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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 32: The Real Housewives of Mom O'Clock w/ Gianna Iuliano · It's Mom O'Clock

• 0:00
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• 1:14
  Speaker B: You guys, stop. Is it Mama Clock yet? I am going crazy.
• 1:19
  Speaker A: Heck, yeah. It's Mama Clark somewhere. I can't believe we're doing this. I'm so excited.
• 1:46
  Speaker B: Mama Clock, we're here.
• 1:48
  Speaker A: We're back. Season 2 episode I'm gonna this up.
• 1:52
  Speaker C: 32.
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  Speaker B: 32, baby.
• 1:54
  Speaker C: 32.
• 1:55
  Speaker A: And we have a special guest.
• 1:57
  Speaker B: The most special. She is way cooler than us.
• 1:59
  Speaker A: Way cooler than us.
• 2:02
  Speaker B: Just prettier. Better.
• 2:05
  Speaker A: Everything hotter.
• 2:07
  Speaker C: Better.
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  Speaker B: Better.
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  Speaker C: Mom.
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  Speaker A: Yeah. Actually works. And her name is. Go ahead, pronounce it.
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  Speaker B: Gianna. Juliano.
• 2:17
  Speaker A: I is silent.
• 2:20
  Speaker B: Who the fuck has two vowels in their last name?
• 2:24
  Speaker A: Oh, yeah, you do.
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  Speaker C: No, I've given my maiden name to.
• 2:27
  Speaker B: Start the last name. No, to start.
• 2:29
  Speaker A: Start the last name.
• 2:30
  Speaker B: That's just tongue twisted wrong.
• 2:32
  Speaker A: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: Juliana.
• 2:33
  Speaker A: Juliana married an Italian boy. Your dream, I'm sure.
• 2:37
  Speaker C: Yeah.
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  Speaker B: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: Blame my husband for the. Yeah.
• 2:40
  Speaker A: Call him after this. We're so excited to have you. Thank you for coming on Mama cla.
• 2:44
  Speaker C: Of course. I'm so excited.
• 2:45
  Speaker A: We're so excited. Also, who is she? Who is she? Who is Gianna? Juliana. Juliana. U. Liana. Spelled I U. Y. I, U, Y.
• 3:00
  Speaker B: But your kids are gonna have a tough time.
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  Speaker C: You think so?
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  Speaker B: In school.
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  Speaker A: Like, are you gonna tell them? This is so out of topic. Are you gonna tell them to write their last name with the lowercase or an uppercase?
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  Speaker C: Probably an uppercase. Yeah, so it doesn't get confused with, like, Liliano. How it always gets with me. Yeah, Right, Lowercase.
• 3:18
  Speaker A: Lowercase. Yeah, Whatever makes it look like an eye.
• 3:21
  Speaker C: An eye, yeah, exactly.
• 3:22
  Speaker A: Totally. Well, again, we're so excited to have you, but we want to just really have our listeners get to know you first. Tell us who you are, where you come from, your family, dynamic, husband, kids, your job. Like, just give it all so people just know a little bit more about you.
• 3:40
  Speaker C: Okay, so I'm a mom of two.
• 3:43
  Speaker A: She's a new mom of two.
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  Speaker C: Yeah. I have two kids. One's three and a half. My other one is six months, almost seven months.
• 3:51
  Speaker B: Oh, straight up boy mom.
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  Speaker C: Straight up boy mom. And I'm done.
• 3:53
  Speaker A: You're done? I told you she was done.
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  Speaker C: Yeah.
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  Speaker A: I thought I was lying. Wait.
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  Speaker B: Okay.
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  Speaker C: I'm very content with.
• 3:59
  Speaker B: I love that you said that, because I. So I never feel done. Like, I just want more.
• 4:05
  Speaker A: Just her kids. She's a luna.
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  Speaker C: And I feel like every mother that has three kids is, like, a lunatic. Like, I'm just like, yeah. I now struggle with just the two. I don't know. I think it's more the ages of the two of them is very needy, and, like, there's a lot that needs to be done with the two of them. But, like, my best friend has three, and I'm like. I text her the other day, how do you.
• 4:25
  Speaker B: Yeah.
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  Speaker A: How do you manage three kids? I know. I always survive. She had three in diapers, Jay.
• 4:30
  Speaker B: I had three under three.
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  Speaker C: God bless.
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  Speaker A: Imagine.
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  Speaker B: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: No, I mean, you would have a four.
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  Speaker B: I mean, I.
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  Speaker A: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker B: Yes.
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  Speaker C: You need to be medicated.
• 4:37
  Speaker A: Yes. Someone prescribe her. Wait. Crazy. What made you want to have another?
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  Speaker B: You were. You wanted another?
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  Speaker A: You were ready for another?
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  Speaker C: Yeah, I was ready for another. But the main thing that always runs through my head is, like, when my husband and I are dead and gone, like, my son's gonna have nobody. Like, you need to have a sibling to be able to, like, you know, go through life with.
• 4:58
  Speaker A: Did you feel like you were actually ready? Like, was there a moment in time where you're like, all right, I'm ready to have a second kid.
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  Speaker C: Yeah.
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  Speaker B: Yeah. Tom's waiting for that.
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  Speaker A: I'm waiting for that moment. I'm. I think I'm ready, but, like, you're never, like, ready, right?
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  Speaker B: No, you're never.
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  Speaker C: You're never ready.
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  Speaker A: You just do it.
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  Speaker B: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: And then you get ready, everything works out, and then you just. You figure it out. I just feel like I'm not.
• 5:16
  Speaker A: I, like, always wanted a lot of kids. I'm Just that mom like. But I just wanted four.
• 5:22
  Speaker B: I know.
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  Speaker C: Yeah. Everyone's like, go for the girl. I'm like, okay. And what if it's another boy?
• 5:26
  Speaker A: I know. Are you going to take or twins? Can you imagine dying twin boys?
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  Speaker B: No.
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  Speaker C: Do you like twins?
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  Speaker A: You did?
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  Speaker C: Yeah.
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  Speaker B: What?
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  Speaker C: Yeah, because my cousin has twins, but she did ivf, so it wasn't like, you know, like natural. So. But you know, still, I'm just like, twins don't really. My family. We get two and done.
• 5:43
  Speaker A: So what are you on president control now?
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  Speaker C: No, nothing.
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  Speaker A: So you just pull and pray, baby.
• 5:48
  Speaker B: So. So she'll have another.
• 5:50
  Speaker C: No, no, no, no.
• 5:51
  Speaker A: Oh, my God. So how do you feel being a mama's hill? Like, what's the vibe?
• 5:55
  Speaker C: The vibe is straight chaos.
• 5:57
  Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, because you know, because you're a three and a half year old and you're in the.
• 6:00
  Speaker B: You're in the thick of it right now.
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  Speaker C: I'm in the thick of it.
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  Speaker B: I have news for you. There's light at the end of this tunnel.
• 6:06
  Speaker C: I know there is. I know there is.
• 6:07
  Speaker A: It just doesn't feel like what's the chaos? Tell me.
• 6:10
  Speaker C: Like a moment in time is three and a half year old who wants what he wants when he wants it.
• 6:16
  Speaker B: Right.
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  Speaker C: And then you have a six month old baby who you need to protect from the three year old being praising and running and jumping and flipping while he's on the floor. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, hold on. Don't hit your brother feet. You know what I mean? There's just always like, one's not crying, the other one's crying and get down and that one starts crying. It's like you just need to.
• 6:34
  Speaker A: Is your son, your older son at an age where he is aware of that he could put Christian in danger. Like your youngest or he's not. It's like three and a half that age.
• 6:42
  Speaker B: I still can't trust a three and a half year old.
• 6:44
  Speaker A: No, I know because Gio's not even two yet. And I just feel like I would.
• 6:47
  Speaker C: Say, yeah, he knows, but he doesn't know he's a.
• 6:49
  Speaker A: No, he doesn't know the harm it could do.
• 6:51
  Speaker C: Yeah. He doesn't know that if he, you know, knocks him upside the head. Yeah. Like the other day he's like all in his face and I'm like, all right, Anthony, give him a little space.
• 7:00
  Speaker B: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: Knocked him on.
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  Speaker A: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: You know, on the forehead and then.
• 7:03
  Speaker A: And the sicknesses too would freak me out. I feel like because he goes to.
• 7:05
  Speaker C: School Goes to school three days a week, right? Yeah.
• 7:07
  Speaker A: So what do you do?
• 7:08
  Speaker C: So it's the same thing and he knows it.
• 7:11
  Speaker A: Well, I say routine.
• 7:12
  Speaker B: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: Come home from school immediately. Upstairs, he washes his hands and he changes his clothes.
• 7:18
  Speaker B: She's a germaphobe, ladies and gentlemen.
• 7:20
  Speaker A: That works in a hospital.
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  Speaker C: Nurse as well. And I am a germaphobe.
• 7:24
  Speaker B: Oh, yeah. You didn't say you were a nurse.
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  Speaker C: Of the two together, you know everything.
• 7:28
  Speaker B: So you're.
• 7:29
  Speaker A: So we were talking about this prior to the episode. I feel like, is it worse because you know so much or do you think it helps you because you know so much?
• 7:37
  Speaker C: It can go both ways, Right? You know, like when you know too much for your own good, that's when, like, panic and anxiety.
• 7:43
  Speaker B: Yeah, anxiety, Will.
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  Speaker C: That's why I do, like adult critical care. And I don't do pediatrics. I don't do kids.
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  Speaker B: Okay.
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  Speaker C: I don't do kids. I could never work in labor and delivery because, like, and now I done having kids, but I could never work in labor and delivery and see all the chaos and the bad things that happen to women in birth and children and newborns and then still have it myself.
• 8:06
  Speaker B: I actually wonder that, how people could see that. And then also. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker A: Oh, so you work with elderly.
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  Speaker C: Yeah.
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  Speaker B: Are you in a hospital?
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  Speaker C: Yeah, like, I get 20 year olds.
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  Speaker B: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: Like adults. Yeah, adults. I work adults.
• 8:19
  Speaker A: I see you, though.
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  Speaker C: I see you. Adult care.
• 8:21
  Speaker A: Do you see some, though?
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  Speaker C: Crazy. And I.
• 8:25
  Speaker B: And get it, you went to school for being a nurse and then you were a nurse and then you became a mom and you went back to nurse.
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  Speaker C: Yeah.
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  Speaker B: Or did you work?
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  Speaker A: You never stopped being a nurse?
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  Speaker C: No, no, I, I literally, like, you.
• 8:37
  Speaker B: Took your maternity leave and you went back.
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  Speaker C: Yeah, started my nursing, took my maternity leave, came back, and then.
• 8:44
  Speaker B: What's a nurse's maternity leave?
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  Speaker C: Like, four and a half months.
• 8:49
  Speaker A: Such. I3, which is even shittier.
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  Speaker C: But it's a sin.
• 8:53
  Speaker A: Sin.
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  Speaker C: I. I really.
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  Speaker A: I was convulsing, going back to work. This is. I'm not ready for this. That's so rude.
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  Speaker C: It should be a year, one year. So you don't know, like, you know what their birth was like. Yeah, you know what I mean? Which route it went. Like, the trauma that sometimes comes with it. Yeah.
• 9:09
  Speaker A: I had to say.
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  Speaker C: So I'm like.
• 9:10
  Speaker B: I mean, four months is like a sneeze.
• 9:12
  Speaker A: No, a literal sneeze.
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  Speaker C: You're not even sleeping through the night at four and a half.
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  Speaker A: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: They're still waking up to feed.
• 9:17
  Speaker A: That's like, crazy.
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  Speaker C: What about the moms that are, like, single moms that don't have, like, their spouse at home to help? I couldn't.
• 9:23
  Speaker A: No. Could never.
• 9:24
  Speaker C: But.
• 9:25
  Speaker A: Well, just going back a little bit further, and then we can move on from this. But what made you want to be a nurse? Were you. Oh, my mom always said, why did.
• 9:32
  Speaker B: You choose this life?
• 9:33
  Speaker A: I'm asking that because I honestly wanted to be in the medical field. It sounds crazy because I'm such a hypochondriac and I'm such a general.
• 9:40
  Speaker B: It would be better.
• 9:42
  Speaker A: No, I think I would be better. That'd be worse. You think?
• 9:45
  Speaker B: I would not.
• 9:46
  Speaker A: I would have access to all the drugs in the world. I could just take it. No, I. I just feel like I'm the type of person that with my anxiety, I need to know.
• 9:54
  Speaker C: Yeah, I feel like that would help me.
• 9:56
  Speaker B: I, like, Ignorance is bliss. I'm a huge fan of that.
• 9:59
  Speaker A: Yeah, you are.
• 10:00
  Speaker C: Honestly, I can't even believe that I'm in healthcare. It wasn't my first, but you always want.
• 10:03
  Speaker B: Oh, it wasn't?
• 10:04
  Speaker C: No. Cosmetology was. I was working in a hair salon.
• 10:07
  Speaker A: That's why you're stunning at all times of the day.
• 10:08
  Speaker C: No, no, I'm not.
• 10:10
  Speaker A: She's like, no, no, I'm not.
• 10:12
  Speaker C: I am together all the time. But I started in cosmetology, and I was working initially in a hair salon that was newer.
• 10:21
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 10:22
  Speaker C: So it was slower. And I think I just got bored of it. Like, I was like, so you're like.
• 10:25
  Speaker B: I needed something else.
• 10:27
  Speaker A: Yeah. You just went back. So you went to nursing school?
• 10:30
  Speaker C: So I literally went first to, like, a medical assisting phlebotomy where they, like, draw blood. EKG technician, medical billing and coding. And I did that first. First. But my grandmother's an LPN and my cousin Nick is a nurse. The two of them, they kind of.
• 10:46
  Speaker A: Nick is the one that just got married. The gay cousin that just got married? Yeah. I love him. I follow him.
• 10:51
  Speaker C: He's the best.
• 10:53
  Speaker A: What.
• 10:53
  Speaker B: What else about your family? Who's your aunt?
• 10:55
  Speaker A: Who's your aunt?
• 10:57
  Speaker C: My godmother. Your godmother? She is my godmother. I got two good godparents.
• 11:03
  Speaker A: You do?
• 11:04
  Speaker C: Yeah. My godmother is Melissa Gorga, and then my godfather is my Uncle Joey. Oh, so not her husband.
• 11:11
  Speaker A: Oh, I was gonna say Joey.
• 11:12
  Speaker B: Joey. Joey. Yeah.
• 11:13
  Speaker A: Everyone's Joey.
• 11:14
  Speaker C: This is the other Joey in the family.
• 11:16
  Speaker B: Count how many Joeys are in your family.
• 11:18
  Speaker C: Oh, my God.
• 11:19
  Speaker B: Too many.
• 11:19
  Speaker A: Count them.
• 11:19
  Speaker C: There's Joey G, Joey. P. Little Joey, baby Joey. Joey Pasta.
• 11:24
  Speaker A: No, I can't.
• 11:26
  Speaker C: I think that's all. I think there's five.
• 11:27
  Speaker A: That's enough.
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  Speaker C: Yeah. So when I had two boys, the conversation was off the table. We're not.
• 11:31
  Speaker B: No Joey, no Joseph here.
• 11:33
  Speaker C: So.
• 11:34
  Speaker A: So that's how I feel with doing Michael too. I'm like, I'm not doing a Michael.
• 11:36
  Speaker B: Yeah, it's either a Michael, a Joey or an Anthony.
• 11:39
  Speaker A: So, yeah, we have to choose, I guess. And I did Giovanni. Thank God I have no Giovanni's in the family.
• 11:43
  Speaker C: So, yeah, you do something different. Love it.
