Sebastian Maniscalco (Live)

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[04:53] We're going to record our podcast, and I think there's a few people here tonight that don't know who our guest is. Raise your hand if you don't. Exciting. [05:04] it's so great that you came without even knowing. That's a real fan. Thank you so much. [05:11] Well, we're going to record our podcast. What if I just never told you? [05:17] No, but we're very, very grateful that you are here tonight. And thank you to the Gramercy, and thank you to Walmart for sponsoring us, and thank you to Amy and Chris for... [05:30] They're incredible music. And we're very, very excited because our guest tonight who is going to be on stage, who we're going to dig deep and laugh well with is the one, the only Sebastian Maniscalco is here. Only the number one grossing comic in the world, I think. [05:52] I don't know if it's the world. I'll check with him. [05:55] But we're so excited to have Sebastian here. And so I'm going to go sit over there. Are you ready to get started? All right. [06:13] Life isn't one size fits all, and your home shouldn't be either. That's why I'd like to introduce you to Cozy. Cozy's furniture is modular by design and customized by you.

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[09:38] Very excited to introduce a friend of Sebastian's, a fellow stand-up performer, who also is the co-host of the Pete and Sebastian podcast, which has been running now for 12 years and is an amazing podcast. Give it up, everybody, for Pete Correale. Pete. Hey, Pete. Whoa. Thank you. [10:01] Pete, we got a play on. This is phenomenal. [10:08] years we've never had a set up this good. I know. [10:13] You're already so good at... [10:15] I can tell you're a good performer because as soon as you came in, you were like, here we go, everybody. Amy, I've been a performer for 30 years. Sitting here with you is one of the most exciting things I've got to do in my career. I'm not kidding. I hate that. I am not. Amy was a little nervous backstage. She's never done a live cast before. I go, you're the best host of the Golden Globes that ever lived. This is a hiccup. Are you kidding? Come on. [10:45] If you aren't famous, then I don't know what to do. It's weird. I just don't recognize any faces, and it throws me off. That's hilarious. Okay. So, Pete, how did you and Sebastian first meet? We met doing stand-up. We met literally about 14 years ago in Canada. [11:03] Montreal Festival put together this thing where we all stayed in Toronto in a hotel, and every night we would meet in a van. It was me and Sebastian and four of the comics from other countries, a guy from Australia. I remember a guy from Ireland. But then we would shoot out to little theaters each night.

[11:21] And the first night I met him, the first time I met him, we were online to go through customs into Canada, and he introduced himself. I never met him before. [11:29] Then when we get to the hotel, I say, see you later tonight. We had our first show that night. And when we all get in the van, and Sebastian's the last one to get in the van, and I'm in the back of the van. And he gets in the van, and he's got a shirt on a hanger. And I'm in the back of the van. Nobody knows anyone, so we're all quiet. And I go, what is that, your performance shirt? And he goes, yeah, I get sweaty. I go, holy shit, guy. So I'm making fun of him because he gets sweaty. [11:59] 10 million gazillion, and I'm standing straight as a boy leaning against a goddamn brick wall. Yeah, you've got to have a performer's shirt. You've got to have a shirt. No, but that's when we first met. Dress for the job you want, Pete. Dress for the job you want. Exactly. But we hit it off, and, you know, like you said, we've been doing it for 12 years. Yeah. [12:18] And I bet it's similar to you and Tina in that, like, it's just sometimes, you know, we get together to do the cast and maybe you're not in the mood. So you call it the cast. We call it the cast. Yeah. Yeah. Even though we don't have quite as many viewers as you do, ours is still the cast. There's a zillion podcasts, but we call ours. I don't pay attention to the numbers, Pete. I just do it for the fun.

[12:44] No, but you guys are so funny on it together. Thank you. [12:48] And I love watching you, too. And I mean, you guys know each other really well. And can I just ask you, like, you've done it now for 12 years. This is my first year doing a podcast. How do you keep it fresh? Well, for us, it's because we just talk about our lives. When we first started to do it, neither one of us knew much about cast. And I said, we both kind of agreed. Let's keep it consistent. That was number one. Number two, do you want guests? And he goes, well, I'm not really getting them. [13:20] So if we want to keep it consistent, we figure no get it. And then we don't do anything topical. Like you could listen to any one of our casts and you wouldn't know what year it's from. Because it's about, you know, it's about anything from going to someone's house and they make you take your shoes off. So it never, there's always something new to discuss. That's very, very smart. It's life. Yeah, you want to be able to catch up. Right. I unfortunately hold the newspaper up to the camera on every one of my. Well, that's why yours is also more popular. [13:48] you're a basketball player in college oh well division three amy so let's pump the brakes on that what college i just said division three once someone says division three you don't care anymore you never mentioned the college no fredonia state is the college okay and what was the name of your team [14:06] The Fredonia what? We will call the Fredonia Blue Devils. Interesting. My high school was the Red Devils. [14:13] Really? Yeah. Can I want to ask you an opinion about something? Please bring that up. Where I live now, I live in a small town. I'm actually in the process of moving to Rochester, but I live in a small town called Fredonia. Okay. By the time this comes out, I'll be gone. I already bought a new house. But I've been there 12 years.

[14:29] My daughter is 12 years old, and our slogan, our high school logo is the hillbillies. Oh, that's not going to last. And it's a guy. It's not going to last. It's been there for like 50 years. It's a guy with a beard and a jug of wine and a gun. I swear to God. And they don't get rid of it because it's too expensive. They'll have to change the basketball court and the uniforms. So we're just the hillbillies. That'll get you in the Harvard. By the way, we got to get into that. [14:59] we got to get into Harvard. It's important. We got to get into Harvard or we got to talk about Harvard? When you want to talk about things with Sebastian. Talk about Harvard? Sebastian didn't go to Harvard. I know that. No, but when we played Boston, when Sebastian played the Boston Garden, I was open for him on the tour. We went to Harvard and that whole thing that you and Tina went through. Oh, I'll talk to him about that. He's like, we can never talk about that. [15:29] about it, I think you can. A bunch of aggressive nerds shouting jokes at you. A bunch of valedictorians. [15:39] But you take it, because it's Harvard, right? If it was Jamestown Community College, you'd have been out of there in ten minutes, right? Because it's Harvard, you just take the punches. [15:49] Okay, so let's start this. I'm going to start this podcast with Sebastian, but I need to know, Pete, do you have a question you think I should ask? [15:58] Uh, yes. One question I think is Sebastian loves to entertain. However, he also loves for people to leave when he's done entertaining. Yes. It's a very bizarre thing. It's like, I love to entertain and now go home. Yeah. And, you know, you might want to ask him, um, what is it about, you know, why is there an end to when people come over? Why is that bothering you so much? And the other thing, Amy, I love this guy so much for so many different reasons. He's a warm hearted guy, good guy.

