672: The Pete and Sebastian Show - EP 672 - "THE CORNHOLE DUSTBOWL GLAMPING FIASCO"

Summary

The Pete and Sebastian Show – EP 672 – "THE CORNHOLE DUSTBOWL GLAMPING FIASCO"

Date: September 16, 2025
Hosts: Pete Correale, Sebastian Maniscalco
Theme: New homes, suburban life, failed “glamping,” and the comedy of ordinary disasters.

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Episode Overview

Episode 672 is a classic Pete & Sebastian riff—anecdotal, observational, and full of their signature chemistry. The episode revolves around Pete’s move to his new Rochester home, awkward new neighbor etiquette, Sebastian’s health anxieties, and Pete’s disastrous high-end camping (glamping) vacation. Throughout, they land on suburban rituals, aging, etiquette, and why cornhole isn’t real entertainment.

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Main Topics & Key Discussion Points

1. Pete's Move to Rochester & Suburban Adjustment

Timestamps: 02:29–18:00

• Pete’s New Home Setup: Pete’s in a barely unpacked room with boxes everywhere—Sebastian jokes that Pete looks like a hostage or in witness protection due to the bare window backdrop.

  • Sebastian (02:50): “It looks like you’re doing this as a hostage against your will… if you were captive and going to send a video to your family, this is where they would put you.”

• Tech Struggles in the New House:

  • Pete details the chaos of getting internet and his nascent basement studio running, dealing with “turn it off and on again” IT support, and embarrassing moments where his wife outpaces him just setting up basic podcast gear.
  • Pete (04:07): “I knew I could do it from this room with the Internet. But I’m trying to set up my Nighthawks, these towers, so I can start to prepare a proper studio in my basement. And that was what was not happening.”

• New Neighborhood Vibes:

  • Pete marvels at his picturesque new suburb near the Erie Canal—kid-friendly, tree-lined, quiet. Sebastian jokes this might kill Pete’s best podcast material: “Nothing funny comes out of happiness.” (18:10)
  • Navigation of neighborhood etiquette: When to greet neighbors, what to reveal, and should Pete be embarrassed by unpacking “pods” and disorder?
  • Memorable Moment: Pete describes his daughter immediately integrated by a trio of local girls who initiate her by group text and scooter brigade (11:12).

2. Suburban Social Anxiety & Etiquette

Timestamps: 13:28–18:38

• Who Should Greet First? Pete and Sebastian debate whether the new resident or established neighbors should make the first move.

  • Sebastian (13:28): “Who says hello first, the homeowner or the guest?”
  • Pete agonizes about how much to engage versus fearing unwanted obligations.

• Kids Roaming Free vs. Urban Paranoia: Pete’s delight at kids’ unsupervised freedom clashes with Sebastian’s city-worn skepticism.

  • Sebastian (14:49): “What if you saw the dad come out, smoking a cigar? And your kid was hanging over here for three weeks and you didn’t notice?”

3. From Old House to New—Cleaning and Contamination Fears

Timestamps: 22:05–27:49

• “Ass on Tile” Shower Anxiety:

  • Pete’s discomfort using a previous owner’s leftover squeegee and tight glass-walled shower, imagining a residue of former inhabitants.
  • Pete (22:05): “When I did it, I felt like the guy did it and his ass hit the tile in the same spot. …I’m making love to this guy practically.”
  • Sebastian riffs on the “used toilet” dilemma, referencing celebrity previous owners: “Blake [Shelton] was on that thing. …Maybe I don’t go to Blake’s country on that bowl.” (25:17)

• Deep Cleaning Protocols:

  • Sebastian advocates for industrial-level cleaning before moving into a new house, so even CIA can’t find DNA (25:58–26:50).

• Pet Doors and Old House Quirks:

  • Pete describes inheriting a basement door with a built-in ‘cat flap’—disgusting to both him and his dog.

4. Friend Drama & Dogs

Timestamps: 28:19–31:06

• Copycat Breeds Accusation:
  • Sebastian and Pete recount how a friend (“John”) got the same dog breed, which became podcast fodder—and how their friend’s wife joined a group chat to defend the household’s naming conventions and canine distinctiveness.
  • “I wish I could be mad at you guys, but it was so funny I couldn’t stop laughing about it.” (John quoted by Sebastian, 29:07)
  • Pete notes, “I was thinking about having a ham sandwich. Are you having turkey right now or are you about to have ham? …John, relax.” (30:57)

5. Sebastian's Upcoming Colonoscopy

Timestamps: 31:06–35:29

• Sebastian details his anxiety about anesthesia (“my fear, anytime there’s anesthesia, is that I’m going to wake up in the middle”), recalling his “dramatic” response to wisdom teeth surgery.

  • Sebastian (32:53): “My fear… is that I’m gonna wake up in the middle of this.”
  • Pete (33:38): “You get a lot of money to be an anesthesiologist, man.”

• They riff on how the indignity of needing a “ride home” from procedures marks getting older.

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6. Pete’s Glamping Vacation—The Dustbowl Fiasco

Timestamps: 36:02–63:08

The Un-Glam of Glamping:

• Pete narrates his family’s “high-end” camping experience (in Maine)—a full-on fiasco:
  • Endless Dust: Gravel roads sent up clouds so thick, guests taste it inside cars. “You would have went 30 feet in your car and you would turn around… Get back on the pavement. We're out of here.” (37:12)
  • No Power, No Service: Tents lacked electricity except rechargeable lanterns, which were frequently dead or not returned. “I'm sitting here in the dark… $1,000 a night.” (39:20)
  • Bad Coffee & Bee Stings: Coffee only available by hiking a quarter to half a mile, always cold, served from truck-stop urns. Bees abound, leading to Pete being stung.
  • No Snacks & Rigged Showers:
    • Prohibited from bringing food (while locals admit bears are not an issue).
    • Shower ran only by pulling a chain—and staff teach you to rig it “like I’m in prison.” (42:58)
  • Housekeeping Fail & Hidden Fees: No housekeeping, specialized soaps in ketchup bottles, long walks to everything, zero complimentary snacks.
  • False Ads: Promised proximity to hiking, which only measured accurate in “the middle of the night in December.” “Again, I would’ve even camped closer. …It was making it more inconvenient.” (43:26)

Cornhole, S’mores & The Limits of Resorts

• Pete ridicules “cornhole” as an activity worthy of $1,000 a night.
  • “Cornhole. Throwing a beanbag at a hole in a piece of wood… that’s not entertainment to me.” (47:47)
  • Sebastian notes the prevalence of “themed” cornhole boards; Pete and Sebastian agree this is evidence of a personality vacuum.

Complaint Escalates:

• Pete confesses to recording a semi-rant voicemail to management (“I’m going to have PTSD from this”), only to later regret the impulse.

• Corporate responds: staff are fans of the show and offer Pete a free stay at another location.

