On Display with Melissa Gorga - Trust, Love, and... Lie Detectors (Rewind)

Episode Date: January 4, 2024

Happy 2024 everyone!  Gearing up for the big 100th episode next week, Melissa looks back at the very first episode. It was a special one with Joe where they talked about how they met, Joe’s funny and not-so-smooth start in comedy, and the one time Melissa made Joe take a lie detector test because of a suspicious, accidental phone call. Enjoy!  See you all next week for #100!  This week’s sponsors: Pluto.TV – Free Streaming Television: Pluto.TV Progressive – “Name-Your-Price” Tool: Progressive.com ZocDoc – Top Rated Doctors, A Few Taps Away: Zocdoc.com/melissa 

Okay, you're not coming home tonight until you prove this to me because I heard what I heard and I don't believe you. And this is where the lie detector test comes in. I set up a lie detector test. What's up guys? I hope everyone had an amazing new years. I hope the holidays were amazing for all of you. Um, as usual, I have no resolutions. I probably should do this one time in my life, but like I just, I just believe that we should always just, I'm very like, like,

I just, you know, I always have my ducks in a row and I just stick to my resolutions on a daily. I believe in consistency. So, I do not make resolutions. I just try to like stick with the flow of what I my everyday life. So, whatever. Let's all just be healthy, right? Like, that's the goal for 2024. Well, next week is a big episode. That's right. It's the 100 episode for on display

with Melissa Gorga. I'm so proud. So I figured this week, while we're all probably still recovering from new years, isn't that weird? Recovering from the off time? I know, but like we do. We need to recover from all of the partying and the drinking and the holidays and the cookies and the sugar, right? So I know it sounds a little strange, but I think we all deal with it. But anyway, this week we're going to do a little rewind all the way back to the beginning. That's right guys, we're going back to the very first episode of on display that was ever recorded. It's funny.

It's like playing back an old home video or something where part of me is definitely cringing. But a bigger part of me is proud of how far this show has come since the very first day we launched it. So here it is, the very first episode of on display called Love, Trust and Lighted Hectors. What's up listeners. It's Melissa Gorga, and I know you've been waiting, and it's finally here. It's the first episode of Melissa Gorga on display, and I am so excited to have you all listen and be part of this.

As most of you know, I am a reality television star, but I also own envy, and I love fashion. I like to say I'm a cool mom. I have three kids. I'm a wife and boy, do I have some stories for you. Each week my celebrity friends and I are going to tackle all sorts of topics like fashion, like entrepreneurship, family of course, pop culture, relationships, and just the importance of treating yourself and really anything else that we feel like talking about. It's gonna be fun, it's gonna be what I like to call life unfiltered. It's life and style and all of the craziness in between. I mean let's just take the last couple weeks of my life.

For instance, you know, we released a new show on peacock. It's called the ultimate girls trip Which I know so many of you are going crazy over right now. I have to say it is hysterical. It's really such a great show. It's just mixing up all of the different housewives from the different cities and putting them on an island together So crazy, but the last few weeks for me have been absolutely insane. Just with the amount of press traveling to LA back to New York, back to LA, I was promoting the girls trip. I was on Nick Cannon. I don't know if any of you guys caught that, but it was such a great interview. I smacked him around a little bit just because he wanted to see what, you know, what it's like to be a real housewife. So we had to show them.

Then I did Watch What Happens Live with all of the girls, which was so much fun too. It's always great when we're all in there together. We all speak probably for two seconds each, but it's always great meeting up with Andy and doing Watch What Happens Live. We also, while I was out there in LA, we did the huge premiere party for the Ultimate Girls

trip, which was so much fun as well. That was just crazy. Having everyone together, we watched the episode, the first episode in front of tons of press and tons of fans and just to see their live reactions and watch them and hear the laughs was kind of surreal and really crazy. So that was awesome. Then I shot over to Beverly Hills. I wanted to meet everyone at Podcast One. We were in

that studio because I was you know I had to promote the podcast. So I'm doing all those promos and recording all those promos for the podcast. Then I flew back over to New York and did Wendy Williams, which was so much fun too, because I actually sat down on a couch with Jerry Springer. Like we're taking it back. Do you want to talk about like throwing it back for a minute, Jerry Springer, who I've been watching since I am a five years old is filling in for Wendy Williams because Wendy's been having, you know, some a little bit of a breakdown lately, which my heart goes out to Wendy

because I am a huge fan, love her to death, and wish her well. So, you know, Jerry Springer, let me just tell you, when I, the first thing I said when I sat down with Jerry Springer is that I cannot believe with all the family drama that has gone on in my life, that this is the first time I am meeting you, because, because for real, let's be real,

anybody who knows me and knows the show knows that I have probably should have talked to Jerry Springer a very, very long time ago. But all of that and then mix in the holidays and Thanksgiving and everything else. It's really just been a crazy couple of weeks for me. And with everything that's come my way, I just need to say that I am always so grateful for all of the people that have always supported this craziness and all of my ideas and all

of my ventures. There's so many of you out there that have always pushed me through and cheered me on. And I hear you, I read your emails, I read your DMs and I appreciate you. I almost keep going sometimes because I want to show you that as a woman who has three kids, who is a mom, who is a wife with a pretty demanding husband that you can push through and that you can do it all. So with that said, I need to thank my friends, my fans, my family. I want to thank Bravo for the opportunity. Podcast one, of course,

for being so amazing and so into this. I need to thank Peacock as well because the show has just been so great and it's such a great platform. And I honestly, honestly couldn't have done any of this without my loving, supportive and, you know, the man of the hour, and of course, my very, very first podcast guest, because I would never have it be anyone else, because when it comes down to it, if Joe wasn't supporting me, and if he wasn't the backbone,

and if he didn't help me with all of the opportunities, and we're definitely a team over here. So there is no other person that I would choose to be my very first podcast guest other than the one and only Joe Gorgah. Say hi to everybody Joe. Hold on, give me a minute because I was choking up on that one. That was nice. That was nice Did you like your introduction? That was amazing. Thank you. Well, you do support me and I'm happy that you support me I know it's not easy that I'm like this, you know, I'm such a working girl. I guess it would be Working girl is what we would say, right? Yes, but you know, what's great about that is that you notice it and as a man This is we love that we love that you notice it, you know what's great about that is that you notice it. And as a man, we love that. We love that you notice it.

And how successful you become and you do, you always notice your partner. So that was amazing. I love you. Of course I do. Of course, listen, we, at the end of the day, we are a team because if the house, I always say, if the house is not happy, no one's happy.

The kids aren't happy. If you walk around with a push on your face, what you have, what you have many times, you go through your time when you're stressed out and you're like, what did we sign up for? And I definitely go through my times when I'm walking around like a zombie. And I'm like, oh my God, I could go through my times when I'm walking around like a zombie and I'm like, oh my

God, like, you know, I could go back to the days where I married this nice hard working guy and I woke up every day and was like, hmm, who should I call to meet me for lunch today? And maybe I'll go to Neiman in Biantonia, a pretty bow. Like I can go back to that, right? Can I go back to that if I wanted to go back to that? Absolutely. There's days that I do say to myself, I wish you went back to that life. You do? Oh yeah. You don't like that I bring home the bacon as well? Um, listen, the bacon is the bacon, but it's if your home life is not right because of the bacon, it's not right. I agree. The money's money is not important. It's not worth it if everyone's

miserable. Right. And we've definitely been through through this is definitely stressed us out. I think it's fair to say reality TV You know reality TV is hard and it depends on who you are how you can handle it and You know we've been on now 11 years You know families have been Broken up people lose their minds right as you see these child stars and, you know, the big ones, the A-listers, they lose their minds and you gotta just have thick skin for this and there's gotta be love.

