June 18, 2025 • 48 mins
Episode 153: If you could be any animal for a day, what would you be and why? The crew takes a video message from one of our listeners in Atlanta. Leo discusses his new tattoo. And, of course, all roads lead to the importance of keeping cash on you at all times.
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Leo (00:19):
Welcome to, and here's Modi .
Via the episode description,you can click the link that says
leave us a voice note, and youcan leave us one of these nifty
little messages and maybe it'llmake it into the show.
So here we go.
This is from Jeff.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hello Modi, I love you, I love Leo, I love Periel.
I love your podcast.
I love your sense of humor.
I love Mashiach Energy.
I loved seeing you on stage andyour show was phenomenal.
I loved watching the nextversion on YouTube.
Here's what I don't love.
Oh, and I love Mashiach Energy.
(00:52):
Here's what I don't love.
Sadly, I don't love the factthat, as you're announcing all
these new shows, including inlocations where you've been
numerous times Atlanta, the ATL,is not among them, so please
come back to Atlanta.
Leo (01:07):
All right.
Well, I have good news for you,Jeff.
We're coming back to Atlanta inDecember.
We are going to be at theCenter Stage Theater on December
11th I believe.
Those are not announced yet.
The ticket links are not liveyet, but you're getting the
inside scoop, since you sent usthat nice little voicemail.
So we'll see you in december.
(01:31):
Mark your calendars.
We'll also be going to someother places down south correct
and other.
We're going to be announcingmore domestic dates soon, um and
just just so you guys know whenwe announced it.
Modi (01:38):
Keep in mind, wherever we are this is not me, this is leo,
the touring agent and themanagement company.
There's a rhyme and rhythm togoing back to a city where
you've been.
I think it's 16 months, or 18months that they like to have.
There's a rhyme and rhythm fordoing things like that.
So don't feel like we are notgoing to your city.
(01:59):
We're just not going to yourcity on this round of shows.
But we again, if you have amicrophone, we are there.
Periel (02:10):
I would just like a little piece of advice to offer
Buy your tickets immediatelywhen the shows go on sale.
Because I just made the errorof not buying tickets to one of
the shows, that just made theerror of not buying tickets to
one of the shows that I'mactually hosting for us.
I figured I'll buy my friends abunch of tickets, like I
(02:31):
usually do.
Oh sure, we're almost sold out.
They told us, okay, I'll justget them next week gone, no more
tickets that's on you, that'swhat I'm saying we're gonna take
care of the comms.
We got it, that's fine, I'm not,I'm not, I'm just saying for
Jeff and everybody else likedon't wait, they go on sale, get
(02:52):
them.
Modi (02:52):
So just so you understand that there are shows where the
promoter tells us we have 20tickets for you, I go online and
buy another six.
Yes, that's what I'm saying I'mbuying tickets to my own show.
Yes, I'm talking Because I knowat the last minute I'm going to
need tickets for somebody hereand there and whatnot and all
that.
Leo (03:11):
So that's, all so that's Atlanta in December, and then
November is going to be a veryheavy touring month and this is
also unannounced, but we'reworking on getting you ticket
links for Tel Aviv, potentiallyHaifa, potentially Jerusalem,
and then we'll be in Berlin forthe Jewish Cultural Festival,
(03:32):
which you heard, avi, on anearlier episode, and then we'll
be going to Paris and thenVienna and Amsterdam, not
necessarily in that order, butthat's November, yeah.
Periel (03:42):
Wow.
Leo (03:43):
Some domestic dates and dates in Canada with a whole new
show.
Modi (03:47):
It's still a part of Pause for Laughter, which is
completely different from Knowyour Audience.
So that's it, but thesevoicemails are amazing and that
guy, jeff, has an incrediblevoice.
Periel (03:57):
It sounds like he could be like a radio host.
Leo (03:59):
I love you.
Hopefully he'll let us know.
Yeah, okay, would you haveanother one of those voicemails?
No, that was it, I just wantedto do jeff's.
Modi (04:07):
There's nobody else.
I love those voicemails.
Leo (04:09):
Hit another one I don't have one ready okay okay, isn't
that cute that they can leave usa voicemail and I'll.
I'll embed the audio so it'slike clearer I love it.
Periel (04:19):
It's really fun.
I um also love some of theseother questions that we have
here.
Name two people in the worldwho your partner admires.
Modi (04:35):
Oh, my partner admires Two people in the world that my
partner admires.
I'm going to put Lady Gagaright on top.
Okay, right on top to the Gagaand my partner.
I don't who do you?
Leo (04:47):
admire I was going to say Modi admires the Rebbe.
Periel (04:52):
Good.
Leo (04:53):
And Dr Wayne Dyer.
Modi (04:55):
Yes, Good, yes, dr Wayne Dyer and the Lubavitcher Rebbe,
did I nail it, you nailed it, Inailed it, you nailed it, you
nailed it.
Yes, and Did you nail it?
You nailed it, I nailed it, younailed it, you nailed it.
Periel (05:03):
Yes, and you are Lady Gaga Ed.
Modi (05:07):
No, I'm not.
Who do you?
Yes, you do you love that shewas so smart to get the gays on
board and you always rave abouther.
You rave about her.
She's a marketing genius.
She's a marketing genius.
And who else do you kind oflike?
You ever think for andersoncooper?
Leo (05:23):
no, that's just because I thought he was hot for a long
time okay, and then that wasokay.
Modi (05:29):
But who else do you admire ?
Who else do you look up tobesides me?
I mean, who else do youseriously?
Who do you?
Who else like?
Do you like?
Leo (05:41):
um, I don't know.
Modi (05:42):
I'll have to think about that leo admires anybody who's a
party planner, that has aclipboard and an ear.
Leo (05:47):
I told the woman last night at the party that I said I
would vote for you, forpresident.
Periel (05:52):
Yep, if you have an earpiece and a clipboard, I
trust you with my life that wasthe first thing I thought of
when you guys started telling meabout that event, that we
almost have been in heaven whenthe event planner meet there.
Leo (06:02):
There was like 15,000 people underneath the event
planner Just to give you a feelof the event, which we already
kind of talked about it.
But did you catch?
The event planner had a socialmedia person following her
around just recording her Right.
Not even the event.
Modi (06:19):
And they were stunning.
Yeah, and they didn't comeschleppy, they were in tuxedos.
They didn't come dressed like.
You know.
It's awful when you have thisbig event and everybody's
dressed well, but the people whoare working the event are
dressed in schmattes and ingarbage and in like a black
t-shirt and they're running inbetween the people that are
dressed nice.
She had all the people withcameras and videos in tuxedos,
(06:45):
so they kind of float.
Even though they were carryinga camera on those sticks, they
fit in the evening.
It wasn't like now the cameraguy's in my face.
It was really well done.
Periel (06:53):
Anyway, they're just saying I think that there's
something to certainly be saidfor a good event planner.
It's a very stressful job.
Modi (07:03):
Who are your top two?
Yeah, people you admire.
Periel (07:13):
Yeah, you thought we weren't going to ask you.
I did.
I actually had another questionready to go.
I don't I have to think I haveto get back to it.
Modi (07:20):
That woman for the golden mayor of today Isn't that one?
Periel (07:22):
of them A Mackville, yeah, but I would want to think
a little bit more about.
I was really planning on askingyou to that.
I'll think about somebody whoIsn't that a photographer.
Modi (07:36):
We had dinner with you.
There's many people you admireyou just don't realize you
admire them.
Periel (07:42):
No, there are a lot of people I'm surrounded by amazing
people.
Modi (07:46):
I forgot his name Mark Zelliger.
Mark Zelliger, yeah, you admirehim.
Periel (07:51):
I do admire him, but you know he's.
I admire Noam a lot.
Leo (07:55):
Yes, I admire Noam.
I admire Noam.
I think he's very smart andcool and knows how to like.
Periel (08:02):
Drive me crazy.
Modi (08:08):
We admire Liz from the comedy cellar.
Oh yeah, we admire liz from thecomedy cellar.
I admire sd should also berunning the country.
I'm st the booker of the comedycell.
Leo (08:13):
I admire many, many people, but I but yes, but dr wayne
dyer and my cabinet would bemade up of party planners and
everyone who works at the cellar, that's what I would run the
government with literally be awell-oiled machine.
Modi (08:25):
It would be amazing and everybody would be happy.
Everyone would be happy,everybody would be happy.
Good yeah.
Periel (08:30):
If you could change into any animal for 24 hours, what
would it be and why?
Leo (08:39):
A killer whale.
Oh, I yeah.
Periel (08:42):
First of all, you had that so fast yeah, because I
have that's.
Leo (08:45):
That's like one of these questions that come up.
I kill a whale because I'm notdoing a land animal, because I
know what it's like to be onland.
I I don't know what it's liketo be in the ocean and I don't
want to fly because I don't wantto be a bird, but because
whales are smart and they'll.
No one fucks with the whaleslike the killer whales.
They eat everything.
(09:06):
They eat sharks, they eat otherwhales and I just feel like
that would be fun.
Periel (09:12):
That's amazing.
Modi (09:13):
If I had to be an animal for one day, it would be a bear
in the middle of theirhibernation, like in the middle.
I don't know how long theyhibernate, so I recently learned
that they don't actually reallyhibernate the whole time.
Leo (09:28):
They're just like relaxing, but they're not like actually.
You think they're like in acoma, but they're not.
Modi (09:33):
Whatever they are, I want to, just whatever they're
sleeping, for a full day ofsleep.
I want a full day of sleep asan animal, as any animal that
sleeps for a full day, to be abear in a den sleeping, yeah
just.
Periel (09:51):
I would want to be the snake in the Garden of Eden.
Leo (09:53):
Oh my God, garden of Eden, the new Lady Gaga song on her
latest album, mayhem.
Modi (10:00):
A snake in the Garden of Eden.
The snake, the snake.
No, that's evil personified.
You're not evil, that'soriginal sin right.
Isn't that what they calloriginal?
Leo (10:09):
sin, that's evil, personified the snake from the
Garden of Eden.
Are you crazy?
Modi (10:13):
100%.
I can't believe that's what youwent for.
I think, I was ready to hear adove with a little olive branch
in its mouth, or the birds thatleft the ark and came back and
told Noah that the land iscoming.
Yeah, were you snaking Ew.
Periel (10:34):
First of all, I think it would be interesting to be a
snake, because you have no ideawhat it would be like to not
have any arms.
Leo (10:42):
I don't want that.
That freaks me out.
Yeah, ew, even though I guesswhales don't have arms either
any arms.
Modi (10:44):
I don't want that.
That freaks me out.
Leo (10:45):
Yeah, ew, even though I guess whales don't have arms
either.
Yeah, whales don't have armsand legs.
I feel like you don't need thatin the ocean.
Modi (10:51):
No, you need something for the plastic.
Leo (10:53):
How do you climb up a tree like a snake?
That freaks me out.
Periel (10:56):
That's what's interesting though.
Or like a snake that eats likean elephant.
Leo (11:03):
Like an anaconda.
Maybe, Do you know?
Periel (11:12):
I fell back into my rabbit hole of buying a personal
protection dog.
You are a personal protectiondog.
Leo (11:16):
He's a Rottweiler.
They're like $180,000.
Not really, some of them are.
Some of them are like $75,000.
Periel (11:23):
For what?
What is this?
Leo (11:25):
It's a trained dog that's like your friend, but also your
bodyguard, and, like, speaksdifferent languages.
Periel (11:33):
And what are you going to do with this thing Exactly?
Leo (11:35):
Just have it here.
It would be right here If I hadone.
How big is it?
They're huge.
Periel (11:39):
And where are you putting them?
They're what it's like, a.
Leo (11:41):
German shepherd.
Periel (11:43):
You're telling me a snake's evil.
You're getting like a Naziguard dog.
Modi (11:47):
He doesn't want to be one, he wants to have one.
Wouldn't it be the snake thatdestroyed Adam?
