December 3, 2024 • 24 mins
Comedian Modi talks with Nick about his new special, comedy career, and being a voice actor in one of the greatest games of all time.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I still speaking that that should not have made it
to the rest of the time. This is Inside Thoughts.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Check check check Welcome back Inside Thoughts. How are we doing?
Got a good interview for you at the end of
the podcast with comedian Mody. He's real funny dude, go
check him out. I embarrassingly, uh talked to him about
he's a voice actor and he was in Grand Theft
Auto four and he was like a pretty big side character.
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So I was like, oh, dude, you were a Grand
Theft Auto four and he was like, yeah, but you know,
I'm a comedian, so that's what I'm here to talk about.
And I was like, what bro's easy for. It was
one of the more embarrassing, uh parts of my professional career,
but it, you know, should be a funny interview for
you to listen to. So I got that for you
at the end of the podcast. But I hope you're
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doing good. And took a week off because of the
Thanksgiving holiday. It's just having too much fun just traveling
all over the place. Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving. Hopefully
nobody gotten any family fights, any arguments. Hopefully nobody pulled
any ligaments, broke any bones if you were playing in
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a Turkey Bowl, because you know, you're in your thirties
and you're still trying to play tackle football. You know
it happens. That's what I got coming up a pig.
You're walking away. You don't want to be on the podcast.
The cat was sitting right next to me. I started talking.
He was sleeping. The gout up and it was like, now,
fuck this shit, I'm out of here. It's whatever. But hey,
I hope you're good. Hope the family's happy. I hope
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you have all of your limbs attached to you if
you played football. I'm enjoying life right now. I am
being a stay at home wife. It is so awesome.
I wake up, there's only like two or three chores
to do a day. You knocked up out, you cook lunch,
you fuck off, you play video games, you cooked dinner,
(02:05):
and your day's over. I gotta be honest, I have
no idea what stay at home wives are complaining about.
This is awesome. Amy's looking at me like, why would
you say that.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Hey, why don't you get back to work and paying
the bills?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm over here keeping a nice, lovable filled with love.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Household, and you're looking at me not paying attention to
work right now. She's looking at me like.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Why don't you just go do your little podcast and
stop distracting me while I'm working.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's fine, Oh no, she said, why don't you just
have a go nationwide? So we're at my dad's for
Thanksgiving and me and him and Amy were just like
sitting around watching TV, and out of nowhere, my dad goes, hey,
since you know you're not working, have you ever thought
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about doing podcasts? And I was like, yeah, I got one.
Goes no, no, but like a bigger one, like bigger
than what you're doing it, Like if you ever thought
about just having a podcast go nationwide? And I was like, yeah,
you know what, never thought of that. I'll get right
on that. Matter of fact, I'm just gonna be Joe
Rogan tomorrow. I'm just gonna call up Spotify and be like, hey, Spotify,
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I would like to go nationwide? Where is my hundred
million dollars? And then I can just take that back
to my dad be like, Dad, you're a genius. Thank you,
because we all know that's how that works. To be fair,
he was being helpful. He just has zero idea how
anything works because he's old and I will be that
way someday. You know, we all get past our prime
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age wise, and it happens. I didn't realize how I think.
I talked about this on the podcast last week, but
I didn't understand how young everybody was on the internet
until I saw somebody post a tweet that said, man,
once you get to be twenty three years old, your
wife's over. I'm just old and I'm washed up and
I'm done, and it had like three hundred thousand wikes,
and I was like, Jesus Christ, it's crazy. But anyway, Yeah,
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so we we were traveling for Thanksgiving. We were down
at Wana, but before that, we went down to Charleston,
South Carolina because Ames wanted to check out Charles Stinks.
It's so cute. I saw on Instagram reel. It was
so cute. It's so funny the amount of money down there,
(04:27):
Like you just breathe in the air and you're like, ah,
I'm too poor to be breathing these rich white people's there. Seriously,
Like we went, yeah, the credit card work. Nobody kicked
us out, but it was like crazy. We went to
this one place for dinner. It was just like a
regular sports bar, you know, on the on the bay,
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and people were just pulling up like in their nice boats,
getting to go food and a beer and just riding
off into the sunset in like suits. It was weird. Yeah,
maybe someday having old money must be nice. Why did
my parents not get rich? What were they doing their
whole lives enjoying it, spending time with loved ones instead
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of out making money? Wazy bombs, But no, Charleston was cool.
Walked around, saw a bunch of old stuff, and saw
Fort Sumter more like the first shots of the Civil
War happened. I gotta be honest, I always thought it
was bigger. It's literally like the size of a studio apartment,
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or at least that's what it looked like from far away.
We didn't go up to it, but I was like,
that's what they were fighting about. Really just makes you
think maybe we shouldn't be arguing about trivial things all
the time and just learned to love one another. Maybe
maybe not, but uh, the coolest thing we did because
every time we go travel somewhere, ames always pulls up
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like this Instagram reel of fun stuff to do in
the place you're in, Like, so give you an example.