• Pete debates with Sebastian: Should he accept a return, or is that just volunteering for more pain?

  • Sebastian (55:54): “To offer a stay somewhere else… I didn’t like the stay to begin with. Why would I want to do this again?”

• Takeaway: Pete doesn’t want anything—just to know the company knows he knows he was ripped off: “When I get ripped off, it’s really important to me that the person who rips me off knows that I know I got ripped off. Right? That was it. That is a psycho.” (61:05)

Final Note:

Sebastian recommends “pause up”—luxury Montana glamping where “they bring coffee to your tent every morning.”
Pete concludes he’ll stick to his favorite camping by Long Lake and skip the “epic” dust next time.

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Notable Quotes & Classic Moments

• On Suburban Paranoia:

  • Sebastian (14:49): “What if you saw the dad come out, smoking a cigar? And your kid was hanging over here for three weeks and you didn’t notice?”

• On Glamping Disasters:

  • Pete (39:20): “This is $1,000 a night… If I was camping on my own, I’d have f---ing power, right?”
  • Pete (47:47): “Cornhole. Throwing a beanbag at a hole in a piece of wood… that’s not entertainment to me.”

• On Neighborhood Etiquette:

  • Sebastian (13:28): “Who says hello first, the homeowner or the guest?”

• On Cleaning Showers:

  • Pete (22:05): “When I did it, I felt like the guy did it and his ass hit the tile in the same spot. …I’m making love to this guy practically.”

• On the Need to Vent:

  • Pete (61:05): “When I get ripped off, it’s really important to me that the person who rips me off knows that I know I got ripped off.”

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:00–01:58 – Ads, show intro
• 02:29–18:00 – Pete’s new house setup, neighborhood anxieties
• 18:10–22:05 – Suburban happiness = no comedy? Sebastian’s concern
• 22:05–27:49 – Cleaning/contamination, moving-in rituals
• 28:19–31:06 – Friend gets same dog, banter about originality
• 31:06–35:29 – Sebastian’s colonoscopy anxiety
• 36:02–63:08 – Pete’s glamping trip meltdown: dust, darkness, cold coffee, cornhole, complaints
• 63:08–end – Resolution: refusing a return stay, future plans

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Tone & Style

Classic Pete and Sebastian—conversational, unscripted, and loaded with everyday “what the…?” energy. Pete’s long-form storytelling is full of self-aware rants, while Sebastian supplies incredulous questions and “I would’ve left!” punchlines. Their exchanges are full of mutual ribbing and deft, real-time escalation.

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TL;DR

Pete adjusts to a new (almost too perfect) suburban life while Sebastian wonders if happiness kills comedy. Pete recounts his 'glamping' from hell in Maine—dust-choked, lightless, cornhole-heavy, overpriced, and crowned with shoddy service. The duo riff on neighbor etiquette, the indignities of aging, the horror of old house leftovers, and why the best podcasts come from suburban disaster, not utopia.

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For next week: Pete promises more about the vacation fallout (“Maybe on the next cast…”), and Sebastian recovers from his colonoscopy ordeal.

Transcript

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[Pete Corieli]

This is the Pete and Sebastian show with Pete Corieli and Sebastian Maniscalco. I'll light the fire. You place the flowers in the vase that you bought today. Staring at the fire.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Welcome to the Pete and Sebastian show. If you notice, if you're watching this show, Pete is in a new location at his new home in Rochester. And gotta be honest, bro, I ain't.

[Pete Corieli]

Feeling.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

The fucking window. I don't know, it looks like you're doing this as a hostage against your will. Like I felt like if you were captive and that you were gonna send a video to your family, this is where they would put you to do the video in the place that they're keeping you in the safe house.

[Pete Corieli]

I'm in a cave and there's a guy right behind me. All he could see is. Listen, I understand that I can show you around. There's boxes everywhere. One guy picked up.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Just roll with it, okay?

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, okay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Fucking around. I know you just moved and you're getting situated. I just Say, I got. There's a lot to take in there.

[Pete Corieli]

I got.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You know, I never know. I don't normally see the desk, and there's a window there, and I start wondering, is it raining? Is it fucking sunny? I. You know, like, my head goes elsewhere, right?

[Pete Corieli]

So I know you're right. All right, fair enough. Fair enough. Yeah. By the way, it's beautiful, but I've been. I've been setting up. We've been trying to set up for about three hours. Patrick had been on the phone. I'm not kidding you. With Jackie for two hours.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, God.

[Pete Corieli]

And when somebody else is helping and I got to do that, lean over like. Like I'm just a gopher. Like, whatever. They. Jackie said, go get me the cable. You know? And it got to the point it just wasn't happening. It wasn't happening. And I'm like, I knew I could do it from this room with the. With the Internet. I knew I could do that because we have that set up. But I'm trying to set up my Nighthawks, these towers, so I can start to prepare a proper studio in my basement. And that was what was not happening. And you ever get to that point when Patrick. He hits you with this? When anyone is trying to help you, and they hit. They hit you with the. Try turning it on and off. Oh, we're done. We're fucking. We're doing the on and off. We're doing the on and off. Now.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Go unplug it for. For 10 seconds and then plug it back in. Can you explain that move with the 10 seconds? Is it. Is it because there's electricity still in the coil going to the thing? Why 10 seconds? As soon as you unplug it, isn't it off? Or is it like. Like extra water in a hose that's got to filter through? What the is that?

[Pete Corieli]

No. And then when you turn it back on, why is it all better? Like, I don't get any of it. Like, how come it didn't have to? Like, when you got a problem and you go to bed, you wake up, the problem's there. Like, what is this reset shit? So, you know, you hire IT teams and tech guys, and then they go turn it on and turn it off. Oh, my God. So I don't know. Patrick, explain that. Truly. It's a hail, man.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm sure he knows why that works, but can we just. The patience level this man has to have working with you. And when she's told me that your wife had to come in, which that bothers Me that like, is, are you that old now? Where you go, how ain't you doing? Because that's just beyond my head.

[Pete Corieli]

Do we have footage of Patrick literally putting your headphones on your head before we started the show? Holy.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I didn't ask him to. He was just fiddling around in my ear, bro. I don't like anybody in my ears. He had his hand and he. And one of his fingers grazed my earlobe. I'm like, this is just back to your seat. I don't need your hands fondling my earlobe.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, that's a little. That's another level. That's another what you take. I know your house is, you know, obviously very big lot of space, but.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

When I'm, well, I'm with him and.

[Pete Corieli]

He goes, I'm heading over to Sebastian's now. Jackie goes, this. You guys aren't doing it for three hours. He's just going to be at Sebastian's for three hours. What is he doing here? And I go, is traffic. But then he goes up in that studio. But like, are you, are you cool with like a two hour arrival before showtime or is that a little like.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, no, I don't see him come or I don't see him leave. So I don't know. He could, for all I know, he could be, he could be robbing shit in this room next to me. I wouldn't know what the hell's going on. He's a he. He could sleep here tonight and I would know.

