time in Berlin, my first time in Berlin.

Speaker 3 3:23

My first time in Berlin.

Speaker 1 3:24

And you know you're thinking this is Berlin, this is where, yes, it's like I know things have changed, but this is still where the, the OG of let's get rid of all the Jews came from, like of the war, of the Holocaust, and we'd fly in there. Do you think everyone knows what OG means?

Speaker 3 3:41

I don't know, but you think that's my vocab in treating Sorry. Sorry, keep going.

Speaker 1 3:45

Okay, so we fly into Berlin and we're the. It's our first time there and we're like you know, you get like from the movies, everything is still in your head like Berlin and Leo in the car was like but that building is a little Reichy, it's a little bit from the Reich, it's one of those old buildings that you just see like where Hitler would have spoken and then like you think there'd be posters and you know the because you just imagine it. And the only thing we saw were banners for the Jewish cultural festival with my face on it, and it was two sold out shows. There's 10,000 Jews in Berlin, 1000 came to the show. It was unbelievable. It was like I, you couldn't imagine it. It was like where the Nazis it really was.

Speaker 3 4:30

It was machine energy.

Speaker 1 4:31

There's no Nazis, but they're just Jews laughing in in a cultural festival in Berlin. Incredible, it's like we we're still here, we're laughing, we're having a big stuff and the best part of the whole thing one of the sponsors of the of the festival was Mercedes Benz and they gave us this driver and this S 500 like it was a Maybach.

Speaker 2 4:52

Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 4:53

We were driving around the city. It was really sick, literally like we were in the like you were like DJ. Khaled. No, it was more like Adolf Eichmann. I want to wave out the window to everybody, like this I was. I want to see the city, but I don't want to, like go into everything, right, right, so like they showed us all the exhibits and the this place is the, that's the government and this is the Holocaust Museum. This is the other Holocaust Museum. There's another Holocaust Museum.

Speaker 3 5:19

Yeah, but shout out to Ari and Deanna. They did an amazing job with the festival.

Speaker 2 5:22

Yeah, it was like can we get back to this Mercedes for a second?

Speaker 3 5:26

It was really sick. It was really sick, it was sick.

Speaker 2 5:29

Do they want to give you guys a Mercedes?

Speaker 1 5:31

No, it was for the festival. So the talent got the driver and we and we got to see the city and. Berlin is like it's either it's either a Holocaust Museum or some sex dungeon. It's like I feel like there's nothing in between, almost.

Speaker 2 5:45

It sounds like it was perfect for you guys. Either way, it's a spiritual experience.

Speaker 3 5:49

Fun for the whole family, fun for the whole family and it was just unbelievable it was like for me watching you blow the shofar on stage that's right In Berlin, at a show full of Jews. It was like when there's a wildfire and then afterward like after a little bit passes and everything is like still black and whatever, but like a little green thing is shooting up out of the fire. That's what it seemed like Laughter, just like shooting out of Berlin. And part of the novelty we learned, based on what the conversations that we had with people in the community there because people were stopping you in the street Right is, that part of the appeal of going to see you do these shows was like they can't believe that a Jew is on stage screaming about being a Jew, that the Jewishness is very Quiet and subdued and no one talks about it.

Speaker 3 6:40

And here you are yeah and here you are, coming into Berlin, guns a blade, like On stage, screaming about Ashkenazi and Sephardic and this and that, and they, like they, were just mesmerized that you were able to.

Speaker 1 6:52

We on the street we ran into this couple blonde, blue-eyed guy and his girlfriend, who's Israeli, ethiopian, hmm. And she says my boyfriend loves you and he just can't get over how Jewish you are and we can't wait to see you on Tuesday. And like he says, he just says like nobody talked about being Jewish here.

Speaker 1 7:13

Wow, jewish school until they're like In junior high school or high school, so they only interact with Jewish kids. The other kids don't see them until later on and it's still kind of hidden. Crazy things. They showed me the synagogue. So there's a lot of synagogues in Berlin, mm-hmm, and the reason they didn't burn them down or break that is because they're all surrounded by residential housing.

Speaker 2 7:38

They never set them on fire.

