Episode 95: The AH"M crew discusses everything from Liberace to Modi's recent performance for the RJC.
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Episode 95: The AH"M crew discusses everything from Liberace to Modi's recent performance for the RJC.
Modi's 'Know Your Audience' Tour is on sale now!
For information about upcoming shows visit www.modilive.com.
Follow Modi on Instagram at @modi_live.
Welcome to Andy's Modi. Hi everybody, welcome back to Andy's Modi. We're in studio with Leo and Periel and we are I'm not even sure where this is airing, but whenever it airs it airs. We want to thank our sponsors right away, our collaborators, our partners. A and H provisions, which is Glock kosher meats the best hot dogs you could ever eat, and besides hot dogs, other kosher meats 30% off when you use the code Modi of your first order. And the website is periel wwwkosherdogsnet.
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Modi:Okay, so that's our sponsors. Thank you guys very much and I'm going to go in the room just hashing through what we've been going through. Those of you have been reaching out and seeing us on the street and letting us know that we are not full blown some kind of news network for what's happening in Israel. We are a relief for you when you're walking your dog. They walk our dogs, listen to us and they. It's a relief from the news just to turn your brain off for a minute and hear what's happening with us.
Modi:We haven't stopped and we're not going to be stopped and we're not going to be stopped and we have been doing shows. Shows have not been canceled. If anything, they've been added. We were in LA. I did a show for Sheba Hospital, which is a hospital that's in Tel Aviv and any hospital now that is in Israel is going through it and going to be very busy. I found out that they have like the wards are in the parking lots. If you ever go to Israel, the parking is like minus one, minus two, minus three, minus four. They're having like procedures and doing things in those parking lots.
Periel:Really.
Modi:Yeah, because of the bomb scares, and you can't just rush somebody in the middle of a procedure right into a war, into an OR and then have them rush out into a bomb shelter. So they've been doing all kinds of things that we can't even imagine here in America. So that's amazing and they it was an amazing event and it turned from me being me doing an hour. They felt it wasn't right to just do only comedy. They had the.
Periel:Did you do a surgery also?
Modi:I didn't do surgery, I just, I just did. I just did about 20 minutes of comedy, and then they had all kinds of other speakers just to get people motivated to help, and they ended up selling 300 tickets at the end, more than than on top of the 500 they had since the war began. And it's just everybody's doing what they can to help and and you have been doing a lot, no.
Periel:I've been dressing the soldiers. I want everybody to look good.
Modi:Balenciaga.
Periel:I've been trying.
Modi:No, okay, I'm trying.
Leo:But you got backpacks and like those sweater things.
Periel:Backpacks and boots. We've really been trying successfully, not trying. We've been getting clothes, backpacks, boots, tactical tops and bottoms, buying it in Israel and getting it directly brought to the soldiers so you don't have to deal with the shipping and all that stuff. And I have been trying to get Rick Owens and Balenciaga. But I haven't been that successful.
Modi:No, our friend, my friend, our friend, our family, run and mirror that they're running to places and sending equipment to soldiers and yet it's amazing, it's also amazing that Israel doesn't have that. They have to do this.
Periel:Well, that's what I said to, but Israel was not expecting to have 300,000 extra soldiers in one day.
Leo:Right, that's what happened? Okay, it's for all the reservists.
Periel:Yeah, our army literally tripled in One day, right, so that's why they don't have everything. I think that the thing is amazing is I 3 through your comments and where people are like I can't believe you're doing shows and I'm like did you guys stop going to work? Like I don't understand, like it's on.
Modi:Where do you see?
Leo:these comments? I don't see these. No, I saw you responded to one. He couldn't respond back to your comment because I blocked him.
Modi:Oh, okay, after the first one and now we have to do show people you need a minute to just relax and and Not forget about the war, but just to let your brain have a few yeah moments, to just laugh and relax, and then at the end we sing hattick of a, and and we it's not like we abandoned the War, but you have to for your own mental health. By anybody sitting, that kind of a Comment is just the looking to have a comment to send.
Leo:Yeah, but can I say something? It's a little frustrating because it's those, the same people who are DM and you being like why aren't you posting this and why aren't you being more vocal and why are you doing this? They're also the same camp of people that the minute you know you voice any sort of other political opinion about anything else. They're like you're a comedian, stick to comedy.
