#12: Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco Settles The Steak Dinner Debate!

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Speaker 1: I will start over scary. What episode is twelve? Scary? Brodie? Brodie is scary? Twelve was my lucky number? Yeah? Okay, but you don't get your name in first. Let's it's my lucky number, Brodie. I'm not gonna hit the button until you acknowledge that I got it first today, screwing Brodie. You didn't get it first. I did, well, you didn't. I just said, scary Brodie, I started, which is wrong. But you tried to talk over me. I didn't talk. Hit the music, start up, shot up the count, start up. Episode twelve, Dot up, they make it nice. Dot up. You look like you talk. You steal my lines? Episode Twelvepisode twelve, another one. Yeah, it's the Broken Boys Podcast, David Brody, that's scary Jones. You did. Why don't you listen to this in reverse? Then my name will be first. Jesus. Yeah, I've got so much going on, man, But like, we don't have a whole lot of time. We had a social media up storm the last couple of days, which we'll talk about in a minute. This podcast, we're gonna do most of what we normally do, except we have a big guest calling in you're so excited for Sebastian Menascalco. If you don't know him, he's a comedian. He does stand up, but he's a physical comedian. I think he has the physicalities of a Jim Carry. But he's got the jokes like a fill in the blank of your favorite Italian American. He just says funny. He's a funny guys Italian American. He's just funny. He's from Chicago. He lives in l a But I swear to sounds like Yorker. I'm telling you he does. He the stuff that he does on stage. I got to see he's pudy, I legit, pitsched in my pants. I saw him at the Borgotta last summer. Where else would you see an Italian comic? Right? And he does sold out shows. His tickets are talked about him for a week and a half. You gotta gotta I saw him. There's one bid he did. There's other biddy, did you gotta see? Oh he's a great comedian ever Yeah, and and and the guy was on you. The guy's got YouTube clips. He does a showtimes actual everyone I have YouTube. It's the problem. His name is unspellable for a lot of people. So if you get yourself prepared when we get him on the phone, it's Sebastian Maniscalco. Get yourself here's what you do. Know, you get yourself ready for Google to tell you. Did you mean that's all you google Sebastian Meniscalco. Spelling anyway you want. You don't hit the feeling Lucky button, you know it says uh. Instead we searched for the correct spelling. Here you go. Well it's M A N I S C A L C O Maniscalco. But but yeah, I do use I'll tell you what I've gotten lazy because of that little feature in Google where you just kind of like get it close and then you just know it's gonna come. Are you gonna get nervous talking to him? Are you gonna have like long run on questions? And I might might out? I can see you going, you're such a fan my idols, but I don't have any other. I don't have trouble getting my thoughts out regularly. But well, but when a guy like that's on the phone, speaking of which, speaking of people, who may is nervous? You and I? After this podcast, we're going down the hall to do an interview with Jackie the joke Man Martling. If you don't know who he is, I'm shocked, but dotty much David Brody, Well, I'm David. My job description is I'm not on his level. But Jackie was Howard Stern's joke writer for fifteen years. He's still studios across from Howard, wrote jokes, put him right on, wrote the room and paper, and then handed the paper and put in front of Howard and how it would work the punch lines or jokes or add ons into the conversation pretty much paved the way for a guy like you, Brodie. He did it for free for a number of years, like I did for a year and a half, made himself a job that didn't exist like I did. And I, Babe, when people say to me, like I listen to Howard, what do you what do you do? I don't listen to Elvis? I go, I'm pretty much Jackie the joke man for Elvis what I mean? And and he's like, what someone else does my job? You know? So even if you never listened to Howard Stern, you know, even if he didn't know who he was, because he was kind of like before Alretie Lang if you kind of know already Lang, and now Altd's not even there, so he was like the guy before that it's been I mean, he's there from the seventies, eighties into the nineties, right. So it's an interesting interview because it's gonna be I think, because he has a book out and he pretty much chronicles his life bleeding up leading up to the Howard Stern Show, during the Howard Stern Show after afterwards, and he has like, from what I understand, little juicy details in this book that's coming out. I'm excited to tell him a little bit about what I do and let it because I'm a fan. But then I grew up to be him, Like I have a career based on what he did, and I think that for me to be able to tell him that and to talk to Hi about I'm excited. I'm little I'm fan boying a little bit as well too. I might actually uh flubb and stuff flubb of stammer on him too, But I hope you don't, all right, you hope we don't know, Okay, So I definitely want to talk about jokes we didn't get to. I have I have nine rants but I'm only do like one or two. Make sure you tell Jackie that in the interview too, that that that's what you do unused punch lines. Oh absolutely, well that's a great idea. I'll tell him that. Um. I always let this be as self serving as possible. Play play the jingle, each one, the one about you know, the one about the one that's a Can I just tell you about this? Play the jingle? Okay, So Tuesday night, we're taking this on Thursdays. So two days ago, as most of you know, Scary and I were going to our steak dinner that Scary promised to buy me a steak dinner five years ago, August two thousand, twelve, five years two months. Okay, So on the way to steak dinner, we went to Brooklyn College where we went to what we both went to college, and we spoke to some students, like we told you we were gonna do about radio and the career and the whole thing. And then we we went to Delmonico's for dinner. Delmonico is the oldest restaurant New York, the first it's actually the first restaurant in America. In America, it's the first restaurant to be named in restaurant. Before that, they were just they invented baked Alaska. They invented a striped steak that that cut a steak. Many of the dishes we today they invented. Okay, they invented those, and those are on menus all across America. I mean, this is a legendary restaurant. It's also in a look called the top ten most important restaurants in America? Are any of the ones you invested in over the years on that list, because you invest in a lot of restaurants, kind would be the top ten restaurant closings. So part of what I love about our our listeners is it on the way to dinner. The whole afternoon, we were getting tweets, Hey, it's steak dinner night. Hey are you guys on your way to steak? Like everybody was into the steak thing people and my other thing. So I think with Jake Lipschitz, who said, are you bringing catchup packages like you do when you go to the ball game. Yeah, because they know they know you guys listened so well. I know my my stick and my my in in in Yiddish, there's a term called miss Mr Goss means like, oh, that's the ship that he carries. Would that's his that's his stick. Mr Goss is like all the things that bother him, or like he's a lot of want to know if you brought catch up right by the way, I think it is a crime. I did put a little