The Pete & Sebastian Show - EP 599 - "Dane Cook" - (FULL EPISODE)

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viewers now I don't know have have you ever went out to dinner had a drink with this man well well I've known him from the City Club so I could played basketball with danne and a couple of my friends like Robert Kelly and Bill Burr and stuff like grew up seemingly in comedy with Danish we were kind of in there you played basketball with him yeah like pick up basketball ones we play hoops and stuff you know he Dane's the first person though I was ever around that like when I start comedy you come across famous people but he was the first person who was like not famous and then was you know that's like we're actually sort of flow grow oh wow right I was right near it you know I never saw it happen before like you know so it was and then you know cuz we and you were talking about with the Myspace and all that stuff yeah well I've never had the pleasure of playing basketball with you or dinner what have you I've it's been one of these relationships where seen you at the club hey What's Going On Da Da Da D it felt like we were in very different graduating classes and we kind of hung with our Core group and that just sometimes happens until if you're fortunate enough to reach a level of success then you have that understanding of like oh this is what it's like and the amount of work and responsibility on that side and I think that's where you've earned a little bit more more respect with the other graduating class that you may not have you know broken Brad with yeah so to take you back and I don't know what year it was but I mean literally you are the reason for everybody doing what they're doing now on the internet right I mean you were the first guy you and Tila Tequila right I mean I do you remember that woman yeah I actually tried to dat at one point to see if our numbers I actually did reach out one point I was like listen we're not each other's we should hang seriously this could be good for for business but she was she was like the first person who was zit gisting on Myspace for you know being kind of you know voluptuous and her whole thing yeah but you used Myspace to promote yourself my and I never asked you this and I don't know if you've ever got asked this but did you like foresee the future here did someone come up to you and go dang what you got to do is you got to get on my space and start doing this how did this come about well I don't know if you remember but you know in the city you know we we'd play b ball or something like that but I I grew up an introvert and so even at the clubs and like during the hang I could only kind of take so much and then I had to get out of there and so a lot of my life away from standup but on the road was I was pretty lonely I was dealing with a lot of anxiety I loved Tech I was into computers and kind of was like a bit of a nerd in that way of I did a few colleges with you you didn't come out with us I remember you were like no I'm going to eat see you guys yeah so it was it was I wanted to it was hard for me to be participatory because I also grew up non-confrontation my ACT seemed very confrontational but I was very beta and I wasn't like able to hang I would go home call my mom be like oh they all wanted me to hang but I just I couldn't breathe I felt you know it was a lot of anxiety I was dealing with but by way of that I was online a lot and realiz I izing oh wow a lot of these colleges that we're doing at the end of the night when I go hey I'm on you guys on MySpace and like 10 people would clap I'd be like you should go home and sign up on that I'll do a meet and greet on there later and I started realizing over the course of like maybe 98 99 like oh no the industry doesn't give a [ __ ] about me nobody is I'm not getting call backs or anything or we already have you know we already have a Jim Carry or we have a type like you and I was finding that that uh just through those hours I wasn't spending hanging at the clubs I was finding my fans online so did you always have this anxiety of hanging out with people even as a small kid were you eating lunch alone and [ __ ] like that I was yeah I would even in high school I I would take my lunch and I would go to the theater I there was like a little back entry way that uh my my mentor and drama instructor Frank Roberts uh God Rest his soul he would say hey if you're nervous during lunch go in and eat I'd eat on stage I'd set up a prop table and I'd eat by myself and i' you know think about characters and think a lot about standup you know i' sometimes stand up there and kind of practice like if I could get in front of a crowd of people what would I what would I want to do and so yeah I really was I'm not sound modeling but I was kind of like that lonely kid and it took about 10 years into comedy before I finally found my comfort zone W okay hilarious [ __ ] no well two aspects I mean this is I I feel like sometimes what he's saying I'm I'm like relating to I know well yeah you used to go home for lunch and watch Dre company I yeah I used to I didn't stick around at lunchtime I went home and watched Dre company and ate lunch alone and then went back to school because I didn't want to eat lunch or I was a little bit shy and whatnot anded myself so when you're when you're speaking that I'm like all right this is this is extremely relatable now would you get that thing too where it was like when you were home you felt great oh God I felt great I'm still like that yeah it's like I'm I'm a homebody now everybody's like yeah come on out I'm yeah even my wife is very out wants to hang around people not that I don't like people it's just that sometimes I feel like I don't know is this interesting what I'm saying and I don't know it's just a it's a whole thing I just love it not even laying on the couch just being on your couch it with thre company especially accept a from your family that's nothing better John Ritter was a huge massive inspiration to me that physical you know shtick and stuff like that so it it really was like the the meet and greet online and meeting people through you know Myspace through the internet well then finally it was like well these people now want to meet me at the shows and so I would do a meet and greet almost like a little bit in my in my car like I would have to kind of like still be that guy pull you in and be like you know it was a little bit of that and then the minute I'd get out of there I'd be like and this breath would come out of me it was hard man playing a character for a long time yeah in a way a part of you a part but it was like that's what made me a better comic cuz I went I don't I I love dice dice is a good friend of mine but I was like if I'm a character then that means that I have to always have kind of a put on if I can get funny as myself and as the person who feels these feelings then I can just be that Boston guy who's like dude shut the [ __ ] up I don't what come on take a picture get I I don't have to do a put on I could just be myself and so that was the ultimate goal in comedy was get that good at comedy so that it's Showmanship but it's still me so I don't have to fake it and feel like a phony person right so where do you see this this is paying off now with the Myspace are you seeing like oh [ __ ] people are coming to the shows and while this is happening don't you feel like you almost you have like a secret that nobody else has cuz nobody else was doing this [ __ ] yeah I found out about what the [ __ ] doing my what and then I I felt like everybody was kind of trying to play ketchup but I wasn't like keeping it to myself cuz I would go into the I was at the factory a lot or the store and I'd go in and I would tell people i' would be like you you you should start this thing because it's obviously like uh the equivalent of like a great mailing list I didn't know it was going to be social media to the place where that would be the center point of how we communicate right like today but at the time no I wasn't like like Joe Rogan was already on Joe had a great website and Joe and I were both building up a website and he did he took one path originally and I took another his path was he built up like a forum in a chat area and he kind of hung in there with his fans I took my website to my space and I kind of went out and so was interesting to go like oh my way of reaching out at that point was really putting me in the Zeitgeist and finding colleges or gigs yeah but Joe was building up a a fan base through his his messaging through his way and so it's kind of interesting to look back on that and go it worked for both of us for what we needed at that time in our lives and careers listen guys when it comes to manscaped I doubt Pete Corelli has ever shaved anything on his body except for his beard all right so he ain't reading these ads as far as I'm concerned I've touched every part of my body with a razor blade and a razor and I got to tell you this product manscaped is far 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manscape.com for the best your boys have ever look people trust manscape talk about websites yeah and I don't know if you remember this but I do okay I'd go to your website right I wasn't touring I was working at the Four Seasons I let me let this guy doing on his website you had a map of the country right yeah and you had pins do you