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welcome to andy is modi amazing amazing, and here's modi we are back. It's me, perriel and leo, the og hi og og what's up? We had so much fun with those questions you had last time that and we now, we heard, were bringing in new questions.
Periel:I thought that it was so much fun to do those that I thought we could do at least part of. We could start Vogue 73 questions 73?
Modi:Yeah, yeah, but we're not going to get through all of them I've shown you these videos on.
Leo:YouTube. I know they're very cute, yeah, so we're gonna start, and then we'll do the rest of them.
Modi:We'll start and maybe one will take us off on a tangent. I like that. Yeah, look how good your hair looks.
Leo:I scheduled a haircut for tonight. Wow, for israel, I need a haircut too.
Modi:Okay, yeah, let's go. I scheduled it for 9 pm, oh my god, they come to you. No, no, I go to him, but okay they're late okay, okay, let's go, let's do these questions. Okay, enough with these right now.
Periel:What's your favorite time of day?
Leo:oh great question whenever it's time to get in that bed. That's my favorite time really that's it.
Modi:I don't know. I lately I've been enjoying, um, I've been waking up before leo I I always get hard to do no, I know but, and I have my, I'm quiet in the house and I make my coffee and I sit there and I'm alone. Before I do my prayers, I go over, I pretend to understand what's going on with the emails, and then, and then I have no idea and like just that moment before Leo wakes, up and the day goes to shit, and the day goes and shit and the day goes and then the day starts.
Modi:It's like a, it's like that a moment.
Periel:What time? What time is that so it?
Modi:depends. It's nine, sometimes it's seven, sometimes it's like even six, it depends. If I can't sleep, I get out of bed. I'm not going to just kitzel around in the bed.
Periel:Right right. Yeah in the bed, right, right, yeah, and it's just. I've been enjoying that that time. It's been fun. Now, before you answered, does he futz around in the emails and then, like you, don't know who answered what?
Leo:no, no, he doesn't answer, he'll just look, he'll just take a peek and then, but you've gotten better, like you've you'll see them come in on your phone you'll be like, hey, I saw someone emailed and I kind of do emails in segments, like I try not to look at them throughout the day, because, like, if we're out and about in the city and I'm in the back of an Uber, I try not to open my emails, because then if I see something that needs to get done, it's going to stress me out until I can get home and do it, but you look at them throughout the day, so you'll see them as they come in and I'll be like I haven't looked at it yet.
Leo:I need to see it when I get home. I need to sign something, I need to do this, I need to send them a link that I don't have.
Modi:Yeah, I know, but like I I've been, I always look at this to see what the emails are. I I answered one but my phone didn't answer, but it didn't send it from the you hear that folks modi answered an email it didn't answer from info mori livecom and answer from my own personal account.
Leo:I think it's because I need to re-log in to your phone. Wait a second.
Periel:I walked in and I hear him going to the person on the phone I don't understand where you got that email from. It's the wrong email. I have no idea where that came from. And then the person on the phone goes you wrote to me from that email yesterday.
Leo:Okay, so that's what it is.
Modi:It's funny because I decided to not be involved in emails when I found out some very successful guy that I know that was his thing. He doesn't do emails. He's like a billionaire.
Leo:He's also now out of business.
Modi:He also recently went out of business. So, okay, never mind. Modi saw hope. And then I saw hope. I said, man, this is a great thing to not have to deal with emails.
Leo:You don't need to do it. I can do it, but there's just.
Periel:You know okay it was so funny once when he goes. You know this thing with the emails it's like they come in and then you have to write back like immediately horrible constantly okay, what's your favorite time of day?
Leo:when it's time to go to bed. What?
Periel:what time is it time to go to bed again?
Leo:depends when we're on the road or what we have going on. My favorite time of day is when I'm home and showered and I'm in my sleeping clothes, my pajamas yeah, your jammies clean. That's the happiest I am. The throughout the whole day is that period of time between shower clean baby yeah, we call it clean baby time because you know when you're on vacation, like at the beach or something yeah and the baby's been like playing in the sand all day and they're like disgusting.
Leo:And then you bathe them and they come out and they're so cute and they smell nice and they go say good night to everyone and they're just like clean and cute.
Modi:That's me when I'm clean baby yeah, he likes to be clean baby.
Leo:I like to be clean baby right before going to sleep or showered, and everything moisturized.
