October 22, 2025 • 40 mins
Episode 163: Modi and Leo regroup in the studio to talk about everything from the homecoming of the hostages, to lunch with Diane von Furstenberg, to headlines in The New York Times — and how to cultivate your aura.
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SPEAKER_02 (00:00):
Welcome to And here's Modi.
We are in the studio.
Me and Leo.
Shalom.
Shalom.
We are in the studio here onOctober 13th, hours after the
hostages have been released.
President Trump just spoke atthe Knesset.
Israel is in a state ofhappiness and mashiach energy.
(00:25):
Nothing else can say it.
It's so crazy.
It's also this exact time of theyear, two years ago, you and I
were in Israel at the SataiHotel when the war broke out.
And now here we are, full twoyears later in the Hebrew
calendar.
We are witnessing the release ofthese poor hostages and
hopefully the end of this war.
(00:47):
And it's just um I don't know,it just shows that prayers work,
I believe.
All the prayers that I've put inthe the whole all of uh anybody
w wishing well for the hostages,it came together.
You're seeing it.
SPEAKER_01 (01:04):
What do you think?
Um what is what's yourrabbinical take on the timeline
of all this happening in termsof all of the holidays and
things that are happening in theHebrew calendar and all that
stuff?
SPEAKER_02 (01:16):
Well, this is uh this is we we we're in a period
of time called the ourhappiness.
Zman Simchat Simchatein, uh, ofour joy and happiness.
We're in the holiday of Sukkot,where we those of you who don't
know, it's where we sit in thehut outside and fully embraced
in happiness and and the thewarmth of God and um and
celebrating.
It's a fun holiday, it's a foodholiday, it's a it's uh
(01:40):
celebrating with family andfriends holiday, and it is just
it's crazy.
It's a full cycle of two years.
SPEAKER_01 (01:47):
It feels longer.
It feels I can't imagine what itfeels like for the people who
are you know, the families andthe hostages themselves, but it
doesn't feel like two years.
SPEAKER_02 (01:56):
It feels like so much more, so much has happened
in the world and in our livesbetween you and me since since
that day where the war began.
You and I woke up in Tel Avivand had a flight to to France,
to Paris to go do four shows.
And we were like, should we dothese shows or not?
And we ended up doing thoseshows and kept on doing shows to
(02:18):
bring some pause for laughterfor the the the the world, not
just the Jewish community, thethe anybody that just just
needed it, and um and we've beenall over the world.
We really have been all over theworld since two years ago.
We've been all over Europe, allover America, all over
(02:39):
Australia, Mexico City, MexicoCity with Jewish communities and
not Jewish communities, and justevents and fundraisers, and uh
uh a pot this podcast we hadOmar Shemtov, one of the
hostages, who's in for 505 days,and now we're we're seeing 48
(02:59):
hostages released that are inthere for over 700 days.
And because we are at thepodcast now, I can't really see
the visuals of what the hostageslook like, but they much better
than what I thought they wouldlook.
They're I mean, their smiles andthey're waving and they're
alive, and it's just yeah, it'sjust amazing.
(03:20):
It's just it's reallyunbelievable that this is
happening right now.
And then we got to get we hadthe podcast book to be able to
to to talk about it and shareour happiness.
And um, and and that's wherewe've got all the time.
You said it could just changeovernight.
You always said that.
I always say that.
You just like just like you flipyour your how do you call it
(03:40):
swipe?
Yep, a swipe of your thumb.
As in everything can change inthe swipe of a thumb.
You can just swipe your thumb,and the next thing will be
ceasefire, hostages released,bombing stopped, Putin says
enough.
You could just you have tobelieve in that.
I was talking to one of ourneighbors up in Connecticut and
telling her that too.
(04:01):
Should we tell that story?
Should we tell that story, youknow?
Why not?
Why not?
I was we were walking with ourneighbor, Diane von Furstenberg.
And we she was she asked me, youknow, what about the war?
I said to her, everything couldchange in a flip flick of a
finger.
And this was we were with herlike a few days before Yom
(04:22):
Kippur, so it was about two twoweeks ago.
Yeah.
And and then I I texted her, Isaid, look, like I said,
everything can just change atthe flip of a finger.
SPEAKER_01 (04:32):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (04:32):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (04:34):
Should I tell the story?
Tell the story how it came tobe.
Okay, so there's an amazingdocumentary on Hulu about Diane
von Furstenberg.
I believe it's on Hulu, 99%sure.
We watch a lot of documentaries,and so and this is one of the my
favorite ones that I've everseen.
Um, I mean, you always joke thata documentary could be about a
(04:54):
spoon, and if it's well done,it's entertaining.
But this is just like, I mean,Diane von Furstenberg's life is
just so cinematic with the plotlines and the storylines and the
visuals that of course it madefor a good documentary.
So anyway, we watched this.
I loved it.
What a love.
SPEAKER_02 (05:12):
She was born to her mother was an Auschwitz.
SPEAKER_01 (05:14):
Auschwitz survivor.
Yeah.
She marries a German prince.
SPEAKER_02 (05:18):
Yeah, at the age of like 17, 18, she marries a
German prince.
So now a daughter of a Holocaustsurvivor is married to a German
prince.
SPEAKER_01 (05:25):
Yeah.
And then goes on to create likeone of the biggest fashion
empires of all time.
Yeah.
Most iconic pieces of clothing.
Like so, wow.
So I'm just like, I lovewatching those kind of
documentaries.
I'm not a huge fashion personper se, but just like, wow, what
a life.
And in the documentary, theybriefly show her place in
Connecticut where she spends alot of her time.
(05:46):
And I was like, oh, interesting,because you and I bought a house
in Connecticut last year.
And then we were drivingrecently, and I saw a very
distinct thing that was shown inthe documentary by the road.
And I was like, oh my God,that's Diane's house.
And you had done the Shabbatdinner for the CFDA uh fashion
week in January.
(06:08):
Um, so where you did a Shabbatdinner with all these fashion
Jewish fashion designers andinfluencers for the CFDA to kick
off fashion week.
And because of that, I had somecontacts at the CFDA.
The costume, I don't want to getit right.
I don't, I you know, I have it.
I'm gonna Google it.
Please hold CFDA somethingfashion for.
(06:29):
I I have it, but I don't want toget it wrong.
Catalog, nope.
No, Council of Fashion Designersof America.
There you go.
Council of Fashion Designers ofAmerica.
And so when I saw thedocumentary, I sent out an
email.
I was like, hi, this is maybekind of strange, but like Modi
and I just purchased a home inConnecticut and we realized
we're basically neighbors withDiane.
If anyone knows her, we wouldlove to connect with her.
(06:52):
And Mark was very kind to belike, yes, sure.
Here's her longtime assistantwho happened to be a huge Modi
fan, and she helped us put alunch on the books with Diane.
So we just showed up twostrangers, and Diane, to her
credit, took us in for lunch,and it was just like such a
magical.
SPEAKER_02 (07:10):
I brought her a mazuza, a framed mazuza, and she
was, oh, we'll hang it up rightaway.
And she called for a hammer, andit just appeared, and it
appeared a hammer.
Someone came running in with ahammer, and we I I the picture
came, the frame came with anail, and we hung it right up,
and it was so great.
And she was so sweet.
We had amazing lunch, and wewalked with her.
(07:31):
And while we were walking, Itold her everything can change.
SPEAKER_01 (07:34):
While walking, it was a 45-minute hike we did,
never and we never left herproperty, or like even got close
to leaving the property.
It was the same.
SPEAKER_02 (07:42):
And it was great.
We got to meet from thedocumentary, her friend Olivier,
who was in the documentary, andwe got to meet him and her
granddaughter, who runs a uh anum an arts camp.
An arts camp up there that sheused to attend, and it was just
great energy, just unbelievableenergy.
SPEAKER_01 (08:00):
Should I tell the story of like how it happened,
then didn't happen, thenhappened?
SPEAKER_02 (08:04):
No, it's it was just uh it was just like it's funny.
So tell us I don't know.
SPEAKER_01 (08:10):
So first uh the the the assistant, her longtime
assistant who is a Modi fan,puts it on the books for us for
Sunday.
Then I want to say like thatThursday and she and in our
correspondence, she goes, and bythe way, her preferred florist
is so and so.
I said, Okay, I can read a hint.
So I call the florist and I say,Hi, can you deliver this on
(08:31):
Sunday?
So it gets there before ourlunch.
She goes, We're closed onSunday.
So I said, Okay, so send itSaturday.
Send whatever she likes, bigover the top.
Sure, do it, send it.
And I I get that, I have thatscheduled to send.
Then Thursday, the assistantemails me saying, Sorry, she had
something come up, she can't doa full lunch, but just maybe
text her on Sunday and you maybeyou can stop by for a hello.
SPEAKER_02 (08:54):
She finally probably just threw on the calendar of
like, what do I need to sit withfor lunch with these two people?
I don't have no idea who theyare.
SPEAKER_01 (08:59):
And she kind of like, but then the flowers
arrived.
Right.
And she goes, Wait, who arethese two?
And she put the lunch back onthe calendar.
And I she told us as much whilewe sat down for lunch.
She goes, I wasn't sure what washappening here, but then you
sent those beautiful flowers,and I was like, saved by the
florists.
I was like, I was like, I don'tblame you by the way.
I wouldn't want to have lunchwith two random strangers.
Absolutely not.
(09:20):
It was but it was a lesson forme because of putting two and
two together and reaching outand asking, not for a favor, but
just like utilizing the peoplein my network more because I
hate doing that.
Yeah.
Um, but it was I think that wasa lesson for me.
It wasn't so much to meet her,which although that was like an
amazing experience, and to be inthe presence of someone who's
(09:43):
had such a life, they she has anaura.
You know, when you're arrestingsomeone like that who has like
one crazy auras, yeah.
Um we all have an aura.
I wonder what mine is.
It must be gray.
SPEAKER_02 (09:54):
It's whatever you oh my god, don't say that.
It's whatever I didn't say a badone.
It's whatever you want it to be,it's whatever you want it to
create.
And you and a part of in themorning, you focus on your aura.
When I put my talus on, my myprayer show, and I wrap myself
around it.
That's when you're making yourprayer for your aura.
So I I say for mine, I want it,I put it on and I say the oh
(10:17):
Makif surrounding light and youraura.
And then I want it to be blessedand protected, blessing also to
bless other people, protected,and also to be inspired,
inspiring, to be grateful andshow grave uh gratefulness.
