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Episode 132: Is honesty the best policy? Join us as we discuss how to handle passive aggressive text message, having way too many tabs open, and Leo's new (self-diagnosed) case of OCD.
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welcome to andy's modi, and we are back. Um hi everybody. Uh hi perriel, hi ashen brand and perriel's playing musical chairs. It's leo leo vega, we are here and I hope all of you have been doing well. I had a great week. By the time this comes on, we are deep, deep, deep, deep, deep in the pause for laughter tour. I hope everybody's having. I hope everybody's good what a hook.
Speaker 3:What an engaging hook. No, I really do. Let's talk about something else.
Speaker 1:No, no, but do you know what I'm saying? It's a little crazy that we're taping something that's going to air later.
Speaker 2:It's going to air like six weeks. They don't need to know that I feel like they should know that I feel like they should like.
Speaker 3:Look, we kind of have been mentioning it every episode like hi, we're recording this. By the time I hear this it's going to be.
Speaker 2:I feel like they should feel like we recorded it the day before they're listening to it.
Speaker 1:I don't. I think honesty is the best policy with your audience-ish.
Speaker 3:We've been pretty disciplined about posting, like every week.
Speaker 2:We missed a few weeks here and there. Do you think honesty is the best policy in general?
Speaker 1:Yes, no, it depends on the situation. If someone looks like a hot mess.
Speaker 2:Well, let's hear from both of you.
Speaker 3:What's the situation? Honesty is the best policy like if I'm talking to law enforcement. Or honesty is the best policy like I'm talking to someone who I kind of don't like?
Speaker 2:Both.
Speaker 3:Well, let's hear I'm going to say when talking to law enforcement, I would cooperate. I guess.
Speaker 2:No, let's hear I'm going to say we're talking to law enforcement, I would cooperate. I guess no, you wouldn't. You would call your lawyer.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would like to speak to a lawyer first of all Number one Second of all, if I'm talking to someone I don't really like, I'm going to lie to them a little bit to move things along.
Speaker 2:Like, how? Like hi, it's nice to see you. You see you, you want to get a coffee?
Speaker 3:oh yeah, we had that happen. The other day we ran into someone we kind of know at a coffee shop and we had we had such. They gave such a fake performance of an interaction that I almost would have rathered they just ignored us, like they're like oh my god, how are you doing? Oh, we should get lunch. We should get lunch we should get lunch I was like I'd rather you shoot me in the head right now we're not getting lunch.
Speaker 2:We're. We're not getting lunch. We don't have to pretend we're getting lunch.
Speaker 3:We've never gotten lunch. Why do we hate people?
Speaker 1:First of all, I think he really did want to get lunch. I don't think it was genuine. I don't care.
Speaker 3:I do. That's what we're talking about. We're talking about honesty.
Speaker 1:Don't assume time planning, don't assume that you're going to. We just had recently somebody text me, somebody we haven't spoken to in a while, who's not a great individual, but he was sitting at a dinner with maybe a client of his or maybe I don't know what of his a woman, and he sends a picture of him and the woman. I haven't spoken to this person in over two years and because we're not fond of his Ilk Ilk Whoa good one and he sends a picture. I'm sitting here with this very intriguing person who saw your show and has some thoughts.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:What a passive, aggressive text to send someone I, of course, ignore.
Speaker 1:So let him, because I'm sure he said to her you saw, modi, I could get him on the right. Now I'll here, I am, yeah. Yeah, I'll send him our picture, he'll come right back. I completely ignored it. Let him sit there in that restaurant and keep checking if I got back to him and I didn't. And then after two days later I go oh, hope you had a good dinner, like two days later, like whatever it was, just like what are you doing? And then he wrote back let's get drinks. Why would we get drinks? Do you understand how precious time is? No one understands how get drinks. Why would we get drinks? Do you understand how precious time is? Do you know understand how precious? That's why I have I have two watches. I have more, but I have two. One is an expensive watch, so you know how, how precious and expensive time is, and one is like a, like a the, to protect time when you can smash it against everything, because time is super expensive. I love that because you like watches, honey, and I love watches.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no but I love that. That's just because you like watches, honey, and.
Speaker 2:I love watches. No, but I love that. It's true, I can't stand making small talk. It's really difficult for me. I mean, I think that it's hard for us to make small talk because this is what I think about myself is I happen to be so lucky that I get to spend most of my time talking to the funniest, most interesting people on earth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you work with comedians a lot yeah.
