685: The Pete and Sebastian Show - EP 685 - COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE

Summary

The Pete and Sebastian Show

Episode 685: "Could Have Been Worse"
Release Date: December 16, 2025
Hosts: Pete Correale & Sebastian Maniscalco

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Episode Overview

In this week's episode, comedians Pete Correale and Sebastian Maniscalco reunite after a month-long break to trade stories about the holiday season, family calamities, and their signature takes on everyday absurdities. The main thread winds through a near-tragic car accident involving Pete’s wife, which spirals into hilarious (and at times poignant) observations about American convenience, FaceTime etiquette, masculine vulnerability, and the tangled web of fatherhood and family gatherings. The episode covers relatable mishaps, comic disagreements, and the ever-present notion: “Could have been worse.”

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Time Away & Holiday Catch-Up

[02:24]

• Pete and Sebastian note it's been a month since their last recording, crediting the delay to the holiday season and a “near tragedy” at the Correale household.
• Light banter about overstaying one’s welcome during holidays, with Pete referencing the adage, “Fish starts to stink after three days.”
• Sebastian admits he can't do “extended stays” at his in-laws, regardless of comfort:

  “As I get older, I don't care how nice people are, how beautiful the home is. I just can't do extended stays in other people's homes, man.” — Sebastian [03:04]

Male Gifting Etiquette: Cologne

[04:03]

• Pete discusses gifting cologne to a male colleague (Michael Ferrante) who commented on Pete’s scent during tour.
• They question if it’s acceptable for men to give men cologne as a present.
• Sebastian weighs in:

  “If I was just... a friend of yours, and you randomly mailed me a bottle of cologne for Christmas. I would, Guy. I don't know about all that.” — Sebastian [04:59]

FaceTime Intrusion & Home Privacy

[06:29]

• Pete recounts his discomfort with FaceTime, especially when seeing inside colleagues' homes:

  “If you do, you start noticing shit... like, oh, fuck, I didn't know he drank Gatorade.” — Pete [07:25]

• Sebastian likens unannounced FaceTime to dropping by someone’s house uninvited:

  “It's a big thing. It’s like all of a sudden you’re in my fucking living room. It’s crazy.” — Sebastian [09:47]

Masculine Vulnerability & Marriage

[10:23]

• The duo dig into the fear of exposing too much of oneself (messy moments, unflattering home habits) to close friends and spouses, framed comedically but with real vulnerability:

  “A lot of my life, bro, is smoke and mirrors. A lot of it, you know?” — Sebastian [10:23]

• Discussion of embarrassing at-home behaviors that partners might find off-putting (e.g., licking food packaging, bathroom habits).

Pete’s Wife’s Car Accident – Ordeal & Observations

[21:33 onward]

• Pete’s wife Jackie experienced a car accident during a Rochester snowstorm. The retelling combines concern, procedural breakdown, and comic relief.
• Detailed play-by-play on insurance (Geico) and the American customer service chain, extolling its efficiency:

  “How do you not love this fucking country? Okay? That’s America, baby. Three hours later and you got a $60,000 car in your garage for the month.” — Pete [27:34]

• Reflection on gratitude versus negativity:

  “I’m so sick of people not understanding how great this place is.” — Pete [28:03]

• The shared sentiment: “Could have been worse” is explored and subverted:

  “What about ‘could have been better’? Nobody ever says that. You could have missed ’em.” — Sebastian [29:28]

Relationships & Gendered Driving

[43:41]

• Pete and Sebastian riff on stereotypes around women drivers, based on Jackie’s recent accidents, ultimately poking at their own chauvinistic assumptions:

  “If the Tahoe could talk, it would be like, just… just leave me at the collision shop. I don’t even want to go back with this lady.” — Pete [43:41]

• Observations about the gender disparity in driving professions:

  “Every time you get on a plane, it's a female pilot, there's a party who is a man that just goes, oh, just a... that's it. I'm cool with it. But just a little... Noted. Noted.” — Sebastian [45:28]

Thanksgiving & the Realities of Extended Family Visits

[48:51]

• Pete describes holiday logistics: splitting time between his in-laws’ house and a hotel to maintain peace and personal space.
• Prolonged family stays and the resultant stress and negotiation are lampooned.
• Anecdote about fishing at his in-laws’—awkwardly teaching kids with techniques he himself barely remembers.

Comedic Parenting & Impostor Syndrome

[51:45]

• Pete humorously laments teaching his kids the wrong way to fish and the general insecurity of being a parent:

  “Sometimes it's like being a father, when you're teaching your kids something, you should have it down step by step… because now I'm like, this is how they're learning from the idiot father who's wearing cologne.” — Pete [51:45]

• The risks and pressures of looking after other people's children are discussed.

The Catfish Saga – Parenting, Guilt & Callbacks

[57:17 - 59:42]

• Story of Pete catching a catfish with his son, uncertainly handling the hook and ultimately cutting the line, rationalizing that “the hook will fall out.”
• Callbacks to “could have been worse” are applied to the fate of the fish and to parenting embarrassments:

  “The one fish looks at the other one and says, could have been worse. He could have not cut it. And you could be in a pot with hot water right now.” — Sebastian [59:19]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On FaceTime Norms

[09:47]

“I compare it to stopping over in the seventies. If you’re going to FaceTime me, text me and tell me you’re going to FaceTime me. It’s a big thing.” — Sebastian

On American Efficiency Post-Accident

[27:34]

“How do you not love this fucking country? Okay? That’s America, baby. Three hours later and you got a $60,000 car in your garage for the month.” — Pete

On Living With “Could Have Been Worse”

[29:28]

“Could have been better. Could have been better. You could have missed ’em.” — Sebastian

Vulnerability in Marriage

[13:47]

“You know how many things a man does... that if the woman saw that he did, she’d be like, I had no idea what I was married.” — Sebastian

Fatherhood & Faking It

[51:45]

“This is how they're learning from the idiot father who's wearing cologne.” — Pete

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Important Timestamps

• [02:24] – Kicking off after a break; holidays and family hosting
• [03:26] – Home cologne etiquette and gifting between men
• [06:29] – FaceTime, privacy, and home-office awkwardness
• [21:33] – Pete details his wife's car accident; insurance saga
• [28:45] – Riff on American customer service and “could have been worse”
• [43:41] – Gender and driving, car damage woes
• [51:45] – Holiday at in-laws, fishing with kids, parental improvisation
• [59:19] – Callback to “could have been worse” with catfish story

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Tone & Style

The episode is classic Pete & Sebastian—casual, fast-paced, riff-heavy with a blend of self-deprecation, observational humor, and sharp comic timing. Both hosts oscillate between stories of minor disaster and playful arguments about how real men should behave—never shying from mocking themselves or each other.