ketchup on the plate. It's not in the picture that I posted. I did have a little ketchup on the side, which I but I also had the peppercorn sauce, which I I leaned on heavily. How great was that dinner? Unbelievable? First of all, shout out to Delmonico's not a sponsor, Dennis. Okay, so we'll get to that minute. If you didn't hear the whole story on the other Strate morning show, but thanks so. How many people tweeted us and said they're glad that I got my dinner, but they were upset that they won't hear the jingle anymore. They love the steak Update jingle. Yeah, I mean, I gotta tell you, it's become a staple of this podcast. One one person on Instagram, you know who you are, even said, can you find something else that's Scary can owe you so that you can rewrite the jingle and then bitch about that. So I said, well that's possible. So what we So we had this amazing dinner, amazing dinner. You and I sat down and now now waiting. Okay, so let's you. You made the reservation, right, you took care of that. We got to the restaurant, and by the way, I made the reservation with a public relations agency because on hold on, I gotta I gotta say how you said your name when we got there, and then you can explain it. But I'll tell you why, because let me explain what you did. First, we walked into the restaurant. I'm gonna come clean, and you went to the beauty full hostess. Oh my god, and I said, and you said, table for two for Scary Jones from because that's how I made the reservation. And then the reason why I made the reservation that way, because I made it through the public relationship. But it was from ZE one hundred. Your last name Scary Jones from ZE one hundred. Well, because because that's how it was written. And they told me when I made the reservation, because I wanted to get a good table at a great restaurant. And that's a very tough hour to get get a table at that restaurant, cause it's after work, it's in the financial district, it's right by Wall Street where all the craziness happens. We're all these big all the business the business tycoon and these moneyball people. They are freaking you know, they they fight over the baseball people. But that's okay. What doesn't matter. People full of money. You got money dripping down to your balls. That's what I meant, my money balls. But anyway, that's not what But you like that, all right? Catch it? Yeah? Anyway, The point is this, all right, And I'm gonna be honest. That's why i mentioned my name because I wanted to get and make sure we gotta ta there a doctor home. On a second, doctors do it at all the time. If you're a doctor, you always try and call a restaurant and say doctor so and so. Why because that means something. It holds weight. And if I'm gonna I'm gonna do what I can to get ahead. And just in the spirit of grabbing a table, and I was not looking for and as a foreshadowing, you know that when you say you're a celebrity orty. But if you drop a name like that, you work on the Elvis Right Morning Show, you work at a big Raider station hundred. Sometimes they like to have you there. They throw your free appetite, like Greg T did a couple of weeks ago when he asked me to book a table for him at Bobby Flay's restaurant, Bobby Flay Steak at the Borgata in Atlantic City. Oh, he was going to see Sebaston Man Scalco coincidence anyway. The point is Greg T I did the same thing for so when he went in there, he said, I'm Greg T from because that's what it was booked under. And yeah, you booked it, And there's hopes that maybe the throw you. You love it a lot of times when you do that, that's the icing on the way. If they give you free icing on your cake and free cake, that's great. So the Great Tea gets that from and I was I figured, you know they're gonna give it to So we get there, the beautiful hostess walks us to our table, and Scary who's buying me dinner taking me to my dinner, goes and gets the good seat he takes the seat that faces the front and out. What are you talking about? You know there's a good seat. It's the seat that angles towards the door and faces the dining room. You went right for that seat in the old mob movies. It's the one that no one knows that you want to face the door, so no one sneaks up on you back, So I said vice president style. I said to the side of you like, not bad, but not the best seat. If that was a date, you shouldn't let me pick the seat, gentleman. Think they both seats. Okay, Now here's the thing. If there was a banquet right where where along a second where it was one a bank ahead on one side and a chair on the other. I always always, and you can talk to Robin about this. My girlfriend taking chair, I always take the chair, and I always face the wall, all right. I always give her the view, and anybody I'm with, I give them the view and they get to sit on the cushiony back. Anybody you're with, anybody I'm with facing the room, so you get the atmosphere. I would have liked that seat, you know what, because I'm distracted easily. So if I'm with you. I want to focus on you. And and so you took the seat facing the door and the customers and everybody else. Well, in this case, we're just boys. This was my this was my night, and we both had chairs. There were no bag catching. Okay, so we get we get the seats. The waiter comes over, takes a drink over from us. We just had soda and seltz or whatever, nothing fancy. And then the hostess walks over to this area where's a couple of waiters, and I see her pointing at us. She's like, baba, those guys over there. I went, oh, they must she must have gotten wind. And you are scary Jones. So we order our sodas and diet coke noise, and a gentleman comes also send back. I don't want the ice. Send back. Why would I want ice, because it waters down, the melts, it waters down to drink. This guy, this freaking guy, it's bottomless soda. It's not about the cost and scene. I've seen waiters funk up his order with their diet coke no ice, and they give him ice, and I'm polite about it. He sends it then polite, I said, I said, you know, I'm so sorry I ordered that without ice. Way got it this way to got it right there? Okay he was, of course, everything was right. They were fantastic. This gentleman comes over to us and he says, Hi, my name is Dennis. I just want to let you know I'm a big fan. I love you guys that listen every morning. I love Did you not think the public relations person was going to tell the owner that you know he was the owner? Would you stop jumping ahead? So he says, can I sit down? I'd love to just I'm so excited you're here. I love your phone taps whatever, sits down with us and he says his name is Dennis. He says, my family owns this place. I'm one of the owners. I'm running this place twenty years. So happy to have you here. Thank you for choosing us. You know what brings you tonight? I got a story. That's what we do on the podcast. And we tell him that listen, we love Delmonico's. We've been here before, but this is and we tell them the story about how you owe me a steak dinner. I said, of all the places when I said I want to go to Delmonico's and you're like, absolutely, Demonico has gotta be He was flattered by that. And then he's just started talking to us about radio, about the history of the restaurant, how Abraham Lincoln eight there, and all of a sudden, people, these these figures from You've only read that in your history books. So we ordered our appetizers. We had the shrimp cocktail. We had the crab cakes. Oh my god, all the crab cakes. And then we had I'm still talking about this and maybe I may change my Twitter name the