Sebastian Maniscalco (Live)

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And like I said, thank you to Walmart and everybody who sponsored this. And we're very excited to introduce our guest today. We have Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian is one of my favorite comedians. I find him to be deeply funny, deeply physical. He seems super nice, even though I don't really know him. And we talked a little bit backstage, but then I said, let's stop talking. If the cameras aren't rolling, then this ain't worth shit, is what I said. Um, so we're going to have Sebastian on, but we always like to start these podcasts by talking to somebody who knows our guest so we can talk well behind their back it's a little different because sebastian will hear everything now but um but um so uh uh we are very excited to introduce a friend of sebastian's a fellow stand-up performer um 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 we got a play on this is phenomenal we've been doing it 12 years we've never had a setup this good i know well you're very you're already so good at i can tell you're 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 with my career i'm not kidding i'm not amy's 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 come on if the people in the audience 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 um we met uh literally about 14 years ago in canada uh 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 sebastian and like four of the comics from other countries a guy from australia i remember a guy from you know um ireland but then we would shoot out to little theaters each night and the first night i met him the first time i met him we were online uh to go through customs into canada and he introduced himself i never met him before 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 it 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 oh shit guy what so i'm making fun of him because he gets sweaty meanwhile it's because he's physical and then he goes on to make 10 million gazillion and i'm standing straight as a boy leaning against a goddamn brick wall yeah you gotta have a you gotta have a performer shirt you gotta have a shirt no but that's what we first met dress for the job you want pete dress for the job exactly but we hit it off uh and you know like you said we've been doing it for 12 years yeah and i bet it's similar to you and tina in that like did you do it for the first time or did you do it for the second time or did you do it for the second time or did you do it for the third time or did you do it for the second time it's just sometimes you know we get together do the cast and maybe you're not in the mood so you call it the cast we call it interesting 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 i don't pay attention to the numbers pete i just do it for the fun no but but you guys are so funny on it together and and i love and i love watching you too and i mean you guys know each other really well and and 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 uh number two do you want guests and he goes well i'm not really getting them and i go i'm not getting them either so if we want to keep it consistent we figure we're going to keep it consistent and we're going to keep it consistent 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 from anything from going to someone's house and they make you take your shoes off too so it never there's always something new to discuss because it's life yeah you want to be able to catch up right i i unfortunately hold the newspaper up to the camera on every one of my well that's why yours is also more popular okay now 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 uh what were the fredonia what we will call the fredonia blue devils interesting i was at my high school it was the red devils really yeah can i i want to ask you 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 out of my home i'm in a small town i'm in a small town 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 my daughter is 12 years old and their our slogan our high school logo is the hillbillies oh that's not gonna last and it's a guy it's not gonna 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 to have to change the basketball court and you're so we're just the hillbillies that'll that'll get you in the harvard by the way we gotta get into that yeah we gotta get into harvard it's important well you got we gotta get into harvard or we gotta get 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 went when we played boston yeah when sebastian played the boston garden i was open from on the tour incredible you went to harvard that whole thing that you and tina went through oh i'll talk to him about that that's helpful we could never talk about that and i said amy and tina talked about it i think you can a bunch of aggressive nerds shouting jokes at you but i mean a bunch of valedictorians but you take it because it's harvard right if it was jamestown community college you'd have been out of there in 10 minutes right because it's harvard you just take the punches okay so let's start this um i'm gonna start this podcast with sebastian but i need to know um pete do you have a question you think i should ask 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 there an end to that bother 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 but uh one big hang-up he has is noises it's called he's self-diagnosed misopheneo how do you pronounce that um misophonia misophonia yeah yeah self-diagnosed he's never done anything about it but like you know you could chew gum around them and then like a half hour later he'll tell me i yeah yeah yeah you gotta stop it to go so but he has not done anything about it he's not done anything about it he's not done anything about it 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 i think it's because his comedy lives in irritation yes yes i know what you mean i these are great questions because i know 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 a lot of a lot of water has a lot of people have to drink water it's very stressful so i'm gonna talk to sebastian about that yeah very very good okay well we're gonna get started pete you've been amazing thank you thank you so much thank you amy thank you all have a wonderful time everybody check out the pete sebastian show thank you pete 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 fashion east 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 explore deals now on walmart.