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AND HERE’S MODI is an inside look at the man behind the microphone. Hosted by comedian, Modi (@modi_live), AHM features a raw and unfiltered side of the comedian rarely seen on stage. He always finds the funny as he navigates the worlds of comedy, trending topics, his personal life and spirituality. AHM is co-hosted by Periel Aschenbrand (@perielaschenbrand) and Leo Veiga (@leo_veiga_).
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Episode 141: The AHM crew reads some nice and some nasty emails, celebrate the return of the hostages (including home Omer Shem Tov!) and discuss whether or not Modi should make an album of Yiddish songs.
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Welcome to Andy's completely wrong and they were scared that it's going to completely send me off on my dyslexia and all of that. But as long as I know it doesn't function. But it will bring me to a very funny story. When I worked at Merrill Lynch I had to entertain these clients once and we got them. They're like huge clients and they were from Peru Not Peru, from Argentina or Venezuela or somewhere and Merrill Lynch made an appointment for us to go to the trading floor and we're on the floor with these clients and there's just like clocks everywhere the commodities, this market, that market, papi, and I have no idea what anything is. And there was one. They go what, what is that? I go that that's the, uh, that's the commodities market on the on. It was, it was the time, but it just had it like. It just had it, had it in like you know, army time and whatever, and it was just modi was what we call a personality hire at maryland.
Speaker 2:For sure, you just kept the vibes here at maryland.
Speaker 1:For sure, you just kept the vibes light fun. Yeah, that was that. I was definitely not like I wasn't there for, like, analytical stuff.
Speaker 3:I was just. You were always reading the room, though, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, yeah, I was reading that room and it was that wasn't reading the statements, though I'll tell you that I wasn't folks.
Speaker 2:Um, on that note, it's been. It's been a few weeks. Yes, we've been busy. Yes, we've been traveling. Yes, we've been traveling.
Speaker 3:You guys have been all over.
Speaker 2:We've been to Phoenix, we've been to Fort Lauderdale for seven shows, we've been to Tampa, we've been to Naples, we've been to let's break it down.
Speaker 1:First of all, those of you listening to the podcast, as we always say, we are a light podcast, we're just helping you just get out of your day for a little while. And we had a show in Fort Lauderdale, the Parker Playhouse. Because of HIPAA laws I cannot mention names. But my very good friend, who is the's the reason like I do comedy, one of my, so I mentioned his name his mother has a gastrologist who's a huge fan guy with a yarmulke and the whole nine yards big florida guy and he's he's and you know, and now I'm doing this whole thing about colonoscopies in my act it's like a whole thing and he says when they do colonoscopies, they were, you have to have approved what plays in the room.
Speaker 1:Like you can't have a heavy metal playing in the room, you can't have.
Speaker 2:And our podcast was approved so someone has had a colonoscopy while this podcast was playing in the operating room.
Speaker 3:That's amazing.
Speaker 2:They were out. They were no, but the doctor himself. The doctor was listening to it.
Speaker 1:You know, for him it's an hour of doing. For him he could do a blind obviously.
Speaker 3:You are too young, you have not yet.
Speaker 2:No, but I kind of want to do one recreationally.
Speaker 3:That's what I was going to say. You would love it.
Speaker 2:I just want to do one recreationally. That's what I was going to say. You would love it. I just want to do it before we go to Fire Island. I want to drink that shit, I want to have that shit, and then I want to feel like Cindy Crawford on the beach.
Speaker 3:But you'll love how you're knocked out, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So before the surgery, before your colonoscopy, where I had it, it's literally like a factory. It just moves along. So the nurse, the head nurse, comes in, she goes it's 12, it's 12, 16. We are at procedure, doctor. This is there. The whole room is recorded.
Speaker 3:And then it's like and here's Modi.
Speaker 1:So they can put on, you know, rock music or classical music or something in the background. And he says he had our podcast approved to be able to play in the room.
Speaker 2:I love that Loved by medical professionals. Your mom, yes.
Speaker 3:And also loved by Stewie Siegel.
Speaker 1:Who's Stewie Siegel?
Speaker 3:Stewie Siegel is Tara's dad. Remember my friend, the makeup artist, who came for his birthday, oh my god, you made his birthday. I'm sure you hear that all the time, but shout out to the Siegel family how they were so excited to go. That was his birthday present. They took him to the show.
Speaker 1:Great, I know we had a lot of people. Leo has been opening the shows and asking anybody do we have any podcast listeners? And you hear a big yeah.
Speaker 2:We have a lot of yeah we also get a lot of messages we do get a lot of messages and you know I was picking some fights in the comment section this week.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you were.