King crab back in cheese. That was that was that was food that that proves as a god. That's how good it was. And you know, and then of course we had some steaks. Well he recommended steaks, and then we couldn't decide. He says, you know what, I'll get you two steaks. What you like you have, what you're like, you have you're like, and we'll precut them. You could share them, whack him up, put it in the middle. So fantastic, And so he's there, like at this point, he's not like a half hour, we're just chatting. He's great, and he's like, you mind if I guys hang out I have some steaks. So he's the heaves a steak, little pieces, little little potatoes, Delmonico's potatoes. He's scared and I saw so he has a phone call. He walks away, and I said, you know, Scary, I love this guy, but if he if he's eating the food, then technically you stole me like half a dinner. And I was thinking the same thing to my ship right now was great cameras on the owner of the restaurant, and then they're gonna charge U for the full amount. He said, my phone. Now that was just that was lighthearted joking. I was more than happy. He couldn't have been nice. We had a great time. So we're stuff. We're liked. By the way, the second he started eating, I knew that was coming. What was coming? Okay, what was what was about to happen? So at that point, first of all, Scary, I have to say, Scary is very generous. When we first sat down, what appetizes? I said, you know what, I think I'm gonna have the caesar salad. Oh I didn't mention had caesar salad. He says, well, I we should get trump cockta got a trimp cocktail. I said, well, you get trimp cocktail. I get to see a sala will split. It's like, I'm not used. I'm not using this. I'm no, no, no, no, no no. He says, let's get the crimp cakes too. I said, scary, it's aboard. I'm I'm frugal with my money. I'm not cheap, but I'm frugal. I'm very good tipper. And I don't I'm one Morgan. I have to you live life large. I have three kids and I live like that. The one and so I said, what I say to you? I said, scary, I don't feel right about this. This, you're paying for this. I'm flattered and thrilled that you're taking me in to dinner finally, after five years treating He's like, no, order, more order more so. I said, well, what your sill? So I said, you know, we won't do dessert. Let's load up on the appetizer. Won't do dessert, Let's plow through order that This appetize is fantastic. He's a salad with an egg in it, unbelievable. The steaks tremendous, a part of and the it was going will well, and he's talking to us about the his Abraham Lincoln ate there and that's how old of us that the history is great, right, I know. So then he says, uh, you know you want to I want to drink. I said no, because I'm thinking, you you scary, You're gonna pay for my drink. I don't want to order a drink. I'm not I'm not like that. So I'm like, no, I don't really want goes and he tells the way to get him al lah lah blah, something fancy. I said, well, all right, okay, it was fantastic. I don't drink a lot. It was fantastic. I don't know what it was. It was great. He says, that's my when people say they don't drink. He got me that. I was like, okay, all right, maybe he's competents the wine. So then it we're done with the meal. I'll admit it. There was food on the table, a little bit of bacon fried rice. We had little bacon fried rice. There was a little bit of everything, a little bit, not a lot. And night the waiter came over. He's like, oh, I said, I said, put everything in one one thing. Just I'll take it. I figured my wife off a little bit because she didn't get to come out tonight. My kids maybe whatever. So then Dennis says, I gotta take a phone call. He leaves. I sit scared. We gotta we gotta go with because a huge tab. We gotta work in the morning. Let's no dessert. Let's just go thank Dennis for a great time. We'll pay the check, we'll get out of here. He comes back and he goes, what do you guys decide on for dessert? We'll fall with Keenever, he says to the waiter, you know what, uh one of my baked Alaska. She's kicking most of this gotta thing. So I'm like, all right, he's giving us free dessert, which is, by the way, all I thought that we were going glass of wine free dessert. Whatever. And how did I say? But when the second when he when he was eating dinner with us, and he's eating the dessert with us, and I'm like this guy, I'm like here it comes. I'm like, I'm I just knew what you wanted. You tell them what happened? Brodie? So scary Scary and I look at each other. I'm going I said, scary. I think he's gonna so I didn't want him to. I didn't want did not know, so that so Scary says, listen, it's late, Dennis, can we get the check. We gotta go. We gotta GETUPU in the morning. He says, he looks, he goes, you're my guest tonight. It was my pleasure having you come back anytime. It's on me. And at that very moment, I looked, I looked at Brody. He looked at me, and we said podcast and I said, I did him the look. You know, you know you know what this means. That's right, right right, So Dennis walks away. I'll be right back. I'm taking the phone call. And I said, Scary, you didn't buy me dinner. This music was in your head is playing in my head. I'm like, I'm sucking Larry David right now. I've just got fucked. I gotta i gotta do another dinner and do it. Have a do over, right, And you said bullshit? And so so Dennis came back and you said listen. Dennis said, very nice. We we thanked him, and he said, I'm gonna leave the tip. Scary left a very generous tip which I offered to pay half. And you said, no, Brodie, I got this, but you did say, well, you did say that if you left half the tip with me that we'd be square. No. No, I said that that I'll leave half the tip. And I said no because I want to pay the whole thing, because I want to feel like right. And I said, if you pay the whole tip, you're gonna tell me that you don't know me. Okay, I left a hundred dollar bill because I feel like we might have motored through close to five. You very generous. I offer to give you half of you In my mind, that clears me. Oh no, I know it clears you. With the waiter, I drove your ask there. Oh please, you have to drive back anyway from Brooklyn. I's paid for park ten dollars and fifty cents on street parking. And then I left the tip a hundred dollars. I said, you know what, I'm wiping my hands to this. I am I'm even with Brody square. I don't. Then we so then we get back into Scary's car. We argue the whole ten minute ride back to the hold On I took the left or you weren't get eat him. So we drove back to where my car was parked by the radio station, and we're going up eighth Avenue, which is near where the radio station is and my garage where the car is where scary pokss car. Also, as we're still arguing, and I've got this big bag of leftovers, and they gave us the giant book right, which is heavy in the bag of boils. By the way, is awesome. Google it the ten most important, oh the ten restaurants that changed America. So, as we're arguing, Scary stops at the corner. Rather than make a left and drive three quarters of a block and then a writer writer right and back onto the avenue. He says, Brody, get out here. I want to go right because I'm going straight because because here's the thing, if I would have made the right hand turn onto the side street, I would have had to make four more turns, three more turns, three more turns, and waited a couple of to traffic lights to get three traffic lights. I'm like, I'm not dealing with this. So to save himself driving his nice car three red