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welcome to and here's modi. Hi everybody, we're back to and here's modi. It has been a minute. I hope you've enjoyed the guests we've had on the podcast. We have been out and about, we've been all over and we've been getting such nice feedback on the podcast. Every time Leo goes on the stage and says I'm usually not the funny one, I'm usually not the one on the mic, unless you listen to the podcast and say who here listens to the podcast? And the place goes nuts and it's a lot. It's very cute.
Speaker 2:That's so nice, it's really cute.
Speaker 1:It's really cute. Such nice fans we have and such great uh feedback and literally they just tell us we just enjoy listening to it. Just a way to numb your brain. Um, on that note, um, just so people know where we are in the world right now. Time wise, they have not caught the killer of the CEO.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:And I don't think they're going to. I'm almost hoping they don't. Do you want him caught, or no?
Speaker 2:Look, I'm very torn about this because on the one hand, it's almost like this Robin Hood story, you know. Yeah, they're making him out to be like a folk hero totally yeah totally, and the internet is like going crazy and like people are he's, it's like a thirst trap out there keeps hitting me with.
Speaker 1:You know leo's following it on twitter, so he keeps hitting me with these lines and uh, yeah, like I would offer my thoughts and prayers, but you're out of network right, right, right right.
Speaker 2:Somebody said that I hope they take him to the CO. I hope they take him to a hospital that's out of network.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Like you do not meet the deductible for my condolences. There's a lot of dark things. Some of them are pretty clever.
Speaker 1:And he looks a little bit like John F Kennedy Jr.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And he's white and has all his teeth, so he's going to get through. They're never going to find him.
Speaker 2:Right, I mean look.
Speaker 3:He's wherever Epstein is right now. That's where this guy is. They're on the same island, listen, yes.
Speaker 2:It's so crazy because I at first, when I first saw the video, I was like, oh, this was like a super professional hit. And then it turns out that this was like completely not a professional hit at all, like this guy was like gallivanting around Manhattan, staying in a hostel, going to Starbucks. The gun that he used was like a veterinary gun of some sort.
Speaker 1:Oh, when did that come out?
Speaker 2:I think in the past couple of days Veterinary gun.
Speaker 1:I knew it wasn't professional, because a professional put the bullet in the back of his head and move on Right. He stood there and took that shot, but they kept it going on. Oh, he's this professional, he's this professional. He's that, I don't know. If you know, patrice O'Neill had the funniest joke in the world Years ago. There was this shooter who was shooting out of the back of a trunk of a Buick.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Right, and it was this like for a while. So the guy would hide in the back of a Buick and would just take a shot and kill people from you. Remember this right? I remember. And they kept going oh, he's a mastermind, that was Patrice's whole thing. He's a mastermind, he's a genius, he's an assassin. A sniper, and then they found it was just a guy in the back of a Buick shooting people and it was I think this is the same he. Obviously they found the money and the Monopoly money in his bag.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't know that what.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they found his bag. His knapsack was full of Monopoly money. You're kidding, yeah knapsack was full of Monopoly money. You're kidding, yeah, the other thing is that coat he was wearing. You can't get it's sold out online.
Speaker 3:They had a lookalike contest in Washington Square Park the other day.
Speaker 2:I'm done.
Speaker 3:And I you know. They say the killer returns to the scene with other crime, Like he probably went to the lookalike contest. If he's still in New York, oh my God. Yeah, the internet's unwell.
Speaker 1:The internet is undefined, and then also that the bullet casings had writing on them Of course, yeah, my cousin who was a DA for 24 years in Miami, she's never heard of that, never heard like to put that on the. How do you even do that? You can do that. Yeah, you just have you ever seen a bullet? Yeah, yeah, you can like engrave something on it.
Speaker 2:So somebody engraved. What was it?
Speaker 3:Deny depose, I think, defend.
Speaker 2:Yes, Listen, it's a very sinister industry, the healthcare I mean. They really are responsible for like hundreds of thousands of people dying just to be jerks right, and UnitedHealthcare apparently has the highest rate of— Denial. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Not that anyone deserves to get murdered in the street. Preface asterisk bold underlined Please do not message us saying that we said otherwise.
