Episode 97: Modi and Periel are joined by Arthur Luxenberg (of Weitz & Luxenberg). Tune in as they discuss everything from stuttering to blue suede shoes - and the importance of 'being a giver'.
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Episode 97: Modi and Periel are joined by Arthur Luxenberg (of Weitz & Luxenberg). Tune in as they discuss everything from stuttering to blue suede shoes - and the importance of 'being a giver'.
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 motive. We're not gonna be here for we just told our guest, Arthur Luxembourg. We're gonna be here for four and a half hours taping, and he literally has his mouth dropped off the forty five minutes is the episode.
Speaker 2:That's good.
Speaker 1:That's it. That's all it is. Ladies and gentlemen welcome. Oh, wow.
Speaker 3:I can't do anything in forty five minutes.
Speaker 1:Oh my god. Welcome back to Anne here's Modi. We have our but hold on. Let's just let's just let's just shiny in here. Like the way we always do, we are back in the studio. We, of course, in the beginning, thank our collaborators, our sponsors, our friends, ANH. Provisions. Best hot dogs in the world, Glied Kosher. Not only that, the meats are amazing. The delivery, while they deliver is amazing, They're so proud of the factory. You can always go for a visit there. To coordinate that with Seth and and what's the the website?
Speaker 4:W w w dot kosher dogs dot net, and my husband is still walking around with his A and H jacket.
Speaker 1:My dad golfs with his jacket and hat nonstop. And then we have our other sponsor Whites and Luxembourg. The law firm that does not only well, but they do good. They do that's what we were told to and I was we were told that that the that the plug should be I always try to add things on, like, It's the law firm you want. In case Casa Shum, you need a law firm behind you.
Speaker 4:Right. Like, they're like a fire extinguisher.
Speaker 1:Like, a fire extinguisher in the corner. But no one was ever happy with So luckily for us today, we have in the studio Arthur Luxembourg of Whites and Luxembourg.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah, Modi. Yeah. Lucky that what the rabbi canceled. So I was Yeah. Yeah. Lucky the rabbi cancel, so I was the closest thing, you know, right, between the rabbi and hot dogs. Right? Great. Cool Luxembourg. Oliver. Be be a great filler, you know. No.
Speaker 1:We have we we have
Speaker 4:I've been asking Arthur to come on for actual months.
Speaker 1:Yes. As soon as you expressed an interest, we've been hounding you and trying to coordinate with you to do a studio shoes.
Speaker 4:Drew, we're phone. Okay.
Speaker 1:But let me just tell you something. This is exactly the relationship Arthur and I have, spontaneous. So I said, hey, Tuesday, you wanna do the the podcast? He said, sure. That was it. Last night, I walked out of the gym. Five thirty. It feels like nine fifty because it's so dark. Yeah. I was starving. Leo had plans with his friend and I was like, just text Arthur. Second avenue deli. He goes now.
Speaker 3:And what's the first thing we did? We split a hot dog.
Speaker 1:Right there. Yeah. Exactly. We went to second Avenue, Delhi. It's like that's on the spot. What are you doing? Come here. I mean me there. Go there. Let's go here. I got an event come last ten within ten minutes. Like, It's not like, I have you on the books for next Thursday. It's like we have a spontaneous relationship right or wrong.
Speaker 3:See, yeah, a hundred percent. But you see, Perry, what happens is with Modi. Right? He goes into the restaurant. He thinks he's trying to eat healthy. Right? He's trying to have chicken and soup. Okay. That was your plan.
Speaker 1:Right? I had half your sandwich. I had half the pastrami sandwich.
Speaker 3:First, he had a half a hotdog of mine. Then after the soup and the chicken, he had a half of my pastrami sandwich.
Speaker 1:He's like Dina. He walks in that you can tell he wants to order the entire menu.
Speaker 4:That's it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just to taste everything.
Speaker 4:That's the one
Speaker 1:bite of everything.
Speaker 4:That's the way to
Speaker 3:I totally hate myself left.
Speaker 1:You are amazing last night. You had only half a pastrami sandwich, half a hot dog with a soup,
Speaker 3:a crepe blockade.
Speaker 1:And a crepe blockade. And that was it. Yeah. And then they a rug, they'll just look over Chavez Cradish. And then that was it. That was a situation. Yeah. And it was amazing. And we gotta just really give the shot to second Avenue, Delhi. It's always something Hamish happens there. You know who was there last night? Arnold Graham. We we had a
Speaker 4:Oh, you're kidding.
Speaker 1:Better on the podcast. Arnold Graham, who books the who booked the Catskills from nineteen twelve to today, everybody from Frank Sanchez to Milton Berlin, he sat with us, and we had a great conversation with him.
Speaker 4:Dude, I
Speaker 1:was mad. And I was mad. Second half of your daily is amazing.
Speaker 3:Right? It's a place where people meet. Yeah. And go I feel comfortable. Yeah. It's a Hamish place.
Speaker 1:It's a Hamish place. And so I go Hamish homie, you know. Hamish. No. No. So I'm telling you and, like, especially, Leo and I, we have a big age gap. But we have friends that or his friends in in their thirties are my friends too. My friends in their forty fives plus shipping and handling are also his friends. And we all go do things together, but, like, when they go to these restaurants, they're pitch black, and the chair author, they took us to a took me to a restaurant for someone's birthday, one of my friend's birthday. We sat on a great with a pillow. I had scoliosis by the time I went out of it. The food was gnarly. And there's like nothing I could eat. It was like it was one of those what first of those pitch back, I couldn't read the menu. I know. And and the the the the the menu was in Rashi script. You could I can't read And I turned to Leo and I go, is there anything here for me? He literally goes just the soup. I go perfect soup. They served the soup, ice cold, had like a peanut flake. It was the most prisoner of war shouldn't get such a soup.
Speaker 4:And also, it's so loud in those places.
Speaker 3:Oh, you can hear. For me, that's my situation typically, which is why I never eat off of whatever the menu has. Right? I'm always looking for, like, the the children's menu. Okay? Where I could get, like, a macaroni and cheese, was something while hopefully they make something that I could eat on the kids menu.
Speaker 4:So first of all, we should backtrack here as
Speaker 1:well.
Speaker 4:Because the other interesting thing about Arthur is that he also is Jackie's father who had on this
Speaker 1:A guest, and we've been dropping videos of her amazing food. Who, by the way, I don't know if you saw the video Jackie sent camel.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Many combos, which wasn't because you don't know what a combo is. It's like this cream filled chocolate covered thing with this the most delicious cookie on
Speaker 2:the wild.
Speaker 4:It's it's like a very popular Israel.
Speaker 1:It's an Israeli food. And whenever I still go to Israel, it's tough first thing I would do. I used to land in Israel twelve, eleven years old. My aunt gave me some shekels to have in my Leila. Back then it was Leila. Mhmm. And I used to run downstairs and buy Kermbo. That was and Jackie made them and they were so I call them the the birthright cookie. It's the birthright cookie. They were amazing. Very proud of Jack. Yes.
Speaker 4:She said you're you're a big fan of snacks. Like, actual snacks, cookies, and you came in here too, and you were like, where are the snacks?
