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Episode 152: Modi returns to the studio in New York City battling seasonal allergies while discussing the purported benefits of local honey with co-hosts Leo and Periel. The trio explores a range of topics from Graham Nash's impressive performance at 83 to home renovation challenges and philosophical reflections on life changes.
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Studio Allergies and Local Honey
Speaker 1Welcome to Andy's Modi , and we are back in the studio . New York City . The allergies are allergy-ing , so if you hear me sound like I didn't just wake up , it's just a little congestion . The claritin and the flonase is all in there and we're going to work on getting me some honey that was grown on a rooftop in Manhattan . Yeah , you need to be eating local honey according to the holistic folks . Okay , local honey and so , but it's good to be back in the studio with you guys . Hi , Periel .
Speaker 3Hi Leo , Hi Modi , what does local honey do ?
Speaker 2I don't know , some woo woo stuff of like the way the bees use the local flowers it like and then when you eat it it helps your body process the pollen better oh it .
Speaker 1Probably it's more of a mental thing . No , I think it's a real thing . I don don't know , I believe it . If you believe it , it works . If you believe something works , it will work .
Speaker 3It makes sense , though , that your body would develop some kind of immunity if you're- .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's like an immune response or something .
Speaker 3Look at me , I'm almost a doctor .
Speaker 2Wow , everyone's a doctor .
Gen Z Health Advice and Doctor Visits
Speaker 2Everybody on a podcast is a doctor . Now , as long as you have a microphone in front of you like this , you could say whatever you want now the microphone's in your face .
Speaker 1It's really not a microphone . They're all in their kitchen , these gen z kids , and like hey , do you have like , uh , chest palpitations and your arms numb and your your your eyes a little ? You know all you need is a little turmeric lemon and I think you need 9-1-1 , what you really need . But they all have their camera here with letters and paragraphs written all over the little thing and they are now the new WebMD .
Speaker 3Go to the doctor If you don't feel well . Go see a real life doctor .
Speaker 2Yes , I went to go see what Do people still do that .
Speaker 1You just went to a doctor . I just went to a doctor , I turned , I had a birthday , wow On April 29th . On April 30th I went to go see a cardiologist . I just you got to keep them ticking , you got to keep this ticking , we got to keep this going . And let me tell you something you can keep going , you can keep going , you can keep going . Last night we did an event , a private event , for someone's 75th birthday party , and I'm going to let you just know the range of what was going on there . It was me , because the family loves me , and the birthday person loved , loves me and had me , and following me was Graham Nash Wow , of Crosby , steele's and Nash
Graham Nash Concert Experience
Speaker 1. It was insane to watch him . He's 83 . You would never know he was 83 . He went up there .
Speaker 2They had it all set up like it was a he had nine different guitars no , yeah , every song had a different guitar .
Speaker 1It was amazing . He sang about 12 songs . I don't think he did the full songs , but enough of the songs . Everybody was in heaven . Of course Everybody was in heaven Because the birthday boy was 75 and he was 83 . So obviously when he was growing up that's who he listened to . But they set it up as if it was like we were at the Beacon . They had two guitar guys with him . They had two piano guys Because , you know , back in those days they didn't have like a bass guy , they had like a bass piano thing and there was one guy that was running the show . He kept handing him his guitars in between songs . This is Graham Nash , 83 years old , is ticking , kicking and killing . He killed it last night .
Speaker 3Now , do we need ? I know nothing about music . Do we really need nine guitars , or is that like a little bit of ?
Speaker 1I am going to tell you that I believe do you need nine guitars to do a show like this ? I don't know , I'm not a musician , but for the optics everybody in the room is thinking , oh my God , how much did he pay for this ? There's 18 people up there . There's the producer , there's the sound guy . They have this one machine that like it's a special bass machine that you can tell it's like from the fifties . I don't know what .
Speaker 1It's a special base machine that you can tell it's like from the 50s , um , I don't know what it's called . The only thing I know . Only reason I know what it is is because they had it on um american pickers . They found it once and then they did a whole episode of what this machine is . It's a special machine like up . It rotates inside and it was , I don't know it get . First of all , it gives you hope . There's a , a man , 83 years old , singing . That's not comedy , it's singing . You got to be on tune , you got to be in sync with the people you're up there with .
Speaker 3How big was the room ? Like , that's like .
Speaker 1It was a stunning rooftop on Madison .
Speaker 2Madison Square Park . Madison Square Park . Overlooking Madison Square Park . Madison Square Park .
Speaker 1Overlooking Madison .
Speaker 3Square , park Wow .
Speaker 1It was unbelievable and it was only like about 150 , 170 people .
Speaker 3That's incredible . And he's doing a concert and you guys got like a private show .
Speaker 1We stayed and we listened , yeah , and it was great .
Speaker 3Not you sneaking in an opportunity to talk about American Pickers ?
Speaker 1Oh , I love American Pickers , love American Pickers . But that's where I learned about that machine and to schlep that machine up there and to schlep his own piano up there , and they set it up . It was like , wow , wow , good for the birthday boy . Yeah , you got money . This is what I want to see . I want to see it full , not what I want to see . I want to see it full , not like I want to see him do three songs . You know it was a full band . You went long too , by the way , leo gave me the light last night .
