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Episode 154: Mezuzahs, malfunctioning outfits, and mild spiritual panic. If your mezuzah falls off, is that a sign from God… or just bad adhesive?
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Welcome to. And here's Modi, c'est moi, c'est moi, c'est toi. Pope Vega. As you guys know, these are not in the correct order and recently the Pope has taken upon himself to name himself after my husband, leo Vega. I don't blame him. It's a great name, so easy. Who the hell can spell Francis? I'm a tzaddik, you're a tzaddik, you're absolutely a righteous person, and popes knew that and said I will name myself after Pope XMX, charlie XMX. What does he have? X-i-x-i-v.
Speaker 2:I did see Charlie XCX at Barclays Center. How was it? It was good. I didn't go. I didn't feel as old as I thought I was going to feel there, but there certainly were a good representation of the Gen Z's Fun to see what the kids are wearing, what they're doing, what were they wearing? Nothing, they were a little cracked out. It was basically like a giant rave. For those of you who don't know Charli XCX, listen to her critically acclaimed album Brat, which was released last summer. You've probably heard it if you have younger kids in the house, or me or a gay in your life, but it was great you really enjoy going to these concerts, right like.
Speaker 3:I see you posting every now and then these like amazing kind of videos I'm always like usually more raves.
Speaker 2:This was like a proper concert at Barclays Center, but because of her music it was basically just a giant rave. Got it okay. Morty did not come with me to say the least.
Speaker 3:Do you not enjoy this sort of thing?
Speaker 1:it's not a music. I know they had seats. It wasn't like you could move and dance and just catch a groove and all that. So I didn't want to stand there with a seat, in between seats and in between people, so I opted out.
Speaker 2:I will be trying to take you to Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1:I will be going to Lady Gaga.
Speaker 2:She's at MSG in August or September and Lorde yesterday, the pop star from New Zealand, as we've discussed on this show before, she is releasing her tour dates as well. You're going to be coming to concerts?
Speaker 1:I'll be coming. I love it. I love a concert. You have a concert With the right people Going, with Leo and our friends, and it's fun. Like I say, I'm the only guy that gets to live my 20s and currently my 30s over Right, and it's just so much fun because now we have money while while I'm doing it, so so the seats are good, the everything around it is good and it's fun and it's fun and it's fun.
Speaker 3:Um, so that was that you can't get me anywhere if it's not like in the first 10 rows, like I'm not leaving the house to go to any show, any concert, any game, like, unless I'm really close to whatever stage or court or whatever it is Well.
Speaker 2:I usually like to be in the general admission standing room, only pit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. I don't want to move around. Of course you do. You don't want to be locked in a little caged area. No, I want VIP comfortable seats. It's, it's.
Speaker 3:I want VIP comfortable seats. That's what I want, or I'm not going. I saw Dua.
Speaker 2:Lipa.
Speaker 3:Anti-Semite, anti-semite, boop, boop, boop, that's good.
Speaker 2:We should get an anti-Semite button. I did see her. This was before she made her alleged comments or whatever. I do still like her music. Sue me, uh, but I saw her from when we saw her at msg in one of the nice vip booths yeah like suites and it was fun when you have friends with you because you can like dance up there and they have food yeah, the vip booths are cute.
Speaker 3:Jewish listeners do not take that literally when Leo said sume.
Speaker 2:Yeah, please don't. I also might be seeing Beyonce in London in June.
Speaker 1:First I'm hearing of this.
Speaker 2:You were on the call yesterday with Michael Hoffman. No, I wasn't.
Speaker 3:Didn't you famously buy like 10 Beyonce seats?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I sold them at profit because I'm a what A businessman? Exactly, I kept them for myself, obviously.
Speaker 3:Yours wound up probably being nearly free. It's a brilliant move. I told you Should start doing that with his ticket. People do that. It's a brilliant move, I told you Should start doing that with his tickets.
Speaker 2:People do that. It's like a legitimate thing people do. They have software that goes through and buys all the tickets as soon as they go on the pre-sale and then they resell them for like three times as much.
Speaker 3:You're sitting next to a goldmine.
Speaker 2:People do that with your tickets too, by the way, I don't know why you're not doing that with his tickets.
