June 25, 2025 • 37 mins
Episode 154: Mezuzahs, malfunctioning outfits, and mild spiritual panic. If your mezuzah falls off, is that a sign from God… or just bad adhesive?
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome to.
And here's Modi, c'est moi,c'est moi, c'est toi.
Pope Vega.
As you guys know, these are notin the correct order and
recently the Pope has taken uponhimself to name himself after
my husband, leo Vega.
I don't blame him.
It's a great name, so easy.
Who the hell can spell Francis?
I'm a tzaddik, you're a tzaddik, you're absolutely a righteous
(00:40):
person, and popes knew that andsaid I will name myself after
Pope XMX, charlie XMX.
What does he have?
X-i-x-i-v.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I did see Charlie XCX at Barclays Center.
How was it?
It was good.
I didn't go.
I didn't feel as old as Ithought I was going to feel
there, but there certainly werea good representation of the Gen
Z's Fun to see what the kidsare wearing, what they're doing,
what were they wearing?
Nothing, they were a littlecracked out.
(01:12):
It was basically like a giantrave.
For those of you who don't knowCharli XCX, listen to her
critically acclaimed album Brat,which was released last summer.
You've probably heard it if youhave younger kids in the house,
or me or a gay in your life,but it was great you really
enjoy going to these concerts,right like.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I see you posting every now and then these like
amazing kind of videos I'malways like usually more raves.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This was like a proper concert at Barclays
Center, but because of her musicit was basically just a giant
rave.
Got it okay.
Morty did not come with me tosay the least.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Do you not enjoy this sort of thing?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
it's not a music.
I know they had seats.
It wasn't like you could moveand dance and just catch a
groove and all that.
So I didn't want to stand therewith a seat, in between seats
and in between people, so Iopted out.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I will be trying to take you to Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I will be going to Lady Gaga.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
She's at MSG in August or September and Lorde
yesterday, the pop star from NewZealand, as we've discussed on
this show before, she isreleasing her tour dates as well
.
You're going to be coming toconcerts?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'll be coming.
I love it.
I love a concert.
You have a concert With theright people Going, with Leo and
our friends, and it's fun.
Like I say, I'm the only guythat gets to live my 20s and
currently my 30s over Right, andit's just so much fun because
now we have money while whileI'm doing it, so so the seats
are good, the everything aroundit is good and it's fun and it's
(02:55):
fun and it's fun.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Um, so that was that you can't get me anywhere if
it's not like in the first 10rows, like I'm not leaving the
house to go to any show, anyconcert, any game, like, unless
I'm really close to whateverstage or court or whatever it is
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I usually like to be in the general admission
standing room, only pit.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, yeah.
I don't want to move around.
Of course you do.
You don't want to be locked ina little caged area.
No, I want VIP comfortableseats.
It's, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I want VIP comfortable seats.
That's what I want, or I'm notgoing.
I saw Dua.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Lipa.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Anti-Semite, anti-semite, boop, boop, boop,
that's good.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We should get an anti-Semite button.
I did see her.
This was before she made heralleged comments or whatever.
I do still like her music.
Sue me, uh, but I saw her fromwhen we saw her at msg in one of
the nice vip booths yeah likesuites and it was fun when you
(03:59):
have friends with you becauseyou can like dance up there and
they have food yeah, the vipbooths are cute.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Jewish listeners do not take that literally when Leo
said sume.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, please don't.
I also might be seeing Beyoncein London in June.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
First I'm hearing of this.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You were on the call yesterday with Michael Hoffman.
No, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Didn't you famously buy like 10 Beyonce seats?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, and I sold them at profit because I'm a what A
businessman?
Exactly, I kept them for myself, obviously.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yours wound up probably being nearly free.
It's a brilliant move.
I told you Should start doingthat with his ticket.
People do that.
It's a brilliant move, I toldyou Should start doing that with
his tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
People do that.
It's like a legitimate thingpeople do.
They have software that goesthrough and buys all the tickets
as soon as they go on thepre-sale and then they resell
them for like three times asmuch.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
You're sitting next to a goldmine.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
People do that with your tickets too, by the way, I
don't know why you're not doingthat with his tickets.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I know I really should.
That's whenever my mom calls mewhen one of her friends buys
something off after sailing.
They call my mom like, do youknow, his ticket's $450?
And my mom calls me to tell me,in case I didn't know.
I said, yeah, that's what it isand she's like, okay, I, yeah,
that's what it is and she's like, okay, I didn't know if you
know, but yeah, that's a market.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I have a your mom, my mom story.
Oh, let me hear.
Okay, say something else andI'll pull it up.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Say something else, say something else.
We were in Winnipeg.
We were in Winnipeg, eh.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Eh, winnipeg, in case you're're wondering, is the
middle of Eckwelt.
It's in the middle of Canada.
It's a schlep.
It was a schlep because there'sa connecting flight.
You have to get there.
It's gullus, it's really likethe end of nowhere.
But the show was amazing andthe people were so wonderful and
for the second time in my lifeI had arrived at a show without
(06:04):
a suit.
We've been preparing to go onthe European tour, so I've been
getting all my suits togetherand throwing out suits that we
didn't want or giving away suitsthat I haven't been wearing
anything.
Anyway, somehow I packed Leo'ssuit, which does not fit you,
and it's one that doesn't fityou either.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It doesn't fit me barely.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's one of the first suits it's one of the first
suits Leo ever got like when hewas with me when I was thin and
young so we get to before.
I got all this ass we're in thegreen room in a convention
center in Winnipeg.
(06:46):
This room was a massiveconcrete box.
It had about 800 people in it,so it's very like there was a
lot of room around it.
So you're working in like anecho chamber type of a thing,
okay, which I'll talk about in aminute how important that was
too.
But they made it green for us,like in the conference room of
the convention center, and I hadmy suit and I'm going through
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the material.
We did an early sound check andwe had time to waste and then,
like you know, 15 minutes beforeI have to get up there, I I put
my, I go open the suit up andthen I put the pants on and
they're not closing.
I'm like, oh, these are not mypants, these are Leo's pants and
it's happened to be a suit thatwe have, one that's his and
mine.
Oh my God, so they're not close.
(07:30):
I'm like, oh my God, okay, well, luckily I wore slacks to the
gig.
So you know cause lately I'vebeen doing the meet and greet
and then doing the meet andgreet in casual clothes.
I've been wearing nicer casualclothes to the event, not just
sweatpants and schmaltes and Igo these are not my pants, these
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are Leo's pants.
So I thought maybe I put thewrong pants with the right
jacket and I was going to wearthe pants I wore there, even
though they didn't wear the samecolor.
Then I put the jacket on andthey're like on and that was
even tighter than the pants andnow we are like, oh my god, 15
minutes of the show.
Luckily I had a cute like pradasweater with a white collar and
(08:11):
I looked really cute and, um,it was great.
But it was so weird not doing ashow in a suit.
The only other time that everhappened to me was when I went
to pick up a car to get my to goto a show and I left the bag
outside the car and drove to theshow with no suit and I got
there it was like a three hourdrive to the gig and there's no
(08:32):
suit.
Then I performed in sweatpantsand like a sweatshirt and how
was that for you?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Because you're a comedian.
I mean like people are justlike you can do whatever you
want.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I mean, that's the thing really.
Really.
You have a thing that youperform in a nice suit every
show, but most comics are doingspecials with stains on their
sweaters.
