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Okay, now live, hello everybody. And live, hello everybody that's live. Hello everybody that's listening. We are here at and here's Modi. Whatever you're doing, I hope you're having fun and doing it well.
Speaker 2:Whether you're jogging, cooking, cleaning, vacationing, returning, driving, whatever you're doing, I whether you're jogging, cooking, cleaning, uh, vacationing, returning, driving, whatever you're doing, I hope you're having fun and I'm so happy that we happen to be a part of it. We, we got such cute little during the during the summer, these cute little dms from people like hey, I was completely bored on my vacation and found you two and we started to. I binged everything and it got me through my whole family vacation. And that is literally the reason we are here. We are not here to solve any political problems, to give you recipes that will change your cooking life. We're not here to tell you what politician to vote for. We are here just just you have a laugh and it's just somewhere to maybe turn your brain off for a few minutes and listen to us and hopefully we entertain you. What do we have to say today? We have so much to say today. First of all, I just want to go over last night what happened last night last night we had separate nights last night we had separate nights it
Speaker 2:doesn't happen often. Separate nights, yeah, it doesn't happen. Often it doesn't. It doesn't and I want to tell you we're attached at the hip. People will know that, but I'm glad that it's something we should talk about. Leo and I are together all the time and I'm blessed and I thank God every day I have him and have it. But even when we are together and not together, like I'm in one room, he's in the other. He's still with me because he's editing a video and he's getting a picture and he's answering.
Speaker 1:I'm always looking at your face.
Speaker 2:Yes, you always. You're always looking at my face, and um and so last night you went for dinner with friends and I took I went to go visit my parents. Yeah, in the five towns where I grew up. I've heard of it what I've heard of it.
Speaker 1:You've heard of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the five towns and I took them to go see the Rebbe's grave, you know, to the Ohel.
Speaker 1:I've also heard of it.
Speaker 2:Yes, where the Lubavitch Rebbe is buried. And just before Rosh Hashanah, we're in the month of Elul. We are in the month before Rosh Hashanah. We're in the month of Elul. We are in the month before Rosh Hashanah. It's called Elul. It is an amazing month. It's my favorite month. The acronyms of the month is Anila, dodiva, dodili. I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me. It's just, it's really, even though it's like beloved, but it's God and you. You and God are just connecting that energy and we had a great time. We wrote notes and put it in and it's just nice to see my parents there.
Speaker 2:And I want to give a shout out to the grave of the Ohel, the grave of the Rebbe's, where he's buried. Those of you who think it's not just a grave, it's a whole infrastructure. There's a building, there's a yeshiva there, there's homes there, there's everything there. So when you leave and you come, they have this like a concession stand, not a concession, it's free. They have apples and they have teas. Or refreshment center. Refreshment center yeah, they have apples and they have teas, and they have, like these cookies. And the cookies are so good. Of course, I brought them to the podcast. No, you did it. I absolutely did the cookies from the oh hell, the cookies. You got me grave cookies. Don't call them great cookies, it's, it's all hell cookies, I don't know. Okay, the name of the company is pollux and they're located in.
Speaker 1:I can't read what does that? Say pollux avenue in avon avanel, new jersey, and this is not a paid. This is not a paid promotion.
Speaker 2:It is the most delicious cookies, and give me that there are some cute messages happening in the chat. These are so delicious.
Speaker 1:Should I try one live on air.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have your ice coffee here.
Speaker 1:You're going to love it.
Speaker 2:You are going to love this. It's the most delicious cookie, rebbi cookies.
Speaker 1:It's a Rebbi cookie, just like my Rebbi used to make.
Speaker 2:My father grabbed eight on the way out. They're so delicious. Hold on, baruch, atah the Rebbe cookie.
Speaker 1:This is probably not very pleasant for people to listen to. No, it needs something to tinker in.
Speaker 2:This is good for when you have a hot coffee. It's so delicious, very crummy.
Speaker 1:Good morning. I'm a big fan from Boynton Beach, florida. I love watching the part where you were making fun of the Israeli guy for not knowing how to say how are you?
Speaker 2:How are you are? Are you are, are how you are, are are you are, how are you are? That was a funny bit. That was from the old special. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1:And how are you are? Are you are Shalom from Orlando? I'm working on getting us back there, marla.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Love seeing you in Tampa and thank you again for talking to my mom and making her 85th birthday so special. Where was it? I'm not even aware of where the special was. In Tampa, in Tampa.
Speaker 2:Again, nothing I love more than when people bring their parents for a birthday celebration or that and when they bring their children to see the first comic that they ever see. That I'm the first comic that the kids ever see. It's crazy. And the kids can't believe someone's talking for so long. It's not like a YouTube video. Kids can't believe someone's talking for so long. It's not like a youtube video. Scroll past. Yeah, they can't scroll past me?
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Speaker 2:I'm going to give a shout out to our other sponsor, weitz and Luxembourg. Weitz and Luxembourg, the law firm that not only does well, they do good, super philanthropic and friends of the podcast, arthur Luxembourg and Randy Luxembourg, who, by the way, have the best barbecue of the summer. I can't. We have the shows in the Hamptons which we're going to talk about, but on the way to the Hampton shows we stop by Randy's and Arthur's in West and west and west hampton and the barbecue that they have every year, that's on the last episode we did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so never mind again again.
