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Episode 169: Modi and Leo recap recent shows in Europe, the special taping, theater ghost stories, and how they got to play guncles for the weekend.
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New Year And Hiatus Explained
SPEAKER_00We're back in the studio, and here's Modi. Uh, me and Leo are here. It's been a minute.
SPEAKER_01Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Leo. We come to you on January 2nd.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01Fresh and ready to go for 2026.
SPEAKER_00Fresh and frozen.
SPEAKER_01It's actually freezing outside. And we're not in St. Bart's. We're not in Miami.
SPEAKER_00We are moisturized.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's the key. As you know, as everyone knows. Moisturize, hydrate, and be nice to each other.
SPEAKER_00That's it. That is the and monetize. And monetize.
SPEAKER_01But before we get started, I just want to give people, you know, we have had a little bit of a hiatus with the podcast. We were posting a little sporadically. I apologize. We're going to get back into the groove now, but I just want to give like a quick, quick, broad level overview of why that was and just quickly go through our calendar from October, November to now.
SPEAKER_00We haven't been in the streets since November, right? Yeah. Oh my God.
SPEAKER_01So just to give you guys a sense, just bear
The Whirlwind Tour Itinerary
SPEAKER_01with me. We were in Miami, Syracuse, New York, then Vancouver, San Francisco, then Vienna, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris. Then we came home for a second. Then we went back to the West Coast to Seattle for two shows. Then San Francisco again for a private event. Then we went to Atlanta for two shows where we taped your special. And then from Atlanta, we went to Memphis for a JCC event. We came back. Then we went to Chicago and LA for the big deal shows with Elon and Michael Rappaport. And now we're back. Yes. So slingshotting from Europe to the West Coast, back home, back to the West Coast, LA, Chicago. It's been insane. We were at oh 61 flights, I think, for 2025. 61 legs. 61 legs. Legs. Anytime I have a boarding pass and I check into a flight and I walk on a plane, I count it as a flight.
SPEAKER_00As a flight. We were um at some crazy that that's we haven't been in the studio since then. So there's so much to talk about.
SPEAKER_01We have yeah, we've been busy.
SPEAKER_00Florida was great. The the the shows we went, you know, so we had some time off before too. So we went to Florida just to start it up again. The shows at the improv.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And that was just crazy to get up there, you know, to do it at a comedy club. And um but those were great shows. Those were amazing shows, and it's just like eating, they're all eating and they're all talking, and they're all but they were great. There's one table that I'd literally had to stop the show and get the waitress and take their order and help them all out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you're not used to that anymore.
SPEAKER_00I forgot about that. Literally, the woman was just like, Do you do you ever post that clip?
SPEAKER_01No. No, but didn't really translate well.
SPEAKER_00It didn't translate well. Um wait, Europe was insane.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, where do you want to start about Europe? We literally landed, uh we had a we had a red eye that got us into Vienna in the morning, and then the it was a matinee show in Vienna. So we literally landed, had like two hours, and then you were on stage.
SPEAKER_00In Vienna.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It was insane.
SPEAKER_00But then we had dinner also there, no? We we had a dinner with with um That was in Berlin. No, Oscar with Oscar Deutsch. I didn't go to dinner with Oscar Deutsch. That's Vienna. No, we had a dinner with um. Where's the dinner we had where we were You were here with Oscar Deutsch in New York City? No, we had it when we remember we cut all this. Right. We we had a dinner where we sat there. We may remember we were the people from like uh like the George Clooney. That was in Berlin.
SPEAKER_01That was in Berlin. That's what I've that's what I'm trying to tell you. I'm sorry. Yeah. Okay. Go back. See, you don't even know where we're where we've been.
SPEAKER_00Sorry, so we have to cut that out. Um, I don't know. No, we th your beginning was good with the date, so we'll keep that. Okay. Just start from here.
SPEAKER_01So I said Vienna we land was crazy because we landed in the morning and it was a matinee show, so you literally were on stage within two hours of getting on the ground and just rocking and rolling.
SPEAKER_00And it was a fun show. It was in a the it was in a movie theater type place. It was like 800 people, and it was like the chairs are super comfortable, so I hate that. Um just Viet Vienna, it was just a it was very vibey and it was very beautiful, and the hotel was great. There was cost.
Florida Club Shows And Crowd Chaos
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was smooth and the promoter was smooth. Now let's talk about Amsterdam.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01And we're gonna speak freely here, and if we decide that we feel uncomfortable with anything that was said, we can always censor ourselves. Correct. So let's just get loosey-goosey with it. There was some drama in Amsterdam. Correct, there was. So would you like me to set the scene?
SPEAKER_00I think you should. You're better you you were more involved in it. Yeah, I was just being briefed little.
SPEAKER_01So when we put the show in Amsterdam on sale, which was like six months before the actual show, I started to receive some feedback from locals that uh where do you want me to put this?
SPEAKER_00No, just it's not it shouldn't be the mid the main thing in the screen. I don't care. Start Amsterdam again. Start Amsterdam, yeah.
Europe Kickoff And Vienna Matinee
SPEAKER_01So when we put Amsterdam on sale, which was six months before the show, I started to get some feedback from locals that this area that the theater was in was not really great, like that people didn't feel walk safe walking around with the Amakas in this neighborhood, let's just put it that way.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_01And they were asking about extra security, that they don't feel safe, blah, blah, blah. But the show sold out, so people were still buying tickets, but they were just kind of wary of where this event was taking place. Right. Keep in mind once we got there, it was like this beautiful performing arts center, but that's in a completely lovely neighborhood.
SPEAKER_00Well, we only saw it at night, Modi. But it was also like on the back of it, it was on the water.
SPEAKER_01It wasn't like we're not locals, we don't know.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01So, so of course, I flagged this to our management team and the promoters and everyone, and we hire a lot of extra security. And when I say a lot of extra security, I mean we've been at events where like the vice president and the president of the United States were there, and there was less security than there was at this show.
SPEAKER_00By security, there were there were guys like Viking-looking guys in suits with like armed and uh all over the theater, like not one or two or three, like twelve.
