March 5, 2025 • 45 mins
Episode 141: The AHM crew reads some nice and some nasty emails, celebrate the return of the hostages (including home Omer Shem Tov!) and discuss whether or not Modi should make an album of Yiddish songs.
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to Andy's completely wrong and they were
scared that it's going tocompletely send me off on my
dyslexia and all of that.
But as long as I know itdoesn't function.
But it will bring me to a veryfunny story.
When I worked at Merrill LynchI had to entertain these clients
once and we got them.
They're like huge clients andthey were from Peru Not Peru,
(00:40):
from Argentina or Venezuela orsomewhere and Merrill Lynch made
an appointment for us to go tothe trading floor and we're on
the floor with these clients andthere's just like clocks
everywhere the commodities, thismarket, that market, papi, and
(01:01):
I have no idea what anything is.
And there was one.
They go what, what is that?
I go that that's the, uh,that's the commodities market on
the on.
It was, it was the time, but itjust had it like.
It just had it, had it in likeyou know, army time and whatever
, and it was just modi was whatwe call a personality hire at
maryland.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
For sure, you just kept the vibes here at maryland.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
For sure, you just kept the vibes light fun.
Yeah, that was that.
I was definitely not like Iwasn't there for, like,
analytical stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I was just.
You were always reading theroom, though, right?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
yeah, yeah, yeah, I was reading that room and it was
that wasn't reading thestatements, though I'll tell you
that I wasn't folks.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Um, on that note, it's been.
It's been a few weeks.
Yes, we've been busy.
Yes, we've been traveling.
Yes, we've been traveling.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You guys have been all over.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We've been to Phoenix , we've been to Fort Lauderdale
for seven shows, we've been toTampa, we've been to Naples,
we've been to let's break itdown.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
First of all, those of you listening to the podcast,
as we always say, we are alight podcast, we're just
helping you just get out of yourday for a little while.
And we had a show in FortLauderdale, the Parker Playhouse
.
Because of HIPAA laws I cannotmention names.
(02:20):
But my very good friend, who isthe's the reason like I do
comedy, one of my, so Imentioned his name his mother
has a gastrologist who's a hugefan guy with a yarmulke and the
whole nine yards big florida guyand he's he's and you know, and
now I'm doing this whole thingabout colonoscopies in my act
(02:43):
it's like a whole thing and hesays when they do colonoscopies,
they were, you have to haveapproved what plays in the room.
Like you can't have a heavymetal playing in the room, you
can't have.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And our podcast was approved so someone has had a
colonoscopy while this podcastwas playing in the operating
room.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
They were out.
They were no, but the doctorhimself.
The doctor was listening to it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You know, for him it's an hour of doing.
For him he could do a blindobviously.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You are too young, you have not yet.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No, but I kind of want to do one recreationally.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's what I was going to say.
You would love it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I just want to do one recreationally.
That's what I was going to say.
You would love it.
I just want to do it before wego to Fire Island.
I want to drink that shit, Iwant to have that shit, and then
I want to feel like CindyCrawford on the beach.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But you'll love how you're knocked out, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So before the surgery , before your colonoscopy, where
I had it, it's literally like afactory.
It just moves along.
So the nurse, the head nurse,comes in, she goes it's 12, it's
12, 16.
We are at procedure, doctor.
This is there.
The whole room is recorded.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
And then it's like and here's Modi.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So they can put on, you know, rock music or
classical music or something inthe background.
And he says he had our podcastapproved to be able to play in
the room.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I love that Loved by medical professionals.
Your mom, yes.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And also loved by Stewie Siegel.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Who's Stewie Siegel?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Stewie Siegel is Tara's dad.
Remember my friend, the makeupartist, who came for his
birthday, oh my god, you madehis birthday.
I'm sure you hear that all thetime, but shout out to the
Siegel family how they were soexcited to go.
That was his birthday present.
They took him to the show.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Great, I know we had a lot of people.
Leo has been opening the showsand asking anybody do we have
any podcast listeners?
And you hear a big yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
We have a lot of yeah we also get a lot of messages
we do get a lot of messages andyou know I was picking some
fights in the comment sectionthis week.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, you were.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And when I say picking fights, I actually take
that back.
I'm not picking the fight.
Someone else is instigating andleaving nasty things and I'm
simply responding to it.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, and then you send me screenshots.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah.
So, I saw them.
I saw one of them.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I think One of them was this guy who said you should
be banned from Froome eventsbecause whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And I was like honey.
I got into a fight with him too, you got into it in the DMs.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But I think once I got that out of my system, at
least for the time being, I wantto focus on the positive
interactions.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, that guy Hold on.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You guys are rubbing that off so quick.
I obviously am not involved inthat, but leo's showing me like
he shows me the screen.
First of all, the guy is someunhinged religious guy who has a
thing for big tiger pets.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, so he you're dealing with somebody jewish,
joe, exotic tiger at its moment.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, uh, glo Glock, kosher Joe, exotic.
So he's got.
His Instagram is a few picturesof him petting some line that
he shouldn't be petting, andthen he decides he's going to
chime in.
I should not be doing any fromevents.
Well, just to answer youdirectly, many of them can't
(06:25):
afford me anymore, just so youknow.
So we do our own shows, butmany, many religious
corporations and charities stilllook for me religious ones, and
so you can.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, just because you have your own stuff to work,
yeah, you big idiot, but thatwas that.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
That was that.
That was to me.
Thou doth protest too much, youknow, it's like those senators
who get caught in hotel rooms.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I always said that, yeah, yeah.
Any senator that's screamingabout anti-gay, anti-gay, that's
the one you catch in the toiletat an airport Enough.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
As I said, I feel like I wanted to not focus on
those crazy people.
Go ahead um.
We got a really sweet messageyay so let's focus on the
positivity, and I'm not gonna.
I'm gonna try to read itwithout um naming names or
saying parts that are likeidentifiable shalom, modi,
(07:23):
shalom.
I don't know if you'll ever seethis.
I was hoping to send in fanmail, but I haven't had the time
to sit and write a letter.
I know this is a business email, but I deactivated my instagram
.
I just needed a little screentime break break, don't we all?
Uh, I discovered you a couplemonths back when my dad
mentioned to me that I shouldname my son after someone who
(07:44):
had a good life.
He said have you heard of thejewish comedian modi?
He says you should name yourchildren after someone that had
a good life.
I had no idea who you were atthe time.
I was seven months pregnant andhad just arrived back at the
united in the us while myhusband stayed in israel to
fight on the northern borderagainst hezbollah.
(08:04):
Shortly after that conversation, my dad and I sat in the living
room together and he showed meyour comedy special on YouTube.
That's when I became a fan.
I followed you on social mediaand, through Instagram,
discovered you have a podcast.
I now listen to it every day,mostly when I go on walks with
the baby in our Labrador.
(08:24):
Our baby boy is now six monthsold.
My husband came back from thearmy just in time for his birth
and we named him blank afterblank I'm not gonna say that
part after and after our friendthat passed in gaza fighting for
our home.
I decided to reach out because Ihave just been so heartbroken
(08:45):
with the news of the Bibasfamily.
I put our son to sleep lastnight with tears in my eyes.
Today I was listening to an oldepisode and I can't help but
laugh.
I look crazy laughing by myselfas I walk the dog.
But then I realized, wow, Ijust needed to pause for
laughter.
But then I realized, wow, Ijust needed to pause for
(09:06):
laughter.
Yesterday was so heavy on mysoul and on this morning I woke
up with a knot in my throat.
But your podcast gave me amoment to simply laugh and
forget about all the pain we aregoing through as a Jewish
nation right now.
Thank you for all you do.
Thank you for bringing Moshiachenergy, energy, and thank you
for being a kind soul and a goodperson.
(09:27):
Shout out to Leo.
I love him as well.
His confidence and sassiness iscontagious.
I really enjoy his input on theshows and honestly I just want
to be besties with him duringthese crazy dark times.
From one Jew to another, I senda deep and warm hug, and then
(09:49):
she sent some pictures of herand her son.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
This you don't show me, but crazy people petting
tigers that you show me.
Sorry, the Bebas thing made mecry.
Yeah, aw, isn't that beautiful,that's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And she sends us pictures of her baby and her
that's wonderful, that's what,that's why we do this podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's what we, we and to let you know what we're
up to.
And it's the other side of usother positive news wait, we
discuss.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
wait, can I Wait?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Can I please read the one that you texted me?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Which one Give me a clue?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
About Omer.
I feel like we can't go fromthat and not address I should
have done that first and endedon a nice note.
We'll still end on a nice note.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That was beautiful.
Thank you to whoever wrote that.
We get a lot of messages likethat.
So when I am on here and I'mbitching and moaning about the
ones who are annoying, it's justbecause they're annoying but
you guys are nice and we loveyou yeah, we get a lot of those
and we appreciate them.
And now, just to set this up ofwhat you're about to do.
Okay, you know, baruch hashem.
(11:02):
Thank you.
Omar shamtov is home amen amongwith a few other hostages at
this point and when we did the100th episode of this podcast,
which, if you have not listenedto it, I highly recommend you go
through and find it.
It's clearly labeled the 100thepisode, filmed at the 92nd
street.
Why we did it?
Live in partnership with the92nd Street Y.
(11:23):
It was an amazing, beautifulevent and on stage at the event,
periel brought up the questionthat we get all the time Modi,
who is your dream guest for thepodcast, to which you answered
Omer Shemtov.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You gave a beautiful answer that we have on video,
and as soon as Omer wasofficially home, I went through
the archives and I pulled thatvideo that we had posted over a
year ago.
