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

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

Gather ‘round the campfire. Melissa becomes an honorary member of Camp Shady Birch this week as she is joined by the absolutely hilarious guys from the Camp Counselors podcast.  The three of them chat about the one fruit that should not be consumed in public, what it’s like to be cursed by Julia Roberts, and why going to the movies is the most “main character” thing to do. And because they’re all foodies, they play a very fun game of MFK: Restaurants.  This week’s sponsors: PlutoTV – Hit TV Shows and Movies, Free: Pluto.TV Progressive – “Name-Your-Price” Tool: Progressive.com  ZocDoc – Easy to Access, Trusted Doctors; One App Away: Zocdoc.com/Melissa

I'm a slut for a thin man. I love a thin man. All right, guys. Welcome to another episode of On Display. I have a really fresh, fun one for you today. I have a couple of guests on today that I've never had on before, so I always get excited to talk to new fresh faces. These two are making waves in the podcast scene for their hilarious podcast called Camp Counselors.

Today I have with me two always funny and sometimes sassy hosts of Camp Counselors, Jonathan and Zachariah. What's up guys? Hello, thank you so much for having us. What a great intro, I love that. I am really good, I just wanna say I'm really good at intros, like I love to hype everyone up and say true facts and I think intros are so important,

it kinda like sets the tone for the podcast. Like if you're like, hey, if I came on your podcast and you're like, yeah, I got, you know, Melissa from the Housewives is here. What's up, Melissa? I'd be like, ugh, can't you say like the beautiful, sexy, hot, amazing, no, just kidding. Of course. Singing, beautiful, stoning. You know, I'm just saying, I think it's all about an intro. But hi, I'm so excited for my listeners to like listen to you guys today. How are you guys

doing good? Really excited about this been looking forward to it. You are an icon in the Bravo Liberty, like universe and beyond that. So it's it's amazing. We've got to tell a lot of people we're going to be on this and everyone's like, what? So it's a cool milestone for us. So thank you for having us. Of course, I'm so excited to have you guys you want to hear something funny. I wrote I had to write Zachariah after your

name I had in quotes, when I'm reading Mariah. So that way I say I say your name correctly because I didn't want to butcher it. So I literally told my producer to put Mariah after it so I don't fuck it up. Does that make sense? No, yeah, it completely makes sense. It's funny, either people have never seen it before or like I grew up like super religious. So it's like a, it's a name from the New Testament.

So sometimes I'll meet like an old lady at the grocery store and she'll be like, very biblical. And then I'm like, yeah, totally. And she's like, wait, oh, okay. Or somebody told him the other day that it has good bones. I was like, I'm gonna start telling people their names have good bones because you were glowing for the rest of the day.

Yeah, that was a great, yeah, we were picking up sushi and she was like, oh, love that name, good bones. And I walked away feeling like a little taller after. Yeah, you're like, damn, I'm the shit. You know why? It gives you like a little chest muscles because it is true. It does have good bones.

I don't know that that's the way I would have referenced it, but it's different. It sounds like expensive or something. It's like just... Oh, thank you. It has an expensive flair, so I like it. I love that. All right. Listen, I want my listeners to get to know you guys a little bit. We're going to talk about the podcast. You got to tell me how this started. First of all, I want to know where the name came

from, because I do love that name camp counselors. And you guys are actually a couple, correct? Correct. Okay, give me give me a lowdown on you too. I need to hear this. Yeah, of course. So 2020, I got an Instagram notification. And this is before we both did content because we both do like TikTok and Instagram professionally, we did the podcast. It's like just like constant video, like all day long at our house. But in 2020, I got a notification on my phone that this boy was liking all my

pictures. And I was I was like, Oh, he's cute. But like, I don't like like, I'm just a very confrontational person. So the first thing I said was I went to his DMS. I was like, you're gonna like my photos, but not message me? Like, what's up with that? And he said that he found me on his explore page on Instagram. Do you ever use your explore page? I don't but Joe Gorgas does because there's always hot girls and bikinis all over his freaking explore. If you guys think I'm playing, I'm not I get so frustrated every time I grab his phone for any reason and go near Instagram

because I'm like, I literally throw it. I'm like, hello, like what are you doing? He's like, no, you guys ready to hear this real quickly to side curve? You know what, I thought it kind of looked like it could have been you in one of your photo shoots. So I like hit it and then what happens if you hit it, then it keeps bringing up more girls in bikinis. I'm like, you are such a weak, that is the

poorest excuse. You just you look at girls and it's like soft porn on Instagram because now they bend over until they get kicked off. They do all this shit. And he's just like sitting on the couch watching it all. And it drives me insane. I go nuts. I can't stand it. It's like it's not my fault. It's just the algorithm is feeding me. So so you don't but he does. Well, that's how it is. I think it's it's 5050. Like we're on the same page. Like I don't look at that. You and Joe are on the