SPEAKER_01No, like three per person. Yeah. And um, but the drama was, you know, they tried to kind of cancel your show. The theater did. Yeah, the theater did the theater did, not the so allegedly, hypothetically speaking, for legal purposes, this is a joke and a fictional story. So just use your imagination. There once was a time where there was someone who was in charge of the Performing Arts Center in Amsterdam who decided that they saw Modi Rosenfeld on the lineup and this was gonna be their big BDS moment. They were gonna come in and say, wait a minute, with a big red veto stamp and say, Not this show. And they started throwing all sorts of loopholes at us to kind of to move the show to another theater. Yeah, they wanted us to move the show to another theater at like the last second, and then they became extremely difficult to work with, trying to kind of like basically make us pull out of the show so that they wouldn't be in breach of contract. Right. But we dug our heels in, hired all
Amsterdam Security Battle And BDS Pushback
SPEAKER_01of this extra security, which a lot of it we came out of pocket for. Yeah, so 16,000 euros. 16,000 euro is which buys you a lot of security. It sounds like maybe not that much, but it actually buys you a lot of bodies in the room of personnel.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, and we said, screw you, we're doing the show. It's a sold-out show. Uh, do what you have to do to make sure this is a safe event. And we did it, even though they tried to throw all those loopholes at us. But that was drama. That was our main European drama of people trying this guy, this person, whoever they were on the board of this place trying to put their foot down.
SPEAKER_00But luckily, it leaked out somewhere into the into the community of Amsterdam that we paid for all the security. And then we started getting these beautiful DMs saying, Thank you so far much for paying for the security. Thank you so much for making sure that the show went on, and and that was that was worth everything.
SPEAKER_01That was well, I had someone come up to me after the show, and I can't verify this, but she said that she was the victim of uh sort of like a physical harassment in like right outside the theater. So she told me it was nice, uh anti-Semitic harassment, and it that it was nice to kind of like come back to that same location and laugh and sort of like reclaim that space for her. So now when she thinks of that space, she thinks of like you and laughing and not that scary thing that happened to her, which is kind of sweet, a powerful thing when you think about it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the only other on the since they left been in the tour, the only other like kind of um incident we had was um not incident, like in the Chicago show when we did the big deal festival, which was me, um, Elon Gold, and Michael Rapaport, there was a because of Brett Michael Rapaport, people who follow him were like gonna protest his show. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01If you want to talk about yeah, so the other drama was the big deal shows you did in Chicago and LA with Michael Rappaport and Elon. And you for the most part fly under the radar with all this stuff because you're very apolitical and you you walk the line and you're you're it's not what your act is about. Right. So when you were on the bill with Michael Rappaport, it brought some unwanted attention. And I have a Google alert set up for your name. Yeah. So once a week I get an email from Google and it pulls articles or wherever your name is mentioned, and it can be as small as like a comment on someone else's Instagram post to like a whole article about you. In which case, in this in this case for the Chicago show, it was literally from a is Israeli government agency website that like compiles security threats, like local security threats around the world, and labels them as like high, medium, low threat of intensity. And it was about, I would say, like 12 to 15 events they listed. Yours was at the very bottom with the red label high.
SPEAKER_00And we should mention that the picture that they used was that of Modi the Prime Minister of India.
SPEAKER_01So that was like an AI thing that just auto-populated.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but like that's hysterical.
SPEAKER_01Like the Yeah, most of my Google alert is Modi the Prime Minister of India, and I have to comb through to which ones are about you.
SPEAKER_00Okay, but that was I thought that was hysterical. Like, here's a high threat alert, and it's Modi the Prime Minister of India comedian.
High-Threat Alerts And Chicago Drama
SPEAKER_00So I don't know. Um but but the biggest show of all the whole tour that blew my mind away was the Berlin show.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you said that was in your top five shows, like of all time.
SPEAKER_00Literally, of all time. It was so it's insane. We we've been into to Berlin two years before. We had two shows in a like a club. Um and keep in mind that Berlin has only 10,000 Jews, right? And to for a thousand to show up, that means ten percent of the community shows up. Yeah, no, so we had two thousand people um at this show, and it was in a synagogue that that is where the Nazis used to store their horses. And they built it out. Look, look on the Instagram post of the European shows. They built it out. It looked like a concert. It looked like it was it was mega, it was unbelievable. The lighting, the it was a part of a whole festival, and this show was like and the sound was good, and the lighting was good, and everything was good, and it was just like and they were so I don't know, it was just an amazing show. Because while you you're in the show, while I'm in the material, I'm like this is happening. We are in Berlin right now. We are having a comedy night. There's 2,000 people here. This is insane. Berlin. It's just crazy. I was really in the moment, I was feeling it. It was really it was so
Berlin’s Thousand-Seat Synagogue Triumph
SPEAKER_00good. It was so good. And the opening act was great. I don't know, he was w wonderful. Um, can't recall his name right now, but he's Israeli, so that was good too. And um, what else was there? We had um How about your special taping? Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01I mean, we're skipping things here, but like that comes to mind. Um, let's before the well after Paris we went to Ber after Berlin we went to Paris and we did the show. It was beautiful, great, amazing. And then we switched our flights and left early because the weather was so missing.
SPEAKER_00Let's just do Paris. So the last time we were in Paris was two days after October 7th. October 9th. So it's now we're but now we're back in Paris two years later, and we're like, okay, we're gonna enjoy Paris more. We're gonna we're gonna really take it in. There's less pressure, there's you know, not every day we're talking to the producers and the and the theater about security and doing shows. Everything was chill. It was in a gorgeous theater. And the problem was it was freezing and raining in Paris, and Paris freezing and raining is just not the vibe.
SPEAKER_01But it was freezing and raining, like I've never experienced freezing and raining like that. Like I live in New York, I know cold and stuff, but it was like I couldn't be outside. We couldn't be outside, and we were staying inside of my ears.
SPEAKER_00We were staying at the Peninsula Hotel, which is beautiful, but located right right by Arc de Triomphe, which is just everybody just doing selfies. It was horrible.
SPEAKER_01I remember, yeah, we had a full like day and a half left, and we were going back, we were like trudging through this cold, like sleet, sleet, icy weather. And I just turned to you and I go, I don't want you to think I'm saying this because like I'm not having a good time or enjoying being Paris with you.