Speaker 1:I'm always re-listening to things and watching the videos do we do?
Speaker 2:but did we break down the shows from the hamptons? Yeah, so the videos came in and the video of when I tell you there's no two shows that are the same. There are no two shows that are the same. The first show we had was like at four o'clock and the second one was at eight Both amazing show. No one left there thinking like they didn't see a great show and it was like a 10 out of 10, both shows. The second show was so on fire. I watched it and I opened up with this new material about guests and hosts and we are in, like we are in a room full of guests and hosts, full of guests and hosts and we. The material was so amazing, I like I think you have a mini special in.
Speaker 2:I think you have a mini special in you.
Speaker 1:I think you have a mini special of like 30 to 45 minutes of really specialized sort of like Hamptons-esque material.
Speaker 2:But how am I going to ever be performing it again? For the Hamptons?
Speaker 1:We'll arrange it, we can make it happen.
Speaker 2:It was. I usually don't like to watch myself. I have been watching this clip over and over and over Good. It's 11 minutes of material. I was stoned on the treadmill and I was like cracking myself up, dying of how good this material is Good and the people losing it. And you just hear people screaming because the camera's in the back and he's taping. And you just hear people screaming it's, it's. Should we put it out or should we wait to to to tape it?
Speaker 1:oh, I don't know well, speaking of taping, we do have atlanta coming up december 10 and at Center Stage Theater we are taping a full-on comedy special. There is going to be cameras and lights and people running around with badges and name tags and seating people, and I'm going to be there somewhere as well With an earpiece and a clipboard and running a tight ship. Hopefully that's in Atlanta December 11th, 10 and 11.
Speaker 2:10 and 11. Atlanta. If you need a reason to go to atlanta and if you want to be a part, there are a few tickets left. Uh, it's great to be to know that you were a part of a historic comical event do you know I'm going last tonight.
Speaker 1:Where are you? Oh, lady gaga, gaga, lady gaga, gamos, your favorite, my fave, she's your favorite. I'm seeing her twice once. Well, even though you're surprised I haven't been at every single show because she's been camped out at msg for a while. I am surprised you're not at every single show. I know I didn't have the koi to like get tickets, like get in the.
Speaker 2:You did get in there, get the tickets no one really understands how much leo loves lady gaga. She infiltrated his life when he was a young child, went driving into school blasting her music, and whenever we're in the car. And I want to just put Leo in a good mood, I find it and put her on and you just light up.
Speaker 1:She's a talent, she's a superstar. I've always seen the vision from day one when that girl was in a meat dress at the VMAs and everyone was like who is this person? I was like she's an artist, you don't get it.
Speaker 2:And now I feel very vindicated and we want to thank Live Nation for getting us two tickets. Live Nation, live Nation.
Speaker 1:Because you're going to be at Radio City Music Hall and they own the same venue.
Speaker 2:We are not all discussed that, but April 23rd. We are not all discussed this yet or announced it Amber Cadabra.
Speaker 1:someone wrote Exactly Mika.
Speaker 2:April 23rd, right after Passover, we're going to be at Radio City Music Hall. Put that in your Save the Dates. The tickets go on sale in October.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so because you're doing Radio City and Radio City and Madison Square Garden are the same people and Beacon I was able to smuggle, finagle my way into some extra Lady Gaga tickets for us and you bring all your sisters up. I'm bringing all my sisters. Yeah, it's going to be all the Vega girls, including you, plus me, yeah. And it's going to be so much fun. I'm really excited for it. I'm going tonight.
Speaker 2:I'll preview it and let you know. Oh, it's so amazing. What are they? What are they saying here?
Speaker 1:my favorite, podcast um love from brooklyn. Planning on, planning on seeing you when you come back to new york city, which will be april 23rd at radio city. Where does it say how many people are?
Speaker 2:there, oh there. Very nice, very, very nice. Okay, what else is on the docket? Ladies and gentlemen, we saw Jeff Ross' show.
Speaker 1:Take a Banana for the Ride is the name of the show Take a Banana for the Ride. On Broadway.
Speaker 2:On Broadway. Broadway, that's right. You always make fun of how I say Broadway. No, it's because it's from that. Oh hello that show. Everybody always makes fun of me because I don't just say broad. How are you supposed to say it Broadway? I say Broadway. Oh, so that's how I've always said it. People always make fun of me when I said that.
Speaker 1:So we saw Jeff Ross' show on Broadway.
Speaker 2:On the opening night. So we saw Jeff Ross' show on Broadway On the opening night. It was a star-studded event. Star-studded, star-studded.
Speaker 1:John Stamos was there. Looks amazing.
Speaker 2:The rapper with the clock on his thing Flava Flav was there? Flava Flav.
Speaker 1:Ice-T and his wife Coco Coco. Jimmy Kimmel, john Mayer. The girl John Mayer is dating, whose name I can't pronounce, yes, who was in the Last Showgirl and Mad Men. There's so many more people Comment in there what her name is, please. There was a lot of people there. What did you think of the show?