Yes, being like look, he's home, how great is this and how
crazy was it that modi, you know, kind of put it out not that
(11:56):
I'm saying you brought him home,but like that we've been
thinking of him this whole timethat this video is over a year
old and now he's coming out andhe's getting home and we were
talking about it before he gotout, and of course we've had his
cousin liat on the show and wedid an event with her um for
october 7th.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So we have been in our energy for a long time now.
Leo is the one who really hasto field most of these messages,
so he and I, so you know, andit's I'm hundreds thousands, but
I I kind of laugh at the oneslike these because they're so
(12:35):
ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I don't even think that wait, where did I send it
to you?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
you texted it to me I texted it to you yeah, um, you
want me to text it back to youso you can have it fresh.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh, do you want me?
Should I do another reading?
Sure, I won't cry for this one.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Sure Go ahead, you read it.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
This is how it starts .
I didn't read you this.
So this is after we've posted,we're like, oh my God, Omar Shem
Tov is home.
We post the video.
We're like, happy, positive,yay Mashiach energy.
And then I get this email whichstarts like this, which I have
no idea what this person istalking about.
(13:13):
I know, I thought you knew thatI am not going to rehash our
past.
What Excuse me?
We have a past.
We have a past.
We clearly see things quitedifferently and I know you
parentheses, leo, who will, willread this and Modi and Periel
will make fun of me.
I'm okay with that.
It has never been about me.
Well, you're making it aboutyou because you're emailing me.
Keep reading.
(13:34):
Here's my suggestion that youmay choose to ignore.
We all know you did and dolittle to advocate for Omar
Shemtov or any of the hostages.
That's your choice and, aspredicted, you are now sharing a
reel that is getting tractionand comments like get him on the
pod and bring him to New York Abit exploitive, but okay.
(13:57):
What every hostage needs anddeserves from all of us when
they are released is privacy andspace to heal with their loved
ones.
My goal is that you shouldinvite omer at some point and
that you wait and give him somespace and you will make it
meaningful.
If he ever does come on, itshould be his choice, not
because you want to look good.
(14:18):
You have a massive platform,omer.
Should he choose to speak toyou, should be able to share
what he wants and share and thepodcast should be about him, not
you, and it should not be abouthis time in captivity, if he
does not want to go there.
And last, if he ever does joinyou, please raise money directly
for him so he can heal and livethe life he wants to live.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
First of all reforce.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Lema, you should be institutionalized.
She needs a she needs a sheneeds to be healed Mentally.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
She's a sick woman.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
This is a woman who's in a movie.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
She's in a movie in her head.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
We all know that you did and do little to advocate
for any of the hostages.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
We don't, don't, don't, don't Omar Shemtover any
of the hostages.
I didn't ask you.
We Don't answer that.
Don't answer that.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The other thing is that he should come on his own
free will.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
He should come on his own free will, but then only
talk about the things that Ioutline here in my email.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
If I want to tell you something about, first of all,
when I saw Omar Shemtover getreleased and you saw his face
and you see his soul, and yousaw his face and you see his
soul and you see, only thing Iremember was his cousin telling
us that he has such a greatsense of humor.
Yeah and what, and like ifanybody would do stand up, and
it would be him.
I.
I hope he gets through whateverhe needs to get through and I
(15:36):
hope he tells his story throughstand-up.
I think I think if he's thatfunny and he's, did you imagine
That'd be?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
a great woman.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Every hostage now is going to go speak and raise
money and do things to helpother hostages and help Israel
and all that.
But imagine he comes out andhe's imitating his captures,
like he just like whatever, anine peslote some guy had, like
you know, four eyed or whatever,and the with some guy had, like
you know, four-eyed or whatever, and the way he they talked and
(16:07):
the way you know, I mean,there's so much he can obviously
and tell his story throughcomedy you do and did little to
advocate for the hostages.
What are you on a house forYou're?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
referring to a video of him on stage at an event with
a screen behind him withpictures of all the hostages.
What have you done besides sendnasty emails?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
She's gotten you angry.
That's what she did.
She's in a mess.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
This is why I'm a roller coaster in a basket case,
because I get the first emailthat makes me cry and beautiful,
and I want to give that woman ahug and I get this other twat
in my inbox.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, so that's what it is.
Okay, let's keep the languagehere a little more friendly.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We are every episode explicit content Exactly, but
they don't need to hear thesewords in the middle of a
colonoscopy.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I know that we're thinking about the thing to me
that really.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
So Leo sent me that and I started hysterically
laughing because the it's justso absurd.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's so ridiculous and the lack of self-awareness
to send a message like that withlike I hope you're embarrassed,
I hope you're listening to thisand I think you're the same
person who recently sent me justby the manner I'm really good
at reading text, uh, patternsand the way people communicate
and feels like the.
(17:26):
It was written very similarlyto a message I received, maybe
like two weeks before that,where you said uh, is it
possible for leo and perriel toget through an episode without
saying the word?
Like every other word, and justlike I want to tell you like,
if you're going to say somethinglike that, I would like to see
you sit here and like for anhour and speak and be funny and
on your toes and like not useany filler words.
(17:48):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
As long as I prefer you just don't curse.
I'm going to say like, likethat Celsius hit me hard
Everyone has.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
No, no, no, you have no idea, because I'm also in the
YouTube comments.
One of them said why am I beingforced to listen to Modi's
annoying boyfriend?
And I was like forced to listen.
No one's forcing you to be here.
First of all, who do you thinkuploads these videos?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Since we are talking about the Omar Shem Tov, let's
discuss.
It begins with your face.
You look, oh my god I look likedonald trump, I'm orange I
thought you looked she lookedthat night.
No, no, perry was very prettyand she composed together.
That night she looked polonialike she I orange.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I don't think you were orange and if you listen,
if you are a new listener, ifyou are a new listener.
I forgot your face and you have.
You guys think that everyonewho's listening to this episode
has listened to every singleepisode.
Some people are just dippingtheir toes in.
People are deciding if theylike us, and so maybe you've
listened to a few, but youhaven't listened to the 100th
(18:57):
episode.
I highly recommend you gothrough and listen to it.
It's on video on our YouTubechannel.
The audio is on there as well.
I think it's a really greatepisode.
I'm really proud of it and I'mworking on doing something again
another live podcast taping,just like that again.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Another live podcast taping, just like that.
So, um, we are going to fly toisrael and drag omer shem tov
here against his will to join us.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
For the next one to the person who tried not to
transport him against his will.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yes, let's avoid that , oh, he was.
So he, he delivered, he, hereally delivered, as when he
came out what did leah tell us?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
that every Shelly his mom calls him Yeled Shemesh?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Like a son, a ray of sun.
A boy's face like this out ofthe helicopter.
Oh my God, he's so sweet youcan tell.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But every hostage deserves all that, every hostage
has a story and a family.
And what they've been throughit just so happens that we had
like this, despite not knowinghim beforehand, we had this
connection, we were speakingabout him, we had his family and
also.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Liat reached out to us, and then Liat reached out to
us, initially asking to come onthe show his cousin which we
had her on.
But then the crazy thing waswas that she knows our very dear
friend, your best friend,friend Rabbi Belino.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Belino, yeah, and she came to the October 7th event
we had at the synagogue.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
But her husband is really close with Gav, so we
didn't even know that.
So it's like a whole thread.
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I posted some questions in our broadcast
channel.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Nick, can we discuss the Florida shows?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, I'm dying to hear about seven shows, seven
shows.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It was a gift because we could have done two shows at
3,000 seats each.
Three shows for three, with thetime tickets we sold down there
Wow.
But, with seven shows.
So I really saw the act, whichevery show we changed something
in the act and brought thingsback and forward and in and
changed placements of it.
(21:03):
And you could only do that whenyou have seven shows, um of
1200 people and it's packed andit was, and you can, every show
was so powerful and every showyou, I could change a name or
change something we change andthe act, the hour now, the pause
for laughter hour now, haschanged so much even since the
beacon show wow, yeah, yeah it'schanged and I will just.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
this will be my only input and then you can keep
talking about it.
So, as everyone knows, sinceoctober 7th, modi has been
ending every show by askingeveryone to stand and sing
hatikvah.
Then the show is over andeveryone's already standing and
they're clapping.
The way that the show haschanged now you end it on such a
(21:54):
high note that people arestanding and clapping before we
get to the Hatikvah.
So every seven out of seven allseven, or laudato shows got
standing ovations before we gotto the Hatikvah part.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, which that's how I knew that, like something
had shifted, we changed becauseI was, you know, ending the show
, talking about, you know,talking about October 7th, and
then I'm not going to tell themhow, but but we just it was me
talking to them and then askingthem to to stand up.
Uh, so now the show is standingon their own, standing on their
(22:23):
own.
While they're standing, thehouse lights come on and we I
think it's the same kind ofthing for with me, but it was
seven shows in all of Floridadown there, not all.
We could have done more, butlike a lot of people came and A
lot of shows.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
seven shows yeah but he likes that and it gave him a
chance to like work out the hourand they have amazing pretzels
there the Parker Place.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
The Parker Place, parker Playhouse.
Parker Playhouse has amazingpretzels and the volunteers are
amazing, the people that workthere, the ushers.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh, Alan Dershowitz came.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Oh my God, that's right.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Friend of the podcast , go listen to his episode.
No, this is what happens.
So before every show I go intoRottweiler mode and I just start
doing laps and I always findsomething to do.
Someone on the guest listdoesn't have a seat, someone has
a question about this, so Ialways just try to make myself
(23:24):
available.
