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Episode 166: Modi and Leo discuss celebrity sightings in Syracuse, the successful roll-out of Radio City, and debate who would survive the longest in the wilderness.
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Cold Open And Fire Alarm Chaos
SPEAKER_01Good morning and welcome back to And Here's Modi. It's Monday, November 10th, and I am here with the man himself, Modi. My name is Leo. You know who I am. Was that good? I'm trying to do morning radio.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he did it. It's good.
SPEAKER_01But it's gotta keep you can't have any dead air in my radio. That's why they always throw out like uh facts. Like just random facts. Hey, today's National Donut Day. Grab some donuts for your coworkers.
SPEAKER_0216 years ago today, we uh had uh the uh the Hindenburg went down, or whatever the hell they have. They always give you some horrible fact that no one cares about because they kept they have to keep it their job. It's their job. It's their job, no dead air. Can I tell you when when um when you're on the road and you you're doing comedy clubs and um they have the uh is that us?
SPEAKER_01The fire alarm's going off. Plot twist. Plot twist, the fire alarm's going off. Should we record through it?
SPEAKER_02There we go.
SPEAKER_01No, can you hear it like in our thing? Well we're just gonna keep talking for now.
SPEAKER_02Yes, so the fire alarm the fire alarm in the studio is going off, and uh and we're gonna work right through it. Because we're professionals. And we're so used to noise. Unfortunately, yes. That's the case. Um and it's not just because of where we live, it's anywhere in the city now.
Life On The Road And Morning Radio
SPEAKER_02If you're on Park Avenue, if you're on if if you're downtown, it's just wherever it is, it's just there's smashing into the streets and it's stopped now though. The fire that's it.
SPEAKER_01So let's reset a little bit. So it's a schooler. You were talking about uh dead air on the road when you're doing comedy clubs.
SPEAKER_02So whenever you're doing comedy clubs all over the city, all over the country, they always get somebody from like the morning um a a guy who's like also the morning DJ will open up for you. And they don't know how to not be quiet. So when you're in the green room with them, they are just like non-stop telling, talking and talking. They can't have just a moment of quiet. They're like they're rig. It's like a tick, yeah. It's a tick that they can't have quiet in the air, and so that's it.
SPEAKER_01Unlike you and me, who could talk or not talk, have soup. We like we both like soup. Those of you who got that reference enjoy not everyone will. We
Miami Shows And FAA Disruptions
SPEAKER_01just came back from uh Yeah, so it's Monday the 10th. We had where were we? We were in Miami for three shows at the Miami Improv, and then we went to Syracuse, and yes, we did indeed fly on the day that the FAA sliced many a flight, grounded many a flight. We uh were supposed to connect in Philly, we were supposed to go Miami, Philly, Syracuse. We got rerouted to Charlotte, North Carolina.
SPEAKER_02No, but the tri the traumatic thing was that we thought everything was okay. Then we get to our gate. As we arrived to our gate, they just say Leonardo Vega and she couldn't say Mora. She just goes so she just goes, and Rosenfeld. Please come to the gate. And I knew it wasn't gonna be good. Yeah. Because they couldn't upgrade us because we were already up front. So she says, Hi, I'm gonna have to put you guys on a flight to uh Charlotte, North Carolina, and from there you'll get to Syracuse.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. In the back of the plane. In the leglotte to Syracuse, we had to fly uh in the back of the plane in row uh Rose I didn't even know existed anymore, to be honest with you. I'm just so used to getting on the plane.
SPEAKER_02We just forgot that the plane goes that keep going.
SPEAKER_01It's like it keeps going. Yeah, it was a big plane. Poor us, these are our problems. No, but um Are you impressed that when we landed in Charlotte, an airport I've narried but been to once or twice? I muscle memoried my way to the Centurion Lounge. That's right. No phone, no signage, just followed it like a bloodhound. Exactly.
SPEAKER_02It's stuck in between two gates and it's hidden.
SPEAKER_01It's hid. It's hidden, the centurion lounge in Charlotte.
SPEAKER_02You have to know where it is. Yeah, but the shows were amazing. It's like back on the road after all these vacationing that we in the weeks off and and just getting the hour ready for uh December. December 10th and 11th to tape it, and um it was amazing. Uh the Florida's Florida, and the improv is just like packed house, everybody's eating. The first show they just were eating and eating, and they brought kosher food for them. Yeah, yeah, and they were just eating, and when they stopped eating, they figured, let's start talking to Modi. And then just they were conversations.