Speaker 2Yeah , I was giving you the light . I was like , get off the stage . You were slaying , but I was like it's like Graham Nash is sitting here 83 years old , like we need to go on . It's like 10 o'clock at night . How long did you do they ? It's like 10 o'clock at night . How long did you do ? They asked for 30 to 40 minutes . You did like 50 minutes .
Speaker 1No , I didn't . I did 40 minutes . I did exactly 40 minutes , but there were a few opportunities where I had such a big laugh I could have just been like peace out , love you all .
Speaker 1But I didn't . There were moments where I could have been like thank you , but I knew I had one more and the birthday boy was having a blast . There were people there who were like
Birthday Party Performance
Speaker 1losing their like laughing stuff , and I was doing some of the new material . I'm doing um , and so I where am I gonna get off the stage ? But I I didn't schlep out , yeah . But then I just see Leo with the , with the flashing the light , I'm like , oh wow , I just thank you very much . And I got right off and it was uh , it was so much fun and it's just to be . First of all , they gave us a room at the Addition Hotel that's nice , which wasn't necessary , but we could just that was your green room . We could have gone right to the event , but it was very nice . It was just they were like sweet and it was good .
Speaker 3Something very chic about that right .
Speaker 2I felt very chic about that , right . I felt like we had like a little staycation yesterday , like we had because we had a gig in the city and that's so rare . Well , it's not that rare , but it's like you don't often get a new york city gig like that with , not with a hotel room , just like a car picks you up from your apartment .
Speaker 2In 15 minutes you're at the gig . You don't have to get on an airplane , there's no tsa . We still had a hotel room like a suite and we like walked around Flatiron , which we don't normally do , and then we like kind of explored this beautiful venue that had like these we were on like the 30th floor or something , 35th floor , chic and we got to see the city from like different angles .
Speaker 3Isn't that your favorite building ?
Speaker 2And then , yeah , it was right next to you know , that clock tower building that's like next to Madison Square Park . We were like looking up at the clock tower . It was crazy . It was really fun . I ordered room service .
Speaker 1We had room service and it was one of those things where you didn't stay at the- .
Speaker 2No , no , we could have though .
Speaker 1We could have , but we got there and the event planner had our key so we killed the minibar because we didn't have to check in and give them . She said enjoy the minibar , it's got great stuff in it and it was just fun . It was just a fun thing to do and we had a great time and I'm just , it was great . It was a little piece of Mashiach energy For all the gigs that we went out to like drove and stayed over in hotels . This was like yeah , hotels were . This was like below yeah , this is like america is a god gig .
Speaker 2Here's a gift for all the stuff you did that wasn't like worth it and that was not not worth it , just wasn't fun sometimes .
Speaker 3Yes , yes , the travel is brutal the travel is brutal that sounds really fun . The travel happy birthday to uh , the birthday boy .
Speaker 1Well , thank you and to him and me , yes To both of us . Yes , yes , yes , yes , yes , yes . April 29th .
Speaker 3What did you do for your birthday ?
Speaker 1We had an amazing workout with our trainer . We had massages , and then I took my parents , dina and Gav and Leo , to a restaurant in Midtown .
Speaker 3Oh , that's nice .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 3You are not an easy person to shop for a birthday gift for , so here's the good thing .
Speaker 1Don't get me anything . How's that ? We don't need gifts .
Speaker 3It's not a good thing .
Speaker 1We don't need gifts because we don't want to buy gifts .
Speaker 3It's not . It's not .
Speaker 3First of all , it's not an act of aggression that gets you a gift and you have to get them something back . But , like you want to get something for the people I do . I like giving gifts , and most of the people in my life maybe . Maybe it's a testament to like that . They're interesting and they don't really need anything because they can buy everything for themselves . But you want to give something meaningful , right , and then you have to distill your interests down , you are hard to shop for and we don't really do gifts .
Speaker 1You and me like we don't like we if we want , if I , if I see my husband , because he also doesn't really do gifts it's annoying , uh , if we find , if I see something I think leo needs or leo wants , so I would just pick it up and get it . And this has to be a birthday , it'll be just a Wednesday and it's like you know .
Speaker 2I didn't get you a gift , gift for your birthday .
Speaker 1No , but you made sure that there was a massage that day . You made sure there was a dinner . It's a gift , yeah , it's like yeah .
Speaker 3Your gift is going to be here late , but I'm just saying it's like what is Modi interested in ?
Speaker 2I'll tell you what Leo's interested in . If you want to get us a gift I love a candle like a diptych candle Get the big one with three wicks and the New York scent . I'll burn the shit out of it . The New York scent .
Speaker 3I thought about a candle . I actually thought about the Trudon candles , but then I was like , but you know , it's kind of like personal , like you don't know what scent and this and that . Anyway , I distilled you down into like it's a scent .
