Sebastian Maniscalco (Live)

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Hello everyone welcome to the first official live recording of Good Hang this is the first time we've done it and we're really really happy that you could be here thank you so much don't worry I have my lip balm and we're gonna be okay. We're gonna we're gonna 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 it's so great that you came without even knowing that's that's a real fan thank you so much well we're gonna we're gonna record our part what if I just never told you 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 their incredible music and we're very very excited because our guest tonight who is gonna be on stage who we're gonna 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 I don't know if it's the world I'll check with him but we're so excited to have Sebastian here and so I'm gonna go sit over there are you ready to get started all right need anything from Tesco like Tesco finest hot cross buns any two for just three pounds on selected packs this Easter with your Tesco club card because every little helps majority of larger stores selected finest buns and sixth of April club card or app required we practice that transition many times we didn't get it right okay so you know welcome to another episode of Good Hang very excited to be doing this live with a band and thrilled to be here in the Gramercy Theater 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 so we're gonna 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 so we are 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 Correali Pete Pete we got a play on this is phenomenal we've been doing it 12 years we've never had a set up this good I know 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 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 in the Golden Globes that ever lived this is a hiccup come on Pete if the people in the audience aren't famous then I don't know what to do that'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 Montreal festival put together this thing where we all stayed in Toronto in a hotel and every night we would meet in a van which was me Sebastian and like four of the comics from other countries guy from Australia I remember a guy from you know 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 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 a first show that night and we'll get in the van and Sebastian's the last one to get in the van and I'm going to back to 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 oh what is that your performing shirt and he goes yeah I get sweaty I go oh this shit guy 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 because of him and I'm standing straight as a boy leaning against a goddamn brick wall yeah 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 you want exactly but we hit it off 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 it's just sometimes you know we get together due to cast and maybe you're not in the mood so you call it the cast we call it the cast interesting yeah even though we don't have quite as many viewers as you do ours is still a cast this is a zillion podcast but we call it I don't pay attention to the numbers Pete I just do it for the fun no but you guys are so funny on it together thank you 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 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 figured no no get and then we don't do anything topical like you could listen to anyone on our cast and you would 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 your 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 mention the college no Fredonia State is the college okay and what was the name of your team what were the Fredonia what we were called the Fredonia blue devils interesting I was at my high school was the red devils really yeah can I I want to ask you opinion about something bring that up where I live now I live in a small town I'm actually been depressed as a moving to Rochester but over in a small town called Fredonia okay by the time this comes out I'll be gone I already go to a new house but I've been there 12 years my daughter is 12 years old and their 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 the uniforms so we're just the hillbillies that'll get you in the Harvard by the way we gotta get into that yeah we gotta get into Harvard it's important what you got we gotta get into Harvard or we gotta get and talk about Harvard when you want to talk about things with Sebastian talk about Harvard Sebastian did go to Harvard I know that but when we went to college when we played Boston yeah when Sebastian played the Boston garden I was open from on the tour incredible we went to Harvard oh and that whole thing that you and Tina went through oh I'll talk to him about that that's helpful and he's like we could never talk about that and I said Amy and Tina talked about it I think you can a bunch of aggressive nerd shouting jokes at you but I mean a bunch of valedictorians but you take it because it's Harvard right if it was James time community college you'd have been out of there in ten minutes right because it's Harvard just take the punches okay so let's start this I'm gonna start this podcast with Sebastian but I need to know Pete do you have a question you think I should ask uh yes one question I think is Sebastian loves to entertain hmm 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 does that bother you so much and the other thing Amy I love this guy so much for so many different reasons he's a warmhearted guy good guy but one big hang up he has is noises it's called he's self diagnosed misophonial how do you pronounce that misophonia misophonia 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 yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you gotta stop with the girl 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 I think it's because his comedy lives in irritation yes yes I know what you mean 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 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 so much thank you Amy thank you all have a wonderful time everybody check out the pizza fashion show thank you Pete alright we are ready to introduce our guest thank you so much again for coming and give it up let's keep the momentum going for Sebastian Menescoco 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 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 a professional well this is the first live show so I'm like alright 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 going to 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 but nowadays if you take around particularly in this city it's you roll out of bed and then you're at the wall green so I don't know I just feel like you should have 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 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 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 what well I went to I did second city yeah yeah and yeah and and like you know a lot of people wanted to take class there and move 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 I don't know there's always like a wind chill so I don't know minus I think it was like minus 15 one year so yeah what do you have a 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 really cold today I think this is our record I don't know we just it's brutal and do you remember 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 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 aca poco bar 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 really it was a good club scene did you ever go to Baja Beach Club yes okay yeah yeah maybe I saw you were there huh did you ever go to a restaurant called Carlucci's I have yeah okay I used to be a waiter there oh really yeah and it was I was I was thinking about our prep for today and for people that don't