Speaker 1 7:39

Right, right, right so they burst into this one massive synagogue where they had a fashion show for the festival and also singers I forgot the names of who they brought in, but they they had and like this massive thing, I want these, like huge things. And and they said during the war, that's where the Nazis kept, kept their horses. And Then you and now we walked into the, into the courtyard, and you see little kids in the Hebrew school, they're playing there with Yamaha. It's like it's just so surreal. And they had like in the area where we were staying they had in front of the homes where Jews were taken away, they have little plaques, little golden name yeah, benjamin Friedman, who was taken to Auschwitz in 1941, and this. And that was just, it was a lot, it was a lot. And then then the shows and then just like, boom, just Jewish, jewish, jewish, I'm proud of you, and they're so they were like wow, it was unbelievable, it was just really, really incredible.

Speaker 2 8:42

I hope you guys sold a lot of hats.

Speaker 3 8:44

We didn't bring any hats we're bringing. I'm bringing Yama cuz to Israel and if we have any left, I'm bringing them to Paris. I'm working on the merch thing. It's a moving target. No, but if you are listening to this, actually if you go to modi live comm and click the shop or store where I don't know what word it says, but if you click that it'll take you to a new website that has like a bunch of stuff on.

Speaker 2 9:05

Yeah, it's a moving target. I Um, I love that so much. I feel like that is really really special.

Speaker 1 9:18

I think in Paris it's gonna be the same thing.

Speaker 3 9:20

Oh, paris, yeah we added a fourth show in Paris. Yeah. I might really have to you might have to come back. I know you were just in Paris. I will go.

Speaker 2 9:29

I will go back to the airport right now. I just got off a plane, I know you were 24 hours ago. I am wearing my I love Paris t-shirt. I will get back on an airplane right now. That city is so gorgeous is.

Speaker 3 9:44

Yeah, I'm excited so incredible.

Speaker 2 9:48

It's like the United States seems like such a garbage pit after you spend A few days in that I figured out one time I was there what it is is.

Speaker 1 9:59

It's anywhere your eyes land. It's just pretty it's stunning all the buildings are the same size and the same type, whereas in New York you just see one nice building and then like some tenement grotesque architecture. Yeah, or is there in the bodega and it's not New York, it's so beautiful.

Speaker 2 10:16

New.

Speaker 1 10:17

York is. New York is fine new like not to bomb it.

Speaker 2 10:20

I mean listen, you say what you will about the Nazis. Their fashion was on fucking point.

Speaker 1 10:26

Okay, let's, I just had that with.

Speaker 2 10:28

I had that conversation with with God, but but I thought you were gonna say with God, belina no but this is, paris is gorgeous. Paris is Gorgeous. It's not just that it's gorgeous, it's that I think that they pay attention to every single detail, from the sugar packets To what the salt is served.

Speaker 3 10:51

Yeah, it's considered, everything is considered, it is so chic it is.

Speaker 2 10:55

It was just, and you know, I was really nervous because I lived in Paris for several months when I was much younger and people were like, the power I've been there in like 20 years. The Paris that you remember is not the Paris you're going back to. It is filled with anti-semitism and I do not doubt that there's anti-semitism in Paris and every place else. But I would just like to say that I did not see any of that and I was so relieved because it was really. I was really concerned, but I walked around with my hi and my Hebrew earrings and it was just so magical.

Speaker 3 11:39

Well we.

Speaker 2 11:40

I missed you guys so much, I know very, I feel like like a lot of months have been passed.

Speaker 3 11:46

What else has happened? Where else have we been?

Speaker 2 11:49

I went to Israel. That was we've been.

Speaker 1 11:50

We're copying you so you into fire, I'll. We've been everywhere, we've, we've. We've kind of caught up on that, but the other episodes Wait.

Speaker 2 11:58

So Paris is in Israel, you were in Israel and I was in Greece.

Speaker 3 12:03

Yeah, she's been busy this one. So how is Israel? What's the vibe?

Speaker 2 12:08

The vibe is sick. I mean it's Israel it was amazing. What? I did not go to a protest. I saw you did a comedy show. I did do a show. That was really fun. That was really fun. It's always fun doing comedy shows in Israel and you know, israel is in a little bit of a Situation right now politically. Yeah, it's a little bit dicey.

Speaker 3 12:31

Yeah, we're at the time of this recording. It's currently UN week here in New York City and our friend Gilad Ardan was detained For protesting the Iranian president speech, I believe really, so things are getting a little spicy. We had dinner with him. Remember that, yeah.