Modi, do you need anything?
I go around and then so I getstopped and doing one of my
rottweiler laps and the headusher is like hi, leo, um, this
guy gave me his card.
I don't know who he is.
He says he knows you.
I look at the card.
It says harvard business,harvard law law, government
school.
It says alan dershowitz and hisprofessor.
It's like you don't know who,dershowitz and his professor.
I was like you don't know whoAlan Dershowitz is.
He was like no.
I was like okay, we need to findhim.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I said I want to see him after the show and I don't
want him to leave after the show.
So I asked there were like afew people backstage.
I go, could you guys go and seeif you can find Alan Dershowitz
?
I Dershowitz, I may as wellhave said could you go and find
Menachem Begin?
They had no idea who he was Areyou serious?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
No idea, come on, they were young.
They were young.
They don't know.
How are they going to know?
Alan Dershowitz.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I was going to say he's Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer,
was he actually?
No, I don't know.
I don't know any of that Againand we did not break brand.
So the show's over and a veryspecial guest came to the show,
asher Sharf, which was a cantor,a chazen that I sang in his
choir and I it was some of thebest years of my Rosh Hashanah,
(24:33):
yom Kippur years singing at orTorah, singing at or Torah with
this chazen and we, and he was afamily and his friend.
He's a friend family.
His sons now come to shows andstuff and he's still a chazen.
He's great.
He still has a great voice.
He sings in Boca Raton.
So he was there and AlanDershowitz came and I brought
them both up by the repeat andgreet and they met and he's
(24:55):
telling alan dursch, which istelling him that he's singing
because savitzky's choir said Isang in his choir and then we
just started singing and thewhole.
There's like 200 people waitingto do meet and greet and we're
up there singing like yeah,singing, uh, we should post that
.
It's pretty funny.
Um, but that was what it was.
(25:15):
It was like crazy.
It was so much fun Just tostand there with Alan Dershowitz
.
You know Everybody else isasking him what do you think of
the neoconservative?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's funny because actually last night I was on
Substack.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Are you on Substack?
I'm not on Substack.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And I found Alan Dershowitz at Substack.
It was like recommend what thehell on Substack.
And I found Alan Dershowitz atSubstack.
It was like recommend what thehell is Substack.
No one in my audience knows whothat is.
Yes, they do.
Substack is like basically longform writing platform.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It's like a newsletter.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's like a newsletter and you can pay or
donate to be a part of yournewsletter.
So I can make a newsletterabout anything I could do food
reviews, I could review movies.
I could newsletter aboutanything I could do food reviews
, I could review movies, I couldwrite about cultural commentary
.
Alan tershowitz has one thathas everything from, like you
know, really dense legal stuffto this and that.
And then the one that I readwas like he wrote a whole thing
that was like I watched snl's50th anniversary.
(26:11):
It wasn't funny.
It was like not super long, butit was like not super long, but
it was like and this is whyit's not funny and he just like
ripped SNL apart, which I don'tnecessarily agree with.
But why were we not invited tothe 50th anniversary?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Cause we had nothing to do with it.
I have nothing to do with SNL.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
There were people there who have lesser things to
do with SNL.
I have nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I'm so happy for them .
Congratulations, they wereamazing.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So I I'm so happy for them.
Congratulations, they were anamazing show.
I had nothing to do with thatshow.
I'd never been on it.
Do you want me to read you someof these questions that I got?
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Somebody did put in that they would like for you to
make an album.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, which I told you that the other day I said
you should make an album, I'llhelp you.
Yeah, fine, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm in.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I'm in.
No, no, I mean no, no, I'llfind the right guy.
I think there's a show likeobviously the stand up, whatever
.
But I think there's a show thatyou could be doing, like at a
very limited run, maybe likefive nights of like pick five to
eight songs that you know andlike and do like a little one
man show like tell littlestories in between each one,
like you would love it you wouldbe in heaven.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Look at this smile.
People love hearing you sing.
People do love hearing you singI have an act you have an
amazing act.
I have an act that's for peoplewho don't have an act.
That's just kidding.
You have an amazing.
You love you, you love it.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You love singing.
It doesn't have to be yourthing.
Like it could be a very limitedrun, I'll produce it.
You just have to like pick whatyou want to do.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Every time we get one of those like Yiddish singer
people in here, you're like inheaven.
You start like totally geekingout.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, it's cute, people love it.
People really identify with it.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Like all of the people who love that Yiddish
music will lose their mind andthat Sukkot guy is not invited.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
No, he's not invited, that's right.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I'm going to bleep his name.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
What's his name?
No, say how horrible he is.
What's his name?
Yeah, exactly this is what youhave a platform for.
His name is Sukkot.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I said Fah to him.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I said you're disgusting, are we going back?
So you know, hold on.
Just for the record.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I started this episode saying I want to be
positive Me.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I said that I'm going to give you positive Go ahead.
So just give me the name of histhing.
What's his name of his?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
The Sukkah Company.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The Sukkah Company.
So let me explain to everybodywhen you're buying stuff for
your sukkah, when you're buyingdivrei kodesh, holy things, you
want to buy it from people withgood energy.
This is not good energy.
When you're buying your sukkah,find somebody else and buy your
sukkah from there, not fromwhat's his name.
It just says the sukkah company, the sukkah company.
(28:50):
Right, it's because he's nuts.
What are you saying?
What are you saying what?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
are you?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
saying People in the colonoscopy right now, listening
to you talk like this, they'refine, that has nothing to do
with their nuts.
When you're buying holy things,do not buy it.
A sukkah is a holy thing and donot buy it from this guy.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
That's what I said.
That's exactly what I said.
I also said this is what youpick to do with your time.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You could be advocating for the hostages
against anti-semitism he shouldspeak to the other woman who he
advocates, with her together,collaborate, wait we have one
other thing we what we're gonnado it's like promen, let's,
let's talk about some otherstuff.
Um what are you?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
go ahead.
What's your question?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
how difficult, I don't know.
I don't know if I like how youlike started this question, but
how difficult is it that yourhusband is also your manager?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
it is the easiest thing in the world, it is the
best thing that has everhappened to me.
When the day is over but wedon't have, we don't have how
was your day because our day wastogether.
So we know.
You know, when you come homeand guy says to you how was your
day, he's never gonna ask youthat, he's never gonna give you
(30:10):
an open probe question.
It's gonna be not want to hearhow my day, does not care how
your day was we were away awaywith two of our closest friends,
who's a gay guy couple.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
They have three kids.
We do Shabbat every Friday withthem.
We've been friends since beforewe had kids and their names are
Nisim and Daron and I was withthem just now.
We had a week family vacation.
Just now we had a week familyvacation and I said to Guy how
come you don't talk to me theway that Nisim and Doron talk to
(30:43):
me?
How come you don't hang outwith me the way that Nisim and
Doron hang out with me?
Why don't you ask me the kindsof questions about myself, the
way that Nisim and Doron and allthree of them looked at me?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And they're like he doesn't want to know.
Yeah, he doesn't care.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
You don't want to know either, though I get it out
of you.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
No, that's not true what are you talking about?
No, if you could just go likethis we're gonna go to the
airport.
We're gonna get there early.
I'm gonna listen to my.
I'm gonna watch my holocaustmovie.
I'm gonna get off the plane.
I'm gonna do the show.
I'm gonna go to the green room.
I'm going to eat a Caesar salad.
I'm going to go to bed.
Sometimes I'll just be like hey, what are you thinking about?
How's your salad?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I always ask you what you're thinking about and what
you're going through Halfwaythrough a about.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
No, you don't, because you're afraid that I'm
going to go off.
That's not true.
You're afraid that I'm going tobe like.
Well, listen to this email Ijust got no.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That's what I'm here for.
Yeah, that I just sent it toPerrielle, it's so unusual,
though, that if I spent thismuch time with Guy, one of us
would be dead or in jail.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
This goes into the next question, who's a very nice
person.
He answers all my stuff, andI'm not going to say the name,
though, because I can't read theusername it says given Leo and
Modi are married and workintensively together, how, if at
all, do you keep work andprivate life separate?
Well, obviously we don't keepit separate, because I'm here on
the podcast blabbing my fatmouth about all the intricacies
(32:23):
of our life.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
So does that answer your question?
Our work and our life and ourpassion are one big thing mixed
together.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
This isn't the job, where I'm going in and selling
shirts.
Life is art and art is work.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
No, but you guys do have separate friends also.
Yes, do we?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yes, we do, and they come with us when we find time
to vacation, have weekends hereand there.
A lot of our friends we do, andthey come with us when we find
time to vacation, have weekendshere and there A lot of our
friends.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We share them.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Our friends, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
You've melded them together because you had friends
and you had friends and now youguys are both friends.
But it's not like you never dothings apart, right?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
When his friends want to go see a movie or something
or go to a dark restaurant withuncomfortable chairs, they can
go without me, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And when you want to go have like a pastrami sandwich
with Arthur.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, if I want to go hang out with Arthur.
Whenever I go with ArthurLuxemburg, he always says is Leo
coming to make the reservation?
I love him and he comes once ina while, but sometimes Arthur
and I go and we just have agreat time, you know, over a
pastrami sandwich.
It's also important.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
We travel so much and we're always usually need to be
together to do events that likeon the nights off that we have
free.
Sometimes we have to go ourseparate ways to like give love
and attention to people wehaven't seen in our social
circles, yeah, but we can dothat at home too.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Invite our friends over the night.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
How did?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
you decide to perform in Warsaw.
You Didn't you decide?
No, uta.
