AND HERE’S MODI
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_).
AND HERE’S MODI
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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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Intro and Welcome
Speaker 1Welcome 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 2For sure , you just kept the vibes here at maryland .
Speaker 1For 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 3I was just . You were always reading the room , though , right ?
Speaker 1yeah , 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 2Um , 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 3You guys have been all over .
Speaker 2We'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 1First 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 1Like you can't have a heavy metal playing in the room , you can't have .
Speaker 2And our podcast was approved so someone has had a colonoscopy while this podcast was playing in the operating room .
Speaker 3That's amazing .
Speaker 2They were out . They were no , but the doctor himself . The doctor was listening to it .
Speaker 1You know , for him it's an hour of doing . For him he could do a blind obviously .
Speaker 3You are too young , you have not yet .
Speaker 2No , but I kind of want to do one recreationally .
Speaker 3That's what I was going to say . You would love it .
Speaker 2I 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 3But you'll love how you're knocked out , oh yeah .
Speaker 1So 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 3And then it's like and here's Modi .
Speaker 1So 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 2I love that Loved by medical professionals . Your mom , yes .
Speaker 3And also loved by Stewie Siegel .
Speaker 1Who's Stewie Siegel ?
Speaker 3Stewie 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 1Great , 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 2We 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 3Yeah , you were .
Speaker 2And 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 3Yeah , and then you send me screenshots .
Speaker 1Yeah . So , I saw them . I saw one of them .
Speaker 2I think One of them was this guy who said you should be banned from Froome events because whatever .
Speaker 3And I was like honey . I got into a fight with him too , you got into it in the DMs .
Speaker 2But 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 3Yeah , that guy Hold on .
Speaker 1You 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 2Yes , so he you're dealing with somebody jewish , joe , exotic tiger at its moment .
Speaker 1Yeah , 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 2Yeah , just because you have your own stuff to work , yeah , you big idiot , but that was that .
Speaker 3That 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 1I 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 2As I said , I feel like I wanted to not focus on those crazy people . Go ahead um .
Speaker 2We 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 2Uh , 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 2I 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 2Yesterday 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 1This 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 3And she sends us pictures of her baby and her that's wonderful , that's what , that's why we do this podcast .
Speaker 1That'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 2wait , can I Wait ?
Speaker 3Can I please read the one that you texted me ?
Speaker 2Which one Give me a clue ?
Speaker 3About 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 2That 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 2And 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 3Right .
Speaker 2You 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 3So 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 2I don't even think that wait , where did I send it to you ?
Speaker 3you 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 2Oh , do you want me ? Should I do another reading ? Sure , I won't cry for this one .
Speaker 3Sure Go ahead , you read it .
Speaker 2This 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 2I 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 2Here'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 2My 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 1First of all reforce .
Speaker 2Lema , you should be institutionalized . She needs a she needs a she needs to be healed Mentally . What are you talking about ?
Speaker 1She's a sick woman .
Speaker 3This is a woman who's in a movie .
Speaker 1She's in a movie in her head .
Speaker 2We all know that you did and do little to advocate for any of the hostages .
Speaker 1We 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 3The other thing is that he should come on his own free will .
Speaker 2He should come on his own free will , but then only talk about the things that I outline here in my email .
Speaker 1If 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 ,
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Speaker 1and 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 2a great woman .
Speaker 1Every 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 1What are you on a house for You're ?
Speaker 2referring 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 1She's gotten you angry . That's what she did . She's in a mess .
Speaker 2This 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 1Yeah , so that's what it is . Okay , let's keep the language here a little more friendly .
Speaker 3We are every episode explicit content Exactly , but they don't need to hear these words in the middle of a colonoscopy .
Speaker 1I know that we're thinking about the thing to me that really .
Speaker 3So Leo sent me that and I started hysterically laughing because the it's just so absurd .
Speaker 2It'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 1As long as I prefer you just don't curse . I'm going to say like , like that Celsius hit me hard Everyone has .
Speaker 2No , 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 1Since 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 2I don't think you were orange and if you listen , if you are a new listener , if you are a new listener .
Speaker 2I 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 3Another 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 2For the next one to the person who tried not to transport him against his will .
Speaker 1Yes , 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 3that every Shelly his mom calls him Yeled Shemesh ?
Speaker 1Like 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 2But 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 3Liat 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 1Belino , yeah , and she came to the October 7th event we had at the synagogue .
Speaker 3But 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 2I posted some questions in our broadcast channel .
Speaker 1Nick , can we discuss the Florida shows ?
Speaker 3Yeah , I'm dying to hear about seven shows , seven shows .
Speaker 1It 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 1But , 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 2this 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 1Yeah , 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 2seven 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 1The Parker Place , parker Playhouse . Parker Playhouse has amazing pretzels and the volunteers are amazing , the people that work there , the ushers .
Speaker 2Oh , Alan Dershowitz came .
Speaker 3Oh my God , that's right .
Speaker 2Friend 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 2I was like okay , we need to find him .