SPEAKER_01Like they were that just that one lady up front, but Florida's amazing. Florida is amazing. And that club, as far as improvs go, are is very good. It's very, very good.
SPEAKER_02And I got to work at the material and got to uh get ready for the special, and then Charlotte, and then Syracuse. Yeah. Wow. That was we did not expect that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so this is what happened. Your agent and and the powers at B were like, we need to park you somewhere so that you could just run this hour, basically, but that's not a location that's gonna eat into any of our other upcoming tour dates. Where are we gonna put you? Syracuse, New York. I was like, uh, okay.
Charlotte Detour And Lounge Victory
SPEAKER_01It's literally it's a comedy club inside of a mall, and you parked there for three shows. Yeah. And um we filled the room. We we we filled the room. It was like a focus group.
SPEAKER_02It was a focus group because because the the club also, whatever seats we didn't sell, they papered. And so explain what that means. They they gave it to um they gave seats to people who are on their mailing list and like, hey, do you guys want to come see a show tonight? No cover charge. So you saw the Jewish people of Syracuse and the neighboring areas, and then all of a sudden you just saw people who you would It was a diverse crowd. It was a very diverse crowd, and I was monitoring them like made you slow down. No. In a good way, I think. I slowed down because the sound system was Oh yeah, their sound system blows. Yeah, the sound system blew. So we needed to I needed to not scream or not get loud. So it was more focusing on the material, and also for me with the stuttering, it's the it's the word, uh the wording of of certain jokes and certain stuff, you know, just the the tongue twisters and the listing off. I have a few in there. And so I um I I I it was very good. I very much appreciate Syracuse and and let's talk about Syracuse for a minute. What about it? We felt like we were in Schitz Creek. Oh, be nice. I'm being nice. The the it's a college town. There's nothing else to say. There is a university, University of Syracuse, and the kids that are there could not be happier. They have Greek life, and they said they also don't have Greek life, and um, but the rest of the town.
SPEAKER_01No, the whole time we're driving around, you're going, Who lives here? Why would you live here? What are you doing here? If you're not in college, what do you what are these people doing here? Is that was that not you the whole time? Everywhere there's no decent hotel. There is no decent. In fact, we switched hotels. We landed,
Syracuse Residency And Diverse Crowd
SPEAKER_01we said, ew, this is gross, and we we literally left and went to the hotel.
SPEAKER_02Let me tell you how well but let's I'll tell you how God talks to us. So we we we came to a hotel was vile, and then we went listen, honey, there's no four seasons in Syracuse, New York. There isn't even a three-season, there's no three season in in there, and so we we um we literally chat GPT'd what is the most luxurious hotel in Syracuse? And it gave us the Marriott downtown. We got there, it's a haunted old building. Uh they redid a few rooms. Luckily, we were able to get one of them. It was completely it was fine, but not like like it was it was one of those showers where the whole thing is one unit, you know. It's so stupid. And then we we went down for breakfast. Breakfast was included, and we went down for breakfast, and we're like and I in our minds like what the hell are we doing here? We shouldn't be be in this hotel, we shouldn't be here at all. We get to the breakfast, and who do we see?
SPEAKER_01Alec Baldwin. Yeah, so when we checked in in the lobby, there were these there was some sort of gala or event happening for the it just said Baldwin Family Foundation, and I was like, okay. And it turns out it was the Baldwins, like Alec Baldwin.
SPEAKER_02And he had breakfast. I thought it was the Baldwin piano family, the ones that make the pianos. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't random. It was so random, and he's sitting there eating uh from this like mediocre buffet, but he's there and he's and I'm so I'm like, you know, you know, if he's with his family. Yeah, I mean, if he's there, it's okay that we're there, you know. It was like get off your high horse, whatever whatever it was. Uh Tim.
SPEAKER_01Have we had any any any other good celebrity sightings right recently?
SPEAKER_02Have we had any good celebrity sightings recently? I don't think we have. I mean, Kim Kardashian on the new show.
SPEAKER_01All's fair. All's fair starring Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, uh Tayana Taylor, uh Sarah Paulson, etc. etc. Everybody's on it. Um by Ryan Murphy, the most prolific showrunner of our age, really. One of them.