Speaker 2 12:51

Where is he? We should have him on the show. He's in New York. He's a huge fan. He's like a dungeon somewhere in comedy festival.

Speaker 1 12:59

No, I bet you they just I doubt it was a good. They probably sounds more Crazy than it is.

Speaker 3 13:04

I don't know, it sounds pretty serious. Israel.

Speaker 2 13:06

I mean, I go to. I've been going to Israel my entire life. I speak Hebrew. I could not be more intimately acquainted with this culture and every time my mom, I'm there, I'm just like I'm just in total culture shock.

Speaker 1 13:23

Advanced it, more advanced it is no at how primitive.

Speaker 2 13:29

Oh so it's like, on the one hand, it's so advanced and it's so sophisticated, and it's the duality.

Speaker 3 13:36

Yes, and that's what makes it sexy. It's that yeah, that's right, that's clawing its way out of a desert that shouldn't be there. That is Metropolitan and cosmopolitan and progressive, yet that's right religious. Yet there's a lot happening, and that's what makes it so dynamic.

Speaker 2 13:51

It's not a one-dimensional city, it's I went to the market you know the shooks there, these like open-air markets and I took my ten-year-old and there were these two men who were just screaming at each other, fighting. You like they're running like a shop. Right, it'd be like going into a store here and one's like your garbage, you're a piece of shit. And Ari is just standing there and his eyes you know the size of saucers. He can't believe it. And then you know, the next minute they're just like you know, trading like almonds and yeah whenever you're on the phone with your mom Afterwards, I'm always like what's wrong?

Speaker 3 14:30

is everything okay? And you're like, no, yeah, that's just how we talk. But I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 2 14:35

Everyone's screaming like it's just talking, everything's fine. It's like you think there's like a war going on. It's like, oh no, they're just talking.

Speaker 3 14:42

What's something juicy we could talk about. Let's stir the pot a little bit today.

Speaker 1 14:46

I don't know, yeah, I mean we've been watching, by the way, from day one of Season one, episode one of sex in the city. Oh, we've been just like that no, no, we are caught up and the city like 1998.

Speaker 3 15:01

Season one, season one on season three.

Speaker 2 15:03

Now, right, yeah you've seen it before, you've never seen it but I also feel like I've lived it. I thought, you were born that year I.

Speaker 3 15:12

But I was. Sex in the city was would not have been allowed in my house. I was not exposed to any of that.

Speaker 1 15:18

Obviously forbidden media like See in the background, like this is pharmacy and says a fax service.

Speaker 2 15:25

Yeah, when, I built a skin.

Speaker 1 15:27

A fax from there, from the farm.

Speaker 3 15:29

I say something I was. I've been Watching in just like that and I love it, whatever, and I understand that, like sex in the city, it's a huge cultural phenomenon and so but I was kind of hesitant to rewatch it from season one because I was like it's kind of like when you watch anything from the beginning. You know it kind of takes a while to get good or this and that, but it isn't it, got it, let's get away.

Speaker 2 15:48

What is that? The just like that.

Speaker 3 15:50

No, no, no, oh From season one is afterwards.

Speaker 1 15:56

Yes, I thought it says in the 90s yes, I'm only.

Speaker 2 16:00

I've seen and they were giving it yes.

Speaker 3 16:02

Now they're calling it in they were talking about some interesting topics too, topics.

Speaker 2 16:07

I remember loving Her fat. Like Patricia field who did the fashion, yes, lives in our building.

Speaker 3 16:16

I know I have yet to work up the gumption to be like hi, do you want?

Speaker 2 16:20

to do it. Oh my god, you totally should choose my I need to talk to her.

Speaker 3 16:23

I'm just I I'm not very neighborly and it's oh my god.

Speaker 2 16:26

She is so fucking cool. She used to date one of my really good friends at the time and she used to have these lesbian boozy brunches once a month when she had her place on the bowery.

Speaker 1 16:38

And.

Speaker 2 16:39

I used to get invited to these things, so it was like me and 25 lesbians and Pat field and she would just be like she is the coolest.