One time we were at what was that city of
North Carolina called not Hendersonville, Hickory, North Carolina, and it
was just like Hickory, North Carolina's so fun. It has
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shops and places to go, and it had four places
to shop. It was cool because you could just walk
around drinking on the one street that they had electricity on.
But down the street was supposed to be the Hunger
Games place, like where they shot District twelve, where where's
your name? Catnus lived? So that was on the Instagram.
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It was like and all you Hunger Games fans, you
can head over to District twelve and it's super fun.
So we went over there and it was where are
we two shacks with trash in it. You couldn't walk
into any of the buildings that They were like, yeah,
it's forty bucks and we were like, oh, Instagram, duped us.
That's crazy. So we go down to Charleston and Amy
had pulled up like stuff to do with Charleston. It
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was another one of those Instagram reels from an influencer.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Like Okay, hey, have you ever seen the Notebook? Well
you can go to this swamp and just paddle right
through it.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's beautiful. So we went over there and surprisingly it
was amazing. Like we walked up to get in this
whole park, it was ten bucks and we were like, oh, okay,
well it's ten bucks to get in, We're probably gonna
have to pay a shit ton of money to go
do everything else. Right, No, everything was free. It was
just ten bucks to get in. They had like a
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reptile exhibit. They had some alligators that you could see.
They had an anaconda in the reptile exhibit. It was cool.
And they had like this little swamp ride where The
Notebook was filmed for one part. So we walk up
there and the guy's just this old Southern dude who
was like ninety years old. He was like, height, hal's
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are going you folks ever been here? Like nope?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Like all right, take your boat and just follow the
white signs. You go all through and try not to
be more than forty five minutes. We're like, how much
does it cost you? You already paid your ten bucks, buddy,
come on through. And I was joking with him. I
was like, cause they had the two alligators like in
this enclosure but you know, it's a swamp in South Carolina.
So I was like, you guys don't have like alligators
in this swamp, dude. He goes, yes, sir, and I
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was like, huh, Like out there he goes, yep, we
got some alligators out there. I go, and this is
free to go do He goes, Oh, don't worry, it's wintertime.
They're not hungry. They won't eat you.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Okay. So we're paddling through. Ames is looking around like
this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in
my entire life. Take a picture, and I am freaking
out because the whole boat that they give you is
literally like the side of the boat is only two
inches above the water, so if an alligator wanted to,
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it could jump up, take both of us one bite
and we're out of there. So I'm freaking out.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
She's like what, being's such a pussy And I was like, okay,
I understand. You don't have alligators in England, so you
don't understand, but they're there are dinosaurs swimming with us.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And she was like, but he said they won't eat anything.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
No.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I was like, yeah, but guess what we got in
here for ten dollars, and I guarantee you alligator.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Food costs more than ten bucks. And we didn't have
to sign waiver. There's no internet service out here. I'm
guessing that one every hundred people that come through here
an alligator eats them. They don't have to feed the
alligators anymore. I know they won't eat anything.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Buddy. We just had a fat kid from Wisconsin come through.
Alligators got him. He'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So I was freaking out the whole time name he
was called me a little puss. But it was fine.
We made it through. It was actually super cool. I
forget what the place with aames What was that place
called Cypress Gardens outside of Charleston. Ten bucks you can
go have a nice, fun day, swim with alligators. It
was cool. So we did that and then went down
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to Atlanta for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was good, so a few
of my buddies wh one of the greatest college football
games of all time, Georgia Georgia Tech eight overtimes. It
was crazy, man. I love all my high school friends
went to the University of Georgia X. They're smart, so
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I love giving them shit about anytime Georgia loses or
doesn't look like an NFL team amongst college football teams,
and it's so funny to see them get but hurt.
Like it's crazy, Like right now with the College Football
Playoff coming up, all the SEC teams are like making
their bid to get in even though they have two
and three losses, and all the SEC fans who are like, well,
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the SEC is the best conference of all time, so yeah,
we should just get in. It's like that's not really
how it works. Otherwise we could just have an SEC
tournament and then you guys could crown yourself as the
best team in college football. We're doing the College Football Playoff,
not the SEC tournament playoff. And like the SEC fans
are crazy because ESPN's talk about they need to get
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like Alabama and all miss in there. Fox is talking
about and needing get Alabama and all missing there. And
SEC fans are still literally like, oh this media bias.
They hate the SEC. They don't want the SEC. It
like SEC fans are the same, Like they think about
the media the same way like MAGA supporters think about it.
They both think the media is against them. But like
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the biggest media outwits or the stuff that people listen
to the most are on their side. It's like, relax, dude.
They want to get Alabama Eggs all the money and
all the revenue and they'll get in. Shut up. They're
not gonna let like a two loss SMU team get in. Relax,
it's gonna be fine. But Notre Dame is gonna be
hosting a home playoff game, and I gotta be honest,
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I am so nervous, like, please Notre Dame. I'm manifesting
it right now. Please Notre Dame. Don't embarrass yourselves on
national TV in the playoffs, because then you'll have to
wait another half a decade to get back in if
you got one loss or something like they need to
join a conference. They lost in Northern Illinois. That's all
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you hop on Twitter. That's all anybody says about Notre Dame.
