On Display with Melissa Gorga - Snoodles and Rumors (w/ Joe Gorga)

Episode Date: October 19, 2023

Melissa invites Joe Gorga onto the podcast this week to talk about the very different sleeping habits of couples, some of the recent rumors surrounding their friendships, and what it's like to party with the frats and sororities during "parent's week." Melissa also gives us an update after her recent health scare, and how certain signs should never be ignored.  This week's sponsors: Loft - Affordable Fashion for Fall: Loft.com, promo code: MELISSA ($25 off purchase) OSEA - Undaria Exfoliate and Glow Duo: Oseamalibu.com, promo code: DISPLAY (10% off) PlutoTV - True-Crime TV: Pluto.tv Shopify - Revolutionize Your Business: Shopify.com/melissa ($1 per-month trial)

Forget about it. Call me Joe Gorgas. Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode. What's up guys? Yeah, I think we're live. So obviously you guys could tell who my guest is today here on display with me. He's bitching about nails and hair. I'm so busy. I am busy. I would hate to be a woman. Oh my God, I wouldn't.

There is a lot of shit to do. That I'm not gonna lie about. I can't do it. It's so extra. It's like every time we turn around, we need something done. Like we even get our like eyebrows done all the time. The only thing I would like to be a woman,

if I was a woman, I would be so rich, and I would have every guy do. Oh, oh, oh, see, you want me to be a gold digger. No, but I, no, because you're marrying that with kids, but before I got married, kids, boy. Oh, it's a little. I'll be driving Bentley's and Rose Royces. I've got every dinner. Oh You trying to say and I want to even give it up. I'll just show it. I teach it

I'll make them look at it. I'm like, yeah, you want it? You'd be an escort. Oh, no, I just be me Just be me now let them buy me everything. Oh All right, then I did I got to start over and then I did something Wrong I gotta try yeah, man. I buy you everything You know you don't need no you did you always bought me anything I wanted now you don't buy me anything because you don't have to and you got I would like you to start buying me things again. She got the meat to right breath me things again. She got the meat too right? Oh my god. Joe loves to like reference that there's another man around because of my producers always just watching us on the other ends. And so Joe, you guys are trying to like, he's never going to go against me. So just forget it.

My tell you. Anyway, what's up everybody? I hope everybody's having an awesome week. It's starting to get cold here in New Jersey I think I just finally Like I was sleeping with the windows open every single night and it was going through menopause. I don't know what you're talking about I come back right now take that back because I am absolutely not and I don't want you putting that into the world So just take that back take that back no because I know take it back No, take it back because I'm not so take it back. No, because I know take it back. No, take it back because I'm not so take it back There's another I'm taking about just 10 years before that happens just FYI

But all right, but it's so you come in it's freezing or then oh my god It's too hot and you're dying Everything's a big deal. No, I just I'm like on I like to sleep with a lot of covers over me I'm cold why men and women to sleep with a lot of covers over me. I'm cold. Why are men and women like men are so chill and we could, we could live through anything. No, you're bitching right now. You put us in the desert and we just chill. You're bitching right now that it's too cold in the bedroom when we sleep.

Really though, like what is the ideal bedroom temperature? Like I am curious for. Well, hold on, let's, let's really say what you want to say. And I'm asking my listeners too, make sure, because you guys love to DM me about the podcast, and I love to read it. So go in my DMs, tell me what is the ideal temperature for couples in the bedroom or like what you guys go by.

Joe, what's your temperature? What would you like it to be? What's yours? What do you put it at? I've got to tell you right now. 69. I don't even want to look at 69 6 you love 69

No, but that's my number 69 70 Yeah, I would rather have like 71 to Right around there not 16 Some people sleep I know so many people that sleep with like that fan they need the fan They have to hear the fan they get addicted to the fan. I don't understand those people I am not one of them like Joe and I are those people who we go to bed in Dead silence with like zero no TV and no light, right? It's like pitch black and you can hear a damn pin drop. Yeah, because we're moving all day.

I'm so tired. I hit that pillow out. And if we're starting to fall asleep with the TV on, I feel like whoever's more tired gets annoyed and we're like turn the TV off. Turn the TV off. We want it. We want it.

Silence. It's amazing. Hell, like when you're married, you become each other. other We know I think you start to adapt to each other What about all the people like my sister? I know my sister has to have like she'll come sleep at my house my niece Shionna they come sleep over and they bring a fan or like find the fan in my house And it has to blow on them or they cannot sleep all night like I think those people are crazy and no offense There's a lot of you out there. I know there's a lot of you out there,

but I'm like, why get addicted to these things? And then you can't sleep without the noise or the sounds or like all these new, the new moms. I like to get up in the middle of the night and just wake up and like just like get, get some, have some sex or some. What does that have to do with that? That hasn't happened all the time.

