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Episode 144: The Holy Rabbi Bellino joins us for another episode where we discuss an interesting ethical dilemma out of Israel. Modi gets a moving letter from a fan and we debate when and where cursing is appropriate. Modi asserts that there is a hex on him and Leo.
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Hi everyone. It's Leo and welcome to episode 144 of and here's Modi. Now, before we get into this week's episode, I just wanted to make a quick announcement that our merch store is officially live. That's right. After many requests, you can now buy Mashiach Energy merch. We have hats, we have pins, we have t-shirts, we have hoodies, we have notebooks. We have something for everyone. So go to mashiachenergycom, to it out, and I'll also link it in the description of the episode here. Thank you guys, so much for listening and enjoy.
Speaker 2:Welcome to and here's Modi. We are back with the and here's Modi podcast. Rabbi Gav Belino Shlita, the holy rabbi, is with us. Those of you who, I'm sure, realize that when we get together, we do a few episodes at once. He was on the one before and he was dressed like a mezhgir, and now he's dressed like just a big gay guy.
Speaker 1:All saints black. All Saints sweater.
Speaker 2:I'll take that every time. And a hat that looks like that looks like my grandmother's couch. What is that hat?
Speaker 4:Oh, it's YSL.
Speaker 2:YSL hat, very nice. And um, um, can we just discuss something too about dress. Yeah, so I went to my very good friend, Brian and Khedva's wedding, and when I say their wedding, their daughter Atara had a wedding, and I went in my kapota, which is the kapota is the long coat. It's like a blazer but a long coat from the kapota guys online they amazing kapota's there if you ever went, and I love it, I love being in a kaputa, I love it. You look official, you look like it's a little different it's different, but it's also like it's so well tailored.
Speaker 4:So good right, it really, it has to hit it hit.
Speaker 2:No, if you have, it has to, if you have you need, you need a little bit of height, otherwise it doesn't hit right. Um, you need to have a little bit of slenderness, a little bit, and then it looks good. You look official, you look, I don't know. You feel good, you feel you feel mashiach energy, you're dressed in mashiach energy and, um, I, I, and so I loved it. I danced the whole night and I loved it and I had like a bekacha no who because that's, that's because that's not tailored, that's not, it's not tail.
Speaker 2:A bekitcha is what the hasidic guys wear on shabbat, the silky it's a it's more of a robe a robe, yeah, oh, I can get into that I, by the way, I'm not gonna not keep wearing it. If I, if I'm in an event, I'm gonna wear in my kapota and I, I am a shliach of the rabbi, I am an em emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. So that is the uniform and so that is it's a more Lithuanian style.
Speaker 4:It's not like the Hasidic, like the Polish look. It's more regal in a certain way.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I loved it. It's my look, by the way, it's going to yeah. It's like a long blazer. Well, in synagogue you wear the Bekkah shirt. I wear fancy ones. He wears the Hasidic coat with, like, a black t-shirt underneath If that's not a cry for help, I don't know what is and his YSL sneakers, and he's up there davening praying, is that that?
Speaker 3:thing that's hanging in your office that I was like why is there a dress in there?
Speaker 2:You need to be a lot more specific, his office looks like a hot mess. It's the garage sale chic.
Speaker 3:It looks like a dress, right. I was like why is there a dress hanging in your office? That's what that is.
Speaker 2:I would say more of a night coat. No, no, no. What do the women wear in their house?
Speaker 1:The house coat, a house coat.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I want a house coat, by the way, oh.
Speaker 2:Where would you wear a house coat? No, no, no.
Speaker 4:Get him one of those velvet house coats. He'll look like a Torah.
Speaker 2:Something people don't know about. Leo, and especially Leo doesn't know about Leo. Leo hates being restricted. Oh, okay, he's like I'm going to get this, what's it called? The cross, the chest bag, and this and that.
Speaker 1:I hate wearing things. I have that snuggie thing that I wear in Connecticut.
Speaker 2:You wear it just to show people that you bought it, and then you put it away. No, it's a thousand degrees and you hate being restricted.
Speaker 1:It's like a blanket that has a hole cut out so for your head can go through it, and then it has a hood on it it looks like uh uh the what the arab women wear um the burqa, burqa, burqa yeah, a burqa, yeah, and the inside is like, is like soft lined, yeah, sherpa, a sherpa.
Speaker 2:But after you wear for two minutes, you're sweating your brains out, so you take it off, okay. So everybody saw that you bought something that's unwell and then you got to take it off because it's you're boiling. You're boiling, um, okay. Where are we? Why are we where?
Speaker 4:were we. I was being made fun of, but also saying so anyway.
Speaker 2:Anyway, by the way, amazing wedding and the the uh, it was a great wedding and um two good, two great singers ellie marcus and somebody else I forgot the name mos Moshe Tesler or something Some new Jewish comedian singer, and there's a vibe and you can dance and I just it was such a good thing, it was a great. You don't wear a hat. No no.
Speaker 4:I wore my, my sheikh emoji.
Speaker 2:And that was it I felt. I felt at home. My close friend's wedding. What's your neck wear? Are you wearing a tie? No, I wore a tie. Cufflinks. Come on, I go to a wedding.
Speaker 4:Making sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I loved it. Yeah, I'm going to commit a little more to the capota. You had questions. Let me we got.
