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Taylor Williamson Pt. 2
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Episode 105 Part 2: Modi and Periel are joined again by Taylor Williamson!
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Welcome to Andy's Modi. Hi everybody, hope you had a good week. Since the last episode, we are in the studio still with Periel and Taylor. Williamson, which I enjoyed so much. In our last episode, we're keeping him from a part two of Taylor Williamson, and now he's wearing his San Diego Naval Base hat.
Speaker 2Well, I thought we're like out changing outfits. I don't know that it's the same.
Speaker 1I changed underwear. That's what you wear. That's what you wear. That's what you wear. That's what you wear.
Speaker 2Can I tell you this is like Johnny Carson, like saying, get over here on the couch. I was already on the couch.
Speaker 1You're on the couch. No, this is a high honor.
Speaker 2Have you ever? Has this ever happened? Just tell me, it hasn't never happened, never.
Speaker 1It never happened.
Speaker 2You really mean that? Just say yes, no, no, you're not following the rules.
Speaker 1We had Arthur Luxemburg and he just sitting moved. We just kept taping another episode which ended up being better than the first ones, when people say and we had who else, did we keep?
Speaker 3Dina, dina. It is reserved for special guests.
Speaker 1You're in very good company.
Speaker 2But it's not. You don't feel bad for me. This is because you're like we really.
Speaker 1I really enjoyed you. I really enjoyed you, no, no no, he'll, we've kicked, we've kicked people out, not because, just because it was done Like we felt it was done, I felt like we have so much more to go with you, so entertaining.
Speaker 2I'm honored you ever do like morning radio and then, like they're like I've had this for like a year ago, some city look, look radio, and then they go um, hey, if they like you, they keep you on for another segment. You know, yes, and then you do one segment and they go.
Speaker 3well, thanks for being here, like I guess I guess I'm not one of the so this is, this is high on Wait you did live more.
Speaker 1You go to the station live video before back in the day.
Speaker 1Oh no, before I thought before 1980, um, we, I used to do that, yeah, Used to go. You show up at the town, uh, a day before, and like eight AM you are with the guys doing the morning traffic and you're sitting there at eight AM and be be be funny. Now it's all recorded, pre-recorded. Like, we do zooms and like, and you do all that stuff before and no one, no one's listening, even listen. Who the hell is in their car listening to the news at at on their drive to to work? Anymore, you all, you have Spotify, you have, uh, you have sound cloud. You have, you can, you can be your own DJ who wants to hear uh, all the are my wrong?
Speaker 2I think it's from. What I see is I think there's people who hold on to what they've been listening to for years and I can't imagine a new show hitting, but I don't think any of the three of us have any idea what it entails to get in your car in the morning and commute to work.
Speaker 1Oh, you're right. I will say that I do once in a while. See, all I'm in a taxi or an Uber. That's like an old school person and they let that 10, 10 wins. It's just like AM radio station that just like everybody listen to because they gave you the traffic every 20 minutes or like, and the weather Right.
Speaker 3I never understood that, like my father, is obsessed with the traffic and the weather. Who cares? Like the weather's wrong 97% of the time?
Speaker 1And when she moved to Florida, listen to 10, 10 wins just to hear the traffic and the weather in New York. I'm not, I'm not kidding you my aunt Eileen she passed away, but she used to when she lived here and in Florida. She used to sit there and she had whatever channel that got you the New York stuff and she used to listen to 10, 10 wins. And you give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world. Yeah, can we discuss something? By the way, we touched on it the other day, charlie, remember. Yes, there are some amazing ads out there. I think I got to start doing Like that should be a thing of mine, doing it To like redo old ads.
Speaker 1Yeah, you never hurt yeah.
Speaker 3There are some amazing ones from like, the fifties of like, that are so misogynist, like the woman, like with the vacuum. They're amazing, though, to like read those I'm going to, I'm going to find some for you to. We could reenact that Right Now.
Speaker 1What did we just watch that had real. I have not seen commercials like again. We have streaming, so you don't, you don't have commercials anymore, but we watched something that had the Grammys. We watched the Grammys and had commercials. What the hell People think that people are that dumb.
Speaker 1Yes, well, people, actually people are that dumb I get when you have a celebrity talking about this product and the celebrity you can tell is calling it in Like yes, blah, blah, blah cups, I'll never use anything else. And you could tell the celebrity just picked up a fat million dollar check just to do it. But like these commercials they people just like just say hey, this is what this does, it's pretty good at it and move on, not this whole song and dance. I was wondering why I was so home so late, because my blah, blah, blah blah was horrible, horrible commercials, no.
Speaker 2Are you an alien?
Speaker 1Why.
Speaker 2He doesn't know what the world is like. It's adorable People like like they have. Like my pillow, you know my pillow. Oh, I love him.
Speaker 1I love him.
Speaker 3Isn't he an eight man? I?
Speaker 1think he's the. He's an insane person that has wow. Can we talk with my pillow guy. What's his name?
Speaker 2Um, I don't know. You know Eichmann, what's his name? I don't know Some, whatever.