And you can plan what you wantyour aura to look like.
You it's a it's a thing.
It's you can you can you couldcontrol your aura.
(10:38):
And then the word gray shouldn'tbe in there, but it should be I
want it to be open and want itto be uh regal.
I want it to be uh a good uhgood you put good adjectives in
whatever you want your aura toto be.
So she has one because she wakesup in the morning like I am the
bomb, I am DVF, I am DVF, I havedone it.
(11:00):
Mother F.
Yep, and that's and so she hasan amazing, amazing aura, and so
we were blessed to be with her.
SPEAKER_01 (11:10):
It was an amazing I more got along with the
granddaughter, she's reallycool.
SPEAKER_02 (11:13):
Yeah, the granddaughter also has like
she's like she's got it, she'sshe's amazing, she's but it was
just such a stunning property.
SPEAKER_01 (11:19):
It's I mean, like we've just acres and acres, and
every once in a while, just likea bronze statue.
SPEAKER_02 (11:25):
It was beautiful, it was hers.
Exactly what you would think itwould be, and it's all in the
documentary, it's beautiful.
Watch the documentary, watch thedocumentary, an incredible
documentary.
It was uh it's it was alife-changing documentary.
Some lock some documentaries canreally change your your life and
perspective of how things shouldand can be uh 100%.
Um, what other documentarieshave we watched we loved?
(11:48):
Well, if speaking of fashiondocumentary, Valentino the Last
Emperor is one of the best.
And let's give him one more thatwe've recently watched.
I feel like we just watchedsomething.
SPEAKER_01 (11:58):
The one about Alan Carr, the uh in the 80s.
SPEAKER_02 (12:02):
That was crazy.
Yes, that Alan Carr was a cra uhthis producer, this over-the-top
gay producer, and just like hislife story.
SPEAKER_01 (12:11):
So nuts.
We love a good documentary.
SPEAKER_02 (12:14):
We love a good documentary.
SPEAKER_01 (12:15):
But they should make one about us, honestly.
SPEAKER_02 (12:16):
Well, they did not not make one about us.
SPEAKER_01 (12:19):
There is a sizzle floating around out there.
SPEAKER_02 (12:21):
Well, there is also an article that just came out
about us.
Oh, do tell.
What me?
Yeah.
I'm not one to spread.
But this past what was it?
Thursday?
Yeah, Thursday, I think.
So on Thursday, an article inthe New York Times came out
about us.
(12:41):
About you.
About us.
Uh I mean, it the title was He'sGay, he's he's an Observant Jew,
and his career is booming.
Um that came out on Thursday.
And on Friday, we had ouranniversary, so we dropped some
pictures of us together.
And the only thing we shouldhave done was Saturday pretended
(13:02):
to have adopted a baby.
But just post a picture of asonogram.
Yeah, no captions.
No captions, a sonogram.
Like we're having a baby.
SPEAKER_01 (13:10):
People would die.
SPEAKER_02 (13:11):
No, but but there's no need for that because we got
happening.
SPEAKER_01 (13:13):
Why is there a picture of a ghost on my desk?
SPEAKER_02 (13:16):
Um but the article was amazing, was it was was
incredible, no?
SPEAKER_01 (13:21):
Yeah, so we were blessed because uh Lisa Lurer of
the New York Times, who did theprofile on you, she typically
works with politicians.
So she's used to dealing with alike a fierce sort of media
person that acts as a barrier toher subject and filtering and
making sure that everyeverything that all the
information they're getting,she's getting is approved and
(13:44):
you know, sanitized andwhatever.
So I think it was a change ofpace for her to work with you
because A we just gave her somuch access.
SPEAKER_02 (13:50):
Of course.
SPEAKER_01 (13:51):
Um, she literally came to our house in
Connecticut, she came to a showin Columbus, she was at a bunch
of other shows, she went todinner.
SPEAKER_02 (13:57):
So she for to for to begin the stories like this.
She's a political writer, butshe said there's some kind of a
sabbatical project that she thatthey do.
Like you you can pick somethingof the you can do that.
SPEAKER_01 (14:09):
Yeah, if you click on her profile in the New York
Times, it's all politics.
Right, and then all of a suddenit's not like lifestyle pieces,
and then all of a sudden it'sus.
SPEAKER_02 (14:15):
And so so she she said the first time she saw me
was at the Republican JewishCoalition performing there.
She was in the press pit andshe's like, Oh, this is
interesting.
And then she came to a show atthe The Beacon, and then she
came to a comedy cellar show ofme working new material.
SPEAKER_01 (14:35):
Well, that I arranged.
That's after I knew she wasalready like.
SPEAKER_02 (14:37):
Then she was interested in doing the article,
and then she wanted to go to akosher restaurant.
We went to Reserve Cut.
She said, I want New York Timesto buy me a kosher steak.
So she we went there, which washer choice.
And I don't, I don't, I wouldn'thave chosen it because I knew
it's just hard to eat a mealwith everybody coming over for a
picture.
And yeah, you were like Madonna.
(14:58):
Right.
So we're sitting there and she'slike experiencing everybody
asking me for a picture orshowing me what cameo I did for
them or tell me where they sawme and all that.
And um, and so she that wassomething she she visualized on
her own.
And then she came to a show inColumbus to see what it would be
like not in New York.
SPEAKER_01 (15:14):
She said, I want to see something that's quote, not
New York or LA juice.
I said, Well, we have a show inColumbus, Ohio.
Would you like to join?
And she got on a plane and shewent to Columbus, Ohio.
With a photographer, and shespoke to every she spoke to like
90% of the people in the room.
She had her notebook out and herrecorder, however, she was
taking notes, and she was beinga journalist.
(15:35):
She was getting quotes andtalking to people, and it was
crazy.
And um, but you're happy withhow the piece came out.
SPEAKER_02 (15:42):
I'm happy how the piece came out.
I loved it.
I'm surprised what you weresurprised at, and I'm surprised
that you weren't surprised.
When when we when we we wentwhen we read it once through,
you thought like something wasthere.
Was one thing that that youscared you.
It still scares me, but butmeanwhile, what was really like
what was what everybody keptcommenting was that you were you
(16:02):
were the speedo line.
How was the speedo line?
I'll no I'll pull it up.
So keep in mind, she's in ourhouse in the height of the
summer.
We had a whole bunch of friendsover sitting by the pool.
SPEAKER_01 (16:12):
And at the pool in the manicured backyard.
Sorry, no, let me just give theline first because I feel like
that helps a little bit.
Mr.
Rosenfeld sees comedy as a holymission, he explained on a
sunny, sunny Sunday afternoonsitting in his second home in
Connecticut, which he purchasedlast year.
At the pool in the manicuredbackyard, Mr.
Vega, me, was entertaining agroup comfortable socializing in
(16:35):
speedos.
Inside, Mr.
Rosenfeld was diving into theTalmud, the millennium's
millennium's old collection ofrabbinical discussion.
And if that line doesn'tsummarize our relationship, then
and now it's immortalized in theNew York Times.
Thank God it is.
Um that is so funny.
So great.
She also found you know what shedid.
(16:57):
Comfortable socializing inspeedos has so much weight to it
without saying anything.
It's so funny.
SPEAKER_02 (17:03):
Comfortable socializing in speedos.
That means you're you're talkingto other people with your junk
all out there.
SPEAKER_01 (17:08):
Meanwhile, it was just me and you know the two.
No, I know who exactly who itwas.
It was like family.
SPEAKER_02 (17:14):
But no, she makes she makes it seem like there was
like a huge party happening.
SPEAKER_01 (17:17):
It's like a Fire Island moment out there.
SPEAKER_02 (17:19):
Yeah, which that's a different time, but but um and
and she and I were insidetalking.
I was explaining to her howcomedians are in the Talmud and
all that, and uh, and uh and itwas it was it was great.
And uh what does your mom haveto say about it?
Well, hold on.
So she oh I it was great thatshe quoted she quoted Donnie
Moss, who was the person.
SPEAKER_01 (17:40):
Yeah, she got good quotes from people.
SPEAKER_02 (17:41):
Great quotes.
She got great quote from DonnieMoss, who was the person that
because of him, I'm doingcomedy.
He said, Go do this on stage.
Gav, a rabbi, got GabrielBellino from the Sixth Street
Synagogue, and Joe Lieberman.
SPEAKER_01 (17:55):
Not really a quote from me, though.
There's one quote about youbeing a high-functioning
bisexual.
That was basically uh that wasyour only quote, yes.
SPEAKER_02 (18:04):
Um, but but she got Joe Lieberman, she watched the
Joe Lieberman roast.
Yeah, and so she took a quotefrom Joe Lieberman.
SPEAKER_01 (18:10):
A post-mortem how would you describe a quote from
a dead person?
I just love the show.
She said that it was a hugething for her to fight to get it
in there.
Right.
That her editor didn't want toquote a dead person, but it's on
video.
It's on video.
SPEAKER_02 (18:25):
It was so great to see that.
Uh my my mom still hasn't readthe whole article through.
SPEAKER_01 (18:31):
I gifted her a free New York Times article.
SPEAKER_02 (18:34):
So she opened up.
So she opened up and then sheclosed it.
SPEAKER_01 (18:38):
So I'll resend her.
SPEAKER_02 (18:39):
You have to resend it to her.
Why didn't you tell me?
She called she goes, why do theycall you Mr.
Rosenfeld?
I said to her, that's the wayit's the AP style.
A P style.
That's the way but like if theydo a story about Madonna O'Cher,
I think they would do MadonnaO'Cher.
They wouldn't say what Madonna'slast name is.
SPEAKER_01 (19:01):
Um I feel a little bit like well, I'll go I'll get
back to you on that.
I do think um Madonna and Cherare outliers.
What's Cher's last Cher's lastname?
SPEAKER_02 (19:17):
Berkowitz.
unknown (19:18):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02 (19:19):
And Madonna's is Machanohovich.
SPEAKER_01 (19:22):
Speaking of podcasts and Madonna, did you listen to
the whole episode of the podcastshe did talking about Kabbalah?
SPEAKER_02 (19:27):
It was so good.
I listened to the Madonnapodcast on um Jay Shaw's
podcast.
Jay Shaw's podcast.
And she also Eitan Yardeni, whowas my teacher at the Kabbala
Center for a very short time.
Hearing his voice was so muchfun.
I remember his voice.
Lack.
I remember his voice.
