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Taylor Swift, Paul Anka, And Why Respecting The Audience Matters
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Husband Identity And Resolutions
SPEAKER_02We are here in the studio at And here's Modi. Me and Leo. Hello, everyone. My h I won't cut can you you know you know how they make on the Instagram like what your um what your your he, she, her your pronouns? Pronouns, your pronouns.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Can it can you put husband? Oh, when people ask me what I do, I say I'm a full-time husband.
SPEAKER_02Same. You have to be.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02You have to that I what if you ever listen to I know you don't, but Manus Friedman. Oh yeah, I listen to him all the time. We had him on the podcast. I know. I love him. Um and I love his videos. He's always he's always like wherever they have him taping, there's no space heater. So he's always in some sweater. He's always like looks like he's freezing. They have him in a sweater, big white beard, like it like a picture of what a rabbi looks like. And he always does like here's my imitation of Manus Friedman.
SPEAKER_01Are you looking for love? Is it love you're looking for?
SPEAKER_02Are you in search of love? Ask yourself, is it love I'm seeking? If the answer is yes, you're sadly mistaken. What you're looking for is a wife. He looks he speaks in riddles. I love it though. I love it. And he goes, and if if you have a if you are a husband and she's a wife, you'll have love. If not, but so I think you you need to be a husband. That's your main thing.
SPEAKER_03I am yeah, I'm a full-time husband. I mean it's a full-time job.
SPEAKER_02In my it should be husband rebe. That's it. You're that's what I want.
SPEAKER_03So it's 2026. I want that's what I want. I'll work on it. Please. It's 2026. Uh what are your resolutions uh for this year? What what's your mood board? Just two or three things.
SPEAKER_02No, no. What's the vibe? The main one is to to speak about and get people speaking about Mashiach a lot more.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02A lot more. Yes. It should be in the conversation. You see, every time we mention somebody or we mention something, all of a sudden we're there, all of a sudden that person comes into our life. We just have to be Mashiach has to be in the conversation. It just has to be in it, you know. Oh my God, what's gonna happen in the Middle East? It's gonna happen. So yeah, yeah, Mashiach could come. Mashiach could be there, and that's it. And in the meantime, we'll try to make peace and do all that, but the conversation of Mashiach has got to be in the and and creating Mashiach energy, which is making a comedy show and bringing friends to a comedy show. I'm not just saying that because we profit from it, but it's a great way to to create Mashiach energy.
SPEAKER_03Okay. What's yours? Now, would you like to give me some funnier one that I can use?
SPEAKER_02That's that's a funny resolution.
Mashiach Energy As A Daily Practice
SPEAKER_02It's not that's that's not funny, it's a good one. It's a good resolution. No one else is saying that.
SPEAKER_03That was kind of uh we we already know that that's at the ethos of everything you do.
SPEAKER_02But you can always increase. Okay. And um what else is there for the for this year? Oh, suits, suits, suits, suits, and suits. I wanna hit the stage at Radio City Music Hall with an incredible I think we could do we're gonna go with a t tuxedo, right?
SPEAKER_03I think you should do a classic tuxedo, yeah. Okay, like very Sinatra, old school New York.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so it's gonna be. So now we're gonna make it, we have to find a place to do it. I gotta I have four months to work on it. It's gonna be amazing. I that's why that's on the that's on the resolution to like change up my my clothing a little bit. Not that it's been bad, but just like notch it up a little bit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I need to hire a tour manager. My New Year's resolution is to um not be on 61 airplanes like we were in 2025.
SPEAKER_02I I'm I'm okay with that. I I want that for you. Yeah, we're working on that. You have to understand, people, when we fly to a gig, it's stressful. Flying is is is horrible. It's the worst part of the gig, you know, so it's the show itself I would do for free. If it was in my living room. If it was in my living room. But you're paying me to leave my apartment at 5 30 a.m. to no no to go to LaGuardia, yeah, to go through TSA. You're paying me to go sit in the lounge and not eat. Like I wanna I wanna eat everything on that cookie tray, and you're you're paying me to not eat, and so I'm not depressed. Then I get on the plane and watch everybody boarding it like it's their first day on earth, and then landing, and hopefully there's no delays, and uh you that's what you're paying for when you bring me to an event. That's not, you know, it's it's the wear and tear. It's not the the show itself, you know. So when we do a private event, like, oh my god, that's how much you get for blah blah blah. But it's you're you're you're only on for an hour. I go, no, no, no, no, no. I'm on, I'm you're hiring me for two full days. Yeah, because sometimes it kills two full days to get to a gig and back. Yeah, so
Stage Goals, Suits, And Touring Stress
SPEAKER_02I'm but but but the reason I was saying this is because there's a payoff for me. At least I then get that hit. Yeah. That that dopamine hit of the show. You're just sitting backstage on your Twitter, you know, so it's you don't get that hit.
