On Display with Melissa Gorga - The Family Tree w/ Joe Gorga

Episode Date: April 17, 2025

Is Joe Gorga a good dancer? Was he ever?? Melissa's hubby joins the show to discuss ALL THINGS TREES, including what happens when they cut them down in their neighborhood and why Melissa's negativity killed a tree in their front yard (allegedly). PLUS: How many proms did Joe go to as a kid? What celebrity has been eating Melissa's cake? And how to make your husband pay more attention to you!!We have deals for YOU!!Quince - Treat yourself to luxe upgrades! Go to Quince.com/melissa for 365-day returns PLUS free shipping on your order!Happy Mammoth - Feel Like Yourself Again! HappyMammoth.com + promo code: MELISSA (15% off)Wayfair - Shop the best selection of home improvement online! Head to Wayfair.com right now!Booking.com - Find the Stay That's Ridiculously Right for YOU at Booking.comProgressive - Check out the Name-Your-Price Tool at Progressive.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Is that how you say it? Melissa Ners. Hey, hello Melissa Ners. Another day and with on display, we're just hanging out. And we got the man, Joey Gorgi, here, the one and only releasing the poison every other night. Yeah. Yeah. That's how you introduce my podcast.

Yeah. Every other night. Used to be every night, you know. And you think you're a poet and don't know it. You were rhyming. What did you say? On display every day. What did you say? Every day, every day. She wants to be the...

Joe, sing for us real quick. Sing on display, let's see if you have any lungs. Any tunes, any melody. On display, on display, on display. No, no, try hard, try hard. Each and every day, every day, every day. People, wait,, people, wait. I don't know.

How does that? You don't know the words? Everybody knows the words. Want me to fall? What is it? Everybody's waiting on me. Oh, everybody's waiting for me to fall. Damn, I'm terrible.

Wait, you can't, come on, I wanna really try, like embarrass yourself, sing it out. I'm not, I'm trying. Okay, go, one more time. Everybody wants me to fall? What is it? Because I'm on, go. Because I'm trying. Okay, go one more time. Everybody wants me to fall? Because I'm on display. Everybody's waiting for me to fall. You suck, bro.

One thing I'm not is the singer. Antonia and Joey didn't get, they could both sing a little bit, Antonia and Joey. They got that from me, not you. One thing I don't have is that rhythm boy I don't know I could dance nah. No, you don't have great rhythm dancing. You don't you're an okay dancer You're not like a Spanish club. I can go do the latina thing I put me do is shake your hips because you you shake them and put your penis as close as you can to the body

That's not do it works. It's called Latin dancing. It's my end gay. I could can to the body. That's not dancing. Whatever I do, it works. It's called Latin dancing. It's merengue. I can do the merengue. That's not dancing. That's called facing, dry humping, dry humping, dry humping. No, but I used to dance very well until I met you because you're really not such a dancer. I'm an excellent dancer.

I know, but you're not into dancing. You mean dance with you. No, I don't like couples' dances. I think it's weird. Like I'm not into like shimmy shimmy couple. Yeah, that's weird. That's so weird that you're not into that. That's one thing.

That's like- Cause I giggle at people who do. I think it's weird. Yeah, but that's really, that kind of sucks. Like I kind of, I miss out on that. You were in- I dance with your sisters. You know that, right?

Yeah. Cause that's when we go to a wedding guys. Melissa's really- Me and you do slow dancing at the wedding. Yeah, very little. wedding very little not you're really not a dancer. I'm a dancer No, I know but you're not a like a dad partner dancer. You're not I don't want to dance I don't know why why you like that? It's like weird. But really why you like that? It was is it something that went on in your childhood or? It's wrong with you

Like what like I don't want to dance like what are you talking about? What is wrong with you? Like what? Like I don't want to dance. Like what are you talking about? No, but you go to a wedding and you go to like a thing. I like to dance. Like you mean fast like to good club music? Yeah, I can fast dance.

I can slow dance. I could. Babe, you're not the best dancer. I was until I haven't danced in 20 years. No, you think you're a good dancer, but what you do is you kind of grind on the girl. That's your dance. Listen, I grind, I dance, I hip hop, I do whatever I do.

You don't hip hop. Yes I do. Oh my God. Fuck you don't. You didn't just say I hip hop. Come on, I grew up in Patterson, New Jersey. Who cares, doesn't give you a rhythm. I was taught, I had to dance, trust me.

You know, I know, I know how to dance. Nah. You just took it away from me. You don't have a lot of rhythm, honey. I know, I know how to dance. You just took it away from me. You don't have a lot of rhythm, honey. You know, but it's okay. I didn't take it away from you. It's all right, so when we go to a wedding, if we're like we're at a family function,

it's a wedding, it's a birthday. And it's like everybody's dancing. I dance with Kimmy and Lisa, Melissa sisters, and we dance, they can dance. They're wild. Yeah, we dance, we get into it. And they need, you know, everything. Are you such a weirdo?