Speaker 3:Yeah. I mean, I mean, wouldn't you expect it to be? You know, at a studio where you film me something, there should be some snacks like M and M's and Milky Way's, you know, things that really pick you up. No. No. Modi.
Speaker 1:Whatever the Barry Arthur's story whenever I've been to Arthur's office, there's always sandwich. It's like a succession my my my chocolate succession. There's always food and pastries and pidgey water.
Speaker 3:And Right. So why would you guys plan a little something? You got Welch's gummies. I'll be no. We have
Speaker 1:the studio have it
Speaker 3:up over here.
Speaker 4:Saying we should be feeding our guests.
Speaker 3:There should be something here to lighten it up over here. Not that the mood is not light. It's very light. But I'm just saying, a couple of appropriate snacks, pastries. I should have brought the Jack Snacks.
Speaker 1:You should have brought we've had them here. They don't They don't
Speaker 4:they don't laugh.
Speaker 3:Right. I should have brought it. Yeah. No. I bet.
Speaker 1:Okay. Is that Arthur and I met?
Speaker 4:So that was the next question.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Arthur and I met. And he's he's he's a thing and great neck. He's the the the the great neck place with what I know from Tina and Johnny, oh, I've shown. And we met there, and we like to know each other, and then
Speaker 4:Wait. So you met you met Arthur through Dina?
Speaker 1:Through Dina. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Through Dina, I think you were in our house for Shabbata, something.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Friday night, we met, and we knew each other.
Speaker 4:Long
Speaker 3:You would make fun of us.
Speaker 1:No. No. No. I didn't make fun of you until. I didn't make fun of you until. I got I I remembered last night when when we first really, really met. So now I'm doing a passive approach. Wait.
Speaker 4:How far back? How many years ago we talked about?
Speaker 1:A bunch. A bunch of years ten Okay. But deep years back. I'm doing a passover program in this hotel up in Rye in New York.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:It's a nice place. But it's Ryan New York. And it's like not where most fancy people go to Florida, Mexico, Italy, and I get on stage and I see Arthur Luxembourg and Randy, his wife. And if you think he's over the top, you never saw over the top until you meet Randy. Dresses in, like, you can't over the top amazing. And I see them there, and I'm in shock. Now keep in mind, this is a hotel It's not it's a fancy. It's it's a good program.
Speaker 4:Nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah. But it's it's still
Speaker 3:New York. What it is is, you know, he's doing a justice. He's describing it well. But a lot of people go there for it's it's a local hotel. So people that have to be local or people whose parents you know, can't really travel. Right?
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 3:There's always a reason. Like, you're always like, the first night you arrive there, like, everyone's looking at each other trying to figure out why are you here? Right. Yes. So everybody's got, like, a reason. It can't just be. Oh, no. I'm here with the Try try hotel. Right town here.
Speaker 1:And it's either someone has a mom or a grandparent that don't wanna travel in eight and can't travel. Like, some grandmother does not wanna die, period, or they have a daughter or daughter-in-law who's in her twelfth month, and they can't fly. Am I right or wrong?
Speaker 3:The hundred percent. There's a reason that that you resolved that. Go. You didn't just go to the Rittown Hilton. And I guess, you know, sure enough, the program doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 4:Why were you there?
Speaker 3:I was there at the time because my father couldn't travel.
Speaker 1:Right? So so now I'm on stage. You're talking about there may be six hundred, eight hundred people in the room, and I see Arthur Luxembourg in the back. And I just stopped going coughing and I go, my god. I think I got mesothelioma. Author. We have a case. Yeah. And that was it. That was it. We He was. He was. He came up. I had I went with them for, like, for dessert afterwards.
Speaker 3:That was after Modi. That was after they got you a proper sound system. Yeah. No. They wanted Modi to, like, operate off of his phone, you know.
Speaker 1:That was awful. But but rarely got in there.
Speaker 4:Why that's so funny, though? What? Tell tell the people who are listening why
Speaker 1:Because the Luxembourg's whites and Luxembourg is known for, like, settling cases for billions of dollars of people who have Mesothelioma or whatever though you pronounce that good. What? You pronounce that good mesothelioma. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Really good. Mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a very rare cancer that only occurs, only happens with people that were exposed to asbestos. Okay. And there were a lot of other products that had asbestos in it, like talc, things like that, but It's a signature disease. So if you have mesothelioma, there is a perfect chance that you were exposed to asbestos. You don't always know how you were exposed to it, but it's a signature disease.
Speaker 4:Okay. And so when you became an attorney, Where where did you go to law school?
Speaker 3:Went to Cardoza.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 3:Went to Cardoza. And it was difficult to get a job. In fact, you know, I worked for very little money. And then I went to the I went to a law firm where I met my partner, and we were there for a couple of years.
Speaker 4:Mister White. Terry White. Perry. Perry
Speaker 3:Wipes. Perry Wipes with a with a y.
Speaker 4:Okay. So
Speaker 3:I met my partner and we we had a very a very synergistic relationship. I was a I was a serious guy. They they didn't have any place for me to even sit in this law firm. So I was sitting in the library, and I was a I was a law guy. That's what that's what we were called. You know, I ended up doing appeals, but I was a law guy. Somebody needed a question of law. You know, they would come back from court. They would ask me. I would work on it. And he was a trial guy. And he was a low a low guy on the totem pole. And I was also a low guy. And he had nobody to help him on these legal questions. So, you know, he'd come back and he'd say, look, could you help me with, you know, with this? So we had a very, very good relationship from a standpoint of he needed help, I was able to help him. The law firm had, like, a criteria value of of cases. You weren't allowed to bring a case in. Like, somebody had a small accident. No real injuries. You couldn't bring that case into the office. And Whites was a big business getter. And he used to get a lot of cases. They were shit cases. They would garbage, and the firm wouldn't take them. So he said, look, look. The firm's not taking these cases. He goes, I'm gonna bring them in. You work the cases up, and I'm gonna settle them. And it became a very very close relationship. That's how we began. Wow. We accumulated years ago. Almost forty years ago.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 3:Wow. Almost forty years ago.
Speaker 4:What does that mean a shit case?
Speaker 3:Like Sid Case is a case Oh,
Speaker 1:this person.
Speaker 3:A shit case where where where, you know, a a car hits you in the rear. And nothing happens. And you both get out. There's no damage to your car. You nobody goes to the doctor or the hospital, but yet somebody wants to pursue a case. Right? You get a lot of those. As a young lawyer, you know, my daughter is working with me. She gets a lot of those cases, Liz. She gets a lot of those cases. And, you know, even though we don't wanna take those cases because there's very little value, we sneak them in sometimes for her. Because she's able to make money. The firm makes money, and we're happy to do it. But that's a garbage case.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 1:We're taking a gig, like, placing a gig.
Speaker 3:No injuries.
Speaker 2:Didn't know
Speaker 4:what you were taking them because you were making a little bit of money and you were young and you needed to?
Speaker 3:Well, we were starving. I mean, he didn't have money. I didn't have money. Right? We would take the cases. The firm didn't want to take the cases. We took them. I worked them up. I got the medical records. I put the cases in suit. Right? Wow. And gave it to him, and he settled them.