Speaker 1The scent is Deep , deek and it's called New York . Oh that's the one you like . Deep Deek has a scent called New York , and it is amazing .
Speaker 2What's the one we have in Connecticut , the Apotheke . We have a lot in .
Speaker 1Connecticut
Renovation Projects and Interior Design
Speaker 1. Those are good , those are great .
Speaker 3Okay .
Speaker 1Speaking of candles , we'll pop on this too . I don't know when this is airing , but it's already going to be probably a week or two out . Yesterday was the death anniversary of Ripshaela , as you know , dina's great , great great grandfather and Rep Shiloh , the grave in Hungary that we went to twice to get blessings and things have changed crazy since then and we lit a candle . We lit a Yortzite candle for him , a little candle in the apartment that lights for 24 hours , and it was that energy and it was just right when Israel's burning . So I was like , literally it was my first chat GPT thing . I said here's a picture of Rep Shaila and write that may his merits protect us on his death anniversary of a hundred years and always . And chat GPT sent me this picture .
Speaker 3Wow .
Speaker 1And it took a long time On my death anniversary .
Speaker 3Yeah , and also .
Speaker 1Israel's birthday it's 77 . Yes , israel's birthday , it's 77 . Yes , israel's birthday is 77 .
Speaker 3Happy birthday to . Israel Am Yisrael Am Yisrael , hi but we hopefully you guys got to keep it together over there in Israel . Yeah , and you were making fun of me before this started that you saw me yesterday coming out of the cellar so excited about a guest . You said it was ridiculous .
Speaker 1So this past week , sunday and Wednesday , I left Pause for Laughter comedy tour material that hour and started working on the next hour Because it's just been building up these ideas . I have that I'm writing down and I just went to the comedy cellar where they take everyone's phone away .
Speaker 2Oh , they were losing it . By the way , your audience was not happy . Oh , did they do that ? They were like what do you mean ? I need to give you my phone . They're all calling their babysitters upstairs . I don't know . They're making me put the phone in an envelope . I'm going to be downstairs for an hour .
Speaker 1Anyway , it was amazing . It was amazing . It was definitely a more gay flavored . It was gay flavored and there were people in the audience that were like religious , but it wasn't filthy and it wasn't sexual , it was just gay and it was Okay . I don't know how I feel about that .
Speaker 3We'll unpack that in a minute .
Speaker 1We'll unpack that in therapy later , filthy could be also straight .
Speaker 3A hundred percent .
Speaker 1But I'm just saying it wasn't , it was more . You know , I got you and there was like there was one guy that was there , this like flat , bushy looking guy with a white shirt and no tie , and his wife , this attractive woman , young . Both of them were so cute and young and like they thought it was going to be moody material , ashkenazi , sephardic . And then I'm up there just talking about Grindr , but I said to him , like you know , she was so beautiful and he's definitely a drop better looking than what he would , and she was so happy that I gave her the attention and I said all of Leo's followers . Leo has how many followers you have now ? 12,000 , 10,000 ? 12 . 12,000 .
Speaker 2And they all look like her . Every time , this is what happens . Modi says my name on stage and then , immediately after the show ends , my phone goes bloop , bloop , bloop , bloop and it's all Rifka's , hani , sarah's following me . They're all like who's this ? Leo , kid . And then that's how I have 12,000 followers . I don't even post , so I said to her .
Speaker 1I said to her she's so beautiful , I just gave her so much attention . At the end of the show the husband goes . Thank you so much , just thank you so much , for just making her happy . He was just so happy , she was happy and they were laughing at all the gay jokes and it was just really fun and it's really going to be an amazing , amazing hour . It's going to be . The new hour is going to be amazing and it's exciting just to put it up and just see it and just like wow and and riff on different stuff while I'm up there and it's like the comedy cell is really just it's just the most special place in the world . It's just the most special place in the world .
Speaker 3It really is .
Speaker 1Yeah , comedy wise . Okay , you guys have those questions I see .
Speaker 3Wait . But and then also , so I bumped into you guys and I was freaking out because we just had this very interesting guest and you were making fun of me . Because you , what did you say ? You said people come up to you and they're like we just had .
Speaker 1Well , perrielle , you know you see her around the Comedy Cellar because they do the podcast with the Comedy Cellar above the club and Norm is very political and he loves to have anything political on the podcast and it's like the opposite of I don't know who anybody that you're talking about is . We just had this amazing guest , jonathan Klagerman oh , he's amazing and he wrote this book and he was on CNN and he was on MSNBC and I have no idea who you're talking about Jonathan Dribbeman and Drabbeman and I have no idea what you're talking about . But , periok , I just see her after my show ended and you came down from the podcast and you look like you just had an orgasm . You just had the best podcast with Stephen Klagerstein . I'm like who the hell is that ? And she was like he don't know who she is and he wrote about this and he was the one that talked to the Senator about that . I'm like I don't know who you are talking about .
Speaker 3I would like to say that I was talking about a not-Wilf who is the modern-day Golda Meir . Okay , that's it . So everybody should know who she is . I'm sure I should . Well , I don't know . You would love her . The only reason that you should is because you would like her , but anyway , I met the queen and I was very excited about it .