SPEAKER_00 (19:46):
A time of lack emptiness.
So traumatic.
Void.
Your competition.
Your compassion.
Your abandonment issues when heis one of the that turned into
Schwarzenegger at the end.
I didn't mean to.
It becomes a littleSchwarzenegger.
A little Israeli Schwarzenegger.
SPEAKER_01 (20:04):
Israeli meet Schwarzenegger.
SPEAKER_02 (20:05):
That's how he sounds it's it's so so the the teachers
at the Kabala Center that areIsraeli actually have good
grammar.
So the accent is not it's notnot bad grammar.
They speak English, but with anIsraeli accent, but the
grammar's good.
So so it's it's it makes iteasier to follow.
He speaks English with anIsraeli accent.
Not like people put Englishwords.
SPEAKER_01 (20:29):
Is very dramatic.
SPEAKER_02 (20:30):
Felt like they were putting reverb on the because it
was they weren't reverb.
They were just like banana,banana.
But it was like very just hisvoice.
It's just his voice, I guess,was doing that.
Yeah, but she it was a sheshone.
She shined.
She shined.
She shined.
She was Madonna, she killed it,and she's explaining like it was
a it's a lot of the stuff thatyou always repeat and talk
(20:51):
about.
It's everything.
It's everything I always repeat.
I learned so much in theKabbalah Center.
You it's it's unbelievable.
And she she she came out andlike you know, it's oh you
always hear she's a she goes tothe Kabbalah Center, but she
blatantly goes, I am a studentof the Kabbalah Center, and this
is my journey, and this is whatI did, and this is what I'm
(21:12):
learning constantly and anddoing it.
And and um and and it's it wasamazing.
It was amazing.
It's you know, you know what'sreally funny, and I've obviously
it's funny because before thearticle came out, I quoted Rav
Berg from the Kabbalah Centerabout Apikorsum with when we had
Steve Eisenman on the podcast umum saying that Apicorsim is
(21:34):
somebody that believes incoincidence, and there's no
coincidence two years ago today.
We were staying at the SataiHotel with and staying at the
hotel at the same time was myMichaelberg and his family.
He is now the head of theKabbalah Center, yeah, and I'm
(21:54):
assuming Etanyardeni's teacheror whatever he's up there too,
you know.
And um and two years ago we werestaying at the hotel with them,
which is crazy.
Yeah, it's it it there's nocoincidence.
SPEAKER_01 (22:09):
And um the thing that she said that I kind of
felt uh resonated with me waswhen she was talking about her
talent, yeah, and how itshifted, everything shifted once
she stopped.
I I mean I forget how she wordedit, but basically stop thinking
that you are and own the talent,but you are just a vessel,
(22:29):
you're just stewarding thetalent, you are a vessel for the
talent that is being lent to youby a higher power for the time
being, and you are to manage itand bring it into the world, but
it's not yours, and that'ssomething you always say.
SPEAKER_02 (22:43):
Always say that the anything that comes out of my
mouth, anything that's funny isa gift that God gave me.
It's called an Ibu.
There's a moment of just Godgave you like here's a little
something, and so your talent isis in this vessel called Modi,
right?
And whenever you see a talent,you know, like um, there's
always the what what what whatif someone's a big like well
(23:06):
someone was recently talkingabout Woody Allen, that they're
in in awe at how great histalent is to make those movies
and comedy, but he's what theythink whatever the that's the
the the the vessel came in inthe gift is in Woody Allen.
What whether you appreciate thevessel or something else, it's
great when they both line uptogether.
(23:27):
Well, that's why they say don'tmeet your idols.
Right.
And um, and the fact that you'recalling them an idol is a is a
problem.
But that's just the phrase.
I know, but but if you know, ifthe person that that the the the
God put this gift in is anamazing person too, then even
better.
So God put the gift in Madonna,and then he gave her the cabal
to to hone that she doesn't gota control because many she
(23:49):
credits it to saving her life ahundred percent.
SPEAKER_01 (23:52):
And you see other artists like her like compares
to she compares, you know, sheum draws the line to uh what
happened to Michael Jackson andPrince and a lot of her
contemporary spears and all ofthat stuff.
She says the only thing thatkeep kept her grounded was
Kabbalah.
SPEAKER_02 (24:06):
But it but the the the the talent and the gift when
it's someone as a singer, acomedian, a drummer, a piano
player, obviously it's obvious.
But then there's gifts like withyou, able to organize, able to
to put together a show, toproduce a show.
That's that's also a gift.
That's also a gift.
(24:27):
People have gifts in them, andyou know it's it's not just the
three blatant gifts, but thatwas one of the things I always
say that that you are you're avessel for a gift that God put
on earth, and hopefully you findout what what the what what what
that gift is and and and youshine with it.
And that but that the theinterview was amazing.
It was absolutely everythingI've learned there at the
cabbala center what was taughtthere.
(24:49):
Unbelievable.
She really it was an amazing,amazing.
I saw her at the cabala centeronce.
So when you when you and I met,it was 2015.
My first time at the KabbalahCenter was 2004.
Okay.
I I'd been there.
But in LA.
No, here in New York.
And then I went to LA and I wentto the Kabbalah Center there,
where everybody was, you know,with where the the heads of the
(25:11):
Kabbalah Center were.
The Rav was there andMichaelberg and Yehuda Berg and
Karen Berg and and all of that.
And they were um and all thecelebrities.
But but but but I wasn't therefor the celebrities, and I
wasn't there to to to get aconnection in the show business.
I was the stuff they wereteaching was unbelievable.
And when you are in a um Butthen when I came to New York,
(25:35):
you took me to the center.
So I was kind of like coming, II was coming out of the cabal.
I'm like, oh, you know what?
I received a lot here, and now Ineed to go and implement it.
Implement it.
SPEAKER_01 (25:46):
And just I can't be in an echo chamber talking about
it.
SPEAKER_02 (25:50):
Yes.
Well, luckily, yeah.
And but I did bring you to aPurim event at the cabal, and
you saw you saw Madonna, andyou're like, oh wow, wow, that's
Madonna.
Okay.
And then we left, and you withyour all your Catholic trauma
titles.
That's enough of that, by theway.
That's enough of of whatever wasgoing on there.
(26:11):
I don't need to be seeing Hebrewletters on a screen and hearing
about the light and God.
No, like no, no, but you didn'ttake me out.
But I was I was already on my Iwas like, I'm good.
SPEAKER_01 (26:21):
I'm good.
But you phrase it in a way thatwas interesting to me the other
day because you said you werethere from 2000 when you
started, 2000.
SPEAKER_02 (26:28):
2004 was like when I began, I took a class here and
there.
SPEAKER_01 (26:32):
You know, there's it's something to be said about
because it's not a religion,Kabbalah.
It's a framework forspirituality, but it's not a
religion.
So I think it's interesting howyou said it, like that you had
to kind of step away in order tosee if the tools that you
received from it are actuallyusable or that you can find ways
(26:52):
to implement them.
Otherwise, it just becomes sortof like a womb, like of an echo
chamber of people who are thesame.
Do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02 (27:00):
That was my journey with it.
That was my kind of journeyjourney with it.
You know, my my my that was my II had like you know the more
religious teaching with theLababach Yeshiva, and then um my
my own teaching, you know, my myliving that and then when the
cabal center came in, it like itand then I had my kind of
spiritual awakening with Dr.
(27:20):
Wayne Dyer, so it went kind oflike yeshiva, Dr.
Wayne Dyer, and spirituality andseeing and that, and believe me,
I wouldn't have been able tofigure out Dr.
Wayne Dyer unless I had thatother stuff in me.
No, the cabal was after that,and it was all linked, you know.
And then the cabal, the lessonsof of the of the reasons why I'm
(27:40):
doing the things I'm doing wasunbelievable.
The technology, seeing it astechnology rather than just
something that you do.
And um, I still and I I I readthe books once in a while that
are amazing, and um it's it wasso great.
And Madonna just gave it over,like wow.
SPEAKER_01 (27:56):
Yeah, and she well, to her credit, she didn't make
it sound like some woo-woothing.
SPEAKER_00 (28:03):
She gave it over in very practical, like tangible
terms, and then she put A tonon, and he's just does he's just
you have to implementimplementing the lesson from
your childhood, where whetherit's abandonment, no, it's it's
it's just lists, it's it's amatter of lack, emptiness.
SPEAKER_02 (28:23):
He really sits on the he sits on the note, he's
amazing.
He and he's a he's his I'm gonnatell you an eight on your Denny
story that is so funny.
So in the Kabbalah class, theywere like the the the the wit of
the weekly portion.
So uh he would give the classand a packed house.
And there's some celebritiessprinkled here and there,
(28:44):
sometimes Madonna, sometimes notMadonna.
And and uh you're reading thetext, which is in Aramaic, the
Zohar is in Aramaic, and thetranslation he has is in Hebrew,
and now he's teaching it inEnglish.
And he knew who were theIsraelis in the room were, and
he thought that we would alwaysbe able to help him translate a
(29:05):
word that he wasn't sure wouldbe the word.
One time he was fixated andstuck on a word, and it was
either habituation or uh uhhabitat or habit ha it was hab
and something else, habitual orhabitation, or he didn't know
what it was.
And he kept asking me, he goes,Well, the how do you say uh
(29:28):
habitu hab habilit habitu Idon't know, and then he goes
from the the word in Hebrew,whatever the hawka ha.
I got I don't know that wordeither.
I I don't know, but he keptgoing at it and going at and I
said to him, Eitan, life is notthat difficult.
You wake up, you have a coffee,you go to the bathroom, you have
three meals, and you do it allagain.
(29:50):
It's all it's just that andeverybody just cracked up
because he was like stuck, itwas fixated on this world.
But that was like theenvironment, you could have a
good time and laugh with them,and I will tell.
You no one laughs harder thanKaren Berg.
She was she's the the the motherof Yehuda and Michael, and she
was whenever she was wheneverwhenever I performed there, she
(30:12):
I have pictures of her laughinguncontrollably.
She had such an amazing sense ofhumor, and it was just it was
great to do those shows, and itwas such a big part of my life,
and it was great.
And just Madonna really nailedit.
Just good for her.
That was all I could say.
I'm just so happy to have heardthat.
SPEAKER_01 (30:29):
Yeah.
It's a good listen.
I'll link it too.
SPEAKER_02 (30:32):
Yeah, link that in.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (30:35):
So it's October.