Periel (11:53):
No, I thought the idea of giving knowledge was really
interesting.
Leo (11:58):
Oh, that's your angle.
Periel (11:59):
I didn't have this whole evil connotation.
You guys totally ruined it.
Modi (12:09):
Wow, you really have no grasp of the Torah.
The tree of knowledge is thetree of life.
I can't believe you went forthe knowledge.
It's like the most.
It's like what destroyed theworld was that.
Leo (12:17):
Yeah, we didn't need the knowledge Periel.
We would have been better offwithout said knowledge.
I feel the same way about a lotof the knowledge that's in my
brain right now.
Modi (12:24):
I wish it wasn't there we all be sitting here naked right
now.
Yeah, perfect and happy yeah.
Leo (12:29):
Yeah.
Periel (12:30):
Okay, I Okay.
I'll come up with a differentanimal People are going to write
in.
Modi (12:36):
We knew she was evil.
Wait a second.
Periel (12:39):
I want to hear more on this dog.
Leo (12:41):
What about them?
Periel (12:43):
First of all, what are you going to name him?
Do you have a name picked out?
Leo (12:46):
Cash or Kevlar, or both.
Maybe we'll get two.
This is Cash and this is Kevlar.
Periel (12:51):
I see Leo walking down the street On the Lower East
Side holding two Dobermans.
Modi (12:57):
Absolutely not.
This is when you are fully inyour home in Connecticut.
Leo (13:02):
When we get to the level where we're flying private, I'm
having one of these dogs.
You don't know it yet, but oneof these dogs will show up and
it will be part of our life.
Periel (13:11):
A Doberman or a German Shepherd.
Leo (13:18):
Maybe one of each.
There's this one place, I thinkit's like in montana or
nebraska or something.
It's like a ranch where they dothis and they're one of the
most expensive ones and, uh,they like won't give it to you
until you go to them and likespend like a week there, like
for the handoff period.
It's like a very intense thing.
No, they're like.
They're like two and a halfyears old or three years old
already by the time you get themthey're fully trained.
Modi (13:40):
You can in different languages.
You can train them in hebrewand you can tell them what to do
, and the dog wakes up in themorning and has a purpose.
The problem with dogs inmanhattan if they have no
purpose in life, they wake upand have nothing to do and
that's why they're all messed upin a hot mess and their owners
are a hot mess.
Leo (13:53):
What am I going to do today ?
I'm going to bark incessantlyfor eight hours, for eight hours
.
Periel (13:57):
Eat my way through the wall.
Modi (13:58):
Right.
So when a dog wakes up and goes, what's my purpose in life?
Oh, to protect these two people, and when they don't need
protection, I just love them.
Then the dog has and eateverything else and bark all day
long.
It has a purpose.
Periel (14:13):
You want to travel with this thing.
Leo (14:15):
Yeah, really.
It could be backstage.
Periel (14:18):
And then what leave it in?
Like hotel rooms.
Leo (14:21):
All the hotel rooms we stay in are like people there have
pets, yeah.
Modi (14:26):
This is in his head.
Leo (14:26):
This is a fantasy and this is exactly.
I would knock the system out.
Give him a nice little servicedog vest.
Yeah, for sure obviously you'dbe sitting in delta one with us.
What's the problem here?
I don't understand.
Modi (14:36):
You become one of those idiots, crazy people.
Leo (14:38):
Yeah, this is my money with the emotional support bunny,
except a german shepherd lookslegit like no one's gonna be
like excuse me, that's not areal service animal, I'll be
like sick him is cash afterjohnny.
No, just money.
Modi (14:55):
And Kevlar is bulletproof, so that's your Kevlar right
there.
Periel (14:59):
I have news for you.
I see two dogs in your future.
He has that look in his eyes.
Leo (15:05):
I got a new tattoo of an M the letter M and we went out
dancing recently and my shirtwas not on my body and someone
was like what does the M standfor?
And I said, mind your businessit's.
Modi (15:23):
I hope it stands for Modi.
It stands for Modi or MashiachEnergy, or money and money, and
Mashiach Energy, modi money,mashiach Energy Period and mind
your own business.
Leo (15:32):
And mind your business.
Modi (15:36):
Mind your business, mind your business, mind your
business we were at basement inQueens, in Queens is that the
place?
Periel (15:46):
where has the guy wrapped up in the carpet?
He's?
Modi (15:49):
been there, unfortunately he asked him what do you want
for your birthday?
I said I want to go dancing.
I want to go, just want to godancing.
Leo (15:57):
And we went to the the the saturday before my those of you
don't know what we're talkingabout.
There's a very quick and easyway that you can set the scene
for yourselves open the hbo maxstreaming app, type in baby girl
starring nicole kidman andscroll through till there's a
rave scene where everyone'sdancing.
That's where we were, literallythat's where they filmed it.
(16:18):
It was amazing.
Modi (16:20):
It was a great night.
We had fun.
It was two different rooms, onewas like techno-techno and one
was like gay-techno and it wasfun.
What makes music gay-techno?
Compared to regular, it had alittle bit more of a disco beat
and less of a thump.
You mean like a housey.
It was a housey, yeah.
Periel (16:36):
That makes it gay.
Leo (16:39):
Yeah, In that environment.
Yeah yeah, usually that's wherethe shirtless ones are.
Periel (16:43):
Are there people like hanging from cages, like there
were in my day when we used togo to clubs?
Leo (16:50):
No, that's more House of Yes-y.
Yeah, that's more house of yesi.
Yeah, that's more house of yes,this is like low ceilings, like
it's you're in a basement, likethere's like catacomb looking
things where, like, because itused to be like an industrial
factory.
Wow, like, walk through to,like, get to the next room what
part of queens is this in?
Mass beth.
Yeah, like a location like whenyou get dropped off in the uber
(17:12):
.
Yeah, it's a warehouse, it'slike a warehouse it's a
warehouse.
Modi (17:14):
It's not like a like a fish location when you get
dropped off in the Uber.
Yeah, it's like a warehouse,it's like a warehouse in part of
Queens.
It's not like a like a queen.
Leo (17:19):
It's not in Forest Hills, it's in some part of Queens that
like Look up the movie BabyGirl with Nicole Kidman and
watch the rave scene and thenjust picture me and Modi there.
Modi (17:27):
And speaking of that movie , it was it's like fly your
freak flag.
It's, it's a great movie.
No, I haven't nicole kidmandoing.
Nicole kidman, who's uh, justunder 60, 58, is just naked.
The whole show just is justeverything's out and she looks
great and she's like probably ismaybe the last I'm gonna do
(17:48):
this.
But like here's me at 56, Ilook incredible and she nailed
it and she nailed it.
She really nailed it, wow.
Periel (17:55):
Baby girl.
Leo (17:55):
Yeah, baby girl Also, there's a dog motif in that
movie.
Modi (17:59):
What was the dog?
Oh, no, yes.
Leo (18:01):
Did you even catch that yeah?
Modi (18:03):
I did catch that.
It's a part of her freak.
And again, it's a fun movie.
It was a good one to watch.
Okay, watch, okay.
It's a movie, you know it has abeginning and has an end.
It's not a series where you'rewaiting for another episode to
come.
Leo (18:17):
We finally get a new episode of family and friends
today yes, we love family andfriends.
Modi (18:22):
Are you watching family?
Leo (18:23):
no, I'm not with john ham, john ham reserve, resorts to
petty crime.
What's it called Theft, theft,larceny?
Is that it Grand larceny?
Grand larceny to support hislifestyle.
Periel (18:36):
Wow.
Leo (18:37):
Yeah, it's actually very good.
Where is this Apple TV?
This is the thing.
Apple TV has these amazing highbudget shows because they're
Apple with like these crazycasts, they do zero marketing.
You don't know that they'rehappening.
You have to open the app likeno one's talking about them huge
celebrities huge and they'rejust no one.
Modi (18:57):
It's not advertised anywhere.
You don't see any.
It's just about it.
It must be a money launderingthing.
I don't know what it is apple,it's a money laundry.
Periel (19:03):
It's a money laundering thing do you know what I watch?
I'm now watching the firstseason of Law and Order.
Modi (19:12):
Oh, wow, wow, I was on that.
No, I was on SCSI CSI.
No, I was on Crime CSI New York.
Yes, oh yeah, csi New York,that's what I was on.
Periel (19:30):
Love these Law and Order .
They're too formulaic.
It's too formulated.
Leo (19:33):
Don't you see it coming from a thousand miles away?
I was on Love these Law Order.
There's two like formulaic.
It's too formulated, don't youlike see it coming from like a
thousand miles away?
Periel (19:39):
I want to tell you guys a funny story.
First of all, no, I cannot,like I cannot tell you how
obsessed I am with Law Order SVU.
I was standing in front of thecomedy cellar last week with
Steve and of course there arelines around the block for
people to get in, because therealways.
I was standing in front of thecomedy cellar last week with
Steve and of course there arelines around the block for
(20:00):
people to get in, because therealways are.
And this guy comes up to thefront, cuts the whole line with
a woman and he said you know,can I see a show?
And Steve was talking to me.
So the security guard was likeoh sorry, man, we're full.
And I was like like are youinsane?
I'm going to see.
Do you have any idea who that is?
And steve looks at me, looks atme.
He's like I have no idea whothat is.
(20:20):
I was like you have to let himin.
That's chris maloney from lawand order svu.
I do like chris malone.
I have never fangirled out I.
I was so humiliated.
I was like but yeah, I see,because I don't care who it is.
I was like you don't understand, so he, they let him in.
And then I was like, oh my god,I have to say hi, I love him so
(20:44):
much.
I made a.
I was humiliated.
I've never done that before inmy life I've been.
I've been on like photosets of,like mick jagger couldn't care
less I saw chris maloney, whereyou used your star and his wife
was.
I was like I'm happy to sell itand his wife was like, oh, my
god so, so get, let's.
Modi (21:05):
Let's unpack this whole situation.
So the comedy cellar there'stwo, three, four different
venues and there's a line foreach one and it's not a ticket
you have to buy and pay for, sothere's a waiting list.
So after everybody's seatedthat has a ticket, then they do
the wait list.
So Chris Maloney, or whoeverthis is, I'm sure I know him by
(21:29):
face, but I know I know him, Iknow the name, I just can't put
them together.
So Steve is the guy.
I know the name, I just can'tput them together.
So Steve is the guy that runsthe door.
He is what gets between you andyour seat at the stop, and the
millennials don't know.
But he does want to see ChrisMaloney.
He wants to see at least anAndrew Jackson, at least a
(21:53):
Hamilton on a 50, and it's worthevery penny and it just-.
Leo (21:58):
Are you saying he's easily bribed?
Is that what you're saying, ifhe-.
I don't feel like this shouldbe public information A hundred
percent.
Modi (22:07):
It should be public information and this is
something that could help you inlife always have cash on you
and be ready to pull it out.
Periel (22:14):
And yes, I didn't know that.
That was still a thing to betotally honest with you.
Modi (22:20):
Let me tell you a recent situation with cash.
That's a total thing.
We were checking into the RitzCarlton in San Francisco, okay,
and we arrived early.
We arrived at 10 o'clock for acheck-in.
It's at three o'clock andthere's a young man behind the
counter clanging and clingingall over that machine.
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It's one of those keyboardsfrom 1994.
Periel (22:45):
Uh-huh.
Modi (22:45):
Tick, tick, tick, tick, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bum.
He's like hi, welcome, I seeyou've been here before and da
I've been here before and da, da, da and I am, and I know, you
know.
And then there's a whole lobbyfull of people with their
luggage waiting for their room.
So my wallet is my wallet.
I will show you what my walletlooks like.
My wallet has the cash on theoutside.
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So I, while I give him my cards,then hold the cash to let him
know that there is cash involvedin the next situation that he's
about to do.
