AND HERE’S MODI
AND HERE’S MODI is an inside look at the man behind the microphone. Hosted by comedian, Modi (@modi_live), AHM features a raw and unfiltered side of the comedian rarely seen on stage. He always finds the funny as he navigates the worlds of comedy, trending topics, his personal life and spirituality. AHM is co-hosted by Periel Aschenbrand (@perielaschenbrand) and Leo Veiga (@leo_veiga_).
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Episode 146: Modi recaps his latest shows in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and San Francisco. Meanwhile, Leo stirs the pot with a bold opinion on newborns. The conversation dives into guilt, Rottweilers, and a thought-provoking exploration of aging—because who doesn't love a good brain teaser?
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welcome to. And he is modi, and we've tested the microphones and we are ready to go on. And here is modi, the hevra, the gang, the, the core of of this podcast is here. We have leo and periel. Um, it's what people really want, it's what, it's what we've seen. Although people love arthur luxembourg I will just tell you that, not because he's our sponsor, because we just love him how great is he. He's out there, he's out. They came with that outfit. He, he came. He came with a tray of of candy bars and and all kinds of like junk food yeah, junk food, just so that he could pick one out.
Speaker 3:Yes, that's right. Two trays by the way, two Huge.
Speaker 1:I didn't do the second one.
Speaker 3:It was here.
Speaker 1:He came with two trays just so that he can take one. Now, if you take one out of a big tray, you don't miss it. You know, out of a big tray, you don't miss it. You know, k'rabim. There's a thing in the Jewish religion like if a little bit of an egg falls into, if something meat falls into something milk, but if it's so small you don't feel it.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that. I didn't know that either.
Speaker 1:Of course I'm saying it wrong. So everybody start writing in. You know, it's actually milk that falls into meat, whatever. But it's not enough. But he figures, if you take one candy bar out of this whole tray it's not that bad. And he wants a candy bar.
Speaker 3:But he's not going to get a candy bar of his own.
Speaker 1:He does the same thing in his office. He orders trays of sandwiches just so he can take half of a pastrami sandwich. That's him.
Speaker 3:First of all, he didn't even come holding them. There was somebody behind him. He has people bringing it in. He doesn't carry, he doesn't carry he doesn't carry things.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, Arthur is Arthur. Okay, back to us. But people do love when it's just us and we are here and we are on fire and we are caffeinated and ready to go. No, there's a massive Celsius on the table. I have my BCAA water bottle full of Mashiach Energy new hat, the merch is out and people are consuming. Wow they are consuming it and I love the pictures. The mission bucket hat is killing it. I hope on every Passover program you saw all of them.
Speaker 2:And go to MashiachEnergycom to purchase your merch. That's.
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Speaker 3:You got it right on the first try. Oh my god. Now you just have to spell my last name.
Speaker 1:Oh, I can't even do that. I have I can't even do that, I wouldn't even know how to do that the Mashiach energy. But we are here and we're on fire. We are. What haven't we talked about? That I want to give. I'm talking right now, I'm telling you right now we were in Buffalo and in Buffalo and in.
Speaker 2:Pittsburgh and Toronto.
Speaker 1:And there were moments there where Leo Said I can't do this anymore oh my god, leo gets dramatic it wasn't dramatic.
Speaker 2:It's true I'm hitting a point where I'm going to be hiring you an assistant or someone else to be on the road with you. I can't do it all. I can't be a woman who has it all. I can't do the laundry and the grocery shopping. Do the laundry and the grocery shopping and the logistics and getting you the uber and getting you to the club and making sure they have the music and and and everything else that I do wait, can we tell you a funny story yes we had no names whatsoever.
Speaker 1:No names whatsoever. We had a meeting yesterday with a management company right, okay, it's me handing things off, right. So that's like, okay, we get to a map, we have our, we have our agent, we have our agent and I I I never thought I would be in a thruple. That's, uh, you know three people me, leo and michael grinspan we're yeah we're in a thruple I thought you guys were in a throuple with me?
Speaker 2:Well, that's a different throuple. No, you're a hag. No, it's not. Not a hag, I don't like that. It's not, not a throuple.
Speaker 1:You don't like being called a fag hag? Really, I don't know. I would figure, you'd make a sweatshirt. I'm a fag hag.
Speaker 3:Am I a fag hag? Yeah, I don't think of myself in that way at all okay, keep going, keep going.
Speaker 1:We met with this. So here we are, we're meeting with a, uh, with a, a management company, and they're like top of the line, huge and um, and it's like we're in a good place but're meeting with them. But here we are, we have a business and I'm going to preface the whole thing. Leo and I, when we travel, we finish the show, we don't party, we don't go get drunk and crazy with the crew or whatever. We go into the hotel room Thank God now we're both taking Something to control appetite, so there's no room service.
Speaker 1:We get in bed and we watch Shark Tank oh my God, we all just watch Shark Tank and we're obsessed and we figure out what they're going to do and we cannot do and we this do and whatever. So we go into the meetings, like here we are, big Zoom, it's the main person of this company and her like and her two huge people and the people that are underneath her. She's the main thing. And then there's people underneath her and we're like here comes the, it's raw. So I open up, I go, I feel like we're on Shark Tank, like we here's our business, we're making, thank God, okay. So you know what we're making.