Modi:We don't want to get.
Leo:We come to you for entertainment. It's the same people. The over the Venn diagram. It's just one bubble, it's just. Everyone is the same people. So it's like it doesn't make sense right, you can't, you can't win yeah it's like if you were to talk about anything, say not the war in Israel, if you voice opinion on literally anything else, they'd be like stick to comedy. You're a comedian, like I've seen it happen before, and so it's like and now they're like Another like yeah, another like don't do comedy.
Leo:We want you to be a reporter for, like, the BBC or something out of your minds.
Modi:Out of your minds.
Periel:I thought I did you celebrate Halloween.
Modi:No, we were in. Uh, no, we were attacked by Halloween, if anything we were in, if you yeah.
Periel:Neither one of you are fans.
Leo:No, we typically do something for Halloween. This year we were both. We were busy for Halloween. We were doing shows on that weekend, what we were in Vegas for something and we had to see the Vegas crowd in full Halloween regalia, which I'll tell you something. We'll put you off of Halloween for a little bit.
Modi:Vegas in general will put you off to America. Yeah, I just disgusting, it is so gross so there in Vegas, these, these massive hotels that can, that can hold massive events, and we were at an event and when you're at the event, you think that's the only thing happening in the world right. And when you're at the Adele concert, you think this is, it is all that's happening in the world. I'm at the Adele concert, I'm at the u2 Um, oh yeah, the sphere here, we didn't go to that guys.
Modi:But when that ends and you're all rushing out and all of a sudden you're in the middle of Las Vegas, where one guy's in a tuxedo with Versace glasses and the shiny Versace shoe and the next guy is in these like shorts, with his gut dragging on the floor and his wife just screaming and yelling because she's drunk out of her mind. It is, it just kills your Vibe from whatever you.
Leo:It's very room, motivating though it's like if you walk through one of the casino floors, I feel motivated to eat well and exercise.
Periel:You do that anyway.
Modi:I already do that, but yeah, but even more after that like halve heimer, as we say.
Periel:What's that?
Modi:That's from the time. Even more, even more is you, you really feel?
Leo:It's the main sin and sin city over there is gluttony. It's not even the gambling, it's Well, yeah over indulgence on drink and food. I don't want to judge.
Periel:It's a little bit late for that it's me.
Leo:I'm the it's me.
Modi:No, it's not you. We try be really like hey, it's saturday night, it's halloween, let's go out and see what's up, right? And? And we have friends in town who went to go see the Adele show and they said they got out and they were trying to get back to their hotel and between the traffic and the buzz was killed.
Periel:So we're just staying in the room. Vegas is so that. So Vegas lost the two best things that were in Vegas.
Leo:Which were the?
Periel:number one best thing that was Correct.
Leo:I knew you were gonna say that, not because I agree, but and the and the uh and the.
Modi:The next one would be the red eye flight out of there. So as soon as you're done with your show, you can leave. That's probably what the other thing is.
Periel:No, the Liberace Museum, oh the.
Modi:Liberace Museum. It's not there anymore. I didn't even saw that.
Leo:Why would they take down a museum? Because they have no taste.
Periel:The Liberace Museum, which I went to three times. First of all smelled like an ashtray because people would just smoke in there. Um, but was the real highlight of Vegas.
Leo:And and, of course, siegfried and Roy, Did you actually ever see Siegfried and Roy? No, okay, so you've. You've mentioned Siegfried and Roy on this podcast multiple times For the people keeping track at home, and it would seem as though you aren't like a huge Siegfried and Roy fail. I know, but you've never seen the show.
Periel:I know, but I know, but I watched a lot of I've. I have a few books about them, okay, and. I watch Books, books about coffee table books.
Leo:They were pretty camp.
Periel:They were. So, first of all, the best part of Siegfried and Roy and I might have said this before also was there's a clip of this and you can find it on YouTube when a reporter is asking Roy about, like, what their deal is, and Roy and his like very Heavy German accent you could probably do this much better than I can says um, I am, I am the magician. Or maybe Siegfried is saying this I am the magician and Roy he is the magic. Yeah, and then the tiger bit his throat.