Modi:Moisturized, of course.
Periel:I did not doubt that for a second. And then how long are you in bed like futzing around, like watching with the phone?
Leo:no, no, then clean, baby goes to the sofa and we watch whatever we have to watch like. Rupaul's Drag Race and then.
Modi:I've been watching Mary and George.
Leo:Mary and George is very good Mary, and George is very good Julianne.
Modi:Moore is a treasure. She's stunning.
Leo:Julianne Moore is so beautiful um, yeah, that's, that's what we call.
Periel:That's my favorite time of day is when it's time to be a clean baby. Clean baby, um, what's one vice you wish you could give up?
Modi:my phone social media screen time but you do that for work I know that's what makes it hard, that's what makes it hard, but you do it for work, to keep on top of what's happening trend wise in the world. What's happening on tiktok. What's happening on instagramwise in the world. What's happening on TikTok, what's happening on Instagram but you get sucked into.
Leo:This is the garage.
Periel:He gets sucked into crazy things on Twitter out of no Crazy things.
Modi:And sometimes, like I'll look over, you never see Leo laughing, but all of a sudden he starts to laugh uncontrollably crying and it'll be some ridiculous TikTok, Some TikTok video.
Leo:Some kids are some kids for those of you listening, go to the tiktok and search branston pickles and gizmo. It's my favorite dogs on tiktok that I follow there's this crazy they have like a million followers.
Modi:I love them this crazy english woman. It's a crazy english woman that talks to her three dogs, branston pickles and gizmo and gizmo, all right gizmo.
Leo:Today we have arrived. These are the rules today. You will not balk at anyone. All right, and it's just that she just has, it's just like a million followers. It's her lecturing her dogs before they like, go into the vet's office and he loses it and I'm crying, like tears coming out literally. Anyway, that's my vice. What's's your vice? I?
Modi:don't know. Do I have a vice? What's my?
Leo:vice Redacted. Redacted what's redacted.
Periel:Redacted is when, like on a court document, you block out.
Leo:Like when they declassify information, but like some of it's still blacked out what's?
Modi:my vice To not eat at night. Oh, that's a good one. I wish I could not eat at night. I wish I could just not eat at night.
Leo:I've been going through a bad habit of waking up in the middle of the night eating and then going back to bed.
Modi:My mom used to do that. My mom used to do that. It's bad, it's really bad. What?
Periel:do you eat in the middle of the night? Oh, whatever I can get my grubby little hands-on like yogurt.
Leo:I have these little oatmeal things, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly protein bars? I don't know.
Modi:I just wake up starving like you're pregnant no, I don't know, it's the cocktail of sleeping pills. Sometimes they click in the wrong way and you wake up hungry yeah, it happens next.
Leo:That's a. That's a good vice. What's your vice? Yeah, what's your vice?
Periel:My vice is cigarettes.
Leo:Yeah, but you don't really, You're not like a smoker, you still smoke cigarettes.
Periel:No, I'm on the patch.
Leo:You smoke like if you have a cocktail. I've seen you smoke, not if I'm. It's European, that's fine.
Modi:You're I take the patch off. All I want to do is inhale like a carton of cigarettes, that's one by some.
Periel:Oh my god, wow, ew, no, like david telly yesterday went outside to smoke a cigarette and I was like, just like looking at him with like puppy dog eyes, being like, dave, take me with you. But then I would have to take off the patch to go smoke a cigarette, which is so disgusting. I've smoked, I've not smoked.
Modi:I don't smoke, but I've been outside with David Tell when he smokes and it's so funny, he does his whole routine. He talks to you while he's doing it and then like if anybody else walks by he'll offer them a cigarette if they want to join.
Leo:He'll, anybody, people he doesn't know, you know, have a cigarette, American spirits. That's a social aspect of smoking. It's a social aspect 100%. We've discussed this.
Periel:I have actually relapsed into smoking. Oh wow, because Dave Attell has offered me a cigarette just like casually.
Modi:It's hard to say no to Dave Attell.
Periel:Well, it's hard to say no to a cigarette too.
Modi:Oh okay, it's like a bonus that it's tape.
Periel:Okay, um sweet or savory sweet 100 of the time it depends.
Leo:You can't, it's not, it depends there's times a baked treat, an almond croissant but you've been hitting those hard in the delta lounge. Oh, I killing yesterday at the delta lounge I got like seven danishes yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah where were you guys yesterday?