Speaker 1:And now we're offering you 10 percent of our company. What?
Speaker 2:are you gonna do what are?
Speaker 1:you, as a shark, gonna bring to the table. It was literally that it broke the ice. It broke the ice, it broke good, and it was just like it's very good yeah, and I and I was it's like yeah, leo, can't do everything anymore, leo, you're just no, you're just you've gotten to a point.
Speaker 2:That's like I feel like I can do as much as I can do based on, like my skill set and my network and my knowledge. But like I don't live in LA, I don't know these like major hitters at, like Netflix and Hulu and the people who are making these decisions, like I'm not in the same rooms of these as these people and so like you need a shark.
Speaker 1:These people all know who I am. Every huge executive in Los Angeles knows who I am, not because of a manager, of an agent, of a anything. Their mothers, yes, every executive in Hollywood is receiving videos of me from their mother. I want to thank every mother of every executive. Shout out to all the moms of the executives in los angeles who have been pounding their sons with my videos not that, not that they're like running goes, yeah, this is great. My mom loves it. My mom, yeah. Yeah, am I is great? My mom loves it? My mom, yeah, yeah, am I going to produce this? I don't know, but my mom loves this guy. It's all over our family chat. It's all we have is this.
Speaker 3:Listen, I just want to go on record here and say that there's a worse demographic than Jewish mothers.
Speaker 1:Okay, For sure, by the way, don Rickles became Don Rickles because of his mother. His mother came down ricketts because of his mother. His mother went over to frank sinatra's mom at the fountain blue and said to frank sinatra's mom my son is hysterical, you have to watch him no yes way.
Speaker 1:What? Yes, she, yeah, she, absolutely she brought. She brought that in there, exactly, brought that in there. Yeah, I'm pulling notes. Wait, so that was a funny meeting we had. It was a great meeting. It was the woman, it was just a great meeting. I don't want to talk about the wallpaper. Let's not get into specifics.
Speaker 3:I really, I think there's a sitcom in your future. I really do.
Speaker 1:It's the story that we were talking about in florida, however, many years ago yeah, there's so many parts of it, but we, we we've now begun to find these reflection cards and leo orism, and then we, we got the ones for the um, for the couples. Like here's a couple you should, you should please with yourself yeah, I have those. Okay, but do you know that leo and I we got the ones for the couples? Here's a couple you should play with yourself. Yeah, I have those.
Speaker 2:Okay, but do you know that, leo and I, when we do it, we know exactly what each other's answers are? We've only done it like twice. But a few cards when we're bored watching Netflix. I'm like do you want to play with these cards with me? There's nothing to watch.
Speaker 3:I love that, though I mean that is so cute. Do you know what Guy says to me when I'm like do you want to do these couple cards with me?
Speaker 1:Guy says that to you.
Speaker 3:No, when I say that to Guy, Guy just definitely not says that to me. What do you want from my life? But?
Speaker 2:the key is like you don't do like 12 of them, you pick like two and then from there the conversation just goes organically somewhere else. Then you're not playing the game anymore, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:No, we start with what do you feel would be better and, before we know it, we're looking at a new rug.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how come I don't have that in my life?
Speaker 1:You do. You are a fag hag, so you have that in your life. What part of that you have that? You get that from your gay friends, dina gets that from me.
Speaker 2:No, I hear what she's saying. I think some of these men are emotional Wastelands and these women have to crawl through the desert Looking for water sometimes. Thank you, leo.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about that in my act. I've said it before you can judge a woman by the gaze she keeps. And and my heart bleeds for women who don't have gays imagine you're married to a straight man and you don't have a gay to get a compliment from to check things through just should I be wearing this or not? Or or to get some advice on something. You don't have that, so you just all you have is a straight guy who's just like oh my, my god, let's just get through this day.
Speaker 2:And that's you know. Oh, can I rant about something that we were talking about last night? Why? Because last night Modi and I were brainstorming some new jokes, because we're doing two pop-up shows at the Comedy Cellar soon so that he can work out new material Fun and we're trying to do things that aren't so Jewish. We're talking about like our relationship and like gay relationships and like age gap relationships, and I was just thinking like, okay, kids, we don't have kids, we don't want kids. I don't really know what jokes to make about that, but we can make jokes about all of our friends having kids. And I just want to say something I am educated enough to know the science behind the immediate skin to skin contact with a newborn baby, but these gays are taking it way out of hand.
Speaker 2:They are doing full photo shoots as if they have just birthed that child themselves. It's every gay couple we know. As soon as the baby comes out, they're shirtless in a surgical suite and the baby's lying on them and it's covered in that slime. And you know they've been working out for months to prepare for this picture and it's in black and white, always in black and white, and the baby looks like a raisin and I don't want to see it. It's gross. I know you have to do it and it's an important bonding moment for you, but can we all just agree to not put it on Instagram? Thank you, it's unsettling.
Speaker 1:People are going to be very upset from this little comment of yours thank you for coming to Leo's TED talk that's my talk that's my talk let the gays have kids, do your surrogate, do your whatever, but like this and I get it.
Speaker 2:I know the bio, the biology behind the skin to skin contact and it's important for the baby and their immune system and whatever, but like do I have to see it you can if they don't post it.