• 11:46
  Speaker A: No, but that is. I just feel like having a big Italian family is just like if you don't have it, you're missing out on it. You know what I mean?
• 11:54
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 11:55
  Speaker A: So we take it for granted. I feel like we're like, oh my God, big Italian family. We're always loud and obnoxious. But I just feel like it just, just.
• 12:00
  Speaker C: It's fun.
• 12:01
  Speaker A: It's fun. I can't live without my. And my, like, imagine not being a part of that. Like, you would die.
• 12:05
  Speaker B: No, it's so fun.
• 12:06
  Speaker C: And my family's all really young, right? Oh, really?
• 12:09
  Speaker B: I mean, can we talk about your two. Can we talk about your grandmother?
• 12:13
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
• 12:14
  Speaker A: So how old is she?
• 12:15
  Speaker C: Oh, my God. 70.
• 12:17
  Speaker A: She's young.
• 12:18
  Speaker C: 70.
• 12:19
  Speaker B: She just had a birthday. I saw it on something.
• 12:22
  Speaker C: My grandmother's dad.
• 12:23
  Speaker A: My grandma's 95.
• 12:26
  Speaker C: Your grandmother?
• 12:27
  Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
• 12:28
  Speaker B: So that's like. So all your, all the women in your family had babies young they had to have?
• 12:33
  Speaker C: Yeah, pretty much.
• 12:35
  Speaker A: How old was your mom when she had you? You're not the oldest though?
• 12:37
  Speaker C: No, my brother, he's 30.
• 12:39
  Speaker A: So she was a young mom too. Yeah, she was kind of loved.
• 12:41
  Speaker C: I think my mom had three kids by the age of 24.
• 12:44
  Speaker B: Oh, wow. See, that's young.
• 12:46
  Speaker C: And like they just did it.
• 12:47
  Speaker A: They were built different.
• 12:48
  Speaker C: Yeah, they just came back.
• 12:49
  Speaker A: Meanwhile, we're like, we can't have a third child.
• 12:51
  Speaker C: We're scared.
• 12:52
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 12:52
  Speaker B: That's crazy.
• 12:54
  Speaker C: And then my younger sister were two years apart, so my mom just popping them out.
• 12:57
  Speaker A: But none of your siblings have kids? No, just you?
• 13:00
  Speaker C: Just me.
• 13:01
  Speaker B: Were you the first grandbaby of like, you made the first grandbaby of the whole. Of both sides. Oh, that's fine.
• 13:07
  Speaker C: Oh, you did?
• 13:07
  Speaker B: Your kids are fucking spoiled.
• 13:09
  Speaker A: Oh yeah.
• 13:10
  Speaker B: Getting your.
• 13:11
  Speaker A: Anthony's spoiled.
• 13:12
  Speaker C: Yeah, Anthony's spoiled. My brother in law has two kids now too, but.
• 13:16
  Speaker A: Okay. And he was the first, so he's the oldest. Yeah, it's so funny. Like, think about your oldest cousin. Like, he's going to be that. So is Gio.
• 13:23
  Speaker C: I know. It's so crazy.
• 13:25
  Speaker A: Gio's gonna. Now my dog is in my son's potty.
• 13:28
  Speaker B: Ew.
• 13:28
  Speaker A: I can't.
• 13:29
  Speaker B: Why is the potty over there?
• 13:30
  Speaker A: I just, like, not my son to have visual eyes on the potty. I'm trying to teach his mind. I don't know.
• 13:35
  Speaker C: Oh, my God. I have tips and tricks for potty. What?
• 13:39
  Speaker B: You should be in the bathroom.
• 13:40
  Speaker A: I know. I'm gonna put it there.
• 13:41
  Speaker C: That's a good point.
• 13:44
  Speaker B: You know, when you. When you. When you're gonna start potty training, it should be like, the bathroom is where we go potty, not the middle of the living room.
• 13:51
  Speaker C: You just want him to finish along. Like, this is.
• 13:54
  Speaker A: He doesn't know it' area. But I'm gonna start walking with it. That's so funny.
• 13:57
  Speaker B: No, she didn't start yet. She was thinking of starting. He's.
• 14:00
  Speaker A: I mean, he rips off his diaper. Isn't that a sign?
• 14:02
  Speaker B: And he, like, It's a.
• 14:03
  Speaker A: It's in his crib.
• 14:04
  Speaker B: No, that is a phase.
• 14:06
  Speaker A: He go. He calls me and my husband Han, because we call each other. So he goes, hun. And I hear him on the monitor. I go, he's awake. I run upstairs, he rips his diaper off, and he just poops in the crib.
• 14:16
  Speaker C: And he's like, oh, Ben. Question is, who cleaned it?
• 14:18
  Speaker A: Who do you think cleaned it?
• 14:20
  Speaker C: Me.
• 14:21
  Speaker A: Threw everything out, though. Wrapped it up like this and threw.
• 14:24
  Speaker B: It in a glass. I'm a big culprit of throwing out.
• 14:26
  Speaker A: I throw.
• 14:27
  Speaker C: Are you.
• 14:27
  Speaker A: You don't throw out.
• 14:28
  Speaker C: Christian had a blowout in his pajamas like, twice this week.
• 14:31
  Speaker A: Oh, I'll clean pajamas.
• 14:33
  Speaker B: You kept the pajamas.
• 14:34
  Speaker C: I put gloves on.
• 14:35
  Speaker B: Oh, no.
• 14:36
  Speaker C: Yeah, I clean them and I get all the poop off the pants and I'm washing.
• 14:39
  Speaker B: Only if it's like, yeah, hot water. I'm straight in the garbage.
• 14:43
  Speaker C: I do.
• 14:43
  Speaker A: I wash the Gap pajamas. Like, the ones that I like.
• 14:47
  Speaker B: Like, I don't care if it's a 40 onesie.
• 14:49
  Speaker A: You throw them out.
• 14:50
  Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
• 14:50
  Speaker A: Oh, you don't feel like cleaning? Nothing?
• 14:52
  Speaker B: Not.
• 14:53
  Speaker A: She's so opposite of us.
• 14:54
  Speaker C: I will admit that.
• 14:55
  Speaker A: You are.
• 14:56
  Speaker C: Yeah. Like, I'm like, sentimental with things.
• 14:59
  Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that stuff. Yeah.
• 15:00
  Speaker B: Isn't it so sad when you. Because you. And you saved Anthony's stuff, and then when you take it out, you're like, oh, my God. I remember when he wore this.
• 15:06
  Speaker C: My mom says, and then Christian puts it on. That's why I can't. Oh, my God.
• 15:10
  Speaker A: Does Christian wear all the stuff?
• 15:11
  Speaker C: Yeah, I feel like what Anthony was.
• 15:13
  Speaker B: Oh, so it doesn't match?
• 15:14
  Speaker C: Yeah, it does match up. But I'm like going into like the nine month bin around.
• 15:19
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 15:19
  Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
• 15:20
  Speaker C: Really? A meatball. But that's how we like them.
• 15:23
  Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
• 15:24
  Speaker C: Chunky.
• 15:24
  Speaker B: We love good meatball.
• 15:26
  Speaker A: It's easier to hold.
• 15:27
  Speaker B: Oh, my God. I called my daughter ciabatta sausage roll. She had like 12 rolls. She did. She was a.
• 15:33
  Speaker A: She a cutie.
• 15:34
  Speaker B: She was such a chunk.
• 15:35
  Speaker A: So was my niece Claudia. She's pretty big too. She's already in like three to six.
• 15:39
  Speaker B: Honestly, I don't really like. I don't like scrawny baby.
• 15:42
  Speaker C: I don't either. There's nothing to crap.
• 15:44
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 15:44
  Speaker A: Nothing to grab. And I feel like more secure when they're bigger.
• 15:47
  Speaker B: Yeah. They're healthy.
• 15:50
  Speaker A: As exactly.
• 15:51
  Speaker B: Yeah. Fragile.
• 15:51
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 15:52
  Speaker B: Oh, my God. Like the newborn fragile. Like, how was your husband with the newborn, fragile baby? He was fine.
• 15:58
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 15:58
  Speaker B: He wasn't like. He's good with kids. Oh, that's great.
• 16:02
  Speaker A: Did you hear that, Joe? Really good dad.
• 16:04
  Speaker B: Joey.
• 16:04
  Speaker C: Joey. You don't have to like, tell him.
• 16:07
  Speaker B: Like, he knows us.
• 16:08
  Speaker C: I mean, I do because I'm like, very much. Yeah, Yeah.
• 16:11
  Speaker A: I mean, we're all.
• 16:12
  Speaker C: I know, I know, I know. And I'm like, okay, but like, do.
• 16:15
  Speaker A: You ever follow up? You're like, did you do this? And they're like, yes, I did that, but not.
• 16:20
  Speaker C: But I'm also like, oh, like, how did the baby do for bed? Like when I go to work at night? Like, how did Christian do for bed? Like, I want to know what's going off. My kids. I'm not there.
• 16:27
  Speaker A: Totally same.
• 16:28
  Speaker B: Me too.
• 16:28
  Speaker C: But I'm not like anxiety ridden the whole time. Like, what are they doing?
• 16:32
  Speaker A: Feels better when they're with your husband now.
• 16:33
  Speaker C: Yeah. I was like that when Anthony was my only child. When he was first.
• 16:38
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 16:38
  Speaker A: We have nothing else to worry about.
• 16:39
  Speaker C: Besides Anthony came along and I feel like I'm just like.
• 16:42
  Speaker B: Don't you think?
• 16:43
  Speaker C: Sure. Hold them.
• 16:45
  Speaker B: No, honestly, with your second and third and fourth, I'm sure it gets worse and worse just because out the window.
• 16:51
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 16:51
  Speaker B: Rules you had.
• 16:52
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 16:52
  Speaker B: The shit you followed the schedule.
• 16:54
  Speaker A: Did it actually go out the window?
• 16:56
  Speaker B: The food processing.
• 16:57
  Speaker A: You did the food processing that I didn't ever use.
• 17:00
  Speaker C: Yeah, I know.
• 17:01
  Speaker B: It's just harder. It's harder. It's hard. You don't. You know what I think you have to prioritize your time more and like making sweet potato out of the.
• 17:09
  Speaker C: Yeah. When you can find.
• 17:10
  Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:11
  Speaker B: It's just like.
• 17:12
  Speaker C: Yeah. Easier. Yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker B: Yeah. Easier is better.
• 17:15
  Speaker C: It is so much. Everything is time.
• 17:17
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 17:18
  Speaker A: So back to your job. So you work overnights in the hospital. You leave your two kids. So your husband's watching him. Like, who's. What's the dynamic there?
• 17:26
  Speaker C: Yeah. So I mainly only work, like, weekends because I work overnight. So my shift start 6:45 at night till 7:15.
• 17:33
  Speaker A: And you like that?
• 17:34
  Speaker C: I do.
• 17:34
  Speaker B: How do you, like, function when you're not working? Like, do you sleep at night?
• 17:38
  Speaker A: So I'm texting you, like, sorry, I just woke up. I'm like, 4pm what's happening? Because that's your sleep schedule.
• 17:45
  Speaker C: Yeah. So I will. Sometimes I'm up for like, 24 to, like, 30 hours straight because I'm up all day with the kids. And then I'm up all night.
• 17:53
  Speaker B: Right.
• 17:53
  Speaker C: Working. And then I come home in the morning and then I take a shower.
• 17:57
  Speaker B: I don't know how sleep most of the day. Are you a caffeine addict? Are you a cocaine addict?
• 18:06
  Speaker C: No, caffeine.
• 18:07
  Speaker B: Caffeine.
• 18:08
  Speaker C: Okay. I'm at the point now, especially with two kids, like, I can't function without having at least one cup of coffee.
• 18:13
  Speaker A: Right.
• 18:14
  Speaker C: You need caffeine in your system or. I'm delusional.
• 18:18
  Speaker B: I had three espressos.
• 18:19
  Speaker A: I mean, you're like, life is crazy.
• 18:21
  Speaker C: Well, I just. Three kids, so. Three espresso is three kids? Yeah.
• 18:24
  Speaker A: That's what you mean.
• 18:25
  Speaker C: That should be your rule.
• 18:26
  Speaker A: Totally. I'm just so curious, like, being a germaphobe, because I am one as well, what my life would be like. I guess you go the weekends, like, you know, you're going for like a full day and then you don't go back.
• 18:39
  Speaker B: Right.
• 18:40
  Speaker A: Or, like, do you work, like, three days straight? Like, what is that?
• 18:42
  Speaker C: You can, like, do you.
• 18:44
  Speaker B: Do you get nervous that whatever you see in the hospital, like, you're going to bring home, like, that would.
• 18:48
  Speaker C: Absolutely. But the best part about it is ppe like gloves and gowns and masks. Right.
• 18:53
  Speaker A: And that makes you feel better. That's like a real thing.
• 18:55
  Speaker C: I don't even give a. This sounds crazy, but this describes me.
• 18:58
  Speaker A: You're cleaning some butthole.
• 18:59
  Speaker B: Probably.
• 19:00
  Speaker C: Yeah. I do not even put a blanket on my patient without putting gloves on. Like, I'm that crazy.
• 19:05
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker A: I would be.
• 19:06
  Speaker C: You know, my co workers laugh at me because, like, in the icu, the ratio is one nurse to Typically two patients. There are times when we get tripled and we have three. That's. It does happen, but not all the time. But I have a little cubicle, and there's glass here and glass here. One patient's there, one's there. So I can visualize both vitals and see what's going on.
• 19:23
  Speaker A: Interesting.
• 19:23
  Speaker C: I will wipe down my whole cubby with gloves and hospital grave disinfectant wipes and then put these blue chucks on the disinfected table. And then in the morning, when the day shift nurse comes around, she's like, gianna was here. Yeah. Like, oh, look at your setup. I go, yeah, I know. And I say the same thing every time. I'm a gerbaphobe and I work in healthcare.
• 19:44
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 19:45
  Speaker C: I just. I skeeve. I got two little kids.
• 19:47
  Speaker A: I love that you're.
• 19:48
  Speaker C: Oh.
• 19:48
  Speaker A: Because some people get embarrassed. And not that I do, but it's people. Like, more people are germaphobes than not, but when you talk about it out loud, they're like, oh, my God. Oh, my God, she has to clean this again. Like, you kind of do that. You laugh at me sometimes. You're like, oh, my gosh, she has to put gloves on. I just feel better when I do that. But I love that you make it so normalized. You're like, I'm putting gloves on to put my blanket on my patient. Were you like, no, Me too. We just talked about this for how.
• 20:12
  Speaker C: Much I ski thing.
• 20:14
  Speaker A: I know.
• 20:14
  Speaker C: Like, and ever since becoming a nurse, it's gotten worse. Oh, yeah. You see things and I think of every little thing.
• 20:21
  Speaker A: You know, like, I, like, almost see the germs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker C: Somebody touched this. Or somebody had touches people. Someone had to touch.
• 20:26
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 20:27
  Speaker C: I mean, like, all of these things run through my.
• 20:29
  Speaker B: What's worse, ICU germs or daycare Booger germs.
• 20:33
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
• 20:35
  Speaker A: I skeeve other kids. No, it's so bad. I do.
• 20:40
  Speaker C: It's bad.
• 20:41
  Speaker B: No, other kids boogers. I boogers other kids. No, no. When another kid has, like, a runny booger nose, I'm like, ew.
• 20:48
  Speaker A: I just feel like I want. It's so bad. I'm better now. I'm definitely better now because I know it's going to benefit my child in the long run to be around germs.
• 20:56
  Speaker B: I mean, you can't really accept.
