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Hi everyone, it's Leo and thanks for tuning in to another episode of and here's Modi. As you know, our tour schedule is pretty crazy right now, but we always make time to get in the studio and record new episodes for you guys. As I'm recording this, it is Wednesday, march 12th, and tomorrow is Purim, as I know it, the Jewish Halloween as I have grown to love it over the years and we are joined by a repeat guest. He's been on the show several times Rabbi Gav Belino of Sixth Street Synagogue, and he shows up in a surprise outfit. So if you usually listen to this episode, maybe check out our YouTube page For sure.
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Speaker 2:Welcome to and here's Modi. And we are back. Here we are. Today we have a special guest on the podcast. And here's Modi. The rabbi's here, rabbi Gav Bellino.
Speaker 3:Not just any rabbi.
Speaker 2:Mishkiach, the Mishkiach. Well, I'm building this up here. Obviously, you guys all know that, because of our touring dates, the schedule and the podcast is always a little bit off, but today we are doing our Purim episode, I guess, and Gav came dressed as Meshkiach energy. Those of you who don't know what Meshkiach is, meshkiach is to watch over, but usually it's meant for kosher food, and the guy in the restaurant and the guy in the restaurant that is in a kosher restaurant. That's the Meshkiach. You nailed the look.
Speaker 3:Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've had lots of experience you have, huh yeah.
Speaker 1:Would you like to describe the?
Speaker 3:look for those of the-. I mean, it's mashkiach chic. We have gloves that have been used far too long. By the way, that I'm wearing an apron is like they don't all wear aprons. I mean this is like I'm very, very serious about my job. We have a yarmulke that has been through a lot. Yeah, Like way too much.
Speaker 2:It looks like you found it. It's like explain why, Because once you're touching all the food and then you adjust the yarmulke, so I'm like there's always-. Adjust the yarmulke.
Speaker 3:You have a little itch so you move and the mayo gets up in there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Mayo's good for your hair.
Speaker 3:I have sneakers. I have sensible shoes, sensible sneakers that I borrowed from my father. He should live and be well.
Speaker 2:The Mesquite shoes are usually black because they want to not be in white sneakers while they're in a fancy restaurant. But it's also just. It's sneakers too, so it's comfortable and they're dirty. They're like he went to Eretz, Israel with them, he went to Israel with them and he got all the dust on it.
Speaker 3:He never cleaned it off. By the way, there is a thing of like Shabbos sneakers. Okay, one second.
Speaker 4:I'm sorry you guys are taking for granted that, like this, is a reasonable thing to be doing. Can you explain to those of us who are perhaps not familiar, such as myself who just discovered that this job, quote unquote- exists.
Speaker 3:The role of the ignorant Jewess will be played by Perry Yet again, if you got her name right.
Speaker 2:Every kosher restaurant, in order to get your certificate, has to have a mashkiach, which again means someone who watches over, and while he's watching over, the kosherness of the-.
Speaker 3:So I'm in the kitchen, but I have no skills. Why are you filthy? But I have no skills?
Speaker 4:Why are you filthy? Why do you need to touch food and your yarmulke? You're in all the food all day long.
Speaker 3:Did you watch Chopped? No, top Chef, no, what's that other one?
Speaker 2:The one where they just scream at each other all day long.
Speaker 1:What sort of like certification or credentials do you need to be a mishkiya? None, none, exactly None, no like in all seriousness, for you to get hired by an organization or a restaurant, or what have you to do? This?
Speaker 3:what there's always also like, there's the glasses.
Speaker 1:No, I know they're disheveled.
Speaker 3:I've seen them, by the way, actually so last night I was like applying mayonnaise to the glasses. That's too much. So just to get a good like, there needs to be like a little grease and the glasses are usually like.
Speaker 2:They're usually not. They're like readers that you buy on the shelf and it's usually his wife's. He took his wife's, so they're like pink, so this whole thing is. And then, and he needs glasses because he has to look at the lettuce to make sure that there's no bugs on the lettuce.
Speaker 4:What are you guys talking about? I'm not doing a good job of like setting this up First of all this is not like you want cleanliness, right Like somebody's in this restaurant. It's supposed to be making sure that the food is at like a high level and kosher kosher, kosher, kosher is not hot.
Speaker 3:That's a different kind of level.
Speaker 4:It's kosher you have to make sure I can't let it, since one is lettuce, not kosher, so it's a certain if it has a bug on it.
Speaker 2:You're eating a bug.
Speaker 3:It's not kosher is like a skin disorder.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, you're being mean now. Now you're being mean, we get there.
Speaker 2:Let's get back to some questions. Firstly, he has. What certification does a Meshgirch need? And it's none. And it's one of the jokes I have for Passover where everybody thinks, oh, we're so from and so religious, we'll go to a Passover program. What do you think makes it like kosher? Because it makes it like kosher because there's one guy who's a mishgiyah and they give him, like four or five kids who are stoned out of their mind, the entire program on kosher for Passover edibles and they think now the place is kosher and so. But it's like, but there's no certification to be a mishgiyah.
Speaker 3:You know what they listen. There are better ones that have like training and like law, and they have right Sometimes it's just about like a, and you'd be surprised at the bodies that you find.
Speaker 4:Wait, do you have to be like a rabbi? No, you do not.
Speaker 1:How many years of yeshiva seminary? Whatever have you do, you need to cover all these bases. I don't think.
Speaker 3:Apparently zero. By the way, what's actually interesting about it is sometimes it's helpful to have your mishkichim know less, because they're following policy. They're not applying law, they're just following policy. So if a kashrut organization gives their policies, they don't want their mashkichim now playing rabbi and trying to find loopholes and trying to permit things that maybe, by way of policy, the organization wouldn't want to permit. That's actually like a fascinating thing. But yeah, this is the Meshkiach. This is Meshkiach and it's an energy. It's an energy and it's the opposite of your Meshkiach energy.
Speaker 2:It really is. It's the annoyance of the religion, it's the it doesn't bring people together.
Speaker 3:It does not. It tears us apart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's in every kosher restaurant there's a mashgiach and it's a full salary.
Speaker 1:So I have only my initial encounters with mashgiachs mashgiay mashgiazes. Mashgichim has been at Passover programs and we all know how I feel about the food at Passover programs, but that's something else. At those sort of locations where it's like a pop-up event, I understand the role more, but when you're a brick-and-mortar kosher restaurant and you have been there for several years, why do we need this person here? Shouldn't we have processes and refrigerators?