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For New Listeners

Expect an hour of quick-witted banter, relatable domestic disasters, and two comics digging beneath everyday mishaps for laughs, wisdom, and camaraderie. Even if you haven’t heard previous episodes, the chemistry and conversational structure will draw you right into the quirks and chaos of their lives.

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Title Callback:
“Could Have Been Worse” is woven throughout as both a literal reference to the car accident and a meta-comic mantra for life’s daily slip-ups—reminding us that, for all our complaining, there's humor (and fortune) in what didn’t happen.

Transcript

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[Pete Corelli]

This is the Pete and Sebastian show with Pete Corelli and Sebastian Maniscalco. All right, all right. Welcome to the Pete and Sebastian Show. I don't know, bro. I haven't, I haven't. We haven't done this in what, a month?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

A month Seems like a while.

[Pete Corelli]

A lot of things going on. Holiday season. A, dare I say, near tragedy happening at the Coryelli house. We'll get into that. We have some video we want to dissect today. I mean, happy holidays. We are in full swing. Holiday season coming off a week in Naples, Florida. Which. Fish starts to stink after three days? Just remember that when you have a guest.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, I just spent a couple days with my in laws and I love them. But I don't know, maybe it's. As I get older, I don't care how nice people are, how beautiful the home is. I just. I can't do extended stays in other people's homes, man. Like, extended. So, yeah, I'm curious to hear how that went. How that went, you know?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, we'll talk about that. Also currently speaking, and I'm surprised Patrick didn't mention this. I came in heavy this morning with a. What I think is going to turn out to be a beautiful cologne. You smelling anything? Yeah, it's a little. It's a little heavy. I could see he's like. He's. He's almost flushed. How heavy the scent is. I think it's causing a rash.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

When you say heavy. Meaning? Meaning you put a lot on, or it's got a strong scent.

[Pete Corelli]

It comes on heavy, but throughout the day it dissipates and then becomes a beautiful aroma. It's creed. It's a sample. Guy gave me a sample yesterday, and I want to give you a take on this. And I don't know if Ferrante listens to the cast on a regular basis, but he made a comment to me on tour. Michael Ferrante, by the way, is our stage production manager, what have you. And he made a comment about how I smelled one day, and I don't know if you were there. I don't think you were there. This was at a casino, so. So I turned around and sent him a bottle of cologne for Christmas. What's your take? Another man giving another man a cologne?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I think it's a Evelyn. Someone like you. I think it's great because you know your colognes, and the guy commented on your cologne, so. But if I was just, like, a coworker of yours, or not even. Not even. Just a friend of yours, and you randomly mailed me a bottle of cologne for Christmas. I would, Guy. I don't know about all that. I just don't know about all that.

[Pete Corelli]

I agree.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Trying to do a professional show. No, no, no, no. I'm doing a side thing about your drinking right there. It's just like. It's not a fucking park. We didn't just play pickleball, Guy. I mean, can you put it in a nice glass? Put it in a fucking glass or something. I mean, this is a. There's no more tv. This is tv. This is a TV show. You're hosting a pretty successful TV show, and you're sipping like you just finished playing handball. Jesus. All right.

[Pete Corelli]

For those of you that don't have video. What's Pete referring to is I have a Stanley mug here. That's. That could knock out a mule. And I brought that, I brought that on screen to take a sip. And you're right, Pete, it's. We should treat this like the Carson show and put that in a nice glass. I'm so sorry. That's on me.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I can't believe how early you're doing this for. You too. Because we're on a three hour time difference. 7:30 start. You wanted to go. I mean, you're literally doing like the View. This is the View hours, man. So.

[Pete Corelli]

No, no, I appreciate you. I appreciate you guys getting here early. I thought, I don't know, I was up at 5 something that. It's show related and I don't know if you had the pleasure of doing this with Patrick, but I got a glimpse into Patrick's home yesterday. We did a FaceTime. Did you, have you ever FaceTimed Patrick from the house? I feel like a first time Facet with anybody you haven't done a FaceTime with is a little like, you gotta like, okay. Cause he. Yeah, that's heavy.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It's heavy.

[Pete Corelli]

It was your office. Whatever it was. I just, you know, it's just. Nothing wrong with it. It was just like when you're seeing somebody in their own habitat.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

You gotta like, okay. You know, I just remember a drape in the back similar to this. Like a black drape in the back. That's all I took in from it because it was one of those things where you don't want to like look in the background because if you do, you start noticing shit, you're like, oh, fuck, I didn't know he drank Gatorade. You know, like whatever it is, you.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Know, you, you, you got that. You literally can't look beyond the person you're talking to because you're going to start judging based on what's on their wall and you might not like them halfway through the fucking conversation. That's crazy.

[Pete Corelli]

That crazy. You don't do that. You don't. Like if I saw like a, a moose's head in the back.

[Monet X Change]

Right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

I didn't know he hunted. Then I started going down that rabbit hole. Not that it's bad, but it's just. I start going like, where's the gun? Where does he keep the gun? Where did he shoot the bat? I can't help it, man.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That. But I'm, I'm laughing at that. You have to tell yourself not to look at the wall. That's the funny part to me that's like, it's like palm reading. If you're a palm reader and you're out with people, you know, your wife or husband goes, stop looking at their hands, Bill. You know, like that's, that's sort of what you're doing. But like, hold on now we're getting ahead of ourselves. First of all, having to zoom, Patrick. I mean, it's having to do visual zoom. There's a. Wasn't there a party? Like, why can't we do a phone call? What's. What? What had to be.

