Mashgiach Energy

Episode 143: The AHM crew is joined by Rabbi Gav Bellino, who comes prepared for Purim in a very special (and on-brand!) costume. Click here for Moshiach Energy Merch! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everyone, it's Leo and thanks for tuning in to
another episode of and here'sModi.
As you know, our tour scheduleis pretty crazy right now, but
we always make time to get inthe studio and record new
episodes for you guys.
As I'm recording this, it isWednesday, march 12th, and
tomorrow is Purim, as I know it,the Jewish Halloween as I have

(00:20):
grown to love it over the yearsand we are joined by a repeat
guest.
He's been on the show severaltimes Rabbi Gav Belino of Sixth
Street Synagogue, and he showsup in a surprise outfit.
So if you usually listen tothis episode, maybe check out
our YouTube page For sure.
Check out our Instagram page,which we're posting exclusive

(00:42):
clips to now, which we'reposting exclusive clips to now,
that is, at AHM underscorepodcast, ahm as in and here's
Modi underscore podcast.
And, as a reminder, we're alsoon tour.
We have dates here in the USand dates in Europe coming up in
May.
We'd love to see you guys atthe show To steal a quote from
Modi be the friend who bringsthe friends to the comedy show.

(01:04):
That's it for me.
Enjoy this episode.
Love you all.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Welcome to and here's Modi.
And we are back.
Here we are.
Today we have a special gueston the podcast.
And here's Modi.
The rabbi's here, rabbi GavBellino.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Not just any rabbi.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Mishkiach, the Mishkiach.
Well, I'm building this up here.
Obviously, you guys all knowthat, because of our touring
dates, the schedule and thepodcast is always a little bit
off, but today we are doing ourPurim episode, I guess, and Gav
came dressed as Meshkiach energy.
Those of you who don't knowwhat Meshkiach is, meshkiach is

(01:52):
to watch over, but usually it'smeant for kosher food, and the
guy in the restaurant and theguy in the restaurant that is in
a kosher restaurant.
That's the Meshkiach.
You nailed the look.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I've had lots of experience youhave, huh yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Would you like to describe the?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
look for those of the-.
I mean, it's mashkiach chic.
We have gloves that have beenused far too long.
By the way, that I'm wearing anapron is like they don't all
wear aprons.
I mean this is like I'm very,very serious about my job.
We have a yarmulke that hasbeen through a lot.
Yeah, Like way too much.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
It looks like you found it.
It's like explain why, Becauseonce you're touching all the
food and then you adjust theyarmulke, so I'm like there's
always-.
Adjust the yarmulke.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
You have a little itch so you move and the mayo
gets up in there.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, Mayo's good for your hair.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I have sneakers.
I have sensible shoes, sensiblesneakers that I borrowed from
my father.
He should live and be well.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
The Mesquite shoes are usually black because they
want to not be in white sneakerswhile they're in a fancy
restaurant.
But it's also just.
It's sneakers too, so it'scomfortable and they're dirty.
They're like he went to Eretz,Israel with them, he went to
Israel with them and he got allthe dust on it.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
He never cleaned it off.
By the way, there is a thing oflike Shabbos sneakers.
Okay, one second.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
I'm sorry you guys are taking for granted that,
like this, is a reasonable thingto be doing.
Can you explain to those of uswho are perhaps not familiar,
such as myself who justdiscovered that this job, quote
unquote- exists.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
The role of the ignorant Jewess will be played
by Perry Yet again, if you gother name right.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Every kosher restaurant, in order to get your
certificate, has to have amashkiach, which again means
someone who watches over, andwhile he's watching over, the
kosherness of the-.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
So I'm in the kitchen , but I have no skills.
Why are you filthy?
But I have no skills?

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Why are you filthy?
Why do you need to touch foodand your yarmulke?
You're in all the food all daylong.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Did you watch Chopped ?
No, top Chef, no, what's thatother one?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
The one where they just scream at each other all
day long.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
What sort of like certification or credentials do
you need to be a mishkiya?
None, none, exactly None, nolike in all seriousness, for you
to get hired by an organizationor a restaurant, or what have
you to do?
This?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
what there's always also like, there's the glasses.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
No, I know they're disheveled.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
I've seen them, by the way, actually so last night
I was like applying mayonnaiseto the glasses.
That's too much.
So just to get a good like,there needs to be like a little
grease and the glasses areusually like.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
They're usually not.
They're like readers that youbuy on the shelf and it's
usually his wife's.
He took his wife's, so they'relike pink, so this whole thing
is.
And then, and he needs glassesbecause he has to look at the
lettuce to make sure thatthere's no bugs on the lettuce.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
What are you guys talking about?
I'm not doing a good job oflike setting this up First of
all this is not like you wantcleanliness, right Like
somebody's in this restaurant.
It's supposed to be making surethat the food is at like a high
level and kosher kosher, kosher, kosher is not hot.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's a different kind of level.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
It's kosher you have to make sure I can't let it,
since one is lettuce, not kosher, so it's a certain if it has a
bug on it.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
You're eating a bug.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
It's not kosher is like a skin disorder.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh my God, you're being mean now.
Now you're being mean, we getthere.
Let's get back to some questions.
Firstly, he has.
What certification does aMeshgirch need?
And it's none.
And it's one of the jokes Ihave for Passover where
everybody thinks, oh, we're sofrom and so religious, we'll go
to a Passover program.
What do you think makes it likekosher?
Because it makes it like kosherbecause there's one guy who's a
mishgiyah and they give him,like four or five kids who are

(05:45):
stoned out of their mind, theentire program on kosher for
Passover edibles and they thinknow the place is kosher and so.
But it's like, but there's nocertification to be a mishgiyah.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
You know what they listen.
There are better ones that havelike training and like law, and
they have right Sometimes it'sjust about like a, and you'd be
surprised at the bodies that youfind.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Wait, do you have to be like a rabbi?
No, you do not.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
How many years of yeshiva seminary?
Whatever have you do, you needto cover all these bases.
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Apparently zero.
By the way, what's actuallyinteresting about it is
sometimes it's helpful to haveyour mishkichim know less,
because they're following policy.
They're not applying law,they're just following policy.
So if a kashrut organizationgives their policies, they don't
want their mashkichim nowplaying rabbi and trying to find

(06:40):
loopholes and trying to permitthings that maybe, by way of
policy, the organizationwouldn't want to permit.
That's actually like afascinating thing.
But yeah, this is the Meshkiach.
This is Meshkiach and it's anenergy.
It's an energy and it's theopposite of your Meshkiach
energy.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
It really is.
It's the annoyance of thereligion, it's the it doesn't
bring people together.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
It does not.
It tears us apart.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, it's in every kosher restaurant there's a
mashgiach and it's a full salary.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
So I have only my initial encounters with
mashgiachs mashgiay mashgiazes.
Mashgichim has been at Passoverprograms and we all know how I
feel about the food at Passoverprograms, but that's something
else.
At those sort of locationswhere it's like a pop-up event,
I understand the role more, butwhen you're a brick-and-mortar

(07:31):
kosher restaurant and you havebeen there for several years,
why do we need this person here?
Shouldn't we have processes andrefrigerators?