Speaker 1 17:02

So but but watching, like there's like things that Leo doesn't get because he didn't live in New York in the 90s, and I'm watching this I'm dying like what outfits she goes on a date with a guy who his job is? He sells, remember the phone cards?

Speaker 2 17:16

Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, distance phone like he's no he's.

Speaker 1 17:20

so he says he has no idea what they're talking about and Just, it's just so great, I'm sorry that I was learning how to walk. Well, this show was airing cell phone, so they had it. Like he actually got stood up, it was just. It's just a great way to just remember that fun show.

Speaker 2 17:39

It's a fun easy 22 minutes.

Speaker 1 17:41

No one gets hurt, no one gets killed. There's no shooting. Go to bed afterwards. It's a fun show.

Speaker 2 17:46

Yeah.

Speaker 3 17:46

It's a nice little aperitif before the mattress for the man.

Speaker 1 17:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2 17:53

Okay, that's not controversial though.

Speaker 1 17:56

Stir the pot. What could we stir the pot with?

Speaker 2 17:58

I don't know, Well, I mean, I haven't seen you guys in like a month and a half.

Speaker 1 18:04

Well, so you missed the whole thing with the, with the video with jay kohn, which we spoke about enough. But yeah, it's enough for that already. Yeah, we Went to jakes. He had this big party and, like the who's who of the Upper West side was there apparently not.

Speaker 3 18:22

You were away you guys are gonna be doing. Isaac was wrong, he was soon.

Speaker 2 18:25

Oh, Without me, but why what? Yeah?

Speaker 3 18:28

what I have a doctor's appointment. Okay, I am not in town More often than not now, so I have to do like days of just back-to-back doctors appointments like dermatologist Dentists orthodontists.

Speaker 2 18:39

I have to do everything all in one day because I have not been to a doctor in like seven years.

Speaker 3 18:44

Yeah, I feel like I'm every four minutes. No, we go. Well, we get our blood worked on every month. Yeah, why?

Speaker 2 18:51

Yeah, you gotta?

Speaker 3 18:52

test those levels honey. Yeah do you know what your, your, your hormones are at? No, I need to be heavily medicated. All right, we need to know what. Just kidding.

Speaker 2 19:02

I know where my hormones are, if I feel like a hair coming.

Speaker 3 19:10

I don't know facial hair.

Speaker 2 19:12

My Ari came up to me and I was like checking my upper lip. You know I get threaded right. Yeah we get threaded. We get our eyebrows threaded we get.

Speaker 1 19:21

I thread my eyebrows, you and Ari.

Speaker 2 19:23

No, some, no like some ladies talking about a collective weed some ladies who don't want to have facial hair. Other ladies do and I fully support that. But I myself prefer To, you know, rein it in.

Speaker 3 19:38

I like a woman with a nice five o'clock stubble.

Speaker 2 19:40

Yeah, that's fine, that could be hot too, it's just not my personal choice. And Ari is looking at me and he goes Mommy, I think you have a moustache, because that's how Guy says moustache because he's a heap relaxant, he's a moustache. And then he started singing this song. He goes. My mom's so weird. She has a moustache but not a beard.

Speaker 3 20:04

Oh my god Wow.

Speaker 1 20:05

Good for him.

Speaker 3 20:06

Kind of creative Anyway.

Speaker 2 20:10

so yeah, I'm in good shape, right? Now my hormones are OK because I don't have a five o'clock shoutout.

Speaker 3 20:15

Period. My birthday is this weekend and it falls on Yom Kippur. Shut up Rather than sitting around being sad on Yom Kippur, because it's a sad one.

Speaker 1 20:27

It's not a sad one.

Speaker 3 20:28

Well, it's not a fun one.

Speaker 1 20:30

I happen to enjoy Yom Kippur.

Speaker 2 20:32

OK, well it's my birthday the 24th or the 25th?

Speaker 3 20:34

The 24th.

Speaker 2 20:35

Oh my god, I'm putting that on my count.

Speaker 3 20:37

I'm leaving Saturday. This is probably going to air already, but I'm leaving Saturday. This is a rare occasion where Modi and I are not going to be attached at the hip, which we usually are. I'm going to be especially for a birthday or something like that, we have what's going on here.