Speaker 2:Did you see there was a picture of George from Seinfeld, like sweating, like a screenshot of him and it said every CEO denying claims today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Then also brings you to the thought of like God forbid, you should be kidnapped or you should be killed. What photo do you want used?
Speaker 2:Right, that's good.
Speaker 1:That's an important picture. I turned to Leo and Leo could see it in my head. I go, if I'm ever Leo. Before I even finish this thing, he goes. I know exactly what picture we're using. He knew exactly what picture we are using.
Speaker 3:I at least have like it down to like a few.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't have to like yeah like a press kit, like a media kit please download this pdf file this is.
Speaker 1:This is all, okay, keep in mind. Leo and I watch television only when we are on the road and in a hotel room and the tv is right by the, by the, by the bed. In our house, we do not put the TV on, so that's why we were able to follow this. It was like a good one. I see the world as episodes of a series.
Speaker 2:This is a TV show, for sure.
Speaker 1:This is going to be amazing.
Speaker 2:Wait, tell me about the Monopoly money though, because I didn't hear about that, and that is wild.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know. I saw that. I told you I didn't see it on like a repute, like a real news source.
Speaker 2:I saw it on something on twitter that was reposted a few times as opposed to this entire rest of story that we've gotten, not from twitter that they found a backpack in central park and it matched the backpack that he had and it was monopoly money that's incredible. I mean that that tells you everything you need to know, right, like that's a piece of the puzzle, although it could be that his you know.
Speaker 3:They think one of his fans like planted it Maybe. Oh yeah, that's where Cheek Led me down that rabbit hole. Wow.
Speaker 2:Somebody said that maybe he like this was like a personal thing, that he was having like an affair or something, and that they did this whole thing to like deflect from that because they said his wife didn't sound that upset when?
Speaker 3:oh, she didn't, I heard it. I heard her. His wife, I heard her she released a statement.
Speaker 1:Uh, uh, um, talking an audio statement. It was very, we are very upset. He was a very generous man. He was please accept our privacy and you can see her filling out the deposit slip for the insurance company For whatever life insurance. Imagine what life insurance he has. And he just made $150 million on an SEC thing, on allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. I don't know this is not a courthouse here.
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Speaker 3:I'm getting good at that, very good. We're episode like 173. Wait, can we talk about you opening with the pants? Sure, I'm going to get a water because I've like caught in the outfit.
Speaker 2:I'll get you a water. I'll get you a water.
Speaker 1:Wait, is it a new thing now to leave the podcast? Because you?
Speaker 3:peed during the last episode.
Speaker 1:We're doing the podcast.
Speaker 3:For those of you listening, Periel has gotten off her chair to kindly get me a water because my mouth is kicking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I had to be Leo and I took these water pills.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because we're on a. Okay, because we're traveling, we're on a plane. You're in different time zones, you get a little bloaty toady.
Speaker 2:What do water pills do you?
Speaker 1:pee the water out. I found them from Dina's father. Dina's father, an older guy, had these water pills. I'm like, what are these? He goes, these are water pills that make all the water go out of your body. I'm like, can I have one? And I tried it and it's amazing. It flushes your whole body full of water.
Speaker 2:Wait a second. Did you just describe Dina's father, who usually gets like a three minute long introduction about what kind of a rabbi he is, as a quote unquote older guy.
Speaker 3:Yes, we're going to guess. This is exactly what happened.
Speaker 1:By the way, we have a whole thing to tell you about in Montreal, okay Water pills. The water pills. So why were we telling?
Speaker 3:Because you had to pee during the last episode.
Speaker 1:I'm sitting there with Mark Feuerstein and I said I cannot hold it anymore Because these water pills make you pee a lot. And I got up and that was I think the episode's going to be called Delft Gay Pishing I have to go fishing that was a cute episode.
Speaker 2:It was cute yeah.
