November 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Today on The Breakfast Club, Sebastian Maniscalco On Comedy Influence, Italian Stereotypes, New Hulu Special. Listen For More!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Every day a week ago, clicks up the Breakfast Club,
finish for y'all done morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Everybody is the DJ, Envy Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club. Laura Lo Rosa is here
as well. We got a special guest in the building.
Name we got comedian Sebastian Monus Calco practiced.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Did I get it right?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Though?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
He did? But you emphasized the man and I felt
like it was a little Italian coming out of here. Nice.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
There was no Italian in me.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Were welcome?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
How are you feeling, brother.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I'm good, I'm good. I just got to New York
City yesterday and bouncing around the city and talking to
uh everybody about my special coming out this week.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It ain't right.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
It ain't right Hulu and Hulu.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, just Uhary told us that you were a funny comedian.
She loves you, but she couldn't be here. She's actually
in La.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
She went to Mike App's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So she said to tell you to send love, okay,
And she also wanted me to say that why are
some of the best comedians from Chicago? She named a
bunch of them from Bernie Mack, little real, Hannibal Burroughs,
d Ray Davis, Airy Spae is God for You, Sherry
sheperd Robin Williams.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
What makes Chicago so Chicago?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Living in Chicago, there's a lot of sarcasm, there's a
lot of making fun of one another, but it's in
good spirit. So I grew up with. You know, even
even now you go back to Chicago, I'm getting ripped
to shreds. You know. There's a lot of like, oh,
were you.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
On the Breakfast Club? What do you think you're special?
There's a lot of that going on in Chicago. So, uh,
I think you have a tough skin growing up there.
And uh and and sarcasm and making people laugh is
just kind.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Of part of the way we get through the winter.
So uh yeah, you got to you gotta have a
sense of humor to go through those winners. So yeah,
I mean I've always been around funny people, funny family.
Growing up, just just at the dinner table was just fun.
We had We were either laughing or crying. There was
(02:05):
no in between. So for me, we always used to
kind of laugh to mask anything that was happening that
was getting serious. Even to this day, if I feel
somebody's gonna cry. I get uncomfortable, and I'm like, okay,
we gotta get out. It is I that? Yeah, so
you don't go to funerals at all? Did I go
to funerals?
Speaker 7 (02:23):
But I tend to You don't speak at them home?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I wouldn't mind that.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Actually, actually I would. If I were to speak at
a funeral, I would I would definitely go the humor route.
I'm laughing at funerals just because I'm trying to break
up the the seriousness of it all.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
What in the funeral would you be specifically joking about?
Because your solid comedy is so like you take like
random regular things and just like make it a joke,
like things that I wouldn't even think twice about because
it's just naturally what people do.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Okay, So the last funeral I went to, I was
with my sister. It was sad, but I started looking
around the room and I said, be nice if there
was like a cocktail service here, something to like like
a like a beverage. You know, you're you're there, you're sad.
Be nice. If somebody came up to you and said,
(03:15):
you need you need to you know, guess a wine
or something, and we just kind of start riffing off,
like I wanna be nice to have like a like
a little food here and just make it a little
bit more of a lounge.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Like a all the funerals.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
If you knew there was gonna be good food and
some cocktails at a funeral once, you'd be more prone
to even attend the damn thing.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
The repast.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
But by the repast, I mean you kind of are
at the point where you're hungry. So a lot of
the family issues that surround the funeral people don't care
about cause.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
They want to eat. Oh this is after in the
actual funeral, talking.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
About the wake with the body in the room.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Something you got like three girlfriends that like we're trying
to figure out who was the one.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yes, your funerals you.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Go to might just be grandma had passed, she got
two boyfriends.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
No, I do not. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
I've just been to a lot of funerals where there's
a lot of things that questioning you in the funeral
trying to figure out.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
What's going on.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Okay, okay, I'm going to like a grandmother and uncle.
There's not like there's not anybody really wondering what's going
on outside of the person that died.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
She from Delaware. That's a little different. So there's anything
off the table with jokes with you politics.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I don't do politics. I don't think people want to
hear that, especially when they're coming out to a show.
You're inundated all day with the right and the left
and this, that and the other thing. I want to
give people a departure from that. I don't want to
be talking about any politics. And I've always said, whatever
my father is doing is a lot funnier than whatever
(04:56):
the president is doing, So I kind of stick to
my family. It was Trump to Trump is yeah. I
mean he's a funny. Some of the stuff that's coming
out of his mouth is extremely humorous. But I just
like leave that to people want to talk about politics.
For me, I just I talk about my family. I
talk about I got two kids, I'm going to parent
teacher conferences. It's it's I'm drawing from my own life
(05:19):
and I'm not really paying attention to anything else.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
I also see a lot of exaggerated like frustration in
your comedy, So like, like, do you could you talk
about being fed up about everybody talking about politics so much.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah, I mean I could go that route. I mean
I am a little fed up with the whole politic
talk and people, you know, getting separated by that. So
I just tend to I don't know, I just I
think what we're all going through on a daily basis,
whether it be you know, two boyfriends or.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's true.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Okay, relationship problems, parents, you know. I just feel like
everybody would. It's relatable humor, observational humor. That's that's my lane.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What's the point of everyday life that annoys you the most?
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
God, everyday life. I got a problem right now with
people wearing in visil line during the day.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
That bothers me too, And then you can see it
and hear it when they talk.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
That's all I'm looking at. If you had a visil
line on, I would be looking at your mouth and
how the saliva is in between the teeth and the
So I believe in visil line should be done at
night where nobody could see it while you're sleeping. That's
one of my pet peeves right now. Another one of
my pet peeves right now is the way people talk
(06:48):
these like buzzwords like I am on a journey, a healing.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Journey, healing whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah, put whatever you want in front of journey. Narcissists
not so much. That's not on my my hot list
of words that I don't like. Another word that's that's
a word that I don't even know really exactly what
that means.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
I hear it a lot. Another word I don't like
is oh, I'm speaking my truth.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
It bothers me. Just these like buzzwords. So yeah, that's
that's another thing that that ain't right.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
Because some people's truth could be complete lies, it could
be completely not accurate at all.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah, it could be definitely fabricated. And and I just
don't like people that are like picking up on these
buzzwords and and and implementing into their their their conversation
when they might not even know what that what they're
talking about.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
And I think with the visit line to read the
people wearing visit line during the day because they don't
get enough sleep at night, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I really think that's the reason.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Are you Are you knocking off for good eight hours
at night?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
No? I try to get I try.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I try to be in bed by nine to fifteen
because we gotta be up at like four fifteen, so
like six seven, but eight is like tough to do.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Are you mapping? Are you Are you guys like mapping
your sleep? Are you like, do you wear a sleep
mechanism that I'm na you think? What is it a
twenty minute nap? Are you going down with me?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I got to pick up my first door at at
two forty seven, so I try to between one and
two forty quick little.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Hour in bed.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, well my office either couch either.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yeah, I gotta I gotta be like in a bed nap.
I can't like knock out on a couch and I
gotta get re ready to go to bed when I nap.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And how old are your kids?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Eight and six?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So you brought your son to wenty is showing and
he fell asleep?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Sleep? Yeah? Damn yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So you looked at and you see him sleep, and
did you wake him up?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
At Ah? Listen, it's five. He was a five at
the time, So it's not like I was like, oh,
my son is going to sleep. Although I told my
wife I should start doing my act during bedtime to
see if they fall asleep, because it's hard to get
him to bed, you know, but yeah, now he fall
asleep during the show. And the kids are probably one
(09:20):
of the hardest people to make laugh, I think, you know,
but they do have a sense of humor themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
We have a good we have a very fun, fun family.