That is so out of the let's feel. I'm sure lately it's just been, I used to do that, right? Wake you up. And that was a, that's romantic and nice. But lately, it hasn't been that for a while. New part, so you come at a left feel. Because we're talking about sleep. There's nothing better.

Just wake up like four in the morning, three in the morning, just, you know, all right. You know, you just get, you know, get it on. I was just about to talk about newborns. That's amazing. That's like, you know, that right. You know, you just get, you know, get it on. I was just about to talk about newborn. That's amazing. That's like, you know, that hasn't happened in years. I was going making a left there talking about how all of the new moms, a big, you got a new born, you know what they do?

Joe, they put these like, they put these machines in the room where they make the noise machine, the sound machine, all my cousins do it, my nieces do it, they do these machines. I think that's the worst thing I could do. Well, I'm trying to say, I yell at them all the time. I'm like, you're training this child that if you're just want to, I want to put the kid to sleep, you can't, they need the sound machine. Where's the sound machine? They need to hear the birds chirping in the noise and the white noise and all this.

And I don't think it's the right thing to do. And I know a lot of you do it. So I'm not judging and I have plenty of family members who do it, but like we are like, I am that type that I'm like, no, they fall asleep wherever they are. There have been times I've taken my kids out to dinner with us and like,

we'll literally lay our coat out on two chairs and lay them down and be like, well, we're still drinking our wine or whatever it is. And they fall asleep on the chair next to you. My kids are amazing because of that. Luckily, you were a beast like that. Because when I married her, I was like, listen, we gotta go, go, go.

We had our daughter on vacation with us. Six months later, we're on vacation on the beach. We brought her, we hung out all night. We went out to dinner. We brought her every night. We brought her every night. We had a writer-stroller right next to us. She was sleeping.

You got to like, rough them. You got to like rough them. You got to make them like no matter what. Don't put the pee pee pee the chirping. No, but now is it. Is that an actual shit on? Let them go to sleep. And I say nowadays I literally raised babies just 10 years prior, just 10 years ago.

But 10 years ago, honestly, like I feel like there were less things and gadgets and like now they put them in the Snoodle the snoodle this I don't know your snoodle them You put them in this canoe thing and you zip them up and they can't even move There's no more there's no more blankets I just put a blanket on my child don't ever let them sleep in your room either Nebbar wait wait you Joe you zip them up now and they stay in place and it's called a you, Joe, you zip them up now and they stay in place and it's called a, a, a snow. There's a snow and they need these

snooze and it rocks them to sleep at night. I'm like, what are you guys doing? You're creating a bunch of monster. This, this error of children is going to come out all needing and they're going to need things and they're not going to know how to sleep. The ambient is going to rise because they're like, where's my snow and my zipped up thing and why are you on I shaking and where's the white noise? Imagine shipping me up in that thing and me rock. I'm like, get me to fuck out of it. I'm losing my mind. I just think it's crazy. It's so crazy. It's crazy

how like it's but it's not I know all the new moms out there listening to me because I know I have a lot of like, you know, 30-year-olds listening. And hi, girls, I love you all so much. But it's true, and it's like, that's what's happening. This is just like the new wave. Everybody uses the gadgets and the things. Don't do it, girl.

I will say I'm against it. I'm against it too. If you want the Gorgas, the way the Gorgas raised their kids, we did not do that. And we also didn't do like, of course there was nap time and we did all that stuff, but like wherever we were, we helped them fall asleep,

like wherever we were, like if they were on my lap, if we were out, if we couldn't get home, if I put them in the stroller, it's not like a, oh my God, run, run, run, it's nap time. Like, did you ever say thank you to me?

No, did you ever say thank you to me? You ever say thank you to me for meeting like such a piece of a man, you know what I mean, Brett? No, no, no. This is just a beast of a man. All of these things. When I when she met me, I was like, tata tata tata tata. I was like a machine. I'm the guy I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I got to go, I got to go, I got to go, I got to go. Right, babe, come on. Here's the thing. But everything that I'm discussing right now, Joe, is really what the mom does. The mom's putting them in the snooze and doing all these things.