Speaker 2:And when I say picking fights, I actually take that back. I'm not picking the fight. Someone else is instigating and leaving nasty things and I'm simply responding to it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then you send me screenshots.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, I saw them. I saw one of them.
Speaker 2:I think One of them was this guy who said you should be banned from Froome events because whatever.
Speaker 3:And I was like honey. I got into a fight with him too, you got into it in the DMs.
Speaker 2:But I think once I got that out of my system, at least for the time being, I want to focus on the positive interactions.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that guy Hold on.
Speaker 1:You guys are rubbing that off so quick. I obviously am not involved in that, but leo's showing me like he shows me the screen. First of all, the guy is some unhinged religious guy who has a thing for big tiger pets.
Speaker 2:Yes, so he you're dealing with somebody jewish, joe, exotic tiger at its moment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh, glo Glock, kosher Joe, exotic. So he's got. His Instagram is a few pictures of him petting some line that he shouldn't be petting, and then he decides he's going to chime in. I should not be doing any from events. Well, just to answer you directly, many of them can't afford me anymore, just so you know. So we do our own shows, but many, many religious corporations and charities still look for me religious ones, and so you can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just because you have your own stuff to work, yeah, you big idiot, but that was that.
Speaker 3:That was that. That was to me. Thou doth protest too much, you know, it's like those senators who get caught in hotel rooms.
Speaker 1:I always said that, yeah, yeah. Any senator that's screaming about anti-gay, anti-gay, that's the one you catch in the toilet at an airport Enough.
Speaker 2:As I said, I feel like I wanted to not focus on those crazy people. Go ahead um.
Speaker 2:We got a really sweet message yay so let's focus on the positivity, and I'm not gonna. I'm gonna try to read it without um naming names or saying parts that are like identifiable shalom, modi, shalom. I don't know if you'll ever see this. I was hoping to send in fan mail, but I haven't had the time to sit and write a letter. I know this is a business email, but I deactivated my instagram. I just needed a little screen time break break, don't we all?
Speaker 2:Uh, I discovered you a couple months back when my dad mentioned to me that I should name my son after someone who had a good life. He said have you heard of the jewish comedian modi? He says you should name your children after someone that had a good life. I had no idea who you were at the time. I was seven months pregnant and had just arrived back at the united in the us while my husband stayed in israel to fight on the northern border against hezbollah. Shortly after that conversation, my dad and I sat in the living room together and he showed me your comedy special on YouTube. That's when I became a fan. I followed you on social media and, through Instagram, discovered you have a podcast. I now listen to it every day, mostly when I go on walks with the baby in our Labrador. Our baby boy is now six months old. My husband came back from the army just in time for his birth and we named him blank after blank I'm not gonna say that part after and after our friend that passed in gaza fighting for our home.
Speaker 2:I decided to reach out because I have just been so heartbroken with the news of the Bibas family. I put our son to sleep last night with tears in my eyes. Today I was listening to an old episode and I can't help but laugh. I look crazy laughing by myself as I walk the dog. But then I realized, wow, I just needed to pause for laughter. But then I realized, wow, I just needed to pause for laughter.
Speaker 2:Yesterday was so heavy on my soul and on this morning I woke up with a knot in my throat. But your podcast gave me a moment to simply laugh and forget about all the pain we are going through as a Jewish nation right now. Thank you for all you do. Thank you for bringing Moshiach energy, energy, and thank you for being a kind soul and a good person. Shout out to Leo. I love him as well. His confidence and sassiness is contagious. I really enjoy his input on the shows and honestly I just want to be besties with him during these crazy dark times. From one Jew to another, I send a deep and warm hug, and then she sent some pictures of her and her son.
Speaker 1:This you don't show me, but crazy people petting tigers that you show me. Sorry, the Bebas thing made me cry. Yeah, aw, isn't that beautiful, that's so beautiful.
Speaker 3:And she sends us pictures of her baby and her that's wonderful, that's what, that's why we do this podcast.
Speaker 1:That's what we, we and to let you know what we're up to. And it's the other side of us other positive news wait, we discuss.
Speaker 2:wait, can I Wait?
Speaker 3:Can I please read the one that you texted me?
Speaker 2:Which one Give me a clue?
Speaker 3:About Omer. I feel like we can't go from that and not address I should have done that first and ended on a nice note. We'll still end on a nice note.
Speaker 2:That was beautiful. Thank you to whoever wrote that. We get a lot of messages like that. So when I am on here and I'm bitching and moaning about the ones who are annoying, it's just because they're annoying but you guys are nice and we love you yeah, we get a lot of those and we appreciate them.
