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AND HERE’S MODI is an inside look at the man behind the microphone. Hosted by comedian, Modi (@modi_live), AHM features a raw and unfiltered side of the comedian rarely seen on stage. He always finds the funny as he navigates the worlds of comedy, trending topics, his personal life and spirituality. AHM is co-hosted by Periel Aschenbrand (@perielaschenbrand) and Leo Veiga (@leo_veiga_).
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Natural Hair, Private Gigs and Fake Assistants
Episode 155: Modi and Leo stage a hair-intervention for Periel. They discuss bad habits, ghosts, the history of the Comedy Cellar and the benefits of a fake assistant.
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Welcome to Andy's Moding. We are recording. I am seeing myself in the video and I'm liking what I'm seeing. My hair is good, my hair is good, your hair is good. I'm enjoying that.
Speaker 2:My hair is not good. I'm having problems with my blonde.
Speaker 1:Really yeah, your blindness is giving you trouble.
Speaker 2:I'm having a lot of problems. It's not easy to bleach out your hair. I have dark hair and I like to do a big, really platinum blonde poof in the front and the problem is that it breaks off.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know how you have the patience to do that all the time. I've dyed my hair twice and I was like is this what women have to do? All the time my butt hurts from sitting in this chair.
Speaker 2:So you're supposed to go every six weeks.
Speaker 3:That's too much.
Speaker 2:Which is why I'm having problems and my Japanese hairstylist basically fired me because I was like there is no way. I'm coming once every six weeks, who has time for that? And then I went to someone else and he was like no problem, I do it.
Speaker 3:Can we discuss maybe like a more natural dark hair color? Yes, we can like, like a rich dark brown like my natural color, yeah you have a good natural color, but like enhanced all right, let's get into it.
Speaker 2:You have a good natural color, but like enhanced.
Speaker 3:All right, let's get into it.
Speaker 2:You have a great natural color.
Speaker 1:It's not your roots aren't white, so you're not graying out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, your natural hair color is nice yeah, and if you can add some sort of like a little yum, yum, a little like, look at this what are you?
Speaker 1:where are you? What are you holding on to that you're doing?
Speaker 3:this job. You look like you just discovered electricity. Holding on to that, you're doing this.
Speaker 2:You look like you just discovered electricity. Yeah, it feels so conservative otherwise lead into a little conservative.
Speaker 1:You come from an upper well upper wealthy class. Whatever your husband does, well, you're buying a new house, reconstructing. You, have a beautiful child in an expensive school yeah, pull it together what are you doing with this?
Speaker 3:where and you dress. The way you dress is is like cute and chic and like fun, and I feel like you don't. I I'm not saying I don't like your hair.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying like so enough already with this, with this, with this, I'm just saying like maybe try it.
Speaker 3:Maybe like try when next time you go get it dyed just don't get it dyed, no, no, just dye it back to like where the normal resting baseline is your regular thing isn't that boring isn't this like a little?
Speaker 2:bit like. It makes me feel like a little bit punk rock, like a little bit you're holding. You live in westchester I do not live in Westchester, unless you live in Connecticut. I live in New York City, I do not live in Connecticut.
Speaker 3:So don't threaten us with that Once. This and my aesthetic says Connecticut.
Speaker 1:And, by the way, once those bathrooms are finished, leo will never be you will never see me again. It's goodbye.
Speaker 3:Enjoy these episodes where I'm here, because unless you build me a studio in the basement of the house, I'm not coming back yeah, so don't threaten don't say that, don't say that, and it's true like what are you?
Speaker 1:you know what it's like. It's like those guys that hold on to their leather jacket that they peaked. It's where they peaked. They wear what they wear when they peaked and they keep wearing it. Because that was that's me, because you're saying you she peaked and no, but, but I'm saying so just let that go, you had a great run with his hair. I'm not saying never bring it back.
Speaker 3:I'm open.
Speaker 2:I'm open, I'm leaning in to the concept of okay, so in make this darker, no whatever your natural color is, this is my natural color, so leave your natural color.
Speaker 1:That blonde thing is not natural.
Speaker 3:I'm not gay enough to know, like this is my natural color, so leave your natural color. That blonde thing is not natural. I'm not gay enough to know the lowlights, highlights, difference, but your natural color, but then with some sort of zhuzh in there.
Speaker 2:Really you have to sound so Upper East Side-y.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's what you are. Oh my God, but that's what you are.
Speaker 3:This is an intervention.
Speaker 1:This is an intervention with your hair. I this is. I'm very happy where this episode's going. I didn't want to be. I didn't want people to be like, why are you picking on Perrielle? But we're not picking on you, we're letting you know. First of all, when you come at people with the hair you have now, they're like oh wow, this is happening now.
Speaker 3:Now I have to deal with this person.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's a defense mechanism. I think it's an announcement.
Speaker 1:That, what? That you're unhinged? No, yes.
Speaker 2:No, I think that, like it articulates a part of my personality that makes it very clear that I'm not that girl.
Speaker 3:That's how I feel when I have my hair shaved very short, when I have a buzz cut like the skin fade buzz cut, and you say I look like a skinhead, I feel like that's a more accurate representation of who you're about to deal with.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 3:But, that being said, I listen to the people around me who love and care about me and thus my hair. Look at this. Look at this Killing. Look at this. That is killing. Look at this, oh.
