Good Guys - Snooki vs. Chris Christie

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

Greetings Guidos! Today we are joined by the absolute treasure, the honor, the icon herself- Snooki. We kick things off with her "Joey origin story," which involves a season-two makeup chair in Miami, a 7:00 AM vodka shot, and a lifelong bond that eventually brought our mutual best friend into our world. Snooki gets incredibly real about the early days of Jersey Shore, admitting she felt like an "outcast" until that infamous punch in the face turned the show into a global phenomenon. But it’s not all nostalgia; we’re talking topical too. Snooki fills us in on her life as a "paranormal rookie" hunting ghosts in Canada, including a terrifying encounter with a crawling "evil creature" in an abandoned office. Plus, we get the world-exclusive scoop on her newest venture: Snooki’s Pickles. Between stories of "cheer mom" drama and a very serious "no grapes" rule for the dogs, we wrap it all up with a classic "What Are You Nuts?" session. It's a five-star episode, folks- don't miss it! Write us! Send your messages to [e-mail]  Follow us on Instagram and TikTok!  Sponsors: Visit www.xyzal.com for more information Right now, you can save up to $230 on the 12 piece cookware set vs buying the products individually. Plus, you can get the Airtight Duo (which is worth $125) for FREE with any order over $675. Visit Carawayhome.com/GOOD10 to take an additional 10% off your next purchase. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Produced by Dear Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Wow. What a treasure. Snooki. Stop. Thank you for coming. Thank you guys for having me. You're the best. You're the best.

Look, we share the second I saw Snooky, I'm like, our mutual best friend, Joey can answer. I know. I feel like I know you were ready. She's like also, what about your wife? I'm like, yeah, her too. Joey Kamasta comes up. Joey comes up more on this podcast. Yeah.

How many times a week do you think we talk about Joey? I just recently talked about him in our prior episode because a man tried to make a pass at me through the divider at a urinal. Okay? Need I say more? My God. And I immediately said, I don't quite understand the signaling he's giving me. Let me text the expert. So I wrote Joey and I said, I have an indelicate question.

And he confirmed that the man had had eyes for me. Did you feel good about yourself, though? I did. Why not? Right? That's a compliment. Yeah. Like, wow.

I said the same thing to Josh. I said, you know, I'm feeling a little down on myself. Because that's never happening to you? Gay guys aren't hitting on me. I'm not sitting in the stall. And all of a sudden there's a hand gesturing to me. Oh, that's what happened? A hand came over.

Josh was, yeah, he was probably. It was a hand on the floor, but through the partition. Oh, my God. And he had an Apple Watch. So I was like, guys got money. Oh, yeah. Should have just did it. I know.

How do you know Joey? What's your Joey origin story? So it was season two and I had to do something for Mac. I was hosting like this web competition series. This was mind you like season two, Miami Snooky. So like coming in after a club appearance, still drunk from the night before because I probably, yeah, I had a club appearance. So I'm drinking, meeting people. And I get to the shoot at like 7 a.m. Like I land and go straight there.

And I'm like wrapped in a blanket. it and I bring my vodka because I'm like, we just got to keep going because I'm going to die. I didn't sleep at all. So I sit in the chair and Joey's my makeup artist. And he's like so nervous and shaking. And I'm like, are you okay? And he literally said, I'm sorry I get nervous around celebrities. But that's like his joke with me.

Like, oh, sorry, I get nervous around celebrities. Like he says it all the time now. And he was doing my makeup. And then right before we started it, it was like 8 a.m. And I was like, will you do shot with me in the bathroom? And he was like, of course. And ever since then, we've been best days. Yeah.

So I made him win the competition because he was in the competition. So whoever won the competition came to Vegas with me to do my makeup for Halloween. So he did the trip with me. And that's when we just became best friends. Well, thank you for becoming best friends with Joey. Yes. Because you've brought him into our world. We wouldn't know Joey if Joey wasn't friends with Snooki.

Where would Joey be? Joey would still be at Mac, selling powder. Yeah, he would be doing sexual favors for Ocentpic needles. A hundred percent, yeah. Yeah. Wouldn't we all? Yeah. Wouldn't we all?

So you're currently doing press right now, right, for the show? Yes. Okay, how's that going? Press week. How's it going? What do we think of Press Week? Is it just like, I can't wait to get home? Are we enjoying doing it?

Are we stressed? Are we tired? Especially with a family. I just think about it all the time. Like, it used to be, it was so different. No kids. I'm ready to fucking do anything. Now it's like I can't wait to get home to Ruby.

No, I know. And it's just like everything, it's your time. Like, how's it going? Yeah, well, I've been a mom for 14 years now. So I'm like, bye. Mommy has to go to work. So it swings back around. You're like, okay, I'm excited.

Obviously, I can't want to get home to them, but it's a nice break. You know, I get to see my friends. I haven't seen the roomies. Yeah. Probably eight months. Yeah. So it was nice for all of us to like get back together and hang out and, you know, do the thing. Yeah.