same page. You're looking at what's your page? A bunch of hot men and that was me. So same page you're looking at. What's your explore page? My explore page? Much of hot men and that was me. So Mine's a little bit different. No, some people really do go on that explore page and they're into it and want to see what's going on. I don't think I've gone on it like ever. I don't think I ever go on the explore

page. It's overstimulating for me and sometimes I need to be overstimulated. So like that's why I go I get like thrown 10,000 different things at the same time. So I just scroll on there when I'm bored and I came across his his picture and I was like thrown 10,000 different things at the same time. So I just scroll on there when I'm bored and I came across his picture and I was like, okay, he's cute. I did what Joe would do. And I double tapped. Like, can you blame me? But at the time I was living in Philly and he was living in Massachusetts and it said, like at the top, the geotag said he was from Massachusetts. I was like, well, I'm never going

to end up in Massachusetts. So I'm just going to double tap and be on my way. And then I got a confrontational DM. And he's like, Are you literally gonna double tab and not say anything to me? And I was like, Okay, hello. And then, like, yeah, like, I'm from a small town, right? I'm from New Bedford, Massachusetts. So it's like the gay community there is small. Once once you know everybody, you know everybody. So I was like no longer interested in like dating in that area. I

was really just like working on myself doing content. And I thought it was fun to flirt with a guy from Philly. And that over the course of six months ended up doing like long distance drives. And then we started dating for two years, just kind of going back and forth every couple weekends, which worked for me because I was in the beginning of like launching all this stuff that I'm doing now and really growing that and I've always thought that men are really distracting. Like if they're nearby, I'm busy

with that. So it's like I needed someone that was at arm's length while I kind of built this. And I think you kind of felt the same way we were working ourselves. But then we as we got more serious, we're like, well, we want to continue our career in content and podcasting. So we should move kind of halfway to New York because it's kind of like, it's a great city, right? It's kind of central to where we both are from. And we've been here for almost two years living together, but we're going on four years dating.

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

like the great restaurants lately. Everything's in Brooklyn. All the hot spots are in Brooklyn. I love it. Yeah, Brooklyn is really I think it's just looks so different than probably what it was like 20 years ago. But that's just going to be like the next set. New York continues to grow out as like every city really does. But it's really fun here. It's so different from the suburbs. I miss driving every single day. I love a drive-through. I love a strip mall. I love a Marshall's. I like to park my car and do my errands. So that's like the one part that I like miss so much of not living back home. But like, it's fun here. Subways, the subway is crazy. Like it's just everything is like such a commitment to go anywhere, right? It's like, oh, I have to go to the grocery store. I want to get a case of Gatorade. Well, you're going to put that on your shoulder,

break your back six blocks. Like it's, it's, you have, and then I used to think like, oh, people, those little push carts, all those old ladies with the little carriages. Right, you think of those little silver push carts. That's what my brain, I was like, I would totally get one if I lived there. I don't even care.

I would get one. 100%. And now all the young people here, everyone has them here. Cause it's not like an old lady thing that happier It's like no that makes complete sense get your little little trolley carriage and push it down the road But yeah, you can get like a Bentley one or something There's got to be like the high-end pusher like a stroller like the girl the ladies need the high-end Strollers like you also need the high-end collect your groceries, right? Like there's got to some, I'm gonna invent that for all New Yorkers. It's gonna be like the Bentley of like carts

for all of the New Yorkers. And everyone's gonna want the Melissa Gorga polar cart. That's what they're all gonna want. We'll take one if you, yeah, if you wanna test it out and we'll give you great feedback. I will totally send one your way. That's an awesome, Joe's always looking for business ideas. You just gave me a great one. I think that's awesome. Because you have to see the moms in

this city. Even the moms here, it's like the stroller is a big deal. There's a high, you got to get the name brand of the specific cool stroller that's happening or like whatever it is. I know. But wait, I can also totally relate with you with wanting to run to the strip mall and marshals and park your car, go in and out of your car, go through the drive-through. If I had to leave New Jersey and live there, that would hurt me the most. It's truly my favorite pastime is pulling up to a Target and getting out and going in and coming back to my car and then sitting in there for a moment and then going to get my Starbucks

and sitting at the drive-through with my, it's like a whole day of happiness, especially when it's sunny outside. So I could totally hear that. Yeah, good music and stuff. And then it's like, I don't know, I've always think that like I have good mental clarity in a car, cause all you can really do is just drive

and kind of like process what you're thinking about. And that's like the one thing I've missed about living here. But now that we've been here for almost two years, I've kind of settled into like life here. But we're going to bring it up because we've been trying to figure out what to bring us up. So Saturday, it was raining. Were you in New Jersey on Saturday? It was raining is an understatement. It was coming down like it was crazy So we're like, let's get out of the city. Let's have a day and have some fun I was like, where should we go? So we took a little drive and we popped into envy We're gonna be on the show. Are you kidding me? You guys have envy hats. I love this so much right now

Oh my god I love this so much right now. Oh my god It was pouring rain on Saturday and you came out to Ridgewood, New Jersey and we committed yes We did I got I love you guys so much. Thank you. That's so cute We we like parked in that like little lot like that's across the street We did a little more parking but it was raining and I we knew that we were gonna get the hats We really like found them online. So I ran into Envy like a bat out, and I'm bee-lining for the hats. But I went to the wrong section,

went towards the back, and the other hats were in the front. And one of the girls working, she was like, oh, it seems like you know exactly what you're looking for. And I was like, I need to calm down. Like, why am I running through Envy at 100 miles an hour? Dripping wet all over her nice floor. This is hysterical. This is so funny.

