February 5, 2025 • 47 mins
Episode 140: The AHM discusses everything from Madonna's recent foray into standup comedy, Melania's inauguration look, and the Marlboro Man.
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Modi (00:03):
Welcome to.
And here's Modi.
Alrighty, we are at the studiofor and here's Modi.
Another episode.
Yes, periel is here, leo ishere, and what more do we need?
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Periel (00:32):
We love it really at the shows.
Modi (00:34):
That's so cute wait, can I open up for the really funny
story that happened last night?
Yes I went to visit a friend ina hospital and it was lenox
hill hospital which I haven'treally been to in a long time,
and why?
Periel (00:47):
I was born there.
You were born in Lenox Hill.
Modi (00:49):
Hospital, oh my God.
So the corridors are very, veryclose.
It's not like a big NYU wherethey built it on the highway
where they had room.
This is probably an apartmentbuilding.
So the corridors are superclose and they have stuff you
know the machines, the beds, thenurse stations, and so when
somebody's being wheeled back totheir room from a procedure,
you have to, like, get to theside and walk by anyway.
(01:12):
So I went to visit my friend andthen I went to the bikur holim,
which is the bikur holim, whichis the, the pantry of jewish,
of kosher food.
Okay, you get, every hospitalhas one.
You go if you find out where itis, and then you get that it's
just a Hebrew written BikurCholim, which means to visit the
sick, but it's also just abroader thing of you know the
(01:36):
Jewish places.
Whatever you need Jewish isthere, and food, warm food, cold
food, all kinds of food, andthere's a code in hebrew,
letters, like what numbers?
Like gmail is three and youknow.
Okay, anyway, so it's so youwent to go investigate the big
hole.
I went to go investigate thebigger hole.
I'm standing, I'm standing inthe hospital corridor and
(01:59):
they're wheeling this woman in.
She's like in her 60s.
She has a mask, got an oxygenon.
She has the oxygen tank by herleg.
She had like five woman in.
She's like in her 60s.
She has a mask on, an oxygen on, she has the oxygen tank by her
leg.
She had like five differentmachines.
She's plugged to like a uh, the, the heart monitor, something
else, and like and like a carbattery.
Like she's completely.
She's completely wired up andI'm leaning against the wall and
(02:21):
they're bringing her back fromwhatever procedure she's having.
And then she recognizes me butshe can't even like, she just
goes, ah, ah she was dying.
So I go to her Shabbat Shalom.
She goes ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ah ah, ah, could
you imagine I would freak out?
(02:42):
I mean literally, if she wasn'twired up and imagining it.
Leo (02:46):
Let me get a picture.
Modi (02:47):
Let me get a picture.
She'd have been like that is sofunny.
Yeah, it's probably true.
Periel (02:51):
She thought she just got to the gates of Jewish heaven.
Modi (02:54):
I like that, I'll go with that.
No, the poor thing.
Look, they were bringing herback from God knows what.
What do?
Periel (03:00):
you mean, you know how thrilled these people would be
if they get to heaven and theysee you.
You're the first person theysee when they get there.
Modi (03:07):
I like where this is going .
I'm completely okay with this,but we do have a helic and all
I'm about.
We have a portion of the worldto come as comedians, so we
definitely will be up theregreeting all of you that are
nice.
Those of you who aren't nice onYouTube and TikTok.
We will not be seeing you, andif we do see you, leo's going to
give you it right across yourhead.
Leo (03:28):
Personally, I'm going to smash you like my halo and smash
you on the head with it, andthen you could come in Speaking
of halo, what?
Modi (03:35):
No, nothing Like a prayer.
Yes, oh, my God.
Okay, we need to discuss.
Periel (03:40):
Okay, yeah.
Modi (03:41):
Let's set this up, gus.
Okay, yeah, okay, let's setthis up.
I go.
I went to the.
I had a few bits I wanted toput on tape, so I went to the
comedy cell at a pop on andfound out that during this past
weekend Madonna came in with Amy.
Schumer.
Amy Schumer came in withMadonna and Madonna went on
stage at the.
It says no gossip, this is allover the papers and everywhere.
(04:02):
So it's not like Russian horrorand it's not, you know, telling
information what's happening atthe cellar.
And Madonna went on stage witha notebook full of material she
thought was going to beunbelievably funny.
Leo (04:15):
Sorry, just pause.
She went on at the VillageUnderground right.
She went on at the ComedyCellar on McDougal Street.
Oh my God, okay.
Modi (04:22):
So just to reiterate, that's like max a hundred people
, 120, 125, I think, packed tocapacity, and it is packed to
capacity every night, everynight, every single night, and
they and even though there'sfood and a lot of food, the
comics don't feel it because thewaitstaff is unbelievable and
they are stealth.
They're on another level ofwaitstaff, but madonna goes on
(04:49):
from this is madonna and we needto discuss who she is in a
minute and the whole the factthat this thing happened.
And I spoke to comics that werein the room and imagine someone
saying ladies and gentlemen,madonna, the room, yeah, like,
yeah, okay, like they thought,maybe an impersonator, oh, and
you never know anymore from whatthe visual of madonna is today
(05:12):
yeah, you could put a lot ofpeople upstage, but this is
madonna, madonna um no, actuallyit's bob the drag queen.
Um so, so she went on and with anotebook and she was going paid
.
Leo (05:26):
So this was not like a whim on a whim.
She's like you know what?
I'll go up there.
Periel (05:30):
She had a notebook she was ready at the cellar this is
not the first time what's herdeal she likes to do, stand up,
she like but, anyway, she wentup there and she, she bombed.
Modi (05:46):
It was like she bombed the comedy cellar.
I don't know if you guys knowwhen you get to the comedy
cellar there is always a chancea huge celebrity is going to go
on jerry seinfeld, chris rock,louis ck, modi, um, dave
chapelle, anybody could pop upthere and do a few minutes and
(06:08):
it's an element of the show.
And this happened in the middleof the show, which means people
saw the first part of the showand the rest of the show was
Madonna not really doing comedy,just bombing.
Periel (06:21):
How did she stay up for like so for?
Modi (06:23):
40 minutes 40, 4-0.
Bombing, um.
How did she stay up for like so, for 40 minutes, 40 for zero.
And those of you who don't haveever performed or been speaking
, 40 minutes is an eternity,lifetime.
It's a lifetime and theaudience was like okay.
First of all, at the comedycello when a celebrity goes on,
the, your phones are all awayalso key point the audience is
(06:44):
is.
It's obviously a best place forcomedy for for anybody to go on,
because the phones are away,there's no taping, there's it's
the yankee stadium of stands upcomedy a hundred percent.
but it's also a private it'sit's no one's taping you you
know and no one's gonna.
No one from the club is gonnabe like page six.
Madonna did comedy.
No one's doing that at thecomedy from the club is going to
(07:04):
be like page six.
Madonna did comedy.
No one's doing that at thecomedy.
It's a safe, safe.
It's a real safe space forcomedians.
It's a real safe space forcomedians.
So she goes on and at thecellar, when a celebrity goes on
, the audience loses their mind.
You just like, you feel a oh myGod, Jerry Seinfeld, oh my God,
Chris Rock, oh my God, JerrySeinfeld, oh my God, Chris Rock,
(07:24):
oh my God.
And then they collectthemselves and like what are
they going to do?
Like what's they?
They want to hear comedy andwhat they have to do yeah, they
want it to be funny.
Right, and it wasn't funny.
Leo (07:36):
Right, so let's discuss that.
You have a night out on thetown.
You're like we got tickets tothe comedy seller hot commodity,
not easy tickets to get correct.
Like I want to come laugh.
Are you taken with the noveltyof being like?
Oh my god, I saw madonna try todo stand-up to like make up for
that, or are you like?
Periel (07:55):
five minutes, you are like five minutes.
Leo (07:58):
You're like oh, this is cool but then 35 minutes later
you're like what is happeningcorrect?
Periel (08:02):
yeah, that's kind of what I thought by the way, why
did no one give her the light?
Because she's madonna light.
Modi (08:08):
I one thing I will tell you celebrities do not get the
light.
It's not it's.
Leo (08:13):
Did you imagine someone off stage just like come on, worst
they can get the worst they canget.
Modi (08:18):
The worst they can get is the mc standing in the doorway
right, right, but they're nevergoing to get a lot.
Periel (08:25):
Who is hosting, do you know?
I don't know.
Modi (08:29):
But so now that's the conversation we're having here.
Would you, if you had theopportunity, to have a night of
comedy?
You see five people.
Leo (08:37):
Keeping in mind what we mentioned in like one of our
last episodes, that we're in theoutliers of people who consume
comedy, like we see a lot ofcomedy.
The average person maybe seescomedy like how many times a
year they go out on the town.
Periel (08:49):
Here's the thing.
First of all, I think that forthose of you us who are not like
in the know, when you go to thecellar, most people are doing
15 minutes and then if somebodylike huge like Chappelle comes
yes, they don't get the light.
They'll.
(09:11):
Huge like chapelle comes yes,they don't get the light.
They'll go on for as long asthey want.
However, if you're not davechapelle and you're madonna and
you're not a stand-up comedian.
Modi (09:16):
It is, with all due respect, pretty arrogant.
Well, to be doing 40 minutesI'd like to chime in on on this,
on this conversation she keepspeople waiting for.
Go ahead when I see my audienceand we're running late 15, 20
minutes late.
Leo (09:32):
We're not running late, they're running late.
Modi (09:34):
They're running late.
Just to be clear, the show'srunning late.
Periel (09:37):
You guys are never running late, we've been at the
venue.
Modi (09:40):
We've been at the venue, we've done soundcheck, we're
going, we're having our meal inthe back and we're not late, but
the audience is coming late, sopeople come on time and now
they're waiting over an hour tofor the show and I'm like, oh,
we're 20 minutes, we're 20minutes behind and and I feel
like they're fidgeting.
You know, I have a greatplaylist and I, where they park,
(10:01):
is it raining?
This is a woman who can keep a30,000 seat stadium waiting for
two and a half hours with no airconditioning.
She has no problem with that.
So for her to keep 125 peopleCaptive, captive, captive.
I heard that the biggest laughand the biggest applause they
got was she finally closed thenotebook.
(10:23):
When she finally closed, likeI'm done with, I'm done, she ran
through all my material.
I heard it was very, very dark.
It was talking about.
Well, I don't want to talkabout what she was talking about
, but that's not right.
But but no, no, it's not, it'snot.
There's a reason.
She did it to sell her.
Maybe these are topics.
Leo (10:39):
I think it's different that she is not a stand-up comedian,
she is Madonna.
She's a legend.
She's a living legend, butunless you are a heavy hitter in
the comedy world to go up thereand just hijack the show is
pretty crazy.
Periel (10:56):
Go to Club Cumming and sing for 40 minutes what you
think is fine.
Modi (11:02):
So now let's discuss the audience.
The audience now can say wewent to the con for the rest of
their life.
Madonna came and she bombed andit was like a horrible show.
No one's saying that.
Periel (11:12):
False.
Modi (11:13):
They're going to.
Periel (11:14):
Bullshit.
They are saying that If she hadgone and done 10, 15 minutes,
even if it wasn't amazing, evenif she wasn't super funny, I
think that that novelty of oh myGod, it was Madonna.