SPEAKER_00But I was like, And before you finished, I said call the travel. Get us out of here. Get us out of here. Like, let's just change our flight. Yeah, I was like, to leave Paris. We were playing. One thing about us, we'll leave. We will leave. We will leave and show up. We'll leave and we will show up. One thing about us, we'll leave and if the vibe no, we'll show up and if the vibes are off, we'll leave. We will leave. Yeah, absolutely. We're flexible. 100%. Um the show is amazing. The show in Paris was in this stunning theater. It looked so it was gorgeous. It was gorgeous, it was a Paris marble lobby. Like Yeah, oh, it was like although I forgot about the lobby. I did, I did walk in there. Um, but like the seats were all red, it was two tiers, it was so beautiful. And of course, we always ask the theater, are there any ghosts? Yeah, we love to ask. And and so like I'm doing the sound check and I'm asking, are there any ghosts? And they'd know that I was saying. So I go, so someone try translated fantôme, fantôme. Yeah, fantôme. So I go, Oh, is there any fantôme? Is there any fantôme here? And all of a sudden the light starts to flicker. Yeah, one of the chandelier lights flickering.
SPEAKER_01Literally.
SPEAKER_00Oh, so they're like, Yeah, they didn't know this, it's been around for over a hundred years, and them more than a hundred years. Yeah, it was like this old, old theater. And then in the middle of my set, which this has not happened ever, one of the lights that are on the floor that lights
Paris Shows, Ghosts, And Bad Weather
SPEAKER_00up the curtain just Yeah, just fell.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And those things don't just fall.
SPEAKER_00Those things don't just fall.
SPEAKER_01Those things are like Yeah. But it was You have to push that thing for it to fall.
SPEAKER_00All the theaters have a fantôme. Not all.
SPEAKER_01But a lot of them do, though.
SPEAKER_00A lot of them do. We always ask, hey, are there any ghosts here? And they tell you, people sometimes like we we we we ask the question when there's like the sound guy, the lighting guy, the manager, the promoter, when everybody's there.
SPEAKER_01People who are like in the building a lot.
SPEAKER_00Right. We we just hit them. We're like just surprised. Hey, are there any ghosts in the building? Sometimes it's a resounding yes. Yes. And they're like, Yes, we have ghosts, and we they London Palladium.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. They said yes.
SPEAKER_00London Palladium, they all say, Yeah, oh, Arizona, every place. There's places we've been to. Some of them are like, um not sure. And uh where where was that place where the girl said, um Oh, in Van in uh Vancouver, right?
SPEAKER_01In Vancouver. She was like, she was she was like almost relieved that we asked. She was like, Oh, they told me I'm not allowed to talk about this. But yes, there's a ghost here, and I see him all the time. And she like when she was like thrilled to talk about it.
SPEAKER_00She was thrilled, and she said, and there's another girl here that works in the cashier who's a medium.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And she so she really has communicated with the ghost. I'm like, oh, okay. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so whether or not you believe in ghosts, it's like it's a fun icebreaker, A, when we're going to these theaters and like speaking to these people, we're meeting them for the first time, and now we have to like work together and put on a show together. So it's like that's a good icebreaker for us. B, I kind of low-key do believe in ghosts.
SPEAKER_00100%. I mean low-key. We believe in ghosts. What does low-key thing mean? Oh, that means we believe in ghosts. We've seen them in the movie, we've seen them in the theaters. We've had crazy incidences. Yeah, we know. Well, when you think about it but it's a good thing. It's a it's a nice to have a go. First of all, okay, it's it's it's someone that's a guest, it's not we have to worry about the guest list. It's not guest on the guest that we have to worry about. I don't have to escort. And and they listen, it's it's your their theater, whatever reason they got into it.
SPEAKER_01No, but if you believe in ghosts and that sort of thing, when you think about like what happens on a stage in terms of like the energy exchange, yeah. That to me, uh this sounds super cheesy and woo-woo, but that to me kind of like becomes like a supernatural thing. Like the energy exchange of artists, whether you're like a musician or a singer or a dancer or a comedian, that sort of energy I think can linger post the physical body.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely. But they the one in Vancouver, she she she said she knew who the ghost was. It was the Yeah, he she like had a description of him and everything when he did, and she knew his act, she knew his time she knew his cues.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so ghosts, BDS in Amsterdam, and uh it's a amazing Berlin show. And then Berlin was amazing.
SPEAKER_00Paris, we said we had the ghost was straight up communicating. But let's talk about your special. Well, hold on. What is what was the other one in um Vienna? But Vienna was fine. Vienna we did the show, we already said. I don't know. V Vienna's I I love Vienna. I love I love that we that Vienna's in in our route. It's just like a it's a good community. It's a good community. They're sweet, they're nice. And I think I made a mistake with the Berlin, but I think Vienna only has 10,000 Jews and a thousand show up, which is insane.
SPEAKER_01Someone will fact check us.
SPEAKER_00And um, yeah, and uh and that's you know who also has Jews?
SPEAKER_01Who? Atlanta, Georgia.
SPEAKER_00Did you would you even have thought? And they came out, they were amazing. And by the way, not only Atlanta, many people from New York came down for the taping of the special, and I cannot thank you enough. You guys were great. The energy in the room was so good, it was so good. Um, I
Believing In Theater Ghosts
SPEAKER_00never thought in my life I'd be taping a special in Atlanta. You think Miami, you think New York, maybe LA, but Atlanta.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so the reason why that happened was because we put the tour on sale, which included a stop in Atlanta already, and then the Atlanta show sold very, very well very fast. Brochem. And then we were like at the same time trying to source a place for you to film the special. But the problem with that is, you know, we need to put you somewhere routing-wise, geographically, that's not gonna cannibalize your current tour or like future touring plans. Because once you take out, you know, X amount of tickets from the market, you have to delay your return by that much more. So we were like, where are we gonna put this? Where's a good place? And it just turns out Atlanta was the sweet spot of A, the venue is an amazing venue that like a lot of people have film specials in. A lot of production is happening in Atlanta now in terms of like film and TV. So because I think a lot of tax rebates, and also just like a lot of LA people have moved out to Atlanta and Nashville. So the South is like producing a lot of media. So the camera crews are there, the lighting um house, like the lighting equipment is all the equipment houses are there, and it's cheaper. Yeah. It's like a it's like significantly cheaper than filming in like LA or New York. Um so that's how we kind of and that's how we ended up filming Pause for Laughter in Atlanta, which we are in the midst of editing right now. Which you yeah, but I've sent my first round of notes.