• 20:58
  Speaker A: I still do wipe his hand. Like we were at Disney on Ice. Like, I saw what he was touching and I wiped his hands down. Like, probably more times than not like a mental note. I'll take a mental note.
• 21:08
  Speaker C: I'm like, okay, touch.
• 21:09
  Speaker A: Yes.
• 21:10
  Speaker C: Oh, okay. That floor.
• 21:11
  Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
• 21:12
  Speaker C: This is getting clean. This is getting sterilized.
• 21:14
  Speaker B: Correct.
• 21:15
  Speaker C: Has to go in the hamper. Like, yeah. I am taking mental notes.
• 21:18
  Speaker A: That's me all day long. 100%, you know, and I'm wiping.
• 21:21
  Speaker C: Yeah. All the dog put that in his mouth.
• 21:22
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker C: That's gonna get trash.
• 21:24
  Speaker A: Yes. And I throw more things out than not. The other day, this is so random, but I was cleaning blackberries. I'm pissed about it still. And there was one BlackBerry had mold on it. Can't get fruit anywhere.
• 21:34
  Speaker C: Yeah, right.
• 21:35
  Speaker A: And it was in my strainer. I threw the whole thing out. Threw the whole thing out. But because there was also a worm.
• 21:42
  Speaker B: Oh, okay. Worm.
• 21:44
  Speaker C: Worm would have put me.
• 21:45
  Speaker A: Yes. So I threw the whole thing out. She's hysterically laughing. She's like, you're gonna throw the whole strainer.
• 21:50
  Speaker C: Kept it.
• 21:51
  Speaker A: Oh, 100. You would have kept it. I mean, you would have threw the blackberries out, but you would have kept the strainer.
• 21:55
  Speaker B: I am, like, the opposite of the strainer.
• 21:57
  Speaker A: Yeah, girl. Yeah. Do the strainer.
• 22:00
  Speaker B: She literally went like this and plopped it in the.
• 22:02
  Speaker A: But let me tell you why. If it was my good, like, stainless steel, she wanted to get rid of it. I want to get rid of.
• 22:07
  Speaker C: Anyway.
• 22:07
  Speaker A: It was plastic.
• 22:08
  Speaker C: It was a reason. It was excuse to get rid of it.
• 22:10
  Speaker A: Exactly.
• 22:10
  Speaker C: Helped you out.
• 22:11
  Speaker B: Yes.
• 22:11
  Speaker A: But I'm trying to give you a scenario of, like, I'm on the same page as you. Like, I take mental notes of everything. Everything.
• 22:19
  Speaker C: Especially when you have young ones.
• 22:20
  Speaker A: When I first had kids come in my house, and, like, they would touch toys, like, and they would leave. I would, like, wipe down everything. Like, a night. My own house.
• 22:26
  Speaker C: I would avoid.
• 22:28
  Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
• 22:28
  Speaker C: When my kids are little. Because I'm just like, they're gonna touch everything. Especially if I know that certain kids are coming over and everything goes in the mouth and the mental note happens. Yeah. I'll start collecting the toys. They put it down.
• 22:41
  Speaker B: No, it's.
• 22:42
  Speaker A: That's so funny.
• 22:43
  Speaker C: Me too.
• 22:43
  Speaker A: I would do that, too.
• 22:44
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 22:45
  Speaker A: Or, like, now I'm better because, like, I know she knows how I am, so she would never bring her kids here if they were sick or just were sick. But some parents don't give a flying. Yeah, some parents will, like, come up to me, and they'll be like, oh, my God, my kid was throwing up last night.
• 23:00
  Speaker C: What the.
• 23:00
  Speaker A: Are you here?
• 23:01
  Speaker C: Yeah. Like, why?
• 23:02
  Speaker B: Yeah, well, parents are bad when they like if they're using school or daycare as child care, they will still send their kids to school.
• 23:09
  Speaker C: Totally.
• 23:10
  Speaker A: Sicknesses go around.
• 23:11
  Speaker B: Yeah, it's terrible.
• 23:12
  Speaker C: Terrible. Anyway, your kid home?
• 23:14
  Speaker B: No. You have to.
• 23:15
  Speaker C: Oh my God.
• 23:15
  Speaker A: I would never do that to any other parent. Like, I try. She is. She's made me better. Like as a mom, I've done. I've definitely done her.
• 23:23
  Speaker B: I mean, I understand. It's like an illness. You guys have a problem. It is, it's an illness. So like, I feel sorry for you. But also same also so funny. I just don't have the energy to care about all this.
• 23:38
  Speaker A: I love that about you though. You bring me back down to earth. Like, I swear to God you've helped me since having Geo. Like, it's not that deep. And if it is that deep, someone's going to help you be okay. Yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker C: Yeah. You just have to pray. Honestly, my whole life is like prayer.
• 23:52
  Speaker A: No, same.
• 23:52
  Speaker C: You know, I'm pray to God that he doesn't get this. Please keep my kids safe. Please keep.
• 23:57
  Speaker A: Like, you're like an angel sent from above.
• 24:00
  Speaker C: No, I'm not.
• 24:01
  Speaker B: But you kind of look like an angel.
• 24:02
  Speaker A: You are an angel.
• 24:04
  Speaker C: The. The Lord's prayer. And he does it all by himself. My family was never like church never. Yeah, none of it. And I was like missing that.
• 24:15
  Speaker A: Yeah, me too. I feel that way too.
• 24:17
  Speaker C: My kids.
• 24:17
  Speaker A: I always want to drag my husband and son to church. But like, yeah, this is not my church. Yeah, but this is not my church. I don't feel uncomfortable.
• 24:24
  Speaker B: You have a church at home that you love.
• 24:25
  Speaker C: Yeah, same. A lot of people do that.
• 24:30
  Speaker A: I need to go pray. Okay, well, moving on from being a germaphobe. I see all the germs on the table right now. Okay, moving on.
• 24:37
  Speaker C: Okay.
• 24:38
  Speaker A: What else can we talk about?
• 24:40
  Speaker C: All right.
• 24:40
  Speaker A: Working mom. We did all that cadaddles getting up.
• 24:43
  Speaker C: Out of the door.
• 24:44
  Speaker B: I think we should get.
• 24:45
  Speaker A: Who watches your kids like every day? Do we guess that me.
• 24:48
  Speaker B: She does. She only works on.
• 24:50
  Speaker A: Oh, that's what we just talked about.
• 24:51
  Speaker B: That.
• 24:51
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 24:53
  Speaker A: The definition of a working mom. No, but also. Yeah.
• 24:57
  Speaker B: Like would you consider yourself a stay at home mom also or no?
• 25:01
  Speaker C: Yeah, see like in. In nursing you can work three days a week.
• 25:04
  Speaker B: Right.
• 25:05
  Speaker C: In a hospital setting is full time. Part time is two days a week. I. And per diem. So I work. I have to work at least three shifts a month. So I feel like I'm a stay at home mom. But I'm also working like on the weekends, which Kind of sucks.
• 25:17
  Speaker A: It's only the weekends, never the weekdays.
• 25:18
  Speaker C: I do the weekdays, but then again I work at night. So the next day I need somebody to sit there to watch my kids.
• 25:25
  Speaker A: Such a weird concept.
• 25:26
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 25:26
  Speaker C: So it's either my mom or my sister.
• 25:28
  Speaker B: It's tough out there with the overnight shift jobs. It is. My brother is a cop and my sister in law is also a cop and they both work overnights and they have two kids. It's like, it's so hard.
• 25:37
  Speaker C: It's hard. Crazy. Because then sleeping all night. Yeah, like sleeping all day.
• 25:41
  Speaker B: Right. And then your whole schedule is like.
• 25:43
  Speaker C: Like sometimes I'll send you a voicemail. That's 4pm Literally 4pm I wait for an hour. I'm gonna eat, I'm going back to bed. Yeah, yeah, I'll talk to you.
• 25:49
  Speaker A: I kind of love that though.
• 25:50
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 25:51
  Speaker A: I always feel like I get a good night's sleep when I am up late. And then you sleep that morning or that day.
• 25:57
  Speaker B: But when you do come off a shift and you do, obviously you have to sleep.
• 26:01
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 26:02
  Speaker B: Do you feel like you're missing out on your kids when you're sleeping?
• 26:05
  Speaker A: Yeah, like that's hard to do when your kids are in the house with you.
• 26:08
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker C: Mainly work weekends.
• 26:10
  Speaker B: So that's when like then like you're missing out on the family time. Yeah.
• 26:13
  Speaker C: Like I now more than ever will like compromise my sleep. Before kids I would go to bed at like 8, 8:30 or 9 and then I would sleep till like 5.
• 26:24
  Speaker A: That's crazy.
• 26:25
  Speaker C: And then I would do back to back shifts.
• 26:26
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker C: Now that I have kids, I don't do that.
• 26:28
  Speaker B: No, that's not.
• 26:29
  Speaker C: And now like I said, I will go to bed and wake up and it's like maybe 2 o' clock or 3 o'.
• 26:35
  Speaker B: Clock.
• 26:35
  Speaker C: I'll only sleep like a small amount of time because I feel.
• 26:38
  Speaker A: And you love what you're doing. You would never not do that.
• 26:40
  Speaker C: Well, it has its pros and cons. Yeah. I do love my job there, but it's a very stressful job. Your life is in my head. Totally.
• 26:53
  Speaker B: I could not.
• 26:55
  Speaker A: Oh my God. No. That's a lot.
• 26:57
  Speaker B: That is too much pressure for one.
• 26:58
  Speaker C: It is.
• 26:59
  Speaker A: You have to like know your. You can't just like not know you have the job.
• 27:03
  Speaker C: Ass.
• 27:04
  Speaker B: You have the job that you absolutely can't. Fake it till you make it. There are a lot of jobs out there that you can fake.
• 27:09
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker A: Fake like what we're doing right now. Faking till we make it.
• 27:12
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 27:12
  Speaker A: I mean a Lot of jobs.
• 27:13
  Speaker B: A lot of jobs. But you.
• 27:16
  Speaker C: You need to. You need to know.
• 27:17
  Speaker A: That's what scares me.
• 27:18
  Speaker C: But like I said, sometimes I, like, I don't know. You don't know every little thing. So I'll go to, like, the seasoned, like, older nurses. Like, hey, this is what's going on. Do you think I should call the doctor about this or would you give this. Or like, you know, I never will give a medication or do something If I'm not 100%.
• 27:33
  Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Ever. No, you can't. You're like, li. Oh, forget it.
• 27:36
  Speaker C: I'm liable for life, right?
• 27:38
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 27:39
  Speaker C: Yeah. And my patients are all 99% of them in the ICU are intubated on a ventilator with like six strips tubes.
• 27:47
  Speaker A: You were there during COVID right?
• 27:48
  Speaker C: The most traumatic time of my life.
• 27:50
  Speaker A: I kind of remember you like a hazmat suiting.
• 27:52
  Speaker C: Hazmat suiting. Like, I literally wish we could have had cameras, like GoPro cameras on our head. It was the most chaotic, traumatic time of my.
• 28:02
  Speaker A: No, I'm sure.
• 28:03
  Speaker C: Horrible. My eyes are getting teary eyed.
• 28:05
  Speaker B: Do you.
• 28:06
  Speaker C: It was bad.
• 28:07
  Speaker A: Oh, my God. Like, you saw, like, really bad things.
• 28:09
  Speaker B: Oh, my God.
• 28:12
  Speaker A: I mean, I know. I can't imagine being in the field.
• 28:14
  Speaker C: It's like three to five deaths every night.
• 28:17
  Speaker A: I know. And you saw it firsthand. I'm so sorry that you had to go through that.
• 28:21
  Speaker B: That is, like, traumatizing.
• 28:23
  Speaker A: I mean, I can't. I really isn't. I can't even imagine. But you have to look at the person you are and how you did that. Like, you were there and you helped.
• 28:30
  Speaker C: So many family members that feel sorry. They. They weren't allowed to go in the room. I know. So they're just like, looking at them through the glass door.
• 28:38
  Speaker A: Oh, my God.
• 28:39
  Speaker C: Sorry. No, no.
• 28:41
  Speaker A: I mean, it's very triggering. It's so crazy that you just did this because my. My best friend's a pa. She was in the hospital during the time too, and anytime I bring it up, she cries. I'm like, you must. Because she. She's not even a crier. I don't know if you are, but she's not even. She's not even sensitive like I'm sensitive. I'll cry in, like a pin drop. She's not. And it brings her to tears because I'm like, it must have been. And I.
• 29:00
  Speaker C: And I.
• 29:00
  Speaker B: When you're.
• 29:00
  Speaker A: When you're not in it, you don't know. So she must have been.
• 29:04
  Speaker C: And you.
• 29:04
  Speaker B: And also doesn't it almost seem like it was like, not real. Yeah.
• 29:08
  Speaker A: Like it was like a video game.
• 29:10
  Speaker C: Say that like a lot of people, like, covet's not a thing. It wasn't a thing.
• 29:13
  Speaker B: No, no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying like in the. Not that. Like.
• 29:17
  Speaker A: I know what you're trying to say.
• 29:18
  Speaker B: Like you were. You lived it. So, like looking back at it, it was five years ago, right. Like. Like that seems like so unfathomable that that could have been real life.
• 29:26
  Speaker A: Right.
• 29:27
  Speaker B: You actually feels like it wasn't real.
• 29:29
  Speaker C: Yeah, but it was like you were like.
• 29:31
  Speaker B: Yeah, like in a Twilight Zone kind.
• 29:32
  Speaker C: Of thing going on.
• 29:33
  Speaker B: Right.
• 29:33
  Speaker C: I was.
• 29:34
  Speaker A: I give you so much credit.
• 29:35
  Speaker C: A week. And the days that I was off, I was. I felt so guilty being home.
• 29:40
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker C: Like, I'm like, I gotta go back.
• 29:42
  Speaker A: Oh my God.
• 29:43
  Speaker B: Really?
• 29:43
  Speaker A: And you didn't have kids then?
• 29:45
  Speaker C: No. And my. My unit's a 24 bed unit. We were two patients in each room. I had 48 patients. And like every single two patients in each room, two patients in each room.
• 29:55
  Speaker A: I mean, hospitals were over burning at the same time.
• 29:58
  Speaker C: The person. A bed, B bed. We're doing chest compressions here, chest compressions there. And a lot of them died.
• 30:04
  Speaker B: I'm sick, I can't even imagine.
• 30:06
  Speaker C: And I'm doing postmortem care. No, I hear them in a body bag. Yeah. It didn't work. So then I got to a point where I was like, so many deaths that I was like, did they make.
• 30:14
  Speaker B: You, like, see somebody? I feel like that is a lot for. That is a lot mentally for a person. They offered it.
• 30:20
  Speaker C: I feel like I didn't take it. Like therapy or counseling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They offered it. Yeah. They had a whole.
• 30:25
  Speaker A: Do you still think about it?
• 30:26
  Speaker C: Yeah, it's terrible. It was. It was the best way to put. It was like traumatic.
• 30:32
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 30:32
  Speaker C: You know, just watching that many deaths. And then we had iPads on like. Like wheels. Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker A: I remember my friend. Yes.
• 30:38
  Speaker C: Would talk to the family member through an iPad because we weren't allowed to have visitors at one point.
• 30:43
  Speaker B: That is so.
• 30:45
  Speaker A: Nah.
• 30:45
  Speaker C: It's like. It actually feels like you couldn't have funerals either.
• 30:48
  Speaker A: I know, I know. So it wasn't even mourn their death.
• 30:51
  Speaker C: That's it. Couldn't mourn.
• 30:52
  Speaker B: No. That was terrible.