SPEAKER_02And we we what we watch it because it's uh it's it's a very easy plot line, and they shoot it the same way they shoot keeping up with the Kardashians.
SPEAKER_01So can I tell you something? I only wanted to watch it because I wanted to see how Kim Kardashian like approved the lighting and like how the angles she was gonna be in, and like because she's notorious for using like filters on her face on everything. Like that she's done TV interviews where the filt she has filters put on her face, and sometimes they glitch a little bit because she moves. So I was like, how are you gonna film a Ryan Murphy show with like multiple cameras and like real life lighting? But she looks stunning.
SPEAKER_02She looks great, and she looks like um she was the million, but and but it's everything is set exactly the way that show is the Kardashian show. They have her set up and she delivers the lines exactly like it's a reality show. Knowledge is power, having knowledge about your client gives you a lot of things. Yeah, it's not good. It's not a good show. It's not like an acting show, it's her just being like exactly the way she is on her on that Kardashian show. We came here Thursday and we knew we'd be here for a long time. It's like that, but but the plot line's great. The movie move is it is it an hour, 40 minutes, whatever it is. Like 40 some minutes. It's wonderful before you go to
Small Town Hotels And Alec Baldwin
SPEAKER_02bed. And and and and and that's that's really all we need. We don't need shootings and killings and murders, and then it's great, and it's pretty, it's pretty because she's showing off every single Birkin she has. She's showing off all the jewelry she has, she's showing off everything she has. There's no way that they they could have gotten that. She brought it from her closet. Yeah. And and it's nice to see them. Birkins in every size, every every color, every skin, everything. Good for her. Good for her. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Then we're going back on the road.
SPEAKER_01We are Vancouver and San Francisco this week. But aren't they all sold out? Um, well, also by the time this airs, we will have already done the shows. But um, Vancouver is, yeah, sold out. Uh uh, San Francisco sold out. We added a show in San Francisco, but because of your availability and the venues availability, etc., we didn't we we can't add the show until February. So we're returning to San Francisco in February.
SPEAKER_02And Vancouver and San Francisco to us are are are just no-brainers because they have a four seasons and they have an equinox. So we know exactly what we're doing there. There's no museum, there's no restaurants that you have to go to. You have to eat it. How long are you in town for? Oh my god, you have to go to the guy.
SPEAKER_01I know the chef. I know the chef. I'll call him. They have a miso cod that is absolutely if we look at another misocod, I think. Throw up. We're gonna.
SPEAKER_02Oh, you hate restaurants. Wait, we did have a fun restaurant experience in oh in Miami.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, okay, yes. So we killed 18 birds with one stone. So I have family in Miami, you have family in Miami, and we were only in town, we only had one night to give them because the rest of the nights we were at the shows. And um, we got invited to a kosher restaurant in Miami Beach club Maison Ostro by Chef Olivia Ostro. Shout out to her. Uh, her team reached out inviting us to a dinner, me and Modi. I said, Hi, sounds great. Thank you so much. Um, would you mind if this were for six people? Um, because we were trying to cram in seeing your cousin and my godparents and everyone. She was like, Yes, of course. Anyway, we went to this restaurant and um she took care of us, Chef Ostro. And but you don't usually go to kosher restaurants like that.
SPEAKER_02No, because everybody comes over for the pictures and makes a whole to-do. It did happen. It did, but let me tell you, we had some shirk energy moment there. First of all, it was just nice to put my family, my cousin Hila, with your with your um I knew they would get along. Yeah, they got along. Yeah, they got along, and then one martini in, they really got along. Um and um but uh some so there was somebody in the restaurant that came over to me and said to me, Oh my god, I can't believe you're here, and I have a book for you. I'm like, okay, I'm never gonna say no. When someone gives you something, he gives it. He ran to the car, he came back, and he brought me this book. It's called I Never Met the Rebbe Many Times Many Times. I never met the Rebbe Many Times by David Nissen off, N-E-S-E-N-O-F-F, and the book is amazing. It's amazing. I can't read.
SPEAKER_01You know I can't read. You always say that, yeah. Here you are reading a book. You because you who are all about the self-speak, and I can, I will, I'm doing. I know. You always say this negative shit, it drives me crazy.