SPEAKER_03What's one thing the other person does that makes you laugh instantly no matter what mood you're in? Something that you do that makes me laugh no matter what uh what um what mood you're in. I'll tell you mine. Go ahead. Whenever you do that um Irish jingle accent, the song, the little Irish song. Oh. Don't do it now, because it's mine. It's special.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna hit them with the song right now.
SPEAKER_03No. No. You do a little Irish of made-up fictional Irish song. I don't know if it's made up. Yeah, maybe you heard it in the movie or something, but it makes me laugh.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no, I think I heard it in camp when I was in slepaway camp. You heard an Irish song at your Jewish sleepaway camp? My Jewish sleepaway camp, we had in every bunk uh an either Irish or English counselor and an American counselor. So we'd have some culture, okay? And so I think one of them taught us this song. Should I sing it? Please don't make me sing. Please don't make me sing.
SPEAKER_03Please don't make me sing.
SPEAKER_02Oh, won't you come into me, mother's house, and the moon is shining clearly? Oh, won't you come into me, mother's house, and the moon is shining clearly? I'll open the door and I'll let you in. The devil's smile when you see us with matura, yeah. Father, little daughter, diary oh my little dairy.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, what is that from?
SPEAKER_02I don't know if that's my it's in it is in my head.
SPEAKER_03Did we tell the people that I got an Irish passport?
unknownUh no.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. No, we didn't. I now have I now have an Irish passport.
SPEAKER_02I don't know how you it's so amazing that you did it. Good for you.
SPEAKER_03Money, you can buy anything with money. It's really crazy.
SPEAKER_02It's amazing. It's really but you have your mom is from Ireland.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, but like to get it done in the way that I got it done without me having to like do anything.
SPEAKER_02Leo just hits me with like, I'm getting an Irish passport. I'm like, I'm like, good. Um there's like you I'm I don't I don't care.
SPEAKER_03Uh you know, you didn't care or you didn't think I was actually gonna get it.
SPEAKER_02I said, go for no, I knew you were gonna get it. There's nothing when you set your mind to something, you know, it's like it's it, but it was the same level as like I'm having my my face lasered. It's the same thing.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, which I am on January 8th. So right, so you will not be seeing him for a few weeks.
SPEAKER_02But I'm like, okay, get your Irish passport. I'm like, what? Uh and then all of a sudden, like this comes, that comes, boom, boom, boom. And was it $2,500 it cost?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. It was it was not cheap, but I got it done. You gotta know a guy. That that I learned from you. That I learned from you. You gotta know a guy. You gotta know if you have the right guy for anything, yep, and there is a guy for anything, there is a guy, you can just get it expedited or exhmedited or whatever you have to do.
SPEAKER_02And a straight up Irish passport with your face on it.
SPEAKER_03But the crazy thing is, I got it because my mom was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, yeah, obviously. And then but accor according to Irish law, apparently, if you have a parent that was born on any part of the I island of Ireland, you're entitled to an Irish passport. So I now have an Irish passport, even though she was born in Belfast. But my n now
Irish Passport Story And Travel Visas
SPEAKER_03I'm also getting he's I'm supposed to be getting my UK passport too. So I'll have two separate ones. I'll have a UK one and the Irish one, even though the Irish one is better because of Brexit. Right. So because the Irish one lets me do all of the EU things without visas and schmezas and all that stuff. Okay.
SPEAKER_02So I mean, where are you going that you need any I don't know?
SPEAKER_03Maybe I want to have like an eat pray love moment in like literally anywhere in Europe or or Norway and all those other countries that are evolved just for fun. And I don't have to plan it or maybe someone wants to hire me in London to to to run their something. Okay. I would do I would do a mo I see a moment in London in my future, like an extended stay.
SPEAKER_02All right. That sounds good. And then and now you're all set for it. And now I can do it if I As your husband can I come too or no? I don't know how that works. I don't know how that works either.
SPEAKER_03I'll have to get you a visa. Well, well, last time when we when you performed in London, I had to get a special visa that took forever. That's right. All of our friends who went down to Brazil for New Year's, they had to get a special visa that you have to apply for, like at least a month in advance.
SPEAKER_02Can we talk about how the how some of them didn't know that they had to get one? Yeah. Can we just discuss that for a second?
SPEAKER_03But now with my Irish passport, my Irish one, I can go to Brazil. No, I can there's like over 190 places I can go without a visa.
SPEAKER_02I was gagged and Googled when I found out that the gays went down to Brazil.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it became like the hot New Year's destination within the last two or three years. Everyone went decided is in Brazil. Everyone we know is in Brazil right now. But this year they had to get a visa. They changed the rules, yes.