But yeah, are you the popular dad at school? Like, dude,
it does everybody know it?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Like your dad is famous.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
I'm hearing a little bit of that. But I'm like
an older father. I'm fifty two. I got a six
year old. So when i go to the school events,
I feel like I'm like an antique, well compared to
the rest of the dads, Like they're in their early thirties.
So I'm like almost like a you know, like, oh,
there comes the great hair. You know, I'm one of
(09:56):
the only dads that have gray hair. So that's where
I am. But I feel like I'm bringing a bit
of wisdom to the to the school. Here. We go
to the soccer games and uh, you know, they're handing
out stickers at the end of the game and the
score goes backwards once they reach it. It was twelve
(10:17):
zero and then I went to nine zero because they
want to make the kids feel bad. I you know,
I have problems with that, and and I'm like, and
I'm doing something that might be a little out of
the box. I want to get your take here the
breakfast club, if if, if you agree, you got that.
You have a son.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I got six kids. I got four girls, two boys.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
They play soccer, they do all They also.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Okay, and the sons are howled.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He's in college. He's not demanded a house. He thinks
he's demanded house.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
He plays football, football, play them around.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
He does not slam me around. The mother said, is eleven.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Okay, So I got a six year old. What I've
been doing recently is I'm putting clown on my six
year old when he goes to school, and I'm asking
him when he comes home, is anybody comment on how
good you smell? He goes, no, I'm not getting anything.
So I had the parent teacher conference this week and
(11:15):
during the conference, I go, have you noticed how good
my son smells? And they're like, I'm sorry. I go, yeah,
you know, I'm putting a little Colonne on him. Was wondering,
you know, She's like, well, we're not really allowed to
comment on kids smells like I'm like, even if he
(11:36):
smells good, I mean, there's kids that smell awful. Growing
up in school, there's always that kid that came to
school with you know whatever, booger's hanging out of his
nose or what have you. But I'm like, come on,
this kid's coming to school, and you know, we dress
him up nice, we do his hair, And do you
think six years old is a little too young to
be wearing cologne? What do you think?
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Do I think six years old is No, I don't
think that's too young to be wearing cologne. But I
can also understand why the teachers don't want to comment
on it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I mean, ever since Pizzagate, you can't be too safe.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I mean, I don't know if six year old walks
in smell like John Paul Gutier, you gotta comment on it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't have a problem, and I don't have a problem,
and I would say not to say that your kids stinks.
But some of these younger kids stink. Now like you
you go and you can tell that they not washing
good enough.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yeah, well, I mean they just they look like they're
rolling out of bed right into the school. I don't know.
We kind of take our time with our kids and
make sure it looks.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
The fatherhood changed the way you approach your comedy because
I know you use your family a lot and a
lot of your material.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Not really, but I mean it has. I'm extracting a
lot of humor out of being a parent, you know,
especially in today's day and age. Uh So, yeah, I
mean I'm always talking about what's going on in my
life in my comedy. So if I'm going, uh to
parent teacher conference, if I'm going to a soccer game
(12:59):
with my kids, I'm talking more about my health. Now,
how I seem to be breaking down? I can't do
what's fifty?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Man? You men breaking down?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I have? I have detached biceps, which I don't know
how that happened. What is that my biceps have detached?
I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
There's a lot of things going on. We mean, fifty fifty?
How old are you okay for another five years? You're
telling me how good you feel? Now here, see there's
like a hole in my bicep here.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Did you play sports?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
This is I woke up in there, and this is
woke up. I woke up out of it. He wasn't
working out trying to You thought I was doing biceps. No,
I woke up and I'm like, do I have a
hole in my bicep? So yeah, I don't know how
this happened. So yeah, this is what I'm talking about
breaking down.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Did you work out like a growing up?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Yeah? I used to. Yeah, of course it's working out
like a I used to work out, uh with no
shirt on.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah. No, I used to work out a lot, but
now I can't work out as much as I used
to do to the fact that you know, and I
think this travel has killed my body too, and being
so physical on stage. I'm starting to see the effects
of of uh, of just getting a little bit older,
that's all I mean. I don't want to say that
like I'm a grandfather, all right, I'm just saying that, Biden,
(14:31):
I just can't do things that I used to do.
I played a basketball game the other day, like a
pick up basketball game. I felt like a hamstring was
gonna pop. So I mean, I you know I can't.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Isn't there a certain age where like you shouldn't do that?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, you're just this one's telling me a lot older.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Like No, I'm just saying I think you should steel
like workout and like be active. But like a pick
up basketball game. They get a little intense, and you
didn't like your biceps, And yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Well, I I thought I was going to be available
to do that. But as I was doing it, and
it was only half court, it's not like we're sprinting
up and down.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
The half court is better. But how did you feel.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You can still?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Barack Obama was playing basketball when he was in the
White House.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
He was sixty five.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
But that's different in his in the White House. It's
just him. It's not a random.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Playing pickup games.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Yeah, it's different. It's Barack Obama is in the White House.
How did you feel?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
How did you push up?
Speaker 8 (15:26):
I did basically seven with Lola. I counted in that video.
Y'all had me f y'all said five. How did you
feel when you were doing it?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I didn't feel good. I didn't remember the basket being
that high. Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't really get a
good good Uh. A lot of air balls, a lot
of air balls. But yeah, I mean, listen, I'm trying
to keep you know, in shape, and uh, I'm just
having some issues with my body right now.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
We talked about it. We talked about koldoscopies. We talked
about everything. Just did that recently too? Did you get
one us a lot at?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He went for a check up and the doctor said Ben,
but he did it.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I went for a sectomy.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
I went to get a eect me consultation okay, and
left and ended up with a prospect.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
He volunteers himself for it, like whenever they need to
just like figure new things.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Out and right over figure.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
I wouldn't care if I needed to dowers one time
they went together, Can.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
We talk about your back?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Why?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
You just want to make him comfortable, so you can
you know, then dive open up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Yeah. So I just went and it was wondering. It
was just wonderful. No, I was. I was shocked. I've
never been put down like that on a front and
all and uh so good it was.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
It was we're talking about different things colons. Yeah, yeah
that we had that too.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I had that too. Talking about the prospect.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Oh I was he was great, Yeah, it was great, No,
I was.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The drugs, it was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Yeah, the drugs. I thought I thought the drug was beautiful.
But as I was going under, uh, there was a
nurse there and she goes, oh, I'm a I'm a
big fan, right, And I'm like what and she's like, yeah,
I saw you at the forum in Los Angeles and
I going, now you're going to see up my And
I'm like, you know, it's like, I don't really want
(17:24):
to hear that as I'm going under, but yeah, I
thought yeah, and I'm like you, I'm very preventive, you know.
I think a lot of times when it comes to health,
people react to their health rather than you know, go
through the preventative measures. So I'm I'm into testing. I
like going in for not I don't like going in
for tests, but I'd rather know early rather than you know,
(17:47):
my biggest fear is going to the doctor and they're
giving me pamphlets and going you know, you're you're you're
gonna die soon. So I'd rather know before.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Now we go week well, not together, but that sounds crazy.
But for every little thing that we hear about, we
go to the doctor. If somebody dies, going to the doctor.
If there's a heart problem with somebody, I'm going to
check my heart.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
That's how.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
The bathto' starting to question whether you really got kids.
I think you gay on you to be honest.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Are you a hypercontract? I mean, do you think you're
gonna die soon? No?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But you know, sometimes you'll see a sign and yeah,
like let me check this out just to make sure.