It's ridiculous. But whatever. I'm I'm hype for the college
football playoff. But we're past Thanksgiving. We got the conference
title games coming up. It's getting close to Christmas. We're
gonna have the playoff games. And speaking of getting closer
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to Christmas, you're gonna have to start watching some Christmas movies.
And I gotta be honest, Ames has been having us
watch some Christmas movies, and I was not excited at
all to watch this last one that she put on.
It was like Lindsay Lowhans new Christmas movie on Netflix?
What is it called Our Little Secret? I gotta be honest,
great watch. Definitely, I'd put it like top top twenty
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Christmas Movies, Top twenty five Christmas Movies. No, it's not
top ten, but it was a good watch. Like starts
off a little weird, but it's it's really it's funny,
and then they rush the ending, but you know what's
gonna happen at the ending anyway, So it's a Christmas movie,
but it's it's a good movie. I go check that out.
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So the whole time, I was like, this movie's gonna suck.
It's gonna be some dumb Hallmark movie. It was funny
and had the message of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Is it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Actually I don't even think. I think it was just
centered around Christmas. It was just a rom com that
happened to be. It was kind of like die Hard,
where die Hard happens around Christmas, but it's not really
a Christmas movie. It was like Lindsay Wohans die hard.
That's basically what it was. Anyway, Let's get to your
headline of the week. Because Amy's working and paying the bills,
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so I'm not gonna bother her with saying British shit.
I just say hello, oh beautiful, that was your British
word of the week. All right, here's your headline of
the week. Forget a pay raise. Most workers just want
a thank you? Who wrote that? Oh you know money
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doesn't buy happiness?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yes it does. And no worker just wants to thank you.
They want to pay raise.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
What's the best thing a boss can get their employees
is holiday season? The answer may be a simple thank you.
It turns out that workers just want a little appreciation.
A new poll of two thousand US employees found that
fifty five percent feel more appreciated during the holiday season
than any other time of the year. For the holidays,
two and three said they'd likely attend their workplaces holiday
party this year. Many would either come for free food
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or if their work place friends came along with bubb
bah bah. Most respondents said being connected to their companies
culture is important to them. And where's the where's the
thing where it talks about money? I can't find it.
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I lost it. But anyway, if your boss just gives
you a thank you this year after just killing it
and doesn't give you a raise, they're a bad boss.
That's all I'm saying. That's rich people propaganda. Workers don't
want money. They would just like to thank you. No,
we we would like my Actually I can't even say
we not a worker, anybody, don't. Don't make that face
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of me sitting over here unemployed. She said make meat dinner.
Oh man, I'm just saying, like, at what point is that? Like, See,
SEC fans, this is what you need to get angry about.
Not that the media is telling you that the SEC
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in the best conference in the world. It's that the
media keeps telling us that we don't need money, we
just need thank you. No thank you is not paying
the bills. Okay, it's gonna be cold. I think it
was colder than last year, so you're gonna be turning
the heat up. That costs money. God do that? All right,
that's enough for me yelling about nothing. Let's get into
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this interview with comedian Mode. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Bro Man a fundraiser? Yeah, what's up, comedian? That's the one.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, looking forward?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Looking forward to the show. Good nights. I haven't been
down there in years.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, you got July thirty. First. What's a Modi show
like for someone who hasn't seen you?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Well, you know, I just released a special, so I'm
working on a whole new hour and I've been running it.
It's been a lot of fun and just you see
the changes on stage and you see the different like
it just literally I'm bringing the audience into working out
this hour with me, and it's been so much fun.
And the audience loves it. You can just tell they
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get to be a part of the comedic process.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well that's good. Yeah, it's always tough when you can
tell that the audience doesn't like it because it happens
right there. So I'm glad that they do.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Like, it's an instant you find that immediately how you're doing.
It's not on those jobs that they give you an
evaluation four months before. You find out right away how
you're doing.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
So you were talking about your new special that just
came out a few months ago, know your audience that
special was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Where can people find that if they want to get
an idea of what to expect the MODI show like
is going to be like this Wednesday?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, so that the specials on Amazon and it's also
on YouTube. If you just release it on YouTube, know
your audience and watch it and share it. And if
you have grandparents or parents, help them log on and
watch it. And we seem to be believe me, that's
what I've been all the all the thing that we've
been getting. I watch it with my father, he's in
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hospice a week before he died. I'm like, yeah, I'm
so happy. I'm the last thing he saw before he
dropped dead. So so, so that's the stuff. And then
bring your friends to the comedy show. I always say,
be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show.
That's just like the best thing you could do. It's
better than taking them a dinner or two drinks. It's
just the best. So I really hope to see a
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lot of people at the at the Good Night Show.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I got you man now you were talking about you know,
you got to help out your old relatives figure out
how to get the special up. You also have a podcast,
you got to do as a comedian, You got to
do a bunch of social media stuff. How has stand
up kind of changed since because you've been in the
game since the nineties, how has it changed up until now?