Speaker 2:First of all, yes, you have gorgeous hair by the way I'm getting grazed.
Speaker 1:I'm not a psychiatrist, but you have deflected or diverted or whatever the word you're using. We're back to you. His hair is fine.
Speaker 2:He just said exactly how. I feel, though, that it aren't. By the way, I loved your shaved head that was bleached blonde, I thought it was so cool.
Speaker 3:Could you not? It's giving Jake Gyllenhaal in that movie, Jarhead.
Speaker 2:There's something really cool about it. Like everybody has like blind brown hair, it's like I feel like it represents my personality a little bit more.
Speaker 1:Your personality has evolved since then, has it? I think it has. Yes, you're more. Maybe, after you die here at Back to Normal we can get you a tattoo. See, I would love that, just like a little peek, but I'm just saying, you know, I'm just saying try to not have that bleached part of the hair. It'll change.
Speaker 3:Alright, let's pose it to the audience, audience members, let's do a poll. We'll chop this up and put it on the AHM underscore podcast Instagram page, or you can leave us a voice memo at the little link that's in the description of the bio. You can record us a little voice note. What do you think of periel's hair?
Speaker 1:be nice or what do you know?
Speaker 2:don't be nice be what you think back, not honest feedback but just be prepared if you're not nice, I'm also gonna not be nice yeah bleach out to this whole thing, bleach out for those people who are listening and not watching.
Speaker 3:Also it's so expensive, right it's?
Speaker 1:so it's not expensive, it's no, it's like.
Speaker 3:You need to take that money and get tattoos and put it in the floors of your house.
Speaker 2:Period- All right, I hope Guy Guy doesn't listen to this episode.
Speaker 1:He'd be so happy. Just do it for him. If anybody Just do it for him, he doesn't care, he doesn't.
Speaker 2:if you ask him, he probably wouldn't even know what color my hair is.
Speaker 1:He knows. That's not true. He knows, he knows, he knows. I don't think he does, he does, he does. Try it Like, let it go, try something else, just go for it. Get a tattoo, a tattoo. Leave it alone for a minute. But your hair we're discussing your hair Okay, fine, and I think you should let that blonde thing go. Try letting it go.
Speaker 2:So let this grow out.
Speaker 1:Whatever you do to get rid of it, just go back to your natural color. Look at this up front here.
Speaker 3:You're such a beautiful brown rich color, all right, we're gonna. We're gonna see this through to the end.
Speaker 2:We might go to the um, maybe we should do content where we go with you to the hair. Yeah, we might have to pick a hair salon. I asked dina, by the way, because I was modi's best friend, dina. I was like dina, your hair always looks so nice.
Speaker 2:Okay, that will cost what one of your bathrooms cost dina, your hair always looks so nice and she was like oh well, the first thing is it starts with a cut, and then I was like, oh, okay, sure, where do you get your hair cut? She's like, well, not in the back room of some salon in the east village that's for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's but it's worth it $1600 but the rest of your hair, that that's your natural color, right? So you're not graying out yet. So enjoy that, my God. Enjoy that I'm graying out?
Speaker 3:Did no one hear me when I say I'm graying out?
Speaker 1:No, we just glossed over it. He had one gray hair. He's falling apart. I think I'm going to look hot with salt and pepper hair. I think so too.
Speaker 2:I? I'm kind of like salty pepperino. Do you, does anybody do you dye your hair like my gays dye their beards?
Speaker 1:I never heard about that. People do that, people do that. Why really?
Speaker 2:a beard changes colors yeah, I couldn't figure out. I was like Nisim, you look so different, I was like oh, your beard is like jet black.
Speaker 3:This episode is brought to you by.
Speaker 1:Just For Men, wait a minute, so just so, okay, regarding dyeing your beard, you cannot go jet black. You can't go crazy. There's ways to do it. Where it's like you're still natural, like there's still white hairs in there, it's yes, you need to like.
Speaker 2:Dye it right, you, it's yes, you need to like dye it right, you can't dye it bad. I think salt and pepper is sexy, though I like salt and pepper yeah, um I I like it when.
Speaker 1:I'm super happy that we got to a point where you're gonna let this blonde thing go.
Speaker 2:I'll consider it does that mean I love this journey for you will I also be able to get a tattoo at some point, then We'll discuss that after You'll go with me, I'll go with you Once you dye your hair.
Speaker 3:then we'll decide what to write.
Speaker 2:I thought I can just leave it. Now I have to dye it.
Speaker 3:No, dye it back to normal. Can I just let it grow out?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:No, it's just too long.
Speaker 2:All right, let's move on. Speaking of aging and time moving, I spent about five hours locked in an attic the other day because I was doing a favor for a very dear friend, are you doing a favor for Anne Frank?
Speaker 3:You were finishing her walls. I hope you were finishing her book for her.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, I was doing a favor for a very dear friend and also, I feel like, for the world at large, which I was going through and organizing and archiving for the past 30 years of video, cassette, vhs tapes from the comedy cellar and it was amazing, even though I was sweating and covered in dust and it was disgusting, but I found so many tapes of yours with your name on it. It was so fun and exciting and, like all of these people who are so successful now, that's such a gargantuan task, wow, digitizing all that stuff.