Now she's done 40 minutes andit wasn't funny, and that's the
story.
Modi (11:30):
But no, the story is anybody in that room anytime the
word Madonna comes up, even madspeaking of Madonna mad, mad,
mad mad Madonna.
Oh yeah, like a virgin, oh,like a prayer.
Did you say prayer?
Speaking of prayer, speaking ofprayer?
Madonna once came into thecomedy cellar and I saw her do
40 minutes of bombing and 40minutes of standup.
(11:50):
First of all, if you say that Iwas at the comedy cellar and
saw Madonna do 40, you betterhave on speed dial.
Whoever you were there with.
Periel (11:58):
Yeah.
Modi (11:59):
Billy, were we there Like yeah, he were yeah, because it's
a crazy story to have.
Leo (12:04):
It's an insane story but this just goes back to like my
ultimate not ultimate fear.
But just like when you reach acertain level of fame and no
one's there to tell you no, yeah, and you are just become so
detached and floating in thisalternate plane of reality where
, like she doesn't see anythingwrong with what she did and I
(12:25):
mean I'm not saying there issomething wrong but like there's
no one in her life telling herno, being like, hey, maybe keep
it short or don't do this at all, nobody's saying that.
Periel (12:35):
Listen, maybe it's true, maybe when you get to madonna
level fame, you can do that, andthat's just the end of it I'm
going to agree with leo on this.
Modi (12:46):
I think it's very important to have somebody that
says no to you yeah because youcould.
At that level, especially atthat level, you could spin out.
You could spin out hey, get,get a camera crew there, bring
this tape that hundreds ofthousands of dollars and like, I
want to do one bit about thisand that you need to have
someone who's completelygrounded and more in touch with
(13:07):
the world and more in touch withhow it's.
They can already see thefinished product too.
Yes, artists go, I mean, in therecording studios when they do
their recordings.
Leo (13:17):
They, they riff and they go crazy, and but it's set up for
that, but right I'm just likesaying but then producers go
through those riffs and be likeyes, no, yes, no the same way
that nobody told michael jacksonthat he shouldn't have little
boys sleeping at his house, ornobody told harvey.
That was a hard, that was ahard.
Modi (13:34):
That was a hard turn same thing that nobody's telling
these that.
Periel (13:37):
No, okay, you want to even not say that nobody's.
No, doctors are telling michaeljackson they're not going to
perform plastic surgery on himor give him propofol every night
.
Leo (13:48):
If anyone wants to give me propofol, please get in touch,
but you're talking about more ona creative base.
Modi (13:56):
I once did a music video for somebody.
I did it as a favor and it waspretty bad and I was in it and I
was like it was a cameo.
It was a cameo, I did anappearance in it and it was it
was.
It was something you can tellthat this person thought through
and no one said to them no,you're not this, this is not you
.
And it's not great it's like,but I did it to you know.
Periel (14:29):
whenever you can do, do something so that, when you
can't, you can say no, it's likeyou never did anything.
Leo (14:33):
for me, that's a piece of wait.
So can we, if we're done withMadonna?
No, no, keep going.
I do have.
I did insert, forcibly insert aMadonna remix into your
pre-show playlist, just so thatI can hear it on like theater
sound systems.
Modi (14:42):
And we've kept it, and we've kept it, and it's really
good.
It's how we.
What's it from?
Leo (14:47):
It's from the movie Deadpool, which is around
Reynolds like superhero movie.
I will tell you the name of thetrack.
Modi (14:56):
It's choir sings it's like a prayer.
Leo (14:59):
It's like a prayer choir version from Deadpool and
Wolverine.
Modi (15:04):
It's so amazing and we played in the theater and the
whole.
It's very like gothic, likewhen you call my name.
Yeah, like a choir singing itand the whole audience is like
shaking and the people inHouston were like, wow, we never
saw it put together.
Then I have like a funnier songafterwards to just like cause
it pulls them together.
(15:25):
It pulls them together, yeah,and they're like OK, we're here
for a moment, shut up everybody,and then we have a funnier song
and then we start the show andLeo has been getting better and
better and better and better andthe introductions of the shows
I'm telling you right now, folks, madonna with her watcher back,
exactly.
So let me give you my Madonnastories, if I can.
(15:45):
Okay, two, two good Madonnastories.
Once at the Kabbalah center, wewere, they like they taught some
some piece of knowledge andthen they said to break into
groups and I was in a group withher as I was friends with her
friends, and we were sittingthere and we were having a
discussion and I I remembersaying to her that I felt Los,
we were having a discussion, andI remember saying to her that I
(16:05):
felt Los Angeles was like adesert, so the energy there is
slower.
And she goes no, it's not.
And so that was that and thatwas my big interaction.
No, it's not.
And then one time I wasperforming at the Kabbalah
Center and she was in the frontrow.
I was killing, performing atthe Kabbalah Center and she was
in the front row, I was killing.
And then I had this joke aboutperforming in Florida doing the
(16:28):
Florida circuit and I turned toMadonna.
I go have you ever done theFlorida circuit?
And she's not going to be likea bitch about it.
She goes no, I go.
Well, stick with it, eventuallyyou'll get there.
Periel (16:42):
And she cracked up and it was cute, and that was our
moment, and that was it well,let me ask you this would you
guys tell her to wrap it up andnot do if?
Leo (16:51):
I was her, yeah, but then.
But then you don't raise to theechelon of like inner circle
entourage to that person.
If you are saying no, so Iwould weed myself out years ago,
if that makes sense, which I'mnot ashamed.
Maybe it's a character flaw.
Modi (17:11):
If you're in her inner circle, I'm sure she has people
who tell her no, that's not okay.
Periel (17:14):
I'm sure the only people who tell her that are her kids.
I don't know anyway, but I wasvery excited to see her there.
I happen to like madonna a lotI love madonna, she's like it's
the og, totally she was my herogrowing up, and the only thing
that got me as excited to seeingthat she was at the cellar was
(17:35):
that she posted a picture ofherself with steven klein, the
fashion photographer, and he wasrocking a big jewish oh wow, I
know Stephen Klein.
Modi (17:44):
Yeah, so I'm now at the comics table.
Periel (17:47):
Yeah.
Modi (17:48):
Of course, this discussion is happening a day after.
And then I go.
This is a legend, this is atrue icon Paved the way before
media, before social media, andthey were like, yeah, but no one
under 30 kind of knows her, noone under 20 could.
The comics were vicious,vicious Like guys.
(18:12):
This is Madonna.
This is packing arena.
Leo (18:16):
Yeah, let's be real, let's be real.
Modi (18:17):
It's end of the day.
This is Madonna, so that's that.
Leo (18:21):
On the same note, I had to kill like 15 minutes in midtown,
ish, manhattan yesterday and Iwalked into a barnes and noble,
which I have not.
First of all I was like this isstill here and it was so crazy.
But there's people in thereshopping and very like, slow,
like at an appropriate level fora barnes and noble.
They were playing um, do you inLife After Love by Cher, and
(18:44):
the way every single person inthat establishment was mouthing
along or singing out loud, I waslike damn, cher really went off
with that like she did that andshe didn't come out with that
track until she was in her 50sway later.
Modi (18:59):
Yeah, way, way later.
That is a jam.
She's a legend and I thinkmadonna could probably do
another concert in another album.
I think she has that in hersomewhere.
I don't know, I've never seenher live.
Leo (19:11):
I wish I would have, yeah what yeah?
I haven't had the chance to Idon't?
Periel (19:15):
you guys are gonna get your gay cards like taken away.
Modi (19:18):
I've seen her?
Are you crazy guys?
Leo (19:20):
I saw her live I wish I could have seen like confessions
on a dance floor, madonna, butI think I missed the boat.
Periel (19:26):
I think I saw her when I was in my 20s in paris live and
then I saw her, like in thepast, like I don't know, you
know, whenever she did thebrooklyn at the at bam, I saw
that it was better right yeah,but I'd like to move.
Modi (19:43):
Speaking of iconic women, can we discuss the inauguration?
Yes, Can we discuss.
Melania Tenza crossed the board.
I want to clap for MelaniaTenza.
Ivanka killed it.
That green, it was green, itwas from and it was chic and it
was amazing, but Melania slayedthe hat you like that hat so I
(20:10):
call it the oyve hat.
It's the.
It's.
So, if you're, if you're, ifyou're, if you're wearing like
the hat, right, it's like a longbrim hat.
It really looks like one of thechassid hats.
It's called the plachka.
The bibber hit this long.
There's a small, there's aspecial hat, looks just like it.
But I call it an oyve hatbecause if someone says
something crazy, you can just,instead of the camera catching
(20:34):
your face yeah, you can just go.
Oyve, oyve.
You just just put the brim downand your entire face is hidden.
When donald trump said we'regoing to rename the gulf of
mexico to the gulf of america,hillary burst out laughing yeah,
and milan just put the hat downlike, okay, that's what he
wants to do, that right now.
Leo (20:55):
Yeah, it's an oive hat to go through a historic televised
event and not let anyone seeinto your eyes, spiritually and
energetically, is so witchy andso powerful, such a crazy move
for her to pull off.
But she did it.
She was like I'm here, but I'mnot here, she's she killed it,
(21:16):
she.
Modi (21:16):
We now know that everything you know, every
inauguration that's gonna everhappen, they always go through
the last know.
Here's the looks that all thefirst ladies pulled and here's
the da, da, da da that all thefirst ladies did.
And no one's ever topping this,ever, ever.
And I, I believe, I believethat, um, there has to be gays
(21:38):
in her life to pull that outfittogether and that hat and the
makeup.
There's gotta be somebody gaythere making sure this is going
to be amazing.
Periel (21:46):
Yeah, it's like Billy Porter.
Modi (21:48):
Whatever.
And then I look at the otherside of the of the of the dais
of the inauguration and thatthere's no gays.
Kamala has no gays, hillary hasno gays dressing her.
I said the only one who mighthave a gay is Michelle Obama and
her gays said don't go mighthave a gay is Michelle Obama,
(22:08):
and her gaze said don't go.
Periel (22:09):
Do you think that somebody pitched Melania that
hat like?
Do you think she had the outfitand they're like?
Leo (22:14):
and she's like no, she spoke.
I read a whole thing about theMildner who made the hat and it
first arrived it.
He took him like weeks andweeks to hand make it and then
it arrived damaged and then hewas.
He's based in miami.
He like hand drove a newversion that he had to make in
like three days to mar-a-lago,to her stylist, who then took it
(22:35):
to her, but he said he nevermet her directly oh my god you
know, you know who began as amiller miller.
How do you say it miller Millier.
Periel (22:43):
How do?
Leo (22:43):
you say it, millner.
Modi (22:45):
Oh, okay, a hat maker.
What's his name?
Halston, halston.
Oh right, right.
Really that series was so good,that was such a great.
Periel (22:54):
Halston was so good.
Modi (22:58):
Yeah, but he began making women's hats and then it blew up
into more and more and more.
But I mean, wow, yeah, that was.
But she I'm sure spoke withwhoever she spoke and says I
want to.
So she has people telling her noyeah, no, she's, she's so much
handling it.
So I said I said you can tellthe quality of a woman by the
gaze she keeps.
You can tell the quality of awoman by the gaze she keeps.