Speaker 4 (07:40):
and sinks and equipment.
The answer is yes, leo, andI'll take it one step further.
With all the anti-Semitismthat's going on right now, this
is not helping In this room.
This is not a great look for us.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Okay, so we have in defense of Meshkiachem, we have
standards and we need thosestandards to be checked.
We know that humans like toplay fast and loose sometimes.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
It sounds like the Moshkiach likes to play fast and
loose too.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
By the way, the Pesach program Moshkiach is a
special one, Very, because nowyou've gone to the most
beautiful place on earth and nowyou've juxtaposed that with a
human that has not seen the sunno vitamin D His son in three
years.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, no, they always look vitamin deficient.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
And so now the Moshkirch on a Mexico program.
Wow.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Because they're covered in mayonnaise apparently
.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
No, but it's again.
It's like I said before.
It's a.
In Hebrew you say tipus.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah, character it's a character.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's a type, a type of a person who's a Moshgir and
he's.
It's you, you know.
There's also in the perkei avot.
It says you should work withinthe religion.
You should try to when you do ajob.
Whatever work you do, it shouldbe something with what that has
to do with judaism.
I don't know that quote at all.
Sometimes I make things up andluckily somebody will hear this
and they'll send me exactly thatquote it is.
It says it's good to work within, like like to work in something
with Judaism, like being like aYabba, a Judaica store,

(09:06):
whatever, it doesn't matter, butit is a thing, and no, I don't,
it's really written in there.
Somebody will send it to us.
You'll see, once I saysomething, someone always sends
it to us, then I'll feel like amashkiach.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Apparently you can be too, if you just walked into a
kosher restaurant just like thisand just said hi, I'm here.
Straight into the kitchen, noproblem.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
No problem, especially when Paris is like a
lighter.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
A lighter to light the oven.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
So let's really go through this.
So the oven has to be lit by aJew, right?
So that's one thing that Mishgehas to make sure happens.
So one of the busboys doesn'tlight the oven for the chef, and
why does that make?

Speaker 1 (09:48):
the oven not why?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Why that you go to him for that one?

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Why.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Why does the oven have to be lit by a Jew?

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Okay, so we have Put the letters down you don't mean
no, by the way, I have to.
You know what this would do toyour soul if you ate that little
fly Straight to hell Straightto hell.
Yeah, no, so that's anotherthere.
That's actually a rabbinicinjunction that we have to eat
food that's been cooked by Jews.
That sounds a little racist.

(10:18):
It is a way of keeping acertain insularity to the
community.
Also, there's a concern ofkashrut stuff, so they want to
preserve the dietary laws, andthere are really two reasons
that are at play there.
So how do you define cooking?
So one of the loopholes is ifthe oven was turned on by a Jew

(10:41):
so then, a non-Jew, then, mario.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Can chop the vegetables.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
No, we'll do the cooking.
Take something from a state ofraw to cooked.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
I have a lot of mean things to say right now.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's really an interesting one.
You have to put the lettucedown why.
I would also respectfullyrequest that you take those
gloves off.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, you're giving me pandemic vibes with the
gloves and it's like triggering.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
You're giving me proctology vibes.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh, that's a nice break.
I heard that episode.
The gloves are off, I'm out ofcharacter, so again back to the
mezhguia, which is the characteryou're playing today.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
So he has to make sure that the oven's turned on
properly.
He has to make sure, like ifthey send a busboy to go get
like a dairy product, somethinglike a cream for the coffee in a
meat restaurant he doesn't byaccident bring back something
that's dairy.
So you can't mix meat and milk,as you know.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
There are rules.
There are rules and someone hasto keep an eye on it.
So it absolutely doesn.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
You guys, I can't take this seriously when you're
telling me that you don't needany certification to do this job
.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
No, but it's somebody who keeps kosher and knows the
laws.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
You know one parham I made a joke like years ago.
I made a joke that involvedshotness.
That's the mixing of linen andwool.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Wow, it's really scary what's up there, but keep
going.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I made a joke that tangentially involved Shatnas
and I got all this hate mailfrom the Shatnas community.
It's like a Shatnas lobby thatis very militant, a little bit
scary, very off and they sent melike I'm not respecting Shatnas
, I'm not observing, I don'tprotect Shatnas.

(12:29):
I got all this hate mail so I'mgoing to shut my, I'm going to
throw my phone out the window.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
We're going to steal ourselves from pushback from the
Mishkiach community.
I have so many things to saythat I'm just going to not.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
It's not necessary that I'm just going to not it's
not necessary.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Anyway, the energy is for Purim, purim is coming.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's a Purim energy.
It's a great costume.
We make fun of ourselves.
It's a great costume.
Do I need to reorder?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
the episodes now, because we're doing this Purim
episode you should drop this onebefore the other ones.
You say that.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Do you know how easy that is?

Speaker 4 (13:06):
No, so then don't the files.
We have to clip them.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
We have to reorder the youtube, like today.
Nothing's gonna happen, can Itell you.
Can I tell you what?
What happened when we were inlondon?
What happened?
Leo leaned into the fact thathe's just not falling asleep.
We just, we just didn't.
We had this beautiful hotelroom.
We were at the peninsula.
It was stunning, it was a brandnew we had.
We had a suite that had likethree rooms, 12 bathrooms, and
leo just tried to fall asleep.
When he could not fall asleep,he said I'll be in the other
room, I'll be working, and hebuilt the entire merch store

(13:32):
between 12 midnight and 7 am.
When I woke up, he's sittingthere and the entire merch store
was built.
Yeah, I see what you're saying.
The entire beautiful merch, likebeautiful bags and shot, not
shot glass, a nice whiskey glass.
I think I'm going to take thoseoff, though, why?

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Because I sent a sample order to my godparents
with the mugs and they arrivedbroken.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, mugs, glasses tough to ship, yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
So okay, so yeah, take the glass, but what about
the whiskey?