Like somebody will die out of nowhere, and I want
to know why they die and.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
You look at their age like fifty, Like wait, forty five,
I want to know what happened.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Okay. So if you hear that somebody passes away and
they're around your age and they die of diabetes or whatever,
you're going to get fail you You're going to get
checked the next day, gotcha? Okay? So if nobody dies,
you're good. You don't check nothing.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I don't check that somebody dies checking everything.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Now you come, You're you're Italian?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Right.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Italian families they got their own universal characters, right, Like
which family member gave you the best comedy material without
even trying.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
My father was very, very funny growing up. He was
he's a hairdresser. He still is, seventy nine years old.
He still doing hair. Wow. He was a bit of
a comedian, but his audience was the people that he
was doing in the chairs, So he had kind of
a captive audience for an hour doing a dye job,
a haircut or what have you. So he was he's
a big personality. My mother is funny too, and my sister.
(19:23):
But my father is a character in himself. He came
here when he was fifteen years old from Sicily, and
he kind of brought some of that kind of immigrant
mentality into kind of raising us. And yeah, we always
we always felt like he was the funniest one in
the family.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well got him into being a hairdresser, was he.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
His father was a barber in Sicily, and then he
he likes to be called a stylist. He doesn't like
to be called a barber because he he creates style.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
He did some stuff with Robert de Naro too.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Yeah, he de Niro played my father in a movie
that I co wrote, and then my father was teaching
de Niro on set how to do like blowouts and
die jobs, which I'm sitting here watching this going. I
would never thought in a million years that my dad
would be teaching de Niro hair tips, you know. But
(20:20):
de Niro wanted to know how to do hair, how
do you hold the comb? You know. He was very
interested in how my dad did things, so he could
portray my father in the movie very in an authentic way,
and he even wanted to spend time with my dad
while de Niro was doing a movie in Oklahoma, and
he's like, I need your father to come down to
Oklahoma for three or four days spend some time with me. Now,
(20:43):
I call my dad. I go, Dad, de Niro needs
you to come to Oklahoma. And my Dad's like, Oklahoma,
I got to work, you know. I'm like, de Niro's
calling you to Oklahoma. He's like, well, who's going to
do my clients? So I'm like, oh my god, So
my dad, and my dad's wondered how much he's gonna
get hate to do this. I go, Dad, just go,
and you know, teach de Niro what you know? So
(21:06):
it was, it was, it was. It was a cool,
cool feeling to have my dad kind of like teaching
Robert de Niro how to be him.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So you had the freshest haircuts growing up.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I don't think so necessarily. I I had a mullet,
which I thought was beautiful, and then I permed out
my mullet in the back. I did a perm job
because I played soccer, and when playing soccer, you needed
your hair to like when you headed the ball, you
needed it to like flow. So but I don't know.
(21:36):
I don't know if I had the best haircuts because
my hair is really colicky and it doesn't like lay right.
But yeah, hair was really big growing up in our house. Yeah,
my son has beautiful hair. I don't know who he's
taken after, but his hair is thick and nice. My
hair is kind of thin.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
What did your parents say when you wanted to become
a comedian?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Very supportive. I mean you would think the opposite, coming
from like a traditional Italian family, that they would be like,
you know, because we were just talking about this, The
entertainment business used to be something you were like, you're
going into the entertainment what are you crazy? There's no
health insurance. Nobody did like entertainment where I came from.
(22:21):
Now everybody's got a you know, a microphone and an
iPhone and right, it's just like there's no like in baseball,
there is the farm system where you come up and
then you be a pro. But now in entertainment it
just seems like you got a camera, you got you
gotta show, you know, And I don't know is that
(22:43):
a good thing. I don't know. I'm more of a traditionalist,
I guess, looking for more of like you kind of
have to work your way up to it rather than
just I don't know, I don't know. It just seems
like it's it's easy now.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
And it makes the world one big reality show.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
And you're, like you said it, everybody's walking around with
a microphone and the camera and they think we're extras
in their goddamn show.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Like I hate that.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, no stereotypes ever ball to you, because there's so
many Italian stereotypes.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Did that ever bother you growing up? Or when you
do your count.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You know, you get like the whole mob thing, you know,
oh what are you and the mob? Or what are you?
Oh your father's and the mafia? So I mean I
just think that's from like people seeing Italians and movies
and whatnot. It's not like I got upset about that.
I mean there's some people that do the you know, hey,
you know that that that gets a little, you know,
under my skin. I don't necessarily I'm not the AO guy,
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although you know sometimes that creeps out and doing stand up.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But Phonsie and Andrew Dice Clay, is.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
That is that is that who started started that they.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Went on with all the Italian movies, sopranos and all that, just.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But they were cool.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
Like when you look at Phonzie now compared to like
the guys on good Fellas, it's like, who was this cobo?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah, but like Phonsie growing up was like we didn't
really have anything else to compare Phonzie too. I mean,
Phonzie wore a leather jacket and he put the juke
box on with his fist, and anytime Phonzie came into
the sea and you just knew it was everything was
gonna be okay. But yeah, I mean the stereotypes are there.
They necessarily don't really bother me with Henry Winkler really Italian, No,
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it's Jewish.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
I just I looked up Italian stereotypes of envy said that,
and Italians are always late.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
No. I lived by the motto of punctuality is the
prince of politeness. I'm always early for anything.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You said, No, I think that's yours.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Well, are are all you on time? Like, generally speaking,
are you on time? Good question?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
We have CPT color people time.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
So depending on what I know what I'm saying, I
know what I'm saying. It depends what time are you
talking about the real time of our time? Like, okay,
you're late into your fashion, be late. There's two types of.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Show started five wants to show to start at five
or five, so it starts at six.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Six six, and so you come in late.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Not all the time.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I try not.
Speaker 9 (25:26):
It's not like I'll purposely try to get here late.
But you know, shit happens in New York. It's a
garbage truck, I can and you know, in the morning,
it's a game of interest, So one little thing.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Can throw you what happens in the morning.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Shut you sell a lot arenas do I do?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And I'm always on time?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
What part of success still feels strange to you?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think the money part of it is uh tough
for me to deal with, just because I grew up
in a middle class family and there's been no one
that really that in my life, in my like immediate family,
that could I could go to questions about money because
they they they're not living the life that I'm living.
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So and I always think that this is going to
end tomorrow. You know, I'm like a saverer, so I'm
not like spending a lot of money on things. I'm
always like preparing for my tongue to fall out. So
I grew up in a very negative type of family
where any type of positivity was looked upon like it's
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going to end or you know, you know what I'm saying.
So I don't know if you guys feel that way,
If this you feel like, oh, are people going to
be listening tomorrow? You know I always go through like
people going to buy a ticket to come see me
the next time I come to New York City. Anyhow,
you talk to people like, oh, yeah, you know you're
fine and don't worry about it this, and then I'm
constantly worried about very very I put a lot of
(26:54):
pressure on myself to deliver when I do these stand
up comedy shows because you know, I always look think
about it, this could be my last show.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
No, I agree with you, and especially if you've been
broke like I've been broke broke. You know, I've been fired.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Four times from radio, you had to collect unemployment checked.
When you've had that feeling, you don't take nothing for granted.
