Sebastian Maniscalco (Live)

23:38But I remember it being kind of a cool club. It was a cool club. Not a lot of celebrities came through there. Maybe Dennis Rodman because this is the year where the bulls were hot. But, yeah. Yeah, so I worked there. What did you do there? I worked as a waiter in the fine dining. By the way, this is the best lip balm I did. Are you kidding me? No. Are you joking? I have to tell you. Because this is a sponsor. Oh, it is? Lenej. And they're not sponsoring this, so we'll probably have to cut this out. But I use that all the time. It's the best. Okay. You like your products. Well, my wife likes products.

24:18And while I'm in bed one night, she's like, here. You gotta put this on. I'm gonna bet she put it on. Hello, new lips. Incredible. In fact, you're reminding me, everybody who has lip balm, let's take a lip balm break while we... Just for a second. Because it's too much, right? It's so dry out. It's too much. Okay. So, but you've talked a lot on stage about how people should act in restaurants, And I really relate because as an ex-server, as we like to call ourselves, you learn how to treat people in restaurants. You have strong opinions about how people should act in restaurants. Yeah, I mean, if you go to a restaurant, you should have some manners and be kind and not like, I don't know, I put a napkin on my lap.

25:13I don't know if that's out of style or if anybody's doing that anymore. But, you know, just, you know, you should be polite to the server and vice versa. But I got a problem with servers nowadays. Tell me why. Just the way they come up. They come up, you know, and you're like, excuse me, can you think? And already the eyes are rolling. You know, it's like nobody wants to be there. I don't know. It just seems like people are detached or disconnected. Do you like when a server, this happens a lot in LA where you live, where we both live, where someone will duck down and get the same level as you?

25:49Oh, I don't like that. You know what I'm talking about? Like they're right here? Yeah, they get right there. They get in real close.

25:59I don't like that. I don't like that move. I'd just rather have them above, in and out, maybe a little talk here and there, but nothing like, you know, I don't want to. Like, sometimes the waiter will go, oh, you know, I don't normally have that because I'm lactose. Hey, guy, guy, I don't need to know your medical history. Just bring out the burger.

26:24Okay, and you talked also about, which I loved, and I should point out, like, you know, as well as you being the most successful, having the most successful touring year of your career, would you say, this year? Yeah, probably. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. And you've got a new special coming out in November, and you made a beautiful film about your dad with Robert De Niro playing your dad. Yeah, crazy. Well, crazy. And you were on the show Bookie, and you've got all these things going on. When you talk to your audience, I still feel, Sebastian, like you're living a regular, normal life.

27:03Yeah. That's not always the case. Sometimes when you see people on stage, they feel like they're talking about their koi pond or something. But it does feel like you are still in it. You have little kids. Yes. And one could argue, you're a little old for that.

27:26You got little kids. I do. I'm 52, and I have a six-year-old son. Okay, don't relax.

27:39No, I'm only kidding because I love you on Instagram when you talk about how tired you are. I'm exhausted. And it's exhausting. Yeah. No, I waited a little, you know, I waited to have kids and now I'm paying the price. Must be nice, must be nice, yeah.

27:59I'm just, come on. No claptor, no claptor. But your wife seems amazing, Lana. And you talk about her a lot. And she's, I've seen her on the gram. She's a hot piece, Lana. She's 10 years younger. So, yeah. So I'm trying to keep up with her. And she's an ex-gymnast. So she's always doing flips. She's always doing flips? She walks down the stairs on her hands. No way. Yeah, I've never seen that before. but that's what I'm dealing with. Does she do that when she's angry, when she's upset? No, she's never really upset. She's one of these, like, she's always got a smile on her face, walking around. I'm the one that's constantly upset.

28:48Yeah. But no, she's a ray of sunshine, and she's a doll, and yeah, she's very athletic, very strong, and I almost have my ARP card. We're the same age. We're the same age. Yeah, we're getting up there. What are you enjoying about your 50s? So I'm glad I had kids this late in life just because, you know, I'm stable. I have a – I could provide them with, you know, a life that – I'm not one of these guys. I want to give my kids a life that I never had. I had a good, you know, middle-class upbringing and whatnot. But as an entertainer, a performer, you want to get to a place where you're stable financially before you start bringing people into the world.

29:32and you know it's you know this is just business you know it could be here one day gone the next so you know I got to a place where I'm like all right let's start a family and I like being in my 50s I just wish I was a little bit more I don't know I feel like I went to go play basketball the other day I'm like you know I haven't played basketball in a while and I'm like I don't remember the rim being this high. So, but it's nice. That's an ACL nightmare, though. Be very careful. There's nothing worse than a bunch of guys in their 50s going back to play basketball. It is just tear after tear.