In your opinion, it.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Really changed when you know, the social media became and
we're putting out material NonStop. So the reason comics have
podcast is to fill up. You know, first of all,
people now need to know the story behind the comic.
It's not just like it used to be two guys
walk into a bar once toys say that. Now it's
me and my friend walked into a bar. Now it's
like me and my husband that you should know about
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and his friends. It's so personalized. People want to know
the comedian. They want to know his details with him
and is where they're eating and where they're doing. So
a podcast helps that. Social media helps that, and the
audience arrived in like, oh, we kind of know this guy,
you know, and and now we're going to hear the
fun the funny stories that are going on in his life.
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And and the podcast has been amazing. It's it's filling seats.
People love the podcast. And you know, when we do
the meet and greet, people ask for pictures with my
husband more than they do with me.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So funny, I'm mody, what are you doing? And they're like, no, no,
you get a picture with your husband.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I got you exactly. Yeah. So it's been fun. You know,
it used to be it used to be the audience
used to be all Jewish. Now it's it's goyam, which
is what we Jews call people who aren't Jewish. So
it's golliam gaze and days we've been getting all of
that and it's been so much fun and it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That's awesome man. So the podcast is called and here's Mody.
You can go check that out so that you can
get all that in there. Now. You were talking about
the audience likes knowing the story behind the comedian. Your
story about becoming a comedian's kind of interesting because you
were what in finance or your investment banker? First? How'd
that happen?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Well, I was in finance and then I used to
imitate all the secretaries. I was in an international group,
so we had all these crazy over the top you know,
international like people that worked in I used to imitate
them to my friends and my friends like you've got
to do this on stage, and that's how it began.
So I was performing when I began I was wearing,
you know, a suit, I was coming from from work.
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I was like, everybody else looked like they thought of
the hamper, and I'm like in an Armani suit, you know,
doing open mics. And then things moved very fast, and
I was working. I was literally doing two jobs for
like almost five years, from ninety four to ninety nine,
and then I quit and went on the road full
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time and never looked back. It's been amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's awesome. Yeah, you got to know one that you're funny,
and two that you love the craft to stand up.
If you're going to give up all that money being
an invent banker to come to stand up comedy, no.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Once it hits you, any comic that hits them, that
wave of your first time on stage and you go, oh,
this is what I'm supposed to be doing. You can't
not do it. It's just you can't. It's you can't, right,
It's just like that, this is what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Now, I got to say, I'm just like incredibly excited
to get to talk to you because one of my
favorite video games of all time is Grand Theft Auto four.
I didn't realize that you were Isaac Roth in that it.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Was I was like, dude, no, it's so funny the
fact that I'm in that video game. People and I
still get like we still get what's called those the
residual checks. And it's when people realize that it's me
in that game, they freak out and like they people
find out where I get and they ask for autographs. Hi,
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we have the characters of all the people, such a
serious like I had no idea. I never played a
video game in my life, but I'm glad that I'm
glad that this is the uh, this is where you
uh where I'm a celebrity to you from Well auto.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I was playing that game when I was like
tense and now I was like, okay, now you got
to go just binge anything that Modey's done. Man, because
he was in Grand Theft. Thought, Oh, if you don't
mind me asking, how did that happen? Because I know
you studied voice acting in college. But was it just
like an audition or you knew somebody? How did that happen?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Well, you know, my agent sent me out. They said
they're looking for a guy who's a thief and a swindler.
So for me, it wasn't like I had to go
into like method acting, so I you know, it was
a Jude that's whatever the whatever the plot was, and
then they listened, they got my voice, and then we
went into a this place out in Long Island where
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they trust us up in this black clothes with his
white balls all over them. And then I acted out
and they put it on the on the animation, and
then then they got me again for the for the
second thing where they sent me to this whole place
just to say the words please don't. They set me
up and there's a whole beautiful studio just for me,
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go please don't. That was whatever the line I had
that way it was. It's it's a it's a crazy
big operate. It's it's That was one of the prop
of all the things I've done, that was probably the
biggest money maker of a of a project.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, Rockstar Games. That's a grand theft thought.
It was like one of the all time best video games.
So like being a part of that, that's got to
feel pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Well, Mody, do you have anything else you want to
promote for? I let you get out here. I know
you're busy again.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
The specials out on Amazon and on YouTube. Know your audience.
The podcast is and here's Mody and and that said,
hit me up Instagram, Modi Underscore live you get to
see everything and clips and all that stuff and uh
and just come out live. There's nothing like live comedy.
Just come have some labs. It's so healthy. You can
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see people just like you can see spaces, and people
just their entire aura changes after a comedy show. So please,
if you're in an area, get a ticket. There's a
few left and I'm looking forward to being there.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
That's awesome, Mody. I appreciate you taking the talk.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
To talk to me.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Then go murder on Wednesdays.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Money to Go, Money to Go, Money to Go, money,
I still speaking that that should not have made it
to the rest of the time. This is Inside Thoughts.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Check check check Welcome back Inside Thoughts. How are we doing?
