Sebastian Maniscalco (Live)

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Speaker 1 We have Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian is

Speaker 1 one of my favorite comedians. I find him to be deeply funny, deeply physical.

Speaker 1 He seems super nice, even though I don't really know him.

Speaker 1 And we talked a little bit backstage, but then I said, let's stop talking.

Speaker 1 If the cameras aren't rolling, then this ain't worth shit, is what I said.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's a little different because Sebastian will hear everything now, but

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Give it up, everybody, for Pete Coriali.

Speaker 2 Pete!

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 2 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,

Speaker 1 you're very, you're already so good at, I can tell you're a good performer because as soon as you came in, you were like, here we go, everybody.

Speaker 2 Amy, I've been a performer for 30 years. Sitting here with you is one of the most exciting things I've got to do in my career.
I'm not kidding.

Speaker 2 I am not.

Speaker 2 Amy was a little nervous backstage. She's never done a live chaos before.
I go, you're the best host of the Golden Globes that ever lived.

Speaker 2 This is a hiccup.

Speaker 2 Are you okay?

Speaker 2 Come on.

Speaker 1 Pete, if the people in the audience aren't famous, then I don't know what to do.

Speaker 2 It's weird because I just don't recognize any faces and it throws me off.

Speaker 2 That's hilarious. Okay.

Speaker 1 So, Pete, how did you and Sebastian first meet?

Speaker 2 We met doing stand-up. We met literally about 14 years ago in Canada.

Speaker 2 Montreal Festival put together this thing where we all stayed in Toronto in a hotel. And every night we would meet in a van.

Speaker 2 It was me, Sebastian, and like four of the comics from other countries, a guy from Australia. I remember a guy from

Speaker 2 Ireland. But then we would shoot out to little theaters each night.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 Then, when we get to the hotel, I say, see you later tonight. We got our first show that night.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And I'm in the back of the van. Nobody knows anyone, so we're all quiet.
And I go, what is that? Your performance shirt?

Speaker 2 And he goes, yeah, I get sweaty. I go, holy shit, guy.
So I'm making fun of him because he gets sweaty. Meanwhile, it's because he's physical.

Speaker 2 And then he goes on to make 10 million gazillion, and I'm standing straight as a boy leaning against a goddamn brick wall.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 2 you gotta have a performer shirt. You gotta have a shirt.
No, but that's where we first met.

Speaker 1 Dress for the job you want, Pete. Dressed for the job you want.

Speaker 2 Exactly. But we hit it off.

Speaker 2 And, you know, like you said, we've been doing it for 12 years. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I bet it's similar to you and Tina in that, like, there's just sometimes, you know, we get together to do the cast, and maybe you're not in the mood.

Speaker 1 So you call it the cast.

Speaker 2 We call it the interesting. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Even though we don't have quite as many viewers as you do, ours is still the cast.
There's a zillion podcast.

Speaker 1 I don't pay attention to the numbers, Pete. I just do it for the fun.

Speaker 1 No, but you guys are so funny on it together.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I love watching you too. And I mean, you guys know each other really well.
And

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 2 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 casts.
And I said, we both kind of agreed. Let's keep it consistent.

Speaker 2 That was number one.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 So if we want to keep it consistent, we figured no, no, guess. 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.

Speaker 2 Because it's about

Speaker 2 anything from going to someone's house and they make you take your shoes off.

Speaker 2 So it never, there's always something new to discuss because it's smart.

Speaker 1 It's like, yeah, you want to be able to catch up. Right.
I unfortunately hold the newspaper up to the camera on every one of my.

Speaker 2 Well, that's why yours is also more popular.

Speaker 1 Okay, now you're a basketball player in college.

Speaker 2 Oh, well, Division III, Amy. So let's pump the brakes on that.

Speaker 1 What college?

Speaker 2 I just said Division III. Once once someone says division three you don't care

Speaker 2 you never mentioned the college no fredonia state is the college okay and what was the name of your team um what were the fredonia what we were called the fredonia blue devils interesting i was at my high school it was the red devils really yeah can i i want to ask your opinion about something now you bring that up Where I live now, I live in a small town.

Speaker 2 I'm actually in the process of moving to Rochester, but I live in a small town called Fredonia. Okay.
By the time this comes out, I'll be gone. I already bought a new house.

Speaker 2 But But I've been there 12 years. My daughter is 12 years old, and

Speaker 2 our slogan, our high school logo, is the Hillbillies.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's not going to last.

Speaker 2 And it's a guy, it's not going to last. It's been there for like 50 years.
It's a guy with a beard and a jug of wine and a gun. I swear to God.

Speaker 2 And they don't get rid of it because it's too expensive. They'll have to change the basketball court and the uniforms.

Speaker 2 So we're just the hillbillies.

Speaker 2 That'll get you into Harvard. By the way,

Speaker 2 we got to get into that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we got to get into Harvard. It's important.

Speaker 1 We got to get into Harvard or we got to talk about Harvard.

Speaker 2 Or when you want to talk about things with Sebastian. Talk about Harvard? Sebastian didn't go to Harvard.

Speaker 2 I know that.

Speaker 2 No, but when we went, when we played Boston. Yeah.
When Sebastian played the Boston Garden, I was open for the tour. Incredible.
And you went to Harvard. Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 And that whole thing that you and Tina went through.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'll talk to him about that. That's helpful.

Speaker 2 We can never talk about that. And I said, Amy and Tina talked about it.
I think you can.

Speaker 1 A bunch of aggressive nerds shouting jokes at you. But I mean.
A bunch of valedictorians.

Speaker 1 But you take it because it's Hobbit, right?

Speaker 2 If it was Jamestown Community College, you'd have been out of there in 10 minutes, right? Because it's Hobbit. You just take the punches.