Speaker 1:But you're also a trial lawyer. You're also a trial
Speaker 3:I'm an appeals lawyer. Okay? That's where I started because I was a law guy originally. Mhmm. So an appeals guy an appeals guy is is a guy who would argue a case after we either won or lost. So if we lost a case, we would try to get it reversed. If we want a case and the other side wanted to get the damages reduced to something like that, appeal. They would appeal it and I would go oppose it. So that was where I got my beginning. And and it was amazing training. It was really fantastic.
Speaker 4:And then whose idea was it to start your own firm?
Speaker 3:We started out a necessity. White's had a great relationship from a friend in law school that was really counseled to the trade unions, to the building trades. And as a result, in nineteen eighty six, laws were passed that would allow lawsuits like asbestos and other lawsuits as well to be brought and that's how we really began. We left because of that, because we were able to start our own firm handling those kind of cases.
Speaker 4:But when you got, like, your first Mezzo FELIoma case, you weren't like we just hit the jackpot or wait that happened by accident.
Speaker 3:I wanna tell you Perry.
Speaker 4:They call you Perry? All my friends from growing up call me Perry. Okay.
Speaker 2:You
Speaker 4:can call me Perry.
Speaker 3:Okay. What? And what people call you now?
Speaker 4:Perry L.
Speaker 1:Right. I mean So my friend, some call her other things. So so so my my young, a high Shifler.
Speaker 3:So so my young, young friends called me arthur.
Speaker 4:Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:You know, my in in high school, I was Arty.
Speaker 4:Oh, okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah. In fact, my wife, Randy, calls me Arty. And now I'm back to Arthur.
Speaker 1:I'm I can't I can't say Arty for you. It doesn't fit.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I'm just saying. Right? And and there was a period of time. I was unhappy with Arthur. And I told my parents, and it was the most upsetting thing. I said, no, I really don't like my name.
Speaker 1:Such a great name.
Speaker 3:I like Arty Better. And now I can't even think of, you know
Speaker 4:Where did you grow up?
Speaker 3:Grew up on Woodmere.
Speaker 4:Woodmere.
Speaker 3:Really, really epic epic, epic childhood. We really, you know, my parents really did it right. It was an amazing an amazing time. We really really had a wonderful relationship with a younger brother, older sister, still do. My parents were amazing. And it was just an amazing childhood, you know, really.
Speaker 4:That's so nice to hear.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And so so Arthur and I just because you know, he lives in great neck. But during the week, he's he's in the city because so here's here's a place and stuff. So, again, when I'm free, he's free, we just are you around? Let's go get a bite here, there, wherever. And we get to know each other. We sit every time we have a meal, it's like a podcast. We catch up on things that we haven't even spoken about, things like tower air. You know you know you know what that is? Of course. Like, I go explain to Leo with Tower Airs. Yeah. It was this it was this airline that was in the in the nineties or eighties out of nowhere. And it it was this Israeli they flew back and forth to Israel.
Speaker 4:Only to Israel.
Speaker 1:Right? Only to Israel. And the flight was, like, for sixteen cents. And and for for eighteen cents, you got to find first class.
Speaker 4:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:And they served you in the the civil where it studied the delta or united or eastern. They what they bought what ever was left from other airline.
Speaker 4:It was like the TJ Maxx.
Speaker 3:Did she ever spend the eighteen cents in flight business?
Speaker 1:Always. That was the first time I ever focused business class was Tower Air. Okay.
Speaker 3:Me too. Be too. So I'm flying in tower. So what was amazing about tower air? It was like one of these ancient planes that had an upstairs Yep. Okay. So so you weren't disturbed by any kids on the plane. You flying business class, it's upstairs. Okay? This seat didn't go all the way back. No. The seat went back about twenty five degrees, and there was one of those metal leg rests that would, like, pop up you you thought you were in, like, a doctor's office. So Yeah. A little right? It would pop up,
Speaker 4:like, a guy that
Speaker 3:to the first
Speaker 1:time To the first time,
Speaker 3:I'm on this plane. Okay? Looking around about a dozen seats in there. All Israelis. Okay? And the staff is Israelis, the host is Israelis. Anyway, I'm sitting there. See goes back and I'm comfortable. I never flew like that before. It was in my own little area up there. The hostesses come out. Okay? This guy pulls up his armrest and has, like, a screwdriver and there's some button that he pushes, and his seat goes all the way back. It, like, collapses the seat. I couldn't believe what I'm saying. All of a sudden, you see all the guys doing it. They pass around the screwdriver. Every guy's seat goes all the way back. Then what they do is They take the empty crates from the dishes. They stick a crate. You can't make this up. They stick a crate under the under the leg rest to to raise it, and they make a full reclining bed. Yep. Okay? And that's that was my first experiences. I flew Tower forever.
Speaker 2:The
Speaker 3:I stopped I stopped before they actually went out of business because they once canceled the flight. We were all on the plane, and
Speaker 1:they canceled the flight.
Speaker 3:Some light was on or something, and they couldn't take off. Couldn't take off. And I said, I'm never flying this again.
Speaker 1:It was you know, we we we we had an episode here. We talked about smoking on airplanes back in the it would've been an old episode and that that whole flight was smoking. Yeah. I hope that was a smoking section. Mhmm. But the funniest thing about them was so they used to go Israel, Tel Aviv, New York, and then they added Miami. So people were flying Miami to to New York Mhmm. As like a regular flight, but the plane had nine hundred people on it. So to board, it was a two hour boarding experience.
Speaker 4:Nice got
Speaker 1:To get from Miami to New York, it was crazy. And the funniest thing about Tower Air was they once had an accident on the runway. And I moved from the wheel and the the the plane. Like, it was really, like, like, leaned over, tilted over on the wheels. And the first thing they did was they sent they sent somebody out there to spray paint the tower on the fin. So when the news came, it wouldn't be they would or you wouldn't see just our airfare in the newspapers. It was the shadiest air.
Speaker 4:Oh my god.
Speaker 1:But but something else, Arthur and I have in common, as we both stutter.
Speaker 4:Really? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Trial lawyer, stutters. Could you amend a comedian stutters?
Speaker 3:So that's so so that's actually I mean, so that's actually, you know, you definitely remember when we met, but we so So I I was performing a wedding. I was gonna perform a wedding, and I asked Modi for help. I said, you know, I'm trying to I wanna lighten up the crowd for this kind of wedding. Maybe we'll get together. We were not we were not friends We knew each other. We knew each other from acquaintances. We we were we were good acquaintances. Yeah. We knew each other from we knew each other from Great Neck. You were at Dina's house and you know, we were acquaintances, you know. But but we saw each other enough that I asked you. I don't remember where I was. Maybe at one of the dinners that you that you did. I asked for help. And I said, you know, okay. I said I said, and we'll meet we'll meet. And you know what? In exchange for for your help, I'm gonna buy your suit.
Speaker 1:This is I'm
Speaker 3:gonna I'm gonna buy a suit. Okay. So so we meet the end of the story is, by the way, is I never performed the wedding.
Speaker 1:And it's not the
Speaker 3:same And the suit and the suits haven't fit them. And and the suit never fit him.