Speaker 2:And now, just to set this up of what you're about to do. Okay, you know, baruch hashem. Thank you. Omar shamtov is home amen among with a few other hostages at this point and when we did the 100th episode of this podcast, which, if you have not listened to it, I highly recommend you go through and find it. It's clearly labeled the 100th episode, filmed at the 92nd street. Why we did it? Live in partnership with the 92nd Street Y. It was an amazing, beautiful event and on stage at the event, periel brought up the question that we get all the time Modi, who is your dream guest for the podcast, to which you answered Omer Shemtov.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:You gave a beautiful answer that we have on video, and as soon as Omer was officially home, I went through the archives and I pulled that video that we had posted over a year ago. Yes, being like look, he's home, how great is this and how crazy was it that modi, you know, kind of put it out not that I'm saying you brought him home, but like that we've been thinking of him this whole time that this video is over a year old and now he's coming out and he's getting home and we were talking about it before he got out, and of course we've had his cousin liat on the show and we did an event with her um for october 7th.
Speaker 3:So we have been in our energy for a long time now. Leo is the one who really has to field most of these messages, so he and I, so you know, and it's I'm hundreds thousands, but I I kind of laugh at the ones like these because they're so ridiculous.
Speaker 2:I don't even think that wait, where did I send it to you?
Speaker 3:you texted it to me I texted it to you yeah, um, you want me to text it back to you so you can have it fresh.
Speaker 2:Oh, do you want me? Should I do another reading? Sure, I won't cry for this one.
Speaker 3:Sure Go ahead, you read it.
Speaker 2:This is how it starts. I didn't read you this. So this is after we've posted, we're like, oh my God, Omar Shem Tov is home. We post the video. We're like, happy, positive, yay Mashiach energy. And then I get this email which starts like this, which I have no idea what this person is talking about.
Speaker 2:I know, I thought you knew that I am not going to rehash our past. What Excuse me? We have a past. We have a past. We clearly see things quite differently and I know you parentheses, leo, who will, will read this and Modi and Periel will make fun of me. I'm okay with that. It has never been about me. Well, you're making it about you because you're emailing me. Keep reading.
Speaker 2:Here's my suggestion that you may choose to ignore. We all know you did and do little to advocate for Omar Shemtov or any of the hostages. That's your choice and, as predicted, you are now sharing a reel that is getting traction and comments like get him on the pod and bring him to New York A bit exploitive, but okay. What every hostage needs and deserves from all of us when they are released is privacy and space to heal with their loved ones.
Speaker 2:My goal is that you should invite omer at some point and that you wait and give him some space and you will make it meaningful. If he ever does come on, it should be his choice, not because you want to look good. You have a massive platform, omer. Should he choose to speak to you, should be able to share what he wants and share and the podcast should be about him, not you, and it should not be about his time in captivity, if he does not want to go there. And last, if he ever does join you, please raise money directly for him so he can heal and live the life he wants to live.
Speaker 1:First of all reforce.
Speaker 2:Lema, you should be institutionalized. She needs a she needs a she needs to be healed Mentally. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:She's a sick woman.
Speaker 3:This is a woman who's in a movie.
Speaker 1:She's in a movie in her head.
Speaker 2:We all know that you did and do little to advocate for any of the hostages.
Speaker 1:We don't, don't, don't, don't Omar Shemtover any of the hostages. I didn't ask you. We Don't answer that. Don't answer that.
Speaker 3:The other thing is that he should come on his own free will.
Speaker 2:He should come on his own free will, but then only talk about the things that I outline here in my email.
Speaker 1:If I want to tell you something about, first of all, when I saw Omar Shemtover get released and you saw his face and you see his soul, and you saw his face and you see his soul and you see, only thing I remember was his cousin telling us that he has such a great sense of humor. Yeah and what, and like if anybody would do stand up, and it would be him. I. I hope he gets through whatever he needs to get through and I hope he tells his story through stand-up. I think I think if he's that funny and he's, did you imagine That'd be?
Speaker 2:a great woman.
Speaker 1:Every hostage now is going to go speak and raise money and do things to help other hostages and help Israel and all that. But imagine he comes out and he's imitating his captures, like he just like whatever, a nine peslote some guy had, like you know, four eyed or whatever, and the with some guy had, like you know, four-eyed or whatever, and the way he they talked and the way you know, I mean, there's so much he can obviously and tell his story through comedy you do and did little to advocate for the hostages.
Speaker 1:What are you on a house for You're?
Speaker 2:referring to a video of him on stage at an event with a screen behind him with pictures of all the hostages. What have you done besides send nasty emails?
Speaker 1:She's gotten you angry. That's what she did. She's in a mess.
Speaker 2:This is why I'm a roller coaster in a basket case, because I get the first email that makes me cry and beautiful, and I want to give that woman a hug and I get this other twat in my inbox.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's what it is. Okay, let's keep the language here a little more friendly.
