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• Modi • Season 11 • Episode 153

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Episode 153: If you could be any animal for a day, what would you be and why? The crew takes a video message from one of our listeners in Atlanta. Leo discusses his new tattoo. And, of course, all roads lead to the importance of keeping cash on you at all times. 

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Leo:

Welcome to, and here's Modi. Via the episode description, you can click the link that says leave us a voice note, and you can leave us one of these nifty little messages and maybe it'll make it into the show. So here we go. This is from Jeff.

Speaker 3:

Hello Modi, I love you, I love Leo, I love Periel. I love your podcast. I love your sense of humor. I love Mashiach Energy. I loved seeing you on stage and your show was phenomenal. I loved watching the next version on YouTube. Here's what I don't love. Oh, and I love Mashiach Energy. Here's what I don't love. Sadly, I don't love the fact that, as you're announcing all these new shows, including in locations where you've been numerous times Atlanta, the ATL, is not among them, so please come back to Atlanta.

Leo:

All right. Well, I have good news for you, Jeff. We're coming back to Atlanta in December. We are going to be at the Center Stage Theater on December 11th I believe. Those are not announced yet. The ticket links are not live yet, but you're getting the inside scoop, since you sent us that nice little voicemail. So we'll see you in december. Mark your calendars. We'll also be going to some other places down south correct and other. We're going to be announcing more domestic dates soon, um and just just so you guys know when we announced it.

Modi:

Keep in mind, wherever we are this is not me, this is leo, the touring agent and the management company. There's a rhyme and rhythm to going back to a city where you've been. I think it's 16 months, or 18 months that they like to have. There's a rhyme and rhythm for doing things like that. So don't feel like we are not going to your city. We're just not going to your city on this round of shows. But we again, if you have a microphone, we are there.

Periel:

I would just like a little piece of advice to offer Buy your tickets immediately when the shows go on sale. Because I just made the error of not buying tickets to one of the shows, that just made the error of not buying tickets to one of the shows that I'm actually hosting for us. I figured I'll buy my friends a bunch of tickets, like I usually do. Oh sure, we're almost sold out. They told us, okay, I'll just get them next week gone, no more tickets that's on you, that's what I'm saying we're gonna take care of the comms.

Periel:

We got it, that's fine, I'm not, I'm not, I'm just saying for Jeff and everybody else like don't wait, they go on sale, get them.

Modi:

So just so you understand that there are shows where the promoter tells us we have 20 tickets for you, I go online and buy another six. Yes, that's what I'm saying I'm buying tickets to my own show. Yes, I'm talking Because I know at the last minute I'm going to need tickets for somebody here and there and whatnot and all that.

Leo:

So that's, all so that's Atlanta in December, and then November is going to be a very heavy touring month and this is also unannounced, but we're working on getting you ticket links for Tel Aviv, potentially Haifa, potentially Jerusalem, and then we'll be in Berlin for the Jewish Cultural Festival, which you heard, avi, on an earlier episode, and then we'll be going to Paris and then Vienna and Amsterdam, not necessarily in that order, but that's November, yeah.

Periel:

Wow.

Leo:

Some domestic dates and dates in Canada with a whole new show.

Modi:

It's still a part of Pause for Laughter, which is completely different from Know your Audience. So that's it, but these voicemails are amazing and that guy, jeff, has an incredible voice.

Periel:

It sounds like he could be like a radio host.

Leo:

I love you. Hopefully he'll let us know. Yeah, okay, would you have another one of those voicemails? No, that was it, I just wanted to do jeff's.

Modi:

There's nobody else. I love those voicemails.

Leo:

Hit another one I don't have one ready okay okay, isn't that cute that they can leave us a voicemail and I'll. I'll embed the audio so it's like clearer I love it.

Periel:

It's really fun. I um also love some of these other questions that we have here. Name two people in the world who your partner admires.

Modi:

Oh, my partner admires Two people in the world that my partner admires. I'm going to put Lady Gaga right on top. Okay, right on top to the Gaga and my partner. I don't who do you?

Leo:

admire I was going to say Modi admires the Rebbe.

Periel:

Good.

Leo:

And Dr Wayne Dyer.

Modi:

Yes, Good, yes, dr Wayne Dyer and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, did I nail it, you nailed it, I nailed it, you nailed it, you nailed it. Yes, and Did you nail it? You nailed it, I nailed it, you nailed it, you nailed it.

Periel:

Yes, and you are Lady Gaga Ed.

Modi:

No, I'm not. Who do you? Yes, you do you love that she was so smart to get the gays on board and you always rave about her. You rave about her. She's a marketing genius. She's a marketing genius. And who else do you kind of like? You ever think for anderson cooper?

Leo:

no, that's just because I thought he was hot for a long time okay, and then that was okay.

Modi:

But who else do you admire? Who else do you look up to besides me? I mean, who else do you seriously? Who do you? Who else like? Do you like?

Leo:

um, I don't know.

Modi:

I'll have to think about that leo admires anybody who's a party planner, that has a clipboard and an ear.

Leo:

I told the woman last night at the party that I said I would vote for you, for president.

Periel:

Yep, if you have an earpiece and a clipboard, I trust you with my life that was the first thing I thought of when you guys started telling me about that event, that we almost have been in heaven when the event planner meet there.

