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Good morning, Millennials.

Welcome back to the toast.

I am so excited to be in LA, first of all.

And second of all, starting the week off with an amazing list of co-hosts.

And I will say, I think today's is the best, but I will say that every day.

Today I am joined by comedian, podcaster, father, Sebastian Maniscalco.

Welcome.

Like that you're father.

I was going to say daddy, but I thought it might be weird.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for having me on a Sunday.

I just got done golfing.

Oh, God, you golf?

I'm not like Mr.

Golfer, but I kind of,

do you have a...

I have a husband who golfs like in the dead of winter.

We live in New York.

He will golf in December.

He seriously leaves me all the time to golf.

I take it personally.

I find it like I got married to have someone to hang out with all the time.

I'm alone every weekend, and I like seriously have a hate so deep in my heart for the sport.

So it's good to know.

Good to know.

Okay, there's a lot going on there.

Yeah.

I am not one of these golfers that abandons my family

and has a simulator in the house.

We live in an apartment, so that's not an option.

So,

no, I just like golf and I am in the process of joining a country club.

So

pledging.

Are you good?

No.

That's the thing.

My husband leaves me all the time and every

maybe once a year I'll actually see him golf.

He sucks.

So I'm like, you're not even getting better.

And we don't have kids yet.

So I know you're a father of two and so obviously like your time is much more precious.

We don't have kids yet.

And so I say I'm go.

I say go because when the day comes, you'll never golf again.

Never.

Yeah, it's hard to reel that back in, though.

I would start.

You think?

Yes.

It's, you know, listen it's a great game it's nice camaraderie with the guys this that and the other but

yeah it's slippery slope it's it's you know you gotta maybe once a week you go out you knock it around especially with a family uh i just don't have a lot of time to do it yes you're extremely successful uh it's not even that you are well thank you but it's more of the sense that i you know i got two small kids

i want to be around like i had t-ball today we went to go and and see them play t-ball, or my son play t-ball.

So I want to be there for these moments.

Yeah.

And tell me about t-ball.

As a sport, I played it as a youngin'.

I found it to be extremely difficult, actually.

And I know it's supposed to be easier than baseball, right?

It's boring.

And do you find it frustrating to watch?

It's, yeah, I mean, I like it because I only like it when my son gets up, and then the rest of the time I could care less.

But

yeah, he's only four and he's getting into sports.

So

I had a father that wasn't really there watching me play these sports in the beginning.

So I've taken

my, I'm like, you know what?

I want to kind of be that dad that's

participating.

You bring snacks?

Debbie, what?

Do you bring snacks?

Snacks.

To the game.

Not yet.

However, the snacks have changed over the years.

Oh, well, you live in L.A.

too.

Are they like green and organic?

No.

Oh.

Junk food.

Really?

Today's snack was doughnuts.

No, but from an organic makeup game.

No, no, this was like, this was, no, no, this was not like green

smoothies.

This was a doughnut with like cereal on top of the doughnut.

Oh, yeah, like a trendy donut.

Yeah.

Growing up, we had orange slices,

apples.

What sports did you play?

I played soccer.

We always had orange slices.

I played soccer.

Oh, we always did orange slices.

Capri Sun.

Capri Sun.

Orange slices, apples.

And we haven't, our turn isn't ready.

We haven't done our turn yet.

What do you think

I should bring?

See, I don't, like I said, I don't have children, so I don't know what the kids are into, but I know that they, well, four is like a, I don't know, like, do they even eat solid food at four?

Like, I literally don't know much about children.

Wow, are you lost?

Yeah, they're eating solids at that age.

They eat solids.

Okay.

And what kind of vibe do you want to give off?

Like, what do you want the other parents and the other kids to think of you?

Do they want you to think like you're like a cool house, like somewhere they want to hang out, or do you not want kids in your house?

Well,

I'll give you an example of what I did when my kids first started playing sports.

I brought a beautiful meat and cheese tray

with boxed wine for the parents.

For the parents.

Of course.

That's classy.

And they were stunned.

Yeah.

Stunned.

Yeah.

And I don't think they appreciated it.

So I stopped doing it.

Yeah.

I mean, that's definitely a choice.

It's a choice.

And I love that you use it as an opportunity to, you know, show off your heritage, which I know you're so proud of.

So proud.

Might I suggest like, you know, pizza bagels?

A little bit more kid-friendly, but still very Italian.

That could be possible.

A lot of Jews are in the league, I'm sure.

They're in the league, so that could, not a lot of Italians, though.

But yeah, I think that not a lot of Italians out here in Los Angeles, especially at the school that my kids go to.

And is that something you're worried about?

You know what?

This is the problem I have.

I have one foot in the past of how I grew up, and I got one foot in the present, and I'm trying to balance that as a parent.

I actually feel like that's a really relatable thing.

Like a lot of people, like wanting to like bring the things that they had growing up into their kids' lives, but also like wanting to do their own thing and like be modern and progressive.

Yeah.

Things of that nature.

Yeah.

So I just flew in, by the way, and I watched Unfrosted on the Plane because I've been wanting to watch it.

I love Marjorie Post and I loved seeing you in it.

It was such a good movie.

I loved it.

Thank you.

And I wonder, first of all, everyone was in the movie.

It's like if you weren't in the movie, you're an absolutely irrelevant, nobody.

And I'm wondering if when you got the call that you were going to be in it, you felt like relieved.

Like, cause it's kind of like, if you're not in that movie, you're like, what's the point?

Pack it up and go home.

Right.

And, well, this is my experience of the movie.

It has nothing to do with the actual movie.

I got to the set.

I only did like a day, I think, on set.

And they gave me a vintage suit because it's like a 1960s, whatever kind of period piece.

And

I'm doing the scenes, and I start to smell B.O.

coming out of me.

Now, oh no, I don't have BO.

Oh, okay.

This is a fun fact about you.

Yeah, this is a fun fact.

Like, I don't wear deodorant.

What?

No.

That's really crazy.

Don't have it, though.

No, I'm doubting you.

I'm just saying, it's like, are you okay?

I feel like BO is like, it's annoying, but it's obviously like your body's working, you know?

I sweat.

Yeah.

I just don't emanate stench.

Now, if you don't wear deodorant, do you smell?

I'm not going to lie to you.

Yeah.

I'm I'm a human being.

Sorry.

Yeah.

If I don't wear deodorant, I will smell.

Okay.

Not like the worst smelling ever, but like, you know, really sweet.

I think some people would describe it as like sweet smelling.

Gorgeous.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that's what someone would say if they smelled it.

Okay.

Like, I'm not disgusting.

I just like, I'm not disgusting.

Okay, that's fine.

I'm just saying a lot.

