On Display with Melissa Gorga - Shore Thing (w/ Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi)

Episode Date: December 23, 2021

What do you get when you have two New Jersey queens on the same podcast? The answer: One great episode!  Join Melissa this week as she sits down with Jersey Shore star and entrepreneur, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. These two talk about life on "The Shore," raising kids, and Snooki's new brand of wine, Messy Mawma. Also, Melissa has a special holiday message for everyone.  Treat yourself to the latest episode of Melissa Gorga On Display. Happy Holidays!  This week's sponsors: CBDX: https://cbdx.com/, promo code: MELISSA (20% off and FREE gift) Green Chef: https://www.greenchef.com/gorga10, promo code: gorga10 (10 FREE meals, and FREE shipping Pomp: https://pompflowers.com/, promo code: MELISSA10 (10% off order)

You're listening to Melissa Gorga on display with me Melissa Gorga on podcast one. Everyone from Jersey got what we were doing. Everyone else were like, they were like, who are these animals? What is happening? I'm like, this is how we do it. What's up everybody it's Melissa Gorga and you are listening to episode four of Melissa Gorga on display. Um, first off before we jump into this episode, I just want to say that I am so grateful and thankful for all of you for listening and sending me your comments and sharing this podcast with your friends. You guys have all been so wonderful.

And I love that so many of you like TM me and tell me you feel like you're listening in on a girlfriend's conversation, which is exactly what I wanted you guys to feel like. Seriously, I wanted it to feel very unfiltered for you. So I'm so happy you're loving it. I know that you love the back and forth banter between Joe and I, true like husband and wife stuff that goes on there. So we are

definitely going to get Joe back on this show soon because you know, we need we need my we need our little cups of Joe every every now and then. But no, I'm super grateful for you guys. And thank you so much. Keep DMing me and telling me what you want to hear more about the subjects you want to hear. Tell me which guests you want me to reach for. You know, it's not always easy to find guests and to grab them and to get them, but I am a go getter and I love a good challenge. So tell me who you think is someone I should have and someone that I should talk to, even if you think it's out of my league, okay? Cause, you know, I come from a place of yes.

So, nothing is out of my league. So just, you know, you tell me what you wanna hear and we are definitely talking more about it. Let's just talk about the fact that tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I don't know about you guys, but how many of you are honestly like going crazy. I am losing my mind wrapping gifts. I am getting to the point where I'm starting to wrap them super messy. Like I'm a messy gift wrapper, especially if I know it's for like a child if I'm giving it to like the little cousins or my nieces or something, I'm wrapping the messy at this point because I'm just like oh my god. I don't want to see another I don't want to see another piece of Scotch tape. I don't want to wrap one more present.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm starting to get lazy. that's for Gino, okay? And I just look at it like, do I go out and buy the three huge rolls of wrapping paper and like make it work and like flip it and it's going to just like shit when it's done. Or do you just like put a big bow on it and he's going to see it the second it walks down the stairs. I mean, I think I'm on to that now because I used to, I think when the kids were younger,

I used to go crazy, like really, really crazy about like the matching, you know, all the matching paper, everything had to look amazing. I had to get like, you know, and I still do that. I still do each child has their own wrapping paper so that I don't have to write their names on it because they will clearly know that the writing is from me and not from Santa. So I purposely like wrap them in a different color paper or different design, even though I know I'm fooling myself like all of my children probably don't believe in Santa. Although I don't know Joey walked over to me the other day and he gave me his list for Santa. list for Santa. He's also a very smart charming child. So I don't know if he's like pulling my chain and he damn well knows that I am going to, you know, fulfill his dreams myself. I always wonder that or if and he just wants to play into it because he knows it makes me happy. But either way, I'm going to accept it that he's 11 and that he believes in Santa because that makes me happy. And if he's lying to me,

well, then he's a really smart, he's a really smart kid. Because I love it. I eat up every second of Joey. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but something about the baby. There's just like something about the baby. And especially that he's like my boy.

I don't know. My kids tease me all the time because I like gaze into his eyes. I think I just, it's like that part of my youth that I would just want to hold on to the fact that I still have, you know, a small child and someone who needs me and asks me questions and still wants me to like, you know, help them all the time. So I just, you know, Gino and Antonia tease me all the time. They're like, when he walks in the room, you like, you have stars in your eyes. And I do.