Speaker 3:Good point. I will put a pin in this. Those funniest, most interesting people on earth actually one-on-one usually aren't like super enthralling, depending on when you get them. Yeah, no, no, no I think that's when dealing with artists in general. But that's different. I think that's when dealing with artists in general.
Speaker 2:But that's different. I'm talking about, like you know, one-on-one with people who I actually enjoy talking to.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't like talking to most people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, neither do I. You know who has a really hard time with small talk, who Is Guy, because he doesn't understand. Your husband yeah, he doesn't understand that. Like, yeah, my, he might, he, he doesn't understand that. Like now maybe a little bit more, but when he, it's not that sweet. When he first got to this country, you know, and people were like, uh, oh, we should have a coffee, and he, he, he was like, oh, let's go have a coffee right I'm like no. No means that Nobody actually wants to have a coffee with you.
Speaker 2:We should get a coffee, we shouldn't? And then he met this guy from Lebanon and he said, oh, let's have a coffee. And they said, oh, right now, yeah, let's go have a coffee, because culturally it's like and they went to go have a coffee and they're still like best friends.
Speaker 1:And they went to go have a coffee and they're still like best friends. I remember when I worked at Merrill Lynch, at the international, there were international people, there were Indian people, there were Spanish people, there were Latinos and all that, and the interactions and the secretaries were sometimes American. So they would say to somebody, hey, how are you, how was your Thanksgiving weekend? And the answer is great, good to see you. And go into the office. Oh well, we went first to this place and he literally went and told play by play of his thanksgiving.
Speaker 3:My first time in thanksgiving we had the turkey and then we're gonna stop doing that accent, and then he, but that was the accent he did, so it's it's okay to do that accent. I had that yesterday at the gym. I was in the locker room and someone walked in and you could tell they were like hey, how's your shoulder injury? But didn't really care about the shoulder injury.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's the worst.
Speaker 3:How's your shoulder doing, How's your shoulder feeling, Something like that. And the guy goes like well, I just got to the doctor yesterday and we're going to give it a month. They took some x-rays and they're putting some. I was like he doesn't actually care about your shoulder.
Speaker 2:The answer is fine. He's just acknowledging your presence. The answer is my shoulder's. Fine, thank you for asking.
Speaker 3:It's getting better. Get in there, keep walking. We don't need to Now. I know that you had a scan yesterday. I know your whole treatment plan. I'm roped into this conversation now.
Speaker 2:Medical stuff is the worst.
Speaker 1:So I I, since COVID, I've I've stopped asking people how are you doing? How are you Never ask that Just go with the. You look great, you look amazing. Cause since COVID, people start to tell you they'll literally pull up x-rays on their phones. And I have an appointment with this. He's going to the bed. Let me show you his Instagram. I don't want to see some doctor. You're going to see his Instagram. I just say you look amazing. Are you hydrating? Is that what it is? You're walking a lot. You definitely you're doing something great. Whatever you're doing, keep it up. Bye, walk away. Do not, no, don't open up.
Speaker 2:It's not a question Like you're not giving them a question to answer, right, you're just tossing them a compliment.
Speaker 1:And keep it moving, and keep it moving, keep it moving. And stop people when they're telling you about other people that you don't know's illness. You hate them.
Speaker 3:You did that to your mom the other day. My mom, your mom was like you know who has cancer and you're like I don't want to know who has cancer. I don't want to know who has cancer.
Speaker 1:I don't want to know someone that I don't know and you're going to tell me about their cancer. Don't do that.
Speaker 2:Does your mom do that to you too? Remember Rivka, yes.
Speaker 1:No, I don't, I just know, but it's easier to just let her go through it, unless it's some insane like horrible story. If it's a bachelor, the daughter of Rivka, her son, got into the law school of the same one. That da, da, da, da, da, da, very nice, amazing. No idea who she's talking about and then he had a stroke.
Speaker 2:No, you remember him, he had a stroke.
Speaker 1:The other one. Then she starts this and that and he not good, not good.
Speaker 2:Not good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I don't I stopped that, but I'll let her go through if it's a positive story.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, it's not a positive story. It's rarely a positive story.
Speaker 1:My mom has positive stories and she always says the negative one. I don't want to hear the negative ones. I just don't want to hear it.
Speaker 2:That's a pet peeve. The other pet peeve for me huge when somebody starts telling you about a TV show that you haven't seen and they go through the whole plot of it. It's a nightmare.
Speaker 1:Oh my God.
