The Choosing People

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Transcript

Modi 0:18

Welcome to, and here's Modi off time, but this is airing.

Leo 0:22

You always do that. I never have an answer for you. We have like four episodes in the can, so I can't exactly tell you when this is coming up.

Modi 0:32

When this is airing, leo and I are full, deep and touring. We have been to Zurich, we've been to London, we've been to everywhere and we're been to London, we've been to everywhere, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Leo 0:46

We're now speaking in future tense.

Modi 0:48

Right, there's no need to Okay, this is like a message in the bottle to the past as we record this.

Leo 0:56

Message in the bottle. Ariel looks like she has something to say. Go ahead.

Periel 1:00

I have a question.

Leo 1:01

Go ahead, go for it.

Periel 1:02

I know that we started to discuss and I didn't get the full take that you guys started to watch the Menendez brothers.

Modi 1:10

Yes.

Periel 1:11

And I have some really strong feelings about it. And Leo, I asked Leo about it and he said that he was really too young, that he didn't really remember like that being like a craze.

Leo 1:23

Well, what year did that happen? Again, it was 93, 94.

Modi 1:28

So I was one year old. I remember all of it, but you don't like it.

Periel 1:31

Did you?

Leo 1:32

What If it was in 93, I was one year old. Let's look it up.

Modi 1:41

It was like the OJ Simpsons Just every night they gave you a little bit more of what's happening, just a little more, a little more, a little more. But I don't remember it, I didn't like clock it Me neither. All of a sudden, you get it. It's like Chernobyl.

Leo 1:54

I wasn't even born.

Periel 1:56

It was like Chernobyl, you know, we saw it every night on news and then, like until they do a documentary about it 20 years later or 30 years later, you don't remember anything about it. So I feel like all of these people who are talking about Israel, who until like a year ago didn't know jack shit about Israel, who have suddenly become like experts. That's how I feel now about the Menendez brothers after watching like a Ryan Murphy television show and a documentary.

Leo 2:24

Well, I think, like Kim Kardashian, who is an advocate for all sorts of wrongfully convicted people, has made a statement since the show came out that she wants them to reopen the case.

Periel 2:39

And I have to say I am in full agreement with Kim Kardashian.

Modi 2:45

Absolutely. I think it would make amazing television again to revisit the Menendez brothers To bring them back.

Leo 2:52

They should retrial them. But if they get out, they have to be featured on a season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Absolutely.

Modi 2:59

And back to that hair club for men. The hair club for men, I the hair club for men. I forgot about all that Wait.

Leo 3:07

They heavily feature a hair system, like one of the brothers has, like a clip on hair. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Modi 3:12

Yeah Well, you didn't grow up with those hair club commercials. No, when the guy comes on, I'm not only a member, I know that Right.

Periel 3:19

Do it.

Modi 3:20

I'm also the president. I'm also the president, not just a member, I'm also the president. So the Menendez brothers we got to the point where they were just talking about being diddled, yeah, and so the crazy lawyer who was coming in, which is making us think maybe we should revisit. When that crazy lawyer came on yeah, I don't remember the specifics of it, it was just like that was on the news every night.

Periel 3:45

I don't remember the specifics of it either, but I just watched both of these shows and these two brothers were, like, sexually abused and tortured.

Leo 3:53

It's also important to know this is through the lens of Ryan Murphy, so I don't know exactly how trustworthy or how much weight he should be.

Modi 4:02

That's how I know how Versace was murdered. That's how I know all of my like. That's how I know how Versace was murdered. That's how I know a lot of things Ryan Murphy brings us back.

Leo 4:09

He does a great job.

Modi 4:10

Ryan.

Leo 4:11

Murphy, if you're listening, we'd love to have you on the show.

Periel 4:13

Yes, that's how everybody on TikTok learns about the Middle East too. No, but I also. I also watched the documentary.

Leo 4:22

OK, we haven't watched the documentary.

Periel 4:24

Okay, I would like everybody to please write in who listens to our show and tell me if you think.

Leo 4:31

Info at ModiLivecom or you can submit a DM at our new Instagram handle, AHM underscore podcast. You can go follow that. We're going to be posting clips directly to there. Some special content. You can DM us there.

Periel 4:51

Please tell me Another channel for want to soak us all in. I want to know if you think that they should be released or not.

Leo 4:54

So let's ask it. Let's ask and we'll post as a poll. Why don't you?

Periel 5:02

ask do you think that, do you think that the menendez brother? Brother do you think that the Menendez brothers should be let out of jail?

Leo 5:16

Let us know your thoughts. At our last episode, I had some questions written down in my notes app. Go for it. Nothing too groundbreaking since then. One thing I did write down, though, and this is a genuine question is blowing your nose and your hands in the shower a guy thing, or does everyone do?

Periel 5:33

that I mean I don't want to say it's a guy thing, but um, I certainly don't do it is it?

Leo 5:40

you don't blow. Do you blow your nose when you're in the shower? It's not disgusting, do you? Do you blow your nose in the shower? You never blow your nose in the shower. It's not disgusting. Do you blow your nose in the shower?

Periel 5:46

You never blow your nose in the shower, I don't know, I mean, maybe I don't think a thing of it.

Leo 5:52

It's like a nice you're in there. It's like a nice steamy, hot shower and then your nose is kind of like a little bit anyway.

Periel 5:58

Do you blow your nose in the pool? No, ew, no, no, I'm not an animal.

Leo 6:02

This is going down the drain Do you blow your nose in the shower?

Modi 6:10

Yeah, I poop in the morning, so is it a guy?

Leo 6:12

Let's ask that Is blowing your nose in the shower a guy thing If you're a female who blows your nose in? The shower call me, is that gross?

Modi 6:21

Yes, it's not gross, it is gross.

Periel 6:24

It's completely okay. Blowing your nose in your hands is disgusting.

Leo 6:26

I also sometimes pee in the shower. For being honest.

Periel 6:29

That's different, oh.

Leo 6:31

Now we have an agreement. Did you have you peed in the shower before? Yeah, of course, but I don't stick my hands into the stream of urine.

Periel 6:39

I mean, I'm not like peeing in my hands.

