686: The Pete and Sebastian Show - EP 686 - MAKE IT RAIN CONFETTI

Summary

The Pete and Sebastian Show - EP 686

Episode Title: Make It Rain Confetti
Release Date: December 23, 2025
Hosts: Pete Correale and Sebastian Maniscalco

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Episode Overview

This episode captures Pete and Sebastian in festive, reflective moods. They swap stories about family life, parenting intensity, holiday spirit, and professional highs—peppered with signature banter and observational humor. The episode’s theme orbits around transitions: from childhood innocence to skepticism, from parental involvement to letting go, and celebrating rare moments of joy—sometimes with literal confetti.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Florida Vibes, Palm Beach Encounters, and Mar-a-Lago (01:00–04:46)

• Pete describes his recent work trip to Palm Beach, crossing paths with Mar-a-Lago and relishing Florida’s atmosphere.
• Addresses how encountering Turning Point attendees contrasts with his conditioned California experience.

“As soon as I land in Florida...all of a sudden I'm happy. I don't know. The water, the sand. I went and put my feet in the water. Something about...It's like medicine, man.”
— Pete [04:19]

• Sebastian agrees, emphasizing the importance of feeling at home wherever you live, regardless of politics.

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2. Parenting, Youth Sports Intensity, and Transitions (05:27–18:23)

Pete’s Son’s Soccer Tryouts Drama

• Pete details the emotional gauntlet of enrolling his son in a more competitive soccer league—living out “Maniscalco family grit.”
• Frustration at his son being listed as a “transitional player” inspires a surge of parental competitiveness.

“Let’s get the fucking private coaches in here. Let's get to get this kid up and running.”
— Pete [10:09]

“I felt like I got cut.”
— Pete [11:49]

• Pete and Sebastian riff on the challenge of how to “break the news” to a six-year-old who didn’t make the team.

“How do you tell a six-year-old he didn't make the team?”
— Pete [12:10]

• Both reminisce on parents pushing them and the (sometimes dubious) merits of private coaching.

  • Pete recalls his own “German guy” soccer coach, Frank Speth, brought in by his dad:

    “Failing math, no tutor. Soccer, he brought in a German.”
    — Pete [15:23]

• Sebastian insists what’s really needed is “eye of the tiger” energy and basic grit, not fancy drills.

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3. Christmas Spirit & Holiday Shopping Goodwill (19:28–26:51)

• Pete recounts getting cologne at a boutique and having the recipient’s initials engraved, relishing the old-school Christmas shopping vibe.
• The hosts observe how Christmas spirit makes people extra friendly—even chatty with strangers about sneakers.

“You’re like a walking Hallmark movie right now, guy.”
— Sebastian [24:24]

• Cautionary note: Pete might be “peaking too soon” on the Christmas spirit (it’s only December 9th).

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4. Family Traditions & the Santa/Elf Dilemma (26:47–31:22)

• Pete laments his daughter’s fading belief in Santa at eight, influenced by school friends.

• The expansion of “Elf on the Shelf” to multiple elves—including for the family dogs—brings both marvel and mockery.

• Sebastian contrasts holiday traditions from their own childhoods with modern parenting:

  “We never did the elf. We told Sadie the elf was bullshit. Like, that we didn’t do.”
  — Sebastian [27:27]

• Regional differences are joked about (Pete’s LA vs. Sebastian’s more “wholesome” town).

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5. The Question of Where to Live: Home Uncertainty (32:28–35:00)

• Pete voices uncertainty about staying in California, moving, or remaining in the same house; it’s “causing stress.”
• Sebastian offers empathy and recounts his own challenging but ultimately rewarding move:

  “If you got to that point, everyone would fall into line if you knew...It set me back when I moved, bro...but then all of a sudden Sadie turned around...‘Thanks so much again for moving, I really love it here.’”
  — Sebastian [33:14]

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6. Grandparents Today vs. Yesteryear (36:03–44:48)

• The generational shift: today’s grandparents are globe-trotting, tech-using, and less tethered to family duties.

“My grandmother wasn’t playing Words with Friends, you know what I’m saying?”
— Pete [39:36]

• Jokes about “eating into the inheritance” as parents travel, get hotel rooms, or remodel.

“They're going through everything. They're gonna leave you with...”
— Pete [45:40]

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7. Economic Realities, Parental Absence & Kids’ Perspective (47:01–48:49)

• Pete reflects on explaining to his kids why he works and isn’t always present—contrasting himself with parents who are ever-visible at school.

“The reason I go is because, you know, the lights don't just turn on, you know, I got to explain to them, I gotta go out and make some meat. So we come home and cook it.”
— Pete [47:36]

• They joke that “the best athletes” are children of unemployed parents because they always have someone to ball with.

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8. Celebrating Wins: Pete on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (49:01–57:52)

The Play-by-Play

• Pete details his appearance on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune with Meghan Trainor, Taye Diggs, and Ryan Seacrest.
  • Wins over $180,000 for charity.
  • Solved a bonus puzzle in 2.4 seconds!

“I win $152,000, plus I get 30 grand for practice. I walk out of there with about $180,000 for the charity. Wow. Hey.”
— Pete [51:34]

• The experience of confetti falling becomes a comedic revelation.

“Everybody should have confetti fall on them once in their life.”
— Pete [52:54]

• Pete jokes about wanting confetti as a daily ritual for celebrating even small victories.

“Anytime somebody feels like there’s…it’s like a celebration. You got an A on the paper. Boom—right over the kitchen table.”
— Pete [57:37]

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9. Miscellaneous Movie & TV Talk; Upcoming Gigs (58:06–60:20)

• Movie recommendations:
  • Pete recommends “Mercy” (Chris Pratt).
  • Sebastian mentions an upcoming DiCaprio/Benicio del Toro/Sean Penn film and “F1” with Brad Pitt.
• Pete plugs a Las Vegas gig Super Bowl weekend at the Wynn and celebrates the release of his new Hulu special, which Sebastian raves about.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------| | 04:19 | “As soon as I land in Florida...all of a sudden I'm happy…It's like medicine, man.” | Pete | | 10:09 | “Let’s get the fucking private coaches in here…” | Pete | | 12:10 | “How do you tell a six-year-old he didn't make the team?” | Pete | | 15:23 | “Failing math, no tutor. Soccer, he brought in a German.” | Pete | | 24:24 | “You’re like a walking Hallmark movie right now, guy.” | Sebastian | | 39:36 | “My grandmother wasn’t playing Words with Friends, you know what I’m saying?” | Pete | | 44:05 | “If you learn anything from this podcast, grandparents are dead. Not in the sense that they died, but their responsibilities now...are completely different.” | Pete | | 47:36 | “…the reason I go is because…the lights don't just turn on, you know, I got to explain to them, I gotta go out and make some meat. So we come home and cook it.” | Pete | | 51:34 | “I win $152,000, plus I get 30 grand for practice. I walk out of there with about $180,000 for the charity. Wow. Hey.” | Pete | | 52:54 | “Everybody should have confetti fall on them once in their life.” | Pete |