Speaker 1:It hasn't aired yet. Comes out this week. Comes out this week, okay, okay, wait. What do you want to talk about was the chicago show with the pants? Leo gets on okay. So leo has two looks.
Speaker 1:Leo leo, when he gets dressed there's two looks he wears, either he looks like a toddler clean baby look well, clean baby, but when you take him out of the house, it Take him out of the house. Square pants, these overdone square pants, and these t-shirts that are like extra large, so you don't see the. Just like a toddler, like a little. Okay, I like baggy clothes, baggy clothes, okay. And the other look is the captain of the Czechoslovakian gymnastics team.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like baggy clothes until I don't, and then there's like no in between.
Speaker 1:So he had these one pair of horrible pants. I can't tell you how ugly they were. They were these black pants. They look like if you were working in McDonald's. That's what they give you as a uniform. That's a little much. Thin little nonsense fabric and it's expensive. They're from O Officina General, whatever the hell that is. It's like super, but it's just so baggy and looks so dumb. I hated it Anyway. He made that abundantly clear, apparently, so now he walks on stage to introduce the show.
Speaker 2:In his Officina General.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he's deciding whether I'm going to give it to the audience when I do my few minute introduction or I'm just like walking on like a stagehand. So he did the stagehand look and he's these pants and they're so thin Now you know, when I go on stage, I have the stage lit like you could do oral surgery.
Speaker 1:So it's just light lit like you could do oral surgery. Yes, so it's just light, and now? So I'm off, I'm, I'm, I'm in this, I'm in the wing and I'm looking out and all you see is I see leo's profile and the first five rows of the audience okay and all you can see is leo's shaft.
Speaker 3:This is a lot.
Speaker 1:I don't know if this is gonna make the cut no pun intended he didn't realize it, but that light just hits those pans and it just All you see. And then I'm looking in the first five row and you see women in their 60s and 70s like this no way, really Did you notice that he didn't know.
Speaker 1:I swear to you he didn't notice that. I swear to you he had no idea that that was what was going on. That's amazing. But the light's so strong and those pants are so thin. It's amazing. And the first five row was just like what are we looking at? By the way, the Chicago shows were amazing and people gave us feedback. Like did you know how to talk about how Jews give us feedback.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And some woman you can tell, or some guy made an Instagram account to tell me about what they thought of a certain joke which I did not not agree with and I took it out.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, you should tell us everything certain joke which I did not not agree with and I took it out. Okay, well, it was a good note. It was this, it was this this bit I do about like christian conversion camp stuff, but then I it's cute and it's bomb, bomb, bomb. But then I added a whole other scene like uh, uh, um, like an act out scene of if a jewish kid was at a Christian gay conversion camp, what it would be like. But it was too schleppy. Okay, it was too schleppy. The show now, by the way, it's called Pause for Laughter.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's a different hour than the other hour, so there are people coming in there and they're like where's the Sephardic Ashkenazi material? I'm like we did that.
Speaker 2:But people want the hits.
Speaker 1:They want the hits, but they're not getting it. They're getting brand new material in each bit.
Speaker 2:You don't throw in like… I threw one little thing, I feel like you have to do that. If you're going to do one, I feel like that one is so iconic for you, which one.
Speaker 1:No, no, no. This is more this. This is a show that does not need to be translated to people who aren't jewish. It is a very down the middle, a jewish flavor for sure, but it's it's well, I for one. I'm very excited to see the beacon, to see it at the Beacon.
Speaker 2:Where I will be on December 17th.
Speaker 1:You're coming, the 17th. December 17th, 18th and 19th, 17th, 18th and 19th I am plotting.
Speaker 2:It is so exciting.
Speaker 1:But this will probably air that week.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1:Isn't that right? Yeah, this would probably be airing that that week.
Speaker 2:So right now is like we've already done one and if anybody is trying to get tickets and can't get them, I am willing to scalp mine for about a thousand dollars a ticket. I do have very good seats.
Speaker 1:yeah, so another thing we did on the road was very bad, so we were in Montreal.