So you have a beast of a wife that gave you some great children. They're all great kids. God bless, God bless, it's not God what. They're like really good. You know, that's one thing we did really well that I can never, like we parent very well. And I think we raised some really, really great kids, you know. We're like beasts in our own right.

Yeah, right? I know, yeah. And we went to see my daughter in college. Oh, yeah. Oh my God. Guys, I know you saw this parents weekend when I posted on my Instagram, Joe, holding this belt over his head.

The champion at a front house. Woo! My daughter was like, don't embarrass me, embarrass you, I want to belt. Yeah, she was so happy though, she really, she loved it, she had so much fun with you there and she was like laughing and she couldn't wait to like, bring you there because she knew everybody was like,

you know, that you were gonna have fun and she had the best time, I have to say, like I feel like parents weekend for her was so much fun and that she kept, she faced time me a lot after parents weekend. I'm like, she just, she misses us. She enjoyed having us for the weekend. That's what happens when you're gone.

And then they, then they start missing you and they start calling you a little bit more, you know, it's the beginning now. She's enjoying her son. Yeah, by junior year, she's going to be wearing in my phone like, like, come home. You know, but tell everybody how you won the belt, Joe. Oh.

They saw the belt, but they're not exactly sure how you won. First of all, can I just tell you guys, I went to college, I graduated, I got a BA, but I went to the kind of college where I lived off campus and I went, you know, Jersey City State. Like I drove there, I lived in Bayon, my whole college life, and like I drove every day to college and I went back to my apartment with my roommates and Tony is having like real campus college life.

So she's doing all the things the sororities she's gonna rush soon she's got the frat houses. I've never seen a frat house. This was my first time at a frat house. I kept saying I've seen a lot of sorority houses Oh wow aren't you special don't forget your daughters that girl now honey she's in the sororities Listen son her it's on her I can't care for care for there Talk and all you shizz calm as a bitch Guys let me tell you about this incredible service I use for envy it's called Shopify

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and use code display for 10% off. So yeah, like I saw a front house for the first time and I was pretty I couldn't believe first of all, obviously they're not the clean front house for the first time and I was pretty, I couldn't believe, first of all, obviously they're not the cleanest places in the world. There's a bunch of boys just like, I was like, wow, do we put our feet on the floor here? Like, when you guys wake up in the morning, are we putting a like a slipper on first or some type of slide? Like, it's really crazy. They gave me my own room, the frat guys.

They were like, listen, you could have this room. And I was going to take it. I was going to take it. Let's just say all the parents, I got their phone numbers, I got all their numbers. They're like, oh, what's up? You're the man. I said, I'm sorry. Hey, he was loving it. And all the parents, I will say there was, so the parents we get at Delaware and a lot of these colleges is like a thing, guys. Like parents are ready to go. Everybody is ready to party. The children are waiting for their parents to come and party.

Like this is truly what they do. And it was like one weekend out of the year. It's not like we were the only parents party. Like everybody, everybody was like, down they were walking in with their coolers to the backyard. Like it was backpacks, parents of walk with backpacks. It was a fun one. The liquor in there. I was happy. That was backpacks, parents of walk were backpacks. It was a fun one. The liquor in there.

I was happy, I was shocked. I walked into this frat party. But I walked in, we walked in. I was there literally six minutes. And it was packed. Packed. Packed between kids and parents. And we're standing on mud.

It was dirt because it rained before. And there's no grass in the backyard. Right. It's muddy. My shoes, I was like, my shoes. And everybody's just chilling and drinking and just talking and I'm like, is this it? So I go, where's the president of the frat? I said, let me see the president. And he came over, I go, no, let's go, man.

He's a nice guy, he's a cute boy. I go, where's the kegs? I'm ready to do. Well, the kegs were right in front of you. The guy's probably right. I didn't even know they were right in front of me. So let's get the kegs. I'm ready to do the kegs were right in front of you Yeah, I didn't even know to even know to write in front of me. So let's get the kegs I started grabbing a parents. I got I grabbed this one guy. I go, let's go. You're doing a keg stand He goes. I'm 67 years old. I said don't worry about it. You're about you're on your way out. Let's go boom

Got him on a keg. He we had him upside down. He spit and beer all over the place Drop them down. He goes, oh all over the place, dropped them down. He goes, oh my God, it was the best time I ever had. And all the parents were all the parents. All the dads wanted to do it. And they were all trying to do it. But Joe won the belt because he, I'm going to tell you what happened. You had the longest time, but tell why you had the longest time.

So I go up. So I get all the parents, all the guys are coming up there blowing out. You're not allowed to spill any liquor. You can't spill any beer. So everybody's blowing it out of their mouth, they're trying to drink it. They put me up on a keg. I go up on a keg.