Y you know, I save everything.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yeah, because you just never know, never know, you never know,
So very very cautious about spending.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
What surprised you most about Hollywood versus stand up?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
So like what the TV and film?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, like when you did the movie with Roberts Denarro
about my father.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
Like, I know a lot of comedians that don't like
to do movies and TV shows because they hate the
whole hurry up and waiting.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah, it's tough. It's tough. I don't necessarily like the
TV and film world just because of that. It's like,
you're there for twelve fifteen hours. You're sitting there waiting
for a cloud to move so you could say a
couple of lines. It's a little frustrating, especially as a comedian,
where you're getting immediate reaction, you're going out, you're performing,
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you're right there, you know whether or not you're funny
or not, and it's an hour and a half. So yeah,
I wouldn't have a problem doing stand up comedy the
rest of my life. The TV and film thing is
it's fun. I mean, I just did a show called
Bookie which lasted for two seasons, which I really enjoyed
playing a bookie in Los Angeles, and that I had
fun with because it was run really really tight. Chuck
(28:17):
LORI was was the writer on that, and he knew
exactly what he wanted and it moved quite fast. And
when you're doing comedy, it's all about a pacing. But yeah,
stand up is king. You can't you can't be going
out and doing stand up comedy for a live audience
every night. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
I saw you say that you thought Bookies could go
on for a couple of more seasons.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Oh, I mean I was ready for you know, five
six seasons, but you know, people had other plans with
the show, so I was trying to get it back
up on the air, but I don't know, it's not
looking good.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
How did you convince Robert de Niro to be your father?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
You know, I worked with de Niro on The Irishman,
so people thought I had like a connection to de Niro,
like we were like talking on the phone, which was
not the case at all. Someone that was a producer
on about My Father got him the script. He read
it this is over COVID, and he's like really liked
it and wanted to have it read out loud with
a bunch of actors. So we came to New York,
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we read it out loud, and then you know, a
couple of weeks later said yeah, no, I'm ready to
do I you know, it was a dream to get him,
but we didn't think we were going to get him
in the movie. But yeah, he ended up signing on
the next thing. You know, We're in Alabama for nine
weeks knocking out this movie, which didn't really have that
good of a time doing because I was a little
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I was nervous. I mean, I'm I'm working with arguably
one of the greatest actors of our time, and I'm
sitting here going I've never really worked on a movie
soup to nuts and being the star. So I had
a lot of anxiety during during that movie, but learned
a lot from working with him.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Would learn.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
He's all about doing business while he's acting. And I
generally was like, okay, you stay, stay here, you say
your lines. But he was always active, Like we were
packing a suitcase and he was you know, he was
packing the suitcase. He was he was concerned about what
toiletry is was he was going to be packing. And
I learned if you're acting while you're doing something, it's
(30:15):
a lot more natural than just kind of sitting there
and saying the line. So always looking for something to do,
and then I had a cry at the end of
the movie which I couldn't get to crying. I did
the two takes with him, and I actually asked him.
I said, I'm having a hard time with this, and
he's like, well, I think of my son when I'm
doing this scene with you, I'm thinking of my son.
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And he actually started to cry talking about his son.
And then I started to cry watching him cry, and
I go, I got to use this. And then we
started in the scene and I was already emotional. So
just getting to places that I didn't think I could
get to, I stole from him or he helped me with.
So yeah, it was I took that into other experiences
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moving forward and acting in TV film films.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Do you feel famous?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Uh? No, here, I'll give you an example this this
past weekend. Yeah, And I'm like, are they even gonna
know who who he's spoofing? Or do they think this
is a character that he's he's introducing. So no, I
don't think I don't know. No, I don't think. I
(31:25):
don't I don't I don't behave famous, I don't I
don't walk around with a lot of people, you know,
it's not like I'm you know, it's just me and
Soca coming in here. I'm sure you have people that
come in here with a large group of people no reason.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But absolutely positively I.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
See this show. I mean it's like who's who's the guest?
You know, said to take people behind the guy. But no,
I've always kind of kept it low key, and no,
I don't I don't feel I don't feel famous at all.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
How do you feel when you saw this sketch when
it was like in real time? Did people hit you
up there?
Speaker 5 (31:59):
No, I was doing show. They actually asked me to
be a part of it. They call me Thursday and
said we would love to have you come in at
the end. But unfortunately I was going to be in
Palm Springs doing a show, so I couldn't get out
of that. But when I did see it on the
way home from that, I was, I was, I was
flattered that that that they did that, and and it
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was funny. I mean it was funny. It was very
over exaggerated body movements, and uh, it was it was
fun to see. And I've never hosted the show, so yeah,
I mean I got more traction on that that skit
then I've gotten in any skit that I've ever been in.
I mean, there was more like heat around the that
(32:41):
video than any video that I've been in personally, So
it was it was nice to see and I'm a
big fan of that guy, Marcelo. I think he's definitely
going places.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
How did they never had you host the show?
Speaker 5 (32:52):
You sound like my dad. I don't know. I've never
been asked, and I would love to do it. Hopefully
this this, this, this will get me on who knows,
but yeah, I would love to do it.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
How do you decide what's okay to talk about on
stage when it comes to family or does everybody automatically
content and they know it.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
I had to only ask my mother in law if
it was okay to do a joke about her husband
dying because no, no, no, this is actually the grave site.
They they bought plots together, right, and then her husband
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died and then she remarried. So when we went to
go see my wife's father, I was looking at the
other grave, which was for my mother in law, and
the joke was is my mother in law going to
get buried with the original husband or is she going
to get buried next to the husband she has. Now.
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I thought I thought it was a little sensitive to
be talking about that, but she's like, no, No, everybody's
been really really gracious about being a part of my act.
And I'm not really malicious when I talk about people
in my act. It's the kind of tongue in cheek.
It's very you know, it's coming from a good place.
So yeah, they've been My wife in particular, has been
(34:16):
really really supportive. My mother is wondering why she's not
in the act. More so, she's a bit offended that
she's not. She's like, why are you always talking about
your dad? I'm funny. I'm like, damn, it's just the
way it is. You know, if you do something that
I think should be in the act, that's not like
I'm I also want to like protect my mom. I
don't know, there's something about like not talking about my
(34:40):
mom on stage. I think my dad. My dad loves it.
My dad's like, you know, talk about being famous. He
thinks he's famous. He goes into a restaurant and he's like,
they don't know me. I go with it. Why would dad?
So yeah, he loves when people come up to him
and oh are you Subastian's father, so he's kind of
relishing in the moment.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Do you write jokes abounch of mone, you just don't
use them.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
I don't live. My process is not really writing. It's
just more like i'll recant a story that I lived.
But yeah, with my mother, I don't know what it is.
It's just sometimes she makes me laugh. But I never
kind of put her in the act for for whatever
the reason, I don't know. But there's a few things
that are happening now that might make the act.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
You see, you can't wait to check it out. It
ain't right. Comedy Special comes to Hulu this Friday to
twenty first, make sure you go check it out. Thank
you for joining us to say thanks.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
For having me sharing your audience with me.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
I really do appreciate you're not old.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Pick pickup games. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
I can play pickup games. I do not have biceps,
although I am playing padel or paddle your friend Schultz.
We have a thing now and next time I'm in
town and I have some time, we're gonna we're gonna play.
I don't know how good he is, but we'll.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
See claims to be like the chance. I don't know
what the title is with like the Grand Champion. He's
like a professional.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Now is he a professional paddle?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
He's a pro paddle.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Oh, he's a pronoun. Okay, I didn't know he was.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I gotta pro now that his pronoun?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Now, yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't know he was a
professional padal So, I don't know. I got a Sicilian
slice that i'd like to see if he could return,
we'll see. That sounds crazy like a slice on the ball.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
You're I just I don't know that, all right, the bastards.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
All right, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
I don't know, every day a week ago.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Click yours up the Breakfast Club. Finish, y'all done it.
