On Display with Melissa Gorga - REWIND: Where Have All The Brownies Gone? (w/ The Camp Counselors)

Episode Date: August 1, 2024

With the heartbreaking news about Red Lobster, Melissa decided that it'd be a great week to play a rewind episode starring two of the funniest foodies around. Melissa becomes an honorary member of Camp Shady Birch this week as she is joined by the guys from the Camp Counselors podcast .  The three chat about the one fruit that should not be consumed in public, what it’s like to be cursed by Julia Roberts, and why going to the movies is the most “main character” thing to do. And because they’re all fans of chain restaurants, they play a very fun game of MFK: Restaurants.  This week’s sponsors: Dime Beauty - Love Your Skin Again: DimeBeautyCo.com , promo code: MELISSA20 (20% off) GDefy Shoes - Ultimate Comfort and Relief: GDefy.com , promo code: Melissa ($20 off orders of $100 or more!) PlutoTV – Hit TV Shows and Movies, Free: Pluto.TV Progressive – “Name-Your-Price” Tool: Progressive.com

I'm a slut for a thin man. I love a thin man. Hey guys, welcome to another episode of On Display with Melissa Gorgia. How is everyone this week? I am traveling, lucky me. Joe and I and the fam are away in Italy, but I didn't want to leave you hanging. So I have such a fun replay episode for you today. You guys all went crazy when I had these two guys on.

They're so amazing. They were so much fun. It's the camp counselors. And you know, since I'm hearing all this stuff about red lobster and how it'll soon be extinct because we love the biscuits from red lobster the camp counselors and I and when you listen to this episode You'll hear all about it. You know, I just thought in memory of red lobster Here is the replay of my favorite duo the camp counselors Fresh fun one for you today is the replay of my favorite duo, the Camp Counselors.

I have like a really fresh, fun one for you today. I have a couple of guests on today that I've never had on before, so I always get excited to talk to new, fresh faces. These two are making waves in the podcast scene for their hilarious podcast called Camp Counselors. So today I have with me two always funny and sometimes sassy hosts of Camp Counselors. So today I have with me two always funny and sometimes sassy hosts of Camp Counselors, Jonathan and Zachariah. What's up, guys? Hello. Thank you so much for having us.

What a great intro. I love that. I am really good. I just want to say I'm really good at intros. I love to hype everyone up and say true facts And I think intros are so important It kind of like sets the tone for the podcast like if you're like, hey if I came on your podcast You know, like yeah, I got you know, Melissa from the housewives is here. What's up, Melissa? I'd be like, oh Can't you say like the beautiful sexy high? Amazing

Amazing. No, just kidding. Of course. Of course. Beautiful. Stunning. You know, I'm just saying, I think it's all about an intro. But hi, I'm so excited for my listeners to like listen to you guys today. How are you guys? Doing good. Really excited about this. Been looking forward to it. You are an icon in the Bravo,

Liberty, like universe and beyond that. So it's amazing. We've got to tell a lot of people we're going to be on this and everyone's like, what? So it's a cool milestone for us. So thank you for having us. Of course, I'm so excited to have you guys you want to hear something funny I wrote I had to write Zachariah after your name I had in quotes, when I'm reading Mariah, so that way I say your name correctly because I didn't want to butcher it. So I literally told my producer to put Mariah after it so I don't fuck it up. Does

that make sense? No, yeah, it completely makes sense. It's funny, either people have never seen it before or like I grew up like super religious. So it's like a it's a name from the New Testament. So sometimes I'll meet like an old lady at the grocery store and she'll be very biblical. And then I'm like, Yeah, totally. She's like, wait, okay. Or somebody told him the other day that has good bones. I was like, I'm gonna start telling people their names have good bones because you were glowing for the rest of the day.

Yeah, that was a great you know, we were picking up sushi and she was like, Oh, love that name. Good bones. I walked away feeling like a little taller. Yeah, you're like, Damn, I'm this shit. You know what? It gives you like a little chest muscles because it is true. It does have good bones. I don't know that that's the way I would have referenced it, but it's different. It sounds like expensive or something. It's like just... Oh, thank you. It has an expensive flair. So I like it.

I love that. All right. Well, listen, I want my listeners to get to know you guys a little bit We're gonna talk about the podcast. You got to tell me how this started Can first of all, I want to know where the name came from because I do love that name camp counselors And you guys are actually a couple correct? Mm-hmm. Correct. Yes. Okay, give me give me a lowdown on you, too I need to hear this. Yeah, of course. So 2020, I got an Instagram notification. And this is before we both did content because we both do like tick tock and Instagram professionally, we did the

podcast. It's like just like constant video, like all day long in our house. But in 2020, I got a notification on my phone that this boy was liking all my pictures. And I was I was like, Oh, he's cute. But like, I don't like like, I'm just a very confrontational person. So the first thing I said was I went to his DMS. I was like, you're gonna like my photos, but not message me like what's up with that. And he said that he found me on his explore page on Instagram. Do you ever use your explore page?