Michael Grinspan said I thinkwe have a play in Warsaw and I
think we're going to do verywell.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Though we might probably be at a show at the end
of the day.
On that note, I just want torecap.
I'm not going to read all thetour dates, but just the new
European dates that went on salesince we last spoke on this
podcast.
Warsaw is May 14th, the nextday is May 15th in Manchester,
and those tickets are going very, very fast.
And everyone in Manchester wascomplaining to me that we did
two shows in London and none inManchester.
(34:12):
So here's your chance Buy yourtickets, don't complain if you
don't get them.
Uh, munich after that, and onmay 17th, then frankfurt, may
18th.
Geneva is may 21, thereparations tour, uh, antwerp is
may 22, and then we go totoronto.
Um, those of you asking aboutberlin, that is going to be in
(34:35):
november, like it's confirmed,but like not confirmed yet.
So stay tuned.
And then we're adding Parisonto that sometime in November.
So what we're trying to do andthis is secret information, but
I like drumming up interestwe're trying to do in November a
run in Israel like a three-showrun, like Haifa, tel Aviv,
(34:56):
jerusalem maybe.
Run in Israel like a three-showrun, like Haifa, tel Aviv,
jerusalem, maybe, and then go dothis date in Berlin and then
pop to Paris and then pop home,but that won't be until the fall
, so I hope that informs yourpurchasing decisions if you live
in Germany and you'reconsidering some of the other
shows.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yes, anywhere in Europe.
It's fun and easy to get aroundand making a weekend of a Paris
show, of a Munich show, it'scute, it's fun and easy to get
around and making a weekend of aParis show, or a Munich show.
It's cute, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
You know what else is cute?
Yeah, a&h.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
A&H is more than cute , it's delicious.
It is a lot of kosherprovisions that are on a
standard that are unbelievable,much like this podcast.
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I had one recently and theyreally are amazing.
And thank you, Seth, for beinga partner with us here, and also
Weitz and Luxembourg the lawfirm that not only does well,
they do good.
The law firm that not only doeswell, they do good, super
philanthropic and a partner ofthis, of our podcast.
And Arthur and Randy came tothe show in Fort Lauderdale In
(36:09):
Fort Lauderdale and they satright in the front and it was so
great.
And the pretzel I was tellingyou about, we had three in the
green room there are pretzelcompanies who want to sponsor us
.
Wait Okay, this pretzel is sogood.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Let me just tell you something.
It's a Cisco pretzel.
Do you know what Cisco?
Speaker 3 (36:26):
is.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
It's hard or it's soft.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
It's like in the middle it's steamed.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's steamed, it's good.
It's a special pretzel.
It's like a ballpark.
You get it at the baseball game, but it's a good one.
But it's a good one.
I could tell that they had agood.
I saw it and I said get me thatand get one for my father too,
and my father was at.
My parents were at the showsand I figured my father, when he
came to the Green Room, I'dgive him a pretzel.
(36:53):
He couldn't walk by.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
He already bought one on his way over there.
Oh, my godparents came to ashow in Fort Lauderdale, that's
right.
I gave them a shout out from onstage and my godmother cried
yeah, she said she was so proud.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
My mom came to every show.
She was right there.
She wanted to see her An OscarSchindler's list of 12 people.
She wanted to see her guestlist and everybody was sitting
and everybody's coming and goingand da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da,
and it was very, very cute.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Yeah, Can we?
Can Batya come on and do anepisode with us?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Absolutely.
People, yeah, people have asked, actually asked about that
before my mother-in-law.
Yeah.
Your mom came to all sevenshows.
She was at the last.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The last show.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
She came to like three or four, the three out of
the four shows that she was downthere for.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Because it was split three and four.
But it was great.
Ilan Altman, shout out, he was,he nailed it he should have him
back on the show, yeah hekilled it.
He was great in Tampa also.
Tampa was amazing.
Tampa was amazing, and then wedid.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Yeah, tampa was not expecting, but it killed.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
It was a great show.
What a theater stunning what astunning theater and it was an
amazing time and I think we areready to wrap up.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
No I want to hear about.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
It's like perlman, oh yeah, why don't you finish up
talking about?
Is we?
We have until two, right?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
we have a session we're doing.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
That's why I was waiting for it.
Well, you have 20 20 ishminutes to talk about.
If you want to end on that note, oh, okay we had dinner with
the attack problem.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Who is it suck pro man?
Who is it's like prominent?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
one of the for the genre people who may not have
known who alan dershowitz waswhen they got the card.
Who is it like?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
problem is, if you google him, he's one of the the
leading violinists of the.
Obviously, a musical genius isIsraeli born and has played with
everything, from everything toeverything, every Philharmonic.
He's just renowned violinistand I wanted to meet him, not
(39:03):
because I'm any huge Bach fan orany type of.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
He's won 16 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Okay, so you understand.
And before the dinner I wasobviously updating myself on him
Because I've seen him.
One of the best things he'sever done was he did an album
with canter health got, which isa delicious album.
This is absolutely gorgeous.
But he's obviously bach andbrahms and all of that stuff and
(39:33):
we were watching like andyou're mesmerized.
First of all, he's playing ahalf hour with no sheet music,
so he knows the entire thing inhis head.
Wow, it's unbelievable.
It's just like.
And I was telling him like youknow, like I I don't get
starstruck, but I don't getstarstruck, but like, one time I
met Pavarotti because I saw avideo of him and Pavarotti
(39:53):
together and he was like and Isaid, when you look at someone
like Pavarotti or someone likeYitzhak Perlman, you see the
vessel that the gift of God camein.
So it's nice to meet thatvessel and you hope it's a good
experience.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
You hope it's a fun experience.
You'd hate to be like that.
This gift of God that landed onearth came in a vessel.
That's horrible, but he was sonice and he's just wanted to
tell jokes.
He was sitting next to me thewhole time and he was trying to
joke when did you have dinner?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
In New York, we had dinner at his very sweet
daughter Nava.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Thank you, nava.
We had her apartment and shecooked and it was delicious, wow
, and it was really impressive.
Shey Cohen came and Pasa came.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
It was a great night and delicious the food she made
the short ribs that were so goodand desserts were unbelievable
and everything was great andjust sitting next to Yitzhak
Perlman for two hours andtalking to him was so amazing.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I love that it was so amazing.
It's true because sometimes youknow you hear them say you
never want to meet your hero.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yes, Do you your heroes?
Yes, do you think that?
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Yes, so I have, you know, you never want to meet
your heroes, they're alwaysshorter, fatter and uglier than
you expect.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I will never forget.
There was a band, this Greekguy and this Yemenite guy
together.
I forgot their names For aminute.
They were a big hit in Israelbut they had good music to work
out to.
It was like Mizrahi music, youknow, like you know.
And then they had a concert inQueens and I went and I couldn't
listen to them afterwards.
(41:39):
They were horrible, horrible,like bas, bas, treble, treble,
like while they're in the middleof the music, like they're
changing there.
They were horrible asperformers.
It turned me off so much.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
You don't really want to meet your heroes no, but
sometimes it's not true, like Imet Bon Jovi and that was he
delivered oh, did he deliver hedelivered he delivered.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Good, no, but it's like Praman delivered, it's like
Praman delivered, praman sat.
We two and a half, two and ahalf, two and a half hours we
were there two hours.
We sat and talked to each other.
His wife Toby very, very sweet,and we just had a.
He just wants to tell jokes.
That's really sweet, yeah, andhe, he was imitating me
listening to him telling jokes.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Oh, that.
Because like what do you?
Speaker 1 (42:26):
want me to burst out laughter, but I'm like all right
, that's good.
So then he's like oh, that'sgood.
He's like imitating me.
Yeah, he's like these are jokesthat are good.
I'm like, okay, yeah, they'regreat jokes.
You know, I tried to steer alittle bit towards music.
He didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, to steer a little bit towards music.
He didn't want to hear it.
Yeah that's like when we had umisaac msrahi on the podcast and
I tried to talk to him aboutnew york in the 80s and he was
like not having it he was like.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
You can tell that he he hears everything yeah, he
just, he want he was like, nah,we're talking about israeli
songwriters, we got somehow onthat.
And he was like he hearseverything differently.
So he's like what's about thesong, uh, yorushalem shahab.
So he was like he hearseverything differently.
So he's like the songYerushalayim Shadzahav.
So he was saying, yes, but thatsong, you know when they wrote
it, you know he goes, it shouldbe.
(43:19):
He's like little things likethat, I couldn't even follow.
Like no, he's like littlethings like that, I couldn't
even follow.
I was like, okay, now I wastelling him that whenever I'm a
cantor, I sing those types ofsongs.
And he was like, yeah, he'slike doing Bach's violin.
He's such a genius.
It's an amazing experience tobe with someone like that.
(43:44):
Yeah, and it was great, and itwas great and it was fun.
He's a fan.
He was at the Beacon shows, hewas at the Beacon shows.
Yeah, so it wasn't like we'recoming out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
That's so great I love that.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
On that note, modilivecom for all of your
shows and all of your ticketneeds.
And this is such a time forlaughter and it helps.
These shows are great.
You can tell people just likegetting revived.
It's like when you plug in youriPhone to get a little Mashiach
energy in you.
(44:19):
The shows are great.
We have a whole bunch coming upLA.
We have Los Angeles, las Vegas,baltimore, pittsburgh.
There's something near you orsomething near a friend of yours
, let them know, buy themtickets.
Buy your friends tickets to seea show if they're near where a
show is, and that's it.
Thank you, periel.
(44:39):
Thank you, leo.