Speaker 3:Well, we do. We have a lot of questions, but we also got a really sweet message. That isn't really Well. How was your Mexican audience? Thanks for the photo, modi. I'll treasure it always. All caps from Ruth Joselvitz who.
Speaker 2:Ruth sent the letter to go backstage and I didn't open it until I got back to the hotel room. But she also sent this magician that she was. Her brought her to the show. Ruth was 80 something years old and she had a walker so she couldn't get around. So this guy brought her to the show. So I showed it to him.
Speaker 3:Why a magician?
Speaker 2:He's a magician Like a plastic surgeon, no, magician, oh. So she sent this letter backstage and I happen to have it in my in my knapsack now, so I'm giving it to you. Okay to read.
Speaker 4:read it raw absolutely, it's like 16 point yes, it's like which, by the way.
Speaker 3:Thank you ruth for the nice big fat font. I don't need I don't need rashi script.
Speaker 2:when I'm trying to the, the first line is E, yeah, Go ahead March 6th 2025. Half gimel nissing.
Speaker 3:Welcome to Mexico, modi. I've seen all of your videos and I believe I've become your biggest fan possible. Oh, let me introduce myself. I'm Ruth Joslovitz, an American citizen originally from Queens, new York. I married an incredible Jewish fella 66 years ago and have remained here ever since. Sadly, my Avigdor passed away 14 months ago and I still cannot accept the fact that he left me. Aw, 14 months ago. And I still cannot accept the fact that he left me Aww. I'm 87 years old and I assume we shall be reunited in the near future.
Speaker 4:Is Leo gonna cry now? Because when he cries then he gets really angry like 30 seconds later. Okay, no, he's crying that now, god.
Speaker 3:I know it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 2:Continue, continue.
Speaker 3:I have four outstanding children, 11 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Speaker 2:Kane Ein Ahara.
Speaker 3:Oh, who have been helping me during this trying time. All but the nine little ones have seen your performance in SD and Houston.
Speaker 2:San Diego and Houston.
Speaker 3:I was like when were you in South Dakota? That's where everyone resides, and they and Houston. I was like when were you in South Dakota? That's where everyone resides, and they are thrilled that I am here tonight to witness your performance.
Speaker 2:Amen.
Speaker 3:If you would kindly grant my being photographed with Modi, they, as well as I, would be forever grateful. Is that possible? I will be seated downstairs in the handicap section. I require a walker to get around and my vision is quite impaired. Accompanying me is magician Kadima, who is my caretaker for tonight. I honestly do not know how you can receive this letter, but I'll try the best way possible to make it happen. In closing, I'm so very pleased to see how happy you and leo are oh do you understand why we needed to go to mexico and no leo with?
Speaker 1:lots of happiness and continued love for each other may hashem shower you with his unending blessing. Sincerely, ruth. How did I miss this whole interaction in Mexico?
Speaker 2:You were busy producing the show. It came under your. You understand what we need to go to Mexico. Yeah, that's what that was. Shine Ruth, you should live long and be well with Mashiach energy and the magician who, by the way, did magic. So he came to get me. I didn't read the letter.
Speaker 3:I'm in the green room. How did this get to you if not through you? I got it. I didn't read the letter.
Speaker 2:I'm in the green room. How did this get to you if not through you? I got it and I threw it in the bag. Someone gave me a letter. I threw it in the bag. I didn't know it was to read before I go on the show. So the magician that brought her came backstage and he's security breach.
Speaker 2:He goes hey, there's a womaner, that's, that's. That's what I'm there for. That could be the whole reason I'm in Mexico for is to just say hi to her. But he was doing magic the whole way, so he was there. I made a fireball come away and the coin disappeared. Yeah, I, I I he's a very special guy and took care of her, but he has no idea that I I hate magic.
Speaker 3:I famously hate, magic but, I, love him.
Speaker 1:I love him. I hate magic. Can I tell you something? Yeah, on the last episode we discussed the possibility of you making an album, oh, and I got several messages of people so excited by the idea of a Modi album Wow, and offering to help and like have Modi do it.
Speaker 3:And people also went ape shit for that clip we just posted of you singing with Dershowitz and your old cancer.
Speaker 2:Is there a clip of me and him singing no, yeah, but me and him actually singing.
Speaker 1:He has no idea what's going on in his actual Instagram.
Speaker 2:So okay, so okay, so amazing what's going on in his actual Instagram. So okay, so amazing that we have Rabbi Bellino here, who, besides being my rabbi, is also a vocal coach and a music coach and brutally honest with me.
Speaker 4:To the point. Let me explain to you, Let me tell you how brutally honest.
Speaker 2:He is with me when we did the three shows in the Beacon on the third one, the Thursday night, when I said to the audience this is my third show and thank God I have Shabbos tomorrow. And then I went into a little vishamru, this little prayer which was unnecessary.
Speaker 2:Completely completely unnecessary. Plus, I've already been on stage for an hour and 10 minutes. My voice is not at a place where I should be singing now. And I said to him how was the vishamru? And he says to me the good thing was, you didn't go off key.