Leo 6:41

To me, urine is more gross than snot. That's coming out of, actually, okay, that's coming out of Actually, okay, that's a good question.

Modi 6:47

Hope everybody had a great Yom Kippur and a happy new year and your Sukkot was great and yeah.

Leo 6:55

Not only does Modi blow his nose in the shower, he blows his nose in the steam room at Equinox. He grabs one of those eucalyptus towels and he goes to town on that thing.

Periel 7:06

And it clears out the steam room, makes more room for me. Yes, that's okay, though, because that has like function like you're clearing out the steam room and his sinuses?

Modi 7:13

yeah, I don't do it disgustingly, I do it very, you know.

Periel 7:17

No, I don't hook on that when I used to smoke cigarettes, I would sit down on public benches and that would clear out the public benches.

Modi 7:26

With a cigarette.

Periel 7:26

Yes.

Leo 7:27

I would just sit down.

Modi 7:28

With a cigarette.

Periel 7:29

Something happened today on the way to the podcast studio.

Leo 7:33

What.

Periel 7:34

That we passed by. We were walking in the Lower East Side and we passed by this amazing, like old school a million years ago little store that said vintage Dior on sale and suddenly this woman came running out of the store and pretty much attacked Modi.

Leo 7:52

Yes.

Periel 7:53

And she said you have to. You have to answer your phone, your DMs and I need tickets to your show.

Leo 8:00

For free. She said For free, For free.

Modi 8:03

She's like when's your next show in New York? And we said the Beacon. Well, I'm at the Beacon show for free. She said for free, for free. She's like when's your next show in new york? And we said the beacon. And while I'm at the beacon, I, I, I, I didn't, I don't have tickets for that and and it's, it's in december. I don't know where I'm gonna be and by the time I get there it'll be sold out. So I'm like and what's, what can I do for you?

Leo 8:17

right now.

Modi 8:18

She wanted a private show on the side she was on orchard street, uh, between grand and the Land—no, between Grand and Broom. It's a store that her family has owned since 1924.

Periel 8:32

Amazing.

Modi 8:33

The store is the size of this desk and she is selling vintage Dior—.

Periel 8:41

And just lingerie.

Modi 8:42

And lingerie. She's been there forever.

Periel 8:44

I was so taken aback. I was like hi, miriam, I'm Perrielle, nice to meet you. And she said hi, and she took my hand and she started shaking it and twirling it around.

Leo 8:54

Yeah, like you're playing jump rope.

Periel 8:56

And she said, hi, I'm Miriam.

Leo 8:57

and I said that's usually a better way to start a conversation, yeah she came in hot, she came in very very hot, but do you remember that time on Orchard, we went into a different Shmata store that was also run by a member of the tribe, the chassid guy, when you wanted to buy a corset. Yeah, remember, I got fitted for a corset by a chassid.

Modi 9:14

Stop it For Halloween. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he did not bat an eye. One.

Leo 9:18

Halloween I wore a corset. I don't know what for what he has had.

Modi 9:22

many gays walk in there.

Leo 9:23

He was like. He eyeballed me, knew my size right away, put it on me and zipped me up into it.

Modi 9:33

It's on Orchard between Rivington and Stanton. It's a store that's been there for probably way over 80 years. And they sell corsets and his big thing is that he sold Lady Gaga her corsets. And he's a chassid. He's sitting there with a white shirt, the vest. He's a ger chassid.

Leo 9:53

We should go to him. We'll go to him.

Modi 9:55

He's a ger chassid A who? A ger chassid, that's a Polish chassid. So so he has those, the knickers with the black socks. Okay, and so he's got the payas. And we walked in there and I right away speak to him in Yiddish and I said he wants a corset and he looks at Leo and goes turn around and he goes number seven, number seven he gives.

Leo 10:20

Leo a black corset.

Periel 10:21

I'm a plus size woman.

Modi 10:23

And he gave Leo a corset. And then Leo walks, he gives Leo a black corset yeah, I'm a plus size woman. And he gave Leo a corset. And then Leo walks and then he says to him in Yiddish come here, come here, come here, come here. He walks, perfect for you. Then we paid for it and I was like you know, I was going to negotiate with him. He said $79. And I said to him in Yiddish what if I do it in cash? He goes then it's $79. Oh my, yeah, and so and he sits there all day and he does corsets.

Periel 10:53

I love that he didn't bat an eye.

Modi 10:54

He did not bat an eye, he did not care he's had many gays walk in there ask him for corsets that actually it's for. Halloween, by by the way, this isn't just for him sitting around the house with a corset, or is it? Yeah, well, you threw it away after that night.

Leo 11:06

I barely made through. I got into the door of like this I don't even know how to describe that Halloween party and it was like you have to come in a look or else we're not letting you in, so I came in. A look, honey, I was in a corset.

Periel 11:23

No, no, no, it was like guy drag.

Leo 11:25

I was like muscles out, arms out, but like in a corset.

Modi 11:29

Cute. And then he but it was so uncomfortable, and then I got in and took it off To throw it right out. It was so uncomfortable.

Periel 11:35

But you're telling me, like I don't know, that You've worn corsets. I mean, they're in like some dresses. Yeah, sure, do you wear Spanx Sometimes?

Leo 11:47

Depends what I'm. Yeah, I get a lot of ads now for men's shapewear.

Periel 11:51

I don't think you need men's shapewear.

Leo 11:54

I think it's because I bought there's. It's called Leo, by the way.

Periel 11:58

Oh, my God.

Leo 11:58

I bought their underwear because the band of the underwear says Leo. That's cute, so I like when it peeks out of my pants and it says my name.

Periel 12:05

I love that. Because then you're like do all his pants do all his underwear say Leo, it's very Dave Chappelle of you.

Leo 12:11

So I bought one thing and apparently that's like their side project is the underwear. Their main thing is like legit girdles for like men and I was like do people wear that?

Modi 12:20

I guess so Well, they have ads like we know. When the guy just says blubber, or having it all over the place, it organizes all the blubber it organizes the blubber.

Leo 12:28

Organize your blubber, yeah organize your blubbercom.