[Pete Corelli]

Great question. I saw the, I saw the call come in and the first thing I said is FaceTime, what are we doing here? I mean, yeah, that's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Listen. Intrusive.

[Pete Corelli]

If you're gonna.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Intrusive?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

It's like, holy Christ, how do you know what I look like right now? You know, I gotta pick. No, can you just FaceTime somebody without a warning that the FaceTime is going to become in. I guess what I'm asking is a FaceTime nowadays, is that just a normal call? Like if you called somebody, right. You don't say, hey, I'm going to give you a call. But if you FaceTime somebody, it's just like, oh, it's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You know what? I compare it to stopping over in the seventh. If you're going to stop over, you call and go, I'm coming by. If you're going to FaceTime me, text me and tell me you're going to FaceTime me. It's a big thing. It's a big thing. You're in truth. It's like all of a sudden you're in my fucking living room. It's crazy.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, I've done this to you.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. I thought it was a mistake.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah. I've done an unannounced FaceTime at night. And he was like, bro, I can't pick it up. I'm in my. I'm wearing my glasses. I'm like, wow. Yeah, like something that's stapled to your head that you got to, you know, you could just take the glasses off, Right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, the thing with you is the level of our closeness were close enough that I'd be happy to take the call, but you got hang ups that I don't want you to see me in a certain situation and start thinking different of me. Like, I thought he was cooler, sweatpants and fucking Walmart. You know what I mean? Smoke and mirrors. A lot of my life, bro, is smoke and mirrors. A lot of it, you know? What I'm saying? So, like, fuck.

[Pete Corelli]

Like, if I. If I FaceTimed you at night and you're on the couch with Jackie. Right, right. Can you give me a. Because in my head, I have a vision of what? The ice cream bowl you use for your ice cream. Like, I have, like, I haven't seen it, but I'm envisioning like a. Almost a white cereal bowl.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Holy shit. Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. Wow. And I like the days when I go to get the ice cream, the half gallon, and when it's a day where the amount I'm going to get is going to be finish the carton, because then I don't need the bowl. I just take the whole carton.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, you go right from the carton.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, on the throw out day. On the throwout day. Yeah. When you're going to finish the carton.

[Pete Corelli]

When ice cream comes, there's that little cellophane layer that you have to peel off. You know what I'm talking about? Do you leave that?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Of course I do.

[Pete Corelli]

Do you leave that on or do you peel it off, scoop it out, and then you put the cellophane back on and then the cap. What do you do with that cellophane?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's. I can't believe you bringing up that. When you peel that plastic off, that seals it, right? That. That's done. That never goes back on. But what I do with it, I peel it off and I lay it in the sink while I scoop out my ice cream. And then the time I scoop out my ice cream, I lay it where the pot that was touching the ice cream is face up in the sink. Then I scoop out my ice cream, I make my ice cream, put my ice cream away. Then when I come back, it's now melted. Whatever's on the top of the skin, I lick that fucking thing. I lick it and then I throw it in the garbage.

[Pete Corelli]

This is why I don't FaceTime people. This is why I do not FaceTime people. Bro, if you would have answered and I got you mid lick on a cellophane from an ice cream container, that's it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

The podcast is over. That's what I'm saying, bro. Oh, you caught me licking the. The ice cream skin cover. I don't know what it is. It's like. It's like what a Hannibal puts on his face when he escapes. You remember that? When he rips the guy's face over, puts it on his. Oh, yeah, but that's, you know, that's good stuff. That's a good lick. And then you feel while you lick it. It's crazy, bro. You feel better about everything for, like, the length of the lick.

[Pete Corelli]

Go ahead. I'm just thinking while this is going on, if your wife is in the distance, right, and she just happens to look in the kitchen and just sees her husband licking the skin of the thing. God, don't you file for divorce right there. I don't even know how the hell she gets excited to see you after that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Excited? You know how many things a man does and over the course of, let's say, a month that, like, if the woman saw that he did, she'd be like, I had no. I had no idea what I was married. I mean, you have a wipe. You ever wipe your ass and just say curiosity. Smelled the toilet paper once just to see where we're at.

[Pete Corelli]

Like, where is this going, bro? That's it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's it.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm sorry.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm done.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm done, I'm done.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm just saying. I'm saying there's things a man does. I feel like you could get a sense of your own health based on the smell. You ever like? It smells so bad. You're like, sick, I must be sick. So. But yeah, you're right. You're right. Let's move on.

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[Monet X Change]

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[Pete Corelli]

You were gonna go somewhere with this about patch prior to me.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Do you remember what the hell it is at this age? I think if anybody has a thought come into their head, they just have to interrupt the show because it's a fleeting thought and then gone.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right? Right. I was saying when Patrick's like, well, you saw my office. I was going to just say, though, but that's part of your house. That's a little nook in your house that you've created to be your zoom calls. And this is a glimpse into how you live your life. If this is one nook, the company often. What does that mean?

[Pete Corelli]

It's like this. I have an office downtown where I keep all my gear and I have a server and I do my work and I was working. You were there last night at 10 o'. Clock. Do you sleep there? No. Oh, you went back. This guy's unbelievably. It's a guy. I don't know where the guy gets the energy. He's at his office downtown last night because we did a. I had an interview last night. So he piped in remotely. And then he's telling me after he wrapped it up at the office, comes home, sleeps, and then all of a sudden's here at 7, 10, right? I mean, I don't know. His wife must be looking at him going, what the fuck did I marry? I mean, like this, this, this guy's never home. He's. He's up at night, three o' clock in the morning. It's, it's just an enigma, bro. I don't, I don't know what we got working with us.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, I know. Well, it's, it's funny. You go, he's never home. You, you just did 192,000 shows in a year.