Speaker 1 (13:59):
glass that's definitely going to break if the
mugs showed up broken.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
That's also made of glass, okay, so take those out.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
I had a different design that I sent both of these
that they vetoed the one thatyou were wearing this morning,
yeah, it looked.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
I wore it this morning.
It was very nice.
It was Mashiach Energy with thedove.
They didn't like it.
I just can't see that it saysMashiach Energy.
It's very Genzy.
It's also a little.
You know, we've been traveling.
We went to Mexico and then wewent to Vegas where you taste
America and we're going to talkabout Leo's set on stage.
How amazing it was.

(14:32):
But, like you see, all thethings that people wear to show
where they are in the world, howthey are, One guy was wearing
it takes a felon and a hillbillyto fix the situation we're in.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
I didn't see that.
I saw that in the lounge, inthe Centurion Lounge in Vegas.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that.
No, no, no, I love that.
I love that for him.
He's like this is what I'm goodfor him.
Yeah, and he's, but he wants toshow what he's at dove and it's

(15:06):
like it's confusing that theone that he made but the other
one is so she.
We were in vegas, we were inlas vegas and, uh, we were
staying at the west gate.
Where elvis was was that'selvis's place, where he was, and
it was iconic.
We were in the room where helike the green room, where they
had the bar and all his friends,and everybody hung out and you
know, the band is like 18 peoplein the band and we're just just

(15:27):
like me and him.
There's an opening act.
I did an hour and 20 minutes.
Um, we were.
There was a place where Elvismade his prayer.
You know, I did the Anabacorprayer right, which is the
prayer I do before I go on stage.
I do the Anabacor prayer, andso I did it in the exact place
that elvis did his prayer beforehe went on stage which was a
little sticker on the floor andeverything it's so cute, it's

(15:48):
the original floor, it's amazing.
And, um and uh, the the bed thathe had in his green room in
case he needed to collapsebefore a show or after a show.
I felt that.
You felt that you, when you saw, when you saw that bed in the
in the green room, you felt thatenergy and they said it's the
same mirror that he checkedhimself before going on stage.
So it was Elvis energy and Leo,of course, goes on as the

(16:13):
producer of the show to thankthe audience.
And he had two lines he wrotethat were amazing.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
One of them was.
I don't know if they're goingto translate to a podcast Watch.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
We went to go see the Eagles the night before the
show at the Sphere.
That's amazing, it was amazing.
The Eagles.
Now Leo does not really knowtheir songs.
I know a few, he knows a few,but he was like I was the
youngest, it was me, leo Modi,and then 64, 5, 6.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Nothing.
The woman next to me was 85.
85, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Old but beautiful and , oh my God, white, oh shocking.
We 18,000 people and we,literally, and they're all like
on a sphere.
So we're looking and there wasnobody of color at all.
It was just the whitestaudience you ever saw in your
life.
And Leo doesn't know the song,so he has the set list, which is

(17:13):
on Spotify, and he's looking atthe words while they're singing
, anyway, so one of the jokesthat Leo had on stage was that
the audience was very Nice.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
So I said, wow, it's so great to be here in vegas.
I can't believe I'm doing thison a podcast, that's like a
cardinal rule of like jokes, youdon't do them, and why?
okay, so we were.
I was like, oh wow, we'rehaving so much fun in vegas.
Last night, modi and I went togo see the eagles at the sphere.
Um, I said it was the eagles,so it's an older crowd.
Very well behaved.
Everyone stayed in their seatsthe whole time and at one point
I turned to Monty and said Monty, why is everyone sitting?

(17:50):
And he goes.
Leo, trust me, this crowd hasstood the test of time.
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
And then I said after .

Speaker 1 (17:59):
It was a great show, amazing show.
If you haven't been, you shoulddefinitely go Afterwards.
We did a lap on the strip, or,as I like to call it, the
Riviera, for people who didn'tgo to college.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Wow, it was great.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
I got a laugh Because it's a hot mess that strip.
And then I said it's likewalking through an Ozempic
commercial out there.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, and it really is.
It really is it got laughs.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
I don't like Vegas, but hold on, let's just discuss
this for a second here.
It was besides doing the showand bringing the entire Jewish
community of Las Vegas together.
It was like everybody thatlives in the area.
That's not like from the strip.
A lot of people flew in for theshow, but the people that live
in Las Vegas came in.
It was like a Jewish event.
It was an amazing thinghappening in one of the nicest

(18:44):
uh uh casinos, like with theshow thing where elvis was.
It was just great energy and um.
One thing I can take away fromthis trip in las vegas is that
there is a lot of it doesn't.
Just let me rephrase this theperformers on las vegas are in

(19:05):
their 80s.
In their 80s, barry Manilow hasa show.
Frankie Valli, who's 90, has ashow.
The Eagles, who began when Iwas born that's when they began
had the show.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Donny Osmond still has a show.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Donny Osmond has a show.
It's a time machine.
There's also newer acts acts too, but there is newer acts and
there are smaller acts, butthese guys are in their 80s and
I hear that they're killing it.
Like barry manuel comes on,does thursday, friday, saturday
and destroys.
You know, it's all set.

(19:38):
They have his act and it'samazing.
And the eagles were the Eagles.
Wow, the show was amazing andthe sphere was insane.
You can hear everyone's guitarindividually.
It was.
The acoustics were insane andnobody stood up, which was so
nice.
You just sit for the show andto stand on your feet.
It was relaxing.
That's good, that's good, it wasyeah.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Did you stop at the cellar?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
I did not.
We did not have time, we werein and out.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
We came from Mexico no, this last in the week alone,
we landed from London, then wewent to Baltimore, then we came
back to New York, then we wentto Mexico City and then we went
to Vegas.
That's been in the last weekwow yeah do you talk about
London?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
we did London.
No, yeah, yeah, yeah, I thinkso yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Were there any Mashiach energy moments that
really stuck out to you?

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Mexico City was one big fat Mashiach energy.
It was just one big fat one tome.
It was for an organizationcalled Yad Rachamim, the Hand of
Mercy, and it's run by, it'sfounded and co-founded by this
husband and wife, duo Duo, andthey're super religious.

(20:57):
She has a wig and all that andhe's, I guess, a rabbi or
something.
But the people that support theorganization and it's for kids
that have a problem at home,they're like there's abusive
homes and it's someplace forthem to go to and swim and do
things and projects and lunches,and it really is an amazing
thing and they pulled togetherand they put the show.