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 menescalco everybody oh sebastian i want to tell you that i had a different shirt on and i changed when i saw what you were wearing they 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 apparently you thought you were gonna go to 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 a put your nice slacks on we're going out to dinner so i always thought when we were leaving the house you should look presentable yeah but nowadays if you take around particularly in this city it's you roll out of bed and then you're at the at the walgreens so i don't know i just feel like you should 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 no i don't i've never understood the whole pillow i don't like that pillow thing that's a no offense gen z but there's a lot of you guys are dragging around a lot of pillows it's intense okay we have a lot to talk about sebastian because you and i were 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 you how what years were you there so uh 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 uh i did second city yeah yeah and yeah and um and like you know a lot of people wanted to take class there moved to chicago and i remember like i just the weather the weather in chicago is the thing you remember because it just it's punishing yes when is when is the coldest you've ever been in chicago the coldest temperature god um i don't know there's always like a windchill so i don't know minus i think it was like minus 15 uh one year so yeah what do you why do you have a do you have a record low i was just curious like chicago people that live in that area you're doing this you're proving my point which is they don't really talk about the weather that they don't care that much about the weather they don't make it a big deal yeah it's not a big deal when you're living in it yeah it's just like the way of life so we're not like you know we're not sitting there going oh it's really cold today how are you i think the weather is really cold today this is our record i don't know we just it just it's it's brutal and do you remember um a restaurant in chicago in the chicago area did you go did you like to go into the city did you go into the city a lot so we went into the city uh early on in my teenage years 17 years old i had a fake id we'd love to dance we used to go to this place called acapulco bar uh alumni club so yeah we were we were big dancers growing up so 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 so yeah yeah maybe i saw you did you ever go to a restaurant called carlucci's i have yeah okay i used to be a waiter there oh yeah and it was i i was i was thinking about our prep for today and for people that don't know sebastian's um dad was a sicilian immigrant is a sicilian immigrant and um carlucci's was the first time i learned about italian finance so i learned about italian finance when i was a kid i learned about italian finance when i was a kid and uh hey did you ever go to a place in schaumburg called the living room oh yes i worked there that was a that was a very hot club like bar i'm surprised we didn't cross paths what kind of famous people came through the living room uh do you remember not really not a lot of fame walking through the living room but i remember being kind of a cool club it was a cool club i it just not a lot of celebrities came through there maybe dennis rodman because the years where the bulls were hot um but yeah um what'd you do there i worked as a waiter in the fine dining by the way this is the best lip balm are you kidding me no so are you joking i have to tell you because this is a sponsor oh it is and they're not sponsoring this so we'll probably have to cut this out but i i use that all the time it's the best okay you like your product well it's my wife likes products and while i'm in bed one night she's like here you gotta put this on i'm going to bed she put it on hello new lips 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 it's too much okay so but you worked you you've done 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 um 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 um i don't know i i put a napkin on my lap i don't know if that's out of style or anybody's doing that anymore but you know just 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 you know it's like nobody wants to be there i don't know it just seems like people are detached or disconnected do you like when a server um this happens a lot in la where you live um where we both live uh 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 i don't like that i don't like that move i 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 i don't normally have that because i'm lactose and hey guy we don't need to know your your your medical history just bring out the burger okay and you talked also about which i loved and um i should i should point out like you know as as as well as you being the the most success having the most successful touring year of your career would you say this year congratulations thank you thank you and