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Episode 184: Modi and Leo catch up after the Knicks win and discuss everything from Princess Diana's hypothetical social media to celeb sightings at Polo Bar...stick around for a fun ice breaker exercise to use at your next dinner party.
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Knicks Win And Citywide Joy
SPEAKER_00And we are back in the studio. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Ann Here's Modi. It's me and Leo in the studio on the Sunday after the Knicks won on Saturday night. And we are uh with the whole of New York City experienced what is Mashiach Energy, where the entire city, whether you are whatever race you are, whatever religion you are, whatever age you are, whatever level of a Knicks fan or not a Knicks fan you are, everybody at one moment was in harmony and in and in happiness for each other. And uh what an unbelievable way to experience that. No?
SPEAKER_01It was great. Uh, I'm not a huge basketball fan, but I love it for the city, and it's always fun to watch. And you know, we stuck our head out of our apartment to just hear the whole city screaming for it was like 45 minutes straight of just pots and pans and yeah, car honking and screaming, and it was fun. And there's fun. There was uh and basketball is fun to watch. I can't watch many sports on TV. I mean, I I get bored, football not for me, baseball not for me, but basketball is fun to watch. No, it moves. Because it changes, especially these games.
SPEAKER_00I'm nail biters. I've never watched this stuff, but the I I got swooped, swooped into it. I was uh I was I was mesmerized by the three shots and the the easy of the the game before the last game, the how easy they made it look. Um these these three these three point shots, it was like it was like it became the norm. And um, and then that magic uh tap of that on the on the game before the last game, um the way he just top, I don't know the names even, but the way the way he just tapped it in, I was just it was wow. It was just and to be down 29 points and then to come back, it really shows never give up. It really tells you just don't ever give up. And um we're so happy for everybody.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, although we did pass two charred out remains of school buses on the way here, but that's fine, I guess.
SPEAKER_00If that's I mean we we watched it, but we we had a show. We had a show, Glen Oaks Country Club, which was so much fun. It's a Long Island gig, and it's people that knew me from high school were there coming with pictures, beautiful club, like amazing show. And um, and then people who I went to high school with and my sisters went to high school with came over with pictures of me from the prom or from uh from from from sleepaway camps, and that's just fun. And um and then we drove in and we watched the game, and then I turned everything off before it went like every just happy. Then in the morning, you see like people that were arrested and all of that, but that's a part of it, and um, and we're just so happy for everybody. And and I, you know, before this happened, there was a clip that went out that the Lababa Cherebi said that when the Knicks win, it's a real sign that Mashiach is here. And don't forget, it's been since it's been 53 years since they won. So there was a time when they were in uh in I believe it was in the 70s, they were asking, oh no, no, I'm sorry, in the 90s that they were close to winning. And the Rebbe asked, How are they doing? And it was, and not because he was a fan, but he wanted to know because I guess he knew that the vibe of the city would be different, and so that was great too.
SPEAKER_01Just that that at that point all roads lead to the Rebbe with Modi. Period. Um,
Dyslexia On Stage And Cue Cards
SPEAKER_01I wrote down some things to just jump off from that I thought would be interesting. So, Tom Hollander, you know Tom Hollander. Um he played Spider-Man. Yes, he dates maybe married to Zendayah. We don't know. I think they got secret married. Um he was on, yes, like us. Um he was on one of my favorite podcasts, Amy Polar, Good Hang. Good Hang. And she is obviously an SNL alum, and he was explaining why he has never hosted SNL, and he said it's he's been offered several times, uh, but he's dyslexic and he can't read the cue cards. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. How do you feel about that as a dyslexic person?
SPEAKER_00I don't read cue cards either. When they had him for me on the tonight show, I looked everywhere away from it. Um, I did a show one time at the I think it was the Saban Theater, and the other people that are on the show wanted to have their almost their entire set up there. Um scrolling. Like a teleprompter. A teleprompter. And I said, absolutely not. Um and the most distracting thing for someone who's dyslexic and performing stand-up is a clock that's running up or down.
SPEAKER_01Not just like a normal time. Right. So if you're counting down to like 45 minutes or counting up, you had if you are if you're allotted. That I know that will throw you off. If I see it on the stage, I get it off before you do it.
