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Episode 174: Modi and Leo are joined by actor and lip-sync extraordinaire Bransen Gates. Check out the web series, "And They Were Roommates"!
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SPEAKER_02Leo, you said you're intro introducing the show.
SPEAKER_01Hi everyone, it's Leo Modi and Branson Gates here for and here's Modi. We're back in the studio. Thank you so much for tuning in. Branson, you are uh we're not we don't know each other, we just met. Uh, but you're one of my favorite Instagram TikTok follows. Actor Extraordinaire, lip sync extraordinaire. Um you really uh make me laugh. And I'm so happy that you're here. Thank you for joining. Thank you. Thanks for having me, both of you. Thanks for having us. Yeah, oh my god. I told Modius that we're having him on. And I just DM'd you, and now you're here.
SPEAKER_02Here we are. So Leo told me you were coming on, and I'm like, oh, is he a comedian? He goes, No. I looked at your Instagram account. I was cracking up. And then you're in a television show called And They Were Roommates. Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Web series, web series. Um available on YouTube, which we watched. Available on YouTube, everybody. Um, yeah, you told me you watched them. That makes me very happy.
SPEAKER_02So I'm gonna tell you right now, I I watched it just to get a feel of what it was and ended up watching the entire series. It's a very quick watch. It's easy. It's exactly what everybody's like head space is enough for. And it was funny, and you were hysterical. And you were you were great. The gay, you were the gay friend. You were the gay.
SPEAKER_01The gay best friends. We're gonna give like broad, sort of like three sentences how about the project.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um, what is it? And they were roommates is about this girl named Scotty who moves into a new apartment, falls in love with her roommate. It's very like New Girl-esque. It draws from New Girls. A little broad city, exactly. Um yeah, like we said, it's a very, very quick watch. Um, it's meant to be. We, I mean, we filmed it like an actual TV show movie. So ideally, when you watch it, you would put it on your TV. We did. We did, thank you. Yeah, because that aspect ratio is a choice. It's all about the aspect ratio, babe. Yeah. Um most people are making vertical content.
SPEAKER_02Deliverate choice.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is hard.
SPEAKER_02There were moments where Leo said, that's an interesting choice, but like the whole thing was black on bottom and top. Uh-huh. That's the aspect ratio.
SPEAKER_00Aspect ratio. I think that's the whole thing. Yeah. It's the yeah, yeah, exactly. And we were gonna post it on social media all horizontal, but it's just the way it the aspect ratio made it tough to kind of really take in the show.
SPEAKER_02So we just kind of it was interesting, and I'm just thinking, how'd they get that? How many shots is going on there? What kind of a camera did they use? It's on YouTube. Yeah, is this many followers? It was it was great. It's like the next you took whoever uh did it. Emily. Emily, yeah, she killed it. She's like, I'm doing a show, that's it. I don't need to wait for Netflix to tell me I have a show. I'm doing it right now. Exactly. I'm gonna find people who are hysterical, and she nailed it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and it was.
SPEAKER_01How would you
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SPEAKER_01describe your character though? Because like at first, I didn't know if I if you were like an annoying gay friend, but then at the end, you're kind of like a genuine friend. Yeah, I feel like a little too controlling.
SPEAKER_00It's no grow on you, it's a grow on you gay. For sure. We all know those. We all know those. A grower, not a shower. Am I right? Are you a grower or a shower?
SPEAKER_01Cut that.
SPEAKER_02Um, there's no idea what that means, by the way. Yeah. What? No, you're you're l okay. Hi, and welcome to the Jewish world.
SPEAKER_01They know what grower or shower is. So your character grows on me after very quickly.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Um, yeah, I feel like my character is very um just wants the best for her friend and will kind of, you know, be a little on her about it, about getting out of this apartment situation, or it kind of likes to steer her in the right direction.
SPEAKER_01Have you been both of those friends? Have you been Did you have to is this you or did you like have to like Yeah, how meth did you have to get for this?
SPEAKER_00I would it I did not get very meth. I wouldn't say I kind of I'm very I let my friends figure things out for themselves. I might give suggestions.
SPEAKER_01You don't get in the my new I don't really get in there then. I don't either. Yeah, I don't like to do that. I think that causes problems usually. Yeah, yeah. It's why when in your character you're helping her with her apartment and stuff, and like I don't know if even like my close friends, if I would like get involved with like their living situation.
SPEAKER_02No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. What are you talking about? If one of your friends was a h when in a situation that was not okay, you'd be like, hey, that's not good.
SPEAKER_01I would be there to support them, but he's like actively curating her life a little bit. Yeah. Well, she needs it. Yeah, well, that's what we're talking about. Like that balance.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, if she stayed in that apartment with him, it wouldn't be the worst thing. So and so for me, for me, myself, Branson, I don't think I would intervene in that situation. But if it were something dire or drastic, yes, I'd be like, yeah, get out of there.
SPEAKER_02So Leo and I met uh 10 years ago, and he was just a week and a half in New York, and I just plucked him off and we had three dates and he moved in. So he never lived in apartments like that in New York City.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02He came back. He never he never had the bathroom where like where like the kitchen and the shower are one are one thing. Or one thing or the bathroom is bigger than the kitchen.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_02Or you walk in, you fall on your bed. He's never had that. He's so just I go to him, that's what that's what it's like.
SPEAKER_00Little girl.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and have a roommate and have a roommate, and they were roommates. Let's talk about the title. So the title for me is a reference to that iconic vine, right? Was it a vine? That's what it is. Did you know that? No, yeah, you didn't know that. You haven't seen the vine? So there's this I it's one of the best pieces of the internet. It is, right? It's like the how did you how do would you even describe that?
SPEAKER_00Literally, the entire meet, the entire vine, which is six seconds famously. R.I.P. Vine. R.I.P. Vine, she's coming back. It's this guy filming this girl walking down the street somewhere in New York. In New York, yeah. He's like on the street on the steps of a brownstone and she's walking past. She's on the phone with her friend, and she goes, and they were roommates. And then the guy filming turns the camera around and goes, and they were roommates.
SPEAKER_01And it went like super viral. But it went super viral. People used it for everything. Everything. You could just be like, Are they? And you could go, and they were roommates.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So it's not typing back. I was okay with the title without a hosting finding.
SPEAKER_01Chronically online, Modi is not.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So that's the dynamic. Someone has as long as one of you is it's. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01So speaking of chronically online, yeah. The way I discovered you was on TikTok and Instagram, where you do these hilarious lip
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SPEAKER_01syncs and there to anything from Chapel Rowan to Donald Trump.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, it brings the thing.
SPEAKER_01How did you discover that you could do that? Because you're very, very, very good at it. I know it's harder than it looks.