Some people don't emanate like an odor when they perspire.

And I'm one of those people.

I didn't know that.

Okay.

Well, now you know.

And I've never actually told anybody that.

Exclusive.

But exclusive here.

Thank you.

tune in that's worth at least three views thousand percent um

so

uh

i'm starting to smell

and i had to tell the rest of the cast i said listen if you start smelling b o it ain't me it's the suit the suit was smelling and how do we know that for sure

You don't know that, but I know that because I live with myself.

Right.

And you don't think it was like some late-in-life BO development?

no no because it hasn't it hasn't occurred since then that's pretty amazing i feel like you should be studied by like science no i don't know if the guys do you guys smell does anybody else smell when they

i don't know yeah you don't smell it if you're not winged with yeah of course you need it

yeah well we all think we smell great by the way but reality this is different this is not only that my wife says well you've never heard of that okay anyway i don't i don't smell it but i'm yeah i'm jewish We have like a lot of bodily functions.

Like all of our bodily functions are always working at all times.

Like we're never not going to poop.

Like we're never not going to smell.

Like it's a very Jewish thing.

So maybe I maybe I'm limited in my ability to understand that because of my background.

Okay.

Well,

maybe you can't relate to

not smelling.

But anyway, the whole experience for me doing Unfrosted was telling everybody, it ain't me, it's the suit.

The movie was amazing.

I loved it.

Oh, thank you.

And you were great.

Thank you.

Do you watch your own specials?

I edit my own specials, but I don't watch them when they come out.

Interesting.

I kind of know what they look like before they hit the screen.

But yeah,

I don't like to watch.

Well, let me ask you a question.

As a man, like, what's your relationship with your body?

Like, are you a self-conscious person?

Do you like the way you look?

Do you like hate the way you look and you can't watch it?

You can't hear your own voice?

It's not so much the look.

It's going back and looking at it going, I wish I would have done this.

I wish I would have done that.

And there's a lot of wishing.

Very critical.

Yeah, critical, like analyzing the performance rather than like, I don't really care about what I look like or any of that.

It's more about the performance.

That sounds like it must be nice.

Yeah.

You have had so many specials like for so many years that are super popular.

What's like the one thing people, when they come up to, they quote?

A lot of people like the doorbell bit, and they used to do this bit about going to the doorbell

now and opposed to when we were kids.

Chipotle, a lot of people like the Chipotle bit.

Aren't you embarrassed?

Aren't you embarrassed?

That's my favorite.

Yeah,

everybody likes the kind of the titles of it, what's wrong with people.

But yeah,

I've been fortunate enough to have some of these bits that people like to kind of repeat.

And they go viral.

And yeah, which I had no idea this was even happening early on.

I was talking to Andrew Schultz recently about it, and he said, that's kind of how I found you through the internet.

I didn't really know what was going on.

So I was so focused on doing stand-up comedy and doing these comedy clubs.

I didn't really know what was going on on the internet.

But on the internet, about 10 to 12 years ago, apparently, there were a lot of these videos that were being shared, and I wasn't necessarily aware of.

And you were like behind that.

It wasn't like a promotional thing.

No, it wasn't me.

It was

other people.

It was organic.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which is amazing.

Yeah, which was nice.

Nice to know.

Like, you know, in the world of the internet, and oh, I want to go viral, and I hope I got to do this video.

Sometimes

the more

you concentrate on going viral, the less it happens.

And sometimes, when you don't pay attention to it, it just happens kind of out of the

well.

That was one of my questions for you: is like you to me, you're so old school, but like you're obviously like you have millions of followers on social media.

Like, what is your relationship with social media like?

And do you like, does Sebastian Manascalco have haters?

Um, my relationship with social media,

I don't know.

You You know, I try and find out where do I fit in this ecosystem of the internet.

Me being, you know, 50 years old, the internet, social media tends to be more of a younger kind of genre.

The only thing I really focus on is doing like my stand-up and coming up with material.

And if I put that on the internet and people enjoy it, then fine.

But as far as like me sitting at home going, okay, what video?

You don't consider it like that.

I just don't.

I feel like sometimes when I do that, it feels like a little force.

And

I don't want to do anything where I feel like I have to do it just to be relevant.

So,

and as far as haters,

I'm sure they're out there.

I don't really pay attention to a lot of commenting or whatnot.

I'm not saying I don't look at the comments.

When I do something, I look at comments more for, oh, are people vibing this?

Are they gravitating towards this?

And in the midst of that, you'll see, fuck you.

But, you know, like, you know, you can't make everybody happy.

No, you can't.

And one of my favorite things about you, and I think what we were talking about prior is, like, I'm a Jew, you're Italian.

There's so much convergence.

And a lot of your stand-up talks about that because your wife is Jewish.

Yes.

And I would absolutely love to hear like all of your thoughts on Jewish culture, specifically Jewish food, which as an extremely, extremely proud Jew, like I'm woman enough to say, like, I think our food stinks.

I hate our food.

And I think your food's amazing.

I love your food.

And I would love to know what you think about my food.

Well,

my brother-in-law is from Israel.

And I think the Israeli

Jewish food is

so far superior than the kind of American Jewish food.

Really Eastern European food, like shtetl and a Tefka energy.

I agree with you.

Israeli food is delicious.

It's Mediterranean.

It's fresh, like, you know, but I'm like American and also like all the people, you know, who brought over like their Eastern European.

It's not, it's not for me.

Like a filter fish, what are your thoughts?

I haven't haven't had it.

I've seen it

on sight alone.

Yeah.

I don't want it.

By the way, I've never had it either.

Okay.

Because it's disgusting looking.

Like it's who would see that and be like, yeah, that should be eaten.

Yeah.

I like a bagel.

I like a lock

or what have you.

But I mean,

yeah,

that's another bit people of the Passover bit, especially.

the Jewish people

give it like an outside take on Passover.

And we just celebrated Passover.

Did you partake?

My wife is not

really that Jewish that we're sitting down for Passover.

I mean, we do Hanukkah and what have you, but Passover, not necessarily.

If we're with her mother, we'll do it.

If I'm with my sister, we'll do it.

Passover is a deep cut.

Oh, your sister is also Jewish?

Well, my sister is married to, but she didn't convert.

God, that's so interesting.

So you're truly surrounded.

Surrounded by Jewish people.

Have you ever felt compelled by the Spirit of the Lord to convert?

No.

I'm not super into religion, so I never really had the urge to go Jewish, but I love to participate in

the holidays.

My kids love, love, love Hanukkah.

And, you know, we do the prayers and

what have you.

And what have you?

The prayers and what have you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it's fun.

It's fun.

I mean,

whatever religion you are, we're not like a family that's like, I mean, my wife is Jewish.