SPEAKER_02And most of them didn't know about that. Yeah. So they just showed up in Brazil. Hi, we're here to party for New Year's.
SPEAKER_03And they said, No, you're not. But did they have to go back? Some of them, well, the ones I saw online, they like found out before they boarded the plane. So I think that's good. And did they get? I don't I don't know.
SPEAKER_02I didn't follow the saga, but some of them imagine just showing up in Brazil and you're like they got tutu bang, no bang, no bang, no tutu bone. No, no bone. No bone, no bone. You need to go back on a bone. Um so good, yeah.
SPEAKER_03We should really try to be somewhere warm for New Year's next year.
SPEAKER_02We usually are, but th thank god we weren't this year. We we were right where we needed to be.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yes, we were right where we needed to be. Well, we just had, like we said, we mentioned we had a crazy couple of months of flights and travel and shows. I couldn't even fathom like getting on a flight for recreation. Even if it was to like a fun place. I could like to Brazil. Oh.
SPEAKER_02You really you really enjoy your home so much when you're away from it so long.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Am I a homebody?
SPEAKER_02You're not not a homebody.
SPEAKER_03No, but when I uh when I'm out amount, I like to go out to restaurants and oh you love restaurants.
SPEAKER_02You love a good restaurant. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um as long as the volume level is okay. Yeah. That's my main thing. We went to the new Shushu restaurant. Yes. One of our favorite restaurants in Nolita, Shushu, uh, opened an Upper East Side location. Yes. Those of you who live on the Upper East Side, you should definitely go visit, even though I hear it's a very hot reservation to get right now. He said they had 700 people on the waiting list on Rezi.
SPEAKER_02He's so sweet. Albert, the owner, is uh is a mate. He's such a vibe, and he walks around and talks to everybody, but he's this is born in Morocco or Tunisia, uh whatever his story is. Yeah, and he'll tell it to you in a heartbeat. And uh and he's Israeli, but he look also Israeli, and uh built these restaurants.
SPEAKER_03There's the food food is really good.
SPEAKER_02Food is next level of delicious.
SPEAKER_03It's not like fancy, it's not like gourmet, like they're trying to be do something with the food. It's like here's a pizza schnitzel, but it's like the best schnitzel you've ever had. Right. Or like, here's hummus, but it's like the best hummus you ever had.
SPEAKER_02Or bronzino schnitzel, or the bronzino balls. The bronzino fish balls are amazing. The hala he gives you is so good.
SPEAKER_03Everything is so good. Everything is so good. They do a good brunch, the Nolita one.
SPEAKER_02Wow, amazing. Yeah, and uh and it's on 77th and 2nd Avenue on the corner, and it's beautiful, and he's it's delicious, and it's a hard reservation to get, and it's it's worth it. And the volume is quiet.
SPEAKER_03But we made a special trip up to the Upper East Side just then.
SPEAKER_02We did. He and I was because he invited us to the opening and we were like we were away, and he invited us to a second opening, and we were away for that too. And then I said, Hey, we're coming. Usually, why would we go to 77th and 2nd Avenue?
Homebody Joy And Restaurant Culture
SPEAKER_02But we wanted to go see the new restaurant. So he brought us up there and he actually comped us the meal. Like, because you guys were invited to the opening, and you guys in the comments. That was very sweet. We love him.
SPEAKER_03Literally there's a phenomenon when people know how busy we are. I think people like stopped inviting us to a lot of things because they just assume that we're away, which is like mostly probably true. We probably are away, but I still want to get invited.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03You know, just FYI, PSA. Still send the invite because sometimes our plans will change.
SPEAKER_02So he did, he sent it. It was very sweet of him. He took a chance, yeah. It took a chance. We might have been we could have been home too. Um great restaurant. Wow. Um I'm talking to you.
SPEAKER_03Um Is there a local Jewish community in Schul where you guys are in Connecticut?
SPEAKER_02So in Connecticut, there's a Chabad, um, Rabbi Eisenbach, uh, and he's in um Litchfield, which is about 40 minutes away from where we are. So it's not directly where we are, but it's, you know, anytime you hear about a Chabad house or Chabad synagogue, there's always a miracle behind how the guy got it. There's always a story. Yeah, you've said that before. Always, always is wherever somebody um there's always a crazy story behind it. And this guy's like, Yeah, um, I was I was in the town, and somebody who's non-Jewish bought me this Chabad house, and now they have a church that they moved into. It's like uh it's just great. And he's chill and he knows you know your audience. He's like, Yes, everybody walks to synagogue from their car. There's like a little beautiful town with like a bunch of shops and coffee shops, and then they park there, they get a coffee and they come to synagogue, and it's great. But when we needed him for the Lulavan Etrog, he was there when he there's a sukkah, he was just it's like a great, it's nice to know that he's there, but thank good, good, good question.