Fah Fah.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No, that's not stain.
Have some self-respect.
It's not Louis CK.
He has sweat stains under hisbreasts, but it's so.
Him it's fine, but that's hisbrand.
My brand is not that brand andso this was completely off brand
.
But we made it work and it was.
It was fun, and we're Winnipeg.
So, by the way you know, we'reworking on the current hour
(09:17):
Pause for Laughter.
And you want to make sure youhave the words down and
especially somebody who stuttersand someone who's, like,
dyslexic with words and thoughts, and to perform in a place
where there's like this echo,you have to slow down so much
because if you just do words ontop of words, they can't hear
anything you're sayinginteresting.
(09:37):
So I literally went into likethird gear from fifth gear and
it was really good for anexperience of that.
You slowed down, I slowed downand I got.
I did the same hour but in adifferent pace.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And it took three hours.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
No, no, no, no.
I left out a bit or two, but Idid an hour and 10 minutes.
They were amazing.
They loved it.
They were exhausted too.
It's one of these events whereit's not just a show, there's a
whole evening before me Dinnerand a movie and the programming
and the speech.
Yeah, it was a lot, but theywere great and they were so
happy that it was there.
And Mayim Bialik was there theyear before, she was in the team
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the year before and so that wasjust nice to connect and it's
like a beautiful communitythat's in the middle of nowhere.
Winnipeg Winnipeg it's like themiddle of Canada super north,
and we're looking around outsidethe hotel room and I'm like
there's nothing, there's nohuman beings here.
We finally like for a gig likethat, you have to get there the
(10:39):
day before.
So we got there the day before.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It's like really that , in the middle of nowhere in
this, place.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we got there and we'reseeing nobody out there and the
next day we're like, okay, weGoogle where's the gym.
And then we couldn't find whatthe real good gym would be and I
did something that Leo hates Iasked the receptionist or the
concierge to help us.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Why does Leo hate that?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Because there's Google, because you have a
smartphone in your pocket thatwill tell you within three
meters of where you need to beand also, half the time, they
don't know where they are.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's more to the point.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
They just look at you like.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She said.
She said there's a gymunderneath the concourse in the
con.
I don't Meanwhile the entirecity is underground.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
They have tunnels underground because in the
winter you can't walk around.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So we went to the beneath the hotel.
There was a concourse.
You walked through, went in Afull city.
It was a full city underneathwe found all the people, yeah,
wow, yeah, and there's a gym.
It's called Good Life.
Good Life is like the New Yorksports of Canada.
Okay, and there was a great gym.
We went, the day passed, wespent like three hours in there
(11:50):
and it was just wow.
It was like we didn't even seethat happening and that was the
best thing for us.
We don't want to see yourmuseums.
We don't want to see your oh,you know, the flight museum.
No one cares.
And we spent the day at the gym.
Guy came back, took a nap andthen went and did the show and
it was crazy that that was there, a whole city underneath the
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city.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
That is insane.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
It was pretty crazy.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
The only thing you guys are looking for.
It doesn't matter if you're inlike Tokyo or Winnipeg, it's
just like find me the gym.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Listen, when we're in a nicer city I don't mean nicer
, but like a city with more of avibe to it we go and do things
and we'll take an extra day andhang out.
But in Winnipeg, do we?
Take an extra day and hang out,yes, when we go to Berlin and
we go to London.
You love London, so we doLondon, but Paris and what are
you doing?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
you're just walking around, taking in the sights.
Yeah, you're still going to thegym.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
We're taking the credit card for a walk.
She needs to get swiped everyonce in a while.
Every once in a while, I'll belike I haven't swiped the credit
card in a while.
I'm going to go buy stuff Idon't need, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I have a store for you guys in Paris.
Yes, that is called BullyUniverselle, and I'm not doing
it in a pretentious Frenchaccent.
This is a apothecary with themost gorgeous, stunning things
for the bathroom mouthwash 50 inthe most beautiful container.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I'm just putting it out there, um, and I think they
have one in berlin too okay,good to know free uh advertising
speaking of berlin modi will bein berlin november 20th for the
Jewish Cultural Festival inBerlin which you have heard.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Jewish Cultural Festival.
The Jewish Cultural Festival inBerlin.
We're going to be there.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
November 20th, yes, and surrounding that date, I
can't remember if we're going tobe coming from Israel, or yeah,
we're going to be coming fromIsrael.
We're going to be doingprobably three shows in Israel.
None of this is like superconfirmed yet, but I have holds
on all the venues in Tel Aviv,jerusalem and Haifa.
And then from Israel we'regoing to be going to Paris.
(14:05):
Finally, we'll be returning toParis, and then after Paris,
berlin, I think, and then alsoin that leg is Vienna and
Amsterdam.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Here's where I'm proud of myself.
You got the dates all wrong.
It's Paris, berlin and thenIsrael.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
The dates don't exist to me until I have finalized
contracts and ticket links andall that stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I see it, I write on a calendar, so I see it in my
head, by the way, because that'show dyslexics function.
I did a set at the ComedyCellar and I was taught of new
material about being dyslexic.
And there were three people, Iguess, there that were dyslexic
also and I asked how did youguys get through college?
(14:55):
And all three yelled at thesame time.
We cheated.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Wow, we just cheated.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
That's how you get through college.
There's no other way to getthrough college when you're
dyslexic.
But now I'm getting all of thisdyslexic stuff on my Instagram
because I guess my phone was inthe room and it's pretty amazing
that they know how the mind ofa dyslexic person works.
It's exactly the way I docomedy.
I visualize the whole scenario.
(15:23):
I'm basically describing amovie I'm seeing when I'm doing
my comedy.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
What do you mean?
Explain that a little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So if I'm talking about, if I'm talking about
what's one of my, my, like um,trader joe's, trader joe's, I'm
living through walking intotrade.
It's all a visual that I'mdescribing to you.
Okay, it's not the words andI'm getting to the punch lines
and it's memorized, it's I'm,I'm, I'm totally in the picture.
(15:53):
I have the picture of theperson I'm speaking to.
I have the picture of theTrader Joe's, the bucket, the,
the, the, but not the bucketthough, the cart that they walk
around with, and uh and um, andI was like, wow, that's really
how I function.
And when I look at a schedule,I can't look at that little
schedule with the little thingsI I need to have it like all
printed out in big, bold things,and my set list is exactly what
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a dyslexic person's set listlooks like, and it's um.
It was pretty crazy that, firstof all, my phone just began set
here.
Well, speaking of, cheatingthrough college.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
There's a huge article in like the atlantic or
something about how chat GPT isjust absolutely destroying the
next generation of college grads.
Yeah, and they wereinterviewing all these kids who
were like freshmen, sophomore incollege and they're just like I
don't know how to write anessay, like I don't know how to
sit and think of an outline andthen think of what I want to say
(16:54):
and then find the research tosupport it.
They just talk to ChatGPT andsome of them are literally just
copy-pasting the prompts thatthey need to do and then they
just take whatever they said.
Yeah, whatever ChatGPT takes me, I barely even proofread it and
I turn it in.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Horrible.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And then other people tried to be like, use it as
more of like a tool.
But like you can tell, like Imean I don't blame them if you
have something they could do.
I mean it's I don't think I'mthe last generation of college
grads, who I'm, the lastgeneration people my age in
general, I think were the lastof a lot of things.
We were the last generation toplay outside then.