SPEAKER_00So if you are allotted 15 minutes and they run it down, like 15, 14, 99, uh 14, uh 59, 14, 40, it's the most distracting thing in the world. Because you just get confused if you wear where you're if you're going up or down. It's super hard. Um, I I wear a watch, I know how to glance at my watch and know I know where the hand needs to be, where I end. Really? Yeah. So that's the only thing I look at. Okay. I know where the hand used to be, where and I used to I used to have this amazing Bell and Ross watch, very much like the Porsche design watch, and yeah, it had a um a stopwatch with a red hand. So you have all these tricks.
SPEAKER_01Yes, but it definitely a running it's So if Lauren Lauren Michaels called tomorrow and said we want Modi to host SNL, how would we get through it? I would get through it with no problem. We could memor you just but you're relying on memorization.
SPEAKER_00Memorization. And um I I I could read it. Um it would I would I would ask for it in a different way. Okay. I would ask for it in the way set list. I wouldn't ask for it all written out. I'd ask for just the the bit here. Um, like in so this is where you say why you came home. So I showed, you know, and then they write, I came home, but you you know in the skits, you can see them reading the cards in the SNL skits. It's not like it's known, it's a live show. Yeah, they also have to memorize it in like three days. Right. So you read, but instead of write the whole thing out, just give me the word of what what has to what what has to happen in this in this scenario. That's also how I have my cheat sheet on the floor when I perform. We had it for you on the tonight show. On the tonight show, we had it in my comedy special, we had it everywhere. Yeah, that's my my little cheat sheet. So that's but overwriting anything for someone who's dyslexic is very, very bad. Very, very bad. Interesting.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um, also interesting, yeah.
Matzah Ball Soup And Jewish Heritage
SPEAKER_01So recently on the podcast, we were complaining. This is my apology. We were complaining that Meneshevitz had not reached out to us. And I want to give Schoyoch to Menishevitz for having their finger on the pulse and their ear to the ground, and they heard us and they I don't even know how they got our address, but they got our address. So maybe that's scary, but they got our address and they sent us merch, they sent us a hat, they sent us um stress balls, they sent us chicken noodles, chicken uh matzo ball soup. They what else did they send? They filter fish, right?
SPEAKER_00Right away. This the goop in the in the glu in that gooey stuff. I had some grain in the I had some horse rats.
SPEAKER_01And they wrote a funny note in there, too. So whoever over at Meneshevitz was in charge of getting that PR package out, sh thank you. I appreciate you, and that was very sweet and funny of you. Um and it just goes to show you the ripple effect of the of the podcast.
SPEAKER_00On the podcast, yeah. Uh if we're doing scholars and we're giving out some, I want to talk about we um we were asked to be a part of the young leadership uh Young Friends. Young Friends of the Heritage Museum. The Jewish Heritage Museum. Yes. So the young friends of the Jewish Heritage Museum asked us to say a few words. Um they had a rabbi there. They also had uh Daniel Loeb, who's the new chairman, and um the vibe was amazing, and it's uh it it was a young crowd, 400 people, everybody was beautiful, and um, you know, uh when I did the event, I just wanted to get up there and say, you know, this is a great thing to do. But I I thought about it more afterwards. You know, for for me, the heritage do we have is not it's not bagels and locks and uh and gefilter fish. And it's the heritage, the heritage uh to me for Jewish people is we are a people that are constantly striving to be in a messianic era. And um and that's what the heritage is. And then in the museum, besides being a heritage museum, it's also a Holocaust museum, and there was uh exhibit for the Warsaw ghetto. And whenever I think of Warsaw Ghetto, everybody has different things. One, some people think it's that's what the uprising was, everybody fought against their uh oppressors, then the Nazis there, and then they just the the fact that they took us all in and we were we were we were uh brutalized and and captured and and and made to live like rats. But to me, when I hear Warsaw Ghetto, the first thing that comes to my head is the song that was written in there. Anima meen, animin, anim, I believe, I believe, I believe in the full coming of Mushiach. And so that's that was like the full thing for me with that whole event. And I just uh those of you who don't know about the the Jewish Heritage Museum, it's downtown, it is thriving, it's gonna be event space, and we are gonna make sure that a comedy night uh happens there. And so that's uh a plug, I guess, for that. That's an unsolicited plug for the Jewish Heritage Museum.