Speaker 2:The show was great, but let's just go back to the people. So we got in there. We got in there. Yeah, it was a lot, but we got in there and we're standing in the part of the Broadway theater before you go down the aisle to your seats. It's a kind of lobby. It's like a little landing area before you go in and they sell the merch Mezzanine?
Speaker 1:No, that's upstairs. Is that what it's called? I don't know.
Speaker 2:No, and we're standing there with Harley Pasternak, harley Pasternak who, by the way, has a new book. Oh. Which we have with us ladies and gentlemen, which he sent us. It is called the Carb Reset by Harley Pasternak.
Speaker 1:Store less fat, burn the rest and harness the power of carbs to lose weight.
Speaker 2:It's his latest book.
Speaker 1:He's written many books.
Speaker 2:Harley is a trainer to the stars period. There's nothing more. You can say he's just a trainer to the stars and we've trained with him. And let me tell you the best part about Jeff's show, which was Speak into the mic there you go. The best part of Jeff's show besides the show was when we were standing with Harley Pasternak and he just says to us you guys are looking good, whatever you're doing, keep it up.
Speaker 1:What an amazing thing to hear from harley he told me not to lose any more weight. Right? He said whatever you're doing, stop here. Okay? I said maybe. Yeah, I'm not making any promises, harley, um his wife is stunning, stunning, stunning.
Speaker 2:And who is the woman that was with us? I didn't know anybody's name, or you didn't know anyone. Every celebrity coming over to say hi, leo, would be like.
Speaker 1:I could see from leo's face that they were somebody he'd be like like that well and it was fun for me to see john stamos because I grew up watching full house. Full house was like one of the few shows that I was allowed to watch. As we all know, I was relegated to mostly VeggieTales and Christian faith-based cartoons. However, full House managed its way into the lineup at one point, and so I have Bob Saget, obviously, who's part of Jeff's show. That's why John Stamos was there, because part of Jeff's show is talking about the people that he's lost, and he was really close with Bob Saget and Gilbert Godfrey. There's a whole section of the show that's about that. He references John Stamos there. Norman Mark.
Speaker 2:Norman.
Speaker 1:No, not.
Speaker 2:Mark Norman, god forbid Norm. Norm MacDonald, norm Mac.
Speaker 1:Norm, norm MacDonald, norm MacDonald, norm MacDonald.
Speaker 2:Wow, sorry about that guys. He discussed how he lost all those guys and he considered comedians as a tribe and he mentioned it and it was such a moving show and it was so great and it took you on a journey. It it was such a moving show and it was so great and it took you on a journey. It wasn't just stand-up, yet it was funny and he brought you to a point where it's like you're like where is he going? And boom, he let you off the hook with a joke and it was like you know, it was great and I can't explain how happy I am for him.
Speaker 1:It's like wow, that's certainly an accomplishment a feat, A feat.
Speaker 2:The end upon Broadway, and everybody that we met came over to me and said, yeah, hi Modi, my mom's a big fan of yours, as they would say. And then they would say I'm one of the investors in the show. Everybody I met was an investor in the show. Yeah, if any of the investors would like to call me. Yeah, so.
Speaker 1:And then we had the after party.
Speaker 2:The after party was loud. We went to Very noise sensitive these days. We are very noise sensitive, very, very noise sensitive. It was they had a DJ and it was like going from it. They had a DJ and it was like going from Jeff's one-man show to Jeff's bat mitzvah. That's what it felt like. It was just loud, but we hung out with Jim Norton. Jim Norton, ladies and gentlemen, if I can plug a comic, his new, special, inconceivable, yeah On YouTube, on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Watch it. It's so good. Here's a special inconceivable umbrella on on uh on youtube. It is hysterical. Jim norton is just hysterical and just if that's a plug, make that a part of your comedy routine and watching um, I can't even brooklyn planning any.
Speaker 1:Uh, I don planning any. I can't read, so you're on top of it. You can read that.
Speaker 2:I can't even read any of that stuff yeah. Leo's cooking has come to another level. I wanted to thank you for your cooking. What did I cook? I don't know the cooking that you've been doing at the summer house, the summer house. I don't know the cooking that you've been doing at the, at the summer house, the summer house. I I don't want to say where we are and all that, but the, the house will be.
Speaker 1:We've even we've already said where we are many times yeah, but it's just I. I'm so glad how you've leaned into cooking I mean, all I'm doing is like grilling chicken breasts, but you're barbecuing.
Speaker 2:Leo bought this machine to clean the barbecue grill and he looked like a mishgiyah before I was koshering the grill. He bought this power thing for the. He looks like a crazy when they, when they, when you clean the grill before, like passover, I'm like whatever he loves to order all this stuff on Amazon and all that stuff and Instagram. It's a steam cleaner. Okay, it's made for like. I don't think it's made for a barbecue.
Speaker 1:It's made for anything. According to how it was advertised to me, it worked. It got a lot of that gunk off of it.
Speaker 2:I know, but also I think a sponge would do the same thing. No, okay.
