Name: Sal Vulcano | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #395
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sal Vulcano | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #395' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-30. Transcript available.

Sal Vulcano | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #395

I'm excited to let you hear this.
I will be in Savannah, Georgia, June 2nd.
I'm coming this week.
Augusta, Georgia, June 3rd.
Montgomery, Alabama, June 4th.
And over to Columbus, Georgia, June 5th.
I'm very excited to be there and see you guys.
As well, Hollywood, Florida, Fort Myers, Florida, Daytona Beach, and Lakeland,
Florida.
That's June 23rd through June 26th.
Tickets on sale now at TheoVaughn.com slash T-O-U-R.
Don't go through a different vendor.
Go through the TheoVaughn site so that you can get them correct.
Because otherwise, people jack them up and they jack you over.
Today's guest is, well, we're not going to go too much into his history when he
and I talk.
Because most of you should know him.
And if you don't know him, I'll just tell you now.
He's from Impractical Jokers, the television program heading into its number
nine or ten season.
And they've just, I mean, it's an American staple.
It really is.
If you don't like it, your cousin does or your grandmother does.
And he's part of that group, him and three of his friends.
And he's a buddy of mine.
I almost went on his cruise a few.
I did go on his cruise.
Shoot.
I just remembered and forgot.
I went on his Impractical Jokers cruise a few years ago.
He has two podcasts.
One called Hey Babe with Chris DiStefano.
And another one called Taste Buds with Joe DeRosa.
I couldn't be happier to sit down with anyone.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Sal Volcano.
For me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.
Shine that light on me.
I'll sit and tell you my stories.
Shine on me.
And I will find a song I've been singing.
Just go.
And now I've been moving way too fast.
I'm okay.
I mean, I'm always, you know, trying to get better, man.
I've been leaning back into my sobriety program, so that's been helping me.
Okay.
And how's it going?
It's good.
It's starting to feel good.
It's just taking a while.
Where do you do that?
You know?
Here in LA?
Oh, yeah.
Are you back?
Are you here now?
Are you still?
I'm back and forth.
Okay.
So, yeah, I got me a house.
You split it?
Yeah, I would say it's probably split.
Yeah.
You got to go there like 51, like 183.
You got to legally be there.
It's almost like having to be in two places.
It's almost like whenever you see that baseball player and he has his foot on
the bag.
Yeah, and you're like waiting to steal?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's going back and playing his foot.
You start to lead and then the IRS kind of checks the bag.
Dude, that's exactly what it's like.
So, it's definitely like relaxing there.
People are so friendly.
I get to have like a whole new walk of like socializing and meeting people.
Feel what it's like to be in a smaller environment.
Your move there was your first move there, right?
Like you weren't familiar with it prior to that?
No, I didn't know.
It's kind of – I can't even believe I did it.
I mean, I know I wanted to save tax money and then I always wanted to live
there.
Seems like a dope spot.
I love it every time I go.
Yeah, it's fun.
It's just – you know, it's not LA or New York, so it's just smaller.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Are you limited though with being able to work out and do spots and stuff like
that?
Oh, yeah.
Right?
Because you got Zanies.
That's it.
And there's no like produced – there's no like bar or produced shows or
anything like that at all?
There may – I don't think there's a big scene for it.
So, it's just Zanies.
Yeah.
So, when you're there for like weeks at a time, are you just going to Zanies
every night and just popping in or –
No, you can't really do that.
So, you can kind of go – they have an open mic night or I'll do my own night.
Okay.
But it's like kind of – yeah, it's – that's the tough part is keeping the
comedy going.
Right.
And during the pandemic, it didn't matter because a lot of places weren't open
anyway.
Right, right, right, right.
So.
But this keeps you probably sharp, especially the one that you do when you just
do it yourself.
Yeah, that – I think that helps.
I mean, for me, really, comedy, I got to be on stage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got to be – I'll learn about it.
It's repetition.
Yep.
Like some people, they're more – they write the stuff and if it's a good –
but I got to be up there feeling it.
Yeah.
You write stuff down or no?
Ever?
Yeah, sometimes.
Yeah.
If I get my friends to laugh sometimes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know?
I'll write out like the big beats.
But like then if I haven't done – what I'll do is if I haven't done –
during the pandemic, I went back and transcribed everything.
Yeah.
Because it was just easier to get back into it after that long.
You know?
So I was like, I have a reference point anytime I blank because I was getting
back up and missing whole chunks.
Oh, that's the worst.
Yeah, so.
Yeah, the worst is like the other night I did a show and I got to the end of
the show and I almost wanted to run back out there because I forgot to do one
of the best bits.
Like, how do we –
Not even a tag?
A bit?
A full bit?
A full bit, man.
So I want to apologize.
I think that was in – I think that was in Midland, Texas, man.
I owe you guys a good joke.
But yeah, is it hard to separate like – do you find a tough time like doing
stuff for your show and then like getting into a different brain for comedy or
not really?
Nah, I haven't compartmentalized, you know?
But what kind of gets tricky is like when I'm going to tour with the guys and
like I'm doing my tour right now through February.
So – but I can't – I usually don't tour at the same time.
I can, but like really it's for like – because I can't sell tickets in the
same market for both tours, right?
So if one of them goes – like if we're – usually they take – the big one
takes precedent.
Right.
And then when that's kind of through, I'll start mine or at least like six
months into it, I'll start the date that was six months before it.
Oh, I see.
So it's like a rolling thing.
But since the pandemic, we didn't have our fifth tour written yet and I had
mine.
So – and I had to cancel my tour from before the pandemic.
So now I've been on tour the whole year.