Speaker 3 20:52

Modi is staying in town, doing the break fast with his family, going to Shul, et cetera. I am getting on a flight on Saturday and going down to Miami with two friends and I'm going to check into the standard and I'm going to sit by the pool and I'm going to Enjoy your birthday. Order a daiquiri and I am going to enjoy my birthday Good for you.

Misadventures in Berlin and Language Barriers

Speaker 1 21:12

That's the plan. Yeah, working for me, working for our company.

Speaker 3 21:16

I get Jewish holidays off.

Speaker 1 21:18

Yeah, you get even so. Good, it took us actually. No, you're working very hard. So, because we're going to be, I can't believe we have seven shows in Israel.

Speaker 2 21:25

I can't believe that.

Speaker 3 21:26

I honestly don't know what's going on anymore.

Speaker 1 21:29

What do you mean? No, you know, but he knows spreadsheets. You shouldn't know.

Speaker 3 21:32

Oh my gosh, we, they took us. So we had a driver pick us up from the airport in Berlin. And I was and I got in the. I got in the car. And I was fifth day living in Berlin. Yeah, he was brand new to Berlin.

Speaker 2 21:43

Oh, stop and so we.

Speaker 3 21:44

I got in the car and I said hi, just to be clear, you're taking us to the Amano Hotel, correct? And he goes yes, yes, yes, yes. So we get there, we go, we pull up to a hotel. It says outside Hotel Amano. I'm like, okay, this is the right place I go in and I'm giving them the name and she's like I don't have a reservation for you guys.

Speaker 2 22:01

And.

Speaker 3 22:01

I'm my heart stops and I'm like we've been traveling for 12, 13 hours. We had the worst travel day. We were coming from Toronto and I'm exhausted. I'm at that point where, like I'm getting tunnel vision because a migraine is coming on. She doesn't have a room for me and so quickly I said how many Hotel Amanos are there in Berlin, and she goes six.

Speaker 2 22:22

And.

Speaker 3 22:23

I run outside. He hadn't left yet the driver. I said wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. And I, just because I have a spreadsheet of, like all of our, the names of where we're supposed to be, like addresses and confirmation numbers, I pulled it up. I was like, is this not where we are?

Speaker 1 22:38

And he was like, no Keep in mind the whole time I'm speaking to him in Yiddish. Yeah, modi got to Germany and this Modi doesn't speak German.

Speaker 3 22:45

He gets to Germany, he starts speaking every to everyone in Yiddish.

Speaker 2 22:48

Yeah, we went to the department store.

Speaker 3 22:50

We're trying to make a purchase. He starts speaking to Modi in German Please, I got no, I got right back in there he just says, just says nine. I was like what is this? I was like he was like he asked for if we wanted a bag. I was like what?

Speaker 1 23:02

Yeah, no, it's close, right, it's close Like a VVITE how far. Vvite to the hotel. I was like I'm going to go to a little German accent in there. Vvite to the hotel, how far to the hotel. It's Yiddish.

Speaker 2 23:13

That's brilliant. I can hold my own in French. I'm just saying, I'm just saying I'm going to struggle, I'm going to struggle in France.

Speaker 3 23:23

I hear they get upset if you don't at least try to speak to them in French.

Speaker 1 23:26

I'm going to speak to them in Yiddish. No, no, no. I'm going to speak to the French in Yiddish, and that'll be that.

Speaker 2 23:31

The French have a bad rap, okay.

Speaker 3 23:33

Well, I think they kind of deserve it.

Speaker 1 23:35

Well, you know, you haven't been there yet. You're going to speak it France, okay.

Speaker 3 23:39

I haven't been to Paris. I just have somehow not been to Paris.

Speaker 1 23:42

Okay, you'll be in Paris, you'll see no no, no.

Speaker 2 23:46

You're going to, if anybody is going to love Paris it is going to be you.

Speaker 1 23:52

Yeah, we also have two friends there that just move there and they have an art gallery open.

Speaker 3 23:57

It is so chic. Yeah, it's pretty chic.

Speaker 2 24:01

And Mike, you're going to appreciate it, because people actually are not animals.

Speaker 3 24:07

When I say something. I was very impressed by the street fashion in Berlin.

Speaker 2 24:14

Oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 24:15

They look twofold. These Bushwick kids wish. Let me just say that these kids in Bushwick and Williamsburg or wherever they wish they could never, like they were the Berlin kids were doing what?