(23:19):
And and my heart goes out toany woman who doesn't have gays
in her life.
You have no one to check inwith, no one to, to get an
opinion from no one, to get acompliment from your raw dogging
life with a straight man.
Do you know how harsh that isis so harsh you have to have
gays in your life.
And so she definitely told themlike she gave, like I want to
(23:43):
be there and not to be there.
And she was that, and they werelike I got you yeah.
I know exactly what you mean ohwow, wow, bravo, bravo God, oh,
my God.
Periel (24:00):
Have you liked Ivanka's get up too?
I love.
Modi (24:03):
Ivanka.
I love Ivanka and Jared, it'sjust I'm just obsessed with them
.
I think they're amazing.
I'm not, you know, like youknow, everybody's like crazy
Trump, but Ivanka and Jared, Ibelieve I'm a fan of.
Periel (24:18):
By the way, I heard a long time ago that people were
complaining.
They're this, they're that.
But I heard a long time agothat people were complaining
this, they're that, but I heardthat they were the ones who kept
Trump sane.
They're like you have no ideawhat would have been going on if
Ivanka and Jared weren't around.
Leo (24:35):
Right, but that's not reassuring Cause.
Then you're like who's actuallyat the wheel here?
Modi (24:38):
It's reassuring to me and you have to.
You have to.
That's not how the presidencyworks.
Periel (24:43):
To me and you have to, you have to have.
That's not how the presidencyworks, Don't worry.
Leo (24:46):
Ivanka was there.
Periel (24:47):
Well, well, like that's how.
Leo (24:48):
We didn't vote for Jared and Ivanka I.
Modi (24:50):
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I I.
Periel (24:59):
I, I, I got how it's supposed to work.
Modi (25:01):
I said this is the first election that everybody's asking
everybody else who'd you votefor?
Like never, ever do you have anelection where people are like
it's such a personal, private.
The whole thing about beingAmerican is you choose who you
vote for.
There's a curtain, you know,and people ask me who'd you vote
for?
I said Sky Rizzi, the moderateto severe plaque psoriasis
(25:26):
medication.
Because when I was watching thecampaign, you know, when they
were camp, well, one wascampaigning, one was in a
courtroom, but while I waswatching all of this, you know,
you see the immigrants comingover the border, you see the
groceries, the inflation, butand then you see the sky, rizzy,
commercial, and everybody'shappy and it's sunny, and the
kids are running through thefield and hiking and biking and
and that's what America shouldlook like Interracial couples
(25:47):
bringing food over for dinner.
That's Sky Rizzy.
Periel (25:51):
Hilarious, I told everybody.
I wrote Cat Williams in.
Modi (25:55):
I would love Cat Williams as president.
He would be amazing he would beamazing, Amazing, but um he's,
it's pretty crazy.
The whole Elon Musk stuff.
Leo (26:06):
Yeah amazing it would be amazing, amazing.
But um, he's, it's pretty crazythe whole elon musk stuff.
Yeah, uh, I was.
I was waiting to see if we weregonna bring that up, because I
don't want it to like suck up alot of time but like yes or no,
nazi salute I don't think so yesor no nazi?
uh, not, not, wow, same.
So like, first of all, at therisk of sounding extremely
(26:27):
stupid, which I do all the timeon this podcast, false, uh, I
feel like, because peoplepointed out like he was wearing
a hostage um dog tag and he'svisited auschwitz, so like he
can't be a nazi.
But I would argue like anegomaniac like that can kind of
straddle both worlds and likeunderstand the body language
(26:48):
that that like comes from from,like a dictator kind of thing,
like I'm an oligarch, I'm doingthis, like body language that
I've seen in history, and likemaybe he's not doing it from an
actual nazi.
Periel (27:00):
And look, I'm not like a fan of you.
Leo (27:02):
The thing that, the thing that, sorry the thing that kind
of solidified this, because Ireally wasn't sure and I kind of
I was so topsy-turvied by it.
I saw they were debating thison a news show and the news
anchor said, okay, if it wasn'ta Nazi salute, then do it right
now on live TV.
And the guy wouldn't do it andI was like that's, I mean no, I
(27:25):
don't think that.
Periel (27:26):
That's that.
I mean you can say thatsomebody said some like racial
slur and it be debated, and thenthey say, well, then you say it
.
It's like well, no, I don'twant to say it, but that doesn't
mean that that's what he did.
Modi (27:38):
When I finished my shows and I put the mic down and
people are clapping I always dolike this I was like this my
heart, thank you all so much formy heart.
I always do that.
It's because, literally, myheart's like throbbing.
I'm in love with everybody inthe room Like that.
It's not one hand, okay.
(27:58):
Second of all, with Elon Musk.
First of all, let's take thiswith a grain of appreciation.
The first time Donald trump gotinto office, his bestie, his
good friend, was the my pillowguy.
This is a big upgrade.
This is a very, very bigupgrade.
Okay, and um, and he's excitedand he's a little I'm what is as
(28:20):
burgery or all that's a cop.
First of all, he's okay, and,and let me tell you something
Trump is going to do and hasdone good things for the Jews,
but he also has a base that'swhite supremacists, and they
have to feel represented.
And so him yep, that is aninsane thing to say it's got
(28:41):
they.
They need to feel represented.
And you think that's what Muskis, is there for to make they
all celebrated and they couldn'thave been happier, so imagine
everybody's happy that's insanewhat you just said is insane
lodi.
So I'm allowed to say it.
I'm allowed to say insanity.
So on that same day, as is elonmusk earlier in the day doing
doing a gesture which reallywith again, we watch the news
(29:04):
with no sound.
So when I see him doing this,it's him saying I know all the
pornography you're watching on X.
That's basically what it lookslike to me.
Okay, and then he brought thehostages on.
He brought hostages onto theplatform that a few hours before
Elon Musk did this.
So everybody feels representedhere.
(29:25):
Oh my.
Leo (29:25):
God, this is absurd.
I'm sorry, no.
Periel (29:29):
I just think that it was a really stupid thing to do and
I really hope it was not a dogwhistle to these maniac like far
right wing-.
Leo (29:40):
Who used his platform?
Yes, have you been on Xrecently?
It's insane.
Periel (29:44):
Yes, I really hope that it's not that.
I do think that like Nazi islike a really loaded heavy word
word and is it like?
Again, I'm not a fan of ElonMusk.
Is he really like?
Is he really a Nazi like?
Was that really a Nazi salute,I don't know, isn't he?
Modi (30:04):
like hanging out with, like, is he really a?
Periel (30:05):
Nazi.
Was that really a Nazi salute?
I don't know.
Isn't he hanging out with TedShapiro In my mind again?
Modi (30:08):
I always try to think about what's happening backstage
over there.
So I'm sure he said to TrumpI'm going to do this thing, my
heart goes to all of you andTrump's like a Nazi salute.
And he goes you're going to doit?
I don't know yet.
I'm going to be in the moment,I'll feel it out.
And then later in the dayDonald Trump's having lunch in
the Congress with Chuck Schumerand he goes did he do it?
(30:30):
Did he do it?
He did it, he did it.
Okay, he did it all rightenough about Elon Musk?
Leo (30:33):
why don't you guys?
Periel (30:34):
weigh in, weigh in.
Let us know what I mean.
That's a fair point.
Modi (30:45):
And I watched later in the day when he had the hostages on
and I felt that was a win forme.
Leo (30:51):
Well, we're living in the upside down topsy-turvy.
Is that there's an?
Modi (30:55):
expression in Kabbalah called mat, with another thing
existing that completelycontradicts each other.
Leo (31:03):
Do we have any questions?
Wow, wait that was good.
Modi (31:05):
I think I said that over.
Really well, would you?
Periel (31:08):
like to say something else over really well what.
Modi (31:12):
Oh God, do you know what everybody agrees on, both white
supremacists and Jews?
Really?
Leo (31:20):
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And the website for that is whiteluxcom.
Modi (32:16):
Move on to the next topic.
Now.
What do we got going on next?
Periel (32:20):
We do have some questions.
Modi (32:22):
Please.
Periel (32:22):
Okay, you want, like, you want to start out with light
, or you want I don't know,throw something out of go ahead
does leo ever plan to convert?
Leo (32:35):
no.
Modi (32:35):
Next question no does moody perform weddings yes, so
actually actually actually funny, you should ask I, you know,
say I don't do weddings.
You know there's every kind ofI'm above doing weddings unless
they call with the price tag andthey're oh, it's a Jewish
(32:57):
wedding, yeah, it's like that'sa good yelling stick.
But we did a wedding in Monaco.
I wasn't there to perform, Iwas there to be part of the
wedding.
I did the blessing.
I officiate not officiate.
Periel (33:09):
But I did the blessing, not officiate, but I did the
blessing.
That's what they want to knowDo you officiate?
Modi (33:12):
I do.
I do it now only for family andfriends, but I have a license
from the state of New York toofficiate at a wedding and I
know the entire ceremony and I'ma very good mesader.
Kiddushin the person who putsin order the kiddushin, which is
the service in the chuppah.
So the price is right.
(33:32):
Yes, I do it, but the price isvery high and unless your family
or friends.
So my niece's weddings, all ofthat I do, and friends I'll do,
but go ahead next.
Periel (33:44):
Worst Jewish food.
What's the worst Jewish?
Modi (33:49):
food oh pacha who.
Pacha, pacha is the mostdisgusting thing that has ever
been.
And there's people that if youask them what's the best jewish
food, they're gonna say pacha,what's pacha pacha is something
that I guess hungarian jews, Ithink, eat.
It's um, or maybe just hasidicjews it's.
It's a jelly that's made out ofthe no, the bones of like.
(34:10):
Yeah, it's a jelly that's madeout of the bones of like.
It's disgusting and it's such adelicacy and, you see, when
people are served they're likewe're having bachata night and
it is the most.
Leo (34:20):
I'm going to vomit.
Modi (34:21):
No, no, you would vomit if you saw it.
Imagine, did you ever see likewhen gefilte fish comes in those
cans with that glop?
Now, that glop with like a meatthing?
It's so gross.
It's so gross why People aregoing to freak if they hear that
my mother's pachal is the bestpachal in the world.
I can't believe you ever heardof pachal.
Periel (34:42):
It's like jelly, it's like jello, it's kind of like an
asambuco.
Modi (34:52):
It's like the ankle of the .
Periel (34:53):
It's so gross, the ankle Something is yeah, it's so,
yeah, okay, next, okay, why doyou send messages in the middle
of the night?
Modi (35:01):
Oh, what the person is asking.
Why are you sending messages inthe middle of the night?
And that's responding to theviewers, to the people who DM us
.
I don't touch my phone duringthe day.
I don't look at Instagramduring the day.
Leo (35:19):
Turn your notifications off .
Periel (35:20):
No, it's because we're in New York.
Modi (35:22):
Yeah, oh, no.
No, but I do if I'm answering.
If I can't sleep at night, I'llgo to the sofa.
Periel (35:29):
Yeah.
Modi (35:33):
I'll look at the last things we've posted and answer
almost everybody, and if theywrite in Hebrew, I answer in
Hebrew.
Sometimes I just write directlyin Hebrew and I write, but
that's what I do.
At three in the morning, fourin the morning, that's when I
write back.