Speaker 3:And then well, if we're on this topic, someone making you watch a video, yeah, oh, that is up there at the top three and it's never like a 20-second video, it's like a minute and a half. You have to see this Now. They're holding their greasy phone in your face with thumbprints all over it.
Speaker 1:You better have the best video on earth to show. It just recently happened and actually it was a good thing. We were in the house in Connecticut and my parents came for the first time up to the house. My father drove all the way up. My father, 89 years old, in the car, drives like a soldier. He gets to the end with the dirt road. They were dying and they pulled up and Leo's godparents came.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:I spoke to them. They raised him and they were together. That was that meeting. And my mom just sits there for the first part of the whole thing Just studies them. She's just studying them and they're talkers, my mom just studies them. They all fell in love with each other. It was really amazing energy. But then he at the end Leo's godfather, manny, pulls out a video and he's a little bit older, so he doesn't. You're allowed to. You're older and you are. They watch the podcast, by the way, they watch the podcast. So, manny, we love you, hi Manny, hi Manny, hi D, hi D. He makes us watch this video. I'm like, okay, I'll just listen to it, I'm not gonna, and it is.
Speaker 1:That was a good one it was a very good one, it was someone someone did, now you're doing the same thing, keep talking.
Speaker 1:Someone did a take of they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, but to a like they. They put music behind it and it's so good. It is so good that I was like I sent it to the group chat of leo's sisters. It was that good. But but you know, that's it. I just um. I I just, it was just he. If you're older and you can pull the video up, you can. He's not that much older. He's like old er, but not old um okay, but we're not talking about.
Speaker 2:They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets of the people that live there. They're eating the dogs they're eating the cats.
Speaker 3:It's like this bachata remix of anyway, that's what manny was showing and then it has the dog howling in sync.
Speaker 1:It's pretty funny and I'm a cat meowing and it, and it was just killed.
Speaker 3:I have 62 tabs open. Should I just kill myself? I don't know how you do that.
Speaker 2:Not on air, please. What are other pet peeves?
Speaker 3:Well, there's close all 62 tabs. I don't think we need open tabs.
Speaker 1:Every time I'm on Leoo's phone, I'm done looking at whatever closes all the apps that I have open.
Speaker 3:But I I'm pretty sure it doesn't make an effect on the phone performance anymore, like back in the day when you had, like an iphone 3, if you had everything open, it was a little slower. Now it's like it turns itself off, but you'll you know, you can swipe up and you see how everything's open.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I have everything open all the time.
Speaker 2:And you close everything.
Speaker 3:He closes everything. Yeah, sometimes he'll go on his phone to look something up and I'll watch him and he'll close everything first and then he'll reopen everything. Why? I don't know why it's like an OCD thing. Is it OCD?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:It's just that's how we would train.
Speaker 1:I think I'm developing OCD.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what kind of OCD are you developing?
Speaker 3:You're laughing because it seems like you have one in mind for me already.
Speaker 2:No, Say what kind of OCD you have.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what are you OCDing about?
Speaker 2:It's on brand, it's not. Not on brand. Well.
Speaker 3:One is like too on the nose. I was like no, because it was a hand washing thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then the other thing is like I haven't told you this. I'm like timing myself with how fast I can load and unload the dishwasher.
Speaker 1:You're kidding me fast I can load and unload the dishwasher.
Speaker 3:You're kidding me, Like if I look at the clock and it's 1234, I'm like I need to finish this task by 1237 or else Is it because you're so busy? No, it's because I just have, like this is how long this task should take, and if I don't reach this benchmark, something bad is going to happen. Like the whole rest of my day will be derailed. Should I be medicated, yes or no? Answering the question.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:That's the thing you have now. It's not a bad one, it's new, but I it's not great, I never.
Speaker 1:I don't know. We have a dishwasher and it's either 40 minutes or two hours and 45 minutes. I said, Leo, there's nothing that needs two hours and 45 minutes.
Speaker 3:I like for it to sanitize everything.
Speaker 1:But we just had a bowl of cereal in it. It's not like we had. We didn't pull out someone's kidney and put it in there and transport it. We had a bowl of cereal. You wipe it out?
Speaker 3:Okay, put it in the dishwasher for 40 minutes, and he likes to eat bowls of cereal out of these ceramic pot, non-dishwasher, safe bowls Because they're pretty yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, what kind of non-dishwasher safe bowl?
Speaker 3:Oh, he's very fancy, this one with the cereal, and then I finish.