Speaker 1:Did they really do it?
Speaker 2:exactly so. Are we doing the baby for the baby? Are we doing the baby for the instagram?
Speaker 3:it's the yeah, it's the instagram aren't we doing everything for the instagram aren't we doing?
Speaker 1:everything for the instagram philosophical question what we doing everything for the Instagram. Philosophical question.
Speaker 3:What about when the men can strap on a fake breast and breastfeed?
Speaker 1:Well, I don't want to discuss that I'll talk about it. Why do I have to hear about?
Speaker 2:these things. I think that that's actually helpful for some straight men because sometimes I've heard heard I could be wrong, I don't have kids, but I have heard that a baby won't like latch if it's not in the right position, like properly ergonomically. So the guy puts on this thing, that kind of like mimics a boob, so that he can give the wife a break and she can like do go to the bathroom or take a shower and he can feed the baby. But they need that like well am I crazy.
Speaker 2:I'm not, I don't know about the visuals in my head. It's nothing crazy. It's just like a thing that holds the bottle, like here, so that you can hold the baby in a like way that it's used to when it's nursing I've been seeing a lot of people nursing on flights how do you feel that's?
Speaker 1:fine, that's what boobs are for.
Speaker 2:That's what they're for. My mom had six kids. She was breastfeeding all over the place. I'm sure it was kind of scarring looking back, but good for her. She was like she didn't care where we were. We were at the Chili's.
Speaker 1:No, but they're doing it on the airplane and people are, and then not charging.
Speaker 2:That's what boobies are for there you go.
Speaker 3:Look, you know my position on it. I'm very happy for the gays to do their photo shoots with their babies.
Speaker 1:I actually I don't know if I, yeah, do it. You had your baby, go for it, do whatever comes with it. Can?
Speaker 2:we just wait till the baby's like three months old and has like a face that doesn't look like a raisin before you start posting it all over Instagram.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Let them be happy. That's what brings them happiness. Sorry. One more thing have you seen the trend where, like the people are having a lot of celebrities do this too where they have the baby and they post pictures of the baby but they blur the face out or they they put an emoji over the face?
Speaker 3:Like a heart or a smile. Yeah, that's a nightmare. Don't post, that's almost weirder to me.
Speaker 2:I understand there's a safety issue or whatever.
Speaker 3:So don't post it, don't post anything.
Speaker 2:Or they only post like there's one celebrity I think we know who only posts the back of the kid's head, so like they're out getting ice cream, it's always like just the back of their head, but you never see what the kid looks like.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Hashem. Thank you, God, that my algorithm doesn't have any of these people.
Speaker 2:No, you just don't pay attention.
Speaker 1:I don't pay attention. I would never. If I have some back of the head baby, that goes right by it.
Speaker 2:Back of the head baby.
Speaker 1:Some guy holding his baby in his armpit Right by it. I don't watch this stuff. What do?
Speaker 3:you like to look at on Instagram.
Speaker 1:Watches, rottweilers and a lot of puppy videos.
Speaker 2:Oh, I like watching kids get hurt. When kids walk into a sliding glass door that they don't know is there, if I ever want to make Leo laugh.
Speaker 1:Love as a baby, like a baby, like in diapers, just running and boom into a glass door and he gets me every time and just bounces back and Leo loses his mind.
Speaker 1:I don't want them to actually get hurt. No, no, they don't get hurt, they get up and they get okay. Yeah, I get what. They get up, they get okay, they don't get hurt, they get up, they get okay. And then they just like pop back up and be like but they just fell down a flight of stairs and leo falls because they're so rubbery they can take a lot.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. Like, what about like?
Speaker 1:adults doing that like it's not as funny because you know they're getting hurt. What's with you and rottweilers? I don't know. I just love a rottweiler that's since you've met me.
Speaker 3:That's because leo's a rottweilers.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I just love a Rottweiler. That's since you've met me. That's because Leo's a. Rottweiler, because I'm like looking at Rottweilers.
Speaker 3:And puppies. You guys like puppies?
Speaker 1:I like to watch a little puppy once in a while, yeah, but there's no, I don't want to see celebrities holding babies. I don't follow many celebrities, I don't know. I I'm going to be on Instagram. I'm going to be answering my DMs. Hey, thanks, we had a great time in Toronto. Love you. Toronto is amazing, by the way. Toronto fans, thank you so much for coming out. What a gorgeous theater that was. What a low ceiling.
Speaker 2:Of course. As soon as we left, I got like six messages being like when are you coming to Toronto? Stop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, always as soon as we left there, where are you coming to toronto? But toronto shows where toronto is lit. It's a great vibe, it's a great city. It's up there now with montreal. For me, wow, it's up there right now with montreal. We love toronto and um, what else? But we did what I was saying, we, we did pittsburgh and and buffalo and buffalo. It's hard, coming from a Palladium show to then doing a Pittsburgh and a Buffalo.
Speaker 2:Did we do a podcast since the LA show?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but Pittsburgh. I want to say the people that came to the Pittsburgh show were on fire. They were amazing. Have we spoken about this show? I haven't done a show in a comedy club.
Speaker 3:It was at a comedy club In Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a nice comedy club, but it was a comedy club.