Speaker 2:Wait, so start. So you guys have been. I haven't seen you in like a month.
Speaker 1:A month, yeah, you guys look great. We've been on the road. We never did like when we're on the road for like three weeks in a row, you know living out of a suitcase. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was pretty bad.
Speaker 3:It was pretty bad Was it.
Speaker 2:Are you tired?
Speaker 3:For me you're fine, you're a trooper, why?
Speaker 2:He loves being on the road.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Give me a hotel, greet him on a stage. That's all I need. Yeah, that's all he needs. Yeah, but Leo it's harder.
Speaker 2:You're so much younger too Like you should be Okay.
Speaker 3:I know, but I'm not. I like my shower, my bed and my laundry machine.
Speaker 1:Although we've had some amazing suites, oh I have no doubt We've had some amazing suites and it's fun to go. Then we open the door and you see how big it is, and leo did a whole video of me singing cantorial music in the shower and people loved it and people started to quote him halachas, like yeah, and he said if you quote me, if you quote me the the laws of singing in the shower, I will block you If Moni's singing in the shower, that's what he's doing.
Speaker 2:That is so funny.
Speaker 3:What's the hardest part of traveling for you? Sleeping the routine. You have an early flight, you have a late flight, but that's funny because you're a tourist. You're more like routine focused than I am, but when we travel I'm like, oh I just bang, boom, go up, show the airplanes.
Speaker 1:it's so much.
Speaker 2:What was the most fun show.
Speaker 1:Montreal shows are amazing. Montreal shows were just on fire.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then we had this Denver show. We were in Denver at the Paramount and like the hour really came together and Leo slayed the house down boots, he did crowd work and he did, he killed it. Wow, I had a tea. Leo had to start doing comedy like without that.
Speaker 3:I'm not doing comedy, pause, okay.
Speaker 1:Leo had to do stage, get on stage, public speaking, public speaking. But he didn't have that eight years of to be like doing open mic. So I gave him a few tips what to do with the mic, and never to put your hand up, because the light's in your eye, little things like that. And then he just slowed everything down and it's like again, he's the producer of these shows. Without Leo, there's nobody in those seats, there's no clink to hit. I'm buying a ticket. That wouldn't be happening, okay.
Speaker 2:And so why is this?
Speaker 3:uh, that's usually when I go. Are there any podcast fans here?
Speaker 2:and I look but why are you saying not to put why it's a?
Speaker 1:horrible thing to do it's to block your light. What I'm doing people who aren't watching this I'm putting my hand like I'm saluting, but it's to block the light so you can see when the sun.
Speaker 2:I'm asking because I've done saluting, but it's to block the light so you can see, Like when the sun I'm asking because I've done this on stage that it's like you're blocking the sun.
Speaker 3:It's hard not to what. It's hard not to when the light's in your eye.
Speaker 2:But I've also learned from him. He's also told me other things not to do on stage, which I did.
Speaker 1:Like I lean back against the wall and I put like my foot up against the wall and he was like don't do that, Because you're not waiting for a bus. You're doing a comedy show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's little things that show that you have confidence on stage and that, and putting that thing up, it's like you don't know how to work with a light. You are on stage, there's these lights blinding you. Deal with it, good Period. Good Deal with it period. And if you, and if they, and even if you do see your hand go up, what's that gonna do you make? Let me talk to you. No, no, no wait, what was the other one we had? Um?
Speaker 2:wait, so Montreal. So you did what, and he slayed. What did you do what?
Speaker 1:he slayed in Denver more than anything in Denver he's like doing. There's a woman who like organized, a woman who's a real bring the friend to the comedy show. Uh, she brought a whole bunch of people and she, she came to see us in la. Her name is beverly and leo gave a shout out to her and spoke to her from that crowd. It was so sweet.
Speaker 3:No, but he also at that point I had, he had been giving me a lot of notes and he's like you need to slow down, you need to slow down, you need to slow down. So then in denver I really slowed down, but then I slowed down so much that I lost my train of thought because he had to hop on the voice of god, mike, and he just started talking like he goes look how cute he is like the whole crowd is laughing.