SPEAKER_01Um,
Instagram Unfollow Spree And Diana
SPEAKER_01I've been unfollowing hundreds of people on social media. Hundreds. Hundreds of people I've unfollowed on social media and to the point where Instagram checked in on me and asked if I was okay. They were like, is your account hacked? What's going on? Please verify. How'd they check in with you? They were like, unusual activity detected on your account, something like that. They sent an email, had to like relog in. You're kidding. Yeah. Because I've just been do you know the Marie Kondo woman, the the art of tidying up or whatever it's called? Yes. And she has this theory, sh if you hold it in your hand and it doesn't spark joy, throw it in the garbage. Okay. Or get rid of it or donate it. Feng shui. I've been doing that with people on Instagram. And if if you've pop, if you if you post something or I look at your story and I I have no feeling towards it whatsoever, just unfollow. Nothing personal. It's just we were never meant, our brains were not designed to know this much about this many people. We were supposed to be born in a village, and you maybe knew 35 to 50 people your whole life, and then you died at like 35. And now we know everything about everyone all the time, and we see our faces in high definition at all the time, and I'm it's it's not good for your brain. So I've been trying to get off of Instagram, and my way of doing that was just really start unfollowing people so that every time I log in, I don't have that positive feedback of the getting fresh content. Because if I if I unfollow enough people, eventually my feed will just be like, all right, you saw everything. But have you ever gotten that signal from Instagram, the little green check, like, hey, you've looked at everything, you've reached the end. I've never gotten that. Oh, if you scroll enough, Instagram will say, You're up to date. It gives you a little green check mark, and it's like you've seen everything since the last time you logged in, based on the people you follow at least.
SPEAKER_00I I I don't I my Instagram does not give me anybody I follow anymore. It just gives me what they think I should be, where my suggestions are.
SPEAKER_01Do you ever wonder of how tragic it is and what we've really lost by the fact that we never got to follow Princess Diana on Instagram?
SPEAKER_00Wow. Do you I feel like that would have been a great follow? It would have been a great follow. I do follow Kate and the and the prince. Yeah. Um, I just enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01It's all so filtered and and cut out. Imagine, imagine how fun it would be to follow Princess Diana on the game.
SPEAKER_00Diana would be an amazing. What would be see? What would we see? Well, uh, who do you think she'd be married to right now? Not Dotie.
SPEAKER_01No. But do you think she would be do you think she would be like in California hanging out with Megan? She would have been at the Knicks game last night. Well, Harry was. Prince Harry was at the Knicks game last night. I did it. In San Antonio. Could you imagine you're walking around San Antonio and you see Prince Harry? No one would know who he is. Well, former Prince Harry. What do you whatever you call him? Harry? But no one would know who he was. Harry. Yeah, they do. Yes, of course they do.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Um, but uh but she'd be there at the game.
SPEAKER_01I want to say Princess Diana would be like in Montecito, wherever they live in California. Not not Montecito, I got that wrong. With uh Harry and Megan, but I feel like if Diana was still alive, Harry would not be with Megan. He would still be on he would still be on the senior uh member of the royal family track, and therefore would have probably not reached out um to even though I'm team Megan Markle, by the way. All our listeners in the UK, you can come for me because I know you guys don't like her, but I I like Megan. I think she's cool. But I I like going back to what I think Princess Diana. Or not just Princess Diana, Michael, well, not Michael Jackson. Let's leave that one alone. But there's certain there's certain people who are dead who you'd would have been great Instagram follows. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Uh anyone come to your anyone in your brand better than Princess Diane. Yeah, because I feel like she'd be having fun. She'd be having fun. I feel like she'd be having fun with John, you'd see her with uh what what whatever fun charity that she'd be involved in. And I I'm more wondering like who would she be dating or married to and where she'd be living? We'll never know. That's a tragedy. That's a tragedy, but it's a great way to think. Like, tell us who you think you would be a good follow now that they've passed away.
SPEAKER_01Like before someone's like, I feel like a lot of the people who come to mind weren't really social media people, so like Prince. Uh I think he had, I think he was on social media, but obviously it wasn't him, he had a team of people, etc. Whereas I feel like Princess Diana would have been, no, this is my phone, and I'm gonna post whatever I want. Oh, you think so? Do you know what I mean? You'd be an unhinged account, you think? Not unhinged, just fun, just like real and and and natural. You don't think so?
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes. No, it's either way. Either it's a completely curated account or completely like I'm just listening I think once Camilla became the queen covert con I think she would have had a field, she'd been like, all right.
SPEAKER_01No, but she she wouldn't be mean. No, not mean, but just r a real human being. Like I think it would be fun. It'd be fun. It'd be fun.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm trying to think of who else. No, I follow all the royal family now, but it's very it's very curated. It's yeah, it's so filtered, it's not real.
SPEAKER_01It's like they have six people has to go through before it hits the yeah, yeah. I I I yeah.