SPEAKER_02So the book is written in like three-page intervals. Perfect
TV Talk And Kim Kardashian Takes
SPEAKER_02for you. It's perfect for me. You can read. So I can get through the three pages because after three pages is when my mind goes away. So I and it's all about Chabad and Lubavitch and the Rebbe and the Schluchem emissaries.
SPEAKER_01I'm like, Oh we just pause and acknowledge how many podcasts cover Kim Kardashian into the Rebbe so quickly and seamlessly and effortlessly. Not many.
SPEAKER_02That's it. Kim Kardashian write in and continue on the book. So the book is amazing. I'm I'm I'm putting this out to you right now. I think he and I should do a live podcast together.
SPEAKER_01I'm sure this will somehow get back to him and he will um reach out. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02No, I'll reach out to him as soon as I'm done with the book. I have like a whole set. I I I I left an entire section so I can have something to read on the on the West Coast flights. Yeah. I didn't want to just burn through it. And it was just um anyway, it's an amazing book, and it's he talks about every miraculous story that happened to get like all these chabad houses that he went to. Those of you who don't know that is, it's like those, those, the chabad houses. Look at Google C-H-A-B-A-D, Chabad house, and um miraculous stories, and that's just exactly what I want. Speaking of miraculous stories, we're just gonna go right from one thing to the next. Give it to them. The miracle of having children.
SPEAKER_01We oh we we we we are not having a baby. We we on a previous podcast, we joked that we had a big news week with when the New York Times piece came out, and then we posted that it was our anniversary the next day, and then I joked that the only thing to complete the trifecta of like social media attention would be if we posted like a picture of a sonogram, like a PR like a cryptic message of like a sonogram, like maybe we're having a baby, and that got back to the folks.
SPEAKER_02Well, so in short, we are not having a baby, uh, and the picture of uh the uh what whatever rumor, not rumor, whatever it's it wasn't a rumor or gossip, but just like somebody heard it in the back of like you know, when you listen to a podcast, you're not sitting there listening to every word, it's in the back of your mind. And somebody heard having a baby, sonogram, something, and boom, it became uh to the point where somebody else came to Brian in the Five Towns and said to him, Um, Congratulations, I heard you're gonna be an uncle. Because Brian's like a lot like a like a brother. He said to him, uh uh Modi's having a baby. Modi's not having a baby because he can't.
SPEAKER_01I can't. Yeah, but imagine if we did, though. I'm registered at Brunello Cuccinelli. I'm I'm registered at Radio City Music Hall. Oh, yeah, we did that this week too. We put on sale Radio City Music Hall. You know, just no big deal. Just your biggest show ever to date in New York City or elsewhere. 6,000 seats. Yes. And guess what, folks? We are, shall I say how sold we are? Because we're pretty sold. We're very the tickets are going very fast. So much so that I think your team is like a little bit surprised, but like I'm not surprised.
SPEAKER_02We knew we we knew it was gonna go fast because the the the people have been like looking for us and to do a show here, and but the the team is surprised, and so are we and and it's and it's all God.
SPEAKER_01God if you're not in the New York area, if there were ever a time to plan a New York trip, plan it for April 23rd. Come see the show. It's a Thursday, right? Yep, spend the weekend up here and then go home. Like Modi at Radio City is a huge milestone event. And if you were ever going to see a show in New York, I don't I don't know what else you were.
SPEAKER_02And I I don't feel like it's my show. I feel like it's our show, like like me and you, but also my audience.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's a celebration.
SPEAKER_02My audience that has been with me in synagogue gigs, in Passover programs, in in charity events, in whatever uh uh private events, all of a sudden we're all coming together to celebrate like where we've we've we've come this far. Like, yeah, not just you, the whole community. The whole it's but it's
Kosher Dinner, Family, And A Book Gift
SPEAKER_02for the community, yeah. Yeah, and so I it's just I'm so excited for it. So excited for it. And my mom can't believe how much the tickets are. My mom is in shock. She called me up. She goes, Do you know how much? Leah look, she called me, she told me that.
SPEAKER_01But whenever your mom says this, I'm always like, What website is that person on, really? Like, are they just googling and clicking the first link? Because that's usually a resale site. It's usually like not even StubHub. It's called like Vivid Seats or something. Oh my god. And it's like not a real site, and like God knows if you'll ever actually get the tickets. Only buy from ModiLive.com, which is linked to the ticket master page. Don't buy from anywhere else. You're gonna get scalped or you're gonna get overcharged.