right turns, he makes me walk because he was pissed that I wanted my friend how to walk. Give me a break. It was fifty ft to the girl. So the next morning straight so Wednesday morning, we come in and we tell Elvis what happened, and he save it for the radio. And we went on the radio and and people called up and they all agreed. Scary said he would buy you dinner. He didn't buy you dinner. He owes you a dinner. But that was only some people. And then we did a video on Instagram at Elvis Durant, at Elvis Duran and Elvis drand we posted it all over our socials and by the way, oh my, this is a great time to plug the social We got our social media, um, we're enhancing a little bit. You could find the video of a brilliant and I ranting, and and the picture of Brody and the and the owner and myself yes, and the food and the food, the food, the steak dinner all at on Instagram at the Brooklyn Boys and also on Facebook at the Brooklyn Boys, both places. By the way, that was a little plug for our new follow us there on Twitter. We're still at Brooklyn Boys. Want and we'll have another one, okay, so go ahead. So Elvis says, save it for the air, we go on there. Okay, so Twitter yesterday and Instagram blew up with we love you whether you agree with me or not, although most people agree with me. Nope, please, I would say we were about niney Jones, David, go, look anyone who's listening to go and count up everyone you're blind, and then tweet us the total count. Shut up. Ten people were like, well, you left a big tip. I think they agree with you anyway, So you are so cheap. I'm not sure it's not about cheap. You were supposed to buy me dinner. Dennis brought me dinner. Dennis shout out to dennist Well, if we don't want to pick apart every word, then okay, Brodie, I owe you a steak dinner. I could buy you a freaking I go to Philly and buy you a cheese steak. I love cheese stakes a Philly. But here's the problem. You know dinner. I'll be like Brodia dinner. You promised to me a big dinner. You know McDonald's. You know what I did. You know what it cost me, and it costs me more than a tips. So you're saying I'm not off the hook. First of the resolution, to. People are coming into this podcast right now wanting to know where do we go from. Here's the resolution. Number one way, a great time, regardless of who paid, great time. Your intention was to pay, but you didn't. I'm no anger because we got lucky. We both got a wonderful meal from a wonderful restaurant, Almonico's. Andy c on Twitter. Not a sponsor. Not a sponsor. They should be. Yeah, So Dennis, thank you. If you're listening, Dennis, maybe you want to sponsor a podcast. Oh we love that. If Dennis sponsors the podcast, how about that? Maybe I'll let you have the Well, we had a caller this morning on the Big Show that said the first caller of the day. He said that he was going to Delmonico's tonight. Yeah, I know, and he didn't. Has nothing to do with us. So anyway, if you're in New York, it's you might as well goes. It's expensive financial experience, the two restaurantstown financials. So here's what I'd like to do. What I'm gonna do. Yes, I'm wanting you in advance. When Sebasti Mena Scalt calls, he's the time guy you relate to he's one of the boys. I'm gonna ask him to give him the scenario and see what he says. Well, I'll tell you what. Whatever he says, well, we agree to it. We'll abide by it. Whatever he says. You know what, I think he's gonna side with me, all right. I think I would think I'll agree. I'll agree with whatever Sebastian man of scutt I I told you respect him, your fans asked him. At some point, I'll work it in. I'll tell him the scenario and whatever he says goes, and then we'll play that. We'll play the clip on on the morning show of him settling the bet. We'll play a clip of this saying whatever he says, and then we'll play a clip of him saying it, and they'll be done. You hear that. And I'm willing to if Sebastian, I'm scary Jones will abide by anything Sebastian Maniscalco says. And I said, David Brody, whatever he says, I will abide by I and I will abide by if he if he so, if he seems like a fair way to settle, it's it is a nice way to settle because he gets he's he may say screw you, you got your dinner and and then I'm out, And he may say you're okay with that? Are you prepared? How else are we gonna say? Yeah, I guess I mean, I'm not in my favor. Look, I have to believe it's he probably will rule in your favor because I've seen his stand up. But I like him and it's one of the boys. He's one of the boys. Guys. It's like I grew up with it. He's either gonna say got the funk or he's gonna say whatever. So that's all right. So that's it. It's up to him. I think it's time for some unused punch line. So we were talking about people who fart, celebrities who fart. I don't remember why we were doing that, and uh I said, you know, he farts a lot. QUI flatifa get to that. Why did we not use that on the show. And then we were talking about we're talking about Breaking Bad, and they said the Breaking Bad house, people in the house how to put up a big fence because people come by and throw pizza at them. They throw pizza on the roof, they throw pizza and so my joke, which Elvis didn't get to, was, oh, they come by the house and they make a huge meth. I didn't get to that. Love punts are funny. I love play, okay. Um. We were talking about who that isn't really Italian, and I said, what are you talking about? I went to all of Garden for the grilled cheese marinara. We didn't get to that. Oh. We were playing a game called butt Hurt, where you will you read a description of somebody, then you say who you think is the most person that in the room that that fits and but hurt. And they're like, oh, you know, the game hurts, but you know it's funny, and I said, yeah, it's butt hurt. After a few times, the game doesn't hurt anymore. Now. This one was on The Sex Show. By the way, I didn't think we would ever do that, okay Um. This joke I thought was very Catholic, and if you understand the Catholic tradition of picking a pope, you would get it. Um. But we didn't do this joke. And so we were talking about for pasta day, different pastas, different shape pastas, and one of them was up the Pope's here. Pasta called the popsipe, and I said, it goes great with white smoked gouda. If you know you pick a pope, when you see the white smoke, it means you have a new pope. So the jew I made the clever joke, and we didn't get to it. And then here's a joke I want to throw in because I'm so proud of it, even though we did it. Uh see, it was on stage and her nipple popped out of her shirt or something, right, that was the story, and so my joke was you could see a boob on stage, see it. So that was that. We did use that joke. But I loved it so much I wanted to read it. He got some emails because I gotta rant. I want to save it. Then we probably have only a couple of minutes before Sebastian calls. That sounds like it's mail time. Welcome, you've got mail. All right, Well, we are getting some feedback on episode number eleven. I wanted to say, they love the Fat Jewish. That was when the Fat Jewish was here last time. Oh it's been that's been that long, Yeah it's been yeah, yeah, yeah, last the last episode was the Number eleven and with Fat Ye Anyway, good morning Brooklyn Boys, never mind, good morning Brodyan, Scary, sorry scary, Okay, thank you? See how I come. I'm not trying to Yeah, I have the email. I'm not trying to twisted. Are you reading the guy's words? Because I'm a stand up, he probably thinks I should get it dinner. I wanted to