Speaker 1That's great , I am the queen and I was very excited about it . That's great , I am the queen . So I'm excited about me , okay .
Speaker 3My whole family is coming to see you in Munich .
Speaker 1Your family in Munich . Yeah , they couldn't get out since World War II . They're still there . They're still there . They're still there . Are they in hiding ? Are they going to come out for the show they are in ?
Speaker 3hiding . They're coming out of hiding to come see me . And my uncle's coming too , and he's a survivor .
Speaker 1There's nothing better than when I do those shows in Munich and Berlin and Düsseldorf , when you speak to the audience and find out how they ended up back in Germany . Those stories are the most amazing stories . After the war . This happened . We went there and we came back and there was that . It's really . I love those stories . The meet and greets in Europe are amazing and we have the shows coming up modilifecom for Warsaw , manchester , munich , frankfurt , geneva Watches , geneva and Antwerp . Yeah , so tell your family to come out of hiding and see me .
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Speaker 1If you want a discount on anything from A&H for your first purchase , Modi promo code , Modi M-O-D-I and you get 30% off your first order , yeah , All right Questions we have . Is that what you want to do Unless you ?
Speaker 2have something that you wanted to talk to us about . It's your podcast .
Speaker 1It's my podcast . I don't know . You're on it all the time , so it's kind of our podcast . So why don't you tell me what you want to talk about ? Take it away . I love these questions . You love these questions yeah , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 3So these are the questions that I can't get Guy to ever do with me , so I figured I would take them to my other husband , that's what you have gay friends for .
Speaker 1So the things you can't do with your husband , that's what your gay friends are for .
Life Outlook Changes
Speaker 1It's completely true . I've been talking about that .
Speaker 3That's the part of the next hour . How you ?
Speaker 1can judge a woman by the gaze that she keeps Right , right , right . And if you need to have a moment where you're going through these type of like spiritual cards or whatever these are , and your husband's like , no , I'm not doing that with you , you can go to your gay friends .
Speaker 3It's not . No , I'm not doing that with you . It's I'm watching a soccer game .
Speaker 1Oh God forbid .
Speaker 3And , um , I'm going to like give you like a one word answer , because your head could blow off right now . But as long as this soccer game is going well , all is well in the world . Will you go first ? Did you find any in there ?
Speaker 2Why would I go first ? How has your outlook on life changed in the past two years ?
Speaker 1Wow , who's going first on that ? You , I'm asking you , you're asking me , how is my outlook ? How is my outlook , how does my outlook on life change in the past two years ? Well , since doing all of those shows the Beacon shows , the Palladium shows , the , the shows in Florida and everywhere , the big , big shows have given me like inspiration to go for more of those in that aspect , in spiritual aspect , I don't know . I really think that Moshiach Energy is like we're getting closer to where , even though it looks like we're going backwards in time , I think we're going forward . Really . Yeah , really , you asked me . The past two years have shown me that , even though we're like in these dark times , we're about to hit big good times , god willing . I gave you an honest answer . Period yeah , I gave you an honest answer .
Speaker 3What about you ?
Speaker 1What about you ? How's your life changed in the past two years ?
Speaker 2I think I've become more content with what I have .
Speaker 1Content .
Speaker 2And less caring about what other people think .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , I think you've reached some goals that you had set in your life in the past two years , which makes you happy .
Speaker 2I kind of stopped putting any weight on anyone's opinion . Who has never done anything creative or taken any sort of creative risk in their life ever like they , these people who like write mean comments on instagram or send messages like they've never done anything creatively risky or just like emotionally risky in their lives . So when they see you and me like talking on a podcast or you on stage doing jokes , they like they can't wrap their heads around it and that was like a big relevation for me .
Speaker 3Good and you past two years that you do what you love to do , and I mean I think a little bit off of what leo said that , like all the other stuff , is just noise .
Speaker 1Yeah but what brought you to that ? What , in the past two years , made you think ?
Speaker 3that , um , I think October 7th really was like a moment of like cracking wide open and understanding that like we each have something that we can contribute and I have something that I love and I'm really good at and it doesn't really matter , like whether or not that fits in like a certain category or box and I don't really care I mean , I've never really cared that much about what anybody else thinks but that To follow your path , like your path , becomes very clear when you let the noise die down in the background .
Speaker 1I like that . Okay , good , this is a moment of and here's Modi behind our heads what's happening Again . This podcast is for those who just need to . You don't have to preface it with that .
Speaker 2I always do , I always do . What adventures would you like to have before you die ? And kind of the same thing is where would you like to travel ? I'll tell you , like the top ones that come to my head , why do you still the Maldives , even though they're anti-Semitic ?
Speaker 3What are you looking for over there ? I ?
Speaker 2don't know . I just see all the pictures and I want to go . Those beaches look so nice . And then also I wanted to do Japan look so nice . And then also I wanted to do japan oh , I want to do like a culinary tour of japan . Yeah , my favorite food . Yes , um , but then everything else , I feel like I like I don't know if I have any like pressing needs to go anywhere that I haven't been yet . Where you don't want to go anywhere , there's not a microphone and a check . What about you ? A ?
