Sebastian Maniscalco 2 ｜ This Past Weekend #223
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1 hour and 29 minutes
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192.90926
Summary
In this episode, I sit down with comedian Pete Correale to talk about his new movie, Spinning Gold, as well as his podcast, The Pete and Sebastian Show, which has been around for 5 years. We talk about what it's like being in the entertainment business, what it was like growing up in the 80s and 90s, and what it s like being an entertainer.
Transcript
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I plan on doing more. Actually, I'm doing a movie coming up in a couple weeks called Spinning Gold,
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where I play Giorgio Moroder, who was the father of disco, and I have to do it.
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Talk about putting yourself in a situation that you don't normally find yourself in.
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I notice, and this is probably the Italian in me.
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But I don't like that you got your name outside on the wall.
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Some psychotic come by, and then, oh, this is where your podcast's out of.
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You know, kind of like a little under the radar.
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No, that's a good idea, actually, I think, also, because there's a lot of mental health in this building.
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So, it's like, yeah, I think they're all going to, you know, one of those freaking brain hamsters relapses,
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and next thing you know, they come nibbling through the door, you know, the first guy they go after.
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So, yeah, but this is a nice spot you got here, and I like the mural, and we were talking about this before,
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that, and I know I'm not a big, I'm not in the podcast mafia, but I do have a podcast.
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Do you, do you sometimes, does it feel like that podcasting is like, what does podcasting feel like to you?
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It must, does it feel a little, like, goofy, kind of, or something?
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Because you're, I mean, you're really, like, an entertainer.
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So, does podcasting feel, like, a little bit, you know, like, ah, it's not really my bag sometimes?
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Well, you know, I like it, and I like doing podcasts not as often as maybe a lot of you guys.
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I know it's like, there's a lot of you guys that are in your, you know, like, the Schwabs, the, the Callens, the Kreischers, the Seguras, and Rogan.
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It's like, you know, it's like a little family you guys got, which is cool.
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And you guys go on each other's podcasts and what have you.
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It's just two guys kind of talking about their personal and private lives, which...
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And it started about five and a half, six years ago.
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Pete lived here in Los Angeles and then subsequently moved out to Fredonia, New York.
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But, you know, guys like yourself have really, really had an abundant of success doing the podcasting.
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Look, the Italian Steve Martin over here has come down from the...
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Because I did a podcast for a couple years, for like a year called Allegedly, and it didn't do anything.
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And I was just like, man, people just want to hear people talk about stuff.
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And it kind of gave me just a different perception of what podcasting was.
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And it was just kind of like, yeah, I'm just gonna talk about stuff that's going on.
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I can imagine yours probably has more recipes in it.
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It's just, I wish it would reach a broader audience.
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We don't really put a lot of time and energy into it.
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Not that there's an excuse not to have a podcast, but...
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Oh, dude, I hope my father one day leaves me for a podcast.
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Imagine how sad the stories are going to be for our children.
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He never took me to ballet class because he was in Podcastville.
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That's going to be a lot of kids' stories, though.
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I mean, you should really be proud of yourself and look at where it's taken you.
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You've gotten a huge audience now on the road and here now.
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And you're getting all these movie parts and whatnot.
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So, yeah, you talk to a lot of, like, comedians off the podcast.
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It's destination, a sandwich, and something to read every time he tells you information.
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To the left, you're going to see a sandwich shop.
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Crack open a copy of Catcher in the Rye, and you're fucking tremendous, son.
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Go until you can't fucking see anything, right?
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There's going to be a lady there with a fucking, you know, a couple of loose veal, you know?
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You know, you open a copy of Time magazine from 1979.
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Yeah, that's what he was telling me at the Comedy Store.
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Yeah, a movie coming out called The Irishman with De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci.
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And let's say them, let's say them like we, like us underlings can still say them, okay?
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You know he's out there pretending he's a thug.
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But the trailer dropped a couple weeks ago, and I was really excited about it.
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It was the first time I really saw any footage from the movie, and I got goosebumps.
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So I play crazy Joe Gallo, and I'm actually in the trailer falling out of the window.
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Yeah, Green Book won the Oscar this year, and yeah, very fortunate to land some of these
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roles that, you know, are like dream roles for, you know, like a lot of actors who work
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25 years to get in movies like this, and the comedy has allowed me to, you know, open
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the doors for other opportunity, and the Green Book was one of those where, you know, I'm
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working the first day with Viggo Mortensen, and, you know, he slapped me in the scene,
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I got a little baby boy that we just had eight weeks ago, so building the family.
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Is it hard to like, does it almost feel like hard to be present sometimes?
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There's a lot of, you know, sometimes I'm not in whatever I'm in.
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And I might be thinking about other things, which I like to be present and available.
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But sometimes your plate is really full, and it's just hard not to think about what's going on.
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I worry a lot, a lot of fear in taking some of the projects I take.
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Because, yeah, well, I'm doing this VMAs in two weeks, right?
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And honestly, my first thought was like, what the fuck, dude?
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Well, it's a challenge for me because, A, it's not my audience.
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You have a huge audience that gets good entertainment, so that's who you have.
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Well, I mean, it's first of all, I mean, you all know as a comedian when you do comedy at a musical event,
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that, you know, sometimes it could be difficult to connect with the crowd just because, you know,
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they're listening to music and then you come on and you have to kind of segue in, do a joke here or there.
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Now, you never saw, you never would have thought that you'd be hosting the VMS.
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I do have a vision board, actually, and I want a black son one day.
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So people always, I don't tell people that often because they don't see it the way I see it, you know?
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And I think other people see like, oh, a guy from the south has a couple of black guys on a vision board.
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You know, I think they kind of get a, you know, they're looking at it different.
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So if I went to your house and looked at the vision board, you got two black kids up there?
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And one of them has a school book under his arm.
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And no matter who my sons are or what, you know, what color, you know, what tent they
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come in, they're going to be, you know, hopefully they're going to be reading decently and doing
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I wouldn't be living if I'm not really feeling this stuff.
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So, you know, the music skewing younger, uh, never hosted anything before.
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Um, but, you know, like, you know, you got to write the comedy for the night, you know?
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And my comedy generally is tested at the comedy store and whatnot.
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So the monologue that I'm opening up with, you know, I, I've been working on, but haven't
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really tested it in front of a live audience, um, which I will, you know, moving forward
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this week and next, but yeah, it's a, it's, it's a daunting task, but are you, so you're
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going to talk about celebrities and stuff and you have to kind of, I mean, MTV's turned
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it, it's basically just Rob Dyrdek 24 hours a day.