Speaker 1:I know I really should. That's whenever my mom calls me when one of her friends buys something off after sailing. They call my mom like, do you know, his ticket's $450? And my mom calls me to tell me, in case I didn't know. I said, yeah, that's what it is and she's like, okay, I, yeah, that's what it is and she's like, okay, I didn't know if you know, but yeah, that's a market.
Speaker 3:I have a your mom, my mom story. Oh, let me hear. Okay, say something else and I'll pull it up.
Speaker 2:Say something else, say something else. We were in Winnipeg. We were in Winnipeg, eh.
Speaker 1:Eh, winnipeg, in case you're're wondering, is the middle of Eckwelt. It's in the middle of Canada. It's a schlep. It was a schlep because there's a connecting flight. You have to get there. It's gullus, it's really like the end of nowhere. But the show was amazing and the people were so wonderful and for the second time in my life I had arrived at a show without a suit.
Speaker 1:We've been preparing to go on the European tour, so I've been getting all my suits together and throwing out suits that we didn't want or giving away suits that I haven't been wearing anything. Anyway, somehow I packed Leo's suit, which does not fit you, and it's one that doesn't fit you either.
Speaker 2:It doesn't fit me barely.
Speaker 1:It's one of the first suits it's one of the first suits Leo ever got like when he was with me when I was thin and young so we get to before.
Speaker 1:I got all this ass we're in the green room in a convention center in Winnipeg. This room was a massive concrete box. It had about 800 people in it, so it's very like there was a lot of room around it. So you're working in like an echo chamber type of a thing, okay, which I'll talk about in a minute how important that was too. But they made it green for us, like in the conference room of the convention center, and I had my suit and I'm going through the material.
Speaker 1:We did an early sound check and we had time to waste and then, like you know, 15 minutes before I have to get up there, I I put my, I go open the suit up and then I put the pants on and they're not closing. I'm like, oh, these are not my pants, these are Leo's pants and it's happened to be a suit that we have, one that's his and mine. Oh my God, so they're not close. I'm like, oh my God, okay, well, luckily I wore slacks to the gig. So you know cause lately I've been doing the meet and greet and then doing the meet and greet in casual clothes. I've been wearing nicer casual clothes to the event, not just sweatpants and schmaltes and I go these are not my pants, these are Leo's pants. So I thought maybe I put the wrong pants with the right jacket and I was going to wear the pants I wore there, even though they didn't wear the same color.
Speaker 1:Then I put the jacket on and they're like on and that was even tighter than the pants and now we are like, oh my god, 15 minutes of the show. Luckily I had a cute like prada sweater with a white collar and I looked really cute and, um, it was great. But it was so weird not doing a show in a suit. The only other time that ever happened to me was when I went to pick up a car to get my to go to a show and I left the bag outside the car and drove to the show with no suit and I got there it was like a three hour drive to the gig and there's no suit. Then I performed in sweatpants and like a sweatshirt and how was that for you?
Speaker 3:It was amazing.
Speaker 2:Because you're a comedian. I mean like people are just like you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's the thing really. Really. You have a thing that you perform in a nice suit every show, but most comics are doing specials with stains on their sweaters. Fah Fah.
Speaker 1:No, that's not stain. Have some self-respect. It's not Louis CK. He has sweat stains under his breasts, but it's so. Him it's fine, but that's his brand. My brand is not that brand and so this was completely off brand. But we made it work and it was. It was fun, and we're Winnipeg. So, by the way you know, we're working on the current hour Pause for Laughter. And you want to make sure you have the words down and especially somebody who stutters and someone who's, like, dyslexic with words and thoughts, and to perform in a place where there's like this echo, you have to slow down so much because if you just do words on top of words, they can't hear anything you're saying interesting. So I literally went into like third gear from fifth gear and it was really good for an experience of that. You slowed down, I slowed down and I got. I did the same hour but in a different pace.