Speaker 4:That was the I said that, yes, I love you, modi Rosenfeld, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:No, brutally honest, brutally honest. Oh my God, wait, wait, wait. I'm so sorry. No, brutally honest, brutally honest. Oh my god, wait, wait, wait. One one I was davening. I was the chazen and I was so. I was so in the zone two, in the zone two, in the zone, and we got to the prayer of like, oh, it's like the highlight of the. So how does that begin? What's that? It's, anyway, I was so the first. It's like four lines that you sing and then the congregation repeats after you. I nailed the first three like my voice. I was blown away by myself. And then the last one. I made such a mistake, I just like cause, I was too in it. I was closing my eyes thinking I was. It was just, I made a mistake in the wording and then god turns me. Well, at least you're keeping god on his toes on your gift, right? Not you cursing on my podcast, not my rabbi cursing on my podcast sorry take you need to get over it.
Speaker 1:I, I cannot mark every episode explicit, because there's always an s or an f bomb.
Speaker 2:Dina's father, rabbi gross, told me no nivel pet, do not, not curse, not on stage.
Speaker 3:Nivelpet is an amazing Yiddish phrase. It's a great drag name. Welcome to the stage.
Speaker 2:Nivelpet no that's a good time. Pet is mouth and Nivel is a.
Speaker 4:That's a good Dirty Dirty yeah.
Speaker 2:What are our drag names Go? Oh, are you crazy? We have a million.
Speaker 4:I have a million. I have a million Mazel Top. That's good, that's very good Luxon Kegels.
Speaker 2:Lisa Lisa Honda, that's wait. My favorite one is Nina Levine, 9-11. That never landed. I never land, but I love it. I don't care mine is serotonin.
Speaker 1:alright, what was your? Yours is? I never land, but I love it. I don't care, mine is serotonin.
Speaker 2:All right, what was yours? Yours is Periel.
Speaker 3:Period. She's already in drag.
Speaker 2:Mine is Nivelpeh yes, by the way, it's good. Yes, that's your drag name. Nivelpeh, yeah, nivelpeh.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God, that was so funny, and that's also the title of this episode Nivel Pat Sure.
Speaker 2:Dina's father said to me on stage no, don't curse, it's not necessary.
Speaker 3:There is a very strong push by some of the great minds of comedy that say that cursing brings down the level of comedy, that it's like an easy way out. So you're in very good company.
Speaker 1:I kind of agree with that, but sometimes a well-placed curse word is just funny. I think you're right. I think you're saying it needs to be like peppered with curse words and like gratuitously, just like explicit but sometimes a well-placed like there's a fluctuation, there's a correct, because they're intensifiers, right?
Speaker 4:So you have to intensify at certain points and then you can bring it down and you can use your words and you can use your language and express yourself without it. So for example, it gets the punch in. It's very important.
Speaker 2:Yes. So, for example, in my show I do this thing like in the middle of the show Now I've already done a half hour. They've seen it is a crazy energy, great energy in the room and I haven't cursed. And then I do this thing where I ask the people who are married for a long amount of time what's their secret? And one guy goes I love her and I go, you're full of s. And they die because they're like, they're not expecting, especially during crowd work. All of a sudden he's dropping an s bomb, you know, and then that's it.
Speaker 1:But like but it's really even a bad word.
Speaker 2:Yes, but it's yeah no, it's not a good word, it's not a great word to be, it's you know you don't curse on stage, do you in shul?
Speaker 1:yeah, no, no on the bema on the bema well, moody's on the bema bema, I just met her anyway he'll be here all week.
Speaker 2:He'll be here all week. No, his, his, his sermons are amazing. He's so much smarter than he gives you credit for. He's so smart and he pulls in things and sometimes he does, you know, like that bit I used to do. There's, there's bits you comics do like that I love and I know it's not good for the set, but he does things like I could tell us for him where he brings up all these past, like Mephorshim, all these past commentators that like no one's ever heard of, no one's ever heard, and it's and the audience and the crowd that we have in the show. It doesn't need but he's doing it for himself. He's like he's giving this he's like he's giving this it's.
Speaker 2:He's so smart, he's very, very smart, and he is very smart and we're very interactive. We've been heckling you lately.
Speaker 4:Yeah, by the way, you a lot you built me up to handle hecklers so well. I mean that's, yeah, that by the that's, that's a huge skill yeah, also something that does not happen in church heckling no problem are you crazy? Not take. Not taking someone like head on, but like using a crowd.
Speaker 1:There's no interaction in church. There's no interaction. They sit there, they sit in pachad.
Speaker 2:Here's the Yiddish word of the podcast Zitrd in pachad Zitrd. When you sit there, you're shaking in pachad, in fear, in fear In the church, and I honestly think everybody sits there like they're one of the founding members everybody's got their hand on four chairs. They bring a little something to drink in church.
Speaker 1:They're sitting there, scared to death, unless you're like in a Baptist church, like a Southern Baptist. But the ones you brought me to no, no, the.
Speaker 2:Catholics. They're sitting dying of fear. The guy's speaking in Latin, they have no idea what he's saying, but the vibe isn't like, okay, this guy that's on this cross is is. Is he died for our sins? So like, oh, thank God, he died for our sins, so we're covered. It's more like this could be you. It's more the vibe, this could be you up there. So just pull it. So everybody's they're scared to death, but it's only 40 minutes, then they're out of there, it's not 40 minutes, but that's because you have a cool synagogue.
Speaker 3:If you're going to an ultra-Orthodox place, the vibe is not quite. They're also talking.
Speaker 4:I don't think it's a question of the extent of the Orthodoxy. Okay, I think it's part of the culture and it's part of how serious they take themselves, and that doesn't necessarily correlate with religious enthusiasm.