30:16I'm taking a little offense to this. I'm sorry. Just because, if you didn't know how old I was, could you just wouldn't you look at me and go yeah no he probably he probably runs you're in terrific shape by the way i'm not i'm really not i'm hiding a lot with the suit but i just don't feel like i'm 52. well i get it but i have to say i remember having younger kids my kids are teenagers now and and the amount of play they have to do with kids is exhausting it's exhausting yes it is play is a nightmare. And when your kid, the worst things to hear in the world is, Daddy, can we play? Yeah.

30:59Did you have a favorite play? Did you have like a, oh, this is, I can do this. I remember having existential moments of true despair when I would come home from like shooting a long day and my kids would come up to me with Star Wars lightsabers and be like, yay, now we can play. And I was just like, oh, fuck. Like, oh no, I have to play Star Wars. Just like it was, it was the worst. And I miss every second of it. But Lana, did she come to your shows? Yeah, I mean, she comes, but I mean, it's... Is she here tonight? No, no, no. She's playing with the kids. You've played huge stadiums. You sold out, was it Madison Square Garden?

31:53Like, how many nights in a row? Five, six? Five, yeah. Incredible. Thank you. Thank you. And what's it like playing a space that big? My act is kind of tailor-made for a large space. Obviously, comedy is better enjoyed in a room like this, I believe. But once you start getting into arenas and whatnot, I like to fill the room. I like to get up there and be physical and kind of prowl the stage. I'm not one of these guys that stands behind a microphone and tells jokes. Nothing wrong with that. But for me, especially nowadays, you've got to light yourself on fire up there for people to pay attention.

32:27That's so true. If you're not funny for an hour and 15 minutes, someone could just go back into their phone or slip out of consciousness or what have you. But I like to keep the people entertained, not only by telling the story, but also maybe acting out the story. It's not all physical. You're such a funny, physical performer. Oh, thank you. I love watching you. And I read something that was really cool. You designed your stage a certain way in your last special. Can you talk about that? Yeah, so normally I do it in the round, and I had a round stage previously. and then this time I designed a triangular stage, which I could hit the points a little bit more.

33:08When you're doing a round stage, you kind of don't know where you're at sometimes in relation to, like, have I been here for a while? Yeah. But with the points, you kind of like, no, okay, I'm at this point, I'm at that point, and I feel like I could service the room better just by using the triangle stage. Plus, you know, I made the screen above me triangle. I like production, too, when I do stand-ups, so I like to pay attention to lighting is big. How is this lighting? I think this is beautifully done. All right? Do you like the people over here? We got people kind of on the side. I do. I noticed that too.

33:41I don't mind that. It's a little disconcerting because you guys are the same height as us. Yeah. So it looks like they're on a ride.

33:53And then we got people in the back that are all, we can't see you, but we know that you're the real fans back there. Oh, yeah. All right. It goes deep. It goes deep. It does go deep. By the way, and I don't know if you know this, little trivia here, and I don't know if anybody in the audience knows, we did a movie together. Okay, we did a movie together, and you know when it came out, you know what percentage of it was on Rotten Tomatoes? No, I didn't check the percentage. Was it bad? Is 7 % bad?

34:29That's right. That was the first time I met you. In 2014, there was a movie called The House with just a young and up-and-coming guy named Will Ferrell, you know? And I picked the one fucking bomb that he made. I was like, sign me up for that one. No, him and I were in a movie that was so fun to make, because he's the best, called The House. And there was a scene where... Yeah, I was... By the way, I shouldn't say we were in a movie together. She was in the movie, and I came in for a day. So I think we made the house like, it was like Vegas. And I was one of the performers in the living room performing to one, I think it was Rory Scoville.

35:13Yes. That's right, Rory. Yeah, it was just a day of work. And that was early on. It was like one of my first movies I've ever done. Yeah. What was your memory of it? Was it a good experience? Yeah, no, it was a day. I came in. I never met you or Will or any of those people. So it was nice. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. I mean, I feel like, like, I remember that time. And also,

35:43you have been, you had been performing for a while, like, you're not an overnight success. You've been putting the time in for a very, very long time. And you've been working very, very hard. What is it in the same way we talk about fatherhood at an age where you feel like you were ready and mature for it. Do you feel that same way about your fame and success? Same. Yeah. In 1998, I started doing stand-up. So for me, I worked at Four Seasons for seven years, getting my feet wet with stand-up comedy. And I didn't have a movie or a TV show or anything that really propelled me into the mainstream.

36:16I feel even now too, I have a great fan base and what have you, but I still feel like there's room for growth. But it took a while. I mean, what is this? About 2015, shortly after we hit the house, 7%. I gotta say, I just looked it up before and it's up to 20%. Oh, okay. We're moving up. We're moving up. With inflation and everything.