She went to Catholic school because it was a better school.

So.

I love that.

Was that your phone?

That was my,

I have an IP watch.

So leave it on.

I mean, hide that.

Apparently, that is.

Tell me about your, by the way, Apple Watch.

Wait, can you be 50 and be wearing an Apple Watch?

That's a good question.

I think only 50-year-old people wear Apple Watches.

And by the way, I have a question for you.

Do you wear your Apple Watch on stage?

No.

No, but what about the steps?

There are so many steps in stand-up.

Does it kill you not to get the steps?

No, I actually did that one time on stage just to see how many calories I was burning.

And I think it was 460 calories I burned in a set.

I think if an average comedian burns 400 calories, you probably burn a thousand.

Like you are the most physical, that's really what you're known for, like your crazy ass facial expressions and your body.

And I do wonder, because you really move your life and you wear tight clothing.

Have you ever had an incident, like a pants rip, like anything?

I just ripped my pants last week, but this wasn't doing comedy.

This was at my seven-year-old daughter's birthday party.

Okay, well,

ripped my jeans.

And do you know how, you know how fat your legs got to be?

I actually do know how fat your legs have to be.

I used to be extremely fat.

You were fat?

Huge.

Like, what are we talking?

Like, weight-wise.

Like, I have recently lost about 60, depending on the day, 60 to 70 pounds.

And what are you doing?

Are you going to some type of drug?

Yes.

Oh, I was on ozempic okay so let me ask you about the ozempic now were you telling people you were on ozempic in the beginning did you gradually move into that how did that

you asked I told nobody and then like I was literally so fat for so long and then one day I'm like not fat anymore and people are like uh question mark hello what's going on everyone was like she's on ozempic and I I would say uh Three-fourths through my journey is when I decided to share.

And of course, I put it on my Patreon because, you know, this is a business.

So you revealed on Patreon that you were on pharmaceutical medication.

Yes.

And there were so many, I actually had such an amazing experience, really seriously, with the drug that I felt like I wanted to share.

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And love you just like lit up with the...

Well, I find this fascinating because I'm seeing myself a lot more people admit to me that they're on Ozempic.

And then in the beginning, I feel like everything was like a secret.

Of course.

I'm just not just running.

Yeah.

I am running, by the way.

So are you still on it?

No, I've been off of it since November.

Is there a personality change?

Did you feel depressed, happy?

What was the vibe?

That's a good question.

I have actually heard people who had that experience.

I did not have that experience.

That's because you can't keep a good turdy down.

Like, I am going, like, my personality is going to shine through.

I don't care where I am, you know?

Okay.

So your personality wasn't affected.

No.

Unfortunately.

Is it one day you feel like, oh, I'm not hungry?

Or is this a gradual, like, I ain't going to have the side?

It's not gradual.

Once you start taking the drug and it takes like two days to really kick in, it's not that you're not hungry.

You still have X amount of meals per day as much as you were having before, but your meals are just significantly smaller.

It takes a lot less food to keep you full.

And throughout the day, there's just not as many cravings, you know?

Okay.

And did you look like emaciated in the face?

Did you have that kind of like...

Rose Empic face.

Yeah, did you have that?

I did not.

And that is a myth.

That's a myth.

It is.

Oh, everybody that I've seen on it don't look right.

Well, who, who are the people that you because I think that a lot of it is just age?

Could be.

It just seems very kind of hollow.

Well, that's if you, of course, if you lose too much weight, which unfortunately didn't happen to me.

But if you do lose too much weight, like I think with any, even if you're not on Ozempic, your face, you get that gaunt sort of skeletal look.

Yes, for sure.

And now that you're not on it, have you maintained your like, okay, now I'm just going to have this or that?

Is it

difficult?

I completely overhauled my life.

So I'm eating and acting totally differently.

I work out at like four to five times a week now, and I eat much healthier.

Since November, you know, again, depending on the day, I've gained between four and seven pounds, which I'm pretty proud of.

All right.

I mean, you look great.

Thank you so much.

I didn't know you back when you were a tank.

I was a tank.

But

now that you're 70 pounds lighter, you.

Do you struggle with your weight?

I do.

You do.

I do, yeah.

I do.

I would never guess that.

Well, I mean, as I grow older, it's just harder to lose the weight.

And my body has been,

I've been dealing with some sciatic pain, but recently went

doing Pilates, which has really changed my life.

So yeah, I do struggle with, I love food.

I really, really enjoy food.

I really love enjoying a nice bottle of wine.

So

I just have to monitor that.

And like seeing yourself on camera, does that mess with like your body image at all?

Not necessarily on camera.

It's when I am naked in the mirror looking going, wow, am I old.

And by the way, you have like an incredibly good-looking wife.

She is very, very attractive and snatched.

She doesn't look like she's ever taken Ozempic.

No, she is

an ex-gymnist.

Me too.

So, oh, you did gymnastics?

Yeah, when I was like four, I really could do a round off like nobody else.

Okay, so it stopped at four?

Yeah.

Okay.

And actually, Paul Rudd, are you familiar with Paul Rudd?

Yeah.

He was my gymnastics teacher.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

I don't have that like fully confirmed.

It's just the way that I remember it.

I swear to God, the guy like was Paul Rudd.

Oh, okay.

But I have been meaning to meet Paul Rudd, and I feel like you probably will meet him at some time soon.

And if you could ask him if he ever taught gymnastics on Long Island, it would mean the world to me for real.

I will pass that message along.

It was like in the clueless days.

Okay.

Amazing movie.

Okay.

Never seen Clueless.

No, never saw it.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, there's a period of my life I didn't see movies, I think, for 12 years.

I think I tapped out of the whole movie game.

I didn't see a lot of the movies I should have saw.

Like, what's someone?

Oh, Napoleon Dynamite.

Never saw that.

You know what?

I think you're far too skilled as a comedian to have watched that movie.

I think it's like, seriously, like my husband loves it.

And you really, you don't need to see it.

Is your husband Jewish?

Yes.

Okay.

And he's also on Ozembic.

Was he a tank?

No, but he was like, he's like 6'1.

He holds it better.

He was like chubs, but not like he, it's so unfair.

You know, a man, you can be huge and no one even knows, you know?

Did you go on it together?

No, I went on it first.

My situation was much more dire.

Let's just say that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Now, you're, I want to say a very famous Italian.

Of course, there are famous Italians all over.

Is there a meeting?

Of Italians?

Yeah, like famous Italians.

I know there, my friend Brian Kelly, there's a meeting of famous people with the last name Kelly.

Oh, no.

I don't know of any Italian meetings.

They might be happening.

I just might not be invited.

Oh.

But no, I'm not part of any Italian group or supporting any type of get-togethers.