Speaker 2:The Improv, an amazing Top of the line, top tier, but some of the Improvs Are like, basically Like little black box theaters.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's a comedy club, and it's. It's a comedy club has about 500 seats or whatever it is, so it's like a little theater. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's food. I forgot that we had no opening act. Leo came on, introduced me and then food is being served, and I mean salads this big, massive, huge salads coming, and of course, when the food comes to the table, there's no focus on the show. They're just like who's getting this? Did you get that? Let me try some of yours. And there's the food. Now there's so much food that not only do we have to do checks, the check spot, there was also the wrapping up to go spot. All of a sudden, I just see the waitstaff walking out with brown boxes so they can take home whatever they're taking home and you're on stage and I'm stage watching this through, but I'm like plowing through, I'm like it was good.
Speaker 1:It was very, very good. I pulled some questions. Go ahead, pull them, let me hear.
Speaker 2:I love these so if you were to go back in time 10 years and tell yourself one thing, what would it be?
Speaker 1:if I were to go back 10 years and tell yourself one thing what would it be If I were to go back 10 years? What?
Speaker 2:would it be Buy?
Speaker 1:Apple stock. Nah, 10 years ago, when I met you, which was 10 years ago, I would have told you right away please take over my business.
Speaker 2:You'd be like. Don't spend those four or five years Pretending to have jobs All over the city.
Speaker 1:Whatever job you had, you killed.
Speaker 2:Maybe I needed to do those jobs so that I knew how to do this.
Speaker 1:I will tell you something. Leo worked three years in a business that he built. There isn't a human being with an MBA Degree that is worth what he learned in those three years in a business that he built. I know there isn't a human being with an MBA degree that is worth what he learned in those three years. He built the business from scratch, from scratch.
Speaker 2:Taught myself QuickBooks and everything.
Speaker 1:QuickBooks accounting and the accountants were blown away Really.
Speaker 3:Listen to this.
Speaker 1:The accountant goes how are you keeping your this and that? And Leah goes in Dropbox. I have every receipt in a Dropbox and the account is like oh wow, that's a great idea. I go don't you have some kind? Yeah, we have. But this is amazing. They were blown away by his accounting skills his marketing skills. But then that got him, so he can manage me yeah.
Speaker 2:If marketing skills, what would you? But then that got him so he can manage me. Yeah, yeah, what would you if you go back 10 years? Let's even make it more fun. You have like 60 seconds to tell yourself something. You pop back from a time machine 10 years ago. What do you tell yourself?
Speaker 3:I think that I would tell myself that you can start anytime. That's a good answer. Because 10 years ago my second book was coming out and I was you know really sexy and cute. That's on my knees, on my knees and cute it's the knees on my knees and I was ready to go on like this, like you know, world tour with it, and then I had a baby and it really threw a wrench into my plans.
Speaker 1:Or a blessing into your life.
Speaker 3:Absolutely, but it would be dishonest to not. You know, the truth is is that it changed the course of everything. Like I wasn't really planning on having a kid then, I didn't think, I didn't think that was going to happen. Everybody just kept saying you know, you better start trying to get pregnant if you want to get pregnant. I thought it would take a while and of course I got pregnant the first time. We tried, of course, and then I looked like I ate myself. You know, it's not like I was like this cute, skinny little thing with like a belly, like I looked like shrek and then I had to go do press with like kankles and birkenstocks.
Speaker 3:Oh my god, I'm like.
Speaker 2:I'm like she's a working woman it was. I mean, it was bad.
Speaker 3:The mom trying to have it. All it was bad. Um, I couldn't imagine at that time like I knew that I wanted to start doing comedy, but I couldn't imagine in that time like how to do it, like it seemed impossible okay baby steps period real, real baby steps.
Speaker 1:One, one, two baby steps. Go ahead. What's your tenure back a year, 10 years ago?
Speaker 2:Well, depending on when in the timeline this 10 years is, I would say you're about to meet the love of your life. Okay, and buy Bitcoin.
Speaker 3:Ew.
Speaker 1:No, you should tell yourself 10 years ago. 10 years ago is when you were still finishing college, so I was flying you back and forth you said I should have told him to book me in business.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was back then when you flew me in premium coach like some sort of. You got the extra room low end. They got the extra room there. What's one thing you could do to take better care of yourself? That's tricky for you because I feel like you're very healthy. But what's one thing you could do to take better care of yourself? That's tricky for you because I feel like you're very healthy, but what's one thing you could do to take better care of yourself?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I, I, uh, I feel what I. I very much feel the universe when it tells me things to do. Probiotics, probiotics, this biotic, do whatever I'm doing.
Speaker 2:No, I order a new probiotic he takes it right, that's good that's smart so what could you do to be, what's one thing you could do to take better care of yourself? So, like my answer is like getting a hold of my sleep, sleep hygiene, sleep hygiene.
Speaker 1:What sleep hygiene?
Speaker 3:more regimented schedule and more water oh, we're good at water.
Speaker 1:No, we're good at water we're too good at water.