Now I'm sucking, right? And there's no beer coming out. So I'm sucking. So I want, I had the most time, I'm up to like two minutes. Everybody's like, oh my god. But here I am. I'm sucking it like a baby. Like a bottle trying to suck it out. I'm pumping to pump myself,

cause I'm like, nothing's coming out. But then I went so long that I was like, all right, I'm done. It put me down and I had a fake it a little bit. Like I drank so much. You dated the whole time. That's why you stayed up. And everybody was like, oh my god, he won.

He did it the world. He handed me the belt. I took the belt. I took it. I can't want it. He didn't want it. He really handed me the belt. I took the belt. I took it. I can't help it. They were like, damn, he was up there so long. We want nothing when in his mouth. He didn't even drink any beer.

So. They didn't even have a sip, not even a sip. Yeah, but besides for that, we also took Antoni to two dinners. We sat outside by the fire. We hung out with Jen Fessler. Jen Fessler has a senior at the University of Delaware and she loves it. And Tony is actually gonna...

Yeah, I don't like it. She's showing my daughter to ropes. She's showing the rope. The senior to freshmen, but she's so cute. She's a nice girl. She's a very nice girl. And then we sat out with Jeff and Jen Fessler by the fire until two in the morning drinking wine. What a nice, we had a nice weekend in Tonya. We took her to a nice dinner. Then she left us and went to some party that she did not invite us to after that. That was the first night. Then we did the frat part.

We had a great weekend. So everyone out there, I don't know if your kids are in middle school or if they're in high school yet, but wait till this happens. This is a fun little weekend. Be excited to go and enjoy yourself. They're never too old. Everybody thinks you're old. You're never too old, man.

Live life. Look what's happening in the world right now. You got to live and you got to enjoy yourself and work hard and play hard. You know what I tell you? Everybody's so like, I'm too old for this. No, you're not. No, you're not.

Live. Everybody live alone. Let's talk about, and I'll speak of living. Let's talk about what's going on in my life lately and how crazy this is. I know most of you probably have seen this on Instagram. I posted it on my Instagram, but I recently found out that I am severely anemic.

And I know that doesn't sound like a big deal, right? And I never, you don't think of anemia as a big deal, but it actually really, really is. And I'm telling everyone you guys should go to your blood work because I always get told, you know, when you go to your routine doctor visit, I actually, this doctor visit I had to do for the Real Housewives of New Jersey, guys,

because they make us go Like every time before we start filming we have to get a health check, right? So you have to go to your doctor make sure you're healthy. My doctor this time said to me here You need to get your blood work done. We've haven't had blood work in a while and of course I put it I said all right They give you the script and I put that script on my desk for the last two, three months. Like literally, it's been sitting on my desk. And I was like, ah, blood work.

Sometimes I just ignore a lot of times. I'm like, I don't need to get blood work. I'm good. I have a problem with it. Something this time, three months later, right? So you should get it. It's not a joke. I know.

Made me go get the blood work. So my doctor calls me instantly. And was like, something's off. It doesn't seem right. I'd like you to go back this week and do it again. So I'm like, oh, I put that off for another two weeks. I'm like, and then I said to myself, you know what? He said something didn't seem right, let me go back.

So he calls me the next day after I do it twice. He's like, you need to go within the next 12 hours to a hematologist, which is a blood doctor. And let me just explain what anemia is. It's a condition in which the body does not have enough to a hematologist, which is a blood doctor. And let me just explain what anemia is. It's a condition in which the body does not have enough healthy red blood cells. And those are very important because red blood cells provide oxygen to your body, okay? So it's really what keeps the blood flowing, it keeps the air flowing.

It has a huge, so it sounds like it's not a big deal inemia, right? Because everyone's like, oh, we'll just take iron and you'll be better. But people have stroke because of it. Um, a lot of strokes, brain aneurysms, there's things that happen when people don't catch that they have anemia. And it's not easy to catch unless you get blood work. Um, a lot of the signs, a lot of people are saying like, do you have any symptoms and signs? And I was ignoring them all. Now that I'm paying

attention to it, I was completely ignoring the signs, which were fatigue. He said to me, so when I went, your number should be a 75. I don't know what if it's my red blood count, whatever it is should be a 75. I was at a seven and then I dropped down to a two, which is Earth three rather. What do you mean from 75 to what? No, 75 is what a normal person is. When they checked me, I was a seven. By the time I checked the second time,

I was adding number two. I mean, a zero, you can need a blood transfusion. My next step would have been having a blood transfusion. If you were around to a two, bad, that's bad. No, I know. But it's the symptoms. So the symptoms, yeah, you would need like a blood transfusion. It was low, very low, extremely low. So he looked at me basically, my doctor, who is amazing, by the way, he's a great hematologist, a meat potel over in Jersey City. He said to me, are you tired? Are you winded?