SPEAKER_00So who else would I um singers from the Freddie Mercury, imagine that account. Like if he was still singing, and you know, so at night, here's the only time I really scroll scroll. When you go to bed and I can't fall asleep, and I'll scroll. Now, if Instagram starts to give me people being arrested and fights breaking out, I turn it right off. If they start giving me Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and Pavarotti, and they got me, I could be there for two hours watching uh three-minute clips of them, Don Rickles on the Tonight Show. It got me. And I'll be two hours on the sofa uh looking at all of those little fun, beautiful, nostalgic things, and I think wow, they wore tuxedos and how great this was and all these shows. That's only if it gives me that role. And again, it's no one I follow. No one I followed.
SPEAKER_01When you go into the other thing, yeah.
UN Memories And Elton John Sighting
SPEAKER_01Um, do you want to tell the people about who we sat next to at dinner at polo bar the other night?
SPEAKER_00We sat now. We were at polo bar. We have we not done a podcast since then.
SPEAKER_01I don't I think we haven't. Maybe we didn't talk about it. We were at the UN. We were at the UN. Wait, we talked about the UN. Did we? I don't remember. I don't remember. Well, you were at the UN, broad strokes. You did a broad strokes.
SPEAKER_00She did a tour with the documentary crew and with the UN, did a tour of the documentary. We sat with the with the ambassador. We've I followed the U the US ambassador. We sang Hatikva in the main lobby of the UN. It was unbelievable, Monsieur Khananji. We went to the polo bar to eat with your agents. With Jacob Fenton, our our agent who was in town. And then just out of nowhere, we're sitting, and just as far as he is right now from so I'm here, and right here, facing me, I'm facing this way, is Elton John and his husband.
SPEAKER_01David. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And so it was crazy. And so so I'll tell you what what my mistake was. I have a friend, Israel Shesh Schechter, who's in my who's in Toronto, and he does uh events and things, and he's friends with them. So I texted him. Hi, I'm sitting next to Elton John and his husband. David, um, what's my move?
SPEAKER_01Like just, you know, like I was sitting very close to Elton John. I could have just reached that. I could have just stopped looking at you. He was staring at me before. Me and time is staring at you. He had my good side, obviously.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but he but I was hoping that that my friend would text David and then they would say hi. I didn't want to bother them.
SPEAKER_01I think they were shook that we didn't bother them. Because we were in, say within polo bar, we were in like almost a little corner of polo bar, so we had like a good table of privacy, and then they stuck him like even deeper into the banquette, and he had this it kind of wrapped around so he was hidden. But I was I was basically at their table with them. And then because on the way out, what happened? We we well, this is sorry. What was fascinating to me is I'm pretty sure they didn't order off the menu because they just sat down, food cake, they brought them food that I didn't recognize from being on the menu. It must just be their order, and then they left. It was very quick.
SPEAKER_00Right. Um, but on the way out, on the way out, Elden John goes, Hello boys. Yeah, you kind of like lingered a little bit. And then David's like, Oh, we need to go. Yeah, um, but it there would it have been a nice conversation. I should have said, but then it would have been awkward if they didn't like play along with it. I said, Right, we we we have a mutual friend. Yeah, if he was just like right. But by the way, I would have said Yumi Shechter, not Yus Roloschechter, and he might not have known that. And so um, whatever. It was a moment. And then of course I'm looking at like he had a brooch on they were coming from an event. Right. I thought that maybe they have an apartment in the area and just came down for dinner. No, this is where they have dinner, but they were coming from we saw online afterwards that they were coming from. He looked great. He looks, by the way, they both look amazing. And by the way, when you look at him, and that I get on my in uh on my on my feedback. He's doing content, Elton John. He's doing content, he's doing all the all the Instagram trends and the music. Put a mic in his face, and he is on. He's the voice is there, the energy's there. He might not be doing a uh a backflip off the piano, but he's on. Yeah, that voice is there, and I get, by the way, I get non-stop um Frankie Valley, new uh um Frankie Valley, Neil Sadaka, not Neil Stucker died, um Paul Anka. People who are deep in their 80s and and Frankie Valley's in his 90s still performing, yeah, doing shows. Yeah, it gives you hope. It gives you like, what the hell? I also get crazy old rock stars that are just doing a little too much of what they should be doing. Oh, like Iggy Pop. Iggy Pop is still doing it. Shirtless in his 80s. Iggy pop, right? That's a I don't know who I yeah, but like those other people. No, no, God bless. God bless. God bless. As long as you just keep performing, you will you will just keep going.