Who from the show? we had on our podcast. We had Vinny on. We had Vinnie on. Right. Nice. I'm a super fan from season one. Okay. I grew up in New York. I grew up going to the Jersey Shore. My people live there. Mattis Squan, Point Pleasant, Bradley Beach, you know, these are some wonderful areas. There you go. And I actually, and it's okay, Snooky that you don't remember, neither did Vinny, but I hosted a Jersey Shore after show in New York. So we have. met you were very nice with me stop what year yes it was you and ronnie and viny

i think ronnie was the only one who laughed at by jokes so maybe i wasn't on i was probably bombed so maybe you had a sip or two you might have had a sip yeah wait what year was this this was 2018 2019 maybe oh so already had kids listen i get it wait when was this it was fine it was you sure was me Could I forget? It was at the old TRL studios I'm 1515

Wait, I feel like it's coming back to me Okay, so we did meet We did me I'm so happy to see you again That was like one of the best interviews ever You did one of those things When somebody says nice to meet you You have to say nice to meet you back

You can't say nice to see you otherwise. I'm like, oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, you got nice to... No, I remember it. I remember it now. It's coming back. I can feel that.

You did great. I do feel that. Yeah, you did great. I remember it. What? Can we go back for a second to, like, how quick was the life change? Because Jersey Shore was sort of an instant hit, right? Um, I don't know if I would say instant.

How many episodes? After I got punched in the face. Right. Then it was like, boom. Yeah. Fair. I don't know what episode that was. Do you remember, Mike?

Episode 8? Well, I feel like we were making our rounds of, like, you know, making the Italians mad, people watching us, like, what are they doing? They're orange and drinking and weird, and they talk weird, like, all the things. But then once I got punched in the face, I feel like that's when everyone was like, what is the show? You have to watch it. This little girl just got punched at a bar, just on the floor.

So I feel like that was what really made it take off. Did Claudia tell you, so you went on my wife Claudia's podcast. She came to my store. She came to your store. Yeah, she had a great time. She's great. She's great.

Did she tell you that literally through high school people call her Snookie? Did she tell you that? And she showed me the pictures. Yeah. No, she, you guys. Yeah. Twins. But I was so surprised because when she came to interview me, I thought it was just

going to be like fun girl talk and she was so Barbara Walters. She's, she's unbelievable. And I was like, damn. She's unbelievable. Like she was like. When she has a job to do, she's going to do it. She was doing the questions. And like that, if you wanted her to go to girl talk, she can just,

Barbara's gone. Yeah. It's unbelievable. Yeah. She's a magician. She's great. She's fantastic. Yeah.

But yeah, she was snooky. Yeah, she was snooky. Yeah, she showed me. She did great. She was snooky. I have to show you that picture, Josh. This episode of The Good Guys podcast is brought to you by our friends at Cowraway. Folks, we love Carrowe here at the Good Guys podcast.

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Visit drinkag1.com slash good guys to get a free AG1 flavor sampler and a bottle of vitamin D3K2 in your AG1 welcome kit when you first subscribe, which is a $72 value. That's drinkag1.com slash good guys. AG1.com slash good guys. I feel like it was sort of like if we had to pick two people who really emerged as stars in that first season, I mean, it was you and Mike, right? Like this was, what was that like to not only be on this massive hit show, but also sort of like you're the queen of it? I mean, I definitely felt grateful because when I was filming the first season, I felt like I didn't fit in. and I felt like no one liked me. I felt like the outcast, to be honest.

And that was the first time in my life that I felt that way. And I think it's because no one saw a little creature drink like that before. So they were like, what is this girl? So I think I scared everyone. But then they came to love me. So I honestly thought like no one was going to like me on the show and I was going to get like a bad rap. And yeah, I was nervous.

So when I came out, like, everyone's like underdog favorite, I was like, oh my God, thank you. And what was your expectation going into the show? Like, did you ever in your wildest streams think that would turn into what it did? Did you think of it as just like a fun opportunity? All right. Like, whatever. I'll give this a shot.

Yeah. But I'm not putting any stock in it at all. Well, I mean, I always wanted to be in real world. So I audition for real world twice. Oh, okay. Didn't hear anything. And I was like, all right. Like, maybe I'll see a casting that like really resonates to me.

And then it was like, calling all guidos, Jersey Shore. And I was like, okay, cool. Let me try out for. this. So yeah, I was hoping that, you know, it would be like a one season, like great opportunity. And then I get my 15 minutes, make money, and then go back to school. So I wasn't expecting this to be my career. Yeah. Like crazy. Calling all guidos, Josh, we never get any of those calling all Jews. Calling all Jens. The only time we get calling all Jews, there's a problem. Yeah. You run for the hills when they say calling all Jews. There's a train involved.

And you run. Terrible. Folling all Guidos, though, that sort of hit show. It's a hit show. It's amazing. I didn't realize that it was, I don't know why, like just like such like a novice fan. I was like, oh, like these guys, they were friends. Maybe they like met up and they decided to film a reality show, which is so dumb.

Obviously there was casting. Yeah. So you wanted to be a reality star. I did. Yeah. So you manifested and you fucking got it. I manifested it. Yeah.