SPEAKER_02So for those of you listening, it's not a Donald Trump imitation. There's Donald Trump playing and he's mouthing it and doing an acting out of it. And sometimes there's a clipboard, and sometimes there's and it's so it's brilliant. It's and thank God you're not doing a Donald Trump imitation. No one needs to hear someone doing his voice again. There's a lot of people who could do it that way better than I do. Yeah, but you you it's so good. It's so good. So good. So good. What how did that begin? How did you how do you prepare for do you memorize?
SPEAKER_01And you can find those on bites. I you you find things that I'm like, when did he say this?
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm at the point now where people send people send me videos of him all the time. Gotcha. So um, you know, I but it's a very specific sound bite that I'm looking for. It has to be kind of taken out of context. Double Andra. Yeah, it has to be that. It has to end in some kind of punchline. You know, it can't just be anything he says.
SPEAKER_01Which he does.
SPEAKER_00He's like, I mean, he's kind of funny. He is, yeah. And that's that's one thing. Yeah, people are always commenting, like, oh, he just should have been Joan Rivers.
SPEAKER_02He should have just had his own talk show and then Yeah, but it's also the way you you like there's like this the pauses are what the the You know how to say the the the music is in the silence between the notes. The pauses when he's when he pauses and then you do something like throw your eyes somewhere, yeah, that's where I'm dead.
SPEAKER_00Dead. So some of that, some of those pauses. Well, okay, backing up. I do I listen to the track over and over and over and over again. I grew up doing theater, so shocking. So I did right. Um I did musical theater, so I pick up songs very quickly. And to me, listening to those tracks eventually it just becomes kind of like a song. Like you can't you can hear where the pause I you the more you listen to it, you remember where the pauses are. You know he goes up here and down here, and it's just a repetition thing, yeah, mostly.
SPEAKER_01Um Do you get a lot of like um angry MAGA people in your DMs? Or is it a good one?
SPEAKER_00No, actually the people who have people will comment and say, I voted for this man, and I think this is hilarious. Oh, bridges. I haven't gotten any building bridges. Building bridges.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes, yes, it's camp. It's so camp. It's so good. Right. I'm gonna link it in the I'm gonna find some of my favorites and link them in the description and embed them and make sure that they can all find you. Um, I also have another question. Because the other one, so you do a lot of Trump, but you do other things too. One of them was all of the Chaparron super modern ultra graphic, what's it called? That's it.
SPEAKER_00Super graphic, ultra modern girl, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Which I love that song. Me too. And I'll I feel like this is gonna go over a lot of some of the rifkas and honey's listening head, but we're gonna get there. Do you make those remixes of the Chaperone songs? Or how did you cause you fold them into like movie monologues?
SPEAKER_00So I so that started by that there was this guy on TikTok who took videos of those movie monologues, like Elwood's or iconic movie monologues. Meryl Streep, yeah, from uh Deborah's Prada. He took just the actual scene and he put it over that beginning instrumental of the chapel song.
SPEAKER_01Which is amazing.
SPEAKER_00Which is amazing because you know it it it ends right when the right when the instrumental ends, and it's very cathartic. Um so I saw that video. I saw he made one to El Woods, to her monologue where she's in the courtroom, and I was like, hmm, I maybe I'll try lip syncing to this. And then I did another one to Aaron Brockovich, and I was I just filmed it and I was like, oh, this is just gonna be for me. This is just for fun. But those videos are always the ones that skyrocket, um, the ones that you don't give a shit about. And isn't that interesting? Always. Always, yeah, yeah. You know how yeah, yeah. If you make videos online, you know that. You're like, you put so much effort into something and then it goes nowhere. Well, they're they're amazing.
SPEAKER_01But
Viral Vine Origins Of The Title
SPEAKER_01how you are speaking of putting effort online and being an online person, how does that is that fun in New York? People know you. Yeah. You get yeah. Where do you get recognized?
SPEAKER_00Um it's not all the time, but when I'm out to dinner, when I'm on the street. So I'm mostly gays, mostly what? It's a lot of women. It's a lot of women. Uh-huh. I feel like my main, the main hub, the main demographic is older um moms.
SPEAKER_02Same. That's why you look for this podcast. It's it. Ladies and gentlemen, you are late in a live. Ladies and ladies, you're welcome. Go dive into this account and you'll be cracking up and send it on all of your WhatsApp chats.
SPEAKER_01So the internet says you're originally from Arizona. How are you doing with this? Because for those of you tuning in, it's dreary. It is we're post-snowstorm, and I saw someone go ankle deep into a slush puddle and they were not wearing the right footwear for it on the way here.
SPEAKER_00Um are you holding up? I I went to college in Boston before there was a film. I'm fine. Where'd you go? Boston Conservatory. Oh, I went to BU. Oh, nice. On the corner. Yeah. There's so many schools like right in that little hub. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um did how did you end up in Boston?
SPEAKER_00You wanted that's a I went to uh the acting project. Yeah, for for theater, yeah. Ended up there. But there was that one were you there? How long did you live there? I was there for four years. Okay. Okay. Were you the so you had went to school in Boston, you moved right here after?
SPEAKER_02Well, yeah, yes.
SPEAKER_00You're from New York.
SPEAKER_02I'm from New York. Okay. I mean, yeah, yes. I grew up in New York and I knew I was gonna live here the rest of my life, but I figured four years, let's do somewhere else. Right, all right. So I went to Boston. Yeah. I really it I was like, I first I said, since I'm not going to a Harvard or a Yale, let me go to like uh I said, I'll go to Florida, be nice and warm. My mom goes, You you're you're you're you're not going for retirement. You're going to school. There has to be a shuttle. So as long as it was a shuttle, so it's either Boston or Washington, DC. Oh, it's like that was that was what it was. That was her big input. Yeah. And that was it. Nice. So B U, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Wait, does that there was a club called next to the conservatory,
The Art Of Lip Sync: Trump To Chapel Roan
SPEAKER_02there was a club called the Ramrod. Is that still there?
SPEAKER_00I was when I was there. No. Ring a bell. Um Machine was there. Machine. Did you go to the Cafe was there for sure.
SPEAKER_02I don't remember. I don't remember any. This is a while ago. 1990. Gotcha. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Golcha. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Gotcha.
SPEAKER_00Um yeah, Boston was cold. Um Boston was very cold. So I'm fine. This is not.
SPEAKER_01So you're dealing with it. You don't get like seasonal depression?
SPEAKER_00No. I actually prefer, I think I prefer the winter over the summer.
SPEAKER_01I'm on a flight to Florida tomorrow and I'm counting the seconds.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, yeah. Totally.