(17:33):
Then, once we were like alittle bit older, we kind of got
the benefits of like a more umestablished internet, like an
internet culture, like I gotmyspace and how old were you
when you got a phone or acomputer?
I was in sixth grade when I gota phone, but or maybe seventh
grade.
No, sixth grade I was 60, but Iplayed outside.
(17:59):
Before that, kids didn't playoutside.
What?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
do you mean before that?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I mean after that kids don't really play outside,
they don't play with each other,they don't talk to each other.
And then when I was in collegewe didn't have chat gpt.
I mean, obviously there wasways of cheating when we were in
college, you didn't have chat,GPT, I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
obviously there was ways of cheating.
When we were in college youdidn't have computers.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, that's crazy, but like now, when you think
about like and every day chat,GPT is getting more and more
powerful and it's like you don'treally I think the education
system is a bubble that is aboutto burst.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I want to tell you that I think that there are
fewer things that are moredangerous for children than
handing them a smartphone.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Well, yeah, on different levels, like from
safety levels to just like.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
But destroying I'm talking about Critical thinking
skills any hope of giving them asense of self and independence
and an ability to problem solveand figure things out and
experience the world.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, because that's half half of what of college is
is like, maybe you don't dosuper well on the test or the
assignment or the essay, butlike you putting in the effort
to like, at least get to a B ora C plus or even show up to
class, like, and you had to do,you had to take notes in class,
you had to do this, and thatPeople now are going to class
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with these little devices thatthey just put on their desk.
It records everything and thenit spits it into notes for them,
so they don't even have to takenotes.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I got a text message from my mother.
Oh Well, not quite.
Just saw Modi's latest episode,thought you answered the guilt
issue with diplomacy.
When do you have your privateevent?
Both Bhatia and I agree that wefind out more about what you're
(19:54):
doing watching the podcast thantalking to you.
However, batya has threechildren and many grandchildren,
while I only have one child andone grandchild.
I always forget you're an onlychild.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That makes so much sense.
Really, I always forget you'rean only child.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That makes so much sense Really, beside, while
White Lotus, you and Leo andModi should watch Conclave.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We have, we have, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Thank you.
So now my mother is talking toyour mother.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
When, where?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I don't know.
I mean, and they are colludingwhen, where I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I mean, and they are colluding.
I'm noticing from the camera.
We have to give him more of abeat before we pop in.
I don't know what to say aboutthat.
I mean, it's something thatneeds to be said To both mothers
.
The podcast is actually not foryou.
It is a part of the.
It's not for you, it's not foryou, but it's for the business
(20:58):
and for our viewers that we lovethat.
Come to shows and people whowant to turn their brains off
for about an hour.
That's what the podcast is for.
I will say that you've sent uspictures of your construction of
your house which.
I guess is going to be anon-running thing until that's
done, so we'll be here righttill 2027 discussing this.
(21:22):
Where were those pipes pulledout of the floor?
Correct, and you didn't know?
There were pipes right on thefloor.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
No, I did know there were pipes in the floor.
We're redoing the plumbing.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Obviously.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
So yes, the house is on a concrete slab, remember so
the piping is in the floor.
The problem is is that thefloor is now in the backyard, so
there is no floor okay they're,they're laying down new pipes
and you're, I sent you guys asyou're describing this.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm just thinking of the fact that there's full-on
construction happening in ourhouse in connecticut and I have
no idea what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
No, we are.
So Let me tell you how.
Zero procrastination, which issomething that one of the
viewers asked us.
Leo has zero procrastination.
It's a gift.
Yeah, it's called anxiety.
That's why I think it's justzero procrastination.
It's just how he's wired.
We landed in LaGuardia, leoopens his mail and the
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contractor said hey, the tilesyou chose aren't going to be
available until mid-June.
Here's two different optionsthat could be.
And this is like while theplane's deloading, deboarding,
deloading, deboarding, deloading, deboarding, and people are
getting their bags up andeverybody's looking at and leo's
like here are the two options,he said this I go and he picks
and sends and done in that onemoment I'm very decisive, yeah,
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and that's something that'shappened in the last two years.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I would say were you not decisive before?
I wasn't?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
not not decisive, but I don't know.
Just lately I've just been likeyes, no and like no regrets I
think that's confidence.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I think that's confidence more than it is
decisiveness.
When you're confident inknowing that you do make correct
decisions, I do make correctdecisions yeah, look who I
married.
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Aww.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I married the Pope Leo.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I didn't know that popes pick their names.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
They pick their names .
They're like drag queens.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Really.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Popes are like drag queens.
They're not, not drag queens,they're not, not drag queens.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Do you see what those girls are wearing?
Honey, those shoes, honey,those robes.
Honey, I'm obsessed.
I would in a second the smoke,the smoke theatrics.
They just need to bust out withjazz hands and a dance number.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
They're busting out with other things.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
They just lock themselves in that room.
Did we discuss this last?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
time.
We have discussed popes before,but we can't do it again.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I mean the Vatican is .
I think the.
I hope spiritual awareness andenergy to move the world forward
comes out of it, but it is whatthe people there are literally
the world's largest fire islandyou have.
(24:08):
Everybody is either like intheir 60s or in their 20s.
There's nothing almost in themiddle.
Everybody either it looks likePope Francis or Pope Leo and the
rest that are walking around.
There are stunning people thatlook like Leo, like this
beautiful haired boys and andyoung men and the guard.
(24:30):
The guards are like stunningand they're each.
Have you caught the size ofthem?
They're huge.
And then there's the old menwalking around.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Do you know?
That was like my mom's biggestdream for me.
You know, like some moms willbe like you're going to be a
doctor, you're going to be alawyer no, no, no.
My mom was like you're going tobe a priest and you're going to
go to seminary and you're goingto, since I was a very young
child, and look how that turnedout well, you fulfilled part of
that obligation no, instead Ibecame a Jew have you no, I'm
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not, not a Jew.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, you're Jewish, I'm Jewish adjacent Wait the
procrastination that was funnywhat I just said.
About what.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
That you fulfilled half of that obligation.
You became a Pope.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You know, oh, my God.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You just turned the Vatican into a drag club.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Okay, well, they are the world's largest organized
crime ring and the longestrunning organized crime
organization in the world, and Idon't care.
You can quote me on that.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I didn't want to say it, but that is.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The theatrics of it all is Bless you, bless you.
The fact that I sneezed meanswe shouldn't be talking about
this.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Can you just say what they sound like, what the popes
and the priests Well, this newone sounds like he's from
Chicago.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'll take a deep pan pizza, please.
I'll take no, but he tried.
He did a little bit of hisLatin Domino Sicos, quesos,
mitos, fritos, rotatos, cacaposand Tacos.
He wasn't like the other.
Usually you give an Italian guy, he has the Italian accent,
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he's been walking around thehouse like this for two days.
Oh yeah, I was.
If I watch Conclave, that's allI talk about.
I talk like the Conclave.
If I watch Conclave, that's allI talk about.
I talk like the Conclave.
If I watch the Crown, I talkabout the Crown, I talk just
like that.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
No, but the Priest is really good.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The Priest are listen , there's a.
It could be a moment in theworld that things are changing.
There's a young guy that speaksEnglish and came from Chicago,
and he could continue on in thelegacy of the past Pope and be
nice to people.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Be nice to people, just be nice to people, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
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Speaker 3 (27:35):
We got a question.
