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Episode 177: Modi and Leo discuss the fan-encounter scorecard, Netflix's 'Age Of Attraction", and why Jacob Elordi can get away with wearing a purse.
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A Gym Run-In With Isaac
SPEAKER_01And we are back in the studio. And by back, we are in do another hour.
SPEAKER_02We're doing a part two. Part two. We're getting them in the can because you know, when we're on the road, it's hard to keep up with things. I need to tell you something that I did that I don't usually do. What? Um, I was at the gym the other day. Yes. Equinox Soho. And I saw a guy who's in the Charlie XEX movie.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And who, which you know I'm obsessed with, and we're gonna watch tonight or tomorrow night because now it's finally streaming. Isaac, I'm forgetting his last name, is the name of the actor. His real name is Isaac. And he was in the Charlie XCX movie. I saw him, he was working out next to me, and I never ever approach people like that I recognize from shows or like celebrities. I'd never, especially during a workout. That's like a huge rule for me. I was once working out with the Ann Hathaway, and I was like, just zip it. And um I but he was next to me and he wasn't like deep in his workout, he was kind of like standing, and he did have headphones in though.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I just went up to him and I was like, Your name's Isaac, right? And he goes, Yeah. And you could see in his face, he was like, Oh god, is this happening?
SPEAKER_01Oh, he was like that?
SPEAKER_02No, but I just for like a split second. Okay, and then I was like, I just want to say I loved you in the moment, which is the Charlie X6 movie. I said it was one of my favorite movies I've seen in a long time. I said, and he goes, Oh, thank you. And then he said, What's your name? I'm Leo, I'm Isaac. Thank you. Great, enjoy your workout. It was it was under 30 seconds.
SPEAKER_01But I think that he would grade that. What do you think he would grade?
SPEAKER_02Because we have a grading system when people do that to you, right? Um, I think I got like a B. Really? No, not a B plus? No, no, B plus for sure, because you're high. Maybe a B plus. Not an A because I did he did have to take an AirPod out.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So that's definitely Or like at least pretend to stop his music or something. I understand. You know what I mean? So you definitely But I never do that, but he was he's so beautiful, and the movie is show me what it looks like. Yeah. Do you want to explain the grading system while I pull it?
SPEAKER_01We have a grading system when people come up to us and uh and say and say hello, which we please do. If you recognize us and you're a fan, say hi. Uh but we have a grading system. There's like if someone walks by and goes, Hey, love your work, my mom's a big fan. Thank you all very thank you very much. And they continue.
SPEAKER_02Like literally.
SPEAKER_01Oh wow.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Hello.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, he's hot. Um so so we have so like so that's an A. If the person's really hot, he was graded on a curve. It's a it's an A plus.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's an A plus.
SPEAKER_02Unfortunately, that's the way the world works. I'm so sorry. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um if they want to take a picture and they have it all set up and click click and it just happens, still can be an A because it moved along. Nothing was but very good, still A. If they're hot, A plus. If it becomes uh we all lose our track and moment and movement in it, it can go to a B. If there's a good story that they're stopping us for, like you've helped us through COVID, it goes back to an A. But china cocking. If it's just China cocking, if it's just China cocking, if you're just gonna hock my China about my sister went to the same school your sister went to, so now I'm gonna my sister's sister.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think. If you come in, these are the things that get you a failing grade. If you come in with like a back-handed compliment, yeah, automatically you're in danger. Then if we are sitting in a booth and you stand mock us over the booth and we are now trapped by your story, also fail, failing grade. We appreciate it. We appreciate it. Please say hi.
SPEAKER_01Please say hi.
SPEAKER_02But just be aware there is a grading system and it's okay. Look, I'm I just gotta be, I think. So it's B plus, B plus.
SPEAKER_01You gotta be plus. You gotta be plus. Um, and also, by the way, if you say hi, there's a very good chance I will give you a Mashir energy yamaka. Yeah, if you have a I carry Mashir energy yamakas on me. If you say hi, big fans, I'll just hand you a mashir energy yamaka and we move on.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but I don't know what it was that made me like do it. I don't because I I'm usually so good at just like I don't get starstruck, like I've seen so many celebrities like around you, and like I think it's one of my actually good traits, is that like I don't we learned we learn from hanging out with Cuba that Cuba good engineer.
SPEAKER_01A few people, yeah. And a few people that just so you don't do that. You just leave just leave the coolest thing you could do is leave them alone. Yeah, it's the coolest thing you can do. Pretend nothing's happening and just move on and and whatever it was, and and but sometimes it's in a moment with like that girl in uh that woman in girl, whatever she was, in in uh woman, she's a woman, she was over 20, uh in London that I I I picked up. Oh yeah. She was just she wasn't a celebrity, or maybe she was. You were just hitting on a random girl at a gym. Which is fine.
SPEAKER_02You need to work those muscles sometimes, I get it.
SPEAKER_01Yes, and I killed it.
SPEAKER_02I I I slayed the game.