Speaker 1Yo, he talk about riding a wave of Meshagas, which we discussed before. This guy with his pillows, now he has sheets, then he has slippers, then he has robes and he has everything right and the Jesus cross, and you see the picture behind him it's Jesus with a lion.
Speaker 3Oh, here's Michael James Wendell. Yeah, Michael Wendell the full blown machine.
Speaker 2He was on top of the world before he got into the Trump.
Speaker 3Thing.
Speaker 2He was crushing it, he was super star, he was like an inspirational story. I don't know if he's like a little bruh or what, but he was a crackhead.
Speaker 3No, really, that was the whole stick.
Speaker 2It's like I remember going on a radio show in Minnesota and he was like a local. He was a big deal. We had Michael Wendell's calling in and he's a goofy guy who came from Sad Stuff and started this huge company. And it was goofy commercials you see on TV like whatever, my pillow is okay, whatever. Then he got into the Trump thing and he rode that thing. But he rode it into the Fox News won't have him on anymore. He's going out of business, is he really? Yeah, but he's just, he's like a not well.
Speaker 3Yeah, no, no, no, no, I'm reading about him.
Speaker 1He's not well.
Speaker 3Okay, I'm sorry I have. This is not really Mashiach energy, but I actually want your opinion about this. I'm so worked up about this situation. Okay, so first of all, let's start with the fact that I have. Yesterday we did an event for the Rebuilding the Key Boots Team project. We've been rebuilt, collecting toys with Ally Weiss jewelry. We raised $6,000.
Speaker 1Wow.
Online Hate and Misogyny
Speaker 3Thank you. I don't take the credit for it. I'm just putting this out here as the background facts. We have sent over $30,000 of items to soldiers directly and we have 100 boxes sitting in storage of toys that we are going to bring over to Israel. In addition to this, I have been making Am Israel Chai Sweat shirts, which are, first of all, a fortune to make. I'm hand-wrapping them and I'm doing it because people love them and to be nice. I got they're $136, which, as far as I'm concerned, is a fucking bargain. I got a message on Instagram from somebody I do not know Hi, I sent you a message many days ago and have yet to receive an answer because I deleted the message. How come this costs a all-caps ridiculous amount of money? Are folks really paying $136 for a sweatshirt? Where does the money go?
Speaker 1What did you answer?
Speaker 3I didn't. I'm doing it.
Speaker 1You answer your mother never loved you. That's all you have to answer. Don't ever give in. Are you crazy? That gets you worked up. Just beat or just write back your mother never loved you. Just block him. That's it. That's it Block.
Speaker 3This has me so in. Why, why?
Speaker 1would you say that First of?
Speaker 3all, I don't owe you an explanation. I could charge $3,000 for a sweatshirt if I want to. Okay, right, just don't buy it.
Speaker 1Okay yeah, just don't buy it. Okay, okay, okay, okay Okay.
Speaker 3Okay, okay, okay, okay. How dare you assume that, like you have the right to like, ask, like you go into, like Costco and say, like, where is the money for these televisions going? Like, who are you, where is this entitlement coming?
Speaker 1from Look at how angry she got you. What a shame. It's a guy. It's a guy.
Speaker 3I think it's a guy.
Speaker 1You think it's a guy. What makes you think it's a guy? Well, I don't want to.
Speaker 3There's a picture of somebody who looks like what used to identify traditionally as male.
Speaker 1So they let's just go they. Let's just go they. Yeah, that's a man.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, maybe Let me see, you never know.
Speaker 3I'll make a picture, look at how good I am.
Speaker 1I make a picture and I blow it up, even more.
Speaker 3No, I mean because you got is a man is wrong with, also like the only.
Speaker 2Thing you can assume gender. I mean, that's the, that's a bald man.
Speaker 1It's a bald man with a gut and glasses.
Speaker 2It's essentially. She saw a picture of Larry David.
Speaker 3She's like I don't know, it's literally. Larry David is a broke.
Speaker 1Larry David is what this is, and you.
Speaker 3I'm asking because I know you probably get and you probably do too Like messages all the time.
Speaker 2There was hateful, awful scummy. It's a terrible.
Speaker 3You just ignore them.
Speaker 2I get I try, not I have to be numb to it because I mean I post a Jewish thing and I get I mean that's a whole nother category of stuff, but like I posted I feel like it's I'm hesitating to the silver dunder, like I imagine this is, you must get this stuff, oh, anyways. But I posted, like after the October 7th attack, before Israel went into Palestine, I posted I was just like what's the thing I can post? That is the least problem causing things, because even just posting hashtag Jewish I get hate, you know, right. So I put yeah, like. So I posted sending love to my friends in Israel hearts.
Speaker 2I was like you can't, no one can, because it hurts me when I get, it messes me up when I get like anti-semitism online, like it makes me, breaks my heart and it makes me. It's terrifying, you know. And because I feel bad about the world, like I'm not, my feelings are hurt, but I'm like sad for the world, you know. And then I have people who write back to me months later, who saw that post on my stories and they don't follow me, right, but every time I post something they go, they're calling me a Nazi, calling me. You get all that stuff, you know.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So I just have to go numb and numb.