Well, we got a few questionsbut, one of the questions that I
thought was relevant for thePope conversation is have you
changed spiritually in the past10 years?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So I it's funny, that's a great question have you
?
Yeah, I became a Jew.
Are you leaning into this?
You becoming a Jew thing?
I mean think about it.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
The other day we were in a.
You know how much time I spendin schools and synagogues and
rabbi's offices.
He's really-.
And every time we're in arabbi's office, what am I doing?
I'm pulling books off thatshelf.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
We have had a few gigs in a row that were
synagogue gigs, which I love.
I love a synagogue gig.
You go into this massivesynagogue that seats 2,000
people and it's packed and it'snever packed.
And it's a Wednesday night or aSunday night and it's not the
it's never packed.
And so it's a wednesday nightor a sunday night and it's not
the high holidays and they're inshock at how packed is.
They haven't seen it like thisand and the show's great, the
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sound's good and all that, butthe green room is the rabbi's
study.
So we get there two, threehours before the show and then
leo just had this opinion goeswhy am I in a rabbi's study?
Why is this?
Why is this happening right now?
Why am I in a rabbi's study?
It keeps happening.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I feel like God is playing a joke on me that's
funny.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I was running away from the church too much and he
was like alright, fine, butyou're going to have to be in a
synagogue instead yeah, and theyall love him.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
we've had some great, but how have I changed
spiritually?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Other than becoming Jewish.
Maybe you should become a rabbi.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
No, it's not for me.
I feel like I've become alittle bit more tolerant.
Okay, oh, you don't seem toagree with that.
You like to elaborate with?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
you, I'm with you.
I'm dying to know where thenervous versus is.
Going.
To tolerant of what well?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
especially, I think, within judaism.
I've realized that there's somany different flavors and sex
and choosing your own adventuresthat, like not all of the
preconceived notions andstereotypes, and maybe my own
prejudices that I had againstJews, are applicable to everyone
.
Still some people, but not allof them.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I don't know.
Tolerance Whenever we do theseevents.
When you do a Jewish event,don't forget this is all they
have on the calendar for theyear.
So when you're going to do ashow at the Beacon, when you do
their gala, yeah.
When you're going to do a showat the Beacon.
You are on the date and there'saround your date a thousand
other shows happening.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That night they woke up.
Who's here today, modi?
We're done.
When you do a Jewish event,your poster is in the lobby for
a year.
You're literally, literallyemails and at the end of every
Saturday services and don'tforget to get your tickets for
the comedy night with Modi andall of that and so they're like
living and breathing it andthey're calling him non-stop
(30:47):
about we're thinking of ofrearranging the chair and we're
gonna do that, and he's likewhat?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
this isn't nine months and so I had someone
reach out to me two weeks agofor an event in september.
I was like girl, I'd have, Idon't even have airline tickets
booked for three weeks from now,right.
So?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
he, he'll turn to me.
He goes they're so annoying,they're so annoying, but but now
what?
He's tolerant.
Most of them are very nice,very, very nice, very sweet
people.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I can only say that, having been on a small fraction
of these email chains thatyou're always so nice, so I
don't know what's going oninside your head, but you seem
you're doing a very good job,it's what I'm doing is, as I'm
copy pasting the wholeconversation I'm saying into
chat gpt, this person isannoying the hell out of me.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Please respond to this email in a professional,
friendly way, enter and I cleanit up a bit, and then everyone's
a winner anyway, that soundsgreat.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Thanks leo I saw Leo.
I saw that question as well andthe have you changed
spiritually?
I will tell you, I've had twoin the past decade, but they've
actually been in the past fiveyears.
First was COVID and realizingwhat Moshiach energy was.
And then, october 7th, wereboth things that brought me to
(32:13):
next spiritual understandings, Ithink more than change.
Covid, moshiach Energy.
When people came back out tothe theaters and you saw them
all laughing together, I'm like,oh, this is what Moshiach
Energy is.
And then obviously more on that, and then obviously more on
(32:44):
that.
And then, october 7th, theuniting of people.
You saw that I'm doing show,for there's one or two complete
idiots, but the rest are sosweet and so nice and so great.
And that's where the I thinkchange is coming.
I don't know, don't you feellike the world's about to change
for the good?
You keep saying that.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I sure hope so.
I sure hope so.
I sure hope so.
I have changed spiritually inthe past.
I would say five years or 10years or whatever, but I think
five years probably.
I think since I became closerto you, I also became much more
open-minded about Jewish stuff.
(33:30):
I remember you once said to meI was like, oh, I don't need
mezuzahs and all that, I don'tput those up.
And you were like, well, youcan if you want to, or you don't
have to, but just so that youknow that when you put a mezuzah
up, it's just bringing goodenergy to every room that you
put it up in.
And then I started puttingmezuzahs up because I started to
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every room that you put it upin.
And then I started puttingmezuzahs up because I started
thinking about them differentlythan I had.
And I agree that October 7thalso made me feel like it's
really important to speak up forthe Jewish people and reclaim
our Well, you were doing thatfor everything, for the
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Ukrainians, for whatever neededhelp.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
You were doing that.
But the mezuzah, it's anantenna.
Those letters are antennas.
If you look at Jewish letters,they're antennas.
They all end up with thatlittle chupchuk on top Wow, and
that's what draws in the energyof God.
And what's written on there isthat God is oneness, hashem
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Echad is oneness.
It's not a guy up there, it'soneness, and you're bringing
that into your room.
I love that, and so that's whatit is.
On that note, we can telleverybody that we will be
oneness with many people inEurope.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
No, this is probably going to air way after that in a
few weeks in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
So um well, but no, still.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
So go to modi livecom for all of your show needs.
But the europe dates might havestarted already by the time
this, but I think we might stillhave some left.
Um, but the ones that will beavailable are the summer laugh
away camp series.
Um, inspired by your favoritejewish tradition, sleep away
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camp.
We've done modi's laugh awaycamp and that is going to take
place in indianapolis, indiana,at the helium comedy club,
columbus, ohio.
That's on june 23rd, then june24th, columbus, ohio.
At the funny bone, hampton bays, new york, we added a matinee
show on august 10th, so we'redoing two shows.
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On august 10th in hampton bays,the eight o'clock show is sold
out.
The 4 pm show we just put onsale, so there are tickets
available for that.
Then we go to omaha, nebraska,which I've never been to, and I
hope there's jews there.
Uh, august 13th at the funnybone comedy club and kansas city
, missouri, who our agent hasbeen trying to get us there for
some reason for a long time.
(36:02):
I'm not holding my breath ifyou're from kansas city.
Prove me wrong, that's on august14th and then after that, like
we mentioned, the other datethat's currently live and you
can register is the November20th show in Berlin and there's
more coming, like I said, allthose other November dates,
including Paris, amsterdam,vienna those will all be coming
(36:27):
soon at the end of the day,everything's available on
modilivecom.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Also, the Modi merch Mashiach Energy merch is on sale
.
Get it.
We're not making crazy money onthis stuff, but people wearing
it, people seeing other peoplewearing it and discussing what
does that mean?
Mashiach Energy we saw peoplewearing it on the Walk of the
Living.
Oh, I love that.
(36:50):
In Auschwitz, in Auschwitz, InAuschwitz, the Walk of the
Living, they had that and thatmade me so, so happy and you
listening and you writing in tous and you being a part of the
podcast and here's Modi.
We thank you so much.
And that's it, moshiach Ha'an.