Modi 12:31

Speaking of com. Yes.

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Periel 13:26

And it's Whiteluxcom.

Leo 13:29

Yeah, apparently you've been saying it wrong.

Modi 13:31

No, we haven't. We've been saying it very right, and that's our sponsors, which are great, and what else.

Leo 13:40

I'm curious to see what you have rattling around in your brain, in your brain, because we like it's your podcast, it's my podcast, yeah.

Modi 13:47

I don't know when we get carried away.

Leo 13:49

You seem a little.

Modi 13:50

No, I'm so interested I feel like I'm a guest at my own podcast.

Leo 13:55

We've fully commandeered the ship here. Yeah, no, I love no, it's because we hung out with Periel this afternoon for like three hours.

Modi 14:03

We've really been podcasting all day. We have nothing left to talk about.

Leo 14:06

You're not allowed to talk to us anymore unless there's a mic connected.

Modi 14:09

We bought Lulav and Esro today.

Periel 14:11

Yes.

Modi 14:16

The palm branch and the citron for the holiday of Sukkot, and it was your first time buying one. I was a and they sell it every year. They sell it on Essex and Canal. There's usually three or four guys there. Today there was only one, and it's a tradition that I've just been always buying there.

Periel 14:35

You told me that we were late to the game.

Modi 14:37

Yeah, usually you buy it like the day after. Like Sunday would have been the right day to buy it, like the day after Yom Kippur.

Periel 14:44

It was a shocking experience on numerous levels.

Leo 14:54

Why?

Modi 14:54

Because you paid $100 for two lemons and a piece of buckwheat. It's not a lemon, it's a citron. It's a lemon. It has to have the right thing, the pitom, the little thing on top of it, whatever floats your boat honey.

Periel 15:08

But what is it? What is first of all? Pitom in Hebrew means like suddenly.

Modi 15:13

All of a sudden yeah.

Periel 15:14

Is that what that thing is?

Modi 15:15

That's what it's called. Yes.

Periel 15:17

And why does it have to have it?

Modi 15:19

Okay, that's what makes it kosher, that's what makes it a kosher citron, and you make a blessing with it during the holiday of Sukkot.

Periel 15:26

Okay.

Modi 15:27

It's very, very like it's again spiritual. There's four spices that come together.

Periel 15:34

There's like a million explanations for it. I don't know any of this.

Modi 15:36

The four Yud Kebab, ke. There's the whole. There's the little bands. You can put four bands on it. Everybody has their own tradition, but as long as you're doing it and it's and. I have to shake it.

Leo 15:46

You have to shake it like every day. So the other thing I wrote down was do you guys trust poke bowl places? No, no, let's discuss this because I love sushi. I could eat sushi every day. I love it. I love raw sashimi. Give it to me, yum. Something ungodly about a poke bowl place why is it in a vat?

Periel 16:07

and it's already chopped up. I agree with the first part of what you said. It's the same ingredients, different presentation.

Leo 16:11

I'm totally repulsed by it.

Periel 16:13

It's not the same ingredients.

Leo 16:14

I think the grade of the food. Oh, you think it's not the same grade fish.

Periel 16:20

How could it be Like sushi, good sushi.

Leo 16:24

But that's what they're claiming, that it is in there, like when you go to these, when you see these poke bowl places.

Periel 16:30

I think that shit was frozen.

Leo 16:32

I just feel like several people I know have told me oh, I have food poisoning. I'm like, do you think you know where you got it? And they're like, well, I did eat at a poke bowl place. I'm like pretty sure.

Modi 16:42

That's right.

Leo 16:43

Yeah, I'm like pretty sure that's right. Yeah, people told us that. I forgot. Who told us this? A few people, like more than one. That's why.

Modi 16:47

I wrote it down what would have to happen before I ate a poke?

Leo 16:51

bowl. No, but it's weird because to me those are all things that I love Rice, fish, soy sauce all those flavors it's served like, in a way like something you'd give a refugee Right.

Modi 17:02

It's disgusting. You've taken the romance out of sushi Disgusting.

Leo 17:06

Because you've bastardized sushi and now you've thrown it in this slot bowl in front of me. Yes, Like I'm a cat at a fish market.

Periel 17:14

That's right. That's right Now. Will you eat any sushi? No, or you'll go for like omakase, and you'll let them give you anything you want.

Leo 17:24

Oh, I would go for omakase and I would yeah, I would probably eat.

Periel 17:28

Even that unami stuff.

Leo 17:30

Oh, the sea urchin, oh, I'll eat that. Oh it's good. No, yum, salty and good.

Modi 17:36

The best. By the way, some of the best sushi is from high, high, high end kosher caterers. It was so obvious that he was going to say that Sushi is a part of every Jewish event. Now, everywhere you go, there's a sushi bar and all that. A good kosher caterer gets the best sushi and the Mexican guy that cuts it up and it's dressed like he's Japanese.

Leo 18:00

Nothing says sushi like being cut by a Mexican guy.

Modi 18:01

Yeah, but he's dressed like he's Japanese.

Leo 18:03

Oh, okay, so that makes it okay and so then he's just it's some of the best sushi.

Modi 18:10

What else should we talk about? That's really, really good. I had a what I had, this epiphany that, like you know that the you know. So the Jews are the chosen people and we've always said that we call ourselves the choosing people.

Leo 18:27

But I. That's your joke, it's my joke, but it's what it's just. I don't know if it translated well how you just phrased it. Your joke is that you're the choosing people, Not the chosen people.

Modi 18:38

I think amongst ourselves, the Jews, we are the choosing people. One does this, one does that. He doesn't do this, he does do that. He eats this. He won't eat that On this holiday. He does that, that one. But I think what we were the chosen people for because it says in the Bible that we were the chosen people it was to do comedy, don't you think so?

Periel 18:58

I love that? Yes, I do think so.

Modi 19:01

Because comedy is relief and healing and that's what it says we were there to do. And so which is also medicine, which is also education and culture? That's why you see, on all the buildings that have something to do with medicine, something to do with culture, museums the Guggenheim, for God's sakes, you know and something to do with healing, hospitals and all that and education, there's just Jewish names everywhere, and that's one of the things.