It was a long.
It was a good podcast for you.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
You had an emotional journey here yeah, I think I'm
done for the day though thankyou very much, everybody.
Welcome to Andy's completely wrong and they were
scared that it's going tocompletely send me off on my
dyslexia and all of that.
But as long as I know itdoesn't function.
But it will bring me to a veryfunny story.
When I worked at Merrill LynchI had to entertain these clients
once and we got them.
They're like huge clients andthey were from Peru Not Peru,
(00:40):
from Argentina or Venezuela orsomewhere and Merrill Lynch made
an appointment for us to go tothe trading floor and we're on
the floor with these clients andthere's just like clocks
everywhere the commodities, thismarket, that market, papi, and
(01:01):
I have no idea what anything is.
And there was one.
They go what, what is that?
I go that that's the, uh,that's the commodities market on
the on.
It was, it was the time, but itjust had it like.
It just had it, had it in likeyou know, army time and whatever
, and it was just modi was whatwe call a personality hire at
maryland.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
For sure, you just kept the vibes here at maryland.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
For sure, you just kept the vibes light fun.
Yeah, that was that.
I was definitely not like Iwasn't there for, like,
analytical stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I was just.
You were always reading theroom, though, right?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
yeah, yeah, yeah, I was reading that room and it was
that wasn't reading thestatements, though I'll tell you
that I wasn't folks.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Um, on that note, it's been.
It's been a few weeks.
Yes, we've been busy.
Yes, we've been traveling.
Yes, we've been traveling.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You guys have been all over.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We've been to Phoenix , we've been to Fort Lauderdale
for seven shows, we've been toTampa, we've been to Naples,
we've been to let's break itdown.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
First of all, those of you listening to the podcast,
as we always say, we are alight podcast, we're just
helping you just get out of yourday for a little while.
And we had a show in FortLauderdale, the Parker Playhouse
.
Because of HIPAA laws I cannotmention names.
(02:20):
But my very good friend, who isthe's the reason like I do
comedy, one of my, so Imentioned his name his mother
has a gastrologist who's a hugefan guy with a yarmulke and the
whole nine yards big florida guyand he's he's and you know, and
now I'm doing this whole thingabout colonoscopies in my act
(02:43):
it's like a whole thing and hesays when they do colonoscopies,
they were, you have to haveapproved what plays in the room.
Like you can't have a heavymetal playing in the room, you
can't have.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And our podcast was approved so someone has had a
colonoscopy while this podcastwas playing in the operating
room.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
They were out.
They were no, but the doctorhimself.
The doctor was listening to it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You know, for him it's an hour of doing.
For him he could do a blindobviously.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You are too young, you have not yet.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No, but I kind of want to do one recreationally.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's what I was going to say.
You would love it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I just want to do one recreationally.
That's what I was going to say.
You would love it.
I just want to do it before wego to Fire Island.
I want to drink that shit, Iwant to have that shit, and then
I want to feel like CindyCrawford on the beach.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But you'll love how you're knocked out, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So before the surgery , before your colonoscopy, where
I had it, it's literally like afactory.
It just moves along.
So the nurse, the head nurse,comes in, she goes it's 12, it's
12, 16.
We are at procedure, doctor.
This is there.
The whole room is recorded.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
And then it's like and here's Modi.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So they can put on, you know, rock music or
classical music or something inthe background.
And he says he had our podcastapproved to be able to play in
the room.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I love that Loved by medical professionals.
Your mom, yes.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And also loved by Stewie Siegel.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Who's Stewie Siegel?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Stewie Siegel is Tara's dad.
Remember my friend, the makeupartist, who came for his
birthday, oh my god, you madehis birthday.
I'm sure you hear that all thetime, but shout out to the
Siegel family how they were soexcited to go.
That was his birthday present.
They took him to the show.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Great, I know we had a lot of people.
Leo has been opening the showsand asking anybody do we have
any podcast listeners?
And you hear a big yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
We have a lot of yeah we also get a lot of messages
we do get a lot of messages andyou know I was picking some
fights in the comment sectionthis week.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, you were.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And when I say picking fights, I actually take
that back.
I'm not picking the fight.
Someone else is instigating andleaving nasty things and I'm
simply responding to it.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, and then you send me screenshots.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah.
So, I saw them.
I saw one of them.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I think One of them was this guy who said you should
be banned from Froome eventsbecause whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And I was like honey.
I got into a fight with him too, you got into it in the DMs.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But I think once I got that out of my system, at
least for the time being, I wantto focus on the positive
interactions.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, that guy Hold on.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You guys are rubbing that off so quick.
I obviously am not involved inthat, but leo's showing me like
he shows me the screen.
First of all, the guy is someunhinged religious guy who has a
thing for big tiger pets.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, so he you're dealing with somebody jewish,
joe, exotic tiger at its moment.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, uh, glo Glock, kosher Joe, exotic.
So he's got.
His Instagram is a few picturesof him petting some line that
he shouldn't be petting, andthen he decides he's going to
chime in.
I should not be doing any fromevents.
Well, just to answer youdirectly, many of them can't
(06:25):
afford me anymore, just so youknow.
So we do our own shows, butmany, many religious
corporations and charities stilllook for me religious ones, and
so you can.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, just because you have your own stuff to work,
yeah, you big idiot, but thatwas that.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
That was that.
That was to me.
Thou doth protest too much, youknow, it's like those senators
who get caught in hotel rooms.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I always said that, yeah, yeah.
Any senator that's screamingabout anti-gay, anti-gay, that's
the one you catch in the toiletat an airport Enough.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
As I said, I feel like I wanted to not focus on
those crazy people.
Go ahead um.
We got a really sweet messageyay so let's focus on the
positivity, and I'm not gonna.
I'm gonna try to read itwithout um naming names or
saying parts that are likeidentifiable shalom, modi,
(07:23):
shalom.
I don't know if you'll ever seethis.
I was hoping to send in fanmail, but I haven't had the time
to sit and write a letter.
I know this is a business email, but I deactivated my instagram
.
I just needed a little screentime break break, don't we all?
Uh, I discovered you a couplemonths back when my dad
mentioned to me that I shouldname my son after someone who
(07:44):
had a good life.
He said have you heard of thejewish comedian modi?
He says you should name yourchildren after someone that had
a good life.
I had no idea who you were atthe time.
I was seven months pregnant andhad just arrived back at the
united in the us while myhusband stayed in israel to
fight on the northern borderagainst hezbollah.
(08:04):
Shortly after that conversation, my dad and I sat in the living
room together and he showed meyour comedy special on YouTube.
That's when I became a fan.
I followed you on social mediaand, through Instagram,
discovered you have a podcast.
I now listen to it every day,mostly when I go on walks with
the baby in our Labrador.
(08:24):
Our baby boy is now six monthsold.
My husband came back from thearmy just in time for his birth
and we named him blank afterblank I'm not gonna say that
part after and after our friendthat passed in gaza fighting for
our home.
I decided to reach out because Ihave just been so heartbroken
(08:45):
with the news of the Bibasfamily.
I put our son to sleep lastnight with tears in my eyes.
Today I was listening to an oldepisode and I can't help but
laugh.
I look crazy laughing by myselfas I walk the dog.
But then I realized, wow, Ijust needed to pause for
laughter.
But then I realized, wow, Ijust needed to pause for
(09:06):
laughter.
Yesterday was so heavy on mysoul and on this morning I woke
up with a knot in my throat.
But your podcast gave me amoment to simply laugh and
forget about all the pain we aregoing through as a Jewish
nation right now.
Thank you for all you do.
Thank you for bringing Moshiachenergy, energy, and thank you
for being a kind soul and a goodperson.
(09:27):
Shout out to Leo.
I love him as well.
His confidence and sassiness iscontagious.
I really enjoy his input on theshows and honestly I just want
to be besties with him duringthese crazy dark times.
From one Jew to another, I senda deep and warm hug, and then
(09:49):
she sent some pictures of herand her son.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
This you don't show me, but crazy people petting
tigers that you show me.
Sorry, the Bebas thing made mecry.
Yeah, aw, isn't that beautiful,that's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And she sends us pictures of her baby and her
that's wonderful, that's what,that's why we do this podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's what we, we and to let you know what we're
up to.
And it's the other side of usother positive news wait, we
discuss.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
wait, can I Wait?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Can I please read the one that you texted me?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Which one Give me a clue?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
About Omer.
I feel like we can't go fromthat and not address I should
have done that first and endedon a nice note.
We'll still end on a nice note.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That was beautiful.
Thank you to whoever wrote that.
We get a lot of messages likethat.
So when I am on here and I'mbitching and moaning about the
ones who are annoying, it's justbecause they're annoying but
you guys are nice and we loveyou yeah, we get a lot of those
and we appreciate them.
And now, just to set this up ofwhat you're about to do.
Okay, you know, baruch hashem.
(11:02):
Thank you.
Omar shamtov is home amen amongwith a few other hostages at
this point and when we did the100th episode of this podcast,
which, if you have not listenedto it, I highly recommend you go
through and find it.
It's clearly labeled the 100thepisode, filmed at the 92nd
street.
Why we did it?
Live in partnership with the92nd Street Y.
(11:23):
It was an amazing, beautifulevent and on stage at the event,
periel brought up the questionthat we get all the time Modi,
who is your dream guest for thepodcast, to which you answered
Omer Shemtov.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You gave a beautiful answer that we have on video,
and as soon as Omer wasofficially home, I went through
the archives and I pulled thatvideo that we had posted over a
year ago.