Leo:Yeah, that's a big head off. And now he's, he's the decapitated. They were so amazing and they were really they are camped.
Periel:They were really kind of trailblazers For the game movement. They were out, they were, they were out and so flamboyant In like the early 80s and the. Liberace is much more. He was much earlier than that.
Modi:Liberace was in the closet, though please, honey, honey.
Periel:I don't think we can.
Leo:Liberace.
Periel:They said he died of eating. I had a fight in the Liberace Museum with the person who gave the Liberace to you. Fighting in the Liberace Museum, they said somebody said where you do these like Middle America, lucha Libre, liberace.
Leo:They said where was his wife? That's what somebody asked the docent in the Liberace Museum.
Periel:I go in the men's room In the men's room at the year in opine.
Modi:That's where his wife was. Um are we gonna say why we were in Vegas?
Leo:or should we not? No, we were in Vegas because we were there for the Republican Jewish Coalition my second year doing it.
Modi:It was. It was Amazing. We saw was amazing. I did it. Trump speak every and again. I'll say it again I was at the Republican Jewish Coalition because the Democratic Jewish Coalition didn't call me. If the Democrats would have called to say we're doing a show and we need, we need a comedian, well, there, we did it last year, rashida to leave to call you.
Periel:I don't think she's going to.
Modi:Oh, I don't know those what's which one's that? No, I don't, please.
Periel:I would just like to say that I'm a Republican now.
Modi:By the way, I don't think there is Republican Democrat anymore, it's just whoever your candidate is. No, and let me tell you, you had a thousand Jews there Friday night. I made kiddish, I made the blessing on the wine, and it's so funny because just a few months ago I made the kiddish for the, for the gays at Fire Island, and now I'm standing in front of the most conservative of the conservatives right.
Modi:And I nailed it and made kiddish and and they loved it. And again, this is even though it says Republican. They have one issue and one issue, only Israel. No one there. I mean I'm not speaking for them, but never wanted they mentioned abortion or guns or all single issue. It was all Israel, israel, israel and every governor, senator, congressman that spoke there, and there were many of them. We're all just talking about Israel. Saturday morning is when all of the candidates came and spoke and they were, you know, telling what they, what their platform is and what they're doing and obviously only regarding Israel, and what they would do for anti Semitism and how they would block funds for the schools that are that have anti-Semitic. It's all. It's all they were talking about and it was amazing, yeah.
Modi:I even goes. I, who graduated from Harvard and Yale a liberal now understand that they have to be blocked from.
Leo:No, he said he made it through Harvard and Yale without becoming a liberal. That was that what he said, that's funny.
Modi:No, some lines are Donald Trump. Donald Trump, who, by the way, because this one here the funniest thing.
Periel:So I might need a MAGA hat now, but no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Modi:But so so this is how it worked. Every candidate was introduced, every candidate came out Nikki Haley, desantis, Chris Christie. They came out with like a little sizzle reel, pence and they got a little sizzle reel and then they walked out.
Periel:OK.
Modi:And then they did their speech Thank you very much, God bless America and then went back into the one. They all entered from stage left and then Trump at the end was introduced and he came in from stage right and he came in with that song Proud to be an American, where at least I know I can. I didn't know where you got to go when you didn't, I didn't and I'm and he and he, and he stood there for hours and let them. There's a year, he just sat.
Leo:He just sat A.
Modi:British word called hala. He let them just hala in him. They just absorbed him. He didn't. And even when they stopped clapping, he's still pointing and going hey, billy Michael, whatever he's looking at and doing it, he finally gets to the microphone and he did. It's it? You went from every speaking so well, like Nikki Haley spoke well and it was it was all you know very precise and very well. And DeSantis even, you know, spoke. You know proper words and this bad guys, that guys are coming in. I guess they're coming into the country. He was just like out there People were dying from it and he had a head. One line he said, which really hit me. He said, for every drop of Jewish blood, gallons of of Hamas blood should be spilt. And that was Trump said that. Trump said that right. And and, by the way and you know I process everything that's going on that afternoon because I'm going on at night I was following.
Leo:Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House.
Modi:The new Speaker of the House. So he was right.