Speaker 3:How do you not have help? There's a company who will do it for you.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not. Yeah, I'm preparing it.
Speaker 3:No, like you ship it off to them and they'll do it. Yeah, that's what's happening.
Speaker 2:I'm preparing it for that, because it's so hard to do? I don't think he really trusts anybody else to touch them? To be honest, billy Burr, greg Giraldo, patrice O'Neill, louis CK Modi, bobby Kelly, jim Norton, dave Attell, colin Quinn.
Speaker 1:On the same show. Yes On the same show, absolutely yes on the same show Like January 24th 1998, right, and it was just all hit and the show began at nine, that's six, and ended at um, and ended at uh, at two yeah, I mean, I'm telling you stay. The whole time people came in and out, it was, um, it wasn't like it is now. Back then you had people coming in off the street, they had a barker and they had well, I think by that what's, what's the what's the date on that, this one?
Speaker 1:is 8 1901 so that was already. It was kind of more of a show where people were coming in, but but before there was a guy that barked off the street and people came in and they walked in and they said no drink limit minimum or anything and they, they just would watch the show and then they would. The show would be amazing. You had Louis CK. There's no drink minimum. You could stay the whole time. Yeah, it would go for hours and they wanted to make sure it wasn't empty.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like the way it is now there were nights where there were five people in the audience and the wait staff was sitting because there was nothing to do.
Speaker 2:That's what I've heard that there were nights where the wait staff had to sit in the club because there was nobody there and they didn't want the comics performing for nobody.
Speaker 3:It's so crazy how they've turned it into such an institution.
Speaker 1:It really shows you that. And let me tell you the main reason. I'll tell you the main reason of the success. I'm sure Norm has another version of of it, but the way, the success of the comedy seller and the reason that it is so successful in such an institution, in such a mashiach energy of comedy, is because manny norm's father and norm and everybody that was involved there was so nice to the comedians. They they always had a table, they always had the privacy, they could always try things out and they could always before everybody had a phone and all that. But they were just nice to the comedians and the comedians remembered that. So when they did blow up, they came back and they plugged it and they always talked about it on the Tonight Show or whatever show they were on at the Comedy Cellar.
Speaker 1:This week I'm in the Comedy Cellar and it's when you Google top ten things to do in New York City. Comedy Cellar is right there, and it should be. It is such an amazing night of fun to go with your friends and you don't know what's going to happen. But whatever is going to happen is going to be fun and amazing. You might have joey seinfeld walking in, but if you don't, the five people that are on are going to be amazing. Yeah, otherwise they wouldn't be on, and so. So that's the reason it blew up so much, because they were so nice to the comedians. Above the comedy cellars, you know, is the, is the olive tree, the restaurant, and there's a comics table. And any other restaurant in the world if the place is packed, they take the comics to get off so they can see people. They never, they never did they, they, they, they, they just left that table for us and it was just an amazing it's still back there.
Speaker 1:It's comics only right yeah and leo, but, but, but, but, uh, but now, um, then I'm assuming I don't know I'm not doing their, but I'm assuming they're making their money on the comedy night, not the restaurant. But back then the restaurant was an income.
Speaker 2:I'm not doing their taxes either. But that was how Noam and I actually became friends, because I was interviewing him for this column that I was writing for tablet magazine, which I interviewed you for to like a million years ago, but at the same time the New Yorker was writing a big piece about the comics table. Remember that, yeah, and Noam was pissed because they like misquoted a bunch of stuff and I was like you have my word that, like I will tell, like the real story, and that was how we became friends is funny.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So that was really fun, and I can only imagine what is on those tapes and how incredible it is.
Speaker 1:I promise you, it is nothing that we used words and we used references to people that you cannot do today. When Leo watches archives of my stuff, I could see like that, and and so yeah.
Speaker 2:But you can say that about. I mean, there are, like you know, classic books that they say that about oh my God, it's like that's what it was like then, you know. I mean, you can't judge back then by today's standards it was different okay, yeah, but modi's no huckleberry fan okay yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 1:I didn't have a leo in my life telling me that's not how you phrase, that, that's not how they are referred to and that's not there okay okay I did a private gig last night at a.
Speaker 2:I've done a couple of those recently and they're so much fun. It was um. I did one at a synagogue last week what synagogue? Um one on the upper west side, and it was a sofim event. Oh, so they wanted me to do it, because describe what?
Speaker 1:sofim event oh.
Speaker 1:So they wanted me to do it because Describe what Tsofim is. Tsofim is the Israeli scouts in Israel. In Israel they still have it. I think in another episode we talk about the kids don't go out anymore. But in Israel you have the Israeli scouts and it's like the boy scouts, the girl scouts here, but Israel it's like it's not a dweeby thing, it's like a fun thing and everybody's in it, everybody goes for it and everybody does and it's a part of life and so you did an event for them and you go out into like the wilderness and you learn how to like be like tough.
Speaker 2:Right, it's a theme.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they wanted me to do it because the crowd was half Israeli, half American, so they needed somebody who also spoke English and Hebrew because they weren't really sure, like I had to be able to go like back and forth between English and Hebrew, depending on where they're going to be people there that didn't speak English. You know all of that. But I've also been fetishizing that Sofim outfit, which is kind of like a Boy Scout outfit, for like the past 10 years and first of all herding like hundreds of Jews and Israelis into seating. I tried to.
