693: The Pete and Sebastian Show - EP 693 - SOUP ETTIQUETTE

Summary

The Pete and Sebastian Show - Episode 693: "Soup Etiquette"

Released: February 10, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this laugh-out-loud episode, comedians Pete Correale and Sebastian Maniscalco dig into the complexities of family routines, modern parenting, inflation sticker shock, hosting etiquette, and—most memorably—the unwritten rules of soup. Their legendary chemistry flows as they riff on everything from emotional boundaries in marriage to entertaining disasters, all with their signature blend of vulnerability and comedic insight.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Greetings & Affection in Relationships

[01:15–08:18]

• Sebastian’s Social Experiment: Sebastian reveals he's been “pulling back” on daily greetings and the “peck” (quick kiss) with his wife Jackie, curious to see if affection will be reciprocated more naturally.
  • "Sometimes I'm so nice that I don't even know if it's being reciprocated because I'm just fucking oozing niceness, that it's covering for everybody." – Sebastian [02:21]
• Who Initiates? Pete wonders about the etiquette for who should greet first when entering a shared space in the house.
  • Both agree on the importance of morning and goodnight rituals, but debate the effort involved.
  • Sebastian’s experiment yielded, “She rolled over, climbed over my side and gave me the peck. So instead of me going, you know what? This peck thing ain't necessary. I just got one now I restarted it." [05:58]
• Peck Mechanics: Pete teases Sebastian for puckering his lips “like you’re kissing your grandma,” sparking a hilarious debate on masculine affection.
  • "I don't think Sinatra would do that." – Pete [06:54]

2. The Carpool Conundrum

[09:55–19:32]

• Loss of Bonding: Both lament how carpooling kids for activities disrupts precious one-on-one moments with their children and forces them into “performative” dad roles for non-family kids.
  • "It went from me and Sadie talking in the car about her day to, like... she treats me like an Uber." – Sebastian [11:27]
  • Pete: "Now you add another person into the car, and they might not be up to speed on the disciplinary behavior you need to have in order to drive with me." [13:04]
• Kids’ Preferences: Pete’s son Caruso dreads carpooling because of incompatible tastes with fellow passengers—like having to listen to Minecraft podcasts.
• Parenting Milestones: Sebastian’s anecdotes of being told not to sing Fleetwood Mac when friends are in the car, and getting rebuffed offering Red Hots, capture the bittersweet growing pains of kids maturing.

Notable Quote

"Now I am like an Uber driver. I just drive. Bye, girls. Five stars." – Sebastian [19:27]

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3. Sticker Shock: Parenting in the Age of Inflation

[25:39–35:29 & 56:52–64:53]

• Event Price Insanity: Pete attends a children's gymnastics meet in Venice Beach and is floored by $15 parking, $25-a-head entry, and $65 hoodies.
  • "What is this, a Lakers game?" – Pete [26:01]
  • "Is Mary Lou Retton doing signings or something?" – Sebastian [28:15]
  • $5 hot dogs and endless upcharges for family events provoke a broader rant on modern inflation.
• Trophies for All: Both mock the trend of handing out participation medals to 12th place, yearning for a return to the classic gold, silver, bronze model.
  • "What are you giving out at 12th place? Tin foil?" – Pete [38:21]
• Custom Rug Racket: Pete gripes about astronomical costs for custom home items, especially rugs that are "handmade."
  • "I don't need some guy in Nepal. Stitching a rug for me, right?" – Pete [61:40]
• Economics Explainer: The show’s “Economics Expert” drops in to clarify why prices seem to only rise, referencing fiat currency and supply/demand [58:41].

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4. Parenting & Competitive Kids

[23:07–25:39]

• Intimidating Kids’ Skill Levels: Both observe that today’s children’s sports are ultra-competitive—Sebastian's daughter faces a 10-year-old swimming prodigy, and Pete feels like the kids at soccer are "Portugal vs. Brazil" at age six.
• Healthy Attitude on Losing: Pete and Sebastian praise displays of sportsmanship and perspective, like smiling after a gymnastics fall, and lightly roast over-seriousness.

Notable Quote

"She loves this. And she’s having fun, but it doesn’t define her. And that makes me like her more than the fucking Russians. That's all they live for." – Sebastian [35:10]

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5. Lifestyle & Hosting: The Soup Segment

[38:47–55:35]

• Hosting Etiquette Fails: Pete rants about hosts reusing “family dip” with old chip fragments or putting out week-old chips with a clip still on the bag for guests.
  • "There's like, the dips got, like, a little chip in there. Like, it broke off from, like, Monday..." – Pete [39:47]
  • "That's like one-on-one that says, though." – Sebastian [40:21]
• How to Entertain: Pete details his own gold-standard—serving guests individually sealed, fresh treats—and Sebastian shares his story of pre-warming guests’ cars after a snowstorm to go “above and beyond.”
  • "This wasn't Garrett popcorn because we have a tub of Garrett popcorn... This was sealed." – Pete [42:34]

Soup Etiquette Debate

• The "Personal" Level of Soup: Both agree soup is the most intimate of home meals—fine for family, but awkward for guests or as a neighborly gift.
  • “Just like if I went over to somebody's house and they said, hey, I made some minestrone soup. You want a cup to keep—keep it.” – Pete [47:51]
  • “Soup could be very personal, very homey.” – Sebastian [48:04]
• Slurping and Drinking: They joke about the etiquette of slurping, drinking directly from the bowl, and soaking bread—concluding these moves are for family only, not guest settings.
  • "You ever make eye contact with someone drinking soup from the bowl? ... It's like a deer in headlights." – Pete [50:34]
  • "Soup is a family meal." – Sebastian [51:10]
• Accepting Soup Gifts: Both would turn away soup from acquaintances, but would eat “in-law soup” without hesitation.
  • “Put it in the garbage right now. We ain’t eating other people’s soup.” – Pete [53:01]

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6. Miscellaneous Comedy and Closing Topics

[66:55–69:39]

• Pets & Vasectomy: Comedic detours cover Pete’s new “let the dogs roam” policy and a graphic exchange about canine and human vasectomies.
  • "So when you ejaculate, does anything come out?" – Pete [67:10]
  • “Yeah, but still, it's actually the weirdest thing. I feel like it felt better, but maybe that's only because I know there's nothing to worry about, but..." – Sebastian [67:19]
• Podcast Awards Aspirations: Wrapping up, they set their sights on winning a major podcast award, poking fun at the self-importance of award culture.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “Now I am like an Uber driver. I just drive. Bye, girls. Five stars.” – Sebastian [19:27]
• “What are you giving out at 12th place? Tin foil.” – Pete [38:21]
• “[Soup is] a very family, you know, meal. You're right. Man..." – Sebastian [51:10]
• “You ever make eye contact with someone drinking soup from the bowl? ... It's like a deer in headlights.” – Pete [50:34]

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Noteworthy Timestamps

• Sebastian’s affection experiment: [02:21–05:58]
• Carpooling and loss of dad-bonding: [11:01–13:45]
• Sticker shock at kid events: [25:39–28:15]
• Soup etiquette and slurping: [47:15–51:10]
• Economics Expert explains inflation: [58:41–59:31]
• Hosting etiquette (popcorn story): [42:34–43:06]
• Vasectomy Q&A: [66:55–68:32]

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Original Tone & Style

Pete and Sebastian’s conversational back-and-forth—part therapy, part old-school roast—makes even mundane topics riotously engaging. Their humor is self-deprecating, observational, familial, and at times, just a little exasperated with the modern world.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode hilariously dissects modern etiquette—be it in relationships, the carpool line, the hospitality suite, or, yes, the soup pot. With riffs on inflation, parenting dilemmas, and the nuances of slurping, Pete and Sebastian keep the laughs (and life lessons) rolling. For anyone who loves the intersection of old-school values and today’s everyday absurdities: this is a must-listen.