Modi:charlotte north carolina yeah, jewish.
Leo:Jewish family services fundraiser it was beautiful it was so. It was so beautiful. There's some nice houses in charlotte, north carolina. I was like, should we move here everywhere?
Modi:Everywhere we go, everywhere we go, zillow's opening Like do you know what we can get for $500,000 here? The entire lot with a family house and a guest house and a this house. And then we look in Connecticut and you can get a shack.
Periel:Yeah, yeah, go ahead, I would know about that. Okay, what song Wait so? Sweet or Savory? You said it depends.
Leo:I Okay.
Periel:What song Wait, so Sweet or Savor? You said, it depends. I also say it depends. It depends what song can you listen to on repeat.
Leo:Well, I go through phases. Can I pull up my Spotify? Yes, so I can see what's happening right now in the world.
Periel:I can answer while you're looking Go ahead.
Modi:What is yours Am Yisrael Chai by.
Leo:But it's so Israeli.
Periel:But the problem is it sticks in your head.
Modi:You can't get out of your head afterwards.
Periel:I listened to it on repeat. Do you know that Eyal Golan has two eyes tattooed on the back of his head?
Leo:I've been looking at back of head tattoos and I'm kind of into it.
Periel:I'm not I want to get a tattoo. Maybe I can come with you.
Modi:No because you won't see it, especially if you don't do it.
Leo:No, but it's hot. And then when I get my hair cut and it's like a fade, you'll see it. Oh, no, he's not going to get eyes, could you not?
Modi:what are you even talking?
Periel:about? What about one on the inside of our lip? Oh no, come on, guys, stop it. That's where I draw the line.
Modi:We've really gone crazy here. Uh, what song have you got? Would you be built to hear over and over?
Leo:well, I go through like phases and it changes every like three or four days so what phase are you in now?
Modi:right now specifically, it's so long london by taylor swift oh my god mine right now for some reason, and my Instagram keeps sending it to me. I just listen to it every time it's on. If it's done, well.
Leo:Oh yeah, you've been screaming that around the house.
Modi:What's the name?
Leo:of the song. It's called El Mundo. By who?
Modi:By anybody who does it well.
Periel:Okay, alright. By who? By anybody who does it well, okay, all right.
Leo:What one thing people don't know about you. Oh, I can be a little uptight.
Modi:What they don't know, that they don't know that. One thing people don't know about me?
Leo:Yes, is that? I'm the funny one? We've discussed that.
Periel:I think people know that.
Leo:Let me think about it. What is something people don't know about you, about me?
Modi:People don't know about me. It's all out there.
Periel:No, I feel like the opposite is true about you.
Leo:I love to drive. I drive. Modi does like to drive. He gets enjoyment out of driving enjoyment out of driving.
Modi:I do, even though we've been having car services take us to gigs that I could be driving to, but yeah but I love to drive.
Leo:I like being driven and I like when you're being driven too, so you can sit in the back with me and we can not talk or talk and I can watch you on.
Modi:Twitter. I can watch you all over Twitter just for hours. You should see when he's on Twitter and then all of a sudden it's like 45 minutes has gone by. He's like ugh, he just puts it down.
Leo:There's like smoke coming out of my phone Out of your phone.
Modi:Out of your phone, out of your ears.
Periel:You don't participate in those conversations, you just rage.
Leo:I just get really deep in there, especially now that of what's happening in israel, and like I'm trying to like be educated, but then so like I try to see what the other side is seeing, like like, for example, the, the hostages that were just rescued.
Periel:Right.
Leo:I've seen multiple accounts let's call them accounts that are critical of Israel.
Periel:Okay, let's call them that yeah.
Leo:Multiple accounts say that three hostages were killed in that rescue operation, and I haven't seen that anywhere. I haven't seen that in Fox. I haven't seen it in MSNBC. I haven't seen it on cnn, I know, but so these people are. There's like so much misinformation yeah, floating around.
Periel:What I said was is that it must be very frustrating, because I thought that the um hostages were zionist propaganda, so it must be very that they didn't exist.
Leo:So it must be sort of frustrating when suddenly they actually show up yeah, and then people were saying they're not hostages, they're prisoners of war. I was like these kids were in a music festival, like what are you? Saying war, it's like it's anyway, that's why I get so sucked into it. It's like an anger spiral.