Speaker 2:Not sure that was the answer that I would have given for you. He has a cool synagogue because it's his synagogue. He's not answering to a board, he's not answering to a president, he's not answering to some member that made a big donation and thinks now he's in charge. It's his synagogue. He runs the synagogue in the show, kind of like a Chabad rabbi type of a thing, where he's in charge of the yeah, it's much closer to a Chabad house. It's much closer to a Chabad house and so that's why it's such a cool synagogue, because it's under all the rules of Orthodox. But go ahead, do your thing. Do your thing. You want to sit? There's a massive synagogue. So if you and your friends want to sit in the back and talk, thank God you're here. If you want to come only for the meal after the lunch, go right to the meal and that's it, but you went there before.
Speaker 3:Gav was even the rabbi.
Speaker 2:Yes, Of course, yeah, that was always your synagogue. For like, yeah, for like 20 years. For more than 20 years, you crazy, more than 30 years. I moved to the Lower East Side in 96.
Speaker 3:Okay, so who was the rabbi before? Why don't we tell your origin story, since you're our guest?
Speaker 4:Oh God really.
Speaker 3:I'll tell the story.
Speaker 2:I'll tell I was in LA when you came on.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So we our synagogue.
Speaker 4:No, I don't think so. Yeah, yeah yeah, you had just moved back. I had just moved back. Can you guys get the?
Speaker 2:story together.
Speaker 4:So our synagogue.
Speaker 2:Our synagogue is the Sixth Street Synagogue. It's an amazing shul. It's on Sixth Street and it was in the heart. It used to be a church. We've spoken about this. It used to be a church and everybody died. And then you came on. You came on For a while.
Speaker 2:We didn't have a rabbi and Jack Leibwall who was running the shul. We were kind of happy with not having a rabbi. We ran the services. Jack went up every saturday and made a three minute dvar torah uh sermon for three minutes, literally three minutes. In this week's parsha, abraham told um yakov this and this and this is so. You can look at it done, sit down and we continue the service. We were out by 1045. Oh my God, Me and Jack were like this is not going to last forever. Let's enjoy this for now. And then he began to audition different rabbis, and then we had Rabbi Berkowitz. And then we ended up with your Mashiach energy. You had a synagogue that was losing a building. We had a synagogue that had no members and you brought it all together and it's an amazing place.
Speaker 4:Those were rough times though, those like first few months, just culturally, of bringing two shuls together. I remember like one of the things I did, I changed the size of the plates at Kiddush. I made them smaller so that it was like less of a lunch vibe and more of like cocktail hour, and that was like. That was like I invaded Kuwait and changed the currency. I mean like it was like people just didn't know what. Like it was like how am I supposed to have a role on this?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, maybe you're not no, you, you, yeah, so you really, you really did a big, a big everybody there. Everybody feels welcome, gay, straight, trans, everything is there. We have a lot of comedians.
Speaker 4:Yes, and you really, I mean, when you like, sent out an email to your friends to come. I mean, I'm so appreciative. But then some people found us naturally. Yeah, leia and Olga. I mean, on Yom Kippur, jared Freed had like Psyche it was so nice it was so lovely. You gotta come more often, not just on October 7th, guy would love it.
Speaker 2:By the way, guy would love our synagogue. Your husband would love our synagogue.
Speaker 3:I did come. I go to synagogue once a year, october 7th, christmas. Do you prefer spending?
Speaker 2:time in Connecticut. I did come On October 7th. I go to synagogue once a year. Okay, october 7th Christmas, just kidding On Christmas, christmas Eve.
Speaker 3:Do you prefer spending time in Connecticut, the city, or Fire Island? Where are you the happiest and most comfortable?
Speaker 2:Oh, that's an easy one. It's a very, very easy one. I'm happiest wherever Leo's happy, which is Connecticut and Fire Island but more Connecticut. As long as my husband Leo's happy, and which is Connecticut and fire Island but more Connecticut, I, I, I, as long as my husband is happy, I am happy. I can tell you that with a hundred percent. You can, you, you admit that you?
Speaker 2:admit what I don't need to be in a certain place my happiest place, by the way, is a green room before a show sucking on a Celsius. I'm about to do an hour and 20 minutes of comedy. That's my happiest place in the world but physically, to be wherever leo's happy and calm, and that makes me. That makes me happy.
Speaker 1:Lately our apartment building is. Everyone seems to be doing renovations, oh god we so.
Speaker 2:So I'm trying to figure this out.
Speaker 4:Is there not a board that controls?
Speaker 2:it is, but there is. It's a co-op. The renovations doesn't bother me at all, the renovations. Actually, when I hear renovations happening in the apartment I'm like wow, I hear what you're saying, modi, but it's literally the last.
Speaker 1:I would say year and a half it's been constant, non-stop One ends and one begins. It's insane.
Speaker 2:It's nothing to do with our building, it's something with us. Currently is vibe wise. We are in. I don't know why we are not getting a break from noise.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I told Modi. A witch put a curse on us.
Speaker 2:Some, somebody in iron horror, which I think I'm going to start organizing stuff and re and fighting this. There's a noise iron horror evil eye on us and it's not. I think if we, if we move to a building on fifth Avenue tomorrow, there'd be construction on top of us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I believe you.