Speaker 1 Okay, so let's start this.

Speaker 1 I'm going to start this podcast with Sebastian, but I need to know,

Speaker 1 Pete, do you have a question you think I should ask?

Speaker 2 Yes. One question I think is Sebastian loves to entertain.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And, you know, you might want to ask him, what is it about, you know, why is there an end to when people come over? Why does that bother you so much?

Speaker 2 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 one big hang-up he has is Noises. It's called, he's self-diagnosed misophenial.

Speaker 2 How do you know? Oh,

Speaker 1 misophonia.

Speaker 2 Misophonia. Yeah.
Yeah. Self-diagnosed.
He's never done anything about it.

Speaker 2 But like, you know, you could chew gum around him and then like a half hour later he'll tell me,

Speaker 2 you gotta stop at the gum.

Speaker 2 So, but he has not gone and done anything about it. He always just likes to say self-diagnosed.
So perhaps you might want to ask him, why don't you take it any further and find out?

Speaker 2 I think it's because his comedy lives in irritation. Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. I know what you mean.
These are great questions because I know I know a little bit about mesophonia and I have a really hard time with mouth sounds in general.

Speaker 1 Like on the microphone, I'm looking at you, NPR.

Speaker 1 A lot of water has, a lot of people have to drink water.

Speaker 2 It's very stressful. So I'm going to talk to Sebastian about that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, very, very good. Okay, well, we're going to get started.

Speaker 2 Pete, you've been amazing. Thank you.
Thank you so much for coming. Thank you, Amy.
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Let's keep the momentum going for Sebastian Menasco,

Speaker 1 everybody.

Speaker 1 Oh, Sebastian.

Speaker 1 I want to tell you that I had a different shirt on, and I changed when I saw what you were wearing.

Speaker 2 They told me backstage.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 You're a professional, Amy, and you need to treat this show like a craft show.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 But I felt like this was appropriate to wear a suit. Apparently, you thought you were going to go to a T-bowl game.

Speaker 1 Well, I would much rather be underdressed than overdressed, but I bet you'd rather be overdressed.

Speaker 2 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,

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 But nowadays, if you take around, particularly in this city,

Speaker 2 you roll out of bed and then you're

Speaker 2 at the Walgreens. So I don't know.
I just feel like you should be able to.

Speaker 1 So you're trying to tell me that you don't wear sweatpants and bring your own pillow on the plane.

Speaker 2 That's what I'm hearing. No, I don't.
I've never understood the whole pillow thing.

Speaker 1 I don't like that pillow thing. That's no offense, Gen Z, but...

Speaker 1 There's a lot of you guys are dragging around a lot of pillows. It's intense.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 2 I grew up in the northwest suburbs of Arlington Heights, Illinois, so I wasn't in the city of Chicago.

Speaker 1 Right, and then you were, you,

Speaker 1 how, what years were you there?

Speaker 2 So I was there 1973 to 1998.

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, I was there the same time. Okay.
I mean, just for a few years.

Speaker 2 So, when were you there?

Speaker 1 Well I went to I did Second City.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And yeah and

Speaker 1 like you know a lot of people wanted to take class there and 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.

Speaker 1 Yes. When is it when is the coldest you've ever been in Chicago?

Speaker 2 The coldest temperature? God.

Speaker 2 I don't know. There's always like a wind chill.
So

Speaker 2 I don't know minus, I think it was like minus 15 one year. So, yeah, what do you have? Why? Do you have a do you have a record low temperature?

Speaker 1 No, I was just curious.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's not a big deal. When you're living in it,

Speaker 2 it's just like the way of life. So, we're not like, you know, we're not sitting there going, oh,

Speaker 2 really cold today. How do you think this is a record? I don't know.
We just, it's just, it's, it's brutal.

Speaker 1 And do you remember a restaurant

Speaker 1 in the Chicago area?

Speaker 1 Did you like to go into the city? Did you go into the city a lot?

Speaker 2 So we went into the city early on in my teenage years, 17 years old. I had a fake idea.
We'd love to dance. We used to go to this place called Acapulco Bar.

Speaker 2 It's the alumni club. So yeah, we were big dancers growing up.

Speaker 1 There was a lot of good clubs in Chicago at that time. Really? It was a good club scene.

Speaker 2 Did you ever go to Baja Beach Club? Yes. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So So, yeah, you were. Yeah, maybe I saw you were in hunting.

Speaker 1 Did you ever go to a restaurant called Carlucci's?

Speaker 2 I have, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, I used to be a waiter there. Oh, really? Yeah.
And it was, I was, I was thinking about our prep for today.

Speaker 1 And for people that don't know, Sebastian's dad was a Sicilian immigrant, is a Sicilian immigrant. And

Speaker 1 Carlucci's was the first time I learned about Italian fine dining in any way. Like, I didn't know anything about it.
Antipasti and semifredo and breadsticks.

Speaker 2 Those kinds of things. That's a course.

Speaker 1 But were you waiting tables when you were living there? Were you working in a restaurant there or only after you came to LA?

Speaker 2 Funny you say fine dining. I started my waiting career at Olive Garden.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Great place to start.

Speaker 2 Great place to break in. And

Speaker 2 hey, did you ever go to a place in Schomburg called the Living Room? Oh, yes. I worked there.

Speaker 1 That was a very hot club, like bar.

Speaker 2 I'm surprised we didn't cross paths.

Speaker 1 What kind of famous people came through the living room?

Speaker 2 Do you remember? Not really. Not a lot of fame walking through the living room.

Speaker 2 But I remember it being kind of a cool club. It was a cool club.

Speaker 2 Not a lot of celebrities came through there. Maybe Dennis Rodman, because this is the year where the bowls were hot.