• 30:54
  Speaker C: Kiss goodbye. Couldn't hug, Couldn't touch the hand. Nothing. I would die. It was horrible.
• 30:59
  Speaker A: I'm blessed that no one close to me. Like, I mean, I had it a million times. So did my family members.
• 31:05
  Speaker C: But it was scary.
• 31:05
  Speaker A: My dad was in the hospital once, which he. It's weird because he's like, never get sick, so that was like the scariest thing. But like, people's family members died and it's like, I can't even think about it.
• 31:14
  Speaker C: It's horrible. I'm happy we're past it.
• 31:16
  Speaker A: Yes.
• 31:17
  Speaker C: Trying to figure out.
• 31:18
  Speaker A: I give you so much credit. Really. Do anybody in the healthcare field. I gave so much. Still do. Even in general. Without, with or without Covid. It takes a strong person to be in hospital, let alone icu.
• 31:30
  Speaker C: It's hard to shut it off.
• 31:31
  Speaker A: I mean, ICU is like the worst of the worst, right?
• 31:33
  Speaker C: Yeah. I have the most critical care. Right? Critical care, yeah.
• 31:38
  Speaker B: My God, you are a saint.
• 31:41
  Speaker C: You are.
• 31:41
  Speaker A: You should know that. And I have to stop worrying about the small because it does not matter. And moving on.
• 31:47
  Speaker B: Think about the bigger picture.
• 31:48
  Speaker A: I know. Seriously.
• 31:49
  Speaker B: Oh, my God.
• 31:50
  Speaker A: Now that we know you're a super mom.
• 31:52
  Speaker B: Super mom. Let's. I think I need to. I need to change the vibe.
• 31:56
  Speaker A: Let's change the vibe. Let's change the vibe. Honestly, when I first met you, like, you not. I mean, you're like me, like, heart.
• 32:03
  Speaker C: It's.
• 32:03
  Speaker A: You have your harsh features in the sense of like, you're gorgeous. You have like.
• 32:07
  Speaker B: You're like, what? I mean, you're gorgeous.
• 32:08
  Speaker A: No, I'm saying.
• 32:09
  Speaker C: You know what I mean.
• 32:09
  Speaker B: Like, I hate her.
• 32:10
  Speaker A: I have harsh features. So, like, when people see me, like, like, I just have like, dark eyeball.
• 32:16
  Speaker B: She's pretty, so people are intimidated by her. And she think people are scared to talk to her. And she says the same thing.
• 32:21
  Speaker A: I'm saying, like, you are like, gorgeous. The people, like, always were intimidated to come up to you and talk to you until they get to know you.
• 32:26
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 32:26
  Speaker A: Okay. So my point is, I feel like. Not that I thought you were a different human, but when I started to get to know you, like, the first day I met you, I was like, oh, my God. She's like the most genuine, soft spoken, like, person I've ever met. I sort of got. I say it over and over.
• 32:44
  Speaker B: Do you want to make out?
• 32:44
  Speaker A: I do, because I just.
• 32:46
  Speaker C: You should come to my house when I'm yelling.
• 32:48
  Speaker A: Wait, you know, I was just telling. Who was I just telling the story? So you know when you have a yell at your kids that you want no one to hear, and if they did, you'd be mortified.
• 32:56
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:57
  Speaker A: So I had one of those episodes. My son smacked me in the face and I lost My mind. And not in like a scary way, but like more of like a dominant, like yelling, guess who walks in the door? My mother in law.
• 33:08
  Speaker C: Oh my God.
• 33:08
  Speaker A: She heard me yell on top my lungs at my son. I was upstairs putting, but I was mortified. She didn't give a. Of course. But I was so mortified. I'm like, really the one person.
• 33:17
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 33:18
  Speaker A: So that was my day.
• 33:19
  Speaker C: My mother in law would have cried. She's very like, never sensitive.
• 33:23
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 33:23
  Speaker C: Never slap, never hit. Don't raise your voice.
• 33:25
  Speaker A: Oh my God. I yell when I'm talking.
• 33:27
  Speaker C: She sees me yelling, she's like, oh, hold on.
• 33:31
  Speaker A: I'm like, she's so cute.
• 33:33
  Speaker C: Like, she's like the cutest.
• 33:35
  Speaker A: Oh my God. I grew up in a family of yelling love. Yeah.
• 33:38
  Speaker C: I had a freaking wooden spoon.
• 33:39
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 33:40
  Speaker A: Same soap in the mouth.
• 33:41
  Speaker C: I'm not pulling wooden spoons out now. But I did put soap in my son's mouth this week.
• 33:46
  Speaker B: You did? How'd that go?
• 33:48
  Speaker C: An he Diesel? YouTube. I know.
• 33:51
  Speaker A: We were just talking about screen time.
• 33:53
  Speaker B: Oh, so the YouTube taught him.
• 33:55
  Speaker C: I, I, I mean, let's be honest, someone saying it, I definitely curse. But like the iPad has been a problem.
• 34:04
  Speaker B: Right.
• 34:04
  Speaker A: So he took it away and he's fine.
• 34:05
  Speaker C: Yeah, I took it away. He's not fine because he's still like three and a half and he's crazy. He gives me a run for my money every single day. Every day. You're testing my patience. This morning I called my mom. I'm like, come over here. He's not putting on his clothes. He's not listening. He won't eat his breakfast because he doesn't like these pants. I'm like, but you pick these pants out.
• 34:24
  Speaker A: Last night we tried them on.
• 34:26
  Speaker B: Oh my God. Is he in that phase where like he has to pick what he wants to wear?
• 34:31
  Speaker C: Yeah, and it's like mix matched and I feel like the teachers are judging. Like, your kids come into school and no shoes again.
• 34:37
  Speaker A: A week, every day, those shoes, those shoes.
• 34:39
  Speaker B: Sometimes you just gotta.
• 34:41
  Speaker C: I pick my battles.
• 34:42
  Speaker A: You have to.
• 34:43
  Speaker C: It's not even worth it.
• 34:44
  Speaker A: I'm not ready.
• 34:45
  Speaker B: Joey wants to wear an orange shirt, this one orange shirt for like five days straight. And I was like, dude, can't, can't. I can't keep up with laundry that much.
• 34:54
  Speaker A: You're not wearing a dirty shirt to school.
• 34:55
  Speaker C: But if you say no, is, is he gonna, will he calm down or he'll pick something else or. No, mine won't.
• 35:00
  Speaker B: No. Oh, no. He, he.
• 35:02
  Speaker A: There was a time where he had to wear what he had to wear.
• 35:04
  Speaker B: He had to. But it's all a phase, I promise you.
• 35:07
  Speaker C: Really.
• 35:10
  Speaker B: Strong headed that you think your son is. I think that right now, what you're talking about, like I went through it, it is such a phase. And it's that three and a half years now. They grow up, they get a little more mature, they understand. Like, they're like, okay, maybe I can't wear the shirt today because it is dirty and mommy didn't do the wash right. Okay.
• 35:26
  Speaker C: I have to wash the same pajamas.
• 35:28
  Speaker A: Yeah, he has to wear them.
• 35:30
  Speaker C: Two pairs of pajamas. They're both Mickey Mouse, they're both fleece, they're both Christmas themed.
• 35:35
  Speaker A: And he swear that every night, every single night.
• 35:37
  Speaker C: There's been. There was like one night last week that I forgot to wash them. They're both dirty.
• 35:42
  Speaker A: I'd rather die.
• 35:43
  Speaker B: World War three.
• 35:45
  Speaker C: I. I caused a whole fight. I was like, you're not wearing these aunt. I gotta clean them. Look at all these. The amount of pajamas this kid has.
• 35:53
  Speaker A: I know.
• 35:54
  Speaker C: Is sickening. Okay, he only wants to wear those two. He went in the hamper, put them on. What will you do?
• 35:59
  Speaker A: Like tantrum.
• 36:00
  Speaker C: Yeah, crying. The crying won't stop till he gets the pajamas on. It will not stop. And he's like a parakeet on repeat. I'm like, and I know they're dirty, honey. You wore them last night or the night before.
• 36:13
  Speaker A: That's how I talk to Gio. I talk in a very adult boy stand. My dude, you can't do this.
• 36:17
  Speaker C: Yeah, I maybe talk my 6 month.
• 36:19
  Speaker A: Old, but that's because he's not comprehending.
• 36:22
  Speaker C: But like as they get older.
• 36:23
  Speaker A: Yeah, me too.
• 36:23
  Speaker C: Like the adult talk is better for them than gravity.
• 36:26
  Speaker A: Yeah, you said that to me.
• 36:28
  Speaker B: I yell in my oldest son, Joey. He had to wear an entire Spider man costume with the mask, with the Spidey things for what? I think it was like four months straight.
• 36:39
  Speaker A: I remember that he would not leave.
• 36:41
  Speaker B: The house unless he was in the Spider Man.
• 36:42
  Speaker A: He would go places and you would have to be in it.
• 36:44
  Speaker B: I mean, he was fucking Spidey.
• 36:46
  Speaker A: That is hilarious.
• 36:47
  Speaker B: And I remember thinking like seeing a parent doing that.
• 36:49
  Speaker C: I remember you're gonna go through.
• 36:50
  Speaker B: Oh, you're gonna.
• 36:51
  Speaker A: We're not Spidey going to Whole Foods. We're not doing it.
• 36:55
  Speaker B: Okay, you're gonna, you're gonna.
• 36:57
  Speaker C: You call us on that date.
• 36:59
  Speaker A: I'm gonna.
• 36:59
  Speaker B: No, but I remember being like. Like seeing a mom with a kid wearing a costume on not fucking October. And I've been like, can't that mom like he's three and you're an adult. Like, figure it out. But no, you can't.
• 37:12
  Speaker A: Oh my gosh.
• 37:13
  Speaker C: I feel like again, like the teachers are judging me.
• 37:16
  Speaker A: Yeah, but they have to know.
• 37:18
  Speaker B: No, they're not. Because they know. They know. They know three year olds and they know that they want what they want and the moms are just trying to survive to get them out the door in the morning.
• 37:29
  Speaker C: I just want to let you know he has different shoes. Yes, but he wants this one every week.
• 37:36
  Speaker A: I'm sure they know.
• 37:36
  Speaker B: They do. I'm telling you, they know.
• 37:38
  Speaker C: It's Old Navy like this, this past.
• 37:40
  Speaker B: Forget it. Don't even buy.
• 37:42
  Speaker C: I got him two new pairs of shoes and new clothes and he has yet to wear any of it to school.
• 37:47
  Speaker A: Even if you picked him out.
• 37:48
  Speaker C: Picked it out? He wouldn't wear it to school today.
• 37:51
  Speaker B: This is all normal.
• 37:52
  Speaker C: You gotta be kidding me.
• 37:53
  Speaker A: Like right now I'm dressing Gl. Yeah, he doesn't want to be dressed. He's dressing him and he's flipping out. Yes. Likes to be naked, hates to be dressed. Runs around if I try to dress him, but I once I get the outf on him.
• 38:03
  Speaker C: Whatever.
• 38:04
  Speaker A: We're not in the wearing a jacket, hat and glove stage. He hates wearing a jacket and hat and glove. So he's freezing to death.
• 38:09
  Speaker C: But it's. Yeah. They don't care about the cold, kids.
• 38:12
  Speaker A: They don't give a about the cold.
• 38:13
  Speaker B: When you have a strong willed kid, it is hard. It is for anything but getting fist fight my kid.
• 38:18
  Speaker A: You're putting the jacket.
• 38:19
  Speaker B: You'll say that. You will say it. And I'm sure you've said it. I've said it, but at some point you just have to.
• 38:26
  Speaker C: I'm done.
• 38:26
  Speaker A: Just give in.
• 38:27
  Speaker C: How many times am I going to say the same thing?
• 38:28
  Speaker A: I know. All right, so who's the bad cop?
• 38:30
  Speaker C: You were.
• 38:30
  Speaker B: Joey. Me?
• 38:33
  Speaker C: Joey is such a pushover. I said him, Joey. All right. He said, oh, he wanted to watch the movie after dinner. I go, yeah, but he has school tomorrow. He needs to go to bed. If he told you he wanted to jump off a bridge, are you gonna.
• 38:45
  Speaker A: Let him do it?
• 38:46
  Speaker C: Like he's. He's like. Well, he told me. I told him I would give him five minutes at a Grinch and this. No, I know. He needs to go to bed.
• 38:55
  Speaker A: I know.
• 38:56
  Speaker C: I. Joey is a pushover. Yeah, but he is.
• 38:58
  Speaker A: Who yells more at him?
• 39:00
  Speaker B: At him?
• 39:00
  Speaker C: Me too.
• 39:02
  Speaker A: I feel like my husband would you say your husband Michael definitely is the yellow. I'm not good cop, but I'm not bad cop.
• 39:12
  Speaker B: So he's the I and you're the calm. I don't know.
• 39:18
  Speaker A: I think I'm like, no, Michael definitely yells at him more than I do.
• 39:22
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 39:23
  Speaker A: I let him get away with more. But I'm not watching a movie. We're going to bed. Yeah, like, type of cop. No, I'm just, you know, I don't know what I am. I don't know. I just, like, Michael will probably say the opposite.
• 39:36
  Speaker B: I feel like also, it comes into play more when they're a little bit older and there's more.
• 39:39
  Speaker A: I'm also home with him 24 7, so it's like I don't know what I am. I'm like, all right, it just do whatever you want.
• 39:44
  Speaker B: Oh, I threaten all the time. I'm calling Daddy right now. It's either the cops or Daddy.
• 39:47
  Speaker A: Daddy. Jungle Joey's scary. Like, I would be scared of his. Yeah, all the time.
• 39:52
  Speaker B: Do say you're calling the cops.
• 39:53
  Speaker C: Cops. Oh, all the time.
• 39:54
  Speaker B: All the time.
• 39:55
  Speaker C: I'll put his hands behind his back.
• 39:56
  Speaker B: You know what? Like a behavioral therapist, which I once was, would be like, that's like the worst thing. Like, you're gonna threaten the cops on your kid. Like, you're a horrible parent.
• 40:07
  Speaker A: Yeah, that's good. We did Santa for a little bit.
• 40:08
  Speaker C: The videos of the Grinch videos coming in and stealing the Christmas tree and stealing.
• 40:12
  Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's what he's gonna do.
• 40:14
  Speaker C: Oh, my God. Petrified.
• 40:16
  Speaker B: He'll listen.
• 40:16
  Speaker C: He'll listen.
• 40:17
  Speaker B: That's what he'll do.
• 40:18
  Speaker A: So no cops, Grinch.
• 40:19
  Speaker B: No, I mean, you could do both. Both I've done.
• 40:21
  Speaker C: It's probably not right to do the cops.
• 40:23
  Speaker B: No, no, I, I know. I do the cops. I do the cops. But you're not supposed to.
• 40:27
  Speaker A: You should have, like, your brother.
• 40:30
  Speaker B: I'm calling.
• 40:30
  Speaker C: Oh, that's actually.
• 40:31
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 40:32
  Speaker A: Because her brother's a cop. Imagine bringing the actual cop.
• 40:35
  Speaker B: Imagine.
• 40:36
  Speaker A: What we say to our kids is probably insane, though.
• 40:38
  Speaker C: And I don't even.
• 40:39
  Speaker B: I lie. Do you lie? I lie all the time.
• 40:41
  Speaker A: You do?
• 40:42
  Speaker C: I have to lie.
• 40:43
  Speaker B: Lie.
• 40:43
  Speaker C: I, I. It got better.
• 40:45
  Speaker B: My husband yells at me how much I lie.
• 40:47
  Speaker A: Like, about what? What are you lying about?