Speaker 1:I was like no, because I knew, because he has a line about like uh, I, what happened was? He slowed down and he polished in the laughs. Yeah, he's like, oh, that's what laughter feels like. This is great. I forgot what I have to say. Yeah, that's that's exactly what happened. You were polishing in the, in the, in the laughter, and then I go and maybe you want to talk about the dms, and then he goes oh, yeah, and uh, so good.
Speaker 2:How long are you on stage for Like?
Speaker 3:two minutes, not even, not even two minutes.
Speaker 2:Not even two minutes. I was like thinking 10, 15 minutes, it's so perfect, it's so perfect. It's great, I love it.
Speaker 1:It's so perfect. I cannot wait for the beacon and the other. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3:We had, yeah, we're all over the place here.
Speaker 1:Denver was amazing. I cannot tell you the people that came to Denver, they all drove two and a half miles to two and a half hours. No one's from Denver. I'm from Fort Dead and Valley Vu and Valley Zuby and Forest Hill and Forest Mully and Forest Vest and we drove two and a half hours. I'm like, oh my God, thank you. I don't know if I would drive two and a half hours to see it. I'm like, oh my God, thank you. I don't know if I would drive two and a half hours to see me, but they were great, they were amazing. The theater was beautiful. The Paramount Theater was amazing.
Speaker 2:Whoa.
Speaker 1:And then I want to talk to her about me meeting that rabbi Go ahead. This is going to really okay. Me meeting that rabbi Go ahead, this is going to really Okay. So now we're in Montreal and we have Shabbat dinner with Liebermans Lorne, and Lorne asked me if I wanted to meet the Tosh Rebbe. The Tosh Rebbe, she's a Rebbe, okay.
Speaker 2:What is the Tosh?
Speaker 1:Okay. So, as we told you before, in the hasidic world is from every different town, there was a rabbi. So this is a rabbi that came to america and he went to montreal, built his community and moved his community out of mont, like 40 minutes north of Montreal. He was a big, big rabbi. He passed away and his son now is the Rebbe. So Lorne says to me after your show tomorrow on Saturday night, do you want to go meet the Tosha Rebbe? I can arrange an appointment for us. You can't just go there and meet him. You just you know, and so we go to meet him.
Speaker 3:um, we drive 40 minutes north of montreal, okay we get to a town, is that like 10 o'clock at night? You got off stage. Yeah, I got off stage this is so insane I did not go I
Speaker 1:was just about leo did not go and and who is this?
Speaker 2:Lorne Lieberman person. This is somebody you know who's.
Speaker 1:Lorne Lieberman Haya Lieberman's husband. That's who Lorne Lieberman is.
Speaker 2:But this is like a person you know, like you're friends with, yeah you know the Liebermans are like the family in Montreal.
Speaker 1:They're the nicest people in the world. They're real chesed people. They're real charitable and successful.
Speaker 2:Okay, fine, but this is a friend of yours or this is some random person who's like do you want to meet this rabbi?
Speaker 1:If I'm having Shabbat dinner in his house, it's a friend.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. You're driving 40 miles north to see. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1:So Shabbat dinner was Friday night, saturday, he didn't come to the show because his wife is an availis, a who exactly keep it going, keep it going. His, his wife couldn't see the show because her father has passed away between the within a year socially. And so he says after the show do you want to go see the toshareba? This would be like 11 o'clock at night, okay, driving all the way out into a community of 500 families, okay I can't of chassidim.
Speaker 1:So imagine you're going into a williamsburg, a williamsburg of of of of montreal. We pull up there and all you just see is chassidim right, and we get to where his house is and they bring us us into a room where it's like a big white table and the books all over on the shelves, and they bring the rabbi. The rabbi in, who's now the son of the big Toshar rabbi, and he knows Lorne because they. And so he asks me it's all in Yiddish.
Speaker 2:How old is this person?
Speaker 1:He's like I can't tell they either look 108 or like 78. He's younger than like his father.