SPEAKER_00Hmm. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, Connecticut. What about it? I don't know. I um no, we went. This is we went, so we have our shows coming up in Europe. We're going Vienna, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris. Then we were gonna spend a few days in Paris and fly back on the 27th on Thanksgiving, which I liked because it may it meant that I didn't have to do anything for Thanksgiving. I didn't have to plan anything or be anywhere or do the whole Thanksgiving thing, which as you know dramatic.
SPEAKER_02As you know, the expression is Mensch Trachtengardlacht. As soon as you you start to plan something, God has a whole other plan. So you thought we would be flying back on Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_01Which I was fine. I said Thanksgiving is a wash this year. I'm on an airplane, it doesn't count, it's not happening. I don't have to, I don't have to do whatever. I don't have to do logistics of this and that. And cut to somehow now I'm hosting all of my sisters like 16 people coming from Connecticut.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's good. See, that's amazing. It's all mach energy, it's all wonderful, and you can do it. And of course, I mean, and by hosting, we put a uh order in at a restaurant that's bringing in all the food.
SPEAKER_01Oh, there do you remember that one year that I went and I bought everything to host Thanksgiving dinner? Everything I bought the turkey, I bought the vegetables, I bought the drinks, I bought every every ingredient, and Evan was gonna help me cook. We were gonna do Thanksgiving at our apartment, and I got so sick. Yeah. Like, like as I'm cho like trying to like prepare everything, I feel my body just like shutting down. And I had like a hundred and three degree fever. That was horrible. So let's I've never actually gotten to like the hosting part. I've tried a few times. No, we're gonna kill it. It's gonna be the food's gonna come from the the restaurant you ordered from. No, I think Kelly and Julia are gonna cook because no one can get up there in time. You're kidding. Pick up the food. Yeah. Oh. There's this restaurant we like in Connecticut who's doing like a Thanksgiving to go menu, and I thought that would be easy, but yeah. Community table.
SPEAKER_02The uh Swift is doing one too. Swift also, okay. Two great restaurants up in uh in Connecticut. Um, so we so the so they're gonna cook. Oh wow, I just found out about this from now. Okay, good. Even better. Oh, by the way, I'm okay with like a sandwich. I I don't need a whole I'm just looking to have the the I know, but now we're doing it. Like we have to do the whole thing. But when we were up there before so, so so when we're not touring, the only one w working is Leo. He's he's doing the all Zoom calls and preparing and all the pre advancing. What do you call advancing? Advancing for the shows, and I'm doing nothing. And now I get to finally work, like I get to go on stage and and do what has to be done on my end. So I feel I feel I feel good. I feel invited. I'm gonna ride you feel good. Yes, I do, I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um shout out to Lululemon. Wait, we should actually shout out um AH provisions. Your favorite kosher hot dogs. Which we have hot kosher delicatesses. We're gonna have AH send a package to the to the house. Yeah. What makes sense? Uh kosher dogs.net is the website, and if you use promo code Modi on your first order, you get 30% off. And we love Seth and also Whites and Lux.
SPEAKER_02The law firm that not only does well, they do good, super philanthropic, Arthur Luxemburg, friend of the podcast, Randy Luxemburg that listens to the podcast
Miracles, Chabad Stories, And A Live Idea
SPEAKER_02to tell him what we're talking about. Uh, amazing law firm, and they are our collaborators on this uh on this podcast. So Whites and Luxembourg, the law firm, and AH Provisions. Um, been with us for a long time, thank God. Bruchosham. And everybody, everybody always says to us, we saw the oh my god, AH when we have the podcast.
SPEAKER_01They're at Costco now. They're at Costco. They've been at Costco. Wait, so you were about to give a shout out to Lululemon, but let me just I want to preface the story a little bit. So as we were in Miami on Wednesday, Thursday, the shutdown by the FAA because of the government shutdown was supposed to happen on Friday, which is the day we were flying to Syracuse. Okay. So I'm in the back of my mind, I'm already in emergency mode. So now I'm booking us refundable backup tickets on different carriers, different airlines. I'm searching out all my options because I don't want us to miss the shows.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because I I if I know there's a good chance our flight's gonna be canceled. And then as a last ditch effort, after I had booked the refundable tickets on other carriers, I looked into, well, like what if we just like chartered a plane to get from Miami to Syracuse?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Just for funsies. Like, how much would that be?