remember this yeah a little orange line to every pin and if you CLI indones and you clicked on the pin and then like the thing would pop up yeah and it would be like the theater or the arena that you were playing I'm like what Google Maps stole from you it was holy [ __ ] bro it was like it really was a I mean first of all I spent everything I had on that damn website everything I'd saved in 98 I was worth $38,000 like that's it front to end I put $37,000 into that [ __ ] website to go can the thing pop up and it's me with the hair and the and he was like all right it's going to be five grand and it's going to you know blah blah blah so I dumped everything I had into that but but it it was like that idea coupled with the hang of social media that's what was so different from today now they expect it you know I want to talk to Justin Bieber I wanted but back then it was a weird thing for that somebody to write you and go I just saw you at my college and then I write back and be like yeah what's up Becky what's going on and then suddenly 10 people around them going he's talking to you whatever and then when I come back they bring the whole gang you know it's like it was really like a I was discovering it at the same time I I I like to think I was smarter than I was but truly it was just me night after night being like this is the only people that seem to care about the shows that I'm doing so I might as well keep talking them first of all this is so fascinating on a couple different levels and the big the big thing here is and put this in the back pocket what more I want to say but this should be a movie about what you did because you were the first social media person as we've been discussing to do this kind of thing like when TV came out and you only had Milton Bur girl right like so you by the time I saw your special and I know you right but like not well and then you were getting so famous you were baely ever around you did the theater and round and it was the first time I ever saw someone do stand up where I'm watching on TV I'm like oh my God they don't walk off a cliff with this guy right now this is some John what's what's the Kool-Aid guy I always forget oh Jim Jones this is Jim Jones [ __ ] right here I mean you're doing a leaning you guys you guys and they go what what I'm like what like it was you rolling a tree house together like you climb the Rope to get the [ __ ] up there together I never like they would have walked off with you and uh so it was like this club house thing that like the way they've made a movie about Facebook and the way they make a movie like this should it should be a movie because it is the most important thing as a comic now other than your actual act it's all like the social network but the Myspace version with me and Tila Tequila right I mean it starts out one with a with a voice sounds like a [ __ ] hit in '98 I made $37,000 I put 36,000 into the thing and I bought food and then and wait can Matt R play me who else would he's the average selling of social media he's the Taylor Swift of social media right now bro yes yes um and you know at 15 years old he he saw my show he came to Nationwide Arena he wrote me at 15 Matt R and said I want to be a comedian I said um graduate high school and come out to LA I'll be sitting upstairs at the Laugh Factory in one of the leopard print booths and sure enough like 2 years later he came with his grandfather he's like I'm a little early but I want to I want I go go back graduate and I said and then I'll I'll help you and so I knew Matt from 15 up we kept in touch emails phone calls then years later brought him on the robe with me and uh oh my god really I got to tell you like the the funniest thing about what re is doing is I took him to runan Canyon one day this is like five years ago I go you got to get on social media and he was like Noah that's not gonna be my path that's not my thing and he was so antisocial media and I was like I think it would work for you man I really think you know people want to know you you should bu and uh what he did of course he did entirely on his own but it was that idea of like lean into that man and let people get to know you and that other way and now sh BR that's the end of the movie that's the end of the movie no no this is the end of the movie but who plays you guys is the [ __ ] question oh my God scal Go's in it cuz can can get the fee but a passing in the torch on ran Canyon R goes this way you as the old the old passing of but but literally [ __ ] saying to that kid like hey dude like just embrace all of it and don't be afraid to you know share whatever what but I didn't think what he did and how he pocketed that is really incredible I mean that's a testament to like how he saw you know he took what I did and he took it to a place I couldn't have even imagined so I mean more power to him what do you think of the internet today in social media I mean you were there in the beginning now you're on it now do you like it now do you like it better when it was just Myspace and you had this intimate relationship now it seems like really really hard to communicate with fans at a level where it seems personal it's I mean it's you know everything's different the algorithm the monetization the you know I was in the wild west of it it was real simple it's like if something Zeitgeist it went everywhere and you literally was like the next day day I remember I would wake up sometimes in the middle of the night just giddy to get online and see like first of all how many CDs did I sell and I was I was the Fulfillment center so I was boxing those things myself in the middle of the night but it was also that thing of like oh I I'm seeing the data you don't get the data today most streamers don't want to share a lot of info so I had all the info I could see where I should tour where I shouldn't where I was killing it what gender what you know early retention rates for me who's dipping into the website all that whereas today what's different is unfortunately like if your numbers are great on social media that could probably get you in a lot of doors but once you're in the doors it's that thing of like you're giving your IP to somebody who probably doesn't want to give you data and it's a simple equation they don't want you to leverage because if you know what you're really doing you get a you know better deal I guarantee you've been in some pretty hinky uh you know transactional situations with the level of you know the echelon you've reached why can't I know that I'd like a little bit helps me to know helps me to bring business back to you so I think in that regard you know as an artist you have to like be more careful about where you share your content and kind of who you you know give it to but I also feel like it's um it's a day and age where my entire I'm 33 years into standup now my whole philosophy I don't even really like to call my audience an audience or or fans it's the the culture has changed and if you don't change with it you're you're going to pretty quickly feel very distant from other performers that will continue to maintain at 50 60 70 and the key to that I think is inclusion and really allowing yourself to understand they all have something to push too they're not thinking like an audience 20 years ago I buy a ticket and I just sit and I watch the show they are the show their life is also a show their tutorial their farming business their they want to feel like they're getting something out of even showing that they're at your show because that's helping their um you know communicado with their fans and their Network so I I look at that I look at it I look at it man as you're doing the right thing I mean I don't I don't I I look at it when they when they're taking their phones out and they're doing their thing I'm going this ain't your this ain't your thing right right we're here is that thing but a 20-year-old today doesn't want to go let's say a movie theater and say oh turn off the phone in two hours in the dark they literally don't [ __ ] understand that so there's either going to be a new movie theater for a 20-year-old where the experiences this is where we all go we all do watch and we're all on the thing because we are the experience we're the reason this movie is being made and culturally they know that it's just that's in our DNA so you have to think like that and I think that makes me communicate with my audience in some ways very differently online and also where I don't want to be online now and where I kind of want to pull back and go like oh when I have something to share then it's probably a better time the algorithm you know will buck with you but if you try to hold it the whole time it's like uhuh you know pay us or you know so it's it is tricky man it's a different it's a different landscape I still love it he can't get he can't get wrap his head around it no I can't I can't no but no but I'm saying he's he's Tech and you you no but this concept I Canan is like so it really is the philosophy of he's embracing the narcissism of today's youth you are though you're like I realize you guys are part of the show so I'm going to let you be part of the show you know y they what they're doing at your show you should be grateful that they see you as worthy of my audience don't even know how to [ __ ] put the video gam oh man but that that's another take on it too and that's how well I'm saying