SPEAKER_01I'm sure you did. I died, she and it was and it's a part of my new routine. I'm talking about you haven't done it in a second. Because I've been focused on I want to make sure that I hit that stage on uh Radio City with this it's just gonna be they're gonna be like, oh my god, he has this down. I'm not practicing anything else. As soon as Radio City is over, my mind will be on the new hour of like even though there's a lot of new hour stuff in uh in Radio City um since the last time I was in New York. But yeah, there's a grading system and please say hi, but just
The Unofficial Fan Grading System
SPEAKER_01think about it. And you know, in general, in general, think about when you are with somebody, how much time you have with them and what you want to talk about. So if you meet somebody that you haven't seen in a long time, you know that the the interaction is going to be maybe three minutes or four minutes.
SPEAKER_00Think about what you want to talk about or not. Don't tell them about the traffic or the weather that you just got there.
SPEAKER_01You haven't seen this person in 30 years from high school. Hey, how are you? Uh don't go into I can't tell you the traffic we just came off of. It should be like, it's so good to see you. I've been seeing your work. How are you? How are your parents? Are you still in do they still have that house in the five towns? Think about what what you want to do in those five minutes you have with this person. Don't kill it with some stupid story about how you got to the restaurant. You know, think about think it through. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That does drive you crazy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
What Makes Small Talk Miserable
SPEAKER_01Um what about him? I don't know. He was on SNL.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he's a superstar. He's a superstar. He's a superstar. People love him. Um he has been accused of queer baiting. You know, like towing the line like, is he gay? Is he not? Does he just like to dress flamboyantly, which I think is the case? And he knows it gets impressed. He like he just got paparazzied with like a giant cheetah print Chanel purse. Like he wears very like femme clothing.
SPEAKER_01He pulls it off amazing.
SPEAKER_02But he pulls it off because he looks like that.
SPEAKER_01Um I tried a whole thing about that. That his he has like a SNL had a whole I didn't see the SNL of which is SNL. You you follow them online. It's NBC SNL.
SPEAKER_02Sometimes when we catch it in a hotel room, I'll we'll watch it. But I tried listening to his latest album. And you know, it was hard to kind of I don't know one song. What's the songs? Uh you it just came out. It's called it does have a good name. I'm gonna pull up the name. But what's the name of the like the song everybody know knows him for? What well one I know that you'll know is like Watermelon Sugar.
SPEAKER_01Watermelon sugar, uh you know that one?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect. It's all you need. Okay, so the title of the album is called Kiss All the Time, Disco, comma occasionally. Ooh. Yeah, and he says that he's uh based on because he took like a four-year hiatus from his last album, did he? Which is hard to believe because it feels like he's always in the radio.
SPEAKER_01Is it uh MSG? MSG the whole time. No, he did like 12 shows in a row, 20 shows in a row at MSG, no?
SPEAKER_02So he took this hiat hiatus, and apparently the story that he's telling now is that he went to Berlin and just partied in Berlin for like a a stint, and he says to go back to what we're talking about with like celebrities and and whatever, he said that that's not a thing in Berlin. People didn't bother him. He was able to dance and and be messy, kind of, and just like have fun and party. And this album's supposed to encapsulate that.
SPEAKER_01I am gonna go back to you dismissing my thing of he had performed at Madison Square Garden some amazing amount of shows in a row. That's not Do you wanna? I don't have that information.
SPEAKER_02It is no need to also that it happened. But he hadn't released an album. Okay, that's a different thing. No, but he's also he did he wasn't doing a lot. I don't remember the Madison Square.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I do. I was in shock. They even have it up there still, like that 17 shows in a row, whatever, some amazing amount of shows in a row that he sold out there. Okay. And he he gives it and he comes out there in his one Z.
SPEAKER_02You know who else but he walked. Harry Styles walked so Jacob Alordi could run. In terms of straight men getting to dress like that. Yeah. Jacob Alordi has a lot to owe to Harry Styles. Because that man also loves a purse. Granted, he's like six foot four, so he can wear a purse and like he'd wear anything, but yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01If if you can do it, I I personally don't want a purse. I don't need a purse. I don't need a pur I don't I don't need a purse. Well, you carry a backpack, basically. I go to the gym. It's not a purse because that's because I have my my gym stuff in there. It's just a different form. Right. But if I'm going somewhere, I can fit I have a very small wallet thing. Very small wallet. So do I. And a phone. That's all I need. I don't need a purse. I thank God every day. I don't I don't need a purse. It's we also do we also don't have keys. Everything's automatic for our getting to our our pocket.
SPEAKER_02You know, I've been experimenting with a tote bag.
SPEAKER_01You have been going through a bag era.
SPEAKER_02You you are you are in your bag. I'm using my bags. I don't have to use the same bag every day. You don't? There's no rules. There's no rules. There's no rules. I can do whatever I want.