SPEAKER_02Who needs to who needs to make money on a show? Who needs to who needs to actually go and make money on a show? And I got it.
SPEAKER_01I got to my credit, I got on the phone. I you didn't see this. This all happened at the jet. I was on the phone with a broke, a jet broker, which by the way, if there's any jet brokers listening to this, please contact me. Um, I got a quote for like $18,000 one way, Miami to Syracuse, which apparently is good. Apparently it's usually like $30 or $40. Um, and I showed it to you, and you go, No, we're just gonna fly whatever we fly. So then we walked into Lulu feeling like because we didn't book the plane, that we had just saved $18,000 and thus gave us license to shop.
SPEAKER_02That's not why I was giving Lulu their uh their their shout-out.
SPEAKER_01Well, you wouldn't have gotten the that's why the shopping spree at Lulu happened. But that you're talking about.
SPEAKER_02No, but Lulu has recently come out with some pants that are so amazing. They look like not like what everybody's walking around in Wall Street for their like uh they look like slacks, but they're kind of like sweatpants. Right, but they and they and they they're like wide and they're and I wore them the entire trip. I and then I performed in them in Syracuse because I wasn't in the show. I I wasn't in my uh suit. And uh and then we found another pair that they came to pinstripes, and Lulu just really has been coming,
Baby Rumors And Setting The Record Straight
SPEAKER_02you know. We we you know, you go to Aloe, and then you go to uh you go see what's going on at Viore, and then you just forget you gotta pop into a Lulu once in a while. So just letting people know we don't shop unless we're on the road. We you know, we we went to the gym and at Coral Gables, the Equinox, and then there's a whole mall there. There's an entire beautiful mall in Coral Gables where the equinox is, and there's nobody buying anything. There is a Neiman Marcus that is massive with with with with so much merchandise, and there's just the salespeople inside. I don't know how anything is making I don't understand how any of this works. It's not making money. It's not making money. There were stores that are just empty for hours upon hours, nobody's making a per. How do you sustain a store like that? Could you explain that to me?
SPEAKER_01I'm not the one.
SPEAKER_02We need someone who's an expert in commercial real estate. So in the taping that I'm gonna be doing in uh in Atlanta, and believe me, and I never thought those words would be coming out of my mouth that I'm taping a comedy special in Atlanta. Uh would you know, because since we be we began this hour till now, the world's changed. And we've been doing I've been doing a lot a lot of material about the president, President Donald Trump. And I want to give myself a shaky for keeping it completely down the middle. Completely no one's offended, no one is like it's it it it literally is I say I'm not looking for booze, I'm not looking for woos, I look for what's funny, ahaha's in a very respectable way. D do you agree or no? Yeah, it's very diplomatic. It's very diplomatic, and it's it's and it and you can read everything as like, oh, yes, he is great because he did that, or it's like, oh, he's because he did that, maybe he shouldn't do that. And it was very I I I'm very proud of my Trump material. Very I I don't I don't know. I'm just I'm I think it's very good. I'm I'm really looking forward to getting it on tape before everything changes again. Because you just it's just in in a few weeks it'll just all be over again. Something new and everything just it moves so fast. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully this government shutdown will move
Radio City Announcement And Ticket Tips
SPEAKER_02fast. This government shutdown, I I wish I understood exactly what's happening. But I I don't I I know it's affecting now the flight, which is which is now it's affecting us. But until then it it it didn't.
SPEAKER_01Should we talk about your recent injuries? I uh maybe we should, yeah. Or I have some questions here. Go ahead. Um who would survive longer in the wilderness? Me or you? Me. You think so? I'm almost sure, yeah. You underestimate me.
SPEAKER_02Really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I've watched a lot of bear grills.
SPEAKER_02Well well, hold on. How how would you survive and now with with or without your phone? Without without your phone.
SPEAKER_01Just the wilderness, like what one of those survival shows. Because you did Hezvakeshet one year, you think you're gonna outsurvive me in the wilderness?
SPEAKER_02I was in Chetzvakeshet, and you I was also in Boy Scouts, so that that was I would that was not Bushkout, uh that's the army. Okay. I was in I was in the IDF. It was it was full-blown. It's like the Marines almost. Yeah, you were once you're once you're in Chetzva Keshet, is you're there for life.