And you know what's so funny? We were training. We had, like, there was probably, what, three girls in there? Or two? Three, right? There was three. One was training, because we taught her how to use the iPad, because it was a mobile transaction.

They didn't have the tap, so she was going to get it. No, she was literally learning that day. So I was in contact with them all day. I'm like, how is this girl? How's it going? What's going through? She's learning. She's doing it. So you guys got to meet someone who was her first day. That's so funny. That's hysterical. Well, it was great vibes in there. It's a gorgeous store. Thank you. You know what? It's very like a happy place, especially like just we usually, they usually have the music on. It's just it's a

happy place. Everyone's in their shop and having fun. But you guys came in on a super, super rainy day and I appreciate you. Thank you. That is so cute. I feel like that whole area is so nice. If it wasn't raining, I would have like popped into some other places because there's like a lot of that whole area. There's like just restaurants and stores like everywhere. It's like a poppet area. Yeah. You know what? I'm so upset you came on a rainy day like the but all the like the doors would have been open to like the bar next door. You could sit outside. There's great coffee places. Everybody's

walking around because there's the train station right there. so you can come right in from New York jump off and like it's just a very crazy busy town, which is why I love it there. So you're gonna have to come back and let me know when you're coming back the next time. So you can like go for a coffee or lunch or something. But thank you for the support. You guys are so cute.

That's probably one of the cutest things ever. I am actually, and if you guys have to send me a photo of you both wearing this hat with like the podcast mics, please do, I need to post this. This is too cute. I love it. Thank you. And they had great quality hats too, for the record. On the record right now.

Love it. Well, let me tell you why. Joe Gorga is a huge hat guy. He is a hat man. He wears a hat. He loves a hat. He did not like, I open the store now eight years ago. And I'm about to open my second store on March 23

on Long Island, which I am so excited about so you guys can come to Huntington, Long Island. I don't know how far you are from there. So anyway, he did not like my first round of hats. He's like, they fit weird. They're a little like, they're not good. They don't fit my head good. These are, you need to get different.

I changed the hats five times till Joe Gorges said like, this is a hat. So you can thank Joe that you like those because he was the one who chose those. They fit good, right? Yeah. Yeah. So just tell him a little gay and Brooklyn is loving the hat choices. Oh my God. He is going to be so excited.

That is so cute. All right. Well back to you guys. Tell me how you came up with camp counselors. When we moved to New York, a big part of us living together, we're like, hey, we independently make our own content. I do a lot of skits and characters. Jonathan does a lot of observational comedy, but we wanted to bring our different energies together. I'm much more loud and boisterous. Jonathan is very like, he's so smart and so funny and it's a lot more cerebral.

So we're like, oh, let's do a podcast together, but how are we going to theme it and how are we going to like, make it have some sort of cohesion for us? So we were trying to come up with some general jokey theme and camp counselors came up. We both love like the parent trap growing up and that kind of like silly vibe. So we were like, hey, we never were camp counselors. But I think there's something about our qualities that has camp counselor energy. Like we'd be really good on a dock with a whistle. And we know how to like whip the kids in line, but also sit down and make friendship bracelets like that's kind of

our energy. So we were like, let's make this like fictional camp with all these employees and all these little like areas that kind of coincide with like funny news, what we're loving, what we're hating these segments that we do every week with the idea of this like fictional camp. So it's been fun. Yeah, we somehow just like created a weird little universe. Like you said, like with fake people who work there and and people comment and like ask about those people. It's just I

don't know. It's weird. It's interesting. It's really cool though. Yeah, like a fictional universe that everybody's buying into. I actually love it. I saw a couple clips and I'm like, these two are funny. Like you guys are great. You guys are like really, really funny. Yeah, it's been cool because like long form too because everything we do usually is like 30 seconds, 60 seconds. But like, you know, you're you're on the podcast, like life, it's like sitting down and having in depth conversations as a it's an interesting way because you get more out

of it. Because I think you like we'll start a conversation as one thing, and then it develops completely different. And that ends up being the best part of the show. So you never know what you're going to get into, which I think is really fun about it. Always. I always say that. Like I always go off on a tangent on something that I had zero planned for that day. And I'm like, I didn't even want to talk about this. Like I went on for 20 minutes about whatever and it's always the best convo and I completely agree with you. That's just how this goes. And you guys have great banter back and forth with each other. Does it ever cause like relationship problems

when you get off the podcast? You ever get annoyed or have an argument over it? No, I think at the beginning it was like weird to get into it, but now we're like 78 episodes in and we've found our footing and kind of like shelf it. And sometimes we'll have our little, you know, bickers and fights, but the girls love it. Like everybody who listens is like, other dads are fighting.