The cash is here, I hold it andI talk to him and I speak to
him like this and I say we'd begrateful if you can, maybe a
room in the same, even smaller,we don't need a view, we don't
need a view, a little place toopen our luggage, because we're
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here for a night doing a show.
And then he sees this and allof a sudden, well, let me see
what I can do.
Cling, cling, cling, cling,cling.
And then I do what I can do andI gave him a 50 and he was
happy.
I was happy, everybody wassitting in the lobby and we went
to our room.
Periel (23:42):
Wow.
Modi (23:43):
Yes, Cash still works.
So when you go up to Steve atthe comedy cellar and you are on
that, that, that miserablelooking uh, what's it called?
Uh, waiting list line, Go ahead.
Hey Steve, I don't know what'shappening, but I'm here on a
date and I'd love to and justdon't.
But can I give you money?
For just give him the money andhe will take care of you.
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Outdoor Steve, we love him.
Outdoor Steve, he's been thereforever.
Steve, he's been there forever.
Periel (24:12):
He's the best.
Modi (24:13):
He's the best, he's the best.
Periel (24:15):
So just slip somebody a 50 or a hundred, even in like
restaurants, like maitre d's.
You want to go?
There's an hour wait, you'retelling me.
Modi (24:23):
You give them 50 bucks they're going to see you A
hundred percent, 100.
It has to be the right guy.
How do you know it's the rightguy?
You have to feel it's the rightguy that can make the decision
to give you a table.
The girl behind the countermight not be the right one.
You might need to stick.
You need the maitre d' Maitred' exactly Someone who's got
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control and their pulse on theroom.
Then you should always havecash on you, always have cash on
you.
Periel (24:51):
Do you do this too?
Leo (24:56):
No, you always have cash on you you do this too, no, but,
but he has me next.
Yeah, but I know he's next tome with cash.
I'll let him hold it.
It's it's really, and I knowwhere we keep the cash.
Yeah, in case I need it.
Periel (25:04):
Yeah, and do you not walk around with any cash ever?
Leo (25:07):
I only have cash, you can.
I only ever have cash on mebefore or after I get a haircut,
because I tip him in cash andso then I get some cash out, but
then I usually ended up givingit back to Modi.
Modi (25:19):
I'm like here because I don't want to, it's so fun to
have cash, Like you know, whenwe were at I forgot Like a
bodega or something You're like,yeah, it's like you know, you
got a soda, a protein bar,whatever it is, and there's a
line of kids tapping theirphones.
And you just show them likehere's this and this and you
give them a 20.
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And they know it's covered andthey're happy.
Most probably they're not goingto ring it up, it's going to go
in their pocket.
But I was burping throughoutthat entire segment.
Wow, please edit that.
I don't know You're speakingthrough it.
Just cut that whole piece out.
(25:59):
I was just saying, not in abodega, but if you're in one of
those places like B&H Diner,that vegetarian diner on 2nd
Avenue, okay, we were there.
We had an omelet, we had a cornmuffin toasted, a little nicely
it was delicious.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
That sounds so good it was delicious.
Modi (26:21):
And now the guy's going to come and give us a check.
He's going to start to scribble345 and 780 and whatever for
the toast and the coffee.
It's going to end up being likewhatever it is 25.
Drop him a 50, drop them two20s and walk out and just be
done with it.
Yeah, be done with it.
You start waiting for change.
Who has patience for that?
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Just that's what the fun ofcash is.
Periel (26:46):
What kind of bills do you like?
Leo (26:48):
He doesn't allow the bank teller to give him hundreds that
are not crispy and new.
If they try to give him oldbills, he'll be like nope,
they're like brand new bills,they're coming straight from the
treasury department.
Modi (27:03):
Always 20s, 10s and 5s, Always.
I have always.
Periel (27:07):
At 50s and 100s.
Modi (27:10):
It's less relevant.
There's always a 100, becausesometimes you just need that.
Okay, we are coming out of arave in the middle of Brooklyn
and he's not even at the pointwhere he can pick up an Uber and
there's a driver there.
I've never been at that point.
So I've been at the point whereI've come out of a rave in
Brooklyn and I wasn't with youand you were not with me to
start finding an uber and I'mnot starting to do like from
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with a long arm looking for anuber.
I walk out and I will be like,uh, there's a beautiful, like
suburban and the guy's like cashonly.
I'm like, you and me are inlove and I'm at home and it's
beautiful and it's worth everypenny okay, he just got you home
.
You're safe.
You had a nice ride.
He had water.
He didn't put any music, it wasjust divine okay, come home if
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someone flipped ari like a 20.
Leo (27:56):
Just be like buy yourself some candy or pokemon cards or I
don't know what kids buy.
Would he be like thrilled, orwould he be like what do I do
with this?
Let's rephrase that question ifone, if one of, if one of aries
like if I was like, hey, if Isaw ari and I just was like like
a cool uncle type, just likeyeah, oh, he would be thrilled,
have fun at the arcade orsomething, I don't know.
Periel (28:19):
Do kids care?
Leo (28:20):
about cash.
Periel (28:21):
Yes, a hundred percent, especially when they have
Israeli fathers who carry cash,lots of cash.
Leo (28:29):
So the guy is the same way.
Periel (28:30):
Now, do you put your big bills on the outside or your
little bills on the outside?
Modi (28:34):
Depends In the hotel.
It's on the outside the bigbills, so he knows that we're
talking about this.
Just get me a room.
Periel (28:41):
Like he knows you don't think you're going to give him a
dollar.
Modi (28:43):
Right, here's a dollar.
Yeah, and the guy that opensthe door and everything and all
of that opens the door andeverything and all of that.
Those are fives here, there.
Periel (28:53):
Now do you even deal with single dollar bills, or is
that just like ridiculous atthis point?
Is it like five and above, nomatter what?
Modi (28:59):
No, sometimes you end up getting the singles back from
something that you paid for, butit's-.
Periel (29:02):
But you don't take those seriously.
Modi (29:04):
Yeah, but it's nice to have.
It's just easy to money's anenergy.
Leo (29:12):
It's like an energy you can just give right away.
If I did give Ari $20, what doyou think, as his mother and you
just gave him carte blanche?
What is he going to go buy?
Periel (29:20):
he would probably go buy like candy and soda and snacks.
Modi (29:23):
I used to save any money I ever got from any uncle or
family.
I just saved and then I boughta watch that's the most on brand
thing completely on brand andhe unculled it from me.
Leo (29:32):
I just saved and then I bought a watch.
That's the most on-brand thing.
It's completely on-brand.
Periel (29:35):
He likes sneakers.
He has an expensive sneakertaste.
Modi (29:39):
Okay, then that's a thing yeah.
Periel (29:41):
And right now he's the exact same size as I am.
So I'm very open to him buyingreally nice, expensive sneakers,
because he's going to grow outof them and then I'll just wear
them.
Modi (29:51):
That's funny, yeah, cash good.
Periel (29:54):
Cash is king.
Modi (29:55):
Yes, how did we even get to that point where we were?
Periel (29:57):
But it's fun.
Modi (29:58):
I don't remember, but it's fun.
Leo (29:59):
So that's what I was going to say that you always say that
money is energy and the problemis is that when I pay for
something with my face, I'm like, oh no, money was exchanged
Right, like that was free.
Yeah, if I'm at a coffee shopand it's like a bloop, I'm like
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that was free, like where didthat money come from?
Out of the air?
What is money?
Modi (30:28):
It's a line.
It's one line on the Amex billthat little face of your
plip-la-plip.
It's one line on the Amex bill.
Leo hands me the Amex bill andyou can tell from how thick it
is and I just go.
I don't want to know.
Sometimes it lands on thedining table like this, right,
sometimes it's like that.
(30:49):
Like that, it depends how thickthe Amex bill is.
Periel (30:52):
Who's getting Amex bills in the mail?
Leo (30:56):
Me Modi, do you know?
You know how everyone'spaperless and whatever and you
have to like, opt into paperbuilding he's he's opting into,
like, he's like, no, no, no,send me the paper.
He likes to sit there and lookat it.
No, thank God, because I'm notlooking at it, I'm just paying
it.
Yes, yes, yes, wait a secondyou are going through.
(31:19):
He loves getting paper in themail.
He loves getting our moneymanager portfolio papers in the
mail.
He loves touching the papersand putting his glasses on and
saying what's happening in here.
Modi (31:30):
Don't make me like the guy in Harry Potter that you showed
me.
I just keep an eye on it.
I can't start looking on theinternet.
Periel (31:38):
So you're going through the bill and then he's like here
, pay it.
And then you go online and youpay it.
Modi (31:44):
No, no, no, no, no, it's all automatic and it's all the
it's, it's all.
Leo (31:48):
But you see the charges, you know You're scared, but our
life is expensive, like there'sa lot of expenses involved.
Our life is not expensive thatare not like direct.
He's not expensive.
Too many flights are on ourAmex flights and hotels and
Ubers Like that alone.
Those are expenses Tens ofthousands of dollars.
Periel (32:05):
Huge difference.
You're doing a scan.
I'm trying to understand.
Are you going item by?
Modi (32:09):
item.
Sweetheart, before we walkedinto this little studio, we
began our day.
Our day began.
He said to me I could use aniced coffee.
I could use an iced coffee.
We went to this place that'snew around the corner.
He got the iced coffee with thebrew schmoo, that the special
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thing that they do with it, andI said give me one also with a
little bit of almond milk.
So those two and then thecroissant looked so pretty.
The croissant looked pretty,and we said the muffin looked
good too.
I'm not going to eat the wholemuffin or the whole croissant,
but a bite or two in order forjust to start the day with a
nice something sweet in ourmouth.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Whatever.
(32:50):
10% tip.
The day began $32.
$32 for a cup of coffee, acroissant and a muffin.
Leo (33:00):
So that's what it is.
It costs $250 to step outside.
I will tell you ExactlyLiterally.
Periel (33:06):
I took Ari to a basketball game practice.
Leo (33:09):
To step outside.
Periel (33:10):
I got in the middle.
I was waiting for him.
I said I might as well get amanicure $75 with tip and then
Ari's done, I'll take you to getice cream $30 ice cream.
I'm like how did I just spend$200?
I left the house for an hour.
Modi (33:23):
Because it's all automatic .
It's all automatic.
You don't feel it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ahundred percent.
Leo (33:28):
That's why I think once the house in Connecticut is done,
our expenses will actually godown a lot Like I will not be
floating around Manhattan likejust bleeping my card and my
phone everywhere, because I'llbe at home cooking like a
domesticated person.
Modi (33:45):
Not that I mind, but you're at home on the sofa,
you're busting through money onInstacart and whatever cart and
a shirt shows up, which is great, enjoy, get whatever you want,
it's not expensive at all in hislife, I'm telling you.
But Insta, the food that showsup, instacart, instacart, yeah,
yeah, yeah, pua, he's nonsense,he's talking I'm ordering like
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eggs and bananas.
Yeah, no, no, we don't livelavishly, we live in that.
And plus there's always somecrazy energy like this We'll
have friends over for dinnerbecause we travel so much.
You know, when we're home, weneed to have like to catch up
with our friends and I don'twant to be in a restaurant.
I can't hear them or some idiotasking me do you know what
you're having?
(34:27):
You know?
So we have it in our house.
We order in for everybody andit costs whatever it does.
But somehow, right away thatsame night, I'll get three
cameos or four cameos that coverthe whole night.
Leo (34:42):
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Modi (34:59):
The yarmulkes are.
Usually I give them out atshows.
Someone says, hi, we love you,my mother loves you.
She couldn't make it.
Here's a yarmulke For yourmother to whoever she wants.
Here's for your brother, here'sI just hand them out.
I love them.
We just had Yom HaShoah.
Don't forget people.
These podcasts are not in order,but Yom HaShoah the day of the
Holocaust Remembrance is justnow and people were sending me
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pictures of people in Auschwitzwearing Moshiach Energy
yarmulkes, which made my like,made my day.