Speaker 1microphone and a check , and I am there . Maldives better have a stage . Everything looks like it's floating , waiting for one big tsunami to take To flush them all out . A tsunami , yeah , yeah . No , I don't need the Maldives .
Speaker 3I'm with you for Japan .
Speaker 2Yeah , I have a friend there right now and they've been there for a while . Their Instagram stories are giving me FOMO , really . Yeah , I don't get FOMO .
Speaker 3Thailand too . I would like to go back to Thailand .
Speaker 2You're going to live in Taiwan .
Speaker 1And Thailand . Okay , thailand , I'm so happy you're a traveler . It's such an Israeli thing to go to Thailand . Okay , thailand , I'm so happy you're a traveler . Those of you who don't watch it's such an Israeli thing to go to Thailand .
Speaker 3I lived in Thailand for a year . I lived in Bangkok for a year .
Speaker 1Oh my God , really yeah Wow .
Speaker 3It was really .
Speaker 1Did I know that ?
Speaker 3I don't know . It was incredible . It's such a cool place and also I have a little kid , so it's really fun to take him around the world , because one day he'll leave me for some awful bitch and I'll never see him again oh my god , don't say those .
Speaker 1Don't say those words . If you learned one thing from this podcast , your words create everything .
Speaker 3I'm just kidding , if you could ?
Speaker 2design a perfect house for us . What would it look like , our house ?
Speaker 3Our house , you guys are living in it , living in it .
Speaker 1We love bochashem . We found the house . We're all set .
Speaker 3Can you come design my house now ?
Speaker 1No , we don't need it . No , no , no , we are no we do not .
Speaker 2We are not as we speak . Sledgehammer too . The sledgehammer's already gone . They've done a demolition . The bathrooms , you guys . Yeah , the bathrooms are gone . You started it . Yeah , we started it Because we're going to be gone all next month , so they have the whole month to finish . They had the end of April and all of May , so hopefully by June and summer the house will be ready . Yes , we're putting a steam room in . Yes , A two foot wide , bench Two by seven . How long ?
Speaker 1No , it's two by seven , it's a six by eight with a bench that's two feet , so you can lay down .
Speaker 2That's like I'm never going to get Modi out of there .
Speaker 3No , I'm just trying to get a toilet installed .
Speaker 2Well , you said you had someone reach out . I did .
Speaker 3That was so sweet . I got this nicest message . I don't know who found me or how , but I got the nicest message that somebody had heard . That .
Speaker 2I was looking for a plumber .
Speaker 3I'm all set because my plumber , as it turned out , didn't die , thank God .
Speaker 2Baruch Hashem .
Speaker 3Baruch .
Speaker 1Hashem .
Speaker 3And that was . I really appreciated it . That was very sweet . He said hi just want to let you know we have a Jewish-Israeli .
Speaker 2What's the timeline , then , for your house project ?
Speaker 3I don't know , Vio .
Speaker 2You need an answer . You need to go to this ailing plumber and be like what's your diagnosis ?
Speaker 3He's like on a ventilator .
Speaker 2Okay , that's not good . He's like , let's like on a ventilator , okay , so that's not good , just transition the project . No , he's not he's okay .
Speaker 3God , really I think it's gonna be okay . I'm , I think we're gonna be in there by the summer , we would be freaking out . I would just no , what you guys would do is you would pay somebody we just throw money at the problem do it , and I'm not doing that because I can't . I mean , it's like an insane amount of money .
Speaker 1But it's your , it's your health and your time . What's your time value ? That's , that's the , that's the , the , the , the shape of . By the way , I don't feel bad talking about this , because I just heard that Jim Norton and David Tell did a podcast together and spoke about nothing besides interior decorating . Just so you know , I don't feel bad that this is the conversation we're having . You should , but I have , in my life to this point , I've done one , two , three , four , five projects . Five , reconstruction , not reconstruction . What do ?
Speaker 3you call it .
Speaker 1Renovation , renovations , renovations , and I'm not looking to ever do it like where I'm in full control of everything .
Speaker 2The workflow so far with our contractor has been so chic For Hashem Listen .
Speaker 3I feel like this is a very relatable subject . Yep , like everybody at some point is dealing with this nightmare . If you can pay a general contractor to deal with everything , god bless you . Really , I'm the general contractor , like you're looking at her and it was like 50% more money to hire somebody to do that . And my Israeli husband was , like you're hired , periel .
Speaker 2Okay , I know , but like what do you know about house contracts ? Nothing . That's why it's taking 17 years .
Speaker 3It's like you're hired perry l okay I know , but like what do you know about house contract ? Nothing .
Speaker 2That's why it's taking 17 years it's like you're gonna pay that for your time and not being in the house .
Speaker 3Like I don't understand that logic well , neither do I , but I'm married to it burn on the job meanwhile , yeah it's , but it's , it's .
Speaker 1Uh , I I just , I've the other renovations I've done . I just this for my . I just did not .