Speaker 3:We are every episode explicit content Exactly, but they don't need to hear these words in the middle of a colonoscopy.
Speaker 1:I know that we're thinking about the thing to me that really.
Speaker 3:So Leo sent me that and I started hysterically laughing because the it's just so absurd.
Speaker 2:It's so ridiculous and the lack of self-awareness to send a message like that with like I hope you're embarrassed, I hope you're listening to this and I think you're the same person who recently sent me just by the manner I'm really good at reading text, uh, patterns and the way people communicate and feels like the. It was written very similarly to a message I received, maybe like two weeks before that, where you said uh, is it possible for leo and perriel to get through an episode without saying the word? Like every other word, and just like I want to tell you like, if you're going to say something like that, I would like to see you sit here and like for an hour and speak and be funny and on your toes and like not use any filler words. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:As long as I prefer you just don't curse. I'm going to say like, like that Celsius hit me hard Everyone has.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, you have no idea, because I'm also in the YouTube comments. One of them said why am I being forced to listen to Modi's annoying boyfriend? And I was like forced to listen. No one's forcing you to be here. First of all, who do you think uploads these videos?
Speaker 1:Since we are talking about the Omar Shem Tov, let's discuss. It begins with your face. You look, oh my god I look like donald trump, I'm orange I thought you looked she looked that night. No, no, perry was very pretty and she composed together. That night she looked polonia like she I orange.
Speaker 2:I don't think you were orange and if you listen, if you are a new listener, if you are a new listener.
Speaker 2:I forgot your face and you have. You guys think that everyone who's listening to this episode has listened to every single episode. Some people are just dipping their toes in. People are deciding if they like us, and so maybe you've listened to a few, but you haven't listened to the 100th episode. I highly recommend you go through and listen to it. It's on video on our YouTube channel. The audio is on there as well. I think it's a really great episode. I'm really proud of it and I'm working on doing something again another live podcast taping, just like that again.
Speaker 3:Another live podcast taping, just like that. So, um, we are going to fly to israel and drag omer shem tov here against his will to join us.
Speaker 2:For the next one to the person who tried not to transport him against his will.
Speaker 1:Yes, let's avoid that, oh, he was. So he, he delivered, he, he really delivered, as when he came out what did leah tell us?
Speaker 3:that every Shelly his mom calls him Yeled Shemesh?
Speaker 1:Like a son, a ray of sun. A boy's face like this out of the helicopter. Oh my God, he's so sweet you can tell.
Speaker 2:But every hostage deserves all that, every hostage has a story and a family. And what they've been through it just so happens that we had like this, despite not knowing him beforehand, we had this connection, we were speaking about him, we had his family and also.
Speaker 3:Liat reached out to us, and then Liat reached out to us, initially asking to come on the show his cousin which we had her on. But then the crazy thing was was that she knows our very dear friend, your best friend, friend Rabbi Belino.
Speaker 1:Belino, yeah, and she came to the October 7th event we had at the synagogue.
Speaker 3:But her husband is really close with Gav, so we didn't even know that. So it's like a whole thread. It's amazing.
Speaker 2:I posted some questions in our broadcast channel.
Speaker 1:Nick, can we discuss the Florida shows?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm dying to hear about seven shows, seven shows.
Speaker 1:It was a gift because we could have done two shows at 3,000 seats each. Three shows for three, with the time tickets we sold down there Wow.
Speaker 1:But, with seven shows. So I really saw the act, which every show we changed something in the act and brought things back and forward and in and changed placements of it. And you could only do that when you have seven shows, um of 1200 people and it's packed and it was, and you can, every show was so powerful and every show you, I could change a name or change something we change and the act, the hour now, the pause for laughter hour now, has changed so much even since the beacon show wow, yeah, yeah it's changed and I will just.
Speaker 2:this will be my only input and then you can keep talking about it. So, as everyone knows, since october 7th, modi has been ending every show by asking everyone to stand and sing hatikvah. Then the show is over and everyone's already standing and they're clapping. The way that the show has changed now you end it on such a high note that people are standing and clapping before we get to the Hatikvah. So every seven out of seven all seven, or laudato shows got standing ovations before we got to the Hatikvah part.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which that's how I knew that, like something had shifted, we changed because I was, you know, ending the show, talking about, you know, talking about October 7th, and then I'm not going to tell them how, but but we just it was me talking to them and then asking them to to stand up. Uh, so now the show is standing on their own, standing on their own. While they're standing, the house lights come on and we I think it's the same kind of thing for with me, but it was seven shows in all of Florida down there, not all. We could have done more, but like a lot of people came and A lot of shows.
Speaker 2:seven shows yeah but he likes that and it gave him a chance to like work out the hour and they have amazing pretzels there the Parker Place.