36:48Yeah. But no, it's a slow burn for me. Nothing comes easy in my life. So, yeah. Why doesn't things, what do you mean? It's just, you know, my father and I often discuss this, like the Maniscalco family always has to take the long road to get there. Right? There's no shortcuts, which I'm not looking for shortcuts, but, you know, every once in a while it would be nice to, you know, get a pop. How does your dad feel like he's taking the long road? How would he say he's taking it? I mean, he immigrated here when he was 15 years old, and he had to learn a new language. He's still learning the language.

37:30It's fun hanging around with an immigrant father who just doesn't know the words. Is there a word still that really makes you giggle that he... Oh, he goes, oh, you know your cousin, he's going to Ole Miss. What? Ole Miss then, not Ole Miss. So there's a lot of that. That one feels okay. No, that's fine. Yeah, that feels okay. That's like the hillbillies or something. But he is an amazing story, and you wrote a film based on his story. And can you tell everybody how, I mean, I'm sure you've answered this question before, but it's pretty awesome to work with Robert De Niro, I imagine. I was very nervous.

38:17basically wrote a movie never thought it would get you know you write these things you never think they're going to do anything but this one got picked up in De Niro's hands he loved it wanted to read it out loud here in New York City with a bunch of actors so we read it out loud at a table and after the table read I went up to him and I said so and he's like what?

38:41and he left so I'm like alright that's the end of that And two weeks later, I got a call that he's interested in playing your father. And I'm like, this is a guy that I had good fellows, casino posters on my wall. And now he's going to play my dad in a movie. And then subsequently called my father down to Oklahoma where he was shooting the movie because he wanted to get to know my dad. No way. So you're like, dad, he wants to hang out with you? And my dad's like, how much am I getting for this?

39:20So I'm like, no, are you going to go for three days? He goes, yeah, well, you know, he still cuts hair. He's still cutting hair at 79 years old. He's like, well, I got to readjust my clients, and I'm going to lose money if I go down there for three days. And I said, just don't worry about it. Just go. So he went, and he spent three days with De Niro, and De Niro's like, you know, taking notes. How do you wear your hat? How do you hold your cigar? and tell me how to say this in Sicilian. So then he came back, and then De Niro wanted him to come to the set. And my dad said, I ain't going to the set.

39:56He didn't? You know, this is like a movie, right, with De Niro. We grew up watching, and my dad's like, I ain't. So I said, just come to the set and hang out. So my dad was on set teaching De Niro how to do blowouts and dye jobs. We should make it clear that Sebastian's father does hair.

40:23And was a hairdresser for your whole life, right? Yeah, so he cut my hair until I left the house at, I think, 23. Does he still want to cut your hair now? He cut my hair about four years ago, and I said, that's it. No, he's falling apart. I mean, he's falling apart. His shoulder's falling off. It's not easy getting old. It is not easy getting old. No, no, especially at that age. Now, every time I talk to my parents, it's like, you know, I'm not peeing right. Okay. Is it true that Sicilians have great hair? I don't know. I'm losing a lot of my hair. It's a lot of dust up there. I use a pepper. It's called a fiber.

41:15I do a lot of pepper before I come up there. I got someone back there with a pepper milk. With the Parmesan a little bit more?

41:31but you know that I do want to talk about um the you on stage because I do I love I love watching you perform because as we talked about earlier you are physical and a lot of people you know on stage kind of like neck down or disconnected from their body when they're telling jokes they're like telling it from their head and you really do tell it from your bodies your whole body when you perform did you always like to move as a kid like were you like are you a physical guy like do you like I know you like to dance I've seen you dance a lot like do you I mean not to get too you know you don't you don't know what I'm talking about well I feel like you shake it out come on everybody knows you shake it out shake it out but it's not I don't think it's because I have like an anxiety for anything my shaking out is a little bit more just just for the performance I do like to move my hands and be physical and have facial expressions when I'm talking.

42:30Yes. I just took that and just made it a little bit more grand when I'm on stage. Do you have any people that when you were growing up, like physical comedians that you loved? John Ritter is mine. Dude, I was just saying.

42:46Are you kidding me? No. I just said backstage, we were talking about physical because I was talking about you and I was like, I love how physical Sebastian is. And I said, to me, John Ritter was, he was my favorite. Right? Three's Company. For you young people, go watch Three's Company. Incredible. Yeah, unbelievable, like a master of physical comedy. Even though John wasn't a stand-up, but I took a lot of what he was doing. I used to watch Three's Company like game tape growing up. Yeah. Over and over and over again. There was a scene where he was on a hammock trying to get on the hammock and he fell off.