Every day a week ago, clicks up the Breakfast Club,
finish for y'all done morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Everybody is the DJ, Envy Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club. Laura Lo Rosa is here
as well. We got a special guest in the building.
Name we got comedian Sebastian Monus Calco practiced.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Did I get it right?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Though?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
He did? But you emphasized the man and I felt
like it was a little Italian coming out of here. Nice.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
There was no Italian in me.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Were welcome?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
How are you feeling, brother.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I'm good, I'm good. I just got to New York
City yesterday and bouncing around the city and talking to
uh everybody about my special coming out this week.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It ain't right.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
It ain't right Hulu and Hulu.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, just Uhary told us that you were a funny comedian.
She loves you, but she couldn't be here. She's actually
in La.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
She went to Mike App's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So she said to tell you to send love, okay,
And she also wanted me to say that why are
some of the best comedians from Chicago? She named a
bunch of them from Bernie Mack, little real, Hannibal Burroughs,
d Ray Davis, Airy Spae is God for You, Sherry
sheperd Robin Williams.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
What makes Chicago so Chicago?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Living in Chicago, there's a lot of sarcasm, there's a
lot of making fun of one another, but it's in
good spirit. So I grew up with. You know, even
even now you go back to Chicago, I'm getting ripped
to shreds. You know. There's a lot of like, oh,
were you.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
On the Breakfast Club? What do you think you're special?
There's a lot of that going on in Chicago. So, uh,
I think you have a tough skin growing up there.
And uh and and sarcasm and making people laugh is
just kind.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Of part of the way we get through the winter.
So uh yeah, you got to you gotta have a
sense of humor to go through those winners. So yeah,
I mean I've always been around funny people, funny family.
Growing up, just just at the dinner table was just fun.
We had We were either laughing or crying. There was
(02:05):
no in between. So for me, we always used to
kind of laugh to mask anything that was happening that
was getting serious. Even to this day, if I feel
somebody's gonna cry. I get uncomfortable, and I'm like, okay,
we gotta get out. It is I that? Yeah, so
you don't go to funerals at all? Did I go
to funerals?
Speaker 7 (02:23):
But I tend to You don't speak at them home?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I wouldn't mind that.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Actually, actually I would. If I were to speak at
a funeral, I would I would definitely go the humor route.
I'm laughing at funerals just because I'm trying to break
up the the seriousness of it all.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
What in the funeral would you be specifically joking about?
Because your solid comedy is so like you take like
random regular things and just like make it a joke,
like things that I wouldn't even think twice about because
it's just naturally what people do.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Okay, So the last funeral I went to, I was
with my sister. It was sad, but I started looking
around the room and I said, be nice if there
was like a cocktail service here, something to like like
a like a beverage. You know, you're you're there, you're sad.
Be nice. If somebody came up to you and said,
(03:15):
you need you need to you know, guess a wine
or something, and we just kind of start riffing off,
like I wanna be nice to have like a like
a little food here and just make it a little
bit more of a lounge.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Like a all the funerals.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
If you knew there was gonna be good food and
some cocktails at a funeral once, you'd be more prone
to even attend the damn thing.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
The repast.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
But by the repast, I mean you kind of are
at the point where you're hungry. So a lot of
the family issues that surround the funeral people don't care
about cause.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
They want to eat. Oh this is after in the
actual funeral, talking.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
About the wake with the body in the room.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Something you got like three girlfriends that like we're trying
to figure out who was the one.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yes, your funerals you.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Go to might just be grandma had passed, she got
two boyfriends.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
No, I do not. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
I've just been to a lot of funerals where there's
a lot of things that questioning you in the funeral
trying to figure out.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
What's going on.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Okay, okay, I'm going to like a grandmother and uncle.
There's not like there's not anybody really wondering what's going
on outside of the person that died.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
She from Delaware. That's a little different. So there's anything
off the table with jokes with you politics.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I don't do politics. I don't think people want to
hear that, especially when they're coming out to a show.
You're inundated all day with the right and the left
and this, that and the other thing. I want to
give people a departure from that. I don't want to
be talking about any politics. And I've always said, whatever
my father is doing is a lot funnier than whatever
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the president is doing, So I kind of stick to
my family. It was Trump to Trump is yeah. I
mean he's a funny. Some of the stuff that's coming
out of his mouth is extremely humorous. But I just
like leave that to people want to talk about politics.
For me, I just I talk about my family. I
talk about I got two kids, I'm going to parent
teacher conferences. It's it's I'm drawing from my own life
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and I'm not really paying attention to anything else.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
I also see a lot of exaggerated like frustration in
your comedy, So like, like, do you could you talk
about being fed up about everybody talking about politics so much.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah, I mean I could go that route. I mean
I am a little fed up with the whole politic
talk and people, you know, getting separated by that. So
I just tend to I don't know, I just I
think what we're all going through on a daily basis,
whether it be you know, two boyfriends or.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's true.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Okay, relationship problems, parents, you know. I just feel like
everybody would. It's relatable humor, observational humor. That's that's my lane.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What's the point of everyday life that annoys you the most?
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
God, everyday life. I got a problem right now with
people wearing in visil line during the day.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
That bothers me too, And then you can see it
and hear it when they talk.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
That's all I'm looking at. If you had a visil
line on, I would be looking at your mouth and
how the saliva is in between the teeth and the
So I believe in visil line should be done at
night where nobody could see it while you're sleeping. That's
one of my pet peeves right now. Another one of
my pet peeves right now is the way people talk
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these like buzzwords like I am on a journey, a healing.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Journey, healing whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah, put whatever you want in front of journey. Narcissists
not so much. That's not on my my hot list
of words that I don't like. Another word that's that's
a word that I don't even know really exactly what
that means.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
I hear it a lot. Another word I don't like
is oh, I'm speaking my truth.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
It bothers me. Just these like buzzwords. So yeah, that's
that's another thing that that ain't right.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
Because some people's truth could be complete lies, it could
be completely not accurate at all.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah, it could be definitely fabricated. And and I just
don't like people that are like picking up on these
buzzwords and and and implementing into their their their conversation
when they might not even know what that what they're
talking about.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
And I think with the visit line to read the
people wearing visit line during the day because they don't
get enough sleep at night, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I really think that's the reason.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Are you Are you knocking off for good eight hours
at night?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
No? I try to get I try.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I try to be in bed by nine to fifteen
because we gotta be up at like four fifteen, so
like six seven, but eight is like tough to do.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Are you mapping? Are you Are you guys like mapping
your sleep? Are you like, do you wear a sleep
mechanism that I'm na you think? What is it a
twenty minute nap? Are you going down with me?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I got to pick up my first door at at
two forty seven, so I try to between one and
two forty quick little.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Hour in bed.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, well my office either couch either.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yeah, I gotta I gotta be like in a bed nap.
I can't like knock out on a couch and I
gotta get re ready to go to bed when I nap.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And how old are your kids?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Eight and six?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So you brought your son to wenty is showing and
he fell asleep?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Sleep? Yeah? Damn yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So you looked at and you see him sleep, and
did you wake him up?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
At Ah? Listen, it's five. He was a five at
the time, So it's not like I was like, oh,
my son is going to sleep. Although I told my
wife I should start doing my act during bedtime to
see if they fall asleep, because it's hard to get
him to bed, you know, but yeah, now he fall
asleep during the show. And the kids are probably one
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of the hardest people to make laugh, I think, you know,
but they do have a sense of humor themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
We have a good we have a very fun, fun family.