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I think I feel like it's just that show ridiculousness.
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There's a lot of that, but I'm not, my style's not ripping people to shreds.
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I'm going to tailor the comedy to what I, what I do on stage and kind of fit it into the environment
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rather than, uh, go on stage and go, well, Drake's here tonight.
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Cause that, that's, I think when I heard about it, I was like, oh man, is Sebastian going
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That would just, to me, it would seem so scary.
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You know, it's frightening, but, but it's good.
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You know, like I believe that if you don't challenge yourself in this business and we've
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talked to offline about this, like, you know, getting a little, um, maybe your momentum
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Maybe in certain different things, I feel that, you know, the challenge is where you kind of
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get the passion back and, or putting yourself in situations that you typically wouldn't put
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yourself in to, uh, you know, overcome and succeed.
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So, you know, doing that, yeah, doing one, this is definitely one of those.
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Like, I am getting up the outfits are, uh, next, next, next week.
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I mean, I'm not going to come out there in a see-through leopard nipple shirt, but how
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many gross of sequins are in the mail right now headed to Los Angeles to make your costume,
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There might be a sequined jacket or two, but, uh.
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Bro, you better fucking come out looking like a 60-year-old Italian doc who's trying
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to fucking get one last run at some cock over at the VFW, you know?
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I want a real, I want you to come out just shining, bro.
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There's going to be a lot of, yeah, I think I'm the, maybe one of the oldest hosts they've
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At least the, maybe the only host they've ever had with gray hair.
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And you might be one of the only hosts who's being honest about their age as well.
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So, yeah, that's, uh, that's going to be exciting.
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Is it, is it strange to feel sometimes that that's your life?
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Like, isn't it sometimes, um, even with me just like in the past year, just getting things,
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It's like, it's crazy how quick you adapt to it, kind of.
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And then, uh, sometimes I don't feel embarrassed that it's my life or something.
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I mean, I'm grateful, but I just feel, it's almost like my life, the reality of some of
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my life sometimes makes me a little bit nervous, if that makes any sense.
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So, just like, um, I guess just like, there's a, there's, it feels like there's a bigger
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expectation than you're able to fulfill just as like a human person, you know?
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It's almost like, um, you get bigger than you are as a person in some, or I worry, I fear
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I don't know if that makes any sense or not, you know?
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Yeah, I mean, I guess in a way, I mean, for myself, yeah, I just, you know, I just like
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I don't like to like, feel like I have to be doing something else.
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Um, the gym I work out at, I don't have an office, right?
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I just have, uh, a home and I work out of the home, right?
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But it's getting a little crazy now at the house.
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I've gone, you know, I've done all that stuff, you know, throughout my whole career.
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I've always kind of like just set up shop and, and, and did things.
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And what do you, you bring in a laptop or you bring in like a laptop?
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But, uh, I just, just, you know, catch up on some emails on a table outside the gym, right?
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I could just see you carrying a monitor in there.
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Or they used to have a guy at Coffee Bean would bring a monitor in.
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They used to have a stack at Tower, that whole thing.
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It's the same guy that's editing a full movie at Apple Store.
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You walk in, this guy's doing like, he's on Final Cut doing a, doing his, uh, short film.
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Um, that's, so, so sometimes you'll just do it at the gym, huh?
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You know, I mean, like talking about just kind of living a, a life that's kind of just normal
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and don't have to feel like you have to adjust your everyday kind of routine because you've
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I've always just trying to, you know, it's just do, because I feel like if you stop doing
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the things that you normally would do, you lose the kind of like the pulse of what people
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are doing with the, you know, I, I, I like going to the stores and the whole, you know,
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I like, I love all that stuff and I'll continue to do it.
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Plus I get a lot of like material from just kind of living life.
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When you say that, I think, yeah, I think, uh, yeah, maybe my fear is like, it's not,
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it's just like this, it's a, it's a uncomfortable perception.
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It's like, yeah, maybe I feel like I have to be different or something when I've just,
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you know, don't, maybe it's like this weird, like pressure or something.
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Um, but yeah, I think doing regular stuff, like I like sometimes taking a bird scooter
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to the gym in the morning, you know, and I don't have nice calves and I have shorts on.
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So for me, it's really humbling, you know, bro, taking fucking lean calves out for a spin
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Have you, have you felt at all safe on that thing?
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I did it once or twice and it, it just, the, you know, the one bump and it's over, right?
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There's not a lot of, um, there's not a lot of opportunity for safety.
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Like this lady fucking way too old to be on one, had a bag of groceries, just hit the
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Instead of helping, there was like two people yelling, this bitch is down over here.
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I at least haunt my horn real loud as I fucking drove off, you know, but she, but she bit it,
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Or like, um, yeah, it's a lot of, well, listen, these birds, you know, it's, it's, it's good
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for, you want to go to the gym, you want to go to a buddy's house, fine.
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But what I've seen on these birds is like you were saying, people are carrying groceries.
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Then I saw a guy that apparently the, you take a bird and you, you go and charge it.
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The guy was on a bird with two birds on his shoulder.
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Sometimes you'll see some guy at night just throwing them all into a fucking van, you know?
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So I got a little baby boy and yeah, it's been just, it's been great.
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Got two and a half year old daughter and a lot, a lot of stuff going on at the house.
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And I try when I'm home to spend as much time as I can with my kids, whether it's taking my
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Again, just kind of living, living the dad life and extracting material from, from those
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So yeah, it's been really, really, it's really, it's a lot of, it's a lot of work, but it's
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And I know in your kind of bloodline, it's a big thing, right?
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Being an Italian family, it's nice to have a son, carry on the name.
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Because people are like, hey, where'd the name go?
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So yeah, we had my father and my mother were extremely excited when the little baby, baby
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Get the tubes, fucking somebody sneak up on a tube with a fucking shank?
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We haven't really discussed, it has been discussed, but I have no idea what's going
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Well, I remember you said that, yeah, if you ever had a different job, it would be like
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So I could just see you, like, I'll tell you this, if you show up in people's dreams
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That's one thing that is nice about Italians, like, if they really, they dress up, you almost
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It could be a good, you know, it could be a get together.
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Yeah, it's like they dress for, they're well-dressed.
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Senior year, I took, well, I actually got, there was a tie between me and another guy.
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I should have, I should have took it home, though.
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But I was actually upset that I had to share the award with the guy.
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But yeah, always, always very particular about how we look.
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And I think it stemmed from, you know, the upbringing.
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My mother's like, where are you going with that on?