Yes, being like look, he's home, how great is this and how
crazy was it that modi, you know, kind of put it out not that
(11:56):
I'm saying you brought him home,but like that we've been
thinking of him this whole timethat this video is over a year
old and now he's coming out andhe's getting home and we were
talking about it before he gotout, and of course we've had his
cousin liat on the show and wedid an event with her um for
october 7th.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So we have been in our energy for a long time now.
Leo is the one who really hasto field most of these messages,
so he and I, so you know, andit's I'm hundreds thousands, but
I I kind of laugh at the oneslike these because they're so
(12:35):
ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I don't even think that wait, where did I send it
to you?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
you texted it to me I texted it to you yeah, um, you
want me to text it back to youso you can have it fresh.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh, do you want me?
Should I do another reading?
Sure, I won't cry for this one.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Sure Go ahead, you read it.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
This is how it starts .
I didn't read you this.
So this is after we've posted,we're like, oh my God, Omar Shem
Tov is home.
We post the video.
We're like, happy, positive,yay Mashiach energy.
And then I get this email whichstarts like this, which I have
no idea what this person istalking about.
(13:13):
I know, I thought you knew thatI am not going to rehash our
past.
What Excuse me?
We have a past.
We have a past.
We clearly see things quitedifferently and I know you
parentheses, leo, who will, willread this and Modi and Periel
will make fun of me.
I'm okay with that.
It has never been about me.
Well, you're making it aboutyou because you're emailing me.
Keep reading.
(13:34):
Here's my suggestion that youmay choose to ignore.
We all know you did and dolittle to advocate for Omar
Shemtov or any of the hostages.
That's your choice and, aspredicted, you are now sharing a
reel that is getting tractionand comments like get him on the
pod and bring him to New York Abit exploitive, but okay.
(13:57):
What every hostage needs anddeserves from all of us when
they are released is privacy andspace to heal with their loved
ones.
My goal is that you shouldinvite omer at some point and
that you wait and give him somespace and you will make it
meaningful.
If he ever does come on, itshould be his choice, not
because you want to look good.
(14:18):
You have a massive platform,omer.
Should he choose to speak toyou, should be able to share
what he wants and share and thepodcast should be about him, not
you, and it should not be abouthis time in captivity, if he
does not want to go there.
And last, if he ever does joinyou, please raise money directly
for him so he can heal and livethe life he wants to live.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
First of all reforce.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Lema, you should be institutionalized.
She needs a she needs a sheneeds to be healed Mentally.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
She's a sick woman.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
This is a woman who's in a movie.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
She's in a movie in her head.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
We all know that you did and do little to advocate
for any of the hostages.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
We don't, don't, don't, don't Omar Shemtover any
of the hostages.
I didn't ask you.
We Don't answer that.
Don't answer that.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The other thing is that he should come on his own
free will.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
He should come on his own free will, but then only
talk about the things that Ioutline here in my email.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
If I want to tell you something about, first of all,
when I saw Omar Shemtover getreleased and you saw his face
and you see his soul, and yousaw his face and you see his
soul and you see, only thing Iremember was his cousin telling
us that he has such a greatsense of humor.
Yeah and what, and like ifanybody would do stand up, and
it would be him.
I.
I hope he gets through whateverhe needs to get through and I
(15:36):
hope he tells his story throughstand-up.
I think I think if he's thatfunny and he's, did you imagine
That'd be?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
a great woman.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Every hostage now is going to go speak and raise
money and do things to helpother hostages and help Israel
and all that.
But imagine he comes out andhe's imitating his captures,
like he just like whatever, anine peslote some guy had, like
you know, four eyed or whatever,and the with some guy had, like
you know, four-eyed or whatever, and the way he they talked and
(16:07):
the way you know, I mean,there's so much he can obviously
and tell his story throughcomedy you do and did little to
advocate for the hostages.
What are you on a house forYou're?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
referring to a video of him on stage at an event with
a screen behind him withpictures of all the hostages.
What have you done besides sendnasty emails?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
She's gotten you angry.
That's what she did.
She's in a mess.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
This is why I'm a roller coaster in a basket case,
because I get the first emailthat makes me cry and beautiful,
and I want to give that woman ahug and I get this other twat
in my inbox.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, so that's what it is.
Okay, let's keep the languagehere a little more friendly.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We are every episode explicit content Exactly, but
they don't need to hear thesewords in the middle of a
colonoscopy.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I know that we're thinking about the thing to me
that really.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
So Leo sent me that and I started hysterically
laughing because the it's justso absurd.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's so ridiculous and the lack of self-awareness
to send a message like that withlike I hope you're embarrassed,
I hope you're listening to thisand I think you're the same
person who recently sent me justby the manner I'm really good
at reading text, uh, patternsand the way people communicate
and feels like the.
(17:26):
It was written very similarlyto a message I received, maybe
like two weeks before that,where you said uh, is it
possible for leo and perriel toget through an episode without
saying the word?
Like every other word, and justlike I want to tell you like,
if you're going to say somethinglike that, I would like to see
you sit here and like for anhour and speak and be funny and
on your toes and like not useany filler words.
(17:48):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
As long as I prefer you just don't curse.
I'm going to say like, likethat Celsius hit me hard
Everyone has.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
No, no, no, you have no idea, because I'm also in the
YouTube comments.
One of them said why am I beingforced to listen to Modi's
annoying boyfriend?
And I was like forced to listen.
No one's forcing you to be here.
First of all, who do you thinkuploads these videos?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Since we are talking about the Omar Shem Tov, let's
discuss.
It begins with your face.
You look, oh my god I look likedonald trump, I'm orange I
thought you looked she lookedthat night.
No, no, perry was very prettyand she composed together.
That night she looked polonialike she I orange.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I don't think you were orange and if you listen,
if you are a new listener, ifyou are a new listener.
I forgot your face and you have.
You guys think that everyonewho's listening to this episode
has listened to every singleepisode.
Some people are just dippingtheir toes in.
People are deciding if theylike us, and so maybe you've
listened to a few, but youhaven't listened to the 100th
(18:57):
episode.
I highly recommend you gothrough and listen to it.
It's on video on our YouTubechannel.
The audio is on there as well.
I think it's a really greatepisode.
I'm really proud of it and I'mworking on doing something again
another live podcast taping,just like that again.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Another live podcast taping, just like that.
So, um, we are going to fly toisrael and drag omer shem tov
here against his will to join us.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
For the next one to the person who tried not to
transport him against his will.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yes, let's avoid that , oh, he was.
So he, he delivered, he, hereally delivered, as when he
came out what did leah tell us?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
that every Shelly his mom calls him Yeled Shemesh?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Like a son, a ray of sun.
A boy's face like this out ofthe helicopter.
Oh my God, he's so sweet youcan tell.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But every hostage deserves all that, every hostage
has a story and a family.
And what they've been throughit just so happens that we had
like this, despite not knowinghim beforehand, we had this
connection, we were speakingabout him, we had his family and
also.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Liat reached out to us, and then Liat reached out to
us, initially asking to come onthe show his cousin which we
had her on.
But then the crazy thing waswas that she knows our very dear
friend, your best friend,friend Rabbi Belino.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Belino, yeah, and she came to the October 7th event
we had at the synagogue.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
But her husband is really close with Gav, so we
didn't even know that.
So it's like a whole thread.
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I posted some questions in our broadcast
channel.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Nick, can we discuss the Florida shows?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, I'm dying to hear about seven shows, seven
shows.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It was a gift because we could have done two shows at
3,000 seats each.
Three shows for three, with thetime tickets we sold down there
Wow.
But, with seven shows.
So I really saw the act, whichevery show we changed something
in the act and brought thingsback and forward and in and
changed placements of it.
(21:03):
And you could only do that whenyou have seven shows, um of
1200 people and it's packed andit was, and you can, every show
was so powerful and every showyou, I could change a name or
change something we change andthe act, the hour now, the pause
for laughter hour now, haschanged so much even since the
beacon show wow, yeah, yeah it'schanged and I will just.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
this will be my only input and then you can keep
talking about it.
So, as everyone knows, sinceoctober 7th, modi has been
ending every show by askingeveryone to stand and sing
hatikvah.
Then the show is over andeveryone's already standing and
they're clapping.
The way that the show haschanged now you end it on such a
(21:54):
high note that people arestanding and clapping before we
get to the Hatikvah.
So every seven out of seven allseven, or laudato shows got
standing ovations before we gotto the Hatikvah part.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, which that's how I knew that, like something
had shifted, we changed becauseI was, you know, ending the show
, talking about, you know,talking about October 7th, and
then I'm not going to tell themhow, but but we just it was me
talking to them and then askingthem to to stand up.
Uh, so now the show is standingon their own, standing on their
(22:23):
own.
While they're standing, thehouse lights come on and we I
think it's the same kind ofthing for with me, but it was
seven shows in all of Floridadown there, not all.
We could have done more, butlike a lot of people came and A
lot of shows.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
seven shows yeah but he likes that and it gave him a
chance to like work out the hourand they have amazing pretzels
there the Parker Place.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
The Parker Place, parker Playhouse.
Parker Playhouse has amazingpretzels and the volunteers are
amazing, the people that workthere, the ushers.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh, Alan Dershowitz came.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Oh my God, that's right.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Friend of the podcast , go listen to his episode.
No, this is what happens.
So before every show I go intoRottweiler mode and I just start
doing laps and I always findsomething to do.
Someone on the guest listdoesn't have a seat, someone has
a question about this, so Ialways just try to make myself
(23:24):
available.
Modi, do you need anything?