The dads are fighting. So sometimes we'll just like, lean into it. We do fight though, because it's like we do everything together, which I love and I wouldn't change it for the world because it kind of is like, that's where our lives have taken us and we're like so gung-ho about continuing on this journey on like line and stuff. But like, it's so funny, we were out to eat that same day that we went to your store, we ended up eating in Williamsburg at this restaurant. And I wanted to go out because I was feeling silly. And I like had an espresso at five. So I'm like, let's keep going out. But it was so bad that I was pouring rain. So I'm convincing him to go out.

I'm trying to convince our other friend to meet us. And we were bickering at the table. And I'm being a bitch about it. Because I'm like, listen, it's Saturday night, let's just go out, whatever. We have a busy week, let's enjoy it, because we're already out. And then I get a DM on Instagram that night being like, hey, you saw you and John eating at dinner, didn't want to interrupt. I'm like, motherfucker.

I'm really like, oh my God, they're really sauce like. You're just fighting at the table. That is so funny. Could you imagine how much that happens to Joe and I? Like you have no idea. And though people always act like they have no... Not always, but you definitely get some that are literally sitting right next to you and do not say a word. And so you literally think, oh, they're not one of the ones who watch this show.

And then they literally will DM me three seconds after, oh my God, we were just sitting next to you. I'm like, Jesus Christ. You looked like you could give a shit less that I was sitting there. seconds after, oh my God, we were just sitting next to you. I'm like, Jesus Christ, like, you looked like you could give a shit less that I was sitting there. The other day, I took this new class at the gym. She's like, so I worked out behind you the whole time.

I didn't wanna say I was like, oh, like, I just, it's always like, it's so random and weird how they don't say anything. And the second I walk out there, like, we were sitting right next to you and we heard you saying, and I'm like, oh my God, like it never fails. Here's the audio recording of what you were saying. You just never know who's listening. No, I always warn Joe about that because he's not as like careful. So I'm always like, Joe, everyone knows you like no matter what, even if they're not like, they don't watch the

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Well, wait, speaking about your podcast, I have to, you have to clarify. You guys had some beef or something. What's the deal with Julia Roberts? Because I need to hear this. First of all, I am gonna be say it loud and proud. She is one of my favorites because I'm obsessed with that movie. So she's one of my favorites because you know,, you just, I need to hear this story.

I have to hear this. Well, you take it away because you got the beef for her. Okay. And here it goes. And it starts. Wait, you guys feel like she has like a hex on you or something? Well, on me personally, he's in the clear. I forget what we were talking, like a year ago, we were talking about some movie that she was in. And I don't know, I just wasn't really interested. And I said it just like that. Like, I don't not think she's talented. I just like, I don't know, I just like didn't have an affinity for her. I didn't love her. And he took that and he ran with that. And he put that out into the ether. He's like, tell

the tell everybody how you hate Julia Roberts. Well, if you don't love and respect Julia Roberts for the contribution she's made to cinema, film, joy and love, that I can only read that as hate because everything she's ever touched has been a masterpiece. And I don't know how you can be so blasé about Julia Roberts. And we believe she put a hex on him. And this is all like a lie. All we do in the podcast is just lie and talk shit about things that aren't even true. Because Emma Roberts, her niece follows me on Instagram and sometimes she'll like my videos. So I believe that she says that Emma Roberts has liked a video, then listened to the podcast

and found out that Jonathan is like his aunt, her aunt, and in turn now she's put a hex on him. None of this is true. You've got to back it up. But also, there's nothing saying that it's not true either. So it's 5050. Oh, my god, this is so first of all, Emma Roberts follows you. That's hysterical. That's awesome. So they're listeners, they might be listening. She might have heard what you said. Exactly. Probably not. But maybe I did. Yeah, I had a string of bad luck for a little bit. And that's all I could I

could put it to because I like to think I have good karma. I'm a good I'm a good freaking person. But we did go to Mystic Pizza. I don't know if you've ever seen Mystic Pizza. One of her like first back in the day. I feel like I can't remember it. But there's like a spot associated right? Yeah, where they actually filmed it. We actually we went there. I got my t shirt. And I changed my mind about Julia, but he just the story will keep going. Wait, that's a cute place. If you're going to continue, if you're going to continue the envy like takeover, like Mystic, Connecticut, it's really cute coastal town right off of 95.

They had the pizza place, but it's like you get down there and there's like there's an ice cream place on the edge of the bridge. And I'm like literally welling up in tears. I'm like, why is this place so picture perfect right now? And I'm like, stop crying. It's literally a town, but it's cute there. I can get what they made a movie. Really? Is it half like, is it like that? Is it like Ridgewood where there's a bunch of little like stores and really? Oh, that's cute. Don't very much. Only thing is the parking is a little like difficult over there.