Speaker 1:It it was it was I didn't I sell them for free. He goes, no. I always make suits. Those of you who don't know, Arthur Larksenburg, the suits are in saying.
Speaker 4:Well, we haven't gotten there yet. No. We haven't
Speaker 1:got This is nothing. Oh, it's just nothing. You should When he comes pop this
Speaker 3:to Tuesday,
Speaker 1:it's just the But yellow.
Speaker 3:But look, what came out of that but look, what came out of that of of that, you know.
Speaker 4:It's good. No. But no.
Speaker 1:But we I think you realized I stuck when you came to see me at the comedy seller?
Speaker 3:No. But, Modi, I never saw you. I saw you had a couple of I saw you had couple performances, like in North Shore Yeah. And boy. Alright? Deaners has, but I never saw I never know
Speaker 1:for you told you one time, hey, I'm going to comedy, so I'll come down.
Speaker 3:That way And you told me
Speaker 1:to work out new material, and you go to me, you stutter.
Speaker 3:No. But that was after we that was after we became friends, you would you would say going to Brooklyn or something for fifteen minutes come Yeah. It was at the it was at the peninsula hotel Yeah. When that when we made the
Speaker 1:decision, you realized that I started.
Speaker 3:Yeah. When I realized you started, I
Speaker 1:said, was at the comedy festival.
Speaker 3:Disgusted and because I was working out new material.
Speaker 1:And when I work out new material, my stutter comes out.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:Because I I don't have it down yet.
Speaker 4:Mhmm. And
Speaker 1:it goes, you started.
Speaker 3:And I think that when you with someone else, it started you started more.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's just a fact. I mean, when I was at this other firm where I met my partner, I was assigned to a guy, one of the main trial lawyers there, and he would come back from court every day. He'd come back from court and he'd look for me and he'd go over issues with me. And I researched the law on the issues that he was handling. And I first started working there, and I would go meet with him and, you know, I didn't realize that I studied so badly. Maybe I did back then. So I was talking to him and I was stuttering. He was studying too.
Speaker 4:Oh my god.
Speaker 3:He was just studying, you know? And he goes to the head of the firm. He goes, what'd you do? This what'd you? He gave me a kid. He gave me a kid. He's marking me. So so the guy goes, what do you mean? He's marking you? What are you talking about? He goes, he's stuttering. He's mocking me. He's making fun of me. He's your idiot. I'm making fun of you. He's a stutter up.
Speaker 1:When stutters are with other stutters, we stutter a lot more. Why? Used to be on the road with stuttering John from the Howard Stern show. I couldn't get words out. I was I couldn't get words out. And one of the funniest things, Arthur was telling me, was he's always trying to help people. He's always trying to what can he do to help somebody else? What what what organization can you perform for? What kind Always trying to so he was telling me that he was approached by this stuttering organization. Yeah. And you took lessons to to to fix
Speaker 3:your stuttering. My my I mean, my grandmother took me for speech therapy
Speaker 2:Mhmm. You
Speaker 3:know, to Long Island Jewish hospital. It had to be for a decade. Three times a week. Wow. Yeah. It had to be for a decade. Three times a week, you know, it's a it's every there were a lot of different ways to help or cure or treat stuttering. There were a lot of different theories about what it was. They they really never completely figured it
Speaker 4:out. Still.
Speaker 3:Still. And she would pick me up three days a week. I'd go to this guy, Arthur Jacobs, who was a therapist at Long Island Jewish, speech and hearing. And she picked me up from Queen's. She picked me up in Woodmere, drive me back to Queen's to Long Island Jewish Hospital, Stay there for an hour. Drive me back to Woodmere three days a week.
Speaker 4:Wow. Wow.
Speaker 3:And it formed the most incredible relationship between a grandson and a and a grandmother. I think the only other people that have that relationship is my mother, you know, my mother and and how grandchildren, it's something that's unbelievable and it's something that I hope, you know, that my grandchildren say and and Randy hopes how grandchildren say one day that the most epic relationship with a grandparent.
Speaker 4:That's incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, let's just back to the start and things. So So we we we when you're a stutter, you have tricks. You have tricks. Like, I can't say MS and L. So when people ask me, what's your name? I never just say Modi. I because now I'm saying it it coming because I'm already in the conversation, but I say things like, hi, I'm Modi. Yes. So the air comes out already, and I just put the m in there. Yes.
Speaker 4:You learned to do that. You also took class.
Speaker 1:The tricks. No. This
Speaker 4:I never
Speaker 1:I I have my tricks. This is my in my head. When someone asks me what size shirt do you want, I can't just say large. I can't just say large. I have to say, Haile, take a large. Haile, because it's already the words are already moving.
Speaker 4:You figured that out by yourself.
Speaker 1:By myself.
Speaker 3:Stuttering. You stuttering on f's?
Speaker 1:No. Because f has a half. A f. It's not a it's not when I close my mouth. S s, you have to close your mouth. M is a closed mouth. You put this tough. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:It's your name.
Speaker 1:It's my name.
Speaker 3:And it's hard for me too. My sister's with an m.
Speaker 4:Okay. But your stutters into CERNABLE.
Speaker 1:IT'S IT'S IT'S A DIFFERENT.
Speaker 4:NO. FIRST off, I I know these things because MY BEST FRIEND FROM SINCE I WAS three is a stutter, and she attended many national stutter organization. There's, like, a get together and annual, like, everybody who stutters.
Speaker 3:There you go. But I'm like, you don't realize it because I'm so good at it. Yeah. But like Modi will say his name and he'll cancel through what it's called. Mhmm. Whereas me, I'll say something else. I'll just substitute
Speaker 4:Right. Right.
Speaker 3:Right. I won't say a word that I may have a problem with, you know, unless I have to. And sometimes they will, like Modi. But like you said, I'm in the conversation.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:But in the abstract, if somebody said, who'd you have dinner with last night? And I said, Modi, I might stutter on that m or my sister's name, which is Merrill. But if you're in the conversation you won't or or you use the techniques that you've that you've learned,
Speaker 4:can we never did speech therapy?
Speaker 1:I was very lucky that I started to study voice.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 1:In college. So when you study voice, you learn how to put everything forward. Yeah. So you learn everything forward. Now everything's in your front of your mouth, in front of your face, So now you're speaking from here. Not from here where you get really good stuck on stuff and have trouble getting words out. You're speaking in the front of your face, your facial masks. Right? And then it it's it makes it a lot easier. Yeah. But, again, when I'm doing new material, I'm up there. I'm not sure what words are gonna be the best for the bit. Right. I just it's a mess. And sometimes even worse, it makes me it makes me curse.
Speaker 3:But I just I just wanna I I just wanna I I I just wanna close the loop on the stuttering.
Speaker 1:Why? Such a great topic.
Speaker 3:It's we could do a whole show on that. Yeah. And we should. Okay? And we should do something together for these for some of these organizations. We really because
Speaker 1:you didn't like what you saw there. So he was gonna Oh. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Whoa. Yes. Yes. Very true.
Speaker 4:What?