Speaker 2 But yeah,

Speaker 2 what did you do there?

Speaker 2 I worked as a waiter in the fine dining. By the way, this is the best lip balm I've ever, right?

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Speaker 2 Well, my wife likes products. And while I'm in bed one night, she's like, here, you got to put this on.

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Speaker 1 Because it's too much, right? It's so dry out.

Speaker 1 It's too much.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 you learn how to treat people in restaurants. You have strong opinions about how people should act in restaurants.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, if you go to a restaurant, you should have some

Speaker 2 manners and be kind and not like,

Speaker 2 I don't know, I put a napkin on my lap. I don't know if that's out of style or if anybody's doing that anymore.
But, you know, just,

Speaker 2 you know, you should be polite to the server and vice versa. But I got a problem with servers nowadays.

Speaker 1 Tell me why.

Speaker 2 It's 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.

Speaker 2 You know, it's like nobody wants to be there. I don't know.
It just seems like people are detached, they're disconnected.

Speaker 1 Do you like when a server, this happens a lot in LA where you live, where we both live,

Speaker 1 where someone will duck down and get the same level as you?

Speaker 2 I don't like that.

Speaker 2 You know what I'm talking about? Like they're right here. Yeah, they get right there.

Speaker 1 They get in real close.

Speaker 2 I don't like that. I don't like that move.

Speaker 2 I'd just rather have them above, in and out, maybe a little talk here and there, but nothing like, you know, I don't want to, like, sometimes the waiter will go, oh, you know, I don't normally have that because I'm lactose.

Speaker 2 And, hey, guy, gay.

Speaker 2 Please don't need to know your medical history. Just bring out the burger.

Speaker 1 Okay, and you talked also about, which I loved.

Speaker 1 I should point out, like, you know,

Speaker 1 as well as you being

Speaker 1 having the most successful touring year of your career, would you say, this year? Yeah, probably. Congratulations.

Speaker 2 Thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Yeah, crazy.

Speaker 1 Well, crazy.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That's not always the case. Sometimes when you see people on stage, they feel like they're like talking about their koi pond or something.

Speaker 1 But it does feel like you are still in it. You have little kids.
Yes.

Speaker 2 And one could argue you're a little old for that.

Speaker 1 You got little kids. I do.

Speaker 2 I'm 52 and I have a six-year-old son. So that's a little bit.
Okay, don't go.

Speaker 1 No, I'm only kidding because I love you on Instagram when you talk about how tired you are.

Speaker 2 I'm exhausted.

Speaker 1 And it's exhausting.

Speaker 2 No, I waited a little, you know, I waited to have kids.

Speaker 2 Must be nice. Must be nice, yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm just, come on.

Speaker 1 No clafter, no clafter.

Speaker 1 But your wife seems amazing, Lana.

Speaker 2 And you talk about her a lot.

Speaker 1 And she's, I've seen her on the Graham. She's a hot piece, Lana.

Speaker 2 She's 10 years younger. So,

Speaker 2 yeah, so I'm trying to keep up with her. And she's an ex-gymnist, so she's always doing flips.

Speaker 2 She's always doing flips.

Speaker 2 She walks down the stairs on her hands. No way.
I've never seen that before, but that's what I'm dealing with.

Speaker 1 Does she do that when she's angry, when she's upset?

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 2 she's never rarely 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.

Speaker 2 But no, she's a ray of sunshine and she's a doll. And

Speaker 2 yeah, she's very athletic, very strong. And I am

Speaker 2 almost as I almost have my ARP card.

Speaker 1 We're the same age. We're the same age.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're good.

Speaker 1 What are you enjoying about your 50s?

Speaker 2 So I'm glad I had kids this late in life just because, you know, I'm stable. I have a, we could provide them with, you know, a life that, you know, I'm not one of these guys.

Speaker 2 Oh, I want to give my kids a life that I never had I had a good you know I had a middle-class upbringing and whatnot but as 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 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 and I like being in my 50s

Speaker 2 I just wish I was a little bit more

Speaker 2 I don't know I feel like I went to go play basketball the other day I'm like how I haven't played basketball in a while.

Speaker 2 And I'm like, I don't remember the rim being this high.

Speaker 2 So,

Speaker 2 but it's nice.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It is just tear after tear.

Speaker 2 I'm taking a little offense to this. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. Just because,

Speaker 2 if you didn't know how old I was, could you just, wouldn't you look at me and go, yeah, no,

Speaker 2 he probably runs.

Speaker 2 You're in terrific shape, by the way. I'm not.
I'm really not.

Speaker 2 I'm hiding a lot with the suit, but I just don't feel like I'm running.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 It's exhausting. Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 Play is a nightmare.

Speaker 1 And when you're a kid, the worst things to hear in the world is, Daddy, can we play?

Speaker 2 Did you have a favorite play? Did you have like a, oh, this is, I couldn't.

Speaker 1 I remember having existential moments of true despair when I would come home from like shooting a long day.

Speaker 1 And my kids would come up to me with

Speaker 1 Star Wars lightsabers and be like, yay, now we can play.

Speaker 2 And I was just like, go, oh, fuck. Like,

Speaker 1 oh, no, I have to play Star Wars.

Speaker 2 Just like it was, it was the worst.

Speaker 1 And I, and I miss every second of it.

Speaker 1 But Lana, did she come to your shows?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, she comes, but I mean, it's.

Speaker 1 Is she here tonight?

Speaker 2 No, no, no.

Speaker 2 She's playing with the kids. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You've played huge stadiums. You sold out,

Speaker 1 was it Madison Square Garden? Like how many nights in a row? Five, six? Incredible.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 1 And what's it like playing a space that big?

Speaker 2 My act is kind of tailor-made for a large space. Obviously, comedy is better enjoyed in a room like this, I believe.