Modi:No, he goes into the comments, into the all that stuff, and reason all that I, I can't function on Twitter. I don't know Twitter.
Periel:I don't, I can't Twitter I when I'm on.
Leo:TikTok, it's pickles and gizmo.
Periel:That's when I'm on Twitter.
Leo:It's like conflict in the middle east yeah, those are the two okay, and you, what's your?
Periel:um, I think that the thing that people are usually most surprised to hear about me is that I don't really drink at all maybe you should.
Modi:Maybe you should. Jim gaffigan just sent me a lovely bottle of bourbon yeah I. I I'm not a bourbon drinker. Yeah and I. And it tastes lovely, I don't know at a bourbon. To me tastes like gasoline.
Leo:His is a little smoother, so it's a warm and cozy gasoline. It's a little dry. It's a guy, she drink.
Modi:Yeah, yeah, yeah it's not something Jews don't drink.
Periel:That really you don't really drink that much. I don't know what he'd never drink, it's just so not my vice.
Leo:What's something you'd say. People don't know about me.
Modi:About you.
Periel:That you're a little bit uptight.
Modi:That you're a little bit uptight.
Leo:What they don't know about you is that I have encyclopedic knowledge of animals.
Modi:Wow, yes, it is insane. I didn't know that.
Leo:My internal monologue is just David Attenborough all the time.
Modi:He knows everything about every animal in the world Do you like every animal?
Periel:Are you like a big animal lover?
Leo:Yeah, I mean, when I was little, my heroes were like Steve Irwin and Jack Hanna.
Periel:Oh, that's so cute, I had pajamas that were Steve Irwin pajamas. Oh my God, I would die, yeah, it was like khaki and they were like.
Leo:It looked like the khaki things that you would wear, but they were pajamas and it had like a name tag here. Oh my God.
Periel:I have to say that pictures of you when you were little are so beyond so cute.
Modi:The cutest baby in the world.
Periel:That was really cute Clean baby.
Modi:Clean baby Leo. Clean baby leo. Um no, but it's frightening how, like well, any type of dog, he'll know exactly what type it is and what they do, what they're known for, how they go, where they go, but of a mom, every type of cat, every type of zebra, every type of everything, and he knows that how they got there this I was only allowed to watch like two things growing up.
Leo:One of them was animal planet, the other one was veggie tales.
Periel:Okay, do you know about vegetables too, then no no encyclopedic knowledge about gardens? No, okay, um, have we done this before window or aisle seat?
Leo:oh, oh, I'm aisle, he's window, I'm aisle window aisle ew they all walk by. They all walk by and sneeze on you and she smashes her card into your side you're, you can do window because I'm in the aisle seat so you can get up as needed.
Modi:But like I can get up as needed, no matter who's sitting next to me because you don't have social anxiety.
Leo:I have zero.
Modi:I will climb right over them.
Leo:I will let you remember that time we were landing and I was, for some, we were not in business.
Modi:God, what a horrible thought, oh my God, you had a panic attack back there.
Leo:Yeah, yeah, I was like I joined last minute and I think you were in front of me in business In the window.
Modi:Yeah, and I was three people in.
Leo:I was on the window seat and I had to pee so bad I told him to get up. I told him to get up.
Modi:I told the two people to get up. We were landing Right before landing when she made the announcement. We're getting ready to land.
Leo:They were in their little jump seats and I was like I don't think I'm going to be able to make it. I was like, oh my god, I'm going to pee my pants. So I had to get up and the guy was like, well, it's a little late to do that now. I was like I will piss on you right now.
Periel:Did you say that?
Leo:No.
Modi:I turned around and I said get up. I turned around and I said to the two people next to him I said get up, he's going to the bathroom and they're like, oh, this could be an incident, let's avoid. And they got up and let him go to the bathroom, anyway. So I'm usually IO, I'm IO.
Leo:Which is why you have to always sit in business. We changed flights or something we couldn't there was no, there were no seats in business do you hear how he keeps me okay?
Modi:I was there, back there. I was back there with you.
Periel:I have a question. We had no.
Modi:Uh, there were no flight, there were no seats I want you to weigh in here. Okay.
Periel:One of our closest couple friends, who I've mentioned numerous times, who the two of you have never met Nisim and Daron right.
Modi:Yes.
Periel:They have three boys.
Modi:Yep.