whatever fans I have I feel like we'll all die together you're trying to get that youth of today what you're like but I like it's it's amazing to see what you what you've accom the industry that you've created just by being genuinely funny you're a genuinely funny guy and where your business I don't know you that way but I I'd like to understand even more the way you kind of cohabitate with you know the business side of things but kind of just bringing it back to like the brass tax of it is like I've grown up with uh a generation of Comedy fans that from the colleges we did now they bring their kids to my show and even their parents that didn't want them to listen to me in the first place they now come to my show so I'm hitting a stride back in a stride of like and I've been seeing it since Co of like I got like three generations and they're coming for different reasons it's not just because because I'm bombastically funny in my in my moment it's like oh no danne's always been consistent he was back then my daughter saw him in Employee of the Month doesn't know he's a standup they come thinking they're just going to see Zach the Box boy doesn't know this is my real [ __ ] job then they leave going and that's my biggest kick I like people to leave and go I didn't know it was going to be that good I knew it would be fun or funny yeah but I still want people to leave damn I want to come back and see what the [ __ ] is happening next so that's that's where I am with the audience that's out there is like they're very they're all in various stages of their life and different reasoning for coming and seeing the show now you know yeah so are you a type of guy uh like do you have a vision board you're going to saying that likes to roam around it looked like you were going into a cuz I'm the kind of guy likes to roam around in the town in Madison Square Garden n times R what I'm saying is are you will W the row yeah no I by the way how does that feel how does that feel man to be at the center of the the the stage of the world I know how I felt but dude you're you're doing it in a way that's beyond what I even anticipated how how does that feel right now did you you know what I I don't enjoy the moment I I have a problem with when you're in it I'm always looking for okay like what what's next that's the last time I did Madison Square gu I didn't really enjoy it because I I was like okay you know what are we doing next right I'm taking some time now to smell the roses and enjoy this because you know you know like I don't know next time I might not be able to sell medicine Square Garden you know so so I'm really kind of taking it in let me give you the worst advice ever enjoy it I I sat I sat with Steve Martin about seven years ago he he I i' met him briefly with Lauren once at the comic strip Lauren Michaels came to see me when I was getting ready to host the second time and he surprised me by bringing Steve Martin to the show which you talk about like my anxiety going I'm trying to like be cool but like I'm like damn dude this is the guy that really gave me a lot of incentive and and belief and just and so uh kept in touch with him and then sent me his book born standing up and then I said can I take you to lunch I sat and I think like this is my yoda he's got we're going to be sitting here and it's going to be like you know just firing off and he said I never enjoyed it I said ever I I go I love it he goes I didn't love any of it I go but what about the the whole lunch I'm like but when you did the thing he goes I couldn't wait to do a crossword puzzle back in my hotel room and he and let me tell you Sebastian he I think the minute he saw one empty seat he went I'm done I'm [ __ ] done I'm out and he said I dipped out the minute I saw an empty seat and it was it go you're telling me that you didn't enjoy one and so but if you but last thing I'll say about this in Steve Martin because I think it's he wrote a uh an article it's four pages for the the New Yorker it's called letter to my father it's it'll break your heart it's not really funny but it's super poignant and I'm not going to give it away but what he says in the last paragraph text me after and tell me if it changes your your mind or your life just even like that much no no you deserve all the man it's amazing well I appreciate it I don't want to say that back to me though I'm the guest I need the clicks did did you you should be doing guest speaking at youa and social media I believe it I D it I've been doing back Channel seminars and I do all that stuff I just don't put it out there a lot because I don't want to you know muddy the Waters of standup is my you know that's my job but I do go and I love I love talking shot man philosophy and I like inspiring people at of any age to [ __ ] not my dad used to say tomorrow's the first day of the rest of your life and I live my whole life like that through thick and thin Good Times bad times I've taken hits I've had years where I'm the cream of the crop and I wake up the same way every day like I just want to enjoy it appreciate it you know that's that's a great great advice my question was are you the type like to to write your goals like I I want to do Arenas I want to do this or does it just does it just happen to you are you foreseeing like you like I want to do Madison Square G I want to be in movies or did you just then I did yeah then you did yeah for me then it was like when I saw the numbers going up and I was playing colleges I hit Penn State one night and it was the night that changed my life they said oh we're going to move it from the blah blah blah to the Fieldhouse because we thought it was going to be 4,000 13,000 that I was filming tourgasm with with Bobby Kelly and Gary Gman and I went in I was like oh [ __ ] okay this is this is it I'm l turning the corner right here and in that moment um my sister had seen Steve Martin actually at Madison Square Garden and I was like that's where I'm taking this I'm I'm not stopping until I get to perform there and to me like that was and today the way the way like my goals are today is that very different that was probably like just being you know ballsy but ALS also like being so scared as a kid being like I'll show everybody what I'm capable of but I'll show myself today it's like I I'm very um more deliberate and the things that I want to do and the things that excite me you know my wife and I and like the way we kind of game plan things out um so they're maybe not as big a swings as like I got to play the biggest arena in the world um but they're they're personal and meaningful and I I get just as excited to get those done as something massive like that got it down you want to do Gillette Stadium next summer let me hey dude no I got I think together 80% of the tickets probably come in from you but boom we do an open air uh Stadium right after the Patriots game I'm dying to know if Steve M went with a salad or sandwich he went with the salad actually I had a feeling he would I a feel salad doesn't seem like he eat me he he gave me his banjo we sat down he gave me a banjo CD and he goes this is my my group The the you know I do banjo music you know you said he gave me his banjo and then you paus and said he gave me his banjo CD got way less cool I mean if H the banjo like you [ __ ] gave you a banjo over a salad holy [ __ ] I didn't want to finish the story this is like when you get a laugh by mistake on stage you're like [ __ ] it I'm leaving on that thanks Top halfway during a big like that's the last fck I'm done talk about talking about your wife I I have a wife who's younger than me and and and you have a wife that's younger than you do you feel like I mean and you look like you're in pretty [ __ ] I mean you're big dud I'm feeling good man is is is this uh find it hard to keep up with a younger woman cuz for me I I if your wife was my age would you be not us my my that was trying to get yeah yeah like you know like when when we're hiking when we go hiking she's ahead of me and I'm like hold on my wife is a Pilates instructor certified uh but she is in bed at 8:00 at night she doesn't [ __ ] understand the energy that I have um because of 30 years doing it if I have a night off at 10:00 at night suddenly I'm on and she's like where is this energy and I go cuz my whole life I had to be ready for the second show so I do my best work I I've always been energetic my wife like I mean honestly I think it's the perfect pairing because even though she's younger she calls herself the old lady cuz she's just like that she's just like I can't keep so you work out a lot then at night is that what you're saying I do yeah I mean I like I'll get on the I have one of those treads in one of those little ones you could put under your desk and I'll get on there and I'll just you know be on the computer and you know trying to figure [ __ ] out and and whatever it is usually like late at night if I'm not or even after a gig it's I used to go home and do Myspace 20 years ago now I get home and I'm like all right let me catch up on all my you know news of the day and you know people I get an email or whatever so out the organization I'm in my backyard half the time doing one hit spraying myself coming in to catch the second half of Housewives everybody else I come home that's when I get my news done you have a news time baby who has a news time time for my news so organized saying I