How are you doing at the gym? Like, have you been laying down, not wanting to do much, like a groggy, and all of these things? And you know what, I think I have been, but I completely ignore it, right Joe? Like, do you ever hear me really complain about that stuff? Not not too much. Oh you've been grinding. You just you just go go go go see just you can plan about just when when we're always going to you a little bit tired but I'm tired. I've been

going to bed earlier that's for sure. I'm usually like I am one of those people who go like 24 seven never stop. I'm not like a sit down kind of girl that watches TV. I don't do any of that, right? So for me, I push through, but I did notice lately that like my breathing maybe is a little off or I can't catch my breath as much. And that's a sign that I just didn't pay attention to. I also noticed that I breathe really heavy. I noticed when I'm in the gym, I'm panting more than I normally do.

And I'm just thinking, oh shit, what happened more than I normally do and I'm just thinking oh shit What happened? I turned 40 and now I can't like handle it anymore like but no, you know what else is so crazy Which a lot of people were DMing me on Instagram. They asked me Melissa to you to ice and I'm like yes All day look that's a huge sign when you just want to chomp on ice. I love ice. No, like I chomp on ice. Like it's my job. And once I start, I can't stop. It's like it's like, but tell everybody what caused this.

So, well, it's not the only cause. Like I guess I have anemia in my body, but also heavy periods can cause and your menstrual cycle can be a major problem. So if you are one of those girls who are heavy and you have any types of signs at all, you should be getting your blood work done because you can just suddenly have a stroke

and it caused from anemia. So it's a little more serious than it. So if anything, I wanna bring a little awareness and I had infusions now, I'm getting infused once a week and I do feel better after I have an infusion But I definitely need it you know a ton more my doctor said like if you can do it twice a week Let's do it because we need to like back my body up with that But that's a little scary thing. I've never really had I mean listen a lot of you know I also have heart issues. I don't know. I've had

Co-arctation of the aorta at eight years old, which is like a major heart surgery. Holy shit. I'm just start looking. But I'm fixed. I'm fine. I'm good from when I was eight. But for those of you who didn't know that, I'm also a heart patient. So it's very. It's a very young man. That's rough. Yes. Yes. I was in the hospital for, you know, a month. She had a big scar on her back. They cut her from the back. Her mother was smart and cut her from the back, not from the front. Right. You know, a month. She had a big scar on her back. They cut her from the back. Her mother was smart and cut her from the back, not from the front, you know, because now open heart.

My dad had an open heart. I had a big scar right down his middle of his chest. Yeah. But her mother did ask the guy, the doctor, at the time to please cut me through the back because I was a girl and she didn't want a big. And thank God she didn't. And it was your mother.

I always, my mother's a nurse. So she kind of, you know, I guess she spoke to it and they did it and thank God she did it. I owe you a mother. I owe you my mother's a nurse. So she kinda, you know, I guess she spoke to it and they did it and thank God that they did. You know, I always forget about my scar because I can't see it until somebody comes up to me and says like when I'm gonna bathing suit or in a little dress or something, you're like what's this scratch on your back?

And I'm always just like, oh, I don't open heart surgery and they're like in shock. And I totally forget that I have it on my back. I totally forget. And someone has to literally remind me that I have it. So now with the period then, you can get, you can get it removed, right? Well, removed.

I'm just saying, I always say, why are you talking about a period just sound weird? Because I always say, I just can't, I can't, this period thing, you can get it removed, right? Did the thing removed and now? No, you can get an ablation or something it's called like an ablation

Which makes it stop and like whatever? Why doesn't all the women just do that? Who wants to bleed? Oh my god. Oh my god. I gotta cut on my finger. I'm like oh my god Cuz it's a surgery and you only do it if need be I'm sad is the surgery has gonna be like how bad could it be? It's not that bad. It's an actually one day very easy. So then why don't all the women do it? Well, some women still want to have children. So that's why when you're done having children. Yeah, when you're done, you're, you're free and able to do it.