Speaker 3:Okay. So you know, people call me all the time, different organizations. They find out you're a stutterer. Don't don't ask me how this. No, like, it's no, like, they're gonna
Speaker 1:be calling you from this. All the time now. From this podcast, it's gonna be out there.
Speaker 3:Right. So anyway, they they cool. So I I agree. You know, he's a nice guy. Wanted me to comment I went and I, you know, I sponsored his dinner, you know, I was and the dinner was essentially a like like a a they put the stutter as in a community.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:So so they gave them an opportunity to be together. There was a camp for stuttering. There was Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I know all about it.
Speaker 3:But my objection was And what I actually gave money for that night when they had like an open appeal, I said, what about therapy? Yeah. And because eventually, these kids are not gonna be in elementary school, and they were some terribly profound, affected students and children there. And my heart was was was was destroyed. My heart was breaking for these students. They really couldn't speak. And I'm saying to myself, they have to there this therapy and this place, this particular organization, wasn't giving any therapy. They had a camp. They had a place. It was a safe place for stutters to go. BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE NOT IN THAT SAFE PLACE ANYMORE AND YOU'RE IN SOCIETY?
Speaker 4:OKAY, BUT WAIT A SECOND putting from what I'm gathering from what you guys are saying, putting a bunch of stutters in a room together seems like the worst idea ever have a Nobody can get a word out.
Speaker 1:In the world. For me, it would be the biggest nightmare. When I sit down at a dinner and somebody knew there, and I could see they they start, I'm like, oh, this is the worst
Speaker 3:because the goal of the organization
Speaker 4:It's the awful.
Speaker 1:The horrible thing. What is the goal? The goal
Speaker 3:is the goal of the organization. Was not to help stutters get over, you know, their their stutter it was it was basically to give them a place where they didn't feel threatened. So even Stutter is in a room that we're all stuttering together, even though it was it was sad, it gave them a a safe place.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 3:But to me, But to me
Speaker 4:They should not be.
Speaker 3:I am I'm all for therapy. Like, let's see. And by the way, not everybody's gonna be able to get better.
Speaker 4:Well, no, but there are ways to improve therapy does. I mean, I think therapy has been proven to be very beneficial
Speaker 3:thousand percent.
Speaker 4:What was their grandma's name?
Speaker 3:Seal.
Speaker 4:You should start a little foundation. You should start a little foundation.
Speaker 3:You don't want that help. I think they're a great I think there are great organizations out there. This one that I went to a couple of dinners think it's a great organization
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Because it gives them a safe place, but I think that the the problem is and it's about funding. That's really what it's all about. At the end of the day, you know, it's about getting them money. They have money to do what they wanna do. Mhmm. But not okay. I have speech therapists. Right. And I guess the government is not giving them enough money. But And and these are, you know, these are these are children you know, these are children that that a lot a lot of them come from under privileged homes. So there's not money to do private therapy and things like that. Like, I felt there after leaving that night, like, give me five kids. Give me five kids and let me get done therapy.
Speaker 4:That's I love that.
Speaker 3:No. Let me let me they're not gonna talk like this, but it seemed like that wasn't their goal. So I just let that go. I could save that for another organization. I could save that for something else.
Speaker 4:I love that though. That's beautiful. That's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1:Now, Arthur is, listen, when we say that Wiesen Luxembourg, not only does Well, they do good. Yeah. He's in a million different he hits me every time we're out with another organization he's a part of. Shoes for for people who don't don't get new shoes. Every type of charity he's involved in, and it's fun. And it's, you know, It's funny because whenever we sit, we always talk end up talking about how to help somebody else, which which is with the laboratory representative.
Speaker 4:Yes. The Lebravi
Speaker 1:said when two Jews meet.
Speaker 4:No. No. No. Start when you give them when he gave you the dialer.
Speaker 1:Right. When the the Lebravi, Llobobucharabbi, and by the way, people have been asking me on DM's, what is Hobadlobabuch? I'm gonna tell you what that is. Hobadlobuch is Not many years ago, people used to line up in Brooklyn to meet a very holy rabbi. As soon as they met him, he gave them a dollar to go help somebody else with that dollar. And then he said, Brazed Lasaha, blessings and success. You need to help somebody else before you receive the blessings and success. And that's what Habad Lababitch is. And wherever you are in the world, and you see a place that's Habad House, Lababat Center or even the holy of them, the Habad on Campus, you're dealing with an emissary of that rabbi. Whoever she or he that you're dealing with, the rabbi's wife, or the rabbi, they are emissaries of this rabbi. And that is Habad Labevitch. And Arthur instinctively is always like, what can we do to help?
Speaker 4:No. But you said that the thing is, is that the first thing you should always talk about is how when you're talking about Jews, is Yeah. How can I help somebody else? That's the first question you're supposed to ask.
Speaker 3:What was that? I mean, because, look, this is this is how I look at it. Okay. This this is how I look at it in my narrow world. I wake up in the morning You got a choice. You could be a giver or you could be a taker. You ask God, make me a giver today. Put me, give me. And by the way, I'm talking about money, guys. It could be anything. You know you know, I saw a I was in a doctor's office today. And I saw a woman who was clearly lost. Okay? She was she she didn't know where she was going. She had no clue. And she's looking at the directories. She's looking at a watch. She's looking at a piece of paper. Be a giver. You walk over that woman.
Speaker 1:Right?
Speaker 3:I'm late for my appointment. Okay? I'm late. I don't care if I missed my appointment. I see this lady. She's lost. Happens to be turns out she's half blind. Mhmm. You can't even see. Alright? She gives me I said, can I help you? Doesn't speak English. Oh, geez. Speak in Spanish. I don't speak any Spanish. I take the paper. She's in the wrong building. So I'm trying to explain to her. I get someone to help me. To speak Spanish, to tell her she's in the wrong building, where she has to go down the block. It's a different office. I say myself, this lady is never gonna get to this office. She never I take her, I walk up the block, takes me an extra five minutes. So instead of being fifteen minutes late, and now I have how late. But the lady got to where she's going. Right? That's being a giver,
Speaker 1:a hundred percent.
Speaker 3:Nothing to do with money money. Okay? It's just waking up and finding something good.
Speaker 1:Always, you could do. Always find somewhere I pray give me opportunity to
Speaker 3:help. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Always. And money is energy. Money is just energy. And it's how you it's the most dangerous It's the most dangerous energy that you can use for to build a hospital or to blow one up. You understand?
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:That's the it's the energy of of of money. It's you can start a war with it or you can start a charity with it. It's a crazy energy. So that's one thing. But to help somebody, sometimes a phone call. Call somebody randomly who's not expecting a call. The it lights their face up. Thousand percent. Someone sends a a DM. People send us DM's author, Haftourous. You never store DM's this long, and they tell you every list, but just sit and answer them. And and it's that's just it's just good just put good energy out always comes back.