SPEAKER_01So there's some bag that's so my backpack, I'm very particular about. It has to have certain amount of pockets, certain amount of places. Yeah, you're very particular. Very, very particular. And then I saw a bag that looks just like mine, and it was on Jerry Seinfeld. And I guess he posted it, so I guess they sent it to him or whatever. He owns the company. And it's called um, do you remember the name of it? How would I remember the name of that backpack? I it just looks so much like my bag that I don't need to order it. And it's super expensive, it's like $400, which is fine for a bag that you use every day. Every day, yeah. But it's it's just not uh uh I'm very particular about my backpack. There's nothing I need in a purse. I don't need to carry something little that that that no, I get it.
SPEAKER_02I think I think it's nice when you can have like your chapstick and your gum, and you you can carry a lot more uh things, and guess what? They come in handy. A tie to go pen, all these things that that women get to carry around and they're prepared for the day.
SPEAKER_01Speaking of chapstick, and you're gonna love how I get to where we're going
Harry Styles Style And Bag Debates
SPEAKER_01with this.
SPEAKER_02You and I were watching a show called um Age Oh god, what's it called? Thank God we have what to talk about now. Age of Attraction on Netflix. So it's this new reality dating show, which I usually don't do. Like I don't do Love Island, I don't do Love is Blind, I don't do 90-day fiance. I can't with those shows, I get too much secondhand embarrassment, and it makes me feel some kind of way. But there's this new show on Netflix, which is they are all these men and women are there, and no one, the rule is you can't tell the other person how old you are. And they've cast these people who really could be like they could be 20 or they could be 40 or they could, and so no one knows how old each other is, and it's called the age of attraction. And the first couple that so the only way that you can exchange the information of your age is if you go on these dates and then you decide that you want to go to the promise room.
SPEAKER_01You go to yeah, you go to to the the the yichud room. Yeah, the yichud room they go to.
SPEAKER_02So the first couple which is a hot couple, is uh the guy goes in, he goes Don't don't don't ruin the thing for them.
SPEAKER_01Don't say it. Spoiler alert. No, I'm gonna say it. Uh oh. Don't spoil it.
SPEAKER_02He's 27, she's 54. No, but you're c okay, but and guess what? They're gonna try to make it work. Right, we're gonna see about that. We're gonna see about that. Which how so also the hosts of the show are a couple that I've never seen before, but I guess they're from something, and they have an 18-year age gap, and they were so they're co-hosts of the show, and they're a couple. And I was like, how are we not cast for this?
SPEAKER_01Well, we would be cast in the gay version of it.
SPEAKER_02But is there a gay version? Because I feel like in the gay world, that's like it's like not a thing. No, it's it's like we know people with like a bigger age gap than we do.
SPEAKER_01Much, yeah. And we know ones with like they're just identical twins. Yeah, you either are exactly the same, or there's like in gay dating, you are either dating someone who looks like a carbon copy, a mirror image of you. It's like you're dating yourself, or you're dating the polar opposite. There's no like in-betweens.
SPEAKER_02It's boom boom. So, what's your takeaway from what the the few uh we watched like the first two or three episodes now? So now they're supposed to be they're like they're filming the initial chunk on this like retreat where they're all like vibing each other out and going on the dates. And now I think the show, according to the hosts, they're gonna like follow them home as they decide to leave together and see like them integrating into their lives and see how that works. Like introducing them to their kids. Some of a lot of them have kids. Yeah, a lot of them have kids.
SPEAKER_01Um, so there's that younger than who are younger than No. Some of them have some of it, some of them have met someone who is younger than their kids, and they're about to meet their kids. So that's what's about to happen on a age of attraction. Um so that's that's that's what that was. And but it that there could be a gay version of it. There could be a gay version of it this where you know And they should cast us and uh as the hosts, yeah. Yeah, I'm not looking for anybody there. Um, but it's uh it was it just shows you that the things are being made.
SPEAKER_02But I think it was very that's my interesting concept for on the dating. There's so many dating shows.
SPEAKER_01Well, don't forget, someone who's 50 today is not like someone who's 50 from like 20 years ago. Right. Everybody now is so toxing and taking care of their bodies and testosterone and drinking water and hydrating and moisturizing and not smoking. So people who are 50 don't look like death.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the people who are 50 today are not the 50 of 20, 30 years ago. You know? They look hot. They look hot. There's some hotties on there, but I'm a little biased. What can I say?
SPEAKER_01Exactly. But there were some hotties there, and and because because people just taking care of much better, much better care of themselves than than than back in the day. Back in the day, I thought 50 was like that's it, it's over. Yeah. Now it's like, no, it's not. It's just a place to start again. Um, so that's that show that we're watching. And um I don't know, there's like the the thing in the gay world is is that see they're they're they're locking in with one partner. They're locking in and that's it.
SPEAKER_02There's no have to choose someone to go to the promise room with and be like, okay, how old are you?