I don't but Joe Gorga does because there's always hot girls and bikinis all over his freaking explore If you guys think I'm playing I'm not I get so frustrated every time I grab his phone for any reason and go near Instagram because I'm like I literally throw it I'm like Hello, like what are you doing? He's like no you guys ready to hear this real quickly to side curve me? You know what, I thought it kind of looked like it could have been you in one of your photo shoots. So I like hit it and then what happens if you hit it,

then it keeps bringing up more girls in bikinis. I'm like, you are such a weak, that is the poorest excuse. You just, you look at girls and it's like soft porn on Instagram because now they bend over until they get kicked off. They do all this shit. And he's just like sitting on the couch watching it all and it drives me insane. I go nuts. I can't stand it. It's like it's not my fault. It's just the algorithm is

feeding me. So so you don't but he does. Well, that's how it is. I think it's it's 5050. Like we're on the same page. Like I don't look at that. You and Joe were on the same page. You're looking at what's your page? A bunch of hot men and that was me. So no, some people really do go on that explore page and they're into it. I want to see what's going on. I don't think I've gone on it like ever. I don't think I ever go on the explore page. think I've gone on it like ever. I don't think I ever go on the explore page. It's overstimulating for me. And sometimes I need to be overstimulated. So like, that's why I go I get like thrown 10,000 different things at the same time. So I just scroll on there

when I'm bored. And I came across his, his picture. And I was like, Okay, he's cute. I did what Joe would do. And I double tapped like, can you blame me? But at the time, I was living in Philly, and he was living in Massachusetts and it said like at the top the geotag said he was from Massachusetts. I was like, well, I'm never gonna end up in Massachusetts. So I'm just gonna double tap and be on my way. And then I got a confrontational DM and he's like, Are you literally gonna double tab and not say anything

to me? And I was like, Okay, hello. And then like, yeah, like later, I'm from a small town, right? I'm from New Bedford, Massachusetts. So it's like the gay community there is small. Once you once you know everybody, you know everybody. So I was like, no longer interested in like, dating in that area. I was really just like working on myself doing content. And I thought it was fun to flirt with a guy from Philly. And that over the course of six months ended up doing like long distance drives. And then we started dating for two years, just kind of going back and forth every couple weekends, which worked for me because I

was in the beginning of like launching all the stuff that I'm doing now and really growing that and I've always thought that men are really distracting. Like, if they're nearby, I'm busy with that. So it's like I needed someone that was at arm's length while I kind of built this. And I think you kind of felt the same way we were working ourselves. But then we as we got more serious, we're like, well, we want to continue our career

in content and podcasting. So we should move kind of halfway to New York because kind of like, it's a great city, right? It's kind of central to where we both are from. And we've been here for almost two years living together, but we're going on four years dating. So it's been fun. We do the same stuff.

So fun. I love it. stuff. So it's like. So fun, I love it. What part of New York do you guys live in? We're in Brooklyn. Ah, Brooklyn boys. Brooklyn has all the great restaurants lately. Everything's in Brooklyn. All the hot spots are in Brooklyn.

I love Brooklyn. Yeah, Brooklyn is really, I think it's just so different than probably what it was like 20 years ago, but that's just gonna be the next step. New York continues to grow out as like every city really does. But it's really fun here. It's so different from the suburbs. I miss driving every

single day. I love a drive through I love a strip mall. I love a Marshall's to park my car and do my errands. So that's like the one part that I like miss so much of not living back home. But like, it's fun here. The subway's crazy. Everything is such a commitment to go anywhere. It's like, oh, I have to go to the grocery store. I want to get a case of Gatorade. Well, you're going to put that on your shoulder, break your back six blocks? And then I used to think, oh, people with those little push carts, all those old ladies with the little carriages.

Right. You think of those little silver push carts. That's what my brain, I was like, I would totally get one if I lived there. I don't even care. I would get one. A hundred percent. And all the young people here, everyone has them here because it's not like an old lady thing to have here. It's like, no, that makes complete sense. Get your little trolley carriage and push it down the road.

But yeah, you can get like a Bentley one or something. There's got to be like the high end pusher. You're like a stroller. Like the girl, the ladies need the high end strollers. Like you also need the high end collect your groceries, right? Like there's got to be some, I'm going to invent that for all New Yorkers. It's going to be like the Bentley of like carts for all of the New Yorkers and everyone's going to want the Melissa Gorga polar cart. We'll take one if you want to test it out on that.

We'll give you great feedback. I will totally send one your way. That's an awesome. Joe's always looking for business ideas. You just gave me a great one. I think that's awesome. Because you have to see the moms in this city, even the moms here, it's like the stroller is a big deal.

There's a high, you got to get the name brand of the specific cool stroller that's happening or whatever it is. You know? I know. I know. But wait, I can also totally relate with you with wanting to run to the strip mall and marshals and park your car, go in and out of your car, go through the drive-through. If I had to leave New Jersey and live there, that would hurt me the most.

It's truly my favorite pastime is pulling up to a Target and getting out and going in and coming back to my car and then sitting in there for a moment and then going to get my Starbucks and sitting at the drive-through with my... It's like a whole day of happiness, especially when it's sunny outside. So I could totally hear that. Yeah, good music and stuff. And then it's like, I don't know, I've always think that I have good mental clarity in a car because all you can really do is just

drive and process what you're thinking about. And that's the one thing I've missed about living here. But now that we've been here for almost two years, I've kind of settled into life here, but we're going to bring it up because we've been trying to figure out what to bring us up. So Saturday, it was raining. Were you in New Jersey on Saturday? It was raining is an understatement. It was coming down. Like it was crazy. So we're like let's get out of the city. Let's have a day and have some fun. I was like where should we go? So we took a little drive and we popped into Envy. No! Because we knew we were gonna be on the show. Are you kidding me? You guys have Envy hats?

I love this so much right now. Oh my God. We had to get the chunker. It was pouring rain on Saturday and you came out to Ridgewood, New Jersey? And we committed. Yes, we did. Oh my God, I love you guys so much.

Thank you, that's so cute. We like parked in that like little lot like that's across the street. We did a little parking, but it was raining. And we knew that we were gonna get the hats. We really like found them online. So I ran in to be like a bad-ass and I'm beelining for the hats.