There's gotta be true, true love. Yeah, I think if you enter the world of reality TV with even a slight, if the marriage is a little rocky and I feel like a lot of these, you know, the housewives in general and just reality stars. It's not just about housewives. I see a lot of reality stars. They're entering with the rocky marriage

and that's what makes them reality stars because they have, you know, they have drama. They have something to talk about, which sometimes I get, let's be honest, I get heat for the fact that, you know, if we don't have enough drama, if there's not enough turmoil in our lives, like, you know, I'll get heat from the hard core, like, housewife fans. But then there's the other, there's the other side that actually appreciate watching a family that works really hard to

stay together and appreciate the fact that there's like true love here between us and I hold on I hold on to those fans I hold on to the ones that appreciate also not just of the craziness that you see. But there's still a lot of structure there. There's a lot to talk about. There's a lot of real family issues that happen. I don't think anybody knows really how real it was and how much we have suffered just from this show. Just think about what you just said is the fans, the fans that they can call you and they say, oh, we love you. Oh, we, it's from this show. Just think about what you just said is the fans the fans that they can call you and they say, oh, we love you. Oh, we hate you. Are you suck? You're ugly, you know,

yeah, they're brutal. They can be they could be either the the most supportive people in the world or brutal. Let me be let me ask you something though. Has anyone ever, because I know my answer to this to your face. Ever been negative to your face. Now, I know know my answer to this, to your face, ever been negative to your face. Now, I know they have, you know, on online and on the internet, to your face, have you ever had someone come up and call you an asshole? Yes. Really. Yes. Really. Yeah. There was a woman and I was in a restaurant and I was with my manager, Mike Martucci, and we were eating and a girl came up to me. She goes, oh, yeah, she goes, where's Melissa? And I go, Melissa's home. She goes, well, I'm team Melissa. You hear me? I'm team Melissa. She was nasty to me. She's no.

Yeah, she had a little too much to drink. Are you kidding me? Yeah, she was like, yes. But why are we not a team? Well, I guess tell me that you want to give me the cloud. You don't just forgot about it. I just remember now it was just no big deal. That was only that's the only time in the 11 years that that's ever happened. And it was it was because we when we were going through that

little issue on TV there. I'm because you weren't being supportive for a minute when I opened to envy. Everybody was, by the way, everyone was very upset with you over that when you opened envy no yeah it was when I just when I started to like it was it was in the beginning of envy yes it was and you kind of made fun of like you did babe yeah because you were annoyed because you're like we don't need your crumbs remember when you say you don't need the crumbs you're sitting in my office today. You're sitting in my office. There's a sign above you that says Melissa Gorgon display. Yeah, but when are you proud of me at this point? Are you still annoyed that I have this like that I'm doing this? But you know I'm proud because you know, if anything you need it, I'm here to support you

and go if I wasn't, I wouldn't be here. So, there was a lot of reason why I did that. It was to motivate you, number one. Oh, no, no, no, no, no bullshit. This is a no bullshit podcast. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I make the cake because you were a typical sorry honey, we're gonna know you Was not typical you made the money in the house you did Everything you like being in charge you like you like when I have to ask you for a hundred oh no no no no no I'm gonna win the last day First of all hold on hold on Those days are over because the moment I met you,

you had a credit card, a black MX, and you did whatever you wanted. You didn't have to ask me for anything. Okay, I give that to you. So I gave you anything you wanted. It didn't matter. I don't need that. I don't, and I don't, I like a secure woman. I don't like an insecure woman.

Like when I met you, you shocked me. Because you, you know me, I'm a beast. I work. I can work 20. There's 24 hours in a deck of work, 22 sleep to and keep going. That's true. One thing. Well, just let me just like interrupt you for one second. In case anyone doesn't know Joe, one thing that you gave him all day long, I have a lot of things I could say about Joe, but the number one thing anyone who truly, no, for real, though, the number one thing I do, I could say about it. I could talk bad, but the number one thing that you would be known for through my family, my friends, anyone who knows you in life would be that you are definitely the hardest worker in the room. If people don't

know Joe Gorgher, let me explain to you, he gets up at 5 30 every single morning,, wild start out, he goes to work. He doesn't get back home till 7.30 at night. If I say I want to go to dinner that night, Joe will get dressed, take a shower, go to dinner. If we got home at 2 a.m., he will get back up at 5.30 in the morning and work all day. And I'm talking dirty work. I'm not saying Joe doesn't go in a suit. Joe puts on his work boots, his dirty ass jeans, that drive me crazy, because he wants to rep, he wants to put the same sweatshirt back on for like four days straight

and doesn't want anyone to wash it, which is, it's a not, you smell like gas because you smell like those machines. I don't want you to wear. We're fill up those machines with gas. And you wreak of like gas when you walk in. Yeah, and I walk into, I walk into meetings with banks that led me 40, 50 million dollars on projects looking like that

And that's what keeps us real and we will never change my father made me a workaholic He made me a man at a young age and we had we had we didn't have any money So you had to go to work right? So we went to work We started work when we were nine. And now I am where I am. And I gave it all to my parents, especially my father. He was real honest, real honest, real honest. He was real on me.

So today I am who I am. But when I met you, you were like that little spitfire. I'm like wow, let's go work. She's three jobs and And and same thing you would come home. You would go to school You were in college and you go to work and you come home I said let's go out to dinner You were on and you were just like on point ready to go and I said I love this woman Like she can keep up with me because I don't like a weak person like I've I come home I'm ready to do something and I'm tired. I'm tired, you know, you didn't hold me back

So that's what attracted me to you Right and now look so for you work three jobs when you met me Okay, and I was in school because a lot of people don't know this about me But I have a BA in teaching. I actually graduated college to be a teacher but I have a BA in teaching. I actually graduated college to be a teacher. And then, you know, two years later, I was on reality. When I first met her, she was bartending. Everybody thought that she was a stripper.

No, she was the bartender. I was a bartender. At the strip club. At the strip club. No, no, no, no, no, no, hold on. At the strip club. I'll keep a hold on. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

you have to let me clarify. So I was a bartender. I worked at the time I was 22 23. I was a bartender at two different places. So I bartended everywhere. What about the San Barnes Jersey City? No, I know, but so and I bar at Joey's in Clifton. Yeah, but wait, wait, let's get back Today, so when I first met her we were going out. She's like, I'm a bartender. I'm like, okay, and she told me I bartend at this place I go what place and she told me that was one night of weight and I said yeah, she said she's like I'm a bartender I'm like okay and she told me I bartend at this place I go what place and she told me that was one night of weight and I said yeah she said she's like come and I went now here this old school a time guy like I watched everything now you're old school when you want to I was real old school you know you're looking for your wife you

want to make sure she's right you know so you come in and I walked into the spot And she was bartending and you were bartending and you had these like short shorts on they weren't even like sexy shorts They're like cheer shorts right and Tony were too low for me, and I was like wow look at her She's at this you wear a tank top cheer shorts. I call them what I'm trying to say pros and sneakers Yes, what I'm trying to say is you didn't even look sexy, right? You're in this strip. Let me know. And we sat there all night. Anyway, it wasn't sexy. It wasn't. It was like, you know, which is, I was like, you were going to the gym. Right. It was like, you know, so I was,