That's awesome. I basically manifested everything that I wanted in life and it happened. Do you like, like, do you talk and think about manifestation? Like, is that like a word that? Yes. Like, you're very intentional about what you, what you want to happen and you make it happen. Yeah, so like 11-11. I wish like my kids' health and everything, like pray for that.

And then I'll manifest at 11-11. 4-44 because 4 is my number. And I have a journal. So I write in my journal, my manifestation journal, like what I want for the year and what I want to tackle. And it happens. Basically, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I believe it.

I'm also a pretty big manifester. I'm like a, I can't do year to year. I can see something long term and I can get that. I don't know how it gets, I don't know how the in-between works. Yeah, but you build up to that. But I build up to that. And I don't know what I'm building or how I'm building to get there. But I see that end result.

See? So I resonate with that. Are you a manifester Josh? Are you like, these guys are fucking woohoo. I'm going to need to check them in somewhere. I'm so broken. that I'm manifesting lunch, you know. I'm thinking about what I'm going to order.

It's going to happen. The truth is I'm going to order an egg white rat from Starbucks double-baked because I'm a sad, sad boy. But yeah, I think there's something to be said. And I think there's when you see the Michael Jordan documentary and you see how he was like, I am going to get back at anyone who ever doubted me. Like I think that having that mind control is very, powerful. Sure. You're having an egg white wrap. I had a second avenue deli for lunch in my car. How delicious is that? A hot pastrami sandwich. Whoa. Do you guys eat pastrami? You're not pastrami,

people. No, I'm not. No. I'm very picky. I wish I wasn't. But are you like an Italian meats person? Like a, I am. Okay, so you'll have like a. Yeah. Brajol. Brajol. Yeah. Brajol. You know what I just started thinking? Tell me of this, do you know the term gougoutes? No. What's that? What's a gougout? Yeah. I've started calling my kids this. You can have it to. It is freaking Cayet. It's Tony Soprano on Sopranos calls his son.

He goes, where's gougouk, where's gauk, where's gougots? Where's the goguts? It's a pumpkin. That's fun. Oh, that's cute. Oh, pumpkin. That's cute. Yeah.

I actually call my kids pumpkins. I say, hi. Sorry, I just burbs. Yes. We actually eat the real snucky. I always burp. Me too. I say, hi, pumpkins.

I love it. Maybe now I could say that. That's cute. Hey, Gagguts. It doesn't roll off the tongue the same. Hey, gagguts. Yeah, I like pumpkin better. No, but maybe it's the, maybe it's the Tony of it all.

I can't, by the way, you do a good Tony. Yeah. That was very good. I aspire to be an actor. Yeah, you should be an actor. Thank you. Yeah, you should really do that. I do it.

I'd be pretty good at it. My influencing career. Yeah. So, you know, I already spending 15 minutes with you, Snooky. Like, you are so refreshingly authentic. and yourself, right? And I feel like knowing like I'm friends with the great Kristen Doty from Vanderpump Rules and the Valley. And she sort of explained to me that in reality TV, like there is a part of you that has to sort of want to be seen, right? You have to sometimes create a little bit of

drama because that is where the cameras are going to point. That's what producers are going to highlight. Did you ever feel like you had to do that or you just were yourself? You know, I feel like I was always myself. And I feel like reality TV needs. now is just so scripted and like the new shows and the new people that are coming on, like they know what to do on a reality show. Like you have to go in. You got to make drama. Back then when we did the show, we just went there to have fun.

Yeah. There wasn't really like a guide to do good reality, you know? Like now I feel like people go into reality show and they're like, oh, I have to create drama. I have to sleep with this person. I have to do that to like be known. Yeah. And us, we were just like, we're just going to have fun.

And I feel like my character in general. Like, I never liked drama. I hated fighting with my friends. When I did fight with my friends, like, I'd quit for a full season because I just didn't like the drama of it all. Yeah. And thankfully, my role was Party Girl. So, hey, you guys can fight.

I'm going to the bar and getting a drink and dancing. And that's me. But that's why a show like yours just will never be replicated. Like, you can people, you said she's so authentic. Like, you can smell inauthenticity from a mile away. 100%. And especially because Claudia, Claudia, does a daily pop culture show,

I'm up on almost everything. Like I have to watch all of these shows. Some I like more than less. And I've watched a lot of Real House House of Beverly Hills. I don't know if you watch that show. At this point, it's just so manufactured. It has to be.

Like the drama is just, there's this, she's actually a manifester, this woman Amanda on it, that I just know was only put on it so that people would hate her. Like there's no other reason that she's on the show. Yeah, like housewives. They throw people in just,

People in just for hate. Just so people are online. Housewives is all drama. Like how'd you get on all drama? Yes. And they sell each other out for the drama. They do. So I'm a big fan of Housewives.

I'm not like religiously watching it. But they're always saying like, why don't you go on Housewives? I'm like I would never sell out a friend like that. And I would cry if someone did that to me. Yeah. I don't like drama. I'm just there to like have a good friendship, to have fun and go home. Yeah.