Got it.

Got it.

And so one of my favorite Italians, and actually I was talking to you on social media this morning and she loves you.

She's always leaving comments on your Instagram.

And I do wonder, do you know Teresa Judice?

I think I might have met her at a show.

She used to come maybe to the Atlantic City shows.

She's obsessed.

She maybe met her.

Doesn't her husband do comedy or try to do comedy?

Oh, okay.

Well, let me explain.

Teresa Judas's brother is married to a woman, and her brother, Joe, does stand up.

You are correct about that.

So it's her brother.

It's Melissa's husband.

You watch Housewives?

No.

Does your wife watch housewives?

No.

You're still missing out.

No, let me tell you.

We have...

There's not a lot of watching in the house.

Really?

No.

Just because kids, like

we just got a dog.

That's been taking such a blessing.

Never had a dog before in my life.

Really?

First ever dog.

I'm 50 years old.

What kind?

It's a labradoodle.

So cute.

And it's a doll, but it's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of time invested.

And, you know, it's like a baby.

Yeah.

Is it a boy or a girl?

It's a boy.

His name is Luigi.

I would expect Luigi.

Why not Mario?

What's it?

Why not Mario?

I don't know.

I felt like Luigi was more of a dog name.

I love it.

Mario.

I don't know.

Mario was never brought up, to be honest with you.

I love Luigi.

I love that for you.

And I'm a dog mom as well.

And let me tell you, it's not for the faint of heart.

What's your dog?

It's such a long story.

So now that you asked, in December, I lost the love of my life, my six-year-old Cavalier, Theo.

And about two months ago, I got a...

Sorry, I'm sorry.

Is that a dog?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, Theo is the dog.

Sorry.

I don't know what a Cavalier is.

Keem Charles Cavalier.

It's a breed.

And I recently brought a new puppy into my life.

And I'm going to be honest with you, I'm struggling to connect.

With the dog?

With the new dog.

You don't like you?

I mean,

it was more more that I don't like him, you know?

He's not Theo.

Oh, so you're comparing the dog.

Yeah, Theo was taking from me very soon.

He was only six.

He had a very, very, very crazy cancer.

Oh, well, I'm sorry.

Thank you.

I don't want to go there.

I don't want to go there.

Back to Theresa Judice.

I know that you watch Love is Blind.

I know that about you.

Yes, I watched Love.

I would love to know why that show, because you said you don't watch a lot of TV.

What drew you to it?

Love is Blind is the only show my wife and I could watch where no one asks any questions.

Like my wife, generally, when we watch a movie, she'll go, hold on, pause.

What's the thing?

And then I got to go,

hold on, let me find out what's going on.

There's a lot of like pausing.

With Love is Blind, it's so like mind-numbing.

Yeah, it's like, all right, this girl likes this guy and vice versa.

There's not a lot of explaining to do.

Yeah.

That's why we enjoy it.

I love that.

I like how your podcast voice is different than your stand-up voice, but I just got a little bit of the to-do.

Yeah.

generally my performance voice uh doesn't really work well on a I'm not gonna go and would you think you know, I'm not isn't that what people want from you?

Like, do you find that annoying?

The people that are like, Dance monkey, that's what they think.

I feel like they're sitting next to you at a dinner party that you're gonna be like that.

Um,

I don't know what they're thinking or what they expect from me, but I don't know.

I feel like if I'm in a normal conversation, I'm not gonna like performance it up just because it doesn't really it would it would be totally out of character for me to like

go into a full like voice, facial expression performance.

It's more of like, I don't know, it's more of like you got to.

Ease into it.

Yeah.

But you also have your own podcast.

I do.

And do you like being a podcaster?

I happen to love it, but it's not for everyone.

I haven't figured out the podcasting business part of it.

Really?

I started podcasting out of the sheer enjoyment of talking to my buddy Pete.

And there was no expectation

to monetize it or it was just basically a phone call that we recorded once a week.

And it's 12 years later.

And I'm like, all right, do you want to have some guests?

We never had guests because we just felt like our back and forth was just the entertainment.

Agreed.

So now we're involving guests.

And some podcast listeners that have been with us since day one are like, we don't like the guests.

We like it, just you guys.

But then some people are like, no, we love the guests.

So we're in this kind of weird situation where we enjoy doing both.

And hopefully our audience will kind of grow with us.

But

no, I mean, podcasting is like something that I never like

set out to do.

It just kind of happened by accident.

I feel like it really goes hand in hand with comedy.

So many comics have podcasts.

Love the way.

I got to tell you.

And you're doing it so subtly.

But I love the way you're tapping the iPad every time it goes off just to get it brightened up again.

I don't know if you guys are picking this off.

Let me tell you,

I wish I figured out how to put the setting on where it doesn't fucking lock, but now I'm stuck here tapping the iPad because I have amazing questions for you and I don't want to forget that.

I know, but I just love the way you're just kind of like, yeah, I know.

And then you just, every once in a while, just, you just.

Okay, not me thinking you were about to compliment me on like my podcasting skills because we were talking about podcasts.

No, it's just me tapping the iPad.

Thanks so much, Sebastian.

No, that is a skill to tap it and act like it's not even happening.

But go ahead.

But I obviously wasn't doing a good job because you caught us.

No, no, no.

I'm very hypersensitive when it comes to that.

Well, I love your podcast clips.

They're always popping up on my TikTok.

And you have so many followers on TikTok.

And I do wonder what your thoughts on the platform are.

It's kind of like this polarizing topic.

What, the TikTok?

TikTok.

Okay.

And you have young kids, too.

I

don't have any of my kids on social media.

I mean, they're really small.

And I don't really have them watching any

YouTube or any of that stuff.

I don't have TikTok on my phone.

I don't look at TikTok.

The only thing I look at is Instagram.

And

let me hear your take on this since you're a young hip person.

Not you calling me young.

Well, I mean, I'm guessing you're under 30.

For the next month, yes.

Okay.

So you're like piped in.

What's your take

on

Facebook?

Is that even somewhere you even go?

Or you have a page?

No, I don't.

I don't.

It's not somewhere I go.

It's not somewhere I participate in.

But I do understand its place in media.

And especially I understand its value, seriously when it comes to selling tickets.

It's used, especially for like paid media.

And I know you have like a big tour coming up.

I think there's a place for it.

And I also think, who are we talking about?

Who's the Facebook for?

Who's your demographic?

Who would you say is the average person who comes and sits in on your show?

How old are they?

I would say between,

I don't know, 30 and

55 60.

Facebook might behoove you.

It might benefit you.

I'm sure you use it for all different types of things.

Do you have a page?

I have a page.

I don't necessarily like interact a lot on the page, but I think it is like my mom will call or send me Facebook posts.