Speaker 2 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 the stage.

Speaker 2 I'm not one of these guys that stands behind behind the microphone and tells jokes, nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 You know, if they just, if you're not funny for, you know, an hour and 15 minutes, you could lose it.

Speaker 2 You know, someone could just go back into their phone or slip out of consciousness or what have you.

Speaker 2 But I like to keep the people entertained, not only by telling the story, but also maybe acting out the story.

Speaker 1 It's not all physical, but you know, you're such a funny physical performer. You're so, I love love watching you.

Speaker 1 And I read something that was really cool is you designed your stage a certain way in your last special.

Speaker 2 Can you talk about that? Yeah, so normally I do

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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?

Speaker 2 for a while you know 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.

Speaker 2 Plus, you know, I made the

Speaker 2 screen above me triangle. I like production too when I do stand-ups, so I like to like pay attention to lighting as big.

Speaker 1 How is this lighting?

Speaker 2 I think this is beautifully done.

Speaker 1 Do you like that people over? We get people kind of on the side.

Speaker 2 I do, I noticed that.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. All right.
It goes deep.

Speaker 1 It goes deep. It does go deep.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 We did a movie together. And you know, when it came out, you know

Speaker 1 what the percentage of it was on Rotten Tomatoes?

Speaker 2 No, I didn't check the percentage. Was it bad?

Speaker 1 Is 7%

Speaker 1 bad?

Speaker 1 That's right. That's the first time I met you.

Speaker 1 In 2014, there was a movie called The House with just a young and up-and-coming guy named Will Farrell, you know?

Speaker 1 And I picked the one fucking bomb that he made.

Speaker 1 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...

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 So I think we made the house like a, 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 Scoville.
Yes.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, What was your memory of it? Did you have it? Was it a good experience or do you have a bad thing?

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, it was a day. I came in.
I never met you or Will or any of those people. So

Speaker 2 it was nice. Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 I feel like

Speaker 1 I remember that time. And also,

Speaker 2 it...

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Yeah, in 1998, I started doing stand-ups. So for me, I worked at...
the four seasons for seven years, getting my feet wet with stand-up comedy.

Speaker 2 And I didn't have a movie or a TV show or anything that really propelled me into the mainstream. I feel even now, too, you know, I have a great fan base and what have you, but

Speaker 2 I still feel like there's room for growth. But it didn't, it took a while.
I mean,

Speaker 2 what is this,

Speaker 2 about 2015, shortly after we hit the house, 7%.

Speaker 1 I got to say, I just looked it up before and it's up to 20%.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 We're moving up. We're moving up.

Speaker 2 With inflation and everything.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But no, it's a slow burn for me.

Speaker 2 Nothing comes easy in my life.

Speaker 2 So, yeah.

Speaker 1 Why doesn't things, what do you mean?

Speaker 2 It's just, you know,

Speaker 2 my father and I often discuss this, like the Manasconco family always has to take the long road to get there, right?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 get a pop.

Speaker 1 How does your dad feel like he's taken the long road? How would he say he's he's taken it? I mean,

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 It's fun hanging around with like an immigrant father who just doesn't know like the words.

Speaker 1 Is there a word still that you that really makes you giggle that he

Speaker 2 oh, he goes, oh, you know your cousin, he's going to Ollie Miss.

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 2 Ole Miss, Miss, dad, not Ollie Miss. So there's a lot of that.

Speaker 1 That one feels okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that feels okay.

Speaker 1 That's like the Hillbillies or something.

Speaker 1 But he is an amazing story,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 I was

Speaker 2 very nervous.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And after the table read, I went up to him and I said, so and he's like, oh, well,

Speaker 2 and he left. So I'm like, all right, well, that's the end of that.
And two weeks later, got a call that he's interested in playing your father. And I'm like,

Speaker 2 this is a guy that I got

Speaker 2 good fellows, good casino posters on my wall. And now he's going to play my dad in a movie.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 So you're like, dad, he wants to hang out with you?

Speaker 2 And my dad's like, how much am I getting for this?

Speaker 2 So, like,

Speaker 2 well, 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.

Speaker 2 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

Speaker 2 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

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 He didn't want to. 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,

Speaker 2 just come to the set and hang out. So my dad was on set, teaching De Niro how to do blowouts and die jobs.
So

Speaker 1 we should make it clear that Sebastian's father does hair

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 1 was a hairdresser for your whole life, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, so he cut my hair until I left the house at, I think, 23.

Speaker 1 Does he still give you, does he still want to cut your hair now?

Speaker 2 He cut my hair about four years ago, and I said that's it.

Speaker 2 No, he's falling apart. I mean, he's...

Speaker 2 He's falling apart. He's

Speaker 2 shoulders falling off.

Speaker 2 It's not easy getting old. It is not easy.
It's not easy. Especially at that age.
Now, every time I talk to my parents, it's like, you know,

Speaker 2 I'm not being right. Okay.

Speaker 1 Is it true that Sicilians have great hair?

Speaker 2 I don't know. I'm losing a lot of my hair.

Speaker 2 It's a lot of dust up there. It's a lot of...

Speaker 2 I use a pepper.

Speaker 2 Yeah. That's called a fiber.
I do a lot of pepper before I come up there.

Speaker 2 I got someone back there

Speaker 2 with a pepper. With like the Parmesan Grader and just like a little bit more.

Speaker 1 But you know, I do want to talk about

Speaker 1 you on stage because I do, I love, I love watching you perform because as we talked about earlier, you are physical.

Speaker 1 And a lot of people, you know, on stage are kind of like neck down or disconnected from their body when they're telling jokes. They're like telling it from their head.