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Florida vibes, Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago — 01:00–04:46
• Youth sports / being a “transitional player” — 05:27–18:23
• Holiday shopping and spreading cheer — 19:28–26:51
• Elf on the Shelf & Santa beliefs — 26:47–31:22
• Family moves and settling anxiety — 32:28–35:00
• Modern grandparents vs. Old school — 36:03–44:48
• Talking with kids about work & money — 47:01–48:49
• Celebrity Wheel of Fortune confetti win — 49:01–57:52
• Movie recommendations, show plugs — 58:06–60:20

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Tone & Language

The episode is high-energy, affectionate, and laced with self-deprecation and friendly family ribbing. Pete and Sebastian freely oscillate between deep nostalgia and biting contemporary commentary, always with an emphasis on their distinctly Italian-American, everyman point of view.

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Takeaways for Listeners

• Even A-list comedians stress about parenting, family, and figuring out where “home” should be.
• Sometimes, little wins (or literal confetti) bring unmatched joy.
• Traditions evolve, families change, but laughter and grit stay central.
• The Pete and Sebastian Show remains a relatable, riotous celebration of the challenges and quirks of daily life—especially during the holidays.

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Next episode: Tune in for more stories, laughs, and relatable real-life moments in the new year!

Transcript

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[Pete Corelli]

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

This is the Pete and Sebastian show.

[Pete Corelli]

With Pete Corelli and Sebastian Maniscalco. All right, Pete and Sebastian show, back again. Thanks for joining us. A lot going on personally here. I saw you on a train. Subway car. What was that? Chicago?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No. Yeah, this is the video. Just making a video. By the way, did you go to Illinois State?

[Pete Corelli]

No, I went to Northern Illinois. Niu.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Northern Illinois?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, Northern Illinois. I was just in Palm beach for a corporate event and I gotta say, Palm beach is just fantastic. And on the way, I was staying at a hotel, but the gig was at another hotel. But on the way there, I passed by Mar A Largo.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, wow.

[Pete Corelli]

Man, I gotta tell you, the amount of security around this place, it's beautiful. I mean, it's just talk about. It's just, I see it and I go United States.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Love it. I love it. I love it, man. Like, what is it? Is it a house? Is it a hotel? What is Mar A Lago? It's one private home.

[Pete Corelli]

It's a hotel.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It is a hotel.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, you can stay. It's like a membership thing. You got to be a member there to stay there. It's on like 17 acres of property. I don't know how many rooms it exactly has.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It's not his private residence, this property, it's a membership.

[Pete Corelli]

It's capped at 500 members, a million dollar initiation fee, plus 20,000 in annual fees, and attracting wealthy individuals from finance, real estate and politics. I believe he has a home there or a place that he stays there on property. But what I did notice is while I was in Florida, obviously I live in California and it's extremely different. I was at the pool, just hanging out, getting some sun, and there was a group of guys and girls there. Guys goes, hey, man, Just saw your Hulu Special, really enjoyed it. I said, oh, thanks. I said, what do you. Where you guys from? Oh, Philadelphia. What are you guys here for? Oh, we're here for a Turning Point event at Mar a Lago. Now, Turning Point is the company that Charlie Kirk started, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

But I'm so conditioned to living in California. I heard that. I was like, you know, like, you said that out loud, but I forgot where I was. You know what I'm saying? Like, you don't hear that out here. You don't hear Turning Point, Mar A Largo, tr. It's just like, over there. It's like, yeah, you want to come? You know, it's like, what? I ain't used to that, man. I ain't used to that, so. And something about Florida. I don't know what it is. People. And I know a lot of people don't like Florida. Oh, whatever. But as soon as I land in Florida, all of a sudden I'm happy. I don't know.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Wow.

[Pete Corelli]

The water, the sand. I went and put my feet in the water. Something about. It's like medicine, man. It's just.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, that's what you want to feel where you want to live. Especially in your latter years, man, when the kids are older, you want to feel that way about where you live, you know? And I don't think it's political. I think, like you said. I think it's just the environment as far as the weather. I mean, you don't. You just don't like the cold at all, man.

[Pete Corelli]

No, I really enjoy the. The vibe there. It's just. I don't know. I just.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Do you see yourself getting a boat someday?

[Pete Corelli]

I went on a boat with my in laws. They took us out on the boat. I love boating. I. I really enjoy it. I really love being out on the water. Something about. It's very peaceful to me. I do not see myself getting a boat. I. I like to just rent a boat and. Just for the day.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

But. Yeah, man, I don't know. Something about Florida is just. I don't know, man. I'm in. I'm in a. I'm in a. I'm in a lot of turmoil over here of, like, what the future looks like for my family and where. Where we want to live now. My son had his first tryout for anything. We're going to put him in this soccer league that's a little bit more intense than where he currently is. Where he currently is. We felt like he was in the upper echelon of his team, his teammates.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Gotcha.

[Pete Corelli]

So, like, all right, let's put this kid in a. More of a competitive environment. So brought him out to the soccer tryout. Right now I'm watching him play, and I'm feeling what my father felt when he watched me play. I feel like I'm him. Like, that's me out there, right? So I'm sitting there on the chair.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't get that. I don't understand that part.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, I. I just feel like when he's dribbling the ball, I feel like I'm dribbling the ball. Like, I feel like that's an extension.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Of me, a part of you. Okay, all right. I got you a little bit more. So when.

[Pete Corelli]

When I'm watching, under my breath, under my breath, I'm saying things like this. Come on, bitch. Like, I'm calling my son a bitch, but, like, not like, Right, Right, Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't know.