learned from this young Comics the organization yeah it seems very very deliberate very methodical there's a there's a plan of action like with you like through the years like all of a sudden you'll go through a phase where I'll get a text at like Jesus Christ was he in all me like [ __ ] you I got kids I got to get up early to get [ __ ] done because once they get up it's your day your day's over so what is the key Dane uh is it a lot of caffeine is it healthy eating I'm I'm on C4 was trying to get through the [ __ ] day what are you are you just alive constantly always alive I've never had coffee in my life I've been most except for sex I guess I'm straight edged cuz I've never had a drink I've never had any drugs at all drink of alcohol I've never had a sip of alcohol I've never done any drug ever nothing I barely take a I believe this I believe this to be true like [ __ ] Goofus and Gant are sitting here oh my god oh that you're what do you have so liquid carrot like I was at Whole Foods with these guys today and someone and they yelling out celery juice who got the celery ju that you would slide in Grand right I I eat well my you know my my my dad was an athlete all the men from the cook side they're all they're all just like doers they all [ __ ] built R like I did ancestry and everybody's like built railroads built you know construction Sports and so I just think I have that thing in me man where I I just un fortunate I got good energy and like I yeah that's it the no alcohol thing I'm fascinated with is that something that you're just a choice like I I'm not doing alcohol or do you see that in your family or friends somewhere go I don't want to be that where does uh I mean I I just that's the resiliency is just amazing that you haven't had a sip but people that's SW and you're like yeah [ __ ] man well my dad drank and he drank to excess and my dad definitely you know dealt with alcoholism um he was a brilliant guy and he had a lot of um natural ability but he was also a BC graduate and he was business-minded and I would watch this guy who was so oh thank you but I would watch this guy who was so um he would get so excited about like uh especially things promotional wise he always had business he had a lumber business he had a um uh insulation like uh winter what of those windows in the winter the um the storm windows that you you'd install I forget what those used to be on the East Coast everybody had the weatherproofed and my dad was the kind of guy that I'd get I'd walk home from Junior High School his office was on the way home and he he he'd be in the window already like come me here come me here he'd be excited I go what and he go look at my sign Mr window is the name of he goes Mr window you let look at my sign he goes I painted it I go okay and he goes now come outside and he bring me out to Massachusetts Avenue he go look at all the other signs look at every [ __ ] sign on here Dane I okay he goes what do you see I a bunch of signs he goes blue and white blue and white blue and white mine's orange and white and he was so excited the business went to [ __ ] he was terrible at selling Windows but he loved what I liked about the era of building my a he liked figuring out that that was different yeah yeah and it might catch some eyes and like I said he would say tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life or he'd say nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd and he was just always and I think if he didn't drink he would have taken his career in many different facets further so when you asked me that for years I'd say no no I just don't TR but as I got a little older I realized I I think I just didn't want to admit I didn't want to be the worst parts of my father interesting you know and so but I'm going to start doing everything at like 60 heroin [ __ ] meth like any of crank I didn't know what crank is but I'm going to crank I'm going [ __ ] just I mean why not right 60 70 just [ __ ] go for it at that point I bet your body's like all right this is this is good this makes me want to live another 40 years to keep ining in this no okay whatever the only thing I think maybe down the line if you were going to try some is maybe a hit here and there but like drinking if you haven't needed to now you're having a great time why bother you know good for you man that's really awesome again that should be part of the speech at UCLA ding the or the movie that we're going to make we're producing this right is that what you said earlier a it's got a lot of stuff you can learn from for young comments absolutely Well everybody's like getting blasted and and you know doing whatever they're doing you know this guy's going home and reading the news I mean I know I know yeah really really so did you catch said he's on a treadmill while he's on the I mean we let that go we let that go that's 200 bucks on Amazon I clocked it I'm like Lana get a [ __ ] treadmill over here I'm sending you the link today when I get home you're going to love it hit me man no this thing's amazing 500 calorie burn in 28 minutes if you if you're brisk Jesus Christ but yeah but whatever you're doing up here you really feel you're focused so you're not typing going oh my God we have a [ __ ] heart attack right now like you really yeah man I'm dialed in it's like I I yeah I I I've always out with T Robins because he would be like pumped to brakes you get to slow down he would be like d relax we do have a thing we do have uh uh something we do on this show we ask celebrities have they ever crossed path with Tom Cruz have youever probably has yeah I have and and is he as as have you no we have yet to come across this guy oh wow if you could tell it okay uh it's it's a phys can I okay so I'm at a party one night some pre I don't know what I'm at but you know one of those things where it's like you feel like you have to go and so my agent you're going to be um you're going to beet me and I'll be I'll be Tom Cruz my agent goes you want to meet Tom Cruz in my whole life and career barely ever do I I'm not a uh I meet people we meet people I don't get nervous I've always been I've met some pretty great people that you're like I'm a fan the only time I ever got nervous in my life was uh in 1992 I was two years into my comedy career and I was at um Kiss 108 radio station and I was waiting to like promote my Boston whatever uh local dates and they would have you on the radio Maddie in the morning would have you on the on the radio and the elevator doors open and a group of people came out that were very familiar but not at all familiar and it took me a few seconds that morning at like 7 a.m. and it was all the kids from Wily Wonka the movie oh my God grown up Charlie Bucket baroo assult Violet borgard Augustus Gloop Mike TV all walked out and the head oala all walked out I'm like you kind of look like old [ __ ] people that I know from my you that I have a picture of that in my office I don't have some of the other names that I won't name you know and I'm like this like but he goes do you want to meet Tom Cruz and my balls gone tight my [ __ ] and I have an undescended testicle I had when I was a kid I had the left one is like [ __ ] my right my right ball is like the [ __ ] worker but my left one is like it's an ornament it's petite it's it's there and it's kind of like you just want to wave at it and let it do its thing that one [ __ ] went in me that one [ __ ] literally went in my pelvis and [ __ ] disappeared oh my I was like I would like to meet uh yeah I would like to meet Tom Cruz he walks me over I don't remember the initial way that he you know got Tom's attention but Tom turned to me and he went like this he went and I is exactly what he said quote unquote so please put out your hand like you're going to shake oh I'm very pleased very pleased to meet you I'm very pleased and then he ready then he let then he cast me out like the same way he pulled me in he actually like the hand was like and now you go and I did better for it metaphor I think Sebastian I think I'm still [ __ ] going backwards I'm not even kidding oh my God I'm very pleased and he looked and and he was he was he was right in oh my God I feel it I feel oh God I give anything I thought he was going to take my arm off very pleased take it time very pleased to meet you and then one more very pleased through the fade and then and then and then he and then he went like this and he let me go and he it was like you're you're slowly go back and I was like and I [ __ ] woke up in my bed like this risky business I know what I said [ __ ] was epic I'm very pleased I'm very pleased to meet you I'm very pleased that is it was it was a life changing I went home I literally was like I'm [ __ ] out of here I'm going home I don't want to meet Seth [ __ ] McFarland oh my God I heard he's not very nice oh man I don't even think it was the Facebook I think it was the shake from Tom Cruz that made the career B but it was this it was the grab and you know he's he's he's a little small I'm 61 he's but suddenly it was like he was it was amazing man all that stuff you hear about him when it's like d Tom locks in on you and you're like okay this is all embellish uh-uh no for real that's exactly how it felt that whole experience it was like the minute he turned I was the only person in the room and it was that whole thing oh was beautiful you know it was like sex I think I had sex