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Pete Davidson sits down to determine whether things like pizza, the FDNY and living with your parents are uniquely Staten Island. He also dishes about the ferry that he bought with Colin Jost, his thoughts on social media and his upcoming movies 'How to Rob a Bank' and 'Bitcoin.'
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00:00Should I just start an OnlyFans and show soft ?
00:02You are not a real Staten Island politician
00:05unless you have a secret family and no one mobster.
00:08I like picturing George R.R. Martin
00:09looking at Staten Island and going, what is that?
00:17Living with your parents.
00:19Living with your parents is the most fucking
00:20Staten Island thing possible.
00:23We're saving for the future.
00:26I feel like it's normal now.
00:27It was kind of a joke when I was growing up there.
00:31So when you live with your parents and now it's like,
00:33you don't live with your parents?
00:35That's a pretty normal thing now, right?
00:37Because of like, wokeness.
00:39Like we don't want to shame those who
00:42live with their parents, I guess.
00:44I lived there as long as I possibly could.
00:46I had fun.
00:47I don't live on Staten Island anymore.
00:49My mom is still there and has a house there
00:51and I go over there a lot.
00:52I miss it. I'm trying to go back.
00:54John F. Kennedy.
00:55JFK is Staten Island because it's the biggest ferry.
00:59ferry and I, I now own it.
01:09If I ever want to laugh, I just think about that.
01:12We do at least two to three sort of activations a year.
01:16We do enough to keep it going.
01:18It's probably the most asked question I get.
01:22With a little bit of like, side eye too.
01:24Just kind of like, that didn't work out, huh?
01:27And I'm like, it's a 6,000 seat giant ferry.
01:32There's a lot of, you know, a lot of shit that you gotta do.
01:35We're trying to get that preacher guy.
01:36Remember that guy?
01:37No mission.
01:39No mission.
01:40No mission.
01:41No mission.
01:45Next week, we're going to get that guy.
01:47We're trying to bring back putting cars on there.
01:50That was, this one you could put cars on there.
01:52I always thought that was pretty cool.
01:53Pizza.
01:54Staten Island.
01:56It has so much good pizza.
01:59Danino's, Lee's, Campania, Goodfellas.
02:03I'm missing one.
02:04I feel like Danino's takes the win.
02:06Staten Island definitely has the best pizza in the city.
02:08Besides pizza, I just think it has like the best food in New York.
02:11It has good Chinese food.
02:13Empire Szechuan's pretty good.
02:15I used to go over there because, do you remember the little Homie toys?
02:18They had a Homie's kiosk over there.
02:20Homies were sick.
02:22Christina Aguilera.
02:23Christina Aguilera is Staten Island.
02:25She's from there, I'm told.
02:28I don't know how often she visits, but once from, always from.
02:32John Franco lived there for a while.
02:35Steven Seagal lived there for a while.
02:37I know Vinny from the Jersey Shore is there.
02:39He did the most Staten Island thing ever.
02:41He bought the pizza place his mom worked at next to the atrium and then made her the owner.
02:46That's as fucking Staten Island as it gets.
02:48Bringing famous people to Staten Island is the best.
02:51They all love it.
02:53MGK fucking loves Staten Island.
02:55People don't understand how fucking cool it is there.
02:57It's like a time machine.
03:00It's 1985 over there.
03:01Staten Island has this weird thing where it's like, it's New York, but it's like pretty much Jersey.
03:06And it's like that like fine line and it's called the Forgotten Borough.
03:11So there's like a lot of pride, like the mall.
03:16Like, or that like weird, like, you know, weird, like carnival that goes near the mall every year.
03:23That's definitely not safe, but we go.
03:27Or the fucking the hospital that's abandoned, that's in the middle of the woods that you could just go in
03:32there and there's like gurneys from 1950 there and all this like rust and nails.
03:38And it's so scary and that was like fun.
03:42FDNY.
03:43Staten Island.
03:43What's cool about it is a lot of it is volunteer, which I think is really cool and special about
03:49the island, but FDNY is all New York.
03:51I feel like I should and always gladly like to do my part just because of my association and, you
03:59know, keeping my dad's name alive is really important.
04:01I got to do Dennis Leary's foundation this year where you get to be a firefighter for a day, the
04:06amount of funding that these guys need and how little that they give to these real life heroes is pretty
04:14astonishing.
04:15You know, they put a fucking giant piece of luggage Louis Vuitton store in the middle of Manhattan and I
04:21just was like, anything we can do to help the FDNY is, I think, really, really important.
04:28NYPD is a little more Staten Island, I think.
04:30They're nice in Staten Island, at least to me, I got a lot of PBA cards, so I have no
04:37problem in Staten Island.
04:39Lorne Michaels.
04:40Lorne Michaels.
04:41He is Staten Island, actually.
04:43Yeah.
04:43He hired Colin and I, and also he's like, got some swag, Staten Island has a lot of swag, but
04:50yeah, he's like, he's a little gangster.