So let me know if you guys all feel the same about your baby. And I'm not, I know I'm not the only one. I mean, come on. I know I'm not the only one out there who is Googly eyed over the baby. But anyway, just getting back to Christmas and the chaos of it all. Tomorrow night, we are gonna go to my sister-in-law's house.

As you guys know, I am in a rental right now. We sold our house, which is kind of bittersweet, because it's our first Christmas not living in that house in, you know, 10, 11 years, maybe even 12 years now. So it's different for us, you know. we're in a rental, we're building our new home, and I absolutely refused to go by a bunch of Christmas decor and everything I have is in storage, and I have a ton of Christmas decorations because I hosted Christmas Eve for so many years. So yes, Teresa's taking it on this year, we're going to her new house tomorrow, which I have not seen yet. And I'm actually super

excited to see. So I get to do that tomorrow. And then Christmas day, we go down to my cousin Tarrer's house. I know you guys don't know what it's like. We always have to like split our time up to see both families. So no one gets insulted. Everyone gets a little bit of our time. You know, I always say Christmas is amazing and not amazing all at the same time because I feel like it's a job. Christmas becomes like a job for me where I just feel like I have the list, I'm at the mall, I'm going a hundred miles an hour,

I sit on the couch every night and just order presents, I make lists all day, I forget people. I mean, do you guys feel me on this? It's like, I wanna enjoy Christmas and sometimes I just, I'm not sure I'm enjoying it. So I need to like sit back and be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's your favorite time of the year. This is not a job. This is something that you like want to do. And I just need to remind myself to enjoy Christmas. So a little piece of advice for everyone out there is to enjoy it yourself and to treat yourself when it's Christmas time and whatever holiday, all the holidays, you know, you really need to just like sit back and treat yourself, enjoy it because I know it sometimes could be hard. Okay, so let me ask you all, what are you guys doing for Christmas this year?

I mean, does everyone go on vacation? There's always that like week that happens after Christmas, which is my one of my absolute favorite weeks out of the year. I mean, do you guys all just sit around and kind of veg the way I do? It's actually my favorite thing to do. I mean, I like to keep my pajamas on as much as possible. A lot of times we go on vacation for that week because it's the only time the kids are off of school. But tell me, do you guys love that week as much as I do? Do you put your cell phone down? Do you sit on the couch? Do you watch all the movies and all the Netflix that you haven't been able to catch up on? Because that's literally all we do for a week straight is kind of just veg out and enjoy the family time because it just feels like the only is the really only true week that you don't feel

guilty about like sitting down looking at the snow outside or in your LA, you know, you lucky people over there in LA, you're looking at your palm trees out the window, but over here in Jersey, we're just looking at the snow, it's cold, and it's the only week where I don't feel guilty about doing absolutely nothing. So it's about to come. We got two more days and the week begins. All right, everyone, I'm really looking forward to this next one. Our next guest is a new Jersey Queen, something like myself. She has become such an iconic name outside and inside of the reality TV world. She's a successful entrepreneur with her own brand of wine. She's a cool mom to three beautiful children and the star of the reality TV show,

and the star of the reality TV show, Jersey Shore, and she also hosts a recently renewed MTV series, Messiness, please welcome Nicole Snooki Polisi. Hi, doll. That was so sweet. Thank you for the introduction. Well, it's all very, very true. Thanks, babe. You are a true entrepreneur.

How are you? First off, I love that you were leopard for me and that you have a little like high pony going up top. You look so adorable. Listen, I didn't brush my hair today. I hardly have makeup on. I just put like mascara on and a lip. It's, it's hard being a mom of three.

Well, trust me, I know. First of all, I love that you're so busy right now. You're always running around. I have met your three beautiful children and they truly are one more gorgeous than an actual beautiful, beautiful kids. Instagram all the time too. So cute. Yeah, we have hot kids, both of us. We I know I remember meeting and you told me that one. So like your kids are hot. I'm like, yes. like, yes. Gino has like crazy muscles right now, like savage mode muscles.

It's like insane. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, oh my god. Like, does that make you feel crazy? Like, I feel like I feel so old and like gross. Yeah, I'm just like, what are you? He busts out and now he's into wrestling because we, you know, we go right from football into wrestling.

So it's like, you can really see the body because these tight little things, which are like, I feel like your husband's gonna want your children to wrestle too. Is he into that? Lawrence, we're just started.