Speaker 1I 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 2No idea , come on , they were young . They were young . They don't know . How are they going to know ? Alan Dershowitz .
Speaker 1I 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 1So 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 2It's funny because actually last night I was on Substack .
Speaker 3Are you on Substack ? I'm not on Substack .
Speaker 2And 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 3It's like a newsletter .
Speaker 2It'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 1Cause we had nothing to do with it . I have nothing to do with SNL .
Speaker 2There were people there who have lesser things to do with SNL . I have nothing .
Speaker 1I'm so happy for them . Congratulations , they were amazing .
Speaker 2So 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 3Somebody did put in that they would like for you to make an album .
Speaker 2Yeah , 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 1I'm in .
Speaker 2I'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 3Look 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 2You 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 3Every time we get one of those like Yiddish singer people in here , you're like in heaven . You start like totally geeking out .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's cute , people love it . People really identify with it .
Speaker 3Like all of the people who love that Yiddish music will lose their mind and that Sukkot guy is not invited .
Speaker 1No , he's not invited , that's right .
Speaker 3I'm going to bleep his name .
Speaker 1What'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 3I said Fah to him .
Speaker 1I said you're disgusting , are we going back ? So you know , hold on . Just for the record .
Speaker 2I started this episode saying I want to be positive Me .
Speaker 1I 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 3The Sukkah Company .
Speaker 1The 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 3are you ?
Speaker 1saying 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 3That's what I said . That's exactly what I said . I also said this is what you pick to do with your time .
Speaker 2You 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 1go ahead . What's your question ?
Speaker 2how 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 1it 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 3They 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 2And they're like he doesn't want to know . Yeah , he doesn't care .
Speaker 3You don't want to know either , though I get it out of you .
Speaker 2No , 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 1I always ask you what you're thinking about and what you're going through Halfway through a about .
Speaker 2No , 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 3That'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 2This 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 1So does that answer your question ? Our work and our life and our passion are one big thing mixed together .
Speaker 2This isn't the job , where I'm going in and selling shirts . Life is art and art is work .
Speaker 3No , but you guys do have separate friends also . Yes , do we ?
Speaker 1Yes , 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 2We share them .
Speaker 1Our friends , yeah .
Speaker 3You'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 1When 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 3And when you want to go have like a pastrami sandwich with Arthur .
Speaker 1Yeah , 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 2We 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 1Invite our friends over the night .
Speaker 2How did ?
Speaker 1you 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 2Though 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 2Geneva 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 1Yes , 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 .
Speaker 3You know what else is cute ? Yeah , a&h .
Speaker 1A&H is more than cute , it's delicious . It is a lot of kosher provisions that are on a standard that are unbelievable , much like this podcast . And everything's available on kosherdogsnet . And everything's available on kosherdogsnet 30% off with code MODY on your first order . I had one recently and they really are amazing . And thank you , Seth , for being a partner with us here , and also Weitz and Luxembourg the law firm that not only does well , they do good . The law firm that not only does well , they do good , super philanthropic and a partner of this , of our podcast . And Arthur and Randy came to the show in Fort Lauderdale In Fort Lauderdale and they sat right in the front and it was so great . And the pretzel I was telling you about , we had three in the green room there are pretzel companies who want to sponsor us .
Speaker 1Wait Okay , this pretzel is so good .
Speaker 2Let me just tell you something . It's a Cisco pretzel . Do you know what Cisco ?
Speaker 3is .
Speaker 2It's hard or it's soft .
Speaker 3It's like in the middle it's steamed .
Speaker 1It'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 2He 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 1My 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 3Yeah , Can we ? Can Batya come on and do an episode with us ?
Speaker 2Absolutely . 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 1The last show .
Speaker 2She came to like three or four , the three out of the four shows that she was down there for . Yeah .
Speaker 1Because 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 2Yeah , tampa was not expecting , but it killed .
Speaker 1It 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 3No I want to hear about .
Speaker 2It's like perlman , oh yeah , why don't you finish up
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Speaker 2talking about ? Is we ? We have until two , right ?
Speaker 3we have a session we're doing .
Speaker 2That'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 1Who is it suck pro man ? Who is it's like prominent ?
Speaker 2one 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 1problem 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 2He's won 16 Grammy Awards , including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award .
Speaker 1Okay , 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 3That's right .
Speaker 1You 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 3In New York , we had dinner at his very sweet daughter Nava .
Speaker 2Thank 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 1It 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 3I 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 2Yes , Do you your heroes ? Yes , do you think that ?
Speaker 3Yes , so I have , you know , you never want to meet your heroes , they're always shorter , fatter and uglier than you expect .
Speaker 1I 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 3You 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 1Good , 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 3Oh , that . Because like what do you ?
Speaker 1want 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 2Yeah , 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 1You 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 1Yeah , so it wasn't like we're coming out of nowhere .
Speaker 3That's so great I love that .
Speaker 1On 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 2You had an emotional journey here yeah , I think I'm done for the day though thank you very much , everybody .