Speaker 1Who was? This is nothing, people. This guy's poor soul. They're a mess. Yeah, I have. We get people looking for cheaper tickets.
Speaker 3There's no to shoot you know what I should write back. What I should write back if you can't afford $136 and you want to sweatshirt, why don't you tell me what you can afford and I'll send?
Speaker 1you one God forbid you're going to engage this from being into your life.
Speaker 3That felt like machine.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 3You just inspired me to like, oh God.
Speaker 2A lot of people this is the cliche thing is comedians write back to like trolls. A lot of times they go. Hey man, I was just being silly, I'm a big fan.
Speaker 3He's a sad person who 100% he's a sad person.
Speaker 2He's a sad person who wants attention. Correct, it might not be, this doesn't sound evil. He's probably like a left, a liberal person who's caring about whatever he's a is a well meaning dumb person, you know, so that's a nice Wow. This is probably misogyny wrapped in there too, though, because he sees your woman doing something and I'm just How'd you get that from?
Speaker 3Why are you asking me? You're looking at me.
Speaker 1Why did you see misogyny in there?
Speaker 2Does men talk to a woman in a way that more likely than they'll talk to a man with a lack of kindness?
Speaker 3Not even kindness. The opposite.
Speaker 1I talk nicer to a woman because she's a woman.
Speaker 2You're a great guy, though, from what I know, I don't know.
Speaker 3I thought you would be proud of me with that response. That's such machia energy to not respond no to say if you can't afford this, just tell me how.
Speaker 1No, your time is so special and precious between your child and your husband and your career. You're going to now engage him and then he's right back what he can afford, and then you're going to tell him this and that I'll meet you at 30, meet you at four and send it back. I'm hard.
Speaker 3Let it go. Let it go. I was just trying to be nice.
Speaker 2You write back to all your nice messages. Do you ever skip a nice message?
Speaker 3I try to always like do.
Speaker 1At least a heart. Thank you, hey, love back at you. I do Listen. My time on Instagram is not going through stuff. I go through my comments, people would they comment on my things and read them and sometimes look at their profile and see a face and a child, their kids and the family. It makes me happy and I'll send a heart. I'll send love back at you and I mean it. Yeah, I would never deal with that.
Speaker 2For me, I go because I get nasty comments and then, as a comic, I want to out with them and make them feel stupid, because I have that, you know, and me do like feel the heckler, you know but then I'm like you know what Kind of siding with Modi I get.
Speaker 2I get like you know what, if I, if I can't write back to all the nice comments, I'm not going to write back to the one. We all comics, we see the one out of a hundred. That's negative. I want to write back. It is giving your, your loving energy to negativity when it should be focused on love.
Speaker 1But before we began, we never do politics here, but it's, it's getting good. Nikki Haley posted a picture of Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the ad. Like for grumpy old men, which is a movie that was out like many years back with with Walter.
Speaker 2Matt Matt Jack Lemon.
Speaker 1Jack Lemon, walter Mathau, yeah Right, and, and it's pretty, she's like. If Trump is getting laughs and jokes, let me get on this bandwagon. They're picking it up on it and Joe Biden doesn't know what day it is anymore, and poor thing, and Donald Trump is just wow, wow, wow and wow no.
Speaker 3What? Um? We had a psychic on the comedy seller podcast and she said that neither Trump nor Biden is going to act or going to run.
Speaker 2Really Run.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's going to be somebody else entirely.
Jewish Congressman's Presidential Run Discussion
Speaker 1Something this time, this time between now and November.
Speaker 2Have you seen Dean Phillips? Oh my God, this fascinating dude. He's a congressman from I don't know what state. He's Jewish, he's like 50 something. He's running for president as a Democrat and he was on Bill Marsha if you look it up and you can see like a quick interview with him. And uh, fascinating, kind, thoughtful guy pro Joe Biden, but he just takes the point of view of we need someone younger. He did his thing. We love Joe. He did a great job, but like he's cons, I vibe with every single thing he says. Like it's fascinating dude.
Speaker 3There should be. There should be age limits on the presidency. I think we can all agree yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, um, but I encourage you to, I encourage you to like look up his Bill Maher interview and like, just like, if you want to have a five minute sample of who's this Jewish guy who's 50 something.
Speaker 1I don't know what we did with you, not the 50 something, but it's, it's shock, it's shock value, and it's shock value and it's a comedy. You are about to hire somebody to be higher vote for somebody to be president, you're going to be looking at them for four years and they're on your feed, on your news or whatever you get. You're going to be looking at them and I think, even though his policies are probably better for the world, joe Biden or Trump, you got to interact with this thing.
Speaker 3This thing.
Speaker 1You got to interact with this president and it's about to come Someone should be, if I was running for president A, to be gays involved for looks, for looks and aesthetics and what things should be like when you get where the flags should be. Trump for sure has gays working for him. That is for sure, because his stuff is set up nice and he and something I will tell you also, donald Trump would one of the worst. We have to talk about this, one of the worst things that I do doing comedy. Besides travel, travel is number one in the worst part of doing comedy. When you do a photo shoot for pictures, for promos, you know you get in front of a photographer and you got to start hey, give me this, give me that, change outfit, give me this, give me that so they can do promo posters and all that stuff. And Trump, when he did that picture for his jail picture, whatever that, not the jail picture, the mugshot killed it.