[Pete Corieli]

On any given day, there's men walking through your hallway that you don't know and don't know they were be there. Right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, God. So you moved and you, you sent the text. There's a lot to kind of start the show off. First and foremost, let's take our time. You sent the text and you're like, oh, best move. Already got kids at the house. What a quality of life upgrade. So take us through what's going on in Rochester. Why is it so fantastic? What's, what's give us the, the lowdown.

[Pete Corieli]

Well, I mean, you know, I, I, there's still a lot of moving parts and I don't, I don't want to go into that yet just yet. You know what I mean? If you don't mind, like in the sense that I'm not saying it's better than Fredonia, it's just better for us. I got to be careful. I'm only two hours away. My. I don't want people going to Fredonia. Like, heard your bad mouth and so.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So I'm badmouth in LA and I live here.

[Pete Corieli]

I gotta say.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

What are we worried about? What are we worried about?

[Pete Corieli]

You're right, bro. I'm overthinking it. It's unbelievable, this little neighborhood I'm in. You ever hear of the Erie Canal? I mean, you must know of it a little bit growing up where you did, but basically the Erie Canal runs like about a mile, guy. It's wooded, the houses are nice, there's kids everywhere. I fucking love it. Holy shit. What's going on? By the way, not to deflect, are you de aging? You're like Benjamin Button in this shit. You're looking. Yeah, you're having a good run here, guy. I don't know what's going on, man. It's the haircut film coming up. We don't know about Patrick. Is it me he's getting in film condition? I feel.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

There'S no film, there's no nothing. I'm just going shorter with the hair. I feel like I'm letting my head breathe a little bit. That's what that. That must be it.

[Pete Corieli]

That's a good.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, but I gotta tell you, and I hate to get back into this Rochester thing.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But have you received, like, is this the type of neighborhood where you move in and then John from across the street comes over with a pie and welcomes you to the neighborhood? Have you gotten out of that?

[Pete Corieli]

I'm so glad you asked that because I wanted to get your take on how you play this. So first of all, those two pods, one of them's gotten taken away, the other about literally a half hour ago. And then he's coming back for the second one. But I felt like I can't go out and say hi to somebody on their driveway until these disgusting pods are off my driveway, you know what I'm saying? Because there ain't. There's no litter. There's not a boat, a shed, a tractor, a trailer, eyesight, nothing. Just well kept homes. Trees, like. And it seems to be a thing, you know what I'm saying? Like. Like, get the fucking memo how we do it around here, you know? I mean. And so, because Jack is like, I think you got a shed and put over there. I go, if you can see the shed from the road, you can't do the shed, man. You can't do. So. So. So, like, I'm embarrassed by the pods. And I had the one neighbor and I see him out there and like, should I go over? I. And I'm unpacking I'm real busy. And I think they're like, let them unpack. But then about, I don't know, halfway through the day is a knock on the door. Three girls, they're all 12, which is Sadie's age. They all live on the block or around the bend. Want to hang out. That's done. That's unpacked. Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Wow.

[Pete Corieli]

So that quick. That quick. And then what I thought, I don't want to. I don't know if I can say too much about my daughter's personal life, but I just thought was a nice move was the next day, at the end of the day, they all played and Sadie said, hey, thanks for when she left, she goes, thanks for letting me hang out with you guys. And the next day the girl text, so did you like, like hanging out with us? And Sadie said, yes, I did. And the girl wrote, good. You know, like, like, it's done. It's. It's bow tied now you're in, you know, I mean, you like it? Yeah. Good. See you later. And that are off. They picked her up on a scooter and they got. Wow. They just come. They. They pull up. This is day three. They pull up, they have one scooter because Sadie stuff isn't here yet. The one girl is an electric scooter. Sadie, get. The three of them are on it. Sadie's in the middle and they just. Right around the band, gone. There's no, no traffic here. There's no cars. I could hear a pin drop. It's just. It's great, man. It's freaking really great so far. I don't know what the shoe is going to drop. But to your question, a mowing yesterday and the neighbor across the street, he was. I saw him mowing for a little and then he stopped. I thought, this is an interesting move. He takes a break in between the front yard in the backyard. And he sits in his chair at the top of his driveway, which is high up, just looking down, right? So I'm mowing and I can't see if he's looking at me or not. I'm like, do I give a wave? And then at one point I'm like, I thought my mower was going to run out of gas. I need a refill. So I'm like, let me get this thing back up by the garage. Because if it runs out of gas down there and gets silent, he's. That's gonna get. I'm gonna have to say, hey, how you doing? I'm Pete. And do the walk across so let me. While it's still so my. But my question is, how does that work? He's out there, and I felt like he was like that. You're new to the neighborhood. You're mowing. You see me. Maybe he was only sitting there giving me a chance to come up and say hi, you know? What do you do as a new homeowner? Do you go across Ham Sebastian?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's a tough one, man. You could go either way with that, because you would think, hey, this guy don't know nobody just moved in. Let me welcome him to our neighborhood. So it's like coming over to somebody's house. The homeowner opens the door and you're on the porch. Who says hello first, the homeowner or the guest? You open the door, you go, hey. And then the guest goes, right? Or does the guest go, hey. And then the homeowner goes, oh, how does that work?

[Pete Corieli]

I think the guest has to. If you're coming to my house, hey, welcome. But I'm not coming to his house. I bought a house across the street. I'm afraid, like, now I live here, let's say somebody next week or next year moves in across the street, and I see that guy unpacking. When I see, like, maybe he's stopped for a minute, he's having a water, I feel like if I go down the driveway to walk over to say hi, he's going to go in his head, oh, fuck, here we go. Be friends with this kid, right? Or is he going, nothing? What am I, on an island here? Nobody's going to say hello. I don't know how they did it. Great, my neighbors. Because now it was funny. Their kid was in our house and our daughter was in their house, but we haven't met. And then I'm walking the dog around the back. I don't know.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't like this. I'm sorry.

[Pete Corieli]

Really? Really? Wow.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't like this whole, like, hey, you want to play? And then she goes off, and now she's hanging at a stranger's house. We don't know that. Like, what if you saw the dad come out, right? And he. And he's. He's smoking, you know, a cigar or whatever. He comes out, some slob. And then you're like, my kid was hanging over here for three weeks and I didn't notice.

[Pete Corieli]

I know the first day Sadie left, the second day she left, and she goes. She calls us and she goes, so and so's dad is going to take us out for ice cream. Is that okay?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't know. I'm surprised. I mean, like a guy that basically lived in New York City for 20 years and was on high alert constantly, possibly getting mugged at any minute, driving the subway or whatever, and now all of a sudden, you go to Rochester and you think it's what, the wizard of Oz over there?