So Housewives is just not my vibe as like a job. And how do you like I just I think I think specifically as it relates to to housewives, so many people's relationships and marriages are in turmoil since going on that show. And it's just like, how do you prioritize wanting to be a reality star, but putting your family completely in jeopardy? Like, I feel like with you guys, it's the complete opposite. It was like, family first, always friends, camaraderie. Josh, I don't know if you feel the same, but like all of these shows, like, I just feel like they go on. These people get divorced. Their lives are terrible. Real housewives, nobody's even married.

Like, literally none of them are married anymore. Because they sell each other out and they try and ruin each other's lives. So then what's the point? Like, you need to check that badly that you want to ruin your life? They're all divorced or single. All of them. Yeah. Like the idea of a housewife, they're going to jail.

They're not married. None of them are married. Like, we love it. So keep doing your thing. Totally. Great fan of it. Great trauma. But yeah, that's not us.

No. No. Or a pact. If you could pick a new reality show, you're starting a new one. What are you doing? Like me, a new show? Yeah, you. You said that you loved Housewives, but you don't love drama.

No. Is there like a dream situation for you? Um, I don't know, maybe traveling the world trying different pickles. Yes. Yeah. Can I come with you? Yes. Oh, my God.

I would do that in a heartbeat. I love pickles. And then we would have to try like, so we would try pickles in every state and then martinis with it. I, like, I'm completely sold. Oh, we'll sell to a network tomorrow. What's your favorite? What your favorite kind of pickle? I do like a butter pickle.

Okay. I can't use spicy. I wish I could. Butter and garlic. Okay. I'm a big sour pickle person. Do you like sour pickles? I can do it.

But it's not my go-to. Not your go-to. Yeah. Okay. You want that cucumber that's been in the barrel for five months. Correct. I love full, full sours. Not bad.

I'm not a half-sour-sour-sour-sour-sour-sure-cure-cure-old. I'd rather eat a cucumber. I like a dill-pickle. Dill pickles are nice. Dill pickles are nice. They're nice, but yeah, butter pickles, good. Yes, garlic pickles. Delicious.

Oh, it's so good. Yeah. Do you make pickles? Have you ever made your own pickles? Gianni actually made pickles before. They're not that hard to make? No, they're not that hard to make. They're probably...

But they're chilling in a jar for a while. They're chilling in a jar. Yeah, no, you have to be very patient. No, yeah. Very patient. Wow. They're delicious. Unbelievable.

And high in electrolytes. Yeah. I'm actually in the works right now to do my own pickles. Genius. You heard it here first. Genius. Yeah. Okay.

I have a... That's a breaking story. Yes. We got a breaking story here on the good guys. This is genius. I want in if there's like a deck all invest. It'll be sold at the Stozy shop. This is it.

This is what we need. Josh. Snookies Pickles? Amazing. I'm in. Do we have a name or now? Snookies Pickles. It's called Snooks pickles.

Okay, good. I love it. You heard it here first. Are we doing an angel round? That's what I'm saying. And the jar might have leopard on it and it's really cute. Yes. I love it.

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What do you got? I think it's just seasonal allergies. It's allergy season. You know, I'm walking around this big, beautiful city. I see all of these beautiful trees and bloom, the cherry blossoms. Josh, they're everywhere. They're beautiful. But they're killing me.

They're killing me. I don't like this. You know, you, your season is a. was a good thing for you. You were keto season. Yes, this is true. Yes, I was. And, but allergy season, not the best. Allergy season is not the best, Josh. And it comes out of nowhere. One minute, you're strolling around the neighborhood, walking your dog, having a nice time.

The next minute, all of a sudden, you can't, your throat's itchy, your eyes itchy. Eyes are watery. Ah, the watery eyes. How'd you know? I got to tell you something because, you know, your wife is, is incredible, the great Claudia, but the truth is she, she contacted me. Yeah. And she said, I can't, I can't live like this anymore. I said, what is it?

You know, fine. Really? Wow. You too? Done? She said, never. But she said, I try to sleep at night. He's clearing his throat.

Yeah. He's keeping me up. Josh, we need to intervene. I said, Claudia, I think we have just the thing for him. I can't even defend it, Josh. It's bad. I'm there. There's just this post nasal drip.

I can't get rid of it. You're telling me you have a solution? I do. And if you just look to your left or right, what's there? What's there? I planted it there from 3,000 miles away. My God. This is...

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relationship with her at that time was just like she's the funny friend. We can make fun of her. and like she makes fun of us. So we were actually trying to be jokesters, but like I guess we took it too far and nobody understood our relationship. So as I'm watching it, I'm like, oh my God. I'm like, we sound so bad. Like I felt awful.

So it didn't hit like we thought it would. But in our defense, like we were trying to be funny. Yeah. And it didn't work out at all. You know, when I was at this wedding, I recently, I was at the great Nick Fial's wedding with J-Wow. And I didn't know.

My wife played a dirty joke on me. So she's sitting in our row. And I'm like, oh, my God, Jay-Wall is here. But, you know, I had done the Jersey Shore after show and didn't leave much of an impact. So I was afraid to go up to her. Oh, my God. Stop. I feel terrible.

