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Episode 173: Modi and Leo sit down with comedian Liz Glazer for a conversation on navigating frum spaces as a queer comedian, Oura rings, sleep scores, and female rabbi's. Watch her special, "Do You Know Who I'm Not?" on YouTube here!

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SPEAKER_03:

And welcome to Anne Here's Motor. We are in the studio today with a very, very, very, very funny comedian. Liz Glazer.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you. Hi.

SPEAKER_03:

And Leo for Welcome. Yes, thank you. And Benitos. Thank you. Yeah. We are hot off of watching your amazing special. Thank you. We c we saw it on YouTube. Yes. Yes. Is it available anywhere else?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh no. That's where it is. Yeah, thank you. And it's just pressed upload.

SPEAKER_03:

And it's like, you know, we didn't need to do anything. We didn't need to do anything to look at your Wikipedia or anything. It was just it's all right there. Here is the story. Sure. Here she is. Here's what she's about. Here's how it happened. How have we never met?

SPEAKER_00:

You and I have never met in person. Yes. We've met. Close friend. Yes, through a very close friend of mine. Through comedy and through comedy.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, how do you know her? We are talking about our our mutual very close friend is uh Sarah Feltschreiber. Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. And she yeah, she's a lawyer, she's a fantastic person. And she and I went to high school together. We went to Ramaz.

SPEAKER_01:

Shout out Ramaz. Yeah. Shout out Ramaz.

SPEAKER_00:

Really? Oh, that's exciting. And then we went to Penn together. You know, when Penn was still kosher. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what we did. And then we've been friends like since I mean, literally, she was I think the last person I texted, not even about this. Like she knows I'm here. Right. But we have a group chat with seven of us, including me and Sarah. So five other people, also from Penn. And that's like my most active thing on my phone. Really? Is those girls. Yeah. Women. Sure. Women, yeah. Right, right. But I say girls. I say girls too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

We say girls too.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Totally. Oh, I love that. Hey girl, hey. Yeah. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01:

So you're special.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Say the name of it. Do you know who I'm not? Do you know?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it's a little tricky for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Totally. Right, right.

SPEAKER_01:

Where did you where did you film that? Because it was your hometown? Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. So it's filmed at Sopak, the South Orange Performing Arts Center, which is like near Maine. In New Jersey. In New Jersey. Yes. And uh Josh Edelman, my friend, directed it. And Blonde Medicine put out the audio and like whatever. It was basically here's what happened, which I say in it, which is that well, I didn't say all of this, but like I I got the chance to open for Maria Bamford at that theater. It happened to be the then executive director's first show. He's since left. But he was like, okay, so now you headline. And I was like, that is for sure not how this works. But what am I gonna say? No.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Right? Right. Because this is what we do. So I was like, okay, yes. And that's how honestly that's how I started headlining. Because I was like, well, I'm gonna have to figure out how to, yeah, totally. I mean, it's not like I wasn't doing stand-up like very regularly, but like I really wasn't. And this is so that I filmed in 2024. So this is like maybe like at this point, two and a half years ago. Yeah. And so basically I was like, okay, I'm gonna have to figure out how to like structure an hour to tape it, because I'm not gonna not tape it if it's happening. Because like for me at that time, not to say that now it's like every day, like you do theaters every day. We are not the same in that way, right?

SPEAKER_03:

But there's also like we are not the same in many ways. But yes.

SPEAKER_00:

I disagree. I think we're actually twins. Okay. Separated at birth. No, I'm kidding. But you actually you remind me of my friend Leron, who I went to prom with. Okay. And I mean that as like the highest of high compliments. Thank you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

So I love that she doesn't say focus on a story at all, too. This is the perfect guest for me. Oh, good. Go, go, go, go back to your podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, she's she also has those of you who don't see if you those of you aren't watching, she does this thing with her eye that it's she gets you to agree without you agreeing. Oh so she does this thing like like um so she she'll do this thing, which I wouldn't do. You couldn't do that. Like she wouldn't, like it's like, oh fuck, me neither. It's like me neither. Me neither, me neither. I'm not conscious of it. So conscious of that.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey. It's a good thing, though. I I'm taking a great thing. Now I'm gonna have to watch of me and I'll agree. You're performing, buddy.

SPEAKER_03:

Wait, we're a fish or something. I'm not gonna get a fish. Right. Well, yeah. It makes you think like, wait, I'm not getting a chick, I'm gonna get a fish too, because she just said that. I have to agree with her.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, no, but I just mean it for myself, honestly. Because I just I I just mean to convey that, like, at that time, and again, not that it's not now. I don't mean like I'm leaps and bounds ahead of this, but at that time, this theater is coming to me. And I'm like, I love that you're shuckling in in response to this. Like, because you, yeah, yeah, with Kavana, agree.

SPEAKER_03:

And those of you who can't figure out, she is she's obviously a lawyer, of which you never want to be on the opposite side of the I was not a good lawyer, I wasn't even a litigator. I was like sitting there's no air, it's just Gemara.

SPEAKER_00:

That's it's like Gemara speak. And you do it too now, because you're like in Atomicland, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Comedians on the podcast, but comedians make me a comedian for the hour and then.

SPEAKER_00:

And it does. It does.

SPEAKER_01:

It depends if there's a goy recording record.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Yes, yes, that's yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It's not gonna be. It's bottle, it's a bottle, it's bottle with uh so on that topic.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Wait, do you have the thing with your podcast? Like, remember on the Miami boys choir and like don't listen without Jobbes.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh my god. Meanwhile, that was the only time I listened to it. It's it's always better on Chavez. It was the stupidest thing on this tapes and CDs of like super Jewish artists. It would say the first line. Which copying this or sharing it with that because you just make two copies of this tape is against halakha.