But yeah, are you the popular dad at school? Like, dude,
it does everybody know it?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Like your dad is famous.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
I'm hearing a little bit of that. But I'm like
an older father. I'm fifty two. I got a six
year old. So when i go to the school events,
I feel like I'm like an antique, well compared to
the rest of the dads, Like they're in their early thirties.
So I'm like almost like a you know, like, oh,
there comes the great hair. You know, I'm one of
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the only dads that have gray hair. So that's where
I am. But I feel like I'm bringing a bit
of wisdom to the to the school. Here. We go
to the soccer games and uh, you know, they're handing
out stickers at the end of the game and the
score goes backwards once they reach it. It was twelve
(10:17):
zero and then I went to nine zero because they
want to make the kids feel bad. I you know,
I have problems with that, and and I'm like, and
I'm doing something that might be a little out of
the box. I want to get your take here the
breakfast club, if if, if you agree, you got that.
You have a son.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I got six kids. I got four girls, two boys.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
They play soccer, they do all They also.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Okay, and the sons are howled.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He's in college. He's not demanded a house. He thinks
he's demanded house.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
He plays football, football, play them around.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
He does not slam me around. The mother said, is eleven.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Okay, So I got a six year old. What I've
been doing recently is I'm putting clown on my six
year old when he goes to school, and I'm asking
him when he comes home, is anybody comment on how
good you smell? He goes, no, I'm not getting anything.
So I had the parent teacher conference this week and
(11:15):
during the conference, I go, have you noticed how good
my son smells? And they're like, I'm sorry. I go, yeah,
you know, I'm putting a little Colonne on him. Was wondering,
you know, She's like, well, we're not really allowed to
comment on kids smells like I'm like, even if he
(11:36):
smells good, I mean, there's kids that smell awful. Growing
up in school, there's always that kid that came to
school with you know whatever, booger's hanging out of his
nose or what have you. But I'm like, come on,
this kid's coming to school, and you know, we dress
him up nice, we do his hair, And do you
think six years old is a little too young to
be wearing cologne? What do you think?
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Do I think six years old is No, I don't
think that's too young to be wearing cologne. But I
can also understand why the teachers don't want to comment
on it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I mean, ever since Pizzagate, you can't be too safe.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I mean, I don't know if six year old walks
in smell like John Paul Gutier, you gotta comment on it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't have a problem, and I don't have a problem,
and I would say not to say that your kids stinks.
But some of these younger kids stink. Now like you
you go and you can tell that they not washing
good enough.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yeah, well, I mean they just they look like they're
rolling out of bed right into the school. I don't know.
We kind of take our time with our kids and
make sure it looks.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
The fatherhood changed the way you approach your comedy because
I know you use your family a lot and a
lot of your material.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Not really, but I mean it has. I'm extracting a
lot of humor out of being a parent, you know,
especially in today's day and age. Uh So, yeah, I
mean I'm always talking about what's going on in my
life in my comedy. So if I'm going, uh to
parent teacher conference, if I'm going to a soccer game
(12:59):
with my kids, I'm talking more about my health. Now,
how I seem to be breaking down? I can't do
what's fifty?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Man? You men breaking down?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I have? I have detached biceps, which I don't know
how that happened. What is that my biceps have detached?
I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
There's a lot of things going on. We mean, fifty fifty?
How old are you okay for another five years? You're
telling me how good you feel? Now here, see there's
like a hole in my bicep here.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Did you play sports?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
This is I woke up in there, and this is
woke up. I woke up out of it. He wasn't
working out trying to You thought I was doing biceps. No,
I woke up and I'm like, do I have a
hole in my bicep? So yeah, I don't know how
this happened. So yeah, this is what I'm talking about
breaking down.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Did you work out like a growing up?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Yeah? I used to. Yeah, of course it's working out
like a I used to work out, uh with no
shirt on.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah. No, I used to work out a lot, but
now I can't work out as much as I used
to do to the fact that you know, and I
think this travel has killed my body too, and being
so physical on stage. I'm starting to see the effects
of of uh, of just getting a little bit older,
that's all I mean. I don't want to say that
like I'm a grandfather, all right, I'm just saying that, Biden,
(14:31):
I just can't do things that I used to do.
I played a basketball game the other day, like a
pick up basketball game. I felt like a hamstring was
gonna pop. So I mean, I you know I can't.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Isn't there a certain age where like you shouldn't do that?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, you're just this one's telling me a lot older.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Like No, I'm just saying I think you should steel
like workout and like be active. But like a pick
up basketball game. They get a little intense, and you
didn't like your biceps, And yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Well, I I thought I was going to be available
to do that. But as I was doing it, and
it was only half court, it's not like we're sprinting
up and down.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
The half court is better. But how did you feel.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You can still?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Barack Obama was playing basketball when he was in the
White House.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
He was sixty five.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
But that's different in his in the White House. It's
just him. It's not a random.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Playing pickup games.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Yeah, it's different. It's Barack Obama is in the White House.
How did you feel?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
How did you push up?
Speaker 8 (15:26):
I did basically seven with Lola. I counted in that video.
Y'all had me f y'all said five. How did you
feel when you were doing it?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
I didn't feel good. I didn't remember the basket being
that high. Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't really get a
good good Uh. A lot of air balls, a lot
of air balls. But yeah, I mean, listen, I'm trying
to keep you know, in shape, and uh, I'm just
having some issues with my body right now.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
We talked about it. We talked about koldoscopies. We talked
about everything. Just did that recently too? Did you get
one us a lot at?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He went for a check up and the doctor said Ben,
but he did it.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I went for a sectomy.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
I went to get a eect me consultation okay, and
left and ended up with a prospect.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
He volunteers himself for it, like whenever they need to
just like figure new things.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Out and right over figure.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
I wouldn't care if I needed to dowers one time
they went together, Can.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
We talk about your back?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Why?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
You just want to make him comfortable, so you can
you know, then dive open up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Yeah. So I just went and it was wondering. It
was just wonderful. No, I was. I was shocked. I've
never been put down like that on a front and
all and uh so good it was.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
It was we're talking about different things colons. Yeah, yeah
that we had that too.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I had that too. Talking about the prospect.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Oh I was he was great, Yeah, it was great, No,
I was.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The drugs, it was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Yeah, the drugs. I thought I thought the drug was beautiful.
But as I was going under, uh, there was a
nurse there and she goes, oh, I'm a I'm a
big fan, right, And I'm like what and she's like, yeah,
I saw you at the forum in Los Angeles and
I going, now you're going to see up my And
I'm like, you know, it's like, I don't really want
(17:24):
to hear that as I'm going under, but yeah, I
thought yeah, and I'm like you, I'm very preventive, you know.
I think a lot of times when it comes to health,
people react to their health rather than you know, go
through the preventative measures. So I'm I'm into testing. I
like going in for not I don't like going in
for tests, but I'd rather know early rather than you know,
(17:47):
my biggest fear is going to the doctor and they're
giving me pamphlets and going you know, you're you're you're
gonna die soon. So I'd rather know before.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Now we go week well, not together, but that sounds crazy.
But for every little thing that we hear about, we
go to the doctor. If somebody dies, going to the doctor.
If there's a heart problem with somebody, I'm going to
check my heart.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
That's how.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
The bathto' starting to question whether you really got kids.
I think you gay on you to be honest.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Are you a hypercontract? I mean, do you think you're
gonna die soon? No?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But you know, sometimes you'll see a sign and yeah,
like let me check this out just to make sure.