Speaker 1:So then, a steamerer it should be. So you like the chicken.
Speaker 2:Everything you've made was so delicious, so good and it's just. And I, you know I don't mind the money of eating out, but just to not have to have a waitress asking me do you know what you're having? Do you want dessert? Are you any drinks before you need? Anything else besides water and we don't drink alcohol. We don't like because not because we just don't drink alcohol, because that's not where we're killing calories. So whenever you tell a waitress we're good with water, they're so disappointed they want to bring you some margs, some martinis.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they want to check to be more inflated exactly so we're like no.
Speaker 2:But we order an extra four appetizers.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We overorder all the time. We overorder everything. We just order every appetizer, especially room service.
Speaker 1:But we haven't hit the room service. No, we've been good Men knew it.
Speaker 2:Thank you, we've been good. We'll give a plug out to Appetite. Appetite is absolutely amazing, those of you who travel a lot keep in mind.
Speaker 1:Seth wrote. I usually listen to the podcast on 1.5 speed, so hearing you speak in normal speed is a bit weird. That's hilarious, seth. When I watch the videos back to find the clips, I watch them at 1.5 or double speed so that I can find them quicker. Also, I want to apologize because, speaking of watching the videos, I was listening to the last episode and I am acknowledging that it's something that we are going to work on.
Speaker 1:I say the word like, way too much, like way, way, way too much. I don't, uh, you don't, I do, uh, I didn't realize it was such a problem till I heard it back. Um, I think that episode was particularly bad. Like at some points it was almost unlistenable. Did you cut him out? Uh, no, I left it. This was me listening to the episode after it was already live. Oh and um, someone a while back wrote that I said like too much and I kind of rolled my eyes and didn't pay attention. But I want that person, if they're still a listener, to know that, um, you were right and I need to work on it, and but it's hard when you're sitting here and there's cameras and there's a light and you're trying to think of things.
Speaker 2:But I don't think that has anything to do with any of it. People I have a sister that uses that word a lot.
Speaker 1:Kilo, no kilo, kilo so I switch it to kilo, like that should I do that.
Speaker 2:Kilo means like in hebrew.
Speaker 1:It's so annoying because they just put that is it more annoying or less annoying than like when I'm like, when I'm like, like, like, like no.
Speaker 2:When you like like, it's like, I'm like no, but like it's quick, it's likeo is doubled yeah you're slipping it out. There's two uh um syllables, two syllables and they and they hold it. They hold it so they can get to their next thought. That's in your bit, right, right. So it's literally like a kilo. She's a lot kilo.
Speaker 1:So jared says love from massachusetts. Saw you in hartford, looking forward to seeing you again soon. We are going to be in boston in march. That's not announced yet, but oh, so keep an eye out for that to me. Yes, you know the wilbur, we're going back to the wilbur, we are, yeah, so it's closed.
Speaker 1:It's yes ah, the wilbur so nice everyone listening to the podcast is is getting gets inside information way before it's released to the public. It's so great. All the security clearance. Here you get security clearance if you're a podcast listener. I'll tell you all the dates Confirmed not confirmed April 23rd we are at the Radio City Music. Hall. Adela Winter says when Leo starts sprinkling Hebrew, I melt.
Speaker 2:I try. Leo has so much yiddish, hebrew, never mind hebrew but yiddish he's.
Speaker 1:Well, that's your fault, because I speak in yiddish. You speak?
Speaker 2:in yiddish and um, and leo hits out of nowhere with yiddish and it blows me away german conquistador.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's quite. The username says security, clearance, energy, yes maybe that will be our next merch I know we've had.
Speaker 2:We've listen. The merch is going great. I love that you guys are buying it. Believe me, we're not making crazy money on it. We just want to have you wearing something that says mashiach energy, so that people ask you what the hell does that mean? And then a conversation explodes. Mashiach should be spoken about all the time, um, and if you don't know where it is, just start finding out. Google chat, gpt, just just. It should be in the conversation. Uh, but the yarmulkes? We had to come back with the yarmulke. We had trouble with the distribution of the yarmulkes. We had to come back with the yarmulkes.
Speaker 2:We had trouble with the distribution of the yarmulkes yeah, it was a whole thing but go to synagogue on the high holiday with the Yiddish energy, just to remind everybody what the hell do I the intimate trying out new joke shows?
Speaker 1:debbie says yeah, those are usually at the cellar if you can catch them those are one of my favorite things.
Speaker 2:Um, when we try out the new jokes and I'm telling you that that show we did in the hamptons, the second show, I, with all of this with 11 minutes, you guys don't tell what 11 minutes of new material is. It is so big and it and it just destroyed and I I just don't know if I should just put it out as is or just wait. And I'm, it's just wow, it's weird. I'm in a very weird state right now because I have the hour that I want to tape and we have all the new material that's just popping up while the the hour is is jim.
Speaker 1:You have all this material that we are that these are our problems.
Speaker 2:By the way, we've been incorporating that. I've been telling my friend yesterday um, what, when you are in the middle of discussing a problem that is such a good problem to have just say baruch hashem, thank god that these are our.