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Bye, bye.
Welcome to.
And here's Modi, c'est moi,c'est moi, c'est toi.
Pope Vega.
As you guys know, these are notin the correct order and
recently the Pope has taken uponhimself to name himself after
my husband, leo Vega.
I don't blame him.
It's a great name, so easy.
Who the hell can spell Francis?
I'm a tzaddik, you're a tzaddik, you're absolutely a righteous
(00:40):
person, and popes knew that andsaid I will name myself after
Pope XMX, charlie XMX.
What does he have?
X-i-x-i-v.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I did see Charlie XCX at Barclays Center.
How was it?
It was good.
I didn't go.
I didn't feel as old as Ithought I was going to feel
there, but there certainly werea good representation of the Gen
Z's Fun to see what the kidsare wearing, what they're doing,
what were they wearing?
Nothing, they were a littlecracked out.
(01:12):
It was basically like a giantrave.
For those of you who don't knowCharli XCX, listen to her
critically acclaimed album Brat,which was released last summer.
You've probably heard it if youhave younger kids in the house,
or me or a gay in your life,but it was great you really
enjoy going to these concerts,right like.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I see you posting every now and then these like
amazing kind of videos I'malways like usually more raves.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This was like a proper concert at Barclays
Center, but because of her musicit was basically just a giant
rave.
Got it okay.
Morty did not come with me tosay the least.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Do you not enjoy this sort of thing?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
it's not a music.
I know they had seats.
It wasn't like you could moveand dance and just catch a
groove and all that.
So I didn't want to stand therewith a seat, in between seats
and in between people, so Iopted out.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I will be trying to take you to Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I will be going to Lady Gaga.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
She's at MSG in August or September and Lorde
yesterday, the pop star from NewZealand, as we've discussed on
this show before, she isreleasing her tour dates as well
.
You're going to be coming toconcerts?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'll be coming.
I love it.
I love a concert.
You have a concert With theright people Going, with Leo and
our friends, and it's fun.
Like I say, I'm the only guythat gets to live my 20s and
currently my 30s over Right, andit's just so much fun because
now we have money while whileI'm doing it, so so the seats
are good, the everything aroundit is good and it's fun and it's
(02:55):
fun and it's fun.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Um, so that was that you can't get me anywhere if
it's not like in the first 10rows, like I'm not leaving the
house to go to any show, anyconcert, any game, like, unless
I'm really close to whateverstage or court or whatever it is
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I usually like to be in the general admission
standing room, only pit.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, yeah.
I don't want to move around.
Of course you do.
You don't want to be locked ina little caged area.
No, I want VIP comfortableseats.
It's, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I want VIP comfortable seats.
That's what I want, or I'm notgoing.
I saw Dua.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Lipa.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Anti-Semite, anti-semite, boop, boop, boop,
that's good.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We should get an anti-Semite button.
I did see her.
This was before she made heralleged comments or whatever.
I do still like her music.
Sue me, uh, but I saw her fromwhen we saw her at msg in one of
the nice vip booths yeah likesuites and it was fun when you
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have friends with you becauseyou can like dance up there and
they have food yeah, the vipbooths are cute.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Jewish listeners do not take that literally when Leo
said sume.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, please don't.
I also might be seeing Beyoncein London in June.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
First I'm hearing of this.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You were on the call yesterday with Michael Hoffman.
No, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Didn't you famously buy like 10 Beyonce seats?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, and I sold them at profit because I'm a what A
businessman?
Exactly, I kept them for myself, obviously.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yours wound up probably being nearly free.
It's a brilliant move.
I told you Should start doingthat with his ticket.
People do that.
It's a brilliant move, I toldyou Should start doing that with
his tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
People do that.
It's like a legitimate thingpeople do.
They have software that goesthrough and buys all the tickets
as soon as they go on thepre-sale and then they resell
them for like three times asmuch.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
You're sitting next to a goldmine.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
People do that with your tickets too, by the way, I
don't know why you're not doingthat with his tickets.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I know I really should.
That's whenever my mom calls mewhen one of her friends buys
something off after sailing.
They call my mom like, do youknow, his ticket's $450?
And my mom calls me to tell me,in case I didn't know.
I said, yeah, that's what it isand she's like, okay, I, yeah,
that's what it is and she's like, okay, I didn't know if you
know, but yeah, that's a market.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I have a your mom, my mom story.
Oh, let me hear.
Okay, say something else andI'll pull it up.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Say something else, say something else.
We were in Winnipeg.
We were in Winnipeg, eh.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Eh, winnipeg, in case you're're wondering, is the
middle of Eckwelt.
It's in the middle of Canada.
It's a schlep.
It was a schlep because there'sa connecting flight.
You have to get there.
It's gullus, it's really likethe end of nowhere.
But the show was amazing andthe people were so wonderful and
for the second time in my lifeI had arrived at a show without
(06:04):
a suit.
We've been preparing to go onthe European tour, so I've been
getting all my suits togetherand throwing out suits that we
didn't want or giving away suitsthat I haven't been wearing
anything.
Anyway, somehow I packed Leo'ssuit, which does not fit you,
and it's one that doesn't fityou either.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It doesn't fit me barely.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's one of the first suits it's one of the first
suits Leo ever got like when hewas with me when I was thin and
young so we get to before.
I got all this ass we're in thegreen room in a convention
center in Winnipeg.
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This room was a massiveconcrete box.
It had about 800 people in it,so it's very like there was a
lot of room around it.
So you're working in like anecho chamber type of a thing,
okay, which I'll talk about in aminute how important that was
too.
But they made it green for us,like in the conference room of
the convention center, and I hadmy suit and I'm going through
(07:08):
the material.
We did an early sound check andwe had time to waste and then,
like you know, 15 minutes beforeI have to get up there, I I put
my, I go open the suit up andthen I put the pants on and
they're not closing.
I'm like, oh, these are not mypants, these are Leo's pants and
it's happened to be a suit thatwe have, one that's his and
mine.
Oh my God, so they're not close.
(07:30):
I'm like, oh my God, okay, well, luckily I wore slacks to the
gig.
So you know cause lately I'vebeen doing the meet and greet
and then doing the meet andgreet in casual clothes.
I've been wearing nicer casualclothes to the event, not just
sweatpants and schmaltes and Igo these are not my pants, these
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are Leo's pants.
So I thought maybe I put thewrong pants with the right
jacket and I was going to wearthe pants I wore there, even
though they didn't wear the samecolor.
Then I put the jacket on andthey're like on and that was
even tighter than the pants andnow we are like, oh my god, 15
minutes of the show.
Luckily I had a cute like pradasweater with a white collar and
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I looked really cute and, um,it was great.
But it was so weird not doing ashow in a suit.
The only other time that everhappened to me was when I went
to pick up a car to get my to goto a show and I left the bag
outside the car and drove to theshow with no suit and I got
there it was like a three hourdrive to the gig and there's no
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suit.
Then I performed in sweatpantsand like a sweatshirt and how
was that for you?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Because you're a comedian.
I mean like people are justlike you can do whatever you
want.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I mean, that's the thing really.
Really.
You have a thing that youperform in a nice suit every
show, but most comics are doingspecials with stains on their
sweaters.
Fah Fah.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No, that's not stain.
Have some self-respect.
It's not Louis CK.
He has sweat stains under hisbreasts, but it's so.
Him it's fine, but that's hisbrand.