Periel:They are flying back to Israel for the summer. Wow, and they are in business and they're putting the boys and the nanny in economy yeah, that's fine, that's fine I thought that this was the most scandalous thing no, it's 100.
Leo:I fully agree with parents being in business kids.
Periel:Well, how old are the kids doesn't matter the twins are seven and the big ones nine but they have a nanny and nanny okay, so you're fine.
Leo:No, they're fine and they're small yeah, kids are small, they're not uncomfortable in the seats and they have a nanny with them, that's fine, it's fine, that's completely fine.
Periel:Yeah, it's fine, that's a big deal it's because you guys don't have kids period that's makes a lot.
Leo:We do not have kids period. Do not have, and then you don't have to deal with putting them in economy. We don't.
Periel:Okay, what's your? Well, you answered this already. What's your current TV character obsession?
Leo:Oh yeah, we did that last time we did that last time.
Periel:No, we did that last time. I don't want to do that again. I thought we did show Okay, although.
Modi:I do. I'm obsessed with the character of George in Mary and George on that show. Mary and George on that show. Mary and George on.
Periel:I think it's Stars okay he plays it really well.
Modi:The pretty guy?
Periel:yeah, I don't know his name what's the most adventurous thing you've ever done in your life?
Modi:uh, uh, adventurous thing I've ever done in my life.
Leo:Go home with a guy off the six train I'm gonna go with that one. That was certainly a fork the most adventurous thing I've ever done in my life. Go home with a guy off the 6 train I'm going to go with that one. That was certainly a fork in the road.
Modi:Wait, what's the most adventurous thing like that, that's like a big Buying a house is adventurous no.
Leo:You mean like a trip, like a trip type of a? Thing?
Periel:I don't think so. I think going home with a guy off the six train is more along the lines of I've I your answer would also be going home with a guy off the six train.
Modi:Yeah, but yeah but this one was different. This is a different going on with a guy but adventurous, I have done, um, I've done crazy things, I just uh would you like to share one with the listeners? Yeah, what Well, we flew to Guantanamo Bay to do a US show. Us show story for, for the soldiers.
Periel:When was that?
Modi:Right after 9-11.
Periel:Wow.
Modi:Yeah, and it was. Wow, it was me Jim Gaffigan, greg Giraldo, nick DiPaolo, tony Rock. I wish that was filmed. They did film it. Colin Quinn was the host. I don't know where that footage is. This is before anything and it was insane to be there. We realized this is dangerous it wasn't dangerous being in Afghanistan but I couldn't go do USO shows in Afghanistan because my passport says born in Israel.
Modi:So all the USO shows I had to do were in America or Guantanamo Bay, cuba. So I couldn't get to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and, by the way, that's okay. I love those soldiers and I would have been happy to perform for them, but I wasn't allowed there.
Periel:That's incredible. Wasn't there some funny story with the photographer?
Modi:and I would have been happy to perform for them, but I wasn't allowed there. That's incredible, yeah.
Periel:Wasn't there some funny story with the photographer?
Modi:Yes, I slept with the photographer.
Leo:Excuse me, redacted redacted, redacted, redacted.
Modi:Yeah, that wasn't her name. Her name was Samantha. But yeah, it was just funny. She was with us the whole time. Everybody was like and I was very quiet and never bothered her, and then we ended up hooking up that is wild.
Periel:Wow, okay, I think. I don't know if it's the most adventurous, but I did when I was in London, when I was in my 20s, and I had sex with this guy in the elevator of the hotel.
Leo:That's not adventurous. That's just you being a slut Next question no, I was dating him.
Modi:He wasn't some random guy oh, I've hooked up in the back of cabs.
Leo:And the doors opened. I've hooked up in the back of cabs what happened when the doors opened.
Periel:There were people standing there.
Leo:And they got on the next elevator.
Periel:Yeah, they didn't come in. We were having sex on it in a hotel elevator standing on the floor.
Leo:Oh, what did you get kicked out of?
Modi:the hotel again. How do we get so schmutz over here? Do you think I'm gonna?
Leo:lay down on the floor I mean you're already having sex in the elevator. Who are we to?
Periel:judge okay, okay, this isn't, this is uh you picked up some guy on the subway and brought him home guy guy, I'm just saying I don't think it's any more schmutzy we didn't have sex on the subway or an elevator well well, okay, so you should yes. Yes.