I never really get a Facebook post from like someone like yourself.

A young person.

Right.

But at the end of the day, like a 55-year-old person, a ticket to sale is a ticket sale.

They need to be spoken to too.

No, I mean, I definitely think there's a place.

I'm just wondering from a person.

You should be like posting photos of yourself.

Like, hey guys, it's Sebastian.

Like, what's up?

Like to your friends and family.

Like, I don't think you need to do it in that sort of way, like a social network.

But for work, I think it's, there's value there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I agree.

I just don't think a lot of kids, and I call you a kid just because I love it.

Say it again.

Childs.

The younger generation is on Facebook necessarily.

They're not.

I don't even think they have an account.

Like, I don't think they ever signed up for.

I don't think they do either.

So you're extremely busy, like I said, very successful.

You show bookies on Macs.

You are always on the road.

And you have this huge tour coming up where you're kind of like setting records.

And I wanted to get your take on that.

So forgive me, I might not get it 100% right.

You're doing five shows at Madison Square Garden and that's like the largest comedy event ever done at MSG.

Is that correct?

I believe so.

Like I think so, yeah.

That's like so crazy.

How does that make you feel?

I'm very flattered that a lot of people in the New York City tri-state area want to see me do comedy.

And that's always kind of been my bread and butter, that part of the country, the Bostons, the Philadelphias, the what have you, because for whatever the reason, I think there's just a lot of people that kind of grew up the way I grew up.

Culturally.

Culturally, they understand.

I talk about family a lot, especially my overbearing father, which I think a lot of people in that area could relate to just because a lot of people immigrated through New York City and have that same type of family structure.

But I don't know.

I mean, listen, when I got into this business in 1998, when I came out here, I never thought, oh,

I'm going to sell out this, that, and the other thing.

It was never like a,

I never dreamt it.

I just only dreamed of doing stand-up for a living.

Making a living.

And now that it's kind of grown to where it's grown, I'm, you know, it's just, it's, it's just nice.

It feels really, really good for me just to put, you know, to smile on people's faces, especially now days where

yeah.

I just want to make people forget for an hour and a half of what they're dealing with on a day-to-day.

And the fact that that many people are going to come see me at the, in New York City is, is, is, I'm flattered by no it's so major and when you do something like that obviously it's a great success career-wise also you know financially you buy yourself a gift like how do you celebrate

you know I don't buy a lot of things my celebration comes more out of experiences and going on vacation or love my wife and I going on a weekend or whatnot

so Actually, we were just at the Hollywood Bowl and I didn't have a watch on.

I didn't have my iPhone one.

I did the show with Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bergatzi and Jim Gaffigan.

He's like, oh, you don't have a watch?

And I'm like, oh, you know, I don't, I don't really, you know, I have a couple of watches.

It's not really my jam.

But they were asking me, do you collect anything?

Because people collect

whether it be shoes or maybe you have a car collection.

But no, I've always loved throwing really nice birthday parties or stuff that we could like.

Remember.

Remember.

I love that.

And when you like, so what is it, like 50 shows on this tour you're doing, right?

Right now, it's 50, I think it's either 54 shows or 54 cities.

I think it's 54 shows, but then we have another group of shows.

56.

56.

Wow, I'm going to go to whispers in the dark gallery.

56 shows, and then it's going to be, I think, 94 altogether when we announce the second half of it.

And it's obviously a huge part of the job, just like being on the road and traveling.

But are you a good traveler?

Like, you know?

I think I'm really good at traveling.

Really?

You got your TS, like TSA.

You're so in and out so quick.

TSA,

whatever you need to kind of get through that experience fast.

I have.

I also

love to pack.

And I pack the same way

when I'm leaving a city than when I'm coming.

So my

suitcase don't look

disorganized.

So if you opened it up at the airport,

you wouldn't know if I'm coming or going.

That's extremely mature of you, first of all.

I think by the end of the trip, we've all just sort of given up and we're just throwing it in.

It's all going to get washed when we get home anyway.

But yeah, there's always that element of perhaps your bag getting taken and perhaps your dirty underwear being shown to the world.

And it's humiliating.

When you pack after a vacation and you have laundry,

where do you pack the laundry?

Is it in the mesh kind of order?

It's not in the mesh, by the way, because the mesh is open.

Like the mesh is going to still get everything dirty.

I love this question.

And I have thought for years that I should go in Shark Tank and invent some sort of like dirty underwear product.

I don't know.

I'm not sure of the technology yet.

What I currently do is I always take the laundry bag from the hotel.

You know, they have like the little past.

I wrap my shit in there and I throw it in the suitcase.

That's what I do.

It's a good, I think it's a good method.

Do you agree?

I am totally with you.

I don't know of a better one currently, but I'm open.

I'll even go as far as this: taking that bag of laundry, and if it's small enough, enough, putting it in the front of the suitcase where it doesn't even connect with the rest of maybe a clean

pan.

No, that's living in the future for sure.

The bag that I'm currently thinking of doesn't have a front pocket.

It's like a hard shell one, you know.

Okay.

Are you a carry-on or check-in?

Amazing question.

For this trip in particular, I'm gone for a long time.

I just came from Austin and I had a lot of like things going on.

So this is a checked bag type of trip.

I check a bag twice a year, max.

I'm a little bit of a nut when it comes to overhead bin.

Like I prefer.

Okay.

I got to ask you this question just because

we're asking questions about me and the comedy, but I got to throw it back at you.

Jeez.

One of my favorite things talking about myself.

I wish you would ask more.

Who, when you were,

did you always want to do podcasting?

How did you get into this?

Such a great question.

It's kind of a tale as old as time.

Let me turn my iPad off.

I started, I've had, this is, okay, so I started a show with my sister.

So I normally host this show with my sister, Jackie.

She's off for the week and I'm doing guest co-hosts like yourself.

And she and I, I'm one of four sisters.

We're super close.

We've always really been into like pop culture and celebrity obsess.

And that's just like was sort of our hobby growing up.

We love reality TV.

We love celebrities.

We love reading tabloid magazines.

And I started, you know, making content on Instagram and I got an opportunity to do a show a bunch of years ago on Verizon.

They were like, we want to give you a show, whatever you want to do, digital show.

And I was like, all right, great.

Let me bring my sister.

We started it and we called it the morning breath.

And it was kind of of going to be this like play on a morning show, basically the view for young women, millennials, but we weren't going to talk about anything serious.

We were just going to talk about like the bachelor and really dumb stuff like that.

And over the years, we then.

that show got canceled, but we loved doing it together.

So we did it independently.

This was like six or seven years ago.

And we changed the name to the morning toast.

And now it's just the toast.

So it's like sort of evolved over the years.