Speaker 1 And you really do tell it from your bodies, your whole body when you perform.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like, do you, I mean, not to get too, you know.

Speaker 1 You don't, you don't know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 Well, I just don't know.

Speaker 1 I feel like you shake it out.

Speaker 1 Come on, everybody knows you shake it out.

Speaker 2 I shake it out, but it's not, I don't think it's because I have like an anxiety for anything. My shaking out is a little bit more just

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 Do you have any people that when you were growing up like physical comedians that you love?

Speaker 2 John Ritter is my...

Speaker 2 I was just saying.

Speaker 2 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Right? Three's Company. For you young people,

Speaker 2 go watch Three's Company and you're going to be like,

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 Over and over and over again. There was a scene where he was on a hammock trying to get on the hammock and and he fell off.
So, all those little movements,

Speaker 2 and then he would hit himself and come up and have this dazed look done.

Speaker 2 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 fun to do. It's like a fun thing for me to do.

Speaker 2 And I got to keep myself entertained up there as well.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I bet. Because you did, what, 80 whatever shows this year?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was a lot.

Speaker 2 84 shows, I think, I did.

Speaker 2 But, yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you ever do two a days?

Speaker 2 I used to, but no more. No more.
No more. Just too tired

Speaker 2 at the end.

Speaker 2 Old. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, Tina and I were on tour, and we would do, you know what our favorite thing was? A four o'clock show.

Speaker 2 Incredible.

Speaker 2 You never do a four. No, I didn't.
I didn't do it. Oh, you got to do it.
You got to do a four.

Speaker 1 You got to do a four. It'll change your life.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 1 Four o'clock show, you're done by six.

Speaker 2 No, I like the concept. I just, I'm wondering if my audience would look at the ticket and go, wait, is it four o'clock? We ain't going to.

Speaker 1 I got to tell you, every single person at that four o'clock show was pumped.

Speaker 1 Am I wrong?

Speaker 1 They wanted to go to bed. They want to go to sleep.

Speaker 2 Listen, that is nice for the audience. Come home and

Speaker 2 you're going to get snack and you go to bed.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 2 Yes,

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 But when I'm home, I am starting to go to bed sadly

Speaker 2 after I tucked my kids in.

Speaker 1 I love this. Talk to me about the time.

Speaker 2 So I'm in bed about, I'd say about nine o'clock. Incredible.
All right.

Speaker 2 Sebastian, this is my audience.

Speaker 2 We love bedtime.

Speaker 2 We love bedtime.

Speaker 1 All we think about is bedtime.

Speaker 2 I love bedtime.

Speaker 1 9 p.m.

Speaker 2 is a winner move. It is.

Speaker 2 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 6 o'clock regardless of what time I go to sleep, right?

Speaker 2 Are you doing any sleep, eight sleep mattress ring?

Speaker 1 No, I have a CPAP machine because I have

Speaker 2 you're wearing a breather or whatever the hell that is?

Speaker 2 A breather,

Speaker 1 whatever the hell it is.

Speaker 2 I thought only like that.

Speaker 2 No, it's usually

Speaker 2 like a man thing. Right, no.

Speaker 1 Lucky for me, it's not just a man thing.

Speaker 1 you're right, it usually is a man thing

Speaker 2 have you ever heard a woman going, I gotta travel with this thing?

Speaker 2 I never heard of that, right?

Speaker 2 I'm sorry, I not a lot of women are doing that. Well,

Speaker 1 I've always been ahead of my field.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, it's pretty sexy stuff.

Speaker 1 It's pretty sexy stuff. But yeah,

Speaker 1 I have a sleep apnea, so I wear

Speaker 1 a sleep app machine. And I gotta tell you, I love it.
It's changed my life.

Speaker 2 I love it. Okay.

Speaker 1 I would never change it for the world.

Speaker 1 I love it so much. It's totally changed my life.
Anybody who's thinking about it,

Speaker 1 just for fun, anybody who wants to try it for fun, do it.

Speaker 2 It's great.

Speaker 2 I've heard it. It's very beneficial.
Incredible. Do you do it consistently every night? Of course.

Speaker 1 Got to do it every night. And it puts you right to sleep.

Speaker 2 It's

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 the sound

Speaker 1 and it has air,

Speaker 1 excuse me, water. So it's like hydrated.
So you never ever wake up with dry mouth, bad breath, nose, any of that stuff, because you're always hydrated.

Speaker 1 You put your lip balm on, your creams, dehydrate, and then you go, and then you look like a fighter pilot, and you go to sleep.

Speaker 1 But what's your bedtime routine? Tell me about your lotions, because I bet you have a skincare routine.

Speaker 2 I do have a skincare, a little toner, a little face cream.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I put a little cologne on before. I got a little nighttime cologne.

Speaker 1 Different than daytime cologne?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I shower prior to bed. Of course.
Do a full lotion.

Speaker 2 I say the last two years I've been doing a full body lotion from head to toe. Oh, very good.
All right.

Speaker 1 What kind of brand you got going there?

Speaker 2 We'll cut it out. Don't worry.

Speaker 2 It's a variety of different brands. I can't recall because, again, my wife is just giving me stuff like that.
Here, use this lotion.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Smart.
You don't want to give them free stuff. I get it.

Speaker 2 There's one. A lot of them I can't pronounce.
Some of them are French. Okay.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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,

Speaker 2 I've been doing two different colognes.

Speaker 2 One on the front and one on the back.

Speaker 2 So you get one cent coming and one cent going. It's a beautiful technique.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 Are you into men with cologne? Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 Sure. And also

Speaker 1 the front and back is genius.

Speaker 1 Because it's like beautiful.

Speaker 1 I thought I knew him.

Speaker 2 You know, like

Speaker 1 he's still a mystery to me.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 2 No. No, I know.