Speaker 3:It was really Welcome to our life at Shams I know, I thought, believe me.
Speaker 2:that was the first thing I thought about, Can I?
Speaker 1:tell you my Tsofim story, please. So, okay, we grew up in an area called Kiryat Krenitsi, okay, which is right outside of Tel Aviv, it's like the sub, it's like the great neck of Tel Aviv, and I left at seven but I came back. I used to go back a lot and my cousins, my cousins that lived there, ron and Nadia, and all of that Ron and Nadia and all of that were in the Tafim and I was always so jealous, but whenever they went to something I would go with them. So in one of the summers, in the summer, they do these things called with the Bustan, with the bamboo, bamboo, bamboos. They take bamboos, okay, and they make holes in them and you put like a wire and you build like a house or a hut.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So and the parents help and the kids do it and you build it and it's fun, it's such an activity and everybody's hanging in the neighborhood and like parents will bring food and this and that. And Ron's father brought something that was on another level of this, brought something that was on another level of this, because when you made the holes in the bustan, in the bamboo, it was this handheld drill that you held and you did like this, okay, you did like a churning and you made the hole.
Speaker 1:And this is you talking about 1983, 4, 5, 6. And Ron's father came with a, a drill, okay, and back then it wasn't like there wasn't home, home, depot and home, so there was one drill and I had the drill and everybody would come to me, to me. I remember that so clearly that there was one drill, I had it. Everybody came to me and they met me and it was just, it was so much fun, it was so, and we were out there till all hours of the night and we were there in the morning and it was just so great, there was such a fun thing. And that was my only Sofim experience.
Speaker 2:And you. It's amazing, though, right, it's like so exciting and so cool and those outfits are incredible. It's like a cool like Boy Scout-y outfit.
Speaker 1:Like the Atta outfit. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, they were so sweet. The show was really.
Speaker 1:It was fun, it was funny, whatever, but at the end they made me an honorary member of the Zofiem, so they came up and they gave me a shirt and, like the little bandana, the green bandana that you tie, I had such a cute one. Yeah, oh, it was so good.
Speaker 2:And then I told my son I was like maybe you should join the Zofiem, and he goes well.
Speaker 3:I don't want to sell cookies. The scouts, that's so funny. What was the other one you did?
Speaker 2:I did a baby shower last night. A baby shower. Yeah, how'd that go? It was great, it was so funny. I was like trying to like think I actually almost called you, but then I figured it out. I feel like you do these like and there weren't them. I mean, there were maybe like a hundred people. I feel like going up and just like doing material is like it's not not, it doesn't like really work in these like intimate events, and so like I basically took their story, I spoke to them yes and the men and the women were there.
Speaker 2:So like I was like, oh, are there any dads here? And I was like, don't worry, you guys don't do anything anyway. Um, so it was funny, like I got to do that, but I sort of like told their, retold their story, but just like as comedy, just like with like a lot of like really funny.
Speaker 3:Um how are these people finding you?
Speaker 2:I've. They've seen me in shows. They see me.
Speaker 1:I don't know work, work begets work. I work. People see you and they and they and they hire you and they just like yeah, do you have a fake assistant on your email no, you're looking at her do you sign it, periel?
Speaker 3:uh, huh you should make a new account that says like assistant at Periel ashenbrandcom but now everybody who's listening to this is going to know it's fake.
Speaker 1:I'll remove this. No, don't remove it, but let's find the name for your assistant. Okay, find the name for your assistant. So that'd be a guy. Taylor, taylor, oh, taylor's like non binary.
Speaker 2:It could be either guy or girl Should I do Taylor? They them.
Speaker 1:Yes, taylor, they them at Periel Ashenbrandcom.
Speaker 3:Periel's, not binary.
Speaker 1:Perielcom. I like it.
Speaker 3:I like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have to have like a fake assistant and that's great. Keep doing those. Those gigs are fun.
Speaker 2:Listen, I really I love doing private gigs. I really do and I'm good at them and like I don't have to schlep all over the world so I don't have to leave Ari and it's really, it's great, and I haven't after October 7th. I really wasn't doing it a lot.
Speaker 1:We had a private gig. I can't mention, can I, the football no.
Speaker 3:Okay, skip it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:We performed at an event Okay, and the owner of a team was there. Okay, we performed at an event Okay, and the owner of a team was there.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And he owns the.
Speaker 3:Definitely don't say the name of the team.
Speaker 1:Oh, but the whole joke is the name of the team.
Speaker 3:Oh, so let's skip it.
Speaker 1:Okay, so cut that out, all right. Okay, never mind Private events. Private events.
Speaker 2:Private events.
Speaker 1:The one thing I can tell you about private events make it personalized as much as you can.
Speaker 2:So that was a good idea. Like you support that to like Everything.
Speaker 1:The house. I remember one private event I did on Fifth Avenue in an apartment that was the entire size of the block and I'm standing in the middle of the living room and everybody was telling me oh, he's a big art collector, he's a da-da-da, gregosian is his friend and da-da-da-da-da-da, oh wow.