04:52He's just like, I can't believe I have two guys from Staten Island on my show, that's my boy.
04:57I love Lorne, yeah, yeah, we check in all the time.
05:00I gotta say, man, he's more relevant than ever and working more than ever and he's as excited as ever
05:06and always grateful for my Lorne time, but yeah, he's the man.
05:11Game of Thrones.
05:12Game of Thrones, I don't think that's Staten Island at all.
05:16I love Game of Thrones, but I don't think, I don't see people from Staten Island being into incest and
05:23dragons.
05:25At least my uncle's not, but I could be wrong.
05:28I'm sure there's three comments on this that are like, fuck you, I love Game of Thrones.
05:32Westeros is your concept of what Staten Island is.
05:36I like picturing George R. R. Martin looking at Staten Island and going, what is that?
05:43Nicholas Holt.
05:44Nick Holt? Super Staten Island.
05:46I'll tell you why, he's 35 and has four kids, okay?
05:50He's old school.
05:51He's a good guy.
05:52He fucking is a great family guy.
05:55He's a great actor, but he's not like an actor-y actor where like, you yell cut, he's Nick Holt.
06:00He's not whoever he's playing.
06:02Super funny, cool.
06:04I fucking love that guy.
06:05He's super Staten Island.
06:07How to Rob a Bank.
06:08Super excited about that one.
06:10It's David Leach.
06:12Leach is a fucking top 10 director right now.
06:15Best stunt guy ever.
06:16It's a really fun, very current sort of movie.
06:21It's about a bunch of dudes who show you how to rob banks on YouTube.
06:26People do really crazy shit on the internet.
06:29It's bad and it makes me sad, you know, and girls are just talking to themselves on there
06:35and they're like, okay, come get ready with me.
06:39And I'm like, who the fuck are you?
06:41What do you do?
06:42Nothing.
06:44What the fuck is this?
06:46They make 40 million a year?
06:48What?
06:48And then I'm like, the world's broken.
06:50There's girls my age that go on TikTok and they'll like mutter like a thing and then
06:56do this like dance.
06:58And I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?
07:01This is insane.
07:02Does no one else see how fucking insane and lame this is?
07:05And these girls are like super famous.
07:08Like everyone's like, oh my God, I can't believe.
07:11And I'm like, what?
07:13I don't know.
07:14This is the first time I felt really old, but I do think about it like once a week.
07:17I'm like, should I just start an OnlyFans and show soft cock?
07:21Like really tight underwear and just soft cock and retire?
07:25Or just keep, you know, keep trying.
07:29I don't know, you know, if it all goes to fail, I could just soft, soft cock it.
07:33We all could.
07:34We could soft cock it.
07:36Zoran Mamdani.
07:38Zoran Mamdani.
07:39Is he Staten Island?
07:41I don't know.
07:42I don't think he's from Staten Island.
07:45I don't know if he has Staten Island's heart.
07:48I don't think he's Staten Island.
07:50I don't have a problem with the guy, but I definitely don't think he's Staten Island at all.
07:55Staten Island is the only red place in New York and it's violently red.
08:00I try to explain it because, you know, most of my family is, you know, on the red side.
08:05But it's not like that like storm the Capitol vibe.
08:10It's more just like he's funny.
08:13Like, I don't care.
08:14You just need something different.
08:15Like, it's not like a racist, misogynistic sort of thing.
08:19It's just like they just it's 1985 over there.
08:23You are not a real Staten Island politician unless you have a secret family and no one mobster.
08:29I would not trust you to run Staten Island.
08:33Which Wu-Tang members were born on Staten Island?
08:37I think Method Man was born on Staten Island.
08:39Yes?
08:40No?
08:41He's not?
08:42Well, he is to me.
08:43Let me see.
08:44If I had to guess, and I could be wrong, but Raekwon, RZA, Yugod, and JZA are from Staten Island?
08:56Or am I wrong on all of those?
08:57Only Ghostface Killer.
08:59Only Ghostface?
09:00Dennis?
09:02I have a really funny story about Ghostface, who I love very much and has always been very kind to
09:06me.
09:06He works out at the same gym my mom does.
09:08And my mom, my mom texted me one day and she said, she goes, I'm working out with Dennis.
09:14Dennis says hello.
09:15And I'm like, who the fuck is Dennis?
09:17And she goes, oh, sorry, Ghostface Killer.
09:19I was like, that's fucking awesome.
09:22That's a fun thing to picture is your mom working out with Ghostface.
09:26Spaulding Gray.
09:28Spaulding Gray? Like the basketball?
09:30What's Spaulding Gray?
09:31The famous monologuist.
09:33Spaulding Gray? The famous monologuist?
09:36I'm very touched that you think I would know who the fuck that is.
09:40He killed himself by jumping off a Staten Island ferry?
09:42Usually people do that as a suicidal gesture because they know that they're not going to die.