SPEAKER_00Judy and Michael came. Judy, Judy, Kenzie, JP, Michael came management. The management team came and our touring agent that we love uh came. And uh who else came? Who? Oh, well, hold on. Are we going there so fast? Are we going there right now? Give the people I mean, what what were you? Well, I'll just finish that, but just like it was just fun to have like you you you were in video village.
SPEAKER_01I didn't have to do anything. Yeah, I did not lift a finger. It was very luxurious. I mean, I lifted a finger
Why Atlanta Was Perfect For The Special
SPEAKER_01a lot in the run up to it.
SPEAKER_00I was like, but once I was on the ground, I was like, oh by the way, j just now you explaining how we got there was so calm and this and that, but like, you know, like there's a lot of stress that goes into it.
SPEAKER_01And the leading up in the weeks and months leading up, there's a lot of planning and zoom calls and oh my stuff. But once I was there, I didn't have to like make sure everyone was doing their job. Like they were professionals, it's real professional. It was a it was a game changer.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Um, one of the great things that we've already taped the special is now because since we've taped the special, I haven't I've all my head's only been in the special, in the material. I can now go back and watch um Know Your Audience. Know your audience. My my last I forgot all of it. Do you want to know something?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, as a general rule, yeah, I don't read the comments on uh YouTube videos of you that are not on our own channel because I can't control them. Crazy. And your know your audience special is on 800 pound gorilla's uh YouTube channel because they co-produced it with us.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And there's like thousands of comments, and I it's been over it's out, it's been published for over a year. I've never looked at the comments just for my own mental health. Right. I looked yesterday. And and overwhelmingly positive. Oh shit. I don't know if someone at 800-pound gorilla is going through and like deleting the bad ones, but it was like I was pleasantly surprised, which is rare these days on the internet.
SPEAKER_00No, it was such a great, it's I think I yeah, I I don't I don't know. I thought it was the I thought it was one of the best specials in the world, and the editing that you did was unbelievable. And it was I I don't know, but now I can go back and watch it. I forgot all the material. I forgot all those jokes. I forgot it's burned in my brain. I know it is because I know your material more than you know. Anyway, so we we taped a special, it was absolutely amazing. We were in Atlanta.
SPEAKER_01Well, it was luxurious because we did over two nights. Yeah, we didn't do two shows in one night.
SPEAKER_00It was highly recommend one night per show, two shows to take the it it costs more, it's a lot more money, but it's it's what it is.
SPEAKER_01Um I think you end up with a much better result.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, much better. Everybody's calmer, no one's rushing anybody out. Um, well, and we had the and I met your parents for the first time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so let's set the scene a little bit for that. Um, Modi and I have been together since 2015. So, those of you keeping track at home, it's been 10 years. We've been married for five years. My parents had never met Modi.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_01My parents and I don't have a great relationship, and it just never worked out. I had the last time I saw them was in 2017, I think, briefly, and it didn't go well. And ever since then, we've kind of been like no contact. I'm in touch with my sisters. I love my sisters. And they came for Thanksgiving. And they came to Connecticut for Thanksgiving, that's a whole nother thing. Um, but I'm not
Family Reunion Backstage: Meeting The Parents
SPEAKER_01really in touch with my parents, and they live in Atlanta or in the Atlanta area. And um my sisters, my little sister was graduating from Bernard University, which is a girl a woman's college in Georgia. So I had other siblings in town too. I have five sisters, it's a lot, I know. So there was more than one sibling in town. I said, Why don't we make a thing? If you're all in town already and I'm in Atlanta, just all of you come to the special. And I said, You can invite dad if you want. Because I I just was ready to like rip the band aid off. Um I said, but I don't think I don't think mom should come because I think she's gonna get offended by some of the material because she's a very religious Catholic woman, and a lot of your material in the new special is about that. Jesus is a big part of the special. It's about the cat Catholic how I used, you know, I was raised Catholic, but not anymore, and also and I th I didn't think she was gonna handle it well. And so my poor older sister, who, you know, got roped into being the messenger of the back and forth between the two parties, was like, okay, I invited dad, but he said he's not gonna come if mom's not invited because it's just gonna make her sad. So I don't know what came over me, but I was just like, tell them to come. Like, have them come. If they want to come, come. And it was actually perfect. Yeah. Because I was busy. I mean, I was backstage. Yeah. They came in, I made sure um, you know, they were escorted to their seats by someone else, they were sat properly. And then after the show, my parents and my siblings came backstage, and my parents met you for the first time.
SPEAKER_00So I'm backstage.
SPEAKER_01But I didn't tell you they were coming, yeah.
SPEAKER_00No, you no, no. I I I got off stage. Leo comes to me in the room, I have something to tell you. And you said it in a way as if they forgot to hit record.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_00Um, so I said to him, uh I I get off stage, I'm I'm on uh uh I'm in the green room, everything is amazing. We had now two amazing takes and so much to work with. I'm completely and I'm in an I'm a I'm in another zone. And Leo comes in, I have something to tell you. And I was like, literally, like, I think he's gonna say, We forgot to hit record. But he says, My parents are here.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And they're coming down. So all of a sudden, here I am.
SPEAKER_01You went from being on stage.
SPEAKER_00Right. Your father, who is probably 25 years older than you, right? Something something like that, 25, 26 years older than you. All of a sudden, there's a Leo Vega, which is literally his name, coming at me. 25. So it's like it's like looking at Leo, 25 years older, with absolutely no work done. With no skincare, nothing, not hydrated and moisturized, nothing has been moved, fast, hasn't been rearranged. I mean, uh Hippa. Hippa. Hair hasn't been. I mean, it was like, oh wow, wow, okay, hello. Because he looks just like you, and he has the same name as you. And he's very sweet. And has a lot of people.
SPEAKER_01I think a little bit was like morbid curiosity of like, let's go see what this shit is all about on their end.
SPEAKER_00I can't imagine I can't imagine that they don't follow you and see what you're doing.
SPEAKER_01There's no way if ten years you guys have been talking to each other and you don't Can you imagine ten I I well, I saw them in 2017, so however long that was, but in but in ten years that we've been together, they've never met you. I remember crazy. Yeah. Because they're just they're just super Catholic and like they don't really approve of the whole gay thing. But I think I don't know, it was a baby step. I haven't been in touch with that.