Speaker 1Leo directs me. Leo, this is gay. No, hey, look back, look forward, look away, look to the camera, look there, someone gave it to Trump and he looks just like James Dean in it. Oh don't tell me no. Don't you both tell me no, someone told him what to do. There's no way he he just hit it like that.
Speaker 3There is no way that there is a gay dressing.
Speaker 1For sure there's gays working on Trump's campaign. Nikki Haley needs to make sure she gets some on hers because she's repeating outfits. Are you guys ready for this? Are you guys ready for this? Ready, ready, one, two. And how do we do this for the camera? We'll pull it up. So here's down Trump's mugshot.
Speaker 3How did it end?
Speaker 1And here's James Dean.
Speaker 3Oh my.
Speaker 1Someone told him what to do?
Speaker 2Do you know that? Like, if you told us to Trump, he would have you like, he would have you posted this, he would like retweet it.
Speaker 1No, but it was just something that was so obvious to me I'm very good at. Whenever I watch TV with Leo, I see somebody say that's who he looks like, and he's like oh my God, you're right. Yes, he did that. It's really true. Did you see that picture?
Speaker 3Yeah, but James Dean.
Speaker 2But you're like I can do this with my mouth, yeah. I don't look like Elvis. He's doing like the same. It's the it's, so is he attractive.
Speaker 1That was the worst comparison of anything that could have ever been that you could have come up with. For that picture to happen, for that picture to happen down on Trump, first of all you need to. That's a picture where you have to look away and then look up and hit the camera like this. That takes effort, it doesn't just happen. Can you do it and the camera no. I kind of did it now, you know, when Leo owned a photo studio when he had models. When they hire the models, the reason they hire certain models is because there's no angle that's bad for them. Whenever that camera goes off, they look amazing, no matter if the picture is not something with the clothing is off, but the face is one thing they never have to worry about. He taught me that. He said that down, trump looks like ass in a million different pictures, but this picture he nailed. Someone directed that picture. There's no way that just happened.
Speaker 3I'm buying it. I'm really thinking about.
Speaker 1Well, and the other thing that I was saying so if you're running for president, you need to have gaze, yes, to make sure things look good, yes, and you need to have comedians. Someone should be on your thing to make sure there's a joke comes out. Hey, nikki Haley speaking. Let me hear the joke of the day from her. Hey, this one speaking. Something from them, something funny you gotta hit them with, and it may be Nikki Haley's on that now, like, oh, we gotta bring comedy into this election.
Speaker 3I think that you're onto something here.
Speaker 1And be nice to the Jews and be nice to the Jews. Let me tell you something Anybody running for president, if you look at history, hire historians, if you're gonna be president, and look what things have gone wrong and other in the world in history and whenever you kill and hurt the Jews, it never works out for you. It doesn't work out for you, is this no?
Speaker 3No, no, no.
Speaker 1Engineer, the only guy that's not Jewish in the room. Do you agree or no?
Speaker 2Wolf, do you agree that you should be kind to the Jews?
Speaker 1Should be kind to everybody. Should be kind to everybody. But let me rephrase that Be kind to everybody, but don't extra crap on the Jews, because it never works out well.
Speaker 3Listen, I don't think-.
Speaker 1Wait, wait what. Yeah, no it never works out well. It never works out well. It never works out well for you.
Speaker 2It's like a complicated topic because, like Kanye West is experiencing this, you know, and because he can't get bookings, he's just complaining he can't get booked at arenas. He just sold out at arenas in Chicago but he publicly said I can't get other bookings and because they're blackballing him. But then, like the ironic joke of it all is, it feeds into their narrative that Jews run everything or control everything. So it's kind of like a joke, you know, Like it's like you don't say Jews control everything, but if you do, you're never working again, you know.
Kanye West at the Grammys
Speaker 1I heard some crazy gossip. That not gossip. I heard of something that happened at the Grammys with Kanye that no one knows about. He said something bad to somebody who's Jewish wearing a Yamaha, and that person beat him up and then they asked should we call the police? Because no, no, no, don't call anybody. He wanted to Tanaka. This could be all. This is my podcast. I can say whatever the hell I want to say, and this is something someone fed me, so- how many degrees of separation? It's a very very good source.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, I assumed it was.
Speaker 1I would never just throw this out.
Speaker 3Listen, I have to tell you that what are you doing right now?
Speaker 1What are you?
Speaker 3what is?
Speaker 1it. What is your body? What is this?
Speaker 2She got excited. She doesn't know. No, no, I'm actually-.
Speaker 3Justin, her Jewel, she's doing a I am very upset about Kanye West because I loved him so much and I listened to his music on loop forever. My 10-year-old loved him and it's really upsetting.