Speaker 1 No. I don't either.
It's just a busman's holiday.

Speaker 1 But like, do you, what do you, what do you, how do you, do you watch stuff to make you laugh? Do you watch videos? Do you

Speaker 1 watch other comics?

Speaker 2 I don't look at entertainment for the comedy of it. I look like at documentaries.
I like drama.

Speaker 2 If I want to laugh, I got a friend back in Chicago. His name is George.
I'll call him.

Speaker 1 Tell us about George.

Speaker 2 He just, he's one of these guys that just,

Speaker 2 he's funny. He's like, we talk about daily life and he just makes me laugh.
So, George is kind of my go-to for comedy.

Speaker 2 But as far as stand-up comedy, I don't like watching it generally just because, I don't know, I mean, I like to laugh. I like to see what people are doing.
Maybe a special will come on.

Speaker 2 I'll see five minutes of somebody and then I'll just turn it off if I really like it. The last one I watched from front to back was Giannis Pappas.
Yes.

Speaker 2 A couple specials that I thought was really, really funny. And he caught me on a night where I was so giddy and laughing.
So generally speaking, though, I'm like documentary, serious.

Speaker 2 I laugh at serious.

Speaker 1 I love serious.

Speaker 1 I love serious.

Speaker 1 Do you watch anything like, do you watch reality TV? Do you care about that?

Speaker 2 My wife got me into Love is Blind.

Speaker 2 So every now and then, what are you laughing at?

Speaker 1 I guess the question is, do you believe it is?

Speaker 2 This show, I mean, come on, the concept of it is cute.

Speaker 2 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 know, you got to eventually come out and look at the person.

Speaker 2 If they got no teeth, you know, it's a problem.

Speaker 1 They got to walk down the stairs on their hands for them to be worth their salt.

Speaker 1 I mean, Love is Blind is,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And my mirror neurons, like, I get so codependently stressed when those doors open

Speaker 1 and the body language

Speaker 2 is so stressful.

Speaker 1 When they're like, hey.

Speaker 1 When they go from like arms open to just like pat, pat, pat.

Speaker 1 Oh, yoy, yoy. And the way that,

Speaker 1 like, the body never lies, like, when the way when they go in for the kiss, and it's just like,

Speaker 2 they just turn, they just turn, they turn their mouth away and give them the cheek. Oh, it's brutal.

Speaker 1 Or she could be that too, but it's brutal. No, I can't handle that.
All right. So you like dark stuff?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, dark. It's just like, I like, I don't know, serious moments I tend to laugh at and find funny.
Like, my wife will be telling me a serious story and I'll just bust out laughing.

Speaker 2 She goes, what the, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 2 I don't know. I'm thinking about something that's funny pertaining to what you're saying.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I know what you mean. Okay, so you've got a new special coming out.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Another hour plus some material. It takes you how long to get new material?

Speaker 2 I don't know. It's been averaging like three, three years.
Every three years I come up with an hour.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And it's difficult because, 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.

Speaker 2 So I'll take it very serious to make these specials kind of special because I felt like my last one, I was going through

Speaker 2 injury. I had sciatic pain on my right leg.
No way. And it was very hard for me to move around.
Too much play, too much. Too much play.
A lot of play.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I felt very hampered in a tuxedo. I couldn't move it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I wanted to kind of correct that with this special.
And I have no more sciatica and no more tuxedo.

Speaker 1 Do you have a good sciatica stretch?

Speaker 1 Do you keep up on that?

Speaker 2 I do. I take a ball.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 A tennis ball, a cross ball, what kind of ball?

Speaker 2 It is a

Speaker 2 ball that you would buy to roll out your legs. Okay.
And I put it right here in my psoas. Yes.

Speaker 1 And I you guys know what that is, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I feel like this is like

Speaker 2 a health-related section. We're doing sleep.
Now we're doing sciatica.

Speaker 2 We got to sleep apnea.

Speaker 1 We got to get all the tips.

Speaker 1 Put it in your psoas

Speaker 2 and roll it. So you get on the floor and then you basically.
On your stomach. Yeah, you lay on it and roll.
A lot of, I believe from my research, which is Instagram,

Speaker 2 a lot of the sciatic pain is coming from the front side of the body, particularly in the psoas. And I have a very tight psoas region.

Speaker 1 Not to brag.

Speaker 2 I got a big psoas.

Speaker 1 Okay, so what I've learned, you and Pete have been doing your podcast for 12 years.

Speaker 1 What do you like about doing it? What have you learned? Like, what's the best thing about having a podcast? Like, what do you like about it?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And, you know, if somebody tells me, hey, tell that story about that, that, that, that, that.

Speaker 2 I'll look at the crowd and I don't know if you do. Not a crowd, but like a group of people.
And I go, I'm not telling that story because I know the attention span of where we're at.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 We basically, it's like phone calls, it's like a recorded phone call. Yeah.
And

Speaker 2 we have a ball, and that's kind of what I get out of the podcast. As Pete was saying, we don't really have, I mean, we have a loyal fan base.

Speaker 2 I mean, nothing like this, this army you have that comes out to see you.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 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: just give us an opportunity.

Speaker 2 Because, you know, when you do stand-up, you need it to be tight, you need it to be hitting it all cylinders.

Speaker 2 With the podcast, you know, you guys or whoever's listening to it could be in your bathroom getting ready or working out and whatnot. So, you know, you chuckle here and there.
It's funny.

Speaker 2 But, yeah, it's been a pleasure working with him, and we plan on doing it uh I mean

Speaker 1 you know 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 your like you can figure out how you feel about things in real time like you can you can hear people kind of sort through

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Oh, good.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 1 Shoeless households.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 It's a big debate. Yeah.
Because I knew a joke about going over to somebody's house and they ask, could you please remove your shoes?