you've got a new special coming out in november and you you made a beautiful film about your dad with robert de niro playing your dad yeah crazy well crazy um and you're 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 yeah that's not always the case sometimes when you're when you see people on stage they feel like they're like talking about their koi pond or something like that's their but it does feel like you are still in it you have little kids yes and you one could argue you're a little old for that you got little kids i do i'm 52 and i have a six-year-old son so that's okay don't don't relax no i'm only kidding because i love you on instagram when you talk about how tired you are i'm exhausted and it's exhausting no i i waited a little you know i waited to have kids and now i'm paying the price come on no claptor no claptor um but your wife seems amazing lana and you talk about her a lot and she's i've seen her on the gram she's a hot piece she's 10 years younger so uh yeah so i'm trying to keep up with her and she's an ex-gymnast so she's always doing flips and she's always doing flips she she walks down the stairs on her hands no way i've never seen that before but that's what i'm dealing with so does she do that when she's angry when she's upset no she's she's never really upset she's one of these like she's 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 uh she's a doll and and uh yeah she's very athletic very strong and uh i am um almost has i almost have my arp card i'm the same we're the same age we're the same age yeah we're getting are you what are you enjoying about your 50s so i'm glad i had kids this 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 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 a 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 gone the next so you know i got to a place where i'm like all right let's start a family and i like it in my 50s um i just wish i was a little bit more i don't know i feel like i want to go play basketball the other day I'm like, you know, I haven't played basketball in a while. And I'm like, I don't remember the rim being this high. 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. It is just tear after tear. 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. Well, I get it. But I have to say, I remember having younger kids. My kids are teenagers now. And the amount of play they have to do with kids is exhausting. It's exhausting. Yes, it is. Play is a nightmare. And when you're a kid, the worst things to hear in the world is, Daddy, can we play? 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 and my kids would come up to me with Star Wars lightsabers and be like, yay. Yay, now we can play. And I was just like, oh, fuck. Like, oh, no, I have to play Star Wars. It was the worst. And I miss every second of it. But Lana, does she come to your shows? Yeah, I mean, she comes, but I mean, it's. Is she here tonight? No, no, no. She's playing with the kids. Yeah. You've played huge stadiums. You sold out, was it Madison Square Garden? Like, how many nights in a row? Five, six? Five, yeah. Incredible. I mean, yes. Thank you. And what's it like playing a space that big? 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, you know, I like to fill the room. I like to get up there and be physical and kind of prowl. 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 know, you've got to light yourself on fire up there for people to, like, pay attention. That's so true. You know, if you're not funny for, you know, an hour and 15 minutes, you could lose it. You know, 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 person. You're such a funny physical performer. You're so. 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. And then 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, know, 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. So I like to, like, pay attention to lighting is big. How is this lighting? 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, too. 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. And then we got people in the back that are all, oh, 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. By the way, and I don't know if you know this, a little trivia here, and I don't know if anybody in the audience knows, 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? No, I didn't check the percentage. Was it bad? It was 7% bad. 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. Him and I were in a movie that was so fun to make, because he's the best, called The House. 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. So I think we made The House like a. It was like 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, or do you remember? Yeah, no, it was a day. I came in. I've never met you or Will or any of those people, so it was nice. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I mean, I feel like. Like, I remember that time, and also, you had been performing for a while. 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 Four Seasons for seven years, getting my feet wet with stand-up comedy, and I didn't have a movie or a TV show or anything that really propelled me into the mainstream. I feel even. And now, too, you know, I have a great fan base and what have you, but I still, like, feel like there's room for growth, but it didn't. It took a while. I mean, what is this? About 2015, shortly after we hit the house, 7%. I 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. So. With inflation and everything. 