Leo:

There was like 15,000 people underneath the event planner Just to give you a feel of the event, which we already kind of talked about it. But did you catch? The event planner had a social media person following her around just recording her Right. Not even the event.

Modi:

And they were stunning. Yeah, and they didn't come schleppy, they were in tuxedos. They didn't come dressed like. You know. It's awful when you have this big event and everybody's dressed well, but the people who are working the event are dressed in schmattes and in garbage and in like a black t-shirt and they're running in between the people that are dressed nice. She had all the people with cameras and videos in tuxedos, so they kind of float. Even though they were carrying a camera on those sticks, they fit in the evening. It wasn't like now the camera guy's in my face. It was really well done.

Periel:

Anyway, they're just saying I think that there's something to certainly be said for a good event planner. It's a very stressful job.

Modi:

Who are your top two? Yeah, people you admire.

Periel:

Yeah, you thought we weren't going to ask you. I did. I actually had another question ready to go. I don't I have to think I have to get back to it.

Modi:

That woman for the golden mayor of today Isn't that one?

Periel:

of them A Mackville, yeah, but I would want to think a little bit more about. I was really planning on asking you to that. I'll think about somebody who Isn't that a photographer.

Modi:

We had dinner with you. There's many people you admire you just don't realize you admire them.

Periel:

No, there are a lot of people I'm surrounded by amazing people.

Modi:

I forgot his name Mark Zelliger. Mark Zelliger, yeah, you admire him.

Periel:

I do admire him, but you know he's. I admire Noam a lot.

Leo:

Yes, I admire Noam. I admire Noam. I think he's very smart and cool and knows how to like.

Periel:

Drive me crazy.

Modi:

We admire Liz from the comedy cellar. Oh yeah, we admire liz from the comedy cellar. I admire sd should also be running the country. I'm st the booker of the comedy cell.

Leo:

I admire many, many people, but I but yes, but dr wayne dyer and my cabinet would be made up of party planners and everyone who works at the cellar, that's what I would run the government with literally be a well-oiled machine.

Modi:

It would be amazing and everybody would be happy. Everyone would be happy, everybody would be happy. Good yeah.

Periel:

If you could change into any animal for 24 hours, what would it be and why?

Leo:

A killer whale. Oh, I yeah.

Periel:

First of all, you had that so fast yeah, because I have that's.

Leo:

That's like one of these questions that come up. I kill a whale because I'm not doing a land animal, because I know what it's like to be on land. I I don't know what it's like to be in the ocean and I don't want to fly because I don't want to be a bird, but because whales are smart and they'll. No one fucks with the whales like the killer whales. They eat everything. They eat sharks, they eat other whales and I just feel like that would be fun.

Periel:

That's amazing.

Modi:

If I had to be an animal for one day, it would be a bear in the middle of their hibernation, like in the middle. I don't know how long they hibernate, so I recently learned that they don't actually really hibernate the whole time.

Leo:

They're just like relaxing, but they're not like actually. You think they're like in a coma, but they're not.

Modi:

Whatever they are, I want to, just whatever they're sleeping, for a full day of sleep. I want a full day of sleep as an animal, as any animal that sleeps for a full day, to be a bear in a den sleeping, yeah just.

Periel:

I would want to be the snake in the Garden of Eden.

Leo:

Oh my God, garden of Eden, the new Lady Gaga song on her latest album, mayhem.

Modi:

A snake in the Garden of Eden. The snake, the snake. No, that's evil personified. You're not evil, that's original sin right. Isn't that what they call original?

Leo:

sin, that's evil, personified the snake from the Garden of Eden. Are you crazy?

Modi:

100%. I can't believe that's what you went for. I think, I was ready to hear a dove with a little olive branch in its mouth, or the birds that left the ark and came back and told Noah that the land is coming. Yeah, were you snaking Ew.

Periel:

First of all, I think it would be interesting to be a snake, because you have no idea what it would be like to not have any arms.

Leo:

I don't want that. That freaks me out. Yeah, ew, even though I guess whales don't have arms either any arms.

Modi:

I don't want that. That freaks me out.

Leo:

Yeah, ew, even though I guess whales don't have arms either. Yeah, whales don't have arms and legs. I feel like you don't need that in the ocean.

Modi:

No, you need something for the plastic.

Leo:

How do you climb up a tree like a snake? That freaks me out.

Periel:

That's what's interesting though. Or like a snake that eats like an elephant.

Leo:

Like an anaconda. Maybe, Do you know?

Periel:

I fell back into my rabbit hole of buying a personal protection dog. You are a personal protection dog.

Leo:

He's a Rottweiler. They're like $180,000. Not really, some of them are. Some of them are like $75,000.

Periel:

For what? What is this?

Leo:

It's a trained dog that's like your friend, but also your bodyguard, and, like, speaks different languages.

Periel:

And what are you going to do with this thing Exactly?

Leo:

Just have it here. It would be right here If I had one. How big is it? They're huge.

Periel:

And where are you putting them? They're what it's like, a.

Leo:

German shepherd.

Periel:

You're telling me a snake's evil. You're getting like a Nazi guard dog.

Modi:

He doesn't want to be one, he wants to have one. Wouldn't it be the snake that destroyed Adam?