Speaker 1:And all of this kind of stuff and the art that was on the walls looked like dreck, looked like dreck. It looked like anything I could have done in our basement. And one of my jokes was and, of course, murray or Harry or Billy, whatever the guy's name was is a big art collector and as much as he loves art, he's still displaying things that his kids are doing in high school.
Speaker 1:Or junior high school and the whole place cracked up because I'm talking, we're talking about something the size of like this curtain, but like splashes of red and black, and it's hanging there and I'm like are you kidding me?
Speaker 1:it was like, first of all I remember the gig and behind me was this massive window and it was right above the trees of, uh, central park and you see the trees. It's like my background was the trees of Central Park and you see the trees. It's like my background was the trees, with a little bit of a breeze, of Central Park. And I'm in the middle of this gig and it's just so crazy. Private gigs are just crazy.
Speaker 2:They're fun.
Speaker 1:And they pay well and they pay well. You could just throw a price out and if they say no, say okay, no, I don't need this isn't a career move gig. But if you're taking it full heart, 100% Full heart, put your full heart into it 100% yeah, 100% yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, we have some fan questions. Give it to me what is your worst habit?
Speaker 1:Hab questions. Give it to me, what is your worst habit, habit, my worst habit.
Speaker 2:You want me to go first?
Speaker 1:Go ahead Smoking. What is it? I know you Smoking, you smoke still.
Speaker 2:No, I don't anymore.
Speaker 1:It's not a habit you have anymore.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm like an alcoholic who's in recovery. I consider myself. I'm a smoker who doesn't smoke. I could fall off at any moment.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Modi what's my worst habit? Wow, what's your worst habit?
Speaker 2:Don't fall into the trap of answering that question.
Speaker 1:You don't have any bad habits. No, I want to hear Sunshine, you're one big race. I want to hear I don't know. The question is what is yours? It doesn't say what is your. Okay, so I switched it up on you I don't.
Speaker 3:I don't know what your worst habit is. I have one in mind for you, but I won't say it because you didn't say mine.
Speaker 1:I know mine. What's yours, it's procrastination.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:Nope.
Speaker 1:What is it? I can't say it. I guess I don't know, don't say it, we'll never know, we'll never know.
Speaker 3:Dm me, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2:Is that your worst habit Procrastination.
Speaker 3:You're really not that bad at procrastinating. You get everything done eventually.
Speaker 1:I do, but it sits on the top of my head. I procrastinate too. No, you don't.
Speaker 2:Absolutely not. I just want to tell you, do you know how fast my husband would jump on the opportunity if somebody asked him what's Perrielle's worst habit? He would be there with a list.
Speaker 3:He's like. Well, I've been keeping a list on my phone for this exact purpose.
Speaker 1:I really don't have a worst habit. It's not a habit. Things happen once in a while, but there's no.
Speaker 2:I know both of your worst habits.
Speaker 3:Let's hear it the.
Speaker 2:Celsius thing that you guys drink.
Speaker 3:Okay, hear me out. First of all, it's full of vitamins. Full of vitamins, it has nutritional content in it.
Speaker 2:It does.
Speaker 3:It's only 10 calories, there's no sugar, or barely I don't think there's barely any sugar in it. And if the trade-off means that I am exhausted, okay, and then I need. I need to go to the gym and work out, and the only way that I'm going to get that workout in is by consuming said celsius. It's a wash, and I'm speed. No, it's not, it's just caffeine, it's just so what's the difference between me, you chugging coffees?
Speaker 2:all day or something also. Not not great for you?
Speaker 3:whatever, I don't feel like it's that bad. If my worst vice is the celsius I have, maybe not even every day that should be the worst thing we have.
Speaker 1:I thought, thought you consume multiple a day. No, you can't. You cannot do that. That's physically impossible. Oh, that's okay Then.
Speaker 2:I take that back, then I retract your worst habit.
Speaker 1:And you. It's also like it has. It's so layered, like if I do it before a show, that means I need to make sure I have a good sleeping pill afterwards.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be vamped up.
Speaker 1:That's probably our worst habit With the sleeping pills. Yeah, we are weaning off of.
Speaker 3:We Speak for yourself, honey. Our favorite text message is your Alprazolam is ready.
Speaker 2:Do you guys take sleeping pills?
Speaker 3:We've discussed this. We don't need to talk about it again.
Speaker 2:Okay, what's your worst habit, leo?
Speaker 3:She just asked you a question, I know, but I want you to answer it for me. I don't know your worst habit. I pick my skin a lot, do you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so do you. Where do you pick your skin On my face? No, you moisturize and you have masks and things that take up no, but I squeeze.
Speaker 3:I see a little blackhead. I get like to get in there and squeeze that's maybe, maybe too much like then it bleeds a little bit and it gets a little scab. Shouldn't have done that. I bite, I bite my nails sometimes. No, you don't, I bite my nails all the time. I bit them yesterday, you just didn't see me doing it.
Speaker 2:There's a name for that.
Speaker 1:His nails are not like down to the core.
Speaker 2:No, I know.
Speaker 1:We were in some Uber and some guy was the driver. The driver was an attractive guy and then I saw his hands and he eats his nail. There was nothing. There was no nail. There was no nail.
Speaker 3:I'm like oh my God, yeah, no, mine are not like that, that's not like that at all.