Speaker 4:and sinks and equipment. The answer is yes, leo, and I'll take it one step further. With all the anti-Semitism that's going on right now, this is not helping In this room. This is not a great look for us.
Speaker 3:Okay, so we have in defense of Meshkiachem, we have standards and we need those standards to be checked. We know that humans like to play fast and loose sometimes.
Speaker 4:It sounds like the Moshkiach likes to play fast and loose too.
Speaker 3:By the way, the Pesach program Moshkiach is a special one, Very, because now you've gone to the most beautiful place on earth and now you've juxtaposed that with a human that has not seen the sun no vitamin D His son in three years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, they always look vitamin deficient.
Speaker 3:And so now the Moshkirch on a Mexico program. Wow.
Speaker 4:Because they're covered in mayonnaise apparently.
Speaker 2:No, but it's again. It's like I said before. It's a. In Hebrew you say tipus.
Speaker 4:Yeah, character it's a character.
Speaker 2:It's a type, a type of a person who's a Moshgir and he's. It's you, you know. There's also in the perkei avot. It says you should work within the religion. You should try to when you do a job. Whatever work you do, it should be something with what that has to do with judaism. I don't know that quote at all. Sometimes I make things up and luckily somebody will hear this and they'll send me exactly that quote it is.
Speaker 2:It says it's good to work within, like like to work in something with Judaism, like being like a Yabba, a Judaica store, whatever, it doesn't matter, but it is a thing, and no, I don't, it's really written in there. Somebody will send it to us. You'll see, once I say something, someone always sends it to us, then I'll feel like a mashkiach.
Speaker 3:Apparently you can be too, if you just walked into a kosher restaurant just like this and just said hi, I'm here. Straight into the kitchen, no problem.
Speaker 4:No problem, especially when Paris is like a lighter.
Speaker 3:A lighter to light the oven.
Speaker 2:So let's really go through this. So the oven has to be lit by a Jew, right? So that's one thing that Mishge has to make sure happens. So one of the busboys doesn't light the oven for the chef, and why does that make?
Speaker 1:the oven not why?
Speaker 2:Why that you go to him for that one?
Speaker 4:Why.
Speaker 2:Why does the oven have to be lit by a Jew?
Speaker 3:Okay, so we have Put the letters down you don't mean no, by the way, I have to. You know what this would do to your soul if you ate that little fly Straight to hell Straight to hell.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, so that's another there. That's actually a rabbinic injunction that we have to eat food that's been cooked by Jews. That sounds a little racist. It is a way of keeping a certain insularity to the community. Also, there's a concern of kashrut stuff, so they want to preserve the dietary laws, and there are really two reasons that are at play there. So how do you define cooking? So one of the loopholes is if the oven was turned on by a Jew so then, a non-Jew, then, mario.
Speaker 1:Can chop the vegetables.
Speaker 3:No, we'll do the cooking. Take something from a state of raw to cooked.
Speaker 1:I have a lot of mean things to say right now.
Speaker 4:That's really an interesting one. You have to put the lettuce down why. I would also respectfully request that you take those gloves off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're giving me pandemic vibes with the gloves and it's like triggering.
Speaker 4:You're giving me proctology vibes.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's a nice break. I heard that episode. The gloves are off, I'm out of character, so again back to the mezhguia, which is the character you're playing today.
Speaker 2:So he has to make sure that the oven's turned on properly. He has to make sure, like if they send a busboy to go get like a dairy product, something like a cream for the coffee in a meat restaurant he doesn't by accident bring back something that's dairy. So you can't mix meat and milk, as you know.
Speaker 3:There are rules. There are rules and someone has to keep an eye on it. So it absolutely doesn.
Speaker 4:You guys, I can't take this seriously when you're telling me that you don't need any certification to do this job.
Speaker 2:No, but it's somebody who keeps kosher and knows the laws.
Speaker 3:You know one parham I made a joke like years ago. I made a joke that involved shotness. That's the mixing of linen and wool.
Speaker 1:Wow, it's really scary what's up there, but keep going.
Speaker 3:I made a joke that tangentially involved Shatnas and I got all this hate mail from the Shatnas community. It's like a Shatnas lobby that is very militant, a little bit scary, very off and they sent me like I'm not respecting Shatnas, I'm not observing, I don't protect Shatnas. I got all this hate mail so I'm going to shut my, I'm going to throw my phone out the window.
Speaker 4:We're going to steal ourselves from pushback from the Mishkiach community. I have so many things to say that I'm just going to not.
Speaker 1:It's not necessary that I'm just going to not it's not necessary.
Speaker 2:Anyway, the energy is for Purim, purim is coming.
Speaker 3:It's a Purim energy. It's a great costume. We make fun of ourselves. It's a great costume. Do I need to reorder?
Speaker 1:the episodes now, because we're doing this Purim episode you should drop this one before the other ones. You say that.
Speaker 2:Do you know how easy that is?
Speaker 4:No, so then don't the files. We have to clip them.
Speaker 2:We have to reorder the youtube, like today. Nothing's gonna happen, can I tell you. Can I tell you what? What happened when we were in london? What happened? Leo leaned into the fact that he's just not falling asleep. We just, we just didn't. We had this beautiful hotel room. We were at the peninsula. It was stunning, it was a brand new we had. We had a suite that had like three rooms, 12 bathrooms, and leo just tried to fall asleep. When he could not fall asleep, he said I'll be in the other room, I'll be working, and he built the entire merch store between 12 midnight and 7 am. When I woke up, he's sitting there and the entire merch store was built. Yeah, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 2:The entire beautiful merch, like beautiful bags and shot, not shot glass, a nice whiskey glass. I think I'm going to take those off, though, why?
Speaker 1:Because I sent a sample order to my godparents with the mugs and they arrived broken.
Speaker 4:Yeah, mugs, glasses tough to ship, yeah.
Speaker 2:So okay, so yeah, take the glass, but what about the whiskey?
Speaker 1:glass that's definitely going to break if the mugs showed up broken.
Speaker 2:That's also made of glass, okay, so take those out.
Speaker 1:I had a different design that I sent both of these that they vetoed the one that you were wearing this morning, yeah, it looked.