SPEAKER_00:

Halacha. Please don't forget the FBI and the$250,000 fine on the VHS. This is against halacha. Right. Right, right, right. You're gonna have to answer first question in Hulama Bah at the door with the bouncer.

SPEAKER_03:

Totally album.

SPEAKER_00:

Right, because it's great. So it's great.

SPEAKER_03:

But but but but people who their entire Shabbos was just when Shabbos comes, yeah, I just play all the Avram Frieden Mordechani music, and that's my entire Shabbos. Right. And meanwhile, the do not play this on Shabbos comes. I know. I felt so bad. Not read the cover, have that.

SPEAKER_00:

I know. But I felt really bad because that's like, okay, my entire existence. So I went to Orthodox Day School. I went to Mariah in Englewood, and then Ramaz, assuming people consider that Orthodox, and that's just like a Ramaz dig for no reason. But it gets a laugh in a room full of like really from Jews. Okay. I think, I mean, Ramaz is like way religious for me, but like I'm just saying. I'm oyster. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. But anyway, so I mean, it's like boys and girls together. So, like, how religious can you be? Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_01:

It's basically the mixed dancing.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. Oh my God. That's worse than than a guy recording the podcast, you know, or a non-kosher wine or poured by a guy. But anyway, so I'm just showing off at this point. I can't even help it. I can't even help it.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, live your best. So can I get whatever Admiral you're on? I'm not on any. How?

SPEAKER_00:

Literally zero anything.

SPEAKER_03:

By the way, her special is at the same cadence. She it the special is 48 minutes with an hour and 32 minutes of material in it.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_03:

That is an hour and 32 minutes of material. It's very Colin Quinn. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It's very, very Colin Quinn.

SPEAKER_03:

It's like you've compacted an hour and 32 minutes of material into 48 minutes. Ah.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you. Okay.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

All right. Well, anyway, so I wasn't going to not record it. That's the that's the the button to that. Is just like, it was a big deal. And I say this in the thing. That I was like, okay, like, what do you want from me? I could have called it that. What do you want from me? And then people would remember the name, honestly. Because then it's like, do you know who I am? I'm like, no, it's not, you know, but you know, you never want to correct or whatever. It's like, no, no, you're right. I could have also called it that. But anyway, so I was just like, of course I'm gonna record this. Are you kidding? This is a huge deal for me. And the thing is, like, for me, like, I am not cool. Okay. I came an hour early to this podcast. You, first of all, okay, so I just want to make the point that I'm not cool. Example one, I was an hour early. No, no, no. On the podcast. Fine.

SPEAKER_03:

We're always early to everything. Okay, fine. We're always fine.

SPEAKER_00:

But I was like, I was trying, I didn't want because on my uh on Tuesdays, we're recording this on Tuesdays. I hope that doesn't like, you know, make the experience of listening to it on a Wednesday or Shabbos for that matter. Husfishal. You know, husfish almost bad.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm giving full heter to whoever needs to listen to Shabbos soulzine.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, okay. Wow. All right. So anyway, um, but I'm in the city all day. I have therapy 11, 10 in the morning, and then like usually I just like stack whatever. But sometimes it's like there's an awkward amount of time. And so anyway, I was an hour early, and I was like, you know, I'm always a little embarrassed to be so early because I don't want you guys, in this case, you know, whoever I'm meeting, to feel like you don't have to pay attention to me for an hour. I'm just because I knew I wanted to change, and so I went to the bathroom. I did see, by the way, in the bathroom, there was a lady who was peeing fully with the door open, and then your face, you must include the camera on your face for that. So fully with the door open, but I I had never experienced this in my whole life. She just kept peeing, like, not even a break in the pee. And then I go, you know, whatever, into the stall. And I figured, like, okay, I'm never gonna see this person again because like clearly she's not gonna want to have an interaction. No, we met again at the same time. We do. We basically were best friends. She did not care in the sense that I was like, I'm going to be thinking about her for the rest of the day.

SPEAKER_01:

When you encounter someone like that, doesn't it just like ricochet inside your skull for like a you're like remember? If I could just tap into a little bit of that. Yes, exactly. Just not giving a shit. At all. Just give it at all. Because it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00:

You know what? She's right. Yep. She's right. And so anyway, so I you're early, which I appreciate. Totally. But the but I was saying it thank you. Yeah. And and I relate to that and thank you for sharing that that is how you identify early video. So, but the reason I was saying that is actually connected to the special because when I was like planning, you know, what to say in this context, I was like, I don't want to hide the fact that this is like this kind of one in a moment type of thing for me right now. Because if if you're recording a special, right, there's no reason for you to highlight that because it's your life every day, Barak Hashem, and you've built that. And Mirtz Hashem by me, that thank you, that I should build that, but that's not where I was in that moment. And I wanted to be real about the fact that yeah, thank you, that it was this huge to-do milestone. Right, right, right. It came up with the stuff. And that it was anomalous.

SPEAKER_01:

It didn't feel like you were phased by it. So that oh, that's nice. I mean yeah, I mean, yeah, I get that.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01:

You didn't you weren't like self-deprecating. Sure. You're like, hey, all right, everyone votes.

SPEAKER_00:

Totally, totally totally fun. Yeah, no, totally. And I I I think I mean Josh did a great job with it. Like it just I'm very happy with it. People should watch it, you know, again, not on Shabbos. But if that makes people want to watch it more on Shabbos, then that's how I mean it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. So you know I think we're missing a very juicy uh clippable idea, concept, theme for this episode, which is you two navigating um from Jewish spaces and being visibly gay.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, totally.