Photo Booth Adventures and Soundbites

Leo 19:32

That's beautiful. You let me talk about blowing my nose in the shower and sushi bowl places, and you had that in your head. I had that in my head.

Modi 19:39

I was just trying to see when I was going to pop it in. I just figured I didn't want to. It has to be an opening to the whole thing. I just can't just pop in on that.

Leo 19:49

Well, I was sitting here going through my notes app, being like what's rattling around the old noggin over here.

Modi 19:54

What's that little thing you brought to the house, that black deck of cards? Oh, I should have brought it. You should have brought those. Those look good.

Leo 20:07

I bought a deck of cards called how deep will you go. Yeah, wow, um guy asks me that's a call. How deep? It's a card game that just asks you questions. Um, one thing I wrote down in my notes app I says I want to. I guess this is a fitness goal of mine. Yeah, I want to be so jacked that I can cat call, cat call straight men without fear of hate crime. You want to be be so dragged that you can Like when a hot guy walks by. I want to be like damn and then just have them not be able to do anything about it Straight guys are.

Modi 20:33

So I want to be like, I want to catcall straight guys. They're so into like giving each other compliments. Yo, you're looking good big that it's like a game you in the gym bro.

Leo 20:51

Yeah, that it's like it's a game in the gym, bro.

Modi 20:52

Yeah, in the gym, getting big, getting big, and I was stuck in. I was, uh, I was taking a schwitz, taking a steam, the equinox, blowing your nose as one does I don't blow that nose that much in there and um, and I was, it's just, it's like like 20 minutes. I just want quiet. I breathe, I'm so happy and there's these two finance bros walk in and are talking in podcast voice you know, like cadence, the cadence of kids like I don't think we speak in podcast no, but it's like it's on tiktok and stuff.

Leo 21:14

It's like, well, you know, you got to do this.

Modi 21:16

It's like this I don't know how to describe it. It's like and they were like talking about their job.

Modi 21:20

They've been like three or four years in finance and they're talking about they. They one worked at JP Morgan and he worked at JP Morgan and they both left to different places and the fact that they were speaking in full voice in the steam room where the vibrations against the tile were like everybody was in their conversation. I was actually interested because I got to hear like what their worlds are, how this he works from home as long as he gets his goals.

Modi 21:50

He doesn't do this, but KP Morgan was good for that and this is not good for this, and it was like a world that I have nothing to do with anymore and you know just to listen to. But the chutzpah, the audacity for them, did you shush?

Periel 22:05

them.

Modi 22:05

I didn't shush them because I was interested in the conversation and they were in like full, that podcast voice. So what I'm thinking is where I did it. I did it, but it's like so it's not conversational anymore, it's sound. They speak in sound bites, hmm.

Periel 22:30

I'm just in.

Leo 22:30

I'm going to um something I registered yesterday. We were at pastis and I'm standing there at the urinal and a guy pops over to the urinal next to me and all of a sudden, you know, I'm focused, I'm doing my thing and then I see like a soft glow of a screen and this guy is standing there peeing with one hand and scrolling on his phone and the other, and I'm like I will fully admit that I am addicted to my phone. It's not out while I'm peeing. And then also about the steam room. The kids are bringing their iphones into the steam room. I am capable of putting my phone in my locker for 15 minutes and going into the steam room. These kids are taking calls in the steam room. They're on their phone, not doing anything productive, they're just scrolling on instagram, like I saw this one kid.

Modi 23:19

I saw this one kid, he, he, he brought his phone and he put in a towel so he was checking his phone like like with like fervor and then, like he put it, away. And then his watch did something. Oh yeah, his little apple watch.

Modi 23:33

That's why I won't get so he got a little bit busy in that and then he was something was so busy in that that he went back to the phone. I was just watching this. I felt bad for him. I felt it's an addiction. I felt so bad. I once saw a guy use a vape in the steam room and I was looking at him. He goes yeah, I'm really addicted. He looked at me and goes yeah, I'm really addicted.

Periel 23:55

That's insane. Those things are terrible.

Modi 23:59

Here's something else that's kind of horrible.

Periel 24:01

We are taping today in a new studio.

Modi 24:05

We're trying out a new studio and I feel like the people that are trying us out are like I hope they never come back. This is probably the worst podcast I've ever heard. These three came with nothing to talk about.

Leo 24:18

We usually have guests, we have guests that are amazing.

Periel 24:21

Sometimes we don't have guests.

Modi 24:23

We usually have what to talk about. What do you?

Periel 24:26

mean I don't understand why you guys are doing that. I don't think that's true. I think we have a lot to talk about. We took pictures today.

Modi 24:34

Oh my God, that's right. That was so cute. Listen, everybody. We have a dedicated Instagram page for this podcast. That's how great it's been doing. And we did a photo shoot today. We did not hire a $1,700 photographer, we went to a photo booth on Orchard Street.

Leo 24:56

That's called Old.

Modi 24:57

Friend Photo Booth, that Old Friend Photo Booth that has a line that's usually around the block of people going in to take a picture in this photo booth. And I've walked by this line a million times saying this is a line I will never in my life be on.

Periel 25:12

And when did you find out that that was not going to be the case?

Modi 25:15

And then Leo said tomorrow we're going to when Leo does that. Here's the run of show for tomorrow for me.

Leo 25:20

Yeah, usually around 8.30 PM I go okay, so this is what your day looks like tomorrow.

Modi 25:24

And he gives me all the waking up. You have a Zoom call at this 11.30. That 12.30. You're going to be on this call. I'm going to be on this call. I'm going to be on that call. You're free to go to the gym at that time and when he's with me, we're meeting Perriel at the photo booth on Orchard. I said we're doing what? And we went and we got photos done there in this photo booth. They're cute pictures. They're so cute.

Periel 25:48

They look so good. First of all, Leo had taken a picture. I saw it on his Instagram at this photo booth and I was like, oh my God, that is the coolest picture of you. I love it.