Speaker 2:What are some?
Speaker 3:other bad habits I have.
Speaker 2:You don't have any honey.
Speaker 1:I don't.
Speaker 2:It's an anxiety disorder.
Speaker 1:Is that what that is? Of course, yeah, it's crazy, but thank God we don't smoke, drink or gamble. Those are the three big ones that I'm so happy with. That's not in our head.
Speaker 2:So you don't have any bad habits.
Speaker 1:I have crazy bad habits, you crazy.
Speaker 2:The best thing you came up with was that you procrastinate a little bit sometimes If you want to start bad habits.
Speaker 1:I will leave a knife. In the morning I have lemon juice from a lemon, so I cut and I leave the knife there. This big knife drives me crazy on the counter, but I've been getting good. I've been putting it away.
Speaker 2:I don't think any of us have bad habits, unless they drive the person we live with crazy no, that's not true.
Speaker 3:You can have a bad habit that only you know about. Yeah, okay, yes, that's true, but in like a closet binge habit that only you know about yeah, okay, yes, that's true Like a closet binge eater, ew.
Speaker 2:God, people do that, or like you're a hoarder, oh no.
Speaker 1:That's not a habit. Everybody sees that. That's a habit too, but we've been very good at throwing things away.
Speaker 2:No, that's a mental disorder. That's a mental disease. Okay, I don't know. I'm starting to think like maybe I'm perfect. That's a mental disease. Okay, I don't know. I'm starting to think like maybe I'm perfect.
Speaker 3:That's one thing I will never be. I will never be a hoarder. I love throwing things away. I hate clutter.
Speaker 2:Me too, me too.
Speaker 3:I hate clutter. Have you ever seen the picture of Kim Kardashian's house?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Where it's like there's nothing. It's just like sterile it looks. It's just like sterile. It looks like an insane asylum. I love it. It's so calming. Those of you don't know google kim kardashian's house.
Speaker 2:It's beautiful. You have the same thing that I have, I think, because like it's so hectic in my brain that like I need everything to be like color-coded and organized and just very calm on the outside.
Speaker 1:And inside the chagas.
Speaker 3:I'd say a good habit I have, let's switch it. Good habit.
Speaker 1:Good habit, there we go. Good habits, here we go.
Speaker 3:I have a rule that's like if I'm walking around the house and I see something needs to get done like there's a dish in the sink or the garbage needs to go out or whatever I do it immediately. If it takes less than like five minutes to do, I just do it immediately and then go on with my day.
Speaker 2:That is a very good habit.
Speaker 1:Leo needs tasks.
Speaker 3:If I'm walking by and I see something that he's done and it's not like a huge thing and it's just going to Do. You keep lists, thinking about it takes up more effort than actually just doing it.
Speaker 1:I have lists, you have lists, and once I do the list it's a do you check off your?
Speaker 2:it's like.
Speaker 1:I did it.
Speaker 3:sometimes I'll sit down and I'll make a list and I'll include things that I've already done the day before so you can get a jump start with the checks, because you're like, oh, look at me, go, what's your good habit?
Speaker 2:I make lists.
Speaker 1:You make lists.
Speaker 2:I try to go out of my way to be nice to somebody, to pay attention, to do a nice thing every day.
Speaker 1:That's Moshiach energy. That's very nice.
Speaker 2:I do credit you guys for that.
Speaker 1:Just tell somebody oh, I love your smile. It's that simple. It's just that simple. It's just that simple. Are there any other questions? Yeah, what else did the fans want to hear?
Speaker 2:They want to hear. We got a couple of questions about this, oddly enough, about reincarnation oh, we've spoken about this. No, yeah, We've spoken about it briefly.
Speaker 3:We're on our last incarnation, that's for sure that's what we've decided so not coming back how many are there?
Speaker 1:as many as people need to go through to get it right. So we're hoping that this is the last one. Yeah, we're in the jewish belief that it is this you. There is a world to come which is available to everybody, as long as you get done what you have in this world now. Whatever you have to do in this world, get it done.
Speaker 2:Okay, in five minutes or less.
Speaker 1:No, just get it done. No, sometimes people do it in 18 years, sometimes people do it in 88 years or 94 years. You have to get it done. Years or 94 years, you have to get it done. And every day you wake up, god gives your soul back to you and it's because he believes there's something you can do to get you into the world to come.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, a hundred percent. That's the first two prayers that we say up front in the morning it is that's Mudani, and so the goal is to be finished. That we say up front in the morning it is Modani, that's Modani, yeah. And so the goal is to be finished with all you have to do here. Get along with your mother-in-law, get along with your husband, so you don't have to come back in a reincarnation and re-deal with these people. So I am completing this journey and going to the world to come. I have no plans on coming back here and taking the SATs again and having hair transplants and having to sit in front of a syllabus and a teacher. I have no desire whatsoever to come back to this world. I'm doing what I have to do in this world now, but when I'm done I'm going to the world to come.
Speaker 2:You don't want to come back and do more comedy shows.
Speaker 1:I'm doing them all now. We were in Winnipeg, I did a show in Winnipeg, I did a show in White Plains. Wherever we are, we're doing all of that.