But I went to the wrong section, went towards like the back and the other hats were in the front. And one of the girls working, she was like, oh, she's like, it seems like you know exactly what you're looking for. And I was like, I need to calm down. Like, why am I running through Envy at 100 miles an hour?

It's ripping wet all over her nice floor. This is hysterical. This is so funny. And you know what's so funny? We were training. We had, like, there was probably, what, three girls in there? Or two, three, right? There was three.

One was training, because we taught her how to two, three, right? There was three. One was training because we taught her how to use the iPad because it was a mobile transaction. They didn't have the tap so she was good. No, she was literally learning that day. So I was in contact with them all day. I'm like, how is this girl? How's it going? What's going on?

They're like, she's learning. She's doing it. So you guys got to meet someone who was her first day. That's so funny. That's hysterical. Well, it was great vibes in there. It's a gorgeous store. Thank you. You know what? It's very like a happy place, especially like just we usually they usually have the music on

it's just it's a happy place. Everyone's in their shop and having fun. But you guys came in on a super super rainy day and I appreciate you. Thank you. That is so cute. I feel like that whole area is so nice. If it wasn't raining, I would have like popped into some other places because there's like a lot of that whole area. I feel like that whole area is so nice. If it wasn't raining, I would have popped into some other places because there's a lot of that whole area. There's just restaurants and stores everywhere. It's a poppet area.

Yeah. You know what? I'm so upset you came on a rainy day. All the doors would have been open to the bar next door. You could sit outside. There's great coffee places. Everybody's walking around because there's the train station right there So you can come right in from New York jump off and like it's just a very crazy busy town

Which is why I love it there So you're gonna have to come back and let me know when you're coming back the next time so you can like go for a coffee Or lunch or something, but thank you for the support. You guys are so cute. That's probably one of the cutest things ever I am actually in and if you guys have to send me a photo of you both wearing this hat with like the podcast mics, please do, I need to post this. This is too cute. I love it.

Thank you. And I had great quality hats too, for the record, on the record right now. Love it. Well, let me tell you why. Joe Gorga is a huge hat guy. He is a hat man. He wears a hat.

He loves a hat. He did not like, I open the store now eight years ago, and I'm about to open my second store on March 23rd on Long Island, which I am so excited about. So you guys can come Huntington, Long Island. I don't know how far you are from there, but. So anyway, he did not like my first round of hats. He's like, they fit weird. They're a little like, they're not good. They don't fit my head good. These are you need to get different. I changed the hats five times till Joe Gorgas said like, this is a hat. So you can thank Joe that you like those because he was the one who chose those. They fit good, right?

Yeah. Yeah. So just tell him a little gay and Brooklyn is loving the hat choices. Oh my god. He is going to be so excited. That is so cute. All right, well, back to you guys. Tell me how you came up with camp counselors. We moved to New York, a big part of us living together. We're like, hey, we independently make our own content. I do a lot of skits and characters. Jonathan does a lot of observational comedy,

but we wanted to kind of bring our different energies together. I'm much more loud and boisterous. Jonathan is very like, he's like so smart and so funny and it's a lot more like cerebral. So we're like, oh, let's do a podcast together. But how are we going to theme it? And how are we going to like make it have some sort of cohesion for us? So we were trying to come up with some general like jokey theme and camp counselors came

up. We both love like the parent trap growing up and that kind of like silly vibe. So we were like, hey, we never were camp counselors, but I think there's something about our qualities that has camp counselor energy. Like we'd be really good on a dock with a whistle and we know how to like whip the kids in line, but also sit down and make friendship bracelets. Like that's kind of our energy. Yes. So we're like, let's make this like fictional camp with all

these employees and all these little like areas that kind of coincide with like funny news, what we're loving what we're hating these segments that we do every week with the idea of this like fictional camp. So it's been fun. Yeah, we somehow just like created a weird little universe. Like you said, like with fake people who work there and people comment and like ask about those people. It's just I don't know. It's weird. It's interesting. It's really cool, though. Yeah, like a fictional universe that

everybody's buying into. I love it. I saw a couple clips. And I'm like, these two are funny. Like you guys are great. You guys are like really, really funny. Yeah, it's been cool because like long form to because everything we do usually is like 30 seconds, 60 seconds. But like, you know, you're you're on the podcast, like life, it's like sitting down and having in depth conversations as a it's an interesting way because you get more out of it because I think you like we'll start a conversation as one thing and then it develops completely different and that ends up being the best part of the show

So you never know what you're gonna get into which I think is really fun about it always I always say that like I always Go off on a tangent on something that I had zero planned for that day And I'm like I didn't even want to talk about this like I went on for 20 minutes about whatever, and it's always the best convo, and I completely agree with you. That's just how this goes. And you guys have great banter back and forth with each other. Does it ever cause relationship problems when you get off the podcast? Do you ever get annoyed or have an argument over it?