Speaker 2 24:27

They didn't tell you see Paris.

Speaker 3 24:29

Granted, I think a lot of those kids were from Bushwick and they're just in Berlin doing some. No, no, no yeah.

Speaker 2 24:35

Because in Europe and I'm going to talk again about Paris In America it's like if you are a person of means, then you'll probably pull together like a sophisticated look. You'll have an expensive bag, you'll have, you know, 27 bags delivered to your hotel room from Hermès In France. Everyone puts themselves together. Maybe they'll have one Goyard bag or one Chanel bag and there's Zara, but done well. No, there's no Zara. They're not buying a ton of garbage. They're carrying one Chanel bag.

Speaker 3 25:16

They go to a grocery store for what they need for the day they buy the one nice shirt that they're going to wear all the time.

Speaker 2 25:21

Yes, it's a 10-shitty shirt and that's why they stink. No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 25:27

Well, we'll see. We threw through Dublin.

Speaker 2 25:30

We had the worst flight. Why you guys always have such good flights? I had a show in Toronto.

Speaker 3 25:35

No, we messed up. I messed up with the flights because we had to get from Toronto to Berlin, so what we should have done is fly from Toronto back home, landed at JFK and then connected to Berlin For some reason, and wherever I was when I booked this trip, we had to fly to Toronto, dublin, dublin, berlin.

Speaker 2 25:53

And you're like, how bad could it be? Yeah, that sounds terrible, Awful horrible.

Speaker 3 25:57

First of all, the airport in Dublin.

Speaker 1 26:02

If you're on the board, you can board the airport.

Speaker 3 26:08

Literally we had to take a bus to get to the plane. Oh no, and the guy's like if your flight is on the bar, you can board. And I was like what are you saying?

Speaker 1 26:17

What are you saying? I'm just imitating him, tata-ka-pa-ka-ta.

Speaker 3 26:22

And the flight number was 333. And they're like, if your flight is tree tree tree, I was like is that really a thing? I was like flight number tree tree tree.

Speaker 2 26:34

I was like tree yeah, and they drink, so we board the flight.

Speaker 1 26:40

5.30 am Six. We take off but they're setting up the cart and I hadn't seen those little bottles of alcohol. I mean those little bottles of alcohol.

Speaker 3 26:51

She had a full thing and she goes into the back of the plane and she sold them all. Yeah, by the time she got to the front they were all gone.

Speaker 1 26:56

It was empty.

Speaker 3 26:59

They all had a lot to drink back there and the net that they all had to drink came out of the company and they had all started their whole organization. People arranged all those doors one by one, and then a couple temps later they took the passengers out of the coot of the flight to start all this. They took the car all began to be bankrupt and then when you come back and you opened it and you 실혈 rolled it, you probably got a fortune tell. So you just you realize world was going on.

Speaker 3 27:20

Yeah, you don't back off and have a심 in. The contractters and the controller still wants security. You come back and you bring it on no-transcript program. You had that to the United States. You have to do it again, again. You have to do the same thing Take your shoes off, take everything out of your bag, and then you have to go through passport control in Dublin.

Speaker 2 27:40

Oh, for the love of God.

Speaker 1 27:41

So that's a great, because then when you get to America, it's free.

Speaker 3 27:44

No, but it makes your connecting. We were in that airport. You have to leave a big space of time.

Speaker 1 27:47

Yeah, you can't like land at one and file. The food is disgusting.

Speaker 3 27:51

I was gonna say the food is probably the food is disgusting and, by the way, the food in Germany not much better, and we ate, Wait, wait wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, I was gonna say, we ate at one Israeli restaurant.

Speaker 1 28:02

That was good, we give you machine energy. So again I'm walking around Germany speaking Yiddish to everybody. Everything I'm trying to read to see if I can make out what it means. I like buy the green the groceries, buy the groceries.

Speaker 1 28:17

I'm like yes, I can live here. I speak German and we're in the hotel and there's a restaurant underneath called Habayit, the house. In Hebrew and I'm reading it Hech Bayi, habayit, ibayit. I'm trying to figure out. It's Habayit, even Leo's like Mo. It's the house and it's an Israeli restaurant. They had like Salat, shil Safda, it was so grandma's salad, it was so delicious that we were there and give a shout out. Mitch Amano, the Ammano Hotel chain.