Speaker 1I. You know what. It's horrible everything he said. But you know, I listened to the Cat Williams podcast with-.
Speaker 3Oh, Cat is the best.
Speaker 1With who Club, shay Shay. I watched it. I thought it was going to catch a few. I watched all 36 hours of it Same thing. First of all, there's no bigger fan in the world of Cat Williams than me and me I. There is nothing I can watch over and over. They cook a little hit of weed and watch Cat Williams. Leo says I've never seen you laugh so hard. I just cannot. He kills me.
Speaker 1He's a genius and he's a little, I don't know. A little bit I'm not I don't want to say word a little bipolar II on this interview, engineer Manic for sure. Okay, I didn't want to say, but when he said, what are you? He's not well, kanye West is not well. What do you expect from a not well person?
Speaker 3There are lots of people who are not well, who are not his Unwellness came out against Jews.
Speaker 1That's where his unwellness.
Speaker 3Well, it came out for matted against.
Speaker 2No, he could have also. He could be unwilling, also hate Jews at the same.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 2I don't think mental. I think it's maybe in dismissive to mentally ill.
Speaker 3I bet it could be there are plenty of mentally ill people who aren't hurling like rabid anti summit, antisemitic remark.
Speaker 2He just did Bill Mards podcast and Bill Mards did a press release saying I'm not releasing it because I'm not gonna Be a part of this Kanye. Kanye is a variety of magazine. He did an interview when he did sit on a day.
Speaker 1He said I had to submit isn't a new, a new brand my, my, my, my bag is Gucci and my shoes are Kanye.
Speaker 3Kanye wait are you sure?
Speaker 1Wait, so Bill Mardin.
Speaker 2He's publicizing. He's like wow. He doesn't want to be a part of this home Misha gas yeah. I mean, like Mel Gibson drinks, and being drunk doesn't make you anti-semitic, you know, that's where it comes out, but, but, but drinking.
Speaker 1And then Mel Gibson is anti-semitic, and when you drink, sheenich nasiain yotsesod, when wine comes in, out comes the, the secrets. So when he drinks. When? Because he's in Hebrew.
Speaker 2This is like PBS playhouse. There's like a word of the day. I love it.
Speaker 3That's so good.
Speaker 1So good, we should do that. Yiddish word of the how do you not?
Speaker 3Is amazing Okay.
Speaker 2Well, you make your guts, use it in a sentence.
Speaker 1Yes, oh, my god, can you?
Speaker 2always be on our podcast. We'd love to.
Speaker 3What's the Yiddish word of the day?
Speaker 1I don't just throw you. That was, that was an expression you know what let's do. Expression I hate your shoulder today. Expression Sheenich nasiain yotsesod. When wine comes in, outcomes a secret. So let's so now give me some. Some situation you were ever in where you saw somebody drunk and a secret came out.
Speaker 2Good, Lord, good Lord, where's that?
Speaker 1go I.
Speaker 2This is you're putting me on the spot with a gnarly take I can't think of.
Speaker 1I'll let that go, but that's the expression, the expression of the day, which we're not gonna be doing. Sheenich nasiain yotsesod. When wine comes in, out comes a secret. When you're drunk, your secrets come out. Mel Gibson, when he gets drunk, the fact that he's a big anti-semite comes out. Kanye is mentally not well.
Speaker 3So what? He's still an anti-semit there.
Speaker 1John Galliano, another anti-semit but, but, but I was. I'm not, I'm not sitting here, I'm not sitting here I'm not seeing here. I want to tell you that Taylor William, taylor, taylor William. Sin has become funnier during our podcast second episode on funnier.
Speaker 2The first one. I didn't know what to do in the second when I got comfy.
Speaker 1No but. But I'm not sitting here Defending Kanye. But he's sicker, it's just a sick person and when you're sick, things happen. I'm not defending him. Whatever, he's a big anti-semite. Done showing, give on showing.
Speaker 3Townsend, yes, it comes back to our Bill Cosby conversation. Really no.
Speaker 2Let's not go there I was there anyone you want to have on your podcast?
Speaker 1and then I want to have I want to have Taylor William sin, now that I can say your name Can.
Speaker 2I tell you this is a thing. Yeah, why is? Almost every time I brought on stage, people have trouble saying my name.
Speaker 1It's not an easy name.
Speaker 2What is wrong with it? You're but tail it's tail. Is it the Taylor right it's tail is the ear with the. What is that what it is?
Speaker 1Taylor's a very hard word people call tail your Williamson.
Speaker 2People have.
Speaker 1Taylor, taylor, taylor.
Speaker 2Taylor, you know my Hebrew name.
Speaker 1What's your Hebrew name?
Speaker 2I think it's kind of hacky, like I got it like later in life, because my mom was like trying to get me more Jewish when I was like like eight or nine.
Speaker 1You got your Hebrew name later in life. I've like get it at birth. I would you want from me.
Speaker 2I'm being honest and you're attacking me.
Speaker 1I love it not attacking at all.