Wow, I like, made my day, mademy day.
But the hats we're not makingcrazy money on this merch, but
it does.
It puts that you're wearing aMashiach Energy hat and someone
asks you what does that mean?
And then you have to tell themwhat you think it means, and
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then they'll tell you what theythink it means.
Is it Lubavitch, is it Mashiach?
And the conversation ofMashiach is out there and that's
a conversation that shouldalways be on our tongues
Moshiach, moshiach, moshiach.
All the time.
We should be speaking about itand let it happen.
Amen.
Yeah, I gotta get that in.
(36:05):
And here's Mori, and that'swhat Mori's about.
Leo (36:08):
Wait, I just got distracted because I thought I was
checking and here's Mori, andthat's what Mori's about Okay,
wait, I just got distractedbecause I thought I was checking
, because we were thinking abouthow expensive it is to step
outside.
Periel (36:18):
Yes, no, but I wanted to ask you guys if you saw the
shark frenzy.
Leo (36:27):
In Israel.
Someone got killed.
So there's like and what's itcalled?
Hadera, Hadera and the powerplant.
There's all those sharks aroundthere, there's warm water.
Right yeah, people are going inthe water with the sharks and
like messing with them, andthere was a body with bite marks
that showed up recently andthey're still doing it.
Periel (36:47):
So that is correct.
There's the warm water thereand the sharks are there and
they're not supposed to be there, and of course, they're not
supposed to be there.
It's the ocean, no, but it'sdriving in.
They're not.
Naturally they don't usuallycome that close to the shore.
Sharks they're there becauseit's very warm and they're
attracted to it, but anyreasonable group of people would
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be like everybody get out ofthe water.
There are a bunch of sharkshere.
The Israelis are like yalla.
They're going into the waterand playing with the sharks and
petting the sharks and grabbingthe sharks and feeding the
sharks because they thinkthey're invincible.
And suddenly you see somebody.
Leo (37:32):
They're not like the super aggressive type of sharks.
From what I gather.
They're like sandbar sharks,but they still have teeth and
they're still sharks, so theycan bite you.
Modi (37:40):
But isn't that horrible?
Isn't those horrible lifeguardsin Israel?
Aren't they yelling don't go in.
Yes.
Yeah, the beaches in Tel Avivyou can't even like step between
the nets without someone, likethe beaches in tel aviv are the
most amazing things in the world, except for it did the vibe
kill of those horriblelifeguards.
(38:00):
I love those guys, those, it'sthe most horrible thing in the
world.
You're just probably knowing tounderstand what they're saying
and they and they're justscreaming and yelling.
I think that they're like a, soyou can't do anything with them
and they just scream and yelland it doesn't really do
anything.
Move over here, yell out yellout.
Periel (38:22):
Anyway, there was no lifeguard.
I saw a video of a bunch ofIsraeli men watching somebody
get eaten by a shark, of Israelimen watching somebody get eaten
by a shark.
Because this guy took it uponhimself to go, quote, unquote,
document the sharks Like now youlike work for National
Geographic.
He took like his fins and hisgoggles and some like waterproof
(38:46):
camera and dove in and startedtaking pictures of the shark.
And what did the shark do?
Leo (38:53):
What sharks do which is Bite people.
Periel (38:56):
The shark ate him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you hear all these Israeliguys going Yo, I don't believe
it.
Someone is eating him.
Leo (39:09):
Ew, you saw a video.
Modi (39:13):
The shark and it shouldn't be called a shark attack.
It should just be a shark.
A shark doing a food sting.
If the shark was in a hummusstand or a falafel stand,
attacking that's an attack.
The shark went out and attackedsomebody.
The shark is in the ocean beinga shark and there's a piece of
meat floating around.
It's on a guy's body, but it'sthe sharks being the shark.
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That's what sharks do.
They eat meat that's in theocean I'm more.
Leo (39:39):
I was reading an article in the way here that apparently
they think because of thewildfires in la, there's like
this crazy toxic algae bloomhappening in the ocean outside
of LA so you can't go swimming.
It's like toxic water and allthese like dolphins and seals
are like washing up, like andthat the lifeguards in the LA
(40:00):
County beaches are taking likemental health days off because
they're like it's affecting them.
Wow, yeah, how many of these?
And the sea lions when theyattacks, when the algae goes
into their system because theyeat the fish that has the algae
or whatever it does somethingwith their brain it's almost
like rabies and they go crazy,leo, and they start biting
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people.
They're like zombie, crazy sealions which, if you ever look at
a sea lion's mouth, it's like apit bull mouth.
It has the teeth.
So they're attacking, attackingthey're either washing up dead
or, when they wash up, they'relike disoriented and they're
aggressive, and they're likebecause their brains are like
swollen, so they're like god,that is horrible it's like
really speaking of eating meat.
Modi (40:43):
Speaking of eating meat?
Oh, don't do that right here.
Periel (40:45):
No, um the lifeguards taking mental health days.
Well, that's very LA, that's alot.
Leo (40:55):
Could you imagine that conversation, hi?
So like I'm not feeling thevibe today, that one dolphin
really did it in for me.
Gnarly vibes, weren't you alifeguard for a minute?
I was a lifeguard at a pool.
Periel (41:12):
Ari thought you were a lifeguard when he saw a picture
of you in Fire Island in yourSpeedo.
Leo (41:17):
I'm not, not a lifeguard, yeah.
Modi (41:22):
So you were the lifeguard that had to go train the other
lifeguards to see if they werepaying attention.
Leo (41:27):
Yeah, so my supervisor would take me to other pools and
he would have me like go downthe water slide and then like
not come up back up for air andlike see how, and then he would
time how long it took the otherlifeguards to notice.
Are you serious?
I was like the decoy, yeah.
Periel (41:43):
I love the lifeguard outfits, I have to say, like I
love the lifeguard bathing suitsand I always want to get one
before we go on vacation, butthen I always get nervous that
somebody might actually You'reimpersonating a lifeguard.
No, but somebody might actuallyask me to help them.
Leo (41:59):
Yeah, we can't have that.
Modi (42:01):
No, yeah, lifeguards, you have to be focused, you have to
be.
I couldn't do that.
I can't.
I wouldn't be paying attentionto anybody doing anything.
Everybody would drown, they'dall drown, okay, so they drowned
One.
A summer is okay.
Leo (42:16):
There's only one?
No, I was.
This is the thing about mebeing a lifeguard.
I was vigilant, but I was alsocolorblind.
So part of the lifeguard's jobis to like do the pool chemicals
and you have to like add thewater until it turns the right
color.
I had no idea what was going on.
I always had to offload thattask to someone else no yeah,
the whenever I was on duty, thechlorine levels were either
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through the roof or like notenough wait a second.
Periel (42:41):
Are you colorblind?
Leo (42:43):
yeah, I'm like a little colorblind and have you ever had
to like test the ph of a pool?
You have to like put thosedrops in until turn, whatever.
I couldn't tell you because Idon't know how colorblind are
you?
Modi (42:55):
pretty colorblind moody can answer that.
Yeah, when we did a pregnancytest he couldn't see if we um,
no, he's colorblind, but so sothe chlorine pool is uh that's
really interesting.
Periel (43:11):
How have we never talked about that?
Modi (43:13):
I feel like we have, but he has ways, just like I have
ways of not stuttering.
He has ways of dealing with itthat are amazing.
He knows what things like theopposite, you know.
He knows what like a blue toyou and me to him is like a
beige, and so he'll be like oh,that's a blue, not quite.
But yeah, what Like?
Periel (43:28):
oh that's a blue, not quite but yeah, what colors can
you see?
Leo (43:32):
I don't know, I see color.
It's just different, like thosecolorblind tests where there's
like those numbers hidden in thedots.
I have no idea what's happeningin there.
Periel (43:40):
Wow, yeah, did you always know you were colorblind,
like when you were little?
Leo (43:45):
We found out when I was in kindergarten and my dad thought
I was faking it for attention.
I kindergarten and my dadthought I was faking it for
attention.
I don't know, but my teacherwas like he doesn't know his
colors.
I was like um, but then I couldread the crayons right, wow oh,
figure it out, as long as theyweren't like dragon's breath,
like what color is that?
I don't know, as long as it'sjust red or green so you began.
Periel (44:09):
So you could associate certain shades with what color
they are like you learn how todo it.
Modi (44:17):
It's pretty incredible, it's pretty unbelievable.
Periel (44:20):
Now they say they have those glasses now that you can
put on.
Leo (44:24):
I haven't tried those, you haven't tried those.
I haven't tried them, orderthem.
They're like okay, order them.
Periel (44:30):
They're expensive.
I'm going to buy a $180,000guard dog from Minnesota.
Leo (44:36):
We should order the glasses and I should try them on the
show.
Modi (44:39):
Oh my God, yeah, where are they Amazon?
I don't know, probably We'llfind them.
We'll find them.
We'll find them.
We'll do that when there's ababy and they put the glass in
the baby and they're like oh, myGod, the world.
Leo (44:53):
No, the ones that make me cry when the babies get the
hearing implants in, yeah, andthen they can like.
Periel (44:58):
They can hear their mom for the first time.
Leo (45:00):
That always gets me oh, moment, oh, we have a project to
do.
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see them everywhere.
They're like in Costco Costcoeven.
It's amazing.
Seth is great and we're sohappy that they are our
collaborators and we are.
We can wrap it up.
We can wrap up now.
I mean we're like we had fun.
We always have fun.
We always hope that we makewhoever's listening to us having
fun and just you sounded likeDonald Trump when you just said
(46:29):
that.
Leo (46:30):
Why it was fun.
We had fun.
We always make sure everyonewho's listening to us has fun.
It's gonna be fun, it's gonnabe itch.
Modi (46:38):
I just saw an interview of him.
He let somebody in to the whitehouse and the guy was chutzpah.
The guy was chutzpah.
I want to tell you he didn't.
If you don't like trump, okay Idon't like trump, but he was
being chutzpah on the interviewthey're in the oval office.
Trump didn't know who this guywas and, um, I know what you're
talking about the guy was beinga reporter, the guy, but in a
(46:59):
chutzpah way and it is a waythat the tattoos were
photoshopped.
But the way he said it, leo, doyou remember when we first
started?
You have to deal, that's, youhave to fight.
Crazy, as you remember when youfirst, when you started dating,
and I would do this thing, I goand you I go, what and you go,
what, what, what, what, what,like chutzpah kids that go to
their parents when their parentsgo.
(47:19):
Why did you say what like that?
You know I'm talking about that, that thing.
So he was just saying let'sjust disagree and would try to
move it on.
Well, maybe no, he would telltrump those tattoos were print,
shopped or whatever, it wasPhotoshopped and this and that.
But he was saying it to him andmoving it on.
Say, mr President, thosetattoos were print shopped,
photoshopped, were Photoshopped,those tattoos were Photoshopped
(47:42):
, okay, and then let him answerit.
But he was being and Trump justdismissed him completely, which
I fan or not fan, I'm justletting you know it was a crazy
thing to watch.
Anyway, everything by the timethis airs God knows what we're
going to be Crazy has changed indifferent shades since this
airs, and thank you for being apart of our conversation.
(48:06):
Our little hangout, our littlebehind the scenes of our lives
and we hope we brought somelaughs to yours.
Leo (48:16):
We have shows this airs in I don't know when this is going
to air.
Modi (48:21):
I don't know when this is going to air.
We have a lot of shows inEurope and all over America and
places you can't even imagine.
Go to modilivecom,m-o-d-i-l-i-v-ecom the merch is
also there or mashiachenergycomfor the merch and get some
tickets.
Never just buy for you and onefriend, get some for other
people.
By the time the show gets there, you're going to want to have
(48:44):
those tickets to give to yourfriends.
That creates mashiach energy.
When you get tickets for yourfriends and we'll see you at the
shows, we Sheik Energy.
When you get tickets for yourfriends and we'll see you at the
shows, we'll see you here.