Speaker 2:I wore it this morning. It was very nice. It was Mashiach Energy with the dove. They didn't like it. I just can't see that it says Mashiach Energy. It's very Genzy. It's also a little. You know, we've been traveling. We went to Mexico and then we went to Vegas where you taste America and we're going to talk about Leo's set on stage. How amazing it was. But, like you see, all the things that people wear to show where they are in the world, how they are, One guy was wearing it takes a felon and a hillbilly to fix the situation we're in.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 2:I didn't see that. I saw that in the lounge, in the Centurion Lounge in Vegas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that. No, no, no, I love that. I love that for him. He's like this is what I'm good for him. Yeah, and he's, but he wants to show what he's at dove and it's like it's confusing that the one that he made but the other one is so she. We were in vegas, we were in las vegas and, uh, we were staying at the west gate.
Speaker 2:Where elvis was was that's elvis's place, where he was, and it was iconic. We were in the room where he like the green room, where they had the bar and all his friends, and everybody hung out and you know, the band is like 18 people in the band and we're just just like me and him. There's an opening act. I did an hour and 20 minutes. Um, we were. There was a place where Elvis made his prayer. You know, I did the Anabacor prayer right, which is the prayer I do before I go on stage. I do the Anabacor prayer, and so I did it in the exact place that elvis did his prayer before he went on stage which was a little sticker on the floor and everything it's so cute, it's the original floor, it's amazing.
Speaker 2:And, um and uh, the the bed that he had in his green room in case he needed to collapse before a show or after a show. I felt that. You felt that you, when you saw, when you saw that bed in the in the green room, you felt that energy and they said it's the same mirror that he checked himself before going on stage. So it was Elvis energy and Leo, of course, goes on as the producer of the show to thank the audience. And he had two lines he wrote that were amazing.
Speaker 1:One of them was. I don't know if they're going to translate to a podcast Watch.
Speaker 2:We went to go see the Eagles the night before the show at the Sphere. That's amazing, it was amazing. The Eagles. Now Leo does not really know their songs. I know a few, he knows a few, but he was like I was the youngest, it was me, leo Modi, and then 64, 5, 6.
Speaker 1:Nothing. The woman next to me was 85. 85, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Old but beautiful and, oh my God, white, oh shocking. We 18,000 people and we, literally, and they're all like on a sphere. So we're looking and there was nobody of color at all. It was just the whitest audience you ever saw in your life. And Leo doesn't know the song, so he has the set list, which is on Spotify, and he's looking at the words while they're singing, anyway, so one of the jokes that Leo had on stage was that the audience was very Nice.
Speaker 1:So I said, wow, it's so great to be here in vegas. I can't believe I'm doing this on a podcast, that's like a cardinal rule of like jokes, you don't do them, and why?
Speaker 1:okay, so we were. I was like, oh wow, we're having so much fun in vegas. Last night, modi and I went to go see the eagles at the sphere. Um, I said it was the eagles, so it's an older crowd. Very well behaved. Everyone stayed in their seats the whole time and at one point I turned to Monty and said Monty, why is everyone sitting? And he goes. Leo, trust me, this crowd has stood the test of time. That's funny.
Speaker 2:And then I said after.
Speaker 1:It was a great show, amazing show. If you haven't been, you should definitely go Afterwards. We did a lap on the strip, or, as I like to call it, the Riviera, for people who didn't go to college.
Speaker 2:Wow, it was great.
Speaker 1:I got a laugh Because it's a hot mess that strip. And then I said it's like walking through an Ozempic commercial out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it really is. It really is it got laughs.
Speaker 3:I don't like it.
Speaker 2:I don't like Vegas, but hold on, let's just discuss this for a second here. It was besides doing the show and bringing the entire Jewish community of Las Vegas together. It was like everybody that lives in the area. That's not like from the strip. A lot of people flew in for the show, but the people that live in Las Vegas came in. It was like a Jewish event. It was an amazing thing happening in one of the nicest uh uh casinos, like with the show thing where elvis was. It was just great energy and um. One thing I can take away from this trip in las vegas is that there is a lot of it doesn't. Just let me rephrase this the performers on las vegas are in their 80s. In their 80s, barry Manilow has a show. Frankie Valli, who's 90, has a show. The Eagles, who began when I was born that's when they began had the show.
Speaker 1:Donny Osmond still has a show.
Speaker 2:Donny Osmond has a show. It's a time machine.
Speaker 2:There's also newer acts acts too, but there is newer acts and there are smaller acts, but these guys are in their 80s and I hear that they're killing it. Like barry manuel comes on, does thursday, friday, saturday and destroys. You know, it's all set. They have his act and it's amazing. And the eagles were the Eagles. Wow, the show was amazing and the sphere was insane. You can hear everyone's guitar individually. It was. The acoustics were insane and nobody stood up, which was so nice. You just sit for the show and to stand on your feet. It was relaxing.
Speaker 2:That's good, that's good, it was yeah.
Speaker 3:Did you stop at the cellar?
Speaker 2:I did not. We did not have time, we were in and out.
Speaker 1:We came from Mexico no, this last in the week alone, we landed from London, then we went to Baltimore, then we came back to New York, then we went to Mexico City and then we went to Vegas. That's been in the last week wow yeah do you talk about London?
Speaker 2:we did London. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so yeah.
Speaker 4:Were there any Mashiach energy moments that really stuck out to you?
Speaker 2:Mexico City was one big fat Mashiach energy. It was just one big fat one to me. It was for an organization called Yad Rachamim, the Hand of Mercy, and it's run by, it's founded and co-founded by this husband and wife, duo Duo, and they're super religious. She has a wig and all that and he's, I guess, a rabbi or something. But the people that support the organization and it's for kids that have a problem at home, they're like there's abusive homes and it's someplace for them to go to and swim and do things and projects and lunches, and it really is an amazing thing and they pulled together and they put the show.
Speaker 2:900 people came out and they've never had an event like that and there were people in the audience that just sent me letters that this one woman really wanted to meet me afterwards and she was like 86 and just lost her husband and little things like that throughout the entire. You know us being there. We went to dinner with the people who put the show together and they were us being there. We went to dinner with the people who put the show together and they were unbelievable and like it's insane, cause you're in this little neighborhood that's just like the great neck of Mexico, this Jewish community. I don't even know what it's called, arco, something, los Judeos, los Judeos, right, exactly, and Thank you, thank God, god's here. But when you drive out of the airport in Mexico, mexico City, to wherever you're going, it's the scariest thing you've ever seen.