(21:19):
900 people came out and they'venever had an event like that and
there were people in theaudience that just sent me
letters that this one womanreally wanted to meet me
afterwards and she was like 86and just lost her husband and
little things like thatthroughout the entire.
You know us being there.
We went to dinner with thepeople who put the show together
and they were us being there.
We went to dinner with thepeople who put the show together
and they were unbelievable andlike it's insane, cause you're

(21:44):
in this little neighborhoodthat's just like the great neck
of Mexico, this Jewish community.
I don't even know what it'scalled, arco, something, los
Judeos, los Judeos, right,exactly, and Thank you, thank
God, god's here.
But when you drive out of theairport in Mexico, mexico City,
to wherever you're going, it'sthe scariest thing you've ever

(22:05):
seen.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
It's not scary, it's so scary.
It's like, wow, I was whippingout my Spanish girl.
Yep, I was like is the icefiltered?
That was my main concern.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
That's funny, yeah I, I kind of don't like being
places where I have to worryabout the water, or am I allowed
to wear a watch here?
It's like two things I don'tlike to.
But it was, it happened, theevent happened and on top of
that, you know, and I'm talkingto this audience and I asked
them, you know, because I'veI've material now I do about
interfaith dating and stuff likethat which happens, and they

(22:42):
said that you know, thiscommunity doesn't really allow
it and it's really crazy, but ithappens.
And it's like to break the incase somebody really needs to
tell their parents something, orgay I'm talking about my
husband on stage, you know tobreak this very like, even
though they're not thatreligious, but they're very like
, strict on certain things, youknow.
So now, when some kid comes tohis mom and says I'm gay and

(23:04):
she's like we just had the besttime with this comedian who
happens to have a husband, youknow, and happens to have a
husband, we're still surprised.
Yeah, we're still surprised.
We're working on it.
I'm just in gratitude of thehusband.
He's the best, he's the best.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Wait.
So, Periel, do you want to walkus through some of these
segments that you sent me?
I know you just asked Modi oneof them.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yeah, I thought that do you have any Mashiach energy
moments?
Or the opposite, or Mashiachenergy moments.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
One Mashiach energy moment was when we got to the
venue in Mexico City and therewas not enough light on the
stage at all and thankfully wewere there like three hours
before the show of course, veryon brand for us to be so early
and I said you need to dosomething about this.
I was like you have three hoursbefore people get here.
You have enough time to, like,solve this issue English or

(23:58):
Spanish.
Spanish.
Wow.
And this woman, one of theorganizers, lucy.
She was on top of it.
She got on the phone, shestarted calling seven people and
, before you know it, twomassive spotlights with manned
operators like the giant onesare now perched up on the second
level.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Because her name is Lucy.
No, what, that's a Spanish joke, so this again, this is not.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
This is Moshiach Hanji for real.
So this, don't forget, this isnot a theater.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
This is it looked it's an auditorium.
It was a very beautiful schoolcampus.
It looked like a college campus, but it was just a school for
kids.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
And the auditorium is stunning.
This could be someplace likehey Modi, we booked you in the
Orpheum of St Louis and you getthere and it's a 1,200 seat
theater, but they use it for thekids, so they just put all the
lights on and whoever's speakingto the kids speaks to the kids
and they go out.
They don't do productions there, and so it's a shame, because

(24:54):
it's a beautiful theater andthen it just made it look like a
real show.
When those spotlights came in,they were not there when we got
there.
They were not there when we gotthere.
And then and to keep in mind,the green room is like for
little kids, it's like kidschairs and all that and there
was a nightmare.
And so I'm sitting there goingthrough my set, I'm with my set
and all I hear is just screamingin Spanish.

(25:16):
Imagine, like every great Nickor five town woman who's putting
together this event, but inSpanish she's on top of worried
about her look and her outfitand what she's going to say.
You know, when she speaksbefore the show comes on,
everybody who's coming and going, and they're just screaming in
Spanish.
And I'm sitting in this littleroom.
I feel like a hostage, justlike with the, with the people

(25:38):
outside screaming, and it was,and you're sitting on a kid's
chair.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Billy Madison.
That's a great photograph,that's a great image you sitting
on a tiny little kid's chairwith your set list.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
I'm just sitting there going through my set list.
I've been changing a lot of mystuff.
I just wanted to nail it andthe guy who's opening for me
very sweet guy was a localcomedian there.
He came in to want to talk andthen some people who shouldn't
have been back there were comingin, jamming their cameras in my
face and just out of control.
And then it was just.

(26:14):
But it ended up being anunbelievable event.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Like Gav, would you like to reintroduce yourself for
people who might just be tuningin or are just now dipping
their toes in the podcast?
Because you've been on the showbefore, I think I'm the most
recurring.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
You're the most repeated.
You're a recurring cast memberat this point.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
And I sent you a message I got the other day.
People said I miss when G isnot on the show thanks for
bringing me back, so alwayswelcome.
Who are you?
Yeah, hello you guys besidesthis, when you're not in mishgih
sometimes a fool, sometimes not, I don't know you are the rabbi
of six street communitysynagogue yeah uh, that is where

(26:54):
modi and I met.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Um, it's also where we met.
We met on Purim, I think, likenine years ago.
Wow, that was our first timePeriod.
Amazing, yeah, you threw a meanPurim part.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
You were part of his costume.
Actually, the first Purim Iever took Leo to was at the
Kabbalah Center.
Is that where I saw Madonna?
That's where you saw Madonna.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
I saw Madonna.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
I said Madonna, I saw Madonna and I said I'm done
here.
He saw Madonna.
He vibed the thing this is notfor me and left because he was
still this is nine years ago.
He was still tormented bygrowing up Catholic, but it was
good to see Madonna was it goodto see Madonna?

Speaker 3 (27:33):
because the Gen Z gays aren't?

Speaker 1 (27:35):
I didn't see her perform or anything.
I just saw her as a persondoing something that she wanted
to be doing for fun.
You know, not for fun, but likeshe was there for her at the
Kabbalah Center.
She wasn't like there on stagefor other people.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
She's almost better, no, so I was just like okay,
here's Madonna out in the wild.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
It's like on safari, and the following Purim we went
to yours and then probablyyou've been to some shows.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
you throw a mean Purim party where it's like it
looks like a Studio 54 outsideof people trying to get in yeah,
so we've had some years arebetter than others.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Hopefully this will be a good year.
Yeah, we're popular and we havefun and we don't take ourselves
too seriously, but we check allthe boxes and we do is your
party this Thursday the party'sthis Thursday we have that other
event, but maybe we, we, wehave it yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Will you be coming in that costume?
We'll probably go down thereafter I'm not going to be in
this costume.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
I have another costume.
Is it secret?
I have another costume planned.
It's top secret.
I think it's good, I thinkit'll be okay.
Well, you can tell us, becausenobody's going to hear this
until after.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
I need to get used to it a little bit.
He had one instruction for thisshow and he did not follow it
this was supposed to be asurprise so he calls me and he's
like I have an idea.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
I had an idea and also I needed whatever.
I didn't want to just show up.
Am I the first guest that'scome in costume?