Speaker 3 28:50

I did. I just told our whole story about getting to the Ammano. They put yes, the hotel Ammano was very great, it was amazing.

Speaker 1 28:56

It was like an apartment type of thing and they have different places in the city where, if you want to, Make sure you're going to the right Ammano, but it's a great place to stay and the rooms are like super nice and like in an older building. The one we stayed was like in an older building, but it was like it was really well done.

Speaker 2 29:13

I love Europe I really. I'm turning into just an abdicum.

Speaker 3 29:17

I think I got food poisoning in.

Speaker 2 29:18

Europe In where.

Speaker 3 29:19

I don't know. I mean, I do want to talk about it because I brought it up I don't know where, but I've been in. Gastrointestinal distress what country?

Speaker 2 29:29

Since we landed.

Speaker 3 29:30

I don't know if it happened in Dublin or Berlin or something, or in the airport lounge.

Speaker 2 29:34

It definitely happened in Dublin, or what?

Speaker 3 29:37

I was fine in Toronto and then after that it's been just Speaking of looks in Berlin.

Speaker 1 29:42

We were invited to this thing.

Speaker 3 29:45

Photographica oh there's a museum here in New York called Photographica. Yeah, that is now open with an F, spelled with an F.

Speaker 2 29:52

F-O-T-O and they're opening several locations. Dyslexics among us.

Speaker 3 29:57

I think they've opened one in London, yeah, I think more than several locations, and we went to the opening of the one in Berlin. Was it an opening or was it? Yeah, it was the grand.

Speaker 2 30:08

Wait a second, wait a second. I'm sorry. I think it was like a new opening. I need some more information here. When you guys are doing these insane travels, are you, you have to be checking luggage. There's no way. No, this trip we did not. This trip, we did not With this trip.

Speaker 3 30:23

we presented a challenge to ourselves because we always overpack. I'm always checking luggage. We had to do this journey from New York to Toronto, do a show, Toronto, Berlin, staying in Berlin. For like how long were we in Berlin? Four days, yeah, and we did it all in a carry on.

Speaker 2 30:39

How you're on stage sweating.

Speaker 3 30:44

Oh yeah, the suit at the end could have walked home.

Speaker 1 30:46

It could have walked the suit at the end. There was no air conditioning in the theater in Germany. Oh, they're not used to Germany is not used to this weather.

Speaker 2 30:54

No place in Europe has AC, though If you're in Europe and you're listening to this.

Speaker 3 30:58

Consider an air conditioning unit because it's only going to get hotter. I don't understand what the thought process is. They're like it's usually not this hot. It's usually not this hot. I was like how many more years are?

Speaker 1 31:07

you gonna be saying that the Jews were having flashbacks in the theater. It was so hot they were dying fanning themselves.

Speaker 2 31:14

And are you shopping? Because I know you two love shop.

Speaker 1 31:17

Yes, we didn't shop like shop shop, we just shopped to like kill Whatever stores were German stores, not like I'm gonna go to Zara and H&M, ew gross of course not.

Speaker 3 31:26

But like we went into in the area, we talked to the German Macy's and we bought some stuff.

Speaker 1 31:32

Yeah, we went to just to cute stuff, we're saying bring an empty suitcase for. Paris, paris, everything.

Speaker 3 31:39

I'm not a big shopper, I don't know what. No, no, we did, we did that oh who are you kidding?

Speaker 2 31:44

I'm not a big shopper.

Speaker 3 31:45

I'm not a big shopper. No, no, no, am I a big shopper?

Speaker 1 31:48

No, everything arrives once daily.

Speaker 3 31:51

on that I buy things at Nikecom. They throw up to the house. I know my size and everything. I'm not going to like Hermes in Paris, but we're gonna have to figure out when we get to Paris.

Speaker 1 31:59

it's going from Israel and going right to Paris.

Speaker 3 32:02

Oh yeah, that's gonna be.

Speaker 1 32:03

There's a lot of suits involved in this. I'm not wearing these comics that performs in a t-shirt. I know, I know, and shirts and stuff and shoes, and so it's gonna be pretty. I might be bringing two bags of my own, we'll have to.

Speaker 3 32:16

yeah, we'll figure it out. We're gonna need a shoe bag, for sure.