Speaker 1:There's that palm olive, not palm olive but the one squared. I know, and you put it back on the shelf and by hop around two seconds. By the way, if I take a sip of water out of a cup be having a cup. If I'm thinking just for a sip of water, like to take a vitamin or something, I'll put the cup right back up there.
Speaker 3:Don't tell people that First of all, that's so gross.
Speaker 1:It's not gross If you come over to our house. I will promise you that whatever I'm giving you is clean and sanitized.
Speaker 3:I I do the same thing with my vitamin drink water. It's my water cup for the day and I know where it is, and I leave it there and I refill and I drink it Anyway. Anyway, I'm feeling fat right now because I restarted taking creatine.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that what it is? I also feel a little more bloated, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm going to stop taking creatine. Have you been?
Speaker 3:feeding him creatine without his knowledge. Anytime I start a supplement, Modi will start a supplement. Yeah, Creatine is that what's doing it? I feel like.
Speaker 1:I'm putting on a little water weight.
Speaker 3:That's what it does at first. It's a thing with creatine and I'm like, right at that point I'm like two and a half weeks in where I'm like, oh, do I want to keep doing this? But apparently you just have to like break through this wall and then you just get like massive, I don't mean massive.
Speaker 3:I want to just look good in a suit. Big muscles. I told you on one of the last podcast episodes one of my fitness goals is like I want to be so jacked I can catcall straight men on the street.
Speaker 2:That's true, you did say that.
Speaker 3:I think you're I don't make everyone uncomfortable, you would never do that oh.
Speaker 1:I've done it. I've done it already Do you know how many times you said to me you can't say that.
Speaker 3:You're a public figure, I'm not.
Speaker 2:I have news for you You're a public figure.
Speaker 1:You have over 10,000 followers.
Speaker 3:That's not a public figure. People are not buying tickets to see me. They're buying tickets to see you.
Speaker 1:They're buying to also you. They're hoping to get a good glimpse of you in there also they're not, not coming to see you too, they're not coming to see him on Shabbos because they're all Orthodox Jewish women that follow him. That's who follows him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, anytime, modi will mention my name on stage and then, as soon as the lights come on, the show's over, people whip out their phones. They go to modi, they go to following, they search leo, they find me and then my phone just goes bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop and it's all like rifka, sarah, honey, they're all following me immediately after the show.
Speaker 1:So thank you all the rifka, sarahs and honeys. Thank you for following leo, so you know where I am, because I don't post like we're here in in this, but but Leo has all that stuff.
Speaker 3:Anyway, yeah, it's the creatine talking.
Speaker 2:I think, yeah, we have to talk about the timing of the dishwasher.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 1:That's not like great for mental health, Because it starts with the dishwasher, yeah, and then what happens?
Speaker 2:And then, who knows, it's going to turn into a real mishigas.
Speaker 3:Uh Well, my grandmother does have actual OCD, the one that's still alive. She one time she was a school nurse when she was older. Thank, you. She became a school nurse and she had to get fingerprinted for a background check and she has such a bad OCD thing that she had burned all of her fingerprints off with cleaning products and bleach over the years.
Speaker 3:so when they took went to take her fingerprints they were like you don't have any fingerprints so, okay, wait if you need someone to get murdered um, call my grandma that's like a trace serial killer yeah, I've only ever seen her like scrubbing something with bleach, like I've only.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah yeah, it's an anxiety thing, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:I'm sure it's like a, it's like it's a relief of something, it's like.
Speaker 2:But it's not, but it makes it worse.
Speaker 3:Like it's supposed to give relief, but actually it makes you insane yeah like I'll be doing, dr phil yeah I'll be like I'll be doing like a household task and I'll be like why do I feel like I'm being hunted for sport right now? Like why is my heart racing?
Speaker 1:Your heart's racing all the time. Anyway, I don't know. I love a task. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Maybe because you're drinking 4,000 bottles of Celsius.
Speaker 3:I drink one a day at the gym in the afternoon.
Speaker 2:If that, I have some questions. Go ahead, hit me who is more into shoes.
Speaker 3:Modi Me. We wear the same size shoe, though We've discussed this.
Speaker 2:Do you share shoes there?
Speaker 1:are some shoes I have.
Speaker 3:No, there are certain really nice boots that are leather and very nice that we can both wear Otherwise, like our sneakers and stuff I feel like are molded Any shoe.
Speaker 1:I've bought in the past is still around, because I always buy great shoes that last forever and I resold them and I do all that stuff. He does take good care of the shoes he like brings them to the shoe guy yeah, and I get them moisturized and I get them all taken care of so they last forever and so he wears. And then he bought his own like really nice shoes, and but I have boots that are. I used to go, I don't buy nice shoes, I just buy sneakers.