[Pete Corieli]

No, no. I'm telling you, the first day I got here, I looked out the window. The neighbor's got a few. I see her little girl a few doors down. She's on a scooter because most of us live a little bit like a slope down to the road. She. It's a. She's got a little electric scooter, too. She goes right down into the road, does a. Does a casual. This way, that way look. And makes a left and a right, and she's gone. And there's, like, all little cul de sacs around here. I said to Jackie, she just. You see that girl just buzzed out of here like that. I go, there must not be much traffic around here. And there's not. There's, like, none. So, yeah, it's a little. I don't know, man. Might be a little haven, but it's. I'm digging it. I'm digging. I got one kid, man. I'm so psyched that these girls did this. That was so nice of them. So. But the neighbor. Then I'm walking the dog, and they're, like, walking the other way. Hey, how you doing? Your daughter's with our daughter already. I'm da, da, da, da, da, da, like, nice to me. And nobody asks what anybody does. Just good people. So we'll see. We'll see. I don't know, man. I'm trying to.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't.

[Pete Corieli]

I don't want them to see the other side, bro.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I feel like you're almost in the witness protection program there. Like, you're just hiding now. You're like, I hope nobody asks me what I do. I just want a little quiet life.

[Pete Corieli]

Scooter here. Whoa. I'm just saying. No, no. No judging. But I feel like I don't. I'm not gonna get hot because from what I'm seeing, every. It's like minded people. You know what I'm saying? Like minded people. We keep it tight. We. And then, holy shit, I start hearing a mower or two. The second day I'm here, I look out, they all mow, push mowers.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, my God.

[Pete Corieli]

Jackie goes. I run around here. She goes, everyone's doing their own lawn. I Like that little stake in the game, baby. What a day for a mow, huh?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Hearing this, I'm concerned. Yeah, I'm concerned. And I'll tell you why.

[Pete Corieli]

I moved to 1970.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Where you're living now, I feel might be a detriment to the cast, sorry to say. And I'll tell you why. I feel like a lot of the comedy and the drama came out of you living in Fredonia, right?

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

A lot of the stories like, you know, the city and people and the Walmart and the kids in the college and this, that and the other thing. I felt like you were the kid, the be the people behind you, you know, the renting it out to the fraternity kids. I just felt like it all kind of just came together on the cast. Right. And now what I'm hearing is like, oh, nothing funny comes out of happiness.

[Pete Corieli]

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Blake, I'm still. I still am.

[Pete Corieli]

You still are. Okay. Okay. Because so the other day I'm in this new shower they got here right. It's glass, it's pretty cool, but it's smaller and oh God, after I'm done I'm like, I don't want the glass. I'm so I'm still in the shower but I want the glass to like the water drops can stain it. So we have one of those squeegees you would use and I'm wiping it down and as I'm wiping it down third time down and I'm I have a towel around me and but it's still the wet's hitting my foot. I realize it's this squeegee they left behind. It's not even A freshie, right? So. Right. And then it's such a tight shower that the fourth time down to get all the way down to the bottom of glass, I got to do a bend and my ass plastered up against the tile, right? Because I didn't have the towel there. I just plastered. So when I get out, I say to Jackie later at night, I can't squeegee all the way down without my ass hitting the tile. I go, when I did it, I felt like the guy did it and his ass hit the tile in the same spot. And she's like, I'm sure it did. So, like, I'm just doing an ass plant every night in the same spot. I'm like making love to this guy practically. I feel. I'm sure I got a couple of his body hairs on me. You don't get all that out, right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I did a bit on this about cleaning the shower.

[Pete Corieli]

After a new owner.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, just in general. Like, I took a shower at my dad's house and there's a squeegee in there and he told me, after you're done, you know, wipe down the shower. And the bit goes, I ain't fucking working after I just cleaned myself, Right. So what is this with the squeegee and now all of a sudden you're sweating.

[Pete Corieli]

Cleaning the.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Get the out of there.

[Pete Corieli]

I'm doing an air dry. By the time I'm done, my body air dried and. But the floor is so swampy and wet for me, pushing all the water down through it. It's. It's disgusting. Absolutely.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But why in the hell. Yeah, is there a squeegee left over? Like, that house should have been wiped clean. Like there's a murder that happened in that house. Everything from that previous owner out the door. Some people even say, and they do this. And I know this is an economic thing. If they ever buy a house and they move in, they take the. They take the toilets out and they get new, brand new toilets in the whole house. They don't want to be sitting on used toilets from another homeowner. What you take? We didn't do this. But some people do this, right?

[Pete Corieli]

Well, we haven't yet. We have one that's a heated one we're going to try and put in. But now that you said it, I didn't even think of it. I'm disgusted. What am I doing? But again, yours is Blake Shelton lived there for a spell. I'm not saying anything that the tabloids don't know. So if I was. That's a little different. I'd be. He'd be my muse. Knowing Blake was on that thing. Maybe I don't go to Blake's country on that bowl. What?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I go on Stefani's toilet.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, no, bro. That's what. Listen. Go on Blake's toilet, man. That's much more. I'm think I like his lyrics better. Yeah, that's so funny, bro. But should we be changing them? And let me ask you this. Is there a special cleaning job done differently for a new owner of a shower as opposed to just, you know, like, you get out and someone cleans your shower for you? Forget that. I want it cleaned. I don't even want to. The CIA can't even find DNA of anyone else in the shower but me and my family. Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Again, this is economics. But when you buy a home, you have a professional cleaning crew sweep the house. And they come in. There's about. We had this done. It was like 10 of them. They come in and I gotta get the name. It's like Karen's Cleaning or something. I've never seen this type of cleaning before. It is so thorough and deep that you would think the shit was just installed.

[Pete Corieli]

Wow.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

They got it down to a science. So I like a whole deep cleaning done where, like, your point? No DNA? No. If they had a cat, there's not a remnants of dander in the home, right?

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah. I love it. I love it, bro. This is gonna make you fucking physically ill. But the door we have in our kitchen, that goes down to the basement. Fine. It's nice. It's not beat up. The whole house is in fine shape. We have a new one that Jackie picked out in transit in route delivery. But the door, they have bottom corner of it, little cat door. So the cat could get down to the basement and shit and piss whenever it wants. It had a cat door.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I would be sleeping without that door. The door would be in the garage or in the garbage and I'd be sleeping or. That should just be an open space right now.

[Pete Corieli]

You're right. You're right. Because even the dog sometimes has been sniffing it with that look. Like, what the fuck Was this useful? It's disgusting. Gross.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right, so, bro, who's got the.