Speaker 2 And I'm like, you know, I'm a grown man.

Speaker 2 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,

Speaker 2 you can't really debate any other man. It's like you're in your socks, guy.
Come on.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 You're going to trapes that into into the house yeah okay fine i get it it's hasn't been a problem for me for the last 52 years

Speaker 2 no one's ever got sick like what the did somebody come in there with their shoes on

Speaker 2 so if you come by the house people will be kind and go oh do you want me to take my shoes off and i feel so good when i go nah

Speaker 2 Leave them on.

Speaker 2 Especially women, man. They love shoes.
They come over with a nice heel.

Speaker 2 Okay, let me take this on. I know they gotta walk around barefoot.
Have you seen the bottom of some people's feet?

Speaker 2 What's on, what's on, what kind of bacteria

Speaker 2 that might be even worse than a shoe?

Speaker 1 Now, Pete was talking to us about mesophonia. Are you a germaphobe?

Speaker 2 I'm not a germaphobe.

Speaker 2 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 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 hurry

Speaker 2 not okay

Speaker 1 not okay

Speaker 2 so I

Speaker 2 with this misophonia if you don't know what it is and it's it's um again Pete said I was not diagnosed with it yeah his question I think was what do

Speaker 1 when are you going to get properly diagnosed with it?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 It could be anything. People on a

Speaker 2 typing, heavy typers. You don't like a heavy type? Oh, God.

Speaker 2 I mean, like, if you're 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.

Speaker 1 It's like a Tom Cruise movie.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And I feel 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?

Speaker 2 Right. So that's why I keep the disease.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wedding registries.

Speaker 2 Wedding registries. Oh, that's a good one.
We had a registry when we got married.

Speaker 2 I have no problem with it. I don't pay attention to it because, again,

Speaker 2 growing up in an Italian family, we often brought money to the wedding. So you put like some cash in an envelope and then, you know, you don't bring a toaster or a blender or

Speaker 2 whatever. I just, you know, nice cash envelope.
I think everybody likes a, especially when you're getting started.

Speaker 2 It used to be, you know, people got married kind of young and they needed a start, right? Oh, here's $500. You know, here's go buy go buy something to get your life started.

Speaker 2 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 here.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this is New York City. Yeah.
Look at how quiet it got.

Speaker 2 Your mother paid for the tickets tonight.

Speaker 1 Yeah, everybody turned to their mother who they're with and said, I don't know what he's talking about.

Speaker 1 Is there a thing, is there anything at a wedding that people do that drives you nuts?

Speaker 2 I'm not into taking home food, and this is big in the Italian culture.

Speaker 2 They'll go to the sweet table, Italians have a sweet table, and they'll take a styrofoam-to-go thing that they hand out. Okay.

Speaker 2 And they'll take the cookies and the soyeta. They'll take it all home.
I'm like, come on,

Speaker 2 have this for breakfast tomorrow? I just think it's a tacky move. I don't like to go at a wedding.

Speaker 1 I've never seen that.

Speaker 2 No, come to one of my weddings.

Speaker 2 You'll see it.

Speaker 1 Pets. Should people have them?

Speaker 2 Should people have pets?

Speaker 2 I have to tell you, I've never had a pet up until a year ago.

Speaker 2 i got i got a dog we got two dogs now

Speaker 2 so

Speaker 2 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

Speaker 2 i don't take it out to get coffee or you know i'm taking out an airplane i just felt like we had it We had a pet in the neighborhood growing up. His name was Italo.

Speaker 2 It's the male version of Italy.

Speaker 2 That's the name of the dog, Italo.

Speaker 2 And it lived in the garage

Speaker 2 year-round.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 it would be 13 below, and the dog would be in the garage.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 But now the dog's up here and it's the petty.

Speaker 2 It bothers me. I'm sorry.
It's just

Speaker 1 what kind of dog?

Speaker 2 Cats, forget it. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 I'm allergic to cats. That's why I don't like them.
But God,

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 I can't. Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like, I feel fine with them, and I think they're great.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 who would

Speaker 1 try to suck your spirit out of your mouth.

Speaker 1 So I understand. Yelling.

Speaker 2 Yelling.

Speaker 2 How do you feel about yelling? I mean, I don't know. A good yell every now and then is healthy.

Speaker 1 Do you yell at your kids?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 It's not that. I think a good dose of a yell, not a lot, because

Speaker 2 with raising kids, you have to act sometimes like you're psychotic, right?

Speaker 2 And if you

Speaker 2 lose your composure, the kids will go, wow, we don't want to see that again, right?

Speaker 2 So a good yell, I think, every now and then sets the family straight.

Speaker 2 Agreed.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're getting some applause.

Speaker 2 I'm surprised.

Speaker 2 I'm surprised.

Speaker 1 I'm surprised. You're getting applause from the parents of the people who paid for their kids to be there.

Speaker 1 Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 We had a problem with Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 Again, this is another thing I'm not into.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 I thought Santa Claus discussions normally happen maybe around 8 to 10 to 11. So I'm like, what the five?

Speaker 2 That's a little young. So I came out of the room, I asked my wife, I go,

Speaker 2 get on this text thread that you're with the moms and find out what's going on at school.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 Kids lie to my kids, right? Eat your carrots. You're going to see better.

Speaker 2 But yeah, so I got so upset. Yeah.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 I talk to like the waiters and the people that are working in the party. I got it.
I get it. So I'm talking to Santa.

Speaker 1 I'm going to the back of the house.

Speaker 2 Yeah, go back to the house. Yeah, go to back of the house.