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And I'm like, well, we're going to go to dinner.
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She's like, go put, you know, go put some nice slacks on.
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You're like, dude, ma, we're going to Arby's, ma.
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Bro, some of them, you go in there, it's just some Muppet just gives you a scoop of fucking
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You can, but you're not going to be fucking looked at well.
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There's like a bench where you can wait, but if you sit there and eat, it's going to be
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But it's, yeah, it's merged with Baskin-Robbins, and it's just, Pizza Hut used to be.
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They had the, yeah, the crust was, it was a big pie.
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They had a couple video games usually in the place.
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Just five days ago, they shut down 500 more dine-in Pizza Hut locations.
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There's a nice place called Pizana out here, if you're looking for a nice piece of pizza.
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I have no money and no steak in this place, but.
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Are you, I don't want to tell the listeners or the viewers where we're at.
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You can smell one from the other place, you know?
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Who are you, who's somebody that you are kind of low-key excited about seeing at the VMA?
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Do you already know everybody's going to be there and stuff?
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This is why they picked me to do this, is I don't really know a lot about music.
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And this is kind of what they liked about it, that I don't really have a button on what's going on with the music industry.
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Although I do, I know the Khalids and From Afar and Her and Halsey and all these artists.
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I know, but I don't know like the ins and outs of like who's throwing shade.
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Where I'm from, that is my aunt got a new awning on their camper.
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But Missy Elliott, who I grew up kind of listening to, she's going to be there.
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And yeah, there's a couple surprise guests that I can't really mention that I'm looking forward to meeting.
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And obviously my wife, my whole family's coming, my kids.
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I want to bring my kids there and get some photos with them.
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At the Prudential Center where they're going to have it.
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Even on a production end of it, just looking at this because I know a lot about production and putting on a show.
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What they have going into this as far as the technology is just sick.
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This is in New Jersey, Prudential Center in New Jersey.
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Madison Square Garden, Microsoft Theater, The Forum, Barclays.
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Because I went to one, because I did an MTV show when I was young, right?
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I mean, I'd seen it on television, but I get out, get dropped off there.
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Bono is walking on the red carpet at the same time.
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I think everybody's excited for me, right, dude?
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And I sat behind his brothers, sat next to Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins.
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At some point in the evening, bro, it was long.
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I remember urinating in the bathroom between Kid Rock and Montel Williams.
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And fucking bringing those guys together, you know?
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And at one point in the evening, I fell asleep in my seat, bro.
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I guess it was like a long night, and I just got kind of tired, and I just remember falling
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Like, one thing about comedy, for me, I just didn't...
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You didn't really know if your girlfriend was your girlfriend.
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She didn't know, kind of, if he was the boy, you know?
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And, yeah, it just felt like you didn't have to grow up.
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Whatever was going on, you could always go escape it for a few days by going and do
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Like, we went to South Africa on it, I remember.
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And I remember being like, holy shit, you know?
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Like, I'd seen a globe, but I'd never put together, like, oh, there's really people over
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Then you get there, and I'm like, holy shit, man.
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Because when I thought of heaven, I thought kind of, you know, kind of a little bit of
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But then you get over there, and you're like, damn, everybody's going to be up in this bitch,
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So, a little bit more about the movie, then, I want to know.
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So, is it interesting, like, as you start to build, you kind of become a name, you know?
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And so, then it's like, if you're working with guys like that, like, do you...
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Like, would you not want to seem like you're just, like, a regular guy with him?
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Like, do you have to try and pay, like, a little bit of homage?
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Like, do you feel like any of that kind of thing on set, or what is it like, kind of?
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When I went on set, I told myself, I'm not going to speak unless spoken to.
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Well, you know the guy that goes, like, what are you going to do?
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Go up to Robert De Niro and go, wow, I really loved you in Casino.
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The first day, I had a scene with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and I didn't know...
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I didn't sleep for a couple of days before that.
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Like, if I got something to do, I'm like, there's VMAs, two days before that, I'm going
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Oh, when they call you out to the stage, that's going to be fucking...
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I don't have a lot of experience on movie sets.
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And now, to be thrust into a movie where you're working with, you know, not only Martin Scorsese,
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but probably two of the actors that are maybe the best of our generation, and then, you know,
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I'm just hoping words come out of my mouth, you know?
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So, I was nervous going into that whole experience.
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You do it, and then you're like, okay, you know?
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That's what I think I'm trying to get at a little bit.
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Do they know that I don't know if I belong here?
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Like, those would be the things that would be running through my head, you know?
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Are they looking at me like, oh, this fucking guy don't belong here?
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Or are they just looking at me like a regular person, and all the doubt is just inside of me, you know?
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And De Niro's going to go, this is who we hired?
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So, yeah, there is a bit of self-doubt, and there is a bit of, you know, a lot of anxiety and nerves, at least for me.
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And then once we are up and running, it was off to the races.
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But I did have some experience with the Green Book going into this movie, which I think that's why.
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I think a lot of things happen for a reason, you know?
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Like, you get certain things because they prepare you for what's to come.
00:32:42.920
Did you guys shoot those scenes in order or were they out of order?
00:32:49.480
Because, dude, honestly, this is obviously me judging you.
00:32:52.680
But from the beginning, like, the first scene when I see, like, helping with the luggage, I think, or something.
00:32:56.680
There was some scene, I think, or helping somebody to just arrive somewhere in a car, I think.
00:33:01.120
And by the end, I could personally see, like, wow, he's so much more comfortable at the Christmas party.
00:33:07.360
Okay, because the first day was the luggage day.
00:33:18.720
But no joke, dude, by the end, I was like, oh, Sebastian, just, I mean, knowing enough about you and knowing a little bit of, like, your mannerisms and how you look even off of stage and stuff, like, I was like, oh, man, he seems a little bit nervous.
00:33:29.880
But by the end, I was like, damn, he's dialed in, man.
00:33:35.060
The first scene for me was nerve-wracking because I was like, oh, that was really my first big scene in a movie with a big actor.
00:33:43.740
And it's like you've got to rise to those occasions because, you know, if you don't, then they're like.
00:33:51.260
But, yeah, it was, I hope, looking back at what I did in The Irishman, when I watch it, I could, because it's different when you watch a movie and then you're doing stand-up.
00:34:06.420
You can say on screen, hey, you can say on the stage.
00:34:12.900
So, for me, as a comedian doing acting, it's a lot different because I could always make it up in stand-up.
00:34:21.360
I go, okay, I'm going to get him with this one.