Got a good interview for you at the end of
the podcast with comedian Mody. He's real funny dude, go
check him out. I embarrassingly, uh talked to him about
he's a voice actor and he was in Grand Theft
Auto four and he was like a pretty big side character.
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So I was like, oh, dude, you were a Grand
Theft Auto four and he was like, yeah, but you know,
I'm a comedian, so that's what I'm here to talk about.
And I was like, what bro's easy for. It was
one of the more embarrassing, uh parts of my professional career,
but it, you know, should be a funny interview for
you to listen to. So I got that for you
at the end of the podcast. But I hope you're
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doing good. And took a week off because of the
Thanksgiving holiday. It's just having too much fun just traveling
all over the place. Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving. Hopefully
nobody gotten any family fights, any arguments. Hopefully nobody pulled
any ligaments, broke any bones if you were playing in
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a Turkey Bowl, because you know, you're in your thirties
and you're still trying to play tackle football. You know
it happens. That's what I got coming up a pig.
You're walking away. You don't want to be on the podcast.
The cat was sitting right next to me. I started talking.
He was sleeping. The gout up and it was like, now,
fuck this shit, I'm out of here. It's whatever. But hey,
I hope you're good. Hope the family's happy. I hope
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you have all of your limbs attached to you if
you played football. I'm enjoying life right now. I am
being a stay at home wife. It is so awesome.
I wake up, there's only like two or three chores
to do a day. You knocked up out, you cook lunch,
you fuck off, you play video games, you cooked dinner,
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and your day's over. I gotta be honest, I have
no idea what stay at home wives are complaining about.
This is awesome. Amy's looking at me like, why would
you say that.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Hey, why don't you get back to work and paying
the bills?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm over here keeping a nice, lovable filled with love.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Household, and you're looking at me not paying attention to
work right now. She's looking at me like.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Why don't you just go do your little podcast and
stop distracting me while I'm working.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's fine, Oh no, she said, why don't you just
have a go nationwide? So we're at my dad's for
Thanksgiving and me and him and Amy were just like
sitting around watching TV, and out of nowhere, my dad goes, hey,
since you know you're not working, have you ever thought
(02:56):
about doing podcasts? And I was like, yeah, I got one.
Goes no, no, but like a bigger one, like bigger
than what you're doing it, Like if you ever thought
about just having a podcast go nationwide? And I was like, yeah,
you know what, never thought of that. I'll get right
on that. Matter of fact, I'm just gonna be Joe
Rogan tomorrow. I'm just gonna call up Spotify and be like, hey, Spotify,
(03:16):
I would like to go nationwide? Where is my hundred
million dollars? And then I can just take that back
to my dad be like, Dad, you're a genius. Thank you,
because we all know that's how that works. To be fair,
he was being helpful. He just has zero idea how
anything works because he's old and I will be that
way someday. You know, we all get past our prime
(03:37):
age wise, and it happens. I didn't realize how I think.
I talked about this on the podcast last week, but
I didn't understand how young everybody was on the internet
until I saw somebody post a tweet that said, man,
once you get to be twenty three years old, your
wife's over. I'm just old and I'm washed up and
I'm done, and it had like three hundred thousand wikes,
and I was like, Jesus Christ, it's crazy. But anyway, Yeah,
(04:03):
so we we were traveling for Thanksgiving. We were down
at Wana, but before that, we went down to Charleston,
South Carolina because Ames wanted to check out Charles Stinks.
It's so cute. I saw on Instagram reel. It was
so cute. It's so funny the amount of money down there,
(04:27):
Like you just breathe in the air and you're like, ah,
I'm too poor to be breathing these rich white people's there. Seriously,
Like we went, yeah, the credit card work. Nobody kicked
us out, but it was like crazy. We went to
this one place for dinner. It was just like a
regular sports bar, you know, on the on the bay,
(04:48):
and people were just pulling up like in their nice boats,
getting to go food and a beer and just riding
off into the sunset in like suits. It was weird. Yeah,
maybe someday having old money must be nice. Why did
my parents not get rich? What were they doing their
whole lives enjoying it, spending time with loved ones instead
(05:11):
of out making money? Wazy bombs, But no, Charleston was cool.
Walked around, saw a bunch of old stuff, and saw
Fort Sumter more like the first shots of the Civil
War happened. I gotta be honest, I always thought it
was bigger. It's literally like the size of a studio apartment,
(05:31):
or at least that's what it looked like from far away.
We didn't go up to it, but I was like,
that's what they were fighting about. Really just makes you
think maybe we shouldn't be arguing about trivial things all
the time and just learned to love one another. Maybe
maybe not, but uh, the coolest thing we did because
every time we go travel somewhere, ames always pulls up
(05:52):
like this Instagram reel of fun stuff to do in
the place you're in, Like, so give you an example.
One time we were at what was that city of
North Carolina called not Hendersonville, Hickory, North Carolina, and it
was just like Hickory, North Carolina's so fun. It has
(06:12):
shops and places to go, and it had four places
to shop. It was cool because you could just walk
around drinking on the one street that they had electricity on.