You just had his first tournament last weekend. And um, Lawrence will literally just started and he pinned the guy and he won like two of his matches. Really? Clearly in his blood that he's gonna be like, really good at wrestling. I'm so proud of him.

Tell the truth, how nerve-wracking. Like I'm the mom at wrestling that I run onto the mat. I feel like my heels are gonna go into the mat because I get so, did you freak out watching it? I mean, you're new to it. I'm stressed out when I watch my son's wrestle. So I went to practice. I only went to his practice

and I was freaking out screaming his name like about to fight the other moms. So I'm not mom, but I missed his first tournament because I had to be down the shore for Giovanas competition. She's in cheer. Right. So that's exactly what we do. We divide and conquer. We divide and conquer Joe and I because I know that you're a cheer mom as well. And so it's the same time as wrestling. So there's cheer comps and wrestling all at the same time. So that's literally my life only probably 10 years. My kids are like 10 years older than yours probably right at this point. No, yeah. So we kind of the same schedule. You just have older kids and your older.

Wait, do you? All right, whatever. Don't you're gonna get here one day? I never ever. How do I have? I'm 34. All right, whatever. Like shut up. I was literally just telling Tracy this. Um, I was like, Melissa looks so freaking good for her. I was like, can I look like that when I'm like her? I have you remind me of J. Low, like the older you get, the harder you look. Well, I feel like it's like fine one. I do feel like if I look at pictures, don't you feel like this? If you see like the beginning episodes of the show and like old pictures, I'm like, oh, I'm better now than I was then. Yeah, I just feel like I got better and we're not like, you know,

we don't just we don't look gaudy like we used to, I would say agreed, agreed. I feel like we used to, I would say. I agree, agreed. I feel like the gaudiness has come down. So we talked to me about because I know this better. You were a cheerleader and now you're a cheermom. So are you one of the crazy cheermoms? Are you at everything? Are you blowing the thing?

Are you screaming the loudest? Does everyone annoy this shit out of you when you're trying to sit on the bleachers and just watch your daughter? Are you taking multiple pictures? What's happening? Yeah, so this past competition, um, everybody at the gym, all the parents know that I get like, I don't, I don't want to say bothered, but everyone comes up to me, like taking pictures. As you're just like, my daughter's on, I just want to like watch her. So I'm in the middle of everyone and then I have all the moms around me. So like no one can get to me because I'm actually like, you know, I'm invested. I'm trying to watch. So yes, it is crazy at the competitions. But yeah, I'm the mom like screaming going crazy.

I have cowbells. I have a shirt that says you about his mom. I'm like so traumatic and I love it. I love every second of it. Well, let me just tell you, it is they are the best years it. I love every second of it. Well, let me just tell you, it is, they are the best years. I have enjoyed every second of it. And I mean, now Antonia is a junior. And now we're going to like the high school comps.

And it's even more exciting because they're big girls. You know what I mean? It's so great. So great. It gets more dramatic and more nerve-wracking, but it's so much fun. I love it. It's so much fun. It's one of my absolute favorite things. And I remember actually, you and I actually had a night, I want to say this had to be five, maybe over five years ago when we went out with Joey

and Tracy Barber. And we did something during the day, but like we were drinking wine and we're having lunch and we were just not ready to end it. And we brought it back to my house and we continue to drink and have fun and like turn the music on in my home. Do you remember this? Yes. We went to lunch. We were like going to be classy and have like a quick bite and some wine. And then once it was over, we were like, we still want to drink and have fun.

So yeah, we went to your house and we were raging. I know, we didn't want the night to end. You, I know that you've been like a real house I said New Jersey fan since the beginning. I remember you always commenting on Twitter and always like watching the show. Are you still watching? Are you still in tune with what's going on?