email you guys for a long time. I don't use social media since I try to avoid as much human contact as possible. Okay, I appreciate you guys keeping the email option. The way, social media is not human contact. Oh, this person is commending me for keeping open an email. Remember originally when we started this podcast, you were like, Nah, nobody emails anymore. I created. Yeah, by the way, the email just the Brooklyn Boys podcast at gmail dot com. Yes, I'm Scary Jones. Do re your email, and by the way, I'm not. I didn't think we need an email account. But if you're gonna write brody and scary in that order and feel free to emails. Yeah. I love the show, look forward to every single week. Latest episode with the Fat Jewish was the best episode yet. I wish that he could be a regular. When is he so he would be brody, scary and fat Jewish? When does he come? When is he coming back? I mean he had a good time. I feel like we said let's do it again. After we were walking out of here. We bonded with him, so I think that he will be back here when his book comes out. He's got a book coming out, right, everyone's coming out with rolls and stripper polls. If you heard the episode, now, he bonded with us, not in a way where he said, hey, hang out with me and Madonna, but he did say he'd love to do it again and let's chat and brainstorm somethings. So we loved him. Kyle, his name is, who wrote this email? I continue, He continues to say, I have to say, Scary, you weren't one of my favorites on The Big Show when I started listening three years ago, but ever since hearing this podcast, you have become one of my favorites. I appreciate all the work and effort you both put into the show, and I can't wait to listen to this week's episode. Well that's I guess. It's not a backhanded compliment. It's a compliment. Taking this compliment, it's a complis and a lot of people are saying similar things to be email because I'm really we're kind of like we we don't on the big show. There's just it's just a crowded room. There's a lot going on as fast paced you chime in and get out live morning radio, so there's a lot of stuff happening. You stick your head in the in the lion cage and then you pull it right back out right, and I I'm taking pictures of the lion cage from like ten feet away, right, So this is an opportunity for us to be who we are good to bad? Alright, how many more emails? Have? Just one? I'm not gonna welcome another one. Just keep it short. From Anna Alexander. I love your podcast. I am from Wisconsin and know nothing about Brooklyn or New York City, so I get to learn something new while being entertained. I agree, Brody, the birthdays are stupid, but I love how mad it makes you when Scary secretly reads them. So I can't decide now. Thank you both for all the laughs and looking forward to many more podcasts. Uh. And then she points out a technical glitch that was on our page. I wanted to do this email anyway, Thank you for finally ah ps, thank you Scary for finally explaining what Tony Soprano was eating all these years. Hashtag gobba gool that's coppa colam but he was eating. But he to Soprano used to pronounce yeah. So let me address the birthdays, by the way, and then I want to address uh Brooklyn a little bit just for a second. Alright, no problem, So let me just say something about the birthdays. The birthdays they're gonna go away from this podcast. That's a little uh, that's a win for you, David Brodie, but they will be resurfacing on a new podcast, and I know you're in favor of this brand. Um our Friends, Share Share Cancenza, Share Knows love Her, who was on the previous podcast that I did. Um She and I are now going to do a podcast called Speaking Volumes and uh, we are looking for a distribution right now. We haven't set it up, but we are already recording episodes and we will be doing a birthday list. That's where the birthday list will be moving. Okay, so I will be reading birthdays on the other podcast, but because I have another one. The email that we just read was from who Agan. It was from uh Anna Alexander. Okay, so Anna said she likes that I'm annoyed by the birthday list. If you'd like, Anna, I will go over to the other podcast and screaming them for their birthday. You know what I think, ceremonially like they throw the ceremonial first picture. I have to come over and have to come over and interrupt me doing the birthdays on the other pod. You'll be down the hall at the crappy studio, right Yeah, that's where I'm doing with the light that flashes and blinks. Um. And you know what, this is an old you know, we never got to read emails last week, so we might want to talk about the hashtag Brooklyn boys. Uh So, this is from Malia Ballast for MS at the beginning, I'm a faithful listen to your podcast from the small town of Hershey. P A apologize if you've received many comments about this already where the streets are paved with brown pavement right along the Hershey Highway. But I wanted to remark on the amber sand and hashtag conversation. You guys had. I studied graphic design in college and I learned that another name for the hash symbol is an octo thorpe. Who would have guessed it, Prody. The prefaces prefixes octo because it's used before. The symbol has eight, and the symbol has eight end points. That's octo my opinion, The name of the symbol the hashtag is all related to what you're using it for. Pound for a phone, hash for social number, octo thorpe for design, and so on. I don't want to be that guy who corrects everything. I just love passing on useless little tidbits of knowledge and maybe it'll come in Handy love putting on the Brooken Boys podcast in the background while I'm at work. So nice hearing directly from the guys working mostly in the background of such a great morning show. You both have great personalities and I wish you both the best. That's Malia and by the way, Malia Sasha, by the way, yeah, uh yeah. I just wanted to say one thing. All right, I've gotten Brodie. This is a couple of weeks ago, so I just have to say this. You told me on this podcast that everyone knew what ambersond was no, not everyone. You said that a lot of most people did, but I got a lot of personal responses that said, hey, scary, thank you so much for explaining that what that squiggly line the and sign is called an ambersond. You called it out on the podcast that nobody knew what it was or not, and Brodie disagreed with you that most people knew what I said, but they didn't know that that's what it was called because I told you they were. Most people didn't. It wasn't common knowledge. What's common for you, Brodie, Mr, I go to college at sixteen years old is not common. It's a long time ago. I'm just well, anyway, whatever we can, what knowledge we can impart to other people is great. Here's another lesson speaking from Brooklyn. Somebody on Instagram commented how much they loved the couple of stu nods that we are. Yes, so um, stund is like it is stupid, right, yeah, yeah, you can be stund. I've never I've never known stun to be a noun. Like you wouldn't say someone is a stupid, you'd say they are stupid. But they referred to us as a couple of stun nods, which you know it works for me. That's fine. Yeah, Like like like Jamaica's people are outside of Brooklyn. Don't know what a Jamaica is. When you call somebody like that guy's in Jamaica, it's like or an asshole. Yeah, that guy's a real lush mcgeggy. That's like a Yiddish thing like that guy's a shmcgeggy. But you can make up any sounds and you know what it means. That's what you got, guys. That guy's That guy's