But down the street was supposed to be the Hunger
Games place, like where they shot District twelve, where where's
your name? Catnus lived? So that was on the Instagram.
(06:35):
It was like and all you Hunger Games fans, you
can head over to District twelve and it's super fun.
So we went over there and it was where are
we two shacks with trash in it. You couldn't walk
into any of the buildings that They were like, yeah,
it's forty bucks and we were like, oh, Instagram, duped us.
That's crazy. So we go down to Charleston and Amy
had pulled up like stuff to do with Charleston. It
(06:56):
was another one of those Instagram reels from an influencer.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Like Okay, hey, have you ever seen the Notebook? Well
you can go to this swamp and just paddle right
through it.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's beautiful. So we went over there and surprisingly it
was amazing. Like we walked up to get in this
whole park, it was ten bucks and we were like, oh, okay,
well it's ten bucks to get in, We're probably gonna
have to pay a shit ton of money to go
do everything else. Right, No, everything was free. It was
just ten bucks to get in. They had like a
(07:29):
reptile exhibit. They had some alligators that you could see.
They had an anaconda in the reptile exhibit. It was cool.
And they had like this little swamp ride where The
Notebook was filmed for one part. So we walk up
there and the guy's just this old Southern dude who
was like ninety years old. He was like, height, hal's
(07:49):
are going you folks ever been here? Like nope?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Like all right, take your boat and just follow the
white signs. You go all through and try not to
be more than forty five minutes. We're like, how much
does it cost you? You already paid your ten bucks, buddy,
come on through. And I was joking with him. I
was like, cause they had the two alligators like in
this enclosure but you know, it's a swamp in South Carolina.
So I was like, you guys don't have like alligators
in this swamp, dude. He goes, yes, sir, and I
(08:13):
was like, huh, Like out there he goes, yep, we
got some alligators out there. I go, and this is
free to go do He goes, Oh, don't worry, it's wintertime.
They're not hungry. They won't eat you.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Okay. So we're paddling through. Ames is looking around like
this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in
my entire life. Take a picture, and I am freaking
out because the whole boat that they give you is
literally like the side of the boat is only two
inches above the water, so if an alligator wanted to,
(08:48):
it could jump up, take both of us one bite
and we're out of there. So I'm freaking out.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
She's like what, being's such a pussy And I was like, okay,
I understand. You don't have alligators in England, so you
don't understand, but they're there are dinosaurs swimming with us.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And she was like, but he said they won't eat anything.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
No.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I was like, yeah, but guess what we got in
here for ten dollars, and I guarantee you alligator.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Food costs more than ten bucks. And we didn't have
to sign waiver. There's no internet service out here. I'm
guessing that one every hundred people that come through here
an alligator eats them. They don't have to feed the
alligators anymore. I know they won't eat anything.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Buddy. We just had a fat kid from Wisconsin come through.
Alligators got him. He'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So I was freaking out the whole time name he
was called me a little puss. But it was fine.
We made it through. It was actually super cool. I
forget what the place with aames What was that place
called Cypress Gardens outside of Charleston. Ten bucks you can
go have a nice, fun day, swim with alligators. It
was cool. So we did that and then went down
(09:52):
to Atlanta for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was good, so a few
of my buddies wh one of the greatest college football
games of all time, Georgia Georgia Tech eight overtimes. It
was crazy, man. I love all my high school friends
went to the University of Georgia X. They're smart, so
(10:13):
I love giving them shit about anytime Georgia loses or
doesn't look like an NFL team amongst college football teams,
and it's so funny to see them get but hurt.
Like it's crazy, Like right now with the College Football
Playoff coming up, all the SEC teams are like making
their bid to get in even though they have two
and three losses, and all the SEC fans who are like, well,
(10:37):
the SEC is the best conference of all time, so yeah,
we should just get in. It's like that's not really
how it works. Otherwise we could just have an SEC
tournament and then you guys could crown yourself as the
best team in college football. We're doing the College Football Playoff,
not the SEC tournament playoff. And like the SEC fans
are crazy because ESPN's talk about they need to get
(11:01):
like Alabama and all miss in there. Fox is talking
about and needing get Alabama and all missing there. And
SEC fans are still literally like, oh this media bias.
They hate the SEC. They don't want the SEC. It
like SEC fans are the same, Like they think about
the media the same way like MAGA supporters think about it.
They both think the media is against them. But like
(11:23):
the biggest media outwits or the stuff that people listen
to the most are on their side. It's like, relax, dude.
They want to get Alabama Eggs all the money and
all the revenue and they'll get in. Shut up. They're
not gonna let like a two loss SMU team get in. Relax,
it's gonna be fine. But Notre Dame is gonna be
hosting a home playoff game, and I gotta be honest,
(11:43):
I am so nervous, like, please Notre Dame. I'm manifesting
it right now. Please Notre Dame. Don't embarrass yourselves on
national TV in the playoffs, because then you'll have to
wait another half a decade to get back in if
you got one loss or something like they need to
join a conference. They lost in Northern Illinois. That's all
(12:04):
you hop on Twitter. That's all anybody says about Notre Dame.