• 40:49
  Speaker C: I had to lie specifically because he was scared to go to school when I was taking him to school.
• 40:54
  Speaker B: Right, okay.
• 40:54
  Speaker A: About stuff that's gonna help him.
• 40:56
  Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah.
• 40:57
  Speaker B: I mean, they're like white lies, but.
• 40:58
  Speaker C: They'Re, like, flat out, ask me Mommy, you're going to school today. And I'm like, no. Or I would avoid it. And I would be like, oh, we're just gonna get dressed. Mommy has to go to the store. Like, we have to go here and then.
• 41:07
  Speaker A: Well, you're chopping off at school.
• 41:09
  Speaker B: Actually, that's a really good point. I did this the other day with Rocco. I had to take him to the doctor. But he's his, like, antipathy. Anticipation about going to the doctor gives him, like, he'll freak out. So I said, we're going to the store. He's like, are we going to a play place? I go, not a play place, but, like, let's see. And I get him in the car. We're going to the doctor. I know we're going to the doctor. And, like, you kind of have to spring in on them because it's way better than the tantrum they have before knowing.
• 41:32
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Then they think about it and they.
• 41:33
  Speaker B: Cry all the way down. Unless they're a type of kid. Like, now, like, Joey, I have to prepare him.
• 41:38
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 41:38
  Speaker B: He likes to know, but he's older now. Like, I prepare, like, okay, we're going to the doctor. You might get a shot. But, like, it's fine.
• 41:44
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:44
  Speaker B: But, like, sometimes you do have to.
• 41:46
  Speaker A: Just wants to know.
• 41:46
  Speaker B: Yeah, he wants.
• 41:47
  Speaker A: Rocco, the youngest doesn't.
• 41:49
  Speaker B: I mean, Rocco's two. So he, like. He was like, we're going to the doctor. I'm like, no. And he's like, okay, no doctor. No doctor. Let me get to the doctor. I go, it's just like a medi merge.
• 41:59
  Speaker A: So he's like, what the.
• 42:01
  Speaker B: You know.
• 42:03
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Sometimes you have to just like.
• 42:06
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 42:07
  Speaker C: A little fitbay just to make your life a little bit easier. Just to sometimes get him in the car.
• 42:11
  Speaker B: Like, the park's closed.
• 42:12
  Speaker C: Or like, like, oh, Anthony asked me at 8am Mommy, can I go to Colored mine today?
• 42:17
  Speaker A: Color me mine.
• 42:17
  Speaker C: They're closed today.
• 42:18
  Speaker B: Yeah, they're closed.
• 42:19
  Speaker A: Have to. I close it all, actually. It's a Wednesday, so wide open. So he does three days.
• 42:25
  Speaker C: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
• 42:27
  Speaker A: Oh, I like that.
• 42:28
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 42:28
  Speaker B: That's like Vienna. Him and Vienna are the same age. Three and a half.
• 42:31
  Speaker C: He's three and a half.
• 42:32
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 42:33
  Speaker C: Yeah. I had him actually two days a week. And it was Tuesday, Thursday, and It was from 9 to 11:30.
• 42:39
  Speaker B: It's like, nothing.
• 42:40
  Speaker A: Drop them off. Come home if you go get him.
• 42:41
  Speaker C: Yeah. And I was like. And then he's a terror all day long.
• 42:44
  Speaker B: Yeah. No, no, he did that for one day.
• 42:46
  Speaker C: And then I called the school. I'm like, do you have any openings for like three days a week? And they're like, yeah.
• 42:50
  Speaker A: And he still does. All day or 11:30?
• 42:52
  Speaker C: It's nine to three and to three.
• 42:54
  Speaker B: It's so funny. And then with your second, you'll be like, do you have like a after school program? No, I did that. I did that with Joey. 9 to 11:30, my first one. And I literally would drop him off, maybe run to the food store, get a coffee. Wouldn't even be able to put my food away.
• 43:10
  Speaker C: Y.
• 43:11
  Speaker B: And then get him. And I was like, this can't be.
• 43:13
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 43:13
  Speaker B: So then I. So then with my daughter, I made it 9 to 3. And probably with Rocco, I'll be like.
• 43:21
  Speaker C: I'll get them all the time.
• 43:22
  Speaker A: Last question.
• 43:23
  Speaker B: School.
• 43:24
  Speaker A: When did they. He did. He just went to school. This is first.
• 43:27
  Speaker C: He just started. September.
• 43:28
  Speaker B: Yes.
• 43:29
  Speaker A: I'm thinking about doing it in September.
• 43:31
  Speaker C: I feel like the earlier, the better. Better. Like, I. I just don't know where I'm gonna live.
• 43:36
  Speaker A: So I'm like, all confused.
• 43:37
  Speaker C: Yeah. So wait until you figure that out.
• 43:39
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 43:40
  Speaker C: To figure out which school to go to. But like, he. Once he hit like a little past two and a half, he started to get like, crazy. Sweet little boy. Whatever. And now it's like terror.
• 43:54
  Speaker B: Well, they go stir crazy in the house.
• 43:55
  Speaker C: I know. Exactly. I know. So I was like, it's time for school.
• 43:58
  Speaker A: And you know me, Jim or phob can't go to a play place.
• 44:00
  Speaker C: Like Geo. Anthony was with me all the time. He's my only one. I would take him everywhere, be next to me. I was a really bad germaphobe. You know, I'll give him a pep talk before we go somewhere. And I think that, like, made him worse. Like, he has, like. I don't want to put this out there, but almost like a separation.
• 44:16
  Speaker A: I know, I know. I believe that.
• 44:17
  Speaker C: I mean, yeah, he cried for three months every day. Yeah, I believe it. For three months.
• 44:23
  Speaker A: This kid I used to go to school, we used to have a picture of his mom on his desk because he couldn't have separation.
• 44:27
  Speaker C: He said I could do that. I'm like, yeah, I know.
• 44:29
  Speaker A: Stare at me all day.
• 44:30
  Speaker C: Yeah. My kids is probably gonna make more.
• 44:32
  Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:33
  Speaker B: Sometimes it makes them cry. I put one in their lunchbox.
• 44:36
  Speaker A: Oh, you're such a good mom.
• 44:37
  Speaker C: Thanks.
• 44:39
  Speaker B: Let's talk about Bravo, girls. Are you.
• 44:42
  Speaker A: Are you a Bravo girl?
• 44:44
  Speaker B: Like, word.
• 44:44
  Speaker A: I don't watch Bravo. I watch. I watch Housewives. Just because I feel like I'm from New Jersey. Like, I. I just. I know that. So I'm a. She's a Bravo girl.
• 44:52
  Speaker B: Like. Oh, yeah.
• 44:54
  Speaker C: What's your favorite show?
• 44:55
  Speaker B: I mean, like, out of all.
• 44:57
  Speaker A: She knows more than you think.
• 44:58
  Speaker C: Really? Yeah.
• 44:59
  Speaker B: I mean, I watch everything, but, like, I loved Vanderpump.
• 45:01
  Speaker C: I love Vanderbilt Underpin.
• 45:02
  Speaker B: I love. I. I love Real Housewives of New Jersey.
• 45:06
  Speaker A: Specifically your aunt. Yeah, I do.
• 45:10
  Speaker B: I love Melissa Gorga. I mean, I really like them all. I like Below deck. I like.
• 45:15
  Speaker A: Do you not. Are you not into it because you feel like you're in the family or you just never been into.
• 45:19
  Speaker B: Do you watch it?
• 45:20
  Speaker C: So. No.
• 45:22
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 45:22
  Speaker C: So in the beginning, like, when my aunt first got on the show, it was, like, cool. And, like, cameras were.
• 45:27
  Speaker B: How old were you when. When Melissa went on the show?
• 45:30
  Speaker C: 15, I think, or so 16.
• 45:31
  Speaker A: That's not that young.
• 45:32
  Speaker C: Yeah, but still, like, as a 15.
• 45:34
  Speaker B: Year old, I mean, your godmom's on TV. You're gonna.
• 45:37
  Speaker A: Yeah. Awesome.
• 45:38
  Speaker C: Yeah. It was so cool to experience, like, the first few years, it was like, anytime we were filming, like, we would all go because we wanted to experience it.
• 45:45
  Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
• 45:46
  Speaker C: Who wouldn't? You know? And then I feel like after a while, you're like, oh, all right.
• 45:50
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 45:51
  Speaker A: You're used to it.
• 45:51
  Speaker B: I mean, the show's been on. Yeah, the show has been on also. It's like, forever. 14 seasons. So many seasons.
• 45:57
  Speaker C: Yeah. A long time. So it's like. Like, you get used to it.
• 46:01
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 46:01
  Speaker C: And then you're just like.
• 46:02
  Speaker A: That's why I feel with Sookie, I'm.
• 46:03
  Speaker C: Like, people are like.
• 46:04
  Speaker A: Are starstruck. And I'm like, it doesn't phase me. Yeah. She's been in my life since I was 15.
• 46:09
  Speaker B: Yeah. That's also like. It's your aunt. Right. So. Yeah.
• 46:14
  Speaker A: Plus, like, you knew, but yours is a little bit different because it's like your blood.
• 46:17
  Speaker C: Yeah. Like, you know, literally my blood.
• 46:19
  Speaker A: Once the cameras. Like, the cameras don't even think. Like, you don't even get bothered by it.
• 46:22
  Speaker C: No.
• 46:22
  Speaker A: Even when you don't even care to be around.
• 46:24
  Speaker B: Yeah. Right.
• 46:24
  Speaker C: No, in the beginning, it was, like, cool. Like, oh, let's see if we can get it.
• 46:27
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 46:29
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 46:30
  Speaker C: Then they air. I'm like, oh, we're in the back.
• 46:31
  Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 46:32
  Speaker C: And now it's like, when we do stuff and we film.
• 46:34
  Speaker B: Did you grow up in. In the town that, like, Franklin Lakes, wherever they live? No.
• 46:39
  Speaker A: So they just moved there, didn't they?
• 46:41
  Speaker C: They've been so Melissa's been in Franklin Lake since she met Joe.
• 46:45
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 46:45
  Speaker C: I think she moved up north a little bit before.
• 46:48
  Speaker B: Wait, wait, wait. You knew Melissa before Joe Gorgo, we need.
• 46:51
  Speaker A: Obviously. But she's like, I feel like she's. You could speak for it, but I feel like she's not any different or she's the same person.
• 46:57
  Speaker C: Like tv, I mean, no, like, I mean, obviously people change as they get.
• 47:01
  Speaker A: You get more glamorous. Obviously.
• 47:03
  Speaker C: Yeah, but she's the same, like, little quirky, funny person that she's always been. Like, there's videotape of her, like, as like an 8 year old on the table in a nightgown, her underwear, dancing and entertaining like she's always been.
• 47:16
  Speaker A: She was always the louder sister out of the. Your two aunts. She has three.
• 47:20
  Speaker C: Yeah, your mom, My mom, and my aunt Kim's the oldest. And then Melissa.
• 47:25
  Speaker A: So she was always like the outgoing one out of the. Yeah, the bunch.
• 47:28
  Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, I don't really know how my mom and my aunt Kim were like, yes, I. I heard my mom was wild as like a teenager, high school years and stuff. But, like, I have seen actual videos of my aunt Melissa, like, being crazy on the table, dancing and singing. Like, she always was like, it's always like that.
• 47:45
  Speaker A: Was she, like, growing up? Like, this is such a hard question, but saying, like, I want to be on tv, like, I want to be famous or I want to be in the spotlight or like. Because Nicole used to tell me Snooki, she used to be like, I always wanted to just be on television. So I tried out for shows and I did all this stuff and she ended up being famous.
• 48:00
  Speaker C: I feel like if she was here, her answer to that would be yes.
• 48:02
  Speaker B: Yeah, right.
• 48:03
  Speaker C: But I was like, so young when her and my uncle met, and then all of this stuff kind of happened. So I don't. I don't know. I feel like she'd say yes to that question.
• 48:13
  Speaker A: Yeah, right. What? I feel like we had questions written down. I'm just like, thinking off the top of my head. So did you. What was your first reaction of. Of Joe, like, your Uncle Joe when you first met him? Like, you're like, this guy's for her.
• 48:25
  Speaker B: Or were you like, he's not or he's not.
• 48:27
  Speaker C: No, not for one second of all of these years that they've been together.
• 48:31
  Speaker A: Was I, like, I think they're the cutest couple ever. Like, they're definitely so in love, obsessed with each other.
• 48:37
  Speaker C: I mean, they want to do everything together.
• 48:39
  Speaker B: So cute.
• 48:39
  Speaker A: She's probably get away from me for one minute.
• 48:41
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 48:42
  Speaker A: I love when a man's obsessed with a woman. I don't know why. I just love it.
• 48:45
  Speaker B: I mean, he is so obsessed.
• 48:46
  Speaker C: Customer touches her all day long in a room. He's very.
• 48:52
  Speaker A: After three kids, too.
• 48:53
  Speaker C: Oh, my God. He's obsessed.
• 48:55
  Speaker B: But what does Antonia think about, like, their pda?
• 48:58
  Speaker C: She's like any other, like, all right, mom.
• 49:02
  Speaker B: All right.
• 49:02
  Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
• 49:03
  Speaker C: Sometimes my mom does like that. I'm like, oh, my God.
• 49:05
  Speaker A: I know.
• 49:06
  Speaker C: Out of here.
• 49:07
  Speaker B: That's so funny.
• 49:07
  Speaker A: I didn't grow up in, like a PDA fam. Like I pda.
• 49:11
  Speaker C: But like, my.
• 49:12
  Speaker A: Yeah, like, I. I mean, yeah, I am. I like, all lovey dovey when I'm in public. Yeah, I am.
• 49:17
  Speaker C: Right.
• 49:17
  Speaker A: But my parents.
• 49:18
  Speaker B: Your husband is.
• 49:19
  Speaker A: Yeah, Michael. Michael's love language is.
• 49:21
  Speaker C: But I love that. I feel like it teaches your children especially.
• 49:24
  Speaker B: I love that.
• 49:25
  Speaker A: Because I didn't really grow up like that with my parents being like, physical touch in front of me, affectionate. So I love that if my kid has that, you know, I do.
• 49:32
  Speaker B: Like, I agree with that.
• 49:33
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 49:34
  Speaker B: I think it's really nice to. For kids to see their parents, like, if they are in love, to be in love.
• 49:39
  Speaker A: If they are in love.
• 49:40
  Speaker B: No, it is. There's a lot of parents that aren't out there.
• 49:43
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 49:43
  Speaker A: So totally.
• 49:44
  Speaker C: If you are.
• 49:44
  Speaker A: When did your parents get divorced?
• 49:47
  Speaker C: Oh, my God. I think I was like five.
• 49:49
  Speaker A: Ah.
• 49:50
  Speaker C: Yeah. I don't even remember the divorce.
• 49:52
  Speaker A: Oh, you don't?
• 49:53
  Speaker C: Like, that's good, though. I just remember being from house to house to house. We were moving from Florida to Jersey back and forth, like.
• 50:00
  Speaker B: Oh, you lived in Florida before?
• 50:01
  Speaker C: Yeah, Naples. I've been.
• 50:02
  Speaker A: You did?
• 50:03
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 50:04
  Speaker A: I love Naples.
• 50:05
  Speaker C: Yeah, I love Naples.
• 50:06
  Speaker A: That's where Michael's family.
• 50:06
  Speaker C: I went to, like, four different elementary. Elementary school. Yeah. Just I. I was the new girl every year all the way up to sixth grade.
• 50:13
  Speaker B: Oh, that's. I would hate that. That's.