What are you gonna do? Yeah, all this. But that was we had always like driven past it when we were dating long distance. I would always be like, there's Mystic Mystic Pizza, because I'd seen the movie. And and one day we were like, let's just let's just stop. Like we've passed it a million times. Let's just go. So we didn't hear they got they got a great slice there. Well, listen, there you go. At least you like. I have to be honest, I don't think I've ever met anyone

who's ever said anything negative about Julia Roberts in my life. Like I'm like, what? Melissa, I'm not saying anything negative. I know. I mean, like even slightly not like, not that you're saying negative, but she doesn't appeal to or whatever it is. I'm just like, huh?

I've never heard of such a thing. And this is what's going to happen. I'm going to cross paths with her one day and somebody's gonna dig up this audio And it's gonna haunt me forever Continuing the okay. Okay, so we're not okay. So we're on a good path now and we're seeing what gorgeous smile She has and we're remembering the gorgeous orange ish hair and now we're in yes They love it. Yeah, sometimes I'm just really late to the game. Like I didn't watch Twilight till this past year. I'm just late to the game and now I'm on the train. We'll get you there.

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

Yes. Yes. It's called Camper Crush of the Week where you talk about the things that you're loving this week. So I need to know what are some of the camper crushes from the past couple days? Give me something. I want to be involved in this. So right after we left your store, I was like, okay, like it was only like two o'clock and we were already in New Jersey. And to know Jonathan and I so know that we love like we love a theme park, we love a chain restaurant, we love just like just real simple bullshit and just ridiculousness. So we were like, let's go to the American Dream Mall. I've never been. And it's like, wait, I'm sure you've been correct. Yes, it is. It is what everyone does over here, minus me, on a rainy day.

Like it was. And it was we went on a really bad day. It was insane. Wait, it is unbelievable that all of that is in a mall. The mountain. It's the biggest thing you've ever seen in the world. There is a water park. There is a you need.

I don't know what it doesn't have. I mean, literally restaurants, Saks Fifth Avenue, water parks, movie theaters, fighting with the guns. Ice skating rink, amusement park. Yeah, it's got everything. They have an entire Angry Birds themed mini golf place I just appeared upon. I was like, wait, where was this? There's a koi fish in the fountain.

Yeah. It's just, it was a site for the census. The money they spent on that place baffles me all the time. Like, because Joe and I always are like looking at real estate. When we go there, we're like, how much do you think this costs? Like it is the American dream mall guys, if you ever get a chance to come to New Jersey and it's right by Giant Stadium, right? Isn't it not amazing?

Like, it's pretty amazing. I'm telling? Isn't it not amazing? Like it's pretty amazing. I'm telling my listeners now. I know you guys went, but I feel like, what did you actually do when you got there? We really just like perused. Well, we fought for parking for like 45 minutes, like absolutely insane. And then we have a couple things that we're doing this week. So we got some clothing, but a big part of like the trip was just to see like we walked through the entire amusement park. We watched people ice skate, watched a lot of kids fall. There was one guy that was giving Olympic status

and he was doing pirouettes and figure eights. And I'm like, in the middle of a crowded ice skating ring, he was darting in between people. I got an espresso. I was going to say, did you get a cocktail or something? Did you get a cocktail? No, we didn't. No, we got a cocktail later that night and then fought at the restaurant. That's when it happened. Got it. Saturday was so fun though. We had a great time.

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

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

And I'm like, I just don't feel like it. So I literally canceled my plans at like 630 that night for my eight o'clock dinner. I felt terrible, but I was like, I'm not getting dressed and going out in this. It was like, it went to like 1 a.m. and it was like a wind tunnel here. It was like insanity.

It was, we walked a mile, cause I didn't want to move the car in Williamsburg to the bar. So we walked. My umbrella did that thing where it flips like outwards, like it breaks. And I'm just, we were soaked in the bar. We were literally soaked in the bar. But I was, I was already out and that was the thing.

You hadn't laughed because once you're out, you can kind of like keep the vibes going a little bit. So I was determined to get a margarita that night. You were having yourself a Saturday. You were like, I'm having this day. It's happening. We're having it. OK, well, I have a couple of things

that I'm crushing on that I want to see if you guys agree with my crush. Mine happens to be a man. Let's see if you have the same crush. I have to go by his character so I don't feel guilty. So I have a major crush on Dr. McDreamy who we all know is Patrick Dempsey. He's also the hottest man alive right now on People magazine this year. So I think I choose well because he's not, you know, this is not a new

crush. This is a crush for like the last 15 year crush type thing. So that's my crush. And I felt like I needed to share that with you along with my food crush. Oh, let's hear them both. Let's hear them. I'm crushing on pomegranates. Do you guys eat these? Oh my God.

I love pomegranates. I struggle to, do you buy the seeds or do you buy the actual pomegranate and then work for it? Yes, I work my ass off. What a reward. I put the fucking bib on because they stain like crazy. Even your skin.