SPEAKER_02 (30:37):
It's October, and we're about to go crazy on the
road.
SPEAKER_01 (30:41):
Um, how do you feel about the hour that you're gonna
be dictating in December?
SPEAKER_02 (30:50):
I'm ready.
Everything is there.
It's 94 96% set.
I keep coming up with littleextra tidbits and lines, and as
you see me, I'm rehearsing thestuff all the time in my head,
and then getting on stage anddoing it.
(31:11):
And um and uh last night You dida pop-up show unadvertised.
Unadvertised, incognito.
Those of you know in the fivetowns there was a cheese store.
When I was growing up in thefive towns on Central Avenue.
It's always been a cheese store?
It's always been a cheese store.
And no one ever went into.
It was a cheese store.
(31:31):
It was on the corner of CentralAvenue and Cedarhurst.
Okay, and it's a cheese store,and you just walked by and you
just saw cheeses hanging thereand cheeses on shelves, and uh
who the hell?
You we had in the house cottagecheese and cream cheese.
That was it.
There was no cheeses, breeze,and whatever the hell it was.
And so Dove Newberger uh says,I'm doing a pop-up show there.
(31:54):
I'm like, perfect.
I need a few minutes of workingout material without me having
to sell tickets and advertiseand all that.
Packed.
So it's it's not a cheese storeanymore.
Now it's like a it's a dairyrestaurant.
Okay, and it's he packed it in.
It was like I'm I'm I think 150,if not 200 people there.
Wow.
(32:14):
Packed and they were so happy,and they were so and great to
just they were grateful thatthere's a show going on.
The night before, Mochi ShabaSaturday night, there was a
show.
He said it was amazing.
They kept talking about howgreat that audience was, it was
so much better than thisaudience.
And then um, so he justintroduced me out of nowhere.
(32:34):
The the place went nuts.
After the show, people said, Ihad a feeling you were gonna be
here because you spoke about iton the podcast, telling Doby to
let you know when there was thenext pop-up show.
Oh, so they kind of like knew,you know.
SPEAKER_01 (32:47):
Another reason to listen to the podcast.
Honestly, we drop all sorts oftidbits on here.
If you put on your detectivehat, you could yeah, like for
example, if you were to go toyour website, modilive.com, and
scroll through your dates andhit April 23rd, it doesn't say
the venue.
No, but it gives you the optionto sign up for when tickets at
that venue go on sale, which isgonna be October 28th that and
(33:12):
through the 31st.
Right.
SPEAKER_02 (33:13):
So I don't know when this is actually coming out.
This is coming out next week.
Well, I can yeah, yeah.
And just as you know, we we'renot allowed to discuss on on
counsel of our agent andmanager, we're not we're not
allowed to talk about the factthat we have a show in Radio
City Music Hall on April 23rd,2026.
And the tickets are going onsale on October 28th.
(33:34):
So those of you put that in yourcalendar, get the tickets.
SPEAKER_01 (33:36):
If you're ever watching this in the New York
area and you're like, I alwaysmiss Modi.
When is he gonna be here?
Go to the website now, uh,select April 23rd and put your
email and your tech and yourphone number.
We're only gonna bother you whenthe show goes on sale.
We're not gonna send you extrastuff, and then you'll be the
first to know when you can buytickets to Radio City because
don't complain when all the goodseats are taken.
(33:58):
Uh, and there's are you gonnaopen up more seats?
Are you doing another show?
Just get your tickets when theygo on sale.
SPEAKER_02 (34:04):
And we were there, we did some promo pictures
there, and they were so muchfun.
The place is insane, it'sbeautiful.
They just put a new sounds.
SPEAKER_01 (34:11):
One show there.
Mateo Lane.
SPEAKER_02 (34:13):
I've seen other shows, I just forgot which ones.
SPEAKER_01 (34:15):
I haven't seen like the Rockettes or anything, which
is the Roquettes are why,because typically you do your
big New York play in December.
Um, it's been historically likea Christmas Eve show, then it
turned into like a Hanukkah kindof time show.
And then, but now because theRockettes have the place booked
from like October through end ofDecember, yeah, or into January,
(34:35):
I think, it's just Roquettes.
Right.
So we had to do your show inApril.
So it's okay, we'll adjust.
SPEAKER_02 (34:41):
We'll adjust and it'll be great, and people will
uh we'll get the tickets there.
And again, it's it's a weekendin New York if you want.
So Thursday nights, you make aweekend out of it in New York.
Um, and I cannot wait for thatshow.
That show is a whole other showthat that's like in my mind, I'm
going through the hour for thetaping, and then also the stuff
that's afterwards.
SPEAKER_01 (35:01):
The taping, which is dis December 10 and 11 in
Atlanta that you can buy ticketsfor.
Yes.
And it's fun to come to ataping.
You get to see kind of like howthe sausage is made.
Speaking of sausage, or at leasthot dogs, go ahead, do it.
We'd like to thank our sponsors,AH uh Provisions, Delicious
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(35:21):
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Uh, we'd also like to thankWhites and Luxembourg, the law
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philanthropic, includingsupporting this podcast.
This studio doesn't pay foritself.
There's a lot of equipment hereuh and someone working it.
(35:41):
Uh uh whitesandlux.com.
Uh thank you, Arthur, and thankyou, Randy, for listening.
His wife who listens to thepodcast and lets Arthur know
what we discussed.
SPEAKER_02 (35:52):
Good gezook.
Well done.
Oh, see?
Wow, we got that done.
Got it.
Um, and that that's basicallyit.
We have shows coming up inEurope that we're super excited
about.
Um all markets we're revisiting.
SPEAKER_01 (36:04):
Well, hold on.
Yes.
Um Vienna, Amsterdam, Berlin,Paris.
Paris.
The last time we did Paris wasthe week of after October 7th.
SPEAKER_02 (36:15):
Right.
That's we're literally two yearslater.
SPEAKER_01 (36:18):
Yeah.
So it's gonna be a differentvibe to say the least.
But come come celebrate that inParis.
SPEAKER_02 (36:23):
The last time we were in Paris, the shows I we
were in the back of the roomwatching people on their phones
watching hostages being takenaway.
And now we're back in Paris.
Um, and oh two years later, andthe hostages have been returned.
Thank you, Hashem.
And um, and it's just it's gonnabe a different vibe.
And again, if you need to make aweekend in Paris, this is a good
(36:44):
reason.
Also, Vienna and Berlin, Icannot wait.
I cannot we're we are performingin Berlin in this massive
synagogue that used to house thehorses of the Nazis.
Isn't that crazy?
Yeah, probably.
And now we're doing a comedyshow there.
I mean, that's Mashirch Energy.
And Vienna's Vienna, we're goingback.
(37:05):
We have a beautiful, we havefriends there now.
We have we have uh an audiencethere that that's wonderful.
And um, and and uh what's theother one?
Amsterdam.
That's gonna be fun too.
That's with the last time wewere there, we were at a comedy
club, now we're in a theater,and uh Meshirch Energy, all
those shows are gonna beunbelievable.
SPEAKER_01 (37:23):
But take a look at our calendar, modulive.com, and
at the top, uh you can also signup to be notified if we add
shows in your geographic area soyou can catch us on the road.
SPEAKER_02 (37:35):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:36):
Is that good?
Or we did we did we do good?
No, no, we covered a lot.
SPEAKER_02 (37:40):
We did Madonna, we didn't Madonna, we did Diane of
Tines, we did Dan BonFurstenburg, we did a show in um
a show five towns.
So much fun.
I cannot tell you how much funthose are.
I know you have a good time atthe time.
SPEAKER_01 (37:54):
I have such a good time.
I had a great time too.
I went to bed at like 7 30 p.m.
last night.
SPEAKER_02 (37:58):
Yeah, but I I came home.
You were you were in thekitchen.
SPEAKER_01 (38:00):
Yeah, I housing at like 11 o'clock.
SPEAKER_02 (38:04):
And Leo puts in an order at for Instacart.
The house now is full of food.
SPEAKER_01 (38:08):
It's not full of food, it's like so much.
SPEAKER_02 (38:11):
It's like almond milk and eggs.
I figured I'm gonna come in andyou're gonna be sleeping.
I come in, you are in shorts, inthe bathroom, in the in the in
the kitchen, just everything'sopen.
You're just digging intoeverything, and it was I was
grazing.
No, but you it it's like a sleepwhen you wake up in the middle
of a sleep.
Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01 (38:27):
Sometimes I wake up and I'm like ravenous.
SPEAKER_02 (38:29):
Right.
My mom used to do that.
My mom used to wake up in themiddle of the night, just go
down and says and house food.
Just yeah, it's not a goodhabit.
Yeah.
All right.
Anyway, on that note on thatnote, get tickets, modulive.com,
be the friend that brings thefriends to the comedy show.
That is Mashir Energy.
Mashir Merch is on on the uhit's linked on the website.
SPEAKER_01 (38:48):
Also, there's its own standalone website,
mashirchenergy.com.
SPEAKER_02 (38:52):
Yes, and the the vibe for this year, this
upcoming Jewish year and theyear of man for everybody, is to
discuss and bring Meshir to theforefront in the conversation.
Even if you don't talk about itwhen you leave, just go bye,
Mashiach Energy.
Just to mention Meshir in inthat in that and those of you
who are probably having aproblem with the words mo, like
(39:14):
mo Larry, and curly mo, she,like the pronoun she, mo she.
If you got that, you're alreadyalmost there.
And then ah.
I got it.
Ah.
SPEAKER_01 (39:22):
You can go ah, mo shiach.
Oh, I I want to plug uh theOctober 22nd event at the 92nd
Street Y.
Modi will be doing a livepodcast taping with actress,
producer, everything,multi-hyphenate, Deborah
Messing.
Um, the in-person tickets aresold out, and we will not be
releasing more, unfortunately.
However, you can register tohave access to the live stream,
(39:46):
and that's fun.
And I think the link gives youlike 48 or 72 hours afterwards
to watch it as well if you can'twatch it live.
Um, all of that money goes tothe 92nd Street Y, which is a
great New York City institution.
Um, and they do beautifulevents, and they're partnering
with us for this uh on October22nd.
So that's also on your website.
SPEAKER_02 (40:06):
That's it.
SPEAKER_01 (40:06):
And be the friend who brings the friend.
SPEAKER_02 (40:09):
Be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy
show or a comedy event or comedytaping or comedy podcast.
Just bring your friends tosomething fun.
Yeah that creates machiachenergy.