• 50:16
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 50:17
  Speaker C: Because we were moving around a lot.
• 50:18
  Speaker A: Yeah. Like, can you stay in one with your mom, though? You were with your mom, but you still talk to your dad? Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 50:24
  Speaker C: Almost every day.
• 50:25
  Speaker A: Do they get along still?
• 50:26
  Speaker C: They do.
• 50:27
  Speaker B: That's good.
• 50:27
  Speaker C: Yeah. They coexist.
• 50:28
  Speaker A: Yeah. But you have to.
• 50:29
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 50:30
  Speaker A: I hate when it's like they don't speak. Can't go here. Holidays. It's like, what do you do?
• 50:34
  Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I try to separate, like the holidays. This year I did one was my mom's side. One with all over the World one with my husband's side.
• 50:41
  Speaker A: It's hard.
• 50:41
  Speaker C: My mom's side wasn't happy about that. Actually, my Aunt Melissa texted me, and she's lipped. You're ruining. You ruined.
• 50:48
  Speaker A: I know.
• 50:49
  Speaker C: I didn't show up with my kids. Yeah. Like, her and her husband are obsessed with my kids.
• 50:53
  Speaker A: Like, you know, I thought she always talks about them. Oh, you know, she talks about.
• 50:57
  Speaker B: No.
• 50:57
  Speaker C: Upset. Especially Uncle Joe.
• 50:58
  Speaker B: Well, they're like. They're like the babies of the family, Right?
• 51:01
  Speaker C: Yeah. He's so good.
• 51:02
  Speaker A: Do they ever watch your kids?
• 51:03
  Speaker C: Kids? No.
• 51:04
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 51:04
  Speaker C: Oh, they're all the way.
• 51:05
  Speaker A: I know.
• 51:06
  Speaker C: All the way up.
• 51:06
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 51:06
  Speaker C: You know, now.
• 51:07
  Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
• 51:07
  Speaker C: I'm thinking Franklin Lee. Yeah. But.
• 51:09
  Speaker B: Oh, and you're down the shore, right?
• 51:10
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I'm down the shore.
• 51:12
  Speaker A: You move into your new house?
• 51:13
  Speaker C: I moved it to my new house.
• 51:14
  Speaker A: Thank goodness.
• 51:14
  Speaker C: The best part about it is I literally can wave to my mom.
• 51:18
  Speaker B: Oh, we need to talk about that.
• 51:19
  Speaker A: Does your mom love that?
• 51:21
  Speaker C: Oh, my God.
• 51:21
  Speaker B: So wait, you walked in her robe?
• 51:24
  Speaker A: No, she didn't this morning. I'm obsessed.
• 51:27
  Speaker C: Yeah. She sits with Christian while I go. Where?
• 51:28
  Speaker B: Where is your house? And where's your mom's house?
• 51:30
  Speaker C: House.
• 51:30
  Speaker B: Like, next door or across the street?
• 51:32
  Speaker C: Like, across the street. Like, my mom's on the corner.
• 51:35
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 51:35
  Speaker C: And then I'm right here.
• 51:37
  Speaker A: So they look at each other like this.
• 51:38
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 51:39
  Speaker B: And. And everybody's. Your husband's happy about it. You're everybody.
• 51:43
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah, it's great.
• 51:44
  Speaker B: Ma.
• 51:44
  Speaker C: I forgot I don't have ketchup for the dinner. Can you. Can you. I've got sick, like, three weeks ago with the neurovirus. My stepdad made me a pork, like, and cheese. Left it on my porch.
• 51:54
  Speaker B: Oh, that's so nice.
• 51:55
  Speaker C: He's a bad best cook. He's a good griller.
• 51:57
  Speaker B: He is.
• 51:58
  Speaker C: Yeah. Like, phenomenal griller.
• 51:59
  Speaker A: I love your family dynamic. This is why, like, people get a divorce, marry, have more kids.
• 52:07
  Speaker B: I love it.
• 52:07
  Speaker A: I hate when people are, like, so secretive. They don't want to start another life. Like, just do it. There's more family, and everybody gets along.
• 52:13
  Speaker C: Everybody get divorced, divorce. And find the right.
• 52:17
  Speaker A: And find the right one.
• 52:17
  Speaker C: Well, it is so important to marry the right person. Honestly.
• 52:21
  Speaker B: How'd you find your Joey?
• 52:22
  Speaker A: I love this story.
• 52:24
  Speaker C: It. I can, like, thank my Aunt Melissa and Uncle Joe for it a little bit, because they have had a boat since, I don't know, forever.
• 52:33
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 52:33
  Speaker C: So we would go on their boat in the summertime, and we would drive to Caddis island and Then one year we did that and Joey's family was there. They have a family boat and Joey's family was there. So we pulled up, they came over, gave us drinks and food and we were all hanging, mingling. I saw my husband at the time I was in a relationship. And then I think actually Teresa was with us at the time. She was a judice. So they I think were fans like the women. Yes, my husband's family were fans of the show. Recognized my aunt Melissa and Teresa and stuff and my mom and all that. And then my husband, my brother in law.
• 53:08
  Speaker B: Oh my God.
• 53:09
  Speaker C: And my husband's two cousins. All four of them DMed me, I can't.
• 53:14
  Speaker A: And Joey won.
• 53:15
  Speaker C: I'm thinking how the did these kids find me on social media. But then I put two and two together. Like maybe they watch Bravo or something. My husband was like the only one that I was like interested in that I thought like yeah, it was like kind of my tight. But I was in a relationship. And then Joey.
• 53:30
  Speaker B: Wait, they all, all four of them DM'd. You like interested in all four of them?
• 53:34
  Speaker A: That's so hilarious. And I would hold it against until the day I died just to let you know. You DM'd.
• 53:39
  Speaker B: That is so funny.
• 53:41
  Speaker A: I know, I love that.
• 53:42
  Speaker C: And I didn't know that my brother in law was like my husband's brother. I thought it was his cousin.
• 53:47
  Speaker A: Because they don't look anything. Did they know at the time that they both DM'd you or no?
• 53:51
  Speaker B: I don't know.
• 53:51
  Speaker C: Maybe. I don't know. Maybe they.
• 53:54
  Speaker A: Yeah, right, right, right.
• 53:55
  Speaker B: That's a good story. Right, right.
• 53:57
  Speaker A: Did you answer all four or just Joey?
• 53:59
  Speaker C: I think I answered all four, but it was like innocent, like, oh, nice to meet you, whatever. But Joey always kept in contact.
• 54:05
  Speaker A: You said that because you were still dating this guy for a while after all that.
• 54:08
  Speaker C: Eight years. And then we finally broke up. And Joey was always in contact with me. Not, not like.
• 54:14
  Speaker A: Not creepily, just like no genuine guy.
• 54:17
  Speaker C: Genuine, like how are you? How's the family? And he happened to reach out to me right when then my ex and I broke up.
• 54:23
  Speaker B: And then I saw he was cute.
• 54:26
  Speaker C: So he came home from college and I went there the first night and I was there till 3 o' clock in the morning. It was like I knew him my whole life.
• 54:34
  Speaker A: I love that.
• 54:34
  Speaker C: I went back the next day. I was there till five in the morning. And then literally that weekend, his mom actually told me later on that that week he came downstairs in the morning and Said, this is gonna be my wife. I chilled inseparable after that.
• 54:51
  Speaker B: Wow.
• 54:51
  Speaker C: Like, inseparable. We moved into each other, moved in with each other. Nine months of dating. We were engaged 11 months. Yeah. And then we had a long engagement because I was in nursing school and I was like, I'm not getting married.
• 55:02
  Speaker B: Right.
• 55:03
  Speaker C: Going back into the nursing school because it's torturous.
• 55:06
  Speaker B: Right.
• 55:06
  Speaker C: And then, you know, I was like, no, we're gonna finish.
• 55:08
  Speaker A: You guys are like, you look.
• 55:11
  Speaker B: Fairy tale.
• 55:12
  Speaker A: I just like, you guys. You guys are the perfect couple. Like, you just see somebody, like they're meant to be together. You guys are.
• 55:17
  Speaker C: Thank you.
• 55:18
  Speaker B: I love it.
• 55:18
  Speaker A: And he's. He's a good man.
• 55:20
  Speaker C: He really is. Yeah. He was raised right. For sure. Totally.
• 55:23
  Speaker A: And his parents are awesome and everything.
• 55:26
  Speaker C: Are like, isn't it bad?
• 55:27
  Speaker A: The greatest. When you.
• 55:28
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 55:28
  Speaker A: When you have.
• 55:29
  Speaker B: Do they live close your in laws?
• 55:30
  Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, my. Are like maybe seven or eight minutes from my house.
• 55:34
  Speaker B: A village. Village. She's got the village.
• 55:37
  Speaker C: Yeah. And they're like, especially my mother in law. She'll call me and be like, maybe your sister. Oh, it's my grandmother. My mother. My sister and my mother in law. Really? The four of them.
• 55:46
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 55:47
  Speaker C: Are. That's my village.
• 55:48
  Speaker A: Does your gr.
• 55:49
  Speaker C: Any of the kids or.
• 55:50
  Speaker B: No.
• 55:50
  Speaker C: Oh, she just watched him this week. Yeah, she watched Christian for me this week because I want to go food shopping.
• 55:54
  Speaker A: Yeah. She just comes over is.
• 55:55
  Speaker C: Yeah. I called my. She wanted to see Christian anyway, and.
• 55:58
  Speaker B: I said, this is. This is grandma.
• 56:01
  Speaker C: Yeah. Donna.
• 56:02
  Speaker B: My mother's the jeans in this family. I can't.
• 56:05
  Speaker C: I know.
• 56:05
  Speaker A: And she's young. 70. So young. 70. Whatever. She's like something still in the 70s.
• 56:10
  Speaker B: And she's a great grand grandma.
• 56:11
  Speaker A: She's a great grandma.
• 56:12
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 56:12
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 56:13
  Speaker A: Our Grandma Viol is 95 too, too.
• 56:15
  Speaker B: I know, but she is in Atlantic City.
• 56:18
  Speaker C: She just went to Atlantic City the other day.
• 56:20
  Speaker A: Is she married?
• 56:21
  Speaker C: No. So she was married to my grandfather and he died. He had like addiction issues and stuff like that. He ended up dying from it. He got into a car accident.
• 56:30
  Speaker B: Oh, this. That's Melissa's dad.
• 56:31
  Speaker C: Yes.
• 56:32
  Speaker B: Yes.
• 56:32
  Speaker A: Oh, right.
• 56:33
  Speaker B: She was 19 at the time.
• 56:34
  Speaker A: She was senior in high school.
• 56:38
  Speaker C: Yeah. Actually one time I found like all this paperwork from his like, death thing. And I went to the scene of where he died because I wanted to see it. It was in Jackson.
• 56:48
  Speaker A: I would do that too.
• 56:49
  Speaker C: Yeah. I just wanted to see it.
• 56:50
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 56:51
  Speaker C: You know what I mean?
• 56:51
  Speaker A: Did you ever meet him?
• 56:52
  Speaker C: Yeah, when I was younger, but I don't have one memory. Yeah, he died, I think. I don't know, maybe three. I was like, yeah.
• 57:01
  Speaker B: No.
• 57:01
  Speaker C: No idea.
• 57:02
  Speaker A: Crazy.
• 57:03
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 57:03
  Speaker A: Oh, sad.
• 57:05
  Speaker C: I know.
• 57:06
  Speaker A: So sad.
• 57:06
  Speaker C: Grand. And then she was. She was with this guy for a while, her partner, and he got als.
• 57:12
  Speaker B: Ah, that's a terrible disease.
• 57:13
  Speaker C: And he passed, like. I don't know if I'm saying it right. Maybe it was like, three months or so. It was bad. ALS was so bad. So she's been, like, technically, I, you know, with. Almost twice.
• 57:26
  Speaker A: Did they get married or they were just together?
• 57:28
  Speaker C: Yeah, they didn't get married. He was, like, the best. He was so funny. He used to make my mom, like, laugh till she peed her pants. And my grandmother, too.
• 57:35
  Speaker A: I love that.
• 57:36
  Speaker C: Like, he was just. Just.
• 57:37
  Speaker A: You just want to be with someone who just, like, makes you happy. Cares who it is. Yeah, I agree.
• 57:41
  Speaker C: Funny. Good guy. I love that. Love, love, love. Good time to.
• 57:44
  Speaker A: Grandparents are everything. They make us who we are.
• 57:46
  Speaker C: So. Yeah, totally.
• 57:48
  Speaker A: We're gonna play a little game.
• 57:49
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 57:49
  Speaker A: What's it called?
• 57:50
  Speaker B: And this one is called what would you do mom of two? Survival.
• 57:55
  Speaker A: Would you do mom of two? I can't answer any of these because.
• 57:58
  Speaker C: I don't have a second.
• 57:58
  Speaker B: You cannot. You are just a single one mom, one kid. Parent. So you are out.
• 58:03
  Speaker A: I'm out.
• 58:04
  Speaker B: Okay, full disclosure. These are scenarios that actually happened to me.
• 58:10
  Speaker C: Oh.
• 58:10
  Speaker B: So I did not make. I. I did not make any of this up. This happened, and you have to tell me how you would handle the situation. Okay. And I tried to put myself back into, like. Because. So I had three. Like, bang, bang, bang. But when I just had two, what? It was like. Because my first two are 18 months apart and 15 months apart. So how old are your years? Are three years apart.
• 58:33
  Speaker C: Okay.
• 58:33
  Speaker B: Three years apart.
• 58:33
  Speaker C: Okay.
• 58:34
  Speaker B: So this one is called grocery store betrayal. Okay. Try to get yourself into the scenario.
• 58:41
  Speaker A: I wanted to. All right. Okay, go.
• 58:43
  Speaker B: You just finished food shopping. Okay. Your groceries are loaded in the car. You got both kids buckled in. You parked kind of far away. It's pouring rain out. And you realize you left your phone at the cash register. Okay.
• 58:59
  Speaker C: Yep.
• 58:59
  Speaker B: Okay. Do you unbuckle everyone and go back in even though it's pouring rain? And you literally just got everything in? You're sweating. You're like, oh, my God, I can't believe I'm doing this. Do you leave them in the car for 12 seconds like a criminal and run in, or do you call your husband crying?
• 59:18
  Speaker C: Okay, so what I would do is I would pull up to the front. Put my hazards on, take my kids out.
• 59:23
  Speaker A: You would never leave them. The car. Will you tell us what you did?
• 59:28
  Speaker C: Never. And then I would call my husband, crying, like, can you believe I just did this? I. Pouring rain. I had to bring him back in the. In the grocery store.
• 59:34
  Speaker A: I know it's such a hard decision because it's 12 seconds of your life. Things can happen in one second.
• 59:39
  Speaker C: I wish you could leave the. Were the keys in the car?
• 59:42
  Speaker B: No, I didn't leave. I. I'm like a. My biggest fear is kidnapping. Like, you're a germaphobe. I'm a. We're gonna get bombed and get kidnapped right now.
• 59:51
  Speaker A: So you took your kids out?
• 59:52
  Speaker B: No, I actually saw somebody walking in, and I was like, I just got my kids in the car. Can you go? Can you please.
• 59:58
  Speaker A: A random stranger.
• 59:59
  Speaker B: A random stranger sinking. So I did.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker A: That'd be a good idea.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker B: I did do that.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker C: Did you get your phone back?
• 1:00:05
  Speaker B: I got my phone back.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker C: You found a good person.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker B: I did. Well, luckily, like, I literally picked a random. She looked like a mom. And I was like, hi, register three. Yeah, I told her it was like, kind of in the middle. Can you please just go run in and see? And she was a nice lady.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker C: I actually did leave my phone in Target once.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker A: You did?