Speaker 3:No, but when we do buy shoes, you buy the good shoes, um, but but like I have boots from like way back like he'll take my gucci slides and he'll get them like resold and like polished and moisturized, so they look new, brand new. So it's like a, and when you buy something like that, you want to wear it a lot.
Speaker 2:For sure, Okay. So if you're buying Gucci slides, then oh, I have two pairs of Gucci slides, a black one and a blue one.
Speaker 1:Okay, and and the hermes sandals. You bought me the worst things I've ever most uncomfortable shoe ever. Really, it was the worst, one of the worst. It was a gift. I was there with dina and hermes and I see these beautiful sandals. They look cute on me though, yeah, and I I said to the to the salesman I go, does this come for men? He goes yes, and they came in this beautiful leather.
Speaker 1:It is the most uncomfortable sandal that has ever been made and that was verified when we were staying at the house in Fire Island with Chris Hesley, hesley, hesley, yeah, hesley.
Speaker 1:And Chris comes out with these sandals and it's the same sandals as Leo. Oh, beyond, the price was just nuts, but it's like a gift. Like here, leo, here's a gift. Thanks for whatever is going on, thank you. I just you know we don't buy gifts on like anniversaries and but if this is a gift I found we buy and they're the most uncomfortable. You I don't know how they can be more uncomfortable.
Speaker 1:They're flat and like it's just like it doesn't yeah, the aramez don't have a lot of they're not ergonomically designed, so it wasn't, just like I realized oh, everybody's is the same, you're not?
Speaker 3:going, hiking in those. You're going from the car to the restaurant, restaurant to the car you need to go like the balenciaga uh birkenstock collab.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I have a hookah.
Speaker 1:It makes a slip-on sandal for the beach or whatever, and it's like walking on a cloud. I don't play around. I don't need a piece of Hermes on my feet, but for Leo it's nice. He has nice feet. I do have nice feet.
Speaker 3:But Hashem yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's that God. This conversation stinks.
Speaker 2:I thought it was fun earlier, I thought it was fun, all right.
Speaker 1:What's your pet peeve?
Speaker 2:I told you. My pet peeve is when people tell me about TV shows or movies like plots.
Speaker 1:That's the only one.
Speaker 2:No, I have a lot, if any of the other mothers at my child's school tries to talk to me.
Speaker 3:I have a pet peeve that's not mine, that other people often cite as their pet peeve. That I don't understand. So people will say, like, what's your pet peeve? And then they'll be like when the plane lands and the people stand up, immediately I'm that person, I'm standing up. I've been sitting this whole time. I want to stand up. I'm not going to like run down the aisle and try to get ahead of you, but if I'm always in the aisle seat because you're always in the window and I, as soon as we're allowed to, I stand up.
Speaker 2:Also, by the way, you're not running ahead of anyone because you're in first class, so you have nobody to run ahead of, but they're like.
Speaker 3:I hate people who stand as soon as the light.
Speaker 1:No, there's the people who are insane. They stand up and they're deep in the window seat and they're like this. They're like standing there with their neck.
Speaker 3:My ass is asleep, my knees hurt.
Speaker 2:I've been sitting in this chair. You're in like a full bed.
Speaker 1:For some reason, when that plane lands and we're parked at the gate, the gate's coming up. That's when I'm the most I sit back. I watch everybody going through their motions and trying to pick up their bag and put their coat on and bring their. That's when I just sit back. I know eventually it's going to move. I'll just slide right into the getting off.
Speaker 2:Do you guys usually check luggage or not? Check luggage?
Speaker 1:We try not to, but we are about to go on a full month tour where we need to check luggage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought of my pet peeve. I have two really big pet peeves when I order coffee. If I order coffee and dessert and they bring the dessert and then like 10 minutes later they bring the coffee, that makes me insane, yeah, I hate that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, modi hates when uh some when they take your silverware for the appetizers and then they bring the entrees like 30 seconds before they bring the silverware for the entrees yeah, then you're just staring at your food like a moron, but you want to hear that pisses modi off so much I get so mad wait, we were in.
Speaker 1:We were in in Connecticut and there's this restaurant we love. It's called Community Table, it's just like. It's poshy and beautiful and the food is sensational, very good, and it's like out of notes and there's like on this, like two lane highway, you know, and it's you'd never know unless you know and you get there and it's all these fancy people and fancy cars outside and you can never get a reservation. Luckily we just got the number of the woman who owns it and she's a fan. We were sitting there and she introduces us.