Speaker 2I don't have the bandwidth , I mean at the time , the first year we were together was a gut renovation of the apartment . Yeah Right , you dealt with that , though , right you ? I watched you deal with every single detail , to the point where I was , like you , work at night . That's why you're able to do this . How do normal people do this right , like you ? Same though same , yeah , so so you're hovering over each right .
Speaker 3Horrible too , they're like each vendor what kind of uh faucet handles knobs do ? I'm like I don't know , just put it in the kitchen no , no , no you .
Speaker 1So our , our situation is we everything is a package include . There's a price , here's your price that you asked for . Everything's included . So I'm not going to any tile store . I'm not going to any . Any , any , any .
Speaker 3But you're not picking .
Speaker 1We told him what we want .
Speaker 2He sent us spreadsheet , option A , option B for each thing , and I just clicked . I just clicked .
Speaker 1I went behind Leo and his iPad and there were two faucets . We want everything black faucet wise and we want everything black faucet wise . And we're just looking . I said that one , that one he highlight , highlight , send it back . Done , done .
Speaker 2Yes , it's something like two or three options for each thing that you need for me Done .
Speaker 3So I put those together and I present them to Guy , and I'm like he doesn't get decision making power .
Speaker 2That's your first problem .
Speaker 3Yeah , Excuse me .
Speaker 2You don't ask his opinion . If he's not , he gets fake decision-making power .
Speaker 1You let him think he has . He'd rather be left alone .
Speaker 3He'd rather be left alone , no , he wants to feel like he has an opinion .
Speaker 1You're kidding .
Speaker 3But I do a selection of what the two possible options are . You're kidding , and then I get to pretend that , or he gets to think that he's actually weighing in and everybody's happy .
Speaker 1Okay , Whatever works for you . I wish you the . We all really wish you the best .
Speaker 3I'll be sleeping in your steam room this summer .
Speaker 1No , when Leo moved back to New York to move in with me full time , we were in the middle of a renovation and it didn't . It seemed like it had no end . Yeah , and we moved back into the apartment , ever lived in that studio . When he came back , I took a studio in the building so he moved back into like a studio where I should have just kept for half a year and been like that was it . But then we're like , oh , they're almost done , they might be finishing up . And just then our friend was gone for two weeks . So we moved , everything was in , all of our stuff was in plastic containers . And we moved into our friend's house and it's like in their guest room , put all our containers and we lived out of the containers and it still wasn't done . We moved into another friend who was just leaving for two weeks and their place , and wow , and then we just said apartment hopping . And then we just said we're moving in into the apartment while there was still construction going on .
Speaker 1And anyway , I was there all day long , because when you're you , somebody has to be in charge of , like when they're putting in wires , you have to take a picture of everything so that you know where everything was and everything is . So when something's cut , like one of the cable , things didn't work and I knew where the wires were . They didn't know I . I said , you have , you ran them down here , through here , over the shower , into the bedroom , and so we we figured that the guy that did the tiling snipped it and they had to go inside and
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Speaker 1re reconnect the . But I had pictures because I was on top of everything . I was living in the apartment on top of it . I don't know how you did it . And then at night , going to work , I wasn't traveling that much , I was around in the New York area , but it is the most .
Speaker 3It is so difficult I'm going to start flipping houses after this , I do have a question for you .
Speaker 1I will tell you one thing Take pictures of everything that's happening that's happening .
Speaker 3Well , it's too late for that . Also , my kitchen floor is in my backyard . What is your position on marble , depending what kind of marble Like real versus engineered for a kitchen counter , like the slabs ? Yeah , there's pros and cons here for both of these .
Speaker 1So I will teach you this If you're going to get Carr carrara marble , just don't get marble because it's just like cheap . I just don't want it . It's just cheap looking okay . If you go any grade above , obviously the highest grade is um not obvious . Calcutta gold , okay , which is the one that we have ?
Speaker 2we , we have um , I forgot the name of it , but it's like I'll cut us something . No , it's .
Speaker 1I remember when we picked that slab at the stone place yeah , we drove out to the middle new jersey and leo put a hard hat on and drove the little thing . We have cute pictures .
Speaker 2We have cute pictures warehouse and there was a forklift and I was like that one yeah I did that .
Speaker 3There's one in the city that , but I've understood .
Speaker 2You guys don't really cook though no , like no , but it's a look .
Speaker 3Yuffie .
Speaker 2You get a real piece of marble . You put a wine spills on it . Yeah , we get wine spills and tomato sauce , so you can have it polished or not polished .
Speaker 1Yeah , if you have it not polished , you can , whenever you want , repolish it again , but you're never going to do it . By the way , marble also looks good when it's worn in .
Speaker 2Yeah , ours is like starting to wear in now because it's like 10 years old . Yeah , it's nice .
Speaker 3I should not . I don't like the engineered marble . I think it looks cheap and disgusting .
Speaker 1If you're doing marble , you do marble . If you're doing engineer , go for crisp color .
Speaker 3That's the only one that I really like is the concrete .