Periel:

No, I thought the idea of giving knowledge was really interesting.

Leo:

Oh, that's your angle.

Periel:

I didn't have this whole evil connotation. You guys totally ruined it.

Modi:

Wow, you really have no grasp of the Torah. The tree of knowledge is the tree of life. I can't believe you went for the knowledge. It's like the most. It's like what destroyed the world was that.

Leo:

Yeah, we didn't need the knowledge Periel. We would have been better off without said knowledge. I feel the same way about a lot of the knowledge that's in my brain right now.

Modi:

I wish it wasn't there we all be sitting here naked right now. Yeah, perfect and happy yeah.

Leo:

Yeah.

Periel:

Okay, I Okay. I'll come up with a different animal People are going to write in.

Modi:

We knew she was evil. Wait a second.

Periel:

I want to hear more on this dog.

Leo:

What about them?

Periel:

First of all, what are you going to name him? Do you have a name picked out?

Leo:

Cash or Kevlar, or both. Maybe we'll get two. This is Cash and this is Kevlar.

Periel:

I see Leo walking down the street On the Lower East Side holding two Dobermans.

Modi:

Absolutely not. This is when you are fully in your home in Connecticut.

Leo:

When we get to the level where we're flying private, I'm having one of these dogs. You don't know it yet, but one of these dogs will show up and it will be part of our life.

Periel:

A Doberman or a German Shepherd.

Leo:

Maybe one of each. There's this one place, I think it's like in montana or nebraska or something. It's like a ranch where they do this and they're one of the most expensive ones and, uh, they like won't give it to you until you go to them and like spend like a week there, like for the handoff period. It's like a very intense thing. No, they're like. They're like two and a half years old or three years old already by the time you get them they're fully trained.

Modi:

You can in different languages. You can train them in hebrew and you can tell them what to do, and the dog wakes up in the morning and has a purpose. The problem with dogs in manhattan if they have no purpose in life, they wake up and have nothing to do and that's why they're all messed up in a hot mess and their owners are a hot mess.

Leo:

What am I going to do today? I'm going to bark incessantly for eight hours, for eight hours.

Periel:

Eat my way through the wall.

Modi:

Right. So when a dog wakes up and goes, what's my purpose in life? Oh, to protect these two people, and when they don't need protection, I just love them. Then the dog has and eat everything else and bark all day long. It has a purpose.

Periel:

You want to travel with this thing.

Leo:

Yeah, really. It could be backstage.

Periel:

And then what leave it in? Like hotel rooms.

Leo:

All the hotel rooms we stay in are like people there have pets, yeah.

Modi:

This is in his head.

Leo:

This is a fantasy and this is exactly. I would knock the system out. Give him a nice little service dog vest. Yeah, for sure obviously you'd be sitting in delta one with us. What's the problem here? I don't understand.

Modi:

You become one of those idiots, crazy people.

Leo:

Yeah, this is my money with the emotional support bunny, except a german shepherd looks legit like no one's gonna be like excuse me, that's not a real service animal, I'll be like sick him is cash after johnny. No, just money.

Modi:

And Kevlar is bulletproof, so that's your Kevlar right there.

Periel:

I have news for you. I see two dogs in your future. He has that look in his eyes.

Leo:

I got a new tattoo of an M the letter M and we went out dancing recently and my shirt was not on my body and someone was like what does the M stand for? And I said, mind your business it's.

Modi:

I hope it stands for Modi. It stands for Modi or Mashiach Energy, or money and money, and Mashiach Energy, modi money, mashiach Energy Period and mind your own business.

Leo:

And mind your business.

Modi:

Mind your business, mind your business, mind your business we were at basement in Queens, in Queens is that the place?

Periel:

where has the guy wrapped up in the carpet? He's?

Modi:

been there, unfortunately he asked him what do you want for your birthday? I said I want to go dancing. I want to go, just want to go dancing.

Leo:

And we went to the the the saturday before my those of you don't know what we're talking about. There's a very quick and easy way that you can set the scene for yourselves open the hbo max streaming app, type in baby girl starring nicole kidman and scroll through till there's a rave scene where everyone's dancing. That's where we were, literally that's where they filmed it. It was amazing.

Modi:

It was a great night. We had fun. It was two different rooms, one was like techno-techno and one was like gay-techno and it was fun. What makes music gay-techno? Compared to regular, it had a little bit more of a disco beat and less of a thump. You mean like a housey. It was a housey, yeah.

Periel:

That makes it gay.

Leo:

Yeah, In that environment. Yeah yeah, usually that's where the shirtless ones are.

Periel:

Are there people like hanging from cages, like there were in my day when we used to go to clubs?

Leo:

No, that's more House of Yes-y. Yeah, that's more house of yesi. Yeah, that's more house of yes, this is like low ceilings, like it's you're in a basement, like there's like catacomb looking things where, like, because it used to be like an industrial factory. Wow, like, walk through to, like, get to the next room what part of queens is this in? Mass beth. Yeah, like a location like when you get dropped off in the uber. Yeah, it's a warehouse, it's like a warehouse it's a warehouse.

Modi:

It's not like a like a fish location when you get dropped off in the Uber. Yeah, it's like a warehouse, it's like a warehouse in part of Queens. It's not like a like a queen.