I go around and then so I getstopped and doing one of my
rottweiler laps and the headusher is like hi, leo, um, this
guy gave me his card.
I don't know who he is.
He says he knows you.
I look at the card.
It says harvard business,harvard law law, government
school.
It says alan dershowitz and hisprofessor.
It's like you don't know who,dershowitz and his professor.
I was like you don't know whoAlan Dershowitz is.
He was like no.
I was like okay, we need to findhim.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I said I want to see him after the show and I don't
want him to leave after the show.
So I asked there were like afew people backstage.
I go, could you guys go and seeif you can find Alan Dershowitz
?
I Dershowitz, I may as wellhave said could you go and find
Menachem Begin?
They had no idea who he was Areyou serious?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
No idea, come on, they were young.
They were young.
They don't know.
How are they going to know?
Alan Dershowitz.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I was going to say he's Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer,
was he actually?
No, I don't know.
I don't know any of that Againand we did not break brand.
So the show's over and a veryspecial guest came to the show,
asher Sharf, which was a cantor,a chazen that I sang in his
choir and I it was some of thebest years of my Rosh Hashanah,
(24:33):
yom Kippur years singing at orTorah, singing at or Torah with
this chazen and we, and he was afamily and his friend.
He's a friend family.
His sons now come to shows andstuff and he's still a chazen.
He's great.
He still has a great voice.
He sings in Boca Raton.
So he was there and AlanDershowitz came and I brought
them both up by the repeat andgreet and they met and he's
(24:55):
telling alan dursch, which istelling him that he's singing
because savitzky's choir said Isang in his choir and then we
just started singing and thewhole.
There's like 200 people waitingto do meet and greet and we're
up there singing like yeah,singing, uh, we should post that
.
It's pretty funny.
Um, but that was what it was.
(25:15):
It was like crazy.
It was so much fun Just tostand there with Alan Dershowitz
.
You know Everybody else isasking him what do you think of
the neoconservative?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's funny because actually last night I was on
Substack.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Are you on Substack?
I'm not on Substack.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And I found Alan Dershowitz at Substack.
It was like recommend what thehell on Substack.
And I found Alan Dershowitz atSubstack.
It was like recommend what thehell is Substack.
No one in my audience knows whothat is.
Yes, they do.
Substack is like basically longform writing platform.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It's like a newsletter.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's like a newsletter and you can pay or
donate to be a part of yournewsletter.
So I can make a newsletterabout anything I could do food
reviews, I could review movies.
I could newsletter aboutanything I could do food reviews
, I could review movies, I couldwrite about cultural commentary
.
Alan tershowitz has one thathas everything from, like you
know, really dense legal stuffto this and that.
And then the one that I readwas like he wrote a whole thing
that was like I watched snl's50th anniversary.
(26:11):
It wasn't funny.
It was like not super long, butit was like not super long, but
it was like and this is whyit's not funny and he just like
ripped SNL apart, which I don'tnecessarily agree with.
But why were we not invited tothe 50th anniversary?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Cause we had nothing to do with it.
I have nothing to do with SNL.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
There were people there who have lesser things to
do with SNL.
I have nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I'm so happy for them .
Congratulations, they wereamazing.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So I I'm so happy for them.
Congratulations, they were anamazing show.
I had nothing to do with thatshow.
I'd never been on it.
Do you want me to read you someof these questions that I got?
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Somebody did put in that they would like for you to
make an album.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, which I told you that the other day I said
you should make an album, I'llhelp you.
Yeah, fine, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm in.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I'm in.
No, no, I mean no, no, I'llfind the right guy.
I think there's a show likeobviously the stand up, whatever
.
But I think there's a show thatyou could be doing, like at a
very limited run, maybe likefive nights of like pick five to
eight songs that you know andlike and do like a little one
man show like tell littlestories in between each one,
like you would love it you wouldbe in heaven.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Look at this smile.
People love hearing you sing.
People do love hearing you singI have an act you have an
amazing act.
I have an act that's for peoplewho don't have an act.
That's just kidding.
You have an amazing.
You love you, you love it.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You love singing.
It doesn't have to be yourthing.
Like it could be a very limitedrun, I'll produce it.
You just have to like pick whatyou want to do.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Every time we get one of those like Yiddish singer
people in here, you're like inheaven.
You start like totally geekingout.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, it's cute, people love it.
People really identify with it.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Like all of the people who love that Yiddish
music will lose their mind andthat Sukkot guy is not invited.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
No, he's not invited, that's right.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I'm going to bleep his name.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
What's his name?
No, say how horrible he is.
What's his name?
Yeah, exactly this is what youhave a platform for.
His name is Sukkot.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I said Fah to him.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I said you're disgusting, are we going back?
So you know, hold on.
Just for the record.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I started this episode saying I want to be
positive Me.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I said that I'm going to give you positive Go ahead.
So just give me the name of histhing.
What's his name of his?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
The Sukkah Company.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The Sukkah Company.
So let me explain to everybodywhen you're buying stuff for
your sukkah, when you're buyingdivrei kodesh, holy things, you
want to buy it from people withgood energy.
This is not good energy.
When you're buying your sukkah,find somebody else and buy your
sukkah from there, not fromwhat's his name.
It just says the sukkah company, the sukkah company.
(28:50):
Right, it's because he's nuts.
What are you saying?
What are you saying what?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
are you?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
saying People in the colonoscopy right now, listening
to you talk like this, they'refine, that has nothing to do
with their nuts.
When you're buying holy things,do not buy it.
A sukkah is a holy thing and donot buy it from this guy.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
That's what I said.
That's exactly what I said.
I also said this is what youpick to do with your time.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You could be advocating for the hostages
against anti-semitism he shouldspeak to the other woman who he
advocates, with her together,collaborate, wait we have one
other thing we what we're gonnado it's like promen, let's,
let's talk about some otherstuff.
Um what are you?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
go ahead.
What's your question?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
how difficult, I don't know.
I don't know if I like how youlike started this question, but
how difficult is it that yourhusband is also your manager?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
it is the easiest thing in the world, it is the
best thing that has everhappened to me.
When the day is over but wedon't have, we don't have how
was your day because our day wastogether.
So we know.
You know, when you come homeand guy says to you how was your
day, he's never gonna ask youthat, he's never gonna give you
(30:10):
an open probe question.
It's gonna be not want to hearhow my day, does not care how
your day was we were away awaywith two of our closest friends,
who's a gay guy couple.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
They have three kids.
We do Shabbat every Friday withthem.
We've been friends since beforewe had kids and their names are
Nisim and Daron and I was withthem just now.
We had a week family vacation.
Just now we had a week familyvacation and I said to Guy how
come you don't talk to me theway that Nisim and Doron talk to
(30:43):
me?
How come you don't hang outwith me the way that Nisim and
Doron hang out with me?
Why don't you ask me the kindsof questions about myself, the
way that Nisim and Doron and allthree of them looked at me?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And they're like he doesn't want to know.
Yeah, he doesn't care.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
You don't want to know either, though I get it out
of you.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
No, that's not true what are you talking about?
No, if you could just go likethis we're gonna go to the
airport.
We're gonna get there early.
I'm gonna listen to my.
I'm gonna watch my holocaustmovie.
I'm gonna get off the plane.
I'm gonna do the show.
I'm gonna go to the green room.
I'm going to eat a Caesar salad.
I'm going to go to bed.
Sometimes I'll just be like hey, what are you thinking about?
How's your salad?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I always ask you what you're thinking about and what
you're going through Halfwaythrough a about.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
No, you don't, because you're afraid that I'm
going to go off.
That's not true.
You're afraid that I'm going tobe like.
Well, listen to this email Ijust got no.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That's what I'm here for.
Yeah, that I just sent it toPerrielle, it's so unusual,
though, that if I spent thismuch time with Guy, one of us
would be dead or in jail.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
This goes into the next question, who's a very nice
person.
He answers all my stuff, andI'm not going to say the name,
though, because I can't read theusername it says given Leo and
Modi are married and workintensively together, how, if at
all, do you keep work andprivate life separate?
Well, obviously we don't keepit separate, because I'm here on
the podcast blabbing my fatmouth about all the intricacies
(32:23):
of our life.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
So does that answer your question?
Our work and our life and ourpassion are one big thing mixed
together.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
This isn't the job, where I'm going in and selling
shirts.
Life is art and art is work.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
No, but you guys do have separate friends also.
Yes, do we?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yes, we do, and they come with us when we find time
to vacation, have weekends hereand there.
A lot of our friends we do, andthey come with us when we find
time to vacation, have weekendshere and there A lot of our
friends.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We share them.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Our friends, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
You've melded them together because you had friends
and you had friends and now youguys are both friends.
But it's not like you never dothings apart, right?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
When his friends want to go see a movie or something
or go to a dark restaurant withuncomfortable chairs, they can
go without me, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And when you want to go have like a pastrami sandwich
with Arthur.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, if I want to go hang out with Arthur.
Whenever I go with ArthurLuxemburg, he always says is Leo
coming to make the reservation?
I love him and he comes once ina while, but sometimes Arthur
and I go and we just have agreat time, you know, over a
pastrami sandwich.
It's also important.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
We travel so much and we're always usually need to be
together to do events that likeon the nights off that we have
free.
Sometimes we have to go ourseparate ways to like give love
and attention to people wehaven't seen in our social
circles, yeah, but we can dothat at home too.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Invite our friends over the night.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
How did?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
you decide to perform in Warsaw.
You Didn't you decide?
No, uta.