It's ridiculous. But whatever. I'm I'm hype for the college
football playoff. But we're past Thanksgiving. We got the conference
title games coming up. It's getting close to Christmas. We're
gonna have the playoff games. And speaking of getting closer
(12:26):
to Christmas, you're gonna have to start watching some Christmas movies.
And I gotta be honest, Ames has been having us
watch some Christmas movies, and I was not excited at
all to watch this last one that she put on.
It was like Lindsay Lowhans new Christmas movie on Netflix?
What is it called Our Little Secret? I gotta be honest,
great watch. Definitely, I'd put it like top top twenty
(12:50):
Christmas Movies, Top twenty five Christmas Movies. No, it's not
top ten, but it was a good watch. Like starts
off a little weird, but it's it's really it's funny,
and then they rush the ending, but you know what's
gonna happen at the ending anyway, So it's a Christmas movie,
but it's it's a good movie. I go check that out.
(13:10):
So the whole time, I was like, this movie's gonna suck.
It's gonna be some dumb Hallmark movie. It was funny
and had the message of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Is it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Actually I don't even think. I think it was just
centered around Christmas. It was just a rom com that
happened to be. It was kind of like die Hard,
where die Hard happens around Christmas, but it's not really
a Christmas movie. It was like Lindsay Wohans die hard.
That's basically what it was. Anyway, Let's get to your
headline of the week. Because Amy's working and paying the bills,
(13:45):
so I'm not gonna bother her with saying British shit.
I just say hello, oh beautiful, that was your British
word of the week. All right, here's your headline of
the week. Forget a pay raise. Most workers just want
a thank you? Who wrote that? Oh you know money
(14:07):
doesn't buy happiness?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yes it does. And no worker just wants to thank you.
They want to pay raise.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
What's the best thing a boss can get their employees
is holiday season? The answer may be a simple thank you.
It turns out that workers just want a little appreciation.
A new poll of two thousand US employees found that
fifty five percent feel more appreciated during the holiday season
than any other time of the year. For the holidays,
two and three said they'd likely attend their workplaces holiday
party this year. Many would either come for free food
(14:34):
or if their work place friends came along with bubb
bah bah. Most respondents said being connected to their companies
culture is important to them. And where's the where's the
thing where it talks about money? I can't find it.
(14:59):
I lost it. But anyway, if your boss just gives
you a thank you this year after just killing it
and doesn't give you a raise, they're a bad boss.
That's all I'm saying. That's rich people propaganda. Workers don't
want money. They would just like to thank you. No,
we we would like my Actually I can't even say
we not a worker, anybody, don't. Don't make that face
(15:20):
of me sitting over here unemployed. She said make meat dinner.
Oh man, I'm just saying, like, at what point is that? Like, See,
SEC fans, this is what you need to get angry about.
Not that the media is telling you that the SEC
(15:42):
in the best conference in the world. It's that the
media keeps telling us that we don't need money, we
just need thank you. No thank you is not paying
the bills. Okay, it's gonna be cold. I think it
was colder than last year, so you're gonna be turning
the heat up. That costs money. God do that? All right,
that's enough for me yelling about nothing. Let's get into
(16:02):
this interview with comedian Mode. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Bro Man a fundraiser? Yeah, what's up, comedian? That's the one.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, looking forward?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Looking forward to the show. Good nights. I haven't been
down there in years.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, you got July thirty. First. What's a Modi show
like for someone who hasn't seen you?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Well, you know, I just released a special, so I'm
working on a whole new hour and I've been running it.
It's been a lot of fun and just you see
the changes on stage and you see the different like
it just literally I'm bringing the audience into working out
this hour with me, and it's been so much fun.
And the audience loves it. You can just tell they
(16:43):
get to be a part of the comedic process.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well that's good. Yeah, it's always tough when you can
tell that the audience doesn't like it because it happens
right there. So I'm glad that they do.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Like, it's an instant you find that immediately how you're doing.
It's not on those jobs that they give you an
evaluation four months before. You find out right away how
you're doing.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
So you were talking about your new special that just
came out a few months ago, know your audience that
special was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Where can people find that if they want to get
an idea of what to expect the MODI show like
is going to be like this Wednesday?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, so that the specials on Amazon and it's also
on YouTube. If you just release it on YouTube, know
your audience and watch it and share it. And if
you have grandparents or parents, help them log on and
watch it. And we seem to be believe me, that's
what I've been all the all the thing that we've
been getting. I watch it with my father, he's in
(17:42):
hospice a week before he died. I'm like, yeah, I'm
so happy. I'm the last thing he saw before he
dropped dead. So so, so that's the stuff. And then
bring your friends to the comedy show. I always say,
be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show.
That's just like the best thing you could do. It's
better than taking them a dinner or two drinks. It's
just the best. So I really hope to see a
(18:04):
lot of people at the at the Good Night Show.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I got you man now you were talking about you know,
you got to help out your old relatives figure out
how to get the special up. You also have a podcast,
you got to do as a comedian, You got to
do a bunch of social media stuff. How has stand
up kind of changed since because you've been in the
game since the nineties, how has it changed up until now?