My brand is not that brand andso this was completely off brand
.
But we made it work and it was.
It was fun, and we're Winnipeg.
So, by the way you know, we'reworking on the current hour
(09:17):
Pause for Laughter.
And you want to make sure youhave the words down and
especially somebody who stuttersand someone who's, like,
dyslexic with words and thoughts, and to perform in a place
where there's like this echo,you have to slow down so much
because if you just do words ontop of words, they can't hear
anything you're sayinginteresting.
(09:37):
So I literally went into likethird gear from fifth gear and
it was really good for anexperience of that.
You slowed down, I slowed downand I got.
I did the same hour but in adifferent pace.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And it took three hours.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
No, no, no, no.
I left out a bit or two, but Idid an hour and 10 minutes.
They were amazing.
They loved it.
They were exhausted too.
It's one of these events whereit's not just a show, there's a
whole evening before me Dinnerand a movie and the programming
and the speech.
Yeah, it was a lot, but theywere great and they were so
happy that it was there.
And Mayim Bialik was there theyear before, she was in the team
(10:18):
the year before and so that wasjust nice to connect and it's
like a beautiful communitythat's in the middle of nowhere.
Winnipeg Winnipeg it's like themiddle of Canada super north,
and we're looking around outsidethe hotel room and I'm like
there's nothing, there's nohuman beings here.
We finally like for a gig likethat, you have to get there the
(10:39):
day before.
So we got there the day before.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It's like really that , in the middle of nowhere in
this, place.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we got there and we'reseeing nobody out there and the
next day we're like, okay, weGoogle where's the gym.
And then we couldn't find whatthe real good gym would be and I
did something that Leo hates Iasked the receptionist or the
concierge to help us.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Why does Leo hate that?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Because there's Google, because you have a
smartphone in your pocket thatwill tell you within three
meters of where you need to beand also, half the time, they
don't know where they are.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's more to the point.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
They just look at you like.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She said.
She said there's a gymunderneath the concourse in the
con.
I don't Meanwhile the entirecity is underground.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
They have tunnels underground because in the
winter you can't walk around.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So we went to the beneath the hotel.
There was a concourse.
You walked through, went in Afull city.
It was a full city underneathwe found all the people, yeah,
wow, yeah, and there's a gym.
It's called Good Life.
Good Life is like the New Yorksports of Canada.
Okay, and there was a great gym.
We went, the day passed, wespent like three hours in there
(11:50):
and it was just wow.
It was like we didn't even seethat happening and that was the
best thing for us.
We don't want to see yourmuseums.
We don't want to see your oh,you know, the flight museum.
No one cares.
And we spent the day at the gym.
Guy came back, took a nap andthen went and did the show and
it was crazy that that was there, a whole city underneath the
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city.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
That is insane.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
It was pretty crazy.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
The only thing you guys are looking for.
It doesn't matter if you're inlike Tokyo or Winnipeg, it's
just like find me the gym.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Listen, when we're in a nicer city I don't mean nicer
, but like a city with more of avibe to it we go and do things
and we'll take an extra day andhang out.
But in Winnipeg, do we?
Take an extra day and hang out,yes, when we go to Berlin and
we go to London.
You love London, so we doLondon, but Paris and what are
you doing?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
you're just walking around, taking in the sights.
Yeah, you're still going to thegym.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
We're taking the credit card for a walk.
She needs to get swiped everyonce in a while.
Every once in a while, I'll belike I haven't swiped the credit
card in a while.
I'm going to go buy stuff Idon't need, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I have a store for you guys in Paris.
Yes, that is called BullyUniverselle, and I'm not doing
it in a pretentious Frenchaccent.
This is a apothecary with themost gorgeous, stunning things
for the bathroom mouthwash 50 inthe most beautiful container.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I'm just putting it out there, um, and I think they
have one in berlin too okay,good to know free uh advertising
speaking of berlin modi will bein berlin november 20th for the
Jewish Cultural Festival inBerlin which you have heard.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Jewish Cultural Festival.
The Jewish Cultural Festival inBerlin.
We're going to be there.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
November 20th, yes, and surrounding that date, I
can't remember if we're going tobe coming from Israel, or yeah,
we're going to be coming fromIsrael.
We're going to be doingprobably three shows in Israel.
None of this is like superconfirmed yet, but I have holds
on all the venues in Tel Aviv,jerusalem and Haifa.
And then from Israel we'regoing to be going to Paris.
(14:05):
Finally, we'll be returning toParis, and then after Paris,
berlin, I think, and then alsoin that leg is Vienna and
Amsterdam.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Here's where I'm proud of myself.
You got the dates all wrong.
It's Paris, berlin and thenIsrael.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
The dates don't exist to me until I have finalized
contracts and ticket links andall that stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I see it, I write on a calendar, so I see it in my
head, by the way, because that'show dyslexics function.
I did a set at the ComedyCellar and I was taught of new
material about being dyslexic.
And there were three people, Iguess, there that were dyslexic
also and I asked how did youguys get through college?
(14:55):
And all three yelled at thesame time.
We cheated.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Wow, we just cheated.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
That's how you get through college.
There's no other way to getthrough college when you're
dyslexic.
But now I'm getting all of thisdyslexic stuff on my Instagram
because I guess my phone was inthe room and it's pretty amazing
that they know how the mind ofa dyslexic person works.
It's exactly the way I docomedy.
I visualize the whole scenario.
(15:23):
I'm basically describing amovie I'm seeing when I'm doing
my comedy.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
What do you mean?
Explain that a little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So if I'm talking about, if I'm talking about
what's one of my, my, like um,trader joe's, trader joe's, I'm
living through walking intotrade.
It's all a visual that I'mdescribing to you.
Okay, it's not the words andI'm getting to the punch lines
and it's memorized, it's I'm,I'm, I'm totally in the picture.
(15:53):
I have the picture of theperson I'm speaking to.
I have the picture of theTrader Joe's, the bucket, the,
the, the, but not the bucketthough, the cart that they walk
around with, and uh and um, andI was like, wow, that's really
how I function.
And when I look at a schedule,I can't look at that little
schedule with the little thingsI I need to have it like all
printed out in big, bold things,and my set list is exactly what
(16:19):
a dyslexic person's set listlooks like, and it's um.
It was pretty crazy that, firstof all, my phone just began set
here.
Well, speaking of, cheatingthrough college.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
There's a huge article in like the atlantic or
something about how chat GPT isjust absolutely destroying the
next generation of college grads.
Yeah, and they wereinterviewing all these kids who
were like freshmen, sophomore incollege and they're just like I
don't know how to write anessay, like I don't know how to
sit and think of an outline andthen think of what I want to say
(16:54):
and then find the research tosupport it.
They just talk to ChatGPT andsome of them are literally just
copy-pasting the prompts thatthey need to do and then they
just take whatever they said.
Yeah, whatever ChatGPT takes me, I barely even proofread it and
I turn it in.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Horrible.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And then other people tried to be like, use it as
more of like a tool.
But like you can tell, like Imean I don't blame them if you
have something they could do.
I mean it's I don't think I'mthe last generation of college
grads, who I'm, the lastgeneration people my age in
general, I think were the lastof a lot of things.
We were the last generation toplay outside then.
(17:33):
Then, once we were like alittle bit older, we kind of got
the benefits of like a more umestablished internet, like an
internet culture, like I gotmyspace and how old were you
when you got a phone or acomputer?