Speaker 3:You see you see you see sometimes a kid goes over to somebody like an athlete to sign something and and, you know, the guy the athlete blows them off I saw it at the game once. The athlete was sitting a couple of rows next to me and kid kid walks over. A five year old kid walks over. Predicting to get an autograph from this has been athlete. A has been a nobody. And the guy blows them off like, Right? And I reach over and I say to the guy, you know, you know, lucky you are, and some little kid thinks that you're so amazing that he wants to have your autograph. Because, like, how do you deny that? Right? One day, one day when nobody wants your photograph, you're gonna wish that there would be some little kid. Right? Right? Two feet tall walking up to you. To get your autograph. Right? Just be a giver, guys. Yeah. It's so easy. Like you said, a phone call to someone that you know is down or you haven't spoken to. That's that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1:Right. So author came with me. To Karastir.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:We weren't hungry. We were two hour drive north of Budapest to go see the grave of Ripschayla. We went there with his great grandson, Rubioico, Dina's father. And, you know, we were on the we were on the bus and
Speaker 4:just my favorite part of the story.
Speaker 1:Why?
Speaker 4:You are, like, a boss at
Speaker 1:It wasn't a bad boss. It's unbelievable. You are in the boss with us now.
Speaker 3:I wasn't gonna take it Modi. I I wasn't gonna take it and nice it to myself. What am I doing?
Speaker 1:No. So I'm here for the whole experience.
Speaker 3:Yes. I mean, for the whole experience.
Speaker 1:He left back in the way back. I mean, that's hard to bring him up. He
Speaker 3:he he drove back
Speaker 1:in the way back. Everything was great. A ride up. That's because we went side.
Speaker 3:No. You should see we were I had to catch a flight. I I
Speaker 1:wouldn't wait, listen to me. Because that it
Speaker 3:it the car was an hour. The bus was, like, seven hours.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That's what I'm saying. When was the last time you took a bus?
Speaker 1:Oh, it was great. Winn's great. With the rabbi He was great. His father, right, the rabbi. Why is
Speaker 4:why is the rabbi on a bus?
Speaker 2:Oh, what
Speaker 1:do you mean? He's joe, it's
Speaker 3:so tired. This is
Speaker 1:his Oscar. This is the Oscar. He's showing There's ten thousand and twenty thousand prosthetic and people there coming to this rabbi's grape, and we show up. Yeah. And we do the banquet services because his son dedicated Saint Victoria and his author. In the seat of a set of guys sitting in a dress like this. One of the
Speaker 3:best fill in one of the best pictures of all time. Yeah. One of the best ones that I have.
Speaker 1:Big picture. Because we're because he's just sitting there.
Speaker 3:What was amazing about about the day was we were surrounded by different people.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, it was just it was it was rep Shiloh's it it was his york site. And we were all there. Everybody was there for the same reason. Everybody was there hoping to get something out of it, something that was either missing in your life or to improve something that wasn't going well. Everybody was there for a reason. But everybody was different. They were Hasidim, but they were different sex of Hasidim. They were secular people. They were religious people, not religious people. All dovening. Together in one place.
Speaker 1:Yeah. At the rabbi's grave and Great. Obviously, it works because people keep coming back.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't two years in a row. And it's but what I was saying was on the bus, I remember you would say my being how important is to be a giver and not a taker. So Dino's father read by his social. You you Rubioico takes out this wad of cash. And caused his youngest grandson over. Naphthali Dina's youngest son and goes, Kamere, and hands this to him. He's like, yeah. He's like, yeah. And he goes, what's this for us to give to people? Make sure you always a give and not a taker.
Speaker 2:Oh,
Speaker 1:and he walked around giving everybody a doll and he was so funny. He literally said to one of the people, you look like you need to and gave them two dolls. It's really funny, but it's an important lesson to be given, not a taker.
Speaker 4:And So I have an old friend who was a war photographer. And he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan and he lost one leg, two legs in an arm. So the first thing that he did was grab his crotch. It was fine. When he stepped on the landmine Yeah. To make sure. His okay. And he was rehabilitated in a very famous hospital in England. He's a British guy that usually only does soldiers, but he was like forty years old at the time. But he he weren't to walk again and he went back to being a photographer and he went back into these communities and helped everyone and I sat down once and I was like, you know, it's incredible after, like, what you've been through. That you're going back and you're helping. And he said, to do that kind of work to give, it has, like, a ripple effect
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4:It's that, like, you throw it and you don't see, like, all of the effects of your help
Speaker 2:Yeah. That you
Speaker 4:know That happens. That it keeps going.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent Yeah.
Speaker 3:And and also, I mean, it always comes back to you. Always, you know.
Speaker 1:And know that and know that it's not gonna come back from who you helped. Help whoever you're helping. Don't worry about getting it back from them. It'll come from somewhere else.
Speaker 4:Because you're bidding good energy.
Speaker 1:It's energy.
Speaker 4:What kind of energy is it?
Speaker 1:Moshiyaenergy. Push it. And that's why how come author be or white and luxembourg became our sponge. I keep saying, is it is the law firm. Because we're sitting at dinners, and I'm showing Arthur different DMs from different people that were moved by our pockets. Apologies. This is it. We don't discuss politics. We don't discuss war. It lets people have a moment in their head where they hear three people yapping and yampering and yanking. And they just give him a moment to relax. And then we have things like with the gay kids and the the things
Speaker 4:that we have. Had important. He's set
Speaker 1:an officer to me.
Speaker 3:How can I help? Exactly.
Speaker 1:And that was it. And that's how
Speaker 3:I feel. You guys are not a charity. You're not a five zero one c three, but I feel like you're doing so so much good.
Speaker 4:Oh, from
Speaker 3:Besides the podcast and and and all your you know, so many of your appearances you know, are are are charity related raising money for such incredible causes that are near to my heart. For a small amount of money if I could be of help Yeah. To an organization like this. And that's what it is, Modi. It's an organization. This is an organization. Yeah. And that's how I feel about it. And I'm really proud to be a part of it. I didn't even really need any plugs or anything, you know, for my law firm. I'm not expecting really to get
Speaker 1:all those someone did someone wrote to me and said, hi, I have some case. And somebody told me that you know Arthur Luxembourg from your podcast. Yeah. So can you make the introduction?
Speaker 3:But I get you It's true.
Speaker 4:You know what?
Speaker 1:You never know.
Speaker 3:I'm probably gonna get some cases from here. Uh-huh. You know?
Speaker 1:God willing, hopefully.
Speaker 4:Okay. Before What? I cannot end the show without talking about your outfit.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, come on. No. Epiq Epiq.
Speaker 4:You are for those of you. For those of you who are
Speaker 1:passionate about it. I'm calling you Perry from now on two.
Speaker 4:Me Perry too. For those of you who are only listening, let's start with the blue suede shoes. Are you so chic.
Speaker 1:I'm just gonna
Speaker 3:tell you something about blue suede sugar.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:I brought back. I know my kids are gonna laugh. Liz, Jack, they're gonna laugh. Because I say this and, like, nobody believes me. Yeah. But it's true. I brought back blue suede shoes into fashion about ten years ago
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Before anybody no. No. You're laughing. I'm laughing.
Speaker 4:I'm laughing. I'm laughing because we started with Perry, this is not important to all process.
Speaker 3:No. I am very passionate about this.
Speaker 4:Yes. I love it.
Speaker 3:And I I don't care who hopefully, somebody you know,
Speaker 1:he was gonna say putt.