with him I think it was I I think it was the hand that was some sex that was some foreplay I think the pulling was almost like wow you know what I mean it had you know the aesthetic of it's like some of these stories about Tom Cruz it's like you know you don't want to say you believe in like Bigfoot but when people keep describing them the same way you know what I'm saying I mean every story is this magnic you become the only one in the room and wow now you left like is he might call me any day to do something because I mean you know why would he do that I I left like uh like breathless like a when you hear like a woman's romance novel on a beach and and and your girl's like oh it's breath I'm breathless and it's like I guess that's how I felt cuz when I left that moment I called everybody and tried to explain like this is how I felt like I was in his orbit I felt important I felt like he was going to be like we're going to talk we're friends we're going to and but when he when he did that thing and I used that that was something that I kind of like tried to be like all right there is a way to kind of in a nice way dis like please leave me be at this point and I was like that was it was [ __ ] it was absolutely unbelievable he was like a superhero in real life Cruz very pleased very pleased to meet you very pleased [ __ ] amazing and oh ready but here's the here's the best part I don't know if he [ __ ] knew who I was I don't know if he he might have had no idea but if you think about the verbiage of that it's so perfect because it really is so kind of like it's it's disguised it's not like he knew something and he said I like the thing that you did about the it was just like I know how to make this person feel good cuz they're meeting me I don't know who the [ __ ] Dane Cook is and then I'm just going to release him into the wild and let him feel like for one and a half second that like it was meaningful to me and that's what he's great at yeah oh [ __ ] um Okay so pandemic hits right are you the type of guy that has to get up on stage weekly do you take bits off uh or do you got to consistently be up there doing it no I took some time off I was definitely like felt like it it was a good moment to sort of like even just not only recalibrate I was falling in love you know my my now wife it's like so in that time it was kind of good because we learned from that time that like we absolutely belonged together um and then there were other things that I was putting off in my own life both creatively and even some personal things and I just took that 2-year period to really like you know close some chapters and you know people in my life that I missed and reached out to and other things that I needed to kind of take some ownership on that like maybe earlier in my career you know where you missteps and fuckups or you know even after my parents passed away it was like I went through a couple couple of years I was not easy to be around yeah I already dealt with my own kind of anxiety now I'm grieving I don't know I don't know how to [ __ ] do that I just want to make people laugh I don't want to be upset and sad I'm fighting it so I did kind of take that time to like um sweep my side of the street and then prepare for Success man prepare for what does it mean to be I'm the happiest and healthiest I've ever been personally and professionally now and in the past like 5 years ever I never had really both happening at the same planning a our family talking about how we want to you know where we want to live like the next bunch of years of my life like I I'm I'm excited I did what I did over a tough time through covid because it prepared me for today yeah so no drivings huh you didn't play any driv I didn't do the I did a couple I did a couple gigs no I did no I said you were going to say something I cut oh no no no no so so do you see yourself moving out of California is this the place you're going to kind of settle down and family I never thought I would even have stayed I came out 98 I thought I'd be here for a few months I was on a TV show that nobody saw with Betty White I was her grandson on a show with Marie Osman played my mom and I did this show for one year and I thought Don osman's sister yeah oh my God which was so weird I grew up watching Betty White and everything and of course like Donnie and Marie when I was a kid and suddenly I'm I'm on this show on ABC here 28 yeah well I did the San Francisco comedy contest The Producers happened to see me in San Fran took a meeting said do you do do TV or whatever I was like I've done some plays I do standup they gave me a shot it was called maybe this time I see your guy pulling it up right over there and uh ended up coming down here and thinking I'm just going to leave and go back East you know as soon as I'm done with my obligations here um and then I ended up staying and so it wasn't until probably the last couple years that I started thinking with my wife like I actually think I'm ready to to to be somewhere else you know yeah I've always wanted to build a house that's something I've always dreamt of doing so I've saved over the years and been like I want to build a beautiful home somewhere so I don't know where yet but I do see myself probably you know being here less than I than I was for a lot of years yeah I'm I'm I'm sorry I'm looking at this I didn't think I emphasize well enough my I had a crush on Marie OS fantastic right so like does she ever like when you're doing that would she be like hanging out like ah [ __ ] or she never no no she sticks to no her and Betty I don't think I me Betty like dirty jokes though Betty would tell some pretty you know salacious she had a good sense of humor but no Marie was like really were they Mor yeah that's what I'm saying I was only the one like she's not off to the side oh [ __ ] we no no if if she just hung up she went [ __ ] Donnie let's go bring the kid in with the [ __ ] mullet where's Betty golden [ __ ] no no she was the most like the sweetest I'm sorry I even if she's seen that she's like oh my God and you know it's like this isn't funny to say but like sorry about your parents I lost both both of my parents over the past few years too so I know what it's like right but I also feel both your I'm sorry separate times but over the past couple years but like I also feel a sense of selfishness right like where I'm running out of time so I I can't sit around and be sad about my parents being gone I think about my dad right so let's all thing about our dad's and you think about when your dad's dad died can you I can't remember my dad I know my Dad loved his dad but I don't remember him being sad so it makes me wonder like growing up like I don't remember but that ear repeat was like but did my dad go good night son and then grab a scotch and in another room yeah he did he I don't know your dad I'm saying if you're looking for me I'm not a soothsayer I can't tell you I'm just here to cut up some stories about back in the day and but you know you no no it's like you say they were different man they [ __ ] you know my dad same thing or he'd be like yeah I'm sad about it you know like I'd be like show me you know like like you know I'm upset yeah like you know I'm like I'm trying to like I think about my dad I start to shed a tear my daughter's trying to watch Saturday morning cartoons and I'm like dapping away cuz I don't want to ruin her childhood you because I don't remember my dad I never turn my dad and go Dad have you ever seen the dad why are you crying F dad well he's crying he cries now but now no more than he ever did but I I I have no problem at all crying in front of my kids you think your kids have a problem with it probably yeah yeah I don't I don't know he showed his daughter the other day the scene the scene where he got shot in the Irishman he walked it through it frame by frame oh God and then ready for the this drum roll put her a bed it it was bedtime this wasn't even over panak oh yeah that mental mental uh So speaking of movies was that your first death scene yeah yeah that my first scar that was the I had to do a death scene in a Kevin Cosner film and it was I was really scared about that because I was like how do you die and look like you know how to act or at least make it you know the editor not go [ __ ] okay this is how did that how did you approach that or uh it was a it was a stunt guy okay so it was me the character but it wasn't me actually dying okay okay but talking about movies do do you enjoy the movie making process being a stand-up comedian uh was it an easy transition for you or it's like I've had both I I had experiences that I loved cuz it felt collaborative and it felt like the you know the right whatever the right people behind it and then I had you know one experience where the director you know maybe didn't know my kind of humor and so there was a little bit of like you know push back and then the editor was not a guy who maybe edited comedy he'd had a great editing you know repertoire but it wasn't so that that is frustrating because you spend a lot of time you know everybody's there to make each other look good and you hopefully knock it out of the park and so nothing beats live performance nothing there's no nothing has met it you know all the so different that it's fun it's fun to be there collaboratively with your Heroes sometimes you grow up with or or people that are on the come