Speaker 1:I say that with my friends I don't say baruch hashem, I said thank god, these are our problems. When we start talking about nonsense, nonsense, when we're, oh, I have to do this, and well, this is happening on this day, and then michael's thing is on this day and I'm like, thank God.
Speaker 2:We have two tickets to two events, two tickets to two different raves in Brooklyn and we're not sure which one to go to. We have to get rid of the tickets I go. Thank you, god, that these are our problems.
Speaker 1:Hearing Leo say bro Hashem cracks me up. Well, crack up, crack, crack on up. Send questions in here, if you want us to answer them.
Speaker 2:This live uh is experimental still experimental thing for us.
Speaker 1:Um, please have mateo lane on. We love mateo. Mateo is a great friend. He's been on the show twice, actually been on the show twice mateo is as busy as a beaver.
Speaker 2:Beaversavers do.
Speaker 1:If you think we're busy, Mateo is busy shirtless.
Speaker 2:We're busy with a black t-shirt. He's busy shirtless. Mateo Lane by the way, we use his name in the act once in a while. You can always hear just gays clapping their brains out.
Speaker 1:Mama Tiger says what's your favorite kosher deli food? Okay, my kosher deli food is stuffed cabbage. Did I get it right?
Speaker 2:Yes, it is Halabshas, halabshas, halabshas, but it has to be from the right place, not just any halabshas. It has to be from Second Avenue Deli, who we plug non-stop, and for no reason, and because they're family, yeah, and they're so delicious, not a paid partnership, not a paid partnership, but if jack wants to give us a call, jack, jack, jeremy and um and josh and, by the way, by the way, you know, I took um.
Speaker 2:We're gonna be in vienna. We're gonna be in Vienna. We're going to be in Vienna and the shows are selling fast over there. And the head of the Vienna Jewish community, oscar Deutsch, came to New York and I took him and his family to Second Avenue Deli and they took care of us like kings. Jeremy was there, the son, and he brought up all the food like kings. Uh, jeremy was there, the son, and he brought up all the food and everything and it was on the house and they had the. It was like such and I saw the kids instagram pictures. They like everything that they were like really experiencing new york and like just to take him to second avenue deli was such a great experience for them and me to be able to share that. That was one of the first places.
Speaker 1:You took me too, really I took you a second having you deli. Yeah, like not one of the first, but like early, early on you were like behold the wonders of second afternoon deli and I was just like housing, the matzo ball soup housing, housing, housing, it, which I I mean that matzo ball soup is really good I thought, like one time I was, I wasn't feeling well I thought leo did the cooking.
Speaker 2:I do, it's just not a lot, paul besides leo's cooking, the way leo knows how to order food to the house, I should win an award. The way.
Speaker 1:Yesterday, when we were coming back from connecticut, we were on the highway and I was looking at your ways on the nav and I was looking at my phone and I timed it exactly to place the order from this place that I know, so that when we were entering our lobby the delivery driver was also entering the lobby. He didn't even have to get in the elevator, I just grabbed the bag. I said for Leo and I grabbed the bag. That's how good I am at ordering food. You need something from seamless, from uber eats. I am your guy. I can make anything. Show up anywhere anytime.
Speaker 2:It's not not right, it's my superpower it is and and this, and you know, do you know who I thought would be good at it? God, he's not. So gov, gov gov.
Speaker 2:First of all friend, rabbi, rabbi gabriel bolino, also known as gov. He's my rabbi and my friend, and and and I and I I I conversed with him as both he's my rabbi and my friend, so he came for a hang. Leo had something to do that night. I said come over, I haven't seen you, let's catch up. And I thought, because he's very computer savvy, that he'd be able to like order some food to the house yeah, but so from a kosher place.
Speaker 2:And then I'm like you don't know how to do any of that. He goes, nope, and I I felt so bad because Leo was out with his friends no, I was in Connecticut are you still in Connecticut?
Speaker 1:okay.
Speaker 2:I go, leo, hi, I'm home with God, make some kosher food show up and and just like from remote, I was like 25 minutes later, houston to mission control from connecticut like.
Speaker 2:But it be, be, be, be, be 25 minutes later, the ding, dong and boom a full spread we had, and we had a great hang. And let me plug Sixth Street Synagogue it is a vibe. It is a vibe and we are having services. The evening of the 22nd of September is Erev, rosh Hashanah. When the new year comes in, there's services and there's a dinner. If you want to sign up and join, I will be there. My family will be there. It will be a vibe. It will be amazing, great way to begin the year. It's super casual. You don't have to start wearing suits and dresses. It's just chill and it's fun and it's real and it's Mashiach energy. And Sixth Street Synagogue synagogue. I hope to see you all there. Anybody who needs a place, come and hang. Okay, good, yeah, that was good, right, nothing more than that yeah that was good what else do you want to?
Speaker 2:talk about. What are they asking of you? Who the hell can read from here?
Speaker 1:someone said I've seen you three times, the last in margate, new jersey. Will you be in south Jersey or Philadelphia again soon? Yes, we're going to be in Philly early next year.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Again, that's not announced yet.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We're rolling those out in November.