SPEAKER_01:

Have at it. What's going on? I was thinking about you. You guys are the front lines.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, because recently I was thinking about you, Modi. Not that I wasn't thinking about you. Of course I was thinking about you too, Leo. Okay. Yeah. So, but so in the beginning of January, I went to Israel and I did the Comedy for Kobe shows. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Right thing. Yes. Wow.

SPEAKER_03:

Not you Portugal. No, no, that was that was when it was the that wasn't when they they bombed. No, no, no, no. This was this January. Oh my god. Like earlier in the month. Okay, no, comedy for Kobe is Shirk energy period. And uh I was thinking of when was it when they were there at the end?

SPEAKER_00:

It was Iran. I don't remember the month. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_03:

The Iran, there was a comedy for Kobe happening in Israel, and Iran was bombing and the shows were canceled, and the gold was there, and she was like, No, so this was, I mean, and and that's of course, like, you know, circumstances outside anyone's control.

SPEAKER_00:

But like, yes, it did happen at the time, but not when I when not when we were there, thank God. Yes. For many reasons, not having anything to do with us, right? But anyway, so the shows were great. And so beforehand, I was told, and I, you know, this isn't surprising, I imagine, to you. Listen, we're so happy to have you. We love you, we want everything about you, but you know, some of these crowds, they I I wouldn't say that I was gay. I I wouldn't mention it. You know, and so it was so interesting because I was like processing that for like a good, I don't know, month, month and a half before. And I was like, how am I gonna navigate this? And I I wrote a line which I ended up saying, like, I first of all, so the way I did it, like just spoiler, I guess, is I talked about other things, and then like halfway through my set, I brought in that detail. Um, because I was gonna talk about my family, and I'm not gonna say, I mean, I just have to say my wife. Also, my wife is a rabbi, so like the connector points, you know, according to none of those people in those crowds. But um anyway, so right, right, 100%. But anyway, so uh, so I was like really thinking about that. And then, you know, the line that I wrote to introduce it was I was like, you know, I've heard that you guys, you, you know, you're so from, you can't know that I'm gay. And I was like, and I processed that and I was like, okay, but like in addition to being really from, are they also blind? And so that got a big laugh. And then I said, you know, well, my wife is a rabbi according to none of you, that gets a big laugh. That's great. So, you know, so then it's like they whatever. That's great. Thank you, thank you. I don't mean it to be like, I've been in those communities. No, I have been in like I know you have.

SPEAKER_01:

I have been in the comedy for Kobe Rooms. Yes. And it is a very specific crowd in Israel. Right. You you I've seen you do it, I've seen other comedians do it. Yes. The way you just described that stuff. Yeah. Very good. I think a very delicate. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

And I I really don't mean it to be self-congratulatory, but but anyway, so I was thinking about you because okay, so I mean, we could talk about this, you know, all day, right? But wait, I was gonna say one more thing and then I just lost it. Sorry. What were you gonna say? Sorry.

SPEAKER_03:

You in this type of an audience, if you're gonna just being gay, it's being it's it it being gay isn't it's like, hi, I'm a lesbian. Right, right, right. This here's what I enjoy doing in between a woman's legs. That's not the joke. Right. It's I'm I'm married. Right. It's like I'm married to a rabbi. Yes. And she is blah, blah, blah. And they they figured the whole thing out without you having to describe what being a lesbian is.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, a hundred percent. Same with your life.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm married to I'm married to a millennial. I'm married to a millennial. Yes, yes, yes. And they all get that. And it's it's a way to touch it without um getting them too right.

SPEAKER_00:

100%. And and I don't know, I imagine you've experienced this, but I want to say this is a hundred percent. In every single one of the communities that I was warned about, right? And so I'm talking Yurushalaya, and Modiin, Beit Shemesh, Gush Etsion, Ranana. Yeah, every single one of those communities, I got either a person or multiple people come up to me after andor messages saying, by the way, my son, my daughter, my nephew, my niece, whatever, and thank you for doing it the way that you did it, because you showed that you can have like a decent life and you can be a person and you can have a family or whatever. And I I it was just interesting because it was, I was so nervous for it before. Like so nervous. And I was thinking about the fact that we were gonna be on this podcast and initially because we were trying to schedule, I was like, oh, maybe I'll talk to him before, right? And strategize about it. But you know, now we get to do it on the other end of it and say, God, you know, it happened, it was good, whatever. But anyway, so that was that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. It's but you are you doing like the private event stuff too? Yes in that world.

SPEAKER_03:

So she and I just did the cheesecake. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We did the cheese store in Cedar Hearst. Yes. So those of you who don't know, there is an entire Jewish uh uh of Orthodox Jews. I'm not talking about like just a Jewish, it's it it's so nichey. And their jokes have gomoras in it, and and and parshas and and things that you know only from yeshivas. Yeah, and it's a whole world of those comedians, and they are hysterical. Yes, absolutely. And they and Dovy Newberger called me up and said, I'm doing a show in a cheese in the five towns, right where I grew up, right? Cheese store that no one went into. Now it's the hottest thing. It became a uh it's called the cheese store and whatever it is. And yeah, and you were you were there and you killed, and I followed. Yes, yes, and it was so much fun. Yeah, it's such a great niche within the niche of the niche. It's so good. Totally. Yeah, you're you're you're the only woman in it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Well, so with those guys, like they do their sketches, and whenever they need a girl, basically, like I, you know, and I'm friends with them, and they're so funny and they're great, and whatever.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh my god, you hysterical Ned Jeopardy thing.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, thanks.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh my god, you are you stole you didn't steal a show. Everybody was grouped. Everybody was amazing to you. You you played a female rabbi of like a reform. What did you show the brook? I showed this to you, like of a reform, Anglican, whatever the hells they have for that. Right. Um, and you were like everything was tikuno live.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_03:

And it was hysterical. And and I mean I remember the first time I met a female rabbi.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay.