43:21so all those little movements and then he would hit himself and come up and have this dazed look so all that stuff I really incorporated so he was a big inspiration for me but yeah the physicality for me it's just it's fun to do it's like a fun thing for me to do and I gotta keep myself entertained up there as well yeah I bet because you did what 80 whatever shows this year yeah it was a lot 84 shows I think I did dang but yeah do you ever do two a days I used to but no more no more just too tired at the end I'm old yeah well Tina and I were on tour and we would do you know what our favorite thing was a four o 'clock show incredible you never do a four no I didn't I didn't do comedy during the day you gotta do a four it'll change your life wow four o 'clock show you're done by 630 no I like the concept I just I'm wondering if my audience would look at the ticket and go, four o 'clock?

44:22We ain't going to... I gotta tell you, every single person at that four o 'clock show was pumped. Am I wrong? They wanted to go to bed. They want to go to sleep. Listen, that is nice for the audience. Come home and you get a light snack and you go to bed. How do you feel about sleep? I always like to talk to people about sleep on Good Hang. What is your sleep routine when you're on the road? And is it different than when you're home? Yes. It's difficult on the road just because I just came, like last night, I had the worst sleep. Because three hours and a plane and I got to adjust and whatnot.

45:02But when I'm home, I am starting to go to bed, sadly, after I tuck my kids in. It's embarrassing. I love this. Talk to me about the time. So I'm in bed about, I'd say about 9 o 'clock. Incredible. All right.

45:22Sebastian, this is my audience. We love bedtime. We love bedtime. All we think about is bedtime. We love bedtime. 9 p.m. is a winner move. It is. I try to be consistent with the sleep just because if it starts to vary and then it gets screwed up on the other end, because generally speaking, I get up around 6 o 'clock regardless of what time I go to sleep. Are you doing any sleep, eight sleep mattress, ring? No, I have a CPAP machine because I have... You're wearing a breather or whatever the hell that is? A breather? Whatever the hell it is? I thought only like... Exactly. I know it's usually...

46:09I thought that was like a man thing. Right, no. Lucky for me, it's not just a man thing.

46:20You're right. It usually is a man thing. Have you ever heard a woman going, I got to travel with this thing? I never heard of that.

46:34I'm sorry. Not a lot of women are doing that. Well, I've always been ahead of my field.

46:47Oh, yeah, it's pretty sexy stuff. It's pretty sexy stuff. But, yeah, I have a sleeve apnea, so I wear a sleeve apnea. And I got to tell you, I love it. It's changed my life. I love it. Okay. I would never change it for the world. I love it so much. It's totally changed my life. anybody who's thinking about it just for fun anybody who wants to try it for fun do it I've heard it it's very beneficial do you do it consistently every night of course gotta do it every night and it puts you right to sleep it's like the sound and it has air excuse me water so it's like hydrating so you never ever wake up with dry mouth, bad breath, nose, any of that stuff because you're always hydrated.

47:46You put your lip balm on, your creams, you hydrate and then you go and then you look like a fighter pilot and you go to sleep. But what's your bedtime routine? Tell me about your lotions because I bet you have a skincare routine. I do, I do, I do have a skincare, a little toner, a little face cream. And I put a little cologne on before. I got a little nighttime cologne.

48:17Different than daytime cologne? Yeah, I shower prior to bed. Of course. Do a full, I'd say the last two years, I've been doing a full body lotion from head to toe. Oh, very good. All right. What kind of brand you got going there? We'll cut it out, don't worry. What is the brand? It's a variety of different brands. I can't recall because, again, And my wife is just giving me stuff like, here, use this lotion. Oh, okay. Smart. You don't want to give them free stuff. I get it.

48:45There's one. A lot of them I can't pronounce. Okay. Some of them are French. Okay. So, and then I've been doing this cologne routine where I do five sprays in my palm. I get it hot. And I neck it. And I go to bed. And then in the morning, what I've been doing, and this is something maybe you guys should try tomorrow. I've been doing two different colognes. One on the front and one on the back. So you get one cent coming and one cent going. It's a beautiful technique. Wow. Are you into men with cologne? Yeah, I love it. Sure. And also the front and back is genius. Because it's like, I thought I knew him.

49:43He's still a mystery to me.

49:48I mean, you're on tour all the time. Who's making you laugh right now? Do you watch comedy? Do you like to go? No. No, I know. I don't either. It's just a busman's holiday. But like, do you, what do you, what do you, how do you, do you watch stuff to make you laugh? Do you watch videos? Do you watch other comics? I don't, I don't look at entertainment for the comedy of it. I look like documentaries. I like drama. If I want to laugh, I got a friend back in Chicago. His name is George. I'll call him. Tell us about George. He just, he's one of these guys that just, he's, he's funny. He's like, we talk about daily life, and he just makes me laugh.