Speaker 1The most expensive . Concrete is the most expensive . It's an amazing chic look , but it's super expensive .
Speaker 3And it's hard to pour because it has to be all flat .
Speaker 1Yeah , it does . It's a hard , but it's a beautiful look and but also just a clear white engineered thing . Do you know what look ?
Speaker 2I also like for the kitchens that like seems to be kind of like timeless , even though you wouldn't think so . Those stainless steel cabinets , yeah , I love those , I love those they are a fortune .
Speaker 3Yeah , I priced those out . They were like five times as much .
Speaker 2All right but I feel like kitchen cabinets are those things that can look very dated very quickly , like remember when everyone in like the I don't know the 2010s had those like brown Tuscany cabinets with the granite countertops .
Speaker 1You know what I'm talking about yes , yes , that's when you moved in .
Speaker 2That's what my kitchen looked like yeah , yeah , but like I don't know the stainless steel ones because I've seen like old , built , like listings , when lucas and our friends were looking for apartments and he would send me listings , the ones that like the building was older and the bathrooms were older , whatever , but they had this stainless steel it's in it , like the . I was like well , you don't need to do the kitchen , kitchen yeah , fine , and these , these are game men's kitchens we're talking about .
Speaker 1So the kitchen was the size of a galley on an airplane , like where the the stewards has pulled like . It's like the kitchen's the size of this table , has like a little hot plate , but beautiful and gorgeous . But it was like small little kitchens . But , um , one thing about kitchen cabinets you might not need to change them . You can get a color and just
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Speaker 1really change it . And handles , change the handles and it's like that's what we did in connecticut it was they're gone and there's nothing in like .
Speaker 3There are no kitchen cabinets , it's all being done so yeah , yeah okay , so we've decided we've landed on marble , not engineered yeah , don't do engineering don't do it go big or go home if you go marble , go marble .
Speaker 1If you go engineer , go engineer um that's not an answer .
Speaker 3Yeah , that's not what she asked don't do not do marble .
Speaker 1There you go , that's it . Do not do engineered marble . If you're going to go marble above Carrara , any grade above is okay and make sure it's like , it fits nice and the patterns are good , and always make sure you have a two-inch lip , two inches that you have that's surrounding it .
Speaker 3Okay .
Speaker 1And whatever piece you have flowing over so you do like it's called the flow Waterfall . Waterfall I'm doing it Changes everything .
Speaker 3Okay , I will be clipping this out and sending it to yeah .
Speaker 1We had an amazing Moshiach energy moment when we did that in our house , because the guy made a mistake and in order to make up for it , he took the last piece that was left and did the waterfall , which looks really good , which looks makes it changes the whole kitchen I would like to see a picture are using chat gpt for any of this .
Speaker 2Oh my god . I sent a picture of our backyard to our contractor and I was like I want to put a bistro lights . And so I took a picture that I had and I put it into chatGPT and I was like , can you put this with outdoor like string lights ? And they sent like a perfect rendering of the picture . I just texted it to our contractor . I was like , do this . And he was like got it .
Speaker 3Are you serious ?
Speaker 2It was amazing what are these for lights ? You know those like string lights with like the Edison bulbs that you can string outside like on a cafe .
Speaker 1I want them , like over the patio that we put in . All right , listen , yep , but there was no need for an interior designer . No , no , those jobs are going to be very those . That blew my mind away . Like you really don't need , like , an interior designer If you just had someone showed me , you showed me the um . Someone took a bunch of pictures , put them on the floor , took a picture of it and told Chad GPT to make a gallery wall and it was stunning . Wow , who needs an interior designer now ? Like it's crazy .
Speaker 3That is a very useful piece of advice .
Speaker 1Yes , yeah .
Speaker 3One more question .
Speaker 2Go for it .
Speaker 3Vanities , bathroom vanities .
Speaker 1Oh , you have feelings about this . Yes , floating , yes , yes .
Speaker 3Floating .
Speaker 1Yes .
Speaker 2Yes , it makes it feel bigger , it makes it feel very big yeah .
Speaker 1Also , I don't know what your bathrooms look like if you have cabinets , but we don't do medicine cabinets . I want a mirror as big as you can , a mirror .
Speaker 3A mirror .
Speaker 1A mirror .
Speaker 2If you can get a mirror , how do you say mirror the biggest mirror you can get ?
Speaker 1Mirror A mirror . That's not what you said . Just two seconds Mirror .
Speaker 3Mirror , a mirror .
Speaker 1A mirror .
Speaker 3A mirror .
Speaker 1A mirror . You just want a giant mirror . You just want a big , giant mirror over the whole wall in front of you . That's all you want , but why ?
Speaker 3can't you get a medicine cabinet that's also a mirror ?
Speaker 2Because then it comes out of the wall too much .
Speaker 1No , no , no , no . You can get amazing expensive ones that come in and the ones we have the one we have in the guest bathroom is beautiful . It's a beveled mirror , it's beveled mirror mirror . It's beveled and beautiful and and inside the mirror , make sure you're inside of of your mess you got . Don't make it shouldn't be white and it looks like a like from the hospital . But , um , but if you have room other places in the bathroom there's like a little closet , then just do a full mirror on the whole thing . It's just opens your bathroom up so nice .