SPEAKER_03:

I think people should talk about this the first time they meet female rabbis.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

It like it cut so I was booked on a gig and it was what was a conservative synagogue. This is before I was kind of like uh Leo took over my micro. So I, you know, you walk in there and I'd never I never really seen a female rabbi. This is years ago. Yeah. And I I walk in, it's congregation whatever, and it's um, and he goes, Hi, I'm Rabbi Sharon. Uh-huh. And I said, Of course you are. Right. And I was like, What am I gonna say? This woman's cutting me a check tonight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I'm like, and then these people love her. Yes. And they just talk about Rabbi Sharon, how much they love Rabbi Sharon.

SPEAKER_00:

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, on that topic, we just started watching Don't Be Mad everyone. We're very late to the game. I started watching Nobody Wants This.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, sure.

SPEAKER_01:

And there's a line in there delivered by a female rabbi who says Um Judaism has existed for thousands of years, and female rabbis have only been a part of the equation for the not even the last 50 of those years. Right. So that Judaism is always is evolving and changing. Sure. I think you guys are also seeing that. Yeah. Yeah. Totally.

SPEAKER_03:

I will tell you one of my funny favorite stories. I've told it on the podcast before, but we did this this show in a synagogue in San Francisco. The place looked like the Vatican. Okay. It was this nothing in there said there's the synagogue. Right. Our own the total thing was a given Catholic Church. Right. But Vatican, not like high-end Catholic church. Yeah. And they, and obviously it's a rich synagogue of 17 rabbis. And they all came to the green room to introduce themselves. Okay. And like I'm Rabbi Sharon, I'm Rabbi Bill. I'm blah blah blah. And one guy comes in, like these two twin-looking twin gays, like you know, gays who date only people look just like them. Yes. And they go, hi, I'm Rabbi Noah, and this is my my husband, Noah.

SPEAKER_01:

And then Leo just goes, Leo just said, um, what did you say? I'm almost sure when God said go two by two onto the ark, that's not what he meant.

SPEAKER_00:

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01:

That wasn't my favorite line.

SPEAKER_00:

That's a great line.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, I'm the hotel podcast. Totally. Is to show that Modi is the trophy husband. Sure. Right. Sure.

SPEAKER_00:

I got it. I totally got it. Well, first of all, my wife is hilarious. Yes.

SPEAKER_03:

It just brings you to the goal of being Jewish. Yes. The goal of being Jewish is to bring Mashiach. Is to create Mashiach energy. And if it's a female rabbi, yes making people feel good and making people help people and making people do mashir energy things, then that's what that's what it is. That's what it is. Right. If you need some guy with a beard and a color hood and you understand him, and that's where you're getting your spirituality from, because it's a hate. Yeah. But but the female rabbis, right? That brings us closer to Mashiach, then then then then that's then that's that's good.

SPEAKER_00:

But it's extremely inspiring. Like I find you, both of you, hilarious. What you're doing with Mashiach energy is amazing. Thank you. And it it it makes so much sense to me. Doesn't it? First of all, like I I tell this story when I do a Jewish show, not reform, but like if I do conservative, leaning Orthodox or Orthodox and very Orthodox, that I I grew up in Went to Orthodox day school and I went to conservative synagogue. And so my parents were giving me and my brother this education and everything in great detail that we were doing wrong at home. And I always wanted to be more religious because everybody in my school was more religious. And so I remember first grade, I'm learning about all these new Hagim. I didn't know what they were. Holidays. Yeah. Holidays, sorry. And um I am like, okay, there's like all these fast days and like two Bashvat and two Ba'av and like whatever. And anyway, and I had like my one friend who was like my in who I could say, like, I don't know what this is. When is this? And I was asking her, I was asking Debbie, like, when is this? And she was like, Well, it's this, you know, whatever. And I was like, and when's when's this one that they're always talking about? When's Mashiach? Oh. And she was like, Oh, I think it's in November. And God will so God will right. But but I was always so fixated on Mashiach. Yes. And I remember, like, because then you're on the right podcast then.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

But there's this divide in a way, because it's like we talk about Mashiach in like a uh I'm gonna say regular orthodox situation, but then it's like you can't think about Mashiach so much because then if you think about Mashiach so much, it's like, I don't know, what about the regular rituals of like, you know, in and out Shabbos and whatever? And I love that you talk about Mashiach all the time. Because to me, that was always like, well, isn't that the point?

unknown:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Right? That's the point. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_03:

That is the point that we all live in a messianic era. Yeah. It's not just Jews, it's also Christians, it's also Muslims. Everybody wants to live in a messianic era. Right. Let's get to it with whatever we have to do. Yeah. Uh we are telling jokes. Right. Right? Right. You are making all of this available to the world. Yeah. Right? Upload. No, no, it's a lot of big job. I know it's a big job. It's a lot of big planet. Right. It's a big yeah, yeah, yeah. And so that's that so we're creating Mashik energy. And I and I here here's another question. I already believe that Mashiach is here. Yeah. Mashiach is here. Mashiach is here, and he's here. She, he, right, Mashiach. Mashiach is here.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

We obviously haven't got created enough Mashik energy to access it. To access it here. It says in every generation there is somebody who's qualified to be Mashiach. Yes. And I I I I don't know that. Yeah. Maybe it's been me this whole time. It might be me. It might be you. Yeah. I mean, it might be our engineer. Sure. It's yes. It's we don't know because we haven't created the scenario to bring it about. Right. But and you have to constantly be speaking about Mashiach. Look at my phone cover. I see.