know Sebastian's dad was a Sicilian immigrant is a Sicilian immigrant and Carlucci's was the first time I learned about Italian fine dining in any way like I didn't know anything about it anti-pasti and semi-frado and breadsticks those kind of course were you waiting tables when you were living there were you working in a restaurant there or only after you came to LA funny you say fine dining I started my waiting career at Olive Garden oh yeah great place to start great place to break in and hey did you ever go to a place in Shambur 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 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 just not a lot of celebrities came through there maybe Dennis Rodman because this is the years where the bulls were hot but yeah 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 this is a sponsor oh it is oh it is Lameche 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 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 gonna bet she put it on hello new lips incredible in fact that you're reminding me everybody who has lip balm let's take a lip balm break while we just wait a second because it's too much right it's so dry out it's too much okay so you but you were to you you've done you 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 and 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 I don't know 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 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 you think 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 this happens a lot in LA where you live where we both 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 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 know like sometimes the waiter will go oh you know I don't normally have that because I'm lactose and the egg I don't need to know your medical history just bring out the burger 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 touring year of your career would you say congratulations and you've got a new special coming out in November and you made a beautiful film about your dad with Robert De Niro playing your dad yeah crazy well crazy 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 there 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'm 52 and I have a six year old son so that's okay don't 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 no I waited a little you know I waited kids and now it's nice come on no clap to her no clap to her 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 yeah so I'm trying to keep up with her and she's an ex gymnast so she's always doing flips she walks down the stairs on her hands I've never seen that before but that's what I'm dealing with does she do that when she's angry when she's upset no 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 but no she's a ray of sunshine and she's a doll and yeah she's very athletic very strong and I am almost has I almost have my ARP card we're the same age we're the same age what are you enjoying about your 50s so I'm glad I had kids this late in life just because you know I'm stable I could provide them with you know a life that I'm not one of these guys I want to get my kids a life that I never had I had a good you know middle class upbringing and what not but as an entertainer or performer you want to get to a place where you're stable financially before you start bringing people into the world and you know this business you know it could be here one day go on the next so you know I got to a place where I'm like alright let's start a family and I like being in my 50s 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 don't remember the rim being this high so but it's nice that's a 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 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 your kid the worst thing 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 can 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 with a 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 I was like it was the worst and I and I miss every second of it but Lana did 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 you've played huge stadiums you sold out was it Madison Square Garden like how many nights in a row five six incredible 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 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 and kind of prowl the stage I'm not one of these guys that stands behind the microphone tells jokes nothing wrong with that but for me especially nowadays you know you got to light yourself on fire up there for people to like pay attention that's so true you know if they just 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 the story but also maybe acting out the story it's not all physical but you know you're such a funny physical performer you're so I love watching you and and I read something that was really cool was 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 no okay you know I'm at this point I'm at that point I feel like it's service the room better just by using the triangle stage plus you know I made the the the screen above me trying I like production to when I do stand up so I like to like pay attention to lighting is big how is this light I think this is beautifully done do you like the people over we get people kind of on the side I do I notice I don't mind it's a little disconcerting because you guys are the same height as us so it looks like they're on a ride 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 all right all right it goes deep it goes deep it does go deep 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 we did a movie together okay we did a movie together and you know when it came out you know what it what percentage of it was on rotten tomatoes no I didn't check the percentage was it bad is 7% bad that's right that's 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 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 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 and 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 yeah what was your memory of it did you have it was it a good experience or do you know yeah 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 I mean I feel like I remember that time and also it you have been 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 yeah 1998 I started doing stand-ups so for me you know I worked at the 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 now to 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 2012 about 2015 shortly after we hit the house 7% I just looked it up before and it's up to 20% oh okay we'll move it up we'll move it up so with inflation and everything yeah but no it's a slow burn for me nothing nothing nothing comes easy in my life so yeah why why doesn't think what do you mean it's just you know my father and I often discuss this like the Manuskalco 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'll be nice to you 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 it's fun hanging around like an immigrant father who just doesn't know like the words is there a word still that you that really makes you giggle that he he oh he goes oh you know your cousin he's going to only miss why Ole miss that not only miss so there's a lot of that one feels okay now that's what that feels okay that's like the hillbilly is but he but he he's an amazing story and you wrote a film based on 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 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 into 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 and he left so I'm like alright stay under that and 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 I had you know good fellows 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 so my dad he wants to hang out with you and my dad's like how much am I getting for this so like I'm 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 gotta 