Transcript

[Pete Corelli]

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

This is the Pete and Sebastian show with Pete Corelli and Sebastian Maniscalco.

[Pete Corelli]

I could be the twist the one to make you stop the icing on your cake the cherry on a top it's heaven in my heart and we could find you still Pete and Sebastian Show. Welcome back to the hottest show in the country. So what's up with the background? I feel like if I know you as I do, I feel like Watt got in your head a little bit about the background. What you take.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, I forgot about that. No, it didn't. That didn't. I did loose ends last night and I was like, let me mix it up a little bit. And then I was like, you know what? I'm gonna keep the black. Why do we gotta. I don't think there's a. I was trying to match your wood, but now I don't think it matters, so I'm keeping the black. I don't like the brown. I forgot the watt thing, though.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

So for those of you not viewing this, Pete has a black background instead of the Watt before mentioned sepia.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Is this the first. This might be the first cast we ever did. We didn't even say hello. Not even a hello. I don't even think I'm doing that lately in my life. I'm like. I'm backing off. I'm like, right. That's the second thing. The first one is Jackie. I'm not doing the casual kiss for a couple days. I just want to see if it comes my way without me having to come down in the kitchen. Kiss good morning. All that time in it, marking it, and with you. And with you. With the. With the. With the general greetings. I'm gonna. I'm pulling back on my general gregarious self. Sometimes I'm so nice that I don't even know if it's being reciprocated because I'm just fucking oozing niceness, that it's covering for everybody.

[Pete Corelli]

Listen, listen, if you go that route, I don't think we'll ever say hello again. So are you the one, like, initiating good mornings and good nights in your relationship?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Not verbally.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, like, if Jackie's in the kitchen and you come down, is it your responsibility, say good morning because you're entering, quote, unquote, her world and vice versa. If you're in the kitchen and she comes down, is it her responsibility to say good morning to you?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's. That's. That's an interesting question. I mean. I mean, I could ask that same thing of you. I don't know. How do you feel about that? Do you? Because when you enter, is it yours? I've noticed lately, I'm like, I'm not going to say anything. And she always does say good morning. Hey, Pete, you know, that kind of thing, which, you know, but now I'm being a baby about, because now it's like, it's the peck. The. My dad would come home from work and he hit my mom with a peck, you know, and it just. That peck speaks volumes. And the peck isn't. I don't know if the peck happens without me. Without me, I'll get maybe a peck a week. And she thinks that's enough. Like, we're not talking about sleeping, we're just talking about general, you know, that good morning or that night. And she's like, if you want to kiss me, kiss me. I mean. Well, I'm not like, not kissing you. I'm like, but you're not, like, making an effort to come over. What about you? Do you do the peck? When you come, like, you come home from the road, is there always that peck? Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

I mean, unless come home for the road. Is it obvious? Like, everybody's hugging and whatnot. But on a general, like today, right.

[Economics Expert]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Fauna was in her bathroom, and I came in and I'm like, good morning. Feel great today. You know, Like, I feel like I'm making that initial good morning salutation at night. She has made it a rule that we don't go to bed without a kiss good night. There has to be a good night in the course of the bedtime. If you're thinking of going to bed, you pop up and give a good night kiss. Right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right. Right. Now.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm interested to see how this pulling back on the good mornings and the peck.

[Economics Expert]

Just.

[Pete Corelli]

Why don't you try it for a two week? I think a two week run will give you, you know, don't you think by eight days she's going, the fuck's going on? Or do you think she'll just plow through?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Honestly, I was starting it yesterday and I went to bed and she rolled over, climbed over my side and gave me the peck. So instead of me going, you know what? This peck thing ain't necessary. I just got one now I restarted it. I'm like, we're gonna restart off of that pec.

[Pete Corelli]

So.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But as you get. Maybe, I don't know, maybe, maybe not. But we've been married a very long time and maybe. And now it's like, it's not a full ignore. When we go to bed, it's always like, you know, love you, guy. At the very least you'll pat me or, you know, make a joke. What a night. What a day. So it's not just climbing the bed and pass out, but I don't know, I feel like lip to lip is just, you know. And then, then the other day she went to give me a kiss, and I went like this. As she's coming towards me, like just. She was just coming to give me like a kiss good night.

[Pete Corelli]

I went.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And she goes, stop doing that with your lips. You always do that like a. Like you're kissing your grandma.

[Pete Corelli]

And I'm like, yeah, I. I don't. I wish I didn't see that. I got a totally different look on you now. I don't think Sinatra would. I'm sorry, I don't think Sinatra would do that.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

He's. He's. I mean, he was pining over that one broad for years. What's her name? She embarrassed him. The. What's the one that he love? Greta Garbo. Is that the one? Oh, my God.

[Pete Corelli]

Not Greta Garbo. Oh, God.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

The one who smoked. And she was.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, the. The. The starlet. The hell.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, it was embarrassing.

[Pete Corelli]

Start with a G. Gardner. Ava something.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Ava Garden. That's it. Ava Garden, I believe.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, okay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

But I was giving her a full pucker before you went.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm like this. I got, I got the covers on. I'm getting ready to go to bed. She comes over. She's right here. Good night. She goes, good Night, you know, Good night, guy. Whatever. I'm like, oh, oh. Oh, God. You know, that's weak, bro. I can't do the show anymore. I can't even.

[Pete Corelli]

Bro, you're doing an over the shoulder like. Like, it's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm already talked. You want me to get out and come all the way up here?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, you gotta. Like a lion.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, I mean. Well, let's get back to. I love your greeting in the morning. Is that. Is that like all the time? Like. No. I mean.

[Pete Corelli]

No.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I was gonna say I gotta go. Go gay. If that's what's going on with men these days, I could use that. Every morning, just walking in, I feel great. Let's go get this day now.

[Pete Corelli]

Sometimes I got a lot of different morning, you know, I tell her, you better screw your head on. Right? We got a lot of decisions to make today.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's a funny. But you don't ever wake up on the wrong side of bed, like in a bad mood or a little depressed.