• 1:00:24
  Speaker C: I was filming content from my tick tock.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker A: And I feel about that too.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker C: I put my phone down.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker A: You left it.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker C: And I left. I got to the car, got to my trunk, and I'm like, where did my phone go? And then I go, oh, my God.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker A: Where the kid was.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker C: I just had Anthony at the time. I literally.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker B: Isn't it? It's so much more annoying when you have to buckle two kids in them.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker C: 100.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker B: And then also if you have the newborn seat, then you have to carry the ear.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker C: £100. Yeah. So I. I ran back in, and there it was at the self checkout and there was a guy checking out. And I just was like, excuse me, sir. I just left his phone here and I grabbed it and I ran out.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker A: He would have took it, probably.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker C: I don't. Thank God. It was like only like maybe 30, 40 seconds that I left.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker B: Time matters. Time.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker C: Yeah. But I had the whole thing on record because I was recording.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker A: It was still. Oh, it was recording. It was recorded. That's holiday.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker C: I think I saw my tick tock.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker A: That's so funny.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker C: I did a Target run.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker A: Oh, my God.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker C: Like, blur out this guy's face. Because, like, part of my video.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker A: Yeah, that's so funny.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker C: Yeah, I'm not leaving my phone anywhere.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker A: No, I'm going back and I'm wiping it down. As soon as you get to my door with Clorox, go.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker B: Okay, this one is called domestic disaster multitasking. Okay. So you have a newborn and they just had an epic blowout everywhere. Just like the messiest blowout you have ever seen. And your toddler is pulling the stool over to try to climb up. You know when the toddler pulls the stool to get into the fridge or something in that split second, what do you do? Who are you running to? The blowout or the toddler?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker C: I mean, toddler.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker A: I would do let the blowout sit for like two seconds.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker C: Probably would pick up the baby.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker C: Go and get Anthony off the fridge.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker B: Okay. Oh, there's nothing worse when a toddler pulls out a fucking stool and is trying to get something up high.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker C: I have a stool in my kitchen. Like a. I forget.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker A: Oh, a kitchen helper. I have a dough.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker C: And my son uses it for everything.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker A: He still uses it.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker C: Doesn't go.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker A: He can't get it in himself, though. Can Anthony get in his.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker B: Himself?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker C: Yeah, he crawls.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker B: I don't know.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker A: Maybe I can open the.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker B: The mesh. If you open one side of the mesh.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I could do that.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker B: Okay. This one's called Play place disaster. Public humiliation.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker A: Wait, this is the bathroom one?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker B: Yeah. You're at a play place. Okay. Your one baby had an explosion and the other peed their pants.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker C: Pants.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker B: But you have no diaper bag. So you're dealing with three, though. Yeah, well, I just cut out the third because she doesn't have three. So you're dealing with a blowout and a pee pants situation, and you have no diaper bag and you're in a play place.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker C: I'm leaving.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker B: You're leaving?
• 1:02:55
  Speaker C: My ass is out of there.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker B: Out.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker A: What else would you do?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker C: No, what else would you do?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker B: So you can stay. You can ask a mom for a diaper and maybe I would never ask a father.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker C: That goes to my head is that they're going to give me a baby wife.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker A: Yes.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker C: Person's cleaning their baby's area.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker A: Deal. And giving it to me after.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker B: Okay. A non German wouldn't think that. But yes, I. You have to leave. But yes, that's park panic. Okay, you're at the park. Your toddler has an accident and is. Oh, no, no, no. Okay, okay. You're at the park and your toddler's running towards the bay. So there's a. There's a Park on 35 that is not fenced in. In maniloking. Okay. So I had a toddler that was running towards the bay. And I also had another toddler that's running towards Route 35. And I also had a baby that was sitting on the swings. What would you do?
• 1:03:48
  Speaker C: It's like, one's gonna get hit by one's, the other one's gonna drown.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker A: Whatever you do, whoever you could get.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker C: To with her, I would probably get to the one going towards the road first, because I don't think the baby would have walked over and just, boom, jumped right in. You probably would have had a grace period.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker A: Yes, true, true.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker B: Car first, before water started screaming like a psychopath. Someone get one of my kids.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker C: Oh, my God.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker B: But. And. And then that park got funds fenced in.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker A: Thank God.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker B: It was terrible.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker C: Kid almost died here.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker A: Yeah. Seriously, death.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker B: All right, this is restaurant bathroom escape. Okay? You're at a restaurant, you're sitting down. You finally get the baby in the high chair. Like, happy. Like, playing nice in the high chair. Your husband says he needs to poop, so he goes to the bathroom. So now you're alone at the table with your baby and the toddler, and the second your husband is settled shitting in the bathroom, your toddler darts from the table and runs to the bathroom, and you're with the baby. So do you run after the toddler that you don't really know if he's actually getting to the bathroom to your husband? Do you quick pick up the baby? Like, you can't in those. Yeah. Like, what do you do? So what do you do?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker C: I probably would run after my toddler.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker B: And leave the baby.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker A: And leave the baby in the high chair.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker B: I would too.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker C: My legs are bigger. I can probably get him quicker and then still turn around and make sure he's still there.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. As long as you have eyes.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker A: But then you're also like, what is everyone thinking?
• 1:05:12
  Speaker B: Then you don't. Because you're leaving a baby with. In a high chair, and you're around the corner and you can't see the baby.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker C: What is he? He runs like a speed demon. Yeah. I don't know.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker A: These situations are so hard. That's what I think about now.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker B: These are things that happen, and you gotta think, all right, bonus scenario. Okay. All right. You say you're just running in real quick to target, and you bring both kids within 90 seconds. One kid is just, like, licking the cart, licking everything, freaking out.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker A: We're going through.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker B: And the other is screaming on bloody murder screaming. And a stranger is Just smiling at.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker C: You saying, oh God, that's the worst.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker B: Worst.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker C: That is the worst.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker B: The worst.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker C: I can't stand that I would be.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker A: Freaked out for one week if my toddler licked a shopping cart at Target.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker B: Target. Oh yeah.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker A: I was thinking, is that what you said?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker C: Something like that.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker A: Oh, Geo does too. I mean, I mean you bring a.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker B: Toddler into a public bathroom and you say don't touch anything, all of a sudden they start swimming on the floor.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker C: Swimming. Oh, swimming. That would make me spiral.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker A: No, spiral bathrooms make me. I want to go in the bathroom myself, let alone bring my toddler.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker C: I take the kids home at that point.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker B: Yeah, take them home.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker C: Maybe say the lady like, what, what the you looking at?
• 1:06:24
  Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker A: What the fuck are you looking at?
• 1:06:27
  Speaker B: The eyes, the eyes are tough.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker A: Are you bad like that? Like would, would you say something to.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker C: Someone about like, am I a Karen?
• 1:06:31
  Speaker A: No, I'm not a Karen, but I'm saying like you a Karen. If someone deserves to be something said to, said to them, would you say it?
• 1:06:37
  Speaker C: Yeah. One time I went to Atlantic City.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker A: With your kid though.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker C: Yeah. I was with Anthony, my in laws, my husband and my, my six month old and I took him to Atlantic City for Christmas time to do this Santa adventure. And we were going, we had to walk through the casino.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker B: Oh, did you, Was it in the Brigada in the.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker B: Oh, I saw that. I wanted to be that.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker C: Yeah. And some lady was sitting down at the slot machine saying that your kid can't be here. Like she, she didn't work there. Nothing. It bothered you that much that my three and a half year old walking.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker B: Through people are brutal.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker C: So I was like, what's the problem?
• 1:07:12
  Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I do too.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker C: What, what is it to you? Play your slots, pull your penny and mind your, and mind your business. I took my kids and I, I left. I was leaving like you're a mom.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker A: Like you're not, you're obviously not. Like your kids aren't playing in the casino.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker C: My kid was nowhere near her.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker A: Like nowhere near. Gambler. I was in a food store and my son hit a woman in his shopping cart. He was sitting in the shopping car, hit a woman with a balloon and she reprimands him. And listen, when my kid does something, I reprimand him. Honey, you can't do that. You know, don't hit people with balloons.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker B: But don't you.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker A: She got in her face and said, and my back was turned. I didn't even see him hit her with the balloon. You cannot hit someone with the balloon. That's not a good boy. In his face like this, I go.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker C: Not a good boy.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker A: Yeah, go put your fucking. I said, would you. What you're not gonna do is put your finger in my one and a half year old's face. Okay?
• 1:08:03
  Speaker C: So walk away.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker A: Mind your business before I hit you with this fucking balloon. Like, are you out of your mind?
• 1:08:09
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker A: Was she elderly? And I go, he's a kid. He didn't hit you with the balloon on purpose.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker B: It's so funny because, like, you guys are saying these stories. I, I. You would never say confrontation till I die. Oh, my. I will crawl under the table if someone looks at me the wrong way.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker A: I literally looks at you the wrong way too.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker C: Me too.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker A: Or my husband or my family.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker C: No.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker A: Or my friends. I would say something.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker B: No, I mean, to each his own. Yeah.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker C: Teacher.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker A: And you wouldn't even say a word.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker C: It's fine.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker A: Okay, moving on. Let's get into a little bit more juicy stuff.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker B: Yeah. I want juice.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker A: I want juice.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker B: We have about, like, tea time.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker C: Ten minutes.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker B: All right. We have a new segment called Tea Time. We do.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker A: We're incorporating into every episode.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker B: Yeah, we're trying, but we know nothing about pop culture. How are you on pop culture?
• 1:08:54
  Speaker A: Yeah, we know nothing about pop culture. Is that a thing that I don't know anything?
• 1:08:58
  Speaker B: We asked her to watch Tell Me Lies before she came on, but we did. She didn't.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker A: I watched the new season, so we can't even talk about it now.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker C: Don't spoil anything.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker A: Yeah, okay.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker C: I'm only on episode.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker A: I love when you sent me these texts. I'm like, I told you, keep watching. I cannot believe you didn't start it. No, like, prior to telling you. But, like, I know. When are you even gonna do it?
• 1:09:13
  Speaker C: What am I doing? I know my kids go to bed, and I'm like, I want to go to bed.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker B: Go to bed.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker A: I know. That's how I feel.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker C: I don't. I end up staying up till midnight.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker A: I know. It's bad. And then you're exhausted.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker B: And then this one wakes up in.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker C: The middle of the night. This one's up at seven.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker C: This one needs to be sleep trained.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker A: They ask her what time her kids wake up.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker C: Oh, I think I heard you say something about this.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker A: Your kids get up at 4am I.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker C: Would pass 45 every day.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker A: Middle of the night.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker B: Yeah, it's really, really bad.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker C: All three of them are.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker B: No, no, just one. And then they trickle each other stuff. Yeah. We have shared rooms. The boys, the girls they, they. We play musical beds in our house.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker A: So I want to sleep in Vienna's bed.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker B: It's so bad. We switch cribs. Vienna's in Rocco's crib. Rock was in Vienna's crib. Joey's in his bed. Joey's in our bed. Joey's all over the place.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker C: So difficult.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker A: And she's still surviving. So that's good.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker B: Here we are.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker A: Okay, let's do tea time.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker B: Tea time. So, like with the housewives, we have to talk about it because. Because they're.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker C: They're.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker B: Melissa.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker A: Family's reunited. And Teresa, which I love. Family always needs to stick together, I think especially because Joey, Teresa, like, they're old school Italian. Like, they grew up like you only. My dad says to me all the time, you only have your brother. He's not wrong.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker B: I'm married.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker A: I have a kid.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker B: I have.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker A: But at the end of the day, I only have my brother. So you have to get along with your siblings. You just have to.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker B: But it does come into play when you have. When you have in laws. Sister in laws are tough. Mom in laws are tough. Like, everybody marries someone different. So, like, you can't hammer pick somebody for your brother or your sister. Right. So when this all ha. I mean, Teresa and Melissa have a very rocky.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker A: Is that real?
• 1:10:50
  Speaker C: Yeah, it is real.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker A: It's real life.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker C: Yeah, it's real. It's not fake. I don't care what anybody says.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker A: No, it's real fake family hardships that they're having.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker B: And, And I mean, it sucks. I mean, they're on a reality tv, so obviously it's exposed. But, like, we wanted to know, like, from you, who's. Who's in the family closely. You can see it. Like, do you think, like, it was when they first reconciliated?
• 1:11:15
  Speaker A: Reconciled.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker B: Reconciled. We're working on our vocabulary.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker A: Reconciled.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker B: How did, like, you feel like was Melissa. Do you have, like, a separate group chat where Melissa's like, okay, guys, I'm gonna talk to Teresa now. Yeah.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker A: Like, how does that work?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker C: We have a whole family.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker C: Just the women. And then my gay cousin, Cousin Nick.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker A: He's one of the girls.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker C: So we have a cousin's confidential group chat.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker A: And she'll say.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker C: And she'll give us, like, update.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker B: She'll give you the tick.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker A: So she talks about it.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah, she'll.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker B: She keeps us because she wants you to know before the on tmz.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker C: Like, you know what I mean? Like, she keeps us in the loop with stuff. And then like, my family members will ask, like, hey, like, what is this? We'll ask what's true, what's not, what's true, what's not. Sometimes I'll call her. I'm like, how come I'm saying this? And she's like, oh, it's fake. Or, oh, yeah, that did happen.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker A: Oh, so she'll tell you, like, straight up.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker C: Yeah. And if she doesn't know something, she's like, I don't know, but, you know, I could probably call so and so and find out or whatever. But, like, that beef has been real beef for a long time.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker A: And it's real that they're reunited.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker C: It's real that it's reunited. And, like, when we found out that it was going down that route, I remember specifically, I wrote in the group chat, when we were told that they were meeting to talk, just Theresa and my Uncle Joe together, I wrote in the group text message, like, he only has her. She only has him. Their parents are no longer here. Right, Everybody, regardless of your opinion on what you feel about it, because we are entitled to our opinions of what has been said about our family and shit over the years. Everybody shut your mouth.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker B: Right?
• 1:12:54
  Speaker C: It's his sister. At the end of the day, does he want to hear certain things? No. You know what I mean?
• 1:13:00
  Speaker A: There's some family members that didn't. Didn't want them to, I'm sure, talk. I'm sure.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker C: I don't know if it's. Didn't want them to talk. I think it's more like they were.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker B: Her or protective towards.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker A: Protective.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker C: Protective. And like, what's the motive behind it?
• 1:13:13
  Speaker B: Right.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker C: Right. Now you want to be like, w. Now you.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker B: Right.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker C: I'm not gonna like, out who said.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker B: Right, right.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker C: But everyone had their opinions, like I said. So I wrote, like, everyone, like, we need to just, like, do this for Uncle Joe. Everyone needs to keep their opinions to their self. And if he wants this, then we need to.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker A: Because your family loves to him.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah. That's like, we all love him. He is a very good dad. He's a very good uncle. He's a very good husband. He's. He's good with all of our kids. He always comes over. He wants to know what's going on. You know, he's very attentive. He's very funny.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker B: Have you ever been to one of his shows?