SPEAKER_03So last night we watched a documentary about Paul Ankaw. Wow. And there were aside from it being an amazing story, and I I I learned some stuff about him. There's some words in his vocabulary that I I think we should bring back.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03Like we we we were clocking some of the words in his vocabulary, one of them being pizzazz.
SPEAKER_02That's not that's not that's from uh Seymour.
SPEAKER_03Nope. It was it was from Polanka. It was from Polenka.
SPEAKER_02We watched a documentary about a guy that was uh uh uh a writer for the New York Times that exposed Vietnam and all of those things, and he said pizzazz. He said pizzazz.
SPEAKER_03Alright, well, pizzazz is a great word. Also, wacko.
SPEAKER_02Wacko.
SPEAKER_03I'm not some wacko. Right. No one says wacko and I'm not some wacko, I have a wife and that was Hirsch Seymour. Hirsch Seymour. Hirsch Seymour. That documentary is called Cover Up. It's on Netflix, it's very good.
SPEAKER_02Amazing documentary, cover up. This man cut this man exposed like everything, every major story. Brave, Above, Babu, everything great documentary, highly, highly recommended. Um, by the way, we don't like every documentary. The one on The New Yorker is boring as all hell. Well, yeah, we I don't think we were in the headspace for it. I tried it again without you, and it wasn't good. But so he used pizzazz and then Yeah, pizzazz.
SPEAKER_01Pizzazz.
SPEAKER_03Pizzazz is a great word. Um but I guess so yeah, but the Paul Enkel one was also good. I didn't know that he wrote everything My Way by for
Local Chabad In Connecticut
SPEAKER_03Frank Sinatra. Oh, it's like no and then he like and then the post-mortem um post-Thomas uh song by Michael Jackson that was also his. Yeah. This man was writing.
SPEAKER_02He was it's one of these him and uh him and Neil Sadaka. It's that whole genre of the city. You opened for both of them. Both of them opened for Neil Sadaka and Polanka.
SPEAKER_03Wow. Um and what did you say Neil Sadaka used to do with the CDs?
SPEAKER_02Oh, he would never do so. He would after the show, there's always a thousand people who know you. He's gonna want to see me. My grandmother lived with his grandmother. He's he knows who I am, so just tell them that I'm here. So he used to just sign his CDs and but he knew you were gonna be here, and he he left this for you, but he had to run. So they would just give CDs out.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you said he was in his limo by the time like the people were out of their seats. He was out of the building.
SPEAKER_02He did the show, smashed it. They were like, in imagine you're just imagine you watching Lady Gaga in 60 years.
SPEAKER_03Which I will be, probably. She will be. She will be she'll and she'll probably be amazing.
SPEAKER_02So 50. Yeah, no, yeah, 50 years. Imagine 50 years from now you're watching Lady Gaga.
Paul Anka, Pizzazz, And Old-School Craft
SPEAKER_02It brings you back to when you were 30, right? You're like, wow, you feel it. And then curtain closes, encore, boom, three songs, and he does a something with Nisung Dorma, and the curtain goes down, and they're still standing thinking there might be another Encore. He's in the car.
SPEAKER_03That's the way to do it. Out. He's out. So uh kind of in the same vein, we watched the six-part Taylor Swift documentary on Disney Plus about the Eras tour, which was amazing. You say what you want about Taylor Swift, you don't have to like her to watch this thing. She put on the biggest tour that has ever existed in the entire history of the planet, period, as a fact, statistically by any number, she has blown out every other tour out of the water. We're talking like a cultural phenomenon that we've never seen before, this Eras tour, and the documentary about it was so crazy.
SPEAKER_02The documentary about Taylor Swift was so good that now I'm thinking when you change my pronouns to husband slash Rebbe slash Swifty. I'm I'm a Swifty. I'm Swifty.
SPEAKER_03Are you coming out as a Swifty right now on the podcast? Name three songs.
SPEAKER_02I'm the hero. I'm the I'm anti-hero. That's one. Anti-hero. Um it's me. I'm the problem, it's me. Then there's the song that she wrote about Kim Kardashian. Okay, so so Leo explains all the songs to me. So she she had a beef with Kim Kardashian, and the show there's a something with Amy.
SPEAKER_03Thank you, Amy.
SPEAKER_02Thank you, Amy. But all the letters that are K-I-M are highlighted. So you taught me that, and I know it's a great song. And then there's that song that you put for my reel. What was the song for my reel?
SPEAKER_03Ophelia.
SPEAKER_02Ophelia. So I got three songs right there. There you go. Okay.