Speaker 1 (28:55):
I think so you know what RuPaul says we're all born
naked, and the rest is drag, sothis is also a costume.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Am I the first guest that's come in costume?
I think so.
I think so.
Yeah, all right, it is yeah.
But you know what?

Speaker 1 (28:59):
RuPaul says we're all born naked and the rest is drag
so this is also a costume.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
It is Drag.
Is he's in drag right now?
He's doing drag A thousandpercent.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
So he calls me and he pitches this whole thing and
I'm like it's hysterical, it'sbrilliant.
Let me call Leo and make surethat why is everything my
decision all the time?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
It's so exhausting.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
Well, it's tough being you, huh yeah, it is Poor
you.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
I mean, you have good taste, you know what's funny
Debatable.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
I'm dressed like.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
I'm going to fix drywall no but we got Okay, so
Leo.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
How are the rest of the Teamsters?

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Wait a second.
I'm not going to have him showup in this insane thing and not
loop you into it.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
We literally had a call the other day where I was
like Perrielle, take morecreative control of the podcast.
Like just do shit, like youdon't have to tell me.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
This would have been so much better if I had no idea,
this was happening.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Unless you hated it.
No, I think you should justlike Anyway he was supposed to
wait outside until we were.
So I did take control.
I was like you wait outside,Modi, I'm going to get everybody
situated and Modi's going tohave no idea, and then you're
just going to walk in like this.
What does he do?

(30:12):
He calls me.
He's like I'm hiding in an ILove New York souvenir store.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Which is the whole block, which is the whole block,
which is the whole block.
You're on Canal Street.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
I'm like, so stay there, let me get them upstairs,
and then I'll tell you when tocome up Next thing.
I know.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
You didn't even buy me a key chain while you were in
there.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
He's talking to Modi on the street.
No, you know what happened.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I got distracted, I got distracted, I got distracted
.
I was doing a good job hiding.
I was mortified to walk throughthe streets of New York like
this.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Really yeah, I don't think anyone would bat an eye on
Canal.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Street.
No one would ever notice I hadan unpleasant conversation with
my Uber driver trying to explainPurim and Mishki Akhanerji to
him.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
It didn't land with him, the poor guy.
Why would he want to hear?

Speaker 3 (31:01):
He was asking, asking you yeah, oh, where was he from
?
Um, I don't know, he was likelatino, he was probably local,
um, anyway, yeah, so then I got,then you called and I like
looked up to find you and nextthing I know I see modi and leo
modi does his hi and I you know.
Then what am I gonna do?

Speaker 2 (31:14):
run away frying you look like do you know that he
really committed I'm looking atthe beard that he didn't shave
the beard it's so it's such acommitment I can't explain to
you.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
It's really hitting me more and more.
You know that that place onOrchard, that Asian seafood
place where the back of it backsup to that hotel, and they all
stand there smoking cigarettesand they're all just like that.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Oh my God, yes, oh it's called like Do you need me
to get you in there now it'scalled like congee village or
something.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
So on Allen street there's a restaurant called
congee village.
It goes all the way to the endand if you're walking on orchard
and you pass by, you pass bythe back and sometimes the doors
open and you have an insidelook into the kitchen.
There are anywhere between I'mnot lying 30 to 40 Asian men
dressed exactly like you, andthen they come out, they squat

(32:05):
and have their cigarette.
They you know how they sitthere like in that position that
if a Jew ever got in he'd neverget out Facts.
You know, like he's literally.
They say like that, right, andthey're like this and killing
cigarettes, just killingcigarettes in a squat, in a
squat position, like, and Ialways look at them.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I'm like, if you ever sound like that, they never get
out do you know that there'sbeen studies done of like cause
there's certain cultures wherelike squatting, like that is
just like normal yeah and it'sit's like actually very good for
you and like their longevity islike yeah, it's very good for
you Cause it stretches out, likeall of these blood vessels and
your lymphatic.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Whatever good their squatting is doing, those gnarly
cigarettes that they're smoking, and it's not like a regular.
Marlboro or American spirits.
It's like a Chinese on it andit doesn't have any warning.
I've seen their cigarettes.
It's just chemicals on top oflike and have any warning.
I've seen their cigarettes.
It's just chemicals on top oflike and they're killing them.
They're like they can't getenough in.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
It's a slow form of suicide.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
This is enough.
Let's have this end already.
But they don't.
They live till 109.
All of them.
They do a yoga squat.
While they're doing it, killingwith a yoga squat Well, they
probably eat like half abroccoli a day.
That's why they live so long.
They're not eating anythinglike.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
No dairy.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, whatever.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
Okay, listen.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
But that's what you look like.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Okay, look, we have a lot of messages.
Do you have anything that youwould like to complain about?
The idea was that he gets to doa Mashiach Energy moment, but
you weren't supposed to do aMashiach Energy moment.
You're supposed to do somethingthat.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
I have to be the Fabessin one.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
Oh my God, Fabessin.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
I mean, that's just German.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
I would tell you, mashiach Energy, if I could tell
you when we are on the road andpeople come up to us, and first
of all when he says who hears,listen to the podcast, how the
place goes nuts.
And then, and people who youjust would never imagine listen
to the podcast, listen to thepot, and they're just so happy
for it.
It literally it's like a wayfor them just to turn their
brain off for an hour.
It's no, no, people just likecome over us.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Huh, it's so great, I will say, okay, the the one
thing that it doesn't make meangry.
I told you I'm trying to bemore positive.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
I know, but that's not.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
But it makes me very sad and you'll see in one of the
responses I put in the chatgroup where people were writing
in questions for today.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
I have all of them.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
They said when are you coming to Phoenix?
And we were literally justthere and did over a thousand
seats in Phoenix.
So I get sad because I'm likehow did I miss this one person?
They're like enough of a fan tobe in our chat group on
Instagram, but they're notenough of a fan to know that we
were there on February 2nd.
It's like folks pay attention,I get sad because I'm like oh,

(34:50):
we were just there and it'sprobably going to be a long time
.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
And then there's another thing too.
And then there's another thingtoo.
So we were in Vegas and Andrewthe watch guy from a very famous
watch store in Calabasas andhe's a fan and a friend, and the
guy knows more about watchesthan anybody in the world he
says oh my God, you're here, I'mgoing to come, I'm coming with
the guy who's the president ofsome synagogue.

(35:14):
So I'm like, how does he nothave a ticket already?
If I'm in your town, how areyou not with a ticket?
And then I, I, I asked themanager of the of the Westgate
did you advertise to all thesynagogues?
He goes yeah, every synagoguefound out about us.
And then I suppose he justdidn't want to buy a ticket.