Leo 26:03

And then you said that you got some snarky comment from somebody. So there's this photo booth that appeared overnight on Orchard Street. I walk by it every day on my way to the gym and there was always a line, like a really long line. And again, I'm not one for lines, like whenever I walk by those people standing outside Katz's deli, I'm like you idiots, it's not that good. Like I don't wait in a line, but I was walking early in the morning and for some reason it was open and there was no one there at all, so I just walked in. I was unshowered, I was gross.

Leo 26:26

I like walked into this photo booth. It's like let me see what this is about. And it was actually great. And it's like something so fun about you know, having to wait a minute and like having this analog film process and like print out for you. Um, but yeah, I posted those pictures of me on my instagram and you were, and then I archived it. I like took it down because some stranger wrote like did this guy really go into a photo booth by himself? And I was like, oh, is this weird?

Leo 26:51

that I did this, so I took it down while I was pondering it.

Periel 26:54

And then I was like why did you take that down? It was amazing and, by the way, you know who else used to go into photo booths by himself, andy Warhol. So I was like I'm not going to curse, thank you. This moron who decides that everybody needs the blessing of his opinion, of what leo that's just social media nowadays, but you guys should look at it.

Leo 27:18

The, the instagram is at old friend photo booth and it's posting everyone's pictures and they're so beautiful and people are like going there, like in glam and like getting pictures done and it's really cute and we went today and I got there a little bit before you guys, as just as it turned out, and the line wasn't that bad at all you were a little bit nervous that we were gonna hog it because you were being considerate for all the people behind us yeah but I warned them.

Modi 27:44

I was like, listen, guys, there are three of us, so a lot, pretend we're three separate people and they're like that's okay, don't worry, yeah, um, even though I don't know when this airs, but I'll tell you a very nice thing that happened during Yom Kippur.

Modi 27:58

Okay, this is super after. But so Yom Kippur, you know, speaking of lines, my mother and dad, I put them up at the 60 LES, which is next to the synagogue. Oh, that's nice, because it's too far of a walk for them and my parents don't drive. On Yom Kippur, and my mom during the day went for a walk around Soho and she said to me it's just lines for everything. There's just lines Prada store line, apple store line, food pantry. All of a sudden you see people in line waiting for food and then another line for Prada and another line for some bakery. My mom was just in shock at the lines everywhere. So the line thing is a thing, these lines. Katz's Deli has a line that is so crazy. Yeah, I don't get that, me neither, but what was I saying?

Modi 28:50

So in Yom Kippur I go to shul, I go to synagogue and I pray and I have like a little corner I'm in. So I don't like see everybody. I'm up front and I'm just praying and I'm singing a lot. I sing along with the cantor. Everything is very sing-alongy, it's not like solo cantor stuff.

Modi 29:10

And all of a sudden someone taps me and says your husband's working security outside. And I know that the rabbi hired like armed men to be, but I guess one of them came late to his shift there were two shifts and it was just when Leo came to see if maybe I was done and he'd walk me home. But out of nowhere, like I'm in almost like a rave mode where I'm just singing and praying and going back and forth and like in the whole thing, and all of a sudden someone tapped me and was like your husband's outside and I went to see and A I got a breath of fresh air and because the air conditioning was just blowing on me I had like the tiles. Leo, outside in shorts, coming from the gym, goes. I thought you'd be dumb and I'd walk you home, you know you think I would know run of show for the high holidays.

Leo 29:57

It's been nine years now that we've been together and every year I'm confused by the schedule. I don't understand. I feel like it's not the same time every year. The services start and end different times. So I showed up early and I was standing outside. I thought I was going to like intercept you on the way home. Luckily he came. Were you armed?

Yom Kippur and Break Fast Food

Modi 30:18

No, but I got these guns on me Guns on you. Yeah, so Leo's standing outside the synagogue, his gym bag hanging on the fence. He's like working security, dressed in all black, you know.

Leo 30:26

Obviously Sunglasses. Yeah, I looked like security. Yeah, I would avoid. And Gov was like, can you actually stand here for a second? And I was like, yeah, but I don't know what any of the members' faces look like.

Periel 30:36

Yeah.

Leo 30:37

Like I don't know, but you can tell.

Modi 30:39

It's a vibe check. Yeah, you just vibe check when someone's walking in. You can tell if they're going to be crazy. But there was a lot of police and a lot of security there, so it was really good, like in the middle of Yom Kippur, just to see in the middle of prayer Leo shows up.

Periel 30:53

And then you went back inside.

Modi 30:55

I went right back inside.

Periel 30:56

How many hours were you in synagogue.

Modi 30:57

I was there from 9 to 3.

Periel 31:00

Wow.

Modi 31:01

Yeah, it was a long service.

Periel 31:03

Is it usually that long?

Leo 31:04

Yeah, it's what it is. The fasting on Yom Kippur, to me, is like pretty extreme, because you're not even allowed to drink water or brush your teeth.

Modi 31:15

And even the Catholics are like. You can drink water and brush your teeth, I know, but it's a whole thing.

Leo 31:18

You got that Yom.

Modi 31:19

Kippur breath.

Periel 31:20

It's Yom Kippur, everybody's breath is like literally, it's hard for me to go into a synagogue during Yom Kippur because it stinks. No it doesn't?

Modi 31:28

It's a very special time. I think it's one of the most amazing days. Yom Kippur, it's the day that Satan has off. Satan has one day off, that's the day he has off. He clocks out, he clocks out. That's the day he has off. So you go to synagogue all day, because you can pray directly to God without having intervention of Satan.

Leo 31:49

And so you don't eat, so that doesn't get in the way, where do you think Satan goes on his day off Saint?

Periel 31:55

Tropez, the Prada store. I didn't know that. I thought Jews didn't believe in Satan.

Modi 32:00

It's the evil inclination, the etzahara, the bad energy of the world.

Periel 32:07

Who's giving him the day off?

Leo 32:09

That's the day he has off. We should look into giving him more PTO. I would give him a lot of days off Is that true.

Modi 32:16

Yes, it's 100%.

Leo 32:17

He can work from home if he wants.

Modi 32:18

That's a day that Satan, the evil inclination, the evil powers of the world have off, and the day that they have full reign is Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of Av, which is like a whole week.