SPEAKER_01Um
Bob Mackie And What We Lost
SPEAKER_01the Bob Mackey documentary. Wow. As you know, we love documentaries. Love. We're working on our own documentary about Modi. Um about us.
SPEAKER_00I don't think it's about me, it's about us.
SPEAKER_01It's about yeah, but But even before this documentary project, we've loved documentaries. And so, but now we see everything through a different lens of what we like and what we don't like. Yes. But we watched the Bob Mackey documentary, which was amazing in because of the archival footage that they had access to. Because obviously Bob Mackey did so much for Cher, who thank God is still alive. Yeah. And looks amazing. Wow. She's like 80-something. She looks amazing. They had her, because this was made last year. It's like a new documentary. It's on Hulu. Um and they had all this archival footage from the Sunny and Cher show. And I'm not, I wasn't raised on that. It was kind of a little bit before my time. I was never a huge Cher person, even though I know it's like huge in gay culture, but like Cher was never kind of in my realm. But watching those, she really was that girl. She was it. She was in the world.
SPEAKER_00Like Kim Kardashian wishes. She wishes. We so they showed all of these unbelievable, they had these variety shows, and the sets were beautiful. The sets alone. And of course, you your reaction was, why is no one doing these sets? And then you go, oh, because all the gays that did this died during AIDS and there's no one to move this.
SPEAKER_01We lost the greatest generation. We lost it uh we lost the plot because you watch all these shows from that era, and the set design and the costume design and the production value and just it had this certain quality to it. And I was like, where did that go? What happened? And I was like, oh, all the people who worked on these shows died of AIDS. Yeah, we lost all of them, and it was not handed down properly. And that's why we are with TikTok culture now, and that's why we are with fast fashion now, and that's why there's been an overall that's it's cynical and and gross of me to say, but I feel like it's true. I feel like, and Fran Liebowitz talks about this. She says that because of the AIDS crisis, we lost um not just the people making it, but the audience for it, the people who went to the opera, the people who went to the ballet, the people who wrote cultural criticism, who who wrote about literature and art and things like that, we lost them all. And so we don't we don't have those guiding lights anymore.
SPEAKER_00And uh so regarding those those shows, those variety shows, I didn't grow up on them. We came to America in 77 or whatever it was, and so I caught the reruns of them, but still in a situation where there were only three channels, and if they're airing a rerun, you're watching it because there's nothing else to watch. So I remember seeing all that stuff, and and uh and we we we we we just lost it. And
Writing Risky Jokes And New Material
SPEAKER_00speaking of AIDS, I've been uh yeah working on my new hour.
SPEAKER_01I know you have this AIDS joke in there.
SPEAKER_00I I have it's I have these, so I had a bunch of AIDS material, and it's um it's insane to watch how the audience interacts with it. Okay, there's the big pops and the big laughs are there, and then there's when you talk about people like you almost see people like, I thought we all agreed to not talk about this anymore. I mean, yeah, I understand that. Aren't we? Didn't we like completely move on from this? Um, and so I'm bringing up things, and and the young people don't understand it, and the people who are my age in the audiences are like, really? Um, and it's it's an interesting way to see this this m material come together. It's funny, it's it's not gross or anything, but it's it's like people are talking about it. I'm talking about it. Yeah, it's someone's talking, no one else is talking about it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So I just I just wonder how it compares to like uh in 20 years from now, if someone was doing jokes about the COVID era, even though I know they're completely different things, completely different circumstances, but millions of people did die from COVID, and it was a huge worldwide pandemic. So I wonder like, but if 20 years from now, if someone at the seller is doing jokes about, oh well, in 2020 when we were all wearing masks, if the kids in the audience are just gonna be like, um what?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but they were COVID was two years and everybody forgot about it. Right. This was 20 years, or arguably still on the arguably still still going on. Yeah, so it's just um it's just interesting how that material is just like I I wasn't, you know, when you plan a joke in your head and then you go to hit it, sometimes you think this is gonna kill, and then you just see people freeze and you go, oh, this didn't do as well as I thought it was gonna be.
SPEAKER_01I feel like sometimes there's jokes that are in your act for that are for your audience, and there's some jokes that are for you. Right. And I think the AIDS joke is a little bit for you because you're like, I can get away with this.
SPEAKER_00Right. Um But it was just it's just interesting. Um, it's just interesting to see how this material is coming together, and um, it's fun, it's good. It's uh I'm in that zone now where just trying material out, being at the comedy cellar and doing all of that.