Leo:

It's not in Forest Hills, it's in some part of Queens that like Look up the movie Baby Girl with Nicole Kidman and watch the rave scene and then just picture me and Modi there.

Modi:

And speaking of that movie, it was it's like fly your freak flag. It's, it's a great movie. No, I haven't nicole kidman doing. Nicole kidman, who's uh, just under 60, 58, is just naked. The whole show just is just everything's out and she looks great and she's like probably is maybe the last I'm gonna do this. But like here's me at 56, I look incredible and she nailed it and she nailed it. She really nailed it, wow.

Periel:

Baby girl.

Leo:

Yeah, baby girl Also, there's a dog motif in that movie.

Modi:

What was the dog? Oh, no, yes.

Leo:

Did you even catch that yeah?

Modi:

I did catch that. It's a part of her freak. And again, it's a fun movie. It was a good one to watch. Okay, watch, okay. It's a movie, you know it has a beginning and has an end. It's not a series where you're waiting for another episode to come.

Leo:

We finally get a new episode of family and friends today yes, we love family and friends.

Modi:

Are you watching family?

Leo:

no, I'm not with john ham, john ham reserve, resorts to petty crime. What's it called Theft, theft, larceny? Is that it Grand larceny? Grand larceny to support his lifestyle.

Periel:

Wow.

Leo:

Yeah, it's actually very good. Where is this Apple TV? This is the thing. Apple TV has these amazing high budget shows because they're Apple with like these crazy casts, they do zero marketing. You don't know that they're happening. You have to open the app like no one's talking about them huge celebrities huge and they're just no one.

Modi:

It's not advertised anywhere. You don't see any. It's just about it. It must be a money laundering thing. I don't know what it is apple, it's a money laundry.

Periel:

It's a money laundering thing do you know what I watch? I'm now watching the first season of Law and Order.

Modi:

Oh, wow, wow, I was on that. No, I was on SCSI CSI. No, I was on Crime CSI New York. Yes, oh yeah, csi New York, that's what I was on.

Periel:

Love these Law and Order. They're too formulaic. It's too formulated.

Leo:

Don't you see it coming from a thousand miles away? I was on Love these Law Order. There's two like formulaic. It's too formulated, don't you like see it coming from like a thousand miles away?

Periel:

I want to tell you guys a funny story. First of all, no, I cannot, like I cannot tell you how obsessed I am with Law Order SVU. I was standing in front of the comedy cellar last week with Steve and of course there are lines around the block for people to get in, because there always. I was standing in front of the comedy cellar last week with Steve and of course there are lines around the block for people to get in, because there always are. And this guy comes up to the front, cuts the whole line with a woman and he said you know, can I see a show? And Steve was talking to me. So the security guard was like oh sorry, man, we're full. And I was like like are you insane? I'm going to see.

Periel:

Do you have any idea who that is? And steve looks at me, looks at me. He's like I have no idea who that is. I was like you have to let him in. That's chris maloney from law and order svu. I do like chris malone. I have never fangirled out I. I was so humiliated.

Periel:

I was like but yeah, I see, because I don't care who it is. I was like you don't understand, so he, they let him in. And then I was like, oh my god, I have to say hi, I love him so much. I made a. I was humiliated. I've never done that before in my life I've been. I've been on like photosets of, like mick jagger couldn't care less I saw chris maloney, where you used your star and his wife was.

Periel:

I was like I'm happy to sell it and his wife was like, oh, my god so, so get, let's.

Modi:

Let's unpack this whole situation. So the comedy cellar there's two, three, four different venues and there's a line for each one and it's not a ticket you have to buy and pay for, so there's a waiting list. So after everybody's seated that has a ticket, then they do the wait list. So Chris Maloney, or whoever this is, I'm sure I know him by face, but I know I know him, I know the name, I just can't put them together. So Steve is the guy. I know the name, I just can't put them together. So Steve is the guy that runs the door. He is what gets between you and your seat at the stop, and the millennials don't know. But he does want to see Chris Maloney. He wants to see at least an Andrew Jackson, at least a Hamilton on a 50, and it's worth every penny and it just-.

Leo:

Are you saying he's easily bribed? Is that what you're saying, if he-. I don't feel like this should be public information A hundred percent.

Modi:

It should be public information and this is something that could help you in life always have cash on you and be ready to pull it out.

Periel:

And yes, I didn't know that. That was still a thing to be totally honest with you.

Modi:

Let me tell you a recent situation with cash. That's a total thing. We were checking into the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, okay, and we arrived early. We arrived at 10 o'clock for a check-in. It's at three o'clock and there's a young man behind the counter clanging and clinging all over that machine. It's one of those keyboards from 1994.

Periel:

Uh-huh.

Modi:

Tick, tick, tick, tick, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bum. He's like hi, welcome, I see you've been here before and da I've been here before and da, da, da and I am, and I know, you know. And then there's a whole lobby full of people with their luggage waiting for their room. So my wallet is my wallet. I will show you what my wallet looks like. My wallet has the cash on the outside.