No. I think at the beginning, it was weird to get into it, But now we're like 78 episodes in and we've found our footing and kind of like shelf it and sometimes we'll have our little you know, bickers and fights but the the girls love it like everybody who's listening to like other dads are fighting. Dads are fighting. Sometimes we'll just like, We do, we do fight though, because it's like we do

everything together, which I love and I wouldn't change it for the world because it kind of is like, that's where our lives have taken us. And we're like, so gung ho about continuing on this journey on like line and stuff. But like, so funny, we were out to eat that same day that we went to your store, we ended up eating in Williamsburg at this restaurant. And I wanted to go out because I was feeling silly. And I like having espresso at five. So I'm like, let's keep going out. But it was so bad that I was pouring rain. So I'm convincing him to go out. I'm trying to convince our other friend to meet us. And

we were bickering at the table. And I'm being a bitch about it. Because I'm like, listen, it's Saturday night. Let's just go out whatever. We have a busy week. Let's enjoy it because we're already out. And then I get a DM on Instagram that night being like, Hey, saw you and john eating at dinner didn't want to interrupt. I'm like, really fighting at the table. gosh! That is so funny. Could you imagine how much that happens to Joe and I? You have no idea. And though people always act like they have no... Not always, but you definitely get some that are literally sitting right next to you and do not say a word. And so you literally

think like, oh, they probably they're not one of the ones who watch this show, right? And then they literally will DM me three seconds after, oh my god, we were just sitting next to you. I'm like, Jesus Christ, like, you looked like you could give a shit less that I was sitting there. The other day, I took this new class at the gym. She's like, so I worked out behind you the whole time. I didn't want to say I was like, oh, like, it's always like, it's so random and weird how they don't say anything. And the second I walk out there, like we were sitting right next to you. And we were we heard you saying and I'm like, Oh, my god, like it never fails.

Here's the audio recording of what you were saying. We captured that just never know who's listening. No, I always warned Joe about that because he's not as careful. So I'm always like, Joe, everyone knows you. No matter what, even if they're not like, they don't watch the show, they still know you. You're very like a noticeable guy. I'm like, just be careful because everybody's listening.

Your indoor voice isn't that quiet, Joe. Yes, especially in small New York City restaurants where they're like, everybody's right on top of you. I'm always like, inside voice, doll, inside voice. Are you in pain after walking, running, or even just standing? It's not your feet, it's your shoes. This summer, switch to Geedify shoes with VersoShock technology, which aligns your body provides superior shock absorption and

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and proud. She is one of my favorites because I'm obsessed with that movie. So she's one of my favorites because you know, you just, I need to hear this story. I have to hear this. Well, you take it away because you got to be for her. Okay. And here it goes. And it starts. Wait, you guys feel like she has like a hex on you or something. Well, on me personally, he's in the clear. I forget what we were talking about like a hex on you or something. Well, on me personally, he's in the clear. I forget what we were talking about like a year ago.

We were talking about some movie that she was in. And I don't know, I just wasn't really interested. And I said it just like that. Like, I don't not think she's talented. I just like, I don't know, I just like didn't have an affinity for her. I didn't love her. And he took that and he ran with that.

And he put that onto the ether. He's like, tell everybody how you hate Julia Roberts. Well, if you don't love and respect Julia Roberts for the contribution she's made to cinema, film, joy and love, that I can only read that as hate because everything she's ever touched has been a masterpiece. And I don't know how you can be so blasé about Julia Roberts. And we believe she put a hex on him. And this is all like a masterpiece. And I don't know how you can be so blase about Julia Roberts.

And we believe she put a hex on him. And this is all like a lie. Like all we do on the podcast is just lie and talk shit about things that aren't even true. Because Emma Roberts, her niece follows me on Instagram and sometimes she'll like my videos. So I believe that she says her, Emma Roberts has liked a video, then listened to the podcast and found out that Jonathan isn't like his aunt, her aunt. And in turn, now she's put a hex on him. None of this is true, we've got nothing to back it up. But also, there's nothing saying that it's not true either. So it's 50-50.

Oh my God, this is so, first of all, Emma Roberts follows you, that's hysterical. That's awesome. I know, so crazy. So they're listeners, they might be listening. She might have heard what you said. Exactly. Probably not, but maybe.

Yeah, I had a string of bad luck for a little bit and that's all I could put it to because I like to think I have good karma. I'm a good freaking person. But we did go to Mystic Pizza. I don't know if you've ever seen Mystic Pizza, one of her like first movies. Back in the day, I feel like I can't remember it, but there's like a spot associated, right? Yeah, where they actually filmed it. We actually we went there. I got my t shirt. And I changed my mind about Julia, but he just the story will keep going. That's a cute place. If you're going to continue, if you're going to continue the envy like takeover, like Mystic Connecticut. It's really cute coastal town right off of 95. They had the pizza place, but it's like, you get down there and there's like, there's an ice cream place on the edge of the bridge and I'm like literally

welling up in tears. I'm like why is this place so picture perfect right now? And I'm like stop crying it's Lydia town but it's cute there. I can get what I mean in movies. Really? Is it half like is it like that? Is it like Ridgewood where there's a bunch of little like stores and really? Oh that's cute. Yeah. Very much. The only thing is the parking is a little like difficult over there. I know. What are you going to do about it? Yeah, all those counts. But that was... We had always driven past it when we were dating long distance.

I would always be like, there's Mystic, Mystic Pizza, because I'd seen the movie. And one day we were like, let's just stop. Hello, hello. We've passed it a million times. Let's just go. So we didn't. Hey, they got a great slice there. Well, listen, there you go.

At least you like... I have to be honest I don't think I've ever met anyone who's ever said anything negative about Julia Roberts in my life. Like I'm like, what? I know I mean like even slightly not like not that you're saying negative, but she doesn't appeal to or whatever it is I'm just like, huh? I've never heard And this is what's gonna happen. I'm gonna cross paths with her one day and somebody's gonna dig up this audio and it's gonna haunt me forever continuing the haunts. Okay, okay. So we're not okay. So we're on a good path now and we're seeing what gorgeous

smile she has and we're remembering the gorgeous orange-ish hair and now we're in. Yes. I love it. Yeah. Sometimes I'm just really late to the game. Like I didn't watch Twilight till this past year. I'm just late to the game and now I'm on the train. Look at you there.