Speaker 1:We want to zoom call yesterday all day long when they said bye everybody, I thought we were going to pee right there under the table. We drink so much water. So funny. I know who else Mateo Lane. We saw him at the Radio City Music Hall. He comes up and goes I have to pee right now. He's like five minutes into his city, goes. I have to go to the bathroom right now. It was the funniest thing. I was dying because it was really, by the way, shout out to mateo lane at radio city musical.
Speaker 1:Slayed the house down boots. He had, uh, bob the drag queen hosted amazing and we were on the flight back from San Francisco. We were in San Francisco and we flew to New York, to New York, and Bob was right next to us on the plane. Oh, cute, yeah, it was fun. Then we saw him the next day backstage and then it was an amazing show. Mateo Lane is just so. It was really funny because he's at was at Radio City Music Hall, which I plan on being at too right, but he was like. It was like we're coming to see the hall like a wedding hall.
Speaker 2:Well, we also saw it like special because we got to see like behind the scenes and like where the fancy parts are.
Speaker 1:Right. So it was like us going to go see a wedding hall right when he's the bride now and I'm the sister I'm going to be. I'm the older sister who's going to have the wedding in a year from now, that's so funny.
Speaker 3:That was the energy.
Speaker 1:That was the energy like we had there. It was fun, it was great. Okay, this one's a little new. Wait, I had something else to say. San Francisco, can we talk? You want to hear a crazy story?
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:We did a private gig in San Francisco. It was a birthday party. They call up hi, can Morty perform at a birthday party? And we say Morty doesn't do birthday parties. Then they give a price to Leo and Leo says Morty, he's Jewish. I go, we'll do the birthday party. Right, the money was right. So we went to the birthday party. Right, the money was right. So we went to the birthday party and the guy could not be a sweeter guy. Whenever you do a private gig, you figure out what's the reason. I'm here. Yeah, it's not just the money, there's a reason. There's some kind of an out of the.
Speaker 1:This one really needed a laugh, that one. The family's going through something whatever Rodney Dangerfield no, it was the family's going through something whatever rodney dangerfield. No, it was a rodney dangerfield energy event. Rodney's rodney dangerfield has a daughter and a grandson. They were both there, no, and the father of the birthday boy was rodney's cousin who used to work in the catskills. But like worked in the catskills, he said I made a living being a waiter in the Catskills. I was he and he's like he carried the trays. I don't know if you ever saw the waiters in the Catskills carry the trays and I went up there and I did my borscht belt routine. I did joke jokes from the and they were in heaven. The, the father, was like you could tell for a moment. He was brought back into his like being 25 years old. He goes. I just loved it. It was amazing.
Speaker 3:That's amazing, it was great.
Speaker 2:It was interesting because they were not like distantly related to Rodney Dangerfield, they were like legit, his close family. So they all were telling us how they like their comedy was like a big part of their lives, like they would go with him to his shows. They would be backstage with all these other comedians. Comedians would be coming to the house. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And you didn't know that before. No, that is so crazy. No.
Speaker 2:Because the birthday boy it was his cousin is Rodney's daughter. So Rodney was there with her son, right? It was something like that.
Speaker 1:The birthday boy's father is Rodney's cousin.
Speaker 3:I got you.
Speaker 1:So whatever Rodney's daughter is to him is whatever it is, but it's family and they're close and she's at this party with her son. And I met Rodney's daughter when I first started doing comedy. She worked at HBO and I went to some event and she was there and we spoke and I'm like wow, and she's like she's doing interior designing.
Speaker 1:Now she's not in the comedy world, but she's still rodney's daughter and it's like that energy to just to be at an event where I could just feel the presence of rot. And he hired a committee and he was, and he wanted the borscht belt, he wanted caskets. I gave it to him, I gave all the jokes to him, you know, and he was in the father. The father had the time of his life.
Speaker 3:I love that. It was so special that, um, because I have a private event that I'm doing coming up, but I love what you just said, that like you're there for a reason, you have to think of the reason that you're there, because they're hiring you for a reason.
Speaker 1:Yeah, specifically Right, and it's not a money grab. Don't ever think of these things as a money grab. No, I don't there's got to be some spiritual reason why you are at this event.
Speaker 3:No, it feels really special always to get invited to do private events for me. I know some people don't like it. I really enjoy it because it feels like you're doing something really important for somebody. It's like an honor to be brought into somebody's private personal thing.
Speaker 1:You know many people told me, like you know, we had Jackie Mason at my mother's 50th birthday. People are going to be saying Modi was at our, my daughter's. Whatever you know, we all went. We took everybody to go see for my mom's 80th birthday.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know like how people come up to me to meet and greet like 10 people. It's my mom's 80th birthday. We all came here to see you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's on another level, it's so great. Okay, next question Do you want to pick one, do you?
Speaker 2:want to pick one. Do you want me to pick?
Speaker 3:one. How often do you feel guilty and how do you deal with it?
Speaker 2:Ah Go ahead, leo. Well, I was raised Catholic so I have plenty of guilt, so just all day long feel guilty. I do feel guilty because you know, I went no contact with my parents a few years ago and prior to that we didn't have a great relationship either. Years ago and prior to that we didn't have a great relationship either. We were basically only sending like very sterile texts on like birthdays and Mother's Day and Father's Day and things like that, and then like not talking for the rest of the year. So it was like recently, the last two or three years, that I like officially went no contact with them.