SPEAKER_03All right. You heard you heard your folks, Modi is coming out as a Swifty. 100%. But this no one works harder than Taylor Swift. I I am in shock. These tours, these stadiums. She was doing five nights at some of these stadiums, and they were completely sold out. One of the stadiums in Seattle recorded a seismic activity from the people jumping up and down. They caused an actual recorded earthquake from her from her show. And she was just. Sh she was on tour for like almost two full years. It was all over the world. Asia, Latin America, Europe, America, back to Europe. Like it was so insane.
SPEAKER_02It's a team. It's a team. And I was I was more impressed by the fact that her family is a part of the and they're not like they're not just like you know, you hear like like when we saw the Billy Joel story, his brother-in-law was stealing his money and all of this. It was like they're all on a team. We are creating this Mashirch energy, and it's Mashirch energy in her show. The fans are losing it. The fans are feeling a cathartic experience that she is creating. And the family knows that they're a part of it. They're not the one on stage jumping and hopping and looping and singing, but they're creating whatever has to happen to make that happen.
SPEAKER_03Just the logistics. Just like I know it's like a tenth of a thousandth of a millionth of a fraction of what we do when we walk into a theater and try to do a show. Just like walk watching her walk into these arenas and state the not arenas, stadiums, and then like lighting and the moving stage, and like you have to get her from this side of the stage to this side, like so many things that could go wrong. And music cues and lighting cues and costuming. I was and she never missed.
SPEAKER_02She's just never missed, and she even with the when the song and the she brought other people on. The the the the documentary itself was so impressive. Just the fact that how they made the documentary. Never mind the shows, but the documentary
Taylor Swift’s Eras Machine And Teamwork
SPEAKER_02itself, how they got in there while she was doing the shows. It's just it's amazing.
SPEAKER_03And the mom was amazing, and the father, everybody had a role, and they they knew it wasn't like the footage of her as like a 12-year-old performing at like the state fairs for like three people. Wow, that was pretty cool because and it shows her mom in the background. Her mom, like as her like putting her mic out for her. She's performing on these like little tiny stage, no lights. There's literally like a booth behind her selling like pop, like caramel corn or whatever they do at state fairs, and there's like but she's there's a gift in her.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, her that that's singing and the songwriting is a gift that's in her.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's not like out of nowhere, just it just I do always feel bad when celebrities have a sibling, though. Like her brother, even though he's part of the team, I just it must be so hard if your your sibling is Taylor Swift. Just like Beyonce's sister, like she's so talented, but like she's still known as like Beyonce's sister in a contextual contextualized in a sentence.
SPEAKER_02If we're gonna go on this route, I will tell you one that blew me away. What Barbara Streisand has a sister.
SPEAKER_03See, I didn't even know that. The poor thing.
SPEAKER_02Which was on stage with me in the cat skills. Whoa. And you know, so in the cat skills really, yes.
unknownI don't know.
SPEAKER_03Was she as talented?
SPEAKER_02Google Bob Bob's sister. Keep going talent, she's the same voice almost. What? I'm not kidding you. So in the in the cat skills, there was an opening act, or if if it was a bigger name, I was the opening act, but if in the bigger Roslyn Kind is her name.
SPEAKER_03Exactly.
SPEAKER_02Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I had no idea this person existed. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02Is is the same voice, but not the beast of what Barbara Streisand is.
SPEAKER_03See, that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_02And I and I remember being on stage and going, Wow, she's great. He goes, Yes, Barbara Streisand's sister. Because there were other acts that performed up there, but like, you know, they were great. They all sang their songs, and I came on. Well, I guess um to go back. But but to go back to your thing, that's what that's what I I felt when I saw them in this documentary. He didn't feel like he's he's our sister. He's whatever his name is. Austin. Austin, and he's doing what he has to do to make this happen.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he's like working, he's like part of the team. Like he's like uh the management team. He's on the he's a part of the mom is the merch.
SPEAKER_01The merch. The the lighting, the thing, everything was it's so insane.
SPEAKER_03But there is something genetic to it because we learned that thing about Taylor Swift's grandma that I didn't know. Wow, I didn't know. So Taylor, you I I I feel like I knew a lot of Taylor Swift's trivia, but her grandmother was like a famous opera singer, basically, or like uh at least a working opera singer. Like she was on the radio, she was doing shows all over the world, and she actually samples her grandmother's voice in one of her songs called Marjorie. Marjorie, yeah. And they do a really like beautiful moment about that in the documentary. So, and then her mom they interview Taylor Swift's mom, and so it was interesting to hear her talk about growing up with a parent who is talented musically and like tr touring and traveling, and who kind of needed that energy from the stage, and then to giving birth to Taylor Swift, and then having to like feed that beast. She was like, So, my mom equipped me to be Taylor Swift's mom, which I thought was interesting, and like I think there's something karmic, like crazy going on there.