SPEAKER_01Right. So we very much okay, if we're watching an episode of Drag Race and we're not like crazy to hear the conversation between the drag queens, we just forward right to the runway. Right to the runway, and we watch the runway. Um, where their their looks are being pulled and their talent thing is what what whatever the challenge was is is there. So over here we were like a little bored by the conversation. So we went right to when they went to the promise room just to find out their age. How old they are, yeah. And we would guess, and that was fun. We we were pretty good on the guessing of their ages. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them one or two blew away. Like, like wow. No, I knew I could tell, I could tell the things. Oh, I'm pretty good at that. Chapstick. One of the people on this thing, one of the people on this thing is looking for a oh, huh knee.
SPEAKER_02Huh knee. Huh, knee. He looks like he's 12. He's very young looking. Gay as a goose. He's as gay as a goose. I don't know what his name is. I don't know his name. He's looks but he's into cougars. Like he's like, he has mommy issues. He says, he says in the confessional, he goes, I'm not dating you unless you're as hot as my mom.
SPEAKER_01Right. And then he passes a hair like he's in some boy band, whatever, like little hair up and these looks, and then he's gonna go kiss her. But before he kisses her, he pulls out his chapstick and puts chapstick on, and then he leans in to kiss her. And I girl, girl, you need to work a lot of things out before you lean for lean in for that kiss. Yeah, you need to be in your head in a different place before you lean in.
SPEAKER_02Well, the thing is, yeah, I'm fascinated by like the casting of these shows and the way it has to be produced and the way you have to like clip certain things together to like create a storyline. But some of these people, like on these other shows, like Love Island and stuff, they've catapulted into like household names and like the guy who just won Traders, like I I'm blanking his name right now, but he's like he was on Jimmy Fallon, like he's on the cut, like he's like a celebrity now, right? Um, so people I think use it as like a trampoline jumping board, and I think that's what that guy, that guy with the mommy issues. I feel like he's on the show just to like have cameras on him, and then he's gonna come out and like I didn't know what I was doing, but I know what I'm doing. Oh, that's what the producers are gonna do. They're gonna have him realize that he's gay. Yeah, and then they're gonna bring him to the gay version of the show.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02You're welcome, Netflix. You should really I'm gonna consult with me.
SPEAKER_01Um we wait um also the no no one there has like a real job. Well, yeah, we talked about that too. There's no like doctor, lawyer, there is a lawyer, there's one criminal lawyer. Allegedly. Allegedly, allegedly, but the rest of them are like uh social media manager, of course, because you have to be able to take off to go film a reality show, like right. And then like creative AI department head. I like a I own a creative agency. A cre everyone there's a creative agency.
SPEAKER_02One of them is a bar owner, right? They all have they're all entrepreneurs, they're all a medical aesthetician. There's a few of those. There's a few of those. Medical. And we can tell, honey, if I'm looking, where you're you're you're tapping into your own medical aesthetician, not just aesthetician, medical aesthetician.
SPEAKER_01So that you should know. Like, well, so what's an institution that's not? I think I maybe made that up.
SPEAKER_02No, no, it's the medical. I remember seeing medical esthetician. I think that means that they're like, I'm gonna be wrong on this, and people are gonna tell me, but I think it means they're like a nurse that practitioner that does Botox.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02So they're like one step uh one step above a regular injector.
SPEAKER_01Alright, okay. Um yeah, anyway, so it's an interesting show. Um, and we we we live the show.
SPEAKER_02It's also interesting to think about the show because like with all these dating apps that people are on, you know, you have to set age filters. Or or people do set age filters. And I think it's like kind of begs the question of like, oh, like who would I have met or who would I could have high connected with if I just bumped it a little each way, you know? Because everyone has these very narrow perception of like what their person is gonna look like. And I think this show is like you know, playing with that idea of like, well, maybe.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean the age filters is more for things you want to filter out like if the person has a wife and kids that like that's not gonna be that's not gonna be a part of your life. You know?
SPEAKER_02So like No, yeah, I get it. If you're like dating in your 40s or something and you want someone who's like but that again, that's what the show is kind of like toying with. Well, it's like, what if you weren't so focused on someone finding someone in the same stage of life as you are? Like what does that connection look like? We were not in the same stage of life when we met.
SPEAKER_01No, we were not. You were just about to finish college and I had already finished college.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you were dead graduating.
SPEAKER_01I I had already graduated college.
SPEAKER_02Years before me. But that didn't that wasn't like, I don't know. Some people I get it because you kind of like I guess if you like meet someone in your twenties and you get married and you have kids and like you're in the same, you're kind of like in lockstep with this person as like life progresses. But I I think that's one of like the valuable things about being uh gay is that like you can just bend your life experience to be whatever you want it to be.
SPEAKER_01Also to when you the fact that you don't have children and need to be locked into the friends of the parents of the kids of your friends' friends of your kids' friends. I think that will be.
Age Gap Dating And App Filters
SPEAKER_02I saw my high school friends and my college friends back like almost back to back at these shows. I had two friends from high school come to the DC show that I have not seen in like 12 years. Yeah. It was bizarre.