Speaker 3:And it took three hours.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. I left out a bit or two, but I did an hour and 10 minutes. They were amazing. They loved it. They were exhausted too. It's one of these events where it's not just a show, there's a whole evening before me Dinner and a movie and the programming and the speech.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a lot, but they were great and they were so happy that it was there. And Mayim Bialik was there the year before, she was in the team the year before and so that was just nice to connect and it's like a beautiful community that's in the middle of nowhere. Winnipeg Winnipeg it's like the middle of Canada super north, and we're looking around outside the hotel room and I'm like there's nothing, there's no human beings here.
Speaker 1:We finally like for a gig like that, you have to get there the day before. So we got there the day before.
Speaker 3:It's like really that, in the middle of nowhere in this, place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we got there and we're seeing nobody out there and the next day we're like, okay, we Google where's the gym. And then we couldn't find what the real good gym would be and I did something that Leo hates I asked the receptionist or the concierge to help us.
Speaker 3:Why does Leo hate that?
Speaker 2:Because there's Google, because you have a smartphone in your pocket that will tell you within three meters of where you need to be and also, half the time, they don't know where they are.
Speaker 3:That's more to the point.
Speaker 2:They just look at you like.
Speaker 1:She said. She said there's a gym underneath the concourse in the con. I don't Meanwhile the entire city is underground.
Speaker 2:They have tunnels underground because in the winter you can't walk around.
Speaker 1:So we went to the beneath the hotel. There was a concourse. You walked through, went in A full city. It was a full city underneath we found all the people, yeah, wow, yeah, and there's a gym. It's called Good Life. Good Life is like the New York sports of Canada. Okay, and there was a great gym. We went, the day passed, we spent like three hours in there and it was just wow. It was like we didn't even see that happening and that was the best thing for us. We don't want to see your museums. We don't want to see your oh, you know, the flight museum. No one cares. And we spent the day at the gym. Guy came back, took a nap and then went and did the show and it was crazy that that was there, a whole city underneath the city.
Speaker 3:That is insane.
Speaker 1:It was pretty crazy. I love that.
Speaker 3:The only thing you guys are looking for. It doesn't matter if you're in like Tokyo or Winnipeg, it's just like find me the gym.
Speaker 1:Listen, when we're in a nicer city I don't mean nicer, but like a city with more of a vibe to it we go and do things and we'll take an extra day and hang out. But in Winnipeg, do we? Take an extra day and hang out, yes, when we go to Berlin and we go to London. You love London, so we do London, but Paris and what are you doing?
Speaker 3:you're just walking around, taking in the sights. Yeah, you're still going to the gym.
Speaker 2:We're taking the credit card for a walk. She needs to get swiped every once in a while. Every once in a while, I'll be like I haven't swiped the credit card in a while. I'm going to go buy stuff I don't need, okay.
Speaker 3:I have a store for you guys in Paris. Yes, that is called Bully Universelle, and I'm not doing it in a pretentious French accent. This is a apothecary with the most gorgeous, stunning things for the bathroom mouthwash 50 in the most beautiful container.
Speaker 2:I'm just putting it out there, um, and I think they have one in berlin too okay, good to know free uh advertising speaking of berlin modi will be in berlin november 20th for the Jewish Cultural Festival in Berlin which you have heard.
Speaker 1:Jewish Cultural Festival. The Jewish Cultural Festival in Berlin. We're going to be there.
Speaker 2:November 20th, yes, and surrounding that date, I can't remember if we're going to be coming from Israel, or yeah, we're going to be coming from Israel. We're going to be doing probably three shows in Israel. None of this is like super confirmed yet, but I have holds on all the venues in Tel Aviv, jerusalem and Haifa. And then from Israel we're going to be going to Paris. Finally, we'll be returning to Paris, and then after Paris, berlin, I think, and then also in that leg is Vienna and Amsterdam.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 1:Here's where I'm proud of myself. You got the dates all wrong. It's Paris, berlin and then Israel.
Speaker 2:The dates don't exist to me until I have finalized contracts and ticket links and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:I see it, I write on a calendar, so I see it in my head, by the way, because that's how dyslexics function. I did a set at the Comedy Cellar and I was taught of new material about being dyslexic. And there were three people, I guess, there that were dyslexic also and I asked how did you guys get through college? And all three yelled at the same time. We cheated.
Speaker 3:Wow, we just cheated.