SPEAKER_00I can't even imagine that. I just can't you have a child who first of all looks just like you, and he's successful, and he's happy, and he's creating Mashiach energy in the world. Yeah, you do I would break down walls to see that, which we have to talk about being a baby, um, having a baby. Yeah. Um, and uh it was I I I never understood it, but I never got in the way. I go, this is your journey. You but and you know, and to not have in-laws is is a is a gift. No, no, no, no, to not have an in-law is a gift. You know, I I always said that, like, you know, if you're ever doing um if if you if if you're dating on an app and you see, oh, her parents were tragically died in a car accident, oh well, that's two people I don't have to worry about, you know. Oh but God motive.
SPEAKER_01But I'm just anyway, so it it was just uh But I think if they were I think like uh your material maybe took took them by surprise a little bit because obviously they would never go see like a vulgar like uh raunchy comedian, and the fact that your material was so much revolving around like spirituality and comparing Judaism and Catholicism and all this stuff, I think they were into that because it was pretty wholesome, very wholesome and very, very on point, and very yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00The special is very good, everybody, and it's every it's real Mashir Khanji bringing Jews, Muslims, everybody together and Leo's parents, and Leo's parents together. Yeah, it just but it's gonna be and then well I mean hold on one second of the special. So we got right away, we got the so you have two shows. You have two shows that we do with they they were sent to us to watch. And I can't explain to you that Leo has this gift for editing. He just has that gift, and I saw that with the other special pause.
SPEAKER_01Do I know how to use any video editing software? Barely, but I can give direction very well.
SPEAKER_00We watched, first of all, and he l Leo goes to me, hey, we're in the Connecticut house. The the videos came, and we're like in in mode of just a bubble of hush. Just hush.
SPEAKER_01Connecticut is just like
Editing The Special Across Two Nights
SPEAKER_0161 flights later.
SPEAKER_00And Leo says to me, Hey, would you like to go through the sets to the two sets tonight? And I'm like, I I have and this is late, I can't drop an adder all now. But Leo we sit down and we watch two sets, and we watch the jokes on either one goes, Oh, the joke here is better than the one here, the one here is better than the one there, and the different, and you made a whole like already. So whoever's beginning to do the the physical editing of it already knows where our headspace is. We're we're we're like three weeks ahead.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So I would watch my technique is that I I take I both pull up both shows and I watch show one in like five to ten minute chunks, and then show two in five minute five to ten minute chunks, and I compare, okay, the I this joke here was better, but the setup here was better, and the punchline here was great because there's like a cackl laughter in this show.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So then I you know weave it together as best I can with the timestamps, and then just certain parts, certain shows you just like are more expressive, and yet you know you want to capture that.
SPEAKER_00Right. So usually the way it's done is they choose one of the shows as the main show.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I would like to we didn't do that.
SPEAKER_00We don't do that.
SPEAKER_01No, your audience is very we woven together of two shows.
SPEAKER_00A hundred percent. And um, and I mean, I I'm I'm with them. Sometimes it's so obvious that this joke just land. Both jokes landed in either's in Yeah, they're both good. They're both good, but sometimes you can just see, wow, that one really popped. Wow, they they laughed here just super earlier than before. And just it's such a an insane proceed, and you do it so well, you really know how to just like catch the times and organize it in your head. It's so amazing. I can't and then then that then we put the angles on it, you know, different angles and different um and it looks beautiful. The lighting. Did you remember his name? No. The lighting guy? Rob Rob, I don't remember his last name. He was amazing. He was he's like a wow.
SPEAKER_01He was just No, the people we had working on this special were like major people who have done like a lot of big specials that you've seen.
SPEAKER_00And Judy.
SPEAKER_01And our management team with Judy and JP and Kinsey, everyone really knew what they were doing, outfits, change it.
SPEAKER_00I came with three suits. They were in shock. Like they go, I had I had three of the same suit made in different shades. Gray, black, and blue. Like on camera. Right. And then I went up to go see which suit looks better, and they all knew. But they asked me to come down and like, what do you they let you think it was your decision? Like, all right, so what do you think? What do you think? So and it was obvious it was the black suit. And then so that you know, you you learn about we don't spend a lot of time with Judy, our manager. Yeah, because she's in the because she's in LA and she's busy doing whatever, but this is like so. All of a sudden, we're like, she sees me holding the three suits, and I go, Okay, so it's this one, right? And then I open the lapel, and when I whenever I have my my suits made, I have like either it says mesh energy in it, or pause for laughter, or some kind of a cassane. And so she's like looking at me. He's like, Oh wow, he has the same suit made in three shades, and he has things written on the inside. She's like, Okay.
SPEAKER_01She figured out that's your Michigas.
SPEAKER_00Well, her other client walks on stage and takes his t-shirt off. Oh, yeah, burning. Okay, so this is pretty sure this is two different vibes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. So but yeah, so but you knew my sisters were coming.
SPEAKER_00I told you, I said, hey, my friends, I was wondering why they weren't backstage before the show.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because they were with my parents. And I was like, I can't throw that on you before you go on stage. No. But uh, I think it, I think it worked out. I d just to close off that loop, I I don't I haven't talked to them since the show.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, I haven't been re-added to the family group chat quite yet. Do you want to be re added to the family group? I don't know. I'm still like digesting it. It's so much. It's um it's a lot to go for.
SPEAKER_00Well, you you're in the group chat. I'm in there too. Well, there's one of all you've got to do.
SPEAKER_01Well no, that's just my sisters and I'm one with all of the then their sisters with part their part respective partners, which you're in.
SPEAKER_00I'm in that one.
SPEAKER_01But you never which you just have muted or something.
SPEAKER_00I don't have muted. I'm just kidding. I ha I see what's doing. When they go, when it's something I'm interested in, I come in. Yeah. And um, yeah. And your sisters, this their significant others and and husbands are very sweet. Yeah. One wants to call you on Sundays now. Yeah. So he's very cute. It's very, very nice. It's um let's see.
SPEAKER_01What did I have written down here? We talked about Amsterdam.
SPEAKER_00Wait, I feel like there's more. San Francisco, we're going back. Oh my god, the San Francisco theater is so beautiful. We're gonna be there in um, we're gonna be there on on the 11th of
Tour Updates And Audience Questions
SPEAKER_00February. If you guys are listening to this, February 11th, get to San Francisco if you're in the area. It's gonna be an amazing, amazing show. Um, it's like a wide theater, it's so much fun. Like a long stage.
SPEAKER_01Well, it's an encore performance because we were just there in November and it sold out, and the avails to add a show pushed us into February.