Speaker 2:The Keswick Theater, those of you near the Keswick Theater it. It is an amazing theater.
Speaker 1:It's a great comedy venue, one of my faves, it's, I think it's 1300 seats with a low ceiling.
Speaker 2:It just the, the, the laughter just hits you. I remember coming down from the dressing room when the opening act was on and I could feel in the coming from the sides of the curtain, the laughter. I go, oh, this show's going to be lit. And I was standing backstage with the guys that were like you know the sound, not the sound, but the people who run the theater and they go, oh, it's a very nice suit. I go, this is the suit's last show. I was retiring that suit afterwards and they're like, oh, okay, and I finished the show sweating and wet, and then I go and I went back to this and he goes great show. And I said thank you, and I take my jacket off and throw it in the garbage and he started cracking up hysterically. It was its last round.
Speaker 2:But I also forgot that I had a meet and greet, so I went back in the garbage and put the jacket back on.
Speaker 1:And they were dying German Conquistador said have you or would you do a show in Mexico? I think Modi's very relatable for us Hispanics, but I wonder how the language barrier would be. We've done, mexico, we've done mexico.
Speaker 2:We've done mexico for passover programs, but that's not a mexican. And you did a private and then I did a private event in mexico which was a shiite energy show it was.
Speaker 2:It was next level for, oh wow, what name. The organization in mexico city? Yes, yada, not yad, something with a hand. Yad, yeah, wow, wow, wow, wow. What an amazing organization they were and the show was amazing and, um, the language barrier was okay. It was okay. They spoke english, not amazing, but you know, I slow down and we have fun and there's like a cadence that they followed and we're always open to mexico.
Speaker 1:Ago, that was this year no, it wasn't no, it wasn't, it was in 20. Yeah, it was this year.
Speaker 2:It's a 2025. Yeah, it was in 2025, 2025. Yeah, we have no dates like map.
Speaker 1:I have no idea why don't you tell everyone about the theater quote in ocean beach? If I recall, you had some good jokes about it. Which one was ocean beach? Is that the fire island one? Yes, wow, that's a deep cut. That's a deep cut it was.
Speaker 2:Uh, it's on fire island, not the gay part, the super straight part and we were there and we did a show for the community for what's? Um, wow, kegel. Michael keegan, kegel keegan. Michael keegan, keegan keegan. Michael keegan keegan yeah, I'm sorry, I know him and they're friends and I just can't get the name right Michael Keegan Kagan. Michael Kegel Kegel. Michael Kegel, kegel, kegan. Michael Key, kegel, michael Key, wow, and his wife. We did a show for them. They organized it and it was amazing People coming into this little rec center out of their little vacation homes. It was so great. It was an amazing, amazing vibe.
Speaker 2:I will tell you something I've been doing that will surprise you. We were working on a book and we were given an instruction, um, to start making a timeline of my life and um. So I began with cue cards and, of course, the first one was april 29, 1970. I was born in tel aviv, in the hospital asuta, which used to be across the street from my parent, my grandparents apartment. It since moved, but it was. It was across the street from my grandparents apartments. That's what. That's where I was born, okay, and then the next date I did was June 24th 2015. What the day we met, the day we met. It's a lot of space to fill in, I know, but then slowly, I uh, so slowly. I've been doing this on cue cards, with the knowledge when the one that I'm just going to hand them all over to you and you put them in an excel sheet. They'll just put them all into an excel sheet and the excel sheet will bring it to the right. I've been jumping all over the places.
Speaker 2:December 18 19 what's another date that you're putting in? December 18, 19, 20, 2024? The beacon theater oh, 30 years after I began doing comedy, five blocks down, I've been doing all these little little exercises, you know, and it's pretty cool. I said, I said I I highly recommend it to anybody just to make a timeline of your life, just like because it's pretty cool. I highly recommend it to anybody just to make a timeline of your life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's funny. What will stick out to you as like a milestone and then what you have to fill in the blanks for.
Speaker 2:Right. Right, you have things like 9-11, which is, the whole world experienced it, but the whole world didn't experience you doing three shows in the beacon. The whole world didn't experience a loss of somebody or whatever. But it's just because I have no timeline in my head of shows. Ever since COVID, nothing. I can't figure out what any times are. I have to look at my calendar constantly. It's so crazy. What are they saying? A lot of people are writing a lot of things. Have you or would you do a show?
Speaker 1:and we did that already when you're coming back to toronto, oh, we just did toronto in march what are they right.
Speaker 2:Someone, I think, wants to see your tattoo this the camera, your camera's there. There it is. They asked to see your tattoo. Now you saw it.
Speaker 1:Thank you from Israel. Thank you Israel.
Speaker 2:Subscribe to my OnlyFans. Kilo, kilo, kilo, kilo. What else is going on? I was in the five towns yesterday. I went to go see my friend, got a new house, bought a house in the five towns.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not saying the name. Okay, what are the five towns? Again, hewlett, hewlett.
Speaker 2:Wow, lawrence, woodmere, cedarhurst and northwoodmere. Are we correct? I hope we're right.