Speaker 1:It's not scary, it's so scary. It's like, wow, I was whipping out my Spanish girl. Yep, I was like is the ice filtered? That was my main concern.
Speaker 2:That's funny, yeah I, I kind of don't like being places where I have to worry about the water, or am I allowed to wear a watch here?
Speaker 2:It's like two things I don't like to. But it was, it happened, the event happened and on top of that, you know, and I'm talking to this audience and I asked them, you know, because I've I've material now I do about interfaith dating and stuff like that which happens, and they said that you know, this community doesn't really allow it and it's really crazy, but it happens. And it's like to break the in case somebody really needs to tell their parents something, or gay I'm talking about my husband on stage, you know to break this very like, even though they're not that religious, but they're very like, strict on certain things, you know. So now, when some kid comes to his mom and says I'm gay and she's like we just had the best time with this comedian who happens to have a husband, you know, and happens to have a husband, we're still surprised. Yeah, we're still surprised. We're working on it. I'm just in gratitude of the husband. He's the best, he's the best.
Speaker 1:Wait. So, Periel, do you want to walk us through some of these segments that you sent me? I know you just asked Modi one of them.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I thought that do you have any Mashiach energy moments? Or the opposite, or Mashiach energy moments.
Speaker 1:One Mashiach energy moment was when we got to the venue in Mexico City and there was not enough light on the stage at all and thankfully we were there like three hours before the show of course, very on brand for us to be so early and I said you need to do something about this. I was like you have three hours before people get here. You have enough time to, like, solve this issue English or Spanish.
Speaker 1:Spanish. Wow. And this woman, one of the organizers, lucy. She was on top of it. She got on the phone, she started calling seven people and, before you know it, two massive spotlights with manned operators like the giant ones are now perched up on the second level.
Speaker 3:Because her name is Lucy. No, what, that's a Spanish joke, so this again, this is not.
Speaker 2:This is Moshiach Hanji for real. So this, don't forget, this is not a theater.
Speaker 1:This is it looked it's an auditorium. It was a very beautiful school campus. It looked like a college campus, but it was just a school for kids.
Speaker 2:And the auditorium is stunning. This could be someplace like hey Modi, we booked you in the Orpheum of St Louis and you get there and it's a 1,200 seat theater, but they use it for the kids, so they just put all the lights on and whoever's speaking to the kids speaks to the kids and they go out. They don't do productions there, and so it's a shame, because it's a beautiful theater and then it just made it look like a real show. When those spotlights came in, they were not there when we got there. They were not there when we got there.
Speaker 2:And then and to keep in mind, the green room is like for little kids, it's like kids chairs and all that and there was a nightmare. And so I'm sitting there going through my set, I'm with my set and all I hear is just screaming in Spanish. Imagine, like every great Nick or five town woman who's putting together this event, but in Spanish she's on top of worried about her look and her outfit and what she's going to say. You know, when she speaks before the show comes on, everybody who's coming and going, and they're just screaming in Spanish. And I'm sitting in this little room. I feel like a hostage, just like with the, with the people outside screaming, and it was, and you're sitting on a kid's chair.
Speaker 4:Billy Madison. That's a great photograph, that's a great image you sitting on a tiny little kid's chair with your set list.
Speaker 2:I'm just sitting there going through my set list. I've been changing a lot of my stuff. I just wanted to nail it and the guy who's opening for me very sweet guy was a local comedian there. He came in to want to talk and then some people who shouldn't have been back there were coming in, jamming their cameras in my face and just out of control. And then it was just. But it ended up being an unbelievable event.
Speaker 1:Like Gav, would you like to reintroduce yourself for people who might just be tuning in or are just now dipping their toes in the podcast? Because you've been on the show before, I think I'm the most recurring.
Speaker 3:You're the most repeated. You're a recurring cast member at this point.
Speaker 1:And I sent you a message I got the other day. People said I miss when G is not on the show thanks for bringing me back, so always welcome. Who are you? Yeah, hello you guys besides this, when you're not in mishgih sometimes a fool, sometimes not, I don't know you are the rabbi of six street community synagogue yeah uh, that is where modi and I met.
Speaker 3:Um, it's also where we met. We met on Purim, I think, like nine years ago. Wow, that was our first time Period. Amazing, yeah, you threw a mean Purim part.
Speaker 2:You were part of his costume. Actually, the first Purim I ever took Leo to was at the Kabbalah Center. Is that where I saw Madonna? That's where you saw Madonna.
Speaker 1:I saw Madonna.
Speaker 2:I said Madonna, I saw Madonna and I said I'm done here. He saw Madonna. He vibed the thing this is not for me and left because he was still this is nine years ago. He was still tormented by growing up Catholic, but it was good to see Madonna was it good to see Madonna?
Speaker 3:because the Gen Z gays aren't?
Speaker 1:I didn't see her perform or anything. I just saw her as a person doing something that she wanted to be doing for fun. You know, not for fun, but like she was there for her at the Kabbalah Center. She wasn't like there on stage for other people.
Speaker 4:She's almost better, no, so I was just like okay, here's Madonna out in the wild.
Speaker 2:It's like on safari, and the following Purim we went to yours and then probably you've been to some shows.
Speaker 1:you throw a mean Purim party where it's like it looks like a Studio 54 outside of people trying to get in yeah, so we've had some years are better than others.
Speaker 3:Hopefully this will be a good year. Yeah, we're popular and we have fun and we don't take ourselves too seriously, but we check all the boxes and we do is your party this Thursday the party's this Thursday we have that other event, but maybe we, we, we have it yeah.
Speaker 4:Will you be coming in that costume? We'll probably go down there after I'm not going to be in this costume.
Speaker 3:I have another costume. Is it secret? I have another costume planned. It's top secret. I think it's good, I think it'll be okay. Well, you can tell us, because nobody's going to hear this until after.
Speaker 4:I need to get used to it a little bit. He had one instruction for this show and he did not follow it this was supposed to be a surprise so he calls me and he's like I have an idea.