SPEAKER_02This this has never happened. So just those of you who are not living in New York, like those Israeli listeners and uh and Florida, it is just been unbelievable. And it's uh it's ice. And the sidewalks, which to begin with, are not big enough for for the traffic of the of walking in New York, are now a third. And people don't even have that rhythm. They're just walking, walking, and then just all of a sudden they stop and have a thought and just stop, and six people cram into them, and then you lose your balance and you step into and on the snow is nothing but dog poop and pee-pee. Yeah. It's so gross.
SPEAKER_00It is a biohazard, 1000%.
SPEAKER_01It makes you realize how dirty the streets are when there's no snow.
SPEAKER_00No, for real. It's like take your shoes off. We are shoes off. No, totally. Totally. I mean, we are too, but like if that, if if you weren't before, you see that. You definitely are now. I don't remember it ever being. I remember there, I mean, there's I feel like every year there's piles of snow.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But this is the first time that I'm like, oh wow, you just notice all the time.
SPEAKER_02So I'm saying I I I truly miss global warming. I truly because we usually get we usually get like a pound, look, like 10 inches of snow, and the next day it's 50 degrees. So it just is gone. It just melted away. Over here, it just got 10 inches of snow, and then just like ice. It just became ice next day and like two degrees, one degree. I haven't seen that in so long. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, but you're from Arizona, so do you go back there? Do you have family there? Once a year.
SPEAKER_00I see, yeah, I have family there still.
SPEAKER_01Um where in Arizona?
SPEAKER_00Phoenix.
SPEAKER_01Oh, we're due back there soon. Tucson and Phoenix.
SPEAKER_02We're working on it. Is it on the schedule already? We're working on it. I'm working on it. Okay. For your shows? Yeah. Cool. No, for visit. We just do a tour. Just to visit some people.
SPEAKER_01We'd love to go see sand. Um we went to the Phoenix um theater we were at is very haunted.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Which one? In downtown Phoenix? Oh, yeah, lots of haunted places. Hotels, yeah, venues, yeah. Super haunted. Very haunted.
SPEAKER_02We were um whenever whenever we do a show, we always we know we we wait for the moment where like um everybody that he's advanced with and the sound person and the light person are all on stage, and then we just gently pop in, are there ghosts in the theater? And sometimes they're like like this, and then sometimes there's like a unanimous yes. They all of them go yes. But this theater had a special ghost, and it was um up in the rafters, and uh and the people that were running the lights were like, Hey, someone's up here, right? And like, nope, no one's up here, and then it was a whole thing. It was a whole thing, but it was that theater's home, which is okay. We love we love a home. Yeah. I mean, great. You're not gonna do anything bad. Put them on the guest list. This is not absolutely good.
SPEAKER_01Sure. So, and they were roommates opens on New Year's. She do. Yeah, yeah. And uh uh what are your thoughts on New Year's as a as a going out holiday? Um like ranked in amongst the holidays.
SPEAKER_00I don't really do I mean it's kind of amateur out. It's kind of yeah, I mean, even if you do go out, you're not uh what is what's gonna be fun?
SPEAKER_01Because people put it's people who don't usually go out and then they put so much pressure on this one night that they have to cram a year's worth of fun into one night.
SPEAKER_00I'm in there by 1130 at New Year's.
SPEAKER_02Sorry. Uh no, we we've gone out. We usually go out. We usually go out and we go dancing and we get back into our home because we live right on the other side of the room. You're not in the chaos. Yeah, yeah. No, we just like home done. Yeah. Um so this year we didn't do anything. Yeah. Um that's when it came out. That's when uh your roommates came out. They were roommates came out. No, it's like it starts off, it starts off the first episode.
SPEAKER_00The first episode is, yeah. She's like, oh, it's new. That's right. Yeah, she's in the bar by herself. She's like, Happy New Year. Chaps. Chaps with a horror choreographs, which was filmed at $3 bill. Really? Classic Ally $3 Bill. Classic venue. She wanted to do it, I don't know if I can say this. I probably can. She wanted to do it at Flaming Saddles. But they wouldn't. Hence the dancing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00But yeah.
SPEAKER_01I've been to Flaming Saddles. Where when were we there? We were there like on a holiday, like a Christmas or Thanksgiving or something. And it was like a crowd, a unique crowd. It was a very unique. I remember that. Yeah, we've got orphans and uh rejects. Yeah. Do you go out in the city? Do you go do you go to the city?
SPEAKER_00I used to, yeah. I mean me, uh me and my partner lived in Hell's Kitchen for eight years in three different apartments. So we used to go out in Hell's Kitchen all the time.
SPEAKER_02How old are you? Is that a lot of people? I'm 31. 31, okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_01So he was not at Boston with you.
SPEAKER_02No, he was not at Boston with you.
SPEAKER_01No. He was not at Boston.
SPEAKER_02There was no overlook. Nope, nope, nope. Um he was he was in the neonatal care. Um and so, okay. So no, because we're um
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SPEAKER_02because we do live in Manhattan and the the city, uh the Brooklyn's right there with amazing venues and all that. Brooklyn's the place to be, I think, to go. For that, for that, yeah. For that, yes. But um, so we just we haven't been going out much because the music's kind of changed a little bit and we've been busy. But um, do you do you enjoy going dancing with your partner?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. We I mean we haven't as of as of late, we just moved to a different neighborhood recently, so we're kinda our party era is kind of you're settling down? On pause, yeah.
SPEAKER_02But um What's your fate what's like your favorite activity to do? What's like your favorite thing to do? Hmm.
SPEAKER_00Doesn't have to be dancing or anything.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no. What you you and you you and your partner have a free night, nothing. What is like what what are you guys gonna do? Make a reservation somewhere, see a movie.
SPEAKER_00We like to go out to a restaurant, yeah.
SPEAKER_01What's your sign? Sag. Oh, easy to get along with. Modi's Modi's weirdly good at astrology. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Easy to get along with. What are you? I'm a Taurus. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02What's your what's your partner?
SPEAKER_00He's uh he's on the cusp. Uh his birthday's this month. Capricorn and what is it? What's after Capricorn? Oh, I'm not good. That's a Modi question. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01So you're not an astrology girl, I'm not an astrology.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no. No. Neither am I, just for just for here and there. You're not I don't I don't like drop make my whole thing around because it helps you understand people.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02Sagittarius is very, it's easy to get along with, but they also are very good at getting someone to do what they need to do.
SPEAKER_00Like I'm not good at that. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Okay, we don't say I'm good at that.