Not really, but I did watch the vacation. Oh, the girls trip. Oh, my God. Like, I haven't really been like watching all the seasons just because like life is crazy. Um, and anytime like I have time to watch anything, it's always like Netflix scary movies because it I love scary movies. Um, but I dedicated my time to watch to watching that because everyone said it was amazing. It was freaking amazing. Wasn't it crazy to watch us all kind of come together and just see what were your thoughts like who annoyed you on this trip? Ramona annoyed me, but like I love to have the same time. I just I just love her, but I just love her, but

We need her we need her yes Pearl calm down, but at the same time like I love you so much if you weren't on the show I would I would freak out so Ramona was like one of my favorites obviously you and Kyle I loved your relationship because I feel like I would hang out with you guys But who annoying mate. What's her name is a Cynthia? Cynthia oh In the beginning like oh so much fun girls trip and then everything was bothering her But who annoyed me? What's her name? Is it Cynthia? Cynthia. Oh. In the beginning, like, oh, so much fun girl's trip and then everything was bothering her. And I was like, girl, have a shot. Relax. Calm down. So I feel like she was a little annoyed the whole time.

And it kind of like, she surprised me. She surprised me because she seemed like such a peaceful. I thought she was going to be more like happy, happy, and she was annoyed at everything. Everything was like, everything was a problem. It was, it was crazy. I didn't know where it came from. But overall, I thought it was amazing. And you guys have to do more. Okay. Well, we're going to from from your mouth to the Bravo gods ears. You know, there's always been rumors too, by the way, that you were going to join this show. I mean, how many times have you read things? Like, nookies joining the show,

it's nookies joining the Jersey Housewives. I mean, how many times has that happened? Well, I think that started because we started hanging out and like doing lunch, but Tracy and Joey and everything. So it started then, and then when I took a break from Jersey Shore, everyone thought I took a break to join Housewives and yeah, I know. You know, I don't like drama and everything is drama,

I would freak out. Okay, you don't like drama, but somehow you manage to get through the kitchen. No. But that's more wild fun drama. No, I would like drink and have fun. And like if it's drama, it's because we're drunk fighting and then the next day it's over.

But I feel like this is like legit legit like, you know, scary. Yeah. I can tell you I have personally text Andy Cohen multiple times to tell him like, we need Nicole. We need snooki. Like what are you doing? Like she's taking a break from the Jersey Shore right now and she's, she has three kids.

She's ready. She's ready for us. Like let's go bring her in and he kind of always just said that he would know if you were into it or you know it's hard when you're coming from another show to go on to another reality show. But I have always said like hello we're missing the boat here. We need Snooki. She's I'm going to like show her the way. She has three kids. She I'm going to bring her right on. She can sit next to me. But just so you know, I've constantly text Andy about that.

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I've no we hung out multiple times, but I've never asked you this. And I thought today I had to ask you this. Where, Snooki, where does that come from? Where does that name even come from? I never asked you this question. So when I tried out for Jersey Shore, they wanted everyone to like have nicknames, so they were like right in nickname that people call you, you know, on the application. And I mean my friends always call me Nick, Nikki, but my one friend always called me Snook or Snooki

because our favorite movie was Save the Last Dance. I'm sure you watched. And Snooki Crook was the DJ. So she just started calling me Snooki all of a sudden. So it was my friend Katie. I'm still friends with her to the stage. And she was the only person who called me Snook. So I was like, all right, well,

my friend Katie calls me snook, snookie, let me put that down. And then boom. And it was it. Yeah. So does it annoy? Do you want to be Nicole? Now I mean, you're a little older. Do you want people to say Nicole? Are you still? Are you good with snookie? Do you like it? No, yeah, it is what it is. Like call me snookie, call me Nicole, but I feel like, you know, if we're friends or like, you know, we're having like a real conversation, just be like, hey, Nicole.

Yeah. Right. Okay, so close friends, it's Nicole only. Yeah. All right, well, speaking of the fact, you're a crazy, crazy, busy mom, which we know and you're all over the place, you have a boutique, you have a podcast, you are working on multiple shows,

and now you have a wine line. I took it with me too, so I was in charge of wine for Thanksgiving at my sister's house. So I was like, oh, I'm bringing this all with me because I'll think this is so fun. Everybody loved it, we drank it both. There was a red and a white. We, it was great, it's excellent.

Congratulations on that. Yeah, thank you. I feel like it's crazy because my brands are like snookie is known for like having fun and drinking and I never got into the alcohol business. So it's like, how come I never like had a drink or, you know, like, um, just any type of alcohol, but I'm actually happy that I didn't because then I never would have had my wine so I'm glad I waited So it's not you know, I didn't come out with like a cheesy vodka or something So I've been wanting a wine for like three years and trying to find the perfect you know company to work with because sometimes You know you can't trust these companies sometimes like they're gonna screw you over or she's not the right deal So I was trying to find the perfect partnership

And then I found summer Lynn wines and you know they sent me over a ton of. So I was trying to find the perfect partnership. And then I found Summerlin Wines and they sent me over a ton of wine and I was trying it and tasting it and I was like, oh my God, I think I found my partner. So it was a quick turnover. I literally picked the wine in September and it was on sale November and time for my birthday. So yeah, it's called Messy Mama Wine.