up and you're watching that like that person oh my God they're impressing me and uh and so I love it but as I build that side of my career out now like we just found a script actually was brought to me that was a blacklist script um some years back you know those are like the most kind of sought after or considered in town to be like the most like valuable stories from writers that year and I've always wanted to produce what does that mean in Black know yeah there's a if you go online it's like The Blacklist script is every year there's the whatever 20 24 Blacklist and it's it could be 20 30 Films that are like somebody's read all the films that are in town and these are the ones that like should be made they're the best writing the best storytelling and often times like a Black Swan will be on The Black List and that's how aronowski gets it and it makes its way up you know hopefully to to get made and so you know this company comes to me oh we have a blacklist script R I've always that's always been a dream of mine if you talk about like what are the things that I yeah it's like I'd love to make a great film you know from a great writer that's of this ilk and so yeah it's like that idea of making this film cuz I'm in it from the ground up I'm in it from the very first day of like literally yesterday they called they go we're making a movie you know I we got a blacklist film it's ours we got our budget it's a great budget we can get people that and so for that reason I I love it I don't love it for what I thought years ago which was when I'm just the name above the thing and it's about me and I [ __ ] just and I have to be a certain way to please the fans or that came with pressure that I didn't really I thought I liked it but I I didn't really enjoy it I enjoy more the collaborative nature of it as opposed to the what does it do for the business of just Dane Cook instead of like how can I help this so we all win you know that's more interesting to me how did you do um comedies that were like a movie that's a comedy coming from standup where the validation is the laughter right and now you're on set and you're not really getting that like uh how do you adjust to that performance did you have to instinctually say oh this is funny or I think I got pretty lucky because my first like leading man role was Employee of the Month in 2005 Jessica Simpson was in there right Jess Simpson but uh Greg kulage writer director was really awesome in Lionsgate because they let us put Harlem Williams in it they let us put Andy Dick in it they let us put um uh Dak Shepard in it so I was coming to work every day with people that would like we'd lean over and be like you're [ __ ] killing it man that's that's great dude you're you're killing it like we were all there for each other and teeing each other especially Harland who's one of my best friends to this day I come over and be like am I am I any good here like I'm also having to be the guy the leading man guy and you're like I just want to be funny but I get it I have to kind of Drive story but then you're like I feel like a dud like what am I you know and so it's cool it's cool when you have that funny people around you to hopefully help you to figure out you know all right you're in the pocket it's good great producers know how to come over to and like telecast or I don't watch dailies I don't really like to see myself in that way but um you know when you have good people around you they're going to let you know like you know I did do a movie uh years before that very terrible bad very bad movie um I was at uh ICM in 1999 and Nick Stein my agent at the time called and goes my client they can't get um they can't get the insurance from my client to travel to nce France I just got you a movie co-lead that's the good news you're going to live in Nice France on the Mediterranean Sea and what's the bad news he goes uh it's with Dennis Rodman oh I think I remember this what was it called it was called Simon says yes so good shut the [ __ ] upud that was popular when this movie is on in the middle of the night I just turn off all my devic and I'm like why is this on no no no no so it's like it's like there and by the way the the guy that couldn't this is true the guy that couldn't get insur insured to do the movie was Robert Downey Jr was considering doing a movie with Dennis Rodman and because of his issues they couldn't get him insured so that's that's how good my career was and how shitty Rober Junior's career was they was going to do a movie you know but but it's that thing so I I ended up going over and you're like okay I'm I'm doing this thing that I just I know I know it's not doesn't feel good it's it's not it's not very good I don't feel very good in it I don't have somebody who's really like you know guiding me through but the funny thing that did happen was the director pulled me aside now I'm in I'm in France and everyday catering's coming around and they have like it's France it's like the best foods in the world right and he comes over to me he like maybe three weeks in he goes I got to talk to you for a second I go what and he goes um you had to stop with the bread and he's like you look 10B heavier this week alone on camera I was eating ham and cheese [ __ ] I was sitting there in between scenes eating the most delicious bread with a [ __ ] block of cheese and ham and he literally was like you're gaining weight in real time that's insane and and John panette was in the movie and he was already [ __ ] fat as a house and you're telling me I knew it was bad when I'm with panette and they're like you got to you have to slow down you're you're looking very puffy today oh my God you didn't even have to shave the Shaving wasn't even as much of an issue as the weight right yeah oh my God that's that's wow what experience did you hang out with Rodman and [ __ ] France we did w i i was I just followed him wherever the party was I went wow and it it was it was insane it was truly if I write a book about that part of my life that chapter will probably get me in the most trouble because of what I witnessed and it was just [ __ ] Bonkers what Y and yang from working with Maria Osman to Dennis Rodman wow you yeah today it's kind of like I don't know like today I look at it and go man if you can work with a great group of people that you like it's there is really no better feeling in the world than driving toward a set where you're like oh man I'm everybody here is enthused and and ready to go and I've always been fortunate I'm sure you feel the same way you too like we have standup and that provides the opportunity I've said no to a I've said no to a lot of things over the years over the past 10 years I got offered a lot of comedy changed after 2011 a lot of comedies that I had made up until that point even though I never had like a a Bonafide hundred million blast I never had like a Sandler level Crusher right but I always had doubles you know I always did like well and then DVD even better but then right after I did Best Friend's Girl and then we hit like 2011 PC changed everything and those kinds of movies just weren't getting made for the longest time it wasn't until pretty in the last couple years right you know that like finally getting trusting Comics back in front of the camera and like the kind of Comedy we want to do it's like I I I think comedy is going to be better from here on out seemingly the way like the the landscape is and the comics that are popular and on the come up and through the Joe Rogan and the Shane Gill like I think comedy is coming back in a in a great way yeah um but I I got offered like some tremendously shitty projects that I'm like I want to work really bad but if I do that I'm [ __ ] because then they're going to go he would do that and so as hard as it is I'm excruciatingly patient even though I just want to be around people and I want to work as well but once you take the easy fish you're like that's all you're going to get so I've been patient I do the stand up on and you do the standup but I feel like it's it's a prosperous year ahead if we can get this thing going boom yeah absolutely what do you think about the state of Comedy today in regards to the comedians that are out there opposed to 30 years ago when wow when you were coming up do you think and maybe I'm leading the witness because I have been in a pretty major court case Sebastian as you may know so and the comedians today have the amount of reps do you think than that you had coming up in regards to like putting in the time going to these gigs and in uh wherever small you know performing like the 10,000 hours from the road and what we had to do is it there anymore or have we just Eclipse that and now it's hey you're funny on Instagram and now you got an audience and we're going to you know or do you think the cream Rises or where are we at oh boy it's like on one hand yeah it's it's a more entrepreneurial world there's more entertaining people and they'll do things like podcasts or they'll have other ways of exploiting their abilities um but as far as like organically what standup is like there is no other way to do it than to go out there and find your voice through a lot of hollow yeah you know turbulent tough you know that that that long drive in between gigs is just as important as the good and the shitty gig so how many I remember playing the Minneapolis Mall of America and killing and