50:31So George is kind of my go-to for comedy. But as far as stand-up comedy, I don't like watching it generally just because, I don't know. I mean, I like to laugh. I like to see what people are doing. Maybe a special will come on. I'll see five minutes of somebody, and I'll just turn it off if I really like it. The last one I watched from front to back was Giannis Pappas. Yes. A couple specials ago I thought was really, really funny. and he caught me on a night where I was so giddy and laughing. So generally speaking, though, I'm documentary serious. I laugh at serious moments. I love serious. Do you watch anything like, do you watch reality TV?

51:10Do you care about that? My wife got me into Love is Blind. So every now and then, what are you laughing at? I guess the question is, do you believe it is? this show I mean come on the concept of it is cute oh I'm gonna fall in love with somebody and then on the inside and then you know but that's half you know you know you're gonna eventually come out and look at the person if they got no teeth you know it's a problem they gotta walk down the stairs on their hands for them to be worth their salt I mean love is blind is uh for me like for people who are listening who might not know you know they talk and then they finally see each other after they meet each other just from talking.

51:56And my mirror neurons, like, I get so codependently stressed when those doors open. Oh, God. And the body language is so stressful. I know, I know. When they're like, hey. When they go from, like, arms open to just, like, pat, pat, pat. Oh, yoy, yoy. And the way that, like, the body never lies. like when the way when they go in for the kiss and it's just like oh they just turn they just turn they turn their mouth away and give them the cheek and it's brutal or she can be that too but it's brutal no I can't handle that all right so you like dark stuff well I mean dark it's just like I like I don't know serious moments I tend to laugh at yeah and find funny like my wife will be telling me a serious story and I'll just bust out laughing she's what the what's wrong with you I don't know.

52:51I'm thinking about something that's funny pertaining to what you're saying. Yeah. I know what you mean. Okay, so you've got a new special coming out. Yeah. Another hour plus the material. It takes you how long to get new material? I don't know. It's been averaging like three years. Every three years I come up with an hour. It's difficult because what you want to do going into these specials is you want it to be equal to or greater than the last one, right? Yeah. And it's difficult because a lot of comedians have a lot of their best material coming out of the gate because they've been working so long and now they're going to, you know, and then people expect a certain level from you.

53:31So I'll take it very serious to make these specials kind of special because I felt like my last one I was going through injury. I had sciatic pain on my right leg. No way. And it was very hard for me to move around. Too much play. Too much play. A lot of play. And I felt like I couldn't perform like I normally would perform just because I was in pain. I couldn't move. Plus, I dressed in a tuxedo. I'm like, I'm going to try something different, right? Yeah. I'm going to bring Vegas back to Frank Sinatra. So I wanted the audience to dress up and this and that. 20 people dressed up. And I felt very hampered in a tuxedo.

54:11I couldn't move in a tuxedo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I wanted to kind of correct that with this special. and I have no more sciatica and no more tuxedo. Do you have a good sciatica stretch? Do you keep up on that? I do. I take a ball. Yeah. Tennis ball, lacrosse ball, what kind of ball? It is a, it's like a ball that you would buy to roll out your legs. Okay. And I put it right here in my psoas. Yes. And I roll. You guys know what that is, right? I feel like this is like a health-related section. We're doing sleep. Now we're doing sciatica. It's sleep apnea. We've touched. We've got to get all the tips.

54:56Okay. Put it in your psoas. And roll it. So you get on the floor and then you basically lay on it and roll. A lot of, I believe from my research, which is Instagram, a lot of the sciatic pain is coming from the front side of the body particularly in the psoas and I have a very tight psoas region not to brag I got a big psoas

55:27okay so what I've learned you got you and Pete have been doing your podcast for 12 years what do you like about doing it what have you learned like what's the best thing about having a podcast? Like, what do you like about it? What I use it for is long form storytelling. So Pete and I are like, you know, he's a beer and peanut guy. I'm a wine and cheese guy. We're very opposites in the way we kind of conduct our life. And he's so funny and so quick witted. And he's a great listener. And like a lot of times when you're telling a story, you know, this, that, you know, like story has beats to it.

56:02And, you know, if somebody tells me, can you tell that story about that? I'll look at the crowd, and I don't know if you do. It's not a crowd, but like a group of people. And I go, I'm not telling that story because I know the attention span of where we're at. I know the story needs to breathe and whatnot. But Pete allows me to really kind of go off on a tangent with a lot of the stories, and he adds great commentary. So we're not guest-driven. We don't really have a lot of guests just because we have so much fun talking to one another. But we've been doing this for 12 years. We basically, it's like a recorded phone call.