[Pete Corelli]

That's true, that's true.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

By the way, I owe you an apology and I don't want to. I know we got places to go with this show, but I, this, I want to say before I forget, I think her name was January Jones, one of the stars of the TV show Mad Men. I never used to watch it, but anyway, she was giving an interview recently. She suffers the disease that you suffer from about having problems with noises. And she says that she has a brother in law who eats chips and she can't take it. So he thinks it's funny to eat the chips in front of him. And she's like, and I'm really tired and I want to put a spotlight on that this is a real disease. And when he does that, it's like mocking someone in a wheelchair. It's a disease, it's a thing. So I don't know, I kind of joke with you about it a lot, but maybe it's a real thing.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm telling you, more and more people are coming out with it. It's not a disease, it's a disorder. We're talking about misophonia, people. It is a low tolerance for noises. I believe I have it. I believe it's somewhat of a blessing and a curse because I do notice a lot of things that I probably shouldn't. But that being said, I want to dive into, and I don't want you to see. We do this cast, and we generally don't talk during the time we don't do it, because I feel like if we did talk, we would burn through a lot of the stuff that we cover here on the cast. So Jackie, a couple weeks ago or maybe a week and a half ago, got into a car accident, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

We had to postpone the show because Pete had to attend to what was going on on the road. And then Pete sent a photo of the accident just to let you know. And I think Pete could add some more color on this, that Jackie is okay. There's no injury. Said he wasn't in the vehicle. However, the vehicle did look pretty nasty in regards to what had happened. Before we get into that, there was a video that was caught. You were live while you took the phone call. Did you see the video? No. Oh, okay. We'll go over it here on the cast because I want to dissect how you responded to the call. But let's dive in on your part. Anything that came out of this accident that you feel like you have to share, whether it be how, you know, in a marriage when somebody has something traumatic happen to them, how your comedic mind kind of takes this all in. Could you, could you, could you give us anything that you noticed? Maybe not. Maybe you didn't notice anything. Maybe you just went and everything's okay. Thank God. That, that, that, that. And you went on with your life. Or did something come out of this experience for you going, oh, man, what? Just, just, just tell us, tell us the story because.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, I mean, I feel there might.

[Pete Corelli]

Be a take on this because anytime we get into relationship stuff, I've noticed it tends to go really well on the Internet because people could relate to. Because the last time we did this, it was the.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Overwhelmed.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

So give us the play by play here.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, I mean, there's a lot of different aspects, and I don't want to hog up this, but that one, the relationship one, she's an aggressive local driver, you know what I'm saying? Like, I, I, when people, some people, when they're in their home turf, you know, it's. It's cool to do 45 and a 35, but you don't do 90 in a 70, right, hot shot? Like. Like, I don't like that. I don't like the aggressive local driving. I don't do that. And I tell her. She does it a lot.

[Pete Corelli]

And does she agree?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. But she tells me, you know, fuck off, basically.

[Pete Corelli]

You know?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I mean, this is how she drives, you know? Or like, just the other day, she was driving, and I went like that out the window. And she goes, guy, don't tell the person behind me that, because I give the person behind me a wave off. They're stunned when you do that, by the way. They're like. It's like, I fucking tell. Because the lady was tailgating, so I gave it a hand just to, like, back the fuck up. So you got to see it from the. It's like this. It's. It's. It's the. Out the door.

[Pete Corelli]

Wait a minute.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Wait a minute.

[Pete Corelli]

You're. You're. You're in the passenger seat, and you're telling people behind you, back off.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Jackie's driving. She goes, this guy's up my ass. And I look and I go, he is. And then I. It was a guy, and I start doing that, you know, and then they back off a little. It's a windy road. It was icy.

[Pete Corelli]

What are we doing?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I can't take this shit, you know? You know what my move now is, bro? As a pedestrian. People get weirded out when you do this. Did it the other day to some kid. He was speeding by. I felt he was going too fast by my house. I pull out my cell phone and I fake pretend I'm videoing him.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm like, wow.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And he looked at me. I'm not even fucking doing anything. It's not even on.

[Pete Corelli]

You're slowly becoming like a senior citizen. People driving by.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I got kids. I got kid. There's kids around here, man. That's what I'm saying. So I had told Jackie. I'm like, this is not going to end well. You got to stop doing this. I feel like you drive, you know? Yeah. It's not cool the way you drive. And, you know, thank God nothing happened to anybody. But, you know, she was tailing a. She was behind a plow, whatever. And anyway, to. To tell the story real quick, he stopped. She couldn't. She was hit. She was skidding. It was really bad out. So then she could get to the right of him, and she's like. And there was a parking lot. So I'm like, I'll slide right into that parking lot. But as she Went to do that. Turns out he was slowing down to turn into that lot. And then he turned and his whole plow went into the side door. The only overall thing I want to say about this, though, it's a whole overall thing, but she's got a bad flat, the door's fucked up, but she's able to get in the parking lot. Bad snowstorm. The other guy gets in the parking lot, the other guy calls the cops. The cops say there's been a. There was over 100 accidents in Rochester that day. And they got. They're in a lot of trouble they got. Because they didn't get the plows out. We're going to get there, we're just a little backed up. We apologize, okay? So about an hour and a half, the cop gets there. In the meantime, we call AAA and they go, well, it was an accident. So you call your insurance, we call Geico and they'll come with the tow. We call Geico, they go, we got a guy coming to fix the flat immediately because we didn't need a tow, we just needed a flat. So Geico sends a guy, cop comes, they write it up real nice. Lady Geico sends a guy, puts on freaking no gloves. This guy pulls out the spare, the Tahoe changes it in seconds. We drive to a collision place three miles away. That guy says it'll take till before Christmas. I'll make it look nice. The doors, everything will match. Geico says you got to pay about a grand out of pocket. We got everything else covered. Don't worry about anything else. It's all taken care of. Geico also says you go to the rental agency. You can go right now. See, Mike, they're already waiting for you. Get yourself a call for the month within three hours. My wife's in a Genesis, the kind of car you got your dad. She's in a Genesis. She's calm, everything's okay. It's a thousand dollar mistake. How do you not love this fucking country? Okay? That's America, baby. Three hours later and you got a $60,000 car in your garage for the month. Unlimited miles. And everything's nicey nicey again. If this is Brazil, you'd be fucking walking for three years till you could afford to buy another car. I'm so sick of people not understanding how great this place is. You know who gets it if you watch his clips? Jimmy Carr, the guy we had on, he's not even from America. When he talks about, like, hot showers and how nobody has ever had a hot shower, you know, all Life is so great in this country, it's insane.