SPEAKER_00So good. Maybe I am, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02Um but isn't your rising the one that you're most like there's a whole yeah, there's a whole and there's also your Jewish sign and your whole sign where with the moon sign and then yeah. I'm just we go for general. For if if that was a great way to get into another conversation, that was great, but it didn't sure. It it didn't go anywhere. So what what we're good with you just being a sag? There we go. So you're an actor.
SPEAKER_01We're on your next project, and I walk into your trailer. What's in your writer? What's what what food is is there, or what accoutrements are in the trailer?
SPEAKER_00I haven't actually had to do that.
SPEAKER_01So make your dream writer.
SPEAKER_00Let's do it right now.
SPEAKER_01Do actors get a writer? Everyone gets a writer. Everyone gets a writer. Everyone gets a writer. Acting roles I've done have never gotten writers. Okay, for the purpose of this story, he has a writer. Okay, what's in your own room? When you're doing a gig and in your this is your dressing room, your green room. Stop, start, I'll I'll help you. Start with the liquids.
SPEAKER_02What what drinks do you want there?
SPEAKER_00I would need some sort of coffee beverage or a Celsius, I guess.
SPEAKER_02Celsius, that's us.
SPEAKER_00Thank you. There's usually three flavors. Yeah. That was do it. That was really do it. What's
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SPEAKER_00your favorite flavor? Favorite flavor. Oh, I like the cola. Cherry cola. I haven't had the cherry cola. I like the regular cola. It's like diet cream. By cherry cola. Okay. Well, uh.
SPEAKER_01So starting with the liquids, we need a caffeinated moment. You're a hydrated girl. You've been sucking on that awala. No. Which is fine. We're the same way. Little pounds of this, you have to keep hydrated. Absolutely. Gotta. Yeah. Um. What snack? What are we doing for snacks?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I like a potato chip. Oh, we're salty. We're salty. Um, I like sweets, but I don't like I mean, I like chocolate, but that's kind of basic. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Um, you're good, you're good. It's good. You're good. And then whatever craft food has for you is yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, totally, totally. But that's I need to start thinking about that actually. So you're yeah. Absolutely. Do you like red bullshit? You don't like Red Bull. It tastes like gasoline. It tastes like battery acid, but that's why it's good.
SPEAKER_02I'll do it in a pinch. Start my my Celsius once I arrive at a few sips. And then while the if I'm done by the time the opening act is on.
SPEAKER_01Dosing it out.
SPEAKER_02I will hit the stage on fire and be like, oh my God, I'm on already an hour and I'm not getting off. So hey, buckle in. You have to time that Celsius on stage, and it's just like it's so good. Yeah. So good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. It hits.
SPEAKER_01But you seem like a pretty naturally energetic person. Or no?
SPEAKER_00I definitely not naturally, no. Really? No. You have to turn it on? No. I I mean I have to I have to have the the stimulants also. I haven't had a Celsius in a while, though. Um I'm a coffee person.
SPEAKER_023 30.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um there she is. Um 5 p.m. coffee. Just a sensible 5 p.m. coffee.
SPEAKER_01Um what's your most used emoji? Ooh, can I look? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00We'll get receipts. Can I look? Let's see. Um to be something really embarrassing.
SPEAKER_01That's perfect, actually.
SPEAKER_00Oh, it's it's just the the laughing emoji.
SPEAKER_01Okay. That's a pretty that's a pretty good name.
SPEAKER_00And then the second one.
SPEAKER_02What does your what does your your partner do?
SPEAKER_00He does real estate. Oh. Yeah. Good, good. Real estate salesperson. Broker. Sales agent. Agent, broker agent, who has any that's all this yeah.
SPEAKER_02Good. Um so so that's nothing to do with your field.
SPEAKER_00Mm-mm. He used to, we met in college. He did theater as well. Um but he was mostly in school, he was mostly a piano player. He plays piano, so he was the music director for all the shows. Yeah. So but he did theater as well, and then he we graduated, he broke off into something. He also teaches fitness. Okay. He started fitness before I started teaching too. Um you teach fitness. I teach fitness. That's my where job at Equinox.
SPEAKER_02Oh, which one? All of them. Yeah, we were kind of discussing this before you walked in the room. Okay, but now the now that now the the audience. Yeah. So we were talking about which fitness do you teach? What what what kind of class?
SPEAKER_00Mostly now I do the hit classes, uh, strength classes. I used to teach Pilates and bar. I don't really do that anymore.
SPEAKER_01So that's what I'm saying. Like you have to have you have yeah, you turn that on.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we gotta turn that on. Yeah, I mean, there's a very strong pipeline from musical theater to fit to fit register. It's a strong pipeline for sure. Um they love an they love a little mic. Yeah. We love a Britney Mike. Brittany Mike with a windscreen, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's a whole moment.
SPEAKER_02Um and walk when you walk in, you don't make eye contact with anybody. That's the most not at all. Not at all. You just don't look at anybody.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. How do you do your playlist? How does uh uh what's your creative? I don't make any of my playlists. I subscribe to a service that it's a DJ that makes streamline playlists for you.
SPEAKER_01Do you listen to it first before the class?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Interesting. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00But it's all continuous because some of my classes I teach are on the beat of the music.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_00They also even eight counts. So I just I use that.
SPEAKER_01Are you a good dancer?
SPEAKER_00I used to dance, yeah. Wow. But I haven't in a long time.
SPEAKER_02Okay, hair. We were doing hair before. What's going on? Leo's hair. Oh, Leo's hair is uh yeah, is giving Elvis.
SPEAKER_01It's greasy right now. It doesn't look greasy.
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SPEAKER_01It's I so I was saying I haven't washed it in two days. Right. And you are yeah. Do you do you have any input? Do you are you would tell us about yours?
SPEAKER_00I don't really have a reason why, but I just haven't used I I wash it in the shower, but I don't I haven't used shampoo in like a month. Is that bad? No, it's I hear I heard it was like a good reset to do.
SPEAKER_01You know, no, apparently we're all putting too much soap on our bodies in general. Right. But I love to be clean. Yeah. So um and I usually also very this is such boring conversation. I usually I usually have very short hair. So I'm this is I'm navigating Is this long for you? This is very long for me. Wait, what is like a buzz calling short besides a buzz cut?
SPEAKER_00Oh, you have a buzz cut? Yeah, really? Buzz cuts, yeah. Oh, you need to keep this hair. No, it is. This looks really good on here.
SPEAKER_01It looks good. It looks so good. I got on I got positive feedback from the focus groups, and um, I think she's sticking.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, as as you should. Yeah. Um full head of hair.
SPEAKER_01While we're talking about hair care, I had a lymphatic drainage massage this morning.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, we're gonna talk about that too. Yeah, yeah. Do you believe in that? I do, I do. I love all of that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I love all that. What's it what's like you like? Oh.