Speaker 2I'm being vulnerable and I get a shame. You feel attacked all the time.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm here completely. Why you keep looking at your jewelry? Are you filming a sales commercial? What are you doing over there? I've never seen she's seen like this and she's I can't understand you through you throwing me off, completely distracted. She's sitting here with this little, this movement I've never seen before. A hundred episodes. I've never seen her do this. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 3I got this.
Speaker 1What the hell is that?
Speaker 3It's a bracelet that goes into Thank you. Never see anything like that.
Speaker 1It's beautiful. You've never seen that before the whole veil no okay, I'm sorry, where were we before?
Speaker 3I?
Speaker 2was gonna take my Hebrew name he knew her name, but but no, I was saying.
Speaker 1I didn't say I was there, you, you, what, when we were?
Speaker 232.
Speaker 1You know, I know, because, yeah, because I'm silly guy because if you, if it was true, you would have done your regular Taylor Williams, I was, I was, I was, I was 32 years old. So that's a little late, some slow, late circumcision.
Speaker 2I said it too confidently.
Speaker 1Yeah, so hold on. Why'd you get your Hebrew name later?
Speaker 2I just I didn't get it when I was I don't know and what is it you?
Speaker 1know like. So you Jewish boys get their Hebrew name at the bris I didn't, mother and the father at the circumcision. The mother and the father do not discuss with anybody else what the name is Gonna be. And at the brist they say and his name will be known amongst the Israelites as and then they say Avram Ben Yoseph, the Avram, the son of Joseph, the father's name, right, there are amazing videos where they they Mentioned that the name of the kid and, like a mother-in-law or a grandmother's freaks that are you crazy?
Speaker 1Maybe him after that? You better not my god, that's not his name.
Speaker 3They make a whole freak out.
Speaker 1There's YouTube videos of this amazing that, but that's when you get your Hebrew name. So what? Why'd you get yours much later?
Speaker 2My parents got divorced and I like, oh wait, but they, my dad wasn't religious, my mom was a religious and then, I think later on, my mom wanted to make me more Jewish and what was your Hebrew name? So the rabbi goes it was like a reform synagogue and he goes tal or Tal, or tal, tall, tall, that's your first name and your middle name.
Speaker 3I don't know tal my name's. Taylor, but tal or that's beautiful, but it's nice, it is real people may find me and because it's a girl's name.
Speaker 2No, it's not. No, it's not. That's what it all goes either way, but I was told to girls name anyways. It told you wrong. Who told you? This bunch of the military people on my bus?
Speaker 1They laugh that's who you're listening to other on your bus in Israel. Yeah, Tal is the girl's name and a boy's name.
Speaker 2I am, so is all thank you when it means light, maybe, or something do, tal means do, and all means light.
Speaker 1Yeah, I like, I like that, but I just think it's like it's but do do not not just that we you know when the grass is wet in the morning, it also. It's a sign of prosperity.
Speaker 3Not like, do or do not.
Speaker 2Oh, I was like oh, it's people like do light, like do good, no do.
Speaker 1Tal, it's like the do in the morning do, but it's also a sign of prosperity because you want to have do, because it's good for the crops and whatever I may be making that up Again, I can do that, it's my podcast.
Speaker 2Yeah, like you might not even be speaking Hebrew, but I believe everything you say.
Speaker 3I just made that up. I have no idea. Is that true In?
Speaker 1the Jewish religion, if you say things confidently and throw in Hebrew and say the verb in Hebrew, people just think you just yep, absolutely, Moshe was Hailech, he was going, Moshe was going to. Now it makes you sound like you know, like it's so insane. Or you can just say anything like like you're quoting from the, from some kind of text, and just people but but you're. I've never seen you say like this before.
Speaker 3What do you mean? Because you know, like, because I'm usually not sitting across from you, I'm usually sitting next to you and Leo's sitting Right, but you also.
Speaker 1I've never looked at your hands like this.
Speaker 3Well, because, you made me so paranoid. Before we did the 92nd Street Y interview, he sent me a video of an interview. Don't mention who that was. And he said and for those of you who are listening, I am crouched down in my seat. This was the posture of the he goes. Don't sit like this.
Speaker 1I sent her. I sent her a video of somebody that we know and doing a podcast type of interview and they were both slouching the way she just was. I said this is the opposite of what we need to look at. And, by the way, this new chair that again thanks again to WTF that this new chair that it's giving me life.
Speaker 3Am I?
Speaker 1okay, you are you are, but you want to be. You don't want to look slouchy. I don't, I'm not. I've never seen anybody fit into a corner the way you did. Thank, you. You really look great there Thank you so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it for you.
Speaker 2Thank you. Oh, still, that's not good, that's not very good that expression.
Speaker 1I love that for you. Yeah, that's like Horrible expression, right, but it fits you. But it fits you, it fits you. It's like for you, for me, I don't know.
Speaker 2For you. I love it for you.
Speaker 3I love that for you. I love that for you.
Speaker 2There's nothing good in that. That's funny.
Speaker 1Yeah, by the way, I have a new bit. I'm not gonna talk about it, it was.
Speaker 3Talk about it.