Speaker 2 So I talked to the Santa and I said, you know, kid don't believe. And he he goes, well, I offer a service where I could come to the house.
Swear yeah, this is in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 If you believe it, I'll come to the house on Christmas Eve

Speaker 2 and I'll put the presents down, right?

Speaker 2 So 12.30 at night, this guy comes.

Speaker 2 I ended my robe in the drywall.

Speaker 2 The trees over here, Santa.

Speaker 2 So he comes in. I wake up the kids.
I go, Santa's here.

Speaker 2 We come, we look at Santa,

Speaker 2 and then Santa, then the kids go back to bed.

Speaker 2 I peel off three hunch

Speaker 2 for this drunk Santa in my house,

Speaker 2 and now the kids, you know, they believe again. So I highly recommend if you can get a Santa

Speaker 2 to come to your house. It's

Speaker 2 incredible.

Speaker 2 Incredible.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 1 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 the good work that he's doing.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 it feels like what I've read is that you do a reverse sear, and I want to to talk about it.

Speaker 2 Okay, I like these questions.

Speaker 2 So I found this video, this is about 10 years ago online about the reverse sear.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 I like to do mine about 45, 50 minutes, just let it get used to the atmosphere.

Speaker 1 And what kind of cut are we talking about?

Speaker 2 I used to like

Speaker 2 a ribeye. Now I'm on to

Speaker 2 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

Speaker 2 so

Speaker 2 I do a New York

Speaker 2 strip steak and I heavily salt it and heavily put pepper on it

Speaker 2 right from the hair

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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

Speaker 2 rosemary

Speaker 2 lining the serving plate. I like garnish on a plate

Speaker 2 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 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 with garlic and then they they they kind of baste it with a spoon no this is a you don't need it you snake here 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 get you got to order it online though uh i've been promoting

Speaker 2 this meat company for a while. For real? And not one free filet.

Speaker 2 I'm the guy that gets nothing. Like, only 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.

Speaker 2 Right?

Speaker 2 I get nothing. Nothing is sent to me.
No hair, try this, try that. I got no boxes.

Speaker 2 Like DJ Khaled is constantly opening up a watch

Speaker 2 or shoes.

Speaker 2 I got nothing.

Speaker 1 And what's your sides? Before you go, I need to know what are you serving with your steak.

Speaker 2 So we like to do a fingerling potato. Whoa, not what I expected.

Speaker 1 What would you expect? I expected a whipped or a mashed.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And, you know, it's a little bit labor-intensive.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mashed.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mashed, but

Speaker 2 the fingerling is sufficing for now. And then I'll take a, I'll put a green in there.

Speaker 2 I'll put a broccoli. I'll put a little asparagus.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to get the kids to eat, you know, healthy,

Speaker 2 you know, with this kind of grab-and-go stuff that I'm not into the processed foods, although, you know, I'm not saying that I'm eating so well, but you know, you want to give the kids a nice food.

Speaker 1 So, here's a little tip I tell people, young kids, that I'll share with you, too. I learned it from my brother who lives in Sweden with his Swedish wife and family.

Speaker 1 They do this, I don't know if it's Swedish, it's probably not Swedish,

Speaker 1 just what they do, but like when dinner time is almost ready, like that hungry time when like you're at 5:36 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 You know, that does sound good in theory,

Speaker 2 but how prone are you to, you know, cut some carrot radishes?

Speaker 2 You've got this beautiful

Speaker 2 tray of vegetables and one

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 You're right. Cutting too many vegetables is a nightmare.

Speaker 1 But I would take a vegetable over a fruit any day.

Speaker 2 What's your vegetable?

Speaker 2 Favorite.

Speaker 1 Well, I love anything in the pea family. So I love a pea.
I love,

Speaker 1 you know, what do you call it?

Speaker 1 Snap pea, thank you. I love a pea.

Speaker 1 I love an asparagus.

Speaker 1 I love a potato. Does that count as a vegetable?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it does it? I don't know. A mushroom.

Speaker 1 I love a mushroom.

Speaker 2 Okay, a mushroom. So, what's your favorite fruit?

Speaker 1 I feel like some kind of like savory, like a chicken curry with mushrooms and rice.

Speaker 2 No, no, no, no. Food then.
Fu?

Speaker 2 Did you hear food?

Speaker 2 Oh, you said fruit? Yeah, food.

Speaker 2 You said it like you said it, I guess. Foo.

Speaker 2 What's your favorite food? What's your favorite food? Shouldn't I?

Speaker 2 What's your favorite food?

Speaker 2 My favorite fruit?

Speaker 2 Is

Speaker 1 I don't know, a plum.

Speaker 2 A plum? Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 What's your favorite food?

Speaker 2 What's your favorite fruit? Fruit is a banana or a strawberry to toss up. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And vegetable, I like an asparagus. I really love an asparagus.
I'm big in the asparagus. But if I had to choose, I'd go strawberry or banana over a vegetable any day at a week.

Speaker 1 You'd go fruit over veg, anything.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 1 You've got this audience.

Speaker 1 As we wrap up, I guess raise your hand.

Speaker 1 Raise your hand if you'd go fruit over veg.

Speaker 2 Wow. Look at that.

Speaker 1 I can't even see the people up the top.

Speaker 2 That's impressive.

Speaker 1 The people on the side on the park ride are all veg.

Speaker 2 Nobody's voting fruit.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable. Well, you you found your audience, Sebastian.
I did.

Speaker 2 It's my group of people. Give it up, everybody, for Sebastian Maniscalco.

Speaker 2 Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 Thanks for having me here. I really appreciate it.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 Sebastian Manascalco, everybody.

Speaker 1 You've been listening to Good Hang. The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Berman, and me, Amy Poehler.
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Speaker 1 For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spilane, Kaya McMullen, and Aalaya Zaneris. For Paperkite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss-Berman.
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