I was in sixth grade when I gota phone, but or maybe seventh
grade.
No, sixth grade I was 60, but Iplayed outside.
(17:59):
Before that, kids didn't playoutside.
What?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
do you mean before that?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I mean after that kids don't really play outside,
they don't play with each other,they don't talk to each other.
And then when I was in collegewe didn't have chat gpt.
I mean, obviously there wasways of cheating when we were in
college, you didn't have chat,GPT, I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
obviously there was ways of cheating.
When we were in college youdidn't have computers.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, that's crazy, but like now, when you think
about like and every day chat,GPT is getting more and more
powerful and it's like you don'treally I think the education
system is a bubble that is aboutto burst.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I want to tell you that I think that there are
fewer things that are moredangerous for children than
handing them a smartphone.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Well, yeah, on different levels, like from
safety levels to just like.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
But destroying I'm talking about Critical thinking
skills any hope of giving them asense of self and independence
and an ability to problem solveand figure things out and
experience the world.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, because that's half half of what of college is
is like, maybe you don't dosuper well on the test or the
assignment or the essay, butlike you putting in the effort
to like, at least get to a B ora C plus or even show up to
class, like, and you had to do,you had to take notes in class,
you had to do this, and thatPeople now are going to class
(19:23):
with these little devices thatthey just put on their desk.
It records everything and thenit spits it into notes for them,
so they don't even have to takenotes.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I got a text message from my mother.
Oh Well, not quite.
Just saw Modi's latest episode,thought you answered the guilt
issue with diplomacy.
When do you have your privateevent?
Both Bhatia and I agree that wefind out more about what you're
(19:54):
doing watching the podcast thantalking to you.
However, batya has threechildren and many grandchildren,
while I only have one child andone grandchild.
I always forget you're an onlychild.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That makes so much sense.
Really, I always forget you'rean only child.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That makes so much sense Really, beside, while
White Lotus, you and Leo andModi should watch Conclave.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We have, we have, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Thank you.
So now my mother is talking toyour mother.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
When, where?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I don't know.
I mean, and they are colludingwhen, where I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I mean, and they are colluding.
I'm noticing from the camera.
We have to give him more of abeat before we pop in.
I don't know what to say aboutthat.
I mean, it's something thatneeds to be said To both mothers
.
The podcast is actually not foryou.
It is a part of the.
It's not for you, it's not foryou, but it's for the business
(20:58):
and for our viewers that we lovethat.
Come to shows and people whowant to turn their brains off
for about an hour.
That's what the podcast is for.
I will say that you've sent uspictures of your construction of
your house which.
I guess is going to be anon-running thing until that's
done, so we'll be here righttill 2027 discussing this.
(21:22):
Where were those pipes pulledout of the floor?
Correct, and you didn't know?
There were pipes right on thefloor.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
No, I did know there were pipes in the floor.
We're redoing the plumbing.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Obviously.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
So yes, the house is on a concrete slab, remember so
the piping is in the floor.
The problem is is that thefloor is now in the backyard, so
there is no floor okay they're,they're laying down new pipes
and you're, I sent you guys asyou're describing this.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm just thinking of the fact that there's full-on
construction happening in ourhouse in connecticut and I have
no idea what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
No, we are.
So Let me tell you how.
Zero procrastination, which issomething that one of the
viewers asked us.
Leo has zero procrastination.
It's a gift.
Yeah, it's called anxiety.
That's why I think it's justzero procrastination.
It's just how he's wired.
We landed in LaGuardia, leoopens his mail and the
(22:23):
contractor said hey, the tilesyou chose aren't going to be
available until mid-June.
Here's two different optionsthat could be.
And this is like while theplane's deloading, deboarding,
deloading, deboarding, deloading, deboarding, and people are
getting their bags up andeverybody's looking at and leo's
like here are the two options,he said this I go and he picks
and sends and done in that onemoment I'm very decisive, yeah,
(22:47):
and that's something that'shappened in the last two years.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I would say were you not decisive before?
I wasn't?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
not not decisive, but I don't know.
Just lately I've just been likeyes, no and like no regrets I
think that's confidence.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I think that's confidence more than it is
decisiveness.
When you're confident inknowing that you do make correct
decisions, I do make correctdecisions yeah, look who I
married.
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Aww.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I married the Pope Leo.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I didn't know that popes pick their names.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
They pick their names .
They're like drag queens.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Really.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Popes are like drag queens.
They're not, not drag queens,they're not, not drag queens.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Do you see what those girls are wearing?
Honey, those shoes, honey,those robes.
Honey, I'm obsessed.
I would in a second the smoke,the smoke theatrics.
They just need to bust out withjazz hands and a dance number.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
They're busting out with other things.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
They just lock themselves in that room.
Did we discuss this last?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
time.
We have discussed popes before,but we can't do it again.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I mean the Vatican is .
I think the.
I hope spiritual awareness andenergy to move the world forward
comes out of it, but it is whatthe people there are literally
the world's largest fire islandyou have.
(24:08):
Everybody is either like intheir 60s or in their 20s.
There's nothing almost in themiddle.
Everybody either it looks likePope Francis or Pope Leo and the
rest that are walking around.
There are stunning people thatlook like Leo, like this
beautiful haired boys and andyoung men and the guard.
(24:30):
The guards are like stunningand they're each.
Have you caught the size ofthem?
They're huge.
And then there's the old menwalking around.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Do you know?
That was like my mom's biggestdream for me.
You know, like some moms willbe like you're going to be a
doctor, you're going to be alawyer no, no, no.
My mom was like you're going tobe a priest and you're going to
go to seminary and you're goingto, since I was a very young
child, and look how that turnedout well, you fulfilled part of
that obligation no, instead Ibecame a Jew have you no, I'm
(25:00):
not, not a Jew.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, you're Jewish, I'm Jewish adjacent Wait the
procrastination that was funnywhat I just said.
About what.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
That you fulfilled half of that obligation.
You became a Pope.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You know, oh, my God.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You just turned the Vatican into a drag club.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Okay, well, they are the world's largest organized
crime ring and the longestrunning organized crime
organization in the world, and Idon't care.
You can quote me on that.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I didn't want to say it, but that is.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The theatrics of it all is Bless you, bless you.
The fact that I sneezed meanswe shouldn't be talking about
this.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Can you just say what they sound like, what the popes
and the priests Well, this newone sounds like he's from
Chicago.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'll take a deep pan pizza, please.
I'll take no, but he tried.
He did a little bit of hisLatin Domino Sicos, quesos,
mitos, fritos, rotatos, cacaposand Tacos.
He wasn't like the other.
Usually you give an Italian guy, he has the Italian accent,
(26:03):
he's been walking around thehouse like this for two days.
Oh yeah, I was.
If I watch Conclave, that's allI talk about.
I talk like the Conclave.
If I watch Conclave, that's allI talk about.
I talk like the Conclave.
If I watch the Crown, I talkabout the Crown, I talk just
like that.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
No, but the Priest is really good.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The Priest are listen , there's a.
It could be a moment in theworld that things are changing.
There's a young guy that speaksEnglish and came from Chicago,
and he could continue on in thelegacy of the past Pope and be
nice to people.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Be nice to people, just be nice to people, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
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Speaker 3 (27:35):
We got a question.
Well, we got a few questionsbut, one of the questions that I
thought was relevant for thePope conversation is have you
changed spiritually in the past10 years?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So I it's funny, that's a great question have you
?