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, but, you know, every once in a while, it'd be nice to, you know, get a pop. What? How does your dad do it? How does your dad feel like he's taken the long road? How would he say he's taken it? I mean, 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. It's fun hanging around with, like, an immigrant father who just doesn't know, like, the words. Is there a word still that really makes you giggle that he. Oh, he goes, oh, you know, your cousin, he's going to Ole Miss. What? Ole Miss, then, 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. 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. I was very nervous. What was that like? I 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 he 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, well, well, well, well, well. And he left. So I'm like, all right, that's the end of that. And two weeks later. Two weeks later, got a call that he's interested in, you know, playing your father. And I'm like, you know, this is a guy that had, you know, good fellows, good casino posters on my wall, and now he's going to play my dad in a movie, and then subsequently called my father down to Oklahoma where he was shooting the movie because he wanted to get to know my dad. No way. So my dad. So you're like, dad, he wants to hang out with you? And my dad's like, how much am I getting for this? So I'm like, no, you're 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, and I'm going to lose money if I go down there 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's like, I ain't going to the set. He didn't? You know, this is like, you know, a movie, right? With De Niro. We grew up watching. And my dad's like, I ain't. So I said, just come to the set and hang out. So my dad was on set teaching De Niro how to do blowouts and dye jobs. We should make it clear that Sebastian's father does hair. And it was a hairdresser for your whole life, right? Yeah, so he cut my hair until I left the house at, I think, 23. Does he still want to cut your hair now? He cut my hair about four years ago. And I said, that's it. No, he's falling apart. I mean, he's falling apart. His shoulder's falling off. It's not easy getting old. It is not easy. No, no, especially at that age. Now, every time I talk to my parents, it's like, you know, I'm not peeing right. OK. 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. It's a lot of. I use a pepper. Oh, yeah. It's called a fiber. I do a lot of pepper before I come up there. I got someone back there with a peppermint. With like the Parmesan grater and just like a little bit more. But, you know, I do want to talk about you on stage because I do. I love I love watching you perform because, as we talked about earlier, you are physical. And a lot of people, you know, 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 bodies, your whole body when you perform. 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 know you're talking. Shake it out. I. Come on. Everybody knows you shake it out. 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 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. So you have any people that when you were growing up, like physical comedians that you love? John Ritter is. I was just saying. 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 what he was doing. I used to watch three's company like game tape. Growing up. Yeah. Over and over and over again. There was a scene where he was on a hammock trying to get up. Get on the hammock when he fell off. So all those little movements and then he would hit himself and come up and have this dazed look on. 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 you did what? Eighty whatever shows this year? Yeah, it was a lot. Eighty four shows. I think I did. But yeah. Do you ever do two? Do you ever do two a days? I used to, but no more. 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. You never do a four. No, I didn't do comedy during the day. You got to do a four. It'll change your life. Four o'clock show, you're done by 630? No, I like the concept. I just I'm. I was wondering if my audience would look at the ticket and go, wait, four o'clock. We ain't going to. I got to tell you, every single person at that four o'clock show was pumped. Am I wrong? They wanted to. They wanted to go to bed. They want to go to sleep. Listen, that is nice for the audience. Come home and you get a white snack and you go to bed. How do you feel about sleep? I always like to talk to people 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 it's difficult on the road just because I just came like last night. I had the worst sleep because three hours and a plane and I got to adjust and whatnot. But when I'm home, I am starting to go to bed, sadly, after I tuck my kids in. I love this. Talk to me about the time. So I'm in bed about I'd say about nine o'clock. Incredible. Sebastian, this is my audience. We love bedtime. We love bedtime. All we think about is bedtime. We love bedtime. Nine 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, because generally speaking, I get up around six o'clock regardless of what time I go 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? Whatever the hell it is. I thought I thought only like that. Exactly. I know it's usually. I thought it was like a man thing. Right. No. Lucky for me, it's not just a man thing. You're right. It usually is a man thing. Have you ever heard a woman going, I got to travel with this thing? I never heard of that, right? I never. I'm sorry. Not a lot of women are doing that. Well, I've always been ahead of my field. Well, yeah, it's pretty sexy. It's pretty sexy stuff. But yeah, I have, I am a sleep apnea. So I wear a CPAP 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. 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. Okay. Got to do it every night. And it puts you right to sleep. It's, it's like the sound and it has air, excuse me, water. So it's like hydrated. So you never, ever wake up with dry mouth, bad breath, nose, any of that stuff. Cause you're always hydrated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You put your lip balm on. 