Speaker 1:That's how you get through college. There's no other way to get through college when you're dyslexic. But now I'm getting all of this dyslexic stuff on my Instagram because I guess my phone was in the room and it's pretty amazing that they know how the mind of a dyslexic person works. It's exactly the way I do comedy. I visualize the whole scenario. I'm basically describing a movie I'm seeing when I'm doing my comedy.
Speaker 3:What do you mean? Explain that a little bit.
Speaker 1:So if I'm talking about, if I'm talking about what's one of my, my, like um, trader joe's, trader joe's, I'm living through walking into trade. It's all a visual that I'm describing to you. Okay, it's not the words and I'm getting to the punch lines and it's memorized, it's I'm, I'm, I'm totally in the picture. I have the picture of the person I'm speaking to. I have the picture of the Trader Joe's, the bucket, the, the, the, but not the bucket though, the cart that they walk around with, and uh and um, and I was like, wow, that's really how I function. And when I look at a schedule, I can't look at that little schedule with the little things I I need to have it like all printed out in big, bold things, and my set list is exactly what a dyslexic person's set list looks like, and it's um.
Speaker 1:It was pretty crazy that, first of all, my phone just began set here. Well, speaking of, cheating through college.
Speaker 2:There's a huge article in like the atlantic or something about how chat GPT is just absolutely destroying the next generation of college grads. Yeah, and they were interviewing all these kids who were like freshmen, sophomore in college and they're just like I don't know how to write an essay, like I don't know how to sit and think of an outline and then think of what I want to say and then find the research to support it. They just talk to ChatGPT and some of them are literally just copy-pasting the prompts that they need to do and then they just take whatever they said. Yeah, whatever ChatGPT takes me, I barely even proofread it and I turn it in.
Speaker 3:Horrible.
Speaker 2:And then other people tried to be like, use it as more of like a tool. But like you can tell, like I mean I don't blame them if you have something they could do.
Speaker 2:I mean it's I don't think I'm the last generation of college grads, who I'm, the last generation people my age in general, I think were the last of a lot of things. We were the last generation to play outside then. Then, once we were like a little bit older, we kind of got the benefits of like a more um established internet, like an internet culture, like I got myspace and how old were you when you got a phone or a computer?
Speaker 2:I was in sixth grade when I got a phone, but or maybe seventh grade. No, sixth grade I was 60, but I played outside. Before that, kids didn't play outside. What?
Speaker 3:do you mean before that?
Speaker 2:I mean after that kids don't really play outside, they don't play with each other, they don't talk to each other. And then when I was in college we didn't have chat gpt. I mean, obviously there was ways of cheating when we were in college, you didn't have chat, GPT, I mean.
Speaker 3:obviously there was ways of cheating. When we were in college you didn't have computers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's crazy, but like now, when you think about like and every day chat, GPT is getting more and more powerful and it's like you don't really I think the education system is a bubble that is about to burst.
Speaker 3:I want to tell you that I think that there are fewer things that are more dangerous for children than handing them a smartphone.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, on different levels, like from safety levels to just like.
Speaker 3:But destroying I'm talking about Critical thinking skills any hope of giving them a sense of self and independence and an ability to problem solve and figure things out and experience the world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because that's half half of what of college is is like, maybe you don't do super well on the test or the assignment or the essay, but like you putting in the effort to like, at least get to a B or a C plus or even show up to class, like, and you had to do, you had to take notes in class, you had to do this, and that People now are going to class with these little devices that they just put on their desk. It records everything and then it spits it into notes for them, so they don't even have to take notes.
Speaker 3:I got a text message from my mother. Oh Well, not quite. Just saw Modi's latest episode, thought you answered the guilt issue with diplomacy. When do you have your private event? Both Bhatia and I agree that we find out more about what you're doing watching the podcast than talking to you. However, batya has three children and many grandchildren, while I only have one child and one grandchild. I always forget you're an only child.
Speaker 2:That makes so much sense. Really, I always forget you're an only child.
Speaker 3:That makes so much sense Really, beside, while White Lotus, you and Leo and Modi should watch Conclave.
Speaker 2:We have, we have, thank you very much.
Speaker 3:Thank you. So now my mother is talking to your mother.