SPEAKER_01They're like both mothers, they like like so it was it was just for people to know, it was the first time like Leo had the experience of not having seen someone in over 10 years and all of a sudden seeing them. So I told him, wait till later on in life when. You see someone you haven't seen for 20 years or 30 years, it blows your mind away. All of a sudden, you're seeing somebody you have not seen in 20 or 30 years. There's actually a prayer you say when you meet somebody you haven't seen in what's the prayer? Mikaya Metim, who brings back the dead because it's almost like they were dead to you, and like now they're in your face. Like you actually see them. It's a prayer, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so you got to meet my two friends from high school, and they had a a crew. So it's so I'm gonna butcher this story a little bit, but one of my friends, what my friend from high school, she is married to someone who is on a who a professional football team, and she and he is an athlete and has a physical therapist who is an Orthodox Jew. And I guess they've been hanging out together, and the wife of the physical therapist saw that Ashley follows me on Instagram, and she was like, Wait, how do you know Leo? And she's like, I went to high school with Leo. So she brought a bunch of Jewish people, these like my Goyish friends from high school who live in like Virginia, brought their the their Jewish friends to the show. So that was the connection, which was fun.
SPEAKER_01So what was really funny was I arrived at the table a little bit later, and they're sitting there, his two adorably Gaiusha friends from from from these two beautiful girls. From Georgia, one of them is married to a football player, the other one to a Navy SEAL. You understand? Literally, literally Goisha girls, beautiful Goisha girls. And they brought their did they they brought their Jewish friends. There's two couples that are their Jewish friends coupled. So I was looking at at your friend who's married to a football player, but she was sitting next to this guy who was short, Jewish-looking, class, hedge fund guy, and but like not a football player looking guy. And she keeps talking about it, and my husband's the and the Trinity Spring training, and so I'm looking, and I just thought of that. I go, I I turned to him and I go, You're a football player? No, he goes, I'm not her husband, he's her husband. And he points And next to him is like this massive Viking. There's a Viking next to him. Yeah, of course. And I go, Oh, that's the husband. Yeah, don't. Yeah. And then when you went to go do pictures with them, you went to just like to do, you wanted to create that picture like of you guys 10 years ago, and because you had a picture of you 10 years ago, and now this. So you left me alone with their Jewish friends. So now I'm at a table alone with this orthodox Jewish couple who's his physical therapist, the football post physical therapist, and their friend who is a big mach or a big guy in a synagogue that's hiring me. Yeah. Where is that? In Maryland. In Maryland, somewhere. And so so now I'm alone with them. And they just they just turn to me and they both go, what's Mashiach Energy? That's what they go to me. They they they had a moment alone with me, and they just go, What's Mashiach Energy?
SPEAKER_02And I explained it to them. It was that my Goyish friend from Georgia brings you.
SPEAKER_01Your two Goyish friends brought you here, and we're having a meal together, and we're enjoying each other's company, and we got to meet each other. That's Mashiach Energy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So then that I that was nice. I it was so nice seeing them. And then we went to Detroit and I saw a good friend from college that I hadn't seen also in forever.
SPEAKER_01If we have to say amazing people that we saw that we haven't seen, uh mom Ibrahim, Dr. Ibrahim. Oh, people okay. Dr. Ibrahim, who was at NYU Langham, uh, he's uh a heart intervention surgeon, the ones that do balloons and stance on situations that one of the he's one of the best doctors in the world for that. He moved to Somming Springs in the Washington, D.C. area. And I haven't seen him since he did my father's surgery, but we've always kept in touch. He came to our Hanukkah party once, and he and we saw him, and Dr. Ibrahim, if anybody in the Washington, D.C. area ever needs an amazing heart doctor, he is the best. And he came to the show and he I mentioned him in the show, and he was plotsing. He was literally plotsing. Uh, and he's he's a Muslim guy that saved my father, and I talk about it in the show, and it was great to see him. It was just, it was like an it was a win-win. And we got a cake and then two more uh oh yeah. We had fans, we have f fans that come to the shows in DC, and she brings us, she crochets, she brings us little blankets, and she brought one for for the Manhattan house and one for the for Connecticut and a cake that we all ate together. We ate that cake at the at the dinner with your friends.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was a heavy cake. It was like dense. It was she's she baked a cake.