SPEAKER_01It's been and you're gonna be at the comedy cellar. I think this is gonna air before then on June 23rd with Ben Ben Baruch from Israel. He's in town, so you're doing uh you're gonna be working out some new material. He's gonna do a set. In English, it's gonna be at the village underground. I think it's sold out.
SPEAKER_00Um by by the time this airs, it'll be so it'll be sold out. But we're doing uh a show, meme Ben Ben Baruch, he's uh he's an Israeli comedian who is uh putting his uh uh feelers out for performing in English and in America. His Hebrew shows in Israel are like arenas, arenas, yeah, and he's hysterical and he's a soul, and my mom likes him. By the way, my mom likes him. If Botya likes him, we like him. My mom gives him a hickshare. My mom likes him, and uh, and so that's and and we did his podcast, and um, and it was uh it's a lot of fun. It's gonna be a great night. Uh um, and he's yeah, he's he's not like a Yohai Sponder is performing in Israel in English, but he's just become like an English performing comedian. Ben Ben, I think, is is doing uh just experimenting right now with with his English. Smart. Very smart. Yeah. I I I I think when we go back to Israel, I'm gonna be doing a little more Hebrew stuff? Yeah, yeah. More like complete bits, not just ending on punchlines. Um interesting. Yeah. Okay. So that's that's that's running in my head now, too.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so we're
Personality Game Gets Too Revealing
SPEAKER_01gonna play a game. Okay, but I'm gonna have to watch my phone for a second. Go ahead. To get through it. So um you'll have to play along. So tell me your favorite animal and three adjectives. My favorite animal and three adjectives.
SPEAKER_00My favorite animal is an obedient dog. No, don't say the animal. Oh. What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01Just adjectives. So obedient.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay. Obedient, cute, and clean.
SPEAKER_01Obedient, cute, and clean. Okay. Describe your favorite piece of clothing and three adjectives.
SPEAKER_00Oh. Dark, well tailored, and um and it what it makes you look better. What's it called? Uh enhancing. Accentuating. Accentuating. Okay. So repeat that. What were those three? Dark? And accentuating? And well tailored.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Now imagine I just took you and I plopped you into the middle of the ocean. Boom. And you're floating in the middle of the ocean, no land in sight. You're not you're safe, but what three words would you use to describe that?
SPEAKER_00Isolation, meditation, and faith.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So the first question about animals is how you see yourself. So you said obedient. Obedient. What was the I am obedient, no? You said obedient, uh loyal?
SPEAKER_00No, I said clean. Clean. Clean and uh well trained. No, obedient, that's well trained.
SPEAKER_01Clean and cute. Okay. The second one about clothes is what you're looking for in a partner.
SPEAKER_00Tailored, enhancing, and what was it? And dark. You said dark. Dark.
SPEAKER_01Which can mean different things.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it can mean different things.
SPEAKER_01Okay. And then the last one about the ocean is how you view sex.
SPEAKER_00Meditative. Um isolated and and faith. Faith. Not no. Faith, not no. Not no mean to have good sex. Absolutely. Isn't that interesting?
SPEAKER_01I mean it's all just icebreaker. Well, now I I can't ask. Now you know you can't do yours. Yeah. I guess you'll have to find some some cute questions for me next time we record. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, what's what what's uh what what's your uh what what was yours before you've you've read all that?
SPEAKER_01I don't know, because now I have bias because I've already like done it with you and I already saw it play out. So wait, but let's just say I'm I'm obedient. Well, you said obedient, clean, and sorry, what was the last one?
SPEAKER_00Obedient, clean, and um and uh uh acute. You're but you are I'm obedient, but what whatever the team says to do, I I do. No? Your team player, my team, the agents, our agents, our our managers, our social media, what what they suggest, I do. Like they just the other day when we with Kinsey and JP, like whatever we say in the motor, he's like, yeah, sure, I'll do it, I'll try it, whatever. I never gonna fight them on it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um this is good. Would you rather spend 10 years in a coma or five years in prison? Ten years in a coma. Really?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I don't know. Five years in prison? You crazy? Ten years in a coma? I think so. I'd rather not I'd I'd rather neither one of those. Well, this is what the game we're playing, though, so sorry. Feel free to come up with something wrong. Um, I I I would rather I would rather I don't know. I the prison thing sounds insane to me.