[Pete Corelli]

I couldn't believe.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Believe it. The efficiency. Everybody and every single person opens up with you, right? Is everyone all right? All right.

[Pete Corelli]

Could have been worse.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Could have been worse. So I was real happy with the process, bro.

[Pete Corelli]

The process is pretty efficient. And I gotta tell you, we sometimes are. We overlook how lucky we are to be living in this country. But what's your take on the. Could have been worse. What's your take on this? You know, there's a lot of that being thrown around nowadays, like, it could have been worse. But. But. But this is. This is. This is worse than a nick on the hood, right? This is worse.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

What's the. Better.

[Pete Corelli]

Worse.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Could have been better. Could have been better. You could have missed them.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, nobody talks about that, though. You could have veered the other way. And now we don't have a genesis in our. In our garage.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You know what I'm saying? And the Pete Sebastian listeners aren't hearing the best of week because I had to cancel two shows. I mean, you know, there is a. There is a. No one talks about the. The. The good side of what could have been.

[Pete Corelli]

You're.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You're absolutely right, man.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, I think. I think. I think if you learn anything from this, thank God Jackie's okay. But the.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

The.

[Pete Corelli]

The. The. Could have been worse should be also reversed to could have been better. Could have been better.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And then the guy. The guy she hit, right? Plow. These things are unbelievable. You were. The plow doesn't. Not a scratch. Not a scratch. And I don't know, guys in his mid-30s. He was, you know, fucking three hours total out of his day, sitting here in a snowstorm. So at one point, Jackie goes, what? He's not. That. He's not very nice. She goes. I'm like, he's not being very nice. I go, jack, first of all, he's being fine. I go, second of all, what do you want to be? I mean, he's doing his job. He goes to make a right. You caught him. You run into him, and now he's sitting in a parking lot for three hours. His boss is here. I'd be pissed, too. And then she's like, no, no, I know. So it's just funny, you know? Again, America. America, Crash. And you're mad. You're upset because the guy's mad.

[Pete Corelli]

The pete and sebastian show.

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[Pete Corelli]

Real.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You and Vanna have history. Now what?

[Pete Corelli]

So, I used to work at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. This is years ago. A very sweet woman came in. Couldn't be more nice to me. Very pleasant. She ordered a drink. I was a waiter there. I come back to the bar, and I said, I think 109, that the girl is giving me vibes.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right.

[Pete Corelli]

And the bartender's like, that's Vanna White. I don't think she's looking to pick up a struggling waiter at the Four Seasons Hotel. Do you remember that? And were you giving me vibe?

[Kelly Clarkson]

I think I was giving you some vibes. I mean, that was back then.

[Pete Corelli]

I am taken now, but back then. Yep. Okay. I was single, too. I wish I would have known that. Happily married now. But I wish you would have came on a little stronger. We could have had a special life together. Santa, baby. So hurry down the chimney.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Tonight.

[Pete Corelli]

I want to go over the, the phone call that you got. We got it on tape when it happened, and I want to kind of go over it similar to someone that would go over some game tape from a football game on the NFL on Sunday, kind of.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I can't imagine you have a problem with it.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, well, you better strap yourself in then, because.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Strap myself in? I, I, I just thought, wow, the way I just dropped everything.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, all right, well, let's, let's get it up here and we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll dissect this. Okay. There we go.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Patrick, are you there?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, Peter, I just caught the end of that. You got to go?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, I got to go. My Wife got in a car accident. I can't cast. I'm sorry.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay, thank you, Pete. Okay, we're going to go over that again just one more time.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

By the way, by the way, no hope she's all right from Patrick. Wow, that changes a lot. Okay, I'm on my way. Jack, I'm going to put on my tail.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm coming, I'm coming.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Bye.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay, stop it there. Okay, now. All right. As a man, I felt by watching that. I felt that you got in the car accident. Okay, Jack?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Okay.

[Pete Corelli]

The senior citizen really came out of you here. And I know you're not seeing it. I know you're not seeing it. And I want to play it again after. Even the posture of the body, you don't see your head, but you see your body. It's kind of crunched over, bro. I thought you had like. I thought you were going to pick up a walker and walk out of the place based on it. Just frail. Frail with the sky, the whole thing.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, wow, bro. That's amazing that you.

[Pete Corelli]

Look at it through my lens the next time you watch the.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right. No.

[Pete Corelli]

All right, now you know the information. Go back, go back to the beginning. Okay, play it again.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Let me see, let me see. Let me. Bent over.

[Pete Corelli]

Coming. I'm coming. Bye. Okay, look at, look at this, bro. If I didn't know your head's 90 years old here with the phone.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You can't even see my head. Do you see my head?

[Pete Corelli]

I know. Yeah, but if. If I didn't know, I would think a 90 year old head is attached to this, man.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't know why you're getting any of that from that, bro. I don't even want to make you. Put you on the spot right now.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay, look at here, look at here.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh.

[Pete Corelli]

Can you handle this? Can you handle this, bro? I. I'm confident at all. If I'm on the other end and you're show. You're showing up as the husband here. If I'm Jackie, I'm nervous. Oh, wow.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, guy, I. You know what? I. It's really interesting because. Go ahead. I don't see what you're seeing. You're gonna keep saying that until I say I see it. I don't see it. I see a man right there. A man who's got to do what he's got to do. And in that moment, you don't understand the other end of the phone I was getting. There's a hole in the door.

[Pete Corelli]

What the.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

There's a hole in the door. I don't know what to do. I mean, you know, so I'm like, all right, I'll be right there.

[Monet X Change]

I'll be.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You know.