a plutz frick. You know, it doesn't make any sense, feel like you know what it means. You know. So Stu not is like a couple of stun emails at the Brooken Boys Podcast at gmail dot com. We have like three minutes before he calls. Yeah all right, so let me go on. Let's see if I can do two rants before he calls, because I have now a rant file on my phone. Um, okay, two things that really kind of getting to me. If it's a certain day of the week or a holiday a month, like it's uh Secretary's Day, or it's Police and Firefighter Day, or it's chocolate cake Day, we know that it's a thousand other days, all right, we can't get to them all, but we get a lot of text messages. It's also people with with red hair down to their shoulders day. We can't get to all them. It's you know, there's nobody, there's no one that there was no police when they know when they made these holidays, it was just thrown together. Nobody said oh, you can't have this day because it's already this right. So as a results, ten days when you look it up National calendar Day, whatever, it's not real, so don't Okay, that's first. With the website National Calendar day dot com, you can go on any day of the year National calendars every day. It's like seventeen days. But here's my here's my real problem. And I'm I want to apologize, but it bothers me. Not every job needs to be acknowledged for what it is. Sometimes you just have a job and it's a job. Well, I'm not going to single out any occupations. But we get texts like this all the time. I'm making this this part up. We'll say, hey, you know what, it's police and firefighter and E. M. S Day or its teacher day or whatever, and someone will text in hey, don't forget to mention sixteen year old kid who works on the fries at McDonald's day. They work hard to every job works hard, right, but not everyone's a hero that you know what I mean? People running the buildings are heroes. Police officers are heroes. That doesn't mean every police officer, but in general, police officers heroes. That doesn't mean that because you work for the company that delivers packages that people should say, oh, well, we work hard to Nobody says you don't work hard. We're just talking about this thing in this instance. Well specific well, you know, don't forget about people who uh stack the tomatoes at the supermarket day. I'm sorry, at some point you have to draw line, so you can't not every job is. Everybody works hard, But just because you're the mail room guy, I can't. We can't as a show. As a society, I thank everybody works hard. Everybody should be rewarded by the people they know and their bosses and everything. But it's not up to you. Just can't go what about my job? What else happens when we give money to charity? It happens all the time you give them money. What about this you're spending money there, what about we get it. There are a lot of the charity and a lot of charities we give to off air that we can't get to. But there's that whole what about me thing that's sort of it's sort of it bothers me. So that's my rant that that's my You didn't play the music, but that's my rant. No, it's just like, no, I'm trying not to piss anybody off. But at some point, society one point, there are there are jobs that are not that are just you know, unbelievable jobs. You don't know. I could never be certain jobs. I could never be a firefighter. I don't have the strength, I don't have the endurance, I don't have the bravery to do it. And and so they those are people you go, hey, it's firefighter's day. But if if it's teacher's day and you're rewarding teachers who are very it can't be what about office assistant day? And and and at some point you get draw the line. But if you're an office assistant, you're awesome. You're the backbone of your car. It's absolutely important. But don't be mad at thiss if we forget that's okay that I now, I just got lost in your rant because I agree with you, and I'm not gonna ran back. But it's more that rant was a little no. But here's my rant because this pissed me off. It always pisses me off. You're gonna get ready with the music. I freaking hate hate when people talk to you and they'll say a whole sentence and you don't hear them, and you say, I'm sorry, what just and they repeat the last word? Only that happened. Yes, I was at the hospital with my shut up tick. I was at the hospital my mother. She's fine, but the nurse wanted something for me. She said, oh, listen, no, no, I said what underwear. I'm so I didn't hear you underwear? So I said, I don't know what you're saying. I need the whole sentence, and she went, oh, I need you to get the bag of clothing from the other room where your mother's underwear is. I need her underwear. So when someone doesn't hear you, you need thank you to say the whole sentence. Again, I didn't say, what was the last word you said? I said, I didn't hear you, So what part of that translates to I heard everything but the last word, or I only need you to repeat the last word and I'll somehow work backwards. No, try what saying? Tr Try? What about try? Okay? That is my rant today. It's one, doesn't freaking hear you repeat the whole goddamn set? This underwear? What about underwear? She's like, underwear? Is this the ship that keeps you up at night? I got more? Do you really? Yeah? I got it? All right. I will talk to you about my time at the outlet stores on episode thirteen, because that's a scam. Outlet stores are a scam. I'll explain why he's about to embark on his new tour starting in January, of him with stops all around the world or in North America, because Canada and well, you know, the United States, all around the world, US and Canada, right, way to go, all around North all around North America except me typical Americans like everywhere New York, and I consider myself the center of the universe here in America, right. I mean, I'm bad that I do that. But I don't think his comedy translates overseas yet, but it might someday. It's this day Hungry Tour. We want to give a warm welcome right now to comedian Sebastian Maniscalcos. Yes, you know, it's the day I do a radio tour. My neighbors are sawing down their house. It's like it couldn't have been worse timing for a comic. That's great, that's material. You can't complain about that. I know, I know, Listen. I I remodeled my house for the last two years, so I had a lot of dust. So now I guess they're getting me back. But you don't want to go on stage and say, let me tell you about my perfect neighbors. They don't make any noise, they're great, uh any stories, Yeah, I guess. I guess this is definitely well. Listen, I got I got one neighbor who saw down the house, and I just found out the next door neighbor. It's it's it's like a senior citizen home. They're running out. It's like for people who are dying next door. And it's like in Los Angeles. I don't know how it is on the East Coast, but in that way, you don't know your neighbors out here. There's no borrowing sugar if if you run out, you gotta run to the store and and come back. So now in New York, if old people die, there's somebody waiting to get the apartment. You know. Yeah, they checked the obituaries in New York when someone dies and like, oh two bedroom, God, she died young, and you're there the next minute. Wow. No, So we're talking. We're talking to Sebastian Mena Scalco, one of the top comedians in the country. And by the way, Sebastian, I'm David Brodie and that's Scary Jones. Uh, Scary has been talking about you for about a year and a half now non stop. Oh, I would see Sebastian man Skucko would seem se