[Pete Corelli]

Like, not that he's a bitch, but, like, come on, get it, bitch. Like.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You'Re into it, man. You go to another place when you watch a kid play. I see that. Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Like, wow.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Like, oh, man.

[Pete Corelli]

No one could hear this, but I'm like, almost like, what? I just call my son a.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But, like, oh, my God.

[Pete Corelli]

Good way. I guess I don't.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I can already tell that if your son starts playing, having success and plays on a higher level, like, I could see, like, if he's playing college D1 soccer. I don't even think you could have Lana next to you when you're watching. I just feel like you might need to be alone if you're gonna be this locked in using a bitch word. What are you gonna be calling him by senior year?

[Pete Corelli]

Come on, motherfucker. I don't know, but. Yeah, but I was. I was really into it, right? So the trial, it's good as long.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

As you're not living through him, you.

[Pete Corelli]

Know, saying, like, not living through him, but I'm like, I just want him to succeed. And when he does, good. I just feel like we. I don't know. It's like, we're a team, you know?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, that's. That's good. That's good. But if he, like, turned around tomorrow and said, dad, I think I'm into cross country track, and I don't want.

[Pete Corelli]

To play soccer anymore, I'd say, what'd you just say to me, bitch?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's what I'm. That's what I'm saying. You're living vicariously through him, man. You can't do that. He's probably only playing soccer because of you. Holy shit.

[Pete Corelli]

No, no, no, he's not.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

He likes hoops, though. Are they the same season? Aren't they?

[Pete Corelli]

No, he doesn't like hoops. We've determined. He's determined. Daddy, I don't. Basketball is not his thing. He likes football and he likes soccer.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, football, though. Okay, cool.

[Pete Corelli]

So the second day of tryouts, I wasn't there. I had to go and do this corporate gig, so Lana took him. So I'm actually out to dinner with a good friend of mine who was visiting Palm beach, and he's from Chicago. We were out to dinner, and I get a FaceTime from Lana. He's like, I'm having trouble. He don't want to get out of the car. He's not feeling well. He doesn't want to go to the tryout, right? So now I gotta, like. I got a parent from a restaurant in Palm Beach.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

And I said, get up. We don't quit. Get out there and make the team, right? And then. Party for two, Johnson. Party for two, you know? Oh, shit. So I don't know how he played. Lana's like, yeah, he was out there, but he, you know. So we got the results at a tryout yesterday, right? I'm in. I'm in the. Just. I'm laying in bed watching tv. Lana comes in. It's like, he made the team as a transitional player.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I go, what?

[Pete Corelli]

Transitional? What the fuck is that? He's like, well, he's allowed to come to the practices and not the games, but if he shows promise, then they'll bump him up. And if they have enough kids in this transitional thing, they're going to make another team like a B team now. The fucking giant woke up inside me. I go, really? Hey, you ain't gonna put my kid on the team? Let's do this. Let's get the fucking private coaches in here. Let's, let's. Let's. Let's get to get this kid up and running. All right? Like, I felt again, I don't know if this is living through my kid, but I felt so. I felt like this is the Maniscalco way. Nothing ever comes easy for us, right? Not that it should, right? But my dad's been preaching this for years. It's like if you're a Maniscalco, you gotta fucking fight and claw for everything. You got no one. Just. You don't make it just easy to try out. You don't make the team, right? If it's a Job. You, you don't get the job because somebody else got the job. Right now I'm like, all right, this is the Maniscalco DNA. So now that I'm home.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

It's gonna be a whole different thing. I already got the target set up in the backyard. Five holes. We're gonna be launching balls after school into these holes.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Cones dribbling. We're going to get this kid ready and on the team. Because I felt like I got cut.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah. No, I'm not laughing because the whole thing is entertaining and fascinating to me. There's so many aspects to this. Is he going to do it part of the way? Is he doing the transitional?

[Pete Corelli]

Well, I'm going to get your take on this. We haven't told him yet. How do you tell a six year old he didn't make the team? Now I told Lana, I go, maybe we should say the second day of tryouts when you didn't want to go and you half assed it. Well, this is the result. You're on the bench. Do you say that? Yeah, that's how I wanted to be. I wanted to take that. The fact that he didn't want to go and he might have not gave his all this is why you didn't make the team.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, now they're gonna give you an opportunity.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

You gotta take this opportunity and really make the best of it. Now my wife, you know, has. I don't know if we should say that, you know, so we're. How do you tell the kid he didn't make the team at six?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, I, first of all, I mean, he did not make the team. There's just a different aspect to what he did make, you know, I mean, but did he have, what are you.

[Pete Corelli]

What do you, what is this, 20, 25 parenting? He didn't make the team. He ain't going to the games.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I know.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, he's scrimmage and practice.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

The motivation with that though is I'd be like, you know what we're going to do? We're going to get you so good, you're going to kick the shit out of your teammates all week long. And then when they ask you to be on the regular team, you go. It's scheduling wise. It's not going to work out right now. They're going to. We're going to want them to beg you to play on the weekends. Fuck you. I'm just going to kick this shit, you know, wish I was there on the weekends. That's what you. But it's, it's, it's, it's just. And I know you can work around it, but the Maniscalco way, which. Jackie just brought it up the other day. She was talking about Stern or something and she's like, it's really true. Sebastian talks about it. I guess she said that Whitney Cummings apparently had that kind of childhood. Jackie's a fan, like, listens to some Whitney stuff too. And I guess Whitney's parents pushed her the same kind of way, you know, like that Stern. And she goes, he's all. They all have success. Like, you know, really. So, you know, it's something that works. But now, like, you know where you are in your life now, though, it's just a little more difficult because it's like, we're gonna work on the soccer, but don't accidentally hit the imported fucking olive tree overlooking the Beverly Hill, you know, It's. It's not so. But you. I can't imagine how many times you probably go, this is nothing. This is what matters, right? Like that. You're probably doing that a lot because. But you. But why are you bringing in you go, coaches. You got this, bro. You don't need any coaches. You got everything set up. What are you gonna bring in a ML, indoor soccer player star or something?

[Pete Corelli]

Well, we'll go back to the last episode. Fishing, like, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And then they want you to put the ornament on a tree because they love the way you taught fishing. Just do the soccer yourself, bro.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm doing the soccer myself. What I'm saying is to get some extra help. Want to bring in maybe. I had a private coach, bro, growing up. Frank Speth.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, yeah, man.