Speaker 2:That's how bad it is. We walked, oh my God. So we land from Las Vegas. We left at like 12 in the afternoon, we land here at nine or whatever the hell. It was awful, awful. And we're getting off the plane and you're like off the plane, you're grossing. You're off the plane, your tuchus is all. And you're grossing, you're itchy, sweating, sweaty. And then, like, right when we get to the, to the, get off the gate and go out, the alarm goes off like there's such a strong eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. And I'm like wow, what the? I screamed, I lost it. That noise happens when someone opened the door, someone didn't do their job, right that that is happening. A plane landed, people are coming off. They should be. It was so loud and I was like we, we, we are in a noise, iron horror in an evil eye noise and we just can't see. But the real problem is the door.
Speaker 1:Mexico city, in Mexico city, we had to move hotel rooms. There was a like. The construction was. There was a construction site right outside our room.
Speaker 2:They moved us they moved us.
Speaker 1:There's so many little things that happened where I'm like Modi. A witch put a curse on us. I don't know who. We pissed off.
Speaker 2:The construction for some reason doesn't bother me because we we've done crazy construction in our.
Speaker 1:I did two, two reconstructions in my apartment, the fact that there's been constant construction. So in my apartment.
Speaker 2:That doesn't negate the fact that there's been constant construction, so when I hear construction I'm like, oh my God, I'm so happy that their workers showed up, because when you're doing construction in a Manhattan building, you pray A that they get there on the right time, bring the right things. They're available when the other guy, when the plumber's available and the electrician's coming so they can do the same thing. Someone's having a good day that their correction is happening. It's the dogs that I'm in shock about. The dogs. That people. How dare you, how dare you, how dare you control somebody else's quality of life by bringing a dog? If you're living in a building with a five inch wall between you and your neighbors, you cannot have a barking dog. You do not have the right to lower somebody else's quality of life. That's what blows my mind. That's what blows my mind.
Speaker 4:Have you had tense moments with your dog, oh are you crazy?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have this fantasy oh so many fantasies. I have a fantasy that I buy one of those air horns and I go and I knock on their door and as they open it, I just put it in their face and I just hold it for like 30 seconds my fantasy is there's something you that you you can like, a whistle that you humans can't hear, but the dogs can, and the dogs and like, and they can just watch the dog yeah why don't?
Speaker 3:you guys get like uh, some like poison or something like treats what.
Speaker 2:I'm not not doing that. We're killing beautiful creatures. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1:No, but the people. They're not beautiful. If you saw these dogs, they are.
Speaker 2:These are disgusting, miserable looking dogs that they got for free, by the way, I have.
Speaker 3:Not that they got for free.
Speaker 1:I love animals. I love dogs. No more in Manhattan. There should be a great. Whoever has dogs now they're grandfathered in. But if I was mayor, no more dogs in Manhattan, they're. They're not fun for anyone. The dogs are not having fun.
Speaker 3:I'm not convinced the owners are having fun.
Speaker 1:The dogs are all looking miserable. There's crap all over the sidewalk everywhere, all the time it's not feasible, like if you don't have a yard or outdoor space, you shouldn't be allowed to have a dog. How dare you.
Speaker 2:So there's a guy on our floor and he not on our floor, two floors down, but you hear a crystal clear. It goes right into our apartment Through the ducts and so he went to knock on the neighbor's door and the neighbor is walking around his own house with earplugs. He said how do you deal with this? He goes and then like, and he goes the entire floor. Underneath Our building is this old building that was made out of like, like those cement things, so it's hollow in the between and so it travels, the sound travels in the building. Crazy.
Speaker 2:But I really don't even think that. I think if we moved to some luxury building, same thing it would be, the same thing would happen. I can't explain. The other day I'm sitting, we're sitting, in a suburban, beautiful car where just everything's chill. Where were we? We were in, I think we were. No, I'll tell you. I'll tell you where we were. We were coming, we were in Vegas, and so we were in the suburban and we were leaving and all the the sphere, traffic and all was going on there and I just wanted to get some air. I don't want the air, I wanted air. I opened my window down and right, then a police motorcycle, just go it's almost like comical.
Speaker 2:I was like it's so crazy.
Speaker 1:It's like we'll be walking down the street in New York and it'll be normal, like not loud. And then the second we get to a corner, we turn the corner.
Speaker 2:There's like a jackhammer and he's waiting for us to get there. And then he hits the button and we're like but like walking down the street and the ambulances, put his thing on right where we. He could have done it before.
Speaker 3:Okay, so what is this about I?
Speaker 2:don't know. I don't know. We did something, we did something, no, or maybe we need to do something. Do something, maybe it's we need to do something, but I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1:If anyone has some voodoo witchy stuff they could recommend, I'm all ears.
Speaker 2:I'm all ears, any voodoo not voodoo, but any, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, anything, any brachas that you know could be made or some kind of I don't know, some sort of organization.
Speaker 3:You can make a donation to.
Speaker 2:I wish there was.
Speaker 1:I would give them so much money right now Speaking of Fire Island versus Connecticut versus the city, something that is always kind of surprising to me. When we interact with people at the shows or at the meet and greets and stuff, people don't know where we live. No, thank God, which is kind of cool, because they're like oh, you're in LA, right. We're like, no, you live in Israel.
Speaker 2:You're in Israel. I thought you were in Israel.
Speaker 1:No, we don't live in Israel. Oh, you live in Brooklyn. No, we don't live in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2:Like no one knows exactly where we live. It depends where they are on our Instagram, where the last post they saw so you know, hey, flying from LA to wherever. So they think, oh, he lives in LA. Flying from Mexico, oh, you live in mexico?