Speaker 2:He's younger than his father. Good, His father lived forever.
Speaker 1:But he's like I would say, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Okay, in his 70s or 100s, something like that. Somewhere he's a white beard, I don't know. Okay, in his 70s or 100s.
Speaker 1:Something like that. He's a white beard, the big fur hat. The pageantry was great, okay.
Speaker 2:He came with the white kapota.
Speaker 1:He has his gabai. Eli was there, his secretary. And so we sit there, me and Lorne are sitting there at the two ends by the head of the table. They bring him in, we stand up, we speak, and he knows lorne and lorne's helped him with stuff, and um, so he goes. Oh, so, who do I have who? Who, who have you brought here?
Speaker 1:So right away, I'm not going to say I'm a comedian modi, I say I'm the adopted son of dina's father, rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Gross, rebbe Yoichal of Karestir, the oldest living relative of the Karestir Rebbe. So he's like oh, I know him. And he explains how he knows him, and they all go to where they know him, and his father knew him and him and him and him and him and him and him. Boom. Then he goes and what do you do? I said I'm a comedian, I uh, I'm uh, I tell jokes to jewish people are not jewish people.
Speaker 1:And then lorne goes. He just did a show now for not for 900 people, and then we began talking a little bit and and this and that, and he's like finding out, and like so that's all you do, you're a comedian. And he said in a very nice way in Yiddish I'm in appreciation of sitting with somebody who can get people together to be happy and laugh, and I wish you much success. Then he turns to his secretary, makes a moment like this with his eyes and the secretary says the rabbi would like to speak with lorne alone.
Speaker 3:But what did he tell you about separate seating, though?
Speaker 1:oh, so like he was, like he was like wait can you say that in yiddish what he? Said, because he said this whole thing is in yiddish the whole thing was in yiddish and your yiddish is good enough and then me and lorne had to afterwards like figure out the, the words we were missing.
Speaker 2:That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1:He's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a no. So say it and get it. So no, he said that I've been very good with Lorne, which is like okay, lorne is a more affluent, rich person. He's got more to talk to him about than me doing jokes at the end, you know what I'm saying. He's like that was very nice to meet. You Beat it.
Speaker 3:I want to talk to Lorne. It was like in the Crown when she pushes the little button, I'm getting this appointment only because of Lorne.
Speaker 1:I'm not coming in there because I'm a real estate developer. I'm going to help him out with his community real estate developer.
Speaker 1:I'm going to help him out with his community. This is outrageous, but that was the best part, though, cause then I went outside and for a half hour I spoke to his secretary who lives in the community, eliezer, and he was so sweet and I found out all about what's going on in the community and and all of this, and it was such an amazing event to be able to experience and um okay, I have so many questions, but first can you address what Leo said about the seating?
Speaker 1:Oh so, so he's, you know. So here he is, this big rabbi of the most Orthodox and he goes and your shows it's separate seating. I said no and um, I was going to be like yeah, no, I was like no, it's not separate seating, and he goes. He wanted to show that he's progressive, he goes. Maybe you make one section that is available for separate seating.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's nice. Yeah, it was his attempt to be like he doesn't get what this show is.
Speaker 1:When I explained to him that non-Jews come to the show, he goes. You have non-Jews at the show. He was like in shock.
Speaker 2:And it was a great. Did you tell him about Leo's thin pants?
Speaker 1:I did not tell him about Leo's thin pants.
Speaker 3:That definitely does not have that never came up.
Speaker 1:He didn't ask me, does not?
Speaker 1:have a hex shirt he never asked me about my wife or my children or my anything. He asked about what I do. He wished me much success, my connection to the Kereshti Rebbe, and that's it. And then he wanted to talk to Lorne about things he needs from Lorne, whatever. And I had a half hour with the secretary outside talking to him and got the neighbor. Then we drove all the way back where his father's Buried. They have this like I don't see the word mausoleum, but this beautiful where his grave is and it's open 24 hours and lit and you know all marble and I put a prayer. For I put a prayer. I've been putting prayers from my fans slash community. I feel like my fans are not just the fans, they're also a community and that's.