I go right for them, cause I don't go for you cause you don't dance. I don't like to do that, like booty popping on the dance floor together. It's not really booty popping. I think it's so weird. It's called dancing. It's called dancing.

We slow dance together. Yeah, we do that. Does it make you insecure Joe? Do you feel like I don't like dancing with you? No. I mean, yes, in the beginning, it was weird, yes. Really? Beginning like when we were 25 beginning? Yeah, yeah. I would get, because I came off another relationship that we danced. All my girlfriends, yeah.

Oh, you're going to talk to other girlfriends right now? Should I talk about the other guys in my life that were excellent dancers? I can't help it. I'm telling you how it was. I came off other dancer. Like what is that supposed to mean? Oh, look at that. Stop. Don't get jealous now. I'm not getting jealous. It's inappropriate. You don't need to tell me. I don't care. Or else I'll tell you how I used to dance. You know what screwed up too? Tony, my best friend Tony, his mom called me the other day. She had some newspaper clips of me playing football. Please, he comes home with this laminated clip of himself

and he's so proud. It was like Joe Gorgas scores a touchdown, Kennedy High School, but she saved it, right? Which was so cute, right? It was like Kennedy High School played Bergen Catholic. Yeah, it was my best friend's mom. And then I was like, oh yeah, we started talking. I go, yeah, you know what?

She goes, I have other pictures I saw of you and Tony and all these girls and you guys were away. And I got them. I got them all saved. I want to show you. I go, you know what? All my pictures, you threw away my whole albums. No, I didn't. Yes you did, where are they?

I don't know, what do you want, pictures of you with girls? Is that what you want? You got your pictures, were you and your boyfriends? No I don't. Yes you do, you still got those pictures. I have a, I have a tub or wear, whatever that's called, with all my old like high school club pictures. Where is my stuff?

Not my problem, I don't know. I don't know if you girls or anybody out there, throw away your husband. Why Joe, you're looking for someone that used to be in your life? You want to find a photo? No, but I could show my sons. Look at this.

Your son don't want to see any of those girls. Trust me, they are very non-comparable. Yeah. He will be like, dad, he did good with mom. I just want everybody to know how jealous this woman is. I am not jealous. I can't wait till people find out this little project that we're going to be working on in a couple of weeks. And like, obviously we're not allowed to talk about it.

Can't say no. Absolutely not. Can't. All right. So I just looked at me. Eyes open up. No, no, no, no. Can't say there's something fun that you guys will hear about eventually that Joe and I are going to do together. Oh, I can't wait. Don't don't get you. You're not allowed to speak right now. I'm not. I'm just I can't wait to see.

But you guys are going to die. Like it's a really something funny, like crazy and funny. And sometimes I can't even believe I'm going to participate in this. So we could tell them we could. to die like it's a really something funny like crazy and funny and sometimes I can't even believe I'm gonna participate in this. So we can tell them we can't say that we can't say anything can you say what we're doing like no no say it's a nope no can we say no we're filming something well there oh okay maybe yeah who gives a shit anyway you guys will be excited. It's funny, so we'll talk about it when we can.

I think this is top secret. Oh, geez, you really suck at this. Like you suck at this. Like you suck at this. You're the guy that like, you gotta kick you under the table all the time because you just don't listen. You're very thick headed.

You are. Kind of like today when you were, oh you know what happened to Joe today guys? You wanna tell, he comes home and like makes a coffee covered in sawdust or like tree snap. What the hell was all over you? Tree snap. Tree snap.

What do you mean tree snap? No it's. So we found, so there's a house for sale guys on our street and we like to flip properties and the realtors around here know that like, you know, I love my street. I always said when I moved to Franklin Lakes, I wanted to live on the street we live on because it's a beautiful street and it's the best part of town and I wanted to live on this street.

Right. So I feel like I manifested that here in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Joe, right? Yep. And so anyway, they know that there is a lake across the street from my house and I'm across the street from a lake, but I would love the only time I would ever move again. I always tell Joe is if I literally stay on my same street, but we just move across the street because it's still the same block

and I'll have the lake in my backyard. So it's almost like waking up at my shore house with all the water in the backyard, which I always get to the story. Oh yeah, I know. I'm just rambling. Okay. Oh my God. Sorry. Okay. So bottom line is, but listen to this drive and they're sleeping. You're going to make them crash. Stop. I want, I wanted a house. Now you made me lose. You tell the story. I just lost my train of thought. A realtor called me inside deal got this nice house for you. You want to do a flip. Went to look at it. I loved it. I loved it and my best friend is looking for a house. He's been looking in our town for over a year. Two years. Yeah two years. I can't find something. I was like,

this is an amazing flip. It took a day. I sat on it for a day. Then I just called. We were out to dinner. I think it was me. I looked at you and I said, really, we should be giving this to... No, no. Don't take the credit. Yeah. I said we should be giving it to our friends who have been searching for a house. No, no, no. So I called our best friends and I said, listen, I got something. Come look at it. He came and looked at it, looked at it for a minute, literally a minute.