Speaker 1:When, where?
Speaker 3:I don't know. I mean, and they are colluding when, where I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, and they are colluding. I'm noticing from the camera. We have to give him more of a beat before we pop in. I don't know what to say about that. I mean, it's something that needs to be said To both mothers. The podcast is actually not for you. It is a part of the. It's not for you, it's not for you, but it's for the business and for our viewers that we love that. Come to shows and people who want to turn their brains off for about an hour. That's what the podcast is for. I will say that you've sent us pictures of your construction of your house which.
Speaker 1:I guess is going to be an on-running thing until that's done, so we'll be here right till 2027 discussing this. Where were those pipes pulled out of the floor? Correct, and you didn't know? There were pipes right on the floor.
Speaker 3:No, I did know there were pipes in the floor. We're redoing the plumbing.
Speaker 1:Obviously.
Speaker 3:So yes, the house is on a concrete slab, remember so the piping is in the floor. The problem is is that the floor is now in the backyard, so there is no floor okay they're, they're laying down new pipes and you're, I sent you guys as you're describing this.
Speaker 2:I'm just thinking of the fact that there's full-on construction happening in our house in connecticut and I have no idea what's going on.
Speaker 1:No, we are. So Let me tell you how. Zero procrastination, which is something that one of the viewers asked us. Leo has zero procrastination. It's a gift. Yeah, it's called anxiety. That's why I think it's just zero procrastination. It's just how he's wired. We landed in LaGuardia, leo opens his mail and the contractor said hey, the tiles you chose aren't going to be available until mid-June. Here's two different options that could be. And this is like while the plane's deloading, deboarding, deloading, deboarding, deloading, deboarding, and people are getting their bags up and everybody's looking at and leo's like here are the two options, he said this I go and he picks and sends and done in that one moment I'm very decisive, yeah, and that's something that's happened in the last two years.
Speaker 3:I would say were you not decisive before? I wasn't?
Speaker 2:not not decisive, but I don't know. Just lately I've just been like yes, no and like no regrets I think that's confidence.
Speaker 1:I think that's confidence more than it is decisiveness. When you're confident in knowing that you do make correct decisions, I do make correct decisions yeah, look who I married. Exactly.
Speaker 3:Aww.
Speaker 1:I married the Pope Leo.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that popes pick their names.
Speaker 2:They pick their names. They're like drag queens.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 1:Popes are like drag queens. They're not, not drag queens, they're not, not drag queens.
Speaker 2:Do you see what those girls are wearing? Honey, those shoes, honey, those robes. Honey, I'm obsessed. I would in a second the smoke, the smoke theatrics. They just need to bust out with jazz hands and a dance number.
Speaker 3:They're busting out with other things.
Speaker 1:They just lock themselves in that room. Did we discuss this last?
Speaker 3:time. We have discussed popes before, but we can't do it again.
Speaker 1:I mean the Vatican is. I think the. I hope spiritual awareness and energy to move the world forward comes out of it, but it is what the people there are literally the world's largest fire island you have. Everybody is either like in their 60s or in their 20s. There's nothing almost in the middle. Everybody either it looks like Pope Francis or Pope Leo and the rest that are walking around. There are stunning people that look like Leo, like this beautiful haired boys and and young men and the guard. The guards are like stunning and they're each. Have you caught the size of them? They're huge. And then there's the old men walking around.
Speaker 2:Do you know? That was like my mom's biggest dream for me. You know, like some moms will be like you're going to be a doctor, you're going to be a lawyer no, no, no. My mom was like you're going to be a priest and you're going to go to seminary and you're going to, since I was a very young child, and look how that turned out well, you fulfilled part of that obligation no, instead I became a Jew have you no, I'm not, not a Jew.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're Jewish, I'm Jewish adjacent Wait the procrastination that was funny what I just said. About what.
Speaker 3:That you fulfilled half of that obligation. You became a Pope.
Speaker 1:You know, oh, my God.
Speaker 3:You just turned the Vatican into a drag club.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, they are the world's largest organized crime ring and the longest running organized crime organization in the world, and I don't care. You can quote me on that.
Speaker 3:I didn't want to say it, but that is.