Speaker 2:That's really sweet.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What is this guy doing up at 11 o'clock at night? They?
Speaker 1:don't sleep. Hasidic people don't sleep. There's no hours, there's no.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 1:The only thing that tracks their day is the fact that there's a morning service, an afternoon service and an evening service, but otherwise they do not sleep, they're up, they have engagement parties, weddings, sheva Brachas, you know, they're never sleeping, they're always Really.
Speaker 2:How could you pass up an opportunity?
Speaker 1:God, Leo did not come to this To go land on the moon like this Leo did not.
Speaker 2:This was not a place for Leo to go to First.
Speaker 1:of all his Yiddish is not up to par.
Speaker 2:I feel like I don't know. I don't know, Could I handle this?
Speaker 1:My jaw would be You'd be annoying, you would be annoying, you would be annoying, you would just annoy him and he wouldn't meet with you like that.
Speaker 2:Why not?
Speaker 1:I don't think he… no, he would, he would.
Speaker 2:If my last name was Lieberman. No, but like… Because he doesn't meet with women.
Speaker 1:He does meet with women. He does, he does, yeah, yeah, he does. So it's….
Speaker 2:He wouldn't even meet with you.
Speaker 1:It's amazing. But it was great and the picture of me and him went super, super viral in the Hasidic community and I'm honored.
Speaker 2:That's very sweet.
Speaker 1:It was a very nice, and now. So now, me and Lorne, having so first time I was in Montreal a while back. He brought me to meet Rabbi Pinto.
Speaker 2:This other, oh Rabbi Pinto.
Speaker 1:So then, when I was in California, when I was in Miami, I brought Lorne to meet Dina's father, another Rebbe. So now he brought me to meet this, the Tosha Rebbe, and now I have to find another Rebbe to bring him. We're trying to one out each other. It's great, it's great.
Speaker 2:Look at how much joy this brings him. It's great. It's great. Look at how much joy this brings him. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:I was. It took me a few days to realize like what really happened in the meeting and what he said, and me and Lorne, like when he said this, what did that mean? And it was like it was a moment.
Speaker 2:So now you have to find another rabbi.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Isn't there like a list of? I mean, I'm sure you know who would know who Mendy?
Speaker 1:Mendy who.
Speaker 2:Mendy, mendy, torski yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's not bringing me to.
Speaker 2:No, but he probably knows who all of these people are. I know who they are too. You know who they are too, I want to.
Speaker 1:It has to be it has to be a organic way to meet the. But this big big, this big big, this is, it's a, it's a big, it's a big schut. Honor, honor, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a big schut to do that. Listen, I I think it's great. It's a big screw to do that. Listen, I think it's great. I'm very happy that, like in between gallivanting around the world and doing these shows that you're getting to meet. Did we lose our engineer?
Speaker 1:Engineer and Leah both left. Now it's me and you rogue over here. What have you been up to?
Speaker 2:I've been holding the fort down while, um, you guys have been away, I'm good. Everything's everything you know is everything's good yeah, are we doing two podcasts? I don't know what time is it it's how long have we been recording? Yeah, let's call it let's call it yeah no, no, it's the same thing that we always do. No, that's a mistake, okay.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, so it should be multi for all of them. Okay, okay, so this was 37 minutes. Yeah, so it should be multi for all of them. Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, so this was 37 minutes, but now you have to remember to cut it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're going to edit this out, of course, so let's Exit, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay. So thank you all very much for listening. There are shows available on modilivecom. We are in. First of all, get your February organized. I'm going to be on the 2nd, I'm going to be in Arizona and then the 6th and possibly the 5th in Fort Lauderdale, the Parker Playhouse, and then we go to Tampa on the 13th of February and then back for four shows, 16, 17, and 18, with a matinee on the 16th at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale. Those shows might be sold out by now. And then we have in January. We have Austin and Houston. Get tickets for that and just go to modilivecom and see if there's anything near you or near a friend of yours. Be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show and we'll see you all there bye bye.