Oh, they're great for your skin too though. Do you know this? It's all antioxidants. No. So, oh my God, it's the most amazing thing you can do for your skin is eat a pomegranate. So, my mother used to call them Chinese apples. I don't know why. I don't know if that's what they're... I don't know if that was the name back in the day. She'd be like, do you want a Chinese apple?

And then I would sit there for hours with a towel on my lap because God knows they splatter all over you and they stain everything. And recently I have refound them because I read something on Instagram that it's like literally a game changer for like antioxidants and this and that in your skin. And I was like, I love them and they take up a great amount of time so I won't eat other shit. So I am crushing on pomegranates. I feel like you guys should try it. I love that. And you're also like you're getting a workout and when I'm like beating it with a spoon, just trying to get like the smallest amount of seeds out, but then you have yourself

a little collection and yeah, that's a great crush. And then you get that one that you peel off the skin and then there's a nice little cluster and then you take a bite and it squirts in your face, but you get all that juice and you're like, this is amazing. And you don't want anyone to look at you because your mouth is red and you're like a hot mess doing it.

I mean- It's a private snack. That is definitely like, yeah, you don't want to sit out in public and do that because you just have to fully immerse yourself in the pomegranate of it all. Yeah. Yes.

You know, it's Girl Scout cookie time right now too. It's like they're being delivered everywhere. That is like a phenomenon here in New Jersey. So I need to know from you guys, like what are your favorite Girl Scout cookies? Do you have like a favorite that you love? Of course, they discontinued mine. I really well, it, it's pretty generic. But when I was younger,

do you remember the ones that had the zoo animals on it? It was the square and they had like animals and it was chocolate on the back. It had like a zebra on it, didn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had like all the zoo animals. I liked those, but I liked the coconut ones. What are those?

Samoas? Yeah. Samoas. Yeah, Samoas. The Jason Samoas. Yeah, I'm a slut for a Thin Man. I love a Thin Man. And that one really gets its, like, it gets its coins because, like, there's always a Thin Man collab happening,

like, everywhere you go. It's like, oh, they have a Thin Man milkshake here or something, like, I feel like I get my fix. But I haven't seen, where are the Girl Scouts? Where have they been, you know? I know, in their little, either the brownies or whatever whatever, you know in the little brown outfit with the little hat and they get all their Patches those are extinct. I don't know. I don't see them anymore. They definitely don't knock on your doors anymore Well, I know they post up outside of the grocery store. Yeah, that's smart. That's we were just at shop and shop in Queens

That's where get our groceries not that you even asked at Stop and Shop in Queens, that's where we get our groceries. Not that you even asked, they had a bunch of Cub Scouts doing a food drive and they gave us a paper with what they were looking for, which was so smart because then it's like, oh, I can just get what you need while I'm in there and then do the food donation. So they're really smart about it because it's like you ask people to bring you stuff and they're not going to, but if they're at the store already, yeah, I'll buy this stovetop stuffing and throw it in the bin, you know what I mean? But you know what, the Girl Scouts weren't there, so, I'll buy this stovetop stuffing and throw it in the bin, you know what I mean? But you know what? The Girl Scouts weren't there, so I didn't buy any cookies, unfortunately.

All right. Well, that's another thing I'm always crushing on. I had to talk to you guys about this because I know you love fast food, not just fast food, chain restaurants, right? I do. I love it all. I need to tell you my favorites, and I want to know if you guys agree with me or not on them. Let's hear it.

And these are not like I didn't make this up for the podcast. Like, oh, let me think what could... These are legit, my real time and I go to them. Well, I go to one of them because I feel like I get heat when I go to the other one. But like, I really love the Outback Steakhouse and I go to it. I love it there. I love the tangy tomato dressing on my salad. They give you brown bread to start with amazing butter. You are missing out on the like the blooming onion. You're missing out if you don't go to the Outback.

That's all I'm going to say about that. Wait, so I've never actually been, but Zach made a video about a blooming onion and they like DMed him and were like, do you want to come to like the test kitchen and make one with us? So I got flown to Orlando to meet like the executive chef of Outback Steakhouse. No, you did not. I know, because I do, I used to do it a lot more, but not as much anymore because I don't live in Mass anymore, but I used to drive to like savers and thrift stores and find old kitchen gadgets to make

videos. So I found this one from the 90s called like the great American steakhouse fried onion maker, which was essentially just a Bloomin' onion, which is the best appetizer there in my opinion. And I made it and it went totally viral. So Outback flew me out to go make one with them. So I got to use like their real onion cutter and do the whole thing.

I love it. I'm so jealous. Outback is so incredible. And what a brave, what a brave answer because no one's talking about Outback and we need to collectively as a team right now, really bring them to the forefront because I'm not hearing enough Outback applause.

And as your camper crush of the week, I really, I'm supporting that completely. Thank you. Thank you. It's a freaking great restaurant. I mean for real guys I have a nice little glass of wine. I get a little petite filet. I'm very happy at the outback. I swear and my kids if I'm like well let's go grab they're like let's go to the outback and Jill just looks at me I'm like I'm down with the Outback if you want. I didn't say it, they did, sorry. Yeah. Do it for the kids.