[Pete Corieli]

Time to make a door for their pet? The pet. You don't go out playing at home. I don't give a. What the. That's insane. You. You got way too much time. And you're coming in with a little saw, a little door Sorry, man. These people with their pets. You can die of starvation down there for all I care. Bro, your dogs are getting big.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, speaking of dogs, want to talk about the John texting us about the. Right, right. So on a previous podcast, we talked about our friend John and he got the same dog as I got. And I came on the podcast saying, what's your take on someone, a friend, getting the same breed?

[Pete Corieli]

Right, right, right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And we had a discussion about that.

[Pete Corieli]

Well, that's right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So it got back to John that we were talking shit about him on the cast and. And he text us yesterday saying, you know, I wish I could be mad at you guys, but it was so funny, I. I couldn't stop laughing about it.

[Pete Corieli]

Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And now today it's continuing. He got his wife involved, bro. His wife is on the thing. And let me.

[Pete Corieli]

I thought he was talking about when his dog was dying of heat. I didn't realize it was. I forgot about that when he got the same breed.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So John's like, our dog Maui is actually a Brittany doodle. Part Britney Spaniel, part doodle, which we got an Australian labradoodle. So it's not the same. Different breed from your dogs. And I'm still catching shit. I'm adding my wife to this thread because she'll have the pics. So you send the pics, the wife chimes in.

[Pete Corieli]

Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And she goes, also, what's the problem with kids going by their middle names? Double insults on one. Because their kids go by their middle names. I guess we were talking about kids going by their middle names.

[Pete Corieli]

Well, it's because. Yeah, it's not an alt. That's what we're saying. I didn't know her child did that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't. Listen, I don't give a if who's out there if I got a problem with something from my mother, sister, father, whatever. It's just, it's all good on the comedy front, but.

[Pete Corieli]

Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

We love the Petrelli's and I forget.

[Pete Corieli]

All this gold we were talking about. That was.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

He called me yesterday. He never calls me. This guy called me. He goes, what are you doing?

[Pete Corieli]

I go.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

He goes, I can't believe.

[Pete Corieli]

Why do you want to know what you're doing? Because he wants to copy that right now there too.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Whatever you're doing in that moment.

[Pete Corieli]

I was thinking about having a ham sandwich. Are you having turkey right now or are you about to have him? Kidding. John, relax.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All good fun. So that happened recently also, I'm going in for a colonoscopy on Friday. Have you had this done. Come on, man.

[Pete Corieli]

Of course I've talked about on the cast. Are you going in for the. Oh, wait, I'm thinking of a prostate exam. You're going in. You got to drink. You're doing the whole thing.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Starts tomorrow. Start shitting my life.

[Pete Corieli]

Have you had one yet?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I had a virtual one, which I don't really know the difference between what I'm getting now and the virtual. I forget.

[Pete Corieli]

But I did have to do it by Friday.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I didn't have to go under for that one. This. I have to go under. And this is what. This is my fear of going under. Because I don't. I think I did it once. Went under for my wisdom teeth. I came home. I remember I felt like, I'm so dramatic after this stuff. Like, I came home and I got on my sister and my mother's shoulders and they brought me in the house because of the anesthesia was wearing off. It looked like I was in war and they were picking me off the battlefield.

[Pete Corieli]

This is after what surgery?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Wisdom teeth pulling.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, my God.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

This is when I was.

[Pete Corieli]

People go back to work today.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I was out for 24 hours. Done. But here's.

[Pete Corieli]

Is that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, here's my fear. This is just my luck. No. I go in on Friday, right? They're gonna put me under. And this is with any surgery. I haven't really had major surgery. This is not surgery. But it's just like. I guess it's so uncomfortable. They gotta put you down, guy.

[Pete Corieli]

Come on. All right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

They're going to put me under. And my fear, anytime there's anesthesia involved in anything, is that I'm going to wake up in the middle of this.

[Pete Corieli]

So for.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I mean, like. Like I'm just on my side, and all of a sudden I'm just going to come to. And the anesthesia go, holy. It wore off. P. You know, And I'm.

[Pete Corieli]

What's going on? Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That would be the worst. Because I've asked anesthesiologists. Have you ever had somebody during, like a hip replacement, wake the fuck up in the middle of it? Right. Yeah, because you imagine you're sitting there, you give open heart surgery. You wake up, you're like, oh, my God. Hearts out of your chest.

[Pete Corieli]

I know, I know. I've been saying you get a lot of money to be an anesthesiologist, man.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It's a tough job working that doctor. Yeah. You're responsible for that person being under during the surgery. You gotta, like, watch the levels. You gotta watch the heart rate. As you waking up the Pete and Sebastian show.

[Pete Corieli]

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So anyway, I got that on Friday and I got to be dropped. It's just another thing, you know when you're getting old, when you have to be dropped off and picked up by somebody.

[Pete Corieli]

Well, it's anesthesia. You can't. They don't let you drive home after that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I know, but I don't like this. Like, do you have a ride home? What am I for?

[Pete Corieli]

Not only that, we need to see your ride. You can't. We don't want you to lie to us. Try to walk yourself home, Mr. Maniscalco.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah, Uber Lyft is not suggested. We, you know, prefer a loved one or a friend. So my wife's gotta come pick me up on Friday with. With me leaking out my ass. So that's gonna be fun. On Friday. Well, you got anything while I'm. My brain is on standstill.

[Pete Corieli]

Well, I got a bigger one, but now I don't want to get into it yet, but I want to talk about my vacation. Maybe on the next case.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, we got time. We got time. Get into it.

[Pete Corieli]

Well.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

What I know from your vacation is, and this bothered me, to be honest with you, when you started to say this, that, and again, I don't know if this comes with age because I'm seeing it in my father, too. Have you become the I'm writing a letter guy to the company?

[Pete Corieli]

No, dude, this. Listen, this got crazy. This might be my final chapter with this stuff because I got nuts. It got to the point where the people, the corporate were like, what do you want? We. We all calling you back. We do get back to you. I'm like, like, let me just walk you through it. I'm not gonna say the name of the place because I. What the hell's the point of that? I'm not looking to. To put some place out of business or any. I didn't know what I wanted. All I know is we paid money for this. What's supposed to be like a high end camping experience.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, God, that's so fun already. Problem, but go ahead.