SPEAKER_00I I've well, no, not true. I just haven't done it in in a while. I used to get like guasha all the time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. The full body gasha?
SPEAKER_00Not the full body, no. I used to get it on my back, on my neck. Interesting. Um I used to go in Boston all the time.
SPEAKER_02What the hell's ga?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00You haven't seen you haven't seen guasha? No, what's gasha? You haven't had guasha? It's where they scrape your Gouache, I just met her. Folks. Folks.
SPEAKER_02But umch.
SPEAKER_00But um chem It's where they scrape your back or wherever, really, with this. Usually it's with like a silver, like a like a spoon kind of. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. They get all the bad toxins out of your muscles. And so when when you get it done afterward, you're it looks like you were very badly.
SPEAKER_01Have you done cupping?
SPEAKER_00Be I have done cupping, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Remember that was like a moment uh everyone was doing cupping. It was like a look to go to the gym and like have your little cut marks out.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's just your your battle scars.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like I'm really into wellness. These are my battle scars.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I know totally cupping is over and so is cold plunging. Yeah, did you Google this?
SPEAKER_00I never I'd cold plunged one time at Wii Spa in LA. Hated it. I was like, I literally feel like I'm gonna die.
SPEAKER_02It's not fun. No, it fell off. And then you find out it's not even good for you. Like, it's not good for you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, it's not good to do it all the time. Yeah, it's good to do it here and there. But people, some people do it every day for 20 minutes a day. Before they work masochistic. Right. I'm like, that's not good for you.
SPEAKER_02Oh um, yeah. But I've I had lymph lymphatic what's it called? You did a full body lymphatic training. And it was amazing, and the guy was the guy was a beast. Uh-huh. It was a beast. And he like rubbed it, and I looked cut. I looked like really cut. They got all that shit out of it.
SPEAKER_01We're all just bags of water. We yeah, truly. You gotta move it around. Truly. You gotta slosh it around a little bit. That's what they did to you today? Yep. Nice. Yep. A guy or a girl? Um, a woman. A woman. She's good, she's strong. It was just enough. Was it an hour? Um, yeah, it was like an hour full body, and then I did a 30-minute facial specific massage, which I've been really into lately. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Into it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It just it's nice. We hold a lot of uh pressure in our faces, and we don't even know.
SPEAKER_00Do you get Botox?
SPEAKER_01I have, yeah. That was a laser.
SPEAKER_00I mean now. The Diane Sawyer of it. I want to know. Do you get Botox?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um, no, well, this is my first time back on camera since I did a crazy uh laser treatment. That's a journey I'm also on.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. How often? Um, it's hard with our travel schedule because you need to bake in some downtime. Sure. I have this is my second CO2 laser I've done, but I've done like all the fraxol laser and all of that stuff too. Wow. Skincare. Skin care. Yeah. I know. I need to be I'm happiness for me, unfortunately, is always on the other side of a treatment appointment. I'm like, I just need to do one more thing. I think there's some validity to that. And it's I just need one more and it's and then it'll be okay. Then I'll be perfect. And it's a it's a snake eating its own tail.
SPEAKER_00It's it's a cycle. Yes and no.
SPEAKER_02Back to you acting first. So so I I recently had an audition that I haven't had in a while. So I had to prepare, um, and they get they got me this acting coach from um LA. So she had the sides, I had the sides. I've signed like we signed crazy amounts of uh NDAs. Oh yeah, so we can't even talk about what what it was for. But basically it was like it was like walking into Hermes and asking for a Birkin was the audition, basically. Like there. Um but this woman who was my acting coach was going over the lines with me. She's a thing out in LA, and she so she's like, while she's talking to me, she gets on late, and she's so confident in her own stuff. Like she knows she's gonna help me through this and get so she came on, she zoomed on late. So I'm sitting there waiting for her, right? Leo's like in the front, like, oh, she's not gonna be good, he's not gonna get this, he's gonna be it's not gonna be a good audition. And when she comes out, I could see in your face, you're like, Oh my gosh, she's not on the show. Obviously, the Botox aren't working, yeah. And she has this dog that's like barking all over her, and then she just picks up the dog, and the dog's crawling all over her, and she goes, and she's looking at my Wikipedia or whatever she's looking at. She goes, Oh, you were a canter, the guy that sings in the sending. And goes, What if my dog's died and I need to learn how to say the cottage, the mourner's prayer for it? I'm like, Oh wow, okay. I'm like, no problem, I'll do it for you afterwards. I'll tape it for you. I'm like, if this goes well, I'll take it for you. If this goes, I said to her, if this goes well, I'll make a copy of that for you and send it to you. And she goes, Okay, so let's see what's happening here in this role. Go ahead and read. And she goes, This, that. And she right away goes, Okay, let's work on your site. That's the that's Bill, that's Max, and that's Harry. Okay, let's take it again. I go, Bill, Max, Harry, Bill. But then I then I start taking that. Look, I I started getting it. It came back.
SPEAKER_01It ties into like your the the lip syncing videos, though.
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SPEAKER_01Yes, do that too. You like makeup.
SPEAKER_00But how the people, yeah, no, no, self-tapes are are rough.
SPEAKER_01What's your strategy for the self-tapes?
SPEAKER_00I'm well, I've only just now getting back into doing that. Just got a request for one today that I need to do by Friday. But I'm I'm back in class now. I take this class that Where, who, what, when? Um, I can give that to you after. Um, yeah. Oh, okay. Um, but I'm learning all this stuff about how to be more specific with the self-tapes and where to where to put the people science, when to blink, when to move your arm, when to gesture I I'm in a class right now that's very specific, but it's it's a it auditioning in and of itself is the worst because it's not anything like what you're actually gonna be doing if you get the job and you're on set. Right. Yeah, that's what doesn't make sense to a whole other art form in and of itself.
SPEAKER_02So so when I f when you begin doing comedy, everybody that you missed a comedy years ago, they say, Okay, let's see if this could also work on television. And and so we we went and then um I had a a teacher, Bob Krakower, oh yeah, I am who like goes, Hey, let me teach you how to put this into a camera, all of this big energy. And so he helped me learn that. And then um, and then I took some other acting classes, and then uh, but it was it was just so crazy to all of a sudden because the roles I've been getting lately were are more to play me. Like uh on Crashing or whatever was it just to play Modi. Yeah. So there's no audition, just show up and go be Modi. Um, but this was like uh it was just a pop out of nowhere.
SPEAKER_01So were you the kid doing like shows in the living room? That was always you? That was me, yeah. Really? 100. Were you a class clown?