I never like sat down.

I was like, my dream is to be a podcaster.

No, I think when I started podcasting, I didn't really even know what it was.

We were a web show and people would leave comments.

Could you rip the audio from here and make it a podcast?

And we're like, sure.

So we uploaded it on like all the podcast platforms.

And now it's a show that people mostly listen to, but we also, as you can see, record it visually as well.

Okay.

You got four siblings.

Yes.

All sisters.

Yep.

The other two.

Yeah.

Are they looking at YouTube going,

entertainment?

This is.

It's an amazing question.

So we, in addition to doing this podcast, we have a small podcast network where we produce other shows.

And of course, when it came to talent, I said, oh, other two sisters, get involved.

They both are failed podcasters.

They didn't even like doing it.

I don't even know how long they did it for, but they gave up on it completely, totally, like whatever the opposite of nepotism is, like the lazy energy was radiating.

And a lot of people ask, also, you know, has it caused any sort of divide within the sisters?

Two working together, two not?

It has not at the current moment.

I don't want to jinx, you know, but it hasn't.

Okay.

But it was a good question.

You have any other questions for me?

Right now, no.

Okay,

you let me get into it.

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So your tour is called the It Ain't Right Tour.

And I just have have to say love the name i'm always saying it ain't right it ain't right and i want to ask you some things tell me is it right or is it not right i love a game i love a game me too

it's giving like watch what happens live low budget energy okay reclining your chair on an airplane

Very hot.

That is a great, great question.

I've been guilty of doing this.

I was a big recliner in the beginning.

However, over time of travel, I do not recline anymore just out of respect for the person.

So it ain't right.

It ain't right to recline.

I'm at a place in my journey now where if the person in front of me reclines, I will have, I have no choice but to recline.

I'm not going to suffer for some asshole behind me who I don't even know.

Like if the person in front of me doesn't move, I won't move either.

Okay.

I think that's a good policy.

I don't know about that.

I don't know about that.

Oh, you don't.

You're doubtful about that.

I've often suffered for other people's happiness.

That's big of you.

I'm not going to lie.

I'm

not that girl.

Okay.

That's fine.

Like, I need to live, you know, and I'm prone to migraines on planes.

It's just like something I deal with.

So it's, I gotta, I gotta put me first.

Okay.

All right.

Um, long as we're on an airplane, I'll give you one.

Okay.

It ain't right to watch a movie with no headphones on the airplane.

Who the fuck?

You travel with stereo killers?

I've never seen anyone.

Actually,

I've personally never done that.

I just, I want to go on record.

I'm extremely normal and cool, and I would never do something losery like that.

Um,

it ain't right.

Okay.

What's the point?

No, I've just, I've just seen like people like fire up a movie, especially kids.

Okay, kids.

Okay, wait.

Kids, that's interesting.

I think sometimes it's enough, you know, it stimulates them enough to shut up and just watch without headphones.

You got to have headphones.

My kids have headphones when they're well, you're rich, so maybe some other people are.

It doesn't cost much to get a couple of headphones.

They actually give them out for free, I don't like.

All right, is it right or is it not right?

Tipping culture.

I'm I'm not into this.

You go to the dry cleaners and I'm tipping 20% for the guy to put the

tipping is

reserved for

servers, Bellman,

yeah.

Not,

you know,

every day, you know what they're doing?

The businesses are.

hiring the employee and saying you get a base salary plus tips and they're passing on this salary

to the consumer.

And

I'm not into it.

I agree.

And I think they're paying their employees way less.

It's inhumane.

But let me tell you where I think tipping culture reached this sort of boiling point was the iPad.

And you're standing in front of this person and they're basically saying, oh, you don't think I'm valuable.

And like when they're staring at you and they flip that little thing, like, what are we to do?

We're human beings.

I stare back.

You do.

You don't back down?

No.

I mean, if there was something that was done, especially now, everybody thinks they're going to get a tip just for breathing.

Yeah, no.

All right.

You give me something.

Maybe you tell me something.

Maybe we have a nice interaction.

And yeah, I'll give you a tip.

But when you got a scowl.

And this is a problem I got with the whole, with the whole AI.

Everybody's like, oh, AI is taking jobs away.

Well, maybe if you fucking smile, maybe we wouldn't need the AI.

It's an amazing point.

Yeah.

So I'm not into the whole tipping for nothing.

So you're saying it ain't right.

It ain't right.

Okay.

Oh, destination weddings.

We had one.

It's right.

You had one?

Oh, yeah.

Where?

Napa.

Okay, let me ask you a question.

Now, I have a million questions because I think there's a way to do it right.

You need to provide.

for your guests, you know, the second they get there.

Everything really needs to be.

You need to have a Friday night plan.

If it's a weekend, Friday, Saturday, whatever the wedding is, tell me about the schedule of your wedding.

Tell me everything.

If I remember correctly, this was 10 years ago we did have a family dinner which was just the families like the brothers the sisters the parents the grandparents then we had a rehearsal dinner party then we had the wedding and then we had a brunch so all four days there was activities for them to do

and

some of the rooms

were paid down so it was a little bit more affordable for people to stay.

Oh, rich.

Okay.

I think that's different.

I think that's different than inviting someone and like not providing food and everyone's just sort of like jerking off until the wedding.

And I think there's a way to do it and there's a way not to do it.

It sounds like it was lovely and I would have loved to have been there.

I think you would have really enjoyed our wedding.

I'm sure.

Was there food?

Like that's all I care about.

Yeah, the food was dialed in.

The wine was exceptional.

It was, it was,

my, my wife's family, and this is documented, has money.

Oh, obsessed.

I didn't know that.

Oh, okay.

Well, that must have missed that on the iTunes.

No, literally.

Wow.

So it was done.

Well.

Well.

And I come from middle-class northwest suburbs of Chicago, so I make fun of a lot of the things that my wife's family does.

Obsessed.

Because

they're a little over the top.

At our wedding, instead of table numbers, I can't even believe I'm going to tell you this.

Exclusive.

Exclusive.

Another four views.

Instead of the numbers on the table, there were ballerinas with balloons that had the number on the balloon at each table.

Holy crap.

Are you thinking a human ballerina?

Like a lady was standing there?

It was the 14 ballerinas.

That's classy.

Classy.

That was jokes for years.

Yes.

No, of course that put the kids through college.

My father, who's an immigrant from Italy, was asking me how much per ballerina because he gave some money to the wedding.

Of course.

And he said, did my money

go to the ballerinas?

Honestly, it's a good question.

And did you ever find out how much the ballerinas were paid?

And did you have to tip them?

No, no, I don't know that.

I can't find out.

And the next time I'm on the show, I'll give you that information.

You're always welcome back.