[Pete Corieli]

Like glamping. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I know. So just so right out of the gate, we're pulling in. This is in Maine, all right? And the road, the gravel is so dusty, it's dirt roads that when you drive on it, we had, we're like, holy. You got to put up all your windows, right? And I mean, it's just kicking off. Like you would have went 30ft in your car and you would turn around line and go, get back on the pavement. We're out of here. This is insane, right? It was like. And it was like a. A half a mile to a mile just to get down to an area where you park and you ever drive and it's so dusty, you can taste it. It's getting. It's like everything's. You could spell your name on the dashboard. Oh, my God, it's everywhere, right? So we get to. And what you do is you park in this spot because they want to keep the tent area nice and quiet. So you park in a delegated area and then they come with a golf cart and they take all your shit off your car. But the different areas where people park, so as they're taking the shit off my car, other cars are passing by. And when they're coming, I go, cars coming. We have to close everything, step away from the road, wait till the car pass, let the dust drop and. But then when we get in the car with the dude to go to our tent, it's the same thing. We're kicking up dust everywhere. So right away. That's terrible, right? Then you get in the tent and there's no electricity, which we know there's not going to be. It's supposed to be like camping, but you get battery packs that keep your lamp going, your lantern going, and this, that, and they go. Every morning you leave your battery packs and at the end of the day when you come back, we'll have charged them and they'll be waiting. Well, we would go on these epic hikes, man. And in Acadia, like, we're gone. So we would come back nighttime and we get in a room and there's no. It's dark and there's no batteries. I would text the guy because he has the thing. We got no batteries. Yeah, we didn't get. We don't have any. We didn't get done charging. We can't charge them all at once. And Jackie goes, text him, tell him that that's not okay. It's not okay to not have batteries. We're sitting here in the dark. Okay? This is eight bills a night, not even counting tax and resort fee. So it's about a grand a night. They write back, we found three to have half power. One has about a quarter power. We're going to send the guy up with those right now. What the fuck, bro? If I was camping on my own, I'd have fucking power, right? So now every morning when you want coffee, there's nothing in your tent. You got to walk down to the main tent, which is about a half a mile, at least a quarter mile, by the way.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

This sounds like camping. Where's the glam?

[Pete Corieli]

That's what I'm saying, bro. It was. It was less convenient than camping because now I gotta walk a quarter mile or a half mile to get to the coffee. The coffee. Shit coffee. You can see right through it. It's like. It's like Hampton Inn coffee, you know, like if I can pour and read a newspaper, right? So, by the way. And then, like, because it's like a tent, so like, everything's a la natural. There's bees. So one day, when I went to grab the brown sugar, there was a. I got stung because it was a bee on the jaw. And I go, right, bro, One time. One time I go to. They say, endless coffee whenever you want it, I go to get it. About 10 o' clock at night, I walk down there. And every time you walk, you're getting plastered by dust from the. From the. Everything coming by. There's no rain, so you just. The golf carts are dusting you up. So it's six in the morning and I'm waddling down and guys are driving by and getting hit with dust. I'm going to get shit coffee. And in my head I'm like, if I was camping, I'd be right next to my tent with a little Bunsen burner making a nice espresso. Holy shit. I'm paying a grand to not do that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right?

[Pete Corieli]

So I go to the girl one night. It's about 10 o' clock. And they got. And they just have these two big plastic urns. You know when you flip the. You just flip it and you fill it up like, you know, like craft service. Like a coffee table of, like, a union guy making a coffee on a construction center. Holy. So I go. I have my cup, and I go, listen, do you have a microwave back there? Because they got like, a. The place was cool looking. I'm not taking anything away. This is like a service thing was like, nuts. Do you have, like, a microwave or something back there? And she goes, yeah. I go, because my coffee's. It's. The coffee's not hot, so you could just heat it up. I'm not even asking for fresh coffee or anything. I'm just asking you to nuke my coffee. She goes, oh, it's not hot. So she comes over, pours her own cup, right? Not mine. Pours her own cup, puts her finger in there and goes like this. And goes, oh, yeah, you're right. That is cold. Then she grabs the second urn, pours her cup in there and goes, this one's okay. I go, that's the one I took it out of. That's actually really. It's not okay. It's not. It's not hot. If it was hot in my head, I'm thinking you would have said, ow, right? You don't go, that's hot. Really? Because you're stirring your finger in there like it's a fucking wooden stick. So anyway, so now, again, a grand the night, and I'm arguing over the temperature of the coffee. I just. I said, it's not hot, so make it hotter. That's. That's what you do. That's what you do, right? That's what they used to do. That's what they used to do. So am I wrong with this? This is crazy shit, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, no, I'm on board. I'm totally on board, so.

[Pete Corieli]

And again, the tents are cool. They do have, like, these showers in your own tent, and they have a chain on it. And the idea is you pull down on the chain and the water comes out, and the dude tells you. But if you tie something heavy, like take a rope or tie something heavy to the chain, and chain will just stay down. The shower will stay on. I'm like, oh, he's telling me how to rig it. Like. Like I'm in prison, and I want to keep a steady stream going, which is nice of them to tell me, but I go, so then I go, so what if I want food late night man, are you guys always open? Because they, you know, they told us we can't have food in here or anything like that. And he goes, yeah, you can have a cooler in here and food, you can have whatever you want. They say that because of all the other establishments that we have is bear country, but there's no bear country here, so you could have all that. So, okay, but I don't have that because you told me in your brochure that I couldn't. So again, I'm paying a grand to not have snack. I mean, it's like 11 at night. Jackie goes, God, I would just love a blah, blah, blah, which we'd have in a cooler if I thought I was. So it's like. So then. So then Jackie says, you tell me the more bath soap. I mean, this is crazy. When we get back, we need more bath. So we come back, Jackie's in the shower. She goes, I found the bath soap. Like, they have these nice organic jars that they put it in. But I guess to put it in that, the housekeeping brings it in like a ketchup jar. And it just says gel. And I guess they squeeze that into the things and they make it nice. Well, they left that sitting in the shower. And Jackie goes, found the bath gel. It's in ketchup. It says bath job, right? Like in a ketchup. Like in a plastic ketchup bottle. And. And I'm like. So I'm like, this is like, yeah, this is just. It's crazy because this is all making it more inconvenient for me. And on top of that, on top of that, they say they're a certain distance from where you want to go hike. Again, I don't want to say too much. And they're that distance from where you want to go hike at 4 o' clock in the morning in December on a Sunday, you know what I mean? In the middle of the summer, it's at least twice as long. And they know that. So again, I would have even camped closer to where I want to be. I'd have had my own coffee. The only thing I got for a grand, I felt, was a thing that when I pulled down, you know, so it was just. And it went on and on, bro. You don't get. You didn't get a single nugget of food for free. Not a hot muffin or nothing. You had to, you know, constantly go up and go 1032. But you know, like, for anything, it's like, was.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Is there room service or tent service?

[Pete Corieli]

Room Service. Room service, bro. We had like a couch and a bed in our thing. And so when Sadie would sleep on the pull out couch, so the first. And then we would leave early because we were doing these epic hikes and we came back and by the way, sorry, bro. I'm sorry. I live on the rock now. We use words like that on the rock.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I've never heard you say epic. You said it twice in the last four and a half minutes. What is that?