Always send us voice messages,we'll play them again and thank
you very much for being a partof our family.
Periel (48:57):
Bye.
Modi (48:58):
Bye.
Welcome to, and here's Modi .
Via the episode description,you can click the link that says
leave us a voice note, and youcan leave us one of these nifty
little messages and maybe it'llmake it into the show.
So here we go.
This is from Jeff.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hello Modi, I love you, I love Leo, I love Periel.
I love your podcast.
I love your sense of humor.
I love Mashiach Energy.
I loved seeing you on stage andyour show was phenomenal.
I loved watching the nextversion on YouTube.
Here's what I don't love.
Oh, and I love Mashiach Energy.
(00:52):
Here's what I don't love.
Sadly, I don't love the factthat, as you're announcing all
these new shows, including inlocations where you've been
numerous times Atlanta, the ATL,is not among them, so please
come back to Atlanta.
Leo (01:07):
All right.
Well, I have good news for you,Jeff.
We're coming back to Atlanta inDecember.
We are going to be at theCenter Stage Theater on December
11th I believe.
Those are not announced yet.
The ticket links are not liveyet, but you're getting the
inside scoop, since you sent usthat nice little voicemail.
So we'll see you in december.
(01:31):
Mark your calendars.
We'll also be going to someother places down south correct
and other.
We're going to be announcingmore domestic dates soon, um and
just just so you guys know whenwe announced it.
Modi (01:38):
Keep in mind, wherever we are this is not me, this is leo,
the touring agent and themanagement company.
There's a rhyme and rhythm togoing back to a city where
you've been.
I think it's 16 months, or 18months that they like to have.
There's a rhyme and rhythm fordoing things like that.
So don't feel like we are notgoing to your city.
(01:59):
We're just not going to yourcity on this round of shows.
But we again, if you have amicrophone, we are there.
Periel (02:10):
I would just like a little piece of advice to offer
Buy your tickets immediatelywhen the shows go on sale.
Because I just made the errorof not buying tickets to one of
the shows, that just made theerror of not buying tickets to
one of the shows that I'mactually hosting for us.
I figured I'll buy my friends abunch of tickets, like I
(02:31):
usually do.
Oh sure, we're almost sold out.
They told us, okay, I'll justget them next week gone, no more
tickets that's on you, that'swhat I'm saying we're gonna take
care of the comms.
We got it, that's fine, I'm not,I'm not, I'm just saying for
Jeff and everybody else likedon't wait, they go on sale, get
(02:52):
them.
Modi (02:52):
So just so you understand that there are shows where the
promoter tells us we have 20tickets for you, I go online and
buy another six.
Yes, that's what I'm saying I'mbuying tickets to my own show.
Yes, I'm talking Because I knowat the last minute I'm going to
need tickets for somebody hereand there and whatnot and all
that.
Leo (03:11):
So that's, all so that's Atlanta in December, and then
November is going to be a veryheavy touring month and this is
also unannounced, but we'reworking on getting you ticket
links for Tel Aviv, potentiallyHaifa, potentially Jerusalem,
and then we'll be in Berlin forthe Jewish Cultural Festival,
(03:32):
which you heard, avi, on anearlier episode, and then we'll
be going to Paris and thenVienna and Amsterdam, not
necessarily in that order, butthat's November, yeah.
Periel (03:42):
Wow.
Leo (03:43):
Some domestic dates and dates in Canada with a whole new
show.
Modi (03:47):
It's still a part of Pause for Laughter, which is
completely different from Knowyour Audience.
So that's it, but thesevoicemails are amazing and that
guy, jeff, has an incrediblevoice.
Periel (03:57):
It sounds like he could be like a radio host.
Leo (03:59):
I love you.
Hopefully he'll let us know.
Yeah, okay, would you haveanother one of those voicemails?
No, that was it, I just wantedto do jeff's.
Modi (04:07):
There's nobody else.
I love those voicemails.
Leo (04:09):
Hit another one I don't have one ready okay okay, isn't
that cute that they can leave usa voicemail and I'll.
I'll embed the audio so it'slike clearer I love it.
Periel (04:19):
It's really fun.
I um also love some of theseother questions that we have
here.
Name two people in the worldwho your partner admires.
Modi (04:35):
Oh, my partner admires Two people in the world that my
partner admires.
I'm going to put Lady Gagaright on top.
Okay, right on top to the Gagaand my partner.
I don't who do you?
Leo (04:47):
admire I was going to say Modi admires the Rebbe.
Periel (04:52):
Good.
Leo (04:53):
And Dr Wayne Dyer.
Modi (04:55):
Yes, Good, yes, dr Wayne Dyer and the Lubavitcher Rebbe,
did I nail it, you nailed it, Inailed it, you nailed it, you
nailed it.
Yes, and Did you nail it?
You nailed it, I nailed it, younailed it, you nailed it.
Periel (05:03):
Yes, and you are Lady Gaga Ed.
Modi (05:07):
No, I'm not.
Who do you?
Yes, you do you love that shewas so smart to get the gays on
board and you always rave abouther.
You rave about her.
She's a marketing genius.
She's a marketing genius.
And who else do you kind oflike?
You ever think for andersoncooper?
Leo (05:23):
no, that's just because I thought he was hot for a long
time okay, and then that wasokay.
Modi (05:29):
But who else do you admire ?
Who else do you look up tobesides me?
I mean, who else do youseriously?
Who do you?
Who else like?
Do you like?
Leo (05:41):
um, I don't know.
Modi (05:42):
I'll have to think about that leo admires anybody who's a
party planner, that has aclipboard and an ear.
Leo (05:47):
I told the woman last night at the party that I said I
would vote for you, forpresident.
Periel (05:52):
Yep, if you have an earpiece and a clipboard, I
trust you with my life that wasthe first thing I thought of
when you guys started telling meabout that event, that we
almost have been in heaven whenthe event planner meet there.
Leo (06:02):
There was like 15,000 people underneath the event
planner Just to give you a feelof the event, which we already
kind of talked about it.
But did you catch?
The event planner had a socialmedia person following her
around just recording her Right.
Not even the event.
Modi (06:19):
And they were stunning.
Yeah, and they didn't comeschleppy, they were in tuxedos.
They didn't come dressed like.
You know.
It's awful when you have thisbig event and everybody's
dressed well, but the people whoare working the event are
dressed in schmattes and ingarbage and in like a black
t-shirt and they're running inbetween the people that are
dressed nice.
She had all the people withcameras and videos in tuxedos,
(06:45):
so they kind of float.
Even though they were carryinga camera on those sticks, they
fit in the evening.
It wasn't like now the cameraguy's in my face.
It was really well done.
Periel (06:53):
Anyway, they're just saying I think that there's
something to certainly be saidfor a good event planner.
It's a very stressful job.
Modi (07:03):
Who are your top two?
Yeah, people you admire.
Periel (07:13):
Yeah, you thought we weren't going to ask you.
I did.
I actually had another questionready to go.
I don't I have to think I haveto get back to it.
Modi (07:20):
That woman for the golden mayor of today Isn't that one?
Periel (07:22):
of them A Mackville, yeah, but I would want to think
a little bit more about.
I was really planning on askingyou to that.
I'll think about somebody whoIsn't that a photographer.
Modi (07:36):
We had dinner with you.
There's many people you admireyou just don't realize you
admire them.
Periel (07:42):
No, there are a lot of people I'm surrounded by amazing
people.
Modi (07:46):
I forgot his name Mark Zelliger.
Mark Zelliger, yeah, you admirehim.
Periel (07:51):
I do admire him, but you know he's.
I admire Noam a lot.
Leo (07:55):
Yes, I admire Noam.
I admire Noam.
I think he's very smart andcool and knows how to like.
Periel (08:02):
Drive me crazy.
Modi (08:08):
We admire Liz from the comedy cellar.
Oh yeah, we admire liz from thecomedy cellar.
I admire sd should also berunning the country.
I'm st the booker of the comedycell.
Leo (08:13):
I admire many, many people, but I but yes, but dr wayne
dyer and my cabinet would bemade up of party planners and
everyone who works at the cellar, that's what I would run the
government with literally be awell-oiled machine.
Modi (08:25):
It would be amazing and everybody would be happy.
Everyone would be happy,everybody would be happy.
Good yeah.
Periel (08:30):
If you could change into any animal for 24 hours, what
would it be and why?
Leo (08:39):
A killer whale.
Oh, I yeah.
Periel (08:42):
First of all, you had that so fast yeah, because I
have that's.
Leo (08:45):
That's like one of these questions that come up.
I kill a whale because I'm notdoing a land animal, because I
know what it's like to be onland.
I I don't know what it's liketo be in the ocean and I don't
want to fly because I don't wantto be a bird, but because
whales are smart and they'll.
No one fucks with the whaleslike the killer whales.
They eat everything.
(09:06):
They eat sharks, they eat otherwhales and I just feel like
that would be fun.
Periel (09:12):
That's amazing.
Modi (09:13):
If I had to be an animal for one day, it would be a bear
in the middle of theirhibernation, like in the middle.
I don't know how long theyhibernate, so I recently learned
that they don't actually reallyhibernate the whole time.
Leo (09:28):
They're just like relaxing, but they're not like actually.
You think they're like in acoma, but they're not.
Modi (09:33):
Whatever they are, I want to, just whatever they're
sleeping, for a full day ofsleep.
I want a full day of sleep asan animal, as any animal that
sleeps for a full day, to be abear in a den sleeping, yeah
just.
Periel (09:51):
I would want to be the snake in the Garden of Eden.
Leo (09:53):
Oh my God, garden of Eden, the new Lady Gaga song on her
latest album, mayhem.
Modi (10:00):
A snake in the Garden of Eden.
The snake, the snake.
No, that's evil personified.
You're not evil, that'soriginal sin right.
Isn't that what they calloriginal?
Leo (10:09):
sin, that's evil, personified the snake from the
Garden of Eden.
Are you crazy?
Modi (10:13):
100%.
I can't believe that's what youwent for.
I think, I was ready to hear adove with a little olive branch
in its mouth, or the birds thatleft the ark and came back and
told Noah that the land iscoming.
Yeah, were you snaking Ew.
Periel (10:34):
First of all, I think it would be interesting to be a
snake, because you have no ideawhat it would be like to not
have any arms.
Leo (10:42):
I don't want that.
That freaks me out.
Yeah, ew, even though I guesswhales don't have arms either
any arms.
Modi (10:44):
I don't want that.
That freaks me out.
Leo (10:45):
Yeah, ew, even though I guess whales don't have arms
either.
Yeah, whales don't have armsand legs.
I feel like you don't need thatin the ocean.
Modi (10:51):
No, you need something for the plastic.
Leo (10:53):
How do you climb up a tree like a snake?
That freaks me out.
Periel (10:56):
That's what's interesting though.
Or like a snake that eats likean elephant.
Leo (11:03):
Like an anaconda.
Maybe, Do you know?
Periel (11:12):
I fell back into my rabbit hole of buying a personal
protection dog.
You are a personal protectiondog.
Leo (11:16):
He's a Rottweiler.
They're like $180,000.
Not really, some of them are.
Some of them are like $75,000.
Periel (11:23):
For what?
What is this?
Leo (11:25):
It's a trained dog that's like your friend, but also your
bodyguard, and, like, speaksdifferent languages.
Periel (11:33):
And what are you going to do with this thing Exactly?
Leo (11:35):
Just have it here.
It would be right here If I hadone.
How big is it?
They're huge.
Periel (11:39):
And where are you putting them?
They're what it's like, a.
Leo (11:41):
German shepherd.
Periel (11:43):
You're telling me a snake's evil.
You're getting like a Naziguard dog.
Modi (11:47):
He doesn't want to be one, he wants to have one.
Wouldn't it be the snake thatdestroyed Adam?
Periel (11:53):
No, I thought the idea of giving knowledge was really
interesting.