We'll take it. And now they bought it. And today I went and went, I helped them out as cause it's, you know, it's his first big house. There's a lot of trees that need to come down guys. So guess what Joe does? I went and went, I helped him out as, cause it's, you know, it's his first. Get to the point. There's a lot of trees that need to come down guys. So guess what Joe does? He goes and takes the trees down himself. He tries to go into massive trees.

What do you mean I tried? I did it. What are you talking about? These were massive. When I tell you these massive oak trees and they were hanging over these wires. Oh, it was so, so difficult. But here I come like the Tasmanian devil. I came in this morning and I tied ropes to these trees. I had excavators, I had bobcats and I'm dropping these monster hundred and

something foot tall oak trees. They're as fat as can be. I drop them in the middle of the street, like through, like in between the wires. It was like amazing. I really have to give myself credit. It really, even the other guys I showed up, I'll tell you after that. So I'm dropping, I dropped these two monster trees.

Boom, they sound like lightning when they hit the ground. I actually dropped like five or six of them. Just amazing the way I did it. I really have to give myself credit again. No, but then it was- Hercules, Hercules. So bottom line is there was a truck that pulls up and I'm gonna call this guy out.

I don't know, some guy that feeds trees. I really need one of those. Why didn't you get their number? I don't know, he pulls over, he he's watching us so he's sitting in the in the corner and he's just watching and I see him all of a sudden cops show up the town shows up DPW shows up that mean it was sirens everywhere because in this town oh yeah in this town you have to have. The trees are big time in this town.

Yeah, you have to have permits to cut trees. You don't cut trees. It's like a major fine. And it's hard to get the permits because they love, and I agree with them, the trees make the town of Franklin Lakes. It's like the most gorgeous town of trees. You can murder somebody in this town and get away with it. I mean, they won't even show up.

But if you cut the tree down, oh, you're going to prison. You're done. Oh, they went, let me tell you something, became like crazy. So cops come, I show up, because I ran to the store to buy some oil, came back, show up, the cops are there. I'm like, oh, what's going on?

You got permanent? I go, it's Joe Gorka I go, oh, they're like, oh Joe, what's up? So we start doing the DPW, they're on the phone, they're trying to figure it out. They find out there was permits, they say, yep, eight trees, no problem. They're like, Joe, you're dropping the shit in the street.

I go, it was only a minute, look. And I go, what happened? I go, who the hell called? He goes, some that guy, some tree guy called some I go son of a bitch so here we are we're working the guy keeps driving around this guy in his truck because he wanted to cut the trees so he keeps driving around I left I had to go get gas I came back as I'm coming back in the development I see this guy driving by again isn't it funny how people are so nosy so hold hold on, I chase him.

I chase him. I pull him over, and I'm not like that. And I go, I pull the guy over. He puts his window down. He was actually like he was gonna do an estimate or something. He was pulling. I go, what are you doing? I go, buddy, are you the guy?

He goes, hey Joe, he knew me. Why? He goes, hey Joe, how are you? I go, don't hi you me. How you doing? I go, you're the guy that called the cops. He goes, no, no, no. you? I go, don't hi you me, how you doing? I go, you're the guy that called the cops. He goes, no, no, no. I go, why would you call the cops?

I go, he goes, no, no, it was the neighbor. I go, how do you know? How do you even know what we're talking about, buddy? I go, I saw you standing there. I said, what if I was some crazy son of a bitch right now and I pulled out a gun and I... No, no, no, no. Let's talk about it.

No, it's people that do that. I'm telling you. Well, crazy people. But that's why you should not drive up to his car then and say anything. I grew up in a neighborhood that you mind your freaking business. No matter what's going on, you mind your business, stay the hell out of it, and that's it. Here's guy was on the line. He calls...

Joe, that's old school, honey. It's not like that. We're in 2025. Bullshit, listen, it's the same thing like road rage. You pull somebody over, you beep the horn too long, and that guy is having a bad day. He fought with his wife today, and he's like, wanna kill somebody. Remember that movie we saw like that?

Oh my God. Yeah. The guy pulls you over, he pulls out a gun, and he shoots you. I mean, really, I mean, you gotta just mind your god damn business. So how did it end with this other tree guy? Were you guys nice to each other? No, I told him to go, I really did. No. I mean, really, I mean, you got to just mind your god. So how did it end with this other tree guy? Were you guys nice to each other? No, I told him to go. I really did. I did. Because I don't like it. I said, bro, how did you know? I left. I didn't say nothing. I said, you're being a jerk off.

