WEBVTT - Pete Davidson 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.080 Welcome to River Cafe, Table four, a production of iHeartRadio 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:05.400 and Adami Studios. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:07.080 My phone's going to and take it. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.200 Okay, so it's fun, I said, is it my mom? 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.920 Maybe it's your mom? Should we call your mama? I 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:17.120 can call you number? 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.319 Oh god, no, I would never, should never get off. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:21.439 Oh let's have it for me. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:23.400 Let me tell you about Pete ad. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:31.080 So tell me about the restaurant you worked in. This 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.839 might be embarrassing to admit, but as a kid, one 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.479 of my favorite songs was getting to know You from 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.040 the musical The King and I and I guess getting 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.479 to know you is what my River Cafe Conversation guests today, 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:50.440 Pete Davidson will be for We've only met once, but sometimes, 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.239 pretty rarely you meet someone and you know they are 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.400 going to be a friend. We met over food. Lorne 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.280 Michael's introduced us at a dinner in the River Cafe, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.280 and then he came back with his friends last Saturday. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:07.400 You probably share a lot of attitudes and values on politics, hypocrisy, humor, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.640 and other subjects. Usually I have a list of questions, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.760 but today I might throw them in the bin and 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.480 we'll just talk. Getting to know you pete. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.399 Indeed, hello everybody, thank you for having me. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:20.600 You've our. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:22.880 Our bloody mary. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.480 Ye, so would you like to read the recipe? 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:27.200 Yes? 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:27.760 Okay. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.560 This is the recipe for a zucchini and cannelly soup. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:36.440 It says it served six four hundred grams of zucchini, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:42.640 ten canelly beans, one head of celery finally chopped, one 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:47.680 garlic clove, one bunch of parsley leaves, extra virgin olive oil. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.680 And then you roughly cut the zucchini into small pieces, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.960 and then peel and finally chop the garlic and chop 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.680 the parsley. You drain and rinse the canelly beans, heat 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.840 one tablespoon of bot oil in a thick bottom pan 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.520 and fry the celery and parsley until soft. And then 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.000 you add the garlic and zucchini and cook for ten minutes. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.440 You add five tablespoons of water and scrape up to combine. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.120 Then add the beans, stirring for a further five minutes. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:22.360 Mashed together, and drizzle with extra virginile boil. This is 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.440 best served at room temperature. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.360 Thank you. That was gorgeous. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:28.280 So you. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.600 Did that beautifully, Thank. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.560 You very much. My first time reading a recipe. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.959 It's kind of a recipe I always say, is partly 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.200 pros and partly science. You know. It's the kind of combination, 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.600 isn't it. It gives you the measurements, but it also 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.560 gives you the poetry of the of what you might 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.560 be cooking. Do you cook? 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:47.440 I do not. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:48.240 I do not. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.200 I'm awful at cooking. I could only cook eggs, but 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.799 that's like a pretty standard. I feel like everybody could 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:55.239 cook eggs. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.120 Well, maybe eggs aren't that easy. What are your cooks? 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.000 Scrambled ones? 0:02:59.120 --> 0:02:59.880 Yeah, what's your tech? 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.760 Eg? I just put them in the pan and then 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:03.800 mush them around. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:05.440 Oh you scramble after do you? 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:05.919 Yes? 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:07.320 Scramble them in the path? 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:07.799 Yes? 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:09.080 Interesting? 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.600 Yes. I could also add hot water to ramen noodles. 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:14.080 Oh do you? 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:14.359 Yes? 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.280 That is all is a talent? Yeah, you have definitely 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.400 the right guest to have on this food discussion. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.440 I can make a mean cup of noodles. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:25.919 You can? How do you do that? 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:26.799 Well? 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.560 First, I don't know what cup of noodles is. 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.600 I go to Costco, Yes, and I get the pre 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.880 made ramen noodles. And then I go home and since 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.000 I don't know how to boil water because I'm dumb. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.680 I go to the cure egg and I hit the 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.160 hot water button and. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.200 Then a cure egg. I don't know what that is. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:46.800 Cure egg is a little. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.800 Coffee Okay, this is a new one. 