Observational Comedy and Jewish Names
Speaker 1No, I'm not. I want to save for the first stage, but it was like I was in the hospital yesterday and just the whole procedure. I can, it's such a good bit and I'm just like I was so blown away that it came to me. I was just doing it. I called everybody just to do the bit on the phone with them. It was just, I'm not gonna blow it on this podcast. That's observational comedy, ladies and gentlemen, that's what observational comedy was, Anyway.
Speaker 3Oh, I feel like I thought of a new joke. Oh, I found I haven't worked out the joke yet, but I there was a girl on the subway on my way here who had like a baby stroller. You know how they have like dogs in that yes. And I look over and I'm like I'm sorry, I'm gonna curse. I was like is that a fucking rabbit?
Speaker 3in that thing. I'm like there's no way, like I'm seeing, like an ear or something, and I look over and this girl has two rabbits yeah, in a baby stroller on the subway.
Speaker 1When you fly the amount of times I fly during the year you now understand that these new emotional support animals, rabbits, are in the rotation. You've been seeing rabbits. We were in first class. No, I look over and this woman who looked unwell. She looked unwell. She was wearing an old, like Chanel shirt, but like I could tell by the buttons, but it's like it was like it was time to retire it, and she was wearing a Bulgari watch. She had an and a rabbit and I was watching her and the rabbit sat on her lap and she played with it the whole time.
Speaker 3Come on, stop Not well.
Speaker 1She was not well.
Speaker 3How old was she?
Speaker 1She was, I would say, 50, no, late 50s, maybe early 60s. Was it in a cage? It began in a Sherpa bag, which you never know what that is. It's the bag that has like the holes all around it, ew. And she sat there with the rabbit. Was it like one of these giant rabbits? It was a regular size rabbit. It fit completely perfectly and on her lap.
Speaker 3First of all, there's things shit like every 12 minutes.
Speaker 1That's what I was wondering. A cat and a doll you can train. Can you train a rabbit? No, not the poop and cock and everywhere no.
Speaker 2I wonder the have you seen these rabbits? That are huge. I'm obsessed with those.
Speaker 1I haven't seen a huge rabbit.
Speaker 2There's like rabbits that are bigger than you imagine.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 3They're called like giant. I have that guy.
Speaker 2They're like bizarrely, like they'll giant.
Speaker 1Those listening to us. When you say thank you very much for your podcast, sometimes it just helps me numb my head. This is one of those podcasts where you're numbing your head when not hitting anything specific. This is important, though. Oh my God, that's the biggest rabbit I've ever saw in my life.
Speaker 2I think it'd be like 20 pounds. Oh my God.
Speaker 1Wait, I'm going to find out Now that we're here with. Well, last episode was with Taylor Williamson. You said I can't see your name.
Speaker 2It's hard. Yeah, taylor, you know why he's projecting. You got to go one name because two names are hard for him.
Speaker 1No, but wow, if you Google big rabbits, you'll see this. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I just got caught with your name, taylor Williamson. You have to really stop in, taylor, but I like Tal oh.
Speaker 2So I was going to ask is that, like I used to word, like hacky, like to give you? Is it common for a Jewish like my brother Trevor, his Jewish name's Adam or whatever?
Speaker 3What kind of Jewish names are these? Taylor and Trevor? I'm.
Speaker 2Taylor John Williamson, my mom's Goldberg, though you know like. What do you want from?
Speaker 3me Where's your mom from?
Speaker 2Chicago, my.
Speaker 1Jewish name's you Not on my dad, the father, no, the reform rabbi from some shul Taylor.
Speaker 2My Jewish name is from a reform rabbi. My normal name is from my parents.
Speaker 3Taylor and Trevor or Jewish names, no my.
Speaker 2Jewish names are my Jewish names, my Jewish names.
Speaker 3Is that the same? Guy who got your Jew jacket Tal, tal Tal.
Speaker 1Tal Tal. Tal Tal is a beautiful name and you should, by the way, name is very strong.
Speaker 2But it's I'm you're helping. I'm really grateful for this, but it's not hacky to have your Jewish name be so similar to your normal name. No, it's not at all.
Speaker 1No, it's okay, everybody name Barry because his Hebrew name is barrel.
Speaker 2Oh, really yeah, Shlomo.
Speaker 1Shlomo Solomon Steven is shimmy, they try. They try, so it's not that different.
Speaker 2Yeah, and Talor is a name, talor is 100%.
Speaker 1It's actually two names.
Speaker 2That's what I thought. They just took two names, like I thought it was like they, just like I thought it was like so it's beautiful, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3Oh, this is so beautiful. My name is beautiful and what's your father's Hebrew name.
Speaker 1He's not a Jew. What's your father's name?
Speaker 2Doug. I'm sorry, doug, doug.
Speaker 3So in usually your name's like Jennifer. There's no Jennifer in Hebrew, so they give you like P'nina. It's ridiculous, it has nothing to do with anything.
Speaker 2That's right.
Speaker 3That's why I wanted.
Speaker 2I thought you were perfect.
Speaker 3No, no, no, no, you want, I think you want it.