SPEAKER_00I will be working on like different material too, but it's gonna be more or less the same show.
SPEAKER_01Just more just PSA, more or less. Yeah, most the same show. Because that's what happened at the when we did the last two big shows in London. We did a big show at the Palladium in November, and then when we wanted to add a show, the avails. That's what happens, people. When you try to try to add a second show, unless you grab it from the get-go, it can push you off. So then we had to do the same thing. Then we came back in February. That's so weird. It was the same pattern November, February, November, February.
SPEAKER_00But it's realized that. Yeah, but it's when we did different shows. Um it's gonna be the same but different shows. And but but if you by the way, if you had a good time, you're gonna have the good time too. It's like because this is stuff is not online, so you only heard it once. So come out. Um ask the people for questions. Oh, you have you also questions. We have questions coming in.
SPEAKER_01Who is the better driver
Heated Rivalry: TV, Desire, And Power
SPEAKER_01and who thinks they are the better driver? Modi is the better driver, and he thinks it and knows it, and it's true, and I think it as well. Yes, even though I'm not a bad driver, you're an amazing driver. I'm very cautious. Fun fact about me, I had my CDL at one point. That's right. I could I was licensed to drive a semi-truck.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01Isn't that crazy? That's so crazy. I once That's the 18 wheeler? Yeah, I once parallel parked a bus. Do you understand? Oh ask me to parallel park a bus right now, uh put gun to my head, I couldn't do it. No, you at one point I did it. I don't know how.
SPEAKER_00Oh, it took you f for forever to figure out how to get into the garage without with confidence. No, now I'm really good at that.
SPEAKER_01Now you're very good. Now I whip it right in. It is a small narrow opening for the garage in my defense, and I don't want to scratch the car. No, you don't. No, yeah. But you're the better driver, and it's fun. And you like driving. It's very thing. Except when we're in Connecticut and I have my car, then I'm running around by myself. Right. Because I like to scream my music and do whatever I want. Okay, are we gonna talk about heated rivalry? Oh, we have to. The cultural phenomenon that is heated rivalry. Where do we begin? Let's set the scene in case someone's living under a rock.
SPEAKER_00Okay. There is a show on HBO, on HBO called Heated Rivalry. And it stars two actors who, if you put a Connor, something or else. Something will be Hudson Williams and Connor. I don't know what the other guy's name is. All right, keep going. One of them looks exactly like our trainer from Ukraine. He looks like Stan, he looks like Stan, he looks like same face, same mannerisms, same everything.
SPEAKER_01Kind of creepy.
SPEAKER_00Creepy, insane, and even the same body-ish kind of um that big tuchis. Anyway, he so they're they're both hockey players. Spoiler alert. Whoever's not who I can't imagine somebody straight watching the show. Is anybody straight watching the show?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so that's the thing. So it's it's a romance about these two professional hockey players who are closeted and they're rivals on different teams, but they're in love with each other. And it's um the phenomenon, a lot of the phenomenon is that there's been such a response from straight people, mostly straight women, yeah, who are like very into this show. And like a lot of them think it's really hot to because like there's a lot of guy on guy action. So I guess that goes both ways in terms of guys liking girl on girl action, vice versa. Is it but yeah, um, but something really interesting that I've been like, because I've been reading, like, you know, there's all these think pieces coming out about it, and people like really dissecting it, because it's kind of like an iconic TV show already. I mean, it's like a cultural phenomenon, is that a lot of straight woman women are watching this, and what they're attracted to is and they keep coming back to is this even the idea of an even playing field when it comes to like a romantic relationship. When because here they're here the there's two they're two men, yeah, both respected, yes, both good looking, athletic, um, and they're men, so they're no one's entering this relationship with the expectation that like you have to be a certain role or make yourself smaller or do certain things emotionally, if that makes sense. Whereas like a a lot of those things are expected of women whether when they go into a relationship with a man. So the f the physical the physical even playing field and emotional playing field when it's two guys is like what But I think is the creator, Jacob Tierney, I think is his name, did a really good job of like setting up. Because usually in like these, you know, romantic stories, that's the struggle of like one person has to make sacrifices and do this. And obviously these two people have to make sacrifices because they're positive. But it's it's the same sacrifices, so they're in the same boat. Okay. And I feel like you that's rare to see on film or TV that they're the two romantic characters are in the same boat when in a lot of different aspects.
SPEAKER_00So here's where we differ between a millennial gay person and a whatever I am gay person. What am I? Why? Boomer? What am I? No, I think you're Gen X. Whatever I am. I'm you're you're in the Reddit and the feed it and the buzz it and all the channels.
SPEAKER_01All the fan chats.
SPEAKER_00All the fan chats. And I'm watching this and I'm thinking, and it's it's borderline soft porn.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it is very explicit. It's just keep in mind.
SPEAKER_00Don't watch it with your tulis is everywhere, and it's like and it's very No, but it's not like it's it's unnecessary. It's not unnecessary. Well done. It's hot, it's well done. It's but it's like it's a lot. There's people doing like oral, you can't see anything, but like you see a head bobbing up and down. It's a lot.
SPEAKER_01And I'm just thinking to myself, you know, someone who's a gay kid who has access to HBO in his house has just Oh, my door would be locked and uh no one would be seeing me for a long time.
SPEAKER_00If you're a 10, 12-year-old who has HBO in the house and you land on this, and you're like, oh, oh my goodness. Oh my, oh my, oh my.
SPEAKER_01The best I got at that age was when we walked by the underwear aisle at like Target, like looking at the packaging.
SPEAKER_00We had they they have it in HD streaming on their phone. We had Tom Cruise crossing the screen in his underwear once singing um Risky Business. Risky Business. That was it. That was our big thing. That was that was that was it. That was that was this is like literally No, but there are other shows like Game of Thrones.
SPEAKER_01That's like also softcore porn in there. Like that, they got really crazy over there too. Right, okay. There's other things on HBO that are crazier than what's happening on Heated Heated Rivalry.
SPEAKER_00But it's um it's it's it's I never thought of it as they're coming in on equal planes. They're yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. A lot of it, like, you know, this one creator posted like a 10-minute long video of like, you know, her notes on it. And you know, the it's how she's like, wow, it basically just like wow, it must be nice to be a man. Because when she when she dates men, she does, you know, A, statistically men are dangerous. And like there's all these um emotional dynamics and uh that I guess she didn't realize that like are just different or come into play differently in like gay relationships.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's it's amazing that it's a phenomenon amongst the straight w women watching this.