And I just took off. I mean, just not nice, man. People not nice. Be nice. Well, we're just not that way. We don't reciprocate that way. Like we don't get into people that way. We don't get into people's business. I don't get into anyone's business. We've never called and said, oh, the noise is too loud. We don't do any of that ever in our lives. I don't think we even send a steak back to a restaurant.

We just don't do it. We don't do it. I don't bother people, man. Let people live. I mean, listen, obviously, if there's something terrible going on yes I'm gonna get somebody's getting you know beat or you know God forbid something else of course but not not none of that stuff buddy so the moral of the story is mind your business mind your business and be nice bro I don't care I hope he listens to this he was like hey Joe how you doing Joe

how you doing I go what do you mean I go, what do you mean? How you doing? What is wrong with you? Got me mad today because you know, leave me alone. Jesus. All right. So whatever. So it's a, so the moral story, mind your business. Okay. You got really hyped up for that one. You got anything to say? Not really. Other than that you should-

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down. I'm at a monster tree and it's so big. And tell the story about that tree. Tell the tell the tell the story. We have a crazy story about the tree on our front yard guys. This is really crazy, actually. So we had, there was this like this, I don't know if you want to call her psychic or a medium.

She was like more of a medium. And my friends were like, you have to call her. You can call her from your phone. She's great. Maybe she'll reach your dad. Maybe she'll, and I'm not totally into that stuff, but I was like, all right, I'll give her a call. So I call her and I was like, all right, I'll give her a call. So I call her and I was like scared to be in my house.

I don't know. I'm weird like that. I didn't want to be in my house. So I sat outside in my car, my driveway, and I was staring at like the big tree on my front yard. And she started talking to me, telling me stuff. Some things were just not on point really at all. So anyway, the tree, we're staring,

I'm staring at the tree the whole time. And she's like, you know, your father's here. He's the tree. He's the tree in your front yard. So wait, wait. So did you tell her that you were staring at the tree? No. So you were just outside on the phone,

staring at the tree. Yes. And she brings up the tree. Yeah, she told me he's the tree in your front yard. Now this tree in our front yard is gorgeous. It's big. It's huge. It's like five feet around and spread out and go ahead and finish.

So she tells me basically like, that's your dad. That tree is your dad. And I'm like, really? I'm like, and I kind of was just like rolling my eyes a little bit and I was like like that's your dad, that tree is your dad. And I'm like, really? I'm like, and I kind of was just like rolling my eyes a little bit and I was like, that's my dad. I was like, maybe you're getting confused. I said, I'm actually staring at the tree. I said, so maybe that's why it's like popping up.

I said, my dad, when he died, he was driving and hit a tree. So maybe that's what you're thinking of. Like my dad died in a car accident when he, you know, my dad was so young guys, he was 49. He was driving and he hit a tree and he broke his neck and died on the spot. He like got flung out of the car and died right on the, this woman's lawn next to this big tree that he hit. Right. crazy. I was I was like five days after my 17th birthday, so I had just turned 17 and he was 49 Joe. So he was like that's young, you know Anyway, make a long story short this tree my age this tree that he was talking that that this

Medium or psychic was talking about within six months is completely dead on our front yard. It wasn't six months, it died within. Like three months. Three weeks or a month. Like was it dying last summer? Was it dying? I gotta look at photos. It was a beautiful tree.

Full green, nice, guys, you can't, now this tree you can never replace. No, it's a massive tree. I think you killed it because you know why? You were so negative. You were so negative about it. You didn't want to, you're like the tray, he's in the tray. You killed the tree.

What? That freaks me out. You have to think positive when you talk to him, you gotta believe. Really? Yeah, now the tree's dead. Okay, well no, he wouldn't kill the tree. My dad didn't kill the tree if he was the tree. But that's pretty wild that you were looking now the tree is dead. Well, no, he wouldn't kill the tree. My dad didn't kill the tree if he was the tree.

But that's pretty wild that you were looking at the tree and she says the tree in your front yard is your dad. And I go, well, I'm looking at the tree and I said, my dad hit a tree. And so it all kind of did make sense. So you were sitting on the front porch. The best part is now the tree is dead, though. Like, what? Oh, the tree is dead. When I tell you it died so fast, it's dropping, it's peeling, it's

dropping branches. It's real guys. It's really bad. Now I refuse. I refuse to call a tree guy. I will do it myself. No, but like, so some, I was outside today and like, I guess a company drove by me and they're like, Hey, can we cut that tree down for you? And I'm like, how much? I'm like, you know, out there trying to negotiate. And I was like, my husband really wants to cut it down, but I really want to save Joe. I don't know why you insist on cutting the tree down. I was like, how much?