And then the other one I love, which I don't actually go to anymore, but I really do love Red Lobster. Like I love Red Lobster. I do, I like the Caesar salad. I like the biscuits and I like the endless crab legs. Like I think their seafood is fresh because they get such a huge turnover There's not enough time for their seafood to sit around and that's just my thought on that

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

and just eating so much shrimp. Because shrimp is just so easy. You can eat a hundred of them if you really wanted to. And if you thought you were getting your money's worth. 100%. That's what you gotta go hungry and you gotta get your money's worth. That's what we will always do.

Yeah, the biscuits are like insane there, the Cheddar Bay biscuits. Come on, like I would go. I just, I wanna have a biscuit and a club soda with lemon Like that's what I want to do. I Would enjoy that so deeply like if I can I can I just don't but I was like to go to red lobster I really would I would die to see a picture of you like just sitting Surly that would be like the most insane post ever. I would be like obsessed with it.

You'd be like, there she goes. She said she loves the biscuits. And I even bought the biscuit mix and started to try to make them at home. They're decent if you follow it. It's not exactly the same, but it gives you a little satisfaction, which is good if you love the

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But you can hear that for yourself when you listen to my podcast, The Morning After with me, Kelly Stafford. And yes, Matthew joins sometimes too. It's parenting, it's marriage, it's friendships, and it's football. It's our life. So check out The Morning After with me, Kelly Stafford at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to your podcast. Wait, what are your two favorite chains? Each of you, I forget. Huge on the Cheesecake Factory. It's just, oh my God, it's so expansive there, right? The menu is like a freaking Bible.

The menu is so big and I love it there. The food, the apps are so good. The little avocado, egg rolls and all this. But how the it's like a Bible. Yeah, you need like an audio book. Yeah. It's 18 pages. I'm hating this new trend. And this might be controversial. I think it's homophobic. I don't love when a menu is telling me the calorie on it. I know I'm here. I know I'm here. I'm getting the chicken Madeira. I'm loving it. You just told me it's 2400 calories.

I don't need to know that. Enough. Delete that. I don't need to know that right now. And then and then I'm loving it. You just told me it's 2,400 calories. I don't need to know that. Enough. Delete that. I don't need to know that right now. And then I'm second guessing it. And then they have this skinny-licious menu there. Oh, I'm going to peruse it. I'm not going to order from it, but I'll take a look. It's so true.

I wonder why they do. Why are you telling me my calories? I really don't want to see them. That is 100% true. I told you. Kind of like kills it a little bit for us. 100%. What's your favorite? Oh, I love Margaritaville. I'm going big. I love it. Can't be the one in Times Square. Anybody from New York listening to this is already unsubscribing from

our podcast. I'm just going gonna go with it. But at five o'clock, it is magic. And it's insane. It's like Christmas every day at five o'clock, everybody stops and claps and like the lights go off and they're playing Jimmy Buffett May he rest in peace like we have to party for him. We do like we have to do it for half to for Jim. The food there. I don't know if I've ever left a margarita villain been like that was good. But I'm always making memories.

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

I need one that lights up. Oh my god. I love you guys. You guys are so funny. This is hysterical. Okay, well then to end this, I need to ask you this, which I think, you know, this is going to be super easy for you guys. Which do you marry? Which do you marry, which do you fuck, and which do you kill? Okay? Okay. We got chilies. We got Applebee's and we got the Cheesecake Factory. Okay. Can I go first? Yes, please. Okay, I'm going to my god. I'm killing Applebee's. They've never done me right. They've only done me dirty. I'm going to fuck chilies because chilies is spicy, they're hot, and they know how to perform there with them sizzling fajitas. It's something quick, something dirty and I know I'm getting down with it. And I'm gonna marry my lifelong partner of TJ factory because they've already

committed to her or him and I just I we we get each other and we see each other eye to eye. So those are my that's my instant go. And there's always a lot of options there for you. Yes, it's never ending, isn't it? Well, now I'm annoyed because I was literally my answer. So I'm not gonna be like same. But yeah, we could have like a threeple with some with the Cheesecake Factory. Oh, yeah, we're looking for a third Cheesecake Factory. No. But yeah, literally mine would be the same. We never shy away from a Chili's though. We like a Chili's too.