Speaker 3:yeah, we live in manhattan. That's our official address. What's your favorite place?
Speaker 1:I mean, connecticut is just because it's it's new, it's we've, it's really special and I sometimes, when we're traveling and we're in an airplane, I just think that that house is standing there with a car in it that's mine and it's just sitting there and all I want to do is be there, and we'll be there soon, though we have some downtime I guess in the summer coming up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's a good goal. It's a good goal to be. What's your favorite place to be? Where's your favorite place For me?
Speaker 4:Yeah, because you have Manhattan, yeah you have multiple paths and you have two, oh, pennsylvania, I don't know. I really I really like back and forth and I know that's like strange, like people like to be settled.
Speaker 3:I like to have so many options that's so wonderful.
Speaker 4:I love TNEC. I love having space. I love being part of a Jewish community that I have no responsibility for. I'm completely anonymous. No one's calling me for a Shiva minion no one. I go to the supermarket. I know no one.
Speaker 1:It's the best.
Speaker 4:It's wonderful.
Speaker 1:That person we met at Brian Kelly's book launch party that had the story about the Tehillim group, was that in Teaneck? Yes, oh, boy, did you hear about this no, not Tina can I?
Speaker 2:say it Anglewood.
Speaker 1:Cliff Anglewood we met this person, who's a prominent person, who is on television, who was very charismatic. I'm not going to say her name, mostly because I don't think I'm going to get it right, but she comes up to Modi and like she starts putting it together. Okay, this is a Jewish comedian. She's like, I'm not Jewish, but I live in Englewood and I'm part of the Tehillim group. On like WhatsApp.
Speaker 2:Tehillim group is. This is when someone's sick or there's a situation in the neighborhood that needs prayer. So Tehillim is Psalms, the Psalms that David wrote the book of Psalms, and so everybody is on this chat and they discuss which Psalm they're all going to read to bring energy of prayer to a situation like somebody being sick or somebody just about to get married or something whatever. That's the Tehillim group, the Psalm group.
Speaker 1:Yeah so she's on this WhatsApp chat. I'm not Jewish, but I'm in this Tehillim group and I love it and she goes. Oh my gosh, the other day someone accidentally put an adult video of themselves in the Tehillim group.
Speaker 4:Yes, oh, so their prayers were answered.
Speaker 2:Their prayers were answered.
Speaker 1:Everyone was deciding what the appropriate response was.
Speaker 4:Obviously sob 57. Hilarious.
Speaker 1:You didn't hear about this. No, I didn't get it. So in the, in the, in the Tehillim, if anyone has juicy info about the Tehillim prayer group in Englewood, new Jersey, please let me know yeah, let us know, but that we were.
Speaker 2:She was telling us a story.
Speaker 1:She told the story for like 45 minutes and I was enthralled every second.
Speaker 4:I mean, there's a gym in Yavna and there's like a trainer who was sleeping with one of his clients.
Speaker 3:Multiple.
Speaker 4:Wait. So I think, like a husband found out or something and hacked the security cameras and found that he had been sleeping with multiple people at this very small CrossFit style gym and he then posted. He posted footage in, like every group in Israel the Tehillim groups, the Koshres groups.
Speaker 1:Okay, rabbi. Now which is worse the person having these affairs or the person who has maliciously posted this footage somewhere?
Speaker 2:I will answer that I don't know. Yeah, the person who is posting this Agreed.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You're having the affair.
Speaker 1:Because there's the harm that the affair is doing Right, and then there's the harm you're amplifying and magnifying by posting it and making sure more people know about it.
Speaker 3:Okay, so let's say the trainer, not me being the rabbi today. The trainer is not married by the way the trainer. The trainer is not committed.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm going to bring us back. Let's go. Let's go to the, let's go to the McCall, let's go to the, to the, to the heart of the in the Torah, the top 10. In the top 10 of the Torah? Yeah, it's kind of up there. It's kind of up there. Do not shtup the neighbor's wife. Yeah, when God was putting the top 10 together, there was the Sabbath Don't violate him, don't violate God. It's not a him or her, it's a God. Don him or her so God. Don't violate God, don't steal and don't kill and don't stoop the neighbor's wife.
Speaker 4:This trainer is going against one of the top 10. In his defense, it's toward the bottom of the list.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is so. You can ultimately be the bottom five of the top 10.
Speaker 4:It's a B-side, but posting it. So I know an Israeli trainer you do also who said, who came over to me and he said, oh, it's terrible, this trainer's career is ruined Like wow, hot, take His trainer's career is ruined From the trainer's side of things.
Speaker 3:Meanwhile, there are multiple women who have been getting together with him.
Speaker 1:Let's just say their aerobic activity on their smartwatches is through the roof. Yes, they're meeting those goals.
Speaker 3:But is he committing a sin? He's not married. Yes, you are, he's married, the one posting it is doing a lot worse.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you why, first of all, he's posting it is doing a lot worse. Let me tell you why. First of all, he's posting it about this woman, and this woman probably has children who eventually will have to get married and then they're going to be oh, she's the daughter of the woman who was stooping the trainer, so that's already. That's further down. The person posting it is doing worse.
Speaker 4:It's an interesting ethical question, because we have, like, we have the things you're not supposed to do, right, and that's easy. That's easy to quantify in the case of, like, sleeping with somebody's wife. That's really, really bad Publicizing something, so that's harder to quantify within like or like to place within a legal setting.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:But it is certainly Chilul Hashem right. This is like desecration of God's name.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure I'm going with you on the Chilul Hashem, on this.