SPEAKER_01Even if it's like an Otisville white-collar prison, you can get jacked. People get jacked in prison. Whereas I feel like coming out of a coma, you're gonna be like a little withered, no? Yes. Which you're fine with.
SPEAKER_00No, I'm not fine with it.
SPEAKER_01I um I uh do you know that the um the Kardashians have baked into their um their will that I don't know if this is true, but they said it on the show. Uh, that if any of them are in a coma, that someone has to come once a week to do their hair and nails. Honestly, smart. Honestly, we should do that while we're not in a coma, too.
SPEAKER_00Well, they obviously do, and that's why they're like, God forbid, if I'm in a hot coma. Yeah. Yeah. How do
Tour Life Without Traveling Together
SPEAKER_00you feel about not traveling with me to shows?
SPEAKER_01Um like recently? Yeah. Or the ones coming up?
SPEAKER_00Both. But you you I've been going on the road um without you.
SPEAKER_01And uh, and it's um what was the last one you went without? You went to Maryland without Maryland without you. Um that was just a car ride. The ones next month where you're about a few flights without you, too. What was the flight that you had, the mess that you had to drive? Oh, yeah, when you went with you had to get it on the car to O'Hare. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I feel b um well, one I do have like a little bit of separation anxiety in general. Yeah. So like I don't know what to do with myself. I do feel like the level I was traveling was unsustainable. Unsustainable. Um, and we've discussed this, it's because you at least get the dopamine rush of being on stage and the satisfaction of being on stage, whereas like I'm just sitting in the green room.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01Um and I also feel like you're at a point where we have your tour manager. So for like bigger theater shows, we have him that I could send. And then for smaller shows at the comedy clubs, like the ones you're doing next month to work out the new material. I don't think you need me there at the comedy.
SPEAKER_00Where were we? What club were we at? Where I said, you never need to be in the green room of a funny bone.
SPEAKER_01It was in like Kansas City, Missouri or something.
SPEAKER_00Right, where everybody was just a little bit loud and over the top. It was just like, yeah. It's like a mic and a stage and an audience.
SPEAKER_01It's like they know what they're doing. No, but I'm I'm always watching you. Like I have your location. Yeah. I'm like tracking to see you're if you're on time. I'm like tracking to see if you're still at the airport. Then once you get there, I'm like, do they have everything? Do they have all your playlists? Like, do they have the light? Like, are they good? Because the only reason why I am helpful in those situations is if you kind of need someone to be an asshole, because you don't want to have to be the asshole. Right.
SPEAKER_00So I have to be like, hey, right, let's get it together. Let's get the situations that I would I needed to be an asshole. I was a little bit, and it and it made everything happen.
SPEAKER_01Isn't that sad though? And I that you we sometimes you have to like be a little gruff with people to like get things done in those situations.
SPEAKER_00It's a shame that people just don't they just they don't know, they just don't know sometimes. But everything to get to the show you've already done. You've done all of the what do you call advancing? The travel, the advancing with the advancing, the hotels, the everything. I just land and it's like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it's not like I've never done this before. No, I know, but yes, when another level it's not cute to arrive alone, and I don't. Um, we have the tour manager for that, but but um I I unsustainable you keep traveling. And but uh it's and I think we have other things coming up that I can work on, but yeah. We we thank God we have other things happening that's that's uh that's fun, and I'm really looking forward to all of them. But uh it's it's it it's strange where you're not on when I get off stage and you're not there. It's strange, but it's I'm like, okay. Well that he's not just gonna stress out about the boarding pass tomorrow. What time do we have to leave? What time it's like less stress off of you. And I could sit on a plane and watch everybody come in like idiots. You can't. You can't, you can't handle it. So it was good. But you came l last night. You came with to the because it was a yeah, but you didn't need me last night. Yeah. But it was fun when you get sitting at home. Um yeah, that's what it's it's uh it's a different stage of the of the business and the relationship, and um it's great. I think things have like we're in a different place now since Radio City, no?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I did get into like a little bit of a depression afterwards. Why? Um It's just like when you get to that thing that you've worked for a long time on, and then it's over. Oh I didn't go. And then you're like, okay, now what? No, so you have to think maybe depression is not the right word, but there's a come down. So you can be grateful for it, obviously, and appreciative, and it was amazing, but there's like a come down aspect to it.