SPEAKER_02The grandmother of Taylor Swift, and then and she had that crazy gift inside the vessel, and then the mom knew it and saw it, and then she was able to completely bring it into Taylor's life, yeah, by saying, and and but but they know their role of it.
SPEAKER_03Chris Rock had a well, Chris Rock has a brother.
SPEAKER_02I know. No, but I mean, Chris Rock had a bit. He had a bit about holding the tambourine.
SPEAKER_03I don't know the bit.
SPEAKER_02Whatever. Um anyway, no, it's just it's I thought they were they were all they all know that they're doing a great part. The musicians, the truck drivers, everybody knows that they're a part of this big piece of mashir energy that's happening. I mean, it's happening in a NFL stadium. Yeah. You and I are blown away when we're in Madison Square Garden. We're just looking across and seeing a patch of seats and go, that's the theater. Like those two things, that's what we're doing in Arizona. That's the theater in Arizona. And there's still the rest of the whole world. So this is an arena that's uh, and then she has the boyfriend who's also performing
Family Roles, Talent, And Siblings
SPEAKER_02in NFL stadiums, Travis Kelsen. And that whole story that came in, and it was just such an amazing documentary.
SPEAKER_03Even though it's like a PR fluffy thing to include, but like it was cool to see how she gave her Cruz those big bonuses. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Like, I think she, you know, people like to really tick swings at her, but I think she's really and there's no and there's no also the the the uh one of the takeaways is that there's there's no need to be a bitch. Because she doesn't seem like she's a bitch.
SPEAKER_03She yeah, so that you know, I've watched these things about like Beyonce and Madonna and like those types of people who are amazing and I love them. Right. They don't have this I Taylor Swift, when you watch this documentary, she hasn't, and I don't mean this like in a derogatory way, she wants to be liked, like she wants everyone around her to feel comfortable, and she wants everyone to be having a good time. Right. Like, I don't I didn't I'm sure there is maybe behind closed doors like where she's a diva, but like even in the documentaries I've seen or like interviews and things I've seen with like Mariah or Beyonce or Madonna, they don't give a shit if you like them or not. Right. They walk into the room and they're like, Hello, where's this, where's that, which they have every right to be.
SPEAKER_02Uh but so we watched, we listened to the Madonna um podcast about Kabbalah. Oh, yeah, yeah. And she said that sometimes she's going through it backstage, she can't get on stage, so the audience waits for two hours. That's yeah, that's cool. That's I don't not I'm not Madonna, but that's not what you do. And then um But then they showed Taylor Swift with the the clock coming down. She knows that she's she's as nervous, not as nervous, but as excited to get to that clock and start the show on time. She's not looking, you know, it's there's a countdown. The show starts, it's exactly when they're gonna start. Wow. But the documentary we listened to, Paul Anka, and he also had Sammy Davis Jr. on it, they said you have to respect the audience or they're never gonna come back. They have to see you give everything or they won't come back. It's so true. If the I feel like you do that, I feel like we try to war. I want to be on there for another hour. Are you crazy? I'm already in the zone. My Celsius kicked in. I'm I'm gonna But if they so someone told me that they saw a comedian at I'm not gonna mention the name at at radio at at um at the beacon, and it's like she phoned it in. She like didn't give it. She just didn't get like here. We are we got there, we saw, and she was like, She was she was like at a comedy club, she wasn't like really powering through and getting the audience knows when you're not giving it everything you have. And so Paul Anka, of years of of over seven decades of performing. And he's still at it. Uh he says the audience knows if you're not giving everything, and they're not gonna come back if you don't. They will not come back if you don't give them everything.
SPEAKER_03I also like how he said you have to you you have to f one,
Media Voices, Smoking Trend, And Nightlife
SPEAKER_03it was cool to see that I I didn't know he was famous since he was like 15 years old. He was like the original Justin Bieber, literally, and like that whole phenomenon of like teen heart throbs. Um, but when he said you have to like give them you have to give them the appeal, he's like you gotta give it to them. You got he's like, I had to learn how to do my hair differently, I had to lose some weight. That's what he said. I had to like not from like he was it wasn't like a vanity thing, but he was like, You have to look show business, you gotta give him the razzle dazzle, right?
SPEAKER_02Razzle dazzle, is that what you said? No, he said that's like Hollywood, he's like some yeah, yeah. Pizzazz came from Seymour, but this he said something also.