In your opinion, it.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Really changed when you know, the social media became and
we're putting out material NonStop. So the reason comics have
podcast is to fill up. You know, first of all,
people now need to know the story behind the comic.
It's not just like it used to be two guys
walk into a bar once toys say that. Now it's
me and my friend walked into a bar. Now it's
like me and my husband that you should know about
(18:48):
and his friends. It's so personalized. People want to know
the comedian. They want to know his details with him
and is where they're eating and where they're doing. So
a podcast helps that. Social media helps that, and the
audience arrived in like, oh, we kind of know this guy,
you know, and and now we're going to hear the
fun the funny stories that are going on in his life.
(19:09):
And and the podcast has been amazing. It's it's filling seats.
People love the podcast. And you know, when we do
the meet and greet, people ask for pictures with my
husband more than they do with me.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So funny, I'm mody, what are you doing? And they're like, no, no,
you get a picture with your husband.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I got you exactly. Yeah. So it's been fun. You know,
it used to be it used to be the audience
used to be all Jewish. Now it's it's goyam, which
is what we Jews call people who aren't Jewish. So
it's golliam gaze and days we've been getting all of
that and it's been so much fun and it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That's awesome man. So the podcast is called and here's Mody.
You can go check that out so that you can
get all that in there. Now. You were talking about
the audience likes knowing the story behind the comedian. Your
story about becoming a comedian's kind of interesting because you
were what in finance or your investment banker? First? How'd
that happen?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Well, I was in finance and then I used to
imitate all the secretaries. I was in an international group,
so we had all these crazy over the top you know,
international like people that worked in I used to imitate
them to my friends and my friends like you've got
to do this on stage, and that's how it began.
So I was performing when I began I was wearing,
you know, a suit, I was coming from from work.
(20:28):
I was like, everybody else looked like they thought of
the hamper, and I'm like in an Armani suit, you know,
doing open mics. And then things moved very fast, and
I was working. I was literally doing two jobs for
like almost five years, from ninety four to ninety nine,
and then I quit and went on the road full
(20:48):
time and never looked back. It's been amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's awesome. Yeah, you got to know one that you're funny,
and two that you love the craft to stand up.
If you're going to give up all that money being
an invent banker to come to stand up comedy, no.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Once it hits you, any comic that hits them, that
wave of your first time on stage and you go, oh,
this is what I'm supposed to be doing. You can't
not do it. It's just you can't. It's you can't, right,
It's just like that, this is what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Now, I got to say, I'm just like incredibly excited
to get to talk to you because one of my
favorite video games of all time is Grand Theft Auto four.
I didn't realize that you were Isaac Roth in that it.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Was I was like, dude, no, it's so funny the
fact that I'm in that video game. People and I
still get like we still get what's called those the
residual checks. And it's when people realize that it's me
in that game, they freak out and like they people
find out where I get and they ask for autographs. Hi,
(21:52):
we have the characters of all the people, such a
serious like I had no idea. I never played a
video game in my life, but I'm glad that I'm
glad that this is the uh, this is where you
uh where I'm a celebrity to you from Well auto.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I was playing that game when I was like
tense and now I was like, okay, now you got
to go just binge anything that Modey's done. Man, because
he was in Grand Theft. Thought, Oh, if you don't
mind me asking, how did that happen? Because I know
you studied voice acting in college. But was it just
like an audition or you knew somebody? How did that happen?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Well, you know, my agent sent me out. They said
they're looking for a guy who's a thief and a swindler.
So for me, it wasn't like I had to go
into like method acting, so I you know, it was
a Jude that's whatever the whatever the plot was, and
then they listened, they got my voice, and then we
went into a this place out in Long Island where
(22:50):
they trust us up in this black clothes with his
white balls all over them. And then I acted out
and they put it on the on the animation, and
then then they got me again for the for the
second thing where they sent me to this whole place
just to say the words please don't. They set me
up and there's a whole beautiful studio just for me,
(23:11):
go please don't. That was whatever the line I had
that way it was. It's it's a it's a crazy
big operate. It's it's That was one of the prop
of all the things I've done, that was probably the
biggest money maker of a of a project.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, Rockstar Games. That's a grand theft thought.
It was like one of the all time best video games.
So like being a part of that, that's got to
feel pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Well, Mody, do you have anything else you want to
promote for? I let you get out here. I know
you're busy again.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
The specials out on Amazon and on YouTube. Know your audience.
The podcast is and here's Mody and and that said,
hit me up Instagram, Modi Underscore live you get to
see everything and clips and all that stuff and uh
and just come out live. There's nothing like live comedy.
Just come have some labs. It's so healthy. You can
(24:03):
see people just like you can see spaces, and people
just their entire aura changes after a comedy show. So please,
if you're in an area, get a ticket. There's a
few left and I'm looking forward to being there.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
That's awesome, Mody. I appreciate you taking the talk.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
To talk to me.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Then go murder on Wednesdays.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Money to Go, Money to Go, Money to Go, money,
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