The best part was I go to the bathroom and I come back. And Jay-Wow and her husband, Zach, are sitting near us. My wife goes, oh, I was just talking to Jenny. Say hi. I'm like, hi, nice to meet you. She goes, you know, I know you, you did such a great job hosting the after show. And I was like, really? She goes, no.

She said no. She's like your wife, baby, say that. My wife said to get me, dude. She was like, can you mention the after show? What is sin? Can you imagine? Thanks, Paige. Love you.

That is honestly a world-class prank by your wife. Like, good for her? Well, the fact that Jenny forgot too. I mean, okay. No, by the way, they've all forgotten. I'm starting to think that Josh dreamed it. I don't. It might have been too.

No, yeah. I think I have to Google this. Make sure this actually happened. How do we feel about Vinny's stand-up comedy career? I think he's doing great. Yeah? I feel like I'm so proud of him because he's so introverted. And you would never think, like, knowing him that he would go in front of a stage and, like, perform like that and just be comfortable.

because he's such a introvert. I mean, yeah. So when he started his comedy career, I was like, oh, my God, you're really going to do that? And then he went on stage and he was so comfortable in his skin. I was like, this is your thing. Yeah.

You're cozy here. It's hard. Very, very hard to do. Oh, my God, I can't imagine. Yeah. Especially what he's doing, which is more like open mic type setups. That's hard. Like Claudia did, she's a stand-of comedian,

but she did shows. It was a consistent tour. And so you have a rough framework of what you're going to talk about. When you hit like a hot mic, Josh has been doing standup. Josh was doing standup at eight years old. But I didn't have a dad, so it was even. Eight years old, he was doing standup. Eight years old.

And it's just you go on these like open mic nights and you just like I see him in like the cellar, I feel like. And he's just ripping new jokes, trying new material. Yeah. That takes balls. I know, terrifying. I could never do that. Absolutely. I don't, like, I guess maybe it's like ripping a band-aid off, like once you do it.

But he is very funny. So when he did do that career choice, I was like, that makes sense because you make us crack up all the time with like the silly things that you say. Right. So it wasn't a surprise, but I was like surprised because he's an introvert. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know if this is announced yet, but he's talked about it on his podcast a lot,

which is great friend of the show, Chris DeStefano. There's a big Jersey Shore roast coming. Is this right? Yes. Yeah. Wow. I cannot wait for this. Yeah, I think that's going to be towards the end of the season.

He hosted it. It happened already. Oh, it happened. It happened like a year ago. Was it great? It was great. I love a good roast. Well, I did get, I drank a lot of wine before I got on stage.

Good. So I like, I just got up and left mid, mid roast. And everyone was like, where are you going? And I was like, so I'm excited to see me do that in the middle of the roast. But, um, no, yeah, it was fun. It was in Atlantic City, sold out. And yeah, Chris was great. Atlantic City is really a wild place.

I could stay there for years. It's funny. Once you get through all of the needles and the garbage and you get into the Borgata, it is a dream. Well, I'm an oceans girl. Okay, oceans. Oceans is where it's at. Oh, so fun. It's beautiful time it is.

You go in for a massage appointment. go play in the casino. You can play poker at 7 a.m. with a cocktail. I love it. The dream, Josh. We need to go to oceans. Yeah. Yes.

Yeah, I could get you hooked up. Okay. I know the girl there. Okay, we need to go to oceans. We need to do that. Spend the weekend there. Yeah, get a couple of massages. You won't leave.

You won't leave. We'll just become gambling addicts and just stay there. Yes, the best. But at least we'll have free rooms. Exactly. Have you guys been, look, because you mentioned Snooky that early on in the show, like you were getting, you know, the Italians were mad at you. Or like, has like the tourism board of New Jersey embraced the cast of Jersey Shore?

You've done more for that state than, I don't know, Chris Christie. I don't know, Bruce Springsteen. Like, right? There should be some love for you guys. I agree. But I remember Hurricane Sandy happened and Chris Christie never liked us. He always said like bad things about us. And we're all like the, you know, seaside for the hurricane relief.

And we're there like supporting. we're all there for the same thing, to raise money, to rebuild Seaside. And he was just still nasty. Like, Chris Christie never liked us. He was probably hungry. Just like he looked like he was going to eat me. He was probably hungry. He was probably hungry.

He was just never nice to us. No. I feel like some part of Jersey, you know, appreciates us and loves us, but a majority of Jersey, no. Well, the rest of the country does. And Jersey is sometimes self-hating. New York's also self-hating. I feel like anywhere that you're from, you hate it. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, we talk all the time. Like, I have a love-hate relationship with New York. If I lived in New Jersey, I'd have a love-hate relationship with New Jersey. Yeah. Right? Mm-hmm.

Okay. Well, we all love it. Where'd you grow up? The city. Oh, so you were always here. Always here. Oh, damn. Yeah.

And I'm starting to think, like, I've always lived in a apartment. You should be in a fucking house. Yes. We cook so much. You guys could have a freaking mansion. Yeah, we need a mansion. Yeah, what are you doing? I don't know.