[Pete Corelli]

German guy my father brought in, right? Failing math, no tutorial.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Soccer.

[Pete Corelli]

He brought. He brought in a German. This guy took me out on a Saturday morning to an open field and we worked on ball skills, right? My father said, this guy is a professional soccer player. He's going to teach you how to bend the ball, how to do dribbling with the outside of your. He's going to teach you all that right now. Yeah. I could teach my son these basic drills, but if there's other techniques that I might not know, that a professional might know, I'd like him to get those types of, those types of, bro. I'm going full bore.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But this is just. Sounds like I see your boy, he's an athlete. This is just eye to tiger shit right now. That's all this is, man. This isn't about, show me how to do a fucking banana Kick this kid. Just got to want to go in there and fucking, you know, crush kids and take names and like, what was, what was the hang up? Was he afraid he wouldn't make it? And he got nervous.

[Pete Corelli]

Like, I'm looking at, I'm looking at these, the, the, the skills of these kids at six.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

I mean, they, they're, they're.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh.

[Pete Corelli]

I mean, they're leaps and bounds ahead of my kid as far as skills.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, oh, really?

[Pete Corelli]

My, my, my son, what he does have going for him is like perseverance, grit. He's in there. He's like, you know, he's in there.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

He just needs guidance. He needs the guidance.

[Pete Corelli]

Wow.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Let's get on this, man. Let's get on this, man. Let's. I mean, I'm on it, guy. This should be. What time does he start school? What time does he get up for school? 8:30. And that weather where you live. He should be doing a morning sesh. He should get this. They were telling us here the, the, the swim team where Sadie goes. This varsity, not with Sadie, is they came third in the states this year. And every year they finish within the top 10 in the states. And we were like, wow. So we're talking to the lady of the day and she tells us the varsity team, they do two A days. The varsity high school, they swim at 5 o' clock in the morning. 5 o' clock in the morning, you drop your kid off the high school, they swim for like two hours, then they come home, you bring them home, they have breakfast, then they catch the real bus.

[Pete Corelli]

What the.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's Chinese right there, guy. That's. But that's what we should. That's A2A days with the boy. You're up with him in the morning, rolling just a ball of soccer balls. And you're rolling them, rolling them, rolling them. He's kicking them. Then we collect them. We roll them, we roll and we roll, you know, and just go for it, bro. I'm with you. And tell them, well, listen, we got till February to make you good. The daddy goes back on the road again for a year.

[Pete Corelli]

We got 63 days to make this happen.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

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[Pete Corelli]

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[Pete Corelli]

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Who you bringing in? Someone famous? Some soccer?

[Pete Corelli]

No. I don't know. I don't. I don't. I don't know who I'm going to bring in. You know, it's funny. I met a guy yesterday. I went. I went. I don't know. Something got into me yesterday. That's very uncharacteristic of my personality. And I don't generally do this, but I went yesterday at a doctor's appointment. Then I went to go get that cologne for Ferrante at Creed, and I really had a great exchange with the guy working behind the counter. He was really educating me on the scents. And Winston Churchill commissioned this cologne. And that cologne, that's what John F. Kennedy used to wear. So I smelled it, and all of a sudden, something about smell for me, knowing that Kennedy wore it, it's like, oh, it took me back to watching Kennedy give a speech, get assassinated. Like, this is what he smells like when he got shot. Right. I don't know what it was, but it just brought me back. So I'm in there, I'm talking to the guy. Nice thing they do on the bottle. He goes, would you like the receiver's initials engraved on the bottle?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, my. Wow.

[Pete Corelli]

So put a little MF There for Michael Ferrante on that thing. It's a nice touch. It's like one of those things you don't see. You might not see it initially, but when you're spraying it, maybe two or three months in, you might look at the bottle and go, my initials here.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I. I think you almost have to tell the person. They may just think it's a coincidence that there's an mf And. And they might not even understand that. No, no, no.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, it's. It's better if you find it. I don't like telling. I like when people find it. Like, oh. Oh, my God. That's. That's. It's a better reveal, I think, if they.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Bull. If they. If they figure it out, then yeah. Then, yeah. By the way, Watts Watt owns a soccer team, man. His wife is a professional. She's probably got the most insane drills she could show you. But, like, Watts got connections up to wazoo, man. He owns a soccer team.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, maybe. Maybe I'll reach out. I mean, you know, the team's in England. I don't know what the hell they got in California as far as coaching is concerned, but I'm going to start sniffing around. But anyway, I'm at the store and a guy walked in. This is, again, how I notice stuff is also a positive. And this is how savvy I tend to be when I'm out in public talking to the guy. The guy goes, you want me to wrap this? Now, he's the only guy working in this small boutique store. Another guy walks in. He's there looking at the cologne. So the salesman that's helping me goes, sir, can I help you with anything? Like, oh, yeah, you got this in a 750 million? Yeah, yeah, I'll be right with you. So I noticed that this guy needs help.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

But I got. This guy's helping me. He's wrapping gifts, right? So the guy goes to me, did you want a sample of the Royal Ado? I go, you know what? If it's going to take up time away from helping this guy out, no, don't worry about it. I'll come back, I'll get the samples, whatnot. I go, I don't want to monopolize the time because another couple came in. So I'm. I'm, like, assessing. Like, I. Bro, I become the manager of the store without, you know, like, what I'm saying. Like, if I was the manager, I'd be going, you know what? Like, go over here, help this guy. And then this guy will, you know, like, I'm fucking orchestrating, trading my management skills at the boutique.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Jesus.

[Pete Corelli]

So, and another thing I start to do, the guy that's waiting, because now he's rapping the gift. The guy that's waiting.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

I start a conversation up with him, so he forgets about the fact that he's waiting for the guy. So it's like, I'm almost, like, entertaining this guy. So he don't even think about that. He's we. So I go, those New Balance shoes, I go, you like those? He goes, yeah, you know, they're really great for running. I mean, they're a little bulky and they're kind of big, but provide a lot of cushion. I got bad knees. And I said, yeah, I noticed that the. Yes. I hold the conversation about shoes.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. You know what's happening. You don't even see it happen. You know what's happening? Christmas spirits soaking up in your body.