Speaker 2 32:20

I was just in Paris with four girls who were I mean shoes. I mean they must have bought like, I mean honestly, between like 25 pairs of shoes.

Speaker 1 32:31

Did they declare them as customs and oh, what were they doing?

Speaker 2 32:33

I don't know they don't care, they were just. I mean, I'm talking about like just we had to sit on suitcases for them to close, like these girls were not fucking around.

Speaker 1 32:45

Good for them. Good for them. Well, I mean, we're just happy to be back and it's a and how, and so when are you leaving again?

Speaker 3 32:55

We, we leave this Saturday, you leave this Saturday.

Speaker 1 32:57

I leave this Saturday to.

Speaker 3 32:58

Miami, I come back, I'm home for a day and then we leave to Israel.

Speaker 1 33:01

All of Sukkot. We will be in the land of Israel and then in Paris and then come home and then the shows we go back to Europe, but then the shows in America start to happen. Thank.

Speaker 2 33:14

God. Well, we're gonna have to coordinate calendars. We've got some work to do.

Speaker 1 33:20

Well, we've been doing it, We'll figure it out. We'll make them happen and we just thank everybody for listening and for sending in your DMs and your lovely notes and the ones that aren't lovely.

Speaker 2 33:30

Do you have anything fun to read? What do?

Speaker 1 33:32

you mean Like?

Speaker 2 33:33

any crazy DM that you want to share.

Speaker 1 33:40

They've been all good, no.

Speaker 2 33:42

No, the ones you see are all good because he.

Speaker 1 33:46

Well, the one with the conversion. The conversion when people are giving problems.

Speaker 2 33:49

No, he's always like we never get any.

Speaker 3 33:52

He's like I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 33:54

It's all so positive.

Speaker 1 33:56

I think it's all positive. Once in a while a nut job comes through, but it's all positive. Sure what? The post about being Jewish, about becoming Jewish, all good stuff.

Speaker 3 34:10

Yeah, it's all good. It's all good, so it's all good.

Speaker 2 34:13

Okay, nobody wants to hear the good stuff, the special is in the entering the final stages of edits.

Speaker 3 34:20

It's going into color and sound, so stay tuned for that. Yes, that's gonna be important. That's gonna come out sometime in spring of 24.

Speaker 2 34:30

How exciting.

Speaker 3 34:32

That's early. That's we're in September of 23. Tomorrow it's gonna be December.

Speaker 1 34:39

Tomorrow's December. Right, yeah, okay, yeah. So let's.

Speaker 3 34:44

And we're about to announce like 12 US dates, all of places that I feel like you guys have been asking for, including Boston yes, boston. And Atlanta. Atlanta's already on sale, yes.

Speaker 2 34:56

Wow, how fun.

Speaker 3 34:58

I can't wait. Wow, we really are just like no, but this is it.

Speaker 1 35:03

We could catch up session and we're gonna cut it short Again. Thank you to A&H provisions. So much for being friends, collaborated sponsors and Whites and Luxembourg. Thank you for your collaborating with us and lots more coming up. Modilivecom for shows near you and modiunderscorelive on Instagram to see videos and parts of comedy shows and you are.

Speaker 2 35:28

I'm at Periel Ash and Brands on Instagram. All of my life is on there, yeah.

Speaker 1 35:34

And we've been. You know we'd love advice on like comics now are doing shows where they are going on stage and talking to the audience. It's like an audience interaction stuff like on a topic. So we were thinking of doing matchmaker matchmaking with modi.

Speaker 2 35:49

Oh, that's cute, Just to talk about dating and stuff that's cute.

Speaker 1 35:53

I think we should do that, yeah. So whatever ideas you have for me to do a show that's not straight up comedy, just kind of talking, we'd love to hear it. So again, modilivecom, be the friend who brings the friends to the comedy show and we will see you at the shows. Thank you very, very much. Happy, healthy New Year. Still, we can say that, and Leo.

Speaker 3 36:16

Happy New Year, Shenataba this is coming out way later, but anyway.

Speaker 1 36:20

Yeah, but still, you can still drag it out to the Yenisekashenataba.

Speaker 2 36:24

Yenisekashenataba.

Speaker 1 36:26

Okay, bye everybody, thank you.

Speaker 2 36:28

Bye.