(35:39):
Yeah, he just didn't want that.
We were there, but it was soit's sad.
I get sad when I'm on stage andsee an empty seat.
I just like someone could bethere laughing.
There could be somebody sittingthere laughing.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
So I was in Chicago a couple of weeks ago and I did a
wedding and it was aninteresting wedding.
It was like lovely, lovelypeople.
She's reformed, he's Orthodox,and so I worked with a reformed
rabbi and that was everythingwas really, really, really
lovely.
And they did a rehearsal dinnerand his family.
Isn't that a Goyesha thing?
It's such a Goyesha thing.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
We don't need to rehearse dinner.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Also in the Orthodox Jewish world.
There's like seven eventsafterwards no but all that stuff
is usually after, because thebride and groom don't see each
other for a week.
So how are you going to do arehearsal dinner Before the
wedding?

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Well, I did not know that.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
So he's from Houston and I'm sitting at the rehearsal
dinner and this couple comesover to me and they have like
strong Texan accents and I getup to to to meet them and they,
they clearly want to talk to me.
And so one of them says weheard something really nice
about you.
I said, oh, wow, what what hesays we heard your friends with

(36:55):
Modi.
Oh.
So I said, yeah, oh, my Modi'sthe best, Isn't?
He's so good, he's so talented.
I love him.
Oh, we love him too.
We just saw him.
You were in Houston, we justsaw him there.
He looked like so happy.
So I you know, I'm trying tolike wind this conversation down
, but they keep wanting to talk.
And I said so you like comedyor you just like you like Modi?

(37:19):
Where are you at?
So they said, oh no, we lovecomedy.
Every time we come to New Yorkwe always try to go see a comedy
show.
I said oh wow, that's likereally nice.
Like, where do you go?
So the wife says she like looksaround and she says, have you
ever heard of a place called theComedy Cellar?

(37:40):
I said yeah, I'd like.
Sure, it's like very famous andI've been there many, many,
many times.
So they say, ah, we always tryto go to the Comedy Cellar.
I said, oh, wow, okay, so which, which?
Which are the comedians thatyou like?
Who do you like?
And he says, oh, we love thiscomedian.

(38:02):
His name is Eric Newman.
Oh no, I said what?
Oh yeah, eric Newman, we loveEric Newman.
Every time we're in New Yorkwe're trying to see Eric Newman.
Good, I said we're going totake a picture now.
We're FaceTiming Eric Newman.
Right now We'm going to.
We're going to take a picturenow I'm going to we're, we're
FaceTiming.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Eric Newman right now , like we get him, did you
FaceTime, eric Newman.
I sent him pictures.
I'm like, I'm with your twobiggest fans.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
This is amazing.
Like who else do you like?
They said Gary Vita, I'm likethis conversation is over, I'm
out of here.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
I love him.
He's the host.
He's the host, he's a greathost.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Of course he is, and he's the sweetest and he's funny
.
Eric Newman was on like thethird episode of the show, and I
was expecting Attell, I wasexpecting Colin, I was expecting
Perrielle.
It was so funny, it was so goodto hear, though.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
You imagine, if they're coming to the Comedy
Cell on a regular basis, onrandom times, he's probably the
host, and they landed in a showwhere he's the host.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
And they define their experience through him and so
they look forward to him andthat's a connection and that's
beautiful.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
And he's the type that talks to the audience after
the show and before the show.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
A little too much maybe.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, but he's there.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
God bless Eric, really Okay, okay, god bless her
.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
You have some questions.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
We have questions.
We have some fun questions foryou, go ahead.
Yiddish is the fighting lovelanguage of my long deceased
grandparents.
Would you ever consider doing aYiddish word of the day?
It's a great idea.
It's a great idea.
And somebody else asked what'syour favorite yiddish curse?

(39:39):
So you can answer I don'treally have a favorite yiddish
curse your favorite yiddish word.
Leo, you can also answer thisthere's so many, I came I I love
.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
I love the expression of disgust which is ayah brach.
Ayah brach means like, oh,vomit, but off is like broken,
like crumbs.
It's essentially the equivalentof like tossing your cookie
Okay.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
I've never heard that before.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
To blow chunks, oh no , to throw up is that's it.
That's why it means broken.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
It's like the bros it's all the same word, but when
do you use that Like?

Speaker 3 (40:19):
give me an example.
So when something goes horriblywrong, when something is just
not right, you're like oh yeah,gebrochs.
Yeah Like oh, that's, it's likea kelastima.
It's like ugh, it's so sad,what a pity Okay.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, I'm disgusted.
Their car smashed intosomething.
Oh yeah, bruh, oh yeah bruh.
Oh yeah bruh.
Or it's like my son's dating agirl who's not Jewish oh yeah,
bruh.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Yeah, oh, my God.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Jackie Mason threw that out on stage nonstop.
Oh yeah, bruh, she was here andshe was there and that oh yeah,
bruh, she came by those.
Oh bruh, I never use that wordbecause Jackie Mason used it so
much.
I don't usually use that wordso what do you use?

Speaker 4 (41:08):
what's your I?

Speaker 2 (41:09):
prefer brecht, like when, leo, we ordered something
and I go, I'm going to brecht ifI eat that.
We're sitting on an airplaneand they service that food.
I go, I'm going to brecht if Ieat this.
Take this away.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
I regret it.
You know like Eskimos in snow,so Yiddish has like 80 words for
vomit.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
I've never heard you say that.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
No, but my only Yiddish curse I have.
You know what?

Speaker 4 (41:28):
I hear you say Yiddish a lot.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
What.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Fe.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Fe, oh, you throw that in a lot.
That's not even really a word.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
But it is a word, Discuss with it.
It's the ew of Yiddish, it's fe, and ichs Ichs is also Israeli
Ichs Ichs.
And then you have, but I don'treally you know, the biggest
curse I use in Yiddish is kishand tuchus.
Kiss my ass, you know, or theycan, you know, and tuchus and

(42:00):
ass.
But if I'm going to curse, I'mnot going to waste Yiddish on it
.
I will go to.
I will go to to Russian Pizdaimot, and I don't even know if
that's Russian or Turkish Pizdaimot.
It's so great.
But I, my father, used to screamthat when he was driving he
used to scream at the otherdriver pizda imot.

(42:21):
And then my barber, the barberI used to go to.
They were Bukharian, and whenit was a father and son and when
the father was upset withwhatever was going on, he'd go
peace, die mot for your mother.
And he's like, literally, whata mutt got a curse, Something
nasty.
It's gotta be horrible.
It's horrible what it means,but it's that's.
I'll go for that curse if I'mnot cursing in english.