Leo (11:58):
Oh, that's your angle.
Periel (11:59):
I didn't have this whole evil connotation.
You guys totally ruined it.
Modi (12:09):
Wow, you really have no grasp of the Torah.
The tree of knowledge is thetree of life.
I can't believe you went forthe knowledge.
It's like the most.
It's like what destroyed theworld was that.
Leo (12:17):
Yeah, we didn't need the knowledge Periel.
We would have been better offwithout said knowledge.
I feel the same way about a lotof the knowledge that's in my
brain right now.
Modi (12:24):
I wish it wasn't there we all be sitting here naked right
now.
Yeah, perfect and happy yeah.
Leo (12:29):
Yeah.
Periel (12:30):
Okay, I Okay.
I'll come up with a differentanimal People are going to write
in.
Modi (12:36):
We knew she was evil.
Wait a second.
Periel (12:39):
I want to hear more on this dog.
Leo (12:41):
What about them?
Periel (12:43):
First of all, what are you going to name him?
Do you have a name picked out?
Leo (12:46):
Cash or Kevlar, or both.
Maybe we'll get two.
This is Cash and this is Kevlar.
Periel (12:51):
I see Leo walking down the street On the Lower East
Side holding two Dobermans.
Modi (12:57):
Absolutely not.
This is when you are fully inyour home in Connecticut.
Leo (13:02):
When we get to the level where we're flying private, I'm
having one of these dogs.
You don't know it yet, but oneof these dogs will show up and
it will be part of our life.
Periel (13:11):
A Doberman or a German Shepherd.
Leo (13:18):
Maybe one of each.
There's this one place, I thinkit's like in montana or
nebraska or something.
It's like a ranch where they dothis and they're one of the
most expensive ones and, uh,they like won't give it to you
until you go to them and likespend like a week there, like
for the handoff period.
It's like a very intense thing.
No, they're like.
They're like two and a halfyears old or three years old
already by the time you get themthey're fully trained.
Modi (13:40):
You can in different languages.
You can train them in hebrewand you can tell them what to do
, and the dog wakes up in themorning and has a purpose.
The problem with dogs inmanhattan if they have no
purpose in life, they wake upand have nothing to do and
that's why they're all messed upin a hot mess and their owners
are a hot mess.
Leo (13:53):
What am I going to do today ?
I'm going to bark incessantlyfor eight hours, for eight hours
.
Periel (13:57):
Eat my way through the wall.
Modi (13:58):
Right.
So when a dog wakes up and goes, what's my purpose in life?
Oh, to protect these two people, and when they don't need
protection, I just love them.
Then the dog has and eateverything else and bark all day
long.
It has a purpose.
Periel (14:13):
You want to travel with this thing.
Leo (14:15):
Yeah, really.
It could be backstage.
Periel (14:18):
And then what leave it in?
Like hotel rooms.
Leo (14:21):
All the hotel rooms we stay in are like people there have
pets, yeah.
Modi (14:26):
This is in his head.
Leo (14:26):
This is a fantasy and this is exactly.
I would knock the system out.
Give him a nice little servicedog vest.
Yeah, for sure obviously you'dbe sitting in delta one with us.
What's the problem here?
I don't understand.
Modi (14:36):
You become one of those idiots, crazy people.
Leo (14:38):
Yeah, this is my money with the emotional support bunny,
except a german shepherd lookslegit like no one's gonna be
like excuse me, that's not areal service animal, I'll be
like sick him is cash afterjohnny.
No, just money.
Modi (14:55):
And Kevlar is bulletproof, so that's your Kevlar right
there.
Periel (14:59):
I have news for you.
I see two dogs in your future.
He has that look in his eyes.
Leo (15:05):
I got a new tattoo of an M the letter M and we went out
dancing recently and my shirtwas not on my body and someone
was like what does the M standfor?
And I said, mind your businessit's.
Modi (15:23):
I hope it stands for Modi.
It stands for Modi or MashiachEnergy, or money and money, and
Mashiach Energy, modi money,mashiach Energy Period and mind
your own business.
Leo (15:32):
And mind your business.
Modi (15:36):
Mind your business, mind your business, mind your
business we were at basement inQueens, in Queens is that the
place?
Periel (15:46):
where has the guy wrapped up in the carpet?
He's?
Modi (15:49):
been there, unfortunately he asked him what do you want
for your birthday?
I said I want to go dancing.
I want to go, just want to godancing.
Leo (15:57):
And we went to the the the saturday before my those of you
don't know what we're talkingabout.
There's a very quick and easyway that you can set the scene
for yourselves open the hbo maxstreaming app, type in baby girl
starring nicole kidman andscroll through till there's a
rave scene where everyone'sdancing.
That's where we were, literallythat's where they filmed it.
(16:18):
It was amazing.
Modi (16:20):
It was a great night.
We had fun.
It was two different rooms, onewas like techno-techno and one
was like gay-techno and it wasfun.
What makes music gay-techno?
Compared to regular, it had alittle bit more of a disco beat
and less of a thump.
You mean like a housey.
It was a housey, yeah.
Periel (16:36):
That makes it gay.
Leo (16:39):
Yeah, In that environment.
Yeah yeah, usually that's wherethe shirtless ones are.
Periel (16:43):
Are there people like hanging from cages, like there
were in my day when we used togo to clubs?
Leo (16:50):
No, that's more House of Yes-y.
Yeah, that's more house of yesi.
Yeah, that's more house of yes,this is like low ceilings, like
it's you're in a basement, likethere's like catacomb looking
things where, like, because itused to be like an industrial
factory.
Wow, like, walk through to,like, get to the next room what
part of queens is this in?
Mass beth.
Yeah, like a location like whenyou get dropped off in the uber
(17:12):
.
Yeah, it's a warehouse, it'slike a warehouse it's a
warehouse.
Modi (17:14):
It's not like a like a fish location when you get
dropped off in the Uber.
Yeah, it's like a warehouse,it's like a warehouse in part of
Queens.
It's not like a like a queen.
Leo (17:19):
It's not in Forest Hills, it's in some part of Queens that
like Look up the movie BabyGirl with Nicole Kidman and
watch the rave scene and thenjust picture me and Modi there.
Modi (17:27):
And speaking of that movie , it was it's like fly your
freak flag.
It's, it's a great movie.
No, I haven't nicole kidmandoing.
Nicole kidman, who's uh, justunder 60, 58, is just naked.
The whole show just is justeverything's out and she looks
great and she's like probably ismaybe the last I'm gonna do
(17:48):
this.
But like here's me at 56, Ilook incredible and she nailed
it and she nailed it.
She really nailed it, wow.
Periel (17:55):
Baby girl.
Leo (17:55):
Yeah, baby girl Also, there's a dog motif in that
movie.
Modi (17:59):
What was the dog?
Oh, no, yes.
Leo (18:01):
Did you even catch that yeah?
Modi (18:03):
I did catch that.
It's a part of her freak.
And again, it's a fun movie.
It was a good one to watch.
Okay, watch, okay.
It's a movie, you know it has abeginning and has an end.
It's not a series where you'rewaiting for another episode to
come.
Leo (18:17):
We finally get a new episode of family and friends
today yes, we love family andfriends.
Modi (18:22):
Are you watching family?
Leo (18:23):
no, I'm not with john ham, john ham reserve, resorts to
petty crime.
What's it called Theft, theft,larceny?
Is that it Grand larceny?
Grand larceny to support hislifestyle.
Periel (18:36):
Wow.
Leo (18:37):
Yeah, it's actually very good.
Where is this Apple TV?
This is the thing.
Apple TV has these amazing highbudget shows because they're
Apple with like these crazycasts, they do zero marketing.
You don't know that they'rehappening.
You have to open the app likeno one's talking about them huge
celebrities huge and they'rejust no one.
Modi (18:57):
It's not advertised anywhere.
You don't see any.
It's just about it.
It must be a money launderingthing.
I don't know what it is apple,it's a money laundry.
Periel (19:03):
It's a money laundering thing do you know what I watch?
I'm now watching the firstseason of Law and Order.
Modi (19:12):
Oh, wow, wow, I was on that.
No, I was on SCSI CSI.
No, I was on Crime CSI New York.
Yes, oh yeah, csi New York,that's what I was on.
Periel (19:30):
Love these Law and Order .
They're too formulaic.
It's too formulated.
Leo (19:33):
Don't you see it coming from a thousand miles away?
I was on Love these Law Order.
There's two like formulaic.
It's too formulated, don't youlike see it coming from like a
thousand miles away?
Periel (19:39):
I want to tell you guys a funny story.
First of all, no, I cannot,like I cannot tell you how
obsessed I am with Law Order SVU.
I was standing in front of thecomedy cellar last week with
Steve and of course there arelines around the block for
people to get in, because therealways.
I was standing in front of thecomedy cellar last week with
Steve and of course there arelines around the block for
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people to get in, because therealways are.
And this guy comes up to thefront, cuts the whole line with
a woman and he said you know,can I see a show?
And Steve was talking to me.
So the security guard was likeoh sorry, man, we're full.
And I was like like are youinsane?
I'm going to see.
Do you have any idea who that is?
And steve looks at me, looks atme.
He's like I have no idea whothat is.
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I was like you have to let himin.
That's chris maloney from lawand order svu.
I do like chris malone.
I have never fangirled out I.
I was so humiliated.
I was like but yeah, I see,because I don't care who it is.
I was like you don't understand, so he, they let him in.
And then I was like, oh my god,I have to say hi, I love him so
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much.
I made a.
I was humiliated.
I've never done that before inmy life I've been.
I've been on like photosets of,like mick jagger couldn't care
less I saw chris maloney, whereyou used your star and his wife
was.
I was like I'm happy to sell itand his wife was like, oh, my
god so, so get, let's.
Modi (21:05):
Let's unpack this whole situation.
So the comedy cellar there'stwo, three, four different
venues and there's a line foreach one and it's not a ticket
you have to buy and pay for, sothere's a waiting list.
So after everybody's seatedthat has a ticket, then they do
the wait list.
So Chris Maloney, or whoeverthis is, I'm sure I know him by
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face, but I know I know him, Iknow the name, I just can't put
them together.
So Steve is the guy.
I know the name, I just can'tput them together.
So Steve is the guy that runsthe door.
He is what gets between you andyour seat at the stop, and the
millennials don't know.
But he does want to see ChrisMaloney.
He wants to see at least anAndrew Jackson, at least a
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Hamilton on a 50, and it's worthevery penny and it just-.
Leo (21:58):
Are you saying he's easily bribed?
Is that what you're saying, ifhe-.
I don't feel like this shouldbe public information A hundred
percent.
Modi (22:07):
It should be public information and this is
something that could help you inlife always have cash on you
and be ready to pull it out.
Periel (22:14):
And yes, I didn't know that.
That was still a thing to betotally honest with you.
Modi (22:20):
Let me tell you a recent situation with cash.
That's a total thing.
We were checking into the RitzCarlton in San Francisco, okay,
and we arrived early.
We arrived at 10 o'clock for acheck-in.
It's at three o'clock andthere's a young man behind the
counter clanging and clingingall over that machine.
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It's one of those keyboardsfrom 1994.
Periel (22:45):
Uh-huh.
Modi (22:45):
Tick, tick, tick, tick, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bum.
He's like hi, welcome, I seeyou've been here before and da
I've been here before and da, da, da and I am, and I know, you
know.
And then there's a whole lobbyfull of people with their
luggage waiting for their room.
So my wallet is my wallet.
I will show you what my walletlooks like.
My wallet has the cash on theoutside.
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So I, while I give him my cards,then hold the cash to let him
know that there is cash involvedin the next situation that he's
about to do.
The cash is here, I hold it andI talk to him and I speak to
him like this and I say we'd begrateful if you can, maybe a
room in the same, even smaller,we don't need a view, we don't
need a view, a little place toopen our luggage, because we're
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here for a night doing a show.