[Pete Corelli]

No, it's not that. It's not that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I know. Jack. Jack. Jack. It's okay, Jack. I was like, jack, it's okay, Jack, it's okay. It's going to be okay. I'm on my way, Jack. That's how it was. And then when I got there, got out, walked up. How you doing? Everyone all right?

[Pete Corelli]

Boom.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So, I mean, you know, maybe. Maybe you saw the. Everything in motion. But, like, when I presented myself, when I got there, I was a man. The husband was on the scene. Now a husband was on.

[Pete Corelli]

I mean, I'm just saying, from what I'm seeing, the initial call, it looked like, you know, I understand. I understand. Your wife's screaming at you, and you're, like, trying to, like. I get it. I get it. I don't want you think that I'm insensitive to what's happening on the other line, but what I'm seeing on this side is like, you were just in the accident. I feel like maybe there should have been a. I don't know, you know, like, when you see behind the curtain, like, oh, I thought Pete would have reacted in a more of a confident way here. And I just feel like this was something. It.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You know what? Like, let's play and play it again. Let's pretend you're a director and I'm the actor. And I'm saying, can you. Can you. Can you do the line read for me? I don't mind. Just tell me how you want it done, because I. I like. What would that be more like. What would you have. I'd really like to learn from the. Yeah, okay.

[Pete Corelli]

He's missing the beginning. That's what he's. He's not like. It starts right when he puts play there. You have to feel the voice here. Go ahead.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It is high. I don't like that.

[Pete Corelli]

See? Again. Okay, could go back again. You're talking over yourself. Go ahead.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Okay, I'm on my way. Jack, I'm gonna put on my team.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm coming.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm coming by.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay. Okay, Jack. See, I just thought.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You're. Okay, she's yelling.

[Pete Corelli]

I just thought. Listen, I just thought if I was envisioning your ice cream bowl now. I'm envisioning your reaction here. If I'm the director, I would go, Pete, Cut.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Hold on.

[Pete Corelli]

Pete, could you act more like you got this under control and you're not frazzled by this. If I were to give you a line read, I go, jack, relax. Everything's going to be okay. I'm coming.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Not.

[Pete Corelli]

And then they'll lean it, play it again. And then to lean into the camera to tell, patrick, let's dissect this.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right?

[Pete Corelli]

Okay. I don't know what you're doing here with the phone. Okay, Pause, pause, pause. Bro, could you get that on a loop? That would be great to put that in a song. Patrick, you there? Patrick, you there? Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Patrick, are you there? Patrick, are you there? Patrick, are you there? Patrick, are you there? And by the way, Patrick, you caught the end of that. What the you talking about? You recorded it. Caught the end of it.

[Pete Corelli]

Liar.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm joking with you, man.

[Pete Corelli]

I thought about it while you were taking the call, and I said I didn't know what this was, so I didn't record. And then when I realized that you're actually talking to Jackie and she was not injured to the point where she couldn't be on the phone and you were gonna go deal with something, I was like, I gotta. Oh, bro, I'm sorry. Just the wherewithal for the producer to, like. Sensitive information is being exchanged here. He's not recording it because he might think this could be fatal once he finds out everything's okay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Boom.

[Pete Corelli]

Content.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, my God.

[Monet X Change]

But that's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But you believe in the lie you think in that little time he deciphered. Well, she's good. If she can get on the phone, she must not be dying. People fucking talk right before they die all the time, Patrick. I got news for you. I've been around them when it's happened, okay? I'm not going. Am I going? All right, so number one, and number two, if it did be bad, you would just say you never recorded it. But then you realize it wasn't bad, and then you go, oh, yeah. So now you do your little sugar dance there and go, oh, once I realized she was all right. The fuck? It's a lie. Shit I hear. You know, I don't like that high voice I go into sometimes. I don't like it, and I'm not projecting. But on a cast a couple months back, you had told. Said something that was so funny, but it has left a lasting impression. And I know what you're saying. When you see a side of the person, like you did, what you were talking about gummies, and you leaned over at Lana and you're like.

[Pete Corelli]

I can't.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Get that out of my head. It makes me see you Different. So maybe you didn't want to see that right there. I hear you. I hear you. That wasn't meant to be seen. I should have looked at that before I let that be seen.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, we're just playing here at the pizza bash. So always. Always good to just kind of, like, dissect something that happened in life and really over, you know? Of course. Of course.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Jesus. What are you gonna do when I do get old, bro?

[Pete Corelli]

You're gonna. Excuse me.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. How is that not senior citizen?

[Monet X Change]

It is.

[Pete Corelli]

That's why I gotta hide it. I'm going off camera now. It's a totally senior citizen bro.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, God.

[Pete Corelli]

All right. So everything's okay. Jackie's. Jackie's fine. The car. Do we have a photo of the car, by chance? Did you get that? I don't have. Okay. I. Actually, it's. It looks pretty bad. I mean, there's a gash in the. I think it's the passenger side. Yeah, it's like. There's, like a hole in the car. Thank God Sadie wasn't in the back. Cause it looked like it could have sliced her legs off.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It didn't go all the way through, though, so it wouldn't have. But I hear what you're saying. It was. No, it didn't go to the seat. It didn't make it all the way through the door. It just ripped off the front part of the door. Now she's like your next car. You got.

[Pete Corelli]

It's a metal bar. That's what I'm looking at. Okay. Okay. It's the inside of the door. My bad. This is in the side of the Tahoe. Made from what I am assuming is that the plow itself, the actual plow in the front.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

The tip of the plow ripped through. They said it does it all the time, like a can opener. And then. Bro, you remember, like, two weeks ago, I showed you what she did to the passenger mirror. If the Tahoe could talk, it would be like, just. Just leave me at the collision shop. I don't even want to go back with this lady. Like a horse that doesn't. Like. Like the rider. You know what I'm saying? So.

[Pete Corelli]

And.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And.