SPEAKER_01It was so delicious. Yeah. Apple I didn't have any of it. It's like an apple pound cake, and it tasted like heaven. Yeah, I wasn't into it at the time. You weren't at the time. Okay. Your Ozempek was Ozempek and probably. Yeah. Talk about the vibe in
Tour Reunions And Mashiach Energy
SPEAKER_01Israel. People running in and out of bomb shelters nonstop. You know, something light. Something light to to to bring the podcast into. We have a bunch of friends who have kids there now who are who are going through it. The kids are like, they went there to do a semester to do a program, and and they're land, they landed in a war. They're they're in a war zone. And they're in and out of bomb shelters, and they're and they're they're that then they now have a story to tell. It's miserable and it's hard, and it's just so difficult. And the Israelis are trying to for you know, from the Israelis I've been keeping in touch with, it's it's hard. And the flights in and out, and when you will you able to be able to get back in if you leave, and all of that is just so harsh. Yeah. Um I still believe it's the last moments before the full revelation of the messianic era, but it's so hard and so miserable. And um, they've been keeping their spirits up. People are having parties in the bomb shelters. I saw a wedding in the bomb shelter. Wedding, I saw a DJ set at the bomb shelter. Yeah. Um for sure comedy, nut nights happening in there. But it's it's difficult. It's just so it's so difficult. And we are scheduled to be there. And by by that time, I hope. I hope not announced or not announced, but but we're hoping we have dates held in Tel Aviv that I don't even want to say because No, we're not saying them yet, but well, God willing, they'll be okay, and everything will be back in order by then, and we'll be able to do those shows. But our hearts are going to everybody that's in Israel. Our hearts are and anybody that the whole region, the whole region's just going crazy. And that we just if we can send some shirk energy there for it all to just align and be at peace, may that happen.
SPEAKER_02You know, it's just a little hard getting logistics for a comedy show in the middle of a war. So, you know, just things that are coming across my desk. Um But we're gonna figure it out. Oh my god, it's so nuts. It's so crazy.
SPEAKER_01It's so crazy. You never thought this was gonna happen like that.
SPEAKER_02And he just decided, like, let's just start bombing.
SPEAKER_01No, let's I don't think it is. I think he just decided that it's just let's let's make this a safe region. But sometimes you have to take a step back in order to take two steps forward. So sometimes you need to to get things rumbled up so you can clean it out, you have to see where the garbage is so you can clean it.
Israel War Reality And Hope
SPEAKER_02What do you think has been your favorite podcast episode so far?
SPEAKER_01Ours?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01If I tell you you it you'll never Rabbi Manus Friedman. Manus Friedman having him on the podcast.
SPEAKER_02See how I knew that though? Yeah. Also, Isaac Mizra. I think I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Isaac Mizrahi, I loved. Even though you didn't like you weren't invinging completely.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he doesn't featuring me. I was trying to ask him like normal questions, like you're Isaac Mizrahi and you're on the show. Hello, I'm gonna ask you some like basics. And he wouldn't even let me. He didn't give me an inch.
SPEAKER_01Because you were like gonna do, what do you think fashion has changed in New York? And he's just like, he was like reading, where am I? How did my assistant land me here? And like, oh, it's two gays and they're hag because Ariel was on with us. Yeah, and she she was, you know, and and so he's like, okay, so he leaned in and he started being catty, and I I really enjoyed him. And I watched him online and he does these shows where he sings in these tuxedos that are really funny, and he's just great. He's having it, he's enjoying his life. Which goes in his kitchen, and and he was fun. I enjoyed that. Obviously, the Omershemtov and um yeah, that was a different thing. And even the Deborah Messing episode was great. I loved I I I love all these episodes. Um, but definitely Manas Freeman was just because I just can't believe I was with the guy who was in the head of the Rebbe. It was just it was just it's an insane, it's an insane process for me. Okay. To to to think about that. And I love watching him online. He says some crazy he says some stuff.
SPEAKER_02Not crazy, but just like abstract things that I'm like, okay.
SPEAKER_01But you gotta find the nugget that works for you. Yeah, it's a little little You find them. You find them a piece of nugget. That's an amazing way to look at it. That's an amazing way to look at it.
SPEAKER_00Yes, are you looking for love? No, you're looking for a wife. Yeah. If you act like a husband, your wife will give you love. If you don't, if you act like someone looking for love, you won't find love. Yes, you that's how we talk.
SPEAKER_02It's like in riddles. He speaks in.
SPEAKER_01I love it though. I love it. And he's a very sweater, it's very tight. I don't know where they're filming him, but he's always in a sweater. For someone, someone buy him, someone buy Manis Friedman a space warmer. Like a little space warmer from Costco, so you can take that sweater off. He's got a beard down to here and a sweater, always.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think if we're gonna keep doing this podcast, I think uh live episodes are gonna be more of a pillar. I think I would love to have so, but we need like guests, like you know, in each city. I know I know. Because I think we could take this on. Yeah. Little, you know, do little cozy shows with this.
SPEAKER_01The book um by uh David Nissanoff. I want I want to have him on as he and I will be able to go for for a while. Okay, and um, and that's gonna be a good thing. Let us know who you'd like to see me do live podcasts with. And and my me, me and Leo do live podcasts with I don't have to. Yeah. Um Jew out without me. No, no, doesn't and by the way, let's know who's not Jewish, you'd like us to see. By the way, I do know who I want to do a podcast with? Who? The new cardinal of New York City. New York City has a new cardinal, and I would love to to meet him. I would love to meet the man who's in charge of the Catholic Church of New York City. Okay. I would love to. I feel like that's doable.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Anybody has connections to that? No one watching this has any connection to the Catholic Church of New York City. Yeah, I'm gonna have to call my mom for that one. Wait, imagine we had an audience with the cardinal. Ball your mom up, she's oh shit. Freak. Freak. Yeah. Should tell the story about that your mom came out of out of the St. Patrick's Cathedral.