[Pete Corieli]

I was a. I'd be using gnarly man when you talk about. All right. But we went on these long hikes. When we got back. When we got back, the bed is still out. Like, we got to put the bed away. So. So when I. When I was started, when I got on the phone with the lady complain, I go, no, there's no housekeeping. And she goes, oh, she emails back, well, we. We don't provide housekeeping. I'm like, well, for $800 a night, you should, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So what's the one? I don't understand why this is so expensive. You go in New York City and you get a. A room for less than a grand at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City. And they got room service, they have housekeeping, they have a gym, they have a pool, they have amenities. What are you getting? What's the. When you looked at the broken, what did you go, oh, let's go spend $1,000 at this place. Because they have that.

[Pete Corieli]

What? Well, that. Well, there's certain assumptions in glamping because I've done it before at a place in Montana called Paws Up. So like I said to Jackie, when we went pause up, I don't remember having to walk that far for coffee. And she goes, it was brought to the tent every morning on a tray. And I'm like, that's right. That's right. You know, all the high. Everything was closer, but the. Another one was they. This know what they have here? They s'. Mores. And can people stop calling this an activity? Cornhole. Throwing a beanbag at a hole in a piece of fucking wood. All right. I don't know where you think I was born and raised. That's not entertainment to me. That's not. I don't. I do. That's not fun.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Nah.

[Pete Corieli]

You throw up that cornhole. That's what they had. S' mores and cornhole. I swear to God. Now, there was one guy who worked there, he was like, in charge. Seemed to be in the kitchen. The guy.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Wait a minute. Before you jump off the Cornhole thing, you know, listen, this is big in Chicago. This cornhole shit big everywhere now.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, I know.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

In the backyard. And this is what bothers me about the cornhole. When you're a Chicago Bears fan, you have Chicago Bears cornhole.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, oh.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, my God. It's decorated. They decorate the.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, bro. If you had a cornhole set and the holes were your mouth going, what's wrong with people? They would fly off the shelves. They would fly off. Can't. Can't we all just. Just drink. Just drink. Why do your personalities are so lacking now? We got lob beanbags back and forth. Well, nobody even suggests cornhole around. Hold on.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

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[Pete Corieli]

With the.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

With the koozie and with the beer and the coo. Oh, I can't. I'm sorry.

[Pete Corieli]

You have never probably. Can you recall anytime someone, like, says, want to play cornhole? Probably very rarely you've been asked to play.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, I. The only time we did it was on a tour. I think I played one game of it and I gotta. I gotta go back to my hole.

[Pete Corieli]

But. But you know why you've never been asked to play? Because when someone with a personality at your level is around, we don't need to play it. You understand what I'm saying? It's a compliment. It's a compliment to your personnel. So that's how I feel. Normally we suggest cornhole, but Coryelli's here. We're all having a fucking blast. We don't need to throw beanbags. Remember when that guy on your tour brought that giant electronic golf thing? You took like, two swings on your scar. I was done with this.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Listen, I. I'm into those simulators, but I mean, like, you know, before a show, do I want to really be working up with sweats that, you know, like driving the ball, you know, like, that's. That's so. It's a lot, you know, I'm in jeans and I'm swinging a club. I appreciate it, but. Yeah, you're right. Is that one of the things that you're spending a grand for is the cornhole thing?

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, that's. I mean, that made the brochure. S' mores and cornhole. I made the brochure. Of course I'm coming. I'm coming off of, you know, Flathead Horse Ranch there in Flathead, you know, Montana, where you can't beat that, man. I had horses and shit that you just ride whenever you want.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Why are. Why are we messing with a good thing? You like the Montana place, and now.

[Pete Corieli]

You gotta Mix it up. You gotta mix it up.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I mean, I don't know, you find a place that's got the horses and they got a beautiful thing, they go for ice cream. And here you are walking down a dusty road looking for half of a coffee. I don't get it. Is this something that you found? How does this work in your relationship? Does Jackie come to you with, hey, I found a great place in Maine that they have cornhole and s', mores, or is this. Do you bring it to her and then if you, if somebody brings it to somebody else and the experience sucks, are you to blame or she to blame on this? What's.

[Pete Corieli]

Well, no, because we both decided on it, but the idea was we wanted to do a lot of long hikes and at the end, more of a certain age now I'm not 35 year old parent. Well, like, let's try to find someplace nice to stay. So at the end of the hike, a nice shower, It'd be nice. And most of the hotels in that area, Maine, they're very family friendly, you know what I mean? Three stars at best. Because you know how nice you're gonna make it. There's gonna be three kids, a family running around like crazy. And then other than that, it was like these kind of inns. You're not gonna take a kid to an inn. And then one of us, I think it was Jackie's, like, check out these. Look at these tents. And you look online, they look great. You go to asked and they, you know, oh my God, this beautiful. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't know who the guy from con. If he. He never been the paws up. So, but, but so let me tell you the meat and bones of this now, because this is, this is crazy, right? I call the lady up, I text the guy, okay, gm, I got a second half of my trip. I'm going to Cape Cod and all this other stuff. So I don't want to get too hopped up Ru my. So I leave her a message and I'm like, I tried. I don't think I cursed, but I was kind of like, I was blown away, bro. I just felt ripped off. I'm like, oh, hi, miss. This is how I'm talking to. I'm on the porch of the tent. I don't, I don't even know what's going on. I don't even know what just happened. I mean, this is, this is insane. I mean, I come back to the room, this gentleness is that the coffee was coffee. Everything was terrible. I would have been easier for me to camp. I feel like I was ripped off. I go, I was ripped off. This is insane. I'm going to have PS PTSD from this. This is. I don't even know where to start about how disappointed and how blown away about. I don't know. I mean, I would like to complain about the service, but I can't because there was none. My bag was dropped off and I was left alone. Oh, my God. I hang up, right? So a couple. Maybe a day later, I get a really nice email from somebody in corporate who starts by saying they listen. They're a fan of the cast, Big.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Fan of the FBI has been notified.

[Pete Corieli]

No, there was no threat to me. There's no. No. And I even said to the lady in mmeza, I go, I don't even. I go, I'm not asking for anything. I'm not, like. Because I wasn't. I didn't know what I want. I don't want my money back. So. So this woman leaves a really nice email, said she saw you play somewhere, she's a fan of the cast, and. Da, da, da. And we want to make it up to you. And what does that look like? That looks like a free stay at any one of our other places, you know, which is such a nice thing. I heard offer, but I. In my head, bro, I'm like, I. I'm feeding into it, though, again, and I'm like. I'm saying it's okay, you know, like, what's. I feel like I lose my leverage if I immediately just go, okay. That's all I wanted was a free stay. Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'll tell you a couple things here. Number one, I don't like the fact that you were screaming into a voicemail.

[Pete Corieli]

Bring it on. I don't either. It was a mess. My lowest point. It's crazy. Hopefully, that was my rock bottom. I needed a fresh start. So that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I think that's where you kind of made the mistake. And then. And then I didn't want to talk.