Leo:Okay, I'm not that kind of lady Perrielle, oh yeah right.
Periel:She's not Please.
Leo:I know, way too much. I'm a classy broad.
Periel:That was a very adventurous thing to do.
Modi:It was very adventurous. We give it to you. You won this round?
Periel:I don't know if I would use the word adventurous, you won this round of adventure yes. Oh God, what do I get?
Modi:You win.
Periel:Gonorrhea.
Modi:Okay, good.
Periel:Good. What's your favorite current piece of clothing that you own?
Modi:Oh, Ooh, I have found four lap t-shirts. I ordered 18 of them. No, it's, all I wear is four lap t-shirts.
Periel:I ordered 18 of them, no, and that's.
Modi:All I wear is four lap t-shirts. I have how many of these? A lot. I have like 18 of these t-shirts.
Leo:Every time I do lingerie I make a stack of just his four lap t-shirts. And then we have other black t-shirts, but specifically the four lap brand t-shirts. I make a stack of them, that's it. I'm like, here you go and he just that's all he wears.
Modi:That's all I wear, that's.
Periel:It's a current favorite piece of clothing right now you're in good company because there are many of the most brilliant people um. Have that also. I think we've discussed this before, also, right? Yeah steve jobs uniform yes I think rick owens has a uniform okay, I don't, but there's a certain.
Modi:I have my, my red gucci shoes I love because they look like the pope's shoes and I love those currently and my new hermes belt okay, currently I love have you done the pope the um? Impression of the pope on stage no, I need to to get that in, I just want to do it. I'm working on that, that's how you say I know, okay, you.
Periel:What's your favorite current piece of clothing? I?
Leo:think these Viore sweatshorts that I wear when I'm clean baby out of the shower. They're really soft.
Periel:And you. I just got a pair of Uniqlo biking shorts that have pockets in them.
Leo:Uniqlo's great. So when I'm like momming around town.
Periel:I can put like my phone and my keys and I'm like hands free, okay, okay, I can put like my phone and my keys, and I'm like hands-free mm-hmm, okay, okay, what's the best piece of advice you've ever received?
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Leo:No, you filthy animals.
Modi:Yeah, Trace Bahamas Eat. A&h provisions is literally and I'm saying it from experience and tasting it and loving it and it's enjoy it. Thank you very much, A&H. Okay, what's your piece of advice? Um, I don't know. I need a second what was what's the question again?
Periel:what's the best piece of advice you've ever received? I, um, I have two. I one thing that maybe people don't know about these. I love like quotes oh, I have like books full of that I write down every time, like when you tell me like the first thing a jew should do when they meet another jew is to ask how can we help each other? Right um so one of them is comparison is the thief of joy that's a good one.
Modi:That's a very good one. I like that one a lot.
Periel:Yes um, and there is a, I think it's a mark twain quote.
Modi:I do not regret the things I have done only that which I have not done.
Modi:Um, so this is favorite piece of advice I've received. There's so many. There's the one that I love from Dr Wayne Dyer when you judge somebody, you don't define them. You define yourself as someone who needs to judge. Obviously, the biggest one is bracha vatzlacha Once you help somebody, you receive the help, and that's probably the most important one. If you want help help other people, that's the main one. If you want help help other people, that's the main one. Go ahead, it's yours.
Leo:I don't think I have one.
Modi:And pay your taxes, pay all your taxes.
Leo:Should I plug our mailbox?
Periel:Yes.
Modi:Yes, plug the mailbox. Oh my God, last night someone brought me a picture of me oh wow, it was so. Did you do something with?
Periel:it.
Modi:Yes, I did. I talk about. People ask me like was it difficult to come out of the closet? I said I never came out of the closet. I never like was in there, I was just. I was never in there. The biggest problem I have is coming out of the closet, about being an arse.
Leo:I don't even know how to describe us.
Modi:I tried doing it last night on stage us it's like a guido, but it's not Italian, it's like a. It's a guy who's a show off flashy, really guido. It's a, really guido, whatever, anyway I. So the first time I ever was in house I realized I was in house was Leo and I were doing this huge synagogue gig in Florida. And we walk in. It's a theater, it is 1,100 people packed. Yom Kippur doesn't get this many people. They had to open the back doors and it's set and it's beautiful and they've been preparing for it and they had this huge poster in the lobby and we walked in. I'm walking in with my black sweatpants and black sweatshirt and just the black hat and just walking in to go to the green room and by green room I mean the rabbi's study with all of our stuff, from our rider, the Listerine, the foam roller, all the things I need before a show.