that's right. It's dead. I was, um, I came in and we sat there and you gave me a drink. We hung out all night. And it was awesome. And I really didn't. So I just fell in love with who you are. You're a hustling, you come home, and then you went to school and you became a school teacher. So by you saying that I wanna control you, that is wrong because I want, I need somebody in my life to be an entrepreneur like you are. Somebody that has goals in life that I don't wanna come home

and get it, I get it. I get it. No, no, no, no, it depressed because people do get depressed right what they because women a lot of women right get depressed in life and they got none of the new and no I love you know what happens they go through so women go through the baby years there's like 10 years that are the baby years and those years are when the the women are home the dads get to go to work most of the time, right? The ladies are home going through the years where they have newborns and two year olds and three year olds, and their life as like this put together person

has turned into like diaper changing, talking gibberish all day, watching cartoons, watching Dora 24 hours a day, and you start to feel, you lose yourself, and you feel like he gets to get up, go to work all day and cartoons, watching Dora 24 hours a day, and you start to feel, you lose yourself. And you feel like he gets to get up, go to work all day and come home. And I sit here with these kids. I want to get my nails done, but there's no one. I want to get my hair done, but I can't leave. I want to run to the mall, but no one can watch the kids for me. I'm telling you, they're the most amazing years ever because you know, I loved

the baby ears, but they're also very, very challenging. Right. So the fact that I worked this whole time when I went through the baby's year, I mean, we got on reality TV. Antonio was four. It was Joey's chrysaning, okay, my youngest Joey, who is 11 now. Um, and he was two months old when we started this, the show. So it's, it's kind of crazy how long that,

you know, how long we've been doing this whole reality TV thing and the fact that we survived is a whole another story, I think, you know. Well, see, listen, and that goes to for all the listeners out there, a lot of wives and husbands and it's all about there's no eye in team and We were both on this reality show. Yes, did my the reality show was called New Jersey Housewives So was it more about Melissa? Yes? Did it bother me back then? It did not hand to God with my parents in heaven.

I looked at my wife like she was my, you know, that, that, that singer that you looked at and, or you loved growing up. And I was, I was so proud. I was proud of her because you were just smart and beautiful and you looked good and you represented us well. You represented the Gorgas, so I was proud of you. And everything you did back then, right, with this reality, you included me, even though it was all about you, we made it, everything was about you, right? Housema, you included me into everything. So it didn't feel. Because secretly, like I also knew that it was going to be rough for you. I knew

that you and I kind of, we were, we have the kind of relationship that we, we do everything together. And I knew getting into this world and kind of doing, coming into my own, because you had a lot of control when we first got married. You did. You had a lot of control. I mean, listen, I was secretly in control without you knowing as far as where we're going to go, what we were going to do, what we were going to buy, where the reservations were going to be made.

But you had obviously a lot of the financial control. You were, you know, you came, you went out all day long and I was home with the kids. And I think I also subconsciously knew that getting onto this show and being in the work atmosphere and having to do red carpets, right? Having to go to events, having to go to just a weekly events and okay magazine and all these little things and just doing branding, whatever it is that takes me out of the house, I knew that that was gonna be rough for you. And it was. Well, I don't know about that.

I disagree on you on that part because I think that in the beginning that it was rough on you. You were just, no, no. In the beginning, you were more like, well, I was cute. We were into each other more of this. Yes, but then you just talk about sex so much like you did. You, you, you reference sex a lot, right? Do you or do not?

Because it's a big part of who you are. Well, sex is no because sex. Sex is everything. And it's not all about sex. Sex keeps you together. It keeps you emotional. I was like talking about sex all the time. Like, geez, I think I got to leave Joel home because we always sidetracked his sex.

And like, I needed people to understand that there was more to our relationship than just that we were sexually attracted to each other. Well, it wasn't that we were sexually. I was more about keeping your relationship together because what happens in the relationship, you get married, right? I wrote a book on this, by the way. Yeah, you'll get married you have children you start complaining the children

They keep us up at night. We don't you stop having sex you stop having sex your relationship slowly goes down the To stop holding hands you become friends. Yes, yeah, it's almost like it's a contract then we sign the contract to be married And we're just business partners. That's terrible. So sex has to keep you together. I know I have a lot of friends and family members that are in a contract. In a contract. I don't want to be in a contract.

I didn't get married to be in a contract. I want to be in a, I want, I got married to be in love and be happy. So I talk about sex with everyone. I used to talk about, if I can motivate somebody to have sex, right? No, in a relationship, it keeps you together. So you walk by each other and a kitchen touch. No, that's beautiful. Instead of just looking at each other like, hey, did you pay the bill?

Did you take out the garbage? Did you throw this? It's the truth. Marriages do become, they do become like a working. It's like a partner relationship where it's like hey, you know, it gets it gets a little Repeditive where I'll call him be like did you do this this and this did you order the tile for the new house that we're building did you Did you from why didn't you put out the garbage did you do this did you do that you got to pick Gina up like Instead of like when you're dating and it's like hi cutie look so good today like I'll see you later

I admit that I lose that and And you do, you're the one in the relationship that does try to remind me all the time that we need to keep like that part of it because my like work brain sections out. But I've been like that since the day you met me as far as like I need it done now. I need things done. Like I'm very, until everything is clean at night, I don't go to bed. So that's like, I'm almost a problem for me. Are you that one friend in the friend group that loves to treat yourself? It's okay, honestly, we all do it.

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That's zoc doc.com slash Melissa. zack.com slash Melissa. So it's hard for me to like focus and let go sometimes and just be like, okay, hold on, hold on. Remember that you want to tell Joe, hi, honey, you're doing a good job or like you're cute or like, you know, we do have date nights though. We're great with date nights because I feel like date nights are super important too. We do that often. See, we were just that for Thanksgiving the day before

at Melissa's sister's house. And there was three other women there and they're all talking and we're just talking about. Yeah, they're women. I mean, people are going to be able to figure out who we're talking about. OK. That's OK.

No, but she impressed me this woman. And I love what she said. And we were just talking about relationship. And every time someone comes around me, they start talking about relationships, right? They do. And talking about relationship and every time someone comes around me they start talking about relationships Right, they do and talking about husbands and wives and and and your relationship and sex and all that and she was just saying Yes, sex is a lot like at this age. I'm tired. She's a 47 48 year-old woman. She's just like I am tired, but I Am I think about my husband that he looks at me like I'm so beautiful and he loves me

And he wants me she goes that is everything for me. That was that you know her and she goes and I'll be damned If I'm not gonna have sex with my husband because I'm not in a mood and there's gonna be some other woman that comes into my house that I built with my husband, all these years, and she comes over and takes him away. She goes absolutely not. So that was beautiful. Like there's a woman out there, and that goes for men, because there's men that,

they fall off the, they fall off the, the, the map. And they forget what a Relationship is a relationship is you need to date for the rest of your lives. No, I agree listen Relationships I I can I can sit here and talk to you all day about relationships I feel like you and I that's one thing you and I have like so many opinions when it comes to relationships, but we're also, I feel like we're also very like hopeful for people like and helpful, hopeful and helpful because even when we know

we have a couple of friends that are like going through it, we do want to give advice. I mean, listen, your Joe Gorga, you're the quote guy. You're the quote guy. I mean, you're so into quotes these days, little side note, we laugh at Joe at home all the time because He's become like the quote guy at a nowhere, right? He loves quotes. He loves inspirational quotes Which I have to say and I have to give him this every Everywhere we go people come up to Joe and they're like, oh my god, we love your quotes

You're quote, I'm like I make fun of them for it all day long First of all mainly because he spells half the word wrong before he puts it up. Okay, and I have to tell him to take it down because you spelled the word wrong, Joe. So we have to put it back up. I don't proofread. You don't proofread.