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 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 the end 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 digups so we should make it clear that Sebastian's father does hair and and was it was a hairdresser for your whole life right yeah so he cut my hair until I left the house at I think 23 and does he still give you 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 his shoulders falling off of you it's not easy getting old it is not easy especially at that age now every time I talk to my parents it's like you know I'm not being right okay is it true that Sicilians have great hair I don't know I'm losing a lot of my hair it's it's it's a lot of dust up there it's a lot of I use a pepper yeah it's called a fiber do a lot of pepper before I come up there I got someone back there like the parmesan but you know that I do want to talk about the 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 body is 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 to you know you don't you don't know what I'm talking about well I I feel like you shake it out I I come on everybody knows you 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 it took that and just made it a little bit more grand when I'm on stage so do you have any people that when you were growing up like physical comedians that you love John Ritter is my 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 young people go watch three's company incredible 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 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 days looked on so all that stuff I really incorporated so he was a big inspiration for me but yeah the physicality for me is 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 80 whatever shows this year yeah it was a lot of 84 shows I think I did do you ever do two days I used to but no more no more just too tired at the end 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 know how many days you got to do a four I'll change your life four o'clock show you're done by six no I like the concept I just I'm wondering if my audience would look at the ticket and go with it four o'clock we ain't going to I gotta 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 go right you're done with your snack 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 tucked 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 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 because generally speaking I get up around six 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 whatever the hell it is a breather 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 no I've you ever heard a woman going I gotta travel with this thing I've never heard it have right I never I'm sorry not a lot of women are doing that well I've always been ahead of my field I yeah it's pretty sexy stuff it's pretty sexy stuff but yeah I have I am asleep at me yet so I wear a CPAP machine and I gotta tell you I love 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 anybody who wants to try it for fun do it I've heard it it's very beneficial right do you do it consistently every night of course gotta do it every night and it's and it puts you right to sleep it's it's like the sound and it has air and like 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 hydrated you put your lip balm on your creams you hydrate and then you go and then you look like a fighter pilot you go to sleep but what's your bedroom bedtime routine tell me about your lotions because I bet you have a skincare routine I do I do have a skincare little put little toner 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 say the last two years I've been doing a full body lotion from head to toe very good what kind of brand you got going 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 okay smart you don't want to give him free stuff I get it there's one I a lot of them I can't pronounce okay they're more 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 so you get one cent common and one cent gone it's a beautiful technique I mean the men with cologne yeah I love I'm sure and also 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 I don't either it's just a busman's holiday 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 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's name is George I'll call him tell us about George he just he's one of these guys that just 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 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 do and maybe a special come on I'll see you guys in five minutes of somebody and I'll just turn it off if I really like it the last one I watched from from front to back was Giannis Pappas couple couple special I thought was really really funny and he caught me on a night where you know I was so like giddy and laughing so generally speaking I'm like documentary series I love it serious I love do you watch anything like you watch reality TV do you care about that my wife got me into love is 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 gonna fall in love with somebody and then on the inside and then you know but that's half you know you know you're not you're gonna eventually come out and look at the person if they got no teeth you know it's a problem they gotta walk down the stairs on their hands for them to be worth their assaults I mean love is blind is 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 co-dependently 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 oh yoyoy 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 they just turn they just turn they turn their mouth away and give them the cheek and it's brutal or she or she maybe that too but it's brutal no I can't handle that all right so you like dark stuff well I mean dark it's just like I like I don't know serious 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 she said 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 another hour plus a material how takes you how long to get new material I don't know it's been averaging three 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 and now they're gonna 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 injury I had sciatic pain on my right leg no way and it was very hard for me to move around much play 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 gonna try something different right yeah I'm gonna bring Vegas back to Frank Sinatra so I wanted the audience to dress up and this 20 people dressed up and and I felt very hampered in a tuxedo I could I wanted to like kind of correct that with this special and I have no more sciatica and no more tuxedos do you do a good do you have a good sciatica stretch I keep up on that I do I take a ball yeah and tennis ball a cross ball 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 so as yes and I know what that is right yeah I feel like this is like a lot like a health related section we're doing sleep now we're doing sciatica sleep at the we we gotta get all the tips okay put it in your so as 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 which is Instagram a lot of the sciatic pain is coming from the front side of the body particularly in the so as and I have a very tight so as region not to brag I got a big so as 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 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 that you know like story has beats to it and you know somebody tells me 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 because 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 yeah and and we have a ball and that's kind of what I get out of the podcast it this 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 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 yeah 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 you're working out and whatnot so yeah you chuckle here and there it's funny but but yeah it's been