Modi:Sneak a peek into the lobby and there is this like it must have been 13 feet tall by like I don't know how massive, huge picture of somebody in this like double-breasted suit holding his arm, look like a little injury. And I didn't see the face. I just see the teeth, the white teeth, and I go who is this ass? And I back up and I look and I look down and I look up and I see it's me. I go, leo, where is this picture from? It's one of the promo pictures from the promo shoots we've done. I go have you seen this? He goes, yeah, I go. This is an arse. And he goes to me. It's just hitting you now that you're an arse, I go, you've known he goes.
Modi:Just hitting you now that you're an ass, I go, you've known he goes yeah I go, you're okay with it. He's like yeah, it's hot. So that was like, uh, I don't know, but anyways, someone brought me a picture yesterday of me, like they painted it and it's so arse but it's so good. The woman's name is annette and she uh, we're gonna post on instagram, but we've been getting lots of stuff lately and there's a mailbox if you want to send things.
Leo:So, um, if you want to send things, you can send out to 118 a orchard street, pmb, personal mailbox number 208, new york, new york, 1002. If you send us stuff, we can and we'd like it, we'll bring it here, we'll open it on air.
Modi:Yeah, um, some really nice stuff, a lot of. If you want to send a letter, yeah, anything you can say um a picture yes vintage modi memorabilia.
Leo:Uh, someone brought a cd, someone.
Modi:Someone brought your old cd to the show in charlotte and you signed it for them I sent it back then, when it's probably in the 90s, and then I signed it again for them. It was. It was really sweet, it was really great that is so fun.
Periel:I love you bringing stuff here and we can open it on air.
Leo:Well, yeah because people have been asking like. People will say like, oh, we want to send you something. Or at the meet and greets they're like I want to send you something. That woman sent us the, the afghans that she knit. She knit these blankets with with a Star of David on them. She made two of them, stunning Two of them not one, she made two. I'm going to frame one of them.
Periel:Oh, I love that. Okay, we'll put it somewhere, no problem.
Leo:Wait, should I plug shows. Yes, plug away, we need to talk, because if you're not signed up for the email list, you should, because I can't tell you how many times people have sent me messages being like when are you coming here? When are you coming there? We were just there, so it's like these shows are happening. It's just hard to get through to people.
Modi:Sometimes we have the summer series coming up. We have a few modis in which is in Australia. We are in Australia the 24th 25th of August. We are in Australia the 24th 25th of August. There's a few tickets left for the show in Melbourne the third one that we've added, and there's tickets still left, a few of them in Sydney on the 29th of August. Motilifecom get your tickets and get a bunch, but you know, by the time I get there, it's going to be sold out.
Leo:Raleigh, north Carolina, is before that. Rale carolina, nashville, tennessee is before that. Those are both at the end of july, beginning of august. Then atlantic city is august 3rd. I think there's only like three tickets left there. Then we're in australia at the end of august zurich, november 4th, london, november 6th. There's only like 100 tickets left at the palladium, at the palladium.
Modi:So grab them. Let you be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show can you not cut me off?
Leo:I'm going through like the whole list. Skokie, illinois, november 14th. We're adding a show there. By the time this episode airs, there'll be a new show in skokie, so if you didn't get tickets to the show, you will have another chance. Saint paul, minnesota. If you're jewish and live in saint paul, minnesota, please send me a dm, because I don't know anything about saint paul. Um, that's at the fitzgerald theater. Then we're in montreal november 30th, at the rialto theater. Denver, colorado uh, at the paramount theater december 5th. And then we wrap up the whole thing at the iconic Beacon Theater in New York City on December 19th, which is also pretty much selling out so get your tickets, just pick them up.
Modi:Even if you don't go yourself, you'll have someone to give to your friend. It's so important to laugh at this time. Not just my tickets. If you see other comics you love, just get tickets but mostly Modi's.
Modi:But laughed it's. You know we following the news and you're doing all of that and helping Israel, but make sure to pause for laughter. That's the name of my tour. Thank you all very much for listening. This was such a light episode. No one's solving world problems here. We're just letting you know a little bit about ourselves and let us know about you. Thank you very much for listening. Goodbye everybody.