I almost tried to do it behind your back real quick, but I was like, I'll get in trouble from the town because I don't know if he got the permit yet or whatever. So I didn't do it. But I was like, give me a price so that Joe doesn't have to cut. All right. The day I cut the tree, I'm actually going to I'm not going to climb this one. I'm going to I'm going to rent the little boom. So the day we cut the tree, we'll do a video.

We're going to post it out there. Why is this tree bigger than the ones you cut today? Well, it's this one's huge. Yeah, it's bigger. Well, it's it's you got everything around it. The other ones we can drop it right on. No, the other the other ones today I think I have pictures of before they're very I'm gonna post very dangerous. Oh, yeah. They were very dangerous

Why would you risk your life like that? I was very over the wires the electrical wires exactly curl over Well, why would you do that? Because I don't know man, you know me, I'm nuts. I'm nuts. I am nuts. I caused a little chaos in town today and everybody was just like, it's Joe Gorga. Let's get to LA. It's him. They're like, yeah, there it is. Do you know what tomorrow is Joe?

Do you know what we're doing tomorrow? What? You don't remember? Tomorrow's Gino's junior prom. Oh. He's very excited, guys. He's been so cute running around getting his tux and his shoes and his after party sunglasses and he's just very excited.

Remember those days, man? I was excited too. You know what I'm not crazy about though? They're taking a bus to New York City after and they're all like I'm like I don't like that not anymore. It's scary dark at night and like these kids and who knows what they're hiding in their backpacks and white clothes or whatever. Fireballs and that sweet fireball. Oh we should talk like we're going to talk about your little gambling session with boys too. But they're going to they're all going to drink.

That's what they do, these kids now. No, not my son. It's okay, listen, as long as they're good, let them have some fun. I remember my junior prom, oh my god. You remember your junior prom? I don't, I feel like people remember their senior prom,

not their junior. I went to so many proms. I was a freshman going to proms, girls were asking me. Oh, cause you're such a stud, honey. Like, you're always amping yourself up. I was the best dancer. This girl, that girl. I was a... I was a freshman. I was like, I never met somebody who amps himself up more than you.

I don't have shit. I just tell the truth. I can't help. I went to, like, 16 proms. Oh, my God. I don't think I've ever been to one. I went to multiple high school proms. Multiple. Oh my god. I went to this town, that town, this town, that town. Oh, you just always been a superstar.

It was fun. Joe Corga the superstar, a promer. You know, and you know. You were probably just a man whore. That's the problem. You were like a big man whore. It was great. Gross, gross, gross.

Great. You know, now what do we look forward to? Well, you know what was cute? What do we got to make for dinner? I'll tell you what was great. Gross, gross, gross. Now, what do we look forward to? Well, you know what was cute? What do we got to make for dinner? I'll tell you what I look forward to. I'll tell you what was cute. What are we going to make for dinner? That's what we look forward to.

Oh, nothing tonight. I'm not cooking dinner tonight. That's great. You're not going to cook after I've worked? Not tonight. Not tonight. I'm a little tired. We're going to have some leftovers.

But you know what we can look forward to? You know what I thought was cute last night, what you did with the boys. Like, so my boys are just fit. What, what game are you guys playing? Poker or Texas hold them, Texas hold them. So my son's all now like into Texas hold them, both of them, the 14 year old and the 17 year old. And they both go to their friends houses and they get, they bring 20 bucks and they all like play Texas hold them and like I have a

What is that called down here a card table or I have a card table here So their friends come over and they gamble and they play and all of that and it's really cute And so last night the boy said to Joe they were like dad. Let's play Texas hold them So the three of them sat at my table for hours I was like watching Grey's Anatomy falling asleep and they were giggling and laughing and Gino beat you guys, right? Well, you know, to be honest, I let them win. Yeah, right. I throw the extra dollar in. I'm like, I'm in. Yeah, right. You don't let anyone win. You don't let them win. I let it go. Gino won. Who won? Gino? Gino won, yeah. You don't let anyone win. You know, I let it go. Gino went. Is he who won Gino? Gino won. Yeah.

But tell our listeners who have little kids like that's what they have to look forward to when they get older. Like you actually become friends with your kids. Yeah, that was an amazing. I'm telling you, amazing moment. And I'm laughing. We're playing. We're you know, then then the boys are kind of arguing. No, what are you doing?

You can't play like that. You know, and it was just so cute. And I'm like, ah, would you two stop it? But it was memories, man. I'm lucky I got two good boys. They get along. They personally both get along. They enjoy each other.