Speaker 1Well definitely floating , definitely floating .
Speaker 3Yeah , yeah , yeah it's just all of the bathrooms .
Speaker 1I like to keep synchronicity throughout the bathrooms .
Speaker 3That was yeah , yeah , thank you for joining us .
Speaker 1Thanks for coming up on this episode of what's what's that show .
Speaker 3Home Improvement . Yeah , home Improvement improvement so there is something to that , then right like that you see your cards you want . I have some good ones . You want to keep a consistency throughout the bathrooms , even though there's not like you're . It's like you're going from one bathroom to the next and comparing you . You want some narrative through line , that's my that's my feeling . No , I think so too , Leo .
Speaker 1Other people feel each bathroom is an art project of their own and they have the zebra wallpaper and they have whatever you want , you know Make it like calm .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 1You know , make it calm . You know I was . Where was I the other day ? I was in a . I was in someone's bathroom a guest bathroom , no , because it was a toilet , yeah , yeah , but the whole room was mirrors . The whole room was mirrors .
Speaker 3No good .
Speaker 1And it was over-designed , it was expensive and it was like the sink was this thing and I was in there and I was going . You know , I'm sitting there and I'm just like ew , I just turned the lights off .
Speaker 3Right . Nobody wants to look at themselves when they're going to the event .
Speaker 1I was like , why would they do this ? I just turned the lights off and just finished what I had to do and got out .
Speaker 3It's true that it's upsetting . That's not a good thing .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's not a good design move , but anyway , some people see everything as an art project , anyway . Okay , we have time for one . But anyway , some people see the everything is an art project , anyway . Okay , we have time for one more question we do yes you took them .
Speaker 2I don't have them anymore you don't want them no , they're like shedding they're shedding that your cards are shedding . You bought bad cards .
Speaker 3They're like the paper is shedding because they won't come out of the box . What I feel like there was . This is funny .
Speaker 1Who in your life ? Your garage , your garage , what's your garage situation ?
Speaker 3It's non-existent .
Speaker 1There's no garage . I have no garage . Build one . How do you not have a garage ? Put a guy in it . No , how do you not have a garage ? It how ?
Speaker 3do you not have a garage ? Put a guy in it . No , how do you not have a garage ? It didn't come with a garage . There's no garage . It's a mid-century modern house that was built in 1948 . It's a ranch house . It is beautiful architecturally , but the whole interior needed to be gutted . It an old house , so it has like these really incredible bones and these like insanely high ceilings , but it was . It's on a concrete slab . There's no basement and there's no garage . So little creek in the backyard , nice , healthy mosquitoes .
Speaker 1We're spraying , we're going to spray , we're going to kill everyone . They're like should we spray ? Some people are like oh my God , no , it's dangerous . If there's no mosquitoes pour Agent Orange , pour Agent Orange on the backyard , I don't care , I don't want one mosquito coming near us kill everyone everything .
Speaker 3I had a good one , and now I can't find it .
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Speaker 3No , there was one that I thought Leo would really like . Oh my god , this one , this isn't it . If you could design the perfect house for us , what would it look like ?
Speaker 1that's what we just read . That was what we just read . All right Can you stop .
Speaker 3Oh , this is one that I thought was interesting . Even though , okay , If you could live another person's life , I think dead or alive I'm putting in that caveat who would you choose and why ?
Speaker 1If I could live another person's life . I don't want to live another person's life neither do I , but like it's .
Speaker 3Uh . Oh , elvis presley , I don't want to die on the toilet .
Speaker 2What do you want from me ? Yeah , do you have to have their death ?
Speaker 1it's not live their life , it's not live their life for one day ?
Speaker 3oh no , no , for For one day .
Speaker 1Oh no , no for a day . Yeah , it would be like a good day of Elvis Presley , it wouldn't be like a bad day .
Speaker 3No , obviously it would be . Yeah , I just added for a day , just so I could get you guys to answer .
Speaker 1I would live one of my previous lives over again .
Speaker 2When are you going to take me to get past life regression ?
Speaker 1when are you going to take me to get past life regression ? Yeah , I would live one of my past lives and get it better so I wouldn't have to come back again , which is the goal . The goal is not to come back . I don't plan on coming back . I plan on doing everything , getting it done now .
Speaker 1This is it we are on the final incarnation this is it we are going to slay this carnation and not have to come back . I don't ever want to come back . I don't want to ever take the SATs again . I don't want to ever sit in a class with a syllabus . I don't want to ever have to go for hair transplants again . I don't want Botox anymore . I just want to . I want to get this life down right . I still want Botox , kill it and be not having to come back In this life and the next . On that note , on that note , on that note Get this life right . Nah , enough of you for stinking a question .
Speaker 3No , I have two more really fun ones .
Speaker 1No no .
Speaker 2Let's see if they're good and we'll start the next one . Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .
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Speaker 2Bye , bye .