On that note, machiach energyand goodbye.
Welcome to And here's Modi.
We are in the studio.
Me and Leo.
Shalom.
Shalom.
We are in the studio here onOctober 13th, hours after the
hostages have been released.
President Trump just spoke atthe Knesset.
Israel is in a state ofhappiness and mashiach energy.
(00:25):
Nothing else can say it.
It's so crazy.
It's also this exact time of theyear, two years ago, you and I
were in Israel at the SataiHotel when the war broke out.
And now here we are, full twoyears later in the Hebrew
calendar.
We are witnessing the release ofthese poor hostages and
hopefully the end of this war.
(00:47):
And it's just um I don't know,it just shows that prayers work,
I believe.
All the prayers that I've put inthe the whole all of uh anybody
w wishing well for the hostages,it came together.
You're seeing it.
SPEAKER_01 (01:04):
What do you think?
Um what is what's yourrabbinical take on the timeline
of all this happening in termsof all of the holidays and
things that are happening in theHebrew calendar and all that
stuff?
SPEAKER_02 (01:16):
Well, this is uh this is we we we're in a period
of time called the ourhappiness.
Zman Simchat Simchatein, uh, ofour joy and happiness.
We're in the holiday of Sukkot,where we those of you who don't
know, it's where we sit in thehut outside and fully embraced
in happiness and and the thewarmth of God and um and
celebrating.
It's a fun holiday, it's a foodholiday, it's a it's uh
(01:40):
celebrating with family andfriends holiday, and it is just
it's crazy.
It's a full cycle of two years.
SPEAKER_01 (01:47):
It feels longer.
It feels I can't imagine what itfeels like for the people who
are you know, the families andthe hostages themselves, but it
doesn't feel like two years.
SPEAKER_02 (01:56):
It feels like so much more, so much has happened
in the world and in our livesbetween you and me since since
that day where the war began.
You and I woke up in Tel Avivand had a flight to to France,
to Paris to go do four shows.
And we were like, should we dothese shows or not?
And we ended up doing thoseshows and kept on doing shows to
(02:18):
bring some pause for laughterfor the the the the world, not
just the Jewish community, thethe anybody that just just
needed it, and um and we've beenall over the world.
We really have been all over theworld since two years ago.
We've been all over Europe, allover America, all over
(02:39):
Australia, Mexico City, MexicoCity with Jewish communities and
not Jewish communities, and justevents and fundraisers, and uh
uh a pot this podcast we hadOmar Shemtov, one of the
hostages, who's in for 505 days,and now we're we're seeing 48
(02:59):
hostages released that are inthere for over 700 days.
And because we are at thepodcast now, I can't really see
the visuals of what the hostageslook like, but they much better
than what I thought they wouldlook.
They're I mean, their smiles andthey're waving and they're
alive, and it's just yeah, it'sjust amazing.
(03:20):
It's just it's reallyunbelievable that this is
happening right now.
And then we got to get we hadthe podcast book to be able to
to to talk about it and shareour happiness.
And um, and and that's wherewe've got all the time.
You said it could just changeovernight.
You always said that.
I always say that.
You just like just like you flipyour your how do you call it
(03:40):
swipe?
Yep, a swipe of your thumb.
As in everything can change inthe swipe of a thumb.
You can just swipe your thumb,and the next thing will be
ceasefire, hostages released,bombing stopped, Putin says
enough.
You could just you have tobelieve in that.
I was talking to one of ourneighbors up in Connecticut and
telling her that too.
(04:01):
Should we tell that story?
Should we tell that story, youknow?
Why not?
Why not?
I was we were walking with ourneighbor, Diane von Furstenberg.
And we she was she asked me, youknow, what about the war?
I said to her, everything couldchange in a flip flick of a
finger.
And this was we were with herlike a few days before Yom
(04:22):
Kippur, so it was about two twoweeks ago.
Yeah.
And and then I I texted her, Isaid, look, like I said,
everything can just change atthe flip of a finger.
SPEAKER_01 (04:32):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (04:32):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (04:34):
Should I tell the story?
Tell the story how it came tobe.
Okay, so there's an amazingdocumentary on Hulu about Diane
von Furstenberg.
I believe it's on Hulu, 99%sure.
We watch a lot of documentaries,and so and this is one of the my
favorite ones that I've everseen.
Um, I mean, you always joke thata documentary could be about a
(04:54):
spoon, and if it's well done,it's entertaining.
But this is just like, I mean,Diane von Furstenberg's life is
just so cinematic with the plotlines and the storylines and the
visuals that of course it madefor a good documentary.
So anyway, we watched this.
I loved it.
What a love.
SPEAKER_02 (05:12):
She was born to her mother was an Auschwitz.
SPEAKER_01 (05:14):
Auschwitz survivor.
Yeah.
She marries a German prince.
SPEAKER_02 (05:18):
Yeah, at the age of like 17, 18, she marries a
German prince.
So now a daughter of a Holocaustsurvivor is married to a German
prince.
SPEAKER_01 (05:25):
Yeah.
And then goes on to create likeone of the biggest fashion
empires of all time.
Yeah.
Most iconic pieces of clothing.
Like so, wow.
So I'm just like, I lovewatching those kind of
documentaries.
I'm not a huge fashion personper se, but just like, wow, what
a life.
And in the documentary, theybriefly show her place in
Connecticut where she spends alot of her time.
(05:46):
And I was like, oh, interesting,because you and I bought a house
in Connecticut last year.
And then we were drivingrecently, and I saw a very
distinct thing that was shown inthe documentary by the road.
And I was like, oh my God,that's Diane's house.
And you had done the Shabbatdinner for the CFDA uh fashion
week in January.
(06:08):
Um, so where you did a Shabbatdinner with all these fashion
Jewish fashion designers andinfluencers for the CFDA to kick
off fashion week.
And because of that, I had somecontacts at the CFDA.
The costume, I don't want to getit right.
I don't, I you know, I have it.
I'm gonna Google it.
Please hold CFDA somethingfashion for.
(06:29):
I I have it, but I don't want toget it wrong.
Catalog, nope.
No, Council of Fashion Designersof America.
There you go.
Council of Fashion Designers ofAmerica.
And so when I saw thedocumentary, I sent out an
email.
I was like, hi, this is maybekind of strange, but like Modi
and I just purchased a home inConnecticut and we realized
we're basically neighbors withDiane.
If anyone knows her, we wouldlove to connect with her.
(06:52):
And Mark was very kind to belike, yes, sure.
Here's her longtime assistantwho happened to be a huge Modi
fan, and she helped us put alunch on the books with Diane.
So we just showed up twostrangers, and Diane, to her
credit, took us in for lunch,and it was just like such a
magical.
SPEAKER_02 (07:10):
I brought her a mazuza, a framed mazuza, and she
was, oh, we'll hang it up rightaway.
And she called for a hammer, andit just appeared, and it
appeared a hammer.
Someone came running in with ahammer, and we I I the picture
came, the frame came with anail, and we hung it right up,
and it was so great.
And she was so sweet.
We had amazing lunch, and wewalked with her.
(07:31):
And while we were walking, Itold her everything can change.
SPEAKER_01 (07:34):
While walking, it was a 45-minute hike we did,
never and we never left herproperty, or like even got close
to leaving the property.
It was the same.
SPEAKER_02 (07:42):
And it was great.
We got to meet from thedocumentary, her friend Olivier,
who was in the documentary, andwe got to meet him and her
granddaughter, who runs a uh anum an arts camp.
An arts camp up there that sheused to attend, and it was just
great energy, just unbelievableenergy.
SPEAKER_01 (08:00):
Should I tell the story of like how it happened,
then didn't happen, thenhappened?
SPEAKER_02 (08:04):
No, it's it was just uh it was just like it's funny.
So tell us I don't know.
SPEAKER_01 (08:10):
So first uh the the the assistant, her longtime
assistant who is a Modi fan,puts it on the books for us for
Sunday.
Then I want to say like thatThursday and she and in our
correspondence, she goes, and bythe way, her preferred florist
is so and so.
I said, Okay, I can read a hint.
So I call the florist and I say,Hi, can you deliver this on
(08:31):
Sunday?
So it gets there before ourlunch.
She goes, We're closed onSunday.
So I said, Okay, so send itSaturday.
Send whatever she likes, bigover the top.
Sure, do it, send it.
And I I get that, I have thatscheduled to send.
Then Thursday, the assistantemails me saying, Sorry, she had
something come up, she can't doa full lunch, but just maybe
text her on Sunday and you maybeyou can stop by for a hello.
SPEAKER_02 (08:54):
She finally probably just threw on the calendar of
like, what do I need to sit withfor lunch with these two people?
I don't have no idea who theyare.
SPEAKER_01 (08:59):
And she kind of like, but then the flowers
arrived.
Right.
And she goes, Wait, who arethese two?
And she put the lunch back onthe calendar.
And I she told us as much whilewe sat down for lunch.
She goes, I wasn't sure what washappening here, but then you
sent those beautiful flowers,and I was like, saved by the
florists.
I was like, I was like, I don'tblame you by the way.
I wouldn't want to have lunchwith two random strangers.
Absolutely not.
(09:20):
It was but it was a lesson forme because of putting two and
two together and reaching outand asking, not for a favor, but
just like utilizing the peoplein my network more because I
hate doing that.
Yeah.
Um, but it was I think that wasa lesson for me.
It wasn't so much to meet her,which although that was like an
amazing experience, and to be inthe presence of someone who's
(09:43):
had such a life, they she has anaura.
You know, when you're arrestingsomeone like that who has like
one crazy auras, yeah.
Um we all have an aura.
I wonder what mine is.
It must be gray.
SPEAKER_02 (09:54):
It's whatever you oh my god, don't say that.
It's whatever I didn't say a badone.
It's whatever you want it to be,it's whatever you want it to
create.
And you and a part of in themorning, you focus on your aura.
When I put my talus on, my myprayer show, and I wrap myself
around it.
That's when you're making yourprayer for your aura.
So I I say for mine, I want it,I put it on and I say the oh
(10:17):
Makif surrounding light and youraura.
And then I want it to be blessedand protected, blessing also to
bless other people, protected,and also to be inspired,
inspiring, to be grateful andshow grave uh gratefulness.
And you can plan what you wantyour aura to look like.
You it's a it's a thing.
It's you can you can you couldcontrol your aura.
(10:38):
And then the word gray shouldn'tbe in there, but it should be I
want it to be open and want itto be uh regal.