SPEAKER_01Well, it's originally a fiction, it's originally a series of books, like smuddy books that was primarily consumed by women.
SPEAKER_00I I al always think about straight women when they see gay men, like especially equinox.
SPEAKER_01I made a video about this on my TikTok.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you did? Yeah. I don't know. I see we go to equinoxes that are downtown, so it's a little maybe a drop more gayer. A drop?
A Weekend As Great Gunkles
SPEAKER_00I mean, wow, Soho. But like the straight women that are at Equinox, they're looking at not all, but like they're like looking at these gay men and they're built and they take care of themselves, and then like they're they they they're set up on dates with guys who are like who go to top golf to swing a uh a golf club. That's their big exercise, and not in shape, and not like taking care of themselves, and like because the straight guys just don't do it the way gay gay gay guys do it, and so they're like left with no body display. And they're like, and and then and they almost like get upset with the gay guys, like that. This is like really you have to be gay, like really.
SPEAKER_01Or do you think it's like that they join this gym thinking that they're gonna meet someone hot and then they realize that everyone's gay?
SPEAKER_00No straight woman is going to Soho if she's gonna find a husband there.
SPEAKER_01Someone will tell me someone has an Equinox membership out there.
SPEAKER_00Please let us know.
SPEAKER_01I think we live in a bubble with the ones that we go to, the clubs that we go to.
SPEAKER_00I try to mix it up a little bit if we can. No, I don't. But um, yeah, I I just don't.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I think they they're like they're like a little bit upset that straight men aren't like gay men.
SPEAKER_01Anyway, back to heated rivalry. Who do you think is the better actor? The the Canadian player or the Russian player? Ilya Rosanoff or Shane Hollander?
SPEAKER_00I I think um, to be honest with you, one of them is a stronger, is acting stronger. The one that I I like the way Hollander really like holds back a little bit. He did he he doesn't overact, he has little mannerisms.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so that's so is that this is no shade, but I'm like, is that good acting? Like, because you have to be know how to be so measured, or is it just like lack of acting?
SPEAKER_00Well, don't forget the the the Russian guy, uh Ilya is coming in, oh we strong. Bush, you don't know, you're boring, you're but he so if he comes back at it, there's gonna be a a shouting match. Right. So he has to go and go the I hate you. He goes, No, you don't. It's a big di it's a big acting difference. There's like a one scene where he goes, I hate you. Like he says a joke and he goes, I hate you. And he goes, No, you don't. No, you don't. And that's like that's acting. Yeah. That's acting. Yeah. I think they're both great. I think they're both everything's great.
SPEAKER_01I'm excited for season two.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And what yeah, it's really exciting. It's an it's an what a crazy amazing show. Yeah. Out of nowhere came. Out of nowhere. Boom. A boom out of nowhere.
SPEAKER_01And it's just what else have we been watching? We watched I Love LA.
SPEAKER_00I Love LA is a very big, highly recommended show that we give you.
SPEAKER_01Created and starring Rachel Senate, who was in a movie called Shiva Baby, which if you haven't seen that, you should watch that. Um great show, also on HBO.
SPEAKER_00And just to be able to pop into people's realities. And these are realities that really exist.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's a scripted drama, but it's like based, you can tell like there are real people out there.
SPEAKER_00We know people like that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And I love LA. Just like really.
SPEAKER_00No, yes, no, no, yeah, no, no. I, yeah, yeah. It's like a millennial thing, though. No, yes. So I, no, yes, no, no, no, yes, yes, no, because no, yes, no. I'm like, wow.
SPEAKER_01That's a millennial thing.
SPEAKER_00So just you know, people ask you, are you going to Brazil for New Year's Eve? You say it's either yes or no. So you go, no, but I mean, yes, we're gonna go with our friends, but like, we're not really going everywhere.
SPEAKER_01No, yes, uh, it's a non-committal, it's a non-committal thing.
SPEAKER_00Non-committal, very good.
SPEAKER_01Um, should we talk about the baby? Oh my god. Oh, we broke the internet on your Instagram by because we posted a reel with your beautiful, gorgeous nephew, and people, I think some people thought it was our baby. It was not our baby. Um, but we had a baby in the house for two days.
SPEAKER_00Which I want to talk about.
SPEAKER_01He is the cutest baby I've ever seen. No offense to all of the babies I've seen.
SPEAKER_00He's the cutest baby I've ever seen.
SPEAKER_01That's right. He's so cute. It's like a Pixar animation studio's made a baby. Uh that's what he looks like.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he looks like the Gerber baby, like AI'd.
SPEAKER_01Cuter than the Gerber baby.
SPEAKER_00A-I'd, and he's so cute. And we so we had he was up for the weekend with his mom and dad. No nannies. It was us, the baby, and his and my niece and nephew.
SPEAKER_01So this is your great nephew.
unknownI know.
SPEAKER_00I was hoping to avoid that. My great nephew. Your great nephew, too. Yeah. Um The Great Gunkles.
SPEAKER_01Well, gunkles. Is that the title of this episode? The Great Gunkles.
SPEAKER_00Great gunkles, exactly. Okay, exactly. We were gunkled and we gunkled, we leaned into gunkling.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so we invited them up.
SPEAKER_00So happy they came. It was in Connecticut, everything's dead. You know, there's no greenery, everything is just like bare trees. And then this snowstorm came.
SPEAKER_01A beautiful snowstorm.
SPEAKER_00A foot and a half of pure virgin, gorgeous snow. Yeah. First time the baby ever saw snow, yeah. He was like, his eyes are like, what the hell? And oh, he was just so cute. And it's just connecting to a baby. So when you meet a baby, like, here, oh, here's my baby, and then they let you hold it. I can't no, I don't like, don't let me, I don't want to hold your baby. When people in synagogue like if it's a stranger baby, like someone you barely know. Daniel and his wife always la la laugh at me that we um like someone in synagogue, you know, they're holding their baby and goes, Oh, do you want to hold a baby? I go, No, I don't I don't want to hold your baby. Well, I think that's normal. But if I don't know the baby, I don't want to hold it. If you have a weekend with a baby, you connect to the baby. We can't. He's he's he sees you regularly. He watched while he eats your meals and while you do you're you're with them for the weekend. Now, I the only time I've had this before was when my sister in Houston had babies. Okay, can I know how she had four? So when we would go visit, you'd be there for the whole weekend with the baby. So you connect with the baby. You you see them when they wake up, when they come in the morning, and they're like happy to see you again. And it's like, oh, this is a part of the day. This is a part of the da-da. When you see a baby for once in a while, you know it's hard to connect to them. It's hard to connect.