s did you see stuff on YouTube? Did you see? It's non stop? So I get an email last week that says, would you like to spend a few minutes talking to Sebastian Mena Skullo? I said, how can I not? So I I call Scary. I said, hey, we have an opportunity, and I thought, I think the phone dropped out of his hand. He he's like a kid in a candy store. So so thank you. You're you're talking to some fans. And by the way, six months ago, we had an opportunity to interview you and somebody passed on you, and I said, why would you do that. I appreciate that. I'm gonna I'm just gonna preface it's not going to be that exciting. That's okay, come on, that's okay. We speaking to see him live. The reason you're calling is is you're you're launching to Stay Hungry tour, which, by the way, is the name of my favorite Twisted Sister album, so that I just saw that, you know, I named it the book Stay Hungry. I named the tour Stay Hungry. And then somebody sent Twisted Sister with a Bone eating a Bone on his album. I'm like, oh my god, I forgot that. They even that was the huge album. There's a song Stay Hungry that was that We're not gonna take an album. But it's okay. You didn't know. I'm sure they won't see you twice. Sebastian. I gotta tell you, I grew up in an Italian household, and your life mirrors my life from my my and we're probably about the same age. I'm like, yeah, he's much better looking. I'm like this is this guy for real. I'm like, was this guy like a fly on the wall in my house? He's you gotta be a long lost cousin of mine, because you know, and and a lot of my friends say that. And again, this is a lot of the Northeast people. I'm talking about people from Long Island and New Jersey. And I first caught you at the Borghanta for people like that. So so tell me about a little bit about how you got into this, because just for people that might not know. So basically how it worked was growing up, I was never really the class clown. I was very quiet, shy kid and always observed from the back of the class. Also, I looked at the class clown and I told myself, sit down, You're not funny. So I would I would. I would develop my comedy shops when I would come home and kind of hold court at the at the kitchen table. I have a father who has a big personality, a sister and a mother who are very witty as well, So that was kind of like my first stage. And I went to college, graduated, and at twenty four years old, I moved out to Los Angeles and and just kind of hit the ground running and getting up on stage and doing open mic nights. Anywhere that they had comedy, I was there and doing it two or three or four times a night, just to get my feet wet with it. Because this is something that you have to work at and practice at, and it doesn't happen overnight. So a ninth when I moved out here, it took me a good seven years to develop the point of view and the very the very thing I do on stage with a lot of animation and facial expressions. But what really caught people's attention is what you just mentioned was that family. As soon as I started talking about my father and my upbringing and how my father was an immigrant and it was always on my back and telling me to work hard and and stuffing that went on in the house that I thought. I thought I grew up in a normal family, you know, I thought, this is a normal family. And then and then I started talking about my family experiences, and then other people started to kind of relate. And you don't have to be Italian to get it. You to come from a Greek, Spanish, Middle Eastern family, It's it's all pretty much the same. And and uh, and I get that a lot where you will fly on the wall. Are you a cousin of mine? It seems like you grew up with My father is the same, My uncle's the same as your father. So that's where it started to resonate with a lot of people, and they started bringing their friends, their family. I would like go to Gotham Comedy Club in the whole neighborhood would come out to see me. So uh yeah, it's it's kind of snowballed into what it's become today and we're doing larger venues and I'm really a patient appreciative of the people that come out of the show, because listen, man, I know how hard it is. You've got a family, you've got kids, You've gotta show babysitter, and then you gotta go for dinner and buy a drink and then and then if company comes, you gotta get the nimans out Sanca. Yeah, Hey, you know what that I love that long you're doing. Get that cake, that's the company you have, the crappy muffins. Yeah, so we all grew up. Listen, I'm not Italian, I'm from I'm the same Italian neighborhood's scarce from benson Hurst, Brooklyn. I grew up Italian and me I'm Jewish, and so your a bit about pestover food. Yeah, Jews that if I if I might be correct in saying this. We have breakfast down, but we don't know about the rest of the day. You know, that's your joke. By the way, I don't want to make it's like I'm stealing it. But that's you nailed it. We don't. We do bagels. We have nothing else worth a damn except matzipo soup one week a month. I totally agree. My wife is Jewish and when we go over to pass over the food spanks, I gotta bring a lunch. It's it's so bad. But I go up with Jewish too. I mean, my best friends Jewish and my wife's Jewish, so I'm very familiar with the Jewish. Yeah, well you seem to when you talk about it, and you talk about how the past out pamphlets and fast over. One of the things I love about your stand up that's so different than everybody else's. Besides, it's observational, it's brilliant, it's relatable, it's and you mentioned it a couple of minutes ago. It's so physical, your facial expressions, your next snapping, your body contortioning, You paint a picture of the shock that is sort of like a drumbeat to every drum, to every joke. It accents everything. But I'm saying that's why I'm saying, you have to go see Sebastian live. You can't. You can't just hear like an audio clip and get the full Sebastian man Scalco. You have to. How did you develop that? I mean, I know where humor comes from, but how did you decide to be such a physical you're practically dancing on stage? How did that come about? I grew up watching a three company and I was a huge fan of John Ritter. And John Ritter, if you watch him, he was very physical in his comedy and his facial expressions kind of set it all. Also Johnny Carson, I was, although not really a physical comedian, I would give you a look and you would kind of know what he was thinking just by by giving a look. So what happened with me is that kind of happened over time and organically I started becoming a lot more physical on stage and the facial expressions to a company, the jokes, and I found that people really enjoyed kind of watching me act out the story rather than me just telling the story. So uh yeah, I I really enjoy doing it. I think sometimes it takes the crowd um takes them off guard when I do like a physical movement that they're not really expecting. So for me, it's it's it's all part of what I do up there. But that didn't happen when I first started in comedy. I was I was, I was scared straight. I would sit up there and and tell a story behind the microphone and that was it. But that developed over time. And for your fans that that are hearing this right now that actually saw you on your last tour and and you know a lot of people say, well I saw that comedian once. I don't need to see him again. Let's just say say one thing, the why would you do that tour? Hilarious? But to stay hungry tour, you got these these dates coming up. What could people expect And