[Pete Corelli]

Two days ago, I wasn't good at all because I had something to do. I had something to do, and I had a headache and I was in pain, my foot was in pain, and I had something to do, and I wanted to cancel it, and I actually tried to cancel it, but the person went through a lot to make it happen. So I said, if you went through a lot. See, this is. And I have to share this with the group here. I always make it easy for the person on the other end of things because maybe it's just the way I feel. I said, listen, I'm not feeling up to this today. I'd like to cancel. However, if you really went out of your way to make this happen, I'll come in. And he's like, yeah, listen, I kind of moved some mountains for this to happen. I go, say less. I'm in. I'm coming. No, no worries.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, wow.

[Pete Corelli]

What a.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, you know, you. You were politely saying you want to cancel him, like, the guy didn't let you. You don't get that often. You usually get. Don't worry about it. We'll do it another day. Whatever it is.

[Pete Corelli]

I don't know.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But no, he hit you with it. We did. Yeah. I moved mouth. Oh, shit. I'm starting the car now, I guess.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, but I could have left it at cancel, and then he would have to go, hey, listen, man, I really moved a lot of things around for this. I didn't even give. I gave him, hey, this is it. And maybe I do that because I would want that if I was the receiver of that information. And I tell you, you what, I'm a little. And I don't know if you're going through this, probably not, because it's a smaller town, but there's been an offer to start carpooling Caruso to his soccer practices with two other mothers.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right?

[Pete Corelli]

I'm not into carpooling. What's your take on having other kids in the car? And don't you think the dynamic changes now? Now you gotta be someone you're not. And the relationship between you and Sadie is now foggy.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Totally, dude. I can't believe you're saying that. Because it's so crazy how our lives parallel sometimes. But Sadie's got a girl, lives right next door. They're very close. They're getting closer and closer. And Sadie takes the bus every day, but I pick her up, or Jackie picks her up at the end of the day because the bus takes a long time to get home. And she can get home and get started with schoolwork if we pick her up. So I said to her, hey, if your friend ever wants a ride, she lives literally next door. She can come with us. That turned into, we now get three girls on the block every day coming home unless they have extracurricular. And it went from me and Sadie talking in the car about her day to, like, when sometimes it's just her and one other friend. Sadie don't even get in the front. She treats me like an Uber. She puts her instrument in the front and sits. Sits in the back with a friend.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, crap.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I mean, this used to be all bonding time.

[Pete Corelli]

Now I'm hoping for a tip.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh. Oh, God. I'm laughing at my own joke. That's hack. Sorry.

[Pete Corelli]

I agree with you here.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, I agree with you. You started it.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, I mean, I agree with. Well, now there's like, a spreadsheet that went out. Like, when are you available to K?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You gotta do it, though, bro. It's so convenient. I mean, you find other times to bond.

[Pete Corelli]

For me and my kids, the most special moments happen in a car ride. They're locked in, they ain't moving. There's no distractions. It's a one on one, one on two, whatever it is, Conversation, goofing around, Daddy's doing stupid stuff up in the front, rolling down the window, I'm screaming out the window. You know, I'm just making them laugh, and we're having a ball. Now you add another person into the car, and they might not be up to speed on the disciplinary behavior you need to have in order to drive with me, so.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Or the. Or the sense. Sense of humor you have. They might not get it. You might be doing your yell out the window, and they're going home to their parents. Guys, out of his mind. We're gonna get. Yeah, we're gonna get road rage. But your kids get it, and it's funny, right? Whatever it is that you do.

[Pete Corelli]

I had this conversation with my kids the other day on the way home. I go, do you think we're the funnest family in the school? Like, do you think any other daddy and mommy are doing this shit up here? Right? Because it's like. It's like Laurel and Hardy up there, right? It's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah, Goof.

[Pete Corelli]

That's all we do is laugh on the way to school and goof around. There's no. Like, I. I look at some other parents at a stoplight, you know, they're just sitting there, you know, like, nothing. Like, where. Where if you turn and looked at our car at a stoplight, you go.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Like, what are they watching?

[Pete Corelli]

You know, like, you think we were like, yeah, watching a comedy, you know? So I told Caruso. Cause Caruso's worse than I am. I said, listen, we gotta start carpooling with these families. He goes, I don't want to do that. I go.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Why doesn't he want to do it?

[Pete Corelli]

He's like. His buddy listens to. He's done it before. He goes, my buddy listens to, like. It's called Minecraft. It's like, stories of Minecraft. No, I don't know. I don't know too much about Minecraft, but what I would equate Minecraft to is Dungeons and Dragons. You ever see this shit growing up?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I've seen the kids who play it.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So Minecraft is like a video game, right?

[Pete Corelli]

I guess it's a movie. But then they have, like, a thing that tells stories on. So they listen. The kid listens to Minecraft. So I'm like, wait a minute. This guy's listening to Minecraft. And you're in the car, whatever you're doing, alone in the car. Soon as you add somebody else into the car, whatever you do, we don't do that no more. There's a guest in the vehicle now. We do maybe what the guest wants. Do you want to listen to some music? What do you want to do? You know, like, you want to play a game? It's almost like having somebody over to your house, you know? Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. Yeah. No, I agree. You're entertaining now and go ahead.

[Pete Corelli]

No, he doesn't want to go. And I said, listen, it's going to help mommy and daddy out a little bit because it's a long ride. It's 50 minutes there, 50 minutes back. And there's sometimes that we're not able to do that, you know, so it's going to help us out. He's like, ah, all right. I go, you think I want to do this shit? You know, I'm telling him, do you think I want to see? I go, it's going to screw up our dynamic. Now I got to, like, entertain another kid. But he might not get it, you know?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I know the sad part for me, though, is I feel like my daughter's enjoying the rides home more now, you know? Cause she's got. And then. But you're right about the behavior, because, like, when it first started happening a couple weeks ago, we first started doing it, she'd go, dad, can you got to stop singing. Just got the friend in the back, and they giggling. But I'm not like, you know, I'm just like. I got, like. I got Fleetwood Mac on. I'm like, thunder only happens when it's raining like that, you know, to myself. They're talking back there. And then she'll go, dead. But meanwhile, when the friend wasn't in, she'd be coming in with me. Players only love you, you know. But now, now it's, dad, stop singing. Oh, there goes the relationship.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, listen, I, I. What are you trying to be cool dad up there and, like, sing?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And I don't know what. When your daughter gets just a tad bit older, you'll see, bro, I don't know what I'm doing. I can't wait to get away from my daughter and her friends. I feel like an alien. I don't know what the is going on. I can't. I mean, the last time she had a friend in last week, and I had Red Hots, you know, the fireballs. I got them at the Dallas at 5 below. So I got one in my mouth, and I go to Sadie and a friend, you girls want a Red Hot? No, no, dad.

[Pete Corelli]

Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Okay. She has Red Hots with me. But all of a sudden, it's weird, right? Then yesterday, I'm driving another friend home, and the other friend is in the back, and she goes, I heard you offered so and so, Mr. Corieli. I heard you offered so and so a Red Hot. And I'm driving. I'm like, yeah, I did. I don't have Any now. Why? You want me to bring some tomorrow? Oh, that's okay. And then they giggle and I want to be like, what's so funny about a Red Hot? I'm cool in certain circles. I'm fucking cool, man. Jesus. Gonna go home and smoke pot. What are you gonna do when you go home? What are you gonna do? What? Listen to Taylor Swift. Jesus. So, yeah, man. I don't know what I'm doing, bro. I do feel uncomfortable. So I don't sing. I just drive now. Now I am like an Uber driver. I just drive. Bye, girls. Five stars. No, man. The pete and sebastian show.