00:34:26.840
Actually, I'm doing a movie coming up in a couple weeks called Spinning Gold where I play Giorgio Moroder, who was the father of disco.
00:34:36.700
Talk about putting yourself in a situation that you don't normally find yourself in.
00:34:47.700
Bro, the owner of one of the loony bins in Oklahoma City was a disco dancing champion, I remember.
00:34:54.160
He used to take me in the back room and show me all his trophies, his old outfits, his unitards or whatever, bro.
00:35:00.840
A lot of disco people wore those fucking onesies that a lot of painters wore.
00:35:04.540
Bro, there's nothing like a nice onesie doing a disco, man.
00:35:13.180
So I'm working with like a dialect coach to get like a German accent.
00:35:18.380
At some point, dog, you don't have to challenge yourself.
00:35:28.120
I hope they give me a mustache on set because that mustache is beautiful.
00:35:36.120
Dude, I sold half a handful of pubic hair to a guy one time for a Halloween mustache.
00:35:45.720
We needed hair, bro, and this guy was limited, dudes, and I was fucking carrying at the time,
00:35:49.800
so I fucking trimmed him off a couple edges, and he used honey to fucking put it right up above his lips.
00:35:55.740
Your stories, and I don't know if you feel this way, guys, but your stories are so off the beaten path.
00:36:20.100
Like, when I listen to that, I go, well, that's made up, right?
00:36:22.760
But this guy's named Patricio from Brazil, actually, and I still follow him.
00:36:27.460
He fucking, he's a big Formula One racing fan, but yeah, dude, that dude danced like a motherfucker
00:36:32.440
with somebody else's fucking pubic hair above his lip.
00:36:46.660
And you shave your pubic hair off to give to him, which he puts on with honey?
00:36:54.860
Yeah, but like, how's that thought even come into your head and go, like, bro, hold on,
00:37:00.900
Look, I was thinking, well, I love my hair, man, you know, even though it's, I feel like
00:37:05.100
it's getting scarce some these days, and I'm in Manhattan a little, but yeah, I love my
00:37:09.300
hair, and I just knew that I didn't want to give any of that up at the time.
00:37:12.680
But I was like, I got this, you know, second batch of hair going on, bro, that, you know,
00:37:19.320
it ain't, I don't know if it's the A team, but I got a fucking B team down here.
00:37:29.400
And a ticket for a wine, because you got tickets at night to see how much wine, and you could
00:37:32.580
get like two wines or something, you know, they had a, you know, it's kind of like a
00:37:36.880
cube or something, or, you know, like a system where you get a voucher kind of thing.
00:37:40.280
I didn't know there was a dollar amount on pubes.
00:37:47.440
Especially with all, what was I going to ask you about, man?
00:37:58.720
Well, did you get the transplant and then the PRP?
00:38:03.960
So I got part of the back taken out and put in the front.
00:38:08.260
And so I got part of the back taken out, put into the front, just in the very front.
00:38:17.340
That's, that's, that's, I mean, I don't really see, I mean, obviously, you know, that's a,
00:38:25.000
I don't think, I mean, I don't know what the hell you were worried about.
00:38:34.980
Well, yeah, well, they brought it, I think I did 2,000.
00:38:51.500
Like, how do you, do you look and go, wow, this is getting thicker?
00:38:56.960
Even with the hairs, it's like, you know, I don't know.
00:39:00.240
They say they put them in and they, they put it all the way, they cut it all the way down
00:39:10.700
Well, they, they take it out and they, they take from the root.
00:39:17.940
Now, do you know that they could take, because I asked, I go, can you take other people's
00:39:30.160
But the second place they take it from, if you don't have any in the back is underneath
00:39:41.880
What fucking cannibal would take out his own neck hair and get it put in the top of his
00:39:50.140
Dude, what pervert is running around with his neck hair.
00:39:54.320
Hey, you got some guy with fucking pubic hair on his lip and you're worried about neck
00:39:59.300
We're all making money on the high seas, bucko.
00:40:22.240
They, so they take blood out of your arm and I had a slow drip or something.
00:40:25.760
I don't know if it was, you know, apparently it wasn't really that time of the month in
00:40:29.560
my arm, you know, because dude, it took them fucking 20 minutes.
00:40:33.400
At one point, the guy's looking at shit on his phone, bro.
00:40:37.040
While he's like, they're like, well, it's good, but it's just coming out real slow, which
00:40:44.240
Like I'm down to a half a quarter or something, you know?
00:40:47.280
So they finally got it and they put it in some machine that spins it.
00:40:53.280
Cause people don't realize a lot of their blood is just B, you know, BC team.
00:40:57.380
There's a lot of fucking miscreants running around in there.
00:40:59.800
You know, some cells that are just sitting there's waiting for a fucking greyhound, you
00:41:03.640
They ain't doing shit, but you got an A team in there that's really kind of doing most of
00:41:08.640
So they get those and then inject them in a certain parts back in your head.
00:41:13.880
And you, you had the process done what once a month or it's supposed to be annually.
00:41:18.680
And I just had it done annual cause it's been about a year since I had the surgery.
00:41:29.440
It felt me like made me feel kind of proactive.
00:41:31.300
Um, but I also get way inferior about how I look, you know?
00:41:36.080
And so it's like, you know, sometimes I do anyway, comedy's actually helped me with that
00:41:43.820
Cause it's just like, Oh, this is how I fucking look at this point.
00:41:46.240
You know, it's like, and also I think if you're too handsome, I don't know if you can
00:41:50.600
Um, you know, it would just be, it would be, I don't think a real handsome guy could
00:41:58.800
be a real comedian, a good, or it'd be harder for them to do it.
00:42:02.360
I couldn't imagine if I was like a real handsome guy, like I'm an eight if I brush my teeth,
00:42:09.400
You fucking might see me hanging around the sevens.
00:42:11.680
Well, I mean, eight is, is pretty high up on the handsome meter.
00:42:16.800
I don't think, I think everybody can be an eight if they take care of themselves.
00:42:27.940
I am talking, you know, C, C minus what's, that's where we're talking about comedians,
00:42:41.840
Maybe you're better looking than you think you are.
00:42:49.600
Try and hold the door in a sharp elevator and fucking come back here a couple months
00:42:59.000
This guy in Beverly Hills, this guy, Dr. Cain, and he was awesome, man.
00:43:03.660
He's like, you don't need anything, you know, come back in a year.
00:43:07.940
Like a fucking guy, you got pulling shit out of your neck.
00:43:15.140
If you want to go, go back and start taking right out of your goatee.