[16:28] big hang-up he has is noises. It's called... [16:31] He's self-diagnosed misophonia. How do you pronounce that? Oh, misophonia. Misophonia. Yeah. Yeah. Self-diagnosed. He's never done anything about it. But, like, you know, you could chew gum around him, and then, like, a half hour later, he'll tell me, you got to stop it to go. [16:48] So, but he has not gone and done anything about it. He always just likes to say self-diagnosed. So perhaps you might want to ask him, why don't you take it any further and find out? [17:01] Irritation. Yes. Yes. I know what you mean. These are great questions because I know a little bit about misophonia, and I have a really hard time with mouth sounds in general. Like on the microphone, I'm looking at you, NPR. [17:16] A lot of people have to drink water. It's very stressful. So I'm going to talk to Sebastian about that. Yeah, very, very good. Okay, well, we're going to get started. Pete, you've been amazing. Thank you. [17:31] Thank you, Amy. Thank you all. Have a wonderful time. Everybody check out the Pete Sebastian Show. Thank you, Pete. [17:40] This episode is brought to you by Walmart. If you're waiting to treat yourself, don't. Walmart Black Friday Deals is coming, and now's the time to snag the items you've been eyeing for less. From fashionistas to toy lovers and tech enthusiasts, there's something for everyone. The event is three days only, so set your alarms now. November 14th to the 16th, don't miss out.

[18:01] dot com or download the app. All right, we are ready to introduce our guests. Thank you so much again for coming and give it up. Let's keep the momentum going for Sebastian Maniscalco, everybody. [18:31] and I changed when I saw what you were wearing. They told me backstage. I had a T-shirt. I was like, I wanted to be like, hey, who cares? You know, like we're all just, I just walked off the street. And then I said, you know what? You're a professional, Amy, and you need to treat this show like you're a professional. Well, this is the first live show, so I'm like, all right, this is like a big deal. Let me dress it up. I have another outfit just in case. But I felt like this was appropriate to wear a suit. [19:01] a t-ball game. Well, I would much rather be underdressed than overdressed, but I bet you'd rather be overdressed. Yeah, I am typically overdressed for occasions. I don't know. I always, growing up, my mother always used to tell me, we're going to church, put your nice slacks on, we're going out to dinner. So I always thought when we were leaving the house, you should look

[19:31] city, it's you roll out of bed and then you're at the Walgreens. So I don't know. I just feel like you should have a... So you're trying to tell me that you don't wear sweatpants and bring your own pillow on the plane. That's what I'm hearing about. No, I don't. I've never understood the whole pillow thing on the plane. I don't like that pillow thing. That's no offense, Gen Z, but there's a lot of... You guys are dragging around a lot of pillows. It's intense. [20:01] both in Chicago. You grew up in Chicago. Where exactly did you grow up? I grew up in the northwest suburbs of Arlington Heights, Illinois. So I wasn't in the city of Chicago. Right. And then you were, how, what years were you there? So I was there 1973 to 1998. Okay. Yeah. I was there the same time. Okay. I mean, just for a few years. So when were you there? Well, I went to, I did second [20:31] Yeah. And like a lot of people wanted to take class there and move to Chicago. The weather in Chicago is a great way to go. [20:43] is the thing you remember because it's punishing. Yes. When is the coldest you've ever been in Chicago? The coldest temperature? God, I don't know. There's always like a wind chill. [20:55] I don't know. I think it was like minus 15 one year. So, yeah. Why? Do you have a record low temp? No, I was just curious. People that live in that area, you're proving my point, which is they don't really talk about the weather. They don't care that much about the weather.

[21:13] don't make it a big deal. Yeah, it's not a big deal. When you're living in it, it's just like the way of life. So we're not sitting there going, oh, really cold today. How do you think this is our record? I don't know. It's brutal. And do you remember a restaurant in the Chicago area? Did you like to go into the city? Did you go into the city a lot? So we went into the city early on in my teenage years, 17 years old. I had a fake ID. We'd love to dance. We used to go to [21:43] Acapulco bar, alumni clubs. So, yeah, we were big dancers growing up. There was a lot of good clubs in Chicago at that time. It was a good club scene. Did you ever go to Baja Beach Club? Yes. Okay. Yeah, maybe I saw you there, Baja. [22:02] Did you ever go to a restaurant called Carlucci's? I have, yeah. Okay, I used to be a waiter there. Oh, really? [22:13] and for people that don't know, Sebastian's dad was a Sicilian immigrant, is a Sicilian immigrant, and... [22:20] Carlucci's was the first time I learned about Italian fine dining in any way. Like I didn't know anything about it. [22:27] And antipasti and semifredo and breadsticks. [22:36] Those kinds of things. That's of course. [22:39] Were you waiting tables when you were living there? Were you working in a restaurant there or only after you came to L.A.? Funny you say fine dining. I started my waiting career at Olive Garden. Oh, yeah. Great place to start. Great place to break in.