We'll give you a Robert's train. Okay. Well, I like it. You're there now. Mystic pizza boy. That's good. Wait, I also hear that you guys do like the Camper Crush of the Week. This is like a segment you do on the podcast, right?

Yes. Yes. It's called Camper Crush of the Week where you talk about the things that you're loving this week. So I need to know what are some of the camper crushes from the past couple days? Give me something. I want to be involved in this. So right after we left your store, I was like, okay, like, we're it's only it was only like two o'clock. And we were already in New Jersey. And to know Jonathan, I also know that we love like, we love a theme park, we love a chain restaurant, we love just like, just real simple bullshit and just ridiculousness.

So we were like, let's go to the American dream mall. I've never been. And it's like, wait, I'm sure you've been correct. Yes, it is. It is what everyone does over here, minus me on a rainy day, like it was and it was we went on a really bad day. It was insane. Pack. Wait, it is on be leaveable that all of that is in a mall, the mountain. It's the biggest thing you've ever seen in the there is a water park There is a you Nate. I don't know what it doesn't have. I mean literally restaurant Saks Fifth Avenue

water parks movie theaters Amusement park. Yeah, it's it's got everything. They have an entire Angry Birds themed mini golf place I just like appeared upon I was like like, wait, where was this? There's a koi fish in the fountain. Yeah. It's just, it was a sight for the senses. The money they spent on that place baffles me all the time. Like because Joe and I always are like looking at real estate.

When we go there, we're like, how much do you think this costs? Like it is the American dream mall guys, if you ever get a chance to come to New Jersey. And it's right by Giant Stadium, right? Isn't it not amazing? It's pretty amazing. I'm telling my listeners now. I know you guys went, but I feel like, what did you actually do when you got there? We really just perused. Well, we fought for parking for 45 minutes, absolutely insane. And then we have a couple things that

we're doing this week. So we got some clothing, but a big part of the trip was just to see, we walked through the entire amusement park. We watched people ice skate, watched a lot of kids fall. There was one guy that was giving Olympic status and he was doing pirouettes and figure eights. And I'm like in the middle of a crowded ice skating ring, just darting in between people. I got an espresso. middle of a crowded ice skating rink. It's like darting in between people. I got an espresso. I got a cocktail. I was gonna say, did you get a cocktail or something?

Did you get a cocktail? No, we didn't. No, we got a cocktail later that night and then fought at the restaurant. That's what we did. That's when it happened. Got it. Saturday was so fun though.

We had a great time. Saturday was fun, yeah. Definitely be talking about that on podcast. Oh my God, that sounds like fun. Okay, I like that you like, you hung out in Jersey for a second. That's always good. Yeah, we had a delicious day. We wanted to go on Hoboken, but I didn't know where to go. And it's kind of like, it's just like mini New York City where if you don't know where to park or where you're going, and it was such bad weather. But I wanted to, because

I have a lot of friends that I've met in New York that all live in Hoboken. So I want to get out there too. Yeah. So that I would be honest with you, the rainy day would have killed Hoboken for you as well. I had plans all night Saturday night. We had eight o'clock dinner plans at like a really great new like speakeasy spot. And it was like five o'clock and I was looking out the window and I was looking at Joe and we had two other couples going and I was like, I don't think that I'm going to get dressed and put makeup on. I just don't think it's gonna happen because I'm very, I function with the weather.

And I'm like, I just don't feel like it. So I literally canceled my plans at 6.30 that night for my eight o'clock dinner. I felt terrible, but I was like, I'm not getting dressed and going out in this. It was like, it went till like 1 a.m. and it was like a wind tunnel here. It was like insanity.

We walked a mile, because I didn't want to move the car in Williamsburg to the bar, so we walked. My umbrella did that thing where it flips like outward. Like it breaks. And I'm just, we were soaked in the bar. We were literally soaked in the bar, but I was already out and that was the thing. You hadn't left. Because once you're out, you can kind of like keep the vibes going a little bit.

So I was determined to get a margarita that night. You were having yourself a saturday. You were like i'm having this day It's happening. We're having it Um, okay. Well, I have a couple things that i'm crushing on that I want to see if you guys agree with my crush Uh, mine happens to be a man Let's see if you have the same crush. I have to go by his like character so I don't feel guilty. So I have a major crush on Dr. McDreamy who we all know is Patrick Dempsey. He's also the hottest man alive right now on People Magazine this year. So I think I choose well because he's not, you know, this is not a new crush. This is a crush for like the last 15 year crush type thing.

So that's my crush. And I felt like I needed to share that with you along with my food crush. Oh, let's hear them both. Let's hear them. I'm crushing on pomegranates. Do you guys eat these? I love pomegranates. I struggle to do buy the seeds or do you buy like

the actual pomegranate and then work for it? No. Yes. I work my ass off. What a reward. I put the fucking bib on because they stain like crazy. They stain. Even your skin. Oh, they're great for your skin too though. Do you know this? It's all antioxidants. So, oh my god, it's the most amazing thing you can do for your skin is eat a pomegranate. So, my mother used to call them Chinese apples. I don't know why. I don't know if that's what they're... I don't know if that was the name back in the day. She'd be like, do you want a Chinese apple? And then I would sit there for hours with a towel on my lap because God knows they splatter all over you and they stain everything. And recently, I have refound them because I read something on Instagram

that like literally a game changer for like, antioxidants and this and that in your skin. And I was like, I love them. And they take up a great amount of time. So I won't eat other shit. So I am crushing on pomegranates. I feel like you guys should try it. I love that. And you're also like you're getting a workout. And when I'm like beating it with a spoon, just trying to get like the smallest amount of seeds out but then you have yourself a little