SPEAKER_03You gotta like he had fun vocabulary. We gotta bring back like fun old school vocabulary, yeah. Wacko, yeah, but also in those documentaries, the thing that I noticed is like in whenever it's like the 1960s or 70s, so the 40s and 50s had that like transatlantic actor's voice, like you know, that mid that like fictional accent that came out of nowhere for like the old MGM movies, and then whenever you watch like 60s and 70s stuff, it's much more it's much more to the in your teeth. It's welcome to the 1965. It's it's it's a dialect that I feel like is like what it is.
SPEAKER_02What is that? Um it's that guy, who's the guy? Um is it from radio?
SPEAKER_03Is it like if what caused that?
SPEAKER_02Um cronkite. It's cronkite, it's cronkite set that tone.
SPEAKER_03Hello, and this is 60 minutes. It's like they spoke from the front of the mouth, right? It's like you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02Right. It's so distinct, it's so distinct, yeah. It's a great uh it it's the 60s and 70s was that sound. It's a cronkite, Walter Cronkite set that's but people don't sound like that anymore.
SPEAKER_03No, do you think smoking had a little bit to do with it? No, but it's like everyone spoke in like a lower octave, because they were all just changed, ripping cigs, ripping cigarettes, which by the way, the kids are smoking. Yeah, we're here to report live on the scene. The kids are smoking. We were out and about recently, and everyone was on the roof smoking at this house party we were at. And I was like, oh, we're all smoking cigarettes again. Okay.
SPEAKER_02We were at a legit LA house party, a legitimate LA house party for Christmas or New Year's, whatever it was. It was like a holiday, it was a holiday party for somebody we know. And it was we we happened to have been in LA, had the night off. We went to this party. It was in Silver Lake, it's a beautiful house, all set up there on the hill, not on the whatever it was, the two levels, this outside, inside balcony, pop beep, choo choo. Not overly like a regular home with 300 people in it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02At one point.
SPEAKER_03And I I guess we all there was a memo that went around and said, like, we're not vaping anymore, we're doing cigarettes again because everyone was on the same page. I didn't see a single vape. I didn't really see anyone vaping. Not that I've done either. I've never smoked a cigarette ever, and I I don't vape, but just observational that the kids are smoking again.
SPEAKER_02And it started as if there's nothing wrong with it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02M my generation, they just all of high school and junior high school was just telling us how this causes the the C-word commercials. The guy with the hole in his throat. And it was just it's just and now it's as though do they all think like there's no way we're gonna live past 40?
SPEAKER_03I think they're just banking on like a massive tidal wave or earthquake and comet meteor just wiping this whole thing out soon.
SPEAKER_02But I don't understand, like I I understand, like but the stench of it.
SPEAKER_03I really, that's my thing. Like, I don't no judgment. I really just physically admit it like hurts my eye. Like I get headaches and I can't be around it.
SPEAKER_02No, no, not not being around it, but like, okay, if you are the smoker itself, you you smell your head.
SPEAKER_03My I if my clothes your clothes my clothes, I I wasn't even smoking, and now my clothes smelled. Like that makes me mad. That but now I'm like annoyed.
SPEAKER_02I I'm I'm at the age where I went out, you know.
SPEAKER_03You were where they were allowed to smoke instead of it.
SPEAKER_02So you just we left home and your shirt and your clothes, and you're you look you you swear to air your lungs out because you just knew that you've been smoking you were the second hands, but your your whole body smelled so bad. Your hair smelled so bad.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's what I remember when we went out in Tel Aviv for my birthday. Remember, we went to that club. Oh my god, people everyone were smoking, and I like I it really affected me. I was like, I can't be in here. We were in this dance club, and there were people just smoking like on the dance. Zero ventilation, like zero ventilation and just smoke, cigarette smoke everywhere. It was just I couldn't breathe.
SPEAKER_02So it just ruined the fun because like all of a sudden you're having a good time, you're dancing with some friends, and all of a sudden the idiot behind you just lights up and like and just standing there smoking, it's like ew. Yeah, it's oh it's I don't know how it came back.
SPEAKER_03And then when we were in Paris, people like sitting in the at the cafes with the the things rolled down because it was cold weather, so the plastic covering, and then they're still inside, just like smoking.
SPEAKER_02We were we were in Paris, and that you can't smoke in the restaurant, but outside you can, but it was pouring rain, so they had the plastic, it wasn't like a sucker, it was like and they were in there smoking to the point where if I wanted to smoke, I would just have to put a straw into through the that'd be that.
SPEAKER_03I guess everyone has their vices.
SPEAKER_02I know. I'm not judging, I just thank God that that's not mine. I'm so happy that that's not my vice. Um not my cross to carry. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what brought that back, but um I don't know what to tell them. I it's an observation, it's nothing we do we don't have any answers for it. Any other questions that came through?