SPEAKER_01It's like, who is this human? Who is this little tiny human?
SPEAKER_00Right. Like with my sister's kids that were lived near the five towns with my mom, but we never really I never was never there for the weekend. I saw the babies when they were babies for the afternoon, and I went back to the state. I didn't have a time to connect. So I haven't connected to I haven't connected to a baby since my my older sister's kids. And so you just forget how amazing it is. Oh, it just it just crawls into your soul.
SPEAKER_01He was a really he's a really chill baby. So, like, A, there's that. Some babies are just like they love to cry and scream. He's so chill. So it was fun to just like play with him and have him around. And they were your niece and nephew, who are a few years younger than me, are such good parents. They had no nanny, no grandparents. We didn't do anything, like they didn't ask for our help. I would have gladly helped, but like they didn't need us, they were so good, and it's their first kid. I was so impressed. I was like, They're chill.
SPEAKER_00They're they're chill. But it's fun how like you know, our house is like it's decorated by two gay men, so it's very, very nice. And there's nothing all of us, I bet baby friendly. It's not like art on the wall that's like no for a baby that doesn't Leo. For a baby that doesn't walk, it's friendly. Yeah, you're right. A baby that walks, we have two oars standing uh in the middle of the of the just not even screwed in or not even screwed, just propped. Two massive rowing oars are just as propped. Like a Ralph Ford store. Literally, that's like the most non-baby. Yeah, I didn't think about the ores. Yeah, no, no. A house is not baby friendly yet. But you know, for a baby that doesn't crawl, it is great. But the parents are chill, so the baby's chill.
SPEAKER_01You're right.
SPEAKER_00The pet the parents are, but it's just so hot fun how like all of a sudden there's just crap
Sponsors, Dates, And Closing
SPEAKER_00everywhere, bottles everywhere.
SPEAKER_01So many gadgets.
SPEAKER_00Every gadget that has ever been on shark tank.
SPEAKER_01I didn't know you needed so many gadgets to have a baby. When he put that thing in the microwave to sterilize the bottle, it was this little bag that you fill with water that you put the bottle in, and then you microwave it, and then now the bottle is sterilized.
SPEAKER_00Okay. By the way, in Tel Aviv, when I was in 1970, my mom did not have that in the microwave. Okay.
SPEAKER_01And you were fine.
SPEAKER_00Right. She was chain smoking while she was she was chain smoking while she just did it. They wiped the bottle in the water here, shove it in your mouth. It was crazy the amount of crap that they had. I will say to any anybody who is anybody that what one of the nice things about my niece and nephew, when they changed the baby, they took it to another room. They didn't make it a part of the whole event, you know?
SPEAKER_01Most people things I'm like, I would not know how to take care of a baby. Like when they brought him downstairs in his PJs and his face was all slathered in aquifore because his little baby skin gets so dry. He looked like you. I wouldn't know what I wouldn't know I had to do that.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I guess I would figure it out, but like if you had a baby, Leo, you would we would have a 12-step schedule. You would have a whole thing scheduled out with an Excel sheet and an are you crazy? But he was a good schedule. He took it. He was good. And we put him in the snow. We put him in the snow. He made his first snow bait angel bait. What's it called? Angel snow angel. Snow McVe. Yeah. I will tell you one thing that blew me away. You know, Leo and I struggle with sleep. We're working on it, we're getting there, whatever. But they gave this baby a bottle. He killed it. He just killed it. And then pow! He's out. I said, Whatever is in that bottle, could you make one for me? Just make that bottle. I just went out. Yeah. Out.
SPEAKER_01The baby bottle special.
SPEAKER_00Baby bottle special. And he had that little um there was this little toy that they have. Sophie the giraffe. Sophie the giraffe, which I call it a baby vape. Because like it just every time it's like he's teething, he's like, Yeah, we posted a picture of it there.
SPEAKER_01Everyone commented, Sophie the giraffe. It's like a thing.
SPEAKER_00It's this little toy that has like four little legs like a giraffe, and it has the little whatever horns that the giraffe has in the ears, and it just it's every little thing to just uh hit his teething situation. So he's just like vaping with it, like whatever he was is just so cute. And it was just it was fun.
SPEAKER_01It was fun, it was fun, and then they and we just cooked at home, we didn't leave the house.
SPEAKER_00It was like and they left in the morning before we woke up on Sunday. Oh, yeah, and like ta-da, wow, there wasn't nothing in the house. Yeah, no more bottles, no more blankets, no more of this, no more that. It was just anybody having a baby, we highly recommend it for you.
SPEAKER_01So, um I know I we have another, I know I said we were gonna like steamroll through, but maybe we just wrap this one up and then we can do another session. Sure. Um let's do a quick rundown. I got it. You got it? I got this. Tell the people where they can see you, and also thank our sponsors.
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SPEAKER_01That show is basically sold out. Is it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but what a great theater. That's one of your favorite theaters. It's a it's it's like long theater, I think 1,300 seats, and it's a low ceiling. The laughter just pounds back. So the Philly show is gonna be amazing. Boston, two shows.
SPEAKER_01March 25th and 26th.
SPEAKER_00March 25th and 26th at the Wilbur Theater. Beautiful. I cannot wait for that. That's oh my god, we had such a great time there last time. And then um, and we're flying from there directly to Paris for a non-show. Milwaukee, happy days, April 15th. Uh, Cincinnati, April 16th, Radio City Music Hall. I'm gonna say that again just because it sounds so nice. Radio City Music Hall. And whenever you do it into your phone, it just goes musical, yeah. Not music hall. Um, and we're gonna be there on the 23rd and the 30th of April. Of April. Those tickets are are moving very, very fast. If you want good seats, go in there, get them, and get some for your friends. Be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show. That is how you can make Mashiach Energy and get your chalik and Hulama Bah and get your portion of the world to come. Mashiach Energy, get tickets at ModiLive.com. Thank you so much for being a part of the podcast and goodbye. Bye.