When you decide, Hey, I don't want to have. Yeah, if I was, if I'm telling you, if I want some done having children, if I was a woman, taking that right out, all right. Well, you should have snipped yourself. I'm all, you know, you're still capable of having children. I'm waiting for somebody to bring my doorbell one day. Ding dong. I got you. I got you step kid, whatever this is here. Why I'm not going to do that thing.

What do you call that thing? What they find out who you. Oh, yeah. For sure. You know what? We're going to do that to you. 50 shades. What's a call?

50 shades. No. Wait, wait, it's a call. 53 and me was a car. What is it called? 23 and me. Oh, 23. There you go. Yeah, 20. No, no, no. Maybe like, yeah, you got 60 toe children. Yeah, there.

Oh my god. Well, let's just wrap this up with I want to tell you guys, don't ignore signs. That's number one. And get your blood work done. Don't be like me. I am the absolute worst. Joe, your second worst next to me, we're like, we're good, we're good, we're good. We push through, we push through. But there are underlying things that happen. And like, it is scary. I'll tell you what, I know it sounds like nobody deal.

I was very taken back by it and shocked and felt scared. And I was like, oh my god, what do you mean? I could have had a stroke. What do you mean I would have needed a blood print? Because I probably still wouldn't have got my blood work done. And right now, I'd be at a number two and not even just pushing through. And that's scary. That would be me too.

Because I just fight right through it. That could be right now. Because- Are there any appointments I missed for, like, had hard appointments to go to? No, you should always be a cardiologist. You should start getting one of all these things. You gotta do the thing up your butt.

Don't you, too, at this age. You gotta do all that stuff. As soon as you hit 40 something. Yeah, that's what happens. But I miss I cancel every appointment. I never show up. So it's bad. Yeah.

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I'll show you a family with secrets. What else is going on in the world, Joe? I'll show you a family with secrets. What else is going on in the world, Joe? Any rumors out there about you lately that you're hearing that you'd like to clear up today? Every day is a rumor. Well, no stuff. You know what I did see? I saw that with you.

I mean, there's always rumors about both of us. But with you, they were like, oh, Antonio must not like that her dad was at the frat party. I'm like, what? Antonio must not like that her dad was at the frat party. I'm like, what? Antonio begged us and called us 10 times until we showed up at the frat party. He's like, oh, forget it. Every day.

Oh, you know what I, what I did here, somebody just sent me this the other day or two days ago. And they were saying, what's going on with Joe, Gorga and Frank Catania. He wasn't at his comedy show. We don't see him with him anymore. Oh, really? All the time. Frank Catania has a very busy building his home. He's our new neighbor, by the way. Frank Catania is building a home right down the street with Britney. So that's very exciting. But we love Frank. He was at our house last night, literally. Is that a house? He couldn't

come to the comedy show because he was at a wedding and I'm always. And I invited him to something else too. Well, he was at your birthday party down the shore. Yeah, he was there. And something else I invited him to. But lately, you know what happened to him? He just what happened is now he's in the relationship. Right. So when you're in the fun. Yeah, when you're in a series relationship the women take over we gotta go here We gotta do this say you got no balls anymore. We lose him. He already had no balls that are gone The start doing couples dates with Frank. I do love him. He's a good guy He was here last night sit on my couch and all I could see was his teeth. Yeah, he's got his new teeth

So he's like this he just got smiling with his teeth. I think he's like, you know, he has a dispensary business now Right, he does the whole dispensary thing. So I feel like he pops a gummy here and there. He's just a fun guy We were talking. He was I had I had all my my gear on him for Joe at 10x law dot com. Oh God guys Oh, wait, we have to talk about your billboards for a second guys if you're in New Jersey and you're driving around New Jersey Arizona New Jersey and you're driving around New Jersey, are you seeing Joe at 10xLaw.com, if anyone's been injured in a car accident, Joe is now a partner in a law firm. He's obviously a non-atorney partner.

So for everyone always asking, the billboards are just funny, they're catchy. It's great marketing, obviously. Forget about it. They say, forget about it. Call me Joe Gorgah. Joe at 10xlod.com email me. Listen, what's happening is honestly,

everybody gets screwed. I'm here to help everybody to get what you need. It's just pointing you in the right direction for a firm that he is connected to. So, you know, it's great and it's funny because it's like marketing and it's it's Joe at 10X. Oh, that's so many ones have been injured or an accident. Joe at 10X. Loa. There you go. Babe, look at that little plug. You just got there on my podcast on display. He's going to school for 10 years.