[Pete Corelli]

That's all.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Christmas fear, that's what that is. You're talking to strangers about sneakers. Come on. Because you're Christmas shopping, your things getting wrapped. You're like a walking Hallmark movie right now, guy. You're done working until the new year. You're just happy. Shopping. Shopping. Yeah. It's all good vibes now, so that's. Yeah. Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

I almost want to go back out today.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Just to, like, be out and see what else happens.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Holiday cheer. Spread it, man. Spread it around.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, yeah. I'm in, man. I'm in. I'm.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You, like, went into a little boutique shop, thought of Mike Ferrante, bought a cologne for him and had it monogrammed. That's like 1985 Christmas shopping right there. Who does that anymore?

[Pete Corelli]

You know what I'm saying? Wow.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Unheard of, man.

[Pete Corelli]

I think it's. I think it was. I don't know. I felt so good yesterday being out and just. Yeah. Like, Guy, I was almost, like, walking around going, I would love a little eggnog.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I think I'm a little concerned, though, because people don't realize this right now based on when these things come out, but it's December 9th. You might be peeking too soon. I know. I want to put the Christmas gas pedal down, too, but you put it down too soon, find yourself putting on fucking regular music on Christmas Day. You're not even listening to Carol's. Have you. Have you. Have you dove into any Christmas Years of Cat?

[Pete Corelli]

Bro, we got a reindeer. We bring this reindeer out every year. It's a singing reindeer.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. Who got you this. This magical gift? I got something I'm sending you away this year, and I already. I picture the things you make fun of about it. That's what I do. I picture. But every year, you bring up this reindeer that a friend got you that you just, like, can't. Yeah. So what does it do? It sings Christmas songs.

[Pete Corelli]

It just sings. It moves around. That's mechanical. It moves his mouth to like Paul Anka. It's. It's great. Paul Anka's coming out of this damn rain.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's beautiful. It's a good choice. It's a good choice to have.

[Pete Corelli]

To have him singing.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. So where are we at, by the way? With the kids. Do they both still believe or. Only Caruso?

[Pete Corelli]

Where are we at? Seraphina's fading, you know, she goes. Cause we do the elf on the shelf. So Seraphina last night goes, mommy, when the elves come.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's great.

[Pete Corelli]

And I just think it's too early, man. Eight years old. Did Sadie start, like, cracking around the stage or.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

What grade? When? What grade?

[Pete Corelli]

Third. Third grade?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, I think Sadie was still believing in third, but I. But we never did the elf. We told Sadie the elf was bullshit. Like, that we didn't do. You can't make new ones up. The ones that what's in there is in there. You can't. I don't. I didn't get on board with that in the one.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, Lana's fucking nuts with these elves so much so. And this is. This is where it's like, you know, if anybody else outside hears this, they go, what did she do know? Like, we got the two dogs now.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

The dogs have elves.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, really? How does it work?

[Pete Corelli]

It's called elf, not plural. It's called elf on a shelf. Right? But Seraphina's got an elf and Caruso's got an elf. So it's elves now. Elves on the shelf. Now the dog has got an elf, and I go, what the fuck are you doing? How many elves are we gonna have?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So she hides four elves every night.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, Luigi don't have his elf yet. I guess Luigi's elf is coming to my. She's got a whole calendar. I go, if you spent this much time on opening a business, we would be making millions.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, man. It's a lot of work, man. I know Jackie gets stressed out, but it's a lot of work, what they're doing, man, making it all perfect. So what was I going to say, though? Does she believe in Santa Claus, though? Is that like a separate belief than the elves? Or does that fall under the. When Santa comes, is he gonna get.

[Pete Corelli]

The problem is this school, you know, it's like. It's not like. Like where you live. I feel like it's wholesome and everybody's kind of like living in the 50s kind of still.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. A little more regular old school. Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Picket fence and hello. You know, the neighbors are like, hey, yeah, we don't get that here. Here is. You know, there's no picket fence. There's no nothing. You get in your car and some guy's wiping his asshole with a newspaper at the stop sign. You know, it's like, that's what we got over here.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So it was also make you feel better. It was seven this morning when I woke up. So the Guy would be dead if he was doing that where I live, so there's that, too.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, that's. That's true. But anyway, I feel like the kids at school are, like. They're either their parents, tell them that there's no Santa, or like, we don't believe in those types of things, you know? I feel like I gotta combat that shit at school. My kid comes home. That's why I had a hired a Damn Santa Claus two years ago to come at 12 o' clock and recreate the whole Santa thing. But, yeah, I think we got one more year left with Seraphina. Caruso's all in. Caruso thinks the elves are in this, that, and the other thing, so he's locked in. It's just Seraphina I got to worry about. But, yeah, I'm in the Christmas spirit right now. The only bad thing about it is I don't have a kitchen because it's. It's being remodeled. So I don't. You know, I normally make the eggnog. I'm making, like, food and baking cookies and stuff like that. So that's missing.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

We gotta get out of this place if it's the last thing we ever.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm trying to figure out, moving forward, what we're gonna do here. Are we moving? Are we staying in this house? Are we gonna stay in California but move to another? I just. There's a lot of, like, uncertainty moving into 2026. And one of my goals is to make a little bit more of a decisive in my decision making. Cause I don't know, if you and Jackie get together and you sit down and go, you know, like, when you were gonna move to Rochester, was that like a decision? You guys just came, we're moving. Yeah, we're moving. Or was that something you were toying around with for a year and a half?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Was toying around for almost two years. And I was probably casually looking more than she knew. But we were talking about it. But a couple of things happened in my town where I said, I go, that's it, we're moving. We're fucking done. We're moving. And she was cool with it. She got it like. So I think in your world, if you got to that point, everyone would be fall into line if you knew. But yeah, I think you beat yourself up. You are trying to figure it out. It's not like you're not. You're constantly trying to figure it out. That what you said something. I step off the plane in Florida and I feel good. That's huge. That's a huge comment that you're making right there. So, so there's that. And I will say this, man, two things. Number one, it set me back when I moved, bro. It like my comedy, everything, like, like it was going to be a big creative time for me because we were coming off the road and I planned on working out a lot. And then all of a sudden I moved. So it was like shit. It was a lot of shit I had to do. And it was tough and it was hard and we fought, we fought. It was stressful moving. But it's all over, man. Everything's great now. It wasn't like, you know, you know, just a regular fight with our marriage is great, but I'm just saying it was all big ass hassle. And now, and this is nothing against where I live, but like four or five different times, just out of nowhere, Sadie's turned around to me or to Jackie and she said, thanks so much again for moving. I really love it here. I love it so much, you know, and you're like, that's the best. And I could, I could see your kid, you know, chilling out in Florida. Your kids, like, they're still young enough, they'll, they'll make friends and no problem. It's not like they locked in yet.