Speaker 1:The theatrics of it all is Bless you, bless you. The fact that I sneezed means we shouldn't be talking about this.
Speaker 3:Can you just say what they sound like, what the popes and the priests Well, this new one sounds like he's from Chicago.
Speaker 1:I'll take a deep pan pizza, please. I'll take no, but he tried. He did a little bit of his Latin Domino Sicos, quesos, mitos, fritos, rotatos, cacapos and Tacos. He wasn't like the other. Usually you give an Italian guy, he has the Italian accent, he's been walking around the house like this for two days.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I was. If I watch Conclave, that's all I talk about. I talk like the Conclave. If I watch Conclave, that's all I talk about. I talk like the Conclave. If I watch the Crown, I talk about the Crown, I talk just like that.
Speaker 3:No, but the Priest is really good.
Speaker 1:The Priest are listen, there's a. It could be a moment in the world that things are changing. There's a young guy that speaks English and came from Chicago, and he could continue on in the legacy of the past Pope and be nice to people.
Speaker 3:Be nice to people, just be nice to people, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just be nice.
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Speaker 3:We got a question. Well, we got a few questions but, one of the questions that I thought was relevant for the Pope conversation is have you changed spiritually in the past 10 years?
Speaker 1:So I it's funny, that's a great question have you? Yeah, I became a Jew. Are you leaning into this? You becoming a Jew thing? I mean think about it.
Speaker 2:The other day we were in a. You know how much time I spend in schools and synagogues and rabbi's offices. He's really-. And every time we're in a rabbi's office, what am I doing? I'm pulling books off that shelf.
Speaker 1:We have had a few gigs in a row that were synagogue gigs, which I love. I love a synagogue gig. You go into this massive synagogue that seats 2,000 people and it's packed and it's never packed. And it's a Wednesday night or a Sunday night and it's not the it's never packed. And so it's a wednesday night or a sunday night and it's not the high holidays and they're in shock at how packed is. They haven't seen it like this and and the show's great, the sound's good and all that, but the green room is the rabbi's study. So we get there two, three hours before the show and then leo just had this opinion goes why am I in a rabbi's study? Why is this? Why is this happening right now? Why am I in a rabbi's study? It keeps happening.
Speaker 3:I feel like God is playing a joke on me that's funny.
Speaker 2:I was running away from the church too much and he was like alright, fine, but you're going to have to be in a synagogue instead yeah, and they all love him.
Speaker 1:we've had some great, but how have I changed spiritually?
Speaker 3:Other than becoming Jewish. Maybe you should become a rabbi.
Speaker 2:No, it's not for me. I feel like I've become a little bit more tolerant. Okay, oh, you don't seem to agree with that. You like to elaborate with?
Speaker 1:you, I'm with you. I'm dying to know where the nervous versus is. Going. To tolerant of what well?
Speaker 2:especially, I think, within judaism. I've realized that there's so many different flavors and sex and choosing your own adventures that, like not all of the preconceived notions and stereotypes, and maybe my own prejudices that I had against Jews, are applicable to everyone. Still some people, but not all of them.
Speaker 3:Do you agree with that?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Tolerance Whenever we do these events. When you do a Jewish event, don't forget this is all they have on the calendar for the year. So when you're going to do a show at the Beacon, when you do their gala, yeah. When you're going to do a show at the Beacon. You are on the date and there's around your date a thousand other shows happening.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:That night they woke up. Who's here today, modi? We're done. When you do a Jewish event, your poster is in the lobby for a year. You're literally, literally emails and at the end of every Saturday services and don't forget to get your tickets for the comedy night with Modi and all of that and so they're like living and breathing it and they're calling him non-stop about we're thinking of of rearranging the chair and we're gonna do that, and he's like what?
Speaker 2:this isn't nine months and so I had someone reach out to me two weeks ago for an event in september. I was like girl, I'd have, I don't even have airline tickets booked for three weeks from now, right. So?
Speaker 1:he, he'll turn to me. He goes they're so annoying, they're so annoying, but but now what? He's tolerant. Most of them are very nice, very, very nice, very sweet people.