00:43:24.940
I didn't think that I would ever be that type of person that would do that.
00:43:27.100
But then sometimes you just become people you didn't think you would be, I guess, you
00:43:31.200
Well, you grow, you learn different things, I guess, you know?
00:43:35.420
So for you, so you got this podcast and you got one with Brennan Schaub.
00:43:42.840
How did, like, tell me in the podcast world, how does that come about?
00:43:46.860
Do you guys get together and go, yeah, we should do another?
00:43:49.260
How many of these things you got going right now?
00:43:59.180
Okay, but then there's another one that you just talked to the camera by yourself?
00:44:02.560
That's this past weekend, but on the Monday episode.
00:44:12.920
So it's pretty, that's part of the thing that sometimes burnt me out a little bit, is
00:44:15.720
going on the road, and then, like, you know, you get in Sunday, and then have to come
00:44:19.460
here that night and do an episode, and then Tuesday do one with Brendan, Wednesday come
00:44:25.860
So we're going to scale back a little bit, I think.
00:44:34.480
I told you that the other night, and you're like, what are you going to ask her about?
00:44:38.140
And that was the first time it hit me, like, I don't know.
00:44:41.800
Well, do you, like, come into these things with, like, a prepared, like, or is it just
00:44:47.760
Or, I mean, like, on the way over, are you going, are you in your head going with Amanda
00:44:54.020
Or do you just take your jacket off, put your hat on, and go, okay, love, we're talking?
00:45:04.300
I was going to ask her, like, about the media and stuff, and how much she thinks, like,
00:45:08.900
Does she think that the truth even matters a lot of times?
00:45:12.920
All right, so there's some thought that's going into this.
00:45:15.180
Yeah, so there's a little bit of thought into it.
00:45:19.000
And then I was going to, yeah, ask her what she looks for in a man.
00:45:22.780
And if she thinks, like, you know, how many guys tried to hook up with her just because
00:45:26.060
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My question is, so I know Sebastian's been on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee two times
00:49:36.920
My question is, Sebastian, if Theo was to ride in a car with Jerry Seinfeld, what car should
00:49:47.920
For you, I'm seeing like a older, I'm seeing a Monte Carlo.
00:50:37.580
I don't think Comedians in Cars has the Coke on the seat.
00:50:47.480
I would do also maybe like a Ford F-150, like a 1980.
00:51:08.360
Oh, something you could put a, you know, something you could eat as soon as you get home in the back.
00:51:18.780
Yeah, I guess that is a little bit of a hunter vehicle.
00:51:29.880
Since you come from two totally different types of backgrounds.
00:51:32.160
But 10-year-old Theo and 10-year-old Sebastian Maniscalco, you come in from outside playing
00:51:37.620
with your friends, sit out on the couch with your dirty clothes on, put your feet up on
00:51:49.980
I got a sweat and also, first of all, I just got a drenched.
00:52:21.760
And you ain't putting your feet up on the furniture.
00:52:32.380
My dad was 80 years old when I was 10 years old.
00:52:39.320
My dad used to borrow money from me to fucking for gas, you know?
00:52:42.760
They didn't hire a lot of 80-year-olds, you know?
00:52:46.900
So, he used to, um, yeah, he used to borrow gas money from me.
00:52:53.560
I don't even where he thought I was getting money from, you know?
00:52:55.800
And I was just kind of stealing something from my mom.
00:53:02.720
But, well, my dad wouldn't notice about that kind of stuff.
00:53:05.440
That kind of stuff was just too menial, I think.
00:53:21.280
Nigga, did, like, the third video I sent your little ass, man.
00:53:32.640
I just had to play that video so he doesn't think we're racist.
00:53:39.100
You know, I have some flare-ups in traffic, but overall, I'm good.
00:53:45.500
I'm out here on the front lines of not trying to be, brother.
00:53:53.740
Has it changed your perception or anything a little bit of, like, the world?
00:54:04.620
It's just about you and your wife, and now everything is, like,
00:54:08.900
I told you my daughter was sick last night, so it's just the world stops.
00:54:12.600
We were supposed to go see the Los Angeles Football Club play last night at the Exposition Park.
00:54:30.840
I've got two grand going on fucking Winchester this afternoon outside of South Wales,
00:54:52.720
Take your kid to the fucking Rams game, you cheapskate.
00:55:03.240
So I heard it's supposed to be almost like a European type of atmosphere.
00:55:12.000
So long story short, in regards to the kid, everything revolves around the kid.
00:55:16.680
You go out for a walk in the neighborhood, and you're scanning what's going on around you.
00:55:32.360
These dogs, and then my kid goes up to the dog.
00:55:40.980
And I'm like, does this guy, if things break out, could he even contain the damn thing?
00:55:53.400
Or if it's somebody who's like some weak kid, never goes out once a year to walk like 30 dogs
00:55:58.740
to make all of his money to go back into his fucking dungeon and just get all K-holed out
00:56:03.320
and just play games until he needs it, you know, until he needs to buy a pack of ramen
00:56:11.360
He's out there iditter-riding somewhere in Brentwood.
00:56:14.600
You're like, this fucking kid can't handle himself.
00:56:18.260
So I guess you got to look out because the kid doesn't look.
00:56:21.640
So you almost have to take part of the kid's brain.
00:56:23.600
You almost have to be part of their brain, I guess, huh?
00:56:29.160
And it's a good metaphor through life, you know?
00:56:31.280
And not only when you're walking around the block, but, you know, as they grow older,
00:56:36.180
you know, giving them advice, trying to lead them down the right path.
00:56:39.640
We're very big on manners and please and thank you.
00:56:42.420
Because I see a lot of brats out there, you know, I go to a lot of these, you know,
00:56:45.400
I go to the park and I see, I tap my wife and I go, look at this kid, you know?
00:56:49.340
You can always see the kid that's not misbehaving.
00:56:51.920
He's always got some weird booger hanging out of his nose and whatnot.
00:56:54.680
And, yeah, so, you know, I take a, yeah, especially how I grew up.
00:57:00.020
I grew up with, like, a lot of, like, structure, you know?
00:57:12.140
Do you start to worry about, like, being a parent and being able to be around for your
00:57:17.540
So my daughter's been to 23 cities already and our son, it's going to be a little bit
00:57:24.000
harder to travel with two kids, but they're coming to the VMAs.
00:57:26.800
They'll come to, like, really large event-type shows where, you know, maybe Chicago, where
00:57:34.860
But, yeah, I cut out the whole summer to be at home and hang with the family.