Modi 32:32

No, it's just one day. There's nine days that lead up to it, but that one day is—. But Yom Kippur is Satan's day off. It's like he clocks out that day, and so you want to not be eating and hanging at home. That's the day you want to go and pray and be like yes, forgive us, help us, this and that to God, because you have a direct line to him, without all that interference.

Periel 32:55

That's so interesting. Okay, I fasted between lunch and dinner.

Modi 33:01

I love that everybody was inviting me to a break fast way before the fast was over. Right, right, right. Hey, we're doing a 5 o'clock break fast. Why don't you come by? I'm like, because I'll—. I went to one of those while I waited for you to get done with Shul after lunch. You went to break the fast at 5 o'clock with Michael Hoffman. Yeah, so okay, whatever works for you any excuse for me to eat pastrami.

Leo 33:26

Lox, I'm there.

Periel 33:30

I just would like to say shout out to 6th Street Synagogue, which I had never been to before.

Modi 33:36

Which is amazing.

Periel 33:37

It's so beautiful, it's such a vibe, it's so cool, like it feels like so New York-y.

Modi 33:46

It's because of Gov. It's because of Gov. Gov made that place so special and so amazing. Sixth Street Synagogue, between 2nd and 1st Avenue, and so amazing Sixth Street Senegal, between 2nd and 1st Avenue, and it's you know it's. I kept saying New York is like it's so gross garbage, homeless rats everywhere. But then you pop in somewhere and it's like you're in a different place in the world. It's like Fantasy Island. You have restaurants and all of and you're like, wow, look at this, look at the lighting, look at the seats, look at the whole thing. And Sixth Street Synagogue is like you just walk in there's a big red building You'd never know. You walk in there and it's like whoa, wow, this is like a vibe. And then everybody's so it's so accepting. And so Jared Freed came for Yom Kippur. Eric Newman came for Yom Kippur it was a comedy line. Ilan Altman came for Yom Kippur, olga Maina was there, leah Forrester A lot of comedians were at the synagogue and it was very special, the Yom Kippur service we had.

Periel 34:51

And did they stay also from 9 to 3?

Modi 34:53

No, this was Friday night. This was the services, which is only about an hour and change. That's doable and it's all singing along too, and really cute and fun and it was really, really special. It was very, very, very, very nice. Yeah, that's it. And what did?

Periel 35:13

you eat at break fast other than so let's discuss that too let's it's such a shame it's.

Leo 35:20

I can ask why we're eating bagels at 7 o'clock and I want to tell you something.

Modi 35:24

I want to tell you something that I would love to change it's only because I love my family and my mother loves it and that she gets to see her grandchildren. It's all in my apartment and, after breaking the fast, the best way to do it is just a cup of water, a nice bowl of soup and you're done. Now I enter my house. My mom has a spread of bagels, lox, herring, everything that's like. You know, I'm like I'm not going to have soup, I'm just going to have a little bit, and then before you know it you sit there and you just start shoving food down your throat.

Leo 36:04

On the Dana Bash, did I say her?

Periel 36:06

name right.

Leo 36:07

Episode we spoke about gefilte fish and that I actually do like gefilte fish, but herring is where I draw the line. Oh, herring is so good. That is like I could throw up a little bit just thinking about it, actually, and I had to open the jar for your mom because she's like I can't open this and I had to, like pop it open and it was like herring is so good.

Periel 36:26

It pickled herring. Yeah, oh, it's so good, it's like slimy.

Modi 36:36

What in gefilte fish isn? Give filter fish, it's so good. No, no, my mom's slimy, no it could come with slime, but usually.

Periel 36:39

But my mom makes it without slime, it's oh your mom is making the herring.

Modi 36:42

No, that's not. How do you?

Periel 36:43

make herring it's cut up, but then you pickle it you like, yeah they get it's pickled and sometimes with like a cream sauce yeah, it's very delicious.

Modi 36:52

I feel so bad for this engineer who's never heard. We usually have podcasts on much. I feel like we're auditioning in your studio, but they're also auditioning us. I hope they never call back.

Leo 37:03

Yeah, it's not like I wouldn't say we knocked it out of the park. No, this is usually our podcast.

Modi 37:08

We are not looking to. There's no politics and there's nothing groundbreaking. We're not looking to aggravate anybody. This is for Orthodox women that are walking their dogs. Who are your listeners? Orthodox women that are walking their dogs. This is what they listen to while they're walking their dogs, which is so funny, because Orthodox women usually do not have dogs.

Periel 37:32

They don't.

Modi 37:32

They have children. They have lots of children.

Leo 37:34

Oh, I wrote a new joke for my because you know how I opened the shows in Australia. Orthodox women usually do not have dogs. They don't. They have children. Right, they have lots of children. Oh, I wrote a new joke for my because you know how I opened the shows in Australia. Yeah, did I talk about that on the podcast? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what's the new joke? So in Australia, modi offstage goes ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats and then he goes. Please help me. Welcome my manager, leo. And then I walk on stage and I go hi, yes, I'm Modi's manager, producer and full-time husband, and for some reason that gets a laugh. And then I was like it's great to be down here in Australia. I've been really looking forward to these shows Because with the time difference down here we don't have so much of an age gap.

Periel 38:07

That's very funny.

Leo 38:11

And then I got a big laugh. And then I got a big laugh and then I made some other like jokes and I said keep your phones away, enjoy the show. It was like three minutes but I want to do a lot. So I want to do something at the beacon in December. But I'm trying to workshop this line because people always you know they're like, wow, what's it like being married to Modi? Like everyone loves him, like my mom loves him, my dad loves him. I go, my parents love him. Like yeah, modi's a hit with everyone's parents, just not mine.

Periel 38:37

Funny, because he's never met my parents but I mean, I think that maybe you want but no one has that context right, I think that you just need like a word or two, like my, you know, extremely catholic parents, or like something that-.

Leo 38:56

How do you say Maybe I need to preface that Very from parents, and Catholic like very religious parents, Radical extremist Catholics? No, not extremists, they are extremists.

Periel 39:07

No, I know they are, but there's like a phrase Devout.

Modi 39:11

Devout, devout.