[Pete Corelli]

And you. There was no and you were just very compassionate. Hey, thank God you're okay. We'll get it fixed. That's how you handle these things. You're not like. Because sometimes the way I react to something that Lana would do is I am compassionate. I don't want to think that I'm some type of guy with a black heart. However, Sometimes I come in any situations and I look and I go, the fuck are you doing? There's just like a. There's that, there's that also going on. Do you have any of that? Are you just like, hey, we could always replace the door.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I did that more with the mirror. I'm like, come on, man. You can't back out and see that you're hitting it. And just. And bro, I cleaned out the garage because it's snowing. It's snowing today. So I said, we'll put both cars in the garage now. So she pulls in yesterday with the Genesis and I could see on my thing that she's coming home. And she never puts cars in the garage because we haven't started that for the season. So I open up the garage door and as she pulls up the driveway, I'm like, I go like that to come in, guys. She fucking pulls in at like 13 to 15 miles an hour. I'm like, have you learned anything right in. Jesus Christ. It's not a fucking pit stop. It's a suburban house with a garage, you know? Oh, my God.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, God.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

If they've done studies, though, it's like, it's a known fact. It's just a known fact. Men are better drivers. I mean, it's just a known fact. Every, every time you get on a plane, it's a female pilot, there's a party who is a man that just goes, oh, just a. That's it. I'm cool with it. But just a little fucking. Noted. Noted.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, it's funny, it's funny you say that because when you look at driving as a whole and even driving as an occupation, you get into a cab. I've never gotten into a cab in New York City. And it's a female driver. Have you?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, I haven't ever. You're right. Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Uber drivers, I think I had one who was a female. All right. Pilots, generally speaking are male. So transportation in general is a male dominated area. The only. And I don't know why, and I don't do studies on this city bus drivers tend to be more, not more than male, but I tend to see more female bus drivers than I do cabs or Uber. What's it about a bus that is attracting females?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right. I'm wondering, maybe it's like, because there's more people. Like a woman doesn't want to be alone. They just had a big thing in the news recently about a woman who was riding a subway. She was driving a subway train and she fell asleep she fell asleep. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then she woke up and she told everyone to calm down. Calm down. Listen, you got kids. You're a woman. You got kids. It's exhausting. You don't. They shouldn't generally speak.

[Pete Corelli]

God. All right, so. So accident happened. Everything's okay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All good. Could have been worse, but as we've said, great bit by, you know, bro. Could have been better. Could have been better too. That's a fucking great fit, man.

[Pete Corelli]

All right, so we're coming off of Thanksgiving here. Two weeks ago, Thanksgiving, I went to my in laws. The plan was to stay at my in laws for two days and then check into a hotel for five days. Seven days is a long time. And there was a variety of reasons why we thought we would do this. First and foremost, we thought, okay, you know, having us there in somebody's home for both sides. We thought for us to have a little room and to do our own thing and also for my in laws. So, you know, because Lana's brother also stays there. You know, seven days is a long time to be at somebody's house. So we figure for both parties, and I'm not gonna lie for, for us mainly to have some room, man.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, I get it.

[Pete Corelli]

You know, when we got there, their house went through some. Some damage when the hurricane. So they remodeled the. The basement. So in. In doing. So what they did was they brought in a lot of games for the kids. Ice, air hockey, foosball, a basketball net and you know, all that stuff.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Awesome.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, yeah. As soon as the kids saw that, it's like, you know, kids in a candy store. Oh, my God. We'll play this, we'll play that. No, no. I'm like, yeah, well, we gotta go check into a hotel. Yeah. There's no air hockey at the hotel. At the hotel. Right. So, you know, they were saying, hey, you know, if you want to stay here, save yourself some money. Happy to have you, kid. You know, we like to see the kids. So I'm like, all right. So we canceled. We canceled the thing.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Nice.

[Pete Corelli]

And we ended up staying there. Now they kind of live like on a bay where you could fish and. Do you know how to fish?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Not really. I mean, but who doesn't though?

[Pete Corelli]

Do you know how to cast?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, you throw it. You let your thumb off and then you reel it back in.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Insane rocket science, bro.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, it was for me, because, you.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Know, it gets tangled and shit. My friend, when I fish with him, he's gotta undo it for me. I don't know how to do all that shit. It gets annoying. Okay, well, that's what you mean.

[Pete Corelli]

I don't know what you call the lever on a fishing rod that you click to, you know, let it loose, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

So I'm sitting there and I'm casting, and as I'm casting, I'm letting the lever loose as I'm casting and I go, I don't remember it being this difficult to send that damn thing, you know, 30, 40, 50ft out into the water. The hell am I doing wrong? I forgot you. You click it and then you hold, hold the string there, right? And then you cast it and you let your finger go rather than clicking the thing. Right? So I'm like, what am I. All right, right. I was doing this for a day and I'm teaching my kids the wrong way. This is, this is like some. Sometimes it's like being a father, when you're teaching your kids something, you should have it down step by step of how to do it. Right? Because now I'm like, this is how they're learning from the idiot father who's wearing cologne.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You should show them how you really fish. Just, it's called going to Milos and look at. Looking at the fucking fish on crushed ice and picking one. That's how you fish. It raises another question though. Do you have. Do you say, as a dad, I can't really show you how to do this, son, because I'm not sure how to do it either. Or do you try to fake show them? You know what I'm saying?

[Pete Corelli]

Like fake. Because I don't want them looking at me going, who do we have guiding this ship here? Right. So you want to like fake it? Do you make it type of thing?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

So, yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, it was just you and your boy. You didn't have like your father in law out there, someone helping you out? Like.

[Pete Corelli]

No, no, no. So here's, here's me, Serafina Caruso. Are my niece and another two kids. Now this is another thing. I'm the only adult down there with a six year old, an eight year old, a 13 year old. Sorry, a 14 year old and two twins that are seven. And we're on a dock fishing. So I gotta be walking, you know, like everybody's like on one side over here, you know, like a seven year old when he's doing the cast, it could very well fall into the water. Right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

So I text Lana, I go, little help down here. Like you keep sending kids down here unattended, you know, like, I need a chaperone I don't know what the fuck I'm doing down here.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I got five kids God damn practically a camp counselor at this point, man. You know?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah. So. And you know, these kids. These kids, the boys hopped up, one of the twins. Like, he's all over the map, this kid. Like, my son Caruso is a little bit more reserved, and he's like. I tell him, hey, you know, stay here.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Here.