SPEAKER_00Beyond grateful, and it we built till we got to there, and then then the month of Radio City. We had the tonight show and everything leading up to Radio City. But in Kabbalah, they talk about everything happens in dimensions of 10, right? So you build, you get up there, and we did this to get to that, we got to that, we got to this, and uh all these different shows, and we're promoting it here, we're promoting it there. A publicist, a blah blah blah, and boom, keta the the top. We are we did the shows, and now we're like on the rung of the first dimension of the next 10. So I'm like, yay, we're gonna start to climb up again now. Yeah, and like do MSG. Yeah, MSG or whatever the TV show or film is gonna is gonna happen. That's like it's like bam, but like you think now we start again the the next rung.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, in in the in the that's part of it too. It's like, yeah, okay, now we've wiped that away off the whiteboard. Now we have to start now now. What do we do? That's what I mean. And which so I don't mean depression, but it's like it's a little daunting to like get to a milestone and accomplish it.
SPEAKER_00No, it's so good. I'm so I'm not saying it's not good.
SPEAKER_01It can be many, it can be a multifaceted feeling.
SPEAKER_00It's it's just yeah, but we we didn't go crazy to celebrate beyond. We we we took it in, we moved on, we like we came home and relaxed and watched TV. It wasn't like we went raging afterwards, you know? Yeah, we never do. We we we really we we appreciate it, but and we just we don't like run and go crazy and party over an accomplishment.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Speaking of an accomplishment, would you like to um thank our sponsors?
Sponsors And Tour Dates Rundown
SPEAKER_00I want to thank the accomplished sponsors we have. Uh AH Provisions, the Glack Kosha Foods that is just done so so well. Um and we're in the summer season, and the hot dogs, this is the this is their main thing in my eyes, because there's no d hot dogs more delicious than theirs. We love them in Connecticut. Um, and uh it's kosher dogs.net is the website with promo code Moto. You get 30% off of your first order, so make it a big one. And um we are huge, uh we're fans of their products, and we love when fans send us pictures of their products everywhere. And um, thank you, Seth, for being a part of it. Koshadogs.net and of course, Whites in Luxembourg, the law firm that not only does well, they do good, super philanthropic. They do have all kinds of charities that they do, and we love them, and we love working with them. Arthur Luxemburg, friend of the podcast, and his wife Randy, who listens to it to tell him what we're talking about. Thank you to our sponsors.
SPEAKER_01And we have shows coming up in uh Sacramento, uh Raleigh, North Carolina, Portland, Oregon, uh for the you know Nashville, Tennessee.
SPEAKER_00Actually, you know what? For the first you usually when I when when I speak, we and I was when I had um Dubby was on the other day, uh, we were talking about how it's we speak in the we. I always say we, but this is like I am going to. Yeah, Modi will be going to be going to uh comedy clubs all over America, uh in Raleigh, North Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, Sacramento, Sacramento, Portland, Oregon. Um, and then we also have shows at that's a we, uh Atlantic City.
SPEAKER_01Um and then London, we have two shows. One of them sold out, uh, the other one's at the palladium. So we're doing two shows in London at two different venues. We did the initial show at Drury Lane, which sold out right away. And then just because of logistics, to add a show, we had to move it down the street at the palladium. So um, and that one's filling up too. We added shows in Toronto and Ottawa. Those are public events and theaters that you can come to in November. And then people were asking me why Ottawa and Montreal. Oh, not Toronto, sorry, Ottawa and Montreal. People were asking me why not Toronto. It's because you're doing a huge event for um Magenda Vita Dome in Toronto on November 6th, I believe. Um, which you can find information and register at actually on the website. I'm gonna add it um just because it's such a big community for you. And then we are also adding a show in LA. There's an option to be notified when that goes live on our website. If you scroll to Los Angeles, um, just hit sign up for the waiting list. And then also Huntington, New York in Long Island. We're gonna be adding show there. There's also a wait list option there.
SPEAKER_00Um then there's more clubs. Whenever you list off, whenever we you like I hear you speaking with the team about the shows, and I see you like freaking out but the travel schedule. I don't, I just get so happy. The more just this, I just love hearing that we have shows coming up. I just love doing shows. Yeah, I just love doing and seeing a packed calendar. Yeah, November, December is gonna be insane. Don't forget everything you're hearing now. There's also like uh private events around it too that that there are for private organizations, which is just I just love I love just love performing. And uh luckily you make that happen. The team makes that happen, and you guys make that happen. Thank you for coming to the shows. Come to the shows, be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy shows. Everything, of course, available on ModiLive.com. Thank you all for listening, and thank you always for just giving us whatever ideas that you uh think of and tell us. And we we love hearing from you. Thank you, everybody. Bye.