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So what are you going to do? You're going to do the carpool or not, man?

[Pete Corelli]

No, listen, I got to do the carpool.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You got to do it.

[Pete Corelli]

But I look at carpooling like asking somebody to move, right? Like, you never. You never ask somebody to move? Because I don't want to help that person move. I don't want to return the favor. So I just grin and bear it, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

What a way to live. Jesus. It's called humanity, guy. That's what that's like. The society is based on.

[Pete Corelli]

Me and my sister feel the same way. We don't put anybody out because we don't want to be put out.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's why. Who said that's why? Billy Joel says he never had. They go, why don't you ever have a guest? Usually you never have guests singing at your concerts. He goes, because then they're gonna come to town and I gotta go fucking sing in that concert. I don't want to get off my couch and go see it.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, that's the Way I live my life, I don't ask anybody for shit. So we gotta start carpooling. And I think it's gonna screw it up, but, you know, this is part of growing up. It's, it's, you know. But I told, I told Lana because it's today. Tonight is the practice. And she goes, they're carpooling. I go, I'm doing. How do you, how do you, how would you take this?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Like.

[Pete Corelli]

There'S a carpool happening, right? I said, I don't want to participate in the carpool because I want to go with my son and watch the practice and then take him home, right? And with a carpool, like, then normal people would go, oh, just have Sebastian then take our kids if he's going to go anyway. No, no, no, no. You go, do your thing. Do your carpool. I'm opting out of the carpool because I don't want to be in the car with your kids because I got to talk to my son one on one, pre practice and post practice, right? I don't want to be bothered with the two other kids because then I can't talk to them the way I want to talk to them.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It's not a play date for you. This soccer thing happens to be. You and your son are taking it on to you take it on a certain level. It's not a play date. I appreciate the thing. Maybe if my wife, when I'm on the road and she wants to carpool, that's fine. But right now, we use that time fucking scouting talking. We might even be talking about how your kid sucks and he's the problem. I can't have that conversation if your kid's in the backseat.

[Economics Expert]

Wow.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, full disclosure here. We had our first practice. I was stunned. Now I don't know. Again, you're further along in parenting than I am, but these are six year old kids and I thought watching the practice, I was watching Portugal versus Brazil. The skill level is unbelievable. I was never this good at anything at 6. Is the talent and training now just so far above and beyond what we grew up with? Because my kid, his fucking underwear was on the field. He got faked out so bad. You know I'm saying, like, yeah, they were running circles around my son and I was like, wow, we, we got.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Work to do, but let's do it right. Let's roll up the sleeves. It's funny you say that because Sadie's in a swim club now. And Sadie is, She's great. She's tearing up. She works so hard and she's really, really good. But there's a 10 year old, well, Asian girl, 10 year old girl. This girl is going to be getting scouted by Stanford within two years. She destroys my daughter. She destroys 13 year old boys and she's 10. But she's nice and she's 10. So Sadie comes home in the car the other day and she was a little upset, but I started dying laughing and then she started dying laughing because she's like, it is funny. Let's say the girl's name is hypothetically Nancy. I don't even know what it is, dad. We're doing like speed laps the other day where you go as fast as you can. So Nancy. And again, she's 10. She's beating me so bad that by the time I get to the wall and Sadie's coming in second, she's. Nancy's not even out of breath and she goes, she's waving to me and saying hi. Hi. I go, she's already at the wall saying hi, like she, like she lives there. And you, you're coming to greet her. You got to admit that's fucking hilarious. Hi. Hi. As they all come in. Hi.

[Pete Corelli]

Nancy's dry.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Nancy's dry. She is, bro. I swear to God. Oh. So. But yeah, I think, yeah, like you said, man, the level is unbelievable. Kids today.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh my God, Joe, we went to a gymnastics meet, right? What's your take on this? This is. I don't know if this is going on back east. Get to the gymnastics meets in Venice Beach. Said like a school, high school, whatever. $15 for parking? The fuck is this a Lakers game?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh.

[Pete Corelli]

They'Re charging for parking. We get in. What would you think is a reason? I have this whole thing with pricing now. And I don't know if I'm living in the 80s or I just haven't adjusted to inflation. Right. I kind of feel like my grandfather who lived through the depression and was shocked. He had like sticker shock his entire life. Like we would go to McDonald's for a Big Mac.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

He go, that, that 99 cent day is good.

[Pete Corelli]

You know, like he's stunned at what? Shit, like gas. Oh my God, we passed the gas stat.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

63 cents on a fucking over 62 cent, you know? Like he would be. Right, right, right. Oh my God.

[Pete Corelli]

I feel like I haven't adjusted my mind to prices today. So, like this is a gymnastics meet, okay. This isn't, you know, pre, like Olympic trials.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

This is just.

[Pete Corelli]

What is a fair price to charge parents to get into the Gymnastics meet. What would you say this is?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

This is like your daughter is competing that level?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah.

[Economics Expert]

$3.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

$3 for adults. $3. All right.

[Pete Corelli]

I feel like I'm talking to my grandfather. 25 ahead to get in. So 50 for Alana and I. Caruso. 15. So 65 plus 15 outside. I'm down 80 and I've been there for 30 seconds. Right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Holy shit. Is it. This is just kids doing gymnastics. This is like paying $85 to go watch a kid play a little league game. That's basically what we're talking. It doesn't even make any sense. Is Mary Lou Retton doing signings or something?

[Pete Corelli]

Simone Miles doing. She died. We updated. What?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is Retton still with us?

[Pete Corelli]

Retton, I think, was pulled over, I don't know, about a year ago. No, she's still alive. I think she was pulled over and she was caught like with the DUI or something. I think she had. That was it. Yeah. Arrested for dui. Listen.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Wow.

[Pete Corelli]

We go to the merch stand.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

This is crazy.

[Pete Corelli]

This is a full money operation. It's a for profit sweatshirt, kid. Sweatshirt with a hood on the back that says the name of the Muscle Beach Invitational, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, yeah. That's pricey. Yeah. Even at my swim meet. We're talking about 35, 40 bucks.

[Pete Corelli]

Bucks. $65. What are we at the Taylor Swift concert?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Holy.

[Pete Corelli]

60 500. And then with concessions. How much you think for a hot dog? Give me a price on a hot dog at an event like this.

[Economics Expert]

I'll.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'll even go aggressive and say $4.

[Pete Corelli]

5 bucks. $5 for a hot dog? That's a bun and a hot dog. That's. That's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's not even as bad as the. Is the. Is the parking like at the facility? Like at the.

[Pete Corelli]

At the.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

What is it. What is it a college or something? Or a high school?

[Pete Corelli]

It's a high school parking lot. High school parking lot.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

High school parking lot. That's like a legal guy that's like pay taxes for that parking lot to be there.