Speaker 1:The rabbi of Angela From Central Synagogue From Central Synagogue. The rabbi of Central Synagogue was there too and she made the shidduch between us and she knew who I was. I kind of knew who she was and it was like, but when we're at that restaurant I like there's a corner bar seat and I said to her I wanted to get her cell number. I said to her you know sometimes, cell number. I said to her you know, sometimes, anytime we come here and we know we're going to be here, we try to make reservations. Sometimes we can't. She goes. Oh, take my number, I go, and we don't need a table, we just like this little corner right here on the bar. These are the best two seats in the house, are you?
Speaker 3:that stupid. She said that to you. She was like oh yeah, sure no one wants these seats it's perched up.
Speaker 1:Whoever you're having the meal with you're like, you get to like face kind of them, and but you also get to see the whole place.
Speaker 3:It's, it's okay another pet peeve that, like I see red, like anger is if we are at a chain establishment like a starbucks, for example, or a chipotle or like something that is common and you know what you're getting into. If there's a line and you don't know what you want by the time you get to the front of the line, first of all you know what you want. When you walk in there. You're gonna get the same thing you always get. But if you get to the front of a starbucks line and you start to ask what an americano is, you deserve to be taken outside and shot in the parking lot like I get so mad and there's so many people to do it and they'll be there on their phone the whole time, and then they'll get to the front. They'll go oh, um, um. How many shots is in a latte? I'm like are you serious?
Speaker 1:you're absolutely right. There's a comedian that has his entire act as that.
Speaker 3:No, I should watch it because it's like…. John Panette, I understand if you're going to like a little cafe, that's like new and whatever, but if you are specifically a chain establishment, you know the menu, you know what you're getting A hundred percent. Why are you acting like this is new, dom?
Speaker 1:Pineda is a heavy, heavy comedian and every joke is a fat joke and he talks about being online and buffets and people who don't know what they want. He just goes get out of the line, get out of the line, get out of the line, you get out of the line. I could have been ordering by now.
Speaker 2:It's a whole act.
Speaker 3:Do you call them out? Are you ever like no, maybe you should start.
Speaker 2:Maybe you should do it once and see what happens.
Speaker 3:No, because then someone's going to film me and I'm going to be a Karen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do not do that. Do you know what we did recently? That was a lot of fun and very productive and very Mashiach energy. We had a dinner that I co-hosted with heather mcmahon very funny comedian, very over the top. Big atlantic, southern atlanta, atlanta atlantic, atlanta, atlanta, not, not atlantic, but yeah, atlantic um, and we co-hosted a dinner with uh meta for comedians to help them figure out like Facebook.
Speaker 3:Instagram.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's awesome, that's so cool the difference between reels and when they should post, how they should post, and it was so great. First of all, you're seeing comedians not in a comedy setting. They were coming into a dinner. Just them walking in, not understanding what's happening. Just them walking in not understanding what's happening, like modi and heather mcmahon, like two opposite spectrums of comedy, uh-huh, um. And then like hosting a dinner with meta. We're inviting them, they're inviting us to to what's modi doing with meta and and they're like rosebud baker comes in, she, she like, and they had it super organized. This is meta.
Speaker 1:They have money, the place is gorgeous, it was the Chelsea Hotel and she comes in, she goes. Rosebud Baker comes in, she goes. Did I do something wrong? They had everybody's like stats, yeah, yeah, yeah, like a paper how many followers they have, the engagement and that and when, when they do this and how long they've been there, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It was super professional, but people are super nice. It just gave people. Like Rosewood said, it's just nice that there's actually a human being behind the machine.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:People just think it's a machine called Instagram and just you pop in and it was just a way to give them, first of all, a contact, to contact somebody if they have questions and if they have needs and if they have whatever it was. It was just such a great night and Godfrey showed up and it was just. It was Vecchione. Mike Vecchione was there and a bunch of comedians there, a woman, phil Henley, and everybody was so funny and they all had questions and even though they have social teams that are doing it for them, it's like little tricks that could help push your video or your advertising for your show.
Speaker 1:And it was such a great night. It was like while I was in it I was like this is a mashiach energy moment right here yeah, that's really interesting and probably very helpful yeah, because you're not only helping comedians and it's not just about, like, getting more views and and, obviously, putting butts in seats in the theater sure but you're helping people who don't know that you're going to be there, who would have enjoyed the show get. That's why, that's how I saw it.