Modi:

So I, while I give him my cards, then hold the cash to let him know that there is cash involved in the next situation that he's about to do. The cash is here, I hold it and I talk to him and I speak to him like this and I say we'd be grateful if you can, maybe a room in the same, even smaller, we don't need a view, we don't need a view, a little place to open our luggage, because we're here for a night doing a show. And then he sees this and all of a sudden, well, let me see what I can do. Cling, cling, cling, cling, cling. And then I do what I can do and I gave him a 50 and he was happy. I was happy, everybody was sitting in the lobby and we went to our room.

Periel:

Wow.

Modi:

Yes, Cash still works. So when you go up to Steve at the comedy cellar and you are on that, that, that miserable looking uh, what's it called? Uh, waiting list line, Go ahead. Hey Steve, I don't know what's happening, but I'm here on a date and I'd love to and just don't. But can I give you money? For just give him the money and he will take care of you. Outdoor Steve, we love him. Outdoor Steve, he's been there forever. Steve, he's been there forever.

Periel:

He's the best.

Modi:

He's the best, he's the best.

Periel:

So just slip somebody a 50 or a hundred, even in like restaurants, like maitre d's. You want to go? There's an hour wait, you're telling me.

Modi:

You give them 50 bucks they're going to see you A hundred percent, 100. It has to be the right guy. How do you know it's the right guy? You have to feel it's the right guy that can make the decision to give you a table. The girl behind the counter might not be the right one. You might need to stick. You need the maitre d' Maitre d' exactly Someone who's got control and their pulse on the room. Then you should always have cash on you, always have cash on you.

Periel:

Do you do this too?

Leo:

No, you always have cash on you you do this too, no, but, but he has me next. Yeah, but I know he's next to me with cash. I'll let him hold it. It's it's really, and I know where we keep the cash. Yeah, in case I need it.

Periel:

Yeah, and do you not walk around with any cash ever?

Leo:

I only have cash, you can. I only ever have cash on me before or after I get a haircut, because I tip him in cash and so then I get some cash out, but then I usually ended up giving it back to Modi.

Modi:

I'm like here because I don't want to, it's so fun to have cash, Like you know, when we were at I forgot Like a bodega or something You're like, yeah, it's like you know, you got a soda, a protein bar, whatever it is, and there's a line of kids tapping their phones.

Modi:

And you just show them like here's this and this and you give them a 20. And they know it's covered and they're happy. Most probably they're not going to ring it up, it's going to go in their pocket. But I was burping throughout that entire segment. Wow, please edit that. I don't know You're speaking through it. Just cut that whole piece out. I was just saying, not in a bodega, but if you're in one of those places like B&H Diner, that vegetarian diner on 2nd Avenue, okay, we were there. We had an omelet, we had a corn muffin toasted, a little nicely it was delicious.

Speaker 3:

That sounds so good it was delicious.

Modi:

And now the guy's going to come and give us a check. He's going to start to scribble 345 and 780 and whatever for the toast and the coffee. It's going to end up being like whatever it is 25. Drop him a 50, drop them two 20s and walk out and just be done with it. Yeah, be done with it. You start waiting for change. Who has patience for that? Just that's what the fun of cash is.

Periel:

What kind of bills do you like?

Leo:

He doesn't allow the bank teller to give him hundreds that are not crispy and new. If they try to give him old bills, he'll be like nope, they're like brand new bills, they're coming straight from the treasury department.

Modi:

Always 20s, 10s and 5s, Always. I have always.

Periel:

At 50s and 100s.

Modi:

It's less relevant. There's always a 100, because sometimes you just need that. Okay, we are coming out of a rave in the middle of Brooklyn and he's not even at the point where he can pick up an Uber and there's a driver there. I've never been at that point.

Modi:

So I've been at the point where I've come out of a rave in Brooklyn and I wasn't with you and you were not with me to start finding an uber and I'm not starting to do like from with a long arm looking for an uber. I walk out and I will be like, uh, there's a beautiful, like suburban and the guy's like cash only. I'm like, you and me are in love and I'm at home and it's beautiful and it's worth every penny okay, he just got you home. You're safe. You had a nice ride. He had water. He didn't put any music, it was just divine okay, come home if someone flipped ari like a 20.

Leo:

Just be like buy yourself some candy or pokemon cards or I don't know what kids buy. Would he be like thrilled, or would he be like what do I do with this? Let's rephrase that question if one, if one of, if one of aries like if I was like, hey, if I saw ari and I just was like like a cool uncle type, just like yeah, oh, he would be thrilled, have fun at the arcade or something, I don't know.

Periel:

Do kids care?

Leo:

about cash.

Periel:

Yes, a hundred percent, especially when they have Israeli fathers who carry cash, lots of cash.

Leo:

So the guy is the same way.

Periel:

Now, do you put your big bills on the outside or your little bills on the outside?

Modi:

Depends In the hotel. It's on the outside the big bills, so he knows that we're talking about this. Just get me a room.

Periel:

Like he knows you don't think you're going to give him a dollar.

Modi:

Right, here's a dollar. Yeah, and the guy that opens the door and everything and all of that opens the door and everything and all of that. Those are fives here, there.

Periel:

Now do you even deal with single dollar bills, or is that just like ridiculous at this point? Is it like five and above, no matter what?

Modi:

No, sometimes you end up getting the singles back from something that you paid for, but it's-.

Periel:

But you don't take those seriously.

Modi:

Yeah, but it's nice to have. It's just easy to money's an energy.