[Pete Corelli]

Who's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Who gets that, bro? I would need to speak to somebody if I was there. That's fucked up. $15 to park at a high school?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Who, like. Who's collecting? Was there a guy there in a jacket? We should blew right by him. The high school guy. Get the fuck out of the way. Seriously, Scott.

[Pete Corelli]

My.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's insane, bro. That is. That is a money grab. I don't know who's getting that money, but somebody I got.

[Pete Corelli]

It's. It's a. It's a joke.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So.

[Pete Corelli]

We'Re at this meet and I'm sitting down.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Guys.

[Pete Corelli]

Serafina does the beam. She falls off twice. And. And with gymnastics, it's like this. The margin of error is so minuscule that, I mean, you do anything that's like, off, you're getting deducted, right? And now. Now you're falling off. That's a big deduction if you're falling off the apparatus.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

How do you feel as a parent when your kid falls off the bed?

[Pete Corelli]

That's a big one. It's like, I felt like I fell off, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Now maybe I'm too Sicilian here. What's your take? Like, she got off and, you know, she knew she screwed up, so she was kind of smiling as she came. As she. The end of the routine. She was smiling, like, to her coach. And her coach was smiling. Right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's cute. I like that. Oh, no.

[Pete Corelli]

Is it too young at 8 to end the routine and have a little fuck, you know, like a little disappointment that that happened? Right. Like, now I'm going to give you the juxtaposition. What I saw across the gym. Now, across the gym, there's, like a really premier gymnastics group. I mean, they come in, they're like. They're. They're like Russian, right? No expression, not hair, not like everything's tight, right? I'm looking across the gym and there's a girl crying after her routine. Because I think, like, it's like, you remember growing up Mary Lou Retton's coach? His name was Bella Caroly. Remember this guy?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No.

[Pete Corelli]

You know, pull up Bella Caroly, this animal here. This is. This is who. This is who taught Rhett. Just pull up, like a big image of this guy. Okay. All right, let's see. Like. Yeah, just like something that really screams that suit one is a. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, this is. Now, what if this guy. You get off the beam, you fall twice, and you go back to the huddle and this maniac is staring at you. Pull him up, right? This is. All right, now.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Look at that mustache.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm sorry. Now, I don't know, was this guy indicted for. Was he feeling the girls up to.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Or what was his.

[Pete Corelli]

Was he ok?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Who.

[Pete Corelli]

He died. He died last year. Anyway.

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[Pete Corelli]

We heard you.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Nine years of bring back the snack wrap, and you've won. But maybe you should have asked for more. Say hello to the hot honey snack wrap. Now you've really won. Go to McDonald's and get it while you can. I know where you're going with this. I like the way your daughter handled it because. And maybe I shouldn't have said this in the text the other day, but I wasn't pleased with Josh Allen's crying. And I know a lot of people took that as very passionate. And if we had a conversation with Watt, he'd probably say, you don't know what it's like putting all that time in. And then, da, da, da. I do. I've had fucking TV pilots canceled. I didn't fucking cry. Just saying. So everyone knows you're disappointed. Everyone knows, you know, you fell off the beam. So they don't. I don't think they need to see you be mad. It's like a sport. And I, like. I see a girl look over a coach and smile despite falling off twice. That speaks volumes about that girl's character to me. She's bigger than this. All this. She loves this. And she's having fun, but it doesn't define her. And that makes me like her more than this. The fucking Russians, that's all they live for.

[Pete Corelli]

It's.

[Economics Expert]

It's.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's why. I don't know. It's got to be a balance of humanity and skill. That's what I feel.

[Pete Corelli]

Well put. Well put. And we'll cut that piece out and we'll have that play, and that's going to go viral because that's. That's exactly what's wrong with this country. No, okay, listen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. She doesn't take it too seriously. She just. You know. And then after, afterwards, I said, so, what'd you think of the experience? She goes, yeah, I didn't do too well, Daddy. I said, that's okay. At least we know now what to work on for the next meet, which is coming up this week in Las Vegas, which is a whole other fucking story.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Dynamite. Dynamite. I'm not saying she doesn't take it serious. I'm just saying she doesn't let it bring her down. If it doesn't Go.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, I get it, I get it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I mean, ye. It's a different. So you guys are going to Vegas now. Wow, man, that's going to be exciting.

[Pete Corelli]

Exciting. Bro, I'm paying again. Sticker shock. Four people on an airplane to go to Vegas, Right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah. Hotel room. We're going out to dinner. We're doing this. We're doing that for 36 hours. I gotta drop five grand on this thing, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. Does your daughter do all seven things? Isn't it seven categories?

[Pete Corelli]

Four.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

She does four. Is one of them the floor?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, that's dynamite. See, sometimes that's. So you get. At least you're getting some. You're seeing some stuff. You're seeing at least 10 minutes worth of your daughter doing stuff. Instead of some of these kids, they go for these dance things. The kid dances for three minutes, and we're in Disney World for four days, you know?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's. It's, you know, like it's four hours. They give medals to.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Do they charge for those?

[Pete Corelli]

No. I gotta ask Lana. If they charge to be in the. Be in the damn meet one. They give medals. 1st place to 12th place. So the award ceremony is the worst part of it. In 12th place, Julie Schmidt from Elite Gymnastic, and she goes up there in 11. What happened to gold, bronze and silver? Silver. That's it. Three. Three pedestal.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's it, man. You gotta. You gotta come in first, second, or third to have your name even. Even said out loud. And yes, you got to pay to be in those because you got to pay to be in swim meets, too. I don't know. Paying with everything, bro.

[Pete Corelli]

It's. It's. It's like, what are you giving out at 12th place? Tin foil. As the. As the. The metal. The man. Gold, silver and bronze. That's it. Wrap it up. Three people. If you didn't get in that next time, like, work harder.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So that's why they're charging 15 for blocking, man. Everybody's getting a metal.

[Pete Corelli]

They got filled with a lot of metal.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

So.

[Pete Corelli]

So the thing. Oh, there's a. Here's another thing, bro. And this goes out again. This is not just a comedy show. It's a lifestyle. Entertaining people is an art form. Went over to small gathering. Two other couples walked in and I'm sorry, but they put out some dip. They put out some dip for the chips. And the dip was the dip that they use, like, throughout the week. Like, you can't put out your weekly food that you're using for a Saturday Night with other people, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, no, that's like.

[Pete Corelli]

There's like, the dips got, like a little chip in there. Like, it broke off from, like, Monday when they used it to watch a movie or whatever the. They did, you know.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Come on, man.

[Pete Corelli]

That's what.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Who would present that.

[Pete Corelli]

That. It's an art form.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I barely even eat that if it was my dip, you know what I'm saying?

[Pete Corelli]

They took.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, but that's like. That's like. That's one on one that says, though.

[Pete Corelli]

Is it?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I've.

[Pete Corelli]

I've seen a lot of this stuff. I was at a party once where they took out the chip bag. The chip bag had a chip clip on it. Because that's their. Like, that's the ruffles that they use to put in the kids lunch, and all of a sudden, it's Saturday night.