Leo:He was on stage right before Modi. So we're in the green room together, like the little holding area. They have you right before you go on stage. So I have a glass of wine in my hand, I look over Mike Johnson is there. Mike Johnson is there with his dumb wife and I look to Modi go. We have to. You have to keep me away from them because I'm going to do something that the Secret Service is going to have to attack me for because he hates the gaze like hey, he hates the gaze, ok, so they have a conversion therapy camp.
Periel:That is so sick.
Modi:But that's what's amazing here. Do you understand this? So now he's on and then Modi is going on after a gay guy that is a friend of this group of people who support Israel, and you know that's. That's the juxtaposition. I guess you would, you, could, I, was that how you use that word, that is how you use that word. And I came on and I said I'm married to my Boucher, my soulmate, my husband Leo. Everybody took a pause and I go. It's OK. Mike Johnson has left the room that is.
Leo:Yeah it was pretty funny.
Modi:And then also they had they had this jib camera this year a big, intense crane with the camera.
Leo:You know, don't you?
Modi:don't know what a jib camera is like. When there's taping something and there's like this big arm, it looks like the one of those on a fire truck, the ladder that goes through the audience. It gets these amazing shots and they hired it this year. They hired and they didn't have one last year and I said and I you know to to Matt Brooks, who's the head of the whole thing I said to him I can't believe you sprung, it's probably eighty five thousand dollars for a jib camera. I go not that we needed to see a view of Chris Christie's ass with this thing and the whole place died. And then, and it was getting tweeted and we retweeted all we retweeted all of this things that they.
Leo:I will say something about Chris Christie. Yeah, I was interesting to see who spoke with teleprompters and who did not. Not that I think it matters either way. I think some people just need teleprompters, which is fine. But Chris Christie made it a point to pause and stop and he was like I'm not reading from teleprompters I don't even have any notes with me and I. It was interesting to see because once he said that you notice like, oh yeah, it doesn't even have like a piece of paper in front of him.
Leo:He was very well spoken and like, but no one was featuring him. They did not like it.
Modi:No one, no one cared. Before him was a I don't know his name. He was black and sounded like a Baptist preacher and got the room riled up into a TZ. You have to understand, leo, and I know nothing about politics. We don't know who these candidates are. We know the big names. Well, what was his name? I don't know his name. Anyway, he was a black candidate and came on like a preacher and had the place teasing out yeah, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in. And then Chris Christie comes on.
Leo:Yeah, there was a noticeable dip in the atmosphere it was a noticeable dip in the room.
Modi:And then my friend came on. Who's?
Periel:your friend. I have a new friend who Doug Burgum.
Modi:Oh, the governor of North Dakota, the governor of North Dakota who sat with North Dakota, who sat next to me at the table, yeah. And we became friends and in my show.
Modi:So you guys are talking it up, I was like, are we moving to North Dakota? And in my show I was. I kept every time I you know, every time I refer to somebody who's not Jewish. I go to now Doug Burgum, at this point, was at the bottom of the. You know, like I say, trump is at 54. And then there's a drop to Nikki Haley and the Santas and Christie and and he was at the bottom. But I kept in my show, kept referring to him All the Jewish jokes and like whatever you know, I kept explaining to him the jokes on the stage and I think probably he moved up five points in the I believe that.
Periel:I also think that there are probably like three Jews in North Dakota.
Leo:So maybe I did say to him.
Modi:I did say to him, I did say to him. I want to tell you from all the people that were spoke. You say you looked very presidential.
Leo:He does look very, he has that face. He has that face Looks like it belongs on a coin.
Modi:Yeah, doug Burgum. So he, yes, no, yes, no, in a good way, it's like a really nice eyebrow. How old is he? It's stunning. I'll Google it.
Leo:But I meant it in a good way. He's very like. He's very like.
Periel:So how conservative are like what? What give me like a sense, cause you know, for me, until now I've always identified as very far.
Modi:He's 67 years old. Oh, he looks much younger, does he? Yeah, no, he looks much, much younger.
Leo:I'll let you guys at home Google Douglas Burgum and this is how he told me to remember his name Burr.
Modi:Like you're cold and gum like what you chew, burgum that's how he took that. I see little to remember their names. It was amazing it for a dyslexic person to remember a name. It was the only reason why I was able to use his name from the stage.