Leo (35:46):
I probably posted this question prompt and it popped up
in their DM.
But like that's what I thought,that I thought they're question
prompt and it popped up intheir DM.
Periel (35:51):
That's what I thought.
I thought they're in Israel andthey saw this in the middle
because you're in New York.
Leo (35:57):
Sorry, we're on Eastern time.
Periel (35:59):
And also, why are you on Instagram in the middle of the
night.
It's like it's waking you up.
Leo (36:03):
Maybe their notifications are obviously not set properly.
Periel (36:08):
Austin again, please.
Modi (36:16):
Austin was great.
Austin was amazing.
How was austin?
It was.
It was so crazy.
We got there and they haven'thad snow or a cold front in 25
years and we got there and theday before the schools were
closed and everything was that'sright I saw something on
instagram.
Periel (36:29):
You guys were stuck in the airport, or.
Modi (36:31):
We weren't stuck in the airport.
We got there on time.
It was just cold, it was 35 to40 degree weather.
They were.
They didn't know what to dowith themselves.
They were expecting snow.
They were expecting an inch ofsnow and all the schools were
closed and every business wasclosed.
And we went to the Equinox andthe stores that were next door
(36:51):
to the Equinox were all closedand the Equinox said we might be
closing early and it was like.
Leo (36:57):
Meanwhile the sidewalks are like bone dry.
There's like sun.
Modi (37:01):
It was a dusting.
There was a dusting in themiddle of the night and they
were ready to close.
Luckily, everybody showed upand it was great.
And the show was great andAustin's a vibe, and it was at a
comedy club so it was like evenmore intimate and like every
joke just popped and popped, andpopped.
Periel (37:18):
I was obsessed with that picture of you, that with the
cowboy hat, when you were littlewhat is that?
Why are you?
I found that why are youwandering around around Israel?
Modi (37:30):
It wasn't Israel, it was in America.
Here's people who are a littlebit older are going to remember
this.
So back in the day when youbought cigarettes, you could
peel the back off and you getthat you collected points.
Marlboro.
Periel (37:44):
Miles.
Modi (37:44):
It was the OG frequent flyer Marlboro coupons and if
you collected a certain amount,you send it to where the catalog
was and you got a bag.
And the bags are amazing and westill use them.
Periel (37:57):
We have them in the house Marlboro bags.
Modi (37:59):
Marlboro bags are amazing, but there were also cups and
there were hats, and there was acowboy hat you could order.
Now, my father owned gasstations, so or worked with gas
stations, so he they would sellcigarettes and from the carton
itself.
So we had crazy amount ofpoints.
It was a.
Leo (38:17):
Marlboro Marl, I can't say it.
It was a branded cowboy hat.
Modi (38:22):
That's amazing, but I ripped the Marlboro off and so-.
Periel (38:25):
Even at that young tender age.
Modi (38:27):
That young, tender age.
I took it off and I just like Ihad a little cowboy hat.
Periel (38:32):
That is unbelievable.
Modi (38:34):
That's where that hat's from.
It's the Marlboro man.
Oh my God, could anybody who'slistening to this if you have
anything left from the Marlboroera?
Send me pictures or send it toour PO box.
Yes, oh my God, but the bag wehad is a bag that's which we
still use it it's it was madelike a duffel bag, it was.
(38:54):
It was a very like the Marlboroman, the the camping.
You remember this?
yeah of course I used to sendthem in because I used to smoke
also yeah, and the t-shirts wereamazing to collect the musk,
but your dad did it.
This was when you were well, mydad, they would give him the,
so he would sell a carton and,but from the carton you'd get,
(39:15):
like the, the points from thecarton, not from the cigarette
it would have.
We had a lot of points with alot of gas stations and also
your mom used to smoke my momused to yeah, yeah, but she didn
um, come to panama, okay.
Periel (39:36):
Um, this one killed me.
When are you coming next to newyork?
Leo (39:41):
girl, look at me.
We did three shows at thebeacon theater in december 3 000
seats each show and you missedthe boat and it's going to be a
minute until we do it again.
So unless we do a pop-up andthen just make sure you got that
, uh, make sure you're on theemail list or you're in Modi's
broadcast channel on Instagram,so that if we do do a pop-up in
(40:03):
the comedy club somewhere in thecity, you know, because those
go in like hours those go inlike hours.
Modi (40:14):
My mom came to the uh, my mom came to.
I did two shows in houston andone of the shows we had to
cancel a show on wednesdaybecause of the threat of this
ridiculous storm.
So they canceled that show andthey moved it to friday.
So the thursday show was packedand, as it was a sold out show
and then so was Wednesday, butthey had to move it to Friday.
So half the people asked fortheir refunds.
Fair, which is fair, we loveyou.
(40:36):
I got it.
You weren't planning on aFriday event, it was a Wednesday
event.
So whatever you had going onFriday, we got it, and Shabbat
and whatever, we love you.
And I'm glad you got your moneyback.
And it was a smooth transition.
I walked on and made kiddish.
I walked on.
It's Friday night.
I walked on, I made kiddish, wehad a great time.
(40:56):
And then I did the show and itwas great, but the room was like
half empty.
Periel (41:00):
OK.
Modi (41:01):
And my mom was at both shows.
She was, yeah, my mom loves tosee who came and who's on her
guest list and she loves thatstuff and she's I mean, the
energy of the second show iseven better than the first show,
Even though it was like a thirdof the people it was litty, it
was lit.
It was great.
It was great.
Houston's yeah, fun.
Periel (41:24):
Somebody wrote kishka.
What does that mean?
Modi (41:27):
Kishka is something you eat.
It's also your interns.
Periel (41:30):
interns and trails your no, your intestines um, okay, I
thought that, like maybe I wasmissing something.
This is I think you guys haveaddressed this, but I'll read it
to you.
Was your relationship difficultand challenging, coming from
totally different backgroundsand age differences?
If yes, how did you overcome it?
Leo (41:56):
I feel like in the gay world this age difference isn't
as much of a thing as in thestraight world.
So there's that, and then Ifeel like I'm kind of mature for
my age and you're kind of ayouthful spirit, so we meet in
the middle if that makes sense,oh my god and also in terms of
(42:17):
like the different backgrounds.
I mean like that's so manypeople come from different
backgrounds and end up inrelationships together.
Periel (42:23):
I don't know, and it was never.
Leo (42:24):
I people don't really don't overthink it, but this was also
, you had this list of an ideaof who you wanted to meet right
I said I wanted someone funny, Iwanted someone spiritual and I
wasn't someone who wasculturally different from me in
a way that I could like, learnand grow from.
Periel (42:43):
And I got an israeli jewish comedian period so it
seems like the answer to thatquestion is the actual opposite,
that it was quite enriching.
Leo (42:54):
Intentional what it was.
Quite intentional.
Periel (42:57):
Yeah.
Modi (42:58):
And the differences are not even the religious and
background stuff.
The difference is I seeeverything is going to be
amazing, it's going to bewonderful.
I love everybody, I trusteverybody and he's what he's got
his two eyes, rottweiler islike I'm not giving a right
right away into this person.
Let's see what happens, andthat's very important.
(43:20):
There's somebody saying no,there's somebody saying no and
for the right reasons, and yeah,and that's good.
Leo (43:28):
What you are, you're more a I don't know if I'm the bad cop
here, not the bad cop, but moreI don't know.
Modi (43:36):
It's not bad cop, it's not good cop, bad cop it's.
Leo (43:39):
I trust my gut, I trust my intuition.
It's usually right, and I'm tootrusting.
Sometimes, I'm wrong, but I'm95% of the time right.
Periel (43:49):
That's a good thing.
Modi (43:50):
And he loves when he's validated on it.
Leo (43:53):
He loves.
I don't need the validation,but I do like it yeah.
Modi (43:57):
Like when he calls, like, calls out someone as a, as a,
this is bad, yeah, not good,it's not going to be okay.
And then we meet somebody elsewho worked with that person and
said they were horrible.
I worked with them, they weredisastrous.
I'm like, oh, okay, so I wasn'twrong.
Leo (44:12):
I go back into my files and I go yes, correct, We'll meet
someone and I'll turn to you andI'll go I smell crazy.
And then something will happenmonths later or sometime later
and I'll be validated, Yep.
Periel (44:26):
Yes, I've bared witness to that.
I've bared witness to it many,many times.
And do you?
Leo (44:31):
want to know.
You want to know why it works.
It's because I'm also crazy, soI don't claim to be better than
thou or whatever, but it'sbecause crazy recognizes crazy.
So watch out, that's funny.
Periel (44:43):
Do you have um any?
Any moments that you'd like tooy vey.
About which oy vey do?
We want to introduce this newsegment yeah, I guess what new
segment there's a segment ofwhat's the podcast called.
(45:03):
Las Culturistas where they go.
I don't think so.
Leo (45:08):
I don't think so right.
They go off about likesomething that they're over.
Okay, they're over it.
Periel (45:13):
We were talking about borrowing that sentiment, except
that ours would be like an oiveand I mean I've had a few,
let's have yours.
What's your oive moment?
No, no, you guys go first.
Modi (45:26):
No, no, no, no, you brought it up.
Periel (45:27):
What's your Oy Vey moment?
No, no, you guys go first.
Modi (45:28):
No, no, no, no, you brought it up.
You go ahead, Tell us your OyVey.
Leo (45:34):
My Oy Vey moment is people asking when we're going to do
New York.
And you just did three shows atthe Beacon Theater in New York.
Periel (45:40):
Yeah.
Leo (45:40):
That's Oy Vey.
I'm like Oy Vey.
Please sign up for the emaillist.
Modi (45:51):
One of my Oy VeyAs is the news which we don't watch.
We do not watch, but everythingwhen I do get thrown into it
like I was in someone's room andI saw that it was on it
everything sounds like it's theend of the world.
Everything sounds like it's theend of the world.
Leo (46:03):
The media is doing it.
It's like it's a series finaleof America.
Modi (46:06):
Yeah.
Periel (46:07):
They are working.
Modi (46:08):
Everybody calm down, yeah, everybody calm down, everybody
calm down Sky Rizzi, it's aseries finale what are you guys
doing?
Periel (46:17):
everybody calm down it's pretty deflating to watch that
stuff.
It's garbage, it's toxic.
I don't watch it.
Modi (46:25):
I don't watch it either.
Do not watch the news.
People get your headlines fromsomewhere, but do not sit there
and just have that.
They keep it on and justlooping and loop.
In the next hour the nextperson comes on and gives the
same stories and their opinionand their spin on it.
It's really awful.
Periel (46:42):
The only thing that I watch on the news and this takes
an emotional toll too is what'sgoing on with the hostages.
Modi (46:49):
Right, but that I get from Instagram.
Yeah, emotional toll too iswhat's going on with the
hostages right, but that I getfrom my instagram.
Yeah, I, I don't watch, I don'tput cnn to see what's happening
.
No, no, I have all my.
I watch all the hostages, uh,all the bring them homes and all
of that to see what's happening.
And and every night when I putmy phone down, I pray and
imagine and almost see mepicking it up the next day with
like four release today and andsometimes it happens, and
(47:12):
sometimes that's a good note forus to end on, and then we will
do some clips that I need you todo for promo.
Okay.
Leo (47:21):
Thank you so much for tuning in.