Leo 39:11

Catholics Thank you. We're coming back. We're coming back, we have to come back. Devout Catholics.

Periel 39:17

Yes, that's it.

Modi 39:18

So how would I word it Exactly what you just said, but just preface it with my devout Catholic parents aren't big fans. Beg to differ no fans. Fans is the joke. The word is fans. So that's where you're going to get the laugh on the fans. So Modi's a big hit with parents, but not my devout Catholic. But not my devout.

Leo 39:40

See, it's a little hard, a little tricky, it's.

Periel 39:42

Modi, everybody loves Modi.

Leo 39:46

If you're coming to the Beacon Show, laugh hard at this part.

Periel 39:49

Everybody's parents love Modi, except for my devout no.

Leo 39:57

My mom loves you, my dad loves you, my parents love you, I go. Yes, modi's a hit with everyone's parents, just not mine. It needs a little bit of something up front.

Periel 40:07

Yeah, just not mine.

Leo 40:09

Yeah, just not, mine is funny.

Periel 40:10

Yeah, just not. Mine is actually good, just not mine period.

Modi 40:14

See, that's it. And then I had another joke.

Periel 40:16

No, but before that, we have to know, you have to say something before that that you either don't talk to them or they're devout Catholic or no, but he's not doing a set. It sounds like he's doing a tight five.

Modi 40:30

He's not doing. It's less than five. You guys don't know.

Leo 40:33

Five minutes is a huge amount of time by then, because I've even gotten my other joke, I'm gonna do okay, let's see what's the other joke. It's in the same vein, like what you know people, what's it like being married to modi? Like my parents love him, whatever, and I go and people have said to me did you marry modi for his money? And I go are you crazy? He married me for technical support. He doesn't know how to use his phone or email or his Google calendar.

Modi 41:00

Alright, that's a recycle joke from my special, I don't know. Yeah, that could work. Luckily you have three nights. We will be at the beacon on the 17th, 18th and 19th, the by now I'm sure they are all sold.

Periel 41:18

But uh, as of now there's a few tickets left for the 17th you also said when I said that that picture of modi at six streets synagogue is so great. There's a photo of you taken by lemore garfinkel. Yeah, very great photo it's an incredible photo of you in three different like outfits in front of the on the bimah, in front of the Arona Kodesh, the ark where the Torah is held. And I was like Leo, this is so amazing, how come you don't have one of these in your house?

Modi 41:53

You know what he said to me. Oh God, it's the last thing, we need.

Leo 41:55

What did I say? What did?

Periel 41:56

he say that's what he said the last thing we need. He said I look at Modi enough.

Modi 42:02

There's many comedians or actors or people who their house is filled with pictures of them, their own memorabilia.

Leo 42:07

Yeah, that's psychotic.

Modi 42:14

With pictures of them with other, like celebrities, and it's like a thing. Don Rickles there's a video of him, like showing somebody every picture of everybody he's ever been with and that's the entire house.

Periel 42:21

Right, right right.

Modi 42:22

When I go home. I don't want to be, I want it to be like our sacred little.

Periel 42:26

But this is like a very artistic like. It looks like it could have been in like a Vogue spread or something it is.

Leo 42:33

It's like a very cool, it's unbelievable. I'm going to have to get it and like, superimpose it. Superimpose it onto this clip, yeah yeah.

Modi 42:39

Yeah.

Periel 42:39

Because I look at Modi enough, I feel you understand Leo.

Modi 42:43

So Leo is my husband, producer, manager, so all day long, even when he's not talking to me, he's looking at me. He's looking at me, he's editing videos, he's putting a picture of me to some show. There's a link with my name on it. So then, like, so that's why I try to avoid him sometimes, because then I'm like I feel like he needs a break from my help. He needs a break from my face.

Leo 43:07

I never need a break from your face.

Modi 43:09

No, but I'm like, oh, my God.

Leo 43:10

Because sometimes I'm just you're talking to me and I'm also listening to you on my computer screen and I'm like, yeah, so it's hard. We don't need a wall with a picture of me too, and so we have art. I do think that's like a certain level of fame, though that's pretty interesting and they do. They touch on that in Hacks.

Periel 43:28

Yeah.

Leo 43:29

Where, like she has the wall of famous people, and I think you have to be like the right level of famous to like have that in your house and get away with it, because there are like wealthier, like well-connected people who, like have probably met all these people, but, like if you were to have a gallery wall in your house of all those moments, it's like a little gauche.

Modi 43:46

I think that's like the video you just saw. But if you're like in one office, it's in one office.

Periel 43:50

Yes, I think those are pictures for your office, not for your house.

Modi 43:53

I have a picture of the Rebbe. That's all I need. That's my inspiration. I don't need to remember that I was with James Gandolfini and all these different people. I have those pictures. I just don't want them on my wall. I just don't.

Leo 44:12

We have the garage in Connecticut has a few pictures that I think we haven't even spoken about Connecticut on the podcast sounds like you just spoke about.

Modi 44:18

We just began how much time do we have left?

Periel 44:21

no well, connecticut what would you like to say about Connecticut, connecticut content.

Modi 44:29

We have a special place in Connecticut where we live on a dirt road. We bought a place and it's in the town. It's a nice, good town, but where we live is like a little bit on a dirt road.

Periel 44:47

Okay.

Modi 44:47

Like a mile in from one place and much more from another place, like a super long next to a river. It's a beautiful dirt road, but you're on a dirt road.

Modi 44:59

Okay so unless you know that. It's like people get scared the first time coming to the house, like where did these two idiots buy a house? So? But living on the dirt road, there's a few fun things that happen. So when you're living on a dirt road and you're driving and you pass somebody else, it's understood that you are both living in this area with a dirt road. So when you drive by you have to acknowledge them. But the way you do it is like you open your palm on the steering wheel and it's like a lazy hile. It's like a lazy little hile. Now some parts of the road are a little more narrow.