Michael Grinspan said I thinkwe have a play in Warsaw and I
think we're going to do verywell.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Though we might probably be at a show at the end
of the day.
On that note, I just want torecap.
I'm not going to read all thetour dates, but just the new
European dates that went on salesince we last spoke on this
podcast.
Warsaw is May 14th, the nextday is May 15th in Manchester,
and those tickets are going very, very fast.
And everyone in Manchester wascomplaining to me that we did
two shows in London and none inManchester.
(34:12):
So here's your chance Buy yourtickets, don't complain if you
don't get them.
Uh, munich after that, and onmay 17th, then frankfurt, may
18th.
Geneva is may 21, thereparations tour, uh, antwerp is
may 22, and then we go totoronto.
Um, those of you asking aboutberlin, that is going to be in
(34:35):
november, like it's confirmed,but like not confirmed yet.
So stay tuned.
And then we're adding Parisonto that sometime in November.
So what we're trying to do andthis is secret information, but
I like drumming up interestwe're trying to do in November a
run in Israel like a three-showrun, like Haifa, tel Aviv,
(34:56):
jerusalem maybe.
Run in Israel like a three-showrun, like Haifa, tel Aviv,
jerusalem, maybe, and then go dothis date in Berlin and then
pop to Paris and then pop home,but that won't be until the fall
, so I hope that informs yourpurchasing decisions if you live
in Germany and you'reconsidering some of the other
shows.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yes, anywhere in Europe.
It's fun and easy to get aroundand making a weekend of a Paris
show, of a Munich show, it'scute, it's fun and easy to get
around and making a weekend of aParis show, or a Munich show.
It's cute, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
You know what else is cute?
Yeah, a&h.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
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It is a lot of kosherprovisions that are on a
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I had one recently and theyreally are amazing.
And thank you, Seth, for beinga partner with us here, and also
Weitz and Luxembourg the lawfirm that not only does well,
they do good.
The law firm that not only doeswell, they do good, super
philanthropic and a partner ofthis, of our podcast.
And Arthur and Randy came tothe show in Fort Lauderdale In
(36:09):
Fort Lauderdale and they satright in the front and it was so
great.
And the pretzel I was tellingyou about, we had three in the
green room there are pretzelcompanies who want to sponsor us
.
Wait Okay, this pretzel is sogood.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Let me just tell you something.
It's a Cisco pretzel.
Do you know what Cisco?
Speaker 3 (36:26):
is.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
It's hard or it's soft.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
It's like in the middle it's steamed.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's steamed, it's good.
It's a special pretzel.
It's like a ballpark.
You get it at the baseball game, but it's a good one.
But it's a good one.
I could tell that they had agood.
I saw it and I said get me thatand get one for my father too,
and my father was at.
My parents were at the showsand I figured my father, when he
came to the Green Room, I'dgive him a pretzel.
(36:53):
He couldn't walk by.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
He already bought one on his way over there.
Oh, my godparents came to ashow in Fort Lauderdale, that's
right.
I gave them a shout out from onstage and my godmother cried
yeah, she said she was so proud.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
My mom came to every show.
She was right there.
She wanted to see her An OscarSchindler's list of 12 people.
She wanted to see her guestlist and everybody was sitting
and everybody's coming and goingand da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da,
and it was very, very cute.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Yeah, Can we?
Can Batya come on and do anepisode with us?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Absolutely.
People, yeah, people have asked, actually asked about that
before my mother-in-law.
Yeah.
Your mom came to all sevenshows.
She was at the last.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The last show.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
She came to like three or four, the three out of
the four shows that she was downthere for.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Because it was split three and four.
But it was great.
Ilan Altman, shout out, he was,he nailed it he should have him
back on the show, yeah hekilled it.
He was great in Tampa also.
Tampa was amazing.
Tampa was amazing, and then wedid.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Yeah, tampa was not expecting, but it killed.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
It was a great show.
What a theater stunning what astunning theater and it was an
amazing time and I think we areready to wrap up.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
No I want to hear about.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
It's like perlman, oh yeah, why don't you finish up
talking about?
Is we?
We have until two, right?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
we have a session we're doing.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
That's why I was waiting for it.
Well, you have 20 20 ishminutes to talk about.
If you want to end on that note, oh, okay we had dinner with
the attack problem.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Who is it suck pro man?
Who is it's like prominent?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
one of the for the genre people who may not have
known who alan dershowitz waswhen they got the card.
Who is it like?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
problem is, if you google him, he's one of the the
leading violinists of the.
Obviously, a musical genius isIsraeli born and has played with
everything, from everything toeverything, every Philharmonic.
He's just renowned violinistand I wanted to meet him, not
(39:03):
because I'm any huge Bach fan orany type of.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
He's won 16 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Okay, so you understand.
And before the dinner I wasobviously updating myself on him
Because I've seen him.
One of the best things he'sever done was he did an album
with canter health got, which isa delicious album.
This is absolutely gorgeous.
But he's obviously bach andbrahms and all of that stuff and
(39:33):
we were watching like andyou're mesmerized.
First of all, he's playing ahalf hour with no sheet music,
so he knows the entire thing inhis head.
Wow, it's unbelievable.
It's just like.
And I was telling him like youknow, like I I don't get
starstruck, but I don't getstarstruck, but like, one time I
met Pavarotti because I saw avideo of him and Pavarotti
(39:53):
together and he was like and Isaid, when you look at someone
like Pavarotti or someone likeYitzhak Perlman, you see the
vessel that the gift of God camein.
So it's nice to meet thatvessel and you hope it's a good
experience.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
You hope it's a fun experience.
You'd hate to be like that.
This gift of God that landed onearth came in a vessel.
That's horrible, but he was sonice and he's just wanted to
tell jokes.
He was sitting next to me thewhole time and he was trying to
joke when did you have dinner?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
In New York, we had dinner at his very sweet
daughter Nava.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Thank you, nava.
We had her apartment and shecooked and it was delicious, wow
, and it was really impressive.
Shey Cohen came and Pasa came.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
It was a great night and delicious the food she made
the short ribs that were so goodand desserts were unbelievable
and everything was great andjust sitting next to Yitzhak
Perlman for two hours andtalking to him was so amazing.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I love that it was so amazing.
It's true because sometimes youknow you hear them say you
never want to meet your hero.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yes, Do you your heroes?
Yes, do you think that?
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Yes, so I have, you know, you never want to meet
your heroes, they're alwaysshorter, fatter and uglier than
you expect.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I will never forget.
There was a band, this Greekguy and this Yemenite guy
together.
I forgot their names For aminute.
They were a big hit in Israelbut they had good music to work
out to.
It was like Mizrahi music, youknow, like you know.
And then they had a concert inQueens and I went and I couldn't
listen to them afterwards.
(41:39):
They were horrible, horrible,like bas, bas, treble, treble,
like while they're in the middleof the music, like they're
changing there.
They were horrible asperformers.
It turned me off so much.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
You don't really want to meet your heroes no, but
sometimes it's not true, like Imet Bon Jovi and that was he
delivered oh, did he deliver hedelivered he delivered.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Good, no, but it's like Praman delivered, it's like
Praman delivered, praman sat.
We two and a half, two and ahalf, two and a half hours we
were there two hours.
We sat and talked to each other.
His wife Toby very, very sweet,and we just had a.
He just wants to tell jokes.
That's really sweet, yeah, andhe, he was imitating me
listening to him telling jokes.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Oh, that.
Because like what do you?
Speaker 1 (42:26):
want me to burst out laughter, but I'm like all right
, that's good.
So then he's like oh, that'sgood.
He's like imitating me.
Yeah, he's like these are jokesthat are good.
I'm like, okay, yeah, they'regreat jokes.
You know, I tried to steer alittle bit towards music.
He didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, to steer a little bit towards music.
He didn't want to hear it.
Yeah that's like when we had umisaac msrahi on the podcast and
I tried to talk to him aboutnew york in the 80s and he was
like not having it he was like.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
You can tell that he he hears everything yeah, he
just, he want he was like, nah,we're talking about israeli
songwriters, we got somehow onthat.
And he was like he hearseverything differently.
So he's like what's about thesong, uh, yorushalem shahab.
So he was like he hearseverything differently.
So he's like the songYerushalayim Shadzahav.
So he was saying, yes, but thatsong, you know when they wrote
it, you know he goes, it shouldbe.
(43:19):
He's like little things likethat, I couldn't even follow.
Like no, he's like littlethings like that, I couldn't
even follow.
I was like, okay, now I wastelling him that whenever I'm a
cantor, I sing those types ofsongs.
And he was like, yeah, he'slike doing Bach's violin.
He's such a genius.
It's an amazing experience tobe with someone like that.
(43:44):
Yeah, and it was great, and itwas great and it was fun.
He's a fan.
He was at the Beacon shows, hewas at the Beacon shows.
Yeah, so it wasn't like we'recoming out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
That's so great I love that.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
On that note, modilivecom for all of your
shows and all of your ticketneeds.
And this is such a time forlaughter and it helps.
These shows are great.
You can tell people just likegetting revived.
It's like when you plug in youriPhone to get a little Mashiach
energy in you.
(44:19):
The shows are great.
We have a whole bunch coming upLA.
We have Los Angeles, las Vegas,baltimore, pittsburgh.
There's something near you orsomething near a friend of yours
, let them know, buy themtickets.
Buy your friends tickets to seea show if they're near where a
show is, and that's it.
Thank you, periel.
(44:39):
Thank you, leo.
It was a long.
It was a good podcast for you.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
You had an emotional journey here yeah, I think I'm
done for the day though thankyou very much, everybody.
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