Speaker 1:Debbie says I have a tattoo that says bashir.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cute. That's very nice. Share. Tell us what you think. I'm trying to catch the Hebrew here, Nun Samach.
Speaker 1:So wait, yeah, I guess the five towns is interesting because it seems like a very tiered structure of like a subculture. Oh, you're from the five towns. Where are you from? Where did you go to school? Where?
Speaker 2:like it's very that, based on what I've overheard, the five times when I grew up, which was in the very late 70s and 80s in the early 1900s in the gilded age. In the gilded age, we had two horses and uh, the five towns are lawrence, cedarhurst, woodmere, inwood and the hewlett's inwood.
Speaker 1:And what I've never heard before, I don't think they're right.
Speaker 2:I don't think she's right. Uh, I think, uh, whoever that is marla marla schaefer shayfala, I think you're wrong. Mara marla shayfala, I think you're wrong. I don think you're wrong?
Speaker 1:I don't know. We'll have to Google it afterwards, the Five Town was just a beautiful area and all that, and it was not no you always tell me, like in Vogue, that I said, like again that Vogue, the Dior ads would have Milan, paris, woodmere and Cedarhurst, cedarhurse or whatever, because he does, a big shopping area that, like all these big fashion brands had their like, were represented in different stores, like saint michelle and all these other places, and now it's just rifka's wigs and and herman's suits and then and zamek's, hollas and judaica.
Speaker 2:It just became a borough park, but a rich borough park. So there's some houses there that are insane, insane. And then there's, you know, the regular but the steebles. There's like little synagogues all over. It's not the same five towns I grew up in. You know, 25 years ago, you know, whenever I grew up there, um, it just changed. It became so religious, but like there's the religious annoying, and then there's the religious like they're doing it as a it's the part of the of the.
Speaker 1:What's the real estate rule? It's two minutes two, two million or two minutes, oh two, from the synagogue, so that your shop is walkable right, it's two minutes, two million, or two minutes from the synagogue so that your shop is walkable.
Speaker 2:Right, it's kilo. It's kilo. Two miles, two miles, two miles two million.
Speaker 1:So if you're within two miles of walking to the synagogue, it's two million dollars and you're walkable. It's going to be no-transcript. It starts at $4 million.
Speaker 2:No, I have no idea what, but there's a synagogue on every corner and every person has Friday night services in their basement.
Speaker 1:Your parents' block is like one heartbeat away from some. Somewhat, it's already there.
Speaker 2:So my parents live in North Woodmere so there's an Orthodox shul that's called or Torah where I used to go to, which was amazing. It was Rabbi Young Rice and then they had a Sephardic minyan in the basement who then took over the whole thing. But there's also a Temple Hillel where I used to go to also I was bar mitzvah there, which used to be conservative, which I think now is. Everything's becoming orthodox there.
Speaker 2:Um, so I'm waiting for my parents block to really blow up as, like where the people are going to want to have, like where the orthodox are going to want to live. They'll just come in like money boom, they just buy money boom, they love it, they love it and they're happy and they're just, um, and they're uh, I remember I went to, uh, I, I went to service. I'm not going to mention any part of anywhere this was, but there's this one area that they made a. They bought a house and they made it into a synagogue and they bought a rabbi. Now you're bringing in a rabbi and he knows that these people are paying for him and all that, and they were so rude to the rabbi that the rabbi actually quit on them.
Speaker 1:That's a Jewish thing.
Speaker 2:You guys are like not okay, you guys are just not good people and I'm leaving.
Speaker 1:I'm leaving.
Speaker 2:I was there when the rabbi gave the sermon, I was invited for Shabbat when he quit and I was like is this really happening?
Speaker 1:Oh my, god, that's so cool.
Speaker 2:It was, yeah, mic drop, mic drop. He said that this is my last Shabbat, not mic, because it was on Shabbat. Yeah, it's funny. And he's like I'm out, I'm just. You have to know when to leave the party. No, but you have to know when the party's not your jam. Oh, trust me.
Speaker 1:It wasn't his jam. Yeah, just by the way, if you guys are enjoying this at all, um, on october 22nd in the evening, modi will be doing this live on stage at the 92nd street y with deborah messing, actress, producer, activist, deborah messing um, it will be the two of you on stage in conversation and they're uh. The in-person tickets are sold out, but you can register for the live stream access. You have to purchase the live stream access. All that money goes to the 92nd Street Y. If you don't want to do that, it'll live on our YouTube channel shortly thereafter, but if you want to partake in the live aspect of it, you can read that it's at modil livecom or in the link in his bio.
Speaker 1:what are you going to talk to deborah messing about? What should we talk to deborah messing about? Um, what questions do you guys have?
Speaker 2:I have some. I have some surprises for her. Uh-huh, yeah, she's not, uh, that not going to be annoying surprises or catching her off guard. I think she's going to be pleasantly surprised with the surprises I have for her. But I mean, the work she's been doing is amazing. She's just been really doing Moshiach energy work, talking about Jewish pride and creating a voice, and especially from people I guess the Hollywood people who aren't, especially from people like the Hollywood people who aren't. But she has been totally on the forefront of of the disaster that's happening in Israel and that alone, this will be your third live on stage podcast.