[22:57] called The Living Room. Oh, yes. I worked there. [23:00] That was a very hot club, like a bar. I'm surprised we didn't cross paths. What kind of famous people came through the living room? Do you remember? Not really. Not a lot of fame walking through the living room. [23:16] But I remember it being kind of a cool club. It was a cool club. Not a lot of celebrities came through there. Maybe Dennis Rodman because this is the year where the bulls were hot. [23:28] But, yeah. What did you do there? [23:30] I worked as a waiter in the fine dining. By the way, this is the best lip balm I did. Are you kidding me? Are you joking? I have to tell you. Because this is a sponsor. Oh, it is? Lenej. [23:45] And they're not sponsoring this, so we'll probably have to cut this out. But I use that all the time. It's the best. Okay. You like your products. Well, my wife likes products. And while I'm in bed one night, she's like, here, you've got to put this on. [24:00] I would have bet she put it on. Hello, new lips. [24:06] Incredible. In fact, you're reminding me, everybody who has lip balm, let's take a lip balm break while we, just for a second. Because it's too much, right? It's so dry out. [24:18] It's too much. Okay. [24:21] So, but you worked, you've talked a lot on stage about how people should act in restaurants, and I really relate because as an ex-server, as we like to call ourselves, you learn how to treat people in restaurants. You have strong opinions about how people should act in restaurants. Yeah, I mean, if you go to a restaurant, you should have some, you know, manners and, you know, be kind and not like,

[24:51] I don't know if that's out of style or if anybody's doing that anymore. But, you know, just, you know, you should be polite to the server and vice versa. But I got a problem with servers nowadays. Tell me why. Just the way they come up. They come up, you know, and you're like, excuse me, can you think? And already the eyes are rolling. [25:11] You know, it's like nobody wants to be there. I don't know. It just seems like people are detached or disconnected. [25:21] live, where someone will duck down and get the same level as you. Oh, I don't like that. You know what I'm talking about? Like they're right here? Yeah, they get right there. They get in real close. [25:37] I don't like that. I don't like that move. I'd just rather have them above, in and out, maybe a little talk here and there, but nothing like, you know, I don't want to, like sometimes the waiter will go, oh, you know, I don't [25:51] lactose and, hey, guy, guy, we don't need to know your medical history. Just bring out the burger. [26:02] Okay, and you talked also about, which I loved, and I should point out, like, you know, as well as you being the most successful, having the most successful touring year of your career, would you say, this year? Yeah, probably. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you.

[26:21] November and you made a beautiful film about your dad with Robert De Niro playing your dad. Yeah, crazy. Well, crazy. And you were on the show Bookie and you've got all these things going on. When you talk to your audience, I still feel, Sebastian, like you're living a regular, normal life. [26:40] Yeah. That's not always the case. Sometimes when you see people on stage... [26:45] They feel like they're talking about their koi pond or something. But it does feel like you are still in it. You have little kids. Yes. [26:54] And one could argue, you're a little old for that. [27:04] You've got little kids. I do. I'm 52, and I have a six-year-old son. So that's it. Yeah. Okay, don't relax. [27:17] No, I'm only kidding because I love you on Instagram when you talk about how tired you are. I'm exhausted. And you're just exhausting. [27:24] No, I waited a little, you know, I waited to have kids and now I'm paying the price. Must be nice, yeah. [27:47] I've seen her on the Gram. She's a hot piece. [27:51] She's 10 years younger. So, yeah. So I'm trying to keep up with her. She's an ex-gymnist, so she's always doing flips. She's always doing flips?

[28:05] She walks down the stairs on her hands. No way. I've never seen that before, but that's what I'm dealing with. [28:14] Does she do that when she's angry, when she's upset? [28:17] No, she's rarely upset. She's one of these, like, always got a smile on her face walking around. I'm the one that's constantly upset. Yeah. But, no, she's a ray of sunshine, and she's a doll. And, yeah, she's very athletic, very strong, and I almost have my ARP card. [28:40] We're the same age. We're the same age. Yeah, we're getting up there. What are you enjoying about your 50s? [28:47] late in life just because you know i'm you know i'm stable i have a we could provide them with uh you know a life that uh i'm not one of these guys oh i want to give my kids a life that i never had i had a good you know i had a middle class upbringing and whatnot but as a entertainer performer you want to get to a place where you're stable financially before you start bringing people into the world and you know it's you know this is just business you know it could be here one day [29:17] and I like being in my 50s. I just wish I was a little bit more, I don't know, I went to go play basketball the other day. I'm like, you know, I haven't played basketball in a while. [29:31] And I'm like, I don't remember the rim being this high.

[29:36] So, but it's nice. That's an ACL nightmare, though. Be very careful. There's nothing worse than a bunch of guys in their 50s going back to play basketball. [29:47] It is tear after tear. [29:53] I'm taking a little offense to this. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Just because if you didn't know how old I was, could you just, wouldn't you look at me and go, yeah, no, he probably runs. You're in terrific shape, by the way. I'm not. I'm really not. I'm hiding a lot with the suit, but I just don't feel like I'm 52. [30:17] My kids are teenagers now, and the amount of play [30:21] they have to do with kids is exhausting. It's exhausting. Yes, it is. Play is a nightmare. [30:28] And when your kid, the worst things to hear in the world is, Daddy, can we play? [30:37] Did you have a favorite play? Did you have like a, oh, this is, I can do this. I remember having existential moments of true despair when I would come home from like shooting a long day [30:51] to me with Star Wars lightsabers and be like, yay, now we can play. And I was just like, oh, fuck, like, oh, no, I have to play Star Wars. Just like it was the worst.

[31:11] And I miss every second of it. [31:16] But Lana, did she come to your shows? Yes. [31:19] Yeah, I mean, she comes, but I mean, it's... Is she here tonight? No, no, no. She's playing with the kids. You've played huge stadiums. You sold out, was it Madison Square Garden? Like, how many nights in a row? Five, six? Incredible. And yes. Thank you. And what's it like playing a space that big? [31:41] My act is kind of tailor-made for a large space. Obviously, comedy is better enjoyed in a room like this, I believe. But once you start getting into arenas and whatnot, I like to fill the room. I like to get up there and be physical and kind of prowl the stage. I'm not one of these guys that stands behind a microphone and tells jokes. Nothing wrong with that. But for me, especially nowadays, you've got to light yourself on fire up there for people to pay attention. That's so true. [32:11] someone could just go back into their phone or slip out of consciousness or what have you. But I like to keep the people entertained, not only by telling the story, but also maybe acting out the story. It's not all physical, but, you know. You're such a funny, physical performer. Oh, thank you. I love watching you. And I read something that was really cool, is you designed your stage a certain way in your last special. Can you talk about that? Yeah, so normally I do it in the round, and I had a round stage previously. [32:41] And this time I designed a triangular stage, which I could hit the points a little bit more. When you're doing a round stage, you kind of don't know where you're at sometimes in relation to, like, have I been here for a while? Yeah. But with the points, you kind of like, no, okay, you know, I'm at this point, I'm at that point. I feel like I could service the room better just by using the triangle stage. Plus, you know, I made the screen above me triangle. I like production, too, when I do stand-ups. Yeah. So I like to, like, pay attention to lighting is big.