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. But what's your bedroom, bedtime routine? Tell me about your lotions. Cause I bet you have a skincare routine. I do. 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. 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? It's a variety of different brands. I can't recall. Okay. Cause again, my wife is just giving me stuff like, here, use this lotion. Oh, okay. Smart. You don't want to give him free stuff. I get it. 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. I've been doing two different colognes, one on the front and one on the back. Okay. Okay. So you get one scent coming and one scent going. It's a beautiful technique. Wow. Are you into men with cologne? Yeah, I love, I'm sure. And also the, the, the front and back is genius because it's like, 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 like do you watch comedy 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 do you what do you what do you what how do you do you watch stuff to make you laugh do you watch videos do you do you watch other comics what do you I don't I don't look at entertainment for the comedy of it I look like a documentaries. I like drama. If I want to laugh, I got a friend back in Chicago. His name is George. I'll call him. Tell us about George. He just, he's one of these guys that just, he's, he's funny. He's like, we can talk about daily life and he just makes me laugh. So George is kind of my go-to for, for comedy. But as far as standup 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 do and maybe a special come on. I'll see five minutes of somebody and then I'll, and I'll just turn it off. If I really like it. The last one I, I watched from, from front to back was Giannis Pappas. Yes. A couple, a couple of specials that I thought was really, really funny and he caught me on a night where I was so like giddy and laughing. So generally speaking though, I'm like documentary series. I laugh at serious moments. 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. She's blind. So every now and then, what are you laughing at? I guess the question is, do you believe it is this show? I mean, come on. The concept of it is cute. Oh, I'm going to fall in love with somebody and then on the inside and then, you know, but that's half, you know, you, you know, you're going to eventually come out and look at the person. If they got no teeth, you know, it's a problem. They got to walk down the stairs on their hands for them to be worth. Their assault. I mean, love is blind is, um, for me, like for people who are listening, who might not know, you know, they talk and then they finally see each other after they meet each other just from talking. And my mirror neurons, like I get so codependently stressed when those doors open and the body language was so stressful when they're like, Hey, when they go from like arms open to just like, pat, pat, pat and the way that like the body never lies. Like when the way, when they go in for the kiss and it's just like, Oh, they just turn, they just turn, they turn their mouth away and give them the cheek and it's brutal or she can 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. I think serious moments I tend to laugh at and find funny. Like my wife will be telling me, telling me a serious story and I'll just bust out laughing. She's like, 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. So, yeah, I know what you mean. Okay. So you've got a new special coming out. Yeah. An another hour plus the material. How it takes you, how long to get new material? I don't know. It's been averaging like three, three years. Every three years I come up with an hour. It's difficult because what you want to do going into these, 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 and now they're going to, you know, and then, you know, people expect a certain level from you. So 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. No way. And it was very hard for me to move around. Too much play. 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, right? Yeah. I'm going to bring Vegas back to Frank Sinatra. So I wanted the audience to dress up and this, and 20 people dressed up and, uh, and I felt very hampered in a tuxedo. I couldn't move in a tuxedo. I, I wanted to like kind of correct that with this special and, uh, I have no more sciatica and no more tuxedo. Do you do a good, do you have a good sciatica stretch? Um, I keep up on that. I do. I take a ball and tennis ball, a cross ball. What kind of ball? It is a, it's like a ball that you would buy to roll out your legs. Okay. And I put it right here and my psoas. Yes. And I, you guys know what that is, right? Yeah. I feel like this is like a, like a health related section. We're doing sleep. Now we're doing sciatica, uh, sleep apnea. We, we've got to keep, we got to get, we got to get all the tips. Okay. Put it in your psoas and roll it. Like, so you get on the floor and then you basically, yeah, you lay on it and roll a lot of that. I believe from my research, uh, which is Instagram, um, a lot of the sciatic pain is coming from the psoas. From the front side of the body, uh, particularly in 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 got, you and Pete have been doing your podcast for 12 years. What, what do you like about doing it? What have you learned? Like what, what's the best thing about having a podcast? Like what, what do you like about it? What I use it for is long form story. Telling. 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, that, you know, like story has beats to it. And you know, if somebody tells me, Amy, tell that story about that, that, that, that, that I'll look at the crowd. And I don't know if you do that crowd, but like a group of people and I go, I'm not telling that story. Cause I know the attention span. Right. 