Speaker 3:I had an idea and also I needed whatever. I didn't want to just show up. Am I the first guest that's come in costume?
Speaker 1:I think so you know what RuPaul says we're all born naked, and the rest is drag, so this is also a costume.
Speaker 3:Am I the first guest that's come in costume? I think so. I think so. Yeah, all right, it is yeah. But you know what?
Speaker 1:RuPaul says we're all born naked and the rest is drag so this is also a costume.
Speaker 3:That's funny.
Speaker 2:It is Drag. Is he's in drag right now? He's doing drag A thousand percent.
Speaker 4:So he calls me and he pitches this whole thing and I'm like it's hysterical, it's brilliant. Let me call Leo and make sure that why is everything my decision all the time?
Speaker 1:It's so exhausting.
Speaker 4:Well, it's tough being you, huh yeah, it is Poor you.
Speaker 3:I mean, you have good taste, you know what's funny Debatable.
Speaker 2:I'm dressed like.
Speaker 1:I'm going to fix drywall no but we got Okay, so Leo.
Speaker 3:How are the rest of the Teamsters?
Speaker 4:Wait a second. I'm not going to have him show up in this insane thing and not loop you into it.
Speaker 1:We literally had a call the other day where I was like Perrielle, take more creative control of the podcast. Like just do shit, like you don't have to tell me.
Speaker 3:This would have been so much better if I had no idea, this was happening.
Speaker 4:Unless you hated it. No, I think you should just like Anyway he was supposed to wait outside until we were. So I did take control. I was like you wait outside, Modi, I'm going to get everybody situated and Modi's going to have no idea, and then you're just going to walk in like this. What does he do? He calls me. He's like I'm hiding in an I Love New York souvenir store.
Speaker 1:Which is the whole block, which is the whole block, which is the whole block. You're on Canal Street.
Speaker 4:I'm like, so stay there, let me get them upstairs, and then I'll tell you when to come up Next thing. I know.
Speaker 1:You didn't even buy me a key chain while you were in there.
Speaker 4:He's talking to Modi on the street. No, you know what happened.
Speaker 3:I got distracted, I got distracted, I got distracted. I was doing a good job hiding. I was mortified to walk through the streets of New York like this.
Speaker 1:Really yeah, I don't think anyone would bat an eye on Canal.
Speaker 3:Street. No one would ever notice I had an unpleasant conversation with my Uber driver trying to explain Purim and Mishki Akhanerji to him.
Speaker 2:It didn't land with him, the poor guy. Why would he want to hear?
Speaker 3:He was asking, asking you yeah, oh, where was he from? Um, I don't know, he was like latino, he was probably local, um, anyway, yeah, so then I got, then you called and I like looked up to find you and next thing I know I see modi and leo modi does his hi and I you know. Then what am I gonna do?
Speaker 2:run away frying you look like do you know that he really committed I'm looking at the beard that he didn't shave the beard it's so it's such a commitment I can't explain to you.
Speaker 1:It's really hitting me more and more. You know that that place on Orchard, that Asian seafood place where the back of it backs up to that hotel, and they all stand there smoking cigarettes and they're all just like that.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, yes, oh it's called like Do you need me to get you in there now it's called like congee village or something.
Speaker 2:So on Allen street there's a restaurant called congee village. It goes all the way to the end and if you're walking on orchard and you pass by, you pass by the back and sometimes the doors open and you have an inside look into the kitchen. There are anywhere between I'm not lying 30 to 40 Asian men dressed exactly like you, and then they come out, they squat and have their cigarette. They you know how they sit there like in that position that if a Jew ever got in he'd never get out Facts.
Speaker 2:You know, like he's literally. They say like that, right, and they're like this and killing cigarettes, just killing cigarettes in a squat, in a squat position, like, and I always look at them.
Speaker 1:I'm like, if you ever sound like that, they never get out do you know that there's been studies done of like cause there's certain cultures where like squatting, like that is just like normal yeah and it's it's like actually very good for you and like their longevity is like yeah, it's very good for you Cause it stretches out, like all of these blood vessels and your lymphatic.
Speaker 2:Whatever good their squatting is doing, those gnarly cigarettes that they're smoking, and it's not like a regular. Marlboro or American spirits. It's like a Chinese on it and it doesn't have any warning. I've seen their cigarettes. It's just chemicals on top of like and have any warning. I've seen their cigarettes. It's just chemicals on top of like and they're killing them. They're like they can't get enough in.
Speaker 4:It's a slow form of suicide.
Speaker 2:This is enough. Let's have this end already. But they don't. They live till 109. All of them. They do a yoga squat. While they're doing it, killing with a yoga squat Well, they probably eat like half a broccoli a day. That's why they live so long. They're not eating anything like.
Speaker 4:No dairy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, whatever.
Speaker 4:Okay, listen.
Speaker 2:But that's what you look like.
Speaker 4:Okay, look, we have a lot of messages. Do you have anything that you would like to complain about? The idea was that he gets to do a Mashiach Energy moment, but you weren't supposed to do a Mashiach Energy moment. You're supposed to do something that.
Speaker 1:I have to be the Fabessin one.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, Fabessin.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's just German.
Speaker 2:I would tell you, mashiach Energy, if I could tell you when we are on the road and people come up to us, and first of all when he says who hears, listen to the podcast, how the place goes nuts. And then, and people who you just would never imagine listen to the podcast, listen to the pot, and they're just so happy for it. It literally it's like a way for them just to turn their brain off for an hour. It's no, no, people just like come over us.
Speaker 1:Huh, it's so great, I will say, okay, the the one thing that it doesn't make me angry. I told you I'm trying to be more positive.
Speaker 4:I know, but that's not.
Speaker 1:But it makes me very sad and you'll see in one of the responses I put in the chat group where people were writing in questions for today.
Speaker 4:I have all of them.
Speaker 1:They said when are you coming to Phoenix? And we were literally just there and did over a thousand seats in Phoenix. So I get sad because I'm like how did I miss this one person? They're like enough of a fan to be in our chat group on Instagram, but they're not enough of a fan to know that we were there on February 2nd. It's like folks pay attention, I get sad because I'm like oh, we were just there and it's probably going to be a long time.