Just here with the rats. You could literally go right here in Jersey and get a beautiful home. Yeah. Okay. Do you know a realtor? Are you a realtor? Yeah, I'm a realtor. Okay. No, I know realtors. Okay. You know realtors. Okay. Okay. We're going to do this. And we're going to do pickles. Maybe we do that. Maybe it's a combination. Maybe it's a combination show, Snuckie. Maybe it's, we're real estate shopping, but we're trying pickles in the towns where we're seeing the homes. Yeah. So you're involved in my show now? Oh, yeah. I'm in the show. Okay. No, you, you came here. This is our show. It's our show. So you got the rights to that. I'm in. I'm in. Okay. Yeah. Speaking of Snooki shows, this is one that I really love Snooki

because the only thing that I love more than you is Canada. Ben, did you know that Snooki has a show that is solely on in Canada? Yeah. And it's her ghost hunting. You're lying. You swear. You're a Canadian ghost hunting? I literally want to do a dual citizenship because I love Canada so much.

Same here. I went there to do Canada Shore because it was like a spinoff. Okay. And then I guess Canada loved me and I was trying to sell my ghost show for like three years. No one was picking it up. Because you know how hard it is to sell a freaking show. And then all of a sudden we just went to Canada and boom, it was, they took it.

Wow. So I've been filming my Canada show for, I don't know, like two months now. And I always fly to Toronto and then we go to these random places. We just went to Niagara Falls. And the tunnels in Niagara Falls is haunted with this lady. And we saw her. Wait, say more about that. You saw a ghost.

So I didn't see a ghost. I felt things. So the whole thing of the show is it's called Snooki, the paranormal rookie, and I always felt things my entire life. So this is more of me just like being a rookie at ghost hunting and like my mediumship and like feeling things. So it's kind of my journey of becoming a ghost hunter and a medium, I guess. So I have a medium on there and he like basically sees everything.

Like he sees the ghosties. He knows exactly what their name is. Sure. And I'm training from him. And then I have Todd, who's like the tech guy who, like, you know, he records all the ghosties. And then I have my good witch who is Missy. So she, like, casts spells and she protects us. So, no, yeah.

This is such a shame that it's on Canadian television. Well, I have the rights to sell it to the States. Great, because this is. Hopefully it gets picked up in the States. Oh, hopefully it gets picked up. This is the, I need to watch it right now. And I have spirit juice. So when I get nervous, I go spirit juice.

And they give me like a goblet. They give me a goblet of wine. And I'm like, and then I'm not really, and then I'm not that scared. Is ghosty what you call them or is that the professional term for ghosts? That's my term. I like ghosties. I love it.

So when we walk in a place, I'm like, we're here, ghosties. Like wake everybody up. I love it. It's like my favorite show right now. It's a film. There's a series on TikTok where, at like these two best friends, it'll be like... The gays?

Not the gays. This is the one where it'll be this white kid will be like taking my black friend to do white people shit and then vice versa taking my white friend and black people shit. And the white dude is always taking his friend ghost hunting. I love that. Always. He's probably freaking out. Oh, my God.

Wait, I want to know that the gay ghost hunters. There's another series on YouTube where it's two gay guys and they're just walking. They're just ghost hunting. And they're like, bitch, stop. I feel it goes. It's so good. So good. I literally love them.

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And have you ever had a bad, a bad meeting with a go-shund? where something felt like really dangerous, something awry, something like you were betraying the ghost or that you shouldn't have been there? Well, no, but like this last one, so we were in like an abandoned office. It was like everyone just picked up and left. Like something crazy happened.

And it was abandoned. And we went in there. And I always felt like spooky ghosts or like, you know, not great people in their life. So, you know, when they die, they're just like negative energy. But this one felt evil. And as I was feeling evil, my medium friend saw like a creature crawling on the floor, which obviously we didn't see.

But then we went into the room and there were scratch marks on the wall. And I was like, oh no. Now like this is demon activity. This is evil. So after every ghost hunt, I get staged. And I'm the only one that gets staged because I, you know, I don't want to bring anything back to my kids and like my home. Yeah. So I want to like be clean, you know, before I go on the plane and get home.

And it's only me doing it. But after this round of where we went to, the whole crew was getting staged. They were like, oh, no, there's something crazy here. So that's when I knew that was like an evil place to go. An evil ghost. I don't do ghosts. It's like a demon, though. Yeah, yeah.

I don't like demons. I don't like the idea of... I like vampires. Okay. I like vampires too. Would you be a vampire if you could? Would I be a vampire if I could? No, I love garlic too much.

By the way, you couldn't be up. I don't think that's real. I think, no? No. It's like a myth. I think garlic, isn't it, isn't that how you kill a vampire? Sure. Steak through the heart.

On Transylvania, the cartoon. So this is fake. When he ate garlic, it just gave him gas. Okay. So you think it's sunlight. I think it's a myth. It's like, it's like dogs with grapes. No, that's real.