We have lots of tour datescoming up.
They're all at modi livecom.
If you don't see one near you,sign up for the mailing list,
because we're always addingdates and we're about to add
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So if you're in europe, staytuned um.
My email is info at modilifecom.
Modi (47:38):
Thank you all very much for listening thank you all very
much and be the friend thatbrings the friends of the comedy
show.
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And here's Modi.
Alrighty, we are at the studiofor and here's Modi.
Another episode.
Yes, periel is here, leo ishere, and what more do we need?
What more can you want?
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Periel (00:32):
We love it really at the shows.
Modi (00:34):
That's so cute wait, can I open up for the really funny
story that happened last night?
Yes I went to visit a friend ina hospital and it was lenox
hill hospital which I haven'treally been to in a long time,
and why?
Periel (00:47):
I was born there.
You were born in Lenox Hill.
Modi (00:49):
Hospital, oh my God.
So the corridors are very, veryclose.
It's not like a big NYU wherethey built it on the highway
where they had room.
This is probably an apartmentbuilding.
So the corridors are superclose and they have stuff you
know the machines, the beds, thenurse stations, and so when
somebody's being wheeled back totheir room from a procedure,
you have to, like, get to theside and walk by anyway.
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So I went to visit my friend andthen I went to the bikur holim,
which is the bikur holim, whichis the, the pantry of jewish,
of kosher food.
Okay, you get, every hospitalhas one.
You go if you find out where itis, and then you get that it's
just a Hebrew written BikurCholim, which means to visit the
sick, but it's also just abroader thing of you know the
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Jewish places.
Whatever you need Jewish isthere, and food, warm food, cold
food, all kinds of food, andthere's a code in hebrew,
letters, like what numbers?
Like gmail is three and youknow.
Okay, anyway, so it's so youwent to go investigate the big
hole.
I went to go investigate thebigger hole.
I'm standing, I'm standing inthe hospital corridor and
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they're wheeling this woman in.
She's like in her 60s.
She has a mask, got an oxygenon.
She has the oxygen tank by herleg.
She had like five woman in.
She's like in her 60s.
She has a mask on, an oxygen on, she has the oxygen tank by her
leg.
She had like five differentmachines.
She's plugged to like a uh, the, the heart monitor, something
else, and like and like a carbattery.
Like she's completely.
She's completely wired up andI'm leaning against the wall and
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they're bringing her back fromwhatever procedure she's having.
And then she recognizes me butshe can't even like, she just
goes, ah, ah she was dying.
So I go to her Shabbat Shalom.
She goes ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ah ah, ah, could
you imagine I would freak out?
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I mean literally, if she wasn'twired up and imagining it.
Leo (02:46):
Let me get a picture.
Modi (02:47):
Let me get a picture.
She'd have been like that is sofunny.
Yeah, it's probably true.
Periel (02:51):
She thought she just got to the gates of Jewish heaven.
Modi (02:54):
I like that, I'll go with that.
No, the poor thing.
Look, they were bringing herback from God knows what.
What do?
Periel (03:00):
you mean, you know how thrilled these people would be
if they get to heaven and theysee you.
You're the first person theysee when they get there.
Modi (03:07):
I like where this is going .
I'm completely okay with this,but we do have a helic and all
I'm about.
We have a portion of the worldto come as comedians, so we
definitely will be up theregreeting all of you that are
nice.
Those of you who aren't nice onYouTube and TikTok.
We will not be seeing you, andif we do see you, leo's going to
give you it right across yourhead.
Leo (03:28):
Personally, I'm going to smash you like my halo and smash
you on the head with it, andthen you could come in Speaking
of halo, what?
Modi (03:35):
No, nothing Like a prayer.
Yes, oh, my God.
Okay, we need to discuss.
Periel (03:40):
Okay, yeah.
Modi (03:41):
Let's set this up, gus.
Okay, yeah, okay, let's setthis up.
I go.
I went to the.
I had a few bits I wanted toput on tape, so I went to the
comedy cell at a pop on andfound out that during this past
weekend Madonna came in with Amy.
Schumer.
Amy Schumer came in withMadonna and Madonna went on
stage at the.
It says no gossip, this is allover the papers and everywhere.
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So it's not like Russian horrorand it's not, you know, telling
information what's happening atthe cellar.
And Madonna went on stage witha notebook full of material she
thought was going to beunbelievably funny.
Leo (04:15):
Sorry, just pause.
She went on at the VillageUnderground right.
She went on at the ComedyCellar on McDougal Street.
Oh my God, okay.
Modi (04:22):
So just to reiterate, that's like max a hundred people
, 120, 125, I think, packed tocapacity, and it is packed to
capacity every night, everynight, every single night, and
they and even though there'sfood and a lot of food, the
comics don't feel it because thewaitstaff is unbelievable and
they are stealth.
They're on another level ofwaitstaff, but madonna goes on
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from this is madonna and we needto discuss who she is in a
minute and the whole the factthat this thing happened.
And I spoke to comics that werein the room and imagine someone
saying ladies and gentlemen,madonna, the room, yeah, like,
yeah, okay, like they thought,maybe an impersonator, oh, and
you never know anymore from whatthe visual of madonna is today
(05:12):
yeah, you could put a lot ofpeople upstage, but this is
madonna, madonna um no, actuallyit's bob the drag queen.
Um so, so she went on and with anotebook and she was going paid
.
Leo (05:26):
So this was not like a whim on a whim.
She's like you know what?
I'll go up there.
Periel (05:30):
She had a notebook she was ready at the cellar this is
not the first time what's herdeal she likes to do, stand up,
she like but, anyway, she wentup there and she, she bombed.
Modi (05:46):
It was like she bombed the comedy cellar.
I don't know if you guys knowwhen you get to the comedy
cellar there is always a chancea huge celebrity is going to go
on jerry seinfeld, chris rock,louis ck, modi, um, dave
chapelle, anybody could pop upthere and do a few minutes and
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it's an element of the show.
And this happened in the middleof the show, which means people
saw the first part of the showand the rest of the show was
Madonna not really doing comedy,just bombing.
Periel (06:21):
How did she stay up for like so for?
Modi (06:23):
40 minutes 40, 4-0.
Bombing, um.
How did she stay up for like so, for 40 minutes, 40 for zero.
And those of you who don't haveever performed or been speaking
, 40 minutes is an eternity,lifetime.
It's a lifetime and theaudience was like okay.
First of all, at the comedycello when a celebrity goes on,
the, your phones are all awayalso key point the audience is
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is.
It's obviously a best place forcomedy for for anybody to go on,
because the phones are away,there's no taping, there's it's
the yankee stadium of stands upcomedy a hundred percent.
but it's also a private it'sit's no one's taping you you
know and no one's gonna.
No one from the club is gonnabe like page six.
Madonna did comedy.
No one's doing that at thecomedy from the club is going to
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be like page six.
Madonna did comedy.
No one's doing that at thecomedy.
It's a safe, safe.
It's a real safe space forcomedians.
It's a real safe space forcomedians.
So she goes on and at thecellar, when a celebrity goes on
, the audience loses their mind.
You just like, you feel a oh myGod, Jerry Seinfeld, oh my God,
Chris Rock, oh my God, JerrySeinfeld, oh my God, Chris Rock,
(07:24):
oh my God.
And then they collectthemselves and like what are
they going to do?
Like what's they?
They want to hear comedy andwhat they have to do yeah, they
want it to be funny.
Right, and it wasn't funny.
Leo (07:36):
Right, so let's discuss that.
You have a night out on thetown.
You're like we got tickets tothe comedy seller hot commodity,
not easy tickets to get correct.
Like I want to come laugh.
Are you taken with the noveltyof being like?
Oh my god, I saw madonna try todo stand-up to like make up for
that, or are you like?
Periel (07:55):
five minutes, you are like five minutes.
Leo (07:58):
You're like oh, this is cool but then 35 minutes later
you're like what is happeningcorrect?
Periel (08:02):
yeah, that's kind of what I thought by the way, why
did no one give her the light?
Because she's madonna light.
Modi (08:08):
I one thing I will tell you celebrities do not get the
light.
It's not it's.
Leo (08:13):
Did you imagine someone off stage just like come on, worst
they can get the worst they canget.
Modi (08:18):
The worst they can get is the mc standing in the doorway
right, right, but they're nevergoing to get a lot.
Periel (08:25):
Who is hosting, do you know?
I don't know.
Modi (08:29):
But so now that's the conversation we're having here.
Would you, if you had theopportunity, to have a night of
comedy?
You see five people.
Leo (08:37):
Keeping in mind what we mentioned in like one of our
last episodes, that we're in theoutliers of people who consume
comedy, like we see a lot ofcomedy.
The average person maybe seescomedy like how many times a
year they go out on the town.
Periel (08:49):
Here's the thing.
First of all, I think that forthose of you us who are not like
in the know, when you go to thecellar, most people are doing
15 minutes and then if somebodylike huge like Chappelle comes
yes, they don't get the light.
They'll.
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Huge like chapelle comes yes,they don't get the light.
They'll go on for as long asthey want.
However, if you're not davechapelle and you're madonna and
you're not a stand-up comedian.
Modi (09:16):
It is, with all due respect, pretty arrogant.
Well, to be doing 40 minutesI'd like to chime in on on this,
on this conversation she keepspeople waiting for.
Go ahead when I see my audienceand we're running late 15, 20
minutes late.
Leo (09:32):
We're not running late, they're running late.
Modi (09:34):
They're running late.
Just to be clear, the show'srunning late.
Periel (09:37):
You guys are never running late, we've been at the
venue.
Modi (09:40):
We've been at the venue, we've done soundcheck, we're
going, we're having our meal inthe back and we're not late, but
the audience is coming late, sopeople come on time and now
they're waiting over an hour tofor the show and I'm like, oh,
we're 20 minutes, we're 20minutes behind and and I feel
like they're fidgeting.
You know, I have a greatplaylist and I, where they park,
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is it raining?
This is a woman who can keep a30,000 seat stadium waiting for
two and a half hours with no airconditioning.
She has no problem with that.
So for her to keep 125 peopleCaptive, captive, captive.
I heard that the biggest laughand the biggest applause they
got was she finally closed thenotebook.
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When she finally closed, likeI'm done with, I'm done, she ran
through all my material.
I heard it was very, very dark.
It was talking about.
Well, I don't want to talkabout what she was talking about
, but that's not right.
But but no, no, it's not, it'snot.
There's a reason.
She did it to sell her.
Maybe these are topics.
Leo (10:39):
I think it's different that she is not a stand-up comedian,
she is Madonna.
She's a legend.
She's a living legend, butunless you are a heavy hitter in
the comedy world to go up thereand just hijack the show is
pretty crazy.
Periel (10:56):
Go to Club Cumming and sing for 40 minutes what you
think is fine.
Modi (11:02):
So now let's discuss the audience.
The audience now can say wewent to the con for the rest of
their life.
Madonna came and she bombed andit was like a horrible show.
No one's saying that.
Periel (11:12):
False.
Modi (11:13):
They're going to.
Periel (11:14):
Bullshit.
They are saying that If she hadgone and done 10, 15 minutes,
even if it wasn't amazing, evenif she wasn't super funny, I
think that that novelty of oh myGod, it was Madonna.