Your heart about punctuation. I do it as I'm not saying it. It's like unbelievable. You know, so now you're like the quote guy, which by the way, people do love that. And I like to read your quotes sometimes. Sometimes I will tell you this, people think that the quotes are about me, because it seems like sometimes they are.

Well, no, it seems like, no, but they're like nasty. Not at all. Like, you're like, a little one. If I'm going to stop that day and it could be work or if I just dealt with somebody on business and, and, and and and I want to react to a certain way. And I didn't where the old Joe Gorgah would have reacted to a certain way and it made it a lot worse, you know, and I put a little message out there because, you know, as I'm

getting older, I'm 47, I'm getting smarter. And in the heating, I'm getting smarter because I feel like you like slowing down a little bit. Like when I speak to you kind of staring at the sky, I'm getting smarter. Because I feel like you're slowing down a little bit. Like when I speak to you, kind of staring at the sky, because I want to slow down. You're like not as quick as you used to. I don't want to be completely honest. I want to be chill now. I want to be.

And what that does is I just sit there and I analyze the situation. Good spin. Good spin. Good spin. Yes. Because then if not, then I'll react in a certain way that I don't want to react. and it just screwed the whole night up

Now I just sit back. I listen. I look at you and I'm saying how am I gonna answer this? Do I still you know, I want to have a nice night and have a nice dinner with my wife? Then I'm gonna answer it this way the old me out and be like ah shut up, you know, and it doesn't doesn't work anymore Yeah, I'm not in and it's a business too Huh, and if I could be do business and you get aggravated at the wrong situation, like what an a building inspector or a police officer or anything, it just brings you out to a whole nother lab. But if you if you if you control your emotions and you treat person, you just you have to take you got to take the abuse once and while

you'll be shocked how the outcome is a lot better What you're saying basically is like choose your battles Especially in relationships like you you might be aggravated and an inspector comes up on a Constructors say and you snap at him where now he just put you in a hole different now you're getting fine Then he's really aggravating but when he comes out and he snaps and you're calm and you say what did I do wrong? You use your charm? He's and you defuse the situation and there's no fines. There's all that so that's where you get smarter as you get older Yes, I agree and the same thing with the relationship. It's what your wife One little word can't ruin your wife. One little word can ruin your whole night.

One little word. I mean, I basically feel like you and I have put like everything out there. Like, is there anything we haven't really put anything? I'm gonna put a lot of things out there. What do you mean? There's a lot of things. There's one moment that I had that I would love

to talk about, but you, I don't know if you're gonna cut my, my, my, I might be like Lorraine Ob I would love to talk about but you I don't know if you're gonna cut my my I might be like Lorraine a Bob tonight if I talk about I might be like Lorraine Bob Yeah, you're gonna cut my shit off Broding the woods. What are you talking about hold on? What wait? It's something that happens a lot of people a lot of something that happened in our relationship a lot of people Don't know you you know, I should a lot of people don't know me know they know me. They don't know you They don't know you this is I'm gonna talk about it and if you get mad at me. Wait what what at this point

I'm gonna talk about a situation between me and you give me a hint Give me a hint. Oh, there's a lot of things because people because see here here's what here's the problem Everybody's on reality TV and it's always about like Melissa like oh my god She's working and Joe doesn't like it and then I Look like the idiot now she's doing this and Joe that Joe's jealous. He's doing it. Yeah, but what people don't know is that Melissa is the jealous one Listen, I'm not jealous. I've taken a lie detector test in our marriage Okay, that's the story you want to tell This story to though because I'm gonna tell two sides of the I've taken a lie detector test

And this was hold on this was three years ago How long go wait so you want to tell this story this was three years ago? So that means 14 years of marriage Can I tell the story I'm gonna start I ago. So that means 14 years of marriage. Can I tell the story? I'm going to start. I'm going to tell the story. No, no, because it, OK, let's, all right.

So I have to tell the story. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. It's not your story. It's my story number one. But no, it's my story. And if you want to tell the story, we're going to tell both sides.

We could tell both sides. No, no, we're going to tell both sides of the story, honestly. OK, here, I'm going to tell the honest. I'm going to start from, and then you could finish. Can I tell my story? Yeah, but don't drag it out. All right, real quick. I'm gonna tell the honest. I'm gonna start from me and then you could finish can I tell my story? Yeah, but you know, don't try get out. Let's all right real quick. I'm gonna tell the story so I get up definitely a winter morning. It was I was building a house. It was cold out was winter and I was just about done with the house. So I was pouring sod sod is that grass that you roll out and

How could you put sod out in the middle of the winter? Because you can. You could put it up to it was like late December, wasn't it? It was like no, because it was January because it was the morning that our sister by the way. This was the morning. Yeah. Your sister went to jail. That morning. Right. So what was January? I want to say it was like January like fifth or something third fifth something like that. So I I I I left I was working to die a couple days before on this house and I'm about to put up for sale and I had to just finished the grass and it was cold out and it got a we got a crazy frost and I wasn't able to finish this one pile of dirt and the pile of dirt was real quick. I gotta say it was like 10 by 10, 10 foot by 10 foot of the pile dirt and I didn't roll

on the roll side out. So I left. I was watching the news that morning. It says, okay, it's gonna be five o'clock tomorrow is gonna be like 50 degrees. I was like, okay. So I left at five a.m. in the morning to go break this piece, this pile of dirt down so I could finish laying aside. Now I got to tell the whole story. You were going to work at 5.30. So I left by 5 in the morning, I left quick. I'm there, I'm working, I'm chopping this dirt. Right.

I think you call me. First you should cause me. She's like, what do you call you? Because it was a Sunday morning, right. And I woke up and I think I woke up at like 8.30, and you weren't home. And it was kind of one of those crazy mornings anyway, because of what was going on with your sister. And it was 8.30 the morning, it was Sunday morning. I'll never forget, Antonia had a friend sleepover. So we were having a sleepover, I woke up,

and you weren't home. So I called your phone to see where you were. Right. So she calls my phone and you didn't answer. But that I didn't answer? No. Okay. So I didn't answer. So but I wore these loose sweat pants that morning. So I put my phone in my pocket. So as I was working, she must have called my phone. I didn't answer the phone, but before that, before that, I called my sister because she was going to prison. You called her that morning. I called her that morning.

I'd ate a clock in the morning. She was going to prison that day, right? That afternoon. And I don't know, and I was being real nice. And I don't know, she just, she just, I don't know, you guys had an argument. We had an argument. Did it go to right way? And I was pissed. And I was just like, wow, what the time everybody was not in the right minds. And she was blaming you when you were very upset. Right. Right. So you were in a mode. I was in a mode. So I go, I go back and I start chopping at this dirt with the pick. I'm

working. I'm working and I guess my phone and when I work and I lift if I lift weights I grunt a lot and I he is the gruntter. I will give you that like when he's in the gym he's embarrassed. He's that guy that everyone looks at like look at this loser. Yeah you are you're like embarrassed. Yeah you're like an overachiever one of those guys like What happened? Like work out of your own basement But now my wife works out hard and what is she do? No, I don't do that. I'm gonna be a

Barrett of grunt you do you grunt you do oh my god. I laugh at you A public service announcement don't grunt in the gym. It's weird Only like a little grunt here and there but I hate the guys in the corner like doesn't matter that It doesn't matter the the amount of weight you lift. It's the grunt Okay, let's get back to the story because now now you're making me anxious and I'm Hitting I'm hitting his dirt. I'm chopping it up. I'm making these anxious and I'm not working. I'm hitting, I'm hitting his dirt. I'm chopping up. I'm making these noises.