Leo:

It's like an energy you can just give right away. If I did give Ari $20, what do you think, as his mother and you just gave him carte blanche? What is he going to go buy?

Periel:

he would probably go buy like candy and soda and snacks.

Modi:

I used to save any money I ever got from any uncle or family. I just saved and then I bought a watch that's the most on brand thing completely on brand and he unculled it from me.

Leo:

I just saved and then I bought a watch. That's the most on-brand thing. It's completely on-brand.

Periel:

He likes sneakers. He has an expensive sneaker taste.

Modi:

Okay, then that's a thing yeah.

Periel:

And right now he's the exact same size as I am. So I'm very open to him buying really nice, expensive sneakers, because he's going to grow out of them and then I'll just wear them.

Modi:

That's funny, yeah, cash good.

Periel:

Cash is king.

Modi:

Yes, how did we even get to that point where we were?

Periel:

But it's fun.

Modi:

I don't remember, but it's fun.

Leo:

So that's what I was going to say that you always say that money is energy and the problem is is that when I pay for something with my face, I'm like, oh no, money was exchanged Right, like that was free. Yeah, if I'm at a coffee shop and it's like a bloop, I'm like that was free, like where did that money come from? Out of the air? What is money?

Modi:

It's a line. It's one line on the Amex bill that little face of your plip-la-plip. It's one line on the Amex bill. Leo hands me the Amex bill and you can tell from how thick it is and I just go. I don't want to know. Sometimes it lands on the dining table like this, right, sometimes it's like that. Like that, it depends how thick the Amex bill is.

Periel:

Who's getting Amex bills in the mail?

Leo:

Me Modi, do you know? You know how everyone's paperless and whatever and you have to like, opt into paper building he's he's opting into, like, he's like, no, no, no, send me the paper. He likes to sit there and look at it. No, thank God, because I'm not looking at it, I'm just paying it. Yes, yes, yes, wait a second you are going through.

Leo:

He loves getting paper in the mail. He loves getting our money manager portfolio papers in the mail. He loves touching the papers and putting his glasses on and saying what's happening in here.

Modi:

Don't make me like the guy in Harry Potter that you showed me. I just keep an eye on it. I can't start looking on the internet.

Periel:

So you're going through the bill and then he's like here, pay it. And then you go online and you pay it.

Modi:

No, no, no, no, no, it's all automatic and it's all the it's, it's all.

Leo:

But you see the charges, you know You're scared, but our life is expensive, like there's a lot of expenses involved. Our life is not expensive that are not like direct. He's not expensive. Too many flights are on our Amex flights and hotels and Ubers Like that alone. Those are expenses Tens of thousands of dollars.

Periel:

Huge difference. You're doing a scan. I'm trying to understand. Are you going item by?

Modi:

item. Sweetheart, before we walked into this little studio, we began our day. Our day began. He said to me I could use an iced coffee. I could use an iced coffee. We went to this place that's new around the corner. He got the iced coffee with the brew schmoo, that the special thing that they do with it, and I said give me one also with a little bit of almond milk. So those two and then the croissant looked so pretty. The croissant looked pretty, and we said the muffin looked good too. I'm not going to eat the whole muffin or the whole croissant, but a bite or two in order for just to start the day with a nice something sweet in our mouth. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Whatever. 10% tip. The day began $32. $32 for a cup of coffee, a croissant and a muffin.

Leo:

So that's what it is. It costs $250 to step outside. I will tell you Exactly Literally.

Periel:

I took Ari to a basketball game practice.

Leo:

To step outside.

Periel:

I got in the middle. I was waiting for him. I said I might as well get a manicure $75 with tip and then Ari's done, I'll take you to get ice cream $30 ice cream. I'm like how did I just spend $200? I left the house for an hour.

Modi:

Because it's all automatic. It's all automatic. You don't feel it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a hundred percent.

Leo:

That's why I think once the house in Connecticut is done, our expenses will actually go down a lot Like I will not be floating around Manhattan like just bleeping my card and my phone everywhere, because I'll be at home cooking like a domesticated person.

Modi:

Not that I mind, but you're at home on the sofa, you're busting through money on Instacart and whatever cart and a shirt shows up, which is great, enjoy, get whatever you want, it's not expensive at all in his life, I'm telling you. But Insta, the food that shows up, instacart, instacart, yeah, yeah, yeah, pua, he's nonsense, he's talking I'm ordering like eggs and bananas. Yeah, no, no, we don't live lavishly, we live in that. And plus there's always some crazy energy like this We'll have friends over for dinner because we travel so much. You know, when we're home, we need to have like to catch up with our friends and I don't want to be in a restaurant. I can't hear them or some idiot asking me do you know what you're having? You know? So we have it in our house. We order in for everybody and it costs whatever it does. But somehow, right away that same night, I'll get three cameos or four cameos that cover the whole night.

Leo:

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Modi:

The yarmulkes are. Usually I give them out at shows. Someone says, hi, we love you, my mother loves you. She couldn't make it. Here's a yarmulke For your mother to whoever she wants. Here's for your brother, here's I just hand them out. I love them. We just had Yom HaShoah. Don't forget people.