56:32Yeah. And we have a ball. And that's kind of what I get out of the podcast. As Pete was saying, we don't really have, I mean, we have a loyal fan base. I mean, nothing like this, this army you have that comes out to see you.

56:49But it is, I mean, if you're looking for, like, really just storytelling and comedic storytelling, that's what I believe podcasting has done for us is just give us an opportunity. Because, you know, when you do stand up, you need it to be tight. You need it to be hitting it all cylinders. With the podcast, you know, you guys or whoever's listening to it could be in your bathroom getting ready or working out and whatnot. So, yeah, you chuckle here and there. It's funny. But, yeah, it's been a pleasure working with him, and we plan on doing it. I mean, you know, it's like a labor of love for us.

57:25Yeah, that's great. And the best thing about it, I feel like, is with these longer extended conversations, you can figure out how you feel about things in real time. You can hear people sort through their value system in a way, but also they figure out life in real time with someone else. It's kind of cool to hear that. and because of that I want to throw out some things and I just want to get your take about how you feel about them okay so we're going to do a little speed round oh good okay

58:05shoeless households okay

58:11it's a big debate because I did a joke about going over to somebody's house and they ask could you please remove your shoes? And I'm like, you know, I'm a grown man. I don't feel like I should be walking around somebody else's house in my socks. Yeah. I just don't feel confident. Once a man loses his shoes, you can't really debate any other man. It's like you're in your socks, guy. Come on. But, you know, there's people out there that are very adamant. How dare you, you know, come in with shoes on. you know how much stuff is on the bottom of your shoes. You're going to traipse that into the house.

58:51Yeah, okay, fine, I get it. It hasn't been a problem for me for the last 52 years. No one's ever got sick. I'm like, what the, did somebody come in there with their shoes on? So if you come by the house, people will be kind and go, oh, do you want me to take my shoes off? And I feel so good when I go, nah. Leave them on. Especially women, man. They love shoes. They come over with a nice heel. They go, okay, let me take this on. Now they go walk around barefoot. Have you seen the bottom of some people's feet? What's on, what kind of bacteria? That might be even worse than a shoe. Now, Pete was talking once about misophonia.

59:40Yeah. Are you a germaphobe? I'm not a germaphobe. I wouldn't say. I'm not wiping down the plane seat when I walk on the plane. But I'm like, I often look at people and how they kind of conduct their lives and go, how the hell could you be doing that here? I just feel like there's no like, you know, you go on an airplane and people will take their shoes off and they're barefoot and then they walk into the bathroom. Oh, wow. Not okay. So with this misophonia, if you don't know what it is, And it's, again, Pete said I was not diagnosed with it. Yeah, his question, I think, was when are you going to get properly diagnosed?

1:00:23Well, I don't think I need to. I just feel like if you were opening up a bag of chips right now and eating Doritos, my window of tolerance for that is very small. Yeah. It could be anything. People want to, you know, typing, heavy typers. You don't like a heavy typer? Oh, God. I mean, like if you're like banging on the keyboard and you're at Starbucks and I'm waiting in line, I will just hear the keyboard and nothing else. I could drown out all other sounds. Like a Tom Cruise movie. It's amazing. It really is amazing. And I don't want to get rid of this because I feel like not only do I have a sensitivity to sound, but also just people in general, their behavior.

1:01:05And I feel like if I lose the misophonia, I'm going to lose the ability or my radar to detect that that guy hasn't laughed at all. Right? Right. So that's why I keep the disease. Yeah.

1:01:22Wedding registries. Wedding registries. Oh, that's a good one. We had a registry when we got married. I have no problem with it. I don't pay attention to it because, again, growing up in an Italian family, we often brought money to the wedding. So you put, like, some cash in an envelope. And then, you know, you don't bring a toaster or a blender or whatever. I just, you know, nice cash envelope. I think everybody likes a, especially when you're getting started married. It used to be, you know, people got married kind of young. Yeah. And they needed a start, right? Oh, here's$500. you know go buy something to get your life started but now it's like I don't know man it's like the parents are bankrolling a lot of these kids today I mean it's amazing and it got silent in here because maybe some of the people are in there yeah this is New York City yeah look at how quiet it got right your mother paid for the tickets tonight yeah everybody turned to their mother who they're with and said I don't know what he's talking about Is there anything at a wedding that people do that drives you nuts?