[Pete Corelli]

He stays here. This other kid, you know, he's like, hey, you know, I'm like, I want to go over here. And. Hey, what do you mean, over here? You stay right? Stay where I could see you. That's so. It's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It's. It's. Isn't it a little more stressful when you're responsible for somebody else's kid as well? Like, I was out on a raft once with my daughter and another girl, and we went pretty far out, and there was just a heightened set. Like, God forbid, my daughter drowned. That's on me.

[Pete Corelli]

You know what I mean?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You know, I got this other one. I run into you with the deli the rest of my life. No one I up when you get. You know what I'm saying?

[Monet X Change]

It's like.

[Pete Corelli]

That'S what I was thinking a lot. It was a lot.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Imagine. So I'm like, future family get togethers. If one of those kids jumped in and a whole thing and you weren't paying attention and then something almost bad happened, you'd be judged forever. You don't need that. You don't need the responsibility. Five kids out there.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, five. Five kids. I barely know what I'm doing with the fishing rod, you know? Everybody's getting it tangled, too. It's like, oh, I got mine tangled. And I'm like. I'm trying to untangle the other ones, you know? Like, I think I got a nibble. So I gotta go over there. I need.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I need.

[Pete Corelli]

I need help down here. So Caruso caught a fish, right? Like, it was amazing. He's like, I think I got something, Daddy. And I'm like, it's probably a piece of wood, you know? Like, you ever think it's not a fish? And you just. Because it's like this, like, the. The probability of catching something is this is not slim to none where we're at, right? Sure enough, this. The pole is bending. You do got something. So I get over there, bro. And again, I feel as a father, you have to remain cool in the situation as far as, like, daddy's got it. You don't want to make Kids think you're weak. I gotta say, I wish there was some video of this, the way I handled the fish. Yeah, beautiful. I got it. He had a little poll, too. So I'm like. I go, let it go. It's another thing I picked up when I was a kid, because I used to fish when I was a kid, but I lost it all. But it's coming back. Let it go. Let the fish think it has it, you know, because you let it go, and then they swim away and they think they got it. And then. And then you fucking bring it back in. So then they come back.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right, Right.

[Pete Corelli]

Whiplash. So mind game. So mind gate game with the fish. You think he's got it. You bring it back. You let it go, Bring it back, and for sure, you know, and so then it comes up and then this is.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Why is that the way is that you're tiring it out? Is that why you do that? Why do you do that?

[Pete Corelli]

I don't know. I just. I just heard. You let it go, you make it think it's got it, then you bring it back in. I don't know.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Torturing the damn thing.

[Pete Corelli]

What's your take on this, though? To catfish.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right.

[Pete Corelli]

I heard when you handle catfish, it could be a problem because the scales and whatnot, it could cut you up pretty bad. I don't got any gloves. Right. Right. So I'm working with limited amount of equipment. So I brought the thing up. I had his scissors, and I just cut the line and I left the hook in the mouth. Right. So now this thing's swimming around Naples.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, bro, that might be another.

[Pete Corelli]

Listen, listen, I heard, and if you want to chat GPT this, I heard it's okay to leave it in because eventually the hook will fall. Will fall out. Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, okay. Now, well, listen, at the end of the day, you go to any mall in America, half the girls are walking around with a hook in their fucking mouth too. Right. So, I mean, the nose, it's really just an accessory, really.

[Pete Corelli]

But do you think the fish. He goes back to his family or his school of fish? Yes, the hook often falls out, especially if it's barbless hook or the fish is released quickly. Yeah. Okay, so it does fall out. I'm good.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Probably out by now, anyway. It's probably out by now.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, yeah, definitely out by now. But maybe it's in there for a week. Do you think he goes back and other fish start looking at him going, the fuck do you got hanging out of your mouth? Right. Wow. I almost Got caught. But then I got. Do you think there is any discussion or not discussion or realization from other fish that butt the hook?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You know what? I think this is why with such brilliant comics, I'm gonna wrap this whole show right back around. The one fish looks at other one and says, could have been worse. He could have not cut it. And you could be in a pot with hot water right now.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, yeah, it really is the way. The way you brought it back. No, I don't think too many people are doing callbacks.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Those catfish, though, man, when you have. Like you said, when you think you. It could be seaweed or not, One of the things you always think it might be is it might be a catfish. Like, what is it with these goddamn catfish that like one out of every two times when I'd fish with my friends, you'd go, ah, it's a catfish. And you throw. Are they like a zillion of those things in there? There must be so many catfish out there, man.

[Pete Corelli]

I think. And I think they're basically the cockroach of the ocean. Oh, wow. I think they just eat whatever the hell they're bottom feeders. We're gonna pull it up. Catfish bite frequently because they're opportunistic scavengers, predators with excellent senses. Those whiskers love smelly baits, fight hard when they're hooked, especially males during spawning and can be aggressive eaters. Okay, so that's why they're always. They' tugging at the line. But I gotta tell you, though, I really enjoyed the fishing experience with my kids. And we were hanging an ornament on the tree the other night, and it was a fisherman. And they're like, daddy, daddy, you hang the fisherman. I go, no, no, you hang it. They're like, no, you taught us how to fish. Oh, wow, look at that. I taught you wrong.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, that's what I'm sad. That's what. That's the beauty being a parent, man. You know what I'm saying? All they know is through what you show them. So, like, they think you know how to fish.

[Pete Corelli]

Frightening. It's frightening because when they're. When they go fishing with their friends and they. Then they start casting and what are you doing? That's what my daddy taught me, how to do it. Leave the hook in.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

All right, listen, that's our show for today. Good stuff. We got a lot more to cover next week that we haven't even opened up the jar of information that I have to share with you. So we really appreciate you guys listening to the Pete and Sebastian Show. We will be back next week again with another fun packed episode of the trials and tribulations of Coriali and Maniscalco.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

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