SPEAKER_03Um Wow, we learned that Barbara Surce had a sister. I didn't get me didn't know that. I've told you that. Um What's something the other person does that you never complain about because it benefits you?
SPEAKER_02Oh, um I'm sure you have yours already locked and loaded.
SPEAKER_03Actually, no, I'm thinking.
SPEAKER_02Something that you do that um you you you you're a problem solver. So which is a great thing. If ever there's a problem, you'll solve it. We're stuck somewhere, we need to get something going, we need a new management, we needed new agency. You you always take you you whatever the problem is, but
Relationship Habits And Problem Solving
SPEAKER_02the problem with the problem solver is that they're always looking for problems. Yeah, they're always not nothing can be done. Let's just chill. It's like we're chilling, okay. Hey, hey, I'm thirsty. That's a problem. Everybody, what where can we get a waitress? Let me order on, let me get online. You Yeah, but that makes me seem like such a people pleaser, and I don't think I am a people pleaser. It's not a people pleaser, you're a problem solver. So whenever there's a problem, you pop into action. There's certain people. Right.
SPEAKER_03I'm very good at deciding not my monkey, not my circus.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That's very much in my vocabulary. Right. I have to choose which problems I take on. Because once I take it on, you take it on. I take it on. Yeah. Dina's the same way.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. But but you you're a problem solver and that's a it's a great thing, because I'm not. And uh That's not true. I I'm not not a problem solver, but I mean, uh but it's not like my but you're always on it.
SPEAKER_03So my thing for you would be, um, this is kind of hard to describe, but like when we go into a restaurant and they offer us a table, that's like obviously a shitty table, and then you're like, I let you handle it. I'm like, you you you like um could we not have this table? I'm always like, I'm like not embarrassed, but I'm like, oh god, I don't want to be annoying, but I'm also glad that you're doing it. So that that's one thing I would never complain about because it benefits me. Because we do more often than not get the better table. Yeah, you you you taught me never take the first table you're offered.
SPEAKER_02Well, on situation, don't forget every every restaurant has their horrible tables.
SPEAKER_03So their goal is to get someone in there who's not gonna game they pay that's like, let's see if someone will accept this table. It's like in the kitchen. You're like in the kitchen in the in the bathroom. Where were we in that Israeli restaurant somewhere in Europe?
SPEAKER_02It was like this Israeli restaurant. Everybody says you have to go to this Israeli restaurant. I don't know. We we were in London, it was London. We were in London, and there was some Israeli restaurant, and you we we made a reservation, and they knew that I was doing a show, and I was we were in the play, we were doing the played him, and we they made a reservation. Oh, they burst it to a table in the back. It was all the way in the back, which is okay. It's okay. I it's depends on what yeah. No, it was that open kitchen. It was that open kitchen concept, beautiful r restaurant, and the table they gave us was five inches lower than any other table. Yeah, it was like a kid's table. It looked like a kid's table. It looked like a kid's table. But it was a regular table, and then I I I I sit there and we we figure and I I said, This is something something's off here. And then the the guy was Israeli, and I I said to the waitress, can I speak with a manager to get a different and then he then he realized who we were too, and he was like, Oh my god, we have tickets to your show and this and that, and they comped a few things, and it was very nice. But you can't just sit down where they put you. Right? No, it's always good to ask. Yeah. Those of you listening, I want to first of all thank you. And I every time you guys come to us and thank and say we love your podcast, um, we we love you. I we love hearing that when we do the meet and greets and all that. We'll take this time also to thank our sponsors, collaborators, and friends. A and H provisions, kosher dogs.net, 30% off of your first order. So make it a big one with code Modi. It is the most delicious glatt kosher food. And it is, I mean, the hot dogs are on another level. Uh, Seth, a friend of the podcast, and um, we always
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SPEAKER_03I can't.
SPEAKER_02We're saying it, but like you have to I'm I'm in awe. Yeah, good for you for making that happen. Good for you, Leo. Good for congratulations to you, not me, to you for making that happen. Problem solver. No, problem solver. Yes. How do I get Modi out of backs of synagogues? Radio City Music Hall. Here we are. We still do some synagogues.
SPEAKER_03We do some by the way, all those dates he just read off, keep those are public ticketed events. Keep in mind in between every one of those whole separate schedule of private events, of Temple Beth L, of wherever calls us. So we're all over the place.
SPEAKER_02I love when we get in inquiries like, hi, I see that you're free on um on December on February 22nd. I go, looks like I'm free, but we are far from free.
SPEAKER_03There's a whole separate schedule that's not publicly listed of like where you're gonna be for private events.
SPEAKER_02Um I'm looking forward to the IAC event too.
SPEAKER_03Are you?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02It's gonna be a big one. It's gonna be good. Yeah.
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