Are you having a good time, by the way?

I'm having a fabulous time.

Listen, this is a Sunday for the viewers.

This is a Sunday at 5.30.

Generally speaking, podcasting doesn't happen on a Sunday at 5.30, but right now,

I would rather be here than anywhere in the world.

You don't have to love it.

It's so sweet.

And I do want to say, I appreciate you letting everyone know that we're working so hard on a Sunday.

We're amazing.

We are the hardest working people on the planet.

And thank you for bringing that up because I didn't want to, but you did.

So I appreciate that, you know?

Are we here for me?

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

Great.

I thought we were here for you.

No, no no no no i would never make something about me i'm just like i'm kind of like a fly on the wall you know you'd be sometimes i don't know especially after the ozembic sometimes people don't turn to the side they don't even see me oh okay all right all right thank you for coming

wait how did you meet your wife

i

asked my personal trainer at the time his name's john i said do you have any good-looking girls you train he goes i got one at 6 a.m in the morning and i'm like oh that's kind of early i said well put me in at seven i want to check her out on the way on the way in.

And I saw her and I was like, oh, wow, she's really attractive.

So I really poured on the Italian.

It really came in strong.

I would get ready to go to the gym.

I would put cologne on, baby oil, the whole thing, right?

Dripping with baby oil.

She loved it.

And no, she didn't know what the hell it was.

She's from the South, Memphis, Tennessee.

Never seen anybody quite like me in the sense that I wasn't her type.

You know, at the time, this is 15 years ago.

I'd like, like, I had a, they called it a gelmit.

I had

full gel side burns down.

That's wild.

Yeah.

Reeked of

cologne.

And that's the way I came into the gym thinking, oh, yeah, now she's going to love it.

And it was a hard sell.

Right, right.

Right.

But thankfully, you know, it's on the inside that matters.

Yeah, I persevered.

I love that.

It's amazing what laughter will do to somebody.

Is it right?

Cold plunging.

Big thing here.

I have a cold plunge.

Oh, wow.

He's really sold his soul.

I sold my soul and

I have stopped cold plunging until I get a full physical

because I have the type of luck.

I have this type of luck where I'll cold plunge and they'll find me

floating in the cold plunge.

And like, what happened?

He had a heart attack because he had a heart condition.

So I'm not cold plunging anywhere.

So you get cleared.

Yeah.

Do you find living in LA like you're susceptible to these like wellness trends?

Do you do a lot of those things?

Or is cold?

Because cold plunging has transcended wellness, I will say.

Like everyone, and I understand my husband loves doing it.

I get it.

Do you find you're often doing these types of things to feel well?

Yes, I find myself doing these quote-unquote trendy things.

I had my buddies visit me from Chicago last year.

I put them in the cold plunge and it was like given Superman kryptonite.

oh that they didn't their body didn't even know how to behave there was so there was

it's a shock it was it was a complete shock to their system uh so if i was living in chicago i probably wouldn't be doing half of the stuff i'm doing what's the most la thing about your life

la thing or like the thing you'd be most embarrassed to tell your friends from back home Well, I tell them because I know they're going to rip me to shreds,

periodically going on the newest fast.

Oh.

That's very LA where it's like, oh, what are you doing, Prolon eating?

Sponsor of this show, make sure to use Code Toast.

Oh, well, that's how popular this show is.

Prolon hasn't even approached my podcast.

Did you have a positive experience with it?

I did.

I did have a positive experience.

But again, this is something that you tell the guys from Chicago that you're not eating for three days or a couple olives for a night.

Yeah.

They're like, what?

Yeah.

Come home.

Yeah.

So yeah, there's, but my wife, my wife spearheads a lot of this stuff.

Yeah.

So since we're a couple, they're like, she's like, let's just go on a fast.

I go, oh, okay.

So now I got to go on a fast because she's not going to be eating.

And eating is very communal in our house.

So I can't sit there and knock down a T-bone while she's having, you know, three grains of salt.

I want to ask you one more question about your wife.

You guys take amazing photos together.

And something we talk here on the toast about me and my sister basically use this as a platform to complain about our husbands and their inability to to take photos of us, for us, with us.

And of course, the one photo we take together that I end up liking, like his eyes are closed.

What is your relationship with your wife?

Because I also was looking at her Instagram and, you know, she's got some amazing photos.

Are you a good Instagram husband?

I wish the photo I want you guys to see is the photo of her asking me to take a photo.

So I'm like, oh, come on.

And I'm begrudgingly take the photo.

But

my wife, thank God, because a lot of times you look back at the photo and go, oh my God, you know, you remember that moment, especially with the kids, too.

So I don't like taking a lot of these photos, but my wife insists on it.

And

I'm happy that she's better off.

Yeah, better off.

My final It Ain't Right for You before I let you go on this gorgeous Sunday evening because we're working so hard.

Is it right?

Pickleball.

Yes.

I love it.

I

took up pickleball about five years ago on the road when it wasn't even popping.

Where were you playing?

I was on the

ground on this.

We would go to whatever city, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Where do we got pickleball?

And we would go to a gymnasium with like old people and play pickleball.

And then I had this injury.

I don't play, but I have a pickleball court at my house.

Rich.

I love that.

Oh, he's got a pickleball course in the ballerinas.

The more I learn, the more I like.

Is that your like.

No, I just

t-shirt.

She's right.

Rich.

Love it.

I love that.

I have absolutely had the time of my life with you.

It's over already.

Jeez.

I mean, it is.

Unless you have any questions for me, I think that's a great way to end.

Oh, I have a question for you.

I think, let me give you an it ain't right question.

Yes.

Hold on.

Let me ruminate on that.

So you've been married how long?

Wow, it's really a

10 years.

So that's a

significant 11 actually, yeah.

So this is like your high school sweetheart?

Like my freshman year of college.

So you haven't dated anybody since freshman year of college?

No.

Wow, that's impressive.

I just had this conversation with somebody the other day.

High school kind of college sweethearts, I didn't even think existed anymore.

No, I know.

And so, but we're both, we both come from like modern Orthodox Jewish families.

And so I think a lot of people think that we, and I got married super young, that we did it like for religious reasons, but we're really not that religious.

We're very, you know, spiritual.

But no, it was just like a timing thing.

We met when we were 18.

And by the time I graduated college, we'd been together for four years.

And it was like, all right, should we get married?

And yeah.

Is he in the entertainment business?

Yes, he's also a podcast.

You should go on his podcast too.

What's his?

It's called The Good Guys.

Do you know Josh Peck from Oppenheimer?

Oh, yeah.

It's hosted with Ben and Josh.

And they're just like two Jewish guys.

They just end up talking about food all all the time.

Enozempic.

Oh my God.