Now she's done 40 minutes andit wasn't funny, and that's the
story.
Modi (11:30):
But no, the story is anybody in that room anytime the
word Madonna comes up, even madspeaking of Madonna mad, mad,
mad mad Madonna.
Oh yeah, like a virgin, oh,like a prayer.
Did you say prayer?
Speaking of prayer, speaking ofprayer?
Madonna once came into thecomedy cellar and I saw her do
40 minutes of bombing and 40minutes of standup.
(11:50):
First of all, if you say that Iwas at the comedy cellar and
saw Madonna do 40, you betterhave on speed dial.
Whoever you were there with.
Periel (11:58):
Yeah.
Modi (11:59):
Billy, were we there Like yeah, he were yeah, because it's
a crazy story to have.
Leo (12:04):
It's an insane story but this just goes back to like my
ultimate not ultimate fear.
But just like when you reach acertain level of fame and no
one's there to tell you no, yeah, and you are just become so
detached and floating in thisalternate plane of reality where
, like she doesn't see anythingwrong with what she did and I
(12:25):
mean I'm not saying there issomething wrong but like there's
no one in her life telling herno, being like, hey, maybe keep
it short or don't do this at all, nobody's saying that.
Periel (12:35):
Listen, maybe it's true, maybe when you get to madonna
level fame, you can do that, andthat's just the end of it I'm
going to agree with leo on this.
Modi (12:46):
I think it's very important to have somebody that
says no to you yeah because youcould.
At that level, especially atthat level, you could spin out.
You could spin out hey, get,get a camera crew there, bring
this tape that hundreds ofthousands of dollars and like, I
want to do one bit about thisand that you need to have
someone who's completelygrounded and more in touch with
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the world and more in touch withhow it's.
They can already see thefinished product too.
Yes, artists go, I mean, in therecording studios when they do
their recordings.
Leo (13:17):
They, they riff and they go crazy, and but it's set up for
that, but right I'm just likesaying but then producers go
through those riffs and be likeyes, no, yes, no the same way
that nobody told michael jacksonthat he shouldn't have little
boys sleeping at his house, ornobody told harvey.
That was a hard, that was ahard.
Modi (13:34):
That was a hard turn same thing that nobody's telling
these that.
Periel (13:37):
No, okay, you want to even not say that nobody's.
No, doctors are telling michaeljackson they're not going to
perform plastic surgery on himor give him propofol every night
.
Leo (13:48):
If anyone wants to give me propofol, please get in touch,
but you're talking about more ona creative base.
Modi (13:56):
I once did a music video for somebody.
I did it as a favor and it waspretty bad and I was in it and I
was like it was a cameo.
It was a cameo, I did anappearance in it and it was it
was.
It was something you can tellthat this person thought through
and no one said to them no,you're not this, this is not you
.
And it's not great it's like,but I did it to you know.
Periel (14:29):
whenever you can do, do something so that, when you
can't, you can say no, it's likeyou never did anything.
Leo (14:33):
for me, that's a piece of wait.
So can we, if we're done withMadonna?
No, no, keep going.
I do have.
I did insert, forcibly insert aMadonna remix into your
pre-show playlist, just so thatI can hear it on like theater
sound systems.
Modi (14:42):
And we've kept it, and we've kept it, and it's really
good.
It's how we.
What's it from?
Leo (14:47):
It's from the movie Deadpool, which is around
Reynolds like superhero movie.
I will tell you the name of thetrack.
Modi (14:56):
It's choir sings it's like a prayer.
Leo (14:59):
It's like a prayer choir version from Deadpool and
Wolverine.
Modi (15:04):
It's so amazing and we played in the theater and the
whole.
It's very like gothic, likewhen you call my name.
Yeah, like a choir singing itand the whole audience is like
shaking and the people inHouston were like, wow, we never
saw it put together.
Then I have like a funnier songafterwards to just like cause
it pulls them together.
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It pulls them together, yeah,and they're like OK, we're here
for a moment, shut up everybody,and then we have a funnier song
and then we start the show andLeo has been getting better and
better and better and better andthe introductions of the shows
I'm telling you right now, folks, madonna with her watcher back,
exactly.
So let me give you my Madonnastories, if I can.
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Okay, two, two good Madonnastories.
Once at the Kabbalah center, wewere, they like they taught some
some piece of knowledge andthen they said to break into
groups and I was in a group withher as I was friends with her
friends, and we were sittingthere and we were having a
discussion and I I remembersaying to her that I felt Los,
we were having a discussion, andI remember saying to her that I
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felt Los Angeles was like adesert, so the energy there is
slower.
And she goes no, it's not.
And so that was that and thatwas my big interaction.
No, it's not.
And then one time I wasperforming at the Kabbalah
Center and she was in the frontrow.
I was killing, performing atthe Kabbalah Center and she was
in the front row, I was killing.
And then I had this joke aboutperforming in Florida doing the
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Florida circuit and I turned toMadonna.
I go have you ever done theFlorida circuit?
And she's not going to be likea bitch about it.
She goes no, I go.
Well, stick with it, eventuallyyou'll get there.
Periel (16:42):
And she cracked up and it was cute, and that was our
moment, and that was it well,let me ask you this would you
guys tell her to wrap it up andnot do if?
Leo (16:51):
I was her, yeah, but then.
But then you don't raise to theechelon of like inner circle
entourage to that person.
If you are saying no, so Iwould weed myself out years ago,
if that makes sense, which I'mnot ashamed.
Maybe it's a character flaw.
Modi (17:11):
If you're in her inner circle, I'm sure she has people
who tell her no, that's not okay.
Periel (17:14):
I'm sure the only people who tell her that are her kids.
I don't know anyway, but I wasvery excited to see her there.
I happen to like madonna a lotI love madonna, she's like it's
the og, totally she was my herogrowing up, and the only thing
that got me as excited to seeingthat she was at the cellar was
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that she posted a picture ofherself with steven klein, the
fashion photographer, and he wasrocking a big jewish oh wow, I
know Stephen Klein.
Modi (17:44):
Yeah, so I'm now at the comics table.
Periel (17:47):
Yeah.
Modi (17:48):
Of course, this discussion is happening a day after.
And then I go.
This is a legend, this is atrue icon Paved the way before
media, before social media, andthey were like, yeah, but no one
under 30 kind of knows her, noone under 20 could.
The comics were vicious,vicious Like guys.
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This is Madonna.
This is packing arena.
Leo (18:16):
Yeah, let's be real, let's be real.
Modi (18:17):
It's end of the day.
This is Madonna, so that's that.
Leo (18:21):
On the same note, I had to kill like 15 minutes in midtown,
ish, manhattan yesterday and Iwalked into a barnes and noble,
which I have not.
First of all I was like this isstill here and it was so crazy.
But there's people in thereshopping and very like, slow,
like at an appropriate level fora barnes and noble.
They were playing um, do you inLife After Love by Cher, and
(18:44):
the way every single person inthat establishment was mouthing
along or singing out loud, I waslike damn, cher really went off
with that like she did that andshe didn't come out with that
track until she was in her 50sway later.
Modi (18:59):
Yeah, way, way later.
That is a jam.
She's a legend and I thinkmadonna could probably do
another concert in another album.
I think she has that in hersomewhere.
I don't know, I've never seenher live.
Leo (19:11):
I wish I would have, yeah what yeah?
I haven't had the chance to Idon't?
Periel (19:15):
you guys are gonna get your gay cards like taken away.
Modi (19:18):
I've seen her?
Are you crazy guys?
Leo (19:20):
I saw her live I wish I could have seen like confessions
on a dance floor, madonna, butI think I missed the boat.
Periel (19:26):
I think I saw her when I was in my 20s in paris live and
then I saw her, like in thepast, like I don't know, you
know, whenever she did thebrooklyn at the at bam, I saw
that it was better right yeah,but I'd like to move.
Modi (19:43):
Speaking of iconic women, can we discuss the inauguration?
Yes, Can we discuss.
Melania Tenza crossed the board.
I want to clap for MelaniaTenza.
Ivanka killed it.
That green, it was green, itwas from and it was chic and it
was amazing, but Melania slayedthe hat you like that hat so I
(20:10):
call it the oyve hat.
It's the.
It's.
So, if you're, if you're, ifyou're, if you're wearing like
the hat, right, it's like a longbrim hat.
It really looks like one of thechassid hats.
It's called the plachka.
The bibber hit this long.
There's a small, there's aspecial hat, looks just like it.
But I call it an oyve hatbecause if someone says
something crazy, you can just,instead of the camera catching
(20:34):
your face yeah, you can just go.
Oyve, oyve.
You just just put the brim downand your entire face is hidden.
When donald trump said we'regoing to rename the gulf of
mexico to the gulf of america,hillary burst out laughing yeah,
and milan just put the hat downlike, okay, that's what he
wants to do, that right now.
Leo (20:55):
Yeah, it's an oive hat to go through a historic televised
event and not let anyone seeinto your eyes, spiritually and
energetically, is so witchy andso powerful, such a crazy move
for her to pull off.
But she did it.
She was like I'm here, but I'mnot here, she's she killed it,
(21:16):
she.
Modi (21:16):
We now know that everything you know, every
inauguration that's gonna everhappen, they always go through
the last know.
Here's the looks that all thefirst ladies pulled and here's
the da, da, da da that all thefirst ladies did.
And no one's ever topping this,ever, ever.
And I, I believe, I believethat, um, there has to be gays
(21:38):
in her life to pull that outfittogether and that hat and the
makeup.
There's gotta be somebody gaythere making sure this is going
to be amazing.
Periel (21:46):
Yeah, it's like Billy Porter.
Modi (21:48):
Whatever.
And then I look at the otherside of the of the of the dais
of the inauguration and thatthere's no gays.
Kamala has no gays, hillary hasno gays dressing her.
I said the only one who mighthave a gay is Michelle Obama and
her gays said don't go mighthave a gay is Michelle Obama,
(22:08):
and her gaze said don't go.
Periel (22:09):
Do you think that somebody pitched Melania that
hat like?
Do you think she had the outfitand they're like?
Leo (22:14):
and she's like no, she spoke.
I read a whole thing about theMildner who made the hat and it
first arrived it.
He took him like weeks andweeks to hand make it and then
it arrived damaged and then hewas.
He's based in miami.
He like hand drove a newversion that he had to make in
like three days to mar-a-lago,to her stylist, who then took it
(22:35):
to her, but he said he nevermet her directly oh my god you
know, you know who began as amiller miller.
How do you say it miller Millier.
Periel (22:43):
How do?
Leo (22:43):
you say it, millner.
Modi (22:45):
Oh, okay, a hat maker.
What's his name?
Halston, halston.
Oh right, right.
Really that series was so good,that was such a great.
Periel (22:54):
Halston was so good.
Modi (22:58):
Yeah, but he began making women's hats and then it blew up
into more and more and more.
But I mean, wow, yeah, that was.
But she I'm sure spoke withwhoever she spoke and says I
want to.
So she has people telling her noyeah, no, she's, she's so much
handling it.
So I said I said you can tellthe quality of a woman by the
gaze she keeps.
You can tell the quality of awoman by the gaze she keeps.
(23:19):
And and my heart goes out toany woman who doesn't have gays
in her life.