My phone rings. I mean calls her on accident. Yeah, so okay, let me tell a story. Let me tell you this part. I'm calling Joe. He's not answering. It's 8 30 on Sunday morning. He's not answering.

I call probably two times in a row, not answering. Well, I guess eventually his phone picks up by itself in his pocket and Joe is sitting there and he is he says That he has a shovel or some kind of like rake shovel thing and he is going to pick a pick. Okay. He's banging the dirt Supposedly, which is the dirt was like concrete because it was frozen supposedly He's she's hearing the bang. Buh. But he's also speaking during this everyone.

And I guess so Joe says his phone and his pocket is really ruffling up and I'm hearing. No, no, no, yes, I am. I'm here. I am hearing the mones. I heard the word. I heard the D word. I don't want am hearing the mones. I heard the word. I heard the D word. I don't want to say in what aspect.

I don't know how I heard it, but I heard that. Yeah, I was probably swan. Well, here's what I was doing. You were swearing. I was mad at my sister, so I was chopping at the dirt. And I'm like, fuck dick. I was saying words, which was, it wasn't nice. So then my wife calls me back.

She keeps calling me. My hands are full of dirt. I finally answer the phone. I think we got to go to me on the other end first. Thanks. Okay. So as he has no idea what's going on. And I listen to him grunting, moaning. I swear I hear a woman saying, he's not answering the phone, saying the word, like I think I heard the word, you know, the D word. And I heard you say dick. So I'm hearing that I'm, I now, this is me, Melissa Gorga, never had, never experienced. So cheating on me before, never had any issues with that. I hear it clear, I hear the mounds, I hear the ruffling, whatever it is in this pocket

of the movement, everything. I literally, this is me in my bedroom. I'll never forget it to this day in my pajamas. I fall to my knees, literally fall to my knees. My hands start shaking. I can't believe it's all happening. I can't believe it's happening. I literally like lose my knees. My hands start shaking. I can't believe it's all happening. I can't believe it's happening. I literally like lose my mind. I'm shaking. So now I'm speed dialing his phone to try to break up the sex that I think that he's having. So I'm speed

dialing. He face time. Nope. Nope. No. He answers. He finally answers. I am now screaming into the phone shaking, crying hysterically. How could you do all that? I can hear you. I can hear you. Like, I'm on the floor. I'll never forget Antonio walking in my room. And like, she's like, mom, I'm like, just go up.

I'll be right out. I'll be right out. I'm on my knees on the floor crying to Joe and he's like what? He's mad. He doesn't react nice like honey. No, I would never he's like shot the hell What the frick is wrong with you? What do you sound like? Joe, I heard you I heard you I can hear you like I was sobbing You want me to be nice that I leave five o'clock in the morning. Hold on.

Hold on. I leave four 30 in the morning. I'm busted in my ass. I'm chopping dirt to get this household to make money for us. And here you are accusing me of having sex. I let you have your side. No, so you want me to be nice. Okay, but I'm giving my side.

I'm going out. So now he's mad. And to me, when a man is caught, they, what they do is they get crazy. And they get nastier. Yes. And they're like, you know what, if you, you crazy bitch,

I'm out here working. What the fuck? And he hangs up on me. And I'm sobbing on the floor. And I'm like, oh my God, when they get caught, I feel like they get nasty. If he wasn't, he'd be like, honey, he'd start laughing at what are you crazy, babe? No, no, no, no, no.

But then I put the icing on the cake. Now I'm like, holy shit, you hung up on me now. I'm going to FaceTime him. Now I'm going to FaceTime him. I hit the FaceTime. He doesn't answer the FaceTime. Because I'm going to outstop. Now I'm completely, completely convinced that what I'm blown out. So I'm completely

Completely convinced that what I heard is no she called me six thousand. I answered the face time I took you you know when you answered the face time when you Got back in your truck and maybe sent the girl home who the hell knows? Oh, I was in the middle of the street Bang in a girl in my truck. No, it's called when you're working and you're laying sod. If anyone knows the laying sod, your hands are full of mud.

So I couldn't answer the phone. So finally, but let's clarify one more thing. Let me just ask, like, can I clarify one more thing? I'm sure there's a lot of girls out there if you're listening. I'm sure there's a lot of girls out there. If you're listening, I'm sure there's a lot of you who have felt this way before, right? Has anyone ever felt this way before

but when they feel convinced that they know or they're coming to conclusions, your speed dialing, you're going crazy, you need to hear their voice, you need to get them on the phone. Like I know I'm not the only girl out there who's dealt with this before. But let me clarify this.

This has, she's, you've of two, like, I leave her all in the morning and she'll get up at 7 30, 8 o'clock and she'll call me and I'm working so hard. And she's like, what are you doing? I go working. I'm, maybe I'm married to everything. And I'm like, I'm working. She's like, well, who you with this morning? I'm like, who you bang?

I go away. So now when you did this, I hung up the phone on you because I'm like, who you bangin'? I'm gonna go wait, so now when you did this, I hung up the phone on you. Because I'm like, oh my God, here we go again. All right, but why don't I get back to just this subject for a second? That's your security from growing up, right? Yes, but hold on, I wanna get back to the subject. I get back to the subject, okay.

Because you don't have a lot of time. So, oh, well you don't. I know, yeah. Okay, so getting back to it, I'm freaking out, I'm calling him, he's not answering the FaceTime. So to make a long story short, I then go ahead and tell him not to come home, I'm freaking out. I absolutely 100% of what he's like, I'm working.

What are you talking about? My phone's in my pocket. You know, you swore you were shoveling, you were cursing out loud, because you were in a bad mood, you had an argument with your sister earlier, you were cursing out loud because you were in a bad mood. You had an argument with your sister earlier, you were cursing out loud. And I was hearing all these words in this grunting

because your phone was in your pocket and you were digging into like frozen ground, right? That's your story in St.Ca2, Dr. Morgan? Yes. Okay, so to make a long story short, I literally don't believe him. I am convinced on what I heard. It was my own

years, my own eyes. It wasn't like a girlfriend or someone coming to me saying, Hey, we heard something. And I tell him not to come home. My mother, my sister, you could tell the story of when you said, she tells me not to come home. I ignore her. I'm like, she's crazy. I keep continuing to work. I guess an hour and a half, two hours, three hours later, I drive home. I come home and Guess what her mother and her sister are there and they're from down the shore It takes an hour and a half to get there. She called them. Oh my god. They come running up my my I open a door My sister and little looks at me like I'm the devil. She goes. Oh, I can't believe you. I said what and my sister and my mother Die for Joe. They love me and my mother die for Joe. They

love me. They're always team Joe. They love me. But then, you know, and then the mom, the mom, all of a sudden she goes, dry, cannot believe. I go, are you? I go, are you kidding me? I was so aggr. I was so mad. Oh my God. Let's be honest. Ladies, everyone, your parents, your sister, the fam always takes our. Yeah. I was so mad at them but see they just and their father was a cheater and right yeah I we follow it was a player which is I never met I did grew up I did grow up with you know my father did stray a lot right he was a he was one of those guys he was a player who's a cool guy whatever I never met him because he passed away so they're kind of like, okay, you cheated.