SPEAKER_00:

I saw it right away.

SPEAKER_03:

It has to be in the conversation. Mashiach has to be in the conversation. When you go to bed at night and you turn your phone off, I always when the hostages were like, I'm going to turn this on tomorrow. The first thing I see is that hostages are being released.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh whatever it is. Tomorrow just got a messianic figure showed up. And it's and it's do you have to believe in it. Yeah. Talk about it. And talk about it. It creates it. And people say, what is Mashiach? And then you you create Mashiach energy. Let's do harmony. And then people are like, hey, I invited all my friends. Is that Mashiach energy? Yes. Right. All your friends came to the comedy show. That means people who are going to be sitting at home are not sitting at home. They're watching a comedian. They're laughing. Yeah. And maybe one of those six friends you invited really is suffering with something. Yeah. And all of a sudden they had a laugh. You created Mashiach Energy.

SPEAKER_00:

So beautiful. Yeah. It really is. It's very powerful. I mean, it reminds me, and I mean this as the highest compliment because this was such shul for me. Soul cycle in 2014. Period. That changed my life. In 2014. Did not hear that coming. Right.

SPEAKER_03:

For me, it was soul cycling in tw uh 2006. Ah. Boom, boom. Same bike. Same bike. Yeah. Yes. The four was all disco-like. Yes, yes, yes. Wow. To the point where I got my my license to teach.

SPEAKER_00:

I auditioned.

SPEAKER_03:

I I I have I didn't get it. It was called Red Dog. Okay. Red Dog was on the upper west side. It gave you your license to teach spin, and I got mine. I never taught it except for one time. And then I was spin classes for sure. Yeah. Because music, the music. Oh, yeah. Music is a vessel for you to perform.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

No, there's another energy in it. And uh and everybody's in sync. Everybody's in harmony. You into group fitness still?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I mean, I'll still go, you know, but like Soul Cycle, I mean, no offense. Like, whatever. We have a palette on. But like, it's I love So you're wearing an aura ring? I do. I do the aura. Do you like it? Oh, I love it.

SPEAKER_01:

What what do you have one? I don't have one, but I used to have a whoop famously. Oh, oh, right. I do know that bit. Yes. Um, I used to be a whoop person too. Okay. What are you into the sleep? Are you into your heart?

SPEAKER_00:

All of it. Listen, your goal. If I am not getting a grade on my performance of something, have I even done it? Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. It's a slippery slope.

SPEAKER_00:

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01:

But I I I wonder if it measures your words.

SPEAKER_03:

How many words it's how many words it takes.

SPEAKER_00:

If only it would tap out. It would have to. There wasn't that room. So the the thing that's funny is it guesses what you've done. Okay. So, like, I mean, walk, you know, sometimes it's right. I took a walk here, like, whatever. It's like, did you just walk? Yes, confirm. For some reason, when I do stand-up comedy, okay, I come off stage and it's like, were you just horseback riding every single time?

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. I've been dying. Okay, this is an idea for content I have on social media. Is you want to buy one of those heart rate monitors and strap it to Modi at different shows. Yeah. And have people take because I bet you you're burning and have people guess how many calories you burn.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, that's a good one. Why not?

SPEAKER_01:

It's a lot, probably. You're you're doing a lot. Your borrowing is picking up.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And and I'm pretty like high-end. Yeah. Well, it's gotten me better because I respond very well to like a gamified, yeah, like a thing. I mean, it's psychologically like the data, I believe, are there that's that say why this is like useful to people, but I really fall into whatever the traps are. And I'm like, okay, now I understand why I should make my sleep better and like whatever. So it's not to say that I am amazing all the time. And I obviously I don't have control to some degree because I'm literally sleeping. But I mean, I feel pretty good on a plane. I can sleep amazing on a plane. Wow, that's a big thing. It's like dignified. No pills? Nothing. Wow. Nothing. Because I'm sober sober. Okay. Like many years. Oh, used to not be sober. Correct. I mean, not that I was like, you know, heroin in a gutter, but like, I mean, you know, God bless, I guess. But I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_03:

Just so extreme.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I'm just saying. Right. Well, I just want to paint the picture. Because sometimes somebody's like, oh, I'm sober. Here's the thing. I was sober.

SPEAKER_03:

You know, you do not have to pill to say I don't drink alcohol. So whenever I say I don't drink, people right away, oh, he probably was wow.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, that's nights.

SPEAKER_03:

I don't drink because that's now where I'm destroying my calories. Right. You gotta be kidding me.$300 for a cup of Chardonnay, whatever the hell I got things. Yeah. No.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. For me, I mean, listen, I'm not saying that there was never a night that was like, oh, I drank too much. I'm like, you know, have I ever thrown up from drinking? Yes. But like, it wasn't this thing that was like, oh, this is like a huge problem. Right. I mean, basically, I journal every day. And what I noticed was every morning, like I was like, I would smoke weed and I would drink sometimes. That was like, and not that that's 100% it. Like, did I ever do MDMA? Yes. Did I ever do mushrooms? Yes. Okay. But I'm just saying, because it's it's an interesting thing talking about drugs because it's like I'm not trying to say, oh, I'm so cool, but I'm also I'm just trying to give whoever the facts, right? Right. Okay. So anyway, so I did whatever I did. And I would notice that the morning after I would be journaling about regretting that I did that. And after a while, I was like, I'm pretty sure I would be writing more interesting stuff if I just took away this thing that I'm writing about regretting. And and I was just, you know, and because I went through a phase, now I'm remembering this before I got sober, where I was like, I wish I had a bigger problem. And I would write that. And I was like, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_02:

And then you got a problem. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Then then I'm like, well, kind of.