Modi 45:40

Okay, so, they might have to zig a little bit so you can get by. Then you got to pick up if they zig. You got to zig hile. You got to hile a little higher. That's a little, that's a medium hile. Yeah, zig, hile higher, zig hile. And then, like, if it's so narrow that they actually have to pull over so you can pass by, you got to get full blown, stretch out your hand and say thank you, give a full blown hile. And that's in Connecticut. But the garage is going to be. Obviously, even though there's a gym in the house, we're making the garage more of a gym, it's just it's bigger.

Periel 46:14

Okay.

Modi 46:15

And we might be hanging some pictures that fans have sent.

Periel 46:19

In the gym.

Modi 46:20

Yeah, in the garage gym area, you're not going to have like an office in there.

Periel 46:28

You don't really get an office. I don't need a really. You saw my corner.

Modi 46:30

Leo gets an office. Leo opens up his laptop it's an office, even though he has a full-blown office there which, by the way, when we got all of our furniture, was one day. So when we have to plan on being up there, of course, our furniture, everything was showing up the day leo was launching some tour the tour. So leo was in his office, upstairs closed, doors closed. I'm downstairs. There's like eight different people one's working on the locks, one's working on the doors, one's working in the garage, and then movers are coming in.

Modi 47:02

I'm trying to get them to help me move one bed from this bedroom to that bedroom so we can get this bed in here, and it's like smearing all of them, you know, to help me do more than I'm supposed to do. Leo comes out of the room at three o'clock, you know, boom, the house is all just in place, right or wrong. It was cute. It was cute. It's like he's literally launching the tour up there with UTA and with all the social media, and he just comes downstairs, boom, the house is in place. Wow, dining room, table, chairs, sofas, beds, everything is all like landed in its place.

Periel 47:36

That's impressive.

Leo 47:37

Yes, yes, it is.

Modi 47:41

Modi. That's impressive. Yes, yes, it is Modi's good at stuff like that. I'm good at that, I'm not. So that's where we have to be. But the Wi-Fi and the TV. Good luck on that that. Leo handled all that, yeah. Internet.

Leo 47:49

The separation of church and state. Exactly, I don't know. Should we go through tour dates? Tour dates yes.

Periel 47:55

Wait, I want to say one other thing.

Modi 47:57

Go ahead First.

Periel 47:57

of all I'm bringing you to my house, because it's still like a pile of wood.

Modi 48:05

I will say it's much easier to do work. Not in the city, if you're, I don't. First I was really feeling bad for you that you have to do all this work. But the fact that it's a house, there's no board and there's no elevator and there's no, it's be much easier than you think. The few things we've done. It's just so easy that it's it's your own house. Every construction I've ever done has been in a co-op or a condo a nightmare, a nightmare, but this is uh in your, your house is.

Modi 48:37

I'm wishing it's gonna be much easier for you, I think we'll see about that. I think you're going to be more difficult on them than they are on you.

Periel 48:43

No, I'm not at all. I'm very not difficult. Just ask my husband. Okay, this is what I want to tell you Go for it I saw a little meme and it made me think of you. It was a picture of the Rebbe.

Modi 48:57

Yeah.

Periel 48:58

And it said somebody asked the Rebbe that, like all of these people who only go to synagogue on Yom Kippur, that they're like dressing up like Jews, they're not, like they don't do anything all year and it's like they're not really Jews they're dressing up to because it's Yom Kippur. And you know what he said to them.

Modi 49:17

What.

Periel 49:18

He said, no, they're dressing up every other day of the year.

Leo 49:22

The day that they go to synagogue is really how they are. I thought, that was really sweet. It's like the Catholics who only come to church Christmas and Easter Right.

Periel 49:32

Yeah, but I think that there's something so nice about the way that you're Jewish, because you're so like inclusive of the way that everybody else is Jewish, and I think that, you know, one of the things that I see with all of the comments is that, like people are like so judgmental and they have no idea what they're talking about and it's just so much garbage and I think that it's such a nice way to be.

Modi 49:59

There's 15 million Jews and 15 million ways to be Jewish.

Leo 50:04

One of the ways is buying tickets to Modi shows 100%. We're going to be in Zurich November 4th.

Modi 50:09

London, november 6th, sold out.

Leo 50:11

Skokie, illinois, november 13th and 14th Still available.

Modi 50:15

St.

Leo 50:16

Paul, minnesota, november 24th, montreal November 30th and December 1st. Then we go to Denver, colorado, december 5th. Then we're in New York City December 17, 18, and 19 at the Beacon Theater. The Beacon Theater, girl, girl, girl. Okay, we'll be debriefing on that. Then we go to Texas in January. We're in Austin January 21st. Houston, january 23rd, phoenix, arizona, february 2nd Tampa, florida, which is still standing February 13th Did you check on the theater?

Leo 50:54

Yeah, the venue's fine, we're going to still be doing a show. Then we go to Fort Lauderdale. By the time this airs, we actually will have added a fourth show in Fort Lauderdale.

Leo 51:03

February 16th and 17th and 18th Yep. Then after Fort Lauderdale I have to click load more. Then we zip back across the pond to London to do a repeat show for everyone who couldn't get tickets for the November show at the Palladium we do February 27th in London again. Then we are in Baltimore, march 2nd, las Vegas, march 8th, los Angeles March 20th I get a lot of requests for LA. Then we're in Connecticut at Hartford, the Bushnell Theater. March 23rd, pittsburgh, march 26th, buffalo, march 27th, toronto, march 30th. And by the 27th Toronto, march 30th, and by the time this airs we will have added the March 31st show. So two shows in Toronto, yes, and that's the tour.

Modi 51:49

And everything's available on modilivecom Fun new space. We just did a little training wheel session here. And we just covered a lot of ground.

Modi 52:00

Yeah, we should not be hanging out with you before we do a podcast. This is we like podcasted ourselves to death before getting here. Everybody you know. I love you for listening and thank you for being such great friends, family, fans and followers. The 4Fs Wow yeah, we love alliteration, we love that stuff. Mod 4Fs Wow yeah, we love alliteration, we love that stuff. Modilivecom for everything you need. You can get your tickets there or hock them a Chinook on that, and we'll see you all soon at the shows. Lots of love and Mashiach energy. Thank you again to our sponsors A&H and Weitz in Luxembourg. Bye.

Periel 52:37

Bye.