Speaker 3:He was gonna say some putt. Somebody. Listening here says, you're talking about we had blue suede. No, you didn't. No one had blue suede shoes. Right? Nobody had We're seeing
Speaker 4:There for some of their
Speaker 3:issues. Right.
Speaker 4:Now where I'm a hundred percent sure that you have several places and only those places where you get your shoes.
Speaker 3:I do have a few places.
Speaker 1:No. He's got a few places that
Speaker 2:you got. He's got a
Speaker 3:few, but few.
Speaker 4:Right. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Thank you. But not that long.
Speaker 4:So what's your favorite shoe brand?
Speaker 3:I should I should actually plug it. Yeah. Why not? Plug it. Right?
Speaker 1:Go ahead.
Speaker 3:Okay. Can I guess? So you're not gonna guess?
Speaker 1:You're not gonna guess. So don't.
Speaker 4:Oh. Oh.
Speaker 1:I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 3:If we go.
Speaker 1:Go feel for where you go?
Speaker 4:Have Brunello?
Speaker 3:No. But by the way, Brunello Cucinelli is the brand very dear to me. In fact, I've I've represented them, so I could plug them.
Speaker 4:So I'm not gonna knock at it either.
Speaker 3:And I've gotten and I've I have many shoes from them.
Speaker 4:Okay. I think
Speaker 3:that's the one we're saying. Big shout out to my good buddy Masimo Corona, who's been a friend for decades.
Speaker 1:Right. How much of a discount do you get from I don't know.
Speaker 3:I think you guys are gonna get a discount I don't wanna discount them. Yeah. Because by the way, they make a they make a beautiful black t shirt for about a thousand dollars.
Speaker 1:Thousand dollars Yeah. A pair of jeans
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Twelve hundred fifty on on sale sale in the outlets.
Speaker 3:I think I could hook you up. We would with some of that.
Speaker 4:I just wanna revisit the part where I'm not gonna get it. Okay. And then I got it.
Speaker 3:No. No. You're not. You're not
Speaker 1:you're not gonna get it.
Speaker 3:You're not gonna get it. But so anyway, so so monalobonic. No. Monalobonic makes one of the funnest finest men shoes around. The first time I saw them, they had a little shop in the Burlington Arcade in London. For those of you who know the Burlington Arcade, you are lucky. If you don't know the Burlington Arcade and you love London, when you go to London, walk through the Burlington Arcade, it is insanely amazing. I mean, I don't know what to say, so they had a tiny little shop.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 3:And in the Burlington Arcade of men's monaloblinic. I never even knew they made them.
Speaker 4:Neither did I.
Speaker 1:I had no idea. I he's a Kerry Bradshaw.
Speaker 3:Yeah. They made it famous. Yeah. But they made men's shoes that are fun, that are just highly styled, just a simple low for like this. This is nothing. But what if it was in red, in purple, and pink? They have all those colors all those colors, and they're amazing. And I I wish them a lot of luck, but that's my shoe of choice.
Speaker 4:Manolas. Manolas of brown loans. Alright. And the suits are custom.
Speaker 3:You choose to custom made.
Speaker 4:Now when did you start getting suits custom made? Because you started out
Speaker 1:was to look sharp.
Speaker 4:Like, you started out? No. The truth is,
Speaker 3:I never dressed for anybody. I never we never had a lot of money. We were comfortable We were comfortable. And you know what? I'm proud to say. My grandmother took a shopping at Alexander's
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:If you know
Speaker 4:In Queen Yep. I that's I grew up No. Regal Park.
Speaker 1:Before Yes. Walk right away.
Speaker 4:Up across the street from Alexander's.
Speaker 3:Before the holidays, Before the holidays, she would take all of her grandchildren. Same seal.
Speaker 4:Seal.
Speaker 3:Take a shopping. C. To to Alexander's And when I got older and I became a lawyer. Right? I became a lawyer. I wasn't making a lot of money. My go to store was Sims.
Speaker 1:Sims. And I am You like the way you look. Whatever the hell it was.
Speaker 3:I am, like, proud of it. And and you know, those kind of stores, and I I tried to dress as well as I could. And you know what? It was something that made me feel good. I didn't dress and he's dressed for other people. My father was a very stylish guy. He was in the garment center for years.
Speaker 4:Oh, Okay.
Speaker 1:Oh, he was. Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah. My father was in the sweater business. He worked for a company for many, many years. And you know, I like to look good. Yeah. So, you know, it's and and by the way, just another message I'm passing on here. You could look good on any budget. Yeah. You know, you have a few good suits. You don't have a lot of suits. You have a few good suits. Buy buy another couple of shirts. Buy another few ties if you're still wearing ties and change it up. No one will ever know you're wearing the same suit three days in a row if you wear a different time, a different shirt. Yep. No one will ever know so far as a black t shirt That's gonna look the same every single day.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Not all buttiges are the same?
Speaker 3:No. The Cucinelli ones are very expensive.
Speaker 1:Well, let's see. I'll be happy to to sponsor them.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, we did set that up.
Speaker 1:We basically didn't because they they sent nothing.
Speaker 3:No. But we're gonna
Speaker 1:send nothing.
Speaker 3:No. But we're gonna send the a t shirt over and maybe something for you too.
Speaker 2:Like
Speaker 3:Yeah. But he didn't send wait. I'm not sure what yet.
Speaker 1:It's so funny because your father was styled Mairi Stiles. Go to Stile was. My father was in the gas station business. And we always bought him and he bought himself Armani and this and that all that stuff that was that was the day. But when some representative of castro oil or STP or any company gave him a shirt with the logo on it, That was it.
Speaker 4:That's funny.
Speaker 1:He was so happy. So when we got the H and M shirts and hats He actually loved it.
Speaker 3:I loved it, so the Yeah. So
Speaker 1:a n h.
Speaker 4:A n h. So first of all, people never can figure out if I'm, like, wearing, like, very expensive stuff or if I'm homeless.
Speaker 3:That's the way it should be.
Speaker 1:But she's either wearing a vintage shirt from the romo what do you call, romos, romos, Harley Davidson's No. That's the band.
Speaker 4:Rolling Stone?
Speaker 1:No. Not the Rolling Stone's. That that that plays she's always wearing some some vintage shoes. I heard it. It's, like, So I got I got this for four hundred fifty dollars. Yeah. I had it bid for it, but it looks like someone you'd give to how people to do glass glass plus with.
Speaker 4:That's it.
Speaker 1:What is it? Holly Davis.
Speaker 3:Yeah. But probably vintage. Holly Davis.
Speaker 1:Everything with her vintage. Yeah. So it looks like you and let you know it's a vintage. It looks at something you give the housekeeper to to to
Speaker 2:with three hundred.
Speaker 4:Three hundred hundred. Three hundred dollars three hundred dollars three hundred dollars three hundred.
Speaker 1:Let's Yeah. And you look at this Amish Rakesh.
Speaker 4:Yes, I made. These I designed and I made.
Speaker 1:Amazing. And when when Ukraine was attacked by by Russia, she was on the on the things she may switchered that said F Putin, but, like, smelt in a Russian
Speaker 4:They donated all the money
Speaker 1:all the money. She gets on the ball right away.