Oh, okay.

And they're out of New York.

Josh lives here, and Ben and I live in New York, so they bank episodes when they're here.

When Josh comes to New York, they bank episodes.

Sometimes they do it remotely.

Okay.

Yeah.

Moving forward.

Yeah.

Is it

right to do podcasting on Sunday?

Moving forward.

I'm going to say it is right.

Let me tell you why.

Let me tell you why.

And you can probably think of it like, would you do a show on a Sunday?

Like a comedy show?

Absolutely.

Right.

Because for the way your business is is built like really the the comedy the stand-up shows is the center of it and everything else like the podcast it all feeds from like the main thing that's like what you have to protect most if you could only do one thing it would be that right for me it's this show i will record i have recorded from anywhere from anywhere using the most turnt equipment like i got to get the episode up daily if i don't the girlies are gonna riot they're gonna be at my door with pitchforks i will podcast anywhere anytime And of course, you know, it goes without saying, if you want to have me on your show, I would be completely.

Oh, we would love to have you on.

No pressure.

There's a lot more we got to get into it here.

Zero pressure.

Because I feel like this has been like a very sort of back and forth interview.

I feel like you asked me as many questions as I asked you.

And yeah, and also, too, you have a way of speaking that is extremely,

you speak extremely fast.

Yes.

And,

however, it's very understandable.

I could comprehend what you're saying.

I so love to hear that.

It is sort of my biggest piece of feedback.

It's like, girlies, slow down.

No, you don't have to.

This is part of the charm.

I I love it.

And I think actually, since we've been doing the show for so long and so many people have been listening for many years, they have become more accustomed to it.

I'm actually helping them.

You're welcome.

One last thing before we leave, before you fall asleep.

By the way, amazing teeth.

I don't know what you're doing, but I agree.

Law of the

Mike Flag.

Yeah.

I'll send you a link.

A lot of people don't have this.

And I love the branding and the branding on the iPad.

So this is very well well thought out.

Those podcasters out there that are looking to become successful, take notes right here.

You're going to make me cry.

The toast.

The toast.

I feel like the girlies are going to love this episode.

And so, this tour kicks off relatively soon.

Has it started yet?

July 11th in Norfolk, Virginia.

Not to make everything about me.

That's the day after my birthday.

Like, I know that's irrelevant.

And that means nothing to you.

I am a cancer woman.

July 8th, July 8th.

You're lying.

But

you don't strike me as a cancer.

You seem very, very outgoing.

Very...

Are cancers not outgoing?

The cancers I know are kind of loners, homebodies.

A homebody, yes.

Loyal.

Yes.

Don't let a lot of people into their little circle.

That as well.

I'm surprised.

You seem very, very social.

I am very social, but there's about six people who I would actually talk to on a real level.

And you're one of them.

Okay.

Glad I'm in that.

Are you

right over there, bro?

He thinks we're hilarious.

Like, I'm obsessed.

Do you guys work together?

No, this is our first time meeting.

He's a fabulous engineer, and honestly, you're welcome to come to every recording I ever do.

Because like the laughing, I mean, you know, what's better than someone laughing?

And not gonna lie, you laughed at me, like, not at me.

You laughed at something I said like six times, and I swear to God, like

no one can touch me.

Well, no, I mean, I think you're very humorous.

And

where can they get the tickets?

Because everyone's after this interview.

No, not me.

People who listen to the show.

Oh, of course, by the way, I want to come.

The fact that you're not even thinking of coming is upsetting.

I'm coming to Madison Square Garden by Monday.

Okay.

SebastianLive.com.

Get your tickets there.

It's all on sale.

And we're hitting a lot of different cities that I have even Youngstown, Ohio, which I haven't been.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Charleston, a lot of cities that I haven't been to.

And it's an all-arena tour.

And it's the first time I've done all-arena.

That's so major, by the way.

No, that is.

Like, that's so sick.

Can I ask you a question?

You don't have to answer it.

Yeah.

There's so many, you know, successful comedians.

Obviously, you're like one of the, you know, top ones.

Do you have anyone who like, not even in a bad way, who you feel very competitive with that you feel like is similar to you and like you're seeing what they do and it motivates you?

Not in a bad way.

Someone who's like kind of killing it and you're like, damn.

Like lights a fire under your ass.

Well,

I'm inspired by what a lot of, what Kevin Hart does

in the sense that his shows have a lot of production behind it.

And I try to give the people a show, show not only with the material but kind of the experience of going to a stand-up comedy show uh although this is not music music has a lot of theatrics whether it be fire or video or multimedia comedy is quite the opposite that's more of a distraction but if people could come to the show and walk away going wow that was funny and also it was

it looked it looked elevated yeah that's kind of what i'm trying to achieve as a comedian and i think kevin hart is at the top of his game.

When you go see his show, it's really, really dialed in.

It's a show.

Yeah.

It's a show.

It's a dazzling show business.

You know, it's a show.

It's SebastianLive.com.

Yes.

And your Mac show, Bookies.

When does that premiere?

We don't have a date on it yet.

We're in the middle of production, but it will come out sometimes this year, sometime this year.

And Pete and Sebastian Show, which is our podcast.

We do not have flags yet.

I'll send you a link.

We're working on it.

Thank you.

And we'll get an iPad with

a second sell on it.

But yeah, that's what's happening in my life.

One more question for you.

Go ahead.

Aura ring?

Yeah, right, right here.

Why do you need both?

I don't have either.

And I'm actually interested in perhaps acquiring technology of that sort.

So why both?

Don't they do the same thing?

What?

What?

This and this?

Yeah.

I think this is a little bit more accurate.

The aura ring.

And it's not like that I need it.

It's for me, it's a little game I play with.

I get up, I go, oh, did I get a 90 or did I get an 80?

I drank last night, so my score was 65.

What did you do last night?

What did we do?

I watched the Canelo fight at home.

It was a prize fight.

It was two Mexican guys fighting.

It was Sigo de Mayo.

There was a lot of fight behind it.

La Toastada, love.

Yeah, we have a running joke on this show.

A lot of people think I'm Latin because my name is Claudia.

And I actually have like a real love and appreciation for the Latin culture.

And I do find a lot of things very similar to the Jewish culture.

So I've sort of started to appropriate, I am Latina.

Well, I mean, you do definitely have a Spanish vibe.

I mean, my wife is Jewish and she's her wife or her family's from Spain.

But yeah, you don't have like a, you just have like a very ethnic

vibe coming off.

And I couldn't be less ethnic.

I did in my 23 to me.

I'm 99.9% Eastern European Ashkenaz Jew, which like isn't ethnic per se.

Well, you could pass for Italian or Hispanic.

I love that.

Rich.

Rich.

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