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:50.720 You know, the little coffee machine that you could put 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:56.000 these little coffee pods in like espresso. Yes, yeah, okay, 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.400 So I usually get I use the hot water from that, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.640 and then I dump it the couple of noodles and 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.800 then I stirred for about four to five minutes. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.840 Over the heat. You mean you don't then you just 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.680 the hot water cooks the hot water. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.960 Yeah, at least I hope so. And then I eat 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.599 very hard doodles. Okay, So that is That is about 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.480 as far as my cooking ghost. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.640 So tell me about food when you were growing up. 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.560 What was it like in the Davison household. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.400 Oh? My mom she was single parents, so she worked 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.080 and she was a nurse, and when she got home, 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.440 she didn't really have time to cook, so we would 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.919 usually order Chinese food or Italian food. But when she 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:43.400 did cook, she's really good at cooking. One thing, chicken cutlets. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:48.520 She's really great, like breaded chicken cutlets. I still have 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.080 yet to have a better chicken cutlet anywhere else? 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.360 Do you know what she did? I would make no idea. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.919 I know, well, I know if I have ever watched, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.720 there's usually like there's the raw chicken, and then there's 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:06.320 like this plate with yellow stuff in it, the egg. Yeah, 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.400 and then there's another plate with like bread and like 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.520 the that stuff breadcrumbs. Right, yeah, there we go. And 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:19.200 then she would you know, like season it yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.400 and then dump it in the. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.719 I gotta make a cook out of you by this interview. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.560 I would love to learn how to cook at least 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.240 just like one thing, so I could, like. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.600 You observed that, but that's impressive that so she did. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.839 She dipped the egg into the egg and then into 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.840 the bread crumbs. So she dip it back into the 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.200 egg again. Do you think she did after the two times? Yeah, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.200 she's a two time dipper, two time dipper. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.680 Yeah. And then yeah, and then like maybe thirty to 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.599 forty five minutes later, we would have a chicken collar 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.200 and I would she would put them on these paper towels, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:53.440 and then I would never I never really ate at 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.120 the dinner table. I would just like walk by and 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.840 take each chicken cutlet as soon as it was done 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.880 being me because because it was so good, and it's 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.320 like the best time to eat it is when it's 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.400 like super super fresh. So that was my mom's specialty. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.240 Would you have it often? Would she make it like 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:11.039 once a monk. 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.080 At least once a week, once a week, Yeah, yeah, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.080 we would all look forward to it. Usually it was 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.880 a weekend thing. It was always a treat when my 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:17.480 mom cooked. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:18.760 Did she have days off? 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.279 Not really, not until like I became a teenager, she 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.680 got a school nursing job, so then her schedule was 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.479 like the same as me and my sisters. So but 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.919 at first she was working in the er in the hospital, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.680 so her hours were super random, and I was either 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.479 watching my sister or we would have a babysitter. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.440 So, I mean, the respect that you have I have 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.159 for your mother. You're being able to work all day 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.880 have two kids. It's a struggle, you know, It's it's hard. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.520 Yeah, it's hard, and it's hard because you know, nobody's 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.799 ever really on the same schedule. But that also makes 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.840 the time when everybody is on the same schedule super 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:06.040 memorable and special, like that once a week where we 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.000 would all get to. Yeah, and holidays were always very big. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:10.600 What would they tell me about them? 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:16.960 So Thanksgiving, Christmas, even Halloween, even just because we have 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.680 a very big family. I have six aunts and uncles 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:24.040 and like forty something cousins, So the holidays are all, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.280 you know, not like an excuse, but we all just 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.920 get together. And was there. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.600 Food the food at Halloween or Thanksgiving? 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:39.040 Well, Halloween it's pretty lame. But like Thanksgiving, everybody usually 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.720 has an assignment because there's six aunts and uncles, and 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.720 my grandma would take care of either the turkey and 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.360 the stuffing, and then my mom would bring like the 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.960 sweet potatoes or someone else would bring mashed potatoes. It's 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:58.920 just or the asparagus and the dinner rolls. So everybody 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.760 had a different assignment. And usually we have it at 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:06.120 my aunt's house in Jersey and everybody would show up 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.240 with like a big tin and everybody puts it on 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.239 the island and then we spread everything out and it's 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.440 I guess it's probably the easiest way to do Thanksgiving, yeah, 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:16.840 because everybody does a little bit. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.560 Tell me about your grandmother though, did she cook? 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:24.400 She's great at cooking. She always cooks. Both grandmas I'm lucky. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:25.400 I have two grandmas. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.760 Did they live near your house? Was an expedition to 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.920 go to your grandmother's. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:36.040 My mom's parents live in Jersey, and then my dad's 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.480 parents live in Staten Island, which is really close to me. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.800 So yeah, so you and your sister could go over 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.160 there and have dinner or would you ever do that? 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.040 Yeah? Absolutely? And then like they would watch us sometimes 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:47.679 and cook for us, and we would stay over their 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.280 house if my mom had a work late, but they 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.640 always had a cooked meal for us. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.280 Did you what was Staten Island like food wise? 0:08:55.720 --> 0:09:00.000 Food wise, it's pretty it's pretty just Italian, was it. Yeah, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.920 it's pretty much just Italian food and like Chinese takeout. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.760 But there's so many Italian restaurant it's like it's almost 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.920 comical how many there are, Like there's like three every block. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.280 So one of my dad's friends owns an Italian restaurant 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.040 that I actually used to work at for a bit 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:22.000 I was a busboy. It's a very Italian and very 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.319 old school, is what I would say. Like you would 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.880 if you go to Staten Island now, you would feel 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:32.600 like you were walking into like a nineties movie. You know, Dudes, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.679 with their shirts open and chest half flowing out and 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.800 smoking cigarettes and just being like what the fuck. It's 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.720 very You're like, oh wow, nothing has changed here, which 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.719 is kind of what I like about it a little bit. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.200 Is nobody there gives nobody ever bothers me there. They 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.920 don't care. That's an island, yeah yeah, and it's it's 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.840 not like New York. It is part of New York, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.400 but it's more part of the Jersey, I would say, 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.760 because it's just suburb. Like when I grew up, going 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.040 to the city was like an event, really, like we're 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.440 going to go see the Christmas tree, or like we're 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.920 going to go to that giant toy store where Tom 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.720 Hanks jumped on the piano. Yeah, it wasn't a regular thing, 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:19.480 which is crazy because it's a half hour away. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.839 I grew up in upstate New York, one hundred miles 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:30.800 north of New York and on near Woodstock. The country. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.920 Restaurants we only went out for special occasions. You know, 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.160 we went to a restaurant when it was somebody's birthday 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.520 or you know, some sort of anniversary or something to celebrate. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.360 And Italian food was really heavy. It was spaghetti and meatballs, 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.040 and eggplant parmegani. And it was such a revelation. I 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.559 don't know if you've ever been to Italy. When you 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.280 get to Italy and then you realize, rather like the 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.200 food in the River cafe that inspired us was as 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.880 clinging and simple as a grilled piece of fish with 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.800 maybe some herbs. It's a pasta with a little bit 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:06.400 of sauce. It's fish with again, you know, just lemon. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:08.960 And it was such a difference from the kind of 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.080 food that I thought of as Italian food. Is that 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.040 am I describing those? 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.000 Yeah? I've only been to Italy once, but when I 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.640 went there, I expected everybody to have curly mustaches and 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.480 be like, well, but they're they're they're not. It's very 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:28.719 it's very chill and laid back, and we've I can 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.959 only speak for where I live, but I feel like 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.000 I have adapted this sense of what we think it's 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.520 like over there over here, but when you get over there, 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.840 it's it's really not from what I've the little I've experienced, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.080 it's not like that at all. It's very chilled and 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.240 like simple. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.800 Yeah, where did you go? And tell me about your 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:50.400 trip to Italy? 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.440 Which of venice able to go to the film festival, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.960 and I went for like four or five days. I 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:02.480 never experienced anything like that, where like everything's on water 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.080 and but what's crazy is everybody there is just like 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.560 enjoy it. It's not going to be around and you're like, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:10.480 oh my god, that's terrible. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.840 It's pretty amazing that your first experience of Italy would 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.079 be Venice, because Venice is just I've been there a 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.360 lot of times and I almost can't remember the first 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.200 time I went, because I think my parents took me 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.480 when I was quite young. But I always thought how 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.600 great it would be to see Venice for the first time, 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.640 you know, that it would be your first time to 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.800 see Venice and to be because I still after going 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.000 there so many times and being so used to it, 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.640 I'm still shocked every time I go, you know, to see, 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.080 as you say, the water everywhere. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.560 It was a really fun experience. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.000 Did you go to restaurants there? 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.959 Yeah, I don't remember any of them, but they were 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.040 all you couldn't pick a bad one, you know, anywhere 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.960 you went it was really great and yeah, I had 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:51.760 a really great time. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.840 But also food takes you somewhere, doesn't it. When you 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.080 have the food of a different culture. Have you travel 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.440 apart from Venice? Have you been to any other countries? 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.800 Here in Venice are the only two places I've ever 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.000 traveled really outside of the United States. 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.800 What about within the United States? Have you been doing your. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.880 Work pretty much everywhere? And then you know, I think 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.400 I've hit all fifty states. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.200 Almost, have you? Yeah, tell me about that? What's that like? 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.079 I love the South? I love the South. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:18.120 What do you love about it? 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:19.960 The food and the al Gore? 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.359 You just told me you love Al al Gore? Al Gore, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:25.920 He's so sweet. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.400 You're just like, hello, Peter, it's al Gore. How are you. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.319 It's like, like, I don't know it's you. Yeah, he 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:36.120 always introduced himself like Peter, it's al Gore. It's like, yeah, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.520 I know, I'm well aware. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.040 But what's it like traveling in the South and eating 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.240 in the South? Do you like the food? 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.640 The love the food. I just love the I love 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.880 the fried chicken and the hearty meals and the grits 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.000 and like we don't have I didn't grow up with 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.040 grits or even know what it was. Had to be 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.720 introduced to it. They just like they know how to 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:04.760 really slap on some stuff onto food. It's really I mean, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.320 you can't eat it every day because you die. But 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.560 if you're like in the mood for like a really 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:16.640 hearty like and also everybody there is so upbeat and 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.040 very just like hello, like they're just like so warm 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.080 and yeah, yeah, I'm a sucker for like a southern 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.760 like atmosphere. I think it's so much fun. So I 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.160 like the food down there a lot. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.440 And when you're working, when you're traveling, when you're performing, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.800 do you eat before you were on stage or after 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.960 or during? How do you do your work and eat? 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.840 I started eating before the show is because I would 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.680 always eat after the shows, and I would usually base 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.000 my eating off whether I had a good show or not. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.520 And then if the show doesn't go well, usually don't 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.680 want to eat. So there would be like days when 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.520 I just didn't eat. So now I eat before the 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.480 show that way, even if it doesn't go well, you've 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:58.040 had something. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:02.680 Yeah, that's emotion well, that is emotional eating. That's saying that, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.560 you know, my mood, my performance affects how I feel. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.080 I'm therefore it affects how I eat. Yeah, some people 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.040 might say after a bad show, I feel so crap. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.680 I just want to eat or drink or forget it, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:16.720 but you go the other way. 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.360 Yeah, yeah, And if something doesn't go well, I become 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.560 very like I don't want. 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.920 Anything, but what is not going well? Mean? 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.000 For stand up it's like, you know, you're trying a 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.000 bunch of jokes or like material and the crowd's just 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.840 not digging it and there's not a lot of laughs. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.200 You know, the excitement of you being there has worn 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.080 off and now it's just like where is your jokes 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.640 and where's your material? And we're here to see a show, 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.680 and you know, when it doesn't go well, there's no 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:52.520 more instant of a feeling than stand up comedy. It's 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.360 like you're either flying high and crushing or it's like 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.120 not great. So you know when you're not doing well. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.480 You know, it's very very different. But being a chef 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.120 and having an open kitchen, you know, so I can 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.600 watch people when the plate is taken to them and 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.160 they kind of put this spoon to their mouth and 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.400 they'll look at the person and go like no, no, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.520 or they can smile and share it, or you can 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.080 It's that kind of It's so different from many ways, 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.440 but there is that audience and that sense of either 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.880 success or failure, you know. And sometimes I can cook 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.680 the same food and have almost the same menu in 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.160 the restaurant, can be full, and yet I know at 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:36.960 the end of it it was a bad night. I 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.200 just know. You just come home and you think, Okay, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.600 it's time for me to quit because I was so 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.120 it just wasn't it didn't work. And other nights you 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.880 feel so elated. And I think that's kind of why 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.880 a lot of actors like to work in a restaurant, 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.560 because there is quite a lot of drama going on 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:52.440 in a restaurant, do. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.720 You think, Yeah, absolutely. I mean when I worked in 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.760 a restaurant, it was for like three or four years. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:01.000 But the bus boys hated the waiters. Waiters hated the 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.440 bus boys, and I mean like afterwards hated the chefs. Yeah. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.399 They But after work everything was fine. Everybody was like cool. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.199 But during work it was like we're gonna be in 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:13.640 each other's faces all day. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:14.800 Yeah, you know. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.159 But my favorite thing was always sneaking off in the 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.359 back and eating whatever somebody didn't need. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.639 Oh really, off somebody's plate. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.920 Yeah I didn't. I didn't give other people like you're 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.119 gross and I'd be like, it's chicken palm. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.199 So tell me about the restaurant you've worked in. 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.360 I was called Nucci's South since that island. It's right 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.200 under the bridge. My dad's good friend runs it. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:40.679 Uh. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.680 It's it's like pretty well known on the island and 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.639 well respected and they serve classic Italian food. And you know, 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.640 they have a playlist of sixty songs on a loop 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:58.000 and it's all Frank Sinatra. Yeah, all day. I burned 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.880 it out of my brain. You used to be able 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.240 to tell what time it was in the restaurant by 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.960 what song was playing. What song was say playlist? I 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.840 mean just like fly Me to the Moon, Yeah, fly 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.720 Me to the moot, just like every Yeah, and I 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.960 would hear that every six hours. So like if I 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.439 fly Me to the Moon came back, I would know 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.200 we were halfway through with the day. Because they used 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.320 to take my phone because I'd be on it all day, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.199 did they Yeah, I'd be writing bits or like watching 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.960 comedy or like sneaking off and because you know, nobody 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:34.280 wants to work, So yeah, I used to be able 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.639 to tell what time it was by what awful music 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:38.320 was playing. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.280 That's very funny. So you were sixteen working in a 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:46.760 restaurant using your phone to write comedy. When did that start? 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.679 I started writing comedy when I was like fourteen, in 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.879 like school, instead of paying attention, I was just like 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:59.240 enamored with Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey. Those three 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.760 were just like the everything to me. All their movies, 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:07.640 their stand up and there's just nothing I ever thought 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.800 I would do. It's just something I was always really 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:14.600 interested in. And then when I was sixteen, I don't know. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.520 I told a buddy of mine. I was like, I 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.080 really love stand up. I would like to try it, 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.159 and he's like, you should and I was like nah, 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.280 And he was like, what's the worst that could happen? 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.560 Is like, it doesn't good, doesn't get friend, It's like 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.560 it doesn't go well, and then you don't ever do 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.440 it again. I was like, yeah, I guess, I guess 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.840 that's fine. And then I tried it and it went 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.760 okay enough that I felt like I could try it again. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:39.119 Where did you try it first? 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.280 It was in Staten Island. This club doesn't exist anymore, 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.359 but it was called the Looney Bin Comedy Club and 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:50.080 it was inside of a bowling alley next to an 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.080 La Fitness, which is a gym and a Wendy's. So 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.199 it was the craziest group of people who would be 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:01.080 like families coming in the bowl, a bunch of people 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.560 that didn't have enough time to eat dinner, so they're 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.080