• 1:13:47
  Speaker A: I haven't. I want to go see what.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker B: We gotta go.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker A: Oh, wait a minute.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker C: No, I lied. Yes.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker A: I go.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker C: I did.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker B: In Atlantic City.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker C: No, I don't remember what location it was. And let me tell you some Teresa fan at the time. They were still feuding. Some Teresa fan bought a ticket and.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker A: Went and threw tomatoes at him.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker C: No. And had like. There's like a segment where they could take questions from the.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker A: No.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker C: And this said to my aunt. My aunt ended up on the stage at one point, said something like, you know, what's your storyline besides Teresa? Whatever. I was livid that you paid to come to my family. Right. But you're not even a fan of that. I got out of my seat. I walked because I was in the front row. I walked all the way around to this chick.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker A: And you did it.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker C: What was your motive of coming here? What was your point of coming here? The security came. No, get the out of here.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker A: No way.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker C: And she was like. She had nothing to say to me, this girl.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker A: I'm like, pain. People have nothing better. Nothing better to do.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker C: But, like, that's my family.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker C: Like, you're gonna come here.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker A: That's literally me.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker C: You know, my aunt's like, oh, you know, like, you came.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker A: And I think she don't give a shit. She's just like, she.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker C: She brushes shit off. You know, she's been dealing with. Used to it all these years. Like, you figure it out. Like, not to read certain things or, like, knowledge. Certain people or people.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker A: You know, and they've always been Joey and Melissa's Uncle Joey. And your analysts have always been good. They've always been.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, has their rock. Oh, yeah.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker A: Marriage is hard, but. Yeah.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker C: Yeah. But there's never been a moment ever where there's been a conversation in the family. Like, they're gonna get a divorce.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker A: They're gonna separate because of the show or Teresa.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker B: I feel like they also are just like a united front. Even in.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker A: I feel like. I love that they always back each other up. That's my biggest thing. Couple. And I hate to see when people don't stick up for their significant other.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker C: Yeah. And. And my aunt has been like, honestly, me and the other women in my family have been shocked on how forgiving this. This, you know, them getting back together has been. And her mindset behind it.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker C: Like, she's like, yeah, like, I'm over it. We're done. We're moving on. We're having a good time. Like, well, oh, you're out to dinner with them. They're out to dinner. Going here, going there. They have.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker A: It's easier to just together.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker B: They did Christmas together.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker A: It's easier to get along than to keep together. We were like, that's crazy.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker B: Did they Film. It was. It was it.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker C: No, no, I don't believe it was filmed. Oh, no. Nobody's filming right now.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker C: They're. They're. They're just figuring it out. I don't know if it's because people of Bravo.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker A: I saw Andy, like, say some things.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker A: Who's not on it anymore? Who's on it?
• 1:16:15
  Speaker C: Yeah. I can't believe, honestly, how long it's taking them to figure out who's on, who's off.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker A: Who decides?
• 1:16:22
  Speaker C: I don't know if it's annoying. Andy. I don't know if it's Andy. I'm sure it's Andy and other people.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker A: Producers.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker A: What was the question we wanted to ask her?
• 1:16:31
  Speaker C: Like, what.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker A: It was the fakest news that people believe and probably still believe that wasn't true? Is that what we were gonna ask?
• 1:16:37
  Speaker B: Yeah, that was, like, one question.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker A: Like, what was, like, the biggest or something out there. Yeah, there's, like, that, like, really wasn't true that people probably still think is a real thing. Can you think of anything?
• 1:16:47
  Speaker C: I. I could say that when there was like. Like the feud going on between them a few years ago between my Uncle Joe and Louie.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker A: Yes.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker C: The whole thing out about me and my husband that.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker A: Wait, I remember this.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker C: Me money to, like, start a business.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker A: I remember this. You were in the news. You were, like, in an article.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker C: I was in podcast that was just.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker B: Like, totally made up.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker C: Totally made up.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker B: Oh, wow.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker A: So who made that up?
• 1:17:11
  Speaker C: My. My husband has a manufacturing company. Right. He could work whatever, produce all these things.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker A: Whatever.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker C: Uncle Joe had this idea and Teresa come together to do these pizza. These portable pizza things, and Lou was involved in it, and my husband was just the person producing them. Supplier.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker B: Right.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker C: And somehow he got dragged in.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker A: We.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker C: We. We took money from Louie or he gave us money to open our own business. Like this. Who.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker A: So how do you shut that down? You just don't. You just comment on podcasts and just.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker C: No, you just ignore it. Time. You just ignore it. When you go back at it, if.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker B: You draw a light to it.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker C: Yeah. Then people, like, they gas it up.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker B: Right.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker C: And. Oh, did you see? The niece said this. Whatever. Like, one time I posted, like, something about Louie and it, like, backfired on me and I shouldn't have done it. I texted Uncle Joe and I apologized.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker B: That was gonna be another thing. I was like, did you ever post.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker A: I don't remember that.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker B: About what?
• 1:18:07
  Speaker C: Yeah, this is like, you know, a little while back, but, like, there was a time where Louie had.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker A: Are you afraid to post on social.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker C: Media sometimes I'm not afraid, but I just, like, I'm mindful of what I post that might affect my cousins and my aunt and like, her job. But you know, there was a time where like Louie was in a confessional or I don't even think it was a confessional, but he was saying he wore Teresa and Joe's deceased father's rem.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker A: Wait, I remember this.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker C: And I had put like something on my Instagram story. Like, what a weirdo. What a fun weirdo.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker A: I mean, who went in? What a weirdo.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker C: But it was blasted all over social media.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker A: But they weren't mad at you.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker C: They weren't mad at me, but they were all like coming for me. Like my, like my DMS and all my social media accounts were like nasty people. Self centered. You guys are nasty. The nerve you had to take money from, like, just nasty. Like definitely.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker B: There are so many trolls, right?
• 1:19:06
  Speaker C: Crazy. My co workers heard I would, I would see stuff. My co workers would be defending me in the comments. Oh, co workers know. I swear to God, it's 115 than me.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Because when you're in it, you don't know, like people like us who watch it from the outside no more because we're more invested with your family. You kind of just like, yeah, crazy.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker C: I know, it's wild. So long.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker A: I feel like your family, like, needs their own show.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker C: I know.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker A: Has anybody ever asked you guys?
• 1:19:31
  Speaker C: Yeah, they have.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker A: And you guys have shut it down.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker C: No, I don't think it was shut down. I think it was a matter of that. We were so far down the shore and the production would have to come down every single time.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker B: Like, would you be at. Would you want to be a housewife?
• 1:19:44
  Speaker C: No.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker B: No. You don't want that.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker A: Like, I don't know, genuine. I can't even know a word. You're just like.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker B: I mean, there's a lot.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker C: Yeah, there's a lot that goes into.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker A: It and you get like misconstrued. Like, you just get like misconstrued.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker C: Somebody will watch one video of you.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker B: I do feel like if you look at, at. If you look at most of the housewives, most of their marriages, most of all, their secrets.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker C: Shambles.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker B: It's shambles.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker C: So all of this is.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker A: Yeah, I have to say, like watching Melissa and Joe, look, I feel like they live like a normal.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker C: I know.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker A: Like, you know, they do.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker C: They gym together, they work.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker A: That's what I'm saying.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker C: Separate stuff. They. They manage the kids together.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker A: Yeah, they're just like a married couple. They're not doing, like, but they just happened to be on tv.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker C: Happened to just be on TV all these years. Years. I love that. And they parent. They do. They do great. Their kids. My cousins, Joey.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker A: They're so cute.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker C: Yeah, they're so.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker B: They have.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker A: Are they dating? I know she's dating. I know who she's dating because I know him.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker C: Sometimes in our family group chat, like, my Aunt Melissa will send us. I don't even know if I should say this. Oh, my God, No. It's gonna go on TMZ videos of, like, a girl leaving the house at 2.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker B: Oh, my God.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker C: No.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker A: Yeah, I kind of love boys. They probably love that.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker B: I could imagine.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker C: She's not. Cameras on her house so we can see him, like, going from the foyer.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker A: But does your Uncle Joey love that? Like, he's such a guy's guy.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker B: Oh, my God. Joey Gorgo is probably like, yeah, man.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker C: Antonio will wrap them out.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker A: Oh, my God. I kind of love it. I love the girl two boy dynamic.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker C: Yeah. And she's like. She's spoiled but humbled. You know what I mean? Yeah.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker A: She's the only girl.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker B: Right.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker C: You know, she comes to Christmas every year with another new piece of, like. Oh, yeah, put your wrist on the table. Show us what you got this year.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker A: I love that, you know? Yeah.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker C: Oyg. Spoiled.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker A: I would love. Oh, yeah. I would love to see her closet. Oh, and Melissa, I love her clothes. Shop at her store.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker C: I don't. But she'll gift stuff to us.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker C: All the time.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker A: That's what's worth it, though. Just let her gift it to you.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker C: Yeah, it's cute stuff. Why not? She has good stuff.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker A: She does. I only went to the store once, but I see it online a lot. I mean, she wears half her.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker C: All the time.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker A: She looks so hurt. Her body's insane.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker C: No, I don't understand.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker A: I don't understand.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker C: I mean, my grandma.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker A: Did she birth three kids naturally?
• 1:21:52
  Speaker C: Yeah. No, she had C sections also. She did.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker A: That makes me feel better.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker C: C sections. All three. But her body's killer.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker B: Her body killer.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker C: Killer.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker A: And obviously no work done to her body. That's her natural body.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker B: Does she eat?
• 1:22:05
  Speaker C: Yeah, but she's not a. Like, she's a foodie, but she. In moderation. Like, if there's a piece of cake in front of her, she's gonna have.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker A: She wanted the whole thing, but she'll have a piece.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker C: She's like. She'll get her three bites of her.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker A: Face and she's Always running around. I feel like. So she's just, like, busy and she.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker C: Works out almost every day.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker A: She does, Yeah.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker C: I mean, she's very dedicated. Fit, you know?
• 1:22:23
  Speaker B: She's fit.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker C: She eats healthy most of the time, but she'll have. She cooks, you know.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, she definitely.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker C: Her body is like. Sometimes I'm like, I don't understand. You're like.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker A: Her skin, like, even her skin is smooth. I don't understand.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker C: No cellulite.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker A: No cellulite.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker C: I got this and me, too. Where did you come from?
• 1:22:39
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker C: I don't get it. Like, but you're.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker A: You're answer. And your mom's like that too, right?
• 1:22:43
  Speaker C: Yeah, she's another level.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker A: She's like skinny skin.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker C: She's like.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker A: She's like a young body. Skin.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker C: Young body, like, meant for the limelight.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker C: You know what I mean?
• 1:22:52
  Speaker A: Literally meant to be shown off. I would walk around naked. Her husband probably.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker C: Oh, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker A: Oh, my God. That is why he's obsessed. Imagine having a wife that's just like.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker C: Stunning at her age. That looks.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker B: No, I mean, she's.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker C: She is.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker A: Everything's tight.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker C: Tight.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker A: Yeah, she's tight.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker B: 20, 26. Melissa Gorger tight.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker A: We need to get Melissa Gorger tight.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker A: Yeah, she's tight.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker B: That's right. We are running out of time because we have kids to pick up here.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker A: We do kill the kids. School pickup.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker C: What are we missing?
• 1:23:20
  Speaker B: We missed missing my last game. Have to play it.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker C: It's.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker A: It's fun, though. Real quick, rapid fire.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker B: Okay, Rapid fire. Last game.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker A: It's gonna be the finale.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker C: Go.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker B: Okay, I'm going to say a tagline and you tell me if it was Melissa Gorga's tagline or I made it up.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker C: Okay.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker A: This is fun.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker B: I'm in the business of envy, and I'm not afraid to wear it.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker C: No, that's made up.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker B: Oh, that was real.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker A: That was real. I don't know the answers I'm looking at here.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker B: I may not be the richest girl in Jersey, but I'm definitely the loudest.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker C: No, that's made up.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker B: Correct. I never throw the first punch, but I'm always the first to land one.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker A: You're talking like you're on the show.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker C: This is how they're like. I know. I feel like. No, but yes.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker B: She didn't say it.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker A: Someone else did.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker B: I'm a Jersey girl and I'm as real as they come.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker C: These are kind of hard.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker A: I know things.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker C: She said that.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker B: Maybe she did.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker A: Maybe she did.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker B: I Can handle the heat and. Oh, no, sorry, I can't. I can handle the heat and I'll bring the sprinkle cookies.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker C: Yeah, that's definitely her.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker A: I want those fraggle cookies. They're so good. I know. I should have bought them, so.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker C: They're so good.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker A: I know.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker B: Sexy life, loyal wife. Take a page from my book that's.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker A: Like her iconic say, I'm not a.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker B: Trophy wife, but I'm a whole damn prize.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker A: Say that.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker C: Yeah, I know. She said that.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker A: Maybe she did.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker B: Mirror, mirror on the wall. I don't think I look 40 at all.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker A: She did say that.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker B: She's embarrassing.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker A: She did say that. She flipped her hair. I can't.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker B: I don't need to be on top. I just need to be seen.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker A: No, don't look at me.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker C: I'm looking at you. No, she didn't say that.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker B: She didn't say it. I'm a girl from Jersey. I can talk the talk and walk the walk. She said that. I love that behind every strong man is a stronger Jersey girl.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker C: Yeah, she said that.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker B: She didn't say.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker A: Oh, she should. She should say that.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker B: I may not be a saint, but I'm no angel either.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker C: I'm going to say no on that one.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker B: So good.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker C: Oh, my.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker A: This was so fun. Is there anything else we need to talk about? I think we covered everything.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker B: I think.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker B: I mean, I think it was.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker A: This was so fun.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker B: Come again. We have.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker C: This is my first podcast ever.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker A: I know.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker B: We popped her podcast cherry.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker C: We did it again soon.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker A: I know. Maybe she'll be like our third co host.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe bring your aunt husband.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker A: That's what we said we should do with the husband.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker A: Well, now that we know, we can all just go hang out. I'd love to meet her Joey.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker B: Would. I like her Joey.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker A: He's just like our husbands.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker B: We'll rap together.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker C: I never met your husband, but our husband's together. I feel like fricking fr.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker A: Oh, frick and frack. Remember, I was like, gabriella, you were pregnant, so you couldn't, like, enjoy. Enjoy.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker C: I know.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker A: You were so pregnant to do that again.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker C: We went to one dinner. We're like, we're going to do this more. I know.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker A: It's been a year. It's been one full year. So now we can plan it.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker B: Let's get something on the calendar.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker A: H. All right. Well, G, this was such a pleasure. We love you so much. The most beautiful soul ever. And we hope you come back.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker B: I will come back, Mama Clock.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker A: I love it.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker B: Thanks for coming Yay.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker A: Okay, Mama Clock out.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker B: Cut.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker A: Love ya. Hello?
• 1:26:33
  Speaker B: You guys, stop. Is it Mama Clock yet? I'm going crazy.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker A: Heck, yeah, it's Mama Clock somewhere.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker C: Sam.