Modi:

These podcasts are not in order, but Yom HaShoah the day of the Holocaust Remembrance is just now and people were sending me pictures of people in Auschwitz wearing Moshiach Energy yarmulkes, which made my like, made my day. Wow, I like, made my day, made my day. But the hats we're not making crazy money on this merch, but it does. It puts that you're wearing a Mashiach Energy hat and someone asks you what does that mean? And then you have to tell them what you think it means, and then they'll tell you what they think it means. Is it Lubavitch, is it Mashiach? And the conversation of Mashiach is out there and that's a conversation that should always be on our tongues Moshiach, moshiach, moshiach. All the time. We should be speaking about it and let it happen. Amen. Yeah, I gotta get that in. And here's Mori, and that's what Mori's about.

Leo:

Wait, I just got distracted because I thought I was checking and here's Mori, and that's what Mori's about Okay, wait, I just got distracted because I thought I was checking, because we were thinking about how expensive it is to step outside.

Periel:

Yes, no, but I wanted to ask you guys if you saw the shark frenzy.

Leo:

In Israel. Someone got killed. So there's like and what's it called? Hadera, Hadera and the power plant. There's all those sharks around there, there's warm water. Right yeah, people are going in the water with the sharks and like messing with them, and there was a body with bite marks that showed up recently and they're still doing it.

Periel:

So that is correct. There's the warm water there and the sharks are there and they're not supposed to be there, and of course, they're not supposed to be there.

Periel:

It's the ocean, no, but it's driving in. They're not. Naturally they don't usually come that close to the shore. Sharks they're there because it's very warm and they're attracted to it, but any reasonable group of people would be like everybody get out of the water. There are a bunch of sharks here. The Israelis are like yalla. They're going into the water and playing with the sharks and petting the sharks and grabbing the sharks and feeding the sharks because they think they're invincible. And suddenly you see somebody.

Leo:

They're not like the super aggressive type of sharks. From what I gather. They're like sandbar sharks, but they still have teeth and they're still sharks, so they can bite you.

Modi:

But isn't that horrible? Isn't those horrible lifeguards in Israel? Aren't they yelling don't go in. Yes.

Modi:

Yeah, the beaches in Tel Aviv you can't even like step between the nets without someone, like the beaches in tel aviv are the most amazing things in the world, except for it did the vibe kill of those horrible lifeguards. I love those guys, those, it's the most horrible thing in the world. You're just probably knowing to understand what they're saying and they and they're just screaming and yelling. I think that they're like a, so you can't do anything with them and they just scream and yell and it doesn't really do anything. Move over here, yell out yell out.

Periel:

Anyway, there was no lifeguard. I saw a video of a bunch of Israeli men watching somebody get eaten by a shark, of Israeli men watching somebody get eaten by a shark. Because this guy took it upon himself to go, quote, unquote, document the sharks Like now you like work for National Geographic. He took like his fins and his goggles and some like waterproof camera and dove in and started taking pictures of the shark. And what did the shark do?

Leo:

What sharks do which is Bite people.

Periel:

The shark ate him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you hear all these Israeli guys going Yo, I don't believe it. Someone is eating him.

Leo:

Ew, you saw a video.

Modi:

The shark and it shouldn't be called a shark attack. It should just be a shark. A shark doing a food sting. If the shark was in a hummus stand or a falafel stand, attacking that's an attack. The shark went out and attacked somebody. The shark is in the ocean being a shark and there's a piece of meat floating around. It's on a guy's body, but it's the sharks being the shark. That's what sharks do. They eat meat that's in the ocean I'm more.

Leo:

I was reading an article in the way here that apparently they think because of the wildfires in la, there's like this crazy toxic algae bloom happening in the ocean outside of LA so you can't go swimming. It's like toxic water and all these like dolphins and seals are like washing up, like and that the lifeguards in the LA County beaches are taking like mental health days off because they're like it's affecting them. Wow, yeah, how many of these? And the sea lions when they attacks, when the algae goes into their system because they eat the fish that has the algae or whatever it does something with their brain it's almost like rabies and they go crazy, leo, and they start biting people. They're like zombie, crazy sea lions which, if you ever look at a sea lion's mouth, it's like a pit bull mouth. It has the teeth.

Leo:

So they're attacking, attacking they're either washing up dead or, when they wash up, they're like disoriented and they're aggressive, and they're like because their brains are like swollen, so they're like god, that is horrible it's like really speaking of eating meat.

Modi:

Speaking of eating meat? Oh, don't do that right here.

Periel:

No, um the lifeguards taking mental health days. Well, that's very LA, that's a lot.

Leo:

Could you imagine that conversation, hi? So like I'm not feeling the vibe today, that one dolphin really did it in for me. Gnarly vibes, weren't you a lifeguard for a minute? I was a lifeguard at a pool.

Periel:

Ari thought you were a lifeguard when he saw a picture of you in Fire Island in your Speedo.

Leo:

I'm not, not a lifeguard, yeah.

Modi:

So you were the lifeguard that had to go train the other lifeguards to see if they were paying attention.

Leo:

Yeah, so my supervisor would take me to other pools and he would have me like go down the water slide and then like not come up back up for air and like see how, and then he would time how long it took the other lifeguards to notice. Are you serious? I was like the decoy, yeah.

Periel:

I love the lifeguard outfits, I have to say, like I love the lifeguard bathing suits and I always want to get one before we go on vacation, but then I always get nervous that somebody might actually You're impersonating a lifeguard. No, but somebody might actually ask me to help them.