00:57:42.760
And, again, we were talking about just having some balance, you know, and that you can't
00:57:46.300
always be on the road, at least for me with a family.
00:57:50.120
I just, I need to cut out some segments in the schedule to hang with my daughter, my son,
00:58:01.540
I watch a lot of your Instagram stories, and it's like, oh, you guys are having a blast
00:58:08.260
Yeah, we, there's serious moments, don't get me wrong, but my wife and I were constantly
00:58:13.200
ripping each other to shreds, especially her on me, you know, there's no room.
00:58:19.180
I mean, I got friends, like, speaking of comedians in cars, my buddy called me and said, bro,
00:58:31.720
It's just, that's, we just constantly make fun of one another, and that's.
00:58:35.300
You're like, yeah, I'm hung over from 40 years of my life.
00:58:43.300
What's a DM that you've got from, like, somebody who is, like, a fan, or, like, somebody you
00:58:49.940
Like, Dennis Rodman sent me a peace sign the other day for no reason, and then never wrote
00:58:55.560
So, did you write him back from the peace sign?
00:59:00.540
And then I asked him something like, what's going on?
00:59:09.660
Yeah, it's always, it's always, the first DM I really got through, it was actually through
00:59:16.020
Twitter, was about six or seven years ago, and it was from J.J. Watt.
00:59:21.120
He was a rookie in the league, and he had reached out to me via Twitter and said that
00:59:27.180
And then I started to think, wow, I'm really getting old, because this guy was in high school
00:59:34.400
And then we've been, you know, we became fast friends.
00:59:41.780
And The Rock had posted a clip of, he was watching my comedy, and he posted up on, and that.
00:59:52.100
Well, I mean, out of all the stuff I've done, that one got, like, I had people coming out
00:59:56.920
of the woodwork for 20, The Rock put your stuff on his Instagram, it was bigger than
01:00:07.880
He shared it, and I was getting like, did you see what The Rock did?
01:00:11.780
So, yeah, it's cool, you know, to, because you don't even know, like, when you're doing
01:00:17.060
this stuff, you don't know who you're hitting, who's listening to this right now, who's
01:00:21.820
seeing your comedy, and with the internet, it gives you an idea of, you know, how far
01:00:32.340
And it's cool to see, like, oh, wow, he's a fan, or she's a fan.
01:00:35.580
I wouldn't think they would, like, maybe like what I do, or what have you, but it's
01:00:42.180
Yeah, it's interesting how much access everyone kind of has to everybody, really.
01:00:47.000
Yeah, I mean, if the internet was around when I was a kid, you know, I'd be, like,
01:00:50.400
popping DMs to Prince going, bro, love what you're doing, you know, like.
01:01:00.020
Do you think of, now, as you start to, like, act in films and stuff, did you ever think
01:01:04.780
I mean, I just feel like it would have to be no.
01:01:08.720
I mean, I think a lot of comedians think of sitcom or something sometimes.
01:01:11.340
It's kind of a natural train of thought, especially, like, you know, coming up in the era and
01:01:20.280
I wanted to do movies, but I wanted to do a little bit more serious roles than comedic,
01:01:30.940
And the serious roles kind of play to my real personality, kind of offstage of just kind
01:01:36.740
of being a little bit more straight than, like, hey, you know, it's not what I do.
01:01:42.000
So I like the fact that this serious, dramatic roles give me a nice little departure from
01:01:49.020
what I do to, you know, day in, day out on stage.
01:01:52.820
And I think it's a nice little contrast for me.
01:01:55.480
So, yeah, I've always had movies in the back of my mind.
01:02:00.560
But to do, like, projects here and there, a little pop into a movie, pop out.
01:02:04.400
You know, I don't want to be the guy that's, like, you know, maybe carrying the movie.
01:02:09.840
Yeah, I mean, especially if you don't, you know, do it on a regular basis.
01:02:14.420
But, yeah, I like what I'm doing with these movies.
01:02:16.360
And I'm fortunate enough to make a living doing stand-up where I could do the acting
01:02:23.460
So I don't have to take a role just to take it.
01:02:28.040
I mean, for me, it's more of an exposure and being in a broader audience.
01:02:35.720
You know, like you go on a podcast and hopefully, you know, coming on your podcast, you know.
01:02:43.180
And, you know, I'm reaching people that maybe don't know who I am or, hey, let's see what
01:02:51.640
So I like kind of – and also, I like you and you're a cool cat.
01:02:55.800
And it's like I don't go on everybody's podcast.
01:03:01.000
I mean, I've always looked up to you ever since I got turned on to you, man.
01:03:04.020
I just – yeah, you kind of reminded me always that like an entertainer can kind of still –
01:03:10.060
Like always – like it started to feel like comedy was just about like joke writers and stuff.
01:03:13.720
And maybe that was my own, you know, fears or something.
01:03:16.980
But like, oh, man, these – it's just people that are writers that they're putting on stage.
01:03:21.840
But then seeing you, it was like, oh, man, you can still be like an entertainer.
01:03:25.200
You know, you can still be – you can still have dreams somewhere in your head if you're, you know.
01:03:29.800
Like I remember even asking you for advice one time.
01:03:32.080
You said, just go watch Michael Jackson Munich, you know.
01:03:45.560
But you were – back then, and maybe I'm wrong by saying this, but back then, you weren't a very happy man.
01:03:57.300
And you were, you know, you were – I don't know.
01:04:02.540
Not with your career, but just kind of – I could just feel like when we were talking, you were in maybe not so good of a place.
01:04:12.080
Oh, he's such a nice guy, but he feels like he's a little down and whatnot.
01:04:20.140
Yeah, I think I started to hit a little bit of a wall like I wasn't going to have – you know, I just didn't know if I was doing the right thing.
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The opportunities, you know, didn't seem like they were presenting any of themselves.
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But, yeah, I mean, that's a good example of someone that might not think it's going to happen and maybe running into these roadblocks and all of a sudden, boom, look at this.
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You know, I mean, it's like – it just – it happens, you know?
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Do we have any other questions from the crew here?
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Were any of those guys in the Irishman, like since they're all Italian guys, were they fans of your comedy and watched it?
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Yeah, I didn't know if they knew what I even did or if they knew I was a stand-up comedian.
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So going into this, the first day when De Niro came out, he came up to me and he said, I hear you're doing good things.
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I didn't know what the hell they knew, and I still don't.
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I mean, De Niro had came to my show at Radio City after The Irishman, which we talked backstage more than we ever talked on set.
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So you just go do your stuff and then kind of go back to your corner?