[Pete Corelli]

Again. We gotta figure this out because it's really causing some unwanted stress when you come home and you don't feel like, okay, this is the place I should be, so.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, kitchen's annoying too, man. Once that's done, you'll feel better too. That's crazy. That's tough, man. Surprised you're not like renting somewhere or something in the meantime of surprise. Well then that's annoying too. Then your shit's not there. That ain't the answer. Yeah, I have to interrupt the show. I know these things don't matter you, but you know, there's some things going on in your career. Like that Patrick, get that billboard thing up there. I, I had tried to briefly mention to you this before the show. The Billboard Top 25 comics of our generation guy, that's huge, man. Can we see that puppy? Look at that right there. What number? Number 11, by the way, should easily be top five. But whatever. But anyway, Billboard ranks the top of 21st century. I mean, did your dad see that?

[Pete Corelli]

I don't know. I don't know if he saw. I just talked to my father yesterday. He goes, I'm getting up now at 2:30 in the morning, starting my day. I go, what, what are you, the rock? He goes, he goes, I can't sleep. I go to bed about 8:30. I wake up at 2:30, I go downstairs, I make a cup of coffee and by 5:30 I'm exhausted, but I don't take a nap. I go, jeez, I go, now he's almost 80 years old. Is this where we're going? Like, is this what happens when you get old? You just like, you start getting up at 2:30 and it's reading the newspaper?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. Well, they do say you have trouble sleeping when you get older.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, but like this.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, why is he going? What the hell's he going to bed at 8:30 for? I mean, if it was like the old days, you're going to bed before Laverne and Surely starts, right? I mean, happy days. Happy days just ended.

[Pete Corelli]

You're not even.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's unheard of. That's so early.

[Pete Corelli]

I know. I don't know. 8:30, he's in bed. I called yesterday at FaceTime. He's under the she. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's funny to see your parents get old and then, and then you're talking to them and they're in bed. Yeah, that's like on a FaceTime to see your father in bed.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I've never seen my father in bed since like 19, since I was a kid, I've never seen him in bed. Yeah, I don't even like to look at the bed. Yeah, but like, why is he going to bed at 8:30? That's the question. He's tired.

[Pete Corelli]

I don't know. I mean, I don't know. He's tired. He's got a habit of going upstairs now and like reading his iPad in bed, which bothers me for some reason. Did we talk about like, oh, like grandparents today. It's a different grandparent than growing up, right? Like, like grandparents today are like on the phone. Like grandparents back when they were like there for the grand, like for us. Like they weren't distracted with anything other than making food for us and hanging with us, bro.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You talk about the food, right? Like my Italian grandmother, she would sew. So my father, when she would come spend the weekend with us, my father would be like, get anything you need sewed, buttons, holes, anything. And we bring it in here, grandma here. And she just so, I mean it felt bad. But my father be like, she loves to do it. And it was all day. She'd come for the weekend, we'd feed her a few times, she'd sew all our. And then we'd drop it back off. But if we didn't give it that to do, she's just sitting there. She's just literally sitting there now. Grandmas have hobbies. What the fuck is that, right? You ever see that?

[Pete Corelli]

I can't understand it. Like, I remember my grandmother coming over, right? And she made us a blanket.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's huge how much time that takes by hand.

[Pete Corelli]

That's what I'm saying. My grandmother, my grandmother wasn't playing Words with Friends, you know what I'm saying? Like she wasn't in a grandmother.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Bowling, Traveling.

[Pete Corelli]

What's this traveling, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

They all travel now.

[Pete Corelli]

I know, I know. It's like they checked out, bro. This is like, this is a new grandma we're dealing with. Like my, my, my mom is going out more than I call my mom. What's going on? What are you doing? Ah, last night we went out to dinner. I got myself a hotel room. Hotel room?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You're 80.

[Pete Corelli]

What the are you doing, man?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh my God, it's so true. It's like a different kind of. You used to be. I, I just want to look in my grandkids eyes and be grateful for every breath. And now it's like, I don't know how long I have. I'm not babysitting, you know, Grandma's not babysitting, you know.

[Pete Corelli]

No, yeah, I was just with my in laws, right, you know, and they're on the phone and, oh, I got so many emails. What emails you got? You're 76 years old. Your grandkids fishing. I need help down here.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Are you gonna. Do you have a vision of you 70 on, like, what you hope to be doing? Like, you know, like, are you gonna. Like, you're gonna be checking your emails, you think, in your 70s or.

[Pete Corelli]

Listen, I know it's a different. You know, we're growing up with a digital phone in our hand constantly. So it's not like once I'm 70, I'm gonna put the phone down.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right?

[Pete Corelli]

No, my grandparents never listen. I told my. I told my wife. I go, let's get rid of these things. Let's disconnect. Put the fucking phone in the bedroom and let's talk. Yeah. You know, it's like. But. But we start talking, and then I'm like, I wonder, like. I wonder when the. You know, like, you ever try and disconnect, but then all of a sudden you start to have, like, oh, it's Sunday. Do you want to go out to dinner? I'm like, when the Bears game is on. But you got to go look at the phone and find out when the Bears game is on, right? So it's like, I was watching TV.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Last night, and Jackie looked over and said, is John Malkovich dead?

[Pete Corelli]

I'm like, I don't know.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I mean, so turns out he's not. And it's December 9th. Do you believe that? I said, she asked me last night. It was 10:40. I go, not only is he not dead, in an hour and 20 minutes, it's going to be his birthday.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, shit. But could he have done without that information? Like, couldn't you just. Is he dead? I don't know if he's dead. Like, is it always have to be? You got to go and, like, get the answer right now. Can't we just wonder, is he dead? Or do you need to find out?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But you're bringing up a good question. What if it's 1975, and then you ask five, 10 people, God, I don't know, is Malkovich dead? How do I get the answer, guy? It's not gonna be in the encyclopedia. It's not like, how do I get the answer in 1975 if no one knows it, that I know?

[Pete Corelli]

We talked about this. We did talk about this on another show, first of all. You just wondered forever what's wrong with that? Or you would have somebody in your family that you would go, you know, who might know that? Uncle Frank.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, you're right. You're right.