[33:11] I think this is beautifully done. All right? Do you like the people over? We got people kind of on the side. I do. I noticed that. I don't mind that. It's a little disconcerting because you guys are the same height as us. Yeah. So it looks like they're on a ride. [33:31] And then we got people in the back that are all, we can't see you, but we know that you're the real fans back there. Oh, yeah. All right. It goes deep. It goes deep. It does go deep. [33:41] By the way, and I don't know if you know this little trivia here, and I don't know if anybody in the audience knows this. [33:47] We did a movie together. Okay, we did a movie together, and you know when it came out, you know what percentage of it was on Rotten Tomatoes? [33:57] No, I didn't check the percentage. Was it bad? [34:00] Is 7% bad? [34:06] That's right. That was the first time I met you. In 2014, there was a movie called The House with just a young and up-and-coming guy named Will Ferrell, you know? And I picked the one fucking bomb that he made. I was like, sign me up for that one. No, him and I were in a movie that was so fun to make, because he's the best, called The House. [34:30] Amen. [34:31] And there was a scene where... Yeah, I was... By the way, I shouldn't say we were in a movie together. She was in the movie. And I came in for a day.

[34:41] So I think we made the house like a... It was like a Vegas. And I was one of the performers in the living room performing to one... I think it was Rory Scovel. Yes. That's right, Rory. Yeah, it was just a day of work. And that was early on. It was like one of my first movies I've ever done. Yeah. What was your memory of it? Did you have a... Was it a good experience? [35:01] Yeah, no, it was a day. I came in. I never met you or Will or any of those people. So it was nice. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. [35:11] I mean, I feel like I remember that time and also [35:18] I [35:19] It... [35:21] And you have been performing for a while. Like, you're not an overnight success. You've been putting the time in for a very, very long time, and you've been working very, very hard. What is it, in the same way we talk about fatherhood at an age where you feel like you were ready and mature for it, do you feel that same way about your fame and success? Same. Yeah, in 1998, I started doing stand-up. So for me, you know, I worked at the Four Seasons for seven years, getting my feet wet with stand-up comedy. [35:51] or anything that really propelled me into the mainstream. I feel even now, too, I have a great fan base and what have you, but I still feel like there's room for growth. But it took a while. I mean, what is this, about 2015, shortly after we hit the house, 7%. I've got to say, I just looked it up before, and it's up to 20%. Oh, okay. We're moving up. We're moving up.

[36:21] With inflation and everything. [36:25] Yeah. But no, it's a slow burn for me. That's great. Nothing comes easy in my life. So, yeah. Why doesn't things, what do you mean? It's just, you know, my father and I often discuss this, like the Maniscalco family always has to take the long road to get there. Right. There's no shortcuts, which I'm not looking for shortcuts. [36:51] know get a pop what how does your dad feel like he's taken the long road how would he say he's taken it i mean he he immigrated here when he was 15 years old and you know he had to learn a new language he's still learning the language um it's fun hanging around like an immigrant father who just doesn't know like the words uh is there a word still that you that really makes you giggle [37:21] Well, you know, your cousin is going to Ole Miss. [37:25] What? Ole Miss, that, not Ole Miss. So there's a lot of that. That one feels okay. No, that's fine. Yeah, that feels okay. That's like the hillbillies or something. [37:37] But he is an amazing story, and you wrote a film based on his story. And can you tell everybody how, I mean, I'm sure you've answered this question before, but it's pretty awesome to work with Robert De Niro, I imagine.

[37:51] I was very nervous. Basically wrote a movie. Never thought it would get, you know, you write these things, you never think they're going to do anything. But this one got picked up in De Niro's hands. He loved it, wanted to read it out loud here in New York City with a bunch of actors. So we read it out loud at a table. And after the table read, I went up to him and I said, so. And he's like, oh, well, what? What? [38:17] What? [38:19] And he left. [38:21] I'm like, all right, that's the end of that. And two weeks later, I got a call that he's interested in playing your father. And I'm like, this is a guy that I... [38:30] you know, Goodfellas casino posters on my wall, and now he's going to play my dad in a movie, and then subsequently called my father. [38:40] down to Oklahoma where he was shooting the movie because he wanted to get to know my dad. No way. So you're like, Dad, he wants to hang out with you? And my dad's like, how much am I getting for this? [38:58] So I'm like, are you going to go for three days? He goes, yeah, well, you know, he still cuts hair. He's still cutting hair at 79 years old. He's like, well, I got to readjust my clients. [39:10] for three days. And I said, just don't worry about it. Just go. So he went, he spent three days with De Niro and De Niro was like, you know, taking notes. How do you wear your hat? How do you hold your cigar? And, you know, tell me how to say this in Sicilian. So then he came back and then De Niro wanted him to come to the set. And my dad said, I ain't

[39:40] watching and my dad's like i ain't so i said just just come to the set and hang out so my dad was on set wow teaching de niro how to do blowouts and dye jobs so we should make it clear that sebastian's father does hair and uh and was it was a hairdresser for uh for your whole life right [40:10] Does he still want to cut your hair now? He cut my hair about four years ago, and I said, that's it. [40:19] No, he's falling apart. I mean, he's falling apart. His shoulder's falling off. [40:29] It's not easy getting old. No, no, especially at that age. Now, every time I talk to my parents, it's like, you know, I'm not being right. Okay. [40:40] Is it true that Sicilians have great hair? I don't know. I'm losing a lot of my hair. It's a lot of dust up there. I use a pepper. Yeah. It's called a fiber. I do a lot of pepper before I come up there. [40:58] I got someone back there with a pepper milk. Like the Parmesan grater and just a little bit more?