And I call all my friends and everybody mama And I just I'm not come from where did the mama come from I got that from when I have my daughter Giovanna I I would call her come here mama again, then I decided to put the W in like spell it differently And I was like, oh, I like this so I ended up trademarking it because That's just what I joke. So I'm gonna do it. But I trademark everything that I think I like and then I think, you know, I'm gonna come out with a product. And so now I have a stroller line called Mama.

And then now I have my wine. So yeah, it's amazing. And I'm so proud of it. And you know, I just hope I can come out with more wines and literally, you know, I check off my vocalist that I did that. You're crazy busy with just mentioning everything you're mentioning right here. Do you ever feel like it takes a toll on you? And I can totally relate to you with this. Just on you being pulled in so many different directions when it comes to just for your husband for marriage for the kids.

Like do you get the mom guilt? Because I feel it constantly when I'm out of the house and just pull it, but I don't want to miss an opportunity. But yet I know that like, you know, you want to grab it while you're hot, grab it while the deals are coming, grab it while you're out there. But at the same time,

you don't want to miss these baby years and the competitions and the wrestling match. So how do you feel about that? Yes, so my kids come first. My kids come first, my husband, my family comes first, and I have to be comfortable with traveling. Like, I don't like being away for more than three days. Like, three days tops, and then I got to get home because my husband's alone with the kids, but three kids, and it's a lot on him. But also, like, I get separation anxiety for my kids

if I don't see them. Like I realize I start to become depressed and I'm like, moody because we're moms. We love our babies, we want to be with them. So I have a time limit of where I can travel and be away from them before I freak out and go crazy. So yeah, it's a struggle, honestly, with trying to work and get everything done, but also like be comfortable in

yourself to be away from your family. It's of course, it can get tough. I mean, Joe and I went through certain times where we were literally at each other's next just because he was starting to feel like I was taking so many opportunities and in his brain, how he met me. I mean, you two kind of met, he met you while you were on this reality show. So he met you as this work force where Joe met me as a college girl that we got married and had babies. And for the first five years, I was a stay at home mom cooking, cleaning,

and I kind of like transitioned after five years. So I feel like it was very rough for him to just adjust. Yeah. And for me, it's still a struggle. Every day, I struggle just taking on new things, even just taking on the podcast, because there's hours and hours on end that you're here talking to other people

opposed to being home. So it's always a constant struggle for me. So I know someone like you very similar. I know you had to feel the similarities and how much it could be a struggle, but a blessing all of this at the same time. But I also love to be busy. Like I don't just like sitting around and not doing anything because I feel like I'm not doing anything. Like I feel like I need to be doing stuff. So I love to be busy, but at the same time, also love to look like a slob and be home with the kids, like not worry about work all the time.

Right. I'm watching your TikToks with your daughter. So super, super cute. You guys are so cute on TikTok. I'm trying to do it more, because I feel like the new thing is TikTok. And I feel like I don't know how to use it. I'm an Instagram person. Always always on Instagram doing my stories Twitter but like

TikTok is like not my generation. So I don't know how to freaking use it but everybody's on it now. So my daughter's teaching me how to use it. Okay well that same. I don't know how to even turn it on half the time. My daughter has made up more than 70% of my TikToks for me because I don't even know what I'm doing. But see, this is what the world we're in. You need to keep up. You have to keep up with whatever platforms going on.

So you got to jump in. Have you ever considered, like, because you're working so much, and you know, both of us are probably going through the bridges and going over the tunnels and over the, should I say, over the bridges and through the tunnels so much, have you ever considered moving to New York

or to LA or just like relocating to be closer to your work? No, never. I love our area because you're not bombarded by paparazzi. It's not like LA where you're stepping out of, you know, soul cycle and you're just getting bombarded with people. Like, I hate that. I would hate like that.