SPEAKER_02:

Whatever you join you're gonna get. Whatever you journal you're gonna get. Whatever you ask for, God's gonna give you a problem.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, a hundred yes, totally. But also I was like, well, why should I need that if I'm saying to myself, I wish I had a bigger problem. Of course I don't wish I had a bigger problem. Why don't I just nip this problem that I do have in the bud? And then maybe we could like, you know, ascend to some higher level of self, right? Because that's really, I mean, that's all I'm ever trying to get to. And I think that's why your Mashiach energy is so appealing to me because it's like, isn't that sorry? We'll cut it out. It's a demon. Isn't that what we're all trying to get to? You know what I mean? A Dybak.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, acknowledge my Dibbock.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay.

SPEAKER_03:

Acknowledge the Dibbak. Okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that's it. That's it. So I just I I mean, I was trying to like I'm on a sober journey right now. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, that's exciting.

SPEAKER_03:

Full Mushugas. Okay. Full Mushugas. He found some app that tracks his uh no drinking and the same way. Yeah, yeah. He doesn't drink and I don't drink, and he just decided, oh he likes to drink when it's like a whole festival, a whole I get it. Some postura with the guy coming and shaking and licking a packaging smoking shell bar. Totally.

SPEAKER_01:

God forbid I have I have one thing.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Diet ginger ale or a fresco. This is all I need.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, I love a fresco.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, that's all you need. So I my goal for myself was 365 days, no alcohol. Okay. Not even casual. I'm on day 346. Wow. We're almost there. Wow. And the thing is, 346 days ago, I remember what I drank. It was only a glass of red wine at a Shabbat dinner. With Dits Hot Perlman. Oh. Yeah, so I wasn't. It wasn't even like a huge going away thing. But I was like, it was it's mostly like, yeah, noticing like And he loves anything that tracks your stuff.

SPEAKER_03:

I like tracks. And he works out he every rep does, every this.

SPEAKER_01:

I should probably just wear an aura ring. Well then it'll tell it'll block all my workouts in an app, and then I copy paste the every what the app says into Chat GPT, and then I have Chat GPT tell me like what I should do tomorrow or what I should do and what's very helpful. Yes. Are you a chat GPT person?

SPEAKER_00:

Um, I mean I'm conscious of like the water whole thing, you know, that lady bad for the environment.

SPEAKER_01:

But listen, and so have Miller Smith it uses a lot of water. Apparently, yeah. But why did why am I responsible for you can't give me this tool I know but I feel bad about it. Until they take every private plane out of the sky, my carbon footprint feels our carbon footprint would be soon with private planes too. I've stopped feeling guilty about my carbon footprint because it's been assigned to me.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, no, I I mean I have to believe you're right. I'm just saying for me what I think about in the moment.

SPEAKER_01:

But I'm gonna use a paper straw and now right, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00:

Totally. Yeah, I get it.

SPEAKER_01:

The great Pacific garbage patch doesn't exist in the world.

SPEAKER_00:

I know because of that, because of you. Yeah, but okay, so no, no, no, no. I think it's very relatable, and I I feel you on it a hundred percent. I use Chat GPT three in the morning, if I can't sleep. Hey, and I don't say hey, Chat GPT, but like as if, right? What is in my way if you could assess the blocks in my way and like map out like a a year plan for me to like get rid of them and and have everything I ever wanted, what would I do? And then she gets to work. I mean, the and like the next morning I'll show Karen, my wife, and she's like, oh my god, this is like overwhelming. And I'm like, but I mean, what if I did this?

SPEAKER_03:

And and I never crazy powerful. Here's an imitation of me using chat. Okay. Okay. Watching what we're watching, whatever we're watching, whatever TV, world sofa, interior scene, department.

SPEAKER_01:

How old is Brad Pitt? Ah.

SPEAKER_03:

How old is Ronald's? That's where his water usage is. Oh wow. I just want to know how old everybody is. How old is he when he shot that movie?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03:

How old is Diana von Farsenberg? Yeah. How old is the how old? How old, how old? It's a how old? It's like how old everybody is. Yeah. They looked like when they were.

SPEAKER_01:

Do you want to know an interesting prompt I just did? What? Um wait a second. Yeah. I'm having a lot of people. It's really embarrassing reading your searches.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. I would. I don't have my phone.

SPEAKER_01:

I said if I were if there were a movie being written about me starring me, what would my monologue at the climax?

SPEAKER_00:

My God.

SPEAKER_01:

God, wow. That's a really good one. And it kind of dragged me. Really? Yeah. So I was like, Wow. Yeah. Huh. But I'm gonna put that one in. Wait, what's it like being married to a rabbi?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I'll tell you what. Um, it's a lot of I'm not not married to a rabbi.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. No, I I that's what I figured you were going with. Yeah, I mean, listen, like, we're both performers, right? I, you know, I say we have shows at the same time. And so, like, I it's, I mean, she's amazing. She is Karen is like actually the most amazing person. Here's the thing I I strive to be a good person. I'm an okay person, but I wasn't raised to be a good person. I was raised to be a successful person. I was raised by Jews who are immigrants, right? Who are like, listen, you better get a job, you better survive. You know, like my my parents, if I was like, oh, I want to volunteer in a soup kitchen, they'd be like, are you getting AP credit for it? If not, you're not going. Whereas my in-laws are like, they're helping everybody. They're feeding and knitting and sending and like all, you know, just I mean, see, Kunolam City. Okay. Right. And my wife is that. She is like, you know, the quintessential. I mean, she's not Rabbi Shelley from Jewish Jeopardy. That's a hundred percent. That's not what that character is based on. Right. But, but it's like she is, you know, like she knows everybody's name and everybody, it's like that's the person who you want by your bedside. I mean, literally, there was like one night where she was like, I had to go to a show and she was like, Listen, I have to go to the hospital to marry somebody before in front of their dying parent. Oh, okay. Right? Oh my god. And and like another time where it's like, hang on, we have to leave, I just have to, excuse me, from dinner. I have to change somebody's Hebrew name because they're about to die. And there's like a thing where if you change the Hebrew name, then that like gives you maybe like a lifeline. I didn't know about that, but uh, you know, I guess it's a thing. And so I would say I've learned a lot about, and this is like just I don't know, I mean, if it's being married to a rabbi or just being married to like a really good person. And not to say that like the Jewish education that I had was not around good people, but I do think that the the the motivation that Karen had specifically to becoming a rabbi, she's like, I want to help the world.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And I love being Jewish, I love Israel, I love everything about being Jewish and what it's like given to my life. And I just want to share it with everybody. That's wonderful. And it's not about like she is so not like it's all about me. It's like she's not that at all.