Speaker 2:And then there's another thing too. And then there's another thing too. So we were in Vegas and Andrew the watch guy from a very famous watch store in Calabasas and he's a fan and a friend, and the guy knows more about watches than anybody in the world he says oh my God, you're here, I'm going to come, I'm coming with the guy who's the president of some synagogue. So I'm like, how does he not have a ticket already? If I'm in your town, how are you not with a ticket? And then I, I, I asked the manager of the of the Westgate did you advertise to all the synagogues? He goes yeah, every synagogue found out about us. And then I suppose he just didn't want to buy a ticket.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he just didn't want that. We were there, but it was so it's sad. I get sad when I'm on stage and see an empty seat. I just like someone could be there laughing. There could be somebody sitting there laughing.
Speaker 3:So I was in Chicago a couple of weeks ago and I did a wedding and it was an interesting wedding. It was like lovely, lovely people. She's reformed, he's Orthodox, and so I worked with a reformed rabbi and that was everything was really, really, really lovely. And they did a rehearsal dinner and his family. Isn't that a Goyesha thing? It's such a Goyesha thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:We don't need to rehearse dinner.
Speaker 2:Also in the Orthodox Jewish world. There's like seven events afterwards no but all that stuff is usually after, because the bride and groom don't see each other for a week. So how are you going to do a rehearsal dinner Before the wedding?
Speaker 4:Well, I did not know that.
Speaker 3:So he's from Houston and I'm sitting at the rehearsal dinner and this couple comes over to me and they have like strong Texan accents and I get up to to to meet them and they, they clearly want to talk to me. And so one of them says we heard something really nice about you. I said, oh, wow, what what he says we heard your friends with Modi. Oh. So I said, yeah, oh, my Modi's the best, Isn't? He's so good, he's so talented. I love him. Oh, we love him too. We just saw him. You were in Houston, we just saw him there. He looked like so happy. So I you know, I'm trying to like wind this conversation down, but they keep wanting to talk. And I said so you like comedy or you just like you like Modi? Where are you at? So they said, oh no, we love comedy. Every time we come to New York we always try to go see a comedy show.
Speaker 3:I said oh wow, that's like really nice. Like, where do you go? So the wife says she like looks around and she says, have you ever heard of a place called the Comedy Cellar? I said yeah, I'd like. Sure, it's like very famous and I've been there many, many, many times. So they say, ah, we always try to go to the Comedy Cellar. I said, oh, wow, okay, so which, which? Which are the comedians that you like? Who do you like? And he says, oh, we love this comedian. His name is Eric Newman. Oh no, I said what? Oh yeah, eric Newman, we love Eric Newman. Every time we're in New York we're trying to see Eric Newman. Good, I said we're going to take a picture now. We're FaceTiming Eric Newman. Right now We'm going to. We're going to take a picture now I'm going to we're, we're FaceTiming.
Speaker 1:Eric Newman right now, like we get him, did you FaceTime, eric Newman. I sent him pictures. I'm like, I'm with your two biggest fans.
Speaker 3:This is amazing. Like who else do you like? They said Gary Vita, I'm like this conversation is over, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2:I love him. He's the host. He's the host, he's a great host.
Speaker 3:Of course he is, and he's the sweetest and he's funny. Eric Newman was on like the third episode of the show, and I was expecting Attell, I was expecting Colin, I was expecting Perrielle. It was so funny, it was so good to hear, though.
Speaker 2:You imagine, if they're coming to the Comedy Cell on a regular basis, on random times, he's probably the host, and they landed in a show where he's the host.
Speaker 3:And they define their experience through him and so they look forward to him and that's a connection and that's beautiful.
Speaker 2:And he's the type that talks to the audience after the show and before the show.
Speaker 3:A little too much maybe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he's there.
Speaker 4:God bless Eric, really Okay, okay, god bless her.
Speaker 1:You have some questions.
Speaker 4:We have questions. We have some fun questions for you, go ahead. Yiddish is the fighting love language of my long deceased grandparents. Would you ever consider doing a Yiddish word of the day? It's a great idea. It's a great idea. And somebody else asked what's your favorite yiddish curse? So you can answer I don't really have a favorite yiddish curse your favorite yiddish word. Leo, you can also answer this there's so many, I came I I love.
Speaker 3:I love the expression of disgust which is ayah brach. Ayah brach means like, oh, vomit, but off is like broken, like crumbs. It's essentially the equivalent of like tossing your cookie Okay.
Speaker 4:I've never heard that before.
Speaker 3:To blow chunks, oh no, to throw up is that's it. That's why it means broken.
Speaker 4:It's like the bros it's all the same word, but when do you use that Like?
Speaker 3:give me an example. So when something goes horribly wrong, when something is just not right, you're like oh yeah, gebrochs. Yeah Like oh, that's, it's like a kelastima. It's like ugh, it's so sad, what a pity Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm disgusted. Their car smashed into something. Oh yeah, bruh, oh yeah bruh. Oh yeah bruh. Or it's like my son's dating a girl who's not Jewish oh yeah, bruh.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Jackie Mason threw that out on stage nonstop. Oh yeah, bruh, she was here and she was there and that oh yeah, bruh, she came by those. Oh bruh, I never use that word because Jackie Mason used it so much. I don't usually use that word so what do you use?
Speaker 4:what's your I?
Speaker 2:prefer brecht, like when, leo, we ordered something and I go, I'm going to brecht if I eat that. We're sitting on an airplane and they service that food. I go, I'm going to brecht if I eat this. Take this away.
Speaker 3:I regret it. You know like Eskimos in snow, so Yiddish has like 80 words for vomit.
Speaker 4:I've never heard you say that.
Speaker 3:No, but my only Yiddish curse I have. You know what?
Speaker 4:I hear you say Yiddish a lot.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 4:Fe.
Speaker 1:Fe, oh, you throw that in a lot. That's not even really a word.
Speaker 2:But it is a word, Discuss with it. It's the ew of Yiddish, it's fe, and ichs Ichs is also Israeli Ichs Ichs. And then you have, but I don't really you know, the biggest curse I use in Yiddish is kish and tuchus. Kiss my ass, you know, or they can, you know, and tuchus and ass. But if I'm going to curse, I'm not going to waste Yiddish on it. I will go to. I will go to to Russian Pizda imot, and I don't even know if that's Russian or Turkish Pizda imot. It's so great.