[Economics Expert]

Ruffle.

[Pete Corelli]

Now you buy a fresh bag of.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Ruffles putting the Ruffles in a bowl. If they put them in a bowl and you caught. You were backstage. Were you backstage seeing shit you weren't supposed to be saying?

[Pete Corelli]

That's what I'm saying. I'm. I'm seeing. There's no backstage. It's like we're seeing. They're fucking up the lines in front of the. In front of the audience.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You got. You got it.

[Pete Corelli]

You got.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Listen, you could use the Ruffles that have been opened as long as you dump them in a bowl behind the scenes and nobody knows, and you pretend you went fresh. You could pull that off.

[Pete Corelli]

I know I would. I, I, I would go, oh, God. They might take a ruffle, and it might be slightly stale. It's a reflection on me. You're getting a fucking brand new bag of Ruffles.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

I'll tell you what I did. And again, I don't mean to pat myself on the back, but I'm going to. I had people over for the Bears game night. Everybody's sitting around. We had some, you know, and I was with people who know how to entertain. So they brought a lot of stuff. They brought cheese plate and then what. Whatnot. After halftime, I went ahead. This is this talk about thought. I went ahead and bought personal small tins of Chicago Garrett's popcorn. And at halftime, my daughter passed out little tins of popcorn for everybody to have. Sealed. Sealed, Brand new. This wasn't Garrett popcorn because we have a tub of Garrett popcorn that we use periodically throughout the week. It wasn't from the tub. This was sealed.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, hello.

[Pete Corelli]

It's fresh.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I love it, man. Actually, you got me going. You'd be proud of me. We had guests stay over a couple weekends back, and they were sleeping over with their kids, and it snowed overnight. So the next morning, before my guests even got up, not only did I obviously shovel my own driveway and all that, got it all off their car, dusted all the snow off their car so they could just. I can listen. Cars ready to go when you're ready. Just back right out.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, that's beautiful. I love that. And I want to ask you if this is going maybe too far. They get up, right? Did they have breakfast at your house?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yes.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay. And after breakfast, they were going to leave. Okay. What about tail end? You kind of see people are gathering their belongings to leave.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I know you can say you're a lunatic. I think I can guess it. You tell me to start his goddamn car up to get it. Warm guy. What about a fucking valet? You're out of your mind. Why don't you just buy a hotel and for a weekend, for shits and giggles, you know, you run it and for fun. But you should. And then have someone else run. You should buy a boutique hotel. You should buy one.

[Pete Corelli]

I would love to buy a boutique hotel, but my question to you is, do you think it's a little curse? That's right. Do you think it's a little aggressive for the homeowner to basically. Let me ask you this. Were the car keys available? Did you see their car keys laying there?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I can't say that I did, but I feel like it's breaking and entering, going into somebody.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah. Like. Like, if you came out and the homeowner goes, I started up about 10 minutes ago. The defrost is on. It's toasty. Would you go with you in my car? The hell are you doing in my car? Right? Like, is that personal? Is that too personal to go in somebody's car?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

To hear that would be as uncomfortable as if you told me got cold in the middle of the night. I peeked in. I saw your blanket had fallen off while you were sleeping. You know, you go, thanks. Oh, thanks. You look over your wife. Go get the. See the way I. Silence the f. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to get better on that, man.

[Pete Corelli]

Trying to get a little.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But, yeah, I don't know. That's. I feel like that's a step too much. But it might not be bad to say, hey, if you get your keys, remember to warm up your car. You might want to, you know. Do you have a starter? You know, we'll you know, just to let them load.

[Pete Corelli]

I think the surprise warm up is.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

A big reveal. They come out, oh my God. Nothing better. And I grew up in Chicago, so I know the snow. There's nothing better to get into the car. And the frost has been on for 10 minutes heating up that window. And the windows like sweating. Get that window sweat where you just gotta like do the windshield wiper. And now it's clean. Rather than that, like, you know, like it's almost like a mist. Some of the ice is still on it. And then the sound I hate the most is when you do a windshield wipe and you hear a. It's hitting. Cuz it's hitting the ice.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, terrible. Well, when you got to get in and drive without warming it up. So by the time you've been driving long enough that you're warm, you don't even remember when you warmed up. You just went. And then you're at a red light, you're like, I'm not cold. You know, it's just like a slow thaw. It's rough. Do you feel, though? I feel like if I was staying at your house, me and Jackie came to visit and you said, I hope you don't mind, we. I just whipped up like hypothetically, like I just whipped up like a homemade, cool, great soup yesterday. So I can just heat it up so I don't have a lot to do. So we can hang that. That would be more flattering than darting in and out with this amazing meal. You know what I'm saying? I feel like sometimes you take the entertaining more important than the hanging.

[Pete Corelli]

That's fair. But I want to go back and get your take on soup.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

My wife makes amazing soups, bro.

[Pete Corelli]

Amazing soups and that guy. Listen, I think one of the most unattractive foods to have at somebody's house is soup.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It's. I got it. I got unattractive to eat together or to eat.

[Pete Corelli]

Just like if I went over to somebody's house and they said, hey, I made some minestrone soup. You want a cup to keep. Keep it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I. Listen, you bring up an interesting thing. Soup. Soup is very. It could be very personal, very homey.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, it's. It's for the family, right? You start going outside the family with soup, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, but my wife makes like. She's got the big crock pot she throws in there, the chicken broth, the carrots to this that then she puts in. Then she makes pasta on the side. And when she makes you a bowl, she gives you a big Soup bowl. She puts in a scoop of, like, pasta. Then the soup. Soup sits on it. And then we got some bread or some avocado toast.

[Economics Expert]

It's like.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It's literally the meal. A couple days ago. No, I blew it, man, because Jackie was slurping.

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[Sebastian Maniscalco]

And I look at Sadie and I. It turns out I was slurping, too. I don't even know why I noticed hers, but. And I kind of said, mom slurping. And Jackie looked up like that, and she's like, I made it. I can eat it any way I want. What? You take on the person who makes the food being allowed to.

[Pete Corelli]

Make the food. All of a sudden you can start throwing mashed potatoes around the table just because you made them.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I found that. I don't know. But then as I. But, like, I hit it with the. You're slurping. And then I went to have more of my soup, and I realized, God damn, it's really hard to eat this without slurping. And now I gotta not slurp because I made a meal out of it about her slurping. And you can't. You can't really take soup in without a little at the end, because then you can't get it off the spoon guy.

[Pete Corelli]

No, I. Listen, this brings up another point. Are you allowed at the end of the soup, after. You can't grab any with the spoon to take the soup and drink it from the bowl?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, bro, in my house, you're not allowed to get it from the dinner table until you do. I swear to God. Like, say to try to get him, like, you got all that broth. Like, that's medicine. It's the best medicine you're gonna get all week. Yeah, I love that, man. I feel. Dude, bro, just going down my body. It's just like. I hear the echo. Healthy, healthy, healthy, healthy.