[41:10] I do want to talk about you on stage because I love watching you perform because, as we talked about earlier, you are physical. And a lot of people on stage kind of like neck down or disconnected from their body when they're telling jokes. They're like telling it from their head. And you really do tell it from your body, your whole body when you perform. [41:33] Did you always like to move as a kid? Like, were you, like, are you a physical guy? Like, do you like, I know you like to dance. I've seen you dance a lot. Like, do you, I mean, not to get too, you know, you don't, you don't know what I'm talking about. Well, I, I feel like you shake it out. [41:49] I shake it out, but it's not. I don't think it's because I have like an anxiety for anything. My shaking out is a little bit more just. [42:01] just for the performance. I do like to move my hands and be physical and have facial expressions when I'm talking. Yes. I just took that and just made it a little bit more grand when I'm on stage. Do you have any people that when you were growing up, like physical comedians that you loved? John Ritter is mine. Dude, I was just saying... [42:21] are you kidding me i just said backstage we were talking about physical because i was talking about you and i was like i love how physical sebastian is and i said to me john ritter was he was my favorite right three's company for you young people go watch three's company incredible yeah unbelievable like a master of physical comedy even though john wasn't a stand-up but i took a lot of

[42:51] growing up. Yeah. Over and over and over again. There was a scene where he was on a hammock trying to get on the hammock and he fell off. So all those little movements and then he would hit himself and come up and have this dazed look. So all that stuff I really incorporated. So he was a big inspiration for me. But yeah, the physicality for me, it's just, it's fun to do. It's like a fun thing for me to do. And I got to keep myself entertained up there as well. Yeah, I bet. Because [43:21] was this year? Yeah, it was a lot. 84 shows I think I did. Dang. Do you ever do two a days? I used to, but no more. No more. Just too tired at the end. I'm old. Yeah. Well, Tina and I were on tour and we would do, you know what our favorite thing was? A four o'clock show. Incredible. [43:43] You never do a four. No, I didn't do comedy during the day. You gotta do a four. It'll change your life. [43:51] laughter [43:52] Four o'clock show you're done by 6:30? No, I like the concept. I just I'm wondering if my audience would look at the ticket and go with the four o'clock. I gotta tell you every single person at that four o'clock show was pumped. Am I wrong? They wanted to go to bed. They want to go to sleep. Listen, that is nice for the audience. Come home and get a white snack. How do you feel about sleep? I always like to talk to people about sleep.

[44:22] about sleep on Good Hang. What is your sleep routine when you're on the road? And is it different than when you're home? Yes. It's difficult on the road just because I just came like last night. I had the worst sleep [44:36] because three hours and the plane and I got to adjust and whatnot. But when I'm home, I am starting to go to bed, sadly. [44:45] After I tuck my kids in. I love this. Talk to me about the time. So I'm in bed. [44:52] About, I'd say about 9 o'clock. Incredible. [44:59] Sebastian, this is my audience. We love bedtime. We love bedtime. All we think about is bedtime. We love bedtime. 9 p.m. is a winner move. It is. I try to be consistent with the sleep just because if it starts to vary and then it gets screwed up on the other end. [45:22] around 6 o'clock, regardless of what time I'm going to sleep, right? Are you doing any sleep, eight sleep mattress, ring? No, I have a CPAP machine because I have... You're wearing a breather or whatever the hell that is? A breather? [45:40] Whatever the hell it is? I thought only like... Exactly. I know it's usually... I thought that was like a man thing. Right, no. [45:52] It's just a man thing.

[45:58] You're right. It usually is a man thing. Have you ever heard a woman going, I've got to travel with this thing? I've never heard of that. [46:11] I'm sorry. Not a lot of women are doing that. Well, I've always been ahead of my field. [46:22] Oh yeah, it's pretty sexy stuff. It's pretty sexy stuff. [46:31] But yeah, I have a sleeve apnea, so I wear a sleeve apnea machine. And I got to tell you, I love it. It's changed my life. I love it. Okay. I would never change it for the world. I love it so much. It's totally changed my life. Anybody who's thinking about it. [46:48] just for fun anybody who wants to try it for fun, do it it's great I've heard it, it's very beneficial incredible do you do it consistently every night? of course gotta do it every night and it puts you right to sleep [47:06] it's [47:07] It's like the sound. And it has air, excuse me, water. So it's like hydrating. So you never, ever wake up with dry mouth, bad breath, nose, any of that stuff because you're always... [47:23] You put your lip balm on, your creams, you hydrate, and then you go, and then you look like a fighter pilot and you go to sleep.

[47:35] But what's your bedtime routine? Tell me about your lotions, because I bet you have a skincare routine. I do. I do have a skincare. A little toner, a little face cream. And I put a little cologne on before. I got a little nighttime cologne. [47:53] Different than daytime cologne? Yeah, I shower prior to bed. Of course. Do a full, I'd say the last two years I've been doing a full body lotion from head to toe. Oh, very good. All right. What kind of brand you got going there? We'll cut it out. Don't worry. What is the brand? [48:11] It's a variety of different brands. I can't recall because, again, my wife is just giving me stuff like, here, use this lotion. Oh, okay. Smart. You don't want to give them free stuff. I get it. [48:23] There's one. A lot of them I can't pronounce. Okay. Some of them are French. Okay. So, and then I've been doing this cologne routine where I do five sprays in my palm. I get it hot and I neck it and I go to bed. And then in the morning, what I've been doing, and this is something maybe you guys should try tomorrow. [48:48] I've been doing two different colognes. [48:53] and one on the back. So you get one cent coming and one cent going. It's a beautiful technique. [49:05] Wow. Are you into men with cologne? Yeah, I love it. Sure. And also the front and back is genius. Because it's like... It's beautiful.

[49:16] I thought I knew him. He's still a mystery to me. I mean, you're on tour all the time. Who's making you laugh right now? Do you watch comedy? [49:32] Do you like to go? No. No, I know. No. I don't either. It's just a busman's holiday to go. But, like, what do you, how do you, do you watch stuff to make you laugh? Do you watch videos? Do you watch other comics? I don't look at entertainment for the comedy of it. I look, like, at documentaries. I like drama. [49:55] If I want to laugh, I've got a friend back in Chicago. His name is George. I'll call him. Tell us about George. He's one of these guys that just, he's funny. He's like, we talk about daily life, and he just makes me laugh. So George is kind of my go-to for comedy. But as far as stand-up comedy, I don't like watching it generally just because, I don't know. I mean, I like to laugh. I like to see what people are doing. Maybe a special will come on. I'll see five minutes of somebody, and I'll just turn it off. [50:25] The last one I watched from front to back was Giannis Pappas. Yes. A couple of specials ago I thought was really, really funny, and he caught me on a night where I was so giddy and laughing. So generally speaking, though, I'm like documentary serious. I love that serious moment. I love serious. I love serious. Do you watch anything like, do you watch reality TV? Do you care about that? My wife got me into Love is Blind.