They want to hang you the family, right? The man I wasn't even cheating. So I came and I was so shocked in my most, especially with my mulling on. She's like, I can't believe you. So then I'm like, all right. So then I walk outside and I go take a shower because I'm full of mud. I go, what do I do? What do I do?

Just roll in the mud. So I go take a shower and come back down. And now I sleep out that night. I want come back now and now I come down to sleep she's laying on a couch on the floor crying mother gave me a Xanax the mother the the yeah the guards it was a disaster I go it was the it ruined the entire day was it Jo whatever you do in that morning was it worth it so then so then so then the next day I go to work I leave in the morning she calls again crying the mother's there again then I'm figuring out I then the next day I go to work, I leave in the morning, she calls again, crying, the mother's there again. Then I'm figuring out, I'm like, holy shit. I'm like,

this is serious. It took a minute. I truly believe it was like a day and a half. And I finally said, like, am I going to get divorced over this? I want to work. And here's the things that I'm cheating. And then she goes like this, you, you know, I set it up and I'm gonna call. No, that's not what happened. So now he goes and he, I don't want him to sleep home that night. He doesn't sleep home that night. When I actually go to work the next day, either you didn't sleep home or you slept on the couch and I slept in the bed. Yeah.

Yes, and we didn't speak. Yeah. And then he goes to work the next day and I call him and I say, okay, you're not coming home tonight It's like until you prove this to me because I heard what I heard and I don't believe you and this is where the lie detector test comes in I Set up a lie detector test and I said this Meet me and hold on, I said You're sitting at Such and such address at 2 p.m. You're gonna take a lie detector test and I said Pass it good for you. I said and if you don't you're not coming home. I said no problem

I could have in an alpha. I was guilty a lie detector test I just said absolutely not I'm not I have more about this lie detector and I go like this I said fine Fine, I'll take the test. Let's go and how she picked the place because you know I'm busy Where I was building these homes were in the town that I was my Claire. She picked the spot in my Claire Now listen to what when I called a bunch of different lie to I you know, I'm googling lie detectors northern New Jersey and As I'm googling them. I talked to a couple I talked to this one lady that I really liked the most and I said, you know what? I'm gonna go with her and what she said to me was this, you know, you don't want to go with just any random person, you know I'm not one who will take money from the men a lot of these people do that. I was like what what what what she's like

Yes, a lot of men go and they pay off the the person who's gonna do the lie detector test They'll throw them 10 grand they'll throw them whatever they think their marriage is worth Okay, they'll clear out their bank accounts and you know they'll pay these people off who are who are doing the lie detector test So that they pass so that's that's in my brain, but she's telling you that she's not gonna take the money She's that I don't do that. Right. I tell Joe. I tell Joe. Now, let me give you a little quick update on Joe. Joe is late to everything everywhere. Never on time runs late for everything. You always have to call him. He's always a half hour late.

I pull up to this spot that I told him to meet me at, which is where we're going to do the lie detector test. He is already there sitting in the parking lot. I want to say 10 minutes early and sitting in his truck. I wanted to kill someone. I freaked out. I walked up to him like, wait, why are you already here? He's like, because you told me I was working down the street. I'm like, wait, why did you come early?

So already that you my brain, that he was there before me. Yes. freaked me out. To make a long story short, he takes the lie detector. She looked like hell. She looked like a psycho coming out of it. Like, like, she was crying for three days. She comes out of the car. I'm like, my God. Look at it. Like who did it in ran and she looked at it. I'm like, for what? I'm looking at her like, she sick. You're shaking. You're fucking, I did nothing but work. Yeah. This is some real Jerry Springer. You want to talk about Jerry Springer He's hooked up in this place. He has all of these like plugs. I've never seen that

We go yeah, we go into this room upstairs. We have to walk upstairs to this. There's a woman Hello, how you doing? All right, we sit down in this room and they stick these plugs these suction cups on my head My forehead my my chest and just by doing that alone, your heart's already like, what the fuck is, like if you just say you murdered somebody or you really did cheat in a stick and all this on you, you're like, y'all, what happens is when you lie, your heart races when you're lying and they put you on the spot and they know the machine

can detect that. So I sat there and I'm sticking to everything, they even stuck something on my penis. I'm like, what is this thing? They said that. So I sat there and sticking to everything. They even stuck something on my penis. I'm like, no, they say not. So then and then they take she starts asking me questions. And they start asking you random questions like first, like, uh, do you like the way your wife cooks? And they get to the point. He passes. Hold on. They get. No, let me I want to I want to talk about that they get to the point and they said did you Were you what a woman having sex that morning? I go absolutely not what were you doing? I said I was shoveling and pick and they're looking and I was directly looking in my wife's eyes

She was sitting on the couch watching me know what I thought was funny one of the questions that they asked him was like Are you attracted to any of your wife's friends? watching me. You know what I thought was funny? One of the questions that they asked him was like, are you attracted to any of your wife's friends? I thought that was very strange because they're trying to see when they said, are you attracted to any of your wife?

And that's a really good question. I do wonder if husbands out there. You know, do is there any of my friends that you are attracted to? Did I say to that question you said no, you said no, that is there any of your wife's friends? You're attracted to it was one of the questions. I said no, it was very interesting. So you know what she said? She said this man passed with flying colors.

He's a fucking amazing. He is amazing. And she was she she walked away with a tell between her legs. And that's my story people. That's my story. Anyway, that we never told because it's kind of embarrassing that we went through that and I made you take a light of that. But I'm going to be honest, I'm going to tell you from this day, I truly, truly heard what I heard.

You heard her ass. There was no girl there. I go like this. There's a question for the world. Does your mind play tricks on you sometimes Especially when it comes to relationships with men and like I do believe the mind can You know play tricks on you, but anyway, we're gonna jump out of that. We're gonna. We're gonna. We're gonna jump out of that I think that that's like it. She's wrong. No, not wrong. wrong. No, I'm not wrong. It's something we went through in marriage.

We're gonna pick that up another day. We're gonna pick that up another day. We're real people here. I mean, to make a long story short, I do think that a lot of relationships, especially ones that people have been together for years, we go through a lot of weird stuff, right? There's a lot, I'm sure everyone has a crazy story to tell.

I mean, we have some friends we go to dinner with that tell us the craziest things about catching their their their husband's masturbating and we got all kinds of shit. We really have some funny friends who tell us some crazy stories. That's a whole nother. I don't know. That's a whole nother. Uh, on display with Melissa Gorge is brought to you by progressive insurance. Most of you listening right now are probably multitasking. Yep, oh, you're listening to me talk. You're probably also driving, cleaning, exercising, or maybe you're just grocery shopping. I don't know.

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Real quick with you, Joe. I mean, I want to just, I want to touch on one quick thing. Okay, good. Comedy. Yeah, quick because the people want to know where did this come from? And why does Joe Gorgas suddenly go from, you know, real estate developer, which you are, which you are, and you are a successful, successful one. I will give you that.

In case, let me just give you one quick recap. In case anyone doesn't know what Joe really does besides like, you know, being my sidekick on reality TV, he converts old warehouses into apartment buildings. So we do own apartment buildings. We, notice I said we, because my name's on all that shit, and you did all that while I was home watching those kids and organizing your life. So we own all of these apartment buildings all around New Jersey. So that's truly what Joe is. That's what he does best.