Speaker 4:No, it makes this look terrible.
Speaker 2:It's embarrassing. It's within the community, though it's not Chilul Hashem if it's coming out of the community.
Speaker 3:But the question that I'm asking is isn't the person who's married more sinful than the person who's not married?
Speaker 1:No, If you're not married and you're stooping someone who's married, you're doing a bad thing. And you, if you're, if you know that they're married, which I'm guessing he did I mean, obviously it's one thing if someone like conceals their relationship, wait, wait.
Speaker 2:I want to, so let's, let's. Everybody here has done something wrong the trainer, who's not married, the wife who's stooping, this guy that's not married, and then there's the guy who's posting the thing. There's three people. All have done something wrong. Now the conversation we're having is whose is the worst?
Speaker 1:I don't know who's the worst, but I think it's just as bad to me. The publicizing of it, no.
Speaker 2:I think the publicizing of it no, I think the publicizing of it is much worse than the other two, than the other, than the one the trainer, the wife and the publicist, the publicist. Yeah, the publicist, trainer, the wife, let's call them the publicist, a memoir, that's the title of this episode the trainer, the wife and the publicist.
Speaker 1:The trainer the wife and the publicist that's the name of this of this episode also. Just like don't stoop your trainer.
Speaker 3:It's Like wait a second. You have not seen what this trainer looks like. No, and, by the way, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2:I lived in LA for three years. I went to the Equinox out there and I saw the trainers oh yeah, these stunning women who I'm sure their husbands are like older and and also seen sex workers. Let's seen sex workers, let's be real. These trainers I I watched him stretch the woman out after the train and I mean they're up against them. At the end he comes off and he's in, he's and he's aroused. You can tell he's aroused and, um, you can tell, because it goes through his sweatpants. You can look and it's like it's, but it's her moment and I don't know what it is. It's not my, it's. You can look and it's like it's, but it's her moment and I don't know what it is. It's not my, it's okay, I don't know, maybe that's. We'd love to hear anybody's input. If you had a thing with your trainer.
Speaker 3:Please write it.
Speaker 2:By the way, we can't wait for after this episode, leo and I. One of the nicest things that we have when we are in town is we go to our trainer, stan. Has he been on the podcast? No, but he should be. I don't know if he can. By the way, let me tell you something. He has 12 clients a day he's there.
Speaker 1:It is insane. He's there from like 7 am to 7 pm, like every single day. Imagine if he worked in Yavne, he would do well.
Speaker 2:Let's just I'll.
Speaker 3:One second.
Speaker 2:What are you looking for?
Speaker 4:Next question Yavne dressing up as Petach Tikva Hilarious.
Speaker 1:Oh, I wrote down some things actually in my notes app. Oh, wow, I've been jotting down things. Everyone please hold.
Speaker 2:Is this trainer really stunning? Is he really good looking? It's pretty hot. You have a video.
Speaker 3:I do it's. You would kill me if I pulled that video off. I have a question.
Speaker 2:No, not on the podcast, but afterwards. Let me see what this looks like. It's pornographic.
Speaker 1:I have a few things like the actual.
Speaker 3:I have the actual video stop it's went viral, wow okay, so I'm looking.
Speaker 2:Okay, leo, what do you have for us there?
Speaker 1:Okay. So I have a quote that I want to read to you and I want to ask you how you feel about it. Okay, Um, it's from a famous philosopher. Okay, If you know who it is, don't. Don't say, um, there's only two kinds of people in the world the kind of entertain and the kind that observe. Can you do? You think everyone falls within that binary. No, no, no.
Speaker 4:I also to entertain. You have to do a lot of observing though. Oh, oh, oh oh.
Speaker 1:Do you guys want to take a guess of who's that attributed to?
Speaker 2:Phyllis Diller. I just, I don't know, I just threw it out. I just threw it. I don't know what the hell. Do you have any guesses? I love the sweater and the chair and the combo. This looks good. I look good right here. I just caught myself in the thing. Go ahead.
Speaker 3:You said a famous philosopher.
Speaker 2:Who.
Speaker 3:Emmanuel Cunt.
Speaker 2:Hey, no nibble pet.
Speaker 1:What's wrong with you? It was Britney Spears.
Speaker 2:That's why it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1:Hello. It does make total sense because it kind of is true. And guess what? We're all the ones who entertain sitting here in our own ways. We're all the ones who entertain.
Speaker 3:I think it's not true. I think that there's something to that.
Speaker 1:Okay, so now that you gave us the name of the philosopher, I was listening to Britney Spears, I was like let me write this down.
Speaker 2:Britney Spears said this Okay, so keep in mind she's an entertainer. She gets on stage and sings a song, people entertained, and then there's people who observe her falling apart and then entertain other people on TMZ about how she's falling apart. It's too much, no, but it's what it is. That's what you can. That's two categories that you can't. It's like that one. You're either a thermometer or a thermostat.
Speaker 4:Oh, I thought you were going schlemiel schlemazel, that's another thing I heard the thermometer, thermostat thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I, I, I, it was good um yeah, you're, you're.
Speaker 2:You're either affected by the weather or the situation you know and you just it happens to you, or you are the one that creates it.