[50:55] now and then what are you laughing at? I guess the question is, do you believe it is? [51:01] I mean, come on, the concept of it is cute. Oh, I'm going to fall in love with somebody on the inside. But that's half. [51:11] You're going to eventually come out and look at the person. If they've got no teeth, it's a problem. They've got to walk down the stairs on their hands for them to be worth their salt. [51:23] I mean, love is blind is, for me, for people who are listening who might not know, [51:31] after they meet each other just from talking, [51:34] And my mirror neurons, like, I get so codependently stressed when those doors open. Oh, God. And the body language is so stressful. I know, I know. When they're like, "Hey!" When they go from, like, arms open to just, like, pat, pat, pat. Oy, oy, oy. And the way that... Like, the body never lies. Like, the way when they go in for the kiss, and it's just like... [52:02] Oh, they just turn. They just turn. They turn their mouth away and give them the cheek. It's brutal. Or she could be that, too. But it's brutal. No, I can't handle that. All right. So you like dark stuff. Dark. It's just like I like I don't know. Serious moments. I tend to laugh at. Yeah. And find funny. Like my wife will be telling me a serious story and I'll just bust out laughing. What the what's wrong with you? I don't know. I'm thinking about something that's funny pertaining to what you're saying.

[52:32] Yeah, I know what you mean. Okay, so you've got a new special coming out. Yeah. [52:37] Another hour plus the material. It takes you how long to get new material? I don't know. It's been averaging like three years. Every three years I come up with an hour. It's difficult because what you want to do going into these specials is you want it to be equal to or greater than the last one, right? Yeah. And it's difficult because, you know, a lot of comedians have a lot of their best material coming out of the gate because they've been working so long. [53:07] expect a certain level from you. So I'll take it very serious to make these specials kind of special because I felt like my last one, I was going through, um, injury. I had, um, sciatic pain on my right leg and it was very hard for me to move around, too much play, a lot of play. And I felt like I couldn't perform like I normally would perform just because I was in pain. I couldn't move. Plus I dressed in a tuxedo. I'm like, I'm going to try something different, [53:37] I want to bring Vegas back to Frank Sinatra. So I wanted the audience to dress up and this and this. 20 people dressed up. And I felt very hampered in a tuxedo. I couldn't move in a tuxedo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I wanted to kind of correct that. [53:53] with this special, and I have no more sciatica and no more tuxedo. Do you have a good sciatica stretch? Do you keep up on that? I do. I take a ball. Yeah. Tennis ball, lacrosse ball, what kind of ball? It is a ball that you would buy to roll out your legs. Okay. And I put it right here in my psoas. Yes. You guys know what that is, right?

[54:23] health-related section. We're doing sleep. Now we're doing sciatica. It's sleep apnea. We've touched. We've got to get all the tips. Okay. Put it in your psoas. And roll it. So you get on the floor and then you basically lay on it and roll. I believe from my research, which is Instagram, a lot of the sciatic pain is coming from the front side of the body, [54:53] the psoas and I have a very tight psoas region. Not to brag. I got a big psoas. Okay. So what I've learned, you and Pete have been doing your podcast for 12 years. [55:09] What do you like about doing it? What have you learned? Like, what's the best thing about having a podcast? Like, what do you like about it? What I use it for is long-form storytelling. So Pete and I are like, you know, he's a beer and peanut guy. I'm a wine and cheese guy. We're very opposites in the way we kind of conduct our life. And he's so funny and so quick-witted, and he's a great listener. And, like, a lot of times when you're telling a story, you know this, [55:39] And, you know, if somebody tells me, tell that story about that, that, that, that, that. [55:43] I'll look at the crowd, and I don't know if you do. It's not a crowd, but like a group of people. And I go, I'm not telling that story because I know the attention span of where we're at. I know the story needs to breathe and whatnot. But Pete allows me to really kind of go off on a tangent with a lot of the stories, and he adds great commentary. So we're not guest-driven. We don't really have a lot of guests just because we have so much fun talking to one another. But we've been doing this for 12 years. We basically, it's like a recorded phone call. Yeah.

[56:13] And that's kind of what I get out of the podcast. As Pete was saying, we don't really have, I mean, we have a loyal fan base. I mean, nothing like this, this army you have that comes out to see you. [56:27] But it is, I mean, if you're looking for like really just storytelling and comedic storytelling, that's what I believe podcasting has done for us is just give us an opportunity. Because, you know, when you do stand up, you need it to be tight. [56:43] cylinders with the podcast you know you guys or whoever's listening to it could be in you know your bathroom getting ready you're working out and whatnot so yeah you chuckle here and there it's funny but uh yeah it's been been a pleasure working with him and and we plan on doing it uh i mean you know it's it's it's like a it's a labor of love for us yeah that's great because and the best thing about it i feel like is you know with these like longer extended conversations [57:13] things in real time. Like you can hear people kind of sort through [57:18] their, like, value system in a way, but also just, like, they, like, figure out life in real time with someone else. Like, it's kind of cool to hear that. [57:27] And because of that, I want to throw out some things, and I just want to get... [57:33] your take about how you feel about them. [57:35] Okay, so we're going to do a little speed round. Oh, good. [57:40] OK. [57:42] Thank you. [57:43] Shoeless households.

[57:45] Okay. It's a big debate because I do a joke about going over to somebody's house and they ask, could you please remove your shoes? [57:58] And I'm like, you know, I'm a grown man. I don't feel like I should be walking around somebody else's house in my socks. Yeah. Right? I just don't feel confident. Once a man loses his shoes, you can't really debate any other man. It's like you're in your socks, guy. Come on. [58:18] But, you know, there's people out there that are very adamant, how dare you, you know, come in with shoes on. You know how much stuff is on the bottom of your shoes. [58:28] house yeah okay fine I get it it hasn't been a problem for me for the last 52 years no one's ever got sick like what did somebody come in there with their shoes on so if you come by the house people will be kind and go oh do you want me to take my shoes off and I feel so good when I go nah [58:58] come over with a nice heel, and they're going, okay, let me take this. And now they're going to walk around barefoot. Have you seen the bottom of some people's feet? [59:07] What's on, what kind of bacteria? [59:12] That might be even worse than a shoe. [59:15] Now, Pete was talking once about misophonia. Yeah. Are you a germaphobe? I'm not a germaphobe. I wouldn't say. I'm not wiping down the plane seat when I walk on the plane.