then walking home through an abandoned amusement park in the mall cuz it's closed down it's just like oh you think you're having a good good good Comet go underneath the ferris wheel and that that's making me stronger than a set right cuz if listen if you're not going to kill yourself by the time you hit the park a lot you'll be back for Saturday shows and you just grow now it's like you said right just but but you do see like more it's it's interesting because you see um more diversity in comedy which is great and you see more people that I think are organically funny in there and they've earned some kind of confidence through even like their YouTube videos or whatever that is right but I still think that standup ComEd standup comics and comedy it's like at its truest form is have you been on shows where it's like there's five popular people but they're not honed and so you're almost like they're laughing but they don't know what a real comic as yet but they're laughing they're enjoying the show so what does that mean for like this is where all s like like like an old head or the old bull where it's like I just think that if you came up virtually through comedy you only been doing that through that 15-year-old kid who watched a funny person do that to them that's comedy and if you're that comic talking to that kid you're just going to keep growing it differently from how we came up I hope it's always what what we did um but it is different and and I don't like the hybrid I don't like when it's all kind of like it's a YouTube crowd with a that that's kind of everybody stuck in one spot you know it is what it is but I just feel like um and I also feel like crowds come out and they're not even expecting you to be as good as you are because I think that they they their expectations from abolutely do you understand like I think you hit it on the head I think the expectations it's like I feel like everybody's eating ham and no one knows what filet tastes like right yeah and they come on they see and then suddenly you've got a Showmanship and an Act and the enthusiasm and on top of just like being somebody who can gab and is interesting you know J appat once said in a rolling stone interview that I probably read late at night when I was on the computer and walking on her tread um he said in like a 94 article why you know why isn't he famous he was kind of in a weird languishing time and he goes cuz I have no Charisma and Jim Carrey does and and he named a b and he almost came off a little you know pricity about it but he was like those guys have something I don't have and I think he was right in that era you you had to pay in a ticket I'm sitting here I want that Showmanship and if the audience is just learning oh I just listen to you podcast and gossip and rap and then they come out and that's all they expect that's fine but then you then you take the stage and they're like [ __ ] like this is somebody who's really thought this whole thing out and it and it's not just the the willy-nilly isn't the oh you're just a celebrity that I know from the YouTube it's like the old Dennis Miller joke if you put a a peach on TV 24 hours a day and then you take the peach and walk it around in a wagon people go that's the Peach from TV and when he said that I was like I don't ever want to be the [ __ ] Peach from TV never heard that I love that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's the Peach from TV and you're like do you want do you want somebody's like I get goosebumps in these conversations man because it's like you just made my job a little easier because if you're not going to put in the time I'm still putting in the time and I'm the best I've been ever right now 33 years in so when you come you see my show with all the tools and all the now um you know uh being able to like be uh you know to go inward to share so many dial it up to so many different places and it's like I think it just makes a great comic even better because there's a lot of flats and jets out there yeah man absolutely have you ever thought uh about what do you think about podcasting uh have you ever thought about having your own podcast have you had your own podcast to my knowledge I don't think you have but is that something that you look around go everybody's got a podcast do you feel a pressure no pressure to have your own I definitely so I've been approached to do podcast over the years I think after the early ODS to be honest I was so burnt out on Tech cuz I did it for so long that even before a podcast I used to do something actually called The Dan cast it was on my old website where I do an MP3 and upload it and you could listen to me rant about my week and so I was doing them before they were even like a [ __ ] yeah dude I'm like a [ __ ] time traveler it's like my wife always goes I love the 80 she's 25 she goes I love ' 80s music I'm like I was [ __ ] there oh my God I was in it I know holl not I feel you're going to tell us I used to take my pants and make leg wers I had leg wers no but so I was doing all these things so I get a little burnt out and so by the time it's all that's on the come up you know for right or wrong I'm like I'm kind of like ah I I made it through Tech I already I already did all these big things that I was wanting to do but I also like some somebody once asked me hey uh do you want to do a late night talk show on they I go I'm not going to be I I I'm not going to do it better than at the time I said like a John Stewart or like I I go I'm not going to do it better and if I don't feel like I can either contribute or do something that I think is better I don't feel like it's my place to enter in I think there's a lot of people doing podcasts that I look at and go unless I feel like I have something really great yeah that really feels like oh this is organic and Dane's loving it I don't want to just do it for the sake of do you know what but I I feel like I should I just don't know what that idea is good if you don't want if you don't have the passion in that sense for that sort of thing that you're saying not to do it but I just don't want to do it just to do it because there's already people doing it so great that you're going to be in comparison it's like yeah why don't I'm not going to take away from them these are the best they you know they've earned that and unless I feel like I can figure that out it's like not yet but maybe I don't know I got a question if you don't mind before I forget the movie would cost the Mr Brooks right is it called more than Mr Brooks or was just called Mr Brooks was it more to the title missed it I didn't miss that Mr Brooks that was it it was just called Mr Brooks all right but I go I want to ask you about that movie like first of all when you did that movie I'm like oh my God this guy's like on top of everything you're doing a movie with CA when Kasa I know he's had the big Yellowstone thing now but back then he was just pure movie stu oh yeah man Field of Dreams now there was that one scene because I was thinking as a comic where you was so scared your character pissed himself P pissed yourself right right are you because you're also a com cuz people are wondering he's a serial killer and I's really scared it's a dark movie it's very dark like a thriller and I am under his Tage to kind of become a serial killer like him but I'm SC because you got a photo of him so you almost had a blackmail situation going on as well right so at one point I don't know if you saw the movie but your character is so scared you pissed yourself and it was you're also at that time a cool comic like you know the girls think you're cute and this that so are you going at all like or I'm an artist now or you like in your head do I have to piss like you're having a conversation with your manager at the time go can I just be scared do I literally have to piss myself cuz it was like I was like oh Jesus it was like it was it between scenes where I'd already peed had the the pee on there which they had a device you know to make it look like a but then the this was like the saddest part is like it'd be like cut and then they'd have to go again it' dry and you know those old um in like an old Diner the ketchup or the mustard were in those little somebody walk up with water and just squirt my crotch and be like all right let's do it one more time so like I'm just you know getting warm water squirted on my balls see a com I'm looking at cner I'm just somebody's squirting me and I'm looking and in my head I'm like somebody's squirting my balls and I'm [ __ ] staring at one of my [ __ ] Heroes and I don't know how I am here but I'm going to enjoy party going if Matt Damon got this PA would he be like I'm not paying and they go okay no problem but like like do you not know what you can and can't say as an actor first of all for that I you're just locked in comedian right now I'm just act no when I no because I auditioned for that when I was making employee the month I submitted myself on tape in my trailer and Jeremy plager who at the time at CA took my tape and said dude nobody's thinking of you for this and they're already thinking of these three names I'm driving this to Cosner's house and I'm going to tell him to watch it so Jeremy plager is the reason that I have any kind of dramatic career Cosner calls me in Albuquerque and goes he goes I remember the first thing he you know Dan Cosner I go hey man he goes