SPEAKER_03:

And it's like so inspiring to see that to transfer over. Yes. Yes, share it and bring Moshirh about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So just my rabbi is Rabbi Galbelino, or you know.

SPEAKER_00:

We went to high school together.

SPEAKER_03:

Of course. Yeah, yeah. That's right, right. You did um from the Sixth Street Synagogue, and we've been having great people coming because they listen to the podcast, and it's an Orthodox service, yeah, open to everybody. Yeah, he's amazing. Rich, poor, gay, trans, whatever you want. It's an orthodox service, men on one side, women on the other. Right. Figure it out yourself and just uh come and have a great day.

SPEAKER_00:

Figure it out yourself is the most orthodox.

SPEAKER_03:

Friday night, I Leo was away, and I went with Gov to eat at Mask Ma Max Raskin's house. And I had no idea how far he lived from shooting. So we we walked very far in the snow, in this horrible weather. We got to this place where I see this old couple coming down, and she had the walk on the couples, and the the husband's all nice. I said, Oh, this is not looking good, and there's ice everywhere. Right. So I go, God, wait a minute. And we went up there and we went helped them down with the walk and went to this and went to that. And the woman like looks at me and just out of nowhere, not that I I was wearing a yamaker, and then she goes, You're such a mensch. Yeah. And so God leans in and goes, No, he's just gay and trying to get into heaven. And that was, you know, that's a great line.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_03:

He's a rabbi that knows his audience. Very and again, Sixth Street Synagogue. If anybody needs a place to go, it's amazing. It's a great great place. People need kosher hot dogs. Now, if people need kosher hot dogs, the hottest place on earth is A H provisions. Oh. Oh, glak kosher, not kosher, and all kinds of meats and delis and prepare so we're organized beautifully. You can reach sending packages from them too. Wow. Everything is amazing. And if on your first purchase with the promo code Modi, okay, you can get 30% off. That's a good sale.

SPEAKER_00:

That's actually a good sale. Because sometimes when it's 10 or 20, my mother and I are like, that's not even a sale. Right. Totally.

SPEAKER_03:

Now, as far as law firms go, Whites and Luxembourg, the law firm that not only does well, they do good, super philanthropic, amazing. They are a big part of our podcast family. Arthur Luxemburg is a fan and a friend. He's like his older brother. And uh his wife Randy listens to the podcast to tell him what we're talking about. So thank you very much, Whites and Luxembourg. And uh that's it. And COVID.

SPEAKER_00:

Um I don't have COVID. Yeah, Whites and Luxembourg, I was just gonna say, I don't mean to like get into your ad copy, but I taught at Hofstra. Whites and Luxembourg is a big Hofstra supporter. And I I don't know if they are grads or not. I should know that. But I know that there's a Whites and Luxembourg courtroom in Hofstra Law School that I would pass. It was right near my office, you know, for many years. So anyway, just saying. Oh great law firm.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, it really is. And it's so funny that you know, in your special, you talk about how you were a professor of law and you were getting laps. Yes. So I want to talk so like rabbis and teachers. Yes. It's an easy get. Uh a hundred percent. Right. It's an it's a very easy get. They're not expecting it. So if you're all of a sudden you say something funny, yes, and it doesn't be funny, it has to be like a misdirection. Right. That's it. Next level. Totally. No, it's historical. The class just moves right along. Yes. Yeah, it it really is. Yeah. Yeah. But when you go on stage saying, I'm about to make you laugh, yeah, yeah. Now you're in a different zone. Totally. So I'm glad you were able to transition that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. No, I mean, you know, I I think because I transitioned from being a lawyer and a law professor to being a comedian, it makes me distrust somebody with a regular job who's too funny. Does that make sense? And so like I had a doctor who was like actually like Oh no, you don't want a funny doc. No, abort. I was like, abort mission. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_03:

You're not a funny doctor.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, I don't want to laugh with you and like I want an overconfident doctor. Oh, 100%. I want an overconfident somebody who I would hate. I actually love my doctor. I'm talking about as a physician. No, no, no. I know.

SPEAKER_03:

One of my father's one of my father's no, of course. One of my father's doctors. Doctor. My my father had heart surgery and this doctor, Dr. Ibrahim, who was next level of and I ran into him in the hospital. Yeah. When we were going to go to his office out. Yes. Right. And that we meet him downstairs, and I go, hey, Dr. Ibrahim, Modi, yeah, I'm about to go I'll go up with you to see your father. I know an appointment. He goes, I he goes, I just gotta have surgery. I just performed a blah blah blah that nobody on earth could have done. Wow. He said, nobody, there's nobody on earth that could just do what I just did. I knew how to go into this and come out of that. And I got the blockage out. I put the balloon and then sucked it out. No one else could have done that. That's what I want. Yeah. Beyond that, my sister once had a a procedure, um, very difficult procedure. Okay. And a doctor came out, and his first words in the waiting room was, I'm a genius. Ha! That's what I want from a doctor. I don't want a ha-ha. I don't want two rabbis walking. No self-deprecating from a doctor. Right. A lawyer, okay. Right. I'm like, you know. Yeah, totally. That's a doctor. I want full overconfidence. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Mine is very overconfident. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Wow.