And- Those two are best friends. My boys couldn't be more opposite looking and even in shape, everything about them. Even their faces. I don't feel like they look like brothers really. I mean, maybe broad, maybe cut a little bit, but not really. They're not like those brothers. You know how you get brothers that are like, damn, you guys look exactly the same. Like we don't have those kinds of kids. They all look different. Right. Yeah. Even Antonia. It's like she looks like her brothers, but like, I feel like Rachel Food is kids,

even the new little baby. You look at them all, they all have this exact same face. It's just on a different head. Literally, all three of them look exactly the same. And then our kids, I feel like each one of them looks individual, right, and different. Yeah, but that's a great moment. If you have little kids, you know,

spend as much time as you can, you know, especially if you're a dad, you gotta try to be the coach. Be the coach, whatever they do, man, cause you just bond with them. Yeah, but you always say that. I feel like I don't like, I wanted to tell you this, so I'm glad you brought that up. You say that to one of our friends

who is very not an athletic guy. Like he golfs all the time, but he didn't play like he's not like an athlete in high school. He's not going to coach wrestling. He's not going to coach football. And you kind of shame him a little Joe, because you're like, you got to coach. That's how you make all your memories, which I understand. But some people, they're not fit out. They're not fit to be coaches.

They don't want to be a coach. He could try. He could be like a temporary assistant coach. What if he knows nothing about football? How do you become a coach? He'll be all right. Some of these dads that coach don't know. They don't know what they're doing.

So you're just coaching football and you don't know how to coach? They help. They go there to help. They don't really. I'm telling you, I can't help it that I know They go there to help. They don't. They don't really tell you. I can't help it that I know. I know about everything. I know about baseball, wrestling, football, soccer. Here we go. Joe's tootin' his own horn again, guys.

Toot, toot, toot, toot. Oh, my God. Help your cheerleader. I can't help your cheerleader. You love to toot your own horn. What do you want me to teach? Best dancer, best salsa dancer. I'll teach. What's your name? Tony, gymnastics. I do. I could to teach? Best dancer, best salsa dancer. I'll teach what's your name? Tony gymnastics. I do. I could do gymnastics. I could do it all. I do it all.

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It's about moving your body. My stomach feels better. I feel a little more accomplished. I feel like I did something for me. I feel like you're a little down because you're like annoyed every day that you come home from work, we eat dinner with there's always an event, there's a podcast, there's something and you don't get to work out. Why don't you?

I don't work out. You know, I don't know, man. I've just been tired of it stressing you. Listen, we're in a rough economy right now. It's tough, man. It's rough out in those streets. It's rough, man. I'm just grinding and it's and just, you know, when you when you're lucky, I'm sprinkling the town to save your life. How about that? Oh, yeah. Oh, that coffee cake, that coffee cake guy. Can I tell you, Andy Cohen text me today, too, and he was like, this cake is so amazing.

He's like, I ate the whole thing in two days. I got to send him another one. I sent him two. Yeah. And guess who else loves my cake? J.Lo. I sent it to her. She And guess who else loves my cake? JLo. I sent it to her. She's on set today and she told everyone, do not touch this cake. Jennifer Lopez is saving it for herself and she told everybody, don't eat it. I'm very good friends with Elaine, her producer, her writer, one of her very tightest friends. And Elaine's like, Jennifer said, no one touched this cake. It's friends. And Elaine's like,

Jennifer said no one touched this cake, it's hers. And I was like, yay. The cake is so good. I'm not just saying it. It is, it is. And guess what I did today, Joe? You're gonna be so proud of me. This was one of your business.

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I just think it's pretty amazing. Yeah. Right? Oh brother, that's great because you know what? I know when you're coming out next too. Got something else, right? What? When's the next drop coming?

Next month? Oh yeah, there's some things in the works. We don't want to spoil things, so you're quite the spoiler today. Let's drop it out. Let's drop, drop, drop. You just like to spoil it. I would just put it all out there every, right now.

Okay, this month is this is gonna drop. This is gonna drop. This is gonna drop. So I asked for, yeah, well, it is. There's a bunch of stuff gonna drop. So I just like to keep secrets. I'm more of like a boom, I just lay it on you when it happens type of girl.

Yeah. You know, but I will say while we're on the subject before we jump off that I am very grateful. I can't believe the warm response and how much everybody loves the cake and the cookies. And you know what? I'm a foodie, I know good food. So of course, of course my shit's good.

Like I am not going to let you guys eat shit. And I'm not going to eat shit. So eat shit. Yeah. Like I'm just saying. And sprinkles make people happy. It's colorful. It's Easter.

They're going to be on everybody's Easter's table. They're going to be sprinkling everywhere and this looking pretty. I love it. It makes me happy to know that like I'm I'm on people's tables like a piece of a little piece of us. You gotta be on my table too soon. No, Joe. Tonight. Talk appropriately. Speaking of which, I asked. I want to thank everybody for coming out to Toronto. It was a mate. You guys, Toronto people. Oh yeah. If anyone from Toronto is

listening, what a show. what a great time. Amazing. I want to live in Toronto. It's so amazing. It is great. You guys are great. Chilly, chilly out there. Yeah. But you guys are great.

You're fun. You're, you're, you're out there. You got just real people, man. No, it was awesome. Respect. Thank you. Um, Joe, I asked some of my listeners what they would like me to speak to you about.