(42:41):
That's good question.
That's what I'm talking aboutthat is a good question.
It's funny because the curses inyiddish are like paragraphs,
it's like a whole direction.
Go, go crap in the ocean.
It's like 13 things.
They have to go find an ocean,take a crap in it.
It's too long, they grow like atibble with you like you should

(43:16):
grow like an onion with yourhead in the earth.
It's too much, it's too long.
They grow like a tibbola withthe earth.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
So so, so guys are not paying attention.
So who's your dream guest?
We've spent like seven episodestalking about Omer Shemtov
being the dream guest.
You guys catch up.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Did you see?
Omer Shemtov posted thisbeautiful video of him just
talking.
He's saying I felt all of yourprayers, I felt all of your
energy.
He had some miraculoussituation with grape juice that
survived.
It's like the nest of the oil,yeah.
And he made kiddish on thatFriday night and, wow, what a

(43:54):
great thing to see.
He's still currently a dreamguest of mine.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
He's coming, he wants to come.
He's going to come on.
Okay, this is a question of.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
My grandmother had that nail polish.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
She just that's a whole thing.
It's a whole thing.
We're not going to do it rightnow, never mind.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
But, thank you.
What's your favorite snack andwhat's your favorite snack?

Speaker 1 (44:19):
I'm his favorite snack Period Period and guess
what?
Not a low calorie food?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
No, I munched on Leo's head, very rich.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Very dense.
My favorite snack, I'll tellyou right now, is a caramel rice
cake with peanut butter on itand then a little bit of jelly,
and then I dip it in like analmond milk.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
That's indulgent?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yeah, it's not a snack.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
You're really letting it get to me and then a little
bit of jelly, and then I dip itin like an almond milk.
That's indulgent yeah, it's nota snack.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
You're really letting it A snack, but it's something
you just house while you'restanding there in the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Okay, when we're in town for more than an hour and
Leo does put an order intoInstacartgram.
Instacartgram.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Instacartgram.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Instacart, instacart, instacart period, so there's
food in the house.
One of my go-to snacks iscottage cheese and, like I also
take a little bit of the jellytogether, so like cottage cheese
and jelly and eat it togetherno cottage cheese, by the way,
jake Cohen also by the way, doyou know what you can also order
on Instacart?

(45:20):
A&H Provisions.
A&h Provisions the top kosher,kosher, galat, kosher food
Approved by our mishgiyach andmuch better mishgiyach.
Why don't you as the mishgiyach?
Why don't you do the promo forA&H?
Go ahead, let's get the cameraon the rabbi.
Put the camera on the rabbi.

(45:40):
What do we say?

Speaker 3 (45:41):
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.
The Goyim love it.
They can't get enough of it.
Why?
Because it's delicious, butalso because it's kosher.
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You can get it in Costco.
You can buy it online.
Use the promo code.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Modi, modi, modi Modi .

Speaker 3 (46:00):
And you'll get 30% off.
Oh, like you're some kind ofexpert now.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
It took you seven years.
It took me eight years to getthis thing down.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Yes, 30% off your first order of A&H provisions.
Then, by the way, the nicestguy.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Seth is the nicest guy Kosherdognet and it really
is he wants his food.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Kosherdognet.
He wants people to see wherethe sausages are made, which is
a big no-no.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
I've been to that club in West Hollywood.
It's scary.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
And also Weitz and Luxembourg Also kosher or all
your.
No, weitz and Luxembourg, thelaw firm that not only does well
, they do good, veryphilanthropic.
We love Arthur and Randy.
She listens to the podcast,tells him what we talk about and
we collaborate with them andthey're amazing.

(46:52):
And his did I talk about.
No Now, but okay, great, butthat's it.
So that was a good segue, nice,good job.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
Very nice.
This is just a cute message.
Saw you in Vegas.
You were killing it.
The people working at theWestgate were dying to know who
is this guy Modi.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Period.
It's sweet Standing ovation onthe stage Elvis, elvis, elvis.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
When you see those videos.
Does he appreciate that at all?
Because I barely appreciate itMe.
What, yeah, I do.
Elvis is like a cultural icon.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Oh, my God, we did Elvis last week, are you?

Speaker 1 (47:28):
kidding.
First of all, you don't knowyet because the episode hasn't
aired yet, but I spent a chunkof the last episode talking
about how I want to get myHalloween costume in order now
to be a very high class Elvis.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
This year for Halloween, I'm going to be the
fat dead one in the bathtub.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Yeah, I don't know.
It never spoke to me.
Oh my God.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
Okay, you guys are going off the rails.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
The gift that God put on earth in that vessel of
Elvis is insane.
Come on, oh wow.
Yeah, elvis is in the nextlevel.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
We got two questions about people ask how did you and
I meet?

Speaker 2 (48:05):
now we know, periel and I met through our moms my,
her, your mother knew you neededto get married and needed
somebody to officiate in yourwedding.
And then they got to my motherand then we you and I met in a
coffee shop and you were liketrying to size me up.
And what is this comedian thatalso officiates a wedding?

Speaker 4 (48:25):
This is also like 18 years ago.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
If you want me to wear the robe, it costs this
much.
With the talus and the hat, itcosts that much.
If it's outdoors, it costs anextra much.
If it's a sunny day andoutdoors, it's an extra 10% I
charge.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
But it's funny because it was like 18 years ago
.
And then I but it's funnybecause it was like 18 years ago
.
And then I pitched this.
I was obsessed.
I was like this guy'shysterical and I love this
outfit.
And I told my israeli husband,who I just imported from israel,
about this and he was like thisis insane, like what's wrong
with you.
But then we met he was toocheap to pay for me.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Yeah, he didn't want to pay for me.
Guy didn't didn't see the valuein having me as their, as their
.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Uh, didn't understand right what I was doing right.
But then we also met a bunch ofother times through comedy.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Yeah, um, and you knew, you knew noam separately.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
Yes, yeah, but I also interviewed modi when I was
writing a column for tabletletMagazine called the Chosen Ones
and like, they gave me like freereign to pick, like any
interesting, well-known Jews,and that was how I met Modi.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
You came to my apartment and the year was 2016.
And I had to straighten you outabout Trump.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
I had to straighten you out about Trump.
She had an aha moment when shedid the interview with me.
I forgot exactly what it was.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
I asked you how horrible this whole thing was
with Trump, and you said thatit's very important, because
sometimes you need all of theschmutz good Yiddish word to
rise to the surface so that youcan see the truth of everything
that's going on.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Yeah, yes, I remember that moment you had in the
apartment during the interview.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
It's a good interview .
You can still find it online.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Yes, next question.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
Next question.
I like questions.
Somebody's pitching here.
I think Leo is underselling hisvocal capabilities.
Do you have a good voice?