[Pete Corieli]

I didn't really want to. We never spoke face to face. I didn't want to. I didn't want to. On top of everything else, now I got to talk to you. I don't want to do that. I didn't want to.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right, fine. And. And. And I tell you what's. And if this person is listening, which if they're a fan in the cast, they probably are one of their publicists.

[Pete Corieli]

Okay, I'm checking the downloads now. You know what good news is, Bob, Marley probably loved it. Mr. Maine. I love Bob Marley. He is Mr. Maine.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But anyway, go ahead to offer a stay somewhere else. To me it's like, listen, I didn't like the stay to begin with. Why would I want to stay and do this all over again? You know what I'm saying?

[Pete Corieli]

That's exactly what I wrote. Exactly.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So it's like, how many nights did you stay there?

[Pete Corieli]

Six. And when I stayed, six. The guy goes like this. When he checks me in, he goes, how? Yeah. He goes, how long you staying here? And I go, six. And he goes, oh, wow. And I go, I. I sort of got. Jackie's with me. Jackie looks at me, I go, is that too long? Do people not normally stay here that long? And he goes, you know what? Most people only stay a couple nights. And it's not long enough to really take in that park and everything it has to offer. You're staying just the right amount of time. In my head I'm like, I'm staying way too long. Holy shit. I'm reading this guy like, you know.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

The writing is on the wall. This is, this is a little, little tidbit to the listeners here. If you're traveling a lot, you're staying in a lot of hotels and you're traveling on airplanes and trains and automobiles and what have you. When you go to these hotels, right from the get go, you could tell almost how the experience is going to be. Because I've had these experiences where as soon as I pull into the valet, I know if I have a bad experience in the valet, it's going to permeate throughout the entire hotel. Right. So the fact that, the fact that you're on a rock road kicking up dust and you can't breathe in your own car, and you haven't even checked in yet. And you're right, I probably would have turned around and said, we're out of here. Because you could tell right away because it's just almost a domino effect. You check in, you get left. Now the batteries. No batteries. The gel, there's no soap, there's no coffee. It just starts snowballing.

[Pete Corieli]

Yes. And you know what else it starts with? Wow, that. Is anyone out there who listens? Sebastian is like, you got to do some sort of reality show in that. And that whole service industry is so on it. But like, it starts with, I even complained about my thing. I go even with the coffee. When I would walk into that tent every morning, I. I'm not even blasted with a hello. You stay at the Four Seasons, they Practically hug you when you come down into the lobby. They know you by name after day two, no matter what you do for a living.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And here I'm like.

[Pete Corieli]

It's like crazy. It's like, I don't say one thing because you'll love this one. The very first night would air the next morning. So it's six in the morning, and all the tents, like, there's a bunch by us, right? Big canvas things. And you can. It wakes me up clear as day. You can hear a dad talking with his two kids. And, you know, no, Tommy, put that down. Yeah, we're gonna go a little later. So what do you guys want to just, like, totally talking, right? Six in the morning, everyone's trying to sleep, right? I walk over, I unzip the tent. I go out onto the deck. Everyone else is still out. Dusk is coming up. And I yell. I yell, be quiet. And then I zip it back. And I go back inside. And Jackie doesn't say nothing. Sadie goes, dad. And I go, don't worry. No one knows it was me. Just silence right away. And you don't hear a pin drop till about 7. 10. I think everyone's like, that guy's psycho. Let's give him an extra 10 power. It was like, amazing, man, you know? And like a Meeker. Meeker man would be like, I guess we're all up an hour earlier. Family. Dad, get some balls. Unzip, shut the fuck up. Zip back to bed. All they had to do is go find the New York plates. And they know who the one was yelling in the morning, right? Oh, wait, you can't read the plates because it's covered in dust. Conde last to take that guy out for a cup of coffee.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Holy. So they offer you another stay. Does this continue?

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah. Basically say what you said. And, you know, it was hard because she was very nice, but, I don't know. You're already famous. But with me, sometimes I feel like I get Googled. And then they say they listen to the. A lot of people say they listen to the cast that don't match the numbers. Unless I'm just running into. Unless I'm just running into to all of them. You know what I mean? And my sister, she's big in that business. She'll tell you, dude, if you drop that like that, you're gonna. You know, you'll get stuff. Because that's like, people get to stay for free because they have casts, let alone. You know. But anyway, again, like, whatever. I don't want to. Like, I did so Then I said, no, I don't. Right. But then, thanks anyway, because she was really nice. Right? But I don't want that. Right? And I said, and I don't want money. Oh.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh.

[Pete Corieli]

And then I reached the. I reached back. The GM lady did, like, reach out to me, tell me a good time that we could speak. She did it a couple of times. She was like, did that. But again, I didn't want to speak to her, so. And I had written this all in a letter. So then I wrote back, and I said, you know what? I don't want anything. I don't want a night. I don't want a refund. I just. When I get ripped off, it's really important to me that the person who rips me off knows that I know I got ripped off. Right? That was it. That is a psycho. So now two days go by, maybe three days. It's done. It's over. They tried. They tried to offer me. I said, no, thanks. She even tried twice. The. The lady very kind to give me a free night, free stay. And then, like, two, three days go by, and I'm in the middle of the move, and I'm thinking about, oh, my God, man, I am. So I kept thinking about that trip, like, war. I'm having my version of PTSDs. I'm like, oh, that the man. I can't believe I picked God damn God. And I typed her again. Like, still nothing from you, which speaks volumes. Why would I expect anything less? Matches the smiles I didn't get when I walked through the door. I'm like, oh, my God. She's probably like, oh, my God, this lunatic is writing me. Then to no reason. Then she writes back, I've tried to reach out to you multiple times. I know Corporate tried to reach out to you. And. And then. And then I didn't say anything else because I realized what a psychopath I am. But I did say in my last letter, I'm like, I guess you'll just. I'll send you the link to the episode of the podcast. I do. Oh, my God. So this has to be Patreon. I don't want this to be spread to the world. I do feel I. But, bro, I was. I was ripped. But I don't want to be that guy. I never want to be that guy. Treat me good or I'll talk about it on the cast. 13 years, and I've never done that before.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, you got more class than that. You just want to, like, vent and. And be heard and.

[Pete Corieli]

And it's Funny for the cast.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, it's funny. It's just where it's all in good fun. But yeah, it. The Patreon have them listen to this and. And go to sleep at night. Maybe they have PTSD from listening to the cast. And by the way, they don't listen.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, no, I know. You're right. You're right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That experience just. Let's keep it. Pause up from now on. Pause up. By the way, I don't. It sounds like a place you take your animals. I don't like the name.

[Pete Corieli]

I know I don't like the name, but I'm only two and a half hours away from my old camping in Long Lake. Now that where I live now. So perfect.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Next summer, stick with Long Lake. All right, that's our time here. Pete and Sebastian, we appreciate the listenership. We will see you next week. God bless.

[Pete Corieli]

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

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