Leo:

Yeah, we can't have that.

Modi:

No, yeah, lifeguards, you have to be focused, you have to be. I couldn't do that. I can't. I wouldn't be paying attention to anybody doing anything. Everybody would drown, they'd all drown, okay, so they drowned One. A summer is okay.

Leo:

There's only one? No, I was. This is the thing about me being a lifeguard. I was vigilant, but I was also colorblind. So part of the lifeguard's job is to like do the pool chemicals and you have to like add the water until it turns the right color. I had no idea what was going on. I always had to offload that task to someone else no yeah, the whenever I was on duty, the chlorine levels were either through the roof or like not enough wait a second.

Periel:

Are you colorblind?

Leo:

yeah, I'm like a little colorblind and have you ever had to like test the ph of a pool? You have to like put those drops in until turn, whatever. I couldn't tell you because I don't know how colorblind are you?

Modi:

pretty colorblind moody can answer that. Yeah, when we did a pregnancy test he couldn't see if we um, no, he's colorblind, but so so the chlorine pool is uh that's really interesting.

Periel:

How have we never talked about that?

Modi:

I feel like we have, but he has ways, just like I have ways of not stuttering. He has ways of dealing with it that are amazing. He knows what things like the opposite, you know. He knows what like a blue to you and me to him is like a beige, and so he'll be like oh, that's a blue, not quite. But yeah, what Like?

Periel:

oh that's a blue, not quite but yeah, what colors can you see?

Leo:

I don't know, I see color. It's just different, like those colorblind tests where there's like those numbers hidden in the dots. I have no idea what's happening in there.

Periel:

Wow, yeah, did you always know you were colorblind, like when you were little?

Leo:

We found out when I was in kindergarten and my dad thought I was faking it for attention. I kindergarten and my dad thought I was faking it for attention. I don't know, but my teacher was like he doesn't know his colors. I was like um, but then I could read the crayons right, wow oh, figure it out, as long as they weren't like dragon's breath, like what color is that? I don't know, as long as it's just red or green so you began.

Periel:

So you could associate certain shades with what color they are like you learn how to do it.

Modi:

It's pretty incredible, it's pretty unbelievable.

Periel:

Now they say they have those glasses now that you can put on.

Leo:

I haven't tried those, you haven't tried those. I haven't tried them, order them. They're like okay, order them.

Periel:

They're expensive. I'm going to buy a $180,000 guard dog from Minnesota.

Leo:

We should order the glasses and I should try them on the show.

Modi:

Oh my God, yeah, where are they Amazon? I don't know, probably We'll find them. We'll find them. We'll find them. We'll do that when there's a baby and they put the glass in the baby and they're like oh, my God, the world.

Leo:

No, the ones that make me cry when the babies get the hearing implants in, yeah, and then they can like.

Periel:

They can hear their mom for the first time.

Leo:

That always gets me oh, moment, oh, we have a project to do.

Modi:

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Leo:

Why it was fun. We had fun. We always make sure everyone who's listening to us has fun. It's gonna be fun, it's gonna be itch.

Modi:

I just saw an interview of him. He let somebody in to the white house and the guy was chutzpah. The guy was chutzpah. I want to tell you he didn't. If you don't like trump, okay I don't like trump, but he was being chutzpah on the interview they're in the oval office. Trump didn't know who this guy was and, um, I know what you're talking about the guy was being a reporter, the guy, but in a chutzpah way and it is a way that the tattoos were photoshopped.

Modi:

But the way he said it, leo, do you remember when we first started? You have to deal, that's, you have to fight. Crazy, as you remember when you first, when you started dating, and I would do this thing, I go and you I go, what and you go, what, what, what, what, what, like chutzpah kids that go to their parents when their parents go. Why did you say what like that? You know I'm talking about that, that thing. So he was just saying let's just disagree and would try to move it on.

Modi:

Well, maybe no, he would tell trump those tattoos were print, shopped or whatever, it was Photoshopped and this and that. But he was saying it to him and moving it on. Say, mr President, those tattoos were print shopped, photoshopped, were Photoshopped, those tattoos were Photoshopped, okay, and then let him answer it. But he was being and Trump just dismissed him completely, which I fan or not fan, I'm just letting you know it was a crazy thing to watch. Anyway, everything by the time this airs God knows what we're going to be Crazy has changed in different shades since this airs, and thank you for being a part of our conversation. Our little hangout, our little behind the scenes of our lives and we hope we brought some laughs to yours.

Leo:

We have shows this airs in I don't know when this is going to air.

Modi:

I don't know when this is going to air. We have a lot of shows in Europe and all over America and places you can't even imagine. Go to modilivecom, m-o-d-i-l-i-v-ecom the merch is also there or mashiachenergycom for the merch and get some tickets. Never just buy for you and one friend, get some for other people. By the time the show gets there, you're going to want to have those tickets to give to your friends. That creates mashiach energy. When you get tickets for your friends and we'll see you at the shows, we Sheik Energy. When you get tickets for your friends and we'll see you at the shows, we'll see you here. Always send us voice messages, we'll play them again and thank you very much for being a part of our family.

Periel:

Bye.

Modi:

Bye.