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, we basically, it's like phone, it's like a recorded phone call and, uh, and we have a ball and that's kind of what I get out of the podcast. It is Pete was saying, we don't really have, I mean, we have a loyal fan base. I mean, nothing, like, like this, this army you have that comes out to see, um, but it is, I mean, if you're looking for like really just storytelling and comedic storytelling, uh, that's what I believe podcasting has done for us is just give us an opportunity. Cause you know, when you do stand up, you need it to be tight. You need it to be hitting it all cylinders with the podcast. You know, you guys are, whoever's listening to it could be in your bathroom, getting ready or 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 we plan on doing it. Uh, I mean, you know, it's, it's, 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, you can figure out you're like, you can figure out how you feel about things in real time. Like you, you can hear people kind of sort through 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. And, um, and because of that, I want to throw out some things and I just want to get your take about how you feel about them. Okay. So we're going to do a little speed round. Oh, good. Okay. Shoeless households. 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? And I'm like, you know, I'm a grown man. I don't, I don't feel like I should be walking around somebody else's house in my socks. 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. 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 are going to traipse that into the house. Yeah. Okay. Fine. I get it. It's hasn't been a problem for me for the last 52 years. No one's ever got sick. I'm 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. And I go, nah, leave them on. Especially women, man. They love shoes. They come over with a nice heel and they go, okay, let me take this on. Now they gotta walk around barefoot. Have you seen the bottom of some people's feet? What's on, what's on, what kind of bacteria? That might be even worse than a shoe. Now Pete was talking to us about misophonia. Are you a germaphobe? I'm not, I'm not a germaphobe. I wouldn't, I wouldn't say I'm not wiping down the plane seat when I walk on the plane, but I'm like, I, I often look at people and how they kind of conduct their lives and go, how the hell could you be doing that here, you know? 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 okay. Wow. Not okay. So with this misophonia, if you don't know what it is, and it's, again, Pete said I was not diagnosed with it. Yeah, his question, I think, was 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. It could be anything. People want a 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. I could drown out all other sounds. Like a Tom Cruise movie. It's amazing. It really is amazing. And I don't want to get rid of this 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. Wedding registries. Wedding registries. Oh, 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. Whatever. I just, you know, nice cash envelope. I think everybody likes a, especially when you're getting started married. It used to be, you know, people got married kind of young and they needed a start, right? Oh, here's $500. You know, 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 amazing. And it got silent in here because maybe some of the people are in there. Yeah. This is New York City, yeah. Look at how quiet it got, right? Your mother paid for the tickets tonight. Yeah, everybody turned to their mother, who they're with, and said, I don't know what he's talking about. Is there anything at a wedding that people do that drives you nuts? I'm not into taking home food, and this is big in the Italian culture. They'll go to the sweet table. Italians have a sweet table. And they'll take a styrofoam, a 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. What are you, have this for breakfast tomorrow? I just think it's a tacky move. I don't like to go at a wedding. 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 in the. Up until a year ago. I got a dog. We have two dogs now. So we got them for the kids. I'm not a huge animal lover. I like animals, but I'm not coming home and. I don't take it out to get coffee. I'm taking it on an airplane. I just felt like we had a pet in the neighborhood. Growing up. His name was Italo. It's the male version of Italy. That's the name of the dog, Italo. 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. It wasn't like the focal point of the home. It was just like, yeah, you're 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 did you get? Cats? Forget it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 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. I can't. Yeah. 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 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. Oh, God. 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. It would try to suck your spirit out of your mouth. So I understand. Yelling. Yelling. How do you feel about yelling? 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 go, 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? And if you lose your composure, the kids will go, wow, we don't want to see that again. Right? So a good yell, I think, every now and then, sets the family straight. Agreed. Oh, you're getting some applause. I'm surprised. I'm surprised. I'm surprised. You're getting applause from the parents of the people who paid for their kids to be here. Santa Claus. We had a problem with Santa Claus. 