Fireplace Fears & Car Rules

The Sebastian Maniscalco Show

SiriusXM

Family, Comedy Interviews, Sebastian, Tv & Film, Sebastian Maniscalco, Comedy, Etiquette, Stand-up, Comic, Italian, Pete Correale

4.8 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Sebastian and Pete both love their fireplaces but Pete’s new home has led him into an investigation of his home inspection and previous homeowner as he worries about burning his house down. Did Pete buy a lemon of a house? Sebastian details the communications with his HOA and the landscaping upkeep that has him concerned for the wellbeing of one of his neighbors. Sebastian loves having a foreign born soccer coach working with his son but he is finding the names the coach is coming up with for the kids to be a little on the nose. The guys agree that bringing back Omerta would serve America well. Sebastian reveals the genesis of his new song with Steve Aoki. Sebastian and Pete explain how apologies work with their wives. Sebastian lays out the rules for riding in his car and if you bring anything to drink while in his car it must be contained in a construction worker’s thermos. The guys wrap up the episode questioning why gummies are now are prominent part of many parent’s lives as if they can’t get thru the day and Sebastian spots Green Day walking down the hallway which leads into a conversation on how to prep for guests in real-time.

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0:00.0	And now, the Sebastian Menascalco show.
0:03.9	All right, welcome to the Sebastian Manascalco show.
0:06.6	I'm going to just jump right into it with Pete today.
0:09.0	He's, you got a story.
0:10.7	He wanted to share, get some comments on this.
0:14.5	What's going on, Pete?
0:15.8	What do you got?
0:17.0	Bro, I don't even know if I got, I might even have a lawsuit here.
0:20.3	I don't know what's going on.
0:22.1	So, long story short, I had...
0:25.4	You know, I got the fireplace.
0:26.5	First time I ever had a fireplace in this new house.
0:29.2	So I got to get it cleaned.
0:31.9	So I called this company, and they come,
0:34.2	they send a guy, and they're going to sweep it.
0:36.2	It costs like $350.
0:38.9	But when they sweep it, they send a guy, and they're going to sweep it. Costs like 350 bucks. But when they sweep it, they go on the roof and they examine it and they give you an inspection thing on the
0:47.1	whole chimney and like where it's at, right? So nice guy, right? And he comes off the roof and he goes,
0:52.9	it looks like in pretty good shape,
0:54.4	better than 80% that I've seen. I'm like, all right, great, you know. Now I just want to, I'm just going to run a camera down. There's a little thing right at the bottom of my fireplace, a little square, and it's called an ash dump. And if you don't want to clean out the ashes, you just kind of move the door and you dump the ashes down there. Nobody does. I usually clean them out. But anyway, he goes, we run the camera down there, make sure everything looks good. And you can see it on the monitor here. I'd like you to watch this with me when I run it down there, you know. So I'm standing over him. It puts the camera down. And he gets just a little bit down.
1:28.5	He's like, oh, oh, this is no good.
1:31.1	And you can see on the camera, it's wood.
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