And I think we can, this was like the overall thing that people wanted you to talk about. Okay, so they want your advice. So the women want your advice, right? On like, so I'm trying to rephrase the question so I can just put it into like one, but basically they want advice on, they want marriage advice.

They say that, how do I get my husband to pay more attention to me? It was mainly, I mean, there was a couple different facets of questions, but it mainly came around like, how do I get them to give me a little bit more attention, a little bit more love? They want attention. What it comes down to, a lot of these women want attention and they feel that you give me a lot of attention. So they wanna know what they're doing wrong or what they can do more of or how they can get more

attention from their guys. Is there something I do that makes you give me attention like what is it what do I do what what why do you give what what should they do should they do well why don't you start with white why do you give me attention Joe cuz I'm just me and I want the right answer I want to be everything I do, I want to do it right. And if I know I married you, right, and I'm with you, I want to be happy being with you. And I do love you, you know, but I want to keep the spark.

Cause if you're happy, I'm happy. And then everybody's happy. I look at it this way, in life, everybody, you know, you hear a lot of marriages say, all right, it's the same routine. It's the same this is the same bullshit, bullshit. You're with this person every day. You started a life with them.

It's amazing. You have to keep it amazing. And well, you have to keep it like interesting. You do say sometimes it's like mind over matter. Like if you tell yourself this sucks, I did this for 10 years with this girl or I've been sitting and watching this TV show. Instead flip the switch and see it half full

and say like, wow, I really appreciate that I've been with this person for so long. Yeah, and if you're out there and you want more attention and maybe a partner is slacking, what you give him attention, vice versa, because you can't always wait for the other one to do it. I'm going to be honest with you, I give you a lot more attention than you give me. I don't think that's true. What about last night on the couch? I just kept like honest with you, I give you a lot more attention than you give me. I don't think that's true. What about last night on the couch, like I just kept like jumping on you.

Okay, but you do, listen, you do, but I do give you a lot more. And I don't wait for you. And I don't care to wait for you. Because that's what everybody has to understand. They can't wait for your partner because it's like, okay, does she want me today? And no, it's not just about sex though.

They're not just talking about it. They're saying, say you're pretty, give attention. Hold on. I'm not talking about sex. Rub your feet. I'm not talking about sex. I'm just talking about something like you think like, okay, does she really want me in a way?

Like, look, it just like we were talking about that dance thing, right? Uh huh. In the beginning, did that make me a little insecure, maybe? Yes. Did it bother me a little in the beginning of our marriage? Yes. You know, but you're not the type, it took me a while to understand that you're just not that type of person.

You don't dance with that, in that aspect. No, it kind of bothers you. You think you look stupid out there grinding on the floor, whatever you do, you think it's stupid to you. Okay, so it took me. I don't like a lot of public affection, right? I'm not, I don't like that. Like even when you used to kiss me

on the Real Housewives of New Jersey, right? Like when you, in the beginning, you were very mushy, mushy because, and like you'd be kissy, kissy. And I'm like, oh my God. Like, and people would be like, oh my God, she pushes him away or whatever. And I'm like, oh my God, like, and people be like, oh my God, she pushes him away or whatever. And I'm like, no, I'm uncomfortable with public, like, I don't wanna kiss you in front of people

like that kind of kiss, where you're a lot more comfortable. Like, it was up to you, you just pull your pants down in front of the crowd. Yeah. You know you did that once on the road. You know you pulled your pants down. I've done that not once. You flashed the whole freaking, you flashed us off.

Many times times but so So what else was framed in the studio? So so what I'm saying is you go out there and you give extra attention To your husband or to your man or to your woman you give them a more attention How you want to be treated you treat them? You want to be kissed you kiss them you want your shoulders treated, you treat them. You want to be kissed, you kiss them. You want your shoulders rubbed, you rub their shoulders. Whatever you want done to you, you do.

And eventually it will reciprocate. It will. You give attention. Don't wait for the attention. See, if I want to feel a certain way and I want to be hugged and you're not hugging me, I'll hug you. If I want to kiss you and you're not going to kiss'll hug you if I want if I want to kiss you and you're not gonna kiss me you're not kissing I'm kissing you see in the beginning of our marriage I might have thought oh my god

you were different and you're in your 30s. As you get older you learn to say no that person does want to be with me I just have to teach them in a way. And you have to teach me. Like how I move and you... You're teaching me certain things too that sometimes you'll tell me, oh, you didn't do this to me. You didn't do this. You didn't say this. I'm like, okay.

I'm slacking in that. It's all about communication. And the way... And when somebody communicates with you, you take note of it and start to change it. Correct. And just, I just say, don't wait and do whatever makes you feel good. You do to your partner. So you're saying don't wait, just go in there and do it and like hope that they start.