I want it to be uh a good uhgood you put good adjectives in
whatever you want your aura toto be.
So she has one because she wakesup in the morning like I am the
bomb, I am DVF, I am DVF, I havedone it.
(11:00):
Mother F.
Yep, and that's and so she hasan amazing, amazing aura, and so
we were blessed to be with her.
SPEAKER_01 (11:10):
It was an amazing I more got along with the
granddaughter, she's reallycool.
SPEAKER_02 (11:13):
Yeah, the granddaughter also has like
she's like she's got it, she'sshe's amazing, she's but it was
just such a stunning property.
SPEAKER_01 (11:19):
It's I mean, like we've just acres and acres, and
every once in a while, just likea bronze statue.
SPEAKER_02 (11:25):
It was beautiful, it was hers.
Exactly what you would think itwould be, and it's all in the
documentary, it's beautiful.
Watch the documentary, watch thedocumentary, an incredible
documentary.
It was uh it's it was alife-changing documentary.
Some lock some documentaries canreally change your your life and
perspective of how things shouldand can be uh 100%.
Um, what other documentarieshave we watched we loved?
(11:48):
Well, if speaking of fashiondocumentary, Valentino the Last
Emperor is one of the best.
And let's give him one more thatwe've recently watched.
I feel like we just watchedsomething.
SPEAKER_01 (11:58):
The one about Alan Carr, the uh in the 80s.
SPEAKER_02 (12:02):
That was crazy.
Yes, that Alan Carr was a cra uhthis producer, this over-the-top
gay producer, and just like hislife story.
SPEAKER_01 (12:11):
So nuts.
We love a good documentary.
SPEAKER_02 (12:14):
We love a good documentary.
SPEAKER_01 (12:15):
But they should make one about us, honestly.
SPEAKER_02 (12:16):
Well, they did not not make one about us.
SPEAKER_01 (12:19):
There is a sizzle floating around out there.
SPEAKER_02 (12:21):
Well, there is also an article that just came out
about us.
Oh, do tell.
What me?
Yeah.
I'm not one to spread.
But this past what was it?
Thursday?
Yeah, Thursday, I think.
So on Thursday, an article inthe New York Times came out
about us.
(12:41):
About you.
About us.
Uh I mean, it the title was He'sGay, he's he's an Observant Jew,
and his career is booming.
Um that came out on Thursday.
And on Friday, we had ouranniversary, so we dropped some
pictures of us together.
And the only thing we shouldhave done was Saturday pretended
(13:02):
to have adopted a baby.
But just post a picture of asonogram.
Yeah, no captions.
No captions, a sonogram.
Like we're having a baby.
SPEAKER_01 (13:10):
People would die.
SPEAKER_02 (13:11):
No, but but there's no need for that because we got
happening.
SPEAKER_01 (13:13):
Why is there a picture of a ghost on my desk?
SPEAKER_02 (13:16):
Um but the article was amazing, was it was was
incredible, no?
SPEAKER_01 (13:21):
Yeah, so we were blessed because uh Lisa Lurer of
the New York Times, who did theprofile on you, she typically
works with politicians.
So she's used to dealing with alike a fierce sort of media
person that acts as a barrier toher subject and filtering and
making sure that everyeverything that all the
information they're getting,she's getting is approved and
(13:44):
you know, sanitized andwhatever.
So I think it was a change ofpace for her to work with you
because A we just gave her somuch access.
SPEAKER_02 (13:50):
Of course.
SPEAKER_01 (13:51):
Um, she literally came to our house in
Connecticut, she came to a showin Columbus, she was at a bunch
of other shows, she went todinner.
SPEAKER_02 (13:57):
So she for to for to begin the stories like this.
She's a political writer, butshe said there's some kind of a
sabbatical project that she thatthey do.
Like you you can pick somethingof the you can do that.
SPEAKER_01 (14:09):
Yeah, if you click on her profile in the New York
Times, it's all politics.
Right, and then all of a suddenit's not like lifestyle pieces,
and then all of a sudden it'sus.
SPEAKER_02 (14:15):
And so so she she said the first time she saw me
was at the Republican JewishCoalition performing there.
She was in the press pit andshe's like, Oh, this is
interesting.
And then she came to a show atthe The Beacon, and then she
came to a comedy cellar show ofme working new material.
SPEAKER_01 (14:35):
Well, that I arranged.
That's after I knew she wasalready like.
SPEAKER_02 (14:37):
Then she was interested in doing the article,
and then she wanted to go to akosher restaurant.
We went to Reserve Cut.
She said, I want New York Timesto buy me a kosher steak.
So she we went there, which washer choice.
And I don't, I don't, I wouldn'thave chosen it because I knew
it's just hard to eat a mealwith everybody coming over for a
picture.
And yeah, you were like Madonna.
(14:58):
Right.
So we're sitting there and she'slike experiencing everybody
asking me for a picture orshowing me what cameo I did for
them or tell me where they sawme and all that.
And um, and so she that wassomething she she visualized on
her own.
And then she came to a show inColumbus to see what it would be
like not in New York.
SPEAKER_01 (15:14):
She said, I want to see something that's quote, not
New York or LA juice.
I said, Well, we have a show inColumbus, Ohio.
Would you like to join?
And she got on a plane and shewent to Columbus, Ohio.
With a photographer, and shespoke to every she spoke to like
90% of the people in the room.
She had her notebook out and herrecorder, however, she was
taking notes, and she was beinga journalist.
(15:35):
She was getting quotes andtalking to people, and it was
crazy.
And um, but you're happy withhow the piece came out.
SPEAKER_02 (15:42):
I'm happy how the piece came out.
I loved it.
I'm surprised what you weresurprised at, and I'm surprised
that you weren't surprised.
When when we when we we wentwhen we read it once through,
you thought like something wasthere.
Was one thing that that youscared you.
It still scares me, but butmeanwhile, what was really like
what was what everybody keptcommenting was that you were you
(16:02):
were the speedo line.
How was the speedo line?
I'll no I'll pull it up.
So keep in mind, she's in ourhouse in the height of the
summer.
We had a whole bunch of friendsover sitting by the pool.
SPEAKER_01 (16:12):
And at the pool in the manicured backyard.
Sorry, no, let me just give theline first because I feel like
that helps a little bit.
Mr.
Rosenfeld sees comedy as a holymission, he explained on a
sunny, sunny Sunday afternoonsitting in his second home in
Connecticut, which he purchasedlast year.
At the pool in the manicuredbackyard, Mr.
Vega, me, was entertaining agroup comfortable socializing in
(16:35):
speedos.
Inside, Mr.
Rosenfeld was diving into theTalmud, the millennium's
millennium's old collection ofrabbinical discussion.
And if that line doesn'tsummarize our relationship, then
and now it's immortalized in theNew York Times.
Thank God it is.
Um that is so funny.
So great.
She also found you know what shedid.
(16:57):
Comfortable socializing inspeedos has so much weight to it
without saying anything.
It's so funny.
SPEAKER_02 (17:03):
Comfortable socializing in speedos.
That means you're you're talkingto other people with your junk
all out there.
SPEAKER_01 (17:08):
Meanwhile, it was just me and you know the two.
No, I know who exactly who itwas.
It was like family.
SPEAKER_02 (17:14):
But no, she makes she makes it seem like there was
like a huge party happening.
SPEAKER_01 (17:17):
It's like a Fire Island moment out there.
SPEAKER_02 (17:19):
Yeah, which that's a different time, but but um and
and she and I were insidetalking.
I was explaining to her howcomedians are in the Talmud and
all that, and uh, and uh and itwas it was it was great.
And uh what does your mom haveto say about it?
Well, hold on.
So she oh I it was great thatshe quoted she quoted Donnie
Moss, who was the person.
SPEAKER_01 (17:40):
Yeah, she got good quotes from people.
SPEAKER_02 (17:41):
Great quotes.
She got great quote from DonnieMoss, who was the person that
because of him, I'm doingcomedy.
He said, Go do this on stage.
Gav, a rabbi, got GabrielBellino from the Sixth Street
Synagogue, and Joe Lieberman.
SPEAKER_01 (17:55):
Not really a quote from me, though.
There's one quote about youbeing a high-functioning
bisexual.
That was basically uh that wasyour only quote, yes.
SPEAKER_02 (18:04):
Um, but but she got Joe Lieberman, she watched the
Joe Lieberman roast.
Yeah, and so she took a quotefrom Joe Lieberman.
SPEAKER_01 (18:10):
A post-mortem how would you describe a quote from
a dead person?
I just love the show.
She said that it was a hugething for her to fight to get it
in there.
Right.
That her editor didn't want toquote a dead person, but it's on
video.
It's on video.
SPEAKER_02 (18:25):
It was so great to see that.
Uh my my mom still hasn't readthe whole article through.
SPEAKER_01 (18:31):
I gifted her a free New York Times article.
SPEAKER_02 (18:34):
So she opened up.
So she opened up and then sheclosed it.
SPEAKER_01 (18:38):
So I'll resend her.
SPEAKER_02 (18:39):
You have to resend it to her.
Why didn't you tell me?
She called she goes, why do theycall you Mr.
Rosenfeld?
I said to her, that's the wayit's the AP style.
A P style.
That's the way but like if theydo a story about Madonna O'Cher,
I think they would do MadonnaO'Cher.
They wouldn't say what Madonna'slast name is.
SPEAKER_01 (19:01):
Um I feel a little bit like well, I'll go I'll get
back to you on that.
I do think um Madonna and Cherare outliers.
What's Cher's last Cher's lastname?
SPEAKER_02 (19:17):
Berkowitz.
unknown (19:18):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02 (19:19):
And Madonna's is Machanohovich.
SPEAKER_01 (19:22):
Speaking of podcasts and Madonna, did you listen to
the whole episode of the podcastshe did talking about Kabbalah?
SPEAKER_02 (19:27):
It was so good.
I listened to the Madonnapodcast on um Jay Shaw's
podcast.
Jay Shaw's podcast.
And she also Eitan Yardeni, whowas my teacher at the Kabbala
Center for a very short time.
Hearing his voice was so muchfun.
I remember his voice.
Lack.
I remember his voice.
SPEAKER_00 (19:46):
A time of lack emptiness.
So traumatic.
Void.
Your competition.
Your compassion.
Your abandonment issues when heis one of the that turned into
Schwarzenegger at the end.
I didn't mean to.