And I do love to order the sizzling fajitas because I I don't get enough attention. So I like everyone in the restaurant to look at me. Which is exactly what happens when those peppers and onions come by sizzling hot. It's like everyone's like, oh, like it's just a thing. Right. And it's in everybody's senses. You're hearing it, you're seeing it, you're smelling it. It's like, it's not

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

Okay, let's do Outback Steakhouse, Red Lobster. And Fridays? Oh, do you have Fridays there? Oh, gee, just Fridays. Oh, my God. Huh. Well, I think, um, oh, this is so

hard. I really want to fuck Fridays because it's Fridays. You know what I mean? It's just like because it's Fridays. You know what I mean? It's just like, it's Fridays. They do that Jack Daniel's specialty sauce and he's just probably so hot and he tastes,

like you wanna lick the Jack Daniel's sauce, right? It's like, mmm. My God. It's like welcome to Fridays. And you get the chicken with Jack Daniel's sauce on top for sure. Oh yeah. So now, I mean, I'm definitely gonna have to marry the outback. to Fridays and you get the chicken with Jack Daniel's sauce on top for sure. So now I mean I'm definitely going to have to marry the outback.

It's like I feel like I am Australian when I'm there. I've always wanted to try an Australian in marriage. I hear they're great partners. So we're going to have to go in with that. And I hate to kill red lobster, but you know what? I go in there and I see live lobsters chained up with rubber bands around their arms so I'm gonna have to kill red lobster okay we have to kill them and that's it's this is this good? Are you killing all the lobsters with it? No that's great. It is so graphic when you walk in there it's like okay like I don't need to see them on display like keep that in the back. I'm on display with Melissa Gorga. They're like on display, on display. Yeah. I had to sing it for you to give you a little

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

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

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

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

you're into? I do. I like when they take place back in the day. I do love that. Yes. I think it was incredible. It's on Peacock now, which is great. Oh, okay. Yeah. But it's three and a half hours. So you're locked and loaded in that seat. So it's a long one. Jeez. And there's one other one that kept winning. Lost something. I don one other one that kept winning, lost something. I don't know. They kept winning everything. I was like, I need to watch this too. There was another movie that was nominated for every Poor Things. Poor Things. Have you seen that?

Yeah, that was a long one too, but that one was, it was really good. It was fantastic. Which one's better? Which one's better? So he saw both of them. I only saw Poor Things. I think Oppenheimer is, I think they're both incredible. I loved Oppenheimer more. I love poor things as well. We did this thing a couple months ago in New York, we were just trying all different types of movie theaters, because there's like 12 and like four blocks. So we just were like going to every single one that we could just see which one was nicest. I my

first job was at a movie theater. So I always like like that kind of stuff. But the regal Cinema in Essex Street is the best theater I've been to in New York, if anyone's living in New York and listening like that's a really it's comfortable, like loungy, very clean. Like, it was nice, nice movie theater. And wait really quickly, let me just tell you why I didn't see Oppenheimer. I was gonna go with him. But he had this fantasy that he was gonna go and just like live out a Carrie Bradshaw life and you know, go to a matinee by himself and watch the movie. And I was totally fine with that. I was like, yeah, sure go. And he

goes, because you don't like matinees. I've never said that sentence. But here we go again with the Julia Roberts of it all. But I was like, go have your day. I'm not mad. But if you want to find a reason and you want to start with the matinee slander. To go to a movie alone is the most like main character movement ever. It really feels so fierce. I got my popcorn, my soda, and I sit alone because I'm independent. And I wanted to have that moment. And I didn't want to not include you, but I knew that I wanted this for myself. That's fine. I did laundry.

I stayed home and I did his laundry. Yeah. There are people who love that. By the way, Joe and I are huge movie. You guys could be our best friends. We love all, we love chain restaurants and we love the movies. We are movie buffs. We go all the time.

And I think I would get insulted if he's like, I want to go by myself. I'd be like, but why? But I don't understand why I'm the best movie partner ever. Like, why would you not want me next to you? I know, I know. Next time we'll go, well, next time we're going to go together. No, next time I'm going to go by myself. Oh, I'll just lunge in. You know what? I think I'm going to try it too. I want to see what's so exhilarating about it. Like, I want to see if I feel all that strength that you feel when you go. Yeah Yeah, so we'll have to play the double date we'll go to the outback We'll stop at envy one more time when I'm there with you guys

Guys, thank you so much for coming on today. You guys are so much fun. Everyone has to listen to their podcast. It's called Camp Counselors. They are perfectly hilarious how you can see right now. I absolutely loved getting to know you guys. I cannot say thank you enough for stopping by envy. That was such a class act. So nice of you guys. Thank you for the support. You guys are the best. And now that's it. You guys got me hooked. I'll be also listening to the podcast, so don't say anything bad about me like you did about Julia Roberts. Okay? I think you're breaking the hex.

I think you broke it. Yeah. Oh my God. I feel uplifted. No, thank you so much for having us. Of course. This has been so much fun. We appreciate it.

Of course. I had so much fun with you guys and maybe next time I'll come pop by your podcast and hang with you guys That could be fun. They invited to the camp at any time for oh, I can't wait to come camping I'll bring my sleeping bag Alright guys, thank you. Talk soon. Thank you. Thank you. Ciao Ciao! Pluto TV is TV the way it should be, free. With over 300 channels, thousands of movies and TV shows costing zeros of dollars. So if you want to watch shows like Ghost, The Walking Dead, CSI, Star Trek, or The Price is Right, well, The Price is Right.

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