um you're really serious about this huh you really put a lot of effort into this and I was like I really am and I quickly gave my you know 10-cent tour of how I saw the character in the part he goes I'll see you in sheveport and so when I got there I was you got it I got it yeah on the phone he goes he goes you want to you want you want to come William Hurt Me Dem Moore I didn't even know William Hurt or Dem Moore he tells me on the he goes I got Dem Moore William Hurt Me you I will see you in tre and she still married to Bruce who might be hanging at some the whole thing was a it was it was an amazing experience going there but I'm in great shape I'm doing the thing where it's like I'm trying to be like you know the comedy guy and I'm leaning into what I know is that kind of image and all that [ __ ] but also like I'm coming off that movie where I'm in good shape for employee the month I get to shreport there's a Chick-fil-A next to my hotel I start pouring Polynesian sauce I gain 30 pounds in the month of rehearsal cuz I just want to look like a [ __ ] [ __ ] I I grow I I already have a big [ __ ] Irish hat I got acne scars from I'm a kid I tell no makeup I tell C I go I don't want any makeup I I want to look like this [ __ ] like whatever you want me to do like I'm here use me in any way that you so he was he was like dude you you came here ready to in fact I just we were texting about it a month ago Kevin and I because it was the 15y year anniversary and we were we still talk about that scene right there the the graveyard scene [Music] wow he [ __ ] me up I had one take to die wow we're in a graveyard at 3:00 in the morning there are actual tarantulas on the ground there's actual [ __ ] spiders this big that they couldn't clear and every time I fell they would [ __ ] come towards me yeah shp's full of [ __ ] tarantulas man yeah wow dude I mean like this is this is the stuff that you know we dream about you know when we're watching John Ritter [ __ ] flip over a couch and you're like maybe me someday maybe I get the call and then six you can show what i' [Laughter] seene show my daughter that before bed some night wow yeah that's a total was it dark this cuz that was such a dark movie for CER was the scene was the set was it like gloom and doom or people having fun offset like chat it was amazing man every time it was cut it was him and I and he'd grab me be like come on let they're going to relight and I would just sit with him and he'd be like um you know Jean Hackman and I was and all of a sudden I was just like this and he was he loved to talk and Kevin's a good friend of mine he's he's a philosopher he's a very thoughtful guy um I mean I feel like that was probably everything that happened to me during that time personally and professionally like I was a different person when I left that production I I I treated my business different from things that I learned from him and things that he expected of me but the coolest thing that I will tell you is there's a scene in that movie where him and I are driving in the car and he turns to me before we're filming and he goes I want to um can we do some improv and I go yeah and he goes yeah let's do some improv Let's uh like you just being character let's talk about the other killing that we did and suddenly we're just and William Herz in the backseat his character is like a figment of C so he's sitting there William ht's watching us and for about eight minutes they roll on Kevin and I and we're just like free like I never done impro i' done improv my whole life in comedy but now I'm improvising this stuff that's real you know menacing and just I'm a delinquent and I'm just coming up with this stuff and then Kevin just grabbed me he was he like let's just this is awesome and he was so excited that it made me like dude I'm like wow like he's happy that I'm here I'm not just here he's like you me up keep teeing that's it and so they ended up using that whole piece in the movie he called me up because we're not even using the beginning of that scene we're using what you and I did improvising you see William Herz reacting and I mean honestly man it's like for if they took my entertainments license after that production you'd have to go all right I've done some cool [ __ ] I know I know you talked about this a lot and then we'll let you go after this um and I want to talk to you about you know you've told the story so many times about your brother taking money from you and what whatnot but after that experience do you feel like you you you have a hard time trusting people or is that just a oneoff and a good question Dane's open for for for business now yeah or are you like what the [ __ ] does this person want well it's it's the question I think you know people that are aware of what I experienced my brother was my business manager he's my older brother he's my only brother I grew up with him and uh I loved him he was my best friend and he was actually a person who probably in that time when I was so trepidacious and scared as a kid more often than not put his hand on my back and said you can do you got it you can do this um I've been filming a documentary the last year and a half with a company that came to me we got a a company came out of Canada we got a great Grant and for the last year and a half I'm telling the whole story and so without getting too much into it cuz even like legally I can't keep going there but I can say this um what we have put together is gonna probably answer a lot of these questions and also really let people know what H how how dark and how scary um it got because it wasn't just uh you know it wasn't just the theft it wasn't just the Betrayal um it was something far more evil that was happening behind the scenes with my brother that we didn't know till we were really getting the dock going so I hope when it comes out do we have a release date on this thing yet probably by the Fall yeah you saying until we getting the dock going so there is a part of me that like you're already making it based on what happened and then you found that there other evil thing you're like it's terrible that that happened but oh my God this is so good for the [Music] dock yes yes that's now we're thinking I'm going to get you a little Trad and just commiserating no yes yes I can truly say I I can I can kind of answer the question to say like I can tell the story now Sebastian because I because I'm I'm I actually am better from it you know when somebody in your life is let's just say toxic but you don't know but then that person's removed even if it's just like ripped away at first the Betrayal and a lot of things like it it it really you know put me in like the undertoe I was really like I couldn't believe it but once he was out of my life it was like this I could breathe I didn't even know how much you know negativity you know was around me from things that he had you know kind of like drummed up or things that so to be able to look at it now and tell a story that if we do our job right I say this like half jokingly if we do our job right when it ends up hopefully on a streamer it's like under comedy and True Crime because it is very funny oh it focuses on that time in my life so I get to put a little bit of like here's what's happening with me you know the funny and the you know the little bit of the the behind the scenes sorry um but then once you get into the the nuts and bolts of what he did to my family what he did to me it's pretty Grim you know and it starts to go to a place where you're like I I hope there's a laugh coming because it does it does take you on kind of a I don't think there's a comedy tragedy story like this ride where it's like it really is very funny and there's a lot of things that you that are appealing but then it's like I think people will watch you be like first of all I didn't know that this happened to me and uh will understand me a little more but hopefully somebody else who goes through it will be able to be like dude if I can make it if he can make it through what that was then hopefully I can you know keep my eye on the prize too so I can't wait for people to see it bro if that was the trailer for the documentary right can't [ __ ] wait for this St me too you're praying what I'm wondering is like is there any chance you could get would you try to get your brother on it like to I can't talk about that but you're asking very good questions can't speak to who is a part of it yet but okay see but I think if you know me the one thing you know is I like to be in or I say I like to be in the holy [ __ ] business and if I can make you go holy [ __ ] then I will be very happy Jesus [ __ ] Christ guys wow Dane C very pleased to very pleased to be here very very pleased oh my god well thanks oh dude thank you man and again thank you and I have to say congratulations man on everything you've accomplished you are you are one of the reasons where comedy is today and where a lot of young people look and go man like I want to have my moment where I feel like I'm at my proudest I hope that you can really look at what you've accomplished and realized it's it's really inspirational man and Pete good to see you me too bro I was going to watch you dock but now I'm not [Music] [Music]

Channel: Sebastian Maniscalco

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Length: 77min 42sec (4662 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 16 2024