1:02:37I'm not into taking home food, and this is big in the Italian culture. They'll go to the sweet table. Italians have a sweet table. And they'll take a styrofoam to go thing that they hand out. Okay. And they'll take the cookies and the svoietel. They'll take it all home. I'm like, come on. Have this for breakfast tomorrow? I just think it's a packing move. I don't like to go at a wedding. I've never seen that. No, come to one of my weddings. You'll see it. Pets. Should people have them? Should people have pets? I have to tell you, I've never had a pet up until a year ago. I got a dog. We got two dogs now.

1:03:25So we got them for the kids. I'm not a huge animal lover. I like animals, but I'm not coming home and, ha-ha. I don't take it out to get coffee. I'm taking out an airplane. I just felt like we had a pet in the neighborhood growing up. His name was Edolo. It's the male version of Italy. Edolo? That's the name of the dog, Edolo. and it lived in the garage year round. I mean, it would be 13 below and the dog would be in the garage. I don't know. It was just kind of like there, the dog. It wasn't like the focal point of the home. It was just like, yeah, you're right. Okay. But now the dog's up here and it's the petting.

1:04:23It bothers me. I'm sorry. It's just... What kind of dog did you get? Cats, forget it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm allergic to cats. That's why I don't like them. But God, I don't even go to people. I got a good friend. He's got a cat. He's got two cats. I go, I can't come to the house until the cats die. I can't. Yeah. Amy Miles has cats, and she had a cat that really tried to almost, like, become your lover. Like the cat would, and I was saying, I feel the same way about cats. Like I feel fine with them and I think they're great, but I don't really want, I'm a tiny bit allergic, like just a little bit.

1:05:06So I try not to touch them. And because of it, they're obsessed with me. I just ignore them and they just come up and crawl and they get in your clothes. And Amy used to have a cat named Nosferatu.

1:05:22who would try to suck your spirit out of your mouth. So I understand. Yelling. Yelling. How do you feel about yelling? I mean, I don't know. A good yell every now and then is healthy. Do you yell at your kids? Yeah, I yell at my kids. Again, I'm not one of these parents that gets on the same level as their kids and go, just tell me what you're going through. It's not that. I think a good dose of a yell, not a lot, because with raising kids, you have to act sometimes like you're psychotic. And if you lose your composure, the kids will go, wow, we don't want to see that again. So a good yell, I think, every now and then, sets the family straight.

1:06:15Agreed. Oh, you're getting some applause. I'm surprised. I'm surprised. I'm surprised. You're getting applause from the parents of the people who paid for their kids to be here. Santa Claus. We had a problem with Santa Claus. Again, this is another thing I'm not into. My daughter accused my wife and I of being Santa Claus. This is when she was five years old. Okay. And I wasn't ready for it. I thought Santa Claus discussions normally happen maybe around 8 to 10 to 11. So I'm like, what the 5? That's a little young. So I came out of the room. I asked my wife. I go, get on this text that you're with the moms and find out what's going on at school.

1:07:04We found out that a lot of parents tell their kids there's no Santa because they don't want to lie to their kids. Right? Now, I'm thinking, that's all I do. is lie to my kids, right? Eat your carrots, you're gonna see better.

1:07:26But yeah, so, I got so upset. Yeah. I was at a Christmas party, there was a Santa Claus there. So I'm telling Santa, generally speaking, when I go to these parties, you dance, I talk to like the waiters and the people that are working at the party. Got it, got it, I get it. So I'm talking to Santa. You go in the back of the house. Yeah, go back in the house. Yeah, go back in the house. So I talked to the Santa and I said, you know, kid don't believe, and he goes, well, I offer a service where I could come to the house. I swear to God, this is in Los Angeles. Can you believe it? I'll come to the house on Christmas Eve and I'll put the presents down, right?

1:08:05So 1230 at night, this guy comes.

1:08:11I put my robe in the driveway, Come this way. The tree's over here, Santa. So he comes in. I wake up the kids. I go, Santa's here. We come. We look at Santa. And then Santa, and then the kids go back to bed. I peel off three hunge for this drunk Santa in my house. And now the kids, you know, they believe again. So I highly recommend if you can get a Santa, to come to your house. Incredible. Incredible. Wow. And I guess the last question I want to ask you, Sebastian, and thank you so much for your time. And again, check out Sebastian's new special on Hulu and all of the good work that he's doing.

1:09:04It's so great to have you. Thank you so much for doing this. It's been so fun. Can you just talk me through how you cook your steak? Okay. Because it feels like what I've read is that you do a reverse sear, and I want to talk about it. Okay. I like these questions. So I found this video. This is about 10 years ago online about the reverse sear. Basically what it is is you take the steak out of the refrigerator. You leave it set for about 30 minutes. Get it to room temperature. I like to do mine about 45, 50 minutes. Just let it get used to the atmosphere. And what kind of cut are we talking about?