SPEAKER_00Did you get a superlative? I wasn't. Um my superlative in high school was most likely to be Twitter famous.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's very specific.
SPEAKER_00Senior year, yeah. They weren't wrong. They weren't wrong. It's like internet. Now Twitter is dead, kind of, but um R.I.P. Twitter. R.I.P. But um Yeah, that was me. That was me. I wasn't class clown though. Really? It was just like everyone does sports, I do theater. Ha ha. But now you do sports and theater. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Sports and theater. Sports, why not?
SPEAKER_01So on a scale from one to ten, the character Riley and and they were roommates. How much do we hate him? I love that you love the show so much. Well, it makes me so happy. I'm uh invited you and you came to the show.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna watch whatever I can get my own. I'm telling you, we did we didn't I didn't just watch it to get a feel. I said, Oh, this is nice. Let's get the next episode.
SPEAKER_01No, so I watched it alone and then he came home and we started it from scratch, and then I watched it again. So it's all in my brain.
SPEAKER_00Love it. Yeah, love it. Okay. Um, what was your question about Riley? Sorry.
SPEAKER_01How much from one to ten do we actually hate Riley?
SPEAKER_00I love Riley.
SPEAKER_01Really? He's a very problematic character.
SPEAKER_00His the things his character does, but him as a person.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you're so you have to separate the artist.
SPEAKER_00No, but I feel like right, well, yeah. I mean, I mean, obviously we're we're mad at Riley. We're mad at Riley. We're mad at Riley. Right. It's a very one-sided conversation. Like you have to go watch it and then tune back in.
SPEAKER_01They're gonna watch it.
SPEAKER_00Tune back in. Um, no, yeah, what he does is obviously very, very awful. But maybe something will happen in season two that maybe.
SPEAKER_02So season two, uh I'm not gonna give anything away, but her new roommate and it begins, and the new roommate's like, Oh, hi, like a glass of wine, let me hang your art, and da-da-da. She looks like she has voodoo dolls in her room or something. Really? Oh, that's a twist. Oh, interesting. Yeah, like because she's too nice up front.
SPEAKER_00She's too she's too sweet up front. Isn't that funny that you can watch something and you can watch someone do something and have different different yeah? You you like you see something different from you, it's just so interesting. She's too good up front. She's too oh, I'm making pizza. They're like they're must do something.
SPEAKER_02I'm making pizza, whatever the hell she was making before.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Interesting.
SPEAKER_02Are you a girls' gay or a gay's guy?
SPEAKER_01Um girls gay. Like, do you your core group of friends, are they women or are they?
SPEAKER_00Um yes, like I feel like I'm yeah, I feel like all of my girl friends are my actual friends. And I feel I I have gay guy friends too, obviously, but I associate them more with like going out or I I don't know.
SPEAKER_01But you know what I'm talking about. I I there's a clear divide.
SPEAKER_00And I feel like I am in I'm in the middle right now. Really? Yeah. I feel like I at one point in the last few years I was I was uh uh a guy's gay. What is a gay? A gay's gay. A gay's gay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Those are so that's that's those are the there's like two types of gays. There's the gays who only hang out with other gays,
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SPEAKER_01and then there's gays who are like basically only hang out with women. Right. Straight women.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, and there's little overlap.
SPEAKER_00I feel like I don't at the moment I don't do either, but there was um a time where I was I was in Fire Island.
SPEAKER_01I was going to you know, we're five we we did five years in Fire Island. You did? Yeah. Yeah. The last five years. No more?
SPEAKER_02No, no, okay. We're going to go back at some point. We're not making well, not getting a house and like a full commitment because we have another house now, but we we uh I love it. Yeah, it's funny. Just walk on the beach for but the power.
SPEAKER_01Do any of them have kids now?
SPEAKER_00Some uh not a lot of my friends actually. I'm trying to think. No, no, not a lot of them. Maybe like three of them.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So you haven't lost them to the I haven't lost them to the kids.
SPEAKER_00No, but whenever my friends do have kids, I'm like, see you in 18 years. See you never again. Um Really? Yeah. You know. Do you and your partner want kids? I don't think so. You need a lot more money. It sounds like a lot more. A lot more space. We're the same way. Yeah. Do you feel the same? But you uh you eventually want kids. Why are you laughing?
SPEAKER_02No, no, it's not in the cards. Okay. Yeah, we're very happy for other people's kids. We have I have com I'm I have comedy.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00We have comedy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's nice to be, you know, to go see other people's kids and say, huh?
SPEAKER_01I love we have so do you have siblings?
SPEAKER_00I have siblings. Do they have kids? My sister has a kid, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, so you're a gunkle? I'm a gunk call. That's f is that fun?
SPEAKER_00Where do they live? Arizona. Arizona. All of them, okay.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So you can like only out.
SPEAKER_00I can part-time gunk, yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02Part-time gunk. I'll put the PTG. Doctor and part-time gunk. So it's gonna be hard for you to like kind of get to know the kid because he's in Arizona.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I see her every I see her once a year, and I'm like, oh, you're older and bigger now.
SPEAKER_02Cool. My niece had a baby.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I'm obsessed. To the point where we were sitting at the comics table at the cellar, and like a few comedians just had babies pulled out their pictures. I'm like, wait. And I pull out the video of my of my my nephew, my my my niece's son, and all that. And uh it's and she's in the city, and I get to bring it to my mother's house, and it's so much fun. And then you just get away from it, and you just be nice to be like, okay, bye. Yeah, it's it was nice to see you. Done, done. It's so good.
SPEAKER_01Do you have do you have dogs? Do you have a cat?
SPEAKER_00No, I have a dog, yeah.
SPEAKER_01You do?
SPEAKER_00I do, yeah. Was it a covet dog? No, we had we've had her since she's nine now. We've had her since she was four months.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00What c what color is she? She's white with a black spot on her eye.
SPEAKER_01Is she smart or is she dumb? Because I feel like it's either one with the Frenchie's.
SPEAKER_00She's really smart. Really? Yeah. Too smart.
SPEAKER_01Wait, is that the Frenchie in and they were roommates? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my cameo.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she's a cameo.
SPEAKER_01We're not gonna update her IMDB. No, totally.
SPEAKER_00No, we were so we filmed that scene in my old apartment. Okay. So I was like, she's here. Might as well. Let's use her. And she's works with children and animals. We were filming that one from that one setup for like 20, 30 minutes, and I was like, I need to put her down.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02The shots there, the shots on in this thing um, and they were roommates. It there, I kind of usually the most you had was three shots per scene.
SPEAKER_00The most yeah, usually, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Maybe there were but it wasn't a lot of lighting and stuff. I think like the camera just held it its own.