And so what if, what if these women go in there and they start giving their man more attention and kissing him on the forehead or doing the little things that they were wishing were happening to them, telling them they look good, telling their guy like, wow, I like that outfit on you. Wow, you look hot today, babe. And then they give it, I would say you'd have to do it for a couple of weeks. It's not going to happen overnight. And then after a couple of weeks, it's a month goes by and it's not being reciprocated, then what?

It's going to be reciprocated. Hopefully. Because it is. Because what happens in marriages is like, oh, I want more attention. You're not giving it to me. They're thinking he's not giving it to me or she's not giving it to me. Then what happens is you hold back and you just you think is he, is she going to do this? And they don't. And it just gets worse and worse and you kind of push away, push away more. It's kind of a game. It is a game. I think it's a game when couples don't have sex for too long because then it turns into a game of like, who's going sex like who's gonna try. Yeah I mean who just I look at it this way if I want to be touched I'm gonna touch you.

If I want to know if I'm gonna I want to hug right now I'm just gonna come hug you. And it's gonna you you just gotta be sweet nice lovable happy and it will come back. You say that a lot you You like when I'm sweet. Sometimes if I'm sweet, he'll call me the next day, like, you were so sweet. Because I'm like, holy shit. That's your word, sweet. Yeah. He was like, man, you were fucking sweet.

Because you know, you got to be, what happens is, you know, you got to understand that when we're together, you got to be nice. You can't always think about, okay, I worked today and I had a hard day and you take it out on your partner. No, I know. But my thing with you is if I'm not being sweet, it's because I have a punch list usually. When I see you, because we don't hire contractors, because when I need work done outside, it's you guys, it's you who does it, right? And it's your men or whatever. Like because we

don't hire people and you do the work yourself 90% of the time at this house. No, like if I need whatever, whatever it is, it's annoying because like my punch list, I'd rather just call someone a stranger, but you're like, I'll get to it. I'll get to it after you're done building all your buildings and your flips and your construction. So it're like, I'll get to it, I'll get to it after you're done building all your buildings and your flips and your construction. So it's like, it never happens for me. It's like- It always happens for you. Your problem is-

It happens in the final hour, which drives me- But it gets done. But it's too stressful like that. Like I'm a pre-planner. I like to do things five, I'm five steps ahead. Yeah, but if I, I could see if I say to you, I want you to do this for me and you have to do it for a week straight

and all this hard work and kind of, you, I sometimes I tell you, go get the, send this email out for me. You're like, I don't fucking know how you do it. No, I say call your assistant. I have my own email. Yeah, I mean, come on. You gotta just push your goddamn button.

No, because that's annoying to me that you can't just make it happen. Yeah, I, because that's annoying to me that you can't just make it happen. It's annoying to me that you want this done, this painted, this dot, beep, beep, bop, beep, bop, boop, bop. You have an assistant. You know what I mean? I could tell you no shit. You know? Yeah. What do you call me today? You call me today. Oh, today.

Order a pizza and send it to this address. And I go, are you kidding me? I am knee deep. Like, can you call yourself or how about this? Call your assistant, honey. See, see how, but that's, you were nasty. Because you hit me at the wrong time. I was having a stressful moment.

Yeah, but that's your problem. I was very annoyed about something that was happening with Sprinkle. Like at the moment I was on an email and I was doing something. Oh shit, who cares? So when you catch someone at the wrong time, you're gonna get a different response. How Do you call me throughout the day every day?

And you hang sometimes you hang up on me like I'm busy I'm at home Depot. I'm with an inspector gotta go you get crazy You call because you say that don't guys marriage life marriage life marriage life Marriage life, marriage life. Joe Borga, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today. Do you have any final words for the ladies out there that want a little advice for you? What are your final, give me your final words. Final words, just love, man.

What's your best marriage advice? Here's my advice. Let me tell you something. Life can humble you so fast. You can have it all and it can be taken away. Look at these people with what's going on in this country right now. You got money in the stock market and the next day it's gone. Just be humble and every day you wake up.

It's all about health. You got health and you got happiness and you're alive and you got freedom. That's the happiest day of your life. Every day you can do that. Who cares about money? Who cares about cars? Who cares about houses? At the end of the day, you just got to be healthy. Think about when you're sick and you have the flu and you're sitting home for three days, four days, and you're miserable. How about people that have real sicknesses and they're in the hospital?

You know, I'm just telling you. Facts, beautiful words, beautiful closing words from my mal listeners. Guys, we love you so much. We hope you have an amazing Easter. Enjoy every second of it. What else do we wanna say? Happy Easter, enjoy every second of it. What else do we wanna say? Happy Easter, happy Greek Easter, happy Passover,

happy everything. Make me happy upstairs in the bed. Oh my God, this is inappropriate. We're talking about the third day he rose again. We love you guys. Love you. Happy Easter, ciao. Bye. Yeah!