How do you know? Because. How do you fucking know that that's real? That's real, then. Don't propagate that. How do you know? Rocky had three grapes. My dog Rocky had three grapes.

I rushed him to the emergency room and his kidneys were shutting down. Okay, so it's real. And so it's garlic. Try it on your pup. No, it's real. Try it on your pup. No, I won't. Now that you're the first person that I know that's had a legitimate encounter with grapes.

His kidneys flushed out. Great. So no grapes for dogs. No. He heard it here first. No grapes are raisins. Okay, done. That's it.

Honestly, no grapes are anyone under 10. Why do we feed our children? Why? Tell me this. Why? my sweet Ruby, 11 months old, why is he eating quartered grapes? If I have to think... No, they're small.

He won't choke. He can chew them. No, but that's why you have to cut them? No, I mean, why is he eating grapes at all if I have a dog? There aren't a million other fruits. He's obviously going to drop him on the floor. We have to... Get the grape.

No, he can have a mango. No, it's true, though. Why do we serve grapes to children if there are dogs in the home? I stopped buying grapes after my dog almost died. And my husband hates me for it. I don't care. I'm not buying grapes. I'm with you.

Yeah. Stop buying grapes. You have a dog and young children. Your young children can eat other fruit. Yeah, if your dog eats that, you've got to go right to the vet. Great. Okay, good to know. You've heard it here first.

Yeah. It's real. These vets. $6,000 later. Yeah. Six? But I got $4,000 back from insurance, so. Oh, you have pet insurance.

This is a forward-thinking woman. This is smart. No, this is smart because, by the way, these. You don't have pet insurance? Honestly, no. No. And by the way, you have not. No idea how much money we spent trying to keep my last dog alive.

Idiot. You could have got almost 80% back. The chemotherapy wouldn't have been covered. Well, yeah, but you would get something. No, it was, it just, maybe. We spent like $30,000 trying to keep my last dog alive. That's your baby. He was seven.

He was, like, not shitting for, like, two days I brought him in. I thought he just, like, was constipated. He had a huge tumor blocking his rectum. And just, like, we tried the chemo. Didn't work. Legs. Terrible story. Died.

Awful. Had to put him down. I'm sorry. It was really bad. Oh, yeah. I think I remember that. What kind of dog do you have? I have a sheep poo.

That's cute. Yeah. He's so cute. Yeah. I love dogs. He's my fourth child. Can we hear really quick? Because not that this isn't depressing.

But. This is so sad. Snooky, will you tell us, I know you have these beautiful kids and you are a cheer mom. I want to hear about the drama of cheer moming. because I'm imagining there's plenty going on there. I mean, yeah, not with me, because I love all my cheer fellow moms. Yes.

But there is drama of like a child not being center or why did she get taken out of a stunt and now she's not flying and she's in the back. I mean, I had an instant with the gym owner that my daughter goes to. It was like probably her third year. And I knew it was going to happen. And we had a little like falling out.

And I was like, I'm ripping her from the program. And then the next day I'm like, oh my God, no, I want to keep her. So I sent her $300 worth of flowers, and I said, sorry, I was a cheer mom bitch. So that ever since then we're like really close. But no, it's a lot. It's like dance moms. Yeah. It's, yeah.

I just, I don't get involved in that drama because obviously we're there for the kids. And I have great cheer mom friends, but it does happen. Yeah. I do think for men, the new fitness goal is going to be a male cheerleader. Because those guys are fit as a fiddle. Oh, are you kidding? Yeah. They just throw girls in the air.

They're so strong. I think you could do it, Josh. You probably could do it. I feel like you're strong. He is strong. He's very strong. His arms. He's there.

He's there. Look at this. Wait. I don't know. Oh. Are you doing a split? Is that it? You do that right?

Let's go. That's a nice, Hyvie. That's a good Hyvie. You could be on the next bring it on. You could be the coach. You can be the coach. You can be the coach. You could be the coach.

You could be the coach because we're old now. That's true. I'm old. Yeah. Yeah. You would be the coach. So Snooky, Woody and Nuts is our final segment. It's our gripes with people, places and things, both big and tall, whatever, sticking in your craw.

We'll go first. So you have time to think about it. But it's any complaint you have with anything. Cool. So for me, my Whatty and Nuts moment, it's not of the week. It's in general. If you're a contractor, you're an electrician. You go into a home.

You install a light. switch. Okay. You accidentally make it so that when you put it down, the light turns on. And when you put it up, the light turns off. And you leave it, what are you nuts? Okay. You know when you go into a house and you can't figure out what's on and what's off? That's kind of like toilet paper. Like, why are you putting it the wrong way? Yeah, switch it. Yeah. Switch it. I switch it all the time. Except. I'm like your toilet paper's wrong. Oh, in other people's homes, you'll switch it. Yes. Okay. Well, that's just being a good friend. I'm like, I don't like that. No, you're being a good friend, even though I think some people prefer it the other way. But if you're an

electrician and you're installing it the wrong way? You didn't finish the job. What are you nuts? This is a terrible inconvenience. I'll never know if my lights on or off. What if it's, I thought it was broken? No, it's just off and the light bulb is half loose. Makes sense.