[59:28] at people and how they kind of conduct their lives and go, how the hell could you be doing that here? I just feel like there's no like, you know, you go on an airplane and people will take their shoes off and they're barefoot and then they walk into the bathroom. Oh, not OK. Not OK. So with this misophonia, if you don't know what it is, and it's it's again, Pete said I was not diagnosed with it. [59:58] when are you going to get properly diagnosed? Well, I don't think I need to. I just feel like if you were opening up a bag of chips right now and eating Doritos, my window of tolerance for that is very small. Yeah. Could be anything. People want to, you know, typing, heavy typers. You don't like a heavy typer? Oh, God. I mean, like if you're like banging on the keyboard and you're at Starbucks and I'm waiting in line, I will just hear the keyboard and nothing else. [1:00:28] other sounds. Like a Tom Cruise movie. It's amazing. It really is amazing. And I don't want to get rid of this. [1:00:34] Because I feel like not only do I have a sensitivity to sound, but also just people in general, their behavior. And I feel like if I lose the misophonia, I'm going to lose the ability or my radar to detect that that guy hasn't laughed at all. Right? Right. So that's why I keep the disease. Yeah.

[1:01:00] Wedding registries. Wedding registries. [1:01:04] No, that's a good one. We had a registry when we got married. I have no problem with it. I don't pay attention to it because, again, growing up in an Italian family, we often brought money to the wedding. So you put, like, some cash in an envelope, and then, you know, you don't bring a toaster or a blender or whatever. I just need a nice cash envelope. I think everybody likes a, especially when you're getting started married. [1:01:34] young and they needed a start, right? Oh, here's $500. You know, go buy a, go buy something to get your life started. But now it's like, I don't know, man. It's like the parents are bankrolling a lot of these kids today. I mean, it's, it's amazing. It got silent in here because maybe some of the people are in here. Yeah, this is New York City. Yeah. Look at how quiet it got. Yeah. Your mother paid for the tickets tonight. Yeah. Everybody turned to their mother who they're [1:02:04] I don't know what he's talking about. Is there anything at a wedding that people do that drives you nuts? [1:02:13] Um, I'm not into taking home food, and this is big in the Italian culture. [1:02:20] They'll go to the sweet table. Italians have a sweet table. And they'll take a styrofoam to go thing that they hand out. Okay. And they'll take the cookies and the soya towel. They'll take it all home. I'm like, come on. We have this for breakfast tomorrow? I just think it's a tacky move. I don't like to go at a wedding.

[1:02:43] I've never seen that. No, come to one of my weddings. You'll see it. Pets. Should people have them? Should people have pets? I have to tell you, I've never had a pet up until a year ago. I got a dog. We got two dogs now. [1:03:03] So we got them for the kids. I'm not a huge animal lover. [1:03:13] I don't take it out to get coffee. I'm taking out an airplane. I just felt like we had it. [1:03:22] We had a pet in the neighborhood growing up. His name was Edolo. It's the male version of Italy. That's the name, the dog, Edolo. And it lived in the garage year round. I mean, it would be 13 below and the dog would be in the garage. I don't know. It was just kind of like there, the dog. [1:03:52] Of the home. Right. It was just like, yeah, you're all right. Okay. But now the dog's up here and it's the petting. It bothers me. I'm sorry. It's just. What kind of dog do you get? Cats, forget it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. [1:04:10] I'm allergic to cats. That's why I don't like them. But God, I don't even go to people. I got a good friend. He's got a cat. He's got two cats. I go, I can't come to the house until the cats die.

[1:04:22] I can't. Yeah. [1:04:24] Amy Miles has cats and she had a cat that really tried to almost like become your lover like the cat would. And I was saying I feel the same way about cats. Like I feel fine with them. [1:04:37] And I think they're great. But I don't really want, I'm a tiny bit allergic, like just a little bit, so I try not to touch them. And because of it, they're obsessed with me. I just ignore them and they just come up and crawl and they get in your clothes. And Amy used to have a cat named Nosferatu. [1:05:00] Who would try to suck your spirit out of your mouth. [1:05:07] I understand. Yelling. Yelling. How do you feel about yelling? [1:05:13] I mean, I don't know, a good yell every now and then is healthy. Do you yell at your kids? Yeah, I yell at my kids. Again, I'm not one of these parents that gets on the same level as their kids and goes, just tell me what you're going through. It's not that. I think a good dose of a yell, not a lot, because with raising kids, you have to act sometimes like you're psychotic, right? [1:05:43] Wow, we don't want to see that again. [1:05:47] So a good yell, I think, every now and then sets the family straight. Agreed.

[1:05:55] Oh, you're getting some applause. I'm surprised. [1:06:01] You're getting applause from the parents of the people who paid for their kids to be here. [1:06:07] Santa Claus. Santa Claus. [1:06:09] We had a problem with Santa Claus. [1:06:13] Again, this is another thing I'm not into. My daughter accused my wife and I of being Santa Claus. This is when she was five years old. Okay. And I wasn't ready for it. I thought Santa Claus discussions normally happen maybe around 8 to 10 to 11. So I'm like, what the five? That's a little young. So I came out of the room. I asked my wife. I go, get on this text story that you're with the moms and find out what's going on. [1:06:39] at school. Yeah. We found out that a lot of parents tell their kids there's no Santa because they don't want to lie to their kids, right? Now, I'm thinking, that's all I do is lie to my kids, right? Eat your carrots, you're going to see better. [1:07:03] But yeah, so, I got so upset. Yeah. Yeah. [1:07:07] I was at a Christmas party. There was a Santa Claus there. So I'm telling Santa, generally speaking, when I go to these parties, you dance. I talk to, like, the waiters and the people that are working at the party. Got it, got it. I get it. So I'm talking to Santa. You go in the back of the house. Yeah, go back to the house. Yeah, go back to the house. So I talked to the Santa, and I said, you know, kid don't believe. And he goes, well, I offer a service where I could come to the house. So yeah, this is in Los Angeles. Can you believe it? I come to the house on Christmas Eve.