Speaker 2:But I have five siblings, I have five sisters and they are all in touch with my family. They all had their own issues with their parents but they were able to resolve them. I will say mine, with me being gay and everything. They were a little. It was a little bit more serious and harder for us to kind of make amends, but it means that I miss out on a lot of things like it means that like I don't go home for thanksgiving even though all my siblings go home, or like my sister has a wedding coming up in in this in july and they're all going to be there and I don't think I'm gonna go, and I feel guilt about that on one hand, but I also feel like it's the right thing ultimately.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure I'm not going with this. Why Do you feel guilty that you?
Speaker 2:made sure Not for my parents. I feel guilty that I'm not a bigger part of my sister's life as their older brother, that I'm not there when I'm like I said, thanksgiving, christmas, when they have things that they're all getting together, I'm not there, okay, when?
Speaker 1:they're getting together with your parents. When that's over, you realize from the stories that it was a good thing. You didn't go right Most of the time. Most of the time, You're not going to this wedding that one of your sisters is having because it is in Bangladesh, when is she having it?
Speaker 2:It's not in Bangladesh.
Speaker 1:It's in Spain. It's in Spain. It's a destination, but you don't have time on your calendar and you don't want to be around with your parents. But we, they come over to the house. The sisters come over to the house. We love them. They're great, I know they're great, I know, I've met them. Not only that, she's marrying such a nice guy, she's marrying His name, hemet.
Speaker 1:I thought it was Haman, but it was Hemet, and he's a sweetheart. And he came to our house and he had a business where he makes suits. And, by the way, did we talk about this ever? I don't think so. Oh my God. He comes over it. And, by the way, did we talk about this ever? I don't think so. Oh my God. He comes over to the party gift of party. Here's an amazing party gift or thing to do. He came to the house with all the samples of the suits and shirts and measured us all Wow, and made suits for us. He's making suits. They haven't come back yet. I don't know how great they are, but it's like a fun thing. That's very.
Speaker 1:They haven't come back yet I don't know how great they are, but it's like a fun thing and the sisters all come to the shows and they see their brothers standing on the Beacon Theater.
Speaker 2:And so I don't know, but I don't see them as often. Leslie, I probably should.
Speaker 3:That's because you travel I have a question Can.
Speaker 1:I have a question.
Speaker 3:Are you not going to the wedding because your parents are going to be there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because your parents are going to be there. Yeah, my parents are going to be there. I, like I said, I haven't spoken to them in years. I can't imagine being in the same room as them. But like, even putting all of that aside, let's just say I saddle up and be the bigger person and I'm going to go to this wedding and of course I'm going to behave Like I'm not going to like cause a scene or do anything trashy. But I do feel like and my sister doesn't really agree with me on this that me being there will kind of like pull focus a little bit from the event that's supposed to be about her. And like, if here I come, waltzing into this wedding and they everyone knows that there's all this surrounding baggage, then it kind of like sucks the air out of the room and it's, it's her special day, it's not about me and I feel like by not going it's just, I feel like it's more respectful, but she doesn't feel the same way well, I mean and the way we got married.
Speaker 1:We are allowed to not go to anybody else's wedding no, but wait a second though.
Speaker 3:I mean, look, I think that, like, your opinion about that is less relevant than your sister's opinion, like if she wants you there and she's saying, no, it's more important to me that you're there. I don't think that that's true. Like you might be projecting a little bit.
Speaker 2:What do you mean? I'm projecting a little bit.
Speaker 3:That you feel like it's going to pull focus and you don't want to take attention away from that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because she's downplaying how crazy my parents are.
Speaker 3:Oh, I have no doubt.
Speaker 2:She's like you can get over it, it'll be fine, kind of thing. And I know that's not how it's going to go.
Speaker 3:Why? Because you think your parents are going to cause a scene.
Speaker 2:Very likely.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I have reasons to believe that.
Speaker 3:Oh, I fully believe I'm not doubting that for one second.
Speaker 1:Yeah, by the way, I will tell you anybody dating, anybody dating anybody that is looking for their soulmate and going through whatever. One of the biggest perks I think you can have is like, if you got. I mean it happens when you ask the person you're dating, the guy or the girl you're dating and what about your parents? If you hear I'm not in touch with my parents, I mean they should go right to the top of the list.
Speaker 2:No, that's not true. It's two people you don't have to deal with. I do have two wonderful godparents who are very important to me.
Speaker 1:They made up for it.
Speaker 2:They're very close to me and I think they're the only reason why I came out halfway normal.
Speaker 1:But anyway, dee and Manny raised him. This is his godparents and we are in touch with them and we love them and we see them. My parents love them.
Speaker 3:Didn't Seth send them in a package with B&H provisions?
Speaker 1:They have the Mashiach Energy hat. They have the bucket hat, they have everything. Yeah, that's like that's what you, that's your, that's his parents.
Speaker 2:To me, that's his parents wait, so the question was about guilt. Though what are you? I don't even think you really feel guilt about that because you just feel it's my survival mode was telling you that, yes, I do feel guilt about it, so you can't just like dismiss it, okay, I think that you the, I mean, are you asking for?
Speaker 3:you would just want to say that, like I, or you can spend more time with your sisters we, I, I, so my.