Yeah, I became a Jew.
Are you leaning into this?
You becoming a Jew thing?
I mean think about it.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
The other day we were in a.
You know how much time I spendin schools and synagogues and
rabbi's offices.
He's really-.
And every time we're in arabbi's office, what am I doing?
I'm pulling books off thatshelf.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
We have had a few gigs in a row that were
synagogue gigs, which I love.
I love a synagogue gig.
You go into this massivesynagogue that seats 2,000
people and it's packed and it'snever packed.
And it's a Wednesday night or aSunday night and it's not the
it's never packed.
And so it's a wednesday nightor a sunday night and it's not
the high holidays and they're inshock at how packed is.
They haven't seen it like thisand and the show's great, the
(28:37):
sound's good and all that, butthe green room is the rabbi's
study.
So we get there two, threehours before the show and then
leo just had this opinion goeswhy am I in a rabbi's study?
Why is this?
Why is this happening right now?
Why am I in a rabbi's study?
It keeps happening.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I feel like God is playing a joke on me that's
funny.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I was running away from the church too much and he
was like alright, fine, butyou're going to have to be in a
synagogue instead yeah, and theyall love him.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
we've had some great, but how have I changed
spiritually?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Other than becoming Jewish.
Maybe you should become a rabbi.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
No, it's not for me.
I feel like I've become alittle bit more tolerant.
Okay, oh, you don't seem toagree with that.
You like to elaborate with?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
you, I'm with you.
I'm dying to know where thenervous versus is.
Going.
To tolerant of what well?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
especially, I think, within judaism.
I've realized that there's somany different flavors and sex
and choosing your own adventuresthat, like not all of the
preconceived notions andstereotypes, and maybe my own
prejudices that I had againstJews, are applicable to everyone
.
Still some people, but not allof them.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I don't know.
Tolerance Whenever we do theseevents.
When you do a Jewish event,don't forget this is all they
have on the calendar for theyear.
So when you're going to do ashow at the Beacon, when you do
their gala, yeah.
When you're going to do a showat the Beacon.
You are on the date and there'saround your date a thousand
other shows happening.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That night they woke up.
Who's here today, modi?
We're done.
When you do a Jewish event,your poster is in the lobby for
a year.
You're literally, literallyemails and at the end of every
Saturday services and don'tforget to get your tickets for
the comedy night with Modi andall of that and so they're like
living and breathing it andthey're calling him non-stop
(30:47):
about we're thinking of ofrearranging the chair and we're
gonna do that, and he's likewhat?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
this isn't nine months and so I had someone
reach out to me two weeks agofor an event in september.
I was like girl, I'd have, Idon't even have airline tickets
booked for three weeks from now,right.
So?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
he, he'll turn to me.
He goes they're so annoying,they're so annoying, but but now
what?
He's tolerant.
Most of them are very nice,very, very nice, very sweet
people.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I can only say that, having been on a small fraction
of these email chains thatyou're always so nice, so I
don't know what's going oninside your head, but you seem
you're doing a very good job,it's what I'm doing is, as I'm
copy pasting the wholeconversation I'm saying into
chat gpt, this person isannoying the hell out of me.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Please respond to this email in a professional,
friendly way, enter and I cleanit up a bit, and then everyone's
a winner anyway, that soundsgreat.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Thanks leo I saw Leo.
I saw that question as well andthe have you changed
spiritually?
I will tell you, I've had twoin the past decade, but they've
actually been in the past fiveyears.
First was COVID and realizingwhat Moshiach energy was.
And then, october 7th, wereboth things that brought me to
(32:13):
next spiritual understandings, Ithink more than change.
Covid, moshiach Energy.
When people came back out tothe theaters and you saw them
all laughing together, I'm like,oh, this is what Moshiach
Energy is.
And then obviously more on that, and then obviously more on
(32:44):
that.
And then, october 7th, theuniting of people.
You saw that I'm doing show,for there's one or two complete
idiots, but the rest are sosweet and so nice and so great.
And that's where the I thinkchange is coming.
I don't know, don't you feellike the world's about to change
for the good?
You keep saying that.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I sure hope so.
I sure hope so.
I sure hope so.
I have changed spiritually inthe past.
I would say five years or 10years or whatever, but I think
five years probably.
I think since I became closerto you, I also became much more
open-minded about Jewish stuff.
(33:30):
I remember you once said to meI was like, oh, I don't need
mezuzahs and all that, I don'tput those up.
And you were like, well, youcan if you want to, or you don't
have to, but just so that youknow that when you put a mezuzah
up, it's just bringing goodenergy to every room that you
put it up in.
And then I started puttingmezuzahs up because I started to
(33:50):
every room that you put it upin.
And then I started puttingmezuzahs up because I started
thinking about them differentlythan I had.
And I agree that October 7thalso made me feel like it's
really important to speak up forthe Jewish people and reclaim
our Well, you were doing thatfor everything, for the
(34:12):
Ukrainians, for whatever neededhelp.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
You were doing that.
But the mezuzah, it's anantenna.
Those letters are antennas.
If you look at Jewish letters,they're antennas.
They all end up with thatlittle chupchuk on top Wow, and
that's what draws in the energyof God.
And what's written on there isthat God is oneness, hashem
(34:35):
Echad is oneness.
It's not a guy up there, it'soneness, and you're bringing
that into your room.
I love that, and so that's whatit is.
On that note, we can telleverybody that we will be
oneness with many people inEurope.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
No, this is probably going to air way after that in a
few weeks in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
So um well, but no, still.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
So go to modi livecom for all of your show needs.
But the europe dates might havestarted already by the time
this, but I think we might stillhave some left.
Um, but the ones that will beavailable are the summer laugh
away camp series.
Um, inspired by your favoritejewish tradition, sleep away
(35:20):
camp.
We've done modi's laugh awaycamp and that is going to take
place in indianapolis, indiana,at the helium comedy club,
columbus, ohio.
That's on june 23rd, then june24th, columbus, ohio.
At the funny bone, hampton bays, new york, we added a matinee
show on august 10th, so we'redoing two shows.
(35:41):
On august 10th in hampton bays,the eight o'clock show is sold
out.
The 4 pm show we just put onsale, so there are tickets
available for that.
Then we go to omaha, nebraska,which I've never been to, and I
hope there's jews there.
Uh, august 13th at the funnybone comedy club and kansas city
, missouri, who our agent hasbeen trying to get us there for
some reason for a long time.
(36:02):
I'm not holding my breath ifyou're from kansas city.
Prove me wrong, that's on august14th and then after that, like
we mentioned, the other datethat's currently live and you
can register is the November20th show in Berlin and there's
more coming, like I said, allthose other November dates,
including Paris, amsterdam,vienna those will all be coming
(36:27):
soon at the end of the day,everything's available on
modilivecom.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Also, the Modi merch Mashiach Energy merch is on sale
.
Get it.
We're not making crazy money onthis stuff, but people wearing
it, people seeing other peoplewearing it and discussing what
does that mean?
Mashiach Energy we saw peoplewearing it on the Walk of the
Living.
Oh, I love that.
(36:50):
In Auschwitz, in Auschwitz, InAuschwitz, the Walk of the
Living, they had that and thatmade me so, so happy and you
listening and you writing in tous and you being a part of the
podcast and here's Modi.
We thank you so much.
And that's it, moshiach Ha'an.
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Bye, bye.
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