Speaker 2:What happens in this other world that you go to Olam Haba.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Olam Haba. What happens in this other world that you go to. Olam Haba, yeah, olam Haba. What's going on there? There's no SATs and there's no and there's no. Everything's just. It's I. It's just full on Moshiach energy on another level I don't know what it is it's just not this world. It's not noise, it's not fighting, it's not bombs, it's not noise, it's not fighting, it's not bombs. You're done with this world. That's the goal. That's really the goal. Okay.
Speaker 2:You might be Hindu.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure what their practices are. It could be the same. Reincarnation, well, reincarnate, yeah, so the goal is to not have to be reincarnated. Okay, I'm not sure what their goal is.
Speaker 2:I'll look into that and circle back with us Circle back to us on that, thank you, do you have any other thoughts about reincarnation, or are you also done? You're not coming back.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I believe in it, but I'm definitely not coming back. You're done. Yeah, I'm done. Okay, do you have any books? I might haunt some people when I'm gone, though.
Speaker 2:Hilarious.
Speaker 3:Just for fun.
Speaker 2:I'd be a fun ghost.
Speaker 3:Not like a scary blood on the wall ghost, but like a bump in the night, sort of like Cheeky little ghost. That would be fun.
Speaker 2:I fully believe in ghosts.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's not even a question on this podcast. We believe in ghosts, we do, we've seen it. A question on this podcast we believe in ghosts, we do, we've seen it. First of all, we've seen ghosts. No, I've seen a UFO, but not a ghost. You saw a ghost in the Hamptons.
Speaker 3:Oh, I did see a ghost we saw a ghost in the Hamptons. Well, I didn't see a ghost but I saw evidence of a polterge activity.
Speaker 1:What we saw a ghost in the Hamptons. Have we talked about this before? We must have, but we Was that my only ghost experience.
Speaker 3:Wait, so I've seen a ghost, a UFO. Now all I need to do is see, like Bigfoot or something, and I'm like I get to tic-tac-toe it. That was a call. When you win all the the triumvirate.
Speaker 1:No, when you win an Emmy, an Oscar. And you win an Emmy, an Oscar and an EGOT, EGOT yeah, oh my God Supernatural EGOT Wow. Supernatural.
Speaker 3:EGOT. Yeah, absolutely Okay, I'll tell you. Can I try to tell the ghost in the Hamptons story? Sure, okay. So we're setting the scene, we're going to the Hamptons, we're staying at my friend's house in East Hampton. He has a beautiful house and then he also has like a guest house, like a pool house in the back that has, you know, all the fixings the guest room, the kitchen, whatever. So it's like a full standalone guest house.
Speaker 3:But we get there and we get there early. We got there before him for some reason, and I texted him like hey, we're here. He's like go ahead, here's the code, like make yourself at home. He goes, by the way, i'm'm gonna sleep in the pool house because it's easier with the dogs, because he has dogs, and you guys just go upstairs and take whatever room you want. So it's a it's a nice house.
Speaker 3:We open the door, um, and it's like staged, like it's about to be photographed for a real estate listing, like it's impeccable, it's spot, every vase, everything's in its place. And so we walk in without our bags. First let's just go do this, make sure the code works, and then let's do like a lap upstairs and figure out which room we want, and then we'll go grab all of our stuff and then go upstairs. So we go inside, we walk up the stairs, we take a look at all the bedrooms this one's nice, this one's nice, we'll take this one and then we say, okay, so let's go get our bags. So then we go downstairs. This takes like 45 seconds maybe I don't know, because we didn't have that much stuff with us.
Speaker 3:It was just a weekend trip. So we just go grab our duffel bags out of the trunk. We walk back into the house the you have to go through the dining room to get up this like. It's a very narrow staircase with like a sort of a doorway that goes up to the second floor. One of the very, very heavy dining room table chairs is fully moved like six feet from where it is, because I could see where all the other chairs are and where this much more six feet has moved fully across the room and is now directly in the doorway to get upstairs come on yeah, yeah, like fully blocking.
Speaker 3:And I said, moni, was this chair here before because Cause we I would have had to go around it or like move it to get up these stairs. And we were just up there and he was like we just looked at each other and I was like okay, and then I put it back, and then I was like that was weird. And so then I then, when we, when my friend finally arrived, I was like hey, just like a question for you, like how old is this house? I was like hey, just like a question for you, like how old is this house? And he was like oh, it's pretty old, but we like redid the inside or whatever. And he was like I was like have you ever had like weird stuff happen here, like is there like a ghost?
Speaker 3:or something here, yeah, if you had ghost activity. And he just looks at me and goes, oh yeah, yeah, he said yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, he just looks at me and goes oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:He said, yeah, oh yeah and he goes. That's also why I sleep in the pool house most of the time. Stop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I said when were you going to tell me this? But it was a friendly ghost, it just wanted to be acknowledged and then oh and then.
Speaker 3:So we got over it. First of all, I like just filed it away in my head. I was like missed it, something happened. I don't know how this could happen, but like let's say it's not a ghost. So we get in, we settle in, we put all our stuff away. Now we've been in the house for like an hour. We're just hanging out in the living room waiting for my friend to come and we're talking about it and I'm like modi, that was a like how would that chair have moved across the room into this very narrow hallway to get upstairs? That we would have? I would have to like climb over the chair. Anyway, as I'm saying this and I'm like like I'm recounting what just happened, because I'm like very confused the lights start flickering.