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Well, they went to their corner and I went to my corner.
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And, you know, they were talking amongst themselves.
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Like, it would be like Cut and then De Niro and Pesci and Scorsese would kind of talk amongst themselves.
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And then I'd be like, I wasn't going to go in the huddle and go –
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Yeah, like, I'm going to go have another mini snicker over here while these guys fucking predict my future.
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Decide if I'm good enough to hang out here for another minute.
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Wow, that's – man, that would be very intimidating, man.
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So, you know, I was like the new guy there in that particular scene.
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And, you know, I'm looking at it like if I'm not invited in the huddle, you know, I ain't going to go over there.
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But, yeah, I didn't talk to really anyone on set because I didn't know if – it's another thing.
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I don't know if this guy's still in character or I don't know what he's doing.
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You know, they yell, cut, and I'm thinking, okay, you know, I'm me.
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I'm not, like, doing some, like, method where I'm like, you know, hold on.
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Unless, you know, they can't talk to me because I'm still crazy Joe Gallo.
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I mean, I cut, and like you said, I'm, you know, getting a little cube cheese thinking, eh, it's cheddar.
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So, I didn't want to, like, interrupt anybody's process.
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I was – I don't really remember – the only thing I do remember is me thinking while I was acting that I couldn't believe I was doing this with these guys.
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So, I mean, I don't even know if that's being in the moment and acting when you're thinking, you know –
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Like, you're in a lifeguard chair up above yourself kind of a little bit.
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Like, dude, what are you fucking doing down there, you know?
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But, yeah, I can imagine that your mouth moving and a little bit of your head also talking like, okay, here we go.
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Yeah, a lot of, like, inner dialogue while I'm doing dialogue, which is – which I think what comedians do, though, I mean, don't you ever go on stage and talk to yourself in your head while you're speaking to the audience?
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So, this was just that I was actually taking in the moment and I couldn't believe what was happening.
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But then I'm also acting at the same time, which is probably not the best thing to do, but I'm sorry.
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I had to – these are, like, the guys I grew up watching.
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Man, it's kind of crazy because especially, like, being, you know, being an Italian guy, you grew up – I mean, those are the guys, you know, that are still alive.
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Dude, I see Frank at the gym always trying to pump a lot of young buckets, you know, all the time.
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But I know a lot of guys that have been hit on by old Frank Stallone.
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Pauly used to try to bang every girl that was looking for a birthday card at CVS.
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Bro, I know nine girls that have been – I was just looking for a birthday card for my mother.
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It's a really good ground because you know there's a woman there who's, like, sentimental.
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At least you know you're not – you know, you're meeting somebody that's – not somebody that's picking out a fucking, you know, 24-pack of fucking hot nuts over by the Sprite, you know.
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So does it feel a little bit like – like when you're working with your idols, is it almost then hard to find, like, what's next to keep you excited?
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It's something that you – after that experience, that experience probably should have came at the end of a career.
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So it's, like, where do you go from there after you're coming off such a big high?
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But, yeah, I mean, I just want to do stuff that I'm really, really passionate about and with people who are really talented and know what they're doing.
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And the – you're going to be dancing in this – in the new film you're going to be –
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It's about – it's about disco in the 70s, and I'm, like, the – one of the fathers of disco just because of the way this Georgia Maroder did a lot of sounds and music behind the vocalist.
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He was, you know, responsible for Donna Summer in short.
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There's a couple of scenes I'm in, but there's no –
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There's no – although if it requires dancing, I am more than happy.
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Did y'all, like, Sock Ops, YMCA, what did you guys go to?
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No, we went to – they used to call them dance parties.
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This was at a – this was at a – on a Sunday night at a bar called Totos.
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Which turned into a teen dance club on Sunday night, right?
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So we'd go, and me and my buddy Francesco had these shirts made up, and on the back of it says, talk about weird.
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And we used to – me and him used to do the same moves with these shirts on.
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Like, we would practice all week because we thought we were going to pick up girls because of the way we danced, right?
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The hands were always up by the head for some reason.
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So that's what we – the whole – like, my – from 16 years old to about 22, I had a fake ID at 16.
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Was it actually you or was it somebody else's name?
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And it was – my dad actually helped me get it.
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And I used to buy alcohol for guys who were older than me.
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I didn't go to the basketball games, football games.
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What we were doing was we were going to dance parties.
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And then when we got the ID, we were going to bars.
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I was hanging out at, you know, over 21 nightclubs.
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So, yeah, that's what we were – that's kind of how I grew up.
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You know, I used to drive a 1982 Seville with white walls, spoked rims.
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I just – there's like a decorum back then, at least where I grew up, that you kind of – you had respect for your elders.
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You, you know, you just – if you did something, you didn't want to, like, embarrass your family.
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Now people sue their families since they can hire a lawyer.
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Like, I'm suing all of you motherfuckers for raising me.
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You don't have – you don't have the family anymore.
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Everybody's too wrapped up in a video game or – and I don't mean to sound like some old man, but the way we grew up and I think the way our family was structured was, you know, you sat at the kitchen table and you were talking to your parents.
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There was no, like – your attention span wasn't here or there.
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It was like we're eating and, you know, we'd sit at the table for two hours just talking to my parents.
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My parents were the type of parents where everybody wanted to hang out at our house because my parents were, like, the fun – you know, they loved my friends and talking to them and we all –
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Similar to that vibe where everybody's around and eating, kind of like food brought everybody together.
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It's just – it still exists and I think people are longing for that, but now it's like, you know, you go out to a restaurant, you see a family, everybody's on the device.
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And the devices are part of our lifestyle, don't get me wrong.
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It's not like you have to totally put it away, but even with our kids, we're teaching them, you know, you get it for a small amount of time and then after that, you know, let's –
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I got a fucking hot batch of burrata that fell off a boat in Providence.
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We just have one Patreon question for Sebastian.
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And if you were invited to a potluck dinner, what homemade dish would you bring and who would you bring?
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There is a Sicilian dish called pasta tayan, which is pasta layered with strip steak, pine nuts, some red – it's a red sauce.
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No, it's very, very specific to – actually, it's not even Sicilian dish.
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It's a town in Sicily called Sheffalu, where my father's from.
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He's a hairstylist, and he's where I pretty much get a lot of the – he thinks he's a comedian behind the chair.
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I mean, it's like people – it's a young business.
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It's not like people are walking in the salon going, I'll have the guy with the ARP card cut my hair.
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But he's had clients for 40 years, and they're passing away.