Periel:That is, he was dying, and flossing and what I'm talking about.
Modi:I'm on stage at the Republican Jewish Coalition talking about my millennial husband.
Periel:Yeah, to be honest.
Leo:Yeah let me just tell you something. That was a little bit of it was. I was going to say mine, but I'm trying not to curse on them.
Modi:It was mind blowing it?
Leo:was that no, to be your spouse in that room? It was very trippy.
Modi:And they all knew who Leo was.
Leo:Not all of them knew who I was, and then they put it together.
Modi:then we filled the whole podcast and they all, and we're sitting at the head of the table.
Periel:Listen, I want to say something, and I'm not kidding. People can talk shit and say whatever they want, but for him to get up there and do that is really very important. Yes, You're really. It's really very. I think you're really changing people's minds and opening up their little conservative brains, they did not see. Well, first of all, let's see if you get invited back. Oh, I don't. No, no, no, no.
Leo:I was two years in a row. I think also, yeah, three years in a row, they won't invite you.
Modi:You usually for an event like this. You never do two years in a row. It's the same people.
Periel:They see, first of all they see him, and I make kiddish for them.
Modi:No, it's incredible.
Periel:It really is your. It's a double whammy.
Modi:It's a big chacoyer to Matt Brooks and his wife. Yeah, deborah, they really get it Like. This is Deborah, deborah. I love her.
Periel:I love her too. She loves me. I wish we had that.
Leo:No, matt and Deborah are cool. It's just like there are other people in the room where you're like do you like? Not like me, because I'm gay Like Mike the answer is yes. You're sitting there shaking hands with and taking pictures with Mike Johnson, who, like, has compared gay people to like bestiality and like all these crazy things. Oh my, you even like talk to a person like that. Okay, so here's the thing?
Periel:The thing is is that there is this idea of thou doth protest too much, right. Like anybody who's running a conversion camp for gay people.
Leo:Yeah amen, amen, amen. That's all I'll say Amen, that's all I'll say.
Modi:I will say one thing for sure Anybody who's number one problem is like gay people and we have to focus on gay people and make sure that they are killed and make sure that they are converted they themselves are big Struggling Struggling with themselves. If one person's like, okay, listen, I don't understand gay rights, I don't get it. Man with man, go, do your thing. I just it's not, it's not me, it's not my thing. Done they're fine. But if it's your platform is going against the gays, wow yeah, you really have a problem.
Periel:If this were not your podcast, I would say something very vulgar right now, but I'm not going, don't, can?
Leo:I say so also just to paint the picture a little bit. So it's this massive event space at the hotel in Vegas. There's a thousand people in there. There's a small holding area, green room, sponsored by Google. I met the girl from Google. She's very nice. So it's very nice like holding area where all the politicians wait before they go on stage where you were before they go on stage and in that room are these massive bodyguards like Hot, hot, they were hot, kind of in like a Chippendales-y way, yeah, which is to say it was like a little bit cheesy, but they were like massive humans, like Publican.
Leo:Like. I've never seen arms that big. It's the arms that are pumped up from the roids. Yeah. A lot of water weight in the arms, yeah, and so they're both standing there and we're talking. You were on stage and the girl from Google I think her name was Erica she was like so like Love Leo. Yeah, she loved me.
Leo:And then she was talking, she was like kind of hitting on these security guards and she said something like sorry, I don't mean to like hit on you. She made a comment about their arms or something. And then he says, oh, you should see, you should hear the things we get when we work. The moms for Liberty event.
Periel:Oh, oh, ha, ha, ha, ha ha.
Leo:And then turned to the other guard, and the other guard just makes this face and I was like, oh, that is the trenches for you two. You're probably trying to climb, you like a tree at that place. Oh my God, they said the moms for Liberty event that they work is out of control, that all those women are insane, I'm sure, assaulting them all weekend, basically.
Periel:Oh, my Isn't that hilarious. But anyway, that's the conversation I was having.
Leo:Yeah, you were on.