Speaker 3:I can only say that, having been on a small fraction of these email chains that you're always so nice, so I don't know what's going on inside your head, but you seem you're doing a very good job, it's what I'm doing is, as I'm copy pasting the whole conversation I'm saying into chat gpt, this person is annoying the hell out of me.
Speaker 2:Please respond to this email in a professional, friendly way, enter and I clean it up a bit, and then everyone's a winner anyway, that sounds great.
Speaker 1:Thanks leo I saw Leo. I saw that question as well and the have you changed spiritually? I will tell you, I've had two in the past decade, but they've actually been in the past five years. First was COVID and realizing what Moshiach energy was. And then, october 7th, were both things that brought me to next spiritual understandings, I think more than change. Covid, moshiach Energy. When people came back out to the theaters and you saw them all laughing together, I'm like, oh, this is what Moshiach Energy is. And then obviously more on that, and then obviously more on that. And then, october 7th, the uniting of people. You saw that I'm doing show, for there's one or two complete idiots, but the rest are so sweet and so nice and so great. And that's where the I think change is coming. I don't know, don't you feel like the world's about to change for the good? You keep saying that.
Speaker 3:I sure hope so.
Speaker 3:I sure hope so. I sure hope so. I have changed spiritually in the past. I would say five years or 10 years or whatever, but I think five years probably. I think since I became closer to you, I also became much more open-minded about Jewish stuff. I remember you once said to me I was like, oh, I don't need mezuzahs and all that, I don't put those up. And you were like, well, you can if you want to, or you don't have to, but just so that you know that when you put a mezuzah up, it's just bringing good energy to every room that you put it up in. And then I started putting mezuzahs up because I started to every room that you put it up in. And then I started putting mezuzahs up because I started thinking about them differently than I had. And I agree that October 7th also made me feel like it's really important to speak up for the Jewish people and reclaim our Well, you were doing that for everything, for the Ukrainians, for whatever needed help.
Speaker 1:You were doing that. But the mezuzah, it's an antenna. Those letters are antennas. If you look at Jewish letters, they're antennas. They all end up with that little chupchuk on top Wow, and that's what draws in the energy of God. And what's written on there is that God is oneness, hashem Echad is oneness. It's not a guy up there, it's oneness, and you're bringing that into your room. I love that, and so that's what it is. On that note, we can tell everybody that we will be oneness with many people in Europe.
Speaker 3:No, this is probably going to air way after that in a few weeks in a few weeks.
Speaker 1:So um well, but no, still.
Speaker 2:So go to modi livecom for all of your show needs. But the europe dates might have started already by the time this, but I think we might still have some left. Um, but the ones that will be available are the summer laugh away camp series. Um, inspired by your favorite jewish tradition, sleep away camp. We've done modi's laugh away camp and that is going to take place in indianapolis, indiana, at the helium comedy club, columbus, ohio. That's on june 23rd, then june 24th, columbus, ohio. At the funny bone, hampton bays, new york, we added a matinee show on august 10th, so we're doing two shows. On august 10th in hampton bays, the eight o'clock show is sold out. The 4 pm show we just put on sale, so there are tickets available for that. Then we go to omaha, nebraska, which I've never been to, and I hope there's jews there. Uh, august 13th at the funny bone comedy club and kansas city, missouri, who our agent has been trying to get us there for some reason for a long time. I'm not holding my breath if you're from kansas city.
Speaker 2:Prove me wrong, that's on august 14th and then after that, like we mentioned, the other date that's currently live and you can register is the November 20th show in Berlin and there's more coming, like I said, all those other November dates, including Paris, amsterdam, vienna those will all be coming soon at the end of the day, everything's available on modilivecom.
Speaker 1:Also, the Modi merch Mashiach Energy merch is on sale. Get it. We're not making crazy money on this stuff, but people wearing it, people seeing other people wearing it and discussing what does that mean? Mashiach Energy we saw people wearing it on the Walk of the Living. Oh, I love that. In Auschwitz, in Auschwitz, In Auschwitz, the Walk of the Living, they had that and that made me so, so happy and you listening and you writing in to us and you being a part of the podcast and here's Modi. We thank you so much. And that's it, moshiach Ha'an. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3:Bye, bye.