#1237 - Sebastian Maniscalco

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Here we go.

Four, three, two, one. And we're live, you fucking handsome bastard. Look at you.

Sebastian Maniscalco (0:10)

Oh yeah, stunning.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

What's going on, man?

Sebastian Maniscalco (0:15)

What's going on? Well, I've done this once before, and I've watched you throughout the years.

And when I come in here, I get a little nervous.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Why?

Sebastian Maniscalco (0:34)

You're a guy who knows a lot about everything, and I don't know a lot of...

Joe Rogan (0:42)

I don't know a lot about everything. I know enough to make it seem like I know a lot about everything.

Sebastian Maniscalco (0:46)

Whatever you're doing, it's, you know more than I do, right? Like we were on your treadmill out there, and you go, it's 13%...

SPEAKER_3 (0:58)

What did you say?

Joe Rogan (0:59)

13% more difficult than regular running.

SPEAKER_3 (1:02)

Like I forgot the fact, what you just said, from the time we walked in, I lost it.

Sebastian Maniscalco (1:10)

So I don't have the retention that I wish I had.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

I gotta get you some alpha brain.

Sebastian Maniscalco (1:17)

I need something.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Do we have any here?

Sebastian Maniscalco (1:19)

Is that what I'm missing in my diet? I don't know.

Joe Rogan (1:24)

I mean, what's interesting though is that people will come up to me with shit that happened just a few years ago and I'm like, I don't remember that at all. Like, I think you have a certain amount of room in your brain.

And my brain is always deleting stuff that it doesn't think it needs anymore. And then shoving in new things. Like sometimes someone will tell me about something. I'm like, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_3 (1:43)

And they're like, you don't remember?

Joe Rogan (1:45)

There was the guy with no arms who drove us around. I went, what?

And then I have to go, oh yeah. It's like I find the folder in my head. And like, oh there it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we went to the pool hall and da, da, da, da, da. And then I'll remember.

But if, yeah. It's just, for whatever reason, this, I can only, I only keep things that I'm interested in.

Sebastian Maniscalco (2:10)

I just wish I could retain a lot of the things I either see or hear to then recall it in a conversation.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

You can, but you gotta write things down and you gotta like wanna recall things.

Sebastian Maniscalco (2:21)

Yeah, that's a problem. I don't do a lot of writing as far as like a notepad or anything to just take notes.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

When you write your act, do you write it in your head or do you write it on paper or a computer?

Sebastian Maniscalco (2:32)

It's audio. Just audio. I go to the comedy store, I record it, and I listen to it on the way home, and then I'll go, oh, maybe I'll do this next time. Maybe I'll do that, I'll take that out, this out. And then, so there's no writing. My act is more recalling stories than sitting in a room going, oh, I think this is funny.

So that's kind of how I work. But yeah, the reason I say that to start off is just like, I see you go down a lot of different paths on the podcast, and I often go, man, if I was sitting in that chair, could I add to the conversation?

And a lot of times, it's no. I can't, just because for whatever the reason, I just feel like I need to be a little bit more well-read.

Joe Rogan (3:20)

How often you read?

Sebastian Maniscalco (3:22)

Like I read the Goggins book.

Joe Rogan (3:23)

Yeah, great fucking book.

Sebastian Maniscalco (3:25)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

Sad life that dude had, huh?

Sebastian Maniscalco (3:28)

It's sad life, but then on the flip side, inspiring to a guy like myself, where I'm running, say I'm working out, and I thought of this guy, I go, you know what, let's put another mile into this.

Joe Rogan (3:41)

Yeah.

Sebastian Maniscalco (3:42)

So, yeah, I mean, I'm just now starting to get into a little bit more books than I have in the past, because in the past, to be honest with you, I haven't really read much.

Joe Rogan (3:54)

I try to read one new thing a week, and the way I try to do it is, I have, I use a lot of audiobooks, but I also read books. I go back and forth in between them, between reading and audiobooks, but I find for whatever reason, I retain more with audiobooks than I do with reading.