Modi:But it was so. I think it is an expression in Hebrew, kirish Hashem, where you sanctify the name of God. This is where, if we this is a clip, because I mean I'm up there, I'm representing it is a gay guy at the Republican Jewish Coalition Making Kirish and making and doing and doing a show for them, exciting them about Israel, oh my God, speak of. And here's Modi. Oh, wow, wow, wow.
Modi:As you guys know, the show is called. And here's Modi, because I'm always following some insane event to raise money or at some charity or some gala where they show some horrendous footage of whatever they're raising money for. And then bring me on, and here's Modi, ellie Beer that's not Ellie Beer, who is the head of United Hatsala, which is the Hatsala in Israel, the ambulance about volunteer ambulance court in Israel, who was front lines of this. They lost volunteers, were killed during the the war, during the beginning of the war, during that Saturday, and they have two of their members taken hostage. He shared stories that were so graphic because he was in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Periel:He was in the Kibbutzim yeah.
Modi:He went in there. They try to see what they can do and help. Talking about how kids were used as booby traps, talking about horrendous things, I don't want to. I mean, you know, obviously we all know, when the babies they went into the nursery and it took the baby's heads off, he's like we didn't know which head went with which body. It was that kind of. And here's Modi. Luckily there was a dinner and then Mike Johnson and then Modi. Otherwise I would. I don't know. I don't know if I could have followed Ellie beer that night. It's insane, but that was. And tonight, not sure when this is airing, but tonight I'm doing a fundraiser for Hatsala, last minute thing with Jason Pomerance and Sean LaCache. Am I saying they may be?
Leo:Yeah, and some some other like hospitality yes, hotel.
Modi:Yeah, they're doing like an event tonight. Yeah, and I'm hosting it. I don't think there's going to be room for comedy there, but you know. So it's just important. It's an amazing United Hatsala is something you should be looking forward to. And if you're sitting at home and you're watching the war and you're like, what can I do, what can I do, that's something to donate to that Magenda Vida Dom, which is the Israeli ambulance service, and FIDF. Those are the things I'm getting behind. Everybody that's sending me all kinds of charities and all kinds of things to post. I'm not watching your videos. I can't watch those videos, so stop sending videos. And these are the three organizations I've gone behind, and and I'm working with more than that, though.
Leo:What for the organizations? We have United Hatsala, we have Hold on, let me just read them FIDF, we had picked. Which ones?
Modi:And then could come in Mandel Foundation. Now, that's basically it, the that we're running with.
Periel:While you're looking that up.
Leo:United, Hatsala, Megan David, the dome, FIDF, Kopi Mandel, and we wrote at your local UGA. But the huge, I'm sorry, the.
Modi:UGA.
Periel:UGA.
Modi:UGA United Jewish Appeal, which is If you're in a neighborhood you're not, you don't belong to another charity, just you donate to them and they make sure the money gets to, whatever it does. And every year I do an event for them somewhere and I always see the videos of what they did the year before. I am sure this upcoming year and when I do events for them, I will be seeing amazing videos of what they're doing now in the war.
Periel:They're doing incredible work, for sure, so yeah.
Leo:Um what were you going to say?
Periel:Did you guys see Jim Gaffigan's tweet?
Leo:I retweeted it. We reposted it. We reposted it. That was that.
Periel:And what did he say?
Leo:Should I pull it up?
Periel:Yeah, pull it up, I have.
Modi:When do we get to a point when we have, like a studio, when we have somebody, not that you're not doing a great job, but when they pop up and the videos?
Periel:they can do that, remy. You can do that, can't you, if we ask you.
Leo:Well, we'll keep. We'll keep that in mind. Let me see if I can find it Okay. Does anyone this is from Jim Gaffigan Does anyone else feel the need to call all of their Jewish friends and say, okay, you weren't being paranoid.
Modi:Well, how well worded is that.
Periel:And did you see what the account Heimish humor posted after that?
Modi:No no.
Periel:They reposted that.
Leo:Yeah.
Periel:Read it again.
Leo:Does anyone else need feel the need to call all their Jewish friends and say, okay, you weren't being paranoid and Heimish humor said.
Periel:I believe this tweet deserves a Boreh pre-Hagaffigan.
Modi:Oh my God, that is so great, that's so good.