[Pete Corelli]

Are you allowed to do that in mixed company? So let's say you got the neighbors over.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

They're all. And then, hey, you want some soup? Yeah, I love some soup. And, like. And your neighbor goes for a bowl drink at the end of it. Because I've seen this. I've seen people. You ever make eye contact with someone drinking soup from the bowl? You ever hit eyes? Oh, God. We're like, they're doing it, and then they come up, and then it's like a. It's like a deer in headlights. And you're like, what the fuck are you doing?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It is. It is a definitely a very family, you know, meal. You're right. Man, it's like, I bet growing up you've probably like, you ever eat at a friend's house and you're a little freaked out by it. You're like, I'm seeing too much.

[Pete Corelli]

There's so much going on with soup. There's another move people do with soup which is a little aggressive and just for family only, is they take a piece of bread. You ever dunk a piece of bread in some soup and get like the soup on the bread and then when you pick it up, the bread is leaking, right? And then they gotta do one of these over the soup hole, bro, we're getting way personal with that move.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, it is, it is a personal thing, man. It's, it's hardy though. It's a hardy. That's funny.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, so, so, yeah, I don't know, man, I, I, I, I just, I can't believe how people are. Here's another thing, bro, what about, let.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Me ask you this though, sometimes because she gets it from a father. Father makes great soup too. And they do this vice versa, you know them big glass jars with the tin that a lot of times people make tomato sauce, you can pressure. So when they make soup, they'll like make extra for each other, put it in a glass jar and he'll bring it over for the family for us to have, you know, his soup. And we will because he's my father in law. But beyond blood, can you give a jar of soup to a friend? Like, you know, fresh made fresh. I made a little for you too, neighbor. Like, would you, would you have it, bro?

[Pete Corelli]

If I came home and Lana was.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Like, john, let's take John. Someone close to you in LA brings you some soup that they made at home.

[Pete Corelli]

Listen, I think it's a case by case basis. I think in general. If I came home from the road and I went in the refrigerator and I saw a jar of soup and Lana goes, oh, yeah, so, and so from school gave us some soup that they made. I'd say put it in the garbage right now. We ain't eating other people's soup. Right, right, right. I just, I just feel soup. There's like a lot of stuff in there that maybe they were trying to get rid of, right? Like a lot of people, what they do is they go in the refrigerator and they go, I got carrots. They've been sitting there for a while. I'll put them in a soup. Like all of a sudden the soup is going to make the carrots taste better. They fucking been sitting there for three and a half months now. You're going to put them in a soup.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, that's, that's not what's happening over here. This ain't whatever Christmas carol where you fucking anything in there. Throw the boot in there too. But let's say your sister comes over because your brother in law just made a delicious homemade soup the night before. They didn't even have that soup yet. They having it that night. And he made a jar for you. Brother in law. Boom. Fresh, still warm in the jar.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah. Again, case by case basis, my brother in law made it. I know, like, I know his, I know his routine and how meticulous he is and how when he makes food. So. Yeah, I mean, John. Yeah, I mean John probably killed whatever in the soup, so.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, totally.

[Pete Corelli]

I know it's going to be a good soup, but a random person that you barely know comes over, I made, I made you a pot of soup. It's. That's a tough one.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But then you could be in New York City in some like low level restaurant and you don't know the chef and you buy soup. So like you're really always eating it from somebody anyway that you know.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, but that's what they do, you know, they're not an accountant and they're making soup at night.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I know, I know. So they're licensed to make the soup or some shit, right? Yeah. I mean, you ever really think about when I use a piece of silverware? You ever just do a walkthrough in your head? How many mouths has been in and out of bro? It'll make you want to bring your own silverware. I don't want to turn it. I don't want to turn it to Howie Mandel. But if you start to think that way, it's easy to do that, you know, to think everything is disgusting. You know what I mean?

[Pete Corelli]

I know. No, I know. Well, even going to a bed. How many people slept on the bed? And the pillow, the pillow that you. In a hotel room. Right.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, my God. God. And then like I'll be like scratching, scratching my nuts or something. And you're like, oh, I'm not the first guy to scratch my nuts in this man. You know? And then I grabbed a remote. Oh, it's all. You ever doing something at a hotel. And then you realize there's no way I'm the first person to ever do this in here. Oh, Jesus.

[Pete Corelli]

Holy Christ.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right. I don't know what the. This one over.

[Pete Corelli]

Bro.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

By the way, congratulations to Amy Pola, right. For Winning the Golden Globe for the best podcast. And congratulations to us for winning it next year, because we're going to. Bro, we got him that. Forget Tom Cruise. Eyes on the prize, bro. I want to be in that room for best podcast. What do we got to do?

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, is this what you're saying that we have to do to get in the top?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I'm doing it, bro. I'm already doing it. That's how you get to the gloves, guy. That's how you get to the gloves.

[Pete Corelli]

Oh, shit.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Ridiculous.

[Pete Corelli]

I want to cover one more thing before we leave today, and it has to do with sticker shock and inflation. I want to get into this whole thing, right? And I don't know too much about economics, but when inflation happens, prices go up.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right, Right.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay. Do they ever go down?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, prices go up faster than what people make, so there's. The gap gets farther. You know what I'm saying? The idea being that, you know, like, like, remember when we were growing up in the 70s, if someone was a millionaire, it was like, holy shit.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Now you know, you better be by the time you're 50. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I'm just saying. Yeah. So no, they don't go down. You make more money, though. Everybody. That's the idea. But then they're going to go down.

[Pete Corelli]

Wait a minute. Inflation prices go up, wages stay the same? Is that what you're saying?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, right. Patrick will say, yeah, the gap becomes further between the two. Again, I'm no expert either by a long shot, but.

[Pete Corelli]

Well, listen, don't, don't, because I, I'll keep it short. Oh, okay. So he was looking like he. When you ask him a question, you don't see what's happening on this other end. Like, you ask him a question, you could tell. Like, he's like, it's like almost Elon Musk, like, he's like, hold on, let me go back to. Let me go back to. And there's like a shit that happens on his face. He's like cranking his neck now. Can you give us like the Cliff Note of what? You know?

[Economics Expert]

Yeah. All the money that we're using as a country is being printed. It's not tied to any hard asset. A long time ago, it used to be tied to gold, but they needed more money for the economy. They took us off the gold standard, allowing them to print as much as they wanted without it being tied to something that they could confined. And because they're only printing money to keep the Economy balanced prices will always go up. Individual items might drop if they become useless. Like, a vehicle that nobody wants anymore is going to get cheaper because nobody wants it. But, like, milk, gas, everything that people need all the time will always go up because we're not tied to any hard asset.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay? So my question is, like, for example, I went to the grocery store. The oranges are 2.99 a pound, and people are buying them, right? So it's not up to the producer. Like, I've always thought, like, are they always going to be $2.99 a pound? The guy's never going to wake up and go, how much we charging for oranges? 2.99 a pound. That's a lot. Drop it down to 199. You know, like, they're not going to go backwards, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

No, because isn't it like. Because everything that they got to do to get the orange to you is wrong. Is it, though?