Speaker 1:The Parker Place, parker Playhouse. Parker Playhouse has amazing pretzels and the volunteers are amazing, the people that work there, the ushers.
Speaker 2:Oh, Alan Dershowitz came.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, that's right.
Speaker 2:Friend of the podcast, go listen to his episode. No, this is what happens. So before every show I go into Rottweiler mode and I just start doing laps and I always find something to do. Someone on the guest list doesn't have a seat, someone has a question about this, so I always just try to make myself available. Modi, do you need anything? I go around and then so I get stopped and doing one of my rottweiler laps and the head usher is like hi, leo, um, this guy gave me his card. I don't know who he is. He says he knows you. I look at the card. It says harvard business, harvard law law, government school. It says alan dershowitz and his professor. It's like you don't know who, dershowitz and his professor. I was like you don't know who Alan Dershowitz is. He was like no.
Speaker 2:I was like okay, we need to find him.
Speaker 1:I said I want to see him after the show and I don't want him to leave after the show. So I asked there were like a few people backstage. I go, could you guys go and see if you can find Alan Dershowitz? I Dershowitz, I may as well have said could you go and find Menachem Begin? They had no idea who he was Are you serious?
Speaker 2:No idea, come on, they were young. They were young. They don't know. How are they going to know? Alan Dershowitz.
Speaker 1:I was going to say he's Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer, was he actually? No, I don't know. I don't know any of that Again and we did not break brand. So the show's over and a very special guest came to the show, asher Sharf, which was a cantor, a chazen that I sang in his choir and I it was some of the best years of my Rosh Hashanah, yom Kippur years singing at or Torah, singing at or Torah with this chazen and we, and he was a family and his friend. He's a friend family. His sons now come to shows and stuff and he's still a chazen. He's great. He still has a great voice. He sings in Boca Raton.
Speaker 1:So he was there and Alan Dershowitz came and I brought them both up by the repeat and greet and they met and he's telling alan dursch, which is telling him that he's singing because savitzky's choir said I sang in his choir and then we just started singing and the whole. There's like 200 people waiting to do meet and greet and we're up there singing like yeah, singing, uh, we should post that. It's pretty funny. Um, but that was what it was. It was like crazy. It was so much fun Just to stand there with Alan Dershowitz. You know Everybody else is asking him what do you think of the neoconservative?
Speaker 2:It's funny because actually last night I was on Substack.
Speaker 3:Are you on Substack? I'm not on Substack.
Speaker 2:And I found Alan Dershowitz at Substack. It was like recommend what the hell on Substack. And I found Alan Dershowitz at Substack. It was like recommend what the hell is Substack. No one in my audience knows who that is. Yes, they do. Substack is like basically long form writing platform.
Speaker 3:It's like a newsletter.
Speaker 2:It's like a newsletter and you can pay or donate to be a part of your newsletter. So I can make a newsletter about anything I could do food reviews, I could review movies. I could newsletter about anything I could do food reviews, I could review movies, I could write about cultural commentary. Alan tershowitz has one that has everything from, like you know, really dense legal stuff to this and that. And then the one that I read was like he wrote a whole thing that was like I watched snl's 50th anniversary. It wasn't funny. It was like not super long, but it was like not super long, but it was like and this is why it's not funny and he just like ripped SNL apart, which I don't necessarily agree with. But why were we not invited to the 50th anniversary?
Speaker 1:Cause we had nothing to do with it. I have nothing to do with SNL.
Speaker 2:There were people there who have lesser things to do with SNL. I have nothing.
Speaker 1:I'm so happy for them. Congratulations, they were amazing.
Speaker 2:So I I'm so happy for them. Congratulations, they were an amazing show. I had nothing to do with that show. I'd never been on it. Do you want me to read you some of these questions that I got? Yeah?
Speaker 3:Somebody did put in that they would like for you to make an album.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which I told you that the other day I said you should make an album, I'll help you. Yeah, fine, let's do it.
Speaker 1:I'm in.
Speaker 2:I'm in. No, no, I mean no, no, I'll find the right guy. I think there's a show like obviously the stand up, whatever. But I think there's a show that you could be doing, like at a very limited run, maybe like five nights of like pick five to eight songs that you know and like and do like a little one man show like tell little stories in between each one, like you would love it you would be in heaven.
Speaker 3:Look at this smile. People love hearing you sing. People do love hearing you sing I have an act you have an amazing act. I have an act that's for people who don't have an act. That's just kidding. You have an amazing. You love you, you love it.
Speaker 2:You love singing. It doesn't have to be your thing. Like it could be a very limited run, I'll produce it. You just have to like pick what you want to do.
Speaker 3:Every time we get one of those like Yiddish singer people in here, you're like in heaven. You start like totally geeking out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's cute, people love it. People really identify with it.