He is a real estate developer. Why comedy? Why all the sudden comedy? Why did you want to get on a stage and be a comedian? Because I love it. I love to, you know, you, as you know me, right, when we go out, when we out to dinner, since the beginning of, as I met you, how I met you, as I made you laugh, and I was entertaining to you. When I sat at that bar, and I was hitting on you, it was my person. And Pete Davidson right now. I mean, laughing is definitely the way to a woman's heart. That's right.

And my personality, and that's what I was. And when we went out, the dinner with all our friends, and I would sit there, and I was the guy that took over the conversation and made everybody laugh, and talked about sex and motivated them. And when we were done with the dinner, my friend, our friends, the men will call me in the next day. Well, no, okay, so that's fair.

You do, so when we go to couples dinners a lot, we're big couples people. We go dinners with couples, because I do believe, side note, I do believe that strong marriages last longer. If you go out with couples, if you keep yourselves around couples that are also happy and in good relationships, I feel like it does help your own marriage become successful.

If your husband's out there all day long with, you know, a single guy or guys that are, you know, cheating husbands, or it's not good. It does. It's a white pose that we're big on couples, happy couples. That's what we like to hang around. And Joe does does you make Everyone laugh at dinner. I'm a natural just naturally. I like it. I motivate them. You know the next day They call me up. I said, oh, whatever you talk about sex. We have crazy sex with my wife last night I'll give you that and they have an at sex in two weeks, which is awesome. See I like that

So I get that but how many on a stage with a script and having content. And for me, the comedian, it's more about like the transition. Hold on, hold on. Let me get to that real quick. But when I, when I was, I started out as a landscaper, then I started building houses. Then when our son was born, a genome was in 2012, I said, I'm going to buy this. I'm going to step it up to 11. I I'm gonna buy this big warehouse and create apartments. And I did. I had balls to do. You did all of that, but why are you committing?

Let me finish. And I took an impossible thing on without, I didn't even have all the money and I made it happen, right? And that's who I am. And I said, I'm gonna do comedy. I wanna do it. I'm gonna do it. I don't know.

Is it something that you, no, I just want. What makes you wanna do? Because let me be honest, I'm your wife So I see it behind the scenes It's very stressful. It's very stressful for you. You've had you've you've had how many shows now maybe six Should we say you've done like six? We want to say about six six They're pretty good. They are I have to say you're pretty good. Surprisingly. They're. Yeah, I have to be honest. I wasn't sure this was something you can handle It's a large audience

It's really really not easy to do one of the hardest things to do would be to get on stage and make people and make people laugh Because in my brain it's almost like oh, you're gonna make me laugh now You have to try even harder to make me so if you go in a room and there's 500 people, there's 500 different personalities. Correct. You have to sometimes have the rooms laugh and sometimes they're not. Whatever, things work. And you have to do, it takes a lot of practice,

takes a lot of years. And I just went up there and I did it. And with that said that I'm proud of you and that you're really like trying new things here. We do need to address the elephant in the room. Joe did have one epic fail, I will say. It was not too long ago. A couple of weeks ago, a week or two ago. It was not my fault. It was not your fault. No, I guess, I guess we're going to say it. You did it. It happened to you. It's happened. So let's explain to the listeners what happened to you.

So we were on Long Island, shout out to Long Island. We love Long Island. But Joe wasn't feeling good before one of his shows on Long Island and decided like, you know, no COVID because we take COVID tests all the time. But he was just, you know, sniffly didn't feel good. He's like, I'm going to take Sudafed because I'm going to sound so congested on stage tonight. So he took Sudafed and With that said, well, I just want to give a quick you know every night before Joe gets on the stage He does have a couple drinks you do you have like a couple?

Yeah, like one or two drinks backstage Nothing to me. Okay get rid of your nerves or whatever Oh, it just caused me to and everyone always gives them Johnny Walker blitz Which is the strongest is that whiskey? No, it's caused me that. And everyone always gives them Johnny Walker Blit, which is the strongest, is that whiskey? No, it's not. Scotch, what is that? Scotch, but it doesn't do anything.

It is, it is so strong. Yes, nothing. But it's. Everyone gives you that because of your dad, right? Yes. Okay. Well, Joe decided to drink a lot of, I guess, I don't know how much you drink backstage at night.

You're not, let me talk. Okay, go ahead, talk. Go speak. Okay. So during the day I took suit of fed, go ahead talk. Go speak. All right. So during the day I took Sudafed because I wasn't feeling good and then I got to the show, got there two hours early, hanging out in a back room and I did a I had a drink of scotch. One drink, Joe. I'm a two. Two. I'm gonna say two, maybe maybe three, but that doesn't do anything. Okay, but when you when you take

Sudafedd. Right. So I feel like I need to explain the rest of it because you didn't even know where you were. So it's impossible for you to tell the story because you didn't see yourself on the stage. You have no idea. Well, I'm going to tell you this story

until I got on stage. Okay. I remember I'm in the green room and I was hanging out and there's some other guys that came back there. Some other Instagram guys to say hi and take some pictures. So we were room and I was hanging out and there's some other guys that came back there, some other Instagram guys to say hi and take some pictures. So we were good. I was fine.

I was normal. I was laughing. As soon as they tell me, Joe, you're up. I go on stage. I remember dropping my drink. I'll go to put it down on the bench and I drop my drink. And that's all I remember from there.

Well, that's exactly. That sounds about right. I blacked out. So I do remember, wait, I do remember seeing snakes coming out of people's heads and I'm like, what the hell? Yes. You were literally like hallucinates. I was hallucinates.

You look now. Now this is just like a PSA announcement. Joe does not smoke weed. He is a drinker, but he does not. He doesn't smoke. It's not of that. Because you would think when he got on this stage, like, wow, this guy's on another planet, like he's high, but literally he was high because he took the suit of head and it reacted that way. And literally he didn't know where he was.

So to be his wife and to sit down and watch him, first of all, he came out, his eyes were closed. They weren't even open. He drops his drink as he's walking on the stage. Everyone in the audience knows I'm there, okay? They're all looking at me like, oh my god, Melissa's gonna die right now. This is like the best episode of the Real Housewives of New Jersey.

They have ever seen. So I'm just sitting there mortified. Joe doesn't know what he's saying. So I can't even say that Joe like got on the stage and had a horrible run at comedy because he didn't do any comedy. He didn't even say a word as a matter of fact. He just keep, he just kept going back to some guy, Javier, who works with him. So let me tell you about Javier. I'm gonna tell you and we were all just I was like, oh my god, I'm mortified. I was completely mortified. And then my heart was breaking for him at

the same time. The wife and me because I was like, he has no idea where he is. He has no idea what he's doing. I don't want to come in and like bust his bubble and like pull him off the stage and be like the saving grace wife. Like this is Joe's thing. You know, I don't want to come in and like embarrass him. I didn't want to embarrass you. But if you saw me not in my element, you could have said, hey, what's going on? You're an element.

You could have gone on the mic. I didn't even know who you were. I was mortified. I didn't know who you were. And then I felt bad for you all at the same time. The fans love you, by the way, so much that they wanted you to be good and they were like, come on Joe You got this Joe, but like they didn't know that you're actually really decent at this. You're really good at this No, you are you're good at it. You make people laugh. You really are so up there. We're no

Let's get these people a little break here. They have no idea. They've never seen you before You're just Joe Gorgher from the Housewives about to do comedy. So in their minds, they're like, wow, this guy is way out of his element. And he's not even, Joe, you didn't even speak. You didn't even kind of get to the point. I mean, how much is it?