collection and yeah, that's a great crush. And then you get that one that you peel off the skin and then there's a nice little cluster and then you take a bite and it squirts in your face but you get all that juice and you're like, this is amazing and you don't want anyone to look at you because your mouth is red and you're like a hot mess doing it. I mean- It's a private snack. That is definitely like, yeah, you don't want to sit out in public and do that because you just have to fully immerse yourself in the pomegranate of it all. Yeah. Yes. You know, it's Girl Scout cookie time right now too. It's like they're being delivered

everywhere. That is like a phenomenon here in New Jersey. So I need to know from you guys, like what are your favorite Girl Scout cookies? Do you have like a favorite that you love? Of course. They discontinued mine. I really, well, it's pretty generic. But when I was younger, do you remember the ones that had the zoo animals on it? It was the square and they had like animals and it was chocolate on the back. It had like a zebra on it, didn't it? Yeah. Yeah. They had like all the zoo animals. I liked those but I like the um, the coconut

ones. What are those? Samoas? Are those Samoas? Samoas. Yes. Jason Samoas. Yeah, I'm a slut for a Thin Man. I love a Thin Man. And that one really gets its like, it gets its coins because like, there's always a Thin Man collab happening like everywhere you go. It's like, oh, they have a Thin Man milkshake here or something. Like I feel like

I get my fix. But I haven't seen where the Girl Scouts where have they been, you know, I know, and they're little either the brownies or whatever they you know, in the little brown outfit with the little hat and they get all their patches. Those are extinct. I don't know. I don't see them anymore. They definitely don't knock on your doors anymore. Like no, they post up outside of the grocery store. Yeah. And that's smart. That's we were

just at shop and shop in Queens. That's we were just at Stop and Shop in Queens. That's where we get our groceries. Not that you even ask. They had a bunch of Cub Scouts doing a food drive. And they gave us a paper with what they were looking for, which was so smart, because then it's like, oh, I can just get what you need while I'm in there and then do the food donation. So they're really smart about it. Because it's like you, you, you ask people to bring you stuff, and they're not gonna But if they're out the store ready, yeah

I'll buy this stovetop stuffing and throw it in the bin, you know what I mean? So but you know what the Girl Scouts weren't there. So I didn't buy any cookies Unfortunately. All right. Well, that's another thing I'm always crushing on and the I had to talk to you guys about this because I know you love fast food Not just fast food chain restaurants, right? I do I need to tell you my favorites and I wanna know if you guys agree with me or not on them. Let's hear it.

And these are not like, I didn't make this up for the podcast, like, oh, let me think what could, these are legit, my real time. And I go to them. Well, I go to one of them because I feel like I get heat when I go to the other one. But like I really love the Outback Steakhouse and I go to it.

I love it there. I love the tangy tomato dressing on my salad. They give you brown bread to start with amazing butter. You are missing out on the like the blooming onion. You're missing out if you don't go to the Outback. That's all I'm going to say about that. Wait, so I've never actually been, but Zach made a video about a blooming onion and they like DMed him and were like, do you want to come to like the test kitchen and make one

with us? So I got flown to Orlando to meet like the executive chef of Outback Steakhouse. No, you did not. I know, because I do. I used to do it a lot more, but not as much anymore because I don't live in Mass anymore, but I used to drive to like savers and thrift stores and find old kitchen gadgets to make videos. So I found this one from the 90s called like the Great American Steakhouse Fried Onion Maker, which was essentially just a Bloomin' Onion, which is the best appetizer there in

my opinion. And I made it and it went totally viral. So Alback flew me out to go make one with them. So I got to use like their real onion cutter and do the whole thing. I love it. I'm so jealous. Outback is so incredible. And what a brave, what a brave answer because no one's talking about Outback and we need to collectively as a team right now, really bring them to the forefront because I'm not hearing enough outback applause And as as your camper crush of the week, I really I'm supporting that completely. Thank you. Thank you. It's a friggin great restaurant I mean for real guys. I have a nice little glass of wine. I get a little petite fillet

I'm very happy at the outback. I swear and my kids if I'm like, well, let's go grab They're like, let's go to the outback and Joe just looks at me. I'm like, I'm down with the Outback if you want. I didn't say it. They did. Sorry. Do it for the kids. And then the other one I love, which I don't actually go to anymore, but I really do love red lobster. Like I love red lobster. I do. I like the Caesar salad. I like the biscuits. And I like the endless crab legs. Like I think the I think their seafood is fresh because they get such a huge turnover. There's not enough time for their seafood to sit

around. And that's just my thought on that. So those are my favorites. They like recently wasn't there something about their endless shrimp? They were like, oh, the endless shrimp. Yeah, it's got to end. We do like weird news articles like on on our podcast. So it's never like anything that people need to know. But we reported that Red Lobster lost like $6 million in their fourth quarter earnings because of endless shrimp, because they didn't anticipate people to go there and really eat that much shrimp.

Like they lost so much money from it because people were going there and just eating so much shrimp. Like they lost so much money from it because people were going there and just eating so much shrimp. I can imagine. Because shrimp is just so easy. You can eat a hundred of them if you really wanted to. And if you thought you were getting your money's worth. 100%. 100%. That's why you got to go hungry and you got to get your money's worth. That's what we will always do. Yeah. The biscuits are like insane there. The Cheddar Bay biscuits. Come on, like I would go I just I want to I want to have a biscuit and a club soda with lemon. Like that's what I want to do. I would enjoy that so deeply. Like if I can, I

can, I just don't but I would like to go to Red Lobster. I really would. I would die to see a picture of you like just sitting at a Red Lobster. Like really would. I would die to see a picture of you like just sitting at a red lobster. That would be like the most insane post ever. I would be like obsessed with it. Like there she goes. She said she loves the biscuits. And I even bought the biscuit like mix and started to try to make them at home. They're decent if you follow it. It's not exactly the same, but it gives you a little satisfaction, which is good if you love the biscuits. Unbelievable. Oh my God. On display with Melissa Gorgia is brought to you by Progressive Insurance.