SPEAKER_02It wasn't St. Patrick's Cathedral. You just embedded.
SPEAKER_01Where where would she come out of? I don't know. We that we don't have to tell the story, it's fine. As anybody who's a fan that's listening knows that my schedule is half and half. We are booked in um theaters where we sell tickets, and then there's private events. And I'm literally at this point in my career, we're half and half, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, maybe, yeah.
Favorite Guests And Live Pod Plans
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So for every show you see in a theater, there's probably some show that's not available for the for the public. Yeah. Maybe it's a private personal thing or uh an event for an organization, but it's half and half.
SPEAKER_02And we were in we had a run of we had a run of Palm Springs, San Diego, Brea, um, and then Nevada. Vegas. Vegas. You did the federation for Vegas.
SPEAKER_01Right, right. And we we were there and the big snowstorm of New York came. Yeah. Big, big snowstorm came on a I think on a Saturday. Sunday night into Monday. Into Monday. And we had to be in New York City for a private show.
SPEAKER_02On Tuesday.
SPEAKER_01On Tuesday.
SPEAKER_02So we were scheduled to fly back on Monday originally.
SPEAKER_01Right. And it was changed till Tuesday. We were gonna try to get in early and then do the show at night. Delayed and delayed and delayed. And we were booked on three different flights. United, Delta, and like some jank ass lucky, one of those, like I don't know what the hell. She booked us on everything, our travel agent. Just in case one didn't take off.
SPEAKER_02We and it was But our main flight was uh the one that we were banking on. I was supposed to be sitting in a middle seat in coach from Vegas to New York. So I'm already having a panic attack because I had I can't do the middle seat. Like I really can't feel like I get so claustrophobic. So I'm like having to pump myself up. I'm like, you can do this. You can leave. You did not pump yourself up.
SPEAKER_01You booked a flight to Florida.
SPEAKER_02You forgot that. So then I was like, wait a minute, I don't have to do this. So I booked myself a flight from Vegas to Fort Lauderdale because I'm like, I'm gonna go visit my godparents.
SPEAKER_01But you still need to make sure I was on a flight to Atlanta. You needed to get to New York. It was a good private event. I forgot that I booked that Florida flight. Yeah, you were like, I'm not flying any middle seat, I'm not flying. I'm doing Florida, and that's which is fine. I couldn't, it was fine. It was couldn't be happy that you were gonna go spend time with your godparents.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna go to the way, we're stuck in Vegas, basically.
SPEAKER_01And do this private event for this for uh uh a person who was honoring his wife with a comedy that she knew she would enjoy. And our management team, Levity, called them and said, Hi, Kinsey. Hi, so just letting you know, Modi is both on a few flights, and we're hoping one takes off and and it gets there. And and the guy was like, What what?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he didn't realize we were like on the west.
SPEAKER_01He didn't realize we were in Nevada, yeah. And he ordered a private plane. Like Leo orders DoorDash. It was so amazing. It was so amazing. Yeah, next level, yeah, it was so much fun. We just pulled in 5 a.m. into the airport.
SPEAKER_02There's a private jet waiting for us, and it was a nice one, it was like a big one because I've been doing my research. Right.
SPEAKER_01I know there's like different ones. We were looking into getting a private jet for ourselves, and we were looking at much smaller planes for and we knew what this size plane would have cost. Yeah. Anyway, it was a lot of money, but he wanted to make sure we were I was in New York for this event. Yeah, there's no not being there. There's no not Modi not being there. So he sent the plane. We get there at 5 a.m. Obviously, you go through this like airport, it's not like a fancy, it's like a small little like a terminal. You just because you're just walking through, you're not like sitting there. You go right to your plane, and there was a two a pilot and a co-pilot, both female and both stunning.
SPEAKER_02Both yeah, one as soon as I saw we had two female pilots, I was like, oh, statistically, we're fine because they have had to work very hard to be here. So I feel like we're in good hands.
SPEAKER_01But it was 5 a.m. and they had their makeup on.
SPEAKER_02Oh, she was beat for the gods.
SPEAKER_01She was beat, she was gorgeous. She had that, she she had the eyeliner, the she had it together, she was beautiful.
SPEAKER_02She was giving airplane Barbie.
SPEAKER_01Airplane Barbie. But she was the co-pilot, she was the co-pilot, and the pilot was a little bit older, but also it was the German woman, and she came back and she spoke to us. I'm like, No one take on. There might be a little turbulence over Chicago, and then we we just took off.
SPEAKER_02But you forget how f long the flight from Vegas to New York is. It's not a short flight. No, and it was just me and you on the plane, right? I was sitting in every seat.
SPEAKER_01I was like, Where's a better angle for a picture?
SPEAKER_02I was like, in every seat. Because you know I've been fiending for a private jet. Right.
SPEAKER_01I've just been like also like, what are you wasting all this like trying to take a picture now? Wait till the light comes through these windows.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because it was pitch black when we took off.