[Pete Corelli]

And then you would call Uncle Frank and go, uncle Frank Malkovich dead? Nah, he's still alive. What are you guys doing? Nah, not the way. And then you would talk to uncle Frank for 20 minutes. But the question. The question spawned, like, more of a conversation because you talk about other. You know, now you don't call nobody. You have no friends, because this has. Has replaced any human communication that you might have with another individual. Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Wow, man. Yeah, it is. It's very sad. It really is. You know, that was really well put too, man.

[Pete Corelli]

But if you learn anything from this podcast, Grandparents are dead. Not in the sense that they died, but their responsibilities now, I know, like you said, are completely different than what they were. And Mom, I know you're listening because my mother will watch this on tv. She watches the show like it's Donna. You. I know. I make light of my mother. I call my mother at 3 o', clock, she's at FaceTime, and she's got wine already, you know, Wine. It's like, what the. On a Tuesday at 3 o', clock, she's south, so.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Living their best lives. That's what they call it now.

[Pete Corelli]

Living their best lives. Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No good for her, though.

[Pete Corelli]

She's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Like on New Year's Eve, she's going on a. She's going to Napa for four nights. What, the Napa?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. Wow. I know, I know, I know. And I know you got a different financial situation than most, but on top of all this new grandma and grandpa that's out there in this world, they eat into the inheritance. You know, all these trips, you, Napa and a normal family, I'm like, well, there goes braces for Sally fucking Napa. Oh, shit. Because, you know, you buy the braces, but thinking, I'll get the braces money on the back end 15, 20 years down the line.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Now, you know, you just know that Napa money now if gone. So that's. That's.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, no, I. My dad's leaving us with a mortgage.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, that's great. Oh, that's.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, there's. There's still. There's still count. Not like you used to count on, you know, the family leaving, like, stuff behind. So it's like, if you fell on bad times, that's okay. You know, at the. At the end of the. At the end of the rainbow, there's a pot of gold, you know, we'll cash in or what have you. Ain't none of that shit no more. They're going through everything. They're gonna leave you with.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I remember we had a neighbor on our Dead End Street. Guy, you're still on camera. Don't bother. We had. Now it's even worse now. You bend it over like it's too heavy to l. One of our neighbors got an addition built on their house. I was 10 maybe, and it just don't.

[Pete Corelli]

When I.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It always stuck with me. My dad would say, when it happened, he was like, yeah, Mommy died. He was an only child. You know? And I'm like, I'm only 10, and my dad still needs the need to tell me he didn't earn that money. It's like, well, you don't think you got earnest.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm doing that now with my kids. I go, you wondering how they got all this? They're home all the time.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, shit.

[Pete Corelli]

No, I have to tell them this because I go, listen, you know, Daddy. Daddy's gotta leave again this weekend, all right? And sometimes Daddy's not here. But the reason I go is because, you know, the lights don't just turn on, you know, I got to explain to them, I gotta go out and make some meat. So we come home and cook it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

So. And then. And then when I see other parents or whatever at school or whatnot. Yawn. You notice this guy's always at school?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, yeah, Daddy. Why? Because his parents are making sure that he's at school.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right.

[Pete Corelli]

Hang out with the kids and volunteer.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

If you don't explain it, it's a kid could actually think it the wrong way. Like, my dad's a loser. He's always got to go out and work. This dad's always standing right here doing nothing. That's it.

[Pete Corelli]

It's not the flip. It's the opposite. It's like that guy got nothing to do with any of his, you know, mortgage payments or nothing. Your father going out making scratch. And that's why. That's why you didn't make the soccer team.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, because I can't. I'm not hoping to teach you. You know what the best athletes are? The kids of unemployed parents. They're unbelievable. They're rolling out balls all the time.

[Pete Corelli]

That's funny. It's like, my kid didn't make the team because I'm working, bro. I didn't even tell you. Last week I was on the Wheel of Fortune. Oh, that's right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Kansas. Telling me that you were gonna. Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. It was myself, Meghan Trainor and Taye Diggs. Ryan Seacrest, the host. Vanna White's still Working this thing.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right? Wow.

[Pete Corelli]

Wow. So I go. I'm kind of nervous about going on the show because I'm not a quick. A problem solver when it comes to puzzles. I'm always the one kind of like, last to the gate on this stuff.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

So we go. I talked to Vanna White. Looks great. She's in her 70s. She's worn 8,000 different dresses. Never a same dress on the show. All right, she's done north of 8,000. So I think 8,500 shows she's done. Seacrest comes out, we start to play the game, and first round, or the first game, I end up winning the last. There's three rounds. I end up winning the last round. I go to the bonus round. So I win $21,000, go to the bonus round. I do not make it. I do. I don't guess the puzzle.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Do you have to do the wheel? Like that? Big wheel.

[Pete Corelli]

That's Price is Right, bro. This is Wheel of Fortune.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Okay.

[Pete Corelli]

All right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. You do that though, right?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, it's heavy. Yeah. Heavy. So second round, I win again, bro. I go to the bounce round twice. So the second round, I win $31,000. I'm up to 52 grand for the charity. Wow. Wow. The bonus round, I solved the puzzle in 2.4 seconds. I couldn't believe. It just came to me. 2.4 seconds. Now Seacrest got the envelope, because you spin and he chooses an envelope, and then you find out after you win how much? Hundred grand. Wow. Confetti. Right? Really? I win $152,000, plus I get 30 grand for practice. I walk out of there with about $180,000 for the charity. Wow. Hey. Wow.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's dynamite.

[Pete Corelli]

I told Seacrest I haven't been this happy in years. I'll tell you why. I forgot how competitive I am. I haven't been in a competitive environment in a while. When you played sports back in high school, basketball, and college, you had a sense of competitiveness. You shoot, we're killing these guys. And then you win at the last second. You get that, like, adrenaline that you don't really get anywhere in life. Right, Right. I can't. I can't match the joy of winning in a competitive environment to anything else in life. Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Can you rage driving? Maybe? Rage driving? That's about it, though, right?

[Pete Corelli]

I don't. I don't feel rage driving equates to winning, you know?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You know, I don't see yelling out.

[Pete Corelli]

The window going, get the out of the way. I don't see that equating to winning a game, bro.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

What does it feel like to have confetti falling on you? I've ever had that. Do you feel it?