Leo:That's so good. It's interesting because I was. It's so funny. Jim Gaffigan was one of the people who I one of the cause. When all this was going on, I was kind of looking to other comedians and what they were posting, cause some people were just promoting shows as usual, some people were just posting clips and content as usual, and obviously your audience is a little different. But Jim Gaffigan was one of the people who I like took some time to see if he was saying anything about what was going on and I noticed that he hadn't until he posted that. So it was like interesting to see like how long you know it. Just you have to maneuver these things very carefully and I think he was finally like oh, wow this is.
Modi:We were supposed to announce a tour on the Tuesday after the war began and we've been pulling it off now for almost a month.
Leo:Well, we're announcing it, but we're announcing it.
Modi:7th, yeah, this will probably air after this, this will air after, but it doesn't matter. We're announcing a tour, we're doing shows with people. We're coming to your area. Come see the shows. Take an hour and a half to to reset your brain, to, to, to, to laugh a little bit. Uh, we to unite as Jews Um, I think that's so important, and we're going to sing a tick after every show and we uh I for my own we'll be making donations to charities, um, the ones I mentioned from these shows. Um, it's so important, don't? You can't just sit at home and cry and and obsess about what's how you've got to also reset your brain.
Periel:You have to do something productive.
Modi:Even the shows in Israel, like the SNL of Israel, are already doing skits. Uh, you have to have some humor relief. You can't just all day long be in this. What's happening to us? The, the, the, the. That's coming over.
Modi:But one thing I wanted to say that I got from that RJC event is you know, we always had that there's always a never again. This will never happen again. This will never happen again. You know, and after the Holocaust people said this will never happen again. This will never happen again.
Modi:Yeah, I'm fortunate to know many Holocaust survivors, one that's in my life currently, dean's father, who I speak to at least twice a week. I talk to him. He's a Holocaust survivor that went through it. He was in the brand-name camps not the real big camps, a few of them. And Brian Gross, my friend, who I mentioned before. He used to tell me his mother, his grandmother, zuchran Lavracha, who passed away. But she used to also say when people said to her never again, never again. They never agreed. They never said yeah, yeah, yeah, you're like, okay, okay, never again.
Modi:I think the never again is not that they're not gonna come and beat us and try to kill us. The never again is that they will not feel someone coming back at them. So now that now, yes, you got us, you got us. Our pants were down. You went into our kibbutzim. You killed our kids, you hijacked us, you kidnapped us, but now you are losing by the thousands of people. You made a mistake. You made a mistake. You came at us and you thought we were not gonna come back at you, and you're making a mistake. The Jews now are in a different place. This is not 1933 or 34. You come at the Jews now. You better be ready to lose your life. What about? That's the never again. The never again is a carte blanche of killing Jews. That's the never again in my head.
Periel:Are you surprised at all of the anti-Semitism in the states, on the college campuses across the world that started to rear its ugly head? Does that surprise you? People who I thought I was friendly with or I knew forget the people who are like marching from the river to the sea, which is literally a call for Israeli genocide to wipe Israel off the map. But people who are just. I mean all of the anti-Semitism on these campuses. I mean it's.
Modi:Again, again, never again. Anti-semitism on the campuses. Now the politicians are saying hey, you're anti-Semitic, you're doing all this pre, you're not getting any money from the government. Okay, that's in 1935, if a university in Germany said kill all the Jews, I'm a professor, kill all the Jews. They'd have been applauded and given status in the SS army. Now your professor's saying Jews are committing genocide, you are fired. That's the never again in my head. I could be wrong. I could be wrong, but this is what I believe.
Periel:No, I don't. I hope you're right.
Modi:On this podcast, I am cause. It says and here's Moni, that's the podcast. On this podcast, I am right. Until Leo says you're not Anything, wait. What else happened at that thing? That was fun.
Periel:Did you guys get me any merch? I believe I put in a specific request.
Modi:They didn't have any. No, they have their Yama cause. Their symbol is very good, I'll give it to them. They got it. And they don't support any candidate until they are are the nominee. So it's like they write a very strange line. But it's listen, I said to them. My ending comments were I'm here tonight at the Republican Jewish Coalition. The only word I'm focusing on is Jewish and Jewish. Our main goal is the revealing of Mashiach. And in the middle of the room, by the way, they had a table empty that's lit for the hostages.