Speaker 3:Like all of the people who love that Yiddish music will lose their mind and that Sukkot guy is not invited.
Speaker 1:No, he's not invited, that's right.
Speaker 3:I'm going to bleep his name.
Speaker 1:What's his name? No, say how horrible he is. What's his name? Yeah, exactly this is what you have a platform for. His name is Sukkot.
Speaker 3:I said Fah to him.
Speaker 1:I said you're disgusting, are we going back? So you know, hold on. Just for the record.
Speaker 2:I started this episode saying I want to be positive Me.
Speaker 1:I said that I'm going to give you positive Go ahead. So just give me the name of his thing. What's his name of his?
Speaker 3:The Sukkah Company.
Speaker 1:The Sukkah Company. So let me explain to everybody when you're buying stuff for your sukkah, when you're buying divrei kodesh, holy things, you want to buy it from people with good energy. This is not good energy. When you're buying your sukkah, find somebody else and buy your sukkah from there, not from what's his name. It just says the sukkah company, the sukkah company. Right, it's because he's nuts. What are you saying? What are you saying what?
Speaker 3:are you?
Speaker 1:saying People in the colonoscopy right now, listening to you talk like this, they're fine, that has nothing to do with their nuts. When you're buying holy things, do not buy it. A sukkah is a holy thing and do not buy it from this guy.
Speaker 3:That's what I said. That's exactly what I said. I also said this is what you pick to do with your time.
Speaker 2:You could be advocating for the hostages against anti-semitism he should speak to the other woman who he advocates, with her together, collaborate, wait we have one other thing we what we're gonna do it's like promen, let's, let's talk about some other stuff. Um what are you?
Speaker 1:go ahead. What's your question?
Speaker 2:how difficult, I don't know. I don't know if I like how you like started this question, but how difficult is it that your husband is also your manager?
Speaker 1:it is the easiest thing in the world, it is the best thing that has ever happened to me. When the day is over but we don't have, we don't have how was your day because our day was together. So we know. You know, when you come home and guy says to you how was your day, he's never gonna ask you that, he's never gonna give you an open probe question. It's gonna be not want to hear how my day, does not care how your day was we were away away with two of our closest friends, who's a gay guy couple.
Speaker 3:They have three kids. We do Shabbat every Friday with them. We've been friends since before we had kids and their names are Nisim and Daron and I was with them just now. We had a week family vacation. Just now we had a week family vacation and I said to Guy how come you don't talk to me the way that Nisim and Doron talk to me? How come you don't hang out with me the way that Nisim and Doron hang out with me? Why don't you ask me the kinds of questions about myself, the way that Nisim and Doron and all three of them looked at me?
Speaker 2:And they're like he doesn't want to know. Yeah, he doesn't care.
Speaker 3:You don't want to know either, though I get it out of you.
Speaker 2:No, that's not true what are you talking about? No, if you could just go like this we're gonna go to the airport. We're gonna get there early. I'm gonna listen to my. I'm gonna watch my holocaust movie. I'm gonna get off the plane. I'm gonna do the show. I'm gonna go to the green room. I'm going to eat a Caesar salad. I'm going to go to bed. Sometimes I'll just be like hey, what are you thinking about? How's your salad?
Speaker 1:I always ask you what you're thinking about and what you're going through Halfway through a about.
Speaker 2:No, you don't, because you're afraid that I'm going to go off. That's not true. You're afraid that I'm going to be like. Well, listen to this email I just got no.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm here for. Yeah, that I just sent it to Perrielle, it's so unusual, though, that if I spent this much time with Guy, one of us would be dead or in jail.
Speaker 2:This goes into the next question, who's a very nice person. He answers all my stuff, and I'm not going to say the name, though, because I can't read the username it says given Leo and Modi are married and work intensively together, how, if at all, do you keep work and private life separate? Well, obviously we don't keep it separate, because I'm here on the podcast blabbing my fat mouth about all the intricacies of our life.
Speaker 1:So does that answer your question? Our work and our life and our passion are one big thing mixed together.
Speaker 2:This isn't the job, where I'm going in and selling shirts. Life is art and art is work.
Speaker 3:No, but you guys do have separate friends also. Yes, do we?
Speaker 1:Yes, we do, and they come with us when we find time to vacation, have weekends here and there. A lot of our friends we do, and they come with us when we find time to vacation, have weekends here and there A lot of our friends.
Speaker 2:We share them.
Speaker 1:Our friends, yeah.
Speaker 3:You've melded them together because you had friends and you had friends and now you guys are both friends. But it's not like you never do things apart, right?
Speaker 1:When his friends want to go see a movie or something or go to a dark restaurant with uncomfortable chairs, they can go without me, that's fine.