Speaker 2I would. Yeah, you would Wait, I'd like the coolest, by the way.
Speaker 1By the way, do you know, and back to the conversation of you losing your last name, which is just your name in general, there's expression in Hebrew Shinui makom, shinui mazal, shinui shem, shinui mazal.
Speaker 2When you change your. I was about to say this. We have the same thought with your friend. It's like crazy. I'm sorry I swear I was. I didn't mean to talk over you. I apologize, it was really.
Speaker 1You can use that as your clip from this. Okay, wait, there's a big thing in Hebrew also when you change your name, when you change your change location, you change your luck. You change your name, you change your luck too. You know Adin Stein salts. Adin Stein salts you guys don't know who that is. He was one of the first people that translated the Talmud genius. He was very depressed. His name is Stein salts, which is a rock of salt, and the Rebbe, the Babut Sherebi, told him today his name to Simcha, which, again, I think this is a true story, but it's not. It's okay, it's my podcast and that's so. You change his name to Simcha. You can always do it. You can strengthen your name yeah.
Speaker 1It's also a thing. Yeah, was I that debuted to that one also? No, you trained her well.
Speaker 3No, I speak Hebrew oh.
Speaker 2Hebrew no, no, no, I thought this was from a hundred podcasts you really like.
Speaker 1No, she's. Periel speaks Hebrew, but she doesn't speak like Yeshiva.
Speaker 3He speaks.
Speaker 1He speaks Yiddish sometimes, but we speak like with terms from the Jewish religious world, right, right, but those I don't know, those I've learned.
Speaker 2Those I'm learning, I know, like Shabbat Shalom, it's good, shavuotov Shavuotov very good. Thank you, that's very good. And they know like hi beseret, hi beseret, hi beseret.
Speaker 3That's a hi beseret.
Speaker 1Hi beseret Wow.
Speaker 3Hi beseret, hi beseret, that's what it means.
Speaker 1Hi beseret means you live, that's what it means.
Speaker 2Are you in the movies? Are we in the movies? No, that's what it means. I had it verified recently.
Speaker 1Whoever verified it stinks? Hi beseret is living a hi Hi Life, life beseret in a movie.
Speaker 2So when you're. That's literally what I just said. Are we living in a movie?
Speaker 1You're not in the movies. He's living in a movie. He's living in a movie Like he's in his own world. He's like wow, uchai beseret. He's living in a movie right now that he is the protagonist and everything's going against him or for him. You're delusional.
Speaker 3Delusional it's delusional. No, you said like we're going to the movie.
Speaker 1No, I said we're going to the movie Living in the movies Like, hey, this is a great thing, we're living in the movies. It's like the movies, it's a great movie, right, my father always has the expression it's a really great thing from the movies, because everything in the movies was beautiful and perfect.
Speaker 1So that's why, no, uchai beseret, yo, he's a, yo he's someone comes here. I can't believe they didn't do this for me and that for me, and then I should have get this and this, because I'm that, and that Yo uchai beseret, he lives in a movie that he should be getting all of this delusional.
Speaker 2He's like him in the last episode when he's like why doesn't your agent do all these things for you? Why don't they do that?
Speaker 1No, that wasn't chai beseret, it was no, I deserve that.
Speaker 2I agree with you. You deserve that I think you.
Speaker 1That she being your seret, that she being your movie. Yeah, vision, vision, vision. Thank you, yeah.
Speaker 2This is great. I'm empowered by my Jewish name. I'm empowered by what I deserve in business. Yeah, tal or Tal, or You're making me a better man, or is light, or is light and it's also like it's Mashiach it's a way of saying Mashiach energy, or is.
Speaker 1In Kabbalah they speak of Mashiach energy in terms of or of light. So that's and Tal is success too. So success, you should have success in bringing light to the world. Wow.
Speaker 2I really love that Thank you both, for How's that?
Speaker 1That was good it's great, this is special.
Speaker 3I'm glad it turned out that it was the moment there that we weren't quite sure what direction it was going.
Speaker 2Wait what happened? What did I miss something?
Speaker 1No, Taylor Williamson dot com to find out all of his dates on his amazing new tour, which is different material than his special which is out on YouTube called Taylor Williamson at the Comedy Store. And I'm getting good at this.
Speaker 2The first time he's like who are you? Why are you here? And then now he's, like you know my Jewish name. Yeah, you know all about me and all about you.
Speaker 1When I was circumcised.
Modi Livecom Comedy Shows and LAughter
Speaker 1I was a sham. And then I am at Modi livecom. Shows are all over the place. We are going to be in San Diego, dallas, san Diego, la, dallas, glendale, detroit, detroit, the Royal Oak. The Paramount is going to be done by this Modi livecom. Just find a show near you or near a friend of yours and send them the link. Be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show. That is my energy. Bring some laughter into your friend's life and just sit there and laugh with them. It's the best thing you can do, periel.
Speaker 3I'm at Periel Ash and brand on Instagram.
Speaker 1For now. For now, and thank you all for listening and hope you had a good laugh or just just a moment of having just numbing your brain for a little while. Thank you.