Like somebody will die out of nowhere, and I want
to know why they die and.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
You look at their age like fifty, Like wait, forty five,
I want to know what happened.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Okay. So if you hear that somebody passes away and
they're around your age and they die of diabetes or whatever,
you're going to get fail you You're going to get
checked the next day, gotcha? Okay? So if nobody dies,
you're good. You don't check nothing.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I don't check that somebody dies checking everything.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Now you come, You're you're Italian?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Right.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
Italian families they got their own universal characters, right, Like
which family member gave you the best comedy material without
even trying.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
My father was very, very funny growing up. He was
he's a hairdresser. He still is, seventy nine years old.
He still doing hair. Wow. He was a bit of
a comedian, but his audience was the people that he
was doing in the chairs, So he had kind of
a captive audience for an hour doing a dye job,
a haircut or what have you. So he was he's
a big personality. My mother is funny too, and my sister.
(19:23):
But my father is a character in himself. He came
here when he was fifteen years old from Sicily, and
he kind of brought some of that kind of immigrant
mentality into kind of raising us. And yeah, we always
we always felt like he was the funniest one in
the family.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well got him into being a hairdresser, was he.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
His father was a barber in Sicily, and then he
he likes to be called a stylist. He doesn't like
to be called a barber because he he creates style.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
He did some stuff with Robert de Naro too.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Yeah, he de Niro played my father in a movie
that I co wrote, and then my father was teaching
de Niro on set how to do like blowouts and
die jobs, which I'm sitting here watching this going. I
would never thought in a million years that my dad
would be teaching de Niro hair tips, you know. But
(20:20):
de Niro wanted to know how to do hair, how
do you hold the comb? You know. He was very
interested in how my dad did things, so he could
portray my father in the movie very in an authentic way,
and he even wanted to spend time with my dad
while de Niro was doing a movie in Oklahoma, and
he's like, I need your father to come down to
Oklahoma for three or four days spend some time with me. Now,
(20:43):
I call my dad. I go, Dad, de Niro needs
you to come to Oklahoma. And my Dad's like, Oklahoma,
I got to work, you know. I'm like, de Niro's
calling you to Oklahoma. He's like, well, who's going to
do my clients? So I'm like, oh my god, So
my dad, and my dad's wondered how much he's gonna
get hate to do this. I go, Dad, just go,
and you know, teach de Niro what you know? So
(21:06):
it was, it was, it was. It was a cool,
cool feeling to have my dad kind of like teaching
Robert de Niro how to be him.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So you had the freshest haircuts growing up.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I don't think so necessarily. I I had a mullet,
which I thought was beautiful, and then I permed out
my mullet in the back. I did a perm job
because I played soccer, and when playing soccer, you needed
your hair to like when you headed the ball, you
needed it to like flow. So but I don't know.
(21:36):
I don't know if I had the best haircuts because
my hair is really colicky and it doesn't like lay right.
But yeah, hair was really big growing up in our house. Yeah,
my son has beautiful hair. I don't know who he's
taken after, but his hair is thick and nice. My
hair is kind of thin.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
What did your parents say when you wanted to become
a comedian?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Very supportive. I mean you would think the opposite, coming
from like a traditional Italian family, that they would be like,
you know, because we were just talking about this, The
entertainment business used to be something you were like, you're
going into the entertainment what are you crazy? There's no
health insurance. Nobody did like entertainment where I came from.
(22:21):
Now everybody's got a you know, a microphone and an
iPhone and right, it's just like there's no like in baseball,
there is the farm system where you come up and
then you be a pro. But now in entertainment it
just seems like you got a camera, you got you
gotta show, you know, And I don't know is that
(22:43):
a good thing. I don't know. I'm more of a traditionalist,
I guess, looking for more of like you kind of
have to work your way up to it rather than
just I don't know, I don't know. It just seems
like it's it's easy now.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
And it makes the world one big reality show.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
And you're, like you said it, everybody's walking around with
a microphone and the camera and they think we're extras
in their goddamn show.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Like I hate that.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, no stereotypes ever ball to you, because there's so
many Italian stereotypes.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Did that ever bother you growing up? Or when you
do your count.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
You know, you get like the whole mob thing, you know,
oh what are you and the mob? Or what are you?
Oh your father's and the mafia? So I mean I
just think that's from like people seeing Italians and movies
and whatnot. It's not like I got upset about that.
I mean there's some people that do the you know, hey,
you know that that that gets a little, you know,
under my skin. I don't necessarily I'm not the AO guy,
(23:38):
although you know sometimes that creeps out and doing stand up.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But Phonsie and Andrew Dice Clay, is.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
That is that is that who started started that they.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Went on with all the Italian movies, sopranos and all that, just.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But they were cool.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
Like when you look at Phonzie now compared to like
the guys on good Fellas, it's like, who was this cobo?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah, but like Phonsie growing up was like we didn't
really have anything else to compare Phonzie too. I mean,
Phonzie wore a leather jacket and he put the juke
box on with his fist, and anytime Phonzie came into
the sea and you just knew it was everything was
gonna be okay. But yeah, I mean the stereotypes are there.
They necessarily don't really bother me with Henry Winkler really Italian, No,
(24:26):
it's Jewish.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
I just I looked up Italian stereotypes of envy said that,
and Italians are always late.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
No. I lived by the motto of punctuality is the
prince of politeness. I'm always early for anything.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You said, No, I think that's yours.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Well, are are all you on time? Like, generally speaking,
are you on time? Good question?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
We have CPT color people time.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
So depending on what I know what I'm saying, I
know what I'm saying. It depends what time are you
talking about the real time of our time? Like, okay,
you're late into your fashion, be late. There's two types of.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Show started five wants to show to start at five
or five, so it starts at six.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Six six, and so you come in late.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Not all the time.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I try not.
Speaker 9 (25:26):
It's not like I'll purposely try to get here late.
But you know, shit happens in New York. It's a
garbage truck, I can and you know, in the morning,
it's a game of interest, So one little thing.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Can throw you what happens in the morning.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Shut you sell a lot arenas do I do?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And I'm always on time?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
What part of success still feels strange to you?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think the money part of it is uh tough
for me to deal with, just because I grew up
in a middle class family and there's been no one
that really that in my life, in my like immediate family,
that could I could go to questions about money because
they they they're not living the life that I'm living.
(26:13):
So and I always think that this is going to
end tomorrow. You know, I'm like a saverer, so I'm
not like spending a lot of money on things. I'm
always like preparing for my tongue to fall out. So
I grew up in a very negative type of family
where any type of positivity was looked upon like it's
(26:34):
going to end or you know, you know what I'm saying.
So I don't know if you guys feel that way,
If this you feel like, oh, are people going to
be listening tomorrow? You know I always go through like
people going to buy a ticket to come see me
the next time I come to New York City. Anyhow,
you talk to people like, oh, yeah, you know you're
fine and don't worry about it this, and then I'm
constantly worried about very very I put a lot of
(26:54):
pressure on myself to deliver when I do these stand
up comedy shows because you know, I always look think
about it, this could be my last show.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
No, I agree with you, and especially if you've been
broke like I've been broke broke. You know, I've been fired.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Four times from radio, you had to collect unemployment checked.
When you've had that feeling, you don't take nothing for granted.