So the fact that like, I can walk out of my house. I'm a normal person. My kids are around like a normal life and they don't think they're celebrities. Like, I don't want that for my kids. I want them to grow up humble and normal as possible. And you know, you're going to get a job, you're doing chores to, you know, make money, like, you're growing up like I did. And I like the fact that I could just go to Starbucks and just, you know, do my thing, just like be like everybody else. Like I would hate to, you know,

move to the city or LA and like, that's totally changed. Like, I don't like that. And it would change. I always say that here in Jersey, we truly, we get the best of both worlds. We can be in the city in 30 minutes. We get our backyards. We have space. We can put our clothes neatly in our in our closets, you know, so I always say jerseys a secret hidden gem. I hate when people shit on Jersey and act like it's like the armpit. They have no idea. I feel like it's funny during the pan. Right? During the pandemic, everyone wanted to come idea. I feel like it's funny during the pandemic. Right? During the pandemic, everyone wanted to come here. So we're doing something right.

I think Jersey's beautiful. I grew up in New York. So I moved to Jersey. Oh God. Probably like 11 years ago. And I just thought everything was beautiful. Everything was convenient because like you can either go upstate or you can go to the city. It's the middle of everything. And I mean, I wish the taxes were a little

lower, but I do love Jersey. In fact, we have crazy, I can just say, you know, crazy taxes in New Jersey. And I just sold that house partly because I couldn't believe what I was playing in taxes. Like, that is one thing. It's at a control. But we have no tax on clothes, which is the nice thing, which is the good thing. No tax on clothes. For especially girls like us who own boutiques, that's a plus.

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It's called grilled with gorgah. So I have a couple questions to ask you. Okay, just answer as quickly as possible. Okay, are you ready? Wrap it, fire, grilled with burger questions. Here we go. First celebrity crush. Um, I think I'm in sync. Here we go. First celebrity crush. Oh, thank God. In sync, all in sync.

No, no, no, Devon Sawa. Oh, okay. If you had to pick one from in sync, who you pick in? I love Lance. And now we're friends with Lance. How crazy. Isn't that crazy? You never thought that you'd be like friendly

and then they're standing next to you somewhere And you're like what's happening? Yes, I'll never get used to that. I don't know about you. Okay back to the rapper fire. Okay your favorite 80 song 80s well, I was born in 87 so I would say 90s all right, but but everyone knows a good 80 song Do I is ace of base from 80s? No, that's so like 90s. But we'll let you take that. Yeah, any 80s? I saw the sign.

That one. Opened up. Okay, love it. Okay, what's your biggest regret? Oh God. I would say none because then I wouldn't be the person I am today. You have no regrets. Let me ask you this while we're on this right now. Do you ever regret joining that show and what would your life be like if you didn't join

that show? What do you think you'd be right now? Yeah, I definitely don't regret it because you know, I've written my life. But if I didn't join the show, I would still be living in New York. I never would have met my husband. I wouldn't have had my kids. And I'd be a vet tech in a hospital. I never would have met my husband. I wouldn't have had my kids and I'd be a vet tech in a hospital. Is that what you would be? Is that where you going to school to be a vet? Yeah

Really, I did not know that I would just dive. I wasn't able to see you drunk in a hot mess all over the streets. He said heights new Jersey real quick C side heights by the way is was my true stomping ground where I truly grew up of my whole life. So for me to watch you guys on the Jersey shore was like watching all my clubs, like I was in temp, so I was excess. I mean, when you were there, I think temps was gone by that, right? What was there? Yeah. But all the karma and all of these spots, like I truly grew up there, like my stomping ground. So to watch you guys kind of get messy

and live that life, I mean, we all rented like, sure houses together and just. Yeah, everyone from Jersey got what we were doing. Everyone else were like, they were like, who are these animals? What is happening? I'm like, this is how we do it. Yeah, they were straight up, like they are savages.

And I'm like, it's amazing every piece of it because it's so real. It's all of the years that you wish you can kind of go back to for five minutes when things were just like messy and and Fallen and no thought went into it. You didn't care if someone saw you fall over on the street because you're like whatever like I'm in my prime. And this is when I'm supposed to fall over on the street. And you know, and did it better than you, by the way. No one did that better than you. No regrets on that though. I'm watching, when you ever watch any of that,

are you nervous for like your child or like anyone to ever see you in that state or you're good? Every single episode of every season because I'm drunk and disgusting and hooking up and just trash, but I had a great time. And I feel like, you know, I had to get that out of my system. So I could be like a great mom and wife one day. So I'm not ready for my kids to see that yet.