Speaker 2:Stop.
Speaker 3:Like just a gentle little, just like a gentle little, but we had friends over.
Speaker 1:Our other friends came over to hang out with us from the Hamptons and we were in the living room and we were telling the story and the lights flickered again. But the lights flickered and we couldn't blame it a million times. Yeah, let's say that wasn't. It's a chair thing. So you understand. We came into this house. We did just a lap to see the house before we brought our stuff in. Even if we wanted to sit, we would have sat in the kitchen. Why would we go to the dining area?
Speaker 3:It's like a formal dining area and, like I said, everything was staged perfectly to be photographed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like you could explain the lights away if it didn't happen as you were telling the story of the chair. I feel like he was like hi, yes, you're right.
Speaker 3:And then we started talking to him.
Speaker 1:And we started speaking to the girl I think it was her and we started talking to her and we invited her to come and sit with us when we were hanging out.
Speaker 2:She was like I'm already here, I don't need to she's here, and so I consulted I didn't feel like an evil presence.
Speaker 3:I didn't feel like an evil ghost. I just felt like maybe she wanted to hang out. Honestly, I sound crazy right now and I completely forgot about this. I blacked it out, but I don't think.
Speaker 1:Before that I believed in ghosts no, no, you did believe in ghosts before that? No, I didn't.
Speaker 1:But also, whenever we get to an old theater, you get to a lot of old theaters, like old, old theaters where you can just tell it's just like you know the London Palladium, the energy, the Palladium. Old theaters where you can just tell it's just like you know. The london palladium, the energy, the palladium that was, it was that theater in in la, that um the orpheum, the orpheum. And and you, right away. We speak to the people who you can tell I've been there for like 20 years and go do you guys have any ghosts here? And they don't even like this. What about phoenix? Yeah, they, just right away. Yes, what?
Speaker 2:happened? What happened in Phoenix In.
Speaker 3:Phoenix. This wasn't that long ago, so I make it a joke. When we get there for soundcheck, I always like to ask theater people I'm like, so like, scale from one to 10, how haunted is this place? Because, like I'm kind of kidding, but also I'm like some of these places are really old and like the London Palladium is super old and like they have scattered ashes like actors, ashes on the stage before, like underneath the stage. So I was like, okay, there's like crazy energy here.
Speaker 3:And so I walk into the to the phoenix one, and it's also a pretty old theater for phoenix, it was over 100 years old actually and um, I go, okay, scale from one to ten, how haunted is this place? And they go, oh yeah, it's pretty haunted. And I was like, okay, and then we had spot, two spotlight operators for the show and the spotlight operators are like way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way up top, like in the, in the guts of the ceiling, where you have to like go into a catwalk and then like a staircase and it's like it's not accessible to the public, it's like they're really high up there and we had two spotlight operators there.
Speaker 3:And then after the show, I'm with the stage manager, the production manager, someone who's on walkie talkie with them, and the two guys upstairs are like yeah, we're closing up shop. Now Can you just tell who's ever up here to stop walking around Because, like, I don't think they have clearance to be up here or something. And the stage manager, his face just goes white and he goes there's no one up there except for you two. And he goes nope, there definitely is. Someone's been walking by back and forth the whole time we've been up here I have chills right now and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3:And then they had to like scramble security to do a whole sweep of the building because they thought maybe, like I don't know, there was a, a crazy person hiding somewhere in like the guts of the ceilings. This is like a crazy theater, so many places to hide. And they were like still searching. When we were there for a while and they were like they were I could hear the conversations on the walkie. They were like no, I saw like a person and the other guy who was with him was like there was someone walking around up here and like we we saw them, but we couldn't see really what they looked like but I, I, I, I love knowing that there's a ghost in the theater.
Speaker 1:Do you guys believe in ghosts, yes or no? I love doing a show in a. I love doing a show in a theater that's haunted because, like, especially like, the Palladium, judy Garland. Judy Garland is there, it's like she's that was her place yeah, she's not not there, and it's like fun, it's like a little. As long as they're friendly, it's okay, they're friendly.
Speaker 3:They're friendly ghosts um why are we talking about ghosts we built? Was that the question? So yeah, I guess I have had a ghost encounter. You had a big ghost, we were talking about reincarnation.
Speaker 2:That was how we started talking about that right.
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Speaker 2:And One last question very quickly A book you'd recommend.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's easy. I've talked about this a million times. Talk about it again. Dr Wayne Dyer's Power of Intention, where he breaks the whole world down on being on the whole world, is abundance, beauty, creativity, kindness, expanding energy, receptive energy and love. And you know that's the way he organizes it, whereas I guess in Kabbalistic world the ten dimensions of counting and it's all. But it's a very great way to. When you read his book, it makes Torah a lot more palatable, palatable, digestible, more you can understand more, and it's a book that I think should be on the reading list of every student, every junior, high school and high school student, just to get in touch with how powerful your intentions are. And that's my book for a long time. Okay, yes, you.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I have one. I can only remember the last book I read, which I don't want to recommend to anyone.
Speaker 2:And yours. I would recommend my books. You can find them on Amazoncom. The only bush I trust is my own and on my knees.
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