been a pleasure working with him and we plan on doing it 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 you can figure out your like you can figure out how you feel about things in real time like 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 it's kind of cool to hear that and 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 okay shoeless households okay it's a big debate yeah 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 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 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 are going to traipse that into the 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 I was like what did somebody come in here with their shoes on so if you come out of the house people will be kind and go oh do you want me to take my shoes off and I feel so good like I'm not leave them on right especially women man that's who they love shoes they come over to nice heel what they're going okay let me take this on now they're going to 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 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 but I'm like I often look at people and how they kind of conduct their lives and go hi how could you be doing that I just feel like there's no like you know you go on an airplane and people will take their shoes off and their barefoot and then they walk into the bathroom not okay not okay so I 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 yeah his question I think was what do you 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 yeah and eating Doritos I had 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 type 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 like 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 has in laughs at all right so that's why I keep the disease wedding registries wedding registries oh that's a good one we had a registry and when we got married I have no problem with it I don't pay attention to it because again growing up in 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 blender or whatever I just 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 to start right right oh here's $500 you know go buy 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 and it got silent in here because maybe some of the people are in yeah this is New York City yeah look at how quiet it got 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 I is there anything is there anything at a wedding that people do that you 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 and they'll take a styrofoam to go thing that they hand out okay and they'll take the cookies and destroy it down 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 packy 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 you 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 so we got them for the kids I'm not a huge animal lover it's and I like animals but like I'm not you know coming home and I don't take it out to get coffee you know I'm taking out an airplane I just felt like we had a we had a pet in the neighborhood growing up his name was Edelow it's the it's the male version of Italy that's the name the dog Edelow 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 just it was this kind of like there the dog it wasn't like the focal point of the home right yeah okay but now the dogs are here and it's the pet it bothers me I'm sorry it's just what kind of dog you can't forget it I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm allergic to cats that's why I don't like them but God I 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 tried 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 I 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 yell at your kids yell at my kids again I'm not one of these parents that gets on the same level as their kids and go just to 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 I agree 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 ten to eleven so I'm like what the five that's that's a little young so I came out of the room I asked my wife I go what get on this text that you're with the moms and find out what's going on at school 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 gonna see better I got so upset 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 want a 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 and I'll put the presents down right so twelve thirty at night this guy comes I end up in my robe and the driver comes right the trees over here Santa he comes in I wake up the kids I go Santa's here we come we look at Santa and then Santa and then the kids go back to bed I peel off three hunch for this drunk Santa in my house and now the kids you know they believe again so I highly recommend if you get a Santa to come to your house it's incredible incredible wow 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 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 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 it's about ten years ago online about the reverse sear basically what it is is you take the steak out of a refrigerator you leave it set for about thirty minutes get it to room temperature I like to do mine about forty five fifty minutes just let it get used to the atmosphere and what kind of cut are we talking about I used to like rib-eye now I'm on to New York's New York strip because the rib-eye 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 two seventy five I put it in there for about forty five minutes after the forty five minutes I take it out I let it rest for fifteen 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 gets a nice touch so anything else in the pan like no butter no I know a lot of people do a little oil maybe garlic and then they kind of baste it with a spoon no this is a you don't need a snake you want you want us you want a shout out and a sponsor for this snake river farm meat is probably the best meat that you can give you got to order it online 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 like 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 no not what I expected what do you expect I expected a whip to remashed 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 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 a I'll put a green in there I'll put a I'll put a broccoli and I'll put a little asparagus I'm trying to get the kids to eat you know healthy you know with this kind of grab and go stuff that I'm not into the process 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 with 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 your 536 when the kids like 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 that does sound good in theory but how prone are you to you know cut some carrot radishes you got this beautiful tray of vegetables and one carrot and then who's eating the rest of the vegetables right are you are you gonna 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 a you know what do you call it a snap pea thank you I love a pea I love I love an asparagus I I love a potato is that count as a vegetable yeah that's it I don't know mushroom I love a mushroom okay 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 for the food you said fruit what's your favorite food my favorite fruit yeah I don't know a plum a plum what's your favorite food what's your favorite fruit fruit is a banana or strawberry to toss up yeah and vegetable I like an asparagus I'd really love an asparagus but if I had to choose I'd go strawberry or banana over a vegetable I'd eat a week I'd go fruit over a vegetable and we've got this audience as we as we wrap up I guess raise your hand are you raise your hand if you go fruit over a veg wow 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 nobody's voting fruit unbelievable well you found your audience Sebastian my group of people give it up everybody for Sebastian Manascaucco thank you so much Sebastian Manascaucco everybody thank you