No, okay. All right, you got it. All right, so hold on. I'm gonna ask you a couple more questions. I need to know the best decision you've ever made. Oh, um, well, I wouldn't say it was even a question, but, you know, having my son, Lorenzo, because I was 24, me and Gianni weren't, you know, we were dating, but we weren't engaged. We, I didn't plan to like be with him forever, or I didn't know if I wanted to be with him

forever. And then, when pregnant, I was like, oh my god, like that's the scariest thing to ever hear. But then I was like, oh my God, like that's the scariest thing to ever hear. But then I was like, oh no, I need to do this. Like I'm ready. This is gonna change my life completely. So there was never like a question of, should I have learns or should I not?

Just I knew I was going to. So that was the best decision or the best thing that happens to me, to change me. Awesome. We have so much in common, by the way, I was with Joe at 24 and had got pregnant with Antonia at the same time. So that's crazy. And let me just tell you, there's nothing like being a young mom. I'm 10 years above you here and trust me, you want to be the youngest mom in the room. It's awesome.

I love that. That's way to go. Okay, what's your pet peeve? Pet peeves. I don't know, you're making me think now. 30 nails. That's my pet. Yeah. I don't know. All right, tell me about your worst date. Oh God, my worst date. I went to the movies with this kid, and I really just wanted to watch the movie,

and like hang out and get free popcorn. Like I thought he was cute, but like right when the movie started, he was trying to like touch me and you know, just be all over me, and I was so turned off that I ran out of the theater. I'm like, you're disgusting. Like this is not happening.

Then he started crying, like I'm so sorry. It was a nightmare, so that was my worst day ever ever and his breasts smelled like ass. The worst. So worst. No. He tried to get the second base with you. That's horrible. Okay. All right. Tell me something that I don't know about you. Give me one thing that would surprise us all about you. Well, you didn't know it's gonna go to school to be a vet tech. Did not know that.

There's that. And what else? I mean, I like crafting. Like, I'm like a closet crafter, but I feel like people know that already. Yeah, I think I knew that. Yeah. All right. What was your first concert you ever been to? First concert, Google dolls. first concert you ever been to. First concert, Google dolls. Oh, okay. And your first job you ever had? First job, I think, was that like a Perkins? It's like an upstate like, you know, Denny's.

And I was a bus boy and I lasted like an hour. I was like, I'm not sending people's dirty plates then I walked out. Fine, okay. And your favorite late night snacks, when you're sitting on a couch, what are you eating at night? Ooh, I liked Trader Joe's nuts.

Like, the... Y'all hands, oh my God, so good. Nuts, and then I also love cucumbers and hummus. Okay, and your favorite TV show that you're binge watching right now. Well, it was your show. I just finished. Well, to make girls trip, baby. Yeah. We need to do more. Okay, to make girls trip, baby. Yeah.

We need to do more. Okay, last question for you, because I like to always end with, you know, I always say everyone needs to treat themselves, right? So if Snooki is treating herself, what do you do for that day? What is, what do you do for the day if you're treating yourself?

If I'm treating myself, I am going to a workout class in the morning, and then I come home get ready and then I'm drinking, I'm day drinking. I'm going to like a nice rooftop dinner or lunch and I'm day drinking with my friends and then I come home and then I want you on you to cook for me and then Giovanna give me a flip rub. Oh, that sounds so amazing. All right, well thank you so much Nicole.ats on your boutique on your podcast on your new wine live that everyone should really check it out. Yes, the pod. I need to come talk to you too on that as well.

Enjoying. Yes, yes, we'll both come. We'll come and we'll blow up the podcast sounds good. I know that the chaos of Christmas is coming. So happy New Year if I don't talk to you and thank you so much. Lots of luck with everything you do. Yes, Mama, congrats on the podcast. It's gonna be amazing. Thank you. Thank you.

Wow. Bye, sweetie. All right, well, that wraps this episode of Melissa Gorga on display. Make sure you guys check out my fifth episode with none other than Jalos Confidon and one of the best producers who have ever worked in Hollywood. Elaine Goldsmith Thomas. Guys, she's amazing. You're going to want to hear everything she has to say. I want to wish everyone a very happy and safe holiday. Be kind to one another and

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