we're gonna talk about tickets tickets on sale tomorrow, by the way, and we'll get into that in a second, but why exactly, you know, what can people expect on this tour? As opposed to last tour. What kinds of new material you come? Yeah, so you get this a lot like, hey, I saw you at the Forgotta and then they're gonna come back and is at the same show as at new material? So uh, my answer to that is, as I lived my life, I'm always um reaping material from my life experiences. I'm a new father. I got a six month year old baby, so thank you, thank you. So you're gonna start hearing my a real about me being in situations that I've never been before, like going to birthday parties with kids and interacting with parents rather than you know, our single friends. So as my life has new experiences, my act has those same experiences, and then it kind of mirrors each other. But then there's also the newer material that people really love and and maybe I'll add a tweak here in a tweek there. It's kidding that balance of old and new. And I'm working towards this radio City music called Date April. By the way, I saw on Instagram you announced a second date. We're on a third, a third date, another one, another one. That's amazing. Yeah, now that the New York market for me has been my my bread and butter. And like you guys said, you know you're growing up in Brooklyn. People are really resonating towards what I'm saying. So the Radio City, I'm I'm gonna do. I'm filming a new special there for for showtime in April one. It's two shows and we're filming both of them. So, uh yeah, you're you're gonna see new material. It depends when you saw me last though. You know, some people go, we saw you, Uh you know Bananas Comedy Club. Is it gonna be the same thing. I don't well, I don't know when the hell I was that Bananas Comedy So, uh yeah, it's always it's always you're gonna always gonna see that something new from me. I'm not a comedian who comes out there and does the same act verbatim. Okay, And I need you to be honest about something. When when a successful sitcom has been on the air for about five, six, seven years, at some point, whether it's Mad about You or Modern Family whatever, they add a baby. Somebody has a baby to add new plotlines. And I want you to be honest, did you have a baby so you can get new material? Okay? Exactly wanted to, Honey, I need some new material lay down, so you tour. It begins in Montreal January five. You're gonna be all over the place. I see you. Wow, You're gonna be in Rochester, Syracuse, um where Providence d C. All the information is at Sebastian Live dot com and tickets go on sale for this tomorrow and where we buy these tickets at Sebastian Live. Yeah, you can get him at Sebastian Live at Ticketmaster um. Uh yeah, Sebastian Live. The website, I have a whole page there. It's a splash page. You could go click on the link. Three nights by the way at Radio City Music Hall, starting on a Sebastian. The Canadians get you. I mean they seem so nice and polite. Did they get you? You feel like they're yeah, yeah, you know Montreal and Toronto, huge Italian population up there, so so big that in Toronto we moved into the arena. Uh So we're gonna be doing an arena show in Toronto for the for the people there. And it's my first arena show and I'm not a big guy on having comedy in a basketball hockey arena. But you know, my act is so physical. I mean, last time I was in New York at that seven Beacon shows and I was you know, I was exhausted. You just can't give the type of performance that you want to give when you put so many shows in a row. So in Toronto, we're just going into the arena and they're gonna knock it out for eighteen thousand people. So amazing. Yeah, it's uh, it's been great. And the tickets, like I said, available, Sebestian Live dot com. Sebastian Comedy is my handle on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, where I try to engage with the fans as much as I possibly can. I I don't like to be a comedian who alienates his fans. And if they have questions right now, the biggest question is why are they tickets so much money? It's it's not that there's so much money. It's sometimes what happens, and I've addressed this in specials that you know that the scalper's gotta gobble them up and they start selling them and people think that like I'm I'm I'm selling tickets for five six hundred bucks. It's not the case. It's just supplying the men, I Sebestial. We have one last question for you, and we let you go. I need you to settle an argument if you can. You've been involved in a Twitter war the last couple of days that you've been included on because we mentioned you're gonna be here now. If a guy tells you he owes you a stake dinner, he you do a favor of him and he says, I will buy you an expensive steak dinner. Right, that guy takes you to steak dinner. But because you're sort of famous on the radio, the guy who runs the place buys you dinner and says I'll pick up the check. Does that guy still owe you at dinner? Thank you, son of a bit. Thank you, Sebastian. I love you are a bad settled settled Sebastian. This motherfucker. I love you, Sebastian. I love you man. You are awesome again. Sebastian Live dot Com is the place, and one other thing. Please wave to us at Radio City and April will be there by the way on your way out here. I see this one note, Jerry Seinfeld says, my favorite comedian. How does that make you feel? It's great? I mean watching Jerry Sienceel growing up in this show. And then next thing you know, I'm meeting Jerry science All at a Gotham comedy club three years ago. He asked me to be on Comedians and Cars getting coffee, and uh, it's surreal for me. I was like my Johnny Carson moment, like I got called over to the college. But now it's a car and it's great. Jerry has been a great friend to me. And uh, picking his brain what to do as a stand up And I did a TV show with Tony Dan's the last year that unfortunately they get picked up. So uh, to have a guy like that in your corner and pick his brain. And basically a guy that has been through every every situation as a comedians right, and a guy who does a stand up routine nothing like you. You couldn't be more different, yet he appreciates your style. That's wonderful. Nice in Chicago, native Los Angeles living there now, but I feel like you're from my hometown of Brooklyn because you can relate. Uh, go see him on the Stay Hungry tour if you can't, starting in January. Sebastian Maniscalco Sebastian live dot com. Thank you so much, thanks for having me on the show. Guys, and I'll see and uh April, there you go. Thank you, sir. He's he's funny on the fall out of comics. They're not funny on the phone. He was just funny. And he didn't seem to mind that I quoted him like I didn't want him to think I was stealing. I'm a fan. Yeah I am too. If you if you haven't seen him, google him, get get those free clips. And more importantly, he took my side. I can't believe. I can't believe it either. I thought for sure he was gonna go because your I don't care. You said it, we have it on tape. I did not, Yes, you did, he said. He said, oh you still on my dinner? Okay? And you said you to buy. But guess what I get to define? What? Did you know? What that means? Another stake? Hello Susie, sir Lloyd, are you listening to our podcast? I love Susie, sir. Line she sends me up stake. That's great. Stillesn't count. Send me an entire case of steak to shut this motherfucker up. You're such a tap. You see you next week, sorr Wow I wrote this if you tingles for next week Brooklyn Boys, bron Boys,