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 eight 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 thread that you're with the moms and find out what's going on 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. That is lying to my kids, right? Eat your carrots. You're going to see better. But yeah, so I got so upset. Yeah. 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 in the party. Got it, got it. I get it. So I'm talking to Santa. You're going to the back of 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'll come to the house on Christmas Eve and I'll put the presents down. Right? So 1230 at night, this guy comes. I put my robe in the driveway. Come this way. The trees, Santa's over here, Santa. He comes in. I wake up the kids. I go, Santa's here. We come. We look at Santa. And then the kids go back to bed. I peel off three hunge for this drunk Santa in my house. And now the kids, they believe again. So I highly recommend if you need to get a Santa to come to your house. That's what we do. Incredible. Incredible. Wow. And I guess the last question I want to ask you, Sebastian, and thank you so much for your time. And again, check out Sebastian's new special on Hulu and all of 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 it's so fun. It feels like what I've read is that you do a reverse sear. Yes. And I want to talk about it. Okay. I like these questions. So I found this video, this was 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. And what kind of cut are we talking about? You used to like. - A ribeye, now I'm on to New York strip. Because the ribeye got a lot of fat on it, and at this age, you know, I could go at any minute. So I'm doing New York strip steak, and I heavily salt it and heavily put pepper on it, right from the hair. 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. All the while, I got a cast iron skillet, white hot. 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, you know, blood or whatever kind of moving throughout the plate. And I like the stems of rosemary. It kind of adds a nice touch. So anything else in the pan? Like, no, no butter. No, I know a lot of people do a little oil, maybe garlic. And then they they kind of baste it with a spoon. No, this is a you don't need it. You want you want to you want a shout out and a sponsor for this? Snake River Farm meat is probably the best meat that you can get. You got it. You can order it online. No, I've been promoting this this this meat company for a while. For real. And not one free filet. I'm the guy that gets nothing like any 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 or shoes. I got nothing. 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. Oh, not what I expected. What did you expect? I expected a whipped or a mashed. Funny you say that. I started. 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 a good mashed. Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mash, but the fingerling is sufficing for now. And then I'll take it. I'll put a green in there. I'll put a I'll put a broccoli and I'll put a little asparagus. Um, I'm trying to get the kids to eat, you know, healthy. Um, 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 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. I don't know if it's sweet. It's probably not Swedish. Just what they do. But like when dinner time is almost ready, like that hungry time and like you're five thirty six when the 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 and they eat a bunch of carrots and celery just as a snack because it's not part of their dinner. Like, 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, it does sound good in theory. OK. But how prone are you to, you know, cut some carrot radishes? You've got this 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. You're right. Cutting too many vegetables is a nightmare. But I would take a vegetable over a fruit any day. What's your what's your vegetable favorite? Well, I love anything in the pea family. So I love a pea. I love it. You know, what do you call it? A snap pea. Thank you. I love a pea. I love it. I love an asparagus. I love a potato. Does it count as a vegetable? Yeah, it does. I don't know. Mushroom. I love a mushroom. OK, a mushroom. So. What's your favorite fruit? I feel like some kind of like savory, like a like a chicken curry with mushrooms and rice. No, no, no, no. I'm foot dead. Fruit. Did you hear fruit? Oh, you said fruit? Yeah, fruit. You said it like, you said it like this. Fruit. She got it. My favorite fruit? Fruit. Yeah. Fruit. Is, um, I don't know, a plum. A plum? Oh, wow. Fruit is a banana or a strawberry. It's a toss up. Yeah. And a vegetable. I like an asparagus. I like an asparagus. I really am, I'm really big on the asparagus. But if I had to choose, I'd go strawberry or banana over a vegetable any day of the week. You'd go fruit over veg, ain't you? I'd go fruit. Wow. And you've got this audience. As we, as we wrap up, I guess, raise your hand. Are you, uh, raise your hand if you'd go fruit over veg. Wow. Look at that. Look at that. I can't even see the people up the top. That's impressive. The people on the side on the park ride are all veg. That's impressive. Nobody's voting fruit. Unbelievable. Well, you found your audience, Sebastian. I did. It's my group of people. Give it up, everybody, for Sebastian Menescalco. Thank you so much. How amazing. Thanks, thanks for having me here. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Sebastian Menescalco, everybody. You've been listening to Good Hang. The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Berman, and me, Amy Poehler. The show is produced by The Ringer and Paper Kite. For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spillane, Kaya McMullen, and Alea Zanaris. For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss-Berman. 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