It becomes a littleSchwarzenegger.
A little Israeli Schwarzenegger.
SPEAKER_01 (20:04):
Israeli meet Schwarzenegger.
SPEAKER_02 (20:05):
That's how he sounds it's it's so so the the teachers
at the Kabala Center that areIsraeli actually have good
grammar.
So the accent is not it's notnot bad grammar.
They speak English, but with anIsraeli accent, but the
grammar's good.
So so it's it's it makes iteasier to follow.
He speaks English with anIsraeli accent.
Not like people put Englishwords.
SPEAKER_01 (20:29):
Is very dramatic.
SPEAKER_02 (20:30):
Felt like they were putting reverb on the because it
was they weren't reverb.
They were just like banana,banana.
But it was like very just hisvoice.
It's just his voice, I guess,was doing that.
Yeah, but she it was a sheshone.
She shined.
She shined.
She shined.
She was Madonna, she killed it,and she's explaining like it was
a it's a lot of the stuff thatyou always repeat and talk
(20:51):
about.
It's everything.
It's everything I always repeat.
I learned so much in theKabbalah Center.
You it's it's unbelievable.
And she she she came out andlike you know, it's oh you
always hear she's a she goes tothe Kabbalah Center, but she
blatantly goes, I am a studentof the Kabbalah Center, and this
is my journey, and this is whatI did, and this is what I'm
(21:12):
learning constantly and anddoing it.
And and um and and it's it wasamazing.
It was amazing.
It's you know, you know what'sreally funny, and I've obviously
it's funny because before thearticle came out, I quoted Rav
Berg from the Kabbalah Centerabout Apikorsum with when we had
Steve Eisenman on the podcast umum saying that Apicorsim is
(21:34):
somebody that believes incoincidence, and there's no
coincidence two years ago today.
We were staying at the SataiHotel with and staying at the
hotel at the same time was myMichaelberg and his family.
He is now the head of theKabbalah Center, yeah, and I'm
(21:54):
assuming Etanyardeni's teacheror whatever he's up there too,
you know.
And um and two years ago we werestaying at the hotel with them,
which is crazy.
Yeah, it's it it there's nocoincidence.
SPEAKER_01 (22:09):
And um the thing that she said that I kind of
felt uh resonated with me waswhen she was talking about her
talent, yeah, and how itshifted, everything shifted once
she stopped.
I I mean I forget how she wordedit, but basically stop thinking
that you are and own the talent,but you are just a vessel,
(22:29):
you're just stewarding thetalent, you are a vessel for the
talent that is being lent to youby a higher power for the time
being, and you are to manage itand bring it into the world, but
it's not yours, and that'ssomething you always say.
SPEAKER_02 (22:43):
Always say that the anything that comes out of my
mouth, anything that's funny isa gift that God gave me.
It's called an Ibu.
There's a moment of just Godgave you like here's a little
something, and so your talent isis in this vessel called Modi,
right?
And whenever you see a talent,you know, like um, there's
always the what what what whatif someone's a big like well
(23:06):
someone was recently talkingabout Woody Allen, that they're
in in awe at how great histalent is to make those movies
and comedy, but he's what theythink whatever the that's the
the the the vessel came in inthe gift is in Woody Allen.
What whether you appreciate thevessel or something else, it's
great when they both line uptogether.
(23:27):
Well, that's why they say don'tmeet your idols.
Right.
And um, and the fact that you'recalling them an idol is a is a
problem.
But that's just the phrase.
I know, but but if you know, ifthe person that that the the the
God put this gift in is anamazing person too, then even
better.
So God put the gift in Madonna,and then he gave her the cabal
to to hone that she doesn't gota control because many she
(23:49):
credits it to saving her life ahundred percent.
SPEAKER_01 (23:52):
And you see other artists like her like compares
to she compares, you know, sheum draws the line to uh what
happened to Michael Jackson andPrince and a lot of her
contemporary spears and all ofthat stuff.
She says the only thing thatkeep kept her grounded was
Kabbalah.
SPEAKER_02 (24:06):
But it but the the the the talent and the gift when
it's someone as a singer, acomedian, a drummer, a piano
player, obviously it's obvious.
But then there's gifts like withyou, able to organize, able to
to put together a show, toproduce a show.
That's that's also a gift.
That's also a gift.
(24:27):
People have gifts in them, andyou know it's it's not just the
three blatant gifts, but thatwas one of the things I always
say that that you are you're avessel for a gift that God put
on earth, and hopefully you findout what what the what what what
that gift is and and and youshine with it.
And that but that the theinterview was amazing.
It was absolutely everythingI've learned there at the
cabbala center what was taughtthere.
(24:49):
Unbelievable.
She really it was an amazing,amazing.
I saw her at the cabala centeronce.
So when you when you and I met,it was 2015.
My first time at the KabbalahCenter was 2004.
Okay.
I I'd been there.
But in LA.
No, here in New York.
And then I went to LA and I wentto the Kabbalah Center there,
where everybody was, you know,with where the the heads of the
(25:11):
Kabbalah Center were.
The Rav was there andMichaelberg and Yehuda Berg and
Karen Berg and and all of that.
And they were um and all thecelebrities.
But but but but I wasn't therefor the celebrities, and I
wasn't there to to to get aconnection in the show business.
I was the stuff they wereteaching was unbelievable.
And when you are in a um Butthen when I came to New York,
(25:35):
you took me to the center.
So I was kind of like coming, II was coming out of the cabal.
I'm like, oh, you know what?
I received a lot here, and now Ineed to go and implement it.
Implement it.
SPEAKER_01 (25:46):
And just I can't be in an echo chamber talking about
it.
SPEAKER_02 (25:50):
Yes.
Well, luckily, yeah.
And but I did bring you to aPurim event at the cabal, and
you saw you saw Madonna, andyou're like, oh wow, wow, that's
Madonna.
Okay.
And then we left, and you withyour all your Catholic trauma
titles.
That's enough of that, by theway.
That's enough of of whatever wasgoing on there.
(26:11):
I don't need to be seeing Hebrewletters on a screen and hearing
about the light and God.
No, like no, no, but you didn'ttake me out.
But I was I was already on my Iwas like, I'm good.
SPEAKER_01 (26:21):
I'm good.
But you phrase it in a way thatwas interesting to me the other
day because you said you werethere from 2000 when you
started, 2000.
SPEAKER_02 (26:28):
2004 was like when I began, I took a class here and
there.
SPEAKER_01 (26:32):
You know, there's it's something to be said about
because it's not a religion,Kabbalah.
It's a framework forspirituality, but it's not a
religion.
So I think it's interesting howyou said it, like that you had
to kind of step away in order tosee if the tools that you
received from it are actuallyusable or that you can find ways
(26:52):
to implement them.
Otherwise, it just becomes sortof like a womb, like of an echo
chamber of people who are thesame.
Do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02 (27:00):
That was my journey with it.
That was my kind of journeyjourney with it.
You know, my my my that was my II had like you know the more
religious teaching with theLababach Yeshiva, and then um my
my own teaching, you know, my myliving that and then when the
cabal center came in, it like itand then I had my kind of
spiritual awakening with Dr.
(27:20):
Wayne Dyer, so it went kind oflike yeshiva, Dr.
Wayne Dyer, and spirituality andseeing and that, and believe me,
I wouldn't have been able tofigure out Dr.
Wayne Dyer unless I had thatother stuff in me.
No, the cabal was after that,and it was all linked, you know.
And then the cabal, the lessonsof of the of the reasons why I'm
(27:40):
doing the things I'm doing wasunbelievable.
The technology, seeing it astechnology rather than just
something that you do.
And um, I still and I I I readthe books once in a while that
are amazing, and um it's it wasso great.
And Madonna just gave it over,like wow.
SPEAKER_01 (27:56):
Yeah, and she well, to her credit, she didn't make
it sound like some woo-woothing.
SPEAKER_00 (28:03):
She gave it over in very practical, like tangible
terms, and then she put A tonon, and he's just does he's just
you have to implementimplementing the lesson from
your childhood, where whetherit's abandonment, no, it's it's
it's just lists, it's it's amatter of lack, emptiness.
SPEAKER_02 (28:23):
He really sits on the he sits on the note, he's
amazing.
He and he's a he's his I'm gonnatell you an eight on your Denny
story that is so funny.
So in the Kabbalah class, theywere like the the the the wit of
the weekly portion.
So uh he would give the classand a packed house.
And there's some celebritiessprinkled here and there,
(28:44):
sometimes Madonna, sometimes notMadonna.
And and uh you're reading thetext, which is in Aramaic, the
Zohar is in Aramaic, and thetranslation he has is in Hebrew,
and now he's teaching it inEnglish.
And he knew who were theIsraelis in the room were, and
he thought that we would alwaysbe able to help him translate a
(29:05):
word that he wasn't sure wouldbe the word.
One time he was fixated andstuck on a word, and it was
either habituation or uh uhhabitat or habit ha it was hab
and something else, habitual orhabitation, or he didn't know
what it was.
And he kept asking me, he goes,Well, the how do you say uh
(29:28):
habitu hab habilit habitu Idon't know, and then he goes
from the the word in Hebrew,whatever the hawka ha.
I got I don't know that wordeither.
I I don't know, but he keptgoing at it and going at and I
said to him, Eitan, life is notthat difficult.
You wake up, you have a coffee,you go to the bathroom, you have
three meals, and you do it allagain.
(29:50):
It's all it's just that andeverybody just cracked up
because he was like stuck, itwas fixated on this world.
But that was like theenvironment, you could have a
good time and laugh with them,and I will tell.
You no one laughs harder thanKaren Berg.
She was she's the the the motherof Yehuda and Michael, and she
was whenever she was wheneverwhenever I performed there, she
(30:12):
I have pictures of her laughinguncontrollably.
She had such an amazing sense ofhumor, and it was just it was
great to do those shows, and itwas such a big part of my life,
and it was great.
And just Madonna really nailedit.
Just good for her.
That was all I could say.
I'm just so happy to have heardthat.
SPEAKER_01 (30:29):
Yeah.
It's a good listen.
I'll link it too.
SPEAKER_02 (30:32):
Yeah, link that in.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (30:35):
So it's October.
SPEAKER_02 (30:37):
It's October, and we're about to go crazy on the
road.
SPEAKER_01 (30:41):
Um, how do you feel about the hour that you're gonna
be dictating in December?
SPEAKER_02 (30:50):
I'm ready.
Everything is there.