Speaker 1 (50:26):
No, I don't.
I'm also tone deaf.
I'm tone deaf, I can't sing.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
But Leo has memorized the entire Lady Gaga album that
has just dropped.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
I know what are your thoughts on the new album what?

Speaker 2 (50:36):
are your thoughts on the new album?

Speaker 1 (50:38):
My thoughts on the new Lady Gaga album called
Mayhem.
On the new Lady Gaga albumcalled Mayhem, as someone who
was very, very obsessed withLady Gaga when I was about 17
years old, when I was in highschool.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
You were allowed.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Well, yeah, I skipped class one day to go to her
concert in Atlanta and I endedup on the news.
I was camping outside thestadium because I had these
floor seats and I wanted to belike up on the front and I was
wearing these like Daisy Dukedenim shorts and then underneath
the denim shorts I had fishnetstockings.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Do we have a clip of?

Speaker 1 (51:14):
this, and then I had like combat boots, of course.
And then, I had a shirt that Ihad hot glued pieces of a disco
ball all over, and then I hadsomething in my hair I don't
remember what, and my parentswere still surprised I was gay.
And so, yeah, lady Gaga and Igo back, way, way back, and I

(51:37):
didn't know if she had any gasleft in the tank still.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
But then she released this album and I'm like Let me
tell you there's gas left in thetank still.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
But then she released this album and I'm like, let me
tell you there's gas left aftervegas, seeing all those artists
that are in their 80sperforming still there's gas in
the tank it was kind of weird tosee you like processing all of
those posters and seeing all ofthese like older people who are
still performing, because Ialways tell you I'm like are you
gonna be performing when you'relike older?
And he's always like yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
So it reminded me.
It reminded me of my mom whenshe found out I was gay.
So every time we pull up tosomewhere and it says Barry
Manilow is here and Leo goes tome, does Barry Manilow need
money?
What is he doing this for?
Why is Barry Manilow performing?
I'm like the goal is to tap out.
That's your goal.
Leo wants to be in the house inConnecticut done with everything

(52:27):
on order.
It's not, but it's also thisgift that God put inside you,
this energy.
You can't just sit on it, youcan drop dead.
So he's not like.
Barry Manilow needs this, heloves it.
He loves it.
Billy Joel is at the.
He had a tax situation whichprompted him to go back into
performing and doing.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Was it a tax thing or a divorce thing?

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Whatever it was, I don't know, I don't care, but
he's still instead of sitting onthe couch.
And so Leo goes to me.
When you're in your sixties, doyou still want to be doing
shows on the road?
I'm like, yeah, yeah, I do, Ido.
When I told my mom I was gay,my mom said to me what do you
want to?
Just to to grow old and livewith a man?
I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, I'm down for that.

(53:10):
Yeah, I hope I find the rightone.
Yeah, but that's like, yeah,you want to be performing?

Speaker 4 (53:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
You know, I, yeah, on your terms.
Obviously it goes in once amonth Thursday, friday, saturday
does the show, destroys, killsit, re-energizes himself and
goes back to whatever he does,he's doing the what's it called
Radio City Music Hall, and it'slike you know, wow, it's amazing

(53:40):
.
Wow, and he should be.
God, put a gift inside of himlike unbelievable gift.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
I think comics too, like it's the only thing you
want to be doing.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
It's the only thing I want to be doing.
When they paying for me to comedo a show, they're not paying
for the show.
They're paying for meschlepping through TSA, me
getting in an Uber to, from thevenue, from my house to the
airport, back to the airport,sitting in the Delta lounge
eating that grossness, sittingin the chair with the
announcements.

(54:11):
Please put your buckle on yourbuckle buckle buckle, buckle,
buckle, buckle, buckle, buckle.
I need you to take your bag andput it in the overhead, and
that's what you're paying for.
That's what you're paying forme not being in my apartment.
That's what you're paying for.
That's what you're paying forme not being in my apartment.
That's what you're paying for.
That's not the show.
The show is I would pay for itif I could just walk out of my
door and be in the show, but no,that's what you're paying for.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
I love that.
That's so good that's whatyou're paying for.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
And what about you?
You want to tap out.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
I'm already tapped out.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
He's not.
God put a gift inside of him ofproduction.
God put a gift in him.
He can take a comedian and makehim a bigger thing.
He can book him in the rightplaces.
He can make a merch store, hecan speak with the people in the
front of the theater, in theback of the theater.
It's a production energy.
It's a different thing and thegoal is for, I think, for you to

(55:07):
be able to tap out and not haveto do it anymore and just sit
there and Instagram your food tothe house and all that
Instagram your food to the house, whatever you call it.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
On that note, we should wrap this episode up.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
On that note, we're going should wrap this episode
up.
We have shows coming up.
Baruch Hashem, thank God, weare in Pittsburgh, we are in
Hartford, we are in Buffalo,Buffalo, we're coming to Buffalo
.
If I do this Buffalo show andthen we get a DM or an email,

(55:42):
hey, when you coming to Buffalo,I will come back and and kill,
kill people.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Um where else?
Where else Toronto.
We're doing three shows the.
The added matinee show is stillplenty of tickets available for
uh.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Available for available there the matinee, the
matinees usually sell out.
Jews love a matinee.
The matinees usually sell out.
Jews love a matinee.
Lunch Modi, fox News, they lovethat as the day.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Then we're in Manchester, Warsaw, Geneva.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
We are on modilivecom M-O-D-I-L-I-V-Ecom.
Look, just take a look and seeif there's a show near you or
near one of your friends, andthen let them know that there's
a show there or, even better,buy them tickets for the show.
Be the friend that brings thefriends to the comedy show that
is Moshiach Energy.
My rabbi, who's here for thissegment and probably staying for

(56:34):
the next one, is MoshiachEnergy at the Sixth Street
Synagogue, where you are invitedto come.
What's the website?

Speak (56:43):
SixthStrereetSynagogueorg , all spelled out
6streetSynagogueorg.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
All spelled out.
Always a kiddish, alwayssomething to eat, lovely
services.
One of the things the rabbidoes the most is respect your
time.
He doesn't drag it out.
You're done by 1130 on Saturday.
Friday night's a vibe.
It's fun, easy.
You don't have to get dressed.
You can go dressed like that,like him or like Leo, like
you're about to tow a car, andit's just easy.

(57:09):
Chill, it's your own journeythere.
If you want to come dressed ina suit, no problem, it's also
there.
So Sixth Street Synagogue,which is 100% Mashiach, energy
and modilifecom and Periel,anything you're.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
You can find me on Instagram at perielashenbrown
stillcom.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Thank you all for listening, and that's it.
Please keep in touch with allthose questions.
We love the questions.
Bye.