Speaker 3:No, yeah, shout out to our friend michael hoffman.
Speaker 1:Michael, hoffman and nick and nick nick white, nick white uh, amazing, they were great and the people from metta, from la, came and it was just a fun, amazing night. It sounds amazing. Yeah, it's about like 40 people and it was great.
Speaker 3:I gave a little speech about broadcast channels. Oh my god.
Speaker 2:Really yeah.
Speaker 1:So the guys from Meta?
Speaker 2:I want to get this speech.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait, you can have a meeting with them, but looks like Nick would get up and talk about reels. And hi everybody, this is what reels are. Here's what to do. Don't put your ad first. Put a video and then put your ad. Don't do it. I could follow and then the next person would go Facebook what you would do with Facebook. And then we talk about broadcast channels and Leo gets up as if he works for Meta which I should, honestly, by the way and he gets up and he's like okay, so broadcasting is when you do da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da and da-da-da-da-da-da, and me and Heather McMahon are sitting next to each other and we have no idea what he's talking about. I have no idea what he's talking about or how he posts on this, and we both look at each other and I just go how hot is Leo?
Speaker 3:I was wearing a very tight shirt.
Speaker 3:He was wearing that shirt In terms of broadcast channels, you can go to Modi's page and you'll see a little link underneath his bio. It says Modi moments I think is what we've called it and it's like a little DM chat that you get with Modi and the and it's just DMs from Modi and me and I usually keep it to like juicy announcements, like we're adding a show, this is happening. Any keep it to like juicy announcements, like we're adding a show, this is happening. Any major changes you need to know about and there's um like thousands of people in there, so if you're not in there, my mom somehow clicked on it and gets that so out of nowhere even a little mini newsletter even before.
Speaker 1:I know she's like how many shows are you doing in front laws of daily? She'll be calling me. I'm like I don't know, I have no idea. No, it just says now that it's. And where does it say it, I don't know? In this other piece of the.
Speaker 3:Oh speaking, do you know what I meant to do for this episode? What at this dinner from Meta? Yeah, they gifted us Ray Bans with the cameras and no, have Meta built into it and I wanted to wear them and live broadcast this to the AHM podcast channel. You can do it in another episode. How much time do we have left? 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why Are they?
Speaker 3:here they're in the room with us. Go get them. Go get them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they give out these glasses.
Speaker 2:My cousin in Israel has been hawking me for a pair of these. They're supposed to be like the coolest things ever I have. A in Israel has been hocking me for a pair of these that he's they're supposed to be like the coolest things ever.
Speaker 1:I have a pair too. They're unopened. I have a pair.
Speaker 2:You can sell them.
Speaker 1:I'm not selling them. What am I going to do with this? I don't know. I was like I don't know what.
Speaker 2:I was like I don't know what they are. I'll buy you a pair. What I was like I don't know what they are.
Speaker 3:I'll buy you a pair. What do I care? But what? Yeah, those are exactly. Oh my God, Hi guys, I'm back, hold on.
Speaker 2:So what's going on?
Speaker 3:I didn't know what time is it? Hey, meta, what time is it? It's 1220 pm. Could you hear that? Wolf did that pick up on the microphone. It told me the time I heard it speakers right next. It's not in your ear, but it's like on top of your ear and then I get like this hey meta? God damn it, of course not. Hey meta take a picture. God damn it, of course not, hey Meta Take a picture.
Speaker 1:It took a picture of you yeah. So let's see if I can go, ask hey, meta what Jewish holiday is it?
Speaker 3:Hey, meta, what Jewish holiday is it?
Speaker 2:It's Thursday, october 24thth 2024.
Speaker 3:It's simchat torah. All right, and the cool thing is I can now go into the ahm pod uh instagram page, which you guys should all be following yeah, and then, I can go live, oh you're kidding me connected to these okay, this is insane I can't imagine anything. I'd rather not wear so okay, three, two, one and we're live on the ahm podcast. You're kidding me, um?
Speaker 1:yeah, so people? Hi, everybody, welcome to the ahm podcast. We are look at me while I'm talking. So we are going through leo's meta glasses. This is insane. You're going through your glasses are recording. This is dangerous, but the comedy club people could be recording me that's true.
Speaker 2:Nobody's sitting in a dark comedy club in sunglasses, though with a little light, if you see that he kind of looks a little blind.
Speaker 1:You look like you're a little blind.
Speaker 2:He also looks like he could be like a robot yes, a hot robot.