Speaker 3:And when you want to go have like a pastrami sandwich with Arthur.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if I want to go hang out with Arthur. Whenever I go with Arthur Luxemburg, he always says is Leo coming to make the reservation? I love him and he comes once in a while, but sometimes Arthur and I go and we just have a great time, you know, over a pastrami sandwich. It's also important.
Speaker 2:We travel so much and we're always usually need to be together to do events that like on the nights off that we have free. Sometimes we have to go our separate ways to like give love and attention to people we haven't seen in our social circles, yeah, but we can do that at home too.
Speaker 1:Invite our friends over the night.
Speaker 2:How did?
Speaker 1:you decide to perform in Warsaw. You Didn't you decide? No, uta. Michael Grinspan said I think we have a play in Warsaw and I think we're going to do very well.
Speaker 2:Though we might probably be at a show at the end of the day. On that note, I just want to recap. I'm not going to read all the tour dates, but just the new European dates that went on sale since we last spoke on this podcast. Warsaw is May 14th, the next day is May 15th in Manchester, and those tickets are going very, very fast. And everyone in Manchester was complaining to me that we did two shows in London and none in Manchester. So here's your chance Buy your tickets, don't complain if you don't get them. Uh, munich after that, and on may 17th, then frankfurt, may 18th.
Speaker 2:Geneva is may 21, the reparations tour, uh, antwerp is may 22, and then we go to toronto. Um, those of you asking about berlin, that is going to be in november, like it's confirmed, but like not confirmed yet. So stay tuned. And then we're adding Paris onto that sometime in November. So what we're trying to do and this is secret information, but I like drumming up interest we're trying to do in November a run in Israel like a three-show run, like Haifa, tel Aviv, jerusalem maybe. Run in Israel like a three-show run, like Haifa, tel Aviv, jerusalem, maybe, and then go do this date in Berlin and then pop to Paris and then pop home, but that won't be until the fall, so I hope that informs your purchasing decisions if you live in Germany and you're considering some of the other shows.
Speaker 1:Yes, anywhere in Europe. It's fun and easy to get around and making a weekend of a Paris show, of a Munich show, it's cute, it's fun and easy to get around and making a weekend of a Paris show, or a Munich show. It's cute, it's fun.
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Speaker 1:Wait Okay, this pretzel is so good.
Speaker 2:Let me just tell you something. It's a Cisco pretzel. Do you know what Cisco?
Speaker 3:is.
Speaker 2:It's hard or it's soft.
Speaker 3:It's like in the middle it's steamed.
Speaker 1:It's steamed, it's good. It's a special pretzel. It's like a ballpark. You get it at the baseball game, but it's a good one. But it's a good one. I could tell that they had a good. I saw it and I said get me that and get one for my father too, and my father was at. My parents were at the shows and I figured my father, when he came to the Green Room, I'd give him a pretzel. He couldn't walk by.
Speaker 2:He already bought one on his way over there. Oh, my godparents came to a show in Fort Lauderdale, that's right. I gave them a shout out from on stage and my godmother cried yeah, she said she was so proud.
Speaker 1:My mom came to every show. She was right there. She wanted to see her An Oscar Schindler's list of 12 people. She wanted to see her guest list and everybody was sitting and everybody's coming and going and da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, and it was very, very cute.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Can we? Can Batya come on and do an episode with us?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. People, yeah, people have asked, actually asked about that before my mother-in-law. Yeah. Your mom came to all seven shows. She was at the last.
Speaker 1:The last show.
Speaker 2:She came to like three or four, the three out of the four shows that she was down there for. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because it was split three and four. But it was great. Ilan Altman, shout out, he was, he nailed it he should have him back on the show, yeah he killed it. He was great in Tampa also. Tampa was amazing. Tampa was amazing, and then we did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tampa was not expecting, but it killed.
Speaker 1:It was a great show. What a theater stunning what a stunning theater and it was an amazing time and I think we are ready to wrap up.
Speaker 3:No I want to hear about.
Speaker 2:It's like perlman, oh yeah, why don't you finish up talking about? Is we? We have until two, right?
Speaker 3:we have a session we're doing.
Speaker 2:That's why I was waiting for it. Well, you have 20 20 ish minutes to talk about. If you want to end on that note, oh, okay we had dinner with the attack problem.
Speaker 1:Who is it suck pro man? Who is it's like prominent?
Speaker 2:one of the for the genre people who may not have known who alan dershowitz was when they got the card. Who is it like?
Speaker 1:problem is, if you google him, he's one of the the leading violinists of the. Obviously, a musical genius is Israeli born and has played with everything, from everything to everything, every Philharmonic. He's just renowned violinist and I wanted to meet him, not because I'm any huge Bach fan or any type of.