You don't have to explain it. Oh my god, he got it. I don't know what you're gonna speak it in speaking. He's speaking, he's speaking. I get it. Okay, so let's make a long story short Everybody repeating yourself. It was a really bad night to the point where I had to I I couldn't let them be up there Because I was scared he was gonna start saying things

Terrible that that could have got no because you didn't know what you were saying you weren't even saying anything for a good 30 minutes It was 30 minutes of hell. Okay. And these fans were looking at me. And I was looking at them. And I'm like, okay, what's that saying for 30 minutes? They were like, you know what you kept saying to the fans, Joe? Come on, people. You know, you're going to laugh. Let me get just pay attention. But then I then I wasn't I saying you guys suck. Yes, you told the, you told the crowd. You guys suck. Like you don't know it's funny. And meanwhile, you

didn't say one joke to even be funny. Yeah, like you just kept telling us about some guy hobby here that when you woke up with that six a.m. While you stared at the sky and closed your eyes. So basically saving grace here I come, I didn't know what to do. I had to get them off the stage. I guys listen to this. I walk on the stage, I just walk up. I think the crowd starts clapping. You know, everyone takes out their phones. You could see everyone in the whole entire place is videoing. So I literally get on the stage and I'm like, all right guys,

like I've seen him do this six times. He's amazing. This is something's going obviously wrong here I'm gonna have to pull them off the stage we love you guys hello TMZ and I I escorted you Joe off the stage but you did not come gracefully you were like what are you doing I'm good I was like Joe honey the bus has spoken I think those were my exact words you You were like, what do you mean? Good out of here. I'm good. I'm like, Joe, it's time to get off the stage. Everyone kind, I have to say the crowd was very, you know, I think they were getting a little annoyed at one point, but they definitely, you know, they were, they were feeling for everyone can tell you were not in your right mind. But I worried that people were like,

oh my god, they're going to think he's like some like drug addict or something because he's can't put a sentence together. I you broke my heart, babe, I felt bad. I cried. I literally cried that drive home because I was like, I cannot believe that this just how I was in complete shock. And I looked at you and you threw up. I threw up.

I throw it up that night. It was a mess. I was a mess. With that said, I have to say like we need to, you know, it was an elephant in the room a little but we need to say you had your, you had your one little slip up and TMZ was there to capture it all of course. Or the kind people in the audience. Thank you so much. So I'm proud guys in the long iron. I love you guys. I'm coming back. I'm going to give you the show of the life. Yes. You know what? I say you do do you do a free show, no selling tickets.

Yes, you go back to that spot to anyone who bought a ticket and you give those long island people a real Joe comedy show next time. That's right. All right. All right. Moving on. I know you're a busy man and you have a lot going on today because I do have your schedule. But before we let you go, we're gonna do a little segment right now. I wanna introduce with you, it's called, grilled with gorgah.

I am gonna do this with all of my guests every time and congratulations on being my very first guest on grilled with gorgah. Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay, prepare yourself. I just want quick answers, because I know you're gonna wanna drag your little answer on. Okay, prepare yourself. I just want quick answers because I know you you're gonna want to drag your little answer on okay quick answered Grilled with gorgah. Are you ready ready? Okay first celebrity crush first celebrity crush wow I know the answer

You do oh, it's that girl that girl that looked like you. What's your name Melissa Alana? No, oh, Alyssa, a Milano. Okay, got it. Favorite 80 song. Fabulous 80's Rum DMC. Okay, I'll take it. Best decision you've ever made in your life. Marry new baby. There's smart man. Your biggest regret.

My biggest regret. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, okay. Where's date? The worst date. Where's date you've ever been on? I never had a worst date. No, you had to have a bad day. What about the time you fell asleep on me at our date? I wasn't bad because what about that? That was a great outcome. It was it was perfect. Okay. Favorite food. Favorite food. I love pasta. Give me something that would surprise us about you. Something that we don't know about you. I am a worker and and I'm always going to be a work. I put dirty work boots on every day and I go to work. Like I could do a big comedy show like 2,000, 3,000 people there. Go do a red carpet event with Bravo and my wife and all that and all that craziness

But the next day at five o'clock in the morning. I put work boots on and I go to go to work and I can't get real First concert do you remember the first concert you've ever been at? No first concert. Have you ever even been to a concert? You're so not pop culture. I don't remember Okay, what was your first job you ever had newspaper route? Okay, what's your favorite late-night snack? It was your first job you ever had. Newspaper out. Okay. What's your favorite late night snack? Ice cream.

Okay, and your favorite TV show that we're been watching right now. What's your favorite show? Friday night lights. Oh, night, long. I love it. All right, and I need to know, I'm always gonna end with,

tell me how you treat yourself. What is the one thing you do for you? What's the one thing you do for Joe? You do something. You do something. How do you treat yourself? What is your treat at you do for you? What's the one thing you do for Joe? You do something How do you treat yourself? What is your treat at the end of the week or at the end of the day? What how do you treat yourself? I do nothing and sometimes I get I get mad at myself and that's that's where it Fucks my brain up sometimes and I get nasty

Sometimes I get mad and or insecure about something because I do nothing for me everything I do all the real state I build, I think of my children and you, if I ever die. Well, you need to treat yourself. That's a huge part. I don't go get haircuts. You go go golfing. I never get haircuts.

I buzz my own hair. I don't go. I want massages. I don't go. I just work, work, work, work. So it's all about my family and my wife and my everybody else, but me. I think you should grab a beer and go to the golf course once in a while. That's how you could treat yourself. You treat yourself that way. I definitely think you treat yourself with food if I'm going to help you answer these questions. But okay, Mr. Joe Gorgher, thank you so much for being my first guest today.

I wouldn't have it any other way. I love you so much. I know you have a lot to do. So I am going to let you other way. I love you so much. I know that you have a lot to do So I am gonna let you go, but I appreciate you and thank you for always making me laugh for all of these years You're so insightful. I love you and I love you. I love you Thank you for making me your first guest. It's this is an honor. It's an honor Truly is and I look up to you. I look up to you. You are my idol. Thank you. You keep doing what you're doing I bet I love you. Thank you. Love you. Ciao. my idol. Thank you. And you keep doing what you're doing. All right, buddy? I love you. Thank you, love you.

Ciao. Bye, peeps. Love everybody. See you later. All right, guys. So Joe Gorge has left the building, but I just want to say, thank you. Thank you so much. Your support and how my friends and fans that I've met throughout all of the years, you know, just through the real housewives of New Jersey, and through all of my business ventures and everything else has gotten me through. It really keeps me going, it really pushes me. You guys are so encouraging.

I love your comments, so please DM me. Anything that you guys wanna hear me talk about, make sure you're DMing me, make sure you're following this podcast, this is the first of many, many to come. So cannot wait to talk more to you guys, love you so much and do not forget to treat yourself. Love you. Wow, talk about a little journey back in time. Of course, guys, Joe has not changed much, but hey, that's why I love this guy. course guys Joe has not changed much, but hey, that's why I love this guy. Anyway, this was super fun. And I hope you guys all spend some time today looking back at things from a couple

years ago, whether it's a picture of video or anything, just spend a moment today and find something to look back on. It's amazing to realize how far you come. I hope you all have an amazing week. And I cannot wait to celebrate. Number 100 with you guys all next week. Love you so much. Talk to you soon. Ciao. The social media is exhausting. I mean, I love it. The memes, the drama, the tea.

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