It's 94 96% set.
I keep coming up with littleextra tidbits and lines, and as
you see me, I'm rehearsing thestuff all the time in my head,
and then getting on stage anddoing it.
(31:11):
And um and uh last night You dida pop-up show unadvertised.
Unadvertised, incognito.
Those of you know in the fivetowns there was a cheese store.
When I was growing up in thefive towns on Central Avenue.
It's always been a cheese store?
It's always been a cheese store.
And no one ever went into.
It was a cheese store.
(31:31):
It was on the corner of CentralAvenue and Cedarhurst.
Okay, and it's a cheese store,and you just walked by and you
just saw cheeses hanging thereand cheeses on shelves, and uh
who the hell?
You we had in the house cottagecheese and cream cheese.
That was it.
There was no cheeses, breeze,and whatever the hell it was.
And so Dove Newberger uh says,I'm doing a pop-up show there.
(31:54):
I'm like, perfect.
I need a few minutes of workingout material without me having
to sell tickets and advertiseand all that.
Packed.
So it's it's not a cheese storeanymore.
Now it's like a it's a dairyrestaurant.
Okay, and it's he packed it in.
It was like I'm I'm I think 150,if not 200 people there.
Wow.
(32:14):
Packed and they were so happy,and they were so and great to
just they were grateful thatthere's a show going on.
The night before, Mochi ShabaSaturday night, there was a
show.
He said it was amazing.
They kept talking about howgreat that audience was, it was
so much better than thisaudience.
And then um, so he justintroduced me out of nowhere.
(32:34):
The the place went nuts.
After the show, people said, Ihad a feeling you were gonna be
here because you spoke about iton the podcast, telling Doby to
let you know when there was thenext pop-up show.
Oh, so they kind of like knew,you know.
SPEAKER_01 (32:47):
Another reason to listen to the podcast.
Honestly, we drop all sorts oftidbits on here.
If you put on your detectivehat, you could yeah, like for
example, if you were to go toyour website, modilive.com, and
scroll through your dates andhit April 23rd, it doesn't say
the venue.
No, but it gives you the optionto sign up for when tickets at
that venue go on sale, which isgonna be October 28th that and
(33:12):
through the 31st.
Right.
SPEAKER_02 (33:13):
So I don't know when this is actually coming out.
This is coming out next week.
Well, I can yeah, yeah.
And just as you know, we we'renot allowed to discuss on on
counsel of our agent andmanager, we're not we're not
allowed to talk about the factthat we have a show in Radio
City Music Hall on April 23rd,2026.
And the tickets are going onsale on October 28th.
(33:34):
So those of you put that in yourcalendar, get the tickets.
SPEAKER_01 (33:36):
If you're ever watching this in the New York
area and you're like, I alwaysmiss Modi.
When is he gonna be here?
Go to the website now, uh,select April 23rd and put your
email and your tech and yourphone number.
We're only gonna bother you whenthe show goes on sale.
We're not gonna send you extrastuff, and then you'll be the
first to know when you can buytickets to Radio City because
don't complain when all the goodseats are taken.
(33:58):
Uh, and there's are you gonnaopen up more seats?
Are you doing another show?
Just get your tickets when theygo on sale.
SPEAKER_02 (34:04):
And we were there, we did some promo pictures
there, and they were so muchfun.
The place is insane, it'sbeautiful.
They just put a new sounds.
SPEAKER_01 (34:11):
One show there.
Mateo Lane.
SPEAKER_02 (34:13):
I've seen other shows, I just forgot which ones.
SPEAKER_01 (34:15):
I haven't seen like the Rockettes or anything, which
is the Roquettes are why,because typically you do your
big New York play in December.
Um, it's been historically likea Christmas Eve show, then it
turned into like a Hanukkah kindof time show.
And then, but now because theRockettes have the place booked
from like October through end ofDecember, yeah, or into January,
(34:35):
I think, it's just Roquettes.
Right.
So we had to do your show inApril.
So it's okay, we'll adjust.
SPEAKER_02 (34:41):
We'll adjust and it'll be great, and people will
uh we'll get the tickets there.
And again, it's it's a weekendin New York if you want.
So Thursday nights, you make aweekend out of it in New York.
Um, and I cannot wait for thatshow.
That show is a whole other showthat that's like in my mind, I'm
going through the hour for thetaping, and then also the stuff
that's afterwards.
SPEAKER_01 (35:01):
The taping, which is dis December 10 and 11 in
Atlanta that you can buy ticketsfor.
Yes.
And it's fun to come to ataping.
You get to see kind of like howthe sausage is made.
Speaking of sausage, or at leasthot dogs, go ahead, do it.
We'd like to thank our sponsors,AH uh Provisions, Delicious
Glott Kosher Meets and Treats.
(35:21):
Uh, you can visit them at kosherdogs.net.
And if you use promo code Modi,you'll get 30% off of your first
order.
Uh, we'd also like to thankWhites and Luxembourg, the law
firm that not only does well,they do good, super
philanthropic, includingsupporting this podcast.
This studio doesn't pay foritself.
There's a lot of equipment hereuh and someone working it.
(35:41):
Uh uh whitesandlux.com.
Uh thank you, Arthur, and thankyou, Randy, for listening.
His wife who listens to thepodcast and lets Arthur know
what we discussed.
SPEAKER_02 (35:52):
Good gezook.
Well done.
Oh, see?
Wow, we got that done.
Got it.
Um, and that that's basicallyit.
We have shows coming up inEurope that we're super excited
about.
Um all markets we're revisiting.
SPEAKER_01 (36:04):
Well, hold on.
Yes.
Um Vienna, Amsterdam, Berlin,Paris.
Paris.
The last time we did Paris wasthe week of after October 7th.
SPEAKER_02 (36:15):
Right.
That's we're literally two yearslater.
SPEAKER_01 (36:18):
Yeah.
So it's gonna be a differentvibe to say the least.
But come come celebrate that inParis.
SPEAKER_02 (36:23):
The last time we were in Paris, the shows I we
were in the back of the roomwatching people on their phones
watching hostages being takenaway.
And now we're back in Paris.
Um, and oh two years later, andthe hostages have been returned.
Thank you, Hashem.
And um, and it's just it's gonnabe a different vibe.
And again, if you need to make aweekend in Paris, this is a good
(36:44):
reason.
Also, Vienna and Berlin, Icannot wait.
I cannot we're we are performingin Berlin in this massive
synagogue that used to house thehorses of the Nazis.
Isn't that crazy?
Yeah, probably.
And now we're doing a comedyshow there.
I mean, that's Mashirch Energy.
And Vienna's Vienna, we're goingback.
(37:05):
We have a beautiful, we havefriends there now.
We have we have uh an audiencethere that that's wonderful.
And um, and and uh what's theother one?
Amsterdam.
That's gonna be fun too.
That's with the last time wewere there, we were at a comedy
club, now we're in a theater,and uh Meshirch Energy, all
those shows are gonna beunbelievable.
SPEAKER_01 (37:23):
But take a look at our calendar, modulive.com, and
at the top, uh you can also signup to be notified if we add
shows in your geographic area soyou can catch us on the road.
SPEAKER_02 (37:35):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:36):
Is that good?
Or we did we did we do good?
No, no, we covered a lot.
SPEAKER_02 (37:40):
We did Madonna, we didn't Madonna, we did Diane of
Tines, we did Dan BonFurstenburg, we did a show in um
a show five towns.
So much fun.
I cannot tell you how much funthose are.
I know you have a good time atthe time.
SPEAKER_01 (37:54):
I have such a good time.
I had a great time too.
I went to bed at like 7 30 p.m.
last night.
SPEAKER_02 (37:58):
Yeah, but I I came home.
You were you were in thekitchen.
SPEAKER_01 (38:00):
Yeah, I housing at like 11 o'clock.
SPEAKER_02 (38:04):
And Leo puts in an order at for Instacart.
The house now is full of food.
SPEAKER_01 (38:08):
It's not full of food, it's like so much.
SPEAKER_02 (38:11):
It's like almond milk and eggs.
I figured I'm gonna come in andyou're gonna be sleeping.
I come in, you are in shorts, inthe bathroom, in the in the in
the kitchen, just everything'sopen.
You're just digging intoeverything, and it was I was
grazing.
No, but you it it's like a sleepwhen you wake up in the middle
of a sleep.
Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01 (38:27):
Sometimes I wake up and I'm like ravenous.
SPEAKER_02 (38:29):
Right.
My mom used to do that.
My mom used to wake up in themiddle of the night, just go
down and says and house food.
Just yeah, it's not a goodhabit.
Yeah.
All right.
Anyway, on that note on thatnote, get tickets, modulive.com,
be the friend that brings thefriends to the comedy show.
That is Mashir Energy.
Mashir Merch is on on the uhit's linked on the website.
SPEAKER_01 (38:48):
Also, there's its own standalone website,
mashirchenergy.com.
SPEAKER_02 (38:52):
Yes, and the the vibe for this year, this
upcoming Jewish year and theyear of man for everybody, is to
discuss and bring Meshir to theforefront in the conversation.
Even if you don't talk about itwhen you leave, just go bye,
Mashiach Energy.
Just to mention Meshir in inthat in that and those of you
who are probably having aproblem with the words mo, like
(39:14):
mo Larry, and curly mo, she,like the pronoun she, mo she.
If you got that, you're alreadyalmost there.
And then ah.
I got it.
Ah.
SPEAKER_01 (39:22):
You can go ah, mo shiach.
Oh, I I want to plug uh theOctober 22nd event at the 92nd
Street Y.
Modi will be doing a livepodcast taping with actress,
producer, everything,multi-hyphenate, Deborah
Messing.
Um, the in-person tickets aresold out, and we will not be
releasing more, unfortunately.
However, you can register tohave access to the live stream,
(39:46):
and that's fun.
And I think the link gives youlike 48 or 72 hours afterwards
to watch it as well if you can'twatch it live.
Um, all of that money goes tothe 92nd Street Y, which is a
great New York City institution.
Um, and they do beautifulevents, and they're partnering
with us for this uh on October22nd.
So that's also on your website.
SPEAKER_02 (40:06):
That's it.
SPEAKER_01 (40:06):
And be the friend who brings the friend.
SPEAKER_02 (40:09):
Be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy
show or a comedy event or comedytaping or comedy podcast.
Just bring your friends tosomething fun.
Yeah that creates machiachenergy.
On that note, machiach energyand goodbye.
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