Speaker 2:He's won 16 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you understand. And before the dinner I was obviously updating myself on him Because I've seen him. One of the best things he's ever done was he did an album with canter health got, which is a delicious album. This is absolutely gorgeous. But he's obviously bach and brahms and all of that stuff and we were watching like and you're mesmerized. First of all, he's playing a half hour with no sheet music, so he knows the entire thing in his head. Wow, it's unbelievable. It's just like. And I was telling him like you know, like I I don't get starstruck, but I don't get starstruck, but like, one time I met Pavarotti because I saw a video of him and Pavarotti together and he was like and I said, when you look at someone like Pavarotti or someone like Yitzhak Perlman, you see the vessel that the gift of God came in. So it's nice to meet that vessel and you hope it's a good experience.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 1:You hope it's a fun experience. You'd hate to be like that. This gift of God that landed on earth came in a vessel. That's horrible, but he was so nice and he's just wanted to tell jokes. He was sitting next to me the whole time and he was trying to joke when did you have dinner?
Speaker 3:In New York, we had dinner at his very sweet daughter Nava.
Speaker 2:Thank you, nava. We had her apartment and she cooked and it was delicious, wow, and it was really impressive. Shey Cohen came and Pasa came.
Speaker 1:It was a great night and delicious the food she made the short ribs that were so good and desserts were unbelievable and everything was great and just sitting next to Yitzhak Perlman for two hours and talking to him was so amazing.
Speaker 3:I love that it was so amazing. It's true because sometimes you know you hear them say you never want to meet your hero.
Speaker 2:Yes, Do you your heroes? Yes, do you think that?
Speaker 3:Yes, so I have, you know, you never want to meet your heroes, they're always shorter, fatter and uglier than you expect.
Speaker 1:I will never forget. There was a band, this Greek guy and this Yemenite guy together. I forgot their names For a minute. They were a big hit in Israel but they had good music to work out to. It was like Mizrahi music, you know, like you know. And then they had a concert in Queens and I went and I couldn't listen to them afterwards. They were horrible, horrible, like bas, bas, treble, treble, like while they're in the middle of the music, like they're changing there. They were horrible as performers. It turned me off so much.
Speaker 3:You don't really want to meet your heroes no, but sometimes it's not true, like I met Bon Jovi and that was he delivered oh, did he deliver he delivered he delivered.
Speaker 1:Good, no, but it's like Praman delivered, it's like Praman delivered, praman sat. We two and a half, two and a half, two and a half hours we were there two hours. We sat and talked to each other. His wife Toby very, very sweet, and we just had a. He just wants to tell jokes. That's really sweet, yeah, and he, he was imitating me listening to him telling jokes.
Speaker 3:Oh, that. Because like what do you?
Speaker 1:want me to burst out laughter, but I'm like all right, that's good. So then he's like oh, that's good. He's like imitating me. Yeah, he's like these are jokes that are good. I'm like, okay, yeah, they're great jokes. You know, I tried to steer a little bit towards music. He didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to steer a little bit towards music. He didn't want to hear it. Yeah that's like when we had um isaac msrahi on the podcast and I tried to talk to him about new york in the 80s and he was like not having it he was like.
Speaker 1:You can tell that he he hears everything yeah, he just, he want he was like, nah, we're talking about israeli songwriters, we got somehow on that. And he was like he hears everything differently. So he's like what's about the song, uh, yorushalem shahab. So he was like he hears everything differently. So he's like the song Yerushalayim Shadzahav. So he was saying, yes, but that song, you know when they wrote it, you know he goes, it should be. He's like little things like that, I couldn't even follow. Like no, he's like little things like that, I couldn't even follow. I was like, okay, now I was telling him that whenever I'm a cantor, I sing those types of songs. And he was like, yeah, he's like doing Bach's violin. He's such a genius. It's an amazing experience to be with someone like that. Yeah, and it was great, and it was great and it was fun. He's a fan. He was at the Beacon shows, he was at the Beacon shows.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it wasn't like we're coming out of nowhere.
Speaker 3:That's so great I love that.
Speaker 1:On that note, modilivecom for all of your shows and all of your ticket needs. And this is such a time for laughter and it helps. These shows are great. You can tell people just like getting revived. It's like when you plug in your iPhone to get a little Mashiach energy in you. The shows are great. We have a whole bunch coming up LA. We have Los Angeles, las Vegas, baltimore, pittsburgh. There's something near you or something near a friend of yours, let them know, buy them tickets. Buy your friends tickets to see a show if they're near where a show is, and that's it. Thank you, periel. Thank you, leo. It was a long. It was a good podcast for you.
Speaker 2:You had an emotional journey here yeah, I think I'm done for the day though thank you very much, everybody.