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And in the will, they are requesting my father to do –
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So my father's going to funeral parlors, and he loves it because they don't say nothing.
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They don't – you know, they don't ask, you know.
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Oh, who would have fucking – that suit's horrible, but hey, look above the ears.
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Is it hard to embrace sometimes, like, how – is it hard?
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Like, I get worried sometimes as my career gets bigger that, like, you know, I don't want my family to ever think that I'm different or anything.
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Does that – do you ever worry about that kind of stuff?
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No, I think – I mean, listen, I'm 46 years old.
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I've been the same guy when I moved out here in 1998 that I am now, regardless of success or what has happened to me over the last three or four years.
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Very, very grounded coming into Los Angeles with family and friends.
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And, no, I mean, my family is – you know, they treat me as if, you know, I was 21 or 24 years old when I first came out here.
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I think I asked you that last time, too, and it was kind of a similar answer.
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And dreams that you didn't even have, dude, the VMAs.
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When I first came out here, it was stand-up comedy.
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That's all I wanted to do, just stand-up comedy.
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And then whatever happened after that, it was like gravy to me.
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So for me to be in the position I'm in to do all these really great things, I'm very – I never take it for granted.
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And I'm always wondering, you know, like for me, the fear is to try to stay consistent and not – you know, like whatever comes up is going to come down eventually.
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But you kind of want to get to a certain place and just – and really maintain, you know.
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Like that's why when you go to my show, I'm always trying to rewrite new material just to bring the people back or, you know, go on shows like this and give more of a little bit of my personality and personal side of me so people get to know.
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Yeah, and bringing people along on your journey, you know.
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I think, yeah, a lot of people just – they want to kind of know what it's like just from like a regular perspective, you know, not from like something that's very canned.
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You know, they want it fresh out the garden, you know.
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You were talking about swimming, which is great.
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I'm not going to talk about it because, you know, I know that, you know, people will be coming out to see it.
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I'm 46 years old, and I never learned to swim before.
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And I'm taking swimming lessons at UCLA with an ex-Olympian who's German, actually.
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So you were saying – let me get this thought right.
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So did you start to worry at some point that if you got married or settled down or something that it was going to damage like your thinking process or your performance process or anything like that when it came to stand-up?
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I thought, hey, I don't want anything kind of impeding my process here of, like, touring.
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I don't want a girlfriend telling me, hey, you can't go on the road because we haven't spent time together.
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So early on, I thought, let me just get to where I need to get to, and then maybe I'll find someone, settle down, have a family.
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I don't think I could have done what I'm doing now with kids and a wife 10 years ago just because of the amount of time and energy it takes to put in.
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And I told my agent, I said, book me wherever you can.
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I don't care if it's Monday through Sunday in Las Vegas, 14 shows.
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I'll do whatever it takes to establish an audience and whatnot.
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So when you got kids and a family at home, that's very difficult.
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It's amazing when I hear, like, you got three kids and he's trying to get to the top.
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But for me, the personality I have, I'm like kind of all or nothing.
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So now I just think it happened organically for me when I met my wife.
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It just kind of all fit, right place, right time.
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We'll start having kids when we could afford it and then available for the kids.
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And early on, I definitely did not want to have a family and or a steady that would kind of keep me from where I wanted to go.
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You have to have a little bit of selfishness to put the time and energy it takes to get to where you need to go.
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There's a lot of sacrifice, I think, people don't really realize.
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You know, like, even over the years, like, I've had to miss a lot of people's weddings, like, events back at home.
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I lost friends because I said I would be at the wedding and then I couldn't make it, you know, because I just got a new agent and they just got me a weekend and I didn't want to lose them, you know.
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Just, yeah, there's a lot of weird sacrifice that people don't understand sometimes.
01:23:04.820
Pets, come home, your fucking pets are dead, you know.
01:23:11.940
Oh, there's a whole group of us that have fucking lost animals, bro.
01:23:14.520
Just because of the script you went on the road?
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No, for me, it was no pets, no girlfriend, no kids.
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And I totally relate to you when you said missing weddings.
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I missed a really good friend of mine's wedding back in Chicago because I just didn't have the money to go and I had to work.
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I was working as a waiter, you know, and, you know, unfortunately, I probably made the wrong decision at the time.
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I probably should have found a way to go, but, yeah, you're right.
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There's a lot of sacrifice you've got to make if you want to succeed.
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Hopefully, you don't lose friends doing it, but it's the risk you've got to take.
01:24:01.880
And we'll put all of your stuff at the beginning and tell people about the film.
01:24:05.260
Yeah, man, that was so cool seeing you in the green book, man.
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Did you start to feel yourself, like, towards it, like, you're like, oh, wow, I kind of got the hang of this a little bit?
01:24:17.940
Yeah, like, I mean, I think your assessment on the acting from front to back was dead on accurate.
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That first scene was, like I said, the first scene I've ever done.
01:24:29.300
And then as I shot that out of the cannon and got to know the director more, Peter Farrelly was the director.
01:24:38.600
I love his comedy movies, so it was another intimidating working with him.
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And then, you know, the scenes after that, I felt a lot more at home.
01:24:49.360
You go to the first day of school, you don't know what to expect.
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And then after you make a friend or two, you start to kind of let down your guard.
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Hopefully, when I'm moving forward, I could act, when it's the first day of shooting, I could act like it's the second week of school.
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Now, I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
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Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.
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I can feel it in my bones, but it's going to take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.
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I'll sit and tell you my stories Shine on me And I will find a song I will sing it just for you
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And I've been moving way too fast On the runaway train with a heavy load of my
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past And these rails that I've been riding on They're worn so thin that they're damn near gone
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I guess now they just weren't built to last Yeah, I'm gonna try
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Shine that light on me And I'll sit and tell you my stories
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Shine on me And I'll be finding a song I will sing it just for you
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And I will sing it just for you And I will find the words to help you make it through
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Shine that light on me I'll sit and tell you my stories
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Shine on me And I will find a song I will sing it just for you
01:28:20.060
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Jonathan Kite, and welcome to Kite Club, a podcast where I'll
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be sharing thoughts on things like current events, stand-up stories, and seven ways to
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And as always, I'll be joined by the voices in my head.
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I've been talking about Kite Club for so long, longer than anybody else.
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Anyone who doesn't listen to Kite Club is a dodgy bloody wanker.
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Hi, I'll take a quarter pounder with cheese and a McFlurry.
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Sorry, sir, but our ice cream machine is broken.
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Anyway, first rule of Kite Club is, tell everyone about Kite Club.
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