SPEAKER_01Okay. He watches one season of Boots and now he thinks he's a Marine. I I uh I know. I feel I'm very resourceful, and you forgot underestimate my knowledge of nature. Yes, you're right.
SPEAKER_02You would survive more. You would, yes. You you would know which bear's gonna eat us or not. I could make us a shelter. Really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. With what? I don't know. Foliage. Foliage. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02You think you would outsurvive me? No, no, no. I think I think we no, no, I think you'd do very well. I thought we would both do very well there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But uh What's a piece of advice you give everyone else, but you never take yourself?
SPEAKER_02So that's so what's a piece of advice I give myself, but I give it what's a piece of advice I give everybody else, but don't take myself? That's whatever advice I give them, I try to take to myself, but you can't always do it.
SPEAKER_01Well, you're you're always saying like never say I'm going to or I am. Always say I am do. Like you always positive. Very trying to be positive. And that's why I said earlier about when you said when you say I can't read, I hate when you say that.
SPEAKER_02Right. It's a bad thing to say, yes.
SPEAKER_01It's it's a bad thing to say. Not in line with your philosophy.
SPEAKER_02So it happens. It's very hard to stay spiritual the whole time. I had a mis a mis a mishap in the green room in uh I had a mishap in the green room of uh of um of the funny bone in Syracuse. What mishap? There's nothing worse than when when you're you're with another comedian who the the the opening act that was with us, and we mentioned some other comedian, and I said, Oh, and I mentioned something about that other comedian. I I don't use any names, obviously, and it wasn't a positive thing. Oh and so afterwards I felt really, really bad because when you say something negative about somebody, especially because that person's dead, he's dead too. So he can't get it. And I and but and I meant it in a fun way. Yeah. Like, like I'm it's cool that he used to do this and that. But but uh I then uh I called him. I called him and said to him, hey, remember You did? Yeah, remember when we spoke about um When did you call him? Remember I asked you for the number of the of the GM? Oh, yeah. So I called him and I I said to him, hey, because he was a very special I wish I remember his his last name, Ken.
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SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um But he the manager put you in touch with him? Yeah. So the the um the I said to him, you remember we spoke about the that comedian? I was trying to tell you that, you know, I feel bad about that. And you should never repeat that story. Even though I said the story from a lot, like he was a he was a bartier and he loved to have a great time, but I shouldn't have said that. You just say he was an amazing comedian, he did really great stuff, he's remembered, his video clips are still running and he's wonderful, and that's how she live. So you even though you you don't catch you sometimes, you just it you don't catch the floor.
SPEAKER_01Well, I think it says a lot that you made the effort to do the walk back of like reaching back out to him and like sort of basically apologizing.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's more than apologizing, it's also to remind him not to say what he heard. Yeah. And kill kill this thing off. Luckily, he was a very, very spiritual kid. The kid, he's like 36, but he was he was a he was a great guy, our opening act. And um, I w I wish I remembered his name. Just stop mentioning that you don't know his name. I feel bad. I feel bad.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. If you could just delete one word or phrase from pop culture forever, what would it be?
SPEAKER_02Oh there are too many. Uh the first one would be um I've got you.
SPEAKER_01Oh, six seven, yeah. But I never let six seven get into it. No, we don't we're not we don't interact with young enough kids for like seven.
SPEAKER_02But when we went to Stan, he couldn't stop saying it. Yeah. Our trainer, like this Ukrainian, what is he? He's barely 40, right? Yeah, he's he just turned 36 or something. Oh, three, okay. He's like 6'7, 6'7, 6'7. I'm like, what are you what are you doing? So I would delete 6'7. I don't know why. I when people say I appreciate you. I it just It annoys you. It annoyed just say thank you. Thank you. Just that thank you. I don't know. I appreciate it. I don't know if I have one. Wait, uh there's many more I have, I think. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um yeah, I just can't remember them right now. What's one thing you think people completely misunderstood about you? That I'm gay. Really? I'm kidding. That's your answer. No, I'm kidding. You're Modi.
SPEAKER_02And you're his gay husband.