I just buy in. He You just buy into the company. There you go. There you go. Wait, so let's get back to rumors for a second. Oh, I know. They're writing Tom. Tom, someone that I've worked with for a really long time. People are writing that I fired him.

I guys just FYI, false news. I did not fire Tom. What I did do was hire. I do now have a full-time personal assistant, which I never really thought. I've always had, so Tom always helped me with my bookings and certain deals and things like that. He would bring me deals and stuff like that.

But I never hired, because this was not Tom's position. I never hired a full-time personal assistant. I never hired someone that was gonna kind of just run my life. And I recently hired one that I am obsessed with, by the way, shout out, she's amazing. And she works with me 24 seven now. Tom I still work with for a deal-to-deal basis so if Tom gets any deals or things or whatever it may be he brings them to me and we work together we have a great relationship like people

love to make shit up like Tom lives in New York City He's not here grabbing like dry cleaning. I have a full-time assistant that's here with me helping me do my My bookings and my schedule and just every day things that Melissa Gorgon needs in life, right? So I love how people just like assume or they hear like one little tis bit as like Oh, maybe he's not handling her schedule anymore because now she hired a full-time person. And then they assume like, he's fired. It's just crazy how people- Thomas family. Yeah, he's like, it's so silly. Thomas always gonna be tough.

Why do people come, like, I just don't get it. And they get this like little piece of information where it's like most hired someone else. He's done. No, we actually still work together He brings me deals and we work together that way. I don't need 17 people like handling my schedule One is suffice for now until I take over the world But for now, right? People make up a lot of you still talk to talk. It's like why are people so weird? I don't get it what I will say is I notice a lot of podcasts and bloggers. I want them to eventually call me and say thanks, Melissa, because you give us a lot of content to talk shit

about you and your husband. We talk shit about you. We tweet about you. You give us a lot of fucking headlines. We did a whole podcast on a lie on you on shit that's completely untrue. We made these poor people on Instagram believe us like for so much. Now there's more strippers shit. Oh my don't of me like the more nonsense that I've heard in a long time. So it's like I just want to thank you when you guys when they see me that's all. Hey,

girl. What's up? Thank you because I tweet about you all day and you know what girl? Thank you. You give me some cloud. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're typing a bunch of bullshit But you know what have fun with that. I respect the game. I'm not hating I get it But like I should be I should I should be proud that like we bring the heat we bring the combo right there is nothing more depressing to me that you were you A stripper I am so I wore it. You're sure whatever you say yeah, whatever it is. I mean Cardi B She was a stripper and her man. It has a good time cuz she dances for him. Oh my god Yeah, I wish I wish I mean ever say she's stripper. No guys, please you don't you have no idea It's like whatever it's the oldest thing ever

Even if you were like who cares that's what I'm saying like I would own it. Why wouldn't I freaking own Good for me kind of wish I was by By the way, you were a stripper. We got no shame in the stripper game. We got no shame in the game. I was a straight up bartender and I literally worked there for only on one night a week. It was like a dead night. I didn't get a good night. I got like Wednesday nights because I was like young and I worked one night a week and

I literally worked there for less than a year. It was like maybe six months. I met you. You came and visited me like Twice I wear I wore I don't even know why we're talking about this right now But who cares? I got into it. Let's keep going. I wear cheerleading shorts It was like the same with sneakers and a tank top like the same outfit you would wear when you went to cheer practice as a teenager It's like what I wore. Yeah, great. You guys want to hear the funniest thing? People still like to say it was a stripper.

Wait, I got a good story. There was one night out of the year where the strippers become the bartenders and the bartenders become the strippers, right? So that's what this place did, one time out of the year. And the strippers aren't even, I mean, they're in bikinis. It's like a bikini stripping place. So even if you are a stripper you are you're wearing a bikini

But I wasn't even the bikini wear I was I was the short black like cheerleading shorts wear okay? I missed those strip clubs. Wait, so so hold on so so there was one day out of the year It was like a big night out of the year where they make the bartenders go up and strip strip where the bikinis and then the other girls tried to be the bartender I did not even participate in that day. I was such like a boring like whatever. I didn't participate in that day I could better like they tried my managers tried so hard. They're like come on. Melissa. You got to do it Everybody want you I wouldn't even do cuz I I was too, like, weirdly shy or something. So, like, I can't even take ownership of the bartender stripper day.