Speaker 1:I can't wait because you did the 100th episode with me and Periel. You did the episode with Omer Shemtov, sponsored by UJA, our good friends.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And this will be your third one at 92nd Street Y again. Do you like it? I can't wait. I love it. It's so good Because I'm imagining like 300 people here, which is like a room with us.
Speaker 2:It's so much easier. It's so much easier when there's an audience. It's so much easier. It's so much easier when there's an audience. It's so much when you feel it, when you hear it, when you.
Speaker 1:That's what I love. I want to take the podcast on the road. I'm ready Because then we can repeat markets. Yes, would you guys come to that? Debra is an actual queen, says Rox. Rita says she's courageous and amazing. Yeah, if you look at her, she gets a lot of crap online, deborah, but I don't think she's still neck out, I don't think she cares she doesn't care, that she doesn't need to care because she never she's done her thing like she's a and one of the most syndicated shows of all time.
Speaker 2:That's definitely a thing so she's solidified that her but she's still doing. She has a movie out now with robert de niro. She's an amazing actress. She's yeah, no for sure still doing. She quit, she's like she hit it and she's done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but she has fu status, yes, where she can do that. I think a lot of people put pressure on hollywood people to make these activist stance, and why aren't they doing it? Why aren't they speaking up? And I think they're underestimating how much that could jeopardize their livelihood and I know that's not the right thing and it's not the most courageous thing, but it is true and it's politics, and I think people would also be surprised to know like how many celebrities are living project to project.
Speaker 2:Yes, so maybe that's why celebrities you guys think are just killing. It are broke as all hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah living project to project and there's people around them telling them don't start talking about this right now. Um, so, someone like deborah, who's a leg, a legend and has so many things under her belt and is just in a different stratosphere, she can go out on instagram and she can, and she can, you know, make these stances, which is good and can I just tell you she's a fun person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's just a fun person. I've met with her, I've we hung and she's just a fun person.
Speaker 1:She knows a good time, so she loves jay cohen rock says no need to judge, but there are people with fu money who haven't spoken out. Yeah, I just feel like some of those people who you think have a few money don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they might not have the FU money, so whatever, but it doesn't matter, we're not talking about them.
Speaker 1:Listen, not everyone has the A&H sponsorships rolling in for 40k on the live stream, but we're having fun and that's all that matters.
Speaker 2:We're having fun. We hope you're having fun, and that's all that matters. We're having fun. We hope you're having fun. And let me tell you where you can have even more fun at a live show. Nothing beats a live show. We are going on the road. All the tickets are available on modi livecom. We are going to be in vienna. We are going to be on the we. We're going to be Paris November 23rd. Paris, november 23rd. Make a weekend of it. Go Get a place. Make Paris a weekend. It's amazing. We're going to be at San Francisco.
Speaker 1:We're adding a show in San.
Speaker 2:Francisco, in Seattle, san Francisco, right, the show being added in san francisco. You have a date for that? Oh, please, these. It's so, and if you know, someone there get them tickets we have vancouver, november 12th.
Speaker 1:San francisco, november 13th november 16, austria, uh vienna. Vienna, november 18th amsterdam november 18th, amsterdam.
Speaker 2:Don't glaze over that, amsterdam. There's a need for a little Mashiach energy and some Jewish community and some love, and all these shows have safety measures that are amazing, so don't be worried about any of that, come Amsterdam. I hit part eight.
Speaker 1:November 20th, Berlin.
Speaker 2:Berlin is going to be lit as all hell. The show is going to be amazing. We did it two years ago. We are now like doubling the amount of people were doing it. Uh, is it possible to add a new show there?
Speaker 1:or are they thinking about november 23rd paris, december 6 seattle?
Speaker 2:december 6, we're going to be in Seattle.
Speaker 1:What else are you doing in?
Speaker 2:Seattle For real. What else are you doing? December 6th, come to Seattle. It's going to be a great show, beautiful theater and I'm looking forward to these shows. I can't wait for these shows and that makes the show so much better than comedy. It's like I can't believe I'm going on the road. It's. I can't wait for any of these shows and the taping in Atlanta is going to be on the 10th and 11th of December. That's just going to be a comedy event that you do not want to miss. We've been on for over 45 minutes. I think it's all they need. Over 45 minutes, I think that's all they need. Thank you, all of you listening and sharing and being a part of our lives. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and we love you. Anything else you want to say Except the word like Kilo?
Speaker 1:Kilo L'zaylo.
Speaker 2:No, nirey otchem be live, nirey otchem be live.
Speaker 1:We see you in live. How do you say have a good day, yom Tov?
Speaker 2:Shana Tova, you can also start saying happy new year because Rosh Hashanah is coming up so you can start to say Shana Tova to everybody, and don't just you know what, can we do something? Don't just say to everybody happy new year, have a good new year, a happy and healthy new year. Add happy, healthy new year with Moshiach energy. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye how good are these cookies?
Speaker 2:oh my god, oh my god.