Speaker 2:Two of them live in georgia. One of them lives in florida. One of them lives in new jersey, is about to move to north carolina. The's moving yeah, she's moving this week to North Carolina from New Jersey. The other one lives in, like the Bronx somewhere, so might as well live in.
Speaker 1:I will tell you, you do as much as you can to meet them.
Speaker 2:Considering our travel schedule. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what are you guys guilty about?
Speaker 1:What am I guilty about?
Speaker 3:Guilty. I don't feel guilt, that much, that's not an answer that surprises me at all.
Speaker 1:I don't feel guilt that much that's good honey do you feel?
Speaker 2:I don't feel guilt, I feel like okay, so what's a, what's an emotion that's next to guilt? Maybe that we're not going to label it as guilt, but, like you're like, guilt is a horrible feeling that you can you cause on yourself.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't, I don't know. I wow, okay, let's just see. So buddhism, I don't, I don't like, let's say the my parents. You know, I don't talk to my mother that much, but I, I you don't talk to your mother that much. I do talk to her, but sometimes it's a short conversation, but then I'll call her when I have time to talk. But there's no guilt, I don't guilt. How?
Speaker 3:often do you talk to your mother Three times a day.
Speaker 1:No, you talk to your mother though very often, yeah, but like a quick conversation, ding ding, bang, bang, and then once in a while we have a big catch-up session. But twice a week, three times a week sometimes, what about you?
Speaker 3:Not as often as she would like is the answer to that.
Speaker 2:Do you feel guilt about that?
Speaker 3:Yes, I have to say, well, just because she listens to this show, okay, well, not relating to your mother. What do you feel guilt about? I also try to. I don't think it's a healthy emotion. Like I really try to not feel guilt, not feel guilt. I feel like you have to make decisions in life that you feel whole about. I think that guilt is like jealousy, it's a totally counterproductive emotion.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I agree with you on that Because you're Catholic. I just think sometimes guilt is flagging something within you that needs to be corrected.
Speaker 3:Okay, then correct it and don't feel guilt about it.
Speaker 2:Right, but not everything can be corrected.
Speaker 3:Right, but so you have to do the best you can with what you've got. That's right. And some things are out of your control and sometimes you have to make the best decisions that you can based on all those other factors. Torturing yourself doesn't help.
Speaker 1:There's like sometimes people send long DMs and I feel a little guilty that I don't answer them in full or that the DM gets crazy.
Speaker 2:So we just don't answer them at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but no, thank God, guilt is not.
Speaker 3:thank god, guilt is not something I feel there's an expression I might have said this before on the show that I really always go back to, which is comparison is the thief of joy. Yeah, absolutely yeah, but that has nothing to do with guilt no, but it has to do with jealousy and like these things that are really not again, but the question was guilt.
Speaker 1:There's no guilt, there's no Okay. Sometimes I could have done this better. Wait, I had a question, but there's no guilt. No, I can't find. How do you say guilt in Hebrew, hashem, no, to be ashamed, no.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's yeah, that's guilty.
Speaker 1:You're guilty of something? No, then you've caused it.
Speaker 2:Okay, here's the question I was looking for. If you lived to the age of 90, God willing, would you rather retain the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life Mind?
Speaker 1:You gotta be kidding me. I pick body Really.
Speaker 3:And have like full on Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2:That's not necessarily true. They don't say you get Alzheimer's. You just say you have the mind of an older person. No, it's implied there are plenty of older people I know who are very with it.
Speaker 3:Yeah Right, that's implied there are plenty of older people I know who are very with it. Yeah Right, that's not the question, though.
Speaker 2:I would rather be able to go upstairs Like walk upstairs.
Speaker 3:But not know where you are.
Speaker 2:You're assuming in this question that there's significant cognitive decline.
Speaker 3:I think it's implicit in the question. You can have one or the other.
Speaker 2:But that's not saying that if I pick the body, that my mind is automatically shit. Your mom is in her 80s. Read the question again. If you live to the age of 90, would you rather retain the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life? So you live to 30, and then you have to make a decision the next 60 years.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let me tell you something. By the way, I don't want a mind of a 30-year-old. I want a mind of a 90-year-old who's experienced 60 more years of life.
Speaker 2:So then you get the body of a 30-year-old and the mind of an altogether 90-year-old.
Speaker 1:Okay, you picked right, you're good.
Speaker 3:And the answer is Ashma, Isgiel Ashma, which is what I said Hashem.
Speaker 1:What's your answer? Hashem and Hashem are two different things. Liot Hashem, hashem, lo Hashem, hashem Hashem, aleph, ein, ein or Aleph. I'm so bad at this. Aleph Shin Mem Peh. I'm spelling in Hebrew. I have no chance. What about you?
Speaker 3:Abadi, you convinced me, abadi.
Speaker 2:So we're all caught to the same page, but also it's like what's the last 60 years?
Speaker 1:That's like a lot, but Hebrew ata'ashem shezakara, you are guilty. You are guilty. You are the cause of this. Ata'ashem shezakara, you are guilty that this happened. Do you have a question? That's guilty.
Speaker 3:I guess I don't know what to tell you. How do you say guilt in Hebrew?