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29 million drivers who trust Progressive. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates. National average 12-month savings of $698 by new customers surveyed who have saved with progressive between June 2021 and May 2022. Potential savings will vary. Discounts not available in all states and situations. Wait, what are your two favorite chains? Each of you. I forget. Huge on the Cheesecake Factory. It's just, oh my God, it's so expansive there, right? The menu is like a freaking Bible. The menu is so big and I love it there. The apps are so good. The little avocado egg rolls and all this, but it's like a Bible.

Yeah, you need like an audio book. Yeah. It's 18 pages. But I will say, I'm hating this new trend, and this might be controversial. I think it's homophobic. I don't love when a menu is telling me the calorie on it. I know I'm here. I know I'm here. I'm getting the chicken Madeira, and I'm loving it. You just told me it's 2,400 calories.

I don't need to know that. Enough. Delete that. I don't need to know that right now. And then I'm second guessing it. And then they have this skinnylicious menu there. Oh,'t need to know that right now. And then and then I'm second guessing it and then they have this tinny licious menu. Oh, I'm gonna peruse it. I'm not gonna order from it. But I'll take a look.

It's so true. I wonder why they do. Why are you telling me my calories? I really don't want to see them. That is 100% true. Kind of like kills it a little bit for us. 100% What's your What's your favorite? Oh, um, I love margaritaville. I'm going big. I love it can't be the one in Times Square is this is like any anybody from New York listening to this is already like unsubscribing from our podcast. I'm just gonna go with it. But at five o'clock, it is magic. Oh, it's insane. It's like Christmas every day at five o'clock.

Everybody stops and claps and the lights go off and they're playing Jimmy Buffet, May He Rest In Peace. We have to party for him. We do. We have to do it for him. We have to for Jim. The food there, I don't know if I've ever left a Margaritaville and been like, that was good, but I'm always making memories.

Always a memory there. That's what's important. It's all about the experience and that five o'clock whistle like that. Exactly. And then he goes to the merch after and he's like buying hats. I'm like, we don't need a hat every time we visit a Margaritaville. I have like three hats for Margaritaville. It's insane.

I need one that lights up. Oh my God. I love you guys. You guys are so funny. This is hysterical. Okay. Well, then to end this, I need to ask you this, which I think, you know, this is going to be super easy for you guys. Which do you marry? Which do you fuck? And which do you kill? Okay. Okay. We got chilies. We got Applebee's and we got the Cheesecake Factory. Okay, can I go first?

Yes, please. Okay, I'm going to go, my God, I'm killing Applebee's. They've never done me right. They've only done me dirty. I'm going to fuck chilies because chilies is spicy, they're hot, and they know how to perform there with them sizzling fajitas. It's something quick, something dirty, and I know I'm getting down with it. And I'm going to marry my lifelong partner of Cheesecake Factory, because they've already

committed to her or him. And I just I we get each other and we see each other eye to eye. So those are my that's my instant go. And there's always a lot of options there for you. Yes, it's never ending, isn't it? Well, now I'm annoyed because that was literally my answer. So I'm not gonna be like same. But yeah, we could have like a threeple with with the Cheesecake Factory. Oh yeah, we're looking for a third Cheesecake Factory medicine.

But yeah, literally mine would be the same. We never shy away from a Chili's though. We like a Chili's too. And I do love to order the sizzling fajitas because I don't get enough attention. So I like everyone in the restaurant to look at me. Which is exactly what happens when those peppers and onions come by sizzling hot. It's like everyone's like, oh, like it's just a thing. Right? And it's in everybody's senses. You're hearing it, you're seeing it, you're smelling it. It's like, it's not for shy

people. It's it's not it's for the people who want the attention. They want you to clap when it's their birthday. They want the song. They want. They need it all. They need it all. Can we ask you one? Yes.

I would love that. OK. Let's do Outback Steakhouse, Red Lobster, and Fridays. Oh, do you have Fridays there? Fridays. Oh my god. Huh. Well, I think, oh, this is so hard.

I really want to fuck Fridays because it's Fridays. You know what I mean? It's just like it's Fridays. They do that Jack Daniel's specialty sauce and he's just probably so hot and he tastes like you want to lick the Jack Daniel's sauce, right? It's like, hmm. My God. It's like welcome to Fridays and you get the chicken with the Jack Daniel's sauce on top

for sure. Oh yeah. So now, I mean, I'm definitely going to have to marry the outback. It's like, I feel like I am Australian when I'm there. I've always wanted to try an Australian in marriage. I hear they're great partners. So we're gonna have to go with that. And I hate to kill red lobster, but you know what? I go in there and I see live lobsters chained up with rubber bands around their arms. So I'm gonna have to kill red lobster. Okay, we have to kill them and that's it.

This is good. Do we like it? No, that's great. We approve. It is so graphic when you walk in there. It's like, okay, like I don't need to see them on display. Like keep that in the back. I'm on display with Melissa Gorga.