Speaker 2:But I, my father, used to scream that when he was driving he used to scream at the other driver pizda imot. And then my barber, the barber I used to go to. They were Bukharian, and when it was a father and son and when the father was upset with whatever was going on, he'd go peace, die mot for your mother. And he's like, literally, what a mutt got a curse, Something nasty. It's gotta be horrible. It's horrible what it means, but it's that's. I'll go for that curse if I'm not cursing in english. That's good question. That's what I'm talking about that is a good question.
Speaker 2:It's funny because the curses in yiddish are like paragraphs, it's like a whole direction. Go, go crap in the ocean. It's like 13 things. They have to go find an ocean, take a crap in it. It's too long, they grow like a tibble with you like you should grow like an onion with your head in the earth. It's too much, it's too long. They grow like a tibbola with the earth.
Speaker 4:So so, so guys are not paying attention. So who's your dream guest? We've spent like seven episodes talking about Omer Shemtov being the dream guest. You guys catch up.
Speaker 2:Did you see? Omer Shemtov posted this beautiful video of him just talking. He's saying I felt all of your prayers, I felt all of your energy. He had some miraculous situation with grape juice that survived. It's like the nest of the oil, yeah. And he made kiddish on that Friday night and, wow, what a great thing to see. He's still currently a dream guest of mine.
Speaker 4:He's coming, he wants to come. He's going to come on. Okay, this is a question of.
Speaker 2:My grandmother had that nail polish.
Speaker 1:She just that's a whole thing. It's a whole thing. We're not going to do it right now, never mind.
Speaker 4:But, thank you. What's your favorite snack and what's your favorite snack?
Speaker 1:I'm his favorite snack Period Period and guess what? Not a low calorie food?
Speaker 2:No, I munched on Leo's head, very rich.
Speaker 1:Very dense. My favorite snack, I'll tell you right now, is a caramel rice cake with peanut butter on it and then a little bit of jelly, and then I dip it in like an almond milk.
Speaker 3:That's indulgent?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not a snack.
Speaker 3:You're really letting it get to me and then a little bit of jelly, and then I dip it in like an almond milk. That's indulgent yeah, it's not a snack.
Speaker 1:You're really letting it A snack, but it's something you just house while you're standing there in the kitchen.
Speaker 2:Okay, when we're in town for more than an hour and Leo does put an order into Instacartgram. Instacartgram.
Speaker 4:Instacartgram.
Speaker 2:Instacart, instacart, instacart period, so there's food in the house. One of my go-to snacks is cottage cheese and, like I also take a little bit of the jelly together, so like cottage cheese and jelly and eat it together no cottage cheese, by the way, jake Cohen also by the way, do you know what you can also order on Instacart?
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Speaker 2:Modi, modi, modi Modi.
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Speaker 2:It took you seven years. It took me eight years to get this thing down.
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Speaker 2:Seth is the nicest guy Kosherdognet and it really is he wants his food.
Speaker 3:Kosherdognet. He wants people to see where the sausages are made, which is a big no-no.
Speaker 1:I've been to that club in West Hollywood. It's scary.
Speaker 2:And also Weitz and Luxembourg Also kosher or all your. No, weitz and Luxembourg, the law firm that not only does well, they do good, very philanthropic. We love Arthur and Randy. She listens to the podcast, tells him what we talk about and we collaborate with them and they're amazing. And his did I talk about. No Now, but okay, great, but that's it. So that was a good segue, nice, good job.
Speaker 4:Very nice. This is just a cute message. Saw you in Vegas. You were killing it. The people working at the Westgate were dying to know who is this guy Modi.
Speaker 2:Period. It's sweet Standing ovation on the stage Elvis, elvis, elvis.
Speaker 3:When you see those videos. Does he appreciate that at all? Because I barely appreciate it Me. What, yeah, I do. Elvis is like a cultural icon.
Speaker 4:Oh, my God, we did Elvis last week, are you?
Speaker 1:kidding. First of all, you don't know yet because the episode hasn't aired yet, but I spent a chunk of the last episode talking about how I want to get my Halloween costume in order now to be a very high class Elvis.
Speaker 4:This year for Halloween, I'm going to be the fat dead one in the bathtub.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know. It never spoke to me. Oh my God.
Speaker 4:Okay, you guys are going off the rails.
Speaker 2:The gift that God put on earth in that vessel of Elvis is insane. Come on, oh wow. Yeah, elvis is in the next level.
Speaker 4:We got two questions about people ask how did you and I meet?
Speaker 2:now we know, periel and I met through our moms my, her, your mother knew you needed to get married and needed somebody to officiate in your wedding. And then they got to my mother and then we you and I met in a coffee shop and you were like trying to size me up. And what is this comedian that also officiates a wedding?
Speaker 4:This is also like 18 years ago.
Speaker 2:If you want me to wear the robe, it costs this much. With the talus and the hat, it costs that much. If it's outdoors, it costs an extra much. If it's a sunny day and outdoors, it's an extra 10% I charge.
Speaker 4:But it's funny because it was like 18 years ago. And then I but it's funny because it was like 18 years ago. And then I pitched this. I was obsessed. I was like this guy's hysterical and I love this outfit. And I told my israeli husband, who I just imported from israel, about this and he was like this is insane, like what's wrong with you. But then we met he was too cheap to pay for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he didn't want to pay for me. Guy didn't didn't see the value in having me as their, as their.
Speaker 4:Uh, didn't understand right what I was doing right. But then we also met a bunch of other times through comedy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, um, and you knew, you knew noam separately.
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah, but I also interviewed modi when I was writing a column for tabletlet Magazine called the Chosen Ones and like, they gave me like free reign to pick, like any interesting, well-known Jews, and that was how I met Modi.
Speaker 2:You came to my apartment and the year was 2016. And I had to straighten you out about Trump.
Speaker 4:That's right.
Speaker 2:I had to straighten you out about Trump. She had an aha moment when she did the interview with me. I forgot exactly what it was.
Speaker 4:I asked you how horrible this whole thing was with Trump, and you said that it's very important, because sometimes you need all of the schmutz good Yiddish word to rise to the surface so that you can see the truth of everything that's going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, I remember that moment you had in the apartment during the interview.
Speaker 4:It's a good interview. You can still find it online.
Speaker 2:Yes, next question.