Wait, so for the toilet paper, is it under or over? Under. Oh, no? Mine's over. Really? You pull that. I pull over. Over.

Do you, Josh? You pull over? You wanted to come at you like this, not like that. we pull under. Wow. So am I doing it wrong? No, Snicky, you are right on. It sounds like you're both, you go under or over?

Over. It's easier to pull it over. Under, you're like pulling the whole roll. You are pulling the whole roll. Are you wiping between the legs, Ben? Oh my. Are you doing one of these? No, no, no, no, you go around.

You're not doing that, are you? Because that's, no, you go. That's a gris. No, no, you go around, but sometimes if it's messy enough, you go both ways. You have a wadian nuts? I'll go first.

So you can think. Yeah, let me think. Let me think. My Woody and Nuts moment of the week. Oh, man, I just, it just loved my brain. Hold on. I just had it.

And it's something to do with the one. Is you wiping both ways? Yeah. Is wiping both ways? That's crazy. Oh, here we go. Unrelated. And this is a bit of RPP rich,

rich people problems, but I'm just going to say this. If you have a remote control for your television that isn't the stock remote, get out of here. These big fancy remotes that are like, oh, it controls the curtains

and the surround sound. Give me a break, brother. What are you nuts? They never work. They never, ever, ever, ever work. And then I go, hey, can I throw an ESPN? Look how butcher I sounded.

Hey, can I throw on ESPN? I'm not watching ESPN. But I'm like, hey, really is TLC. Can I turn on my 600-pound life, there's a marathon. Or Jersey Shore, family vacation. Or Jersey Shore, family vacation.

Of course. But only after Dr. Nazard. Only on Thursdays. Okay, only on Thursdays. Shout out Jersey. It's cap to here. 8 o'clock. But I, yeah, and I just can't, I can't stand it.

And they look at you like, you're the idiot. Like, what, you can't figure it out? I'm like, no, bro. They're like, why did you pick up my Apple TV remote? Because you have an Apple TV? Like, that's why I picked it up. Why don't you then throw it away? They also love to lead out the other remotes, Josh.

They're still there. They're just vanity. Total vanity. Nuts. Yeah, remote flexing. What are you nuts? Anything on a... Yeah, I'm trying to think of mine.

Typically like an airplane, like somebody did something weird. They're talking on speakerphone like the one time. Something while driving. Who is I... Oh, she's also from New Jersey. Not your show, though. Teresa Judice was once on speakerphone. Love her.

Once on speakerphone next to me in first class. On speakerphone. You're lying. No, the entire flight. She was FaceTiming out loud. No AirPods. About what? I don't remember.

I put in AirPods. I was so annoyed. You didn't talk to her? Oh, no. Oh, no. I didn't realize that it was her until the end. It would have been like, ma'am? And then I was like, are you fucking kidding me?

And like, not to her shade, but she was in first class and her husband was in the back. Shout out, puns. I'm dead. I don't know. I was going to say, this is like very meatball of me, but like, any time you go to a different restaurant, they do different wine pours. And why are you doing a big wine pour here? but like over here, it's a lesser wine pour, but it's the same amount of wine or same amount that you're paying.

Yes. You're never getting the same amount of wine. There should be standardization across wine. I want the glass filled to the top. Yes. Every time. Or at least you want consistency. Yeah.

And every place is different. And different prices. What are you nuts? Inconsistent wine pours, Josh. Thank you. That's rude. Snicki, we love you. Yeah.

Thank you. Yes. We love you. Love you. I love you. I love you. Shore. Jersey's.

Yeah, Jersey's Shore. And obviously come to my store. I have Gina here. Yes. Yes. She met your wife. Okay. Because, yeah, she came to the store.

So Gina runs my store. Okay. So come to my stores. Yes. I have a store, the Snooky Shop in Madison, New Jersey. We have Seaside Heights, New Jersey. If you guys come down the shore. We have Nashville, Tennessee.

Me love Nashville. And then we have Huntington, New York. And what are we selling at this store? For those that don't know? So I like to say. sell things that I would wear. So it's basically you're shopping my closet. So stuff that I love. We have cozies. We have going out stuff. And then obviously we have the Snooky merch. Snooky merch. Snooky merch. Snooky merch. Shoe merch. Soon to have pickles. Soon to have pickles.

I'm really excited about that. So yeah, I have a lot of things going on. I'm excited. And your Canadian ghost hunting. Yes. What can't you do? What can't you do? The great Snookie. Folks, this episode's five stars. Otherwise, what are you nuts? Listen to us wherever you at your podcasts. Watch us on YouTube. But really watch us. on Spotify. I don't know if you know Snooki. Our videos on Spotify and let me tell you. Oh, I love that. This video through the roof. You're in the app. You're looking at it. You're like, oh my God, they look so clear. I don't even think that was a thing. I'm going to throw it in landscape. Oh, yeah. It's a thing and it's amazing. Very nice. Mondays and Thursdays folks.

Thursdays. Mondays and Jersdays. Mondays and Jersdays. We'll see you next time.