SPEAKER_00There was a lot of lighting. There was, yeah. Okay. So that scene, this episode two in the bedroom, where it's daytime.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That was nighttime.
SPEAKER_01Really? Oh. How long did this whole process take with working with Emily?
SPEAKER_00We they shot the whole thing in 12 days. Whoa. How did you meet Emily? I met her through uh we had mutual friends, and I met her online through my my chapel videos, actually. Um, she reached out to me, I auditioned, and that's fun.
SPEAKER_02That's so good. Yeah. That's if you right now have to say, here's the role I want, yeah. Your your best role board mood board your next role. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. I I personally know so many actors nowadays are trying to be everything. Like they're trying to make themselves kind of a chameleon, which is fine too. Like they're all trying to be Meryl Streep and trying to be amenable to all these different roles. But I feel like if you have your one little niche, like that's fine too. You can just kind of ride that. So I feel like I'm fine with I'm great with just being the gay best friend on some series. What I care more about, I don't really care about the roles that I play, I care about the people that I work with. And I really want to work with the people that I've been inspired by or people that you know in the future might inspire me. That that's what I care more about than an actual type of role that I want.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That's great. Is there a piece of media like a TV show or a movie where you're like watching
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SPEAKER_01it and you're like, I wish I could do my take on that? I don't know.
SPEAKER_00What's even I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I watch a lot of TV, but I don't like what are you like like when you watch like all like right now, like all the the little sizzles and and s and teasers for the new Devil Wars Prada movie. Are you like, oh, I would slay some role.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Totally. Yeah. Totally.
SPEAKER_00I I feel like there's there I I feel like I watch most of the.
SPEAKER_01Put you at Runway Magazine working. What's that? Runway magazine of the movie. What? Of the Devil Wars Prada. She works. Yeah, what about it? I'm putting you there in the office.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you're putting me in the office. Oh, I I could totally be like that gay little gay.
SPEAKER_01Like a statement glasses.
SPEAKER_00Consistent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Some some sort of Yes Miranda.
SPEAKER_01You know? No, you're a little bit more, you know how to navigate murder. A little bit more demure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Listen, uh, from Beverly Hills Cop with uh Bronson Pinchaw had a little gay role. He wasn't even gay. In a in the the art gallery, he said something like a cappuccino, and that was like the most viral thing back in the day before it could even go viral.
SPEAKER_01That's like Miss Vanji.
SPEAKER_02Miss Van G. Miss Van G. Miss Vanji. So it's funny. I always see uh you have a lot of tattoos on your on your arm. Doesn't that like like when you are you you don't mean actor, like that could get in the way of things.
SPEAKER_00It could, yeah. Yeah. I got all of these when I my plan was to not be an actor anymore. So I kind of messed that up for myself. But also I can just cover them up. There are a lot of actors. I've seen a lot of tattoos cover up many, many, many, many. I mean Ariana Grande has the and tattoos.
SPEAKER_01I follow her makeup artist on Instagram too. Yeah. I see the work, I see the pro the what goes into that. I know.
SPEAKER_02was on uh the Sopranos. Tony Soprano had um on his finger. Oh really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah yeah he had a I think I should get an M-O-D-I here. No do not do that. You never thought about that before? Should we do I've never I have no original thought right now. We'll go together. Okay. Yeah. Yeah you have an M on your chest. I can get more Don't do that.
SPEAKER_00Oh you have one on your chest? Yeah. Nice. I have a few. You have a few. Yeah I don't not you know wait back to you for a second. Did you see that movie Is This Thing On?
SPEAKER_01Oh no the new comedy yeah no we haven't see it.
SPEAKER_00You need to see it.
SPEAKER_01So we like weirdly don't watch a lot of things with like a comedy motif.
SPEAKER_00Got it. Oh we watched O'Mail Brooks in it though. Oh probably they hired real stand-ups from New York.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah yeah yeah and they did it at the comedy cell yeah yeah yeah yeah I was we were on tour for the whole thing but um all the comics were telling me like what they saw each other and it's great.
SPEAKER_01Yeah yeah yeah did you ever do like improv y onstage stuff?
SPEAKER_00No I did improv in high school and then I I I remember doing it one day and I just like couldn't do it anymore. I was really good at it I thought and then one day in class I just that part of my brain just turned off.
SPEAKER_01Really? And I just get kind of I want to get back into it but I need to start heavy heavy one on one like I have you have you listened to Amy Polar talk on her podcast talk about improv? Because I that was educational for me. I didn't know it was such like a it sounds very intense. It's an art forum yeah no I know it's no doubt it's an art form but they're like tribal groups.
SPEAKER_00Yeah for sure.
SPEAKER_01Intra intra group intra troop no troop I should say no their little yeah what's it yeah troops. Yeah yeah she was describing the scene and I was like oh I didn't know that it is like that's it's very intense. I could never do that.
SPEAKER_00I have no desire to do that. Yeah I want to see a show tomorrow at UCB. Oh yeah it's very fun to watch because it's exciting because nothing that you're seeing there was obviously planned and you're like oh what's gonna happen it's just like a bunch of funny people who thrive in that environment doing their thing.
SPEAKER_01What about on Broadway right now? Like what is are you into what's the last show you saw or were really into I don't see shows that much.
SPEAKER_00Yeah we I saw Masquerade recently do you know Phantom of the Opera? Yes so it's like an immersive Phantom of the Opera you it's at this venue and they guide you through different rooms and in each room is a different scene or song.
SPEAKER_01Uh it's like that um what was the other Sleep No More Yeah I so I never saw Sleep No More I never did either but I heard crazy things about it.
SPEAKER_00It's exactly like that where you go through different rooms and different scenes are going on and there's different immersive theater immersive theater.
SPEAKER_01It was really cool I saw that um yeah I don't see as many shows as I should so if you have to audition and you have to sing a song what kind of song are you giving me?
SPEAKER_00Yes you said musical theater right yeah I did yeah ten years ago so but like okay so alright what let's go you have to sing a song like what song you're gonna sing let me get the my dusty rep book out yeah what song I probably do like a like a class I probably do a like uh Rogers and Hart or Your faces just out I don't know any of that Rogers and Hart the composer theorists okay Richard Rogers and what's his first name Lawrence Hart they did a lot of musical theater standards but it would be either uncultured classical route of musical theater and I wouldn't do anything contemporary wait do you go to that play what's that bar where they all sing oh my god the monster the monster are you a Maurice Chrysler I've been in there it's fun I've I've been there a few times but it's I've been in there with Cuba Gooding Jr.