Speaker 4:Next question. I like questions. Somebody's pitching here. I think Leo is underselling his vocal capabilities. Do you have a good voice?
Speaker 1:No, I don't. I'm also tone deaf. I'm tone deaf, I can't sing.
Speaker 2:But Leo has memorized the entire Lady Gaga album that has just dropped.
Speaker 1:I know what are your thoughts on the new album what?
Speaker 2:are your thoughts on the new album?
Speaker 1:My thoughts on the new Lady Gaga album called Mayhem. On the new Lady Gaga album called Mayhem, as someone who was very, very obsessed with Lady Gaga when I was about 17 years old, when I was in high school.
Speaker 4:You were allowed.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I skipped class one day to go to her concert in Atlanta and I ended up on the news. I was camping outside the stadium because I had these floor seats and I wanted to be like up on the front and I was wearing these like Daisy Duke denim shorts and then underneath the denim shorts I had fishnet stockings.
Speaker 3:Do we have a clip of?
Speaker 1:this, and then I had like combat boots, of course. And then, I had a shirt that I had hot glued pieces of a disco ball all over, and then I had something in my hair I don't remember what, and my parents were still surprised I was gay. And so, yeah, lady Gaga and I go back, way, way back, and I didn't know if she had any gas left in the tank still.
Speaker 2:But then she released this album and I'm like Let me tell you there's gas left in the tank still.
Speaker 1:But then she released this album and I'm like, let me tell you there's gas left after vegas, seeing all those artists that are in their 80s performing still there's gas in the tank it was kind of weird to see you like processing all of those posters and seeing all of these like older people who are still performing, because I always tell you I'm like are you gonna be performing when you're like older? And he's always like yeah.
Speaker 2:So it reminded me. It reminded me of my mom when she found out I was gay. So every time we pull up to somewhere and it says Barry Manilow is here and Leo goes to me, does Barry Manilow need money? What is he doing this for? Why is Barry Manilow performing? I'm like the goal is to tap out. That's your goal.
Speaker 2:Leo wants to be in the house in Connecticut done with everything on order. It's not, but it's also this gift that God put inside you, this energy. You can't just sit on it, you can drop dead. So he's not like. Barry Manilow needs this, he loves it. He loves it. Billy Joel is at the. He had a tax situation which prompted him to go back into performing and doing.
Speaker 1:Was it a tax thing or a divorce thing?
Speaker 2:Whatever it was, I don't know, I don't care, but he's still instead of sitting on the couch. And so Leo goes to me. When you're in your sixties, do you still want to be doing shows on the road? I'm like, yeah, yeah, I do, I do. When I told my mom I was gay, my mom said to me what do you want to? Just to to grow old and live with a man? I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm down for that. Yeah, I hope I find the right one. Yeah, but that's like, yeah, you want to be performing?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, I, yeah, on your terms. Obviously it goes in once a month Thursday, friday, saturday does the show, destroys, kills it, re-energizes himself and goes back to whatever he does, he's doing the what's it called Radio City Music Hall, and it's like you know, wow, it's amazing. Wow, and he should be. God, put a gift inside of him like unbelievable gift.
Speaker 4:I think comics too, like it's the only thing you want to be doing.
Speaker 2:It's the only thing I want to be doing. When they paying for me to come do a show, they're not paying for the show. They're paying for me schlepping through TSA, me getting in an Uber to, from the venue, from my house to the airport, back to the airport, sitting in the Delta lounge eating that grossness, sitting in the chair with the announcements. Please put your buckle on your buckle buckle buckle, buckle, buckle, buckle, buckle, buckle.
Speaker 2:I need you to take your bag and put it in the overhead, and that's what you're paying for. That's what you're paying for me not being in my apartment. That's what you're paying for. That's what you're paying for me not being in my apartment. That's what you're paying for. That's not the show. The show is I would pay for it if I could just walk out of my door and be in the show, but no, that's what you're paying for.
Speaker 4:I love that. That's so good that's what you're paying for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4:And what about you? You want to tap out.
Speaker 1:I'm already tapped out.
Speaker 2:He's not. God put a gift inside of him of production. God put a gift in him. He can take a comedian and make him a bigger thing. He can book him in the right places. He can make a merch store, he can speak with the people in the front of the theater, in the back of the theater. It's a production energy. It's a different thing and the goal is for, I think, for you to be able to tap out and not have to do it anymore and just sit there and Instagram your food to the house and all that Instagram your food to the house, whatever you call it.
Speaker 1:On that note, we should wrap this episode up.
Speaker 2:On that note, we're going should wrap this episode up. We have shows coming up. Baruch Hashem, thank God, we are in Pittsburgh, we are in Hartford, we are in Buffalo, Buffalo, we're coming to Buffalo. If I do this Buffalo show and then we get a DM or an email, hey, when you coming to Buffalo, I will come back and and kill, kill people.
Speaker 1:Um where else? Where else Toronto. We're doing three shows the. The added matinee show is still plenty of tickets available for uh.
Speaker 2:Available for available there the matinee, the matinees usually sell out. Jews love a matinee. The matinees usually sell out. Jews love a matinee. Lunch Modi, fox News, they love that as the day.
Speaker 1:Then we're in Manchester, Warsaw, Geneva.
Speaker 2:We are on modilivecom M-O-D-I-L-I-V-Ecom. Look, just take a look and see if there's a show near you or near one of your friends, and then let them know that there's a show there or, even better, buy them tickets for the show. Be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show that is Moshiach Energy. My rabbi, who's here for this segment and probably staying for the next one, is Moshiach Energy at the Sixth Street Synagogue, where you are invited to come. What's the website?
Speaker 3:SixthStrereetSynagogueorg, all spelled out 6streetSynagogueorg.
Speaker 2:All spelled out. Always a kiddish, always something to eat, lovely services. One of the things the rabbi does the most is respect your time. He doesn't drag it out. You're done by 1130 on Saturday. Friday night's a vibe. It's fun, easy. You don't have to get dressed. You can go dressed like that, like him or like Leo, like you're about to tow a car, and it's just easy. Chill, it's your own journey there. If you want to come dressed in a suit, no problem, it's also there. So Sixth Street Synagogue, which is 100% Mashiach, energy and modilifecom and Periel, anything you're.
Speaker 4:You can find me on Instagram at perielashenbrown stillcom.
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