SPEAKER_03:

Again, I feel like we've just been an hour and a half here.

SPEAKER_00:

It's been really great and fun.

SPEAKER_03:

You you really keep it going.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, the same.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. So our takeaways from this is just talk about Mashiach.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. Yeah. And don't forget you're also a comedian. Yes. So on top of that, and from the Gomorrah, it's Anche Badichi. Ah. You know that. Yeah. Of course. Your goal is to make people who are sad happy. Yes. And to to to create peace wherever there's a riff. And that will get you right into Olamhaba. Okay. That'll put you right so that you have to come back here. So not only do you bring Mashiach, you also don't have to come back down anymore.

SPEAKER_00:

I love that like you're thinking about all these other ways. I mean, that's Gov's joke.

SPEAKER_03:

What?

SPEAKER_00:

Right? Of that you have to think of the other ways because we're making up for something from being gay.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh. I don't even think I'm not.

SPEAKER_00:

Listen, I am not saying that it is, but I'm just saying to the point of the joke, right? That there's all these other ways, you know, to get in.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, yeah. But I don't think like completely don't think that that's anything to do with being gay has anything to do with getting into heaven or not. Right. It's just God made me gay so I can reach a certain amount of people in a certain amount of ways. I mean, and blah blah blah. Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's a big thing in comedy. Yeah. You know, and uh you're an Anshe Bediche. Uh-huh. Not Ish Bediche. It's not a a singular. Yes. It's Anshe Bediche. So whoever you work with, whoever, whoever helped you produce that special. Yes. They're also they're also Anshe Badiche.

SPEAKER_00:

They're also medicine.

SPEAKER_03:

And this and that. And that's it. Tell the beautiful people to listen to this where they can see you, reach you, greet you, totally. Instagram you, touch everything. Okay, good. You have a website.

SPEAKER_00:

I do, yeah. DearLizglazer.com. But just like honestly, I would Lizglazer.com? Dear Liz Glazer. But I think Lizglazer.com will take you there anyway. Okay. But um I'm at LizGlazer on everything. And then uh you can watch my special, Do You Know Who I'm Not. It's on YouTube. And also Google. I love just Google me. That's like the, you know what I mean? Just be a stalker. Be like I'm not a stalker. I'm not no, no, no, no. God forbid, right? No, no, no. I'm not a stalker, but I've looked up the definition of stalker to make sure. Okay. And I feel like if you're gonna be a good fan, I don't mean weird stalker. I mean looking up somebody to find the 16th page on Google. That's just it. Yeah. Right? Okay. Right. When you're getting into fan.

SPEAKER_01:

It's not a stalker. Your thing with Google, because I also have a Google Alert set up for you so I know the searches that are happening. My favorite one is Modi Rosenfeld first wife. Oh my god. It's like a high-ranking Google post for you because they're convinced that there was one. Right. You're wrong. It's just me. It's just you. First and final husband. There's no first wife.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Anyway, thanks for tuning in.

SPEAKER_00:

That's a good special title, too. Modi Rosenfeld First Wife. First wife. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03:

Um, I'm gonna work on my own titles, but you you were happy with yours too. Uh-huh. Um, I am at ModiLive.com for all the tickets and Modi underscore live on Instagram. We have shows in uh Aspen, San Francisco, San Diego, Brea, California. We are also in Detroit, Kansas City, Missouri. We are in uh Dallas, Orlando, and one more I'm forgetting. There's a show near you or near New Jersey.

SPEAKER_00:

Atlantic City, we've got on sale time. August 22nd, I saw that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Yes, we're gonna be in Atlantic City. That's our only really big New Jersey play on the forecasts for uh reasons of the casino and paperwork and size. So make the trip.

SPEAKER_03:

We are the the New Jersey show is gonna be in November 22nd. In um no, yeah, August 22nd.

SPEAKER_00:

August 22nd. August 27th. Yeah, wow.

SPEAKER_03:

August 22nd. I'm sorry, August 22nd in Ocean, Ocean Casino in Atlantic City. Um the tickets are on sale, fully full blown. And of course, April 23rd and 30th. Uh, God willing, by now there are no tickets available. So exciting. If there are, they're here and there, get them. It's gonna be an event. Even if the tickets aren't front, front row, get the backseat. It's gonna be it's gonna be a night of you still, everyone you know and material that you've you haven't heard, and just Meshir Energy on the next level. Yeah it's gonna be so great. Um, April 23rd and 30th, Radio City Music Hall. Wow. Uh, thank you so much for coming in.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you for making us a part of Mazaltov on everything that's happening. You should have it, you know. I mean, live till 120 each and also and then no, but I mean it's just amazing everything that's happened, and and it should only continue.

SPEAKER_03:

No one should live till 120. Okay, you should live, not mere uh ke isrim. Ah live till 100 like your twenties. Like your twenties to go into the 120s. Okay. Um, it's just not fun.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm just looking fun.

SPEAKER_03:

It doesn't look fun. Sure, sure, sure.

SPEAKER_00:

Um how old was Brad Pitt? 120.

SPEAKER_03:

Good call back. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00:

Call back.

SPEAKER_03:

Thank you all very much for for listening and and being letting us into your lives for an hour.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you. Thank you. Bye you bye.