Speaker 4:Especially for this thing, we just bought a hundred and one jackets for soldiers.
Speaker 1:No. You no. You're amazing. She's on the ball. She's like, not just writing a check. She's organizing in the stuff that's got. She's got boxes going. Amazing. She's amazing.
Speaker 4:I hosted actually, this is very funny. I hosted. I told you fundraiser last night a comedy show firm, again, DaVita Dome. And somebody was, like, said, oh, something horrible happened to me. And I said, what do you wanna, like, compare tragedies now? The people on the front row here were at the Nova Peace Festival.
Speaker 1:Oh, no. That's cool. I came and tell you. I I will say the story. We've just been coming off of shows in Europe, and we won Frankfurt. And the community in the Jewish community in Frankfurt, amazing. Amazing two huge shows in this massive space. It was so great and I got to meet them. I was there for two days and I'm sitting in a dinner at the after party four of the shows, and there's this Israeli kid that lives in Frankfurt with his parents, and he was at the Nova
Speaker 4:Peace festival.
Speaker 1:Peace Peace Rave Festival, and he survived. And I go, what happened? And he was telling me, you know, they're they're dancing in the desert. Of course. So now, the cars are parked here. They're dancing here. With the DJ and whatever is going on. And I I mean, I don't know if you've been to ever desert rave, but it's But
Speaker 3:I've been to the desert raves.
Speaker 1:You have? Okay. So they're there. By some stroking learning
Speaker 3:man, Right?
Speaker 1:But you know what, guys? You you've been to Burning Man? You guys?
Speaker 3:Of course. Of course.
Speaker 4:I
Speaker 3:Why would no. Why would Mo, you're laughing. You're laughing.
Speaker 1:I'm not ready.
Speaker 4:Have you really been to Burning Man?
Speaker 3:I've been to Burning Man. I had a luxury a trailer over there and You're kidding. Yes.
Speaker 1:You're kidding.
Speaker 4:No. People do that. Kidding. No. But people
Speaker 3:do that. Know all about burning me.
Speaker 4:I was about to say if
Speaker 2:I If
Speaker 1:I had to go to Burning Man, it would only be with Arthur Luxoft.
Speaker 3:Why could it be good food? It'd be food. Right.
Speaker 1:They'd be air conditioning. They'd
Speaker 3:be shy. Worse than I. And I would only go with you because you'd have the best parties, the best places to go.
Speaker 4:I was the only guy I would say that
Speaker 1:Well, so this guy was there and I asked him how did you survive?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because the car he said by chance of luck, I had to go back to my car. So I was a few feet from my car when I saw them coming down. The the the invasion and the and I I got in my car. As sort of driving, and then they were in front of me. I ran a few of them over. One of them when I was really trying to get out was on a bike. I I hit him. And then I went to beersheva. The story is up. Listen, the stories are gonna be insane. They're just now starting up. But they're gonna be crazy stories of what's happening. And that's and let me tell you something speaking of helping people. Ami Israel, the Jewish people have pulled it together. Everyone's helping and whatever they can. I'm telling Joe, speaking just giving a relief. Some people are like like you, sending food. I have a friend sending he's just raising money for helmets.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:He's special helmets. All he's doing. You know, Okay. I told you those that. I I did a show and someone yelled out. If Israel needed you to fight in the war, would you fight in the war? I said to her, Israel's looking for me. They lost the wall. Okay. But I do what I do. I I I help we fund raise as we did for for Elite beer for hot United had salad with all the all of the the biggest hotel people and hospitality people.
Speaker 4:They even
Speaker 1:raise a million dollars in like that. It's you guys
Speaker 4:People were coming up to me after the comedy show last night going, thank you guys so much. You exactly what you hear. We needed this so badly. To laugh.
Speaker 1:Yeah. To just turn your phone off for a minute and just be the war will be there when you when the shows over, and you'll be in a a much better place. And so that that's what we do. It's where we hop in whenever we can.
Speaker 4:And happy, almost thanksgiving. It's
Speaker 1:this is gonna air probably I don't know.
Speaker 4:Whatever it's gonna hurt.
Speaker 1:Whatever it's gonna hurt. Anyway, we
Speaker 3:We've had a lot to be thankful for. We do. Don't we? Right? I think that that's I THINK THAT THAT'S A GOOD CONCLUSION.
Speaker 4:IT'S A GOOD CONCLUSION.
Speaker 1:HEALTH. WE HAVE GOOD HEALTH. WHATEVER HEALTH
Speaker 3:WE HAVE IS GOOD FAMILY.
Speaker 1:Reporter: SOMEBODY WITH WORSE HEALTH.
Speaker 4:RIGHT? THERE'S ALWAYS something to be thankful
Speaker 2:for.
Speaker 1:Oh, man. Absolutely. Absolutely. You woke up in the morning and it's somebody worse than you and this. And again, find the find the way if one thing we can take away from the the podcast with Arthur Luxembourg, find some way to help somebody
Speaker 4:else. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:Love that.
Speaker 1:Is that is
Speaker 3:that the take away? It's a great theme. And I'm really happy to be here.
Speaker 1:I was so happy that you are part of the podcast.
Speaker 4:I just I said to him, everybody's gonna be so happy to finally need him. Because we always
Speaker 1:mention I know, but He's never heard a podcast. He's never listened to one of his podcast, but Randy gives him the updates. The white gives him notes.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie. Okay? I would say I was thinking of trying to find one, like, last night, it's three o'clock in the morning. So, like, I could use some fucking idiot, like like, like you prepare to go to court Mhmm. Something like Oh. Watch what happens there. I mean, you you don't even know what's gonna happen. And I just figured, look, I'm so at home with you. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So Oh.
Speaker 3:You know, to sit here with you and just to shmoes for a little bit of time. It's like a respite from all the other all the other obstacles and difficulties and that we go through and stress that we go through every single day. This is a this is a Mahesh Energy.
Speaker 1:Mahesh Energy, Mamish, I have so many shows to plug Wait a minute. I'm guys, those of you listening to me, I the tour is released. We we waited a little bit after the war to release but make sure you find time to laugh. I have shows in San Diego. We sold out, but we're we're adding another show. The Paramount Theater in Huntington. We've we're adding another show there. All over the Kennedy Center, Kainanahara is selling out We might have to add another show there. We have shows in Dallas and a million of the if Leo was here, he'd be able to rattle them all off. But go to moody live dot com, find a show near you or a show near a friend of yours and let them know. Send them the link. Of course, be the friend who brings the friends to the comedy show, that is Moshiya Energy and modilive dot com for all the all the shows. And do you have anything you wanna picture.
Speaker 4:You can DM me if you wanna buy an army style high sweatshirt and all of my shows are on my Instagram at perriel ashen brand.
Speaker 1:And Arthur Luxembourg, if you need if you need lux whites and
Speaker 4:Luxembourgburgs whites, locks, dot com.
Speaker 3:I hope you don't. I hope you don't. But if you happen to need us, we're always there.
Speaker 1:We're always there. Thank you so much for coming on today. Great to Michelle, LNG.
Speaker 3:Thank you. Happy holidays. Thank
Speaker 1:you. Yeah.