Modi:Yeah it was kind of that's all you saw when you're doing a show. All you saw was that table Wow, and I said that's just don't take that as an option off the table of ending this conflict that we're in right now, this war that we're in right now To bring the hostages home. Mashiach, let me say I saw that one video of a hostage that was released and they did. You see that video, the hostage?
Periel:Oh, the young soldier, the young woman soldier.
Modi:Is that yeah?
Periel:So there was a young woman soldier who was released. Her name was Ori, her first name and there was a picture of her being reunited with her family, and Dan Natterman, the comedian, put on Instagram the picture and wrote she had a hat.
Modi:She had a hat. Oh wow, that's a genius. That's a part of a joke. Those of you who don't know the joke Tell it.
Modi:The joke is a grandmother is with her grandchild at the beach and all of a sudden a big wave comes and takes the child away and the grandmother's freaking out, screaming to God oh my God, you took my grandchild. My daughter-in-law's gonna kill me. Please return my grandson. Another wave comes and drops the kid right where he was. The grandmother looks up and says thank you God, but he was wearing a hat, and that is genius of Dan, by the way.
Periel:I know.
Modi:It's funny because if you see the video, I guess they're Sephardic, because they were throwing candy. Well, while she's being reunited with the family, they were throwing candy at her, which is a sign of just being sweetness. And, by the way, if anything is Messiah Hennigji, it's her coming back. That's a sign of Messiah Hennigji. And then somebody in the video one of the family members blows the shofar.
Periel:I saw that.
Modi:So my friend also says to me why would he blow the shofar? And all of this? I go, you blow the shofar. You know, when you blow the shofar, when Messiah comes, you blow shofar. Oh wow, and that's why. I guess that's why he blew the shofar, because their Messiah came at that moment. They had Messiah Hennigji in the house. Yeah, we should end it on that note. We should end it on that note.
Leo:Oh, can I say something?
Modi:Yeah.
Leo:I haven't really promoted it because, you know, given current events, but the merch store is live. It's live at modilivecom. You can also go to modimerchcom, I think it will direct you there.
Modi:I also think, if you type in MessiahHennigjicom.
Leo:it will direct you there. We have hats, t-shirts and Yamakas. We're all working on getting more things, but if you would like any merch, you should go for it. I would like some merch Modi is off camera now searching for the hat, but people know that people have seen you in the hat.
Modi:When you come back, hold on back. Yes, okay, shuram alaykum, okay, this is the hat. Messiahhennigji, it's such a great thing, especially if you're doing videos and you're telling people hey, I wish you all the best, I wish you nothing but MessiahHennigji, just drop your hat a little bit. People stop you on the street and the best is when they say what is it? Just start the conversation. Even if you do not show what MessiahHennigji is, speak to them about it. Tell them what MessiahHennigji is. Messiahhennigji should be in the conversation nonstop. It should be a part of the conversation. And then you also have the MessiahHennigji Yamaka an amazing way to go to synagogue. Wherever you wanna wear the Yamaka, enjoy it. It's just MessiahH should be in the conversation. Is my, and it's available on ModyLivecom.
Modi:It's available on ModyLivecom and MessiahHennigjicom. Just go right there and get some for yourself, get some for some friends. It's an amazing gift. And we have shows coming up. We have shows coming up. We have shows coming up. They're not stopping. By this time the tour will be announced the Know your Audience tour in cities everywhere, from Boston to Washington to Atlanta, to, to to Maybe North Dakota. Huntington, North Carolina.
Periel:Huntington.
Modi:Huntington, huntington, huntington, long Island, long Island. And then there's shows in Kaleevland and more and more and more and more and more ModyLivecom. Go, find the ticket near you, let your friends know where the shows are and, of course, be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show that is literally MessiahHennigji. Thank you all for listening. Thank you to Whites and Luxembourg for being our sponsors and to A&H provisions. You guys are amazing. Thank you so much for helping us do this Periel anything.
Periel:I'm at Periel Ashenbrands on Instagram. You can find me.
Modi:And Leo is Thanks for playing Inform. Modylivecom. Give him directly. Thank you all very much, everybody.