You have no one to check inwith, no one to, to get an
opinion from no one, to get acompliment from your raw dogging
life with a straight man.
Do you know how harsh that isis so harsh you have to have
gays in your life.
And so she definitely told themlike she gave, like I want to
(23:43):
be there and not to be there.
And she was that, and they werelike I got you yeah.
I know exactly what you mean ohwow, wow, bravo, bravo God, oh,
my God.
Periel (24:00):
Have you liked Ivanka's get up too?
I love.
Modi (24:03):
Ivanka.
I love Ivanka and Jared, it'sjust I'm just obsessed with them
.
I think they're amazing.
I'm not, you know, like youknow, everybody's like crazy
Trump, but Ivanka and Jared, Ibelieve I'm a fan of.
Periel (24:18):
By the way, I heard a long time ago that people were
complaining.
They're this, they're that.
But I heard a long time agothat people were complaining
this, they're that, but I heardthat they were the ones who kept
Trump sane.
They're like you have no ideawhat would have been going on if
Ivanka and Jared weren't around.
Leo (24:35):
Right, but that's not reassuring Cause.
Then you're like who's actuallyat the wheel here?
Modi (24:38):
It's reassuring to me and you have to.
You have to.
That's not how the presidencyworks.
Periel (24:43):
To me and you have to, you have to have.
That's not how the presidencyworks, Don't worry.
Leo (24:46):
Ivanka was there.
Periel (24:47):
Well, well, like that's how.
Leo (24:48):
We didn't vote for Jared and Ivanka I.
Modi (24:50):
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I I.
Periel (24:59):
I, I, I got how it's supposed to work.
Modi (25:01):
I said this is the first election that everybody's asking
everybody else who'd you votefor?
Like never, ever do you have anelection where people are like
it's such a personal, private.
The whole thing about beingAmerican is you choose who you
vote for.
There's a curtain, you know,and people ask me who'd you vote
for?
I said Sky Rizzi, the moderateto severe plaque psoriasis
(25:26):
medication.
Because when I was watching thecampaign, you know, when they
were camp, well, one wascampaigning, one was in a
courtroom, but while I waswatching all of this, you know,
you see the immigrants comingover the border, you see the
groceries, the inflation, butand then you see the sky, rizzy,
commercial, and everybody'shappy and it's sunny, and the
kids are running through thefield and hiking and biking and
and that's what America shouldlook like Interracial couples
(25:47):
bringing food over for dinner.
That's Sky Rizzy.
Periel (25:51):
Hilarious, I told everybody.
I wrote Cat Williams in.
Modi (25:55):
I would love Cat Williams as president.
He would be amazing he would beamazing, Amazing, but um he's,
it's pretty crazy.
The whole Elon Musk stuff.
Leo (26:06):
Yeah amazing it would be amazing, amazing.
But um, he's, it's pretty crazythe whole elon musk stuff.
Yeah, uh, I was.
I was waiting to see if we weregonna bring that up, because I
don't want it to like suck up alot of time but like yes or no,
nazi salute I don't think so yesor no nazi?
uh, not, not, wow, same.
So like, first of all, at therisk of sounding extremely
(26:27):
stupid, which I do all the timeon this podcast, false, uh, I
feel like, because peoplepointed out like he was wearing
a hostage um dog tag and he'svisited auschwitz, so like he
can't be a nazi.
But I would argue like anegomaniac like that can kind of
straddle both worlds and likeunderstand the body language
(26:48):
that that like comes from from,like a dictator kind of thing,
like I'm an oligarch, I'm doingthis, like body language that
I've seen in history, and likemaybe he's not doing it from an
actual nazi.
Periel (27:00):
And look, I'm not like a fan of you.
Leo (27:02):
The thing that, the thing that, sorry the thing that kind
of solidified this, because Ireally wasn't sure and I kind of
I was so topsy-turvied by it.
I saw they were debating thison a news show and the news
anchor said, okay, if it wasn'ta Nazi salute, then do it right
now on live TV.
And the guy wouldn't do it andI was like that's, I mean no, I
(27:25):
don't think that.
Periel (27:26):
That's that.
I mean you can say thatsomebody said some like racial
slur and it be debated, and thenthey say, well, then you say it
.
It's like well, no, I don'twant to say it, but that doesn't
mean that that's what he did.
Modi (27:38):
When I finished my shows and I put the mic down and
people are clapping I always dolike this I was like this my
heart, thank you all so much formy heart.
I always do that.
It's because, literally, myheart's like throbbing.
I'm in love with everybody inthe room Like that.
It's not one hand, okay.
(27:58):
Second of all, with Elon Musk.
First of all, let's take thiswith a grain of appreciation.
The first time Donald trump gotinto office, his bestie, his
good friend, was the my pillowguy.
This is a big upgrade.
This is a very, very bigupgrade.
Okay, and um, and he's excitedand he's a little I'm what is as
(28:20):
burgery or all that's a cop.
First of all, he's okay, and,and let me tell you something
Trump is going to do and hasdone good things for the Jews,
but he also has a base that'swhite supremacists, and they
have to feel represented.
And so him yep, that is aninsane thing to say it's got
(28:41):
they.
They need to feel represented.
And you think that's what Muskis, is there for to make they
all celebrated and they couldn'thave been happier, so imagine
everybody's happy that's insanewhat you just said is insane
lodi.
So I'm allowed to say it.
I'm allowed to say insanity.
So on that same day, as is elonmusk earlier in the day doing
doing a gesture which reallywith again, we watch the news
(29:04):
with no sound.
So when I see him doing this,it's him saying I know all the
pornography you're watching on X.
That's basically what it lookslike to me.
Okay, and then he brought thehostages on.
He brought hostages onto theplatform that a few hours before
Elon Musk did this.
So everybody feels representedhere.
(29:25):
Oh my.
Leo (29:25):
God, this is absurd.
I'm sorry, no.
Periel (29:29):
I just think that it was a really stupid thing to do and
I really hope it was not a dogwhistle to these maniac like far
right wing-.
Leo (29:40):
Who used his platform?
Yes, have you been on Xrecently?
It's insane.
Periel (29:44):
Yes, I really hope that it's not that.
I do think that like Nazi islike a really loaded heavy word
word and is it like?
Again, I'm not a fan of ElonMusk.
Is he really like?
Is he really a Nazi like?
Was that really a Nazi salute,I don't know, isn't he?
Modi (30:04):
like hanging out with, like, is he really a?
Periel (30:05):
Nazi.
Was that really a Nazi salute?
I don't know.
Isn't he hanging out with TedShapiro In my mind again?
Modi (30:08):
I always try to think about what's happening backstage
over there.
So I'm sure he said to TrumpI'm going to do this thing, my
heart goes to all of you andTrump's like a Nazi salute.
And he goes you're going to doit?
I don't know yet.
I'm going to be in the moment,I'll feel it out.
And then later in the dayDonald Trump's having lunch in
the Congress with Chuck Schumerand he goes did he do it?
(30:30):
Did he do it?
He did it, he did it.
Okay, he did it all rightenough about Elon Musk?
Leo (30:33):
why don't you guys?
Periel (30:34):
weigh in, weigh in.
Let us know what I mean.
That's a fair point.
Modi (30:45):
And I watched later in the day when he had the hostages on
and I felt that was a win forme.
Leo (30:51):
Well, we're living in the upside down topsy-turvy.
Is that there's an?
Modi (30:55):
expression in Kabbalah called mat, with another thing
existing that completelycontradicts each other.
Leo (31:03):
Do we have any questions?
Wow, wait that was good.
Modi (31:05):
I think I said that over.
Really well, would you?
Periel (31:08):
like to say something else over really well what.
Modi (31:12):
Oh God, do you know what everybody agrees on, both white
supremacists and Jews?
Really?
Leo (31:20):
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And the website for that is whiteluxcom.
Modi (32:16):
Move on to the next topic.
Now.
What do we got going on next?
Periel (32:20):
We do have some questions.
Modi (32:22):
Please.
Periel (32:22):
Okay, you want, like, you want to start out with light
, or you want I don't know,throw something out of go ahead
does leo ever plan to convert?
Leo (32:35):
no.
Modi (32:35):
Next question no does moody perform weddings yes, so
actually actually actually funny, you should ask I, you know,
say I don't do weddings.
You know there's every kind ofI'm above doing weddings unless
they call with the price tag andthey're oh, it's a Jewish
(32:57):
wedding, yeah, it's like that'sa good yelling stick.
But we did a wedding in Monaco.
I wasn't there to perform, Iwas there to be part of the
wedding.
I did the blessing.
I officiate not officiate.
Periel (33:09):
But I did the blessing, not officiate, but I did the
blessing.
That's what they want to knowDo you officiate?
Modi (33:12):
I do.
I do it now only for family andfriends, but I have a license
from the state of New York toofficiate at a wedding and I
know the entire ceremony and I'ma very good mesader.
Kiddushin the person who putsin order the kiddushin, which is
the service in the chuppah.
So the price is right.
(33:32):
Yes, I do it, but the price isvery high and unless your family
or friends.
So my niece's weddings, all ofthat I do, and friends I'll do,
but go ahead next.
Periel (33:44):
Worst Jewish food.
What's the worst Jewish?
Modi (33:49):
food oh pacha who.
Pacha, pacha is the mostdisgusting thing that has ever
been.
And there's people that if youask them what's the best jewish
food, they're gonna say pacha,what's pacha pacha is something
that I guess hungarian jews, Ithink, eat.
It's um, or maybe just hasidicjews it's.
It's a jelly that's made out ofthe no, the bones of like.
(34:10):
Yeah, it's a jelly that's madeout of the bones of like.
It's disgusting and it's such adelicacy and, you see, when
people are served they're likewe're having bachata night and
it is the most.
Leo (34:20):
I'm going to vomit.
Modi (34:21):
No, no, you would vomit if you saw it.
Imagine, did you ever see likewhen gefilte fish comes in those
cans with that glop?
Now, that glop with like a meatthing?
It's so gross.
It's so gross why People aregoing to freak if they hear that
my mother's pachal is the bestpachal in the world.
I can't believe you ever heardof pachal.
Periel (34:42):
It's like jelly, it's like jello, it's kind of like an
asambuco.
Modi (34:52):
It's like the ankle of the .
Periel (34:53):
It's so gross, the ankle Something is yeah, it's so,
yeah, okay, next, okay, why doyou send messages in the middle
of the night?
Modi (35:01):
Oh, what the person is asking.
Why are you sending messages inthe middle of the night?
And that's responding to theviewers, to the people who DM us
.
I don't touch my phone duringthe day.
I don't look at Instagramduring the day.
Leo (35:19):
Turn your notifications off .
Periel (35:20):
No, it's because we're in New York.
Modi (35:22):
Yeah, oh, no.
No, but I do if I'm answering.
If I can't sleep at night, I'llgo to the sofa.
Periel (35:29):
Yeah.
Modi (35:33):
I'll look at the last things we've posted and answer
almost everybody, and if theywrite in Hebrew, I answer in
Hebrew.
Sometimes I just write directlyin Hebrew and I write, but
that's what I do.
At three in the morning, fourin the morning, that's when I
write back.
Leo (35:46):
I probably posted this question prompt and it popped up
in their DM.
But like that's what I thought,that I thought they're question
prompt and it popped up intheir DM.