Speaker 3:I like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw it on Instagram. There was a Marine with these massive biceps and he was driving and someone was recording him like full Marine, like staff Sergeant, with like six things here these massive biceps and the Marine hat and the glasses driving. It was you were the thermostat or a thermometer. I'm like I don't care, Just keep talking. He was so hot go ahead.
Speaker 1:I guess this is like a what would you do situation. Perry all okay so here's the scene you have made time to go get a facial at a fancy schmancy place and it's an expensive facial. It's like a long and you go. You're dying to make a joke.
Speaker 1:No, no, no Feel free and you get in the treatment room. It's a giant, beautiful, huge treatment room and there's music playing Soft. But there's music playing and it's like not like that spa music, it's not like that chanting music. It's like our soft R&B from like the early 2000s, like at a. It's not like that chanting music, it's like our soft R and B from like the early two thousands. I got a comfortable level. She tells you to get changed, get on the table, whatever, and you're assuming, like okay, at one point she's going to ask me like what do I want to listen to? That never happens. Should you say something? Absolutely, I didn't say anything. I sat there.
Speaker 3:Why? Because I I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1:I sat there why? Because I was like I guess this is her jam and it wasn't like loud, oh no, I was just surprised by the choice.
Speaker 3:I'm surprised by you, though. Of all people, I'm trying to be nicer there's a difference between being nicer and suffering.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna chime in. I'm gonna chime in here.
Speaker 4:Aren't you concerned, though, that if you piss her off, then it's not?
Speaker 1:she's not going to do she's going to get in there with that little blackhead remover.
Speaker 2:She's about to patch in your face. She's about to do an hour of patching in your face. I want her to be in a good place where she can be right. It's not a massage, where it's about me the be right.
Speaker 3:Listen, it's not a massage, but it's about me.
Speaker 1:No no, the patch king is only a very small part of the facial, to be clear. It wasn't like uncomfortable music or loud music, right, and it wasn't like vulgar anything like that, it was just. But it was definitely a choice of genre that I was kind of surprised by and like wouldn't have picked myself so I so hold on hold, on track it wasn't the spa track, but this wasn't a spa track, but it wasn't a spa.
Speaker 2:This was she was doing a facial, wasn't getting massaged, which is where it's about you. It's more about her doing her job. We had a situation very again I'm comparing this to we had a show in Baltimore, so we hired a driver to take us there and bring us back. Very nice guy, new driver that we're working with. He got a new car. We're all good and right away I got in the car and I want the situation of the music.
Speaker 2:I want him to be happy. He's about to drive for three and a half hours straight. Right, we're sitting in the back. You know Leo's going to check out and go to Twitter and I'm sitting there and so I wanted to work out with him what music we're going to listen to. So we did that and it was okay and you have to set that up. But as a driver, like when we go to Connecticut, I do the driving and so sometimes I tell Leo, put something on, and he'll put something on. That's not good for me. Yeah, he never likes the first thing I say. So I'm not looking for a beat or some girl screaming about her problems. I don't want a girl screaming about her problems in my ear. So then I have to pull up and I find myself.
Speaker 2:That's what you have me for? Yeah, exactly, so I want.
Speaker 1:If someone's being official, so you guys would have all said something.
Speaker 2:No, I would never. Never have said something 100%, 100% not.
Speaker 3:But in a nice way, just I mean, would you mind no?
Speaker 1:there's a hundred nice ways you could have done it For sure.
Speaker 4:I would have interfered, I would have.
Speaker 3:Listen, if I'm paying $350 to sit in a room for a hundred for an hour and a half, I want to hear Hour and a half facial.
Speaker 2:That's what it takes to do. A facial An hour, yeah.
Speaker 1:It was a long facial. I've never had a facial.
Speaker 2:Last thing I ever wanted was someone pocking on my face.
Speaker 1:I just had one and I'm getting another one when we're in LA. You're kidding, yeah?
Speaker 2:Do it when someone's sitting there yapping. That's not what it is.
Speaker 3:First of all, that's only like a small part of it, where they're like cleaning out your pores, cleaning out your pores. The other part is they're massaging.
Speaker 1:They're putting cream on. If you could learn how to do it.
Speaker 3:It's like a massage. They're massaging you.
Speaker 1:It's good for lymphatic drainage.
Speaker 3:This is not like I'm going to go in. This is not like you're talking to the doctor.
Speaker 2:I don't need to drain my face.
Speaker 4:Do you do facials? No, I've never. My parents got me a gift certificate. I, my parents, got me a gift certificate. I never used it. I need it. It's such a normal gift it's ridiculous, do?
Speaker 2:you guys travel with your parents with a facial. I know your parents. Yeah, they got me some men's spa in Chelsea.
Speaker 3:Okay, focus, we have five minutes left. If you come say Mom, I'm gay, your mom is dying for you to come and say Mom, I'm gay.
Speaker 2:She's dying for you to just come out to her Hilarious.
Speaker 1:Go ahead. All right, we could just wrap it up, actually, because we need you to do some promo videos after this. That's it.
Speaker 2:We've been on for 15 minutes. Oh my God, it felt like two minutes. I'm thank you for staying thanks for having me. I love you that nasty costume you were in. I can't believe you sat there holding lettuce.
Speaker 1:It was the leaves it was the leaves and the latex gloves together. The latex gloves.
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Speaker 3:Still no. Periel Periel, periel, ashenbrand, ashenbrand, very good.
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Speaker 3:Bye.