1:09:44I used to like ribeye. Now I'm on to New York strip because the ribeye got a lot of fat on it. And at this age, I could go at any minute. So I'm doing New York strip steak and I heavily salt it and heavily put pepper on it right from the hair.

1:10:10And then I set the oven to 275. I put it in there for about 45 minutes. After the 45 minutes, I take it out. I let it rest for 15. All the while, I got a cast iron skillet, white hot. I do a sear for about a minute each side, cut and serve with a little rosemary. lining the serving plate. I like garnish on a plate when it comes to the table because a lot of times when you have steak, there might be a little blood or whatever kind of moving throughout the plate. And I like the stems of rosemary. It kind of adds a nice touch. Anything else in the pan? Like no butter? No. I know a lot of people do a little oil, maybe garlic, and then they kind of baste it with the spoon.

1:11:05No, you don't need it. You want a shout out and a sponsor for this? Snake River Farm meat is probably the best meat that you can get. You got to order it online though. I've been promoting this meat company for a while. For real? And not one free filet.

1:11:29I'm the guy that gets nothing. Like, Amy probably has a bunch of stuff coming to the house, right? Swag. Here's this. Here's that. We understand you got a band. Here's a guitar. I get nothing. Nothing is sent to me. No here. Try this. Try that. I got no boxes. DJ Khaled is constantly opening up a watch or shoes. I got nothing. And what's your sides? Before you go, I need to know what are you serving with your steak? So we like to do a fingerling potato. Whoa, not what I expected. What did you expect? I expected a whipped or a mashed. Funny you say that. I started doing mashed because my kitchen is being remodeled right now.

1:12:21I can't cook. But I started doing mashed potatoes prior to the kitchen remodel. And, you know, it's a little bit labor intensive. Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mashed. Yeah, it's not easy to get a good mashed. but the fingerling is sufficing for now. And then I'll put a green in there. I'll put a broccoli. I'll put a little asparagus. I'm trying to get the kids to eat healthy with this kind of grab-and-go stuff that I'm not into the processed foods, although I'm not saying that I'm eating so well. But you want to give the kids a nice... You know, here's a little tip I tell people, young kids, that I'll share with you too.

1:13:01I learned it from my brother who lives in Sweden with his Swedish wife and family. They do this, I don't know if it's Swedish, it's probably not Swedish, just what they do. But like when dinner time is almost ready, like that hungry time when like you're 5.36 when the kids are about to eat and food is cooking, they just put a big plate of vegetables with like ranch or hummus on the table and your kid is hungry and they eat a bunch of carrots and celery just as a snack because it's not part of their dinner. But the minute you put it on the plate with anything like pizza or pasta or anything, they're not going to eat it.

1:13:38But if you slide it in there before dinner, when they're hungry, they'll have a few carrot sticks. They don't even know they're eating it. You know, that does sound good in theory. Okay. But how prone are you to, you know, cut some carrot radishes? we got this beautiful tray of vegetables and one carrot and then who's eating the rest of the vegetables right? Are you? Are you going to knock them out? No, they're going in the garbage. You're right, cutting too many vegetables is a nightmare. But I would take a vegetable over a fruit any day. What's your vegetable? Favorite. Well, I love anything in the pea family.

1:14:25So I love a pea. I love a, you know, what do you call it? A snap pea. Thank you. I love a pea. I love an asparagus. I love a potato. Does that count as a vegetable? Yeah, does it? I don't know. Mushroom. I love a mushroom. Okay, a mushroom. So, what's your favorite fruit?

1:14:53I feel like some kind of like savory like a like a chicken curry with mushrooms and rice Oh you said fruit

1:15:22My favorite fruit? Fruit. Fruit.

1:15:29Is, I don't know, a plum. A plum? Oh, wow. What's your favorite fruit? What's your favorite fruit? Fruit is a banana or a strawberry. It's a toss-up. Yeah. And a vegetable. I like an asparagus. I really... Bigam and asparagus. But if I had to choose, I'd go strawberry or banana over a vegetable any day of the week. You'd go fruit over veg. I'd go fruit.

1:15:58Wow. And you've got this audience. As we wrap up, I guess raise your hand. Raise your hand if you'd go fruit over veg. Wow. Look at that. Look at that. I can't even see the people at the top. That's impressive. The people on the side on the park ride are all veg. Nobody's voting fruit. Unbelievable. Well, you found your audience, Sebastian. I did. It's my group of people. Give it up, everybody, for Sebastian Menescalco.

1:16:29Thank you so much. That was amazing. Thanks for having me here. I really appreciate it. Thank you.

1:16:40Sebastian Menescalco, everybody.

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