[Pete Corelli]

It's. Everybody should have confetti fall on them once in their life.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Make you happy.

[Pete Corelli]

But it is, bro. Happy, bro. I was exuberant. I was sitting there like. I was sitting there like this, bro. I got a video.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'd love to see it.

[Pete Corelli]

I gotta show you what. What confetti looks like raining down on.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

A 52 year old was Seacrest like, dude, nobody solves it in 2.4 seconds. That's like, unheard of.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, he didn't say that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I know you guys are friendly and more than friendly. I mean, chances are you'll be on a yacht on a vacation someday together. I mean, you guys seem to hit it off a bit. Do you think there's a chance that Seacrest told his people, make it easy for my boy. My boys coming on this one of my friends.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm kind of offended that you would think that the puzzle was easy.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm just. I'm not saying it was easy, but 2.4 seconds. That's like more than Illinois State. In the house, bitches.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, I just. I just air dropped it to you. It was. I wasn't given a lot to guess the puzzle because I don't know if you know how it works. They give you the. The first five, like rtlne, because everybody guesses that anyway. They give you those. Then you get to pick three consonants and a vowel on top of that. And. Did you get it? Okay, it's 48 seconds long. What you're going to see here is I just solved the puzzle. Okay, here we go.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

10 seconds to try and solve it.

[Pete Corelli]

Good luck, educated guests. That's it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, my God.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, my God.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You got it, baby. You got it. Could you believe that?

[Pete Corelli]

What.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You'D like to celebrate and move around the stage? You're gonna celebrate big time. Look at this. Oh. Oh, yeah. Wow.

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Can you believe this? Can you believe believe it? Oh, man. You're raining in it, man. Oh, wow. That is phenomenal. What a rush. Like a rush from the pop.

[Pete Corelli]

I walked out of there like I just won the NBA championship.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

I have to tell you, I crashed about an hour later. Like, it wore off and I was like. It was like in the car ride home, I was just exhausted.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, man.

[Pete Corelli]

But. But, bro, I'm telling you, I. I gotta feel that again. It almost. Yeah, I almost want to join some Type of league where.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Trivia night.

[Pete Corelli]

Maybe there's a.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

What? Trivia night or something.

[Pete Corelli]

Maybe. I don't know. It's gotta be this level. It's got to be something where. I don't know.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Bowling maybe. Maybe a bowling league. Bowling.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, God.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You guessed. You guessed something, and confetti landed on you. That's not like a foundation of a hobby. You know what I'm saying? I can't work with that. I want to play Wheel of Fortune every day. Is that what you want to do?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah. Oh, I don't know, bro.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I don't know if.

[Pete Corelli]

Confetti coming down the audience, the Christmas trees in the back.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Did you get that same feeling when you did Family Feud with your family? Was it not as, like, you know, confetti, bro.

[Pete Corelli]

The confetti was it. The confetti was the whole thing, man. Yeah. If I could. If I could wake up in the morning, take a piss, and come back into the bedroom and confetti pop every.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I think I'd be, yeah, no, you need to hire a confetti guy and have him decide. When you feel like what I'm doing is the highlight of my day, hit the confetti. You know, if I get a good phone call, you know, that. That project's happening. Pow. Or, you know, Caruso is. He's not on the transition team. He's on the regular Pow. You know, like confetti. Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

I think confetti guns, bro. That's what I'm gonna get for Christmas, confetti guns. I'm just gonna have them all over the house. And anytime somebody feels like there's. It's like a celebration. You got an A on the paper. Boom. Right over the fucking kitchen table. And we're all.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

We're all right. Over your own head just to make yourself feel good, even if you do something good. Go. I got the part in that movie. I don't even know what they making movies anymore, bro. It's. Everything is online now.

[Pete Corelli]

Everything. And the movie I want to see, I just saw the trailer for it. It's coming out in the theaters. Chris Pratt, who I love. It's called Mercy. Put that in your hat. Watch the trailer tonight.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right? All right. Because I saw the trail for this new DiCaprio 1 with Benicio Del Torre and Del Toro and Sean Penn. Have you seen that?

[Pete Corelli]

I haven't seen it yet.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, no. The trailer.

[Pete Corelli]

No. Any good?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It looks unbelievable. It really does. Yeah. And what's the name of the one you're saying I'm Writing it down.

[Pete Corelli]

Mercy, mercy, mercy.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right. Mercy. I need to see.

[Pete Corelli]

Also, I want to check out F1. Have you seen F1 yet with Pitt?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, but I saw an interview with him. I didn't. I want to see that. And he was with DiCaprio. I know they're not in the movie together, but did you know Pitt was saying to the guy, I couldn't believe it. He was saying he used to be an extra. And even DiCaprio's like, what? And Pitt's like, yeah, man. And then like he goes, was it no man's land with Charlie Sheen? I was a waiter. And they literally cut to it and there's Brad Pitt just like standing there with a napkin. And he was. A couple other movies he was in. Isn't that wild though, dude? An extra right next to you that the actor might be like, you know, hey, how you doing, dude? You have no idea what a huge star that guy's gonna become. It's crazy.

[Pete Corelli]

Great things coming in 2026. Just a. Just a small shout out. I will be performing at the Wynn super bowl weekend in Las Vegas. So please come and. And check that out if you're in Las Vegas, hopefully the Chicago Bears will be playing. I highly doubt it. I don't even think they're going to make the playoffs this year based on what I just saw in Green Bay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

One game. By the way, if you're not going to plug it, don't forget, folks, the Hulu special is out, baby. The new one is up. I don't have Hulu. I'm trying to. I gotta. I guess I gotta sign up for this.

[Pete Corelli]

But I'm.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I mean, I was there. I saw it. But the clips, I just need to sign up a freaking insane dude. It came out, like, insanely gorgeous.

[Pete Corelli]

It looks great. It looks great. Don and Dusted, who produced it, was just exceptional in their. In their production and it looked really, really special. So I'm really happy that that's out up on Hulu. And yeah, thanks for listening and we will see you guys next week.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Hey, it's two days before Christmas, so Merry Christmas to everybody, man.

[Pete Corelli]

Merry Christmas, brother. Enjoy it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. The show has ended.

[Pete Corelli]

I had a private coach bro growing up. Frank Speth.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

German guy my father brought in, right? Failing math. No. Tutor soccer. He brought.

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