SPEAKER_01Um that I uh I think people think that you are what you are on stage 24-7. And then when they run into you in a situation that's not that, I think that they're a little taken aback by how like reserved you are. And what about you? What what are the things that people misunderstand about you? They're always like, he looks even better in person, is what I get uh most of the time. They always say, Wow, the podcast really doesn't do you justice. You're really stunning. And I'm like, Thank you. Yes, you are really stunning. That's I think one of my mis my misunderstood qualities. You poor thing. Yeah, you poor, poor thing. I don't translate well to the screw. I'm not very genetic.
SPEAKER_02At the Deborah Messing taping, my my mom uh saw Periel, and my mom last time, you know, my mom it's like when when she saw Perriel a while ago, she said to her, You look much better in person than you do on on camera. And and then it's such a my mom thing to say. And then my mom was with Periel at uh at the Deborah Messing thing, and my mom's friend comes over and said and said to her, also, you look much better in person than you do on camera. Tell her to stop saying that. No, my mom didn't say that. My mom's friend said that. My mom's friend said that. Well, we can start to wrap up, no?
SPEAKER_00Unless you have something else. No, we still have time. We have we still have time. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01Okay. What's the other question then? Um who's more likely to start a deep talk at midnight
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SPEAKER_01when we're about to fall asleep? Me, probably. Me? No. You already have your earplugs in, you're ready to go, you're ready to go to sleep. And meanwhile, I'm over there, my mind's like brrrrrrr. Like NASCAR thoughts.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but would you but would you start a conversation then? Sometimes I would. Sometimes I do. I'm open. And and when I and you've seen me take my earphones out, my my earplugs out, and and sit up and listen.
SPEAKER_01What's one thing the other person does that instantly makes you laugh no matter what mood you're in?
SPEAKER_02Um oh when when I see you laugh at some ridiculous thing on uh on TikTok or Instagram, when you start to whenever you you you laugh, it's just like you you crawl in and you're you start to tear, so you do this like that, and you just start to like just lose your mind. And I'm like thinking, oh, what did he just see that was so funny?
SPEAKER_01It's always something just stupid and like absurd. It's not like a well-crafted piece of stand-up or something that I'm or it's some kid screaming in the middle of choir practice. Oh my god, that's one of my favorite videos.
SPEAKER_02Oh, some kid walking into a mirror.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, or or kids falling really does it for me. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but you literally go literally like you go like this, and then you can't you can't collect yourself, and I I see you doing that, and it causes me to laugh. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And that's it. Mine is when you um when you break into like Irish folk songs. Oh. Don't do it now, save it for later. Why? Because speaking of Irish, yes, my Irish passport is being processed right now.
SPEAKER_02Wow. You you are on that whole thing you have to have to make sure you have two passports.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. I'm a man of the world. Correct. Not just a man of the United States, and a man of Ireland. Yeah. So I used the I had to pull some strings to get some documents together. Yes. Because I had to get my mom's But all legally. Yeah, no, but I had to get my mom's birth certificate and her marriage certificate and you know, all these things. And so I I've sent that over and it's I think they should have it in a few weeks. That's insane. So then so then we have to plan an Ireland trip. Like I'm so ready. If there's anybody in Ireland that wants me to do a show, I'm in. Yeah, we're going to Ireland, and I'm gonna like not just like oh four days. I'm gonna go for like two weeks. I'm going to Ireland and I'm going to see what's happening over there.
SPEAKER_00Have a paint. Have a paint.
SPEAKER_02I don't know what they say over there. Yeah. But you grew up with that. You your grandmother was Irish.
SPEAKER_01My grandmother talks with an Irish accent like this. Really? Yeah, she did today. She's still alive.
SPEAKER_00Still alive. She's still alive. Did you visit her? Right.
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SPEAKER_00Not really. Not really. Not really.
SPEAKER_01Um, ModiLive.com for all your touring needs. We um we're recording this on the 10th, so I don't know when you're going to be listening to this, but tomorrow, November 11th, we're announcing over a dozen new domestic tour dates, including major cities that you've been asking for, like Boston, DC, Philly, and many, many more. By the time you're listening to this, they will all be live at ModiLive.com. And again, if you're in New York, if you're in New Jersey, if you're in Long Island, come to Radio City. It's like a major thing. I know coming into the city can be stressful, but I promise you it'll be worth it. And even if you don't live in New York, make a weekend out of it. Come see Modi at Radio City on April 23rd. Those tickets are moving very, very fast. Um, and that's it.
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SPEAKER_01At least coming out of Leban. Okay.