09:46Did he fucking get run over by it?
09:48He just jumped?
09:51Well, first of all, rest in peace.
09:53Second of all, I don't know who the fuck he is, but I hope his monologues live on.
10:01And I hope there's a bench on the, we'll put a bench for him on my ferry.
10:07That's a tough way to go because that water is fucking disgusting.
10:11Like if you don't die from jumping off, you would die from whatever you got in your skin from that
10:16water eventually.
10:19Joey Ramone.
10:20Joey Ramone is super Staten Island. Punk rock.
10:23I feel like he came to Staten Island a bunch.
10:25We were supposed to do the movie and then for years lingered and I knew so much about it.
10:31And then got so sad that it wasn't happening.
10:33So I like dumped it into my computer trash bin in my brain.
10:37It's not fucking dead. It's just on life support is what I'm told.
10:42Every biopic is the same, right?
10:44Guy wants to play music.
10:46He's from a small whatever. No one believes in him.
10:50His parents are a little like, I don't know if you can go do that.
10:52And then he's playing at some weird rinky dink fucking bar.
10:56And then someone's in the back like, I see this guy.
10:59And then he brings him into this record thing and they're like, I don't know.
11:03And the guy starts playing and they're all like, oh, they're coming.
11:06And then the guy blows up. He's amazing.
11:08He's with someone, this woman already before he was fucking big.
11:13And then he gets big and he's like, fuck you. I'm gonna fuck everything.
11:15And then he fucks everything, right?
11:17And then he has this new wife and there's a huge drug problem where something fucking happens.
11:20And then he has to go get better and he falls down.
11:23And no one's buying his fucking music.
11:24And then he fucking plays that one fucking album.
11:26And then he's all back and they have a hunky dory and he's sober and it's fucking, it's great.
11:30That's every biopic. I don't give a fuck.
11:33What was cool about the Ramon script is it was super fucked up and not pretty and not cute.
11:39And I don't know if that's, I think they wanted a cute one.
11:43Ralph's.
11:43Ralph's ice is super Staten Island.
11:45Fuck. I love Ralph's ice is.
11:47I wish I could get a peanut butter cookie dough ice right now.
11:50That'd be so cool if you guys had that. Do you have that?
11:54Ralph's ice is an Italian ice stand.
11:58There's a couple of them in Staten Island.
12:00From May to about mid September, every day is like when you used to sleep outside to get the new
12:09PlayStation.
12:10It is a line around the block.
12:13It is a Staten Island staple, much like barbershops and the pizza.
12:18When we were in high school, the coolest people like worked there.
12:22It would always be like really cool dudes with like that wore like backwards fitted hats.
12:27But the ice is slap.
12:30Cryptocurrency.
12:31Cryptocurrency. I feel like that is Staten Island because it's a fucking scheme.
12:35Staten Island is full of schemers and dreamers.
12:38And like a lot of those dudes are so fucking crazy they end up making a lot.
12:43But I think it's a very Staten Island thing.
12:45It's like LimeWire for money.
12:47I remember fucking Elon hosted and it was like when Dogecoin or whatever was like whatever.
12:54Everyone was like trying to figure out if he was going to say it or mention it or whatever because
12:57they thought it would go up.
12:59But like I think he knew or they all knew it was going to go down.
13:04And we were kind of told like don't because everyone was like should we fucking buy whatever.
13:09But like it's not it's not a real.
13:13It's not a real thing.
13:14I am jealous of the people that figured out the GameStop thing.
13:17That's pretty fucking cool.
13:18What do you think the next GameStop is?
13:20Barnes and Noble?
13:23You're in the upcoming Bitcoin movie.
13:25Yes, I am.
13:27I had no fucking idea what they were talking about in that movie.
13:31There were these monologues where I was like there's no way it's good.
13:36Like my there's no I mean like I think the movie is really good.
13:41And I had a lot of fun and Casey and Gal are incredible and Doug's bucket list director I wanted
13:47to work with.
13:48But there's shit I'm just like blockchain and fucking I have no idea what the fuck I was talking about.
13:54And the more that they explained it to me the further away that.
13:58Yeah, I like my money right there.
14:00I like to be able to see it and hold it.
14:02I love Staten Island.
14:03I've always loved Staten Island.
14:05I make fun of it because I'm from Staten Island.
14:08That's what we do is we complain about it.
14:10But we love it and we're very protective of it.
14:12When I go there I get a lot of love.
14:14I see a lot of hate, but I've never witnessed it in person.
14:19It's so funny they can't give you a compliment.
14:21Like a compliment from there would be like, you know, I saw that movie.
14:25They'll be like, it was alright.
14:27And that's like, that's like a standing ovation in Staten Island.
14:30And I hope that never changes.
14:32It's just, you know, push down love.
14:35That's just kind of how we all grew up there.
14:38So I don't take it personally.
14:39And I'll always love it.
14:40And I hope to move back there soon.