[1:07:37] and I'll put the presents down, right? So, 12:30 at night, this guy comes. I'm in my robe and the driver, "Come, come, this way, the tree's over here, Santa." So he comes in, I wake up the kids, I go, "Santa's here." We come, we look at Santa, [1:08:05] And then Santa, then the kids go back to bed. I peel off three hunge for this drunk Santa in my house. And now the kids, you know, they believe again. So I highly recommend if you need to get a Santa to come to your house. It's incredible. [1:08:27] Incredible. [1:08:29] Wow. [1:08:35] Sebastian, and thank you so much for your time. And again, check out Sebastian's new special on Hulu and all the good work that he's doing. It's so great to have you. Thank you so much for doing this. It's been so fun. Can you just talk me through how you cook your steak? Okay. Because... [1:08:53] It feels like what I've read is that you do a reverse sear, and I want to talk about it. Okay. I like these questions. So I found this video. This is about 10 years ago online about the reverse sear. Basically what it is is you take the steak out of the refrigerator, you leave it set for about 30 minutes, get it to room temperature. I like to do mine about 45, 50 minutes. Just let it get used to the atmosphere.

[1:09:19] And what kind of cut are we talking about? [1:09:23] A ribeye, now I'm on to New York's strip because the ribeye got a lot of fat on it. And at this age, you know, I could go at any minute. [1:09:35] I'm doing New York strip steak, and I heavily salt it and heavily put pepper on it right from the hair. [1:09:48] And then I set the oven to 275. I put it in there for about 45 minutes. After the 45 minutes, I take it out. I let it rest for 15. [1:10:05] I do a sear for about a minute each side, cut and serve with a little rosemary lining the serving plate. I like garnish on a plate when it comes to the table because a lot of times when you have steak, there might be a little blood or whatever kind of moving throughout the plate. And I like the stems of rosemary. It kind of adds a nice touch. Anything else in the pan? No. [1:10:35] No butter? No. I know a lot of people do a little oil maybe, garlic, and then they kind of baste it with the spoon. No, this is a, you don't need it. You want a shout out and a sponsor for this? Snake River Farm meat is probably the best meat that you can get. You've got to order it online, though. I've been promoting this meat company for a while. For real? And not one free filet.

[1:11:05] I'm the guy that gets nothing. Like, Ernie probably has a bunch of stuff coming to the house, right? Swag. Here's this. Here's that. We understand you got a band. Here's a guitar. Right? I get nothing. Nothing is sent to me. No, here, try this. Try that. I got no boxes. DJ Khaled is constantly opening up a watch. [1:11:35] I got nothing. [1:11:39] And what's your sides? Before you go, I need to know, what are you serving with your steak? So we like to do a fingerling potato. Whoa, not what I expected. What did you expect? I expected a whipped or a mashed. [1:11:53] Funny you say that. I started doing mashed because my kitchen is being remodeled right now. I can't cook. But I started doing mashed potatoes prior to the kitchen remodel. And, you know, it's a little bit labor intensive. Yeah, it's not easy to get mashed. Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mash. But the fingerling is sufficing for now. And then I'll put a green in there. I'll put a broccoli. I'll put a little asparagus. [1:12:23] you know, healthy, you know, with this kind of grab-and-go stuff that I'm not into the processed foods, although, you know, I'm not saying that I'm eating so well, but, you know, you want to give the kids a nice... You know, here's a little tip I tell people, young kids, that I'll share with you, too. I learned it from my brother who lives in Sweden with his Swedish wife and family. They do this thing. I don't know if it's Swedish. It's probably not Swedish. Just what they do.

[1:12:53] kids are about to eat and food is cooking, they just put a big plate of vegetables with like ranch or hummus on the table and your kid is hungry. [1:13:04] and they eat a bunch of carrots and celery just as a snack because it's not part of their dinner. But the minute you put it on the plate with anything like pizza or pasta or anything, they're not going to eat it. But if you slide it in there before dinner, when they're hungry, they'll have a few carrot sticks. They don't even know they're eating it. You know, that does sound good in theory. But how prone are you to cut some carrot radishes? [1:13:34] A beautiful tray of vegetables and one carrot, and then who's eating the rest of the vegetables, right? Are you? Are you going to knock them out? No, they're going in the garbage. [1:13:45] You're right. Cutting too many vegetables is a nightmare. [1:13:51] But I would take a vegetable over a fruit any day. What's your vegetable? [1:13:57] Favorite. Well, I love anything in the pea family. So I love a pea, I love a, you know, what do you call it? [1:14:08] Snap pea, thank you. I love a pea. I love an asparagus. I love a potato. Does that count as a vegetable? [1:14:20] Yeah, it doesn't. I don't know. Mushroom. I love a mushroom. Okay, a mushroom. So...

[1:14:24] What's your favorite fruit? [1:14:27] I feel like some kind of like savory, like a chicken curry with mushrooms and rice. No, no, no, no. Food. Did you hear fruit? Oh, you said fruit? Yeah, fruit. You said it like this. Fruit. What's your favorite food? What's your favorite food? Shit, Adam. [1:14:54] What's your favorite food? [1:14:57] My favorite fruits? Fruits. Is um... [1:15:08] I don't know, a plum. A plum? Oh, wow. What's your favorite fruit? [1:15:15] What's your favorite fruit? Fruit is a banana or a strawberry. It's a toss-up. Yeah. And a vegetable, I like an asparagus. I love an asparagus. I'm really big in the asparagus. But if I had to choose, I'd go strawberry or banana over a vegetable any day of the week. [1:15:31] You'd go fruit over veg. Go fruit. [1:15:36] Wow. You got this audience. As we wrap up, I guess raise your hand. Raise your hand if you'd go fruit over veg. [1:15:45] Wow. Look at that. Look at that. I can't even see the people at the top. That's impressive. The people on the side on the park ride are all veg. [1:15:54] Nobody's voting fruit. Unbelievable. Well, you found your audience, Sebastian. I did. That's my group of people. Give it up, everybody, for Sebastian Menescalco.

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