They're like on display, on display. Yeah, I had to sing it for you to give you a little too. Wait, did you guys? Hold on. I can't let you go without asking this. I need to know. Do you guys watch the Oscars last night? Do we have any favorite dressed? I want to hear your opinion on who was best dressed. I only saw it on Instagram, but there's this guy on TikTok, his name is Reese. And he does a lot of like movie content. And he's not a full blown like actor or anything. He's more like a personality. But he dresses so impeccable. And I have to mention someone for like my universe of the internet,

because he's now went from being like a person on the carpet to now being an invited guest at his like pipeline from internet to then invited. It's just so cool. But menswear I think can get so boring, right? Sometimes it's like just to talk. So anyone who like plays with a different silhouette in the menswear always really catches my attention. Same. I agree with that. I agree with that. I saw Billie Eilish I liked. But I liked there was a meme and it was like Miss Trunchbull from Matilda if she

was a baddie and it was the picture of her in like her school outfit. So I'm gonna have to give it to her but also I didn't completely watch so I'm sure there was somebody else that should should earn that but I'm gonna say what did you love? I mean I loved Emily Blunt I don't know if you saw her on Instagram but she had on this crazy gorgeous dress but it did have it it had like, you know, that trend that they're doing right now where it almost looked like the vagina was on the dress. So like I posted it on Instagram and everyone's like, wait, it looks like she has a penis, but the dress was incredibly gorgeous. It was Google Emily Blunt's dress

right now, guys. It was gorgeous. And she had the straps like the new thing right now is the straps that do not touch the shoulder they go above the shoulder a little bit. I thought she looked incredible. That's all I'm gonna say. She is best dressed. Right? Look at that. I also love that her and her husband are matching. It's just like such a classy way to do it. It's like it just they go well together. And she was I saw Oppenheimer and she was amazing in it. And I love I just love her. She's great. You know, I haven't watched that yet. And now all I do is hear about Oppenheimer. Should I watch this? Yes. Is this much longer? It's so long. It's so interesting.

Do you like historical movies? Like is that I do I like when they take place back in the day. I do love that. Yes. I think it was incredible. It's on Peacock now, which is great. So it's like, yeah. But it's three and a half hours. So you're locked and loaded in that seat. So it's a long one. Geez. And there's one other one that kept winning. Lost something. I don't know. They kept winning everything. I was like, I need to watch this too. There was another movie that was nominated for every Poor Things. Poor Things. Have you seen that? Yeah, that was a long one too. But that one was it was really good. It was fantastic. Which one's better? Which one's better? So he saw both of them. I only saw Poor Things.

I think Oppenheimer is I think they're both incredible. I loved Oppenheimer more. I love Poor Things as well. We did this thing a couple months ago in New York where we were just trying all different types of movie theaters because there's like 12 and like four blocks. So we just were like going to every single one that we could just see which one was nicest. I my first job was at a movie theater. So I always like that kind of stuff. But the Regal Cinema in Essex Street is the best theater I've been to in New York, if anyone's living in New York and listening. It's comfortable, like loungy, very clean.

It was nice, nice movie theater. I liked it. Really quickly, let me just tell you why I didn't see Oppenheimer. I was gonna go with him, but he had this fantasy that he was gonna go and just live out a Carrie Bradshaw life and you know go to a matinee by himself and watch the movie and I was totally fine with that I was like yeah sure go and he goes because you don't like matinees I've never said that sentence but here we go again with the Julia Roberts of it

all but I was like go have your day I'm not mad but if you want to find a reason and you want to start with the matinee slander to go to a movie alone is The most like main character movement ever. It really feels so fierce I got my popcorn my soda and I sit alone because I'm independent and I wanted to have that moment and I didn't want to Not include you but I knew that I wanted this for myself That's fine. I did laundry. I stayed home and I did his laundry There are people who love that by the way Joe, Joe and I are huge movie. You guys could be our best friends. We love all, we love chain restaurants and we love the movies. We are movie buffs. We go

all the time. I think I would get insulted if he's like, I want to go by myself. I'll be like, but why? But I don't understand why. I'm the best movie. Like, why would you not want me next to you? I know. I know. Next time we'll go, well, next time we're going to go together. No, next time I'm going to go by myself. Oh, I'll do that. There you go. You know what? I think I'm going to try it too. I want to see what's so exhilarating about it. Like, I want to see if I wear, if I feel all that strength that you feel when you go.

Yeah, that's what it is. I'm sure you will. It's strength. I do. That's what it is. I'm sure you will. It's strength. I do. That's what it is. Yeah, so we'll have to plan a double date. We'll go to the outback and then we'll go to a movie. And we'll stop at Envy one more time when I'm there with you.

Hey, let's stop at Envy. It's a date. Guys, thank you so much for coming on today. You guys are so much fun. Everyone has to listen to their podcast. It's called Camp Counselors. They are perfectly hilarious, how you can see right now. I absolutely loved getting to know you guys.

I cannot say thank you enough for stopping by Envy. That was such a class act. So nice of you guys. Thank you for the support. You guys are the best. And now that's it. You guys got me hooked. I'll be also listening to the podcast, so don't say anything bad about me like you did

about Julia Roberts. I think you're breaking the hex. So don't say anything bad about me like you did about Julia Roberts, okay? I think you're breaking the hex. I think you broke it. Yeah, oh my God, I feel uplifted. No, thank you so much for having us. This has been so much fun. We appreciate it. Of course, I had so much fun with you guys.

And maybe next time I'll come pop by your podcast and hang with you guys. That could be fun. Invited to the camp anytime for sure. Oh, I can't wait to come camping. I'll bring my sleeping bag. Perfect. Okay. All right, guys. Thank you. Talk soon. Thank you. Thanks. Bye. Ciao. Oh my God, guys. Aren't they so much fun? I love them. I hope you guys enjoyed that as much as I did. So next week, we're having a dark week and don't miss me too much, but we'll be back on August 15th with a brand new episode.

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