And we don't start with them until February.
So we're going to start writing that now.
That's stressful too because we don't do – write comedy the way that we would
individually.
So we got to do this like whole different process, but they'll put up the sales,
the tickets, before we even have a joke written.
So I get like massive anxiety.
Pressure.
This is like the fifth tour like over 10 years that that's happening.
And every two years when we're in this phase, I get like chest pains.
Like all the stress manifests itself.
Yeah.
I get like shooting pains in my head and shit.
Oh, dude.
I've had that shit.
I go get EKGs, this, that, and like stress.
And it's always this time.
Oh.
Because it's so nerve-wracking to have people buying tickets to a show that you
haven't written a joke to yet.
Can you imagine that?
It's like – I get like nauseous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean it's – I think it's nice because it says something about that
you want to show up with something legitimate for people.
Yeah.
You know, you want to actually show – you know.
Some people wouldn't care.
They're just like, yeah, sell them, whatever.
I'll get out there, you know.
Yeah, but you got to –
I'll juggle.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I know, but I mean, you know, it's different too with other people.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm sure that it's a totally different energy out there.
Yeah, I know whenever you said you came in, you were taking your medicine, you
said you just started taking one.
Yeah, I started like – I guess it's got to be at least six months now.
Oh, wow.
Wellbutrin.
And you've been on there.
How wellbutrin is that gangster, baby?
Is it?
You told me that.
I didn't know.
It's the hit, man.
Really?
I think it is, bro.
Wellbutrin.
Damn.
I can feel that shit climbing up and down my cerebellum at night, bro.
Really?
Scaling the walls.
Yeah, wellbutrin, baby.
Damn, that shit.
You've been on it?
That shit keeps a hatchet on its hip, baby.
Really?
For me, it did.
Wellbutrin, I was doing – I started doing –
kind of some weird – like a little bit of like – not weird stuff, but I
like couldn't –
I wasn't doing good.
I started spinning out.
Yeah.
But you feel good on it.
Yeah.
Well, I was spinning out before.
Really?
Yeah.
So I talked to a couple people.
A couple people I know were on it.
So I was trying to tackle two things with my doctor.
One was the anxiety and depression, and the other one was my ADHD and OCD.
Oof.
So he's like – both of those could affect the other in some ways.
And we got to treat one at a time.
So – because we got to figure out what you react well to and not.
So he's like, which one do you want to tackle first?
So I'm like, I've been living with ADHD and OCD forever.
Yeah.
So, like, I didn't even know – I didn't even know I had it until people
started telling
me, oh, no.
And then I realized, like, oh, you don't have to live this way.
Like, I didn't even know that before.
I just thought it was, like, normal to not remember anything.
Wow.
To have shit race into my mind at all times.
You know what I mean?
Like, all that stuff, I just – that's the way I always can't focus on
anything.
But I just, like – it's the way I've always done it.
So I just do it.
Yeah.
I just function with it.
Right.
You thought this is who I am.
And then I had a really good friend tell me, like, that he had all that stuff,
and he gave
me a book, and I didn't read the book.
But he was like, I'm telling you, you don't have to live this way at all.
So I went, and I got a – I went, and years ago, I went, and when he gave me
that book,
and I said, frig it, I'll go.
I took a test, you know, and they put, like, straps on my wrists, ankles, and
head.
Really?
Yeah.
And head?
Yeah.
Like, not straps, like, hold me down, but, like, bands.
Right?
Wow.
Did you ever take – you ever – you ever did anything like that?
ADHD or anything?
I don't know.
I don't think I've had it.
I could have it, though.
Yeah.
I don't know.
So I went, right?
So I go in this little room.
They sit with me in front of a computer, and they say, all right, take the
mouse, and
they're like, you're just going to – for, like, 20, 25 minutes, you're going
to sit
in here, and you're going to watch the screen, and when you see, like, a shape,
click
on the shape or whatever.
Like, some real rudimentary shit.
Yeah.
So I was like, oh, yeah, all right, well, I guess.
So they put this shit on me.
I went in there 20 minutes, and I'm seeing a triangle I'm clicking, a circle I'm
clicking, and I'm like, this is the easiest thing, and I started to get worried
because
I'm like, I'm acing this.
Right.
Like, they're going to tell me I don't have this shit, and I'm here because I'm
at my
wit's end with it, and they're about to tell me I don't have it.
Oh.
So I'm just clicking, clicking.
I'm like, I'm dominating.
God.
I thought I got 100, and then they came in, they took the thing, they took the
print
out, they came back, they assessed me, and they go, you have severe ADHD.
Severe.
Wow.
So I don't know what the test really was.
I don't know if it was, like, measuring my fidgeting, but I don't know how that's
going to come.
I really don't know how it works.
I should have asked.
So then they tried to give me, what's that stuff that, like, hyperfocuses you?
Oh, Ritalin?
No, the other one.
Oh, yeah, Ritalin for adults.
Like, it's like, uh, it's like, uh, it's like, uh, it's crazy.
It's like, uh, people snort it, too.
Yeah, it's like, it's like very, very common.
I don't know why it's blanking.
Yeah, why can't we think of it?
It's like, um, I think it starts with a, um, what?
A?
Yeah, I think it starts with an A, dude.
Do you, do you?
I don't know what it is.
Anybody?
Adderall.
Adderall.
Damn.
They gave me a time release Adderall, 20, 20, and maybe milligrams, whatever it
is.
It's like the game, it's like a game show with drugs.
It's like that, uh, what is that, uh, okay, uh, blue pill, you know?
It's like, wouldn't that be crazy?
That's the future, dude