SPEAKER_02We took him in canceled he's not cancelled it's fine um and he's uh it was uh yeah yeah yeah it was an experience I didn't know any of the songs uh I don't know I didn't I I didn't realize how much I didn't know until I well they play very niche I was telling you something on Fire Island that at the at the pavilion's
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SPEAKER_02okay the show night we went there once I love show I've it was the worst night but I've never seen people having so much fun in my life it's so freeing they are so I have no they just don't care they just and they just break out and they just know where the song's from and who sang it in 1912 and and she was she replaced Marilyn when she did this and that and nah da and then watching YouTube videos of I'm like oh my god and some people r actually rehearse those numbers oh they forgot the full house together and they they're and they sync it up right to that YouTube. We went with with that big Broadway guy um um Cheyenne Jackson Cheyenne Jackson so Cheyenne so we were with him and so like he's killing it of quite no idea what's happening where there was like a professional Broadway person and we're like and Michael Hoffman who knew every song also who's not a professional Broadway person slash everything else in the world so and then we're just sitting there and I'm like are they playing fiddler anytime soon? Because that's the only song I know and that was it and we and I got the hell out of them like I'm gonna go home okay uh but they were in in ecstasy almost they were so happy yeah so happy I love it just the way you mentioned the Hammer Hammer Hart and and Moish what what were those two just meant heart yeah sure I had a very funny I had a very funny Shabbat dinner this uh this this week um where it was like these two people who were who weren't Jewish came to this very Jewish Shabbat dinner and one of the person there was an artist and so um an artist carpenter um and believe it or not carpenter and his name is Riley and so we asked him everybody this oh these are all Jewish people and they just asked him so where where did you go to school and he says I went to um blah blah blah whatever it's called uh it's a school that was founded by Steve Whitcock Steve uh McNabb and and Douglas uh um Stan Smith and he was saying it in a way like we should all be like oh I'm familiar with their work and oh and and we just all sat like there was a a full like almost three beats like and no one said anything so I so I I turned and go how are they? Uh I told him how how are they and everybody just cracked up we just really had no idea who he was talking about and he thought he was going to blow us away with these two names of these two people and we did not know who it was. I'm gonna give you some names right now. The first name is the first name is Whites and Luxembourg Law Firm it's the law firm that not only does not only does does well they do good they're super philanthropic and Arthur Luxembourg is a big fan of the a big fan and been uh on the podcast and his wife Randy listens to the podcast to tell him what we're talking about so thank you whites and Luxembourg um also thank you AH Provisions if if you ever have to have a hot dog that's what you want to get your AH provisions hot dog kosher dogs.net 30% with the promo code Modi on your first order. So order a big thing um a big order hot dog makes me want a hot dog real do you do a good Jennifer Coolidge I feel like you have everyone can what's wait a minute let me just finish here so thank thank you very much to our sponsors we love you and thank you for uh for being a part of this thank you Seth and Arthur uh for for helping out with the podcast we love you go ahead let me hear your Jennifer Coolidge only if you we all have to we both like soup okay makes me oh hold on wait these gays are trying to murder me so good it's not good it's not good at all it's pretty good that's the thing everyone can kind of do it everyone can kind of it's that's such a yeah impressions are hard impressions are hard yeah um wait what's another Jennifer Coolidge line um makes me want a hot dog real you look like the 4th of July yes makes you want a hot dog real bad please you haven't the back of the throat thing you can tap it yeah yeah but no one can beat Chloe Feynman though oh no no I mean she's have you seen when she does the rapid fire like that.
SPEAKER_01Yes I saw that on uh on Jimmy Fallon right so good what a party trick insane dude I would be I would be so annoying I would be insufferable if that's it if I if that was inside of me God didn't give me that gift on purpose.
SPEAKER_02Leo is going to add your clips and your Instagram account and if there's a website is there if you don't have a website I was looking no website I hope you own it BransonGates.com I did at one point we'll get we'll get well hopefully maybe Squarespace will sponsor us if we'll do an episode where we get your domain please Squarespace come to us because I was looking for more I was looking for a little back I know you're looking for Moss we're looking for Moss looking for Moss yeah looking for moss that's his new uh web series coming out looking for moss looking for moss um uh what's the drunk at the Taco Bell Cantina what's what's what's your tell the people how they can reach you and find you and and dance with you and do everything with you.
SPEAKER_00My handle on Instagram is Branhattan my TikTok which I don't really use anymore is my name brandsen with three Ns B R A N S E N N N.
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SPEAKER_02Oh we're all over the place we are we de plug um hi everybody it's time to laugh not only for yourself get tickets for your friends so you can be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show we are in watch this one blow you away we are gonna be uh ticketed sales we have shows in aspen aspen 12th uh and it's selling out from what I hear there's very limited tickets in aspen um San Francisco an added show we have there yes San Francisco San Francisco you didn't think I had that in me Brea California San Diego the Balboa we are in um and
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SPEAKER_02then we'll be in DC DC Detroit Orlando Dallas yeah Kansas City Boston all these available amazing Boston shows it's gonna be awesome over there and ladies and gentlemen do not forget April 23rd and 30th we are at Radio City Music Hall Radio City Music Hall and by the way I so listen to this I was telling um I was at the comedy I was going did you it's it blows your mind away I saw your story it wait do you know that I always speak in the we so I hadn't seen Andrew Schultz for a while and I saw him at the comedy cellar and and I said to him yeah I'm gonna I said to him we're doing uh radio city musical I go that's amazing I've seen you everywhere and then the next day I saw him and I goes yes he goes so who are you doing Radio City with? I go me it's my own show he goes because you said we said it's my husband I was because he's booking it and he's I speak in the we it's very crazy that I I so he thought I was like it was like a show with me with other people. I'm not not gonna be on stage I've I've bedazzled pants wait till you see them buy the tickets just to see the pants the hydro lift there's a hydro lift like the fiance which cost sixty thousand dollars so we were like should we do it or not and like and it wasn't for me it was for Leo's bro I I don't need to give me the fog machine video of that.
SPEAKER_01Just I mean it's a once in a lifetime gift for her moment and outfits have been showing up so he's already auditioning outfits yeah I'm already slay it and I'm working on a tuxedo so if you don't care about Modi's comedy buy your tickets just to see the pants that I'm gonna wear because they're amazing.
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SPEAKER_01That's it that's all I'm stepping over the mood book board you'll have to tune in and see it'll be photographed in both nights don't worry there'll be video evidence um thank you for doing this this is just thank you so much for this was for me so fun things for everything I loved you just for you yeah please watch um and they were roommates on YouTube and Modi live.com for all Modi live.com for all of your comedy needs yeah yeah yeah thank you thank you for tuning in love you bye love you bye