I can't even take ownership of that. So it's like all of this nonsense in these people. I'm just so confused. Like, I just wanted to talk to them all. I was the stripper and, you know, I'm, we, Bravo Khan coming up. Oh, wait, we got to talk about this. I got a Michael Magic like stripper guys, but Bravo Con is in two weeks. Okay, I just want to announce that I get my moves together You do you got a lot of shit. He's maddy hasn't worked out. That's what he was bitching about when we started

They want to take my shirt off. I'm not even taking shirt off. We're the right now. One of the first events at BravoCon, if you have tickets. It's like the Friday, one of the first events, Joe Gorga. And who is it with you? Frank Cattania, Joe Pininco, is Evan or something? I don't even know. John Fuda.

John Fuda. I don't know. Some of the Jersey guys are going to be magic Mike, okay? And there is going to be a magic Mike performance. I ain't gonna have second-hand embarrassment. We all know I'm gonna have second-hand embarrassment. I'm gonna wanna kill myself. I could picture, I already know how you try to dance,

just like if we're dancing and you do that sexy face thing with your name. Like I wish you guys, this is where I wish we had a video podcast. No, for real. This one always like- You better not make it serious show. It's not serious It's like you know, you know, so I want to make it funny. It's not funny. What no my comedy is fun No, no, you think this is gonna be I'm gonna turn No, no, you knew that I'm gonna I'm gonna die. Yeah, you're no, no This is not meant to be serious is supposed to be like plenty he he ha ha no It's not they got a whole production going on. Yes, did we get a whole zoom call. It's crazy

I they got dancers with us the real dancers. I can't get that magic mic show coming it's in Vegas They're with us Jackie Jacqueline Marfouji is the host of it. I know so they will have the magic mic dancers with them Which will make it that much better? This is a big thing. I know. So they will have the magic Mike Sancers with them, which will make it that much better. This is a big thing. I do think it's a star goal. I just, I'm my, where my, I can go get my elephant. No, you are not.

I already threw that in the garbage. I'll go get another one. Joe had an elephant. Guys, just funny facts. I think I've said this before in the podcast, but like, Joe had an elephant thong in his draw. When I first met him next to his bed, what is that called?

Next to your bed. Your nightstand. Your nightstand. I pulled out one's an elephant. Like, what is that? An elephant. Yeah, a trunk. The trunk.

You put your, you put the thing in the trunk. You put the thing in the trunk. Okay, we get it. I was completely appalled. And I was like, if you ever, this would never turn me on. Like, I'm that girl that doesn't even want to see the guy in the speedout. Like don't do it. It took me a while to get used to the short bathing suits.

Let me show you my picture when I was. No one can see it. When I'm a show to you. I've seen it. Yeah, let me show you. This is when I did this is when I showed your thighs and how big your squads were. I see. I got it.

I'm slacken, dude. I got to get back into this. So now he just realized tonight before we jump on this podcast that he has to be magic Mike in two weeks and do this at Prabhupon and he starts to pitch, like, I gotta go on a diet, I gotta start working out, I haven't been working out much, like the whole day.

Yeah, come on, we gotta do a podcast. I want to do a workout tonight. Now I gotta get up tomorrow and find, every day. You don't have to come in this play. Like, you know, this is a privilege to be on my podcast. You're right.

You're welcome. You just, you just said it. It's a privilege to have me. Tell me what everyone said to you. Tell me what everyone said to you. Everywhere we go and everyone at the comedy show, the first words out of everybody's mouth that I met at Joe's comedy show.

Do they say the same thing to you? What they say everyone walk. Oh my god. The podcast the podcast. We love you guys on the podcast the podcast. Oh you guys They like they like you guys You know I love my podcast, but they I couldn't believe how many people were just like the podcast the podcast So hi guys and thank you so much for listening because that I love. So you're welcome that I let all these wonderful people hear your voice. Very good. Thank you.

It's awesome, but do a lot of people say let's do all the time? All the time. I get it like everywhere I go these days. Anyway, guess who's back on with me next week guys? Guess who's back on with me next week. Who? You, babe!

I got you booked two weeks in a row because next week we're gonna talk you're returning next week We're gonna talk about the song baby. You need the ratings man. You need Joey Gorgherty. Yeah, baby Let's talk all things Fall and Halloween and we're gonna give some when next week. Yeah, some dirt on our Halloween parties and And all that fun stuff. So make sure you guys tune in next week? Yeah, some dirt on our Halloween parties and all that fun stuff. So make sure you guys tune in next week. We're going to give you one more episode with Joe before I kick him off for a couple of weeks.

So take all the Joe in while you can. And we love you guys. We'll talk soon. Oh, it's over ready. Yeah, say goodbye. Have an awesome week, everybody. We love you. Peace.

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