And then he sees this and allof a sudden, well, let me see
what I can do.
Cling, cling, cling, cling,cling.
And then I do what I can do andI gave him a 50 and he was
happy.
I was happy, everybody wassitting in the lobby and we went
to our room.
Periel (23:42):
Wow.
Modi (23:43):
Yes, Cash still works.
So when you go up to Steve atthe comedy cellar and you are on
that, that, that miserablelooking uh, what's it called?
Uh, waiting list line, Go ahead.
Hey Steve, I don't know what'shappening, but I'm here on a
date and I'd love to and justdon't.
But can I give you money?
For just give him the money andhe will take care of you.
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Outdoor Steve, we love him.
Outdoor Steve, he's been thereforever.
Steve, he's been there forever.
Periel (24:12):
He's the best.
Modi (24:13):
He's the best, he's the best.
Periel (24:15):
So just slip somebody a 50 or a hundred, even in like
restaurants, like maitre d's.
You want to go?
There's an hour wait, you'retelling me.
Modi (24:23):
You give them 50 bucks they're going to see you A
hundred percent, 100.
It has to be the right guy.
How do you know it's the rightguy?
You have to feel it's the rightguy that can make the decision
to give you a table.
The girl behind the countermight not be the right one.
You might need to stick.
You need the maitre d' Maitred' exactly Someone who's got
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control and their pulse on theroom.
Then you should always havecash on you, always have cash on
you.
Periel (24:51):
Do you do this too?
Leo (24:56):
No, you always have cash on you you do this too, no, but,
but he has me next.
Yeah, but I know he's next tome with cash.
I'll let him hold it.
It's it's really, and I knowwhere we keep the cash.
Yeah, in case I need it.
Periel (25:04):
Yeah, and do you not walk around with any cash ever?
Leo (25:07):
I only have cash, you can.
I only ever have cash on mebefore or after I get a haircut,
because I tip him in cash andso then I get some cash out, but
then I usually ended up givingit back to Modi.
Modi (25:19):
I'm like here because I don't want to, it's so fun to
have cash, Like you know, whenwe were at I forgot Like a
bodega or something You're like,yeah, it's like you know, you
got a soda, a protein bar,whatever it is, and there's a
line of kids tapping theirphones.
And you just show them likehere's this and this and you
give them a 20.
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And they know it's covered andthey're happy.
Most probably they're not goingto ring it up, it's going to go
in their pocket.
But I was burping throughoutthat entire segment.
Wow, please edit that.
I don't know You're speakingthrough it.
Just cut that whole piece out.
(25:59):
I was just saying, not in abodega, but if you're in one of
those places like B&H Diner,that vegetarian diner on 2nd
Avenue, okay, we were there.
We had an omelet, we had a cornmuffin toasted, a little nicely
it was delicious.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
That sounds so good it was delicious.
Modi (26:21):
And now the guy's going to come and give us a check.
He's going to start to scribble345 and 780 and whatever for
the toast and the coffee.
It's going to end up being likewhatever it is 25.
Drop him a 50, drop them two20s and walk out and just be
done with it.
Yeah, be done with it.
You start waiting for change.
Who has patience for that?
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Just that's what the fun ofcash is.
Periel (26:46):
What kind of bills do you like?
Leo (26:48):
He doesn't allow the bank teller to give him hundreds that
are not crispy and new.
If they try to give him oldbills, he'll be like nope,
they're like brand new bills,they're coming straight from the
treasury department.
Modi (27:03):
Always 20s, 10s and 5s, Always.
I have always.
Periel (27:07):
At 50s and 100s.
Modi (27:10):
It's less relevant.
There's always a 100, becausesometimes you just need that.
Okay, we are coming out of arave in the middle of Brooklyn
and he's not even at the pointwhere he can pick up an Uber and
there's a driver there.
I've never been at that point.
So I've been at the point whereI've come out of a rave in
Brooklyn and I wasn't with youand you were not with me to
start finding an uber and I'mnot starting to do like from
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with a long arm looking for anuber.
I walk out and I will be like,uh, there's a beautiful, like
suburban and the guy's like cashonly.
I'm like, you and me are inlove and I'm at home and it's
beautiful and it's worth everypenny okay, he just got you home
.
You're safe.
You had a nice ride.
He had water.
He didn't put any music, it wasjust divine okay, come home if
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someone flipped ari like a 20.
Leo (27:56):
Just be like buy yourself some candy or pokemon cards or I
don't know what kids buy.
Would he be like thrilled, orwould he be like what do I do
with this?
Let's rephrase that question ifone, if one of, if one of aries
like if I was like, hey, if Isaw ari and I just was like like
a cool uncle type, just likeyeah, oh, he would be thrilled,
have fun at the arcade orsomething, I don't know.
Periel (28:19):
Do kids care?
Leo (28:20):
about cash.
Periel (28:21):
Yes, a hundred percent, especially when they have
Israeli fathers who carry cash,lots of cash.
Leo (28:29):
So the guy is the same way.
Periel (28:30):
Now, do you put your big bills on the outside or your
little bills on the outside?
Modi (28:34):
Depends In the hotel.
It's on the outside the bigbills, so he knows that we're
talking about this.
Just get me a room.
Periel (28:41):
Like he knows you don't think you're going to give him a
dollar.
Modi (28:43):
Right, here's a dollar.
Yeah, and the guy that opensthe door and everything and all
of that opens the door andeverything and all of that.
Those are fives here, there.
Periel (28:53):
Now do you even deal with single dollar bills, or is
that just like ridiculous atthis point?
Is it like five and above, nomatter what?
Modi (28:59):
No, sometimes you end up getting the singles back from
something that you paid for, butit's-.
Periel (29:02):
But you don't take those seriously.
Modi (29:04):
Yeah, but it's nice to have.
It's just easy to money's anenergy.
Leo (29:12):
It's like an energy you can just give right away.
If I did give Ari $20, what doyou think, as his mother and you
just gave him carte blanche?
What is he going to go buy?
Periel (29:20):
he would probably go buy like candy and soda and snacks.
Modi (29:23):
I used to save any money I ever got from any uncle or
family.
I just saved and then I boughta watch that's the most on brand
thing completely on brand andhe unculled it from me.
Leo (29:32):
I just saved and then I bought a watch.
That's the most on-brand thing.
It's completely on-brand.
Periel (29:35):
He likes sneakers.
He has an expensive sneakertaste.
Modi (29:39):
Okay, then that's a thing yeah.
Periel (29:41):
And right now he's the exact same size as I am.
So I'm very open to him buyingreally nice, expensive sneakers,
because he's going to grow outof them and then I'll just wear
them.
Modi (29:51):
That's funny, yeah, cash good.
Periel (29:54):
Cash is king.
Modi (29:55):
Yes, how did we even get to that point where we were?
Periel (29:57):
But it's fun.
Modi (29:58):
I don't remember, but it's fun.
Leo (29:59):
So that's what I was going to say that you always say that
money is energy and the problemis is that when I pay for
something with my face, I'm like, oh no, money was exchanged
Right, like that was free.
Yeah, if I'm at a coffee shopand it's like a bloop, I'm like
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that was free, like where didthat money come from?
Out of the air?
What is money?
Modi (30:28):
It's a line.
It's one line on the Amex billthat little face of your
plip-la-plip.
It's one line on the Amex bill.
Leo hands me the Amex bill andyou can tell from how thick it
is and I just go.
I don't want to know.
Sometimes it lands on thedining table like this, right,
sometimes it's like that.
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Like that, it depends how thickthe Amex bill is.
Periel (30:52):
Who's getting Amex bills in the mail?
Leo (30:56):
Me Modi, do you know?
You know how everyone'spaperless and whatever and you
have to like, opt into paperbuilding he's he's opting into,
like, he's like, no, no, no,send me the paper.
He likes to sit there and lookat it.
No, thank God, because I'm notlooking at it, I'm just paying
it.
Yes, yes, yes, wait a secondyou are going through.
(31:19):
He loves getting paper in themail.
He loves getting our moneymanager portfolio papers in the
mail.
He loves touching the papersand putting his glasses on and
saying what's happening in here.
Modi (31:30):
Don't make me like the guy in Harry Potter that you showed
me.
I just keep an eye on it.
I can't start looking on theinternet.
Periel (31:38):
So you're going through the bill and then he's like here
, pay it.
And then you go online and youpay it.
Modi (31:44):
No, no, no, no, no, it's all automatic and it's all the
it's, it's all.
Leo (31:48):
But you see the charges, you know You're scared, but our
life is expensive, like there'sa lot of expenses involved.
Our life is not expensive thatare not like direct.
He's not expensive.
Too many flights are on ourAmex flights and hotels and
Ubers Like that alone.
Those are expenses Tens ofthousands of dollars.
Periel (32:05):
Huge difference.
You're doing a scan.
I'm trying to understand.
Are you going item by?
Modi (32:09):
item.
Sweetheart, before we walkedinto this little studio, we
began our day.
Our day began.
He said to me I could use aniced coffee.
I could use an iced coffee.
We went to this place that'snew around the corner.
He got the iced coffee with thebrew schmoo, that the special
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thing that they do with it, andI said give me one also with a
little bit of almond milk.
So those two and then thecroissant looked so pretty.
The croissant looked pretty,and we said the muffin looked
good too.
I'm not going to eat the wholemuffin or the whole croissant,
but a bite or two in order forjust to start the day with a
nice something sweet in ourmouth.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Whatever.
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10% tip.
The day began $32.
$32 for a cup of coffee, acroissant and a muffin.
Leo (33:00):
So that's what it is.
It costs $250 to step outside.
I will tell you ExactlyLiterally.
Periel (33:06):
I took Ari to a basketball game practice.
Leo (33:09):
To step outside.
Periel (33:10):
I got in the middle.
I was waiting for him.
I said I might as well get amanicure $75 with tip and then
Ari's done, I'll take you to getice cream $30 ice cream.
I'm like how did I just spend$200?
I left the house for an hour.
Modi (33:23):
Because it's all automatic .
It's all automatic.
You don't feel it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ahundred percent.
Leo (33:28):
That's why I think once the house in Connecticut is done,
our expenses will actually godown a lot Like I will not be
floating around Manhattan likejust bleeping my card and my
phone everywhere, because I'llbe at home cooking like a
domesticated person.
Modi (33:45):
Not that I mind, but you're at home on the sofa,
you're busting through money onInstacart and whatever cart and
a shirt shows up, which is great, enjoy, get whatever you want,
it's not expensive at all in hislife, I'm telling you.
But Insta, the food that showsup, instacart, instacart, yeah,
yeah, yeah, pua, he's nonsense,he's talking I'm ordering like
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eggs and bananas.
Yeah, no, no, we don't livelavishly, we live in that.
And plus there's always somecrazy energy like this We'll
have friends over for dinnerbecause we travel so much.
You know, when we're home, weneed to have like to catch up
with our friends and I don'twant to be in a restaurant.
I can't hear them or some idiotasking me do you know what
you're having?
(34:27):
You know?
So we have it in our house.
We order in for everybody andit costs whatever it does.
But somehow, right away thatsame night, I'll get three
cameos or four cameos that coverthe whole night.
Leo (34:42):
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There's hats, there's notebooks, there's shirts, there's
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The Moshiach Hanerji yarmulkes.
Modi (34:59):
The yarmulkes are.
Usually I give them out atshows.
Someone says, hi, we love you,my mother loves you.
She couldn't make it.
Here's a yarmulke For yourmother to whoever she wants.
Here's for your brother, here'sI just hand them out.
I love them.
We just had Yom HaShoah.
Don't forget people.
These podcasts are not in order,but Yom HaShoah the day of the
Holocaust Remembrance is justnow and people were sending me
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pictures of people in Auschwitzwearing Moshiach Energy
yarmulkes, which made my like,made my day.
Wow, I like, made my day, mademy day.
But the hats we're not makingcrazy money on this merch, but
it does.