Speaker 3:Don't worry, we only have one person watching right now.
Speaker 2:Okay, maybe that person has a question.
Speaker 3:Yeah, does anyone have a question? Would anyone like to write a question? Anyone have a question? Would anyone like to uh write a question? Um, I thought it would be fun to do, but so I'm. So. Whatever I look at is now being streamed first, so they look great.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna lie, like you know you wear them, you cook tom cruise in uh risky business they look very good on you on me would look like I'm, I'm. It would look like the nose. Give me those On me. Now they're going to disconnect if I take them off, so don't disconnect. It's not like this. All right, bye guys. On me. This would look like On me, these glasses, the meta glasses on me would look like it came with the nose.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, how are you?
Speaker 1:You look like you're about to like do blackjack. I'm going to sit in the casino for four hours. I don't know I love him. Love him for the youngins, it's not I don't. I love my sunglasses and I don't need them to record anybody.
Speaker 2:It's so funny. I literally just had like an hour long conversation about these glasses. I was like what are you talking about? I couldn't wrap my head around what he wanted from my life figuratively, and and okay so that's it.
Speaker 1:So the meta dinner was amazing I'm sorry and I got it. And I got these glasses, and we got glasses yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm even more sorry now that I missed it. I was bummed to miss it in the beginning.
Speaker 1:And we were in the Chelsea Hotel. I haven't been there since they remodeled it, wow.
Speaker 2:It is nice in there. It's beautiful. It's gorgeous in there, it's beautiful I haven't been there since.
Speaker 1:It's really beautiful. All the ghosts are still there 100%.
Speaker 2:So many people OD'd in that place now.
Speaker 1:Exactly Every famous singer and star and painter that OD'd their soul is still in there.
Speaker 2:It's an amazing place.
Speaker 1:It's an amazing place, yeah.
Speaker 2:Why did you look at me like that when I said it's Simchat Torah?
Speaker 3:So it got Shemina Tzeret the other day when we asked Right it?
Speaker 1:So it got Shmina Tseret the other day when we asked Right, it pops up it's trying to get the holidays. It hasn't nailed the holidays yet, so that's what it is. It was a nice gift to us for being a part of it.
Speaker 3:But what if this just like became my personality, now that I just like, I would just like walk around like, always, live Very like Truman show? You guys are lucky I didn't make the UFO thing my personality.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, that was not an option. We're too busy, we have shows.
Speaker 3:This is not an option. Is this worse than the UFO thing?
Speaker 1:The UFO thing is definitely not an option. We saw UFOs but we're not leaning into it.
Speaker 3:I could have made that my whole personality. No, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:I'll be very thankful okay, and this meta thing, glasses, is a nice. Uh, it's a nice, it's fun for five minutes five minutes. It's already bored the audience.
Speaker 3:They're already over this could be the hottest thing. What if, like it just becomes like this viral thing? Like it?
Speaker 1:will be eventually, not right now. It won't right now.
Speaker 3:Right now it's not going to be the most it's called being an early adopter exactly.
Speaker 1:Oh my god leo does catch trends early, does um speaking of catching, catching shows yes, there's worse things to catch. Yes, oh my god, we are on tour. Modilivecom for all the shows. We have shows in uh, saint paul, minnesota. We have shows in skokie. We have shows in montreal and toronto. We have shows at the beacon um in denver. But we had the beacon um by now. I don't know if there's tickets available still, but the 17th, 18th and 19th of december how exciting is that? I'm like, like, I can't wait.
Speaker 2:I feel like I don't love it when you just like throw those dates in with like all of your other dates.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I agree, they like feel like a standalone thing, it's a standalone thing, it's like a milestone thing.
Speaker 1:It's a milestone, it's a huge, and if you guys don't have tickets, yet you're going to Shonda.
Speaker 3:It's going to be.
Speaker 2:If you don't have tickets yet because it's all sold out, I might scalp you mine for several thousand dollars.
Speaker 1:And then we have Denver. I'm looking forward to Denver. There's a beautiful Jewish community in Denver. We'll be there December 5th and it's a big comedy community, so it's going to be not just Jews in the show, so I love that too. And then we have dates all over the world world.
Speaker 3:And everybody should go to modilivecom, including los angeles, baltimore, like austin houston, like a lot of places people have been asking about are you still recording?
Speaker 1:no, I'm not recording, don't worry, no um, now he's waiting for his dog to come take him away.
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Speaker 2:No, thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, I hope you enjoyed this is very light and easy and fun, and then that's what this is all about. Bye.