SPEAKER_01When we took off, but I said as soon as we get up in the air and we start flying towards the sun, it's gonna be that's when the moments for the and of course as soon as the sun came out, I put on my fill-in because that's what you do. And that was the moment we captured for the for the shots. And but that's how it happened. Some guys like, no, no, no, he's gonna be here. And to just to be just be able to go into an app on your phone and order a plane and not have to think about it is definitely a life goal.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's something I'm working towards. It's on the mood board, it's on the mood. It's just like yeah, yeah, it's a game changer.
SPEAKER_01I remember turning to you and going to you and going to you, isn't this nice? And you go, Yeah, I've been telling you. I've been telling this is what this is what needs to be.
SPEAKER_02This is how it needs to be, honestly. So, yeah, so I I did have that flight book trip from Vegas to Fort Lauderdale, but once I realized this jet was happening, I was like, let me just reconfigure this situation. So I hopped on the jet to New York, and then I flew down to Florida, Delta first, whatever. But then from Florida, I then I met you in DC for the DC show, and I flew coach from Florida to DC. So really in one week I had a private jet and a coach experience. I haven't flown coach in forever, but yeah, but it's I'm a man of the people. What can I say?
SPEAKER_01You are, you really are.
SPEAKER_02It was fine because I had an aisle seat. I can do an aisle seat, that's fine. A middle seat, no. I cannot a five-hour middle seat.
SPEAKER_01Are you crazy? Those middle seats we had to come back after that storm were like it was they were the worst seats on the airplane. People were dying for those seats. People were dying for those. There was no flights. Yeah, there was a snowstorm. Tens of thousands of flights were canceled. Yeah, it was crazy. It was cra and we had to get back to a gig. It was like I was like literally checking how do we get is maybe maybe a train, which was like a training. That would take days.
SPEAKER_02I don't know how to how things were we don't have the infrastructure for that, unfortunately. Yeah, but um if we lived in China, China. They have those high-speed trains.
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SPEAKER_01Wait, Orlando people came with trains. Oh yeah, the Bright Line. The Bright Line. People brought people came from Miami to the Orlando show because they knew it was the last show we were doing for a while in Florida. And we thank you for coming. And we thank our sponsors.
Sponsors Shows And Radio City Push
SPEAKER_01Our sponsors are Whites and Luxembourg law firm that is just the best. It's just they not only do well, they do good. Super philanthropic and helps the community and helps the helps people, and they are obviously an amazing law firm. Um, and Arthur Luxemburg, a friend of the of the of the pod, and his wife Randy, listens to the podcast to tell him what we're talking about. And the AH provisions glad kosher food that is on the next level of amazing and packaged well and beautifully, and the best hot dogs in the world, koshadogs.net. 30% off of your first purchase with promo code Modi. It's just 30% off. Or get a big order for Passover and get whatever you need from them. It's amazing. They're the it's top quality. And Seth, friend of the podcast, will be happy to show you the factory if you'd love to see it. Um, and that's it. We thank them so much and we thank you for listening and being a part of our podcast. And we have shows coming up in Dallas, Texas, March 19th, March 22nd, Philadelphia, Boston, the 25th, and the 26th at the Wilbur. Those shows are going to be Moshiach Energy, and then Milwaukee on April 15th, Cincinnati on the 16th, Radio City Music Hall. Do you not have your tickets yet? Are you sitting there listening to this and you still don't have tickets for Radio City Music Hall?
SPEAKER_02Pull it together Yeah, and if you're in Long Island or New Jersey, I get it. It's like far for you, but I promise you you're not gonna regret it. Like make the trip into the city. This is like a major milestone thing. And it's gonna be it's gonna be good. It's gonna be a good show. It's gonna be worth your while.
SPEAKER_01Much more than good. It's gonna be an amazing experience, and it's Radio City Music call. You forget that that exists.
SPEAKER_02You forget that that exists, that that's in the middle of Manhattan, and it's beautiful, it's stunning, and we're working on some lighting looks. You don't, we're putting some elbow grease into this. It's gonna be elbow grease. Is that what you're calling mm money now? Money. A lot of money. Money is expensive.
SPEAKER_01This show. This is an expensive show to put on. People are gonna be sitting there thinking how much I'm making, counting the seats, and then they're thinking how much, how much a union, okay? It's a union. Anyway, get your tickets, Verde City Music Hall. Uh, everything's available on ModiLive.com. Do not just get tickets for yourself, get an extra pair, an extra two pair. Bring friends. When you bring your friends to a comedy show, you're creating Mashiach energy. So be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show that creates Mashiach Energy. ModiLive.com. Thank you all for listening. Thank you, Leo, for organizing and making sure this podcast lives and is he sits in us to listen to it again and he cuts out with with the stus that's not worth listening to. So I thank Leo for just this podcast. Is is there you go. This is Mashiach Energy and an angel that I Okay, love you. Bye.
SPEAKER_02Bye.