It puts that you're wearing aMashiach Energy hat and someone
asks you what does that mean?
And then you have to tell themwhat you think it means, and
(35:44):
then they'll tell you what theythink it means.
Is it Lubavitch, is it Mashiach?
And the conversation ofMashiach is out there and that's
a conversation that shouldalways be on our tongues
Moshiach, moshiach, moshiach.
All the time.
We should be speaking about itand let it happen.
Amen.
Yeah, I gotta get that in.
(36:05):
And here's Mori, and that'swhat Mori's about.
Leo (36:08):
Wait, I just got distracted because I thought I was
checking and here's Mori, andthat's what Mori's about Okay,
wait, I just got distractedbecause I thought I was checking
, because we were thinking abouthow expensive it is to step
outside.
Periel (36:18):
Yes, no, but I wanted to ask you guys if you saw the
shark frenzy.
Leo (36:27):
In Israel.
Someone got killed.
So there's like and what's itcalled?
Hadera, Hadera and the powerplant.
There's all those sharks aroundthere, there's warm water.
Right yeah, people are going inthe water with the sharks and
like messing with them, andthere was a body with bite marks
that showed up recently andthey're still doing it.
Periel (36:47):
So that is correct.
There's the warm water thereand the sharks are there and
they're not supposed to be there, and of course, they're not
supposed to be there.
It's the ocean, no, but it'sdriving in.
They're not.
Naturally they don't usuallycome that close to the shore.
Sharks they're there becauseit's very warm and they're
attracted to it, but anyreasonable group of people would
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be like everybody get out ofthe water.
There are a bunch of sharkshere.
The Israelis are like yalla.
They're going into the waterand playing with the sharks and
petting the sharks and grabbingthe sharks and feeding the
sharks because they thinkthey're invincible.
And suddenly you see somebody.
Leo (37:32):
They're not like the super aggressive type of sharks.
From what I gather.
They're like sandbar sharks,but they still have teeth and
they're still sharks, so theycan bite you.
Modi (37:40):
But isn't that horrible?
Isn't those horrible lifeguardsin Israel?
Aren't they yelling don't go in.
Yes.
Yeah, the beaches in Tel Avivyou can't even like step between
the nets without someone, likethe beaches in tel aviv are the
most amazing things in the world, except for it did the vibe
kill of those horriblelifeguards.
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I love those guys, those, it'sthe most horrible thing in the
world.
You're just probably knowing tounderstand what they're saying
and they and they're justscreaming and yelling.
I think that they're like a, soyou can't do anything with them
and they just scream and yelland it doesn't really do
anything.
Move over here, yell out yellout.
Periel (38:22):
Anyway, there was no lifeguard.
I saw a video of a bunch ofIsraeli men watching somebody
get eaten by a shark, of Israelimen watching somebody get eaten
by a shark.
Because this guy took it uponhimself to go, quote, unquote,
document the sharks Like now youlike work for National
Geographic.
He took like his fins and hisgoggles and some like waterproof
(38:46):
camera and dove in and startedtaking pictures of the shark.
And what did the shark do?
Leo (38:53):
What sharks do which is Bite people.
Periel (38:56):
The shark ate him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you hear all these Israeliguys going Yo, I don't believe
it.
Someone is eating him.
Leo (39:09):
Ew, you saw a video.
Modi (39:13):
The shark and it shouldn't be called a shark attack.
It should just be a shark.
A shark doing a food sting.
If the shark was in a hummusstand or a falafel stand,
attacking that's an attack.
The shark went out and attackedsomebody.
The shark is in the ocean beinga shark and there's a piece of
meat floating around.
It's on a guy's body, but it'sthe sharks being the shark.
(39:34):
That's what sharks do.
They eat meat that's in theocean I'm more.
Leo (39:39):
I was reading an article in the way here that apparently
they think because of thewildfires in la, there's like
this crazy toxic algae bloomhappening in the ocean outside
of LA so you can't go swimming.
It's like toxic water and allthese like dolphins and seals
are like washing up, like andthat the lifeguards in the LA
(40:00):
County beaches are taking likemental health days off because
they're like it's affecting them.
Wow, yeah, how many of these?
And the sea lions when theyattacks, when the algae goes
into their system because theyeat the fish that has the algae
or whatever it does somethingwith their brain it's almost
like rabies and they go crazy,leo, and they start biting
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people.
They're like zombie, crazy sealions which, if you ever look at
a sea lion's mouth, it's like apit bull mouth.
It has the teeth.
So they're attacking, attackingthey're either washing up dead
or, when they wash up, they'relike disoriented and they're
aggressive, and they're likebecause their brains are like
swollen, so they're like god,that is horrible it's like
really speaking of eating meat.
Modi (40:43):
Speaking of eating meat?
Oh, don't do that right here.
Periel (40:45):
No, um the lifeguards taking mental health days.
Well, that's very LA, that's alot.
Leo (40:55):
Could you imagine that conversation, hi?
So like I'm not feeling thevibe today, that one dolphin
really did it in for me.
Gnarly vibes, weren't you alifeguard for a minute?
I was a lifeguard at a pool.
Periel (41:12):
Ari thought you were a lifeguard when he saw a picture
of you in Fire Island in yourSpeedo.
Leo (41:17):
I'm not, not a lifeguard, yeah.
Modi (41:22):
So you were the lifeguard that had to go train the other
lifeguards to see if they werepaying attention.
Leo (41:27):
Yeah, so my supervisor would take me to other pools and
he would have me like go downthe water slide and then like
not come up back up for air andlike see how, and then he would
time how long it took the otherlifeguards to notice.
Are you serious?
I was like the decoy, yeah.
Periel (41:43):
I love the lifeguard outfits, I have to say, like I
love the lifeguard bathing suitsand I always want to get one
before we go on vacation, butthen I always get nervous that
somebody might actually You'reimpersonating a lifeguard.
No, but somebody might actuallyask me to help them.
Leo (41:59):
Yeah, we can't have that.
Modi (42:01):
No, yeah, lifeguards, you have to be focused, you have to
be.
I couldn't do that.
I can't.
I wouldn't be paying attentionto anybody doing anything.
Everybody would drown, they'dall drown, okay, so they drowned
One.
A summer is okay.
Leo (42:16):
There's only one?
No, I was.
This is the thing about mebeing a lifeguard.
I was vigilant, but I was alsocolorblind.
So part of the lifeguard's jobis to like do the pool chemicals
and you have to like add thewater until it turns the right
color.
I had no idea what was going on.
I always had to offload thattask to someone else no yeah,
the whenever I was on duty, thechlorine levels were either
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through the roof or like notenough wait a second.
Periel (42:41):
Are you colorblind?
Leo (42:43):
yeah, I'm like a little colorblind and have you ever had
to like test the ph of a pool?
You have to like put thosedrops in until turn, whatever.
I couldn't tell you because Idon't know how colorblind are
you?
Modi (42:55):
pretty colorblind moody can answer that.
Yeah, when we did a pregnancytest he couldn't see if we um,
no, he's colorblind, but so sothe chlorine pool is uh that's
really interesting.
Periel (43:11):
How have we never talked about that?
Modi (43:13):
I feel like we have, but he has ways, just like I have
ways of not stuttering.
He has ways of dealing with itthat are amazing.
He knows what things like theopposite, you know.
He knows what like a blue toyou and me to him is like a
beige, and so he'll be like oh,that's a blue, not quite.
But yeah, what Like?
Periel (43:28):
oh that's a blue, not quite but yeah, what colors can
you see?
Leo (43:32):
I don't know, I see color.
It's just different, like thosecolorblind tests where there's
like those numbers hidden in thedots.
I have no idea what's happeningin there.
Periel (43:40):
Wow, yeah, did you always know you were colorblind,
like when you were little?
Leo (43:45):
We found out when I was in kindergarten and my dad thought
I was faking it for attention.
I kindergarten and my dadthought I was faking it for
attention.
I don't know, but my teacherwas like he doesn't know his
colors.
I was like um, but then I couldread the crayons right, wow oh,
figure it out, as long as theyweren't like dragon's breath,
like what color is that?
I don't know, as long as it'sjust red or green so you began.
Periel (44:09):
So you could associate certain shades with what color
they are like you learn how todo it.
Modi (44:17):
It's pretty incredible, it's pretty unbelievable.
Periel (44:20):
Now they say they have those glasses now that you can
put on.
Leo (44:24):
I haven't tried those, you haven't tried those.
I haven't tried them, orderthem.
They're like okay, order them.
Periel (44:30):
They're expensive.
I'm going to buy a $180,000guard dog from Minnesota.
Leo (44:36):
We should order the glasses and I should try them on the
show.
Modi (44:39):
Oh my God, yeah, where are they Amazon?
I don't know, probably We'llfind them.
We'll find them.
We'll find them.
We'll do that when there's ababy and they put the glass in
the baby and they're like oh, myGod, the world.
Leo (44:53):
No, the ones that make me cry when the babies get the
hearing implants in, yeah, andthen they can like.
Periel (44:58):
They can hear their mom for the first time.
Leo (45:00):
That always gets me oh, moment, oh, we have a project to
do.
Modi (45:07):
That's a good project and we are thankful that this
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We can wrap it up.
We can wrap up now.
I mean we're like we had fun.
We always have fun.
We always hope that we makewhoever's listening to us having
fun and just you sounded likeDonald Trump when you just said
(46:29):
that.
Leo (46:30):
Why it was fun.
We had fun.
We always make sure everyonewho's listening to us has fun.
It's gonna be fun, it's gonnabe itch.
Modi (46:38):
I just saw an interview of him.
He let somebody in to the whitehouse and the guy was chutzpah.
The guy was chutzpah.
I want to tell you he didn't.
If you don't like trump, okay Idon't like trump, but he was
being chutzpah on the interviewthey're in the oval office.
Trump didn't know who this guywas and, um, I know what you're
talking about the guy was beinga reporter, the guy, but in a
(46:59):
chutzpah way and it is a waythat the tattoos were
photoshopped.
But the way he said it, leo, doyou remember when we first
started?
You have to deal, that's, youhave to fight.
Crazy, as you remember when youfirst, when you started dating,
and I would do this thing, I goand you I go, what and you go,
what, what, what, what, what,like chutzpah kids that go to
their parents when their parentsgo.
(47:19):
Why did you say what like that?
You know I'm talking about that, that thing.
So he was just saying let'sjust disagree and would try to
move it on.
Well, maybe no, he would telltrump those tattoos were print,
shopped or whatever, it wasPhotoshopped and this and that.
But he was saying it to him andmoving it on.
Say, mr President, thosetattoos were print shopped,
photoshopped, were Photoshopped,those tattoos were Photoshopped
(47:42):
, okay, and then let him answerit.
But he was being and Trump justdismissed him completely, which
I fan or not fan, I'm justletting you know it was a crazy
thing to watch.
Anyway, everything by the timethis airs God knows what we're
going to be Crazy has changed indifferent shades since this
airs, and thank you for being apart of our conversation.
(48:06):
Our little hangout, our littlebehind the scenes of our lives
and we hope we brought somelaughs to yours.
Leo (48:16):
We have shows this airs in I don't know when this is going
to air.
Modi (48:21):
I don't know when this is going to air.
We have a lot of shows inEurope and all over America and
places you can't even imagine.
Go to modilivecom,m-o-d-i-l-i-v-ecom the merch is
also there or mashiachenergycomfor the merch and get some
tickets.
Never just buy for you and onefriend, get some for other
people.
By the time the show gets there, you're going to want to have
(48:44):
those tickets to give to yourfriends.
That creates mashiach energy.
When you get tickets for yourfriends and we'll see you at the
shows, we Sheik Energy.
When you get tickets for yourfriends and we'll see you at the
shows, we'll see you here.
Always send us voice messages,we'll play them again and thank
you very much for being a partof our family.
Periel (48:57):
Bye.
Modi (48:58):
Bye.
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