Speaker 1:people love this. They're going to be writing and telling us the whole, and the word is from and by the way, I forgot somebody.
Speaker 3:I forgot who I was talking to. They were shocked when I told them that you speak Hebrew Like fluently, fluently, fluently.
Speaker 1:There's people who are shocked that I speak English fluently. There are people who go oh my god, you speak English. I thought you were just an Israeli.
Speaker 2:Speaking of Hebrew. I'm working on finalizing dates In Israel in November. Wow, and it's going to be more than one show, I think, hopefully not confirmed yet. I'm working on finalizing dates in Israel in November. Wow, yes, yes, yes and it's going to be more than one show, I think. Hopefully not confirmed yet. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 3:Amazing.
Speaker 1:Period Do you?
Speaker 3:want to end on one more question. Yeah, yes, if you had to spend on one more question.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you had to spend a year abroad, where would you go? If I had to take abroad for a year, we all know I have the toxic trait of thinking I could live wherever we are, Wherever we're currently visiting. I always think we could live there.
Speaker 1:If I had to live a year abroad? If I had to live a year abroad, where would it be? Connecticut, that's not abroad. It's not abroad. No, that's okay.
Speaker 2:Pick something um israel london I was gonna say london too, but I feel like that's boring because we live in new york and london is basically just just New York, but like cleaner.
Speaker 1:I don't want to be immersed where we can't speak English. I wouldn't mind it if, because Paris could be a vibe too.
Speaker 2:Paris is a vibe, let's assume that in the year we magically absorb like enough speaking power to converse and like goodbye, it's not an issue In Paris, like wherever we pick.
Speaker 1:Let's just add that to well, you could pick anywhere because you speak spanish too, so you could do all of that whole thing and that whole thing.
Speaker 3:But I mean I, I are we doing the same thing in life that we're doing right now? Like? Are we transported? Exactly like as we are?
Speaker 2:no, you gotta like it's like an eat, pray, love year where you're like going out do whatever you want yeah yeah, I don't know, I don't like these kind of I don't think, because it's not real. It's if it happens it happens, can you okay? What's your question? What's your answer?
Speaker 3:so when I was in my 20s, I lived in bangkok for a year and loved it. But would you do that now.
Speaker 2:Would you do that now?
Speaker 3:I didn't know what he said Bangkok he goes, oh not happening.
Speaker 1:Not living in a place where, if I need a dentist, I'm not going to be able to go to one. What do you think they?
Speaker 3:don't have teeth in Bangkok. It's like a very cosmopolitan city, yeah.
Speaker 1:Not. According to White Lotus, it didn't look very cosmopolitan.
Speaker 2:Can we talk about who's taking my lorazepam?
Speaker 1:Can you imagine being on that island With no lorazepam?
Speaker 3:I haven't seen this yet.
Speaker 1:What you haven't seen, it Not the third, okay well, One of the main themes is that she comes there with her lorazepam and it disappears. I'm not going to tell you how, but she's there on this island with no no, you're gonna move to taiwan.
Speaker 2:Meanwhile they're in thailand. You're gonna move here to taiwan. It's so good if you haven't seen it it's really good.
Speaker 1:Watch it. It's really good. It's really really good. I've been watching other comedians Straight male comedians who were turned off From the episode when there was a little bit of incest and they were like, really like.
Speaker 2:I couldn't watch anymore.
Speaker 1:Don't give too much away, kishin Tuchus, because this episode Is airing months after this. So if you haven't watched it, guess what there's incest in there.
Speaker 2:It's just a little bit, a little bit of brotherly love Wow. Period and I will say someone made a very good point. I sent you a clip from the Las Culturistas podcast with Matt Rogers, I think his name, and he was going off about how everyone was so offended about this gay incest brother scene in White Lotus. Meanwhile Game of Thrones was having full siblings like making babies together Really.
Speaker 1:And no one batted eye. They also had dragons. There were no dragons. This is more real.
Speaker 2:So a dragon makes incest okay.
Speaker 3:That's amazing.
Speaker 2:On that note, please visit modilivecom for all of our upcoming shows. We have Warsaw, we have Munich, Frankfurt, Geneva, Antwerp, Manchester. We added summer shows in Indianapolis, Columbus, Ohio, Omaha, Nebraska.
Speaker 1:I got this on lockdown, I just did all of them, not really. July 23rd, indianapolis. 24th of July, columbus, ohio. August 16th, hampton Bays New place in the Hamptons. It's going to be an amazing show, not West Hampton like Hampton Bays, so all the Hamptons will be there. And Omaha, nebraska, on the 13th of August and Kansas City on the 14th, and there's more coming. Those shows are called the Laugh-Away Camp, like a sleep-away camp, and they're going to be amazing and it's going to be material. That's a part of Pause for Laughter, but also the newer stuff coming out.
Speaker 1:And again, just to make sure we hammer this in, we are coming into Europe for a show in Warsaw, manchester, frankfurt, Munich, geneva, geneva and Antwerp. Those shows are going to be amazing. Let your friends know. Make a weekend of it, come to them, it's going to be everything's. Let your friends know, make a weekend of it, come to them. Everything's available on Motilifecom. Be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show that's Mashiach Energy. Thank you Leo, thank you Periel and thank you all of the listeners. You guys are the best.