Y you know, I save everything.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yeah, because you just never know, never know, you never know,
So very very cautious about spending.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
What surprised you most about Hollywood versus stand up?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
So like what the TV and film?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, like when you did the movie with Roberts Denarro
about my father.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
Like, I know a lot of comedians that don't like
to do movies and TV shows because they hate the
whole hurry up and waiting.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah, it's tough. It's tough. I don't necessarily like the
TV and film world just because of that. It's like,
you're there for twelve fifteen hours. You're sitting there waiting
for a cloud to move so you could say a
couple of lines. It's a little frustrating, especially as a comedian,
where you're getting immediate reaction, you're going out, you're performing,
(27:56):
you're right there, you know whether or not you're funny
or not, and it's an hour and a half. So yeah,
I wouldn't have a problem doing stand up comedy the
rest of my life. The TV and film thing is
it's fun. I mean, I just did a show called
Bookie which lasted for two seasons, which I really enjoyed
playing a bookie in Los Angeles, and that I had
fun with because it was run really really tight. Chuck
(28:17):
LORI was was the writer on that, and he knew
exactly what he wanted and it moved quite fast. And
when you're doing comedy, it's all about a pacing. But yeah,
stand up is king. You can't you can't be going
out and doing stand up comedy for a live audience
every night. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
I saw you say that you thought Bookies could go
on for a couple of more seasons.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Oh, I mean I was ready for you know, five
six seasons, but you know, people had other plans with
the show, so I was trying to get it back
up on the air, but I don't know, it's not
looking good.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
How did you convince Robert de Niro to be your father?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
You know, I worked with de Niro on The Irishman,
so people thought I had like a connection to de Niro,
like we were like talking on the phone, which was
not the case at all. Someone that was a producer
on about My Father got him the script. He read
it this is over COVID, and he's like really liked
it and wanted to have it read out loud with
a bunch of actors. So we came to New York,
(29:13):
we read it out loud, and then you know, a
couple of weeks later said yeah, no, I'm ready to
do I you know, it was a dream to get him,
but we didn't think we were going to get him
in the movie. But yeah, he ended up signing on
the next thing. You know, We're in Alabama for nine
weeks knocking out this movie, which didn't really have that
good of a time doing because I was a little
(29:36):
I was nervous. I mean, I'm I'm working with arguably
one of the greatest actors of our time, and I'm
sitting here going I've never really worked on a movie
soup to nuts and being the star. So I had
a lot of anxiety during during that movie, but learned
a lot from working with him.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Would learn.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
He's all about doing business while he's acting. And I
generally was like, okay, you stay, stay here, you say
your lines. But he was always active, Like we were
packing a suitcase and he was you know, he was
packing the suitcase. He was he was concerned about what
toiletry is was he was going to be packing. And
I learned if you're acting while you're doing something, it's
(30:15):
a lot more natural than just kind of sitting there
and saying the line. So always looking for something to do,
and then I had a cry at the end of
the movie which I couldn't get to crying. I did
the two takes with him, and I actually asked him.
I said, I'm having a hard time with this, and
he's like, well, I think of my son when I'm
doing this scene with you, I'm thinking of my son.
(30:37):
And he actually started to cry talking about his son.
And then I started to cry watching him cry, and
I go, I got to use this. And then we
started in the scene and I was already emotional. So
just getting to places that I didn't think I could
get to, I stole from him or he helped me with.
So yeah, it was I took that into other experiences
(30:57):
moving forward and acting in TV film films.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Do you feel famous?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Uh? No, here, I'll give you an example this this
past weekend. Yeah, And I'm like, are they even gonna
know who who he's spoofing? Or do they think this
is a character that he's he's introducing. So no, I
don't think I don't know. No, I don't think. I
(31:25):
don't I don't I don't behave famous, I don't I
don't walk around with a lot of people, you know,
it's not like I'm you know, it's just me and
Soca coming in here. I'm sure you have people that
come in here with a large group of people no reason.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But absolutely positively I.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
See this show. I mean it's like who's who's the guest?
You know, said to take people behind the guy. But no,
I've always kind of kept it low key, and no,
I don't I don't feel I don't feel famous at all.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
How do you feel when you saw this sketch when
it was like in real time? Did people hit you
up there?
Speaker 5 (31:59):
No, I was doing show. They actually asked me to
be a part of it. They call me Thursday and
said we would love to have you come in at
the end. But unfortunately I was going to be in
Palm Springs doing a show, so I couldn't get out
of that. But when I did see it on the
way home from that, I was, I was, I was
flattered that that that they did that, and and it
(32:19):
was funny. I mean it was funny. It was very
over exaggerated body movements, and uh, it was it was
fun to see. And I've never hosted the show, so yeah,
I mean I got more traction on that that skit
then I've gotten in any skit that I've ever been in.
I mean, there was more like heat around the that
(32:41):
video than any video that I've been in personally, So
it was it was nice to see and I'm a
big fan of that guy, Marcelo. I think he's definitely
going places.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
How did they never had you host the show?
Speaker 5 (32:52):
You sound like my dad. I don't know. I've never
been asked, and I would love to do it. Hopefully
this this, this, this will get me on who knows,
but yeah, I would love to do it.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
How do you decide what's okay to talk about on
stage when it comes to family or does everybody automatically
content and they know it.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
I had to only ask my mother in law if
it was okay to do a joke about her husband
dying because no, no, no, this is actually the grave site.
They they bought plots together, right, and then her husband
(33:34):
died and then she remarried. So when we went to
go see my wife's father, I was looking at the
other grave, which was for my mother in law, and
the joke was is my mother in law going to
get buried with the original husband or is she going
to get buried next to the husband she has. Now.
(33:56):
I thought I thought it was a little sensitive to
be talking about that, but she's like, no, No, everybody's
been really really gracious about being a part of my act.
And I'm not really malicious when I talk about people
in my act. It's the kind of tongue in cheek.
It's very you know, it's coming from a good place.
So yeah, they've been My wife in particular, has been
(34:16):
really really supportive. My mother is wondering why she's not
in the act. More so, she's a bit offended that
she's not. She's like, why are you always talking about
your dad? I'm funny. I'm like, damn, it's just the
way it is. You know, if you do something that
I think should be in the act, that's not like
I'm I also want to like protect my mom. I
don't know, there's something about like not talking about my
(34:40):
mom on stage. I think my dad. My dad loves it.
My dad's like, you know, talk about being famous. He
thinks he's famous. He goes into a restaurant and he's like,
they don't know me. I go with it. Why would dad?
So yeah, he loves when people come up to him
and oh are you Subastian's father, so he's kind of
relishing in the moment.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Do you write jokes abounch of mone, you just don't
use them.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
I don't live. My process is not really writing. It's
just more like i'll recant a story that I lived.
But yeah, with my mother, I don't know what it is.
It's just sometimes she makes me laugh. But I never
kind of put her in the act for for whatever
the reason, I don't know. But there's a few things
that are happening now that might make the act.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
You see, you can't wait to check it out. It
ain't right. Comedy Special comes to Hulu this Friday to
twenty first, make sure you go check it out. Thank
you for joining us to say thanks.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
For having me sharing your audience with me.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
I really do appreciate you're not old.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Pick pickup games. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
I can play pickup games. I do not have biceps,
although I am playing padel or paddle your friend Schultz.
We have a thing now and next time I'm in
town and I have some time, we're gonna we're gonna play.
I don't know how good he is, but we'll.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
See claims to be like the chance. I don't know
what the title is with like the Grand Champion. He's
like a professional.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Now is he a professional paddle?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
He's a pro paddle.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Oh, he's a pronoun. Okay, I didn't know he was.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I gotta pro now that his pronoun?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Now, yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't know he was a
professional padal So, I don't know. I got a Sicilian
slice that i'd like to see if he could return,
we'll see. That sounds crazy like a slice on the ball.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
You're I just I don't know that, all right, the bastards.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
All right, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
I don't know, every day a week ago.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Click yours up the Breakfast Club. Finish, y'all done it.
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