Periel (35:51):
That's what I thought.
I thought they're in Israel andthey saw this in the middle
because you're in New York.
Leo (35:57):
Sorry, we're on Eastern time.
Periel (35:59):
And also, why are you on Instagram in the middle of the
night.
It's like it's waking you up.
Leo (36:03):
Maybe their notifications are obviously not set properly.
Periel (36:08):
Austin again, please.
Modi (36:16):
Austin was great.
Austin was amazing.
How was austin?
It was.
It was so crazy.
We got there and they haven'thad snow or a cold front in 25
years and we got there and theday before the schools were
closed and everything was that'sright I saw something on
instagram.
Periel (36:29):
You guys were stuck in the airport, or.
Modi (36:31):
We weren't stuck in the airport.
We got there on time.
It was just cold, it was 35 to40 degree weather.
They were.
They didn't know what to dowith themselves.
They were expecting snow.
They were expecting an inch ofsnow and all the schools were
closed and every business wasclosed.
And we went to the Equinox andthe stores that were next door
(36:51):
to the Equinox were all closedand the Equinox said we might be
closing early and it was like.
Leo (36:57):
Meanwhile the sidewalks are like bone dry.
There's like sun.
Modi (37:01):
It was a dusting.
There was a dusting in themiddle of the night and they
were ready to close.
Luckily, everybody showed upand it was great.
And the show was great andAustin's a vibe, and it was at a
comedy club so it was like evenmore intimate and like every
joke just popped and popped, andpopped.
Periel (37:18):
I was obsessed with that picture of you, that with the
cowboy hat, when you were littlewhat is that?
Why are you?
I found that why are youwandering around around Israel?
Modi (37:30):
It wasn't Israel, it was in America.
Here's people who are a littlebit older are going to remember
this.
So back in the day when youbought cigarettes, you could
peel the back off and you getthat you collected points.
Marlboro.
Periel (37:44):
Miles.
Modi (37:44):
It was the OG frequent flyer Marlboro coupons and if
you collected a certain amount,you send it to where the catalog
was and you got a bag.
And the bags are amazing and westill use them.
Periel (37:57):
We have them in the house Marlboro bags.
Modi (37:59):
Marlboro bags are amazing, but there were also cups and
there were hats, and there was acowboy hat you could order.
Now, my father owned gasstations, so or worked with gas
stations, so he they would sellcigarettes and from the carton
itself.
So we had crazy amount ofpoints.
It was a.
Leo (38:17):
Marlboro Marl, I can't say it.
It was a branded cowboy hat.
Modi (38:22):
That's amazing, but I ripped the Marlboro off and so-.
Periel (38:25):
Even at that young tender age.
Modi (38:27):
That young, tender age.
I took it off and I just like Ihad a little cowboy hat.
Periel (38:32):
That is unbelievable.
Modi (38:34):
That's where that hat's from.
It's the Marlboro man.
Oh my God, could anybody who'slistening to this if you have
anything left from the Marlboroera?
Send me pictures or send it toour PO box.
Yes, oh my God, but the bag wehad is a bag that's which we
still use it it's it was madelike a duffel bag, it was.
(38:54):
It was a very like the Marlboroman, the the camping.
You remember this?
yeah of course I used to sendthem in because I used to smoke
also yeah, and the t-shirts wereamazing to collect the musk,
but your dad did it.
This was when you were well, mydad, they would give him the,
so he would sell a carton and,but from the carton you'd get,
(39:15):
like the, the points from thecarton, not from the cigarette
it would have.
We had a lot of points with alot of gas stations and also
your mom used to smoke my momused to yeah, yeah, but she didn
um, come to panama, okay.
Periel (39:36):
Um, this one killed me.
When are you coming next to newyork?
Leo (39:41):
girl, look at me.
We did three shows at thebeacon theater in december 3 000
seats each show and you missedthe boat and it's going to be a
minute until we do it again.
So unless we do a pop-up andthen just make sure you got that
, uh, make sure you're on theemail list or you're in Modi's
broadcast channel on Instagram,so that if we do do a pop-up in
(40:03):
the comedy club somewhere in thecity, you know, because those
go in like hours those go inlike hours.
Modi (40:14):
My mom came to the uh, my mom came to.
I did two shows in houston andone of the shows we had to
cancel a show on wednesdaybecause of the threat of this
ridiculous storm.
So they canceled that show andthey moved it to friday.
So the thursday show was packedand, as it was a sold out show
and then so was Wednesday, butthey had to move it to Friday.
So half the people asked fortheir refunds.
Fair, which is fair, we loveyou.
(40:36):
I got it.
You weren't planning on aFriday event, it was a Wednesday
event.
So whatever you had going onFriday, we got it, and Shabbat
and whatever, we love you.
And I'm glad you got your moneyback.
And it was a smooth transition.
I walked on and made kiddish.
I walked on.
It's Friday night.
I walked on, I made kiddish, wehad a great time.
(40:56):
And then I did the show and itwas great, but the room was like
half empty.
Periel (41:00):
OK.
Modi (41:01):
And my mom was at both shows.
She was, yeah, my mom loves tosee who came and who's on her
guest list and she loves thatstuff and she's I mean, the
energy of the second show iseven better than the first show,
Even though it was like a thirdof the people it was litty, it
was lit.
It was great.
It was great.
Houston's yeah, fun.
Periel (41:24):
Somebody wrote kishka.
What does that mean?
Modi (41:27):
Kishka is something you eat.
It's also your interns.
Periel (41:30):
interns and trails your no, your intestines um, okay, I
thought that, like maybe I wasmissing something.
This is I think you guys haveaddressed this, but I'll read it
to you.
Was your relationship difficultand challenging, coming from
totally different backgroundsand age differences?
If yes, how did you overcome it?
Leo (41:56):
I feel like in the gay world this age difference isn't
as much of a thing as in thestraight world.
So there's that, and then Ifeel like I'm kind of mature for
my age and you're kind of ayouthful spirit, so we meet in
the middle if that makes sense,oh my god and also in terms of
(42:17):
like the different backgrounds.
I mean like that's so manypeople come from different
backgrounds and end up inrelationships together.
Periel (42:23):
I don't know, and it was never.
Leo (42:24):
I people don't really don't overthink it, but this was also
, you had this list of an ideaof who you wanted to meet right
I said I wanted someone funny, Iwanted someone spiritual and I
wasn't someone who wasculturally different from me in
a way that I could like, learnand grow from.
Periel (42:43):
And I got an israeli jewish comedian period so it
seems like the answer to thatquestion is the actual opposite,
that it was quite enriching.
Leo (42:54):
Intentional what it was.
Quite intentional.
Periel (42:57):
Yeah.
Modi (42:58):
And the differences are not even the religious and
background stuff.
The difference is I seeeverything is going to be
amazing, it's going to bewonderful.
I love everybody, I trusteverybody and he's what he's got
his two eyes, rottweiler islike I'm not giving a right
right away into this person.
Let's see what happens, andthat's very important.
(43:20):
There's somebody saying no,there's somebody saying no and
for the right reasons, and yeah,and that's good.
Leo (43:28):
What you are, you're more a I don't know if I'm the bad cop
here, not the bad cop, but moreI don't know.
Modi (43:36):
It's not bad cop, it's not good cop, bad cop it's.
Leo (43:39):
I trust my gut, I trust my intuition.
It's usually right, and I'm tootrusting.
Sometimes, I'm wrong, but I'm95% of the time right.
Periel (43:49):
That's a good thing.
Modi (43:50):
And he loves when he's validated on it.
Leo (43:53):
He loves.
I don't need the validation,but I do like it yeah.
Modi (43:57):
Like when he calls, like, calls out someone as a, as a,
this is bad, yeah, not good,it's not going to be okay.
And then we meet somebody elsewho worked with that person and
said they were horrible.
I worked with them, they weredisastrous.
I'm like, oh, okay, so I wasn'twrong.
Leo (44:12):
I go back into my files and I go yes, correct, We'll meet
someone and I'll turn to you andI'll go I smell crazy.
And then something will happenmonths later or sometime later
and I'll be validated, Yep.
Periel (44:26):
Yes, I've bared witness to that.
I've bared witness to it many,many times.
And do you?
Leo (44:31):
want to know.
You want to know why it works.
It's because I'm also crazy, soI don't claim to be better than
thou or whatever, but it'sbecause crazy recognizes crazy.
So watch out, that's funny.
Periel (44:43):
Do you have um any?
Any moments that you'd like tooy vey.
About which oy vey do?
We want to introduce this newsegment yeah, I guess what new
segment there's a segment ofwhat's the podcast called.
(45:03):
Las Culturistas where they go.
I don't think so.
Leo (45:08):
I don't think so right.
They go off about likesomething that they're over.
Okay, they're over it.
Periel (45:13):
We were talking about borrowing that sentiment, except
that ours would be like an oiveand I mean I've had a few,
let's have yours.
What's your oive moment?
No, no, you guys go first.
Modi (45:26):
No, no, no, no, you brought it up.
Periel (45:27):
What's your Oy Vey moment?
No, no, you guys go first.
Modi (45:28):
No, no, no, no, you brought it up.
You go ahead, Tell us your OyVey.
Leo (45:34):
My Oy Vey moment is people asking when we're going to do
New York.
And you just did three shows atthe Beacon Theater in New York.
Periel (45:40):
Yeah.
Leo (45:40):
That's Oy Vey.
I'm like Oy Vey.
Please sign up for the emaillist.
Modi (45:51):
One of my Oy VeyAs is the news which we don't watch.
We do not watch, but everythingwhen I do get thrown into it
like I was in someone's room andI saw that it was on it
everything sounds like it's theend of the world.
Everything sounds like it's theend of the world.
Leo (46:03):
The media is doing it.
It's like it's a series finaleof America.
Modi (46:06):
Yeah.
Periel (46:07):
They are working.
Modi (46:08):
Everybody calm down, yeah, everybody calm down, everybody
calm down Sky Rizzi, it's aseries finale what are you guys
doing?
Periel (46:17):
everybody calm down it's pretty deflating to watch that
stuff.
It's garbage, it's toxic.
I don't watch it.
Modi (46:25):
I don't watch it either.
Do not watch the news.
People get your headlines fromsomewhere, but do not sit there
and just have that.
They keep it on and justlooping and loop.
In the next hour the nextperson comes on and gives the
same stories and their opinionand their spin on it.
It's really awful.
Periel (46:42):
The only thing that I watch on the news and this takes
an emotional toll too is what'sgoing on with the hostages.
Modi (46:49):
Right, but that I get from Instagram.
Yeah, emotional toll too iswhat's going on with the
hostages right, but that I getfrom my instagram.
Yeah, I, I don't watch, I don'tput cnn to see what's happening
.
No, no, I have all my.
I watch all the hostages, uh,all the bring them homes and all
of that to see what's happening.
And and every night when I putmy phone down, I pray and
imagine and almost see mepicking it up the next day with
like four release today and andsometimes it happens, and
(47:12):
sometimes that's a good note forus to end on, and then we will
do some clips that I need you todo for promo.
Okay.
Leo (47:21):
Thank you so much for tuning in.
We have lots of tour datescoming up.
They're all at modi livecom.
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So if you're in europe, staytuned um.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
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