[Pete Corelli]

That's what I'm saying. Like, I keep hearing, like, this is good sounds like.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Sounds like you think there's greed out there. This gets you on the Globes for the best podcast. Keep going.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm going through this sticker shock, doing my kitchen, right? With the remodel, and I'm getting prices, and I'm like, what? How much? And here's a scam, like an area rug, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Generally speaking, you go out to a place that sells area rugs and you buy off the rack, right? That's generally what happens.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Okay. Yeah, well.

[Pete Corelli]

I. I can't do that because the rug that I need for the size of the room is like, it has to be made. It's like a custom rug. So I'm getting custom rug prices, right? And it's. They're astronomical. I go for why, and this is the response. They're handmade. Now, I don't need some guy in Nepal. Stitching a rug for me, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, man.

[Pete Corelli]

And then I got pricing for doors and windows, for steel. There's aluminum and steel, right? The steel goes hand. Hand. What's with this hand shit? Who's still doing shit by hand? Find a machine in Ventura to make me a fucking rug.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Right, right, right.

[Pete Corelli]

It's. It's just a way to tax people. It's just like this upcharge that I feel like. I'm sorry to bore the audience, but what is a fair margin of profit on a product? Right? Well, what's fair? I mean, like, what's. I'm all up for people making money, right? But don't fucking Hose me down for a rug. Come on. Now. You could go, listen, I know what people are thinking. Oh, okay. Then you're putting a limit on what people could make, and this is a capitalist society. I get it, I get it, but I'm getting raped.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Well, they would say, then don't get the rug. Right. But like, so it's just like, when they say handmade, does that literally mean, like. Like, there's a bunch of women, like, does it, like, all lined up, making. I don't know.

[Pete Corelli]

I want to see video of the people making my rug.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

Because they could just throw handmade on it, and the machine's making it. Oh, this is handmade and yet it's coming out of a mill, right?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. I mean, it sounds like buying a regular rug and then just paying somebody to make the nice edge around it. You know what I'm saying? Right.

[Pete Corelli]

That's what's. Alana. I go, what about regular rugs? Like, we got a rug in here. How about we cut this up, somebody seam it out, we throw that in the living room.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah. Have someone come to the house and hand seam the edges. That's got to be cheaper than the whole damn rug, right?

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah. What's wrong with regular rugs? What's the difference between a rug and a carpet? Do you know? Look it up?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's a good question. I will say this, though, man. You can't. Between. It's embarrassing and unfortunate to say is the word I want. But between. With one dog, let alone two, you gotta. You gotta have a price limit with a couch and a carpet until the dogs die, because it's just not worth it, man. It's just. I mean, you're gonna go to get it, this hand thing, rug, and then all of a sudden, your dog's gonna have the runs one day because somebody gave it something when that wasn't supposed to have, and now it's like, it's too much. It's too. It's too much.

[Economics Expert]

It's too much.

[Pete Corelli]

I agree. I agree. There could be some accidents that happen, but I'm not gonna sit here and wait 12 years to put in a rug. And. And then the kids are gone, and now all of a. We're decorating the house.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Listen, although.

[Pete Corelli]

I've implemented a new policy here at the home. It's called Let the dogs roam. Which cast? Okay.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

I gotta mention a little update on this.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It's going great.

[Pete Corelli]

It's going great. And I have to. Again, didn't want the dogs, but guess who is taking the Lead on, making sure the dogs have what they need. The dogs are roaming. I go out and I do what I like to call. It's a 30 minute at 6, 30 to 7 o'. Clock, I take them in the back and they love to fight. Like, play fight.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah.

[Pete Corelli]

And I think. I think Luigi's trying to, like. He got neutered, so did she, but I still think it's there. So he's trying to hump his sister. I'm like, hey, this is uncomfortable, What you think.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

But I'm.

[Pete Corelli]

I'm kind of happy that he's doing it because he's exerting a lot of energy trying to, like, you know, and it gets him tired. So when they come in, they're not bouncing around the wall, you know, like, they're fighting, they're. They're doing all this, and by the time I bring them in at seven.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

O', clock, they're all beautiful, man. That's. Like that. That's the end of that. Yeah, that's perfect. That's perfect. That's what you did it for. That's why you ended up having two. I'm glad it's working out. It's a little weird, but you'd like to think if there was a. Another female dog day, you think Luigi would be laying off his sister and going for the other female. You think he still got the hots for Petunia?

[Pete Corelli]

No, I think he's just. Right now. Whatever you put in front of him, he would. He'd hop on. But I think there's still a little residual testosterone flying through this guy's body, which he needs to, like, unload. Let me ask you this, and this could be the stupidest question. When are you not circumcised? What do they call it?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Or vasectomy.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah. Did you have that?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, my God, bro, you had that. I think it was season two of the cast. I told a great story about it.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay, so when you ejaculate, does anything come out?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I swear to God. Yeah, of course, of course.

[Pete Corelli]

It's just.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I swear to God.

[Pete Corelli]

What? There's just no sperm in it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Jesus. Yeah. There's nothing that could impregnate somebody. Yeah. But still, it's actually the weirdest thing. I feel like it felt better, but maybe that's only because I know there's nothing to worry about, but. I don't know. But. Yeah, there's no difference at all.

[Pete Corelli]

Okay, I might have to go get that done.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Oh, you don't have that?

[Pete Corelli]

No.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, you gotta get it Done, bro. It's great.

[Pete Corelli]

What do they do? Where's the incision on that?

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

I think it's, if I recall correctly, like right underneath the ball sack. I told you too, because, like, they're like, you want to like, do you take a couple days off, stay off your feet, put ice on and off your testicles. And I had a show that night at the Toledo Funny Bone. So I got a vasectomy while Jackie had the roux running. I got in the back of the roo, laid down with an ice patch on my balls, and she drove me to Toledo, Ohio. Four hours away, and I was on stage six hours later doing a show. Wow. Yeah, yeah, no, it's nothing. Okay.

[Pete Corelli]

Yeah, he just.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

All right. Anyway. Wow. That show took a run, huh? Went a little everywhere.

[Pete Corelli]

Listen, this is good, man. Again, what other podcasts are they talking about? Soup etiquette.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

Yeah, that was huge.

[Pete Corelli]

I mean, that's in the Glow in the Globe speech. And the winner for best podcast. They talk about soup.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

They do, they do. And in closing. And I'll save this for the next cast, but I was inspired by your passion for the Bears and I'm all in on my jets. I'm totally focused for next year. No more nonsense.

[Pete Corelli]

All right, we'll talk about it.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

You got to stick with it now.

[Pete Corelli]

We'Ll say we got to talk about that whole deal. I might actually play a video to start the next show. We took video of the Bears touchdown pass. Lana was videotaping this. It was unbelievable. But we'll get into that next week. Pete Sebastian, best of your life. Anyone with a heart, with a grief.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

It's so easy.

[Pete Corelli]

Fall in love with me.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

The show has ended.

[Pete Corelli]

You better screw your head on. Right. We got a lot of decisions to make today.

[Sebastian Maniscalco]

That's just funny.

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