Speaker 1: This is Take twenty with Mattie and Kenzie Ziggler and
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio Podcast. Hi everyone, welcome back to another
Speaker 1: episode of Take twenty. Today, we really wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of share more about our childhood and go down memory
Speaker 1: lane and kind of two. I think people obviously watched
Speaker 1: us grow up from the age of six and eight,
Speaker 1: but like they didn't really know what we were like before.
Speaker 1: I feel like I forget the time before. I feel
Speaker 1: like we didn't have a life before we were on camera,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like, except for some reason
Speaker 1: that I talked about this all the time with my mom,
Speaker 1: I remember so much from when I was like three
Speaker 1: and four. That's so interesting. I really have a hard
Speaker 1: time remembering. Yeah, I don't know if they were in
Speaker 1: positive experiences or what. What do you think some more
Speaker 1: some weren't, Like I remember like I don't remember things
Speaker 1: from like four years ago, but I remember things that
Speaker 1: I was really young, like because I must start in
Speaker 1: the core memories, certain memories with our brothers and like
Speaker 1: mom and you and things like that. That's so cute. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: so what like what would you say your first memory is?
Speaker 1: I have such random ones, like I have. I have
Speaker 1: memories from when I was I think first starting pre
Speaker 1: school and Maddie would do my hair in the morning,
Speaker 1: and you were how old I was? Because how old
Speaker 1: was I? Like, how old was I? I was probably five? Ye,
Speaker 1: Maddie would get me ready for school in the morning,
Speaker 1: she would do my hair, she would pour me cereal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because our mom would work in the morning. Um, it's
Speaker 1: so weird that mom had a proper job I went
Speaker 1: to in the morning. I think that is so rare
Speaker 1: for us to like talk about, just because like since
Speaker 1: we started the show, she that was her full time job.
Speaker 1: It so interesting. But yeah, I remember you pouring the
Speaker 1: cereal in the morning all the time. Or this one
Speaker 1: memory when it was my sister you. It was you,
Speaker 1: and we do have those sisters. Um. It was Maddie
Speaker 1: and then our two brothers, Ryan and Tyler. We were
Speaker 1: jumping on the trampoline and our brothers are really tall,
Speaker 1: they've been They've just always been really tall for their
Speaker 1: and we were jumping on the trampoline and Maddie got
Speaker 1: like double bounced and flew and Ryan grabbed her foot
Speaker 1: and pulled her down. That's crazy, we have so I
Speaker 1: actually have a lot of core memories. Do you remember.
Speaker 1: I always talked about this. Me and Kenzie were on
Speaker 1: the trampoline and I was getting ready to do a
Speaker 1: backflip and I remember this, you know, and I was
Speaker 1: jumping Joe jumping ready to do a backflip. I remember
Speaker 1: the subivily and I started to go backwards and I
Speaker 1: saw that you were behind me and not looking. You
Speaker 1: were like just jumping, and I was like, so I
Speaker 1: tried to come back up. Mom will tell you this too.
Speaker 1: I tried to come back up and I just tried
Speaker 1: to reverse my backflip like that doesn't work, and I
Speaker 1: cracked my stern up like it's not like cracked it.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, like it cracked like a backcrack.
Speaker 1: And I just remember on the floor screaming, are on
Speaker 1: the trampoline and Mom ran out and it was just
Speaker 1: that was it. But I just try. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I'm gonna backflip onto your head. I'm
Speaker 1: like so excited. I also remember we had a We
Speaker 1: had a few Yorkies when we were little. That was
Speaker 1: always our dog. I always had a new one. We
Speaker 1: had a dog named Gucci. We didn't name her. That
Speaker 1: was what the breeder, like I'm sure mom named her, No,
Speaker 1: that was she was named and Kenzie. This is probably
Speaker 1: not good, but you know, when you're little, you don't
Speaker 1: really like nie Kens. Used to put her in like strollers,
Speaker 1: and we had this little shopping cart like that. We'd
Speaker 1: put our dolls in and stuff, and they play grocery
Speaker 1: store and Kenzie would put Gucci. And remember the one
Speaker 1: time I forgot to choose in there and she slept
Speaker 1: in there and I was four. I was like four
Speaker 1: years old and whatever, Oh, Mike, I just have the
Speaker 1: best story. Continue over the time where you We were
Speaker 1: at the golf course and she like rolled down a
Speaker 1: hill or something broke her arm. Yeah, I jumped off
Speaker 1: of a log or something and I rolled them when
Speaker 1: I split my arm on a rock. And I remember
Speaker 1: I like, I was so excited to get a cast.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to be the coolest girl ever.
Speaker 1: I got a pink cast. I was so happy. And
Speaker 1: then I got home and Mom said she found me
Speaker 1: with First of all, she found me with scissors trying
Speaker 1: to cut it off by myself. And then she found
Speaker 1: me later that day charging at the wall trying to
Speaker 1: break it off because I was so sad. Once you
Speaker 1: have a cast on, it is not fun. I've never
Speaker 1: broken a bone, knock on wood, It's not fun. Having
Speaker 1: a cast is like I thought it was kuted up first,
Speaker 1: like I got a pink cast but it's not fun. Also,
Speaker 1: this is probably the fun the story between us, well,
Speaker 1: we have so many. But Kensie and I were making
Speaker 1: friendship bracelets earlier in the day and like with her mom,
Speaker 1: and later that night, we were crawling under the table
Speaker 1: and I said, Kenzie, don't try this. And I took
Speaker 1: a bead and I put it in my nose because
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to look like a like
Speaker 1: a nose ring or something. And I put it in
Speaker 1: my nose and then I started crying and I was
Speaker 1: going sniffing, and I kept sniffing the bead higher and
Speaker 1: higher in my nose, and I had it stuck up
Speaker 1: like I had like a little charm opened my nose.
Speaker 1: I thought I was being the coolest room, like, Kenzie,
Speaker 1: watch this, but don't try it. And then obviously I
Speaker 1: had to tell mom and like, do you remember that?
Speaker 1: Like I I remember parts of it. I remember you
Speaker 1: sneezed and season it flew out. But my mom was
Speaker 1: about to take me to the emergency, I think, or
Speaker 1: something like she was on the phone with Antonie. I remember. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so funny. Um, we have some not even
Speaker 1: was like a revel because remember you like I got
Speaker 1: a noodle stuck through gosh. I have so many stupid
Speaker 1: stories that this is an ongoing joke with our stepdad Greg,
Speaker 1: Like every time we eat Chinese Chinese food, he like
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, be careful of the noodle. Or like
Speaker 1: one time I got because I slurped, you know when
Speaker 1: you're a little I feel like people do it all
Speaker 1: the time, and you slurp the noodle down and I
Speaker 1: got it caught in my throat and I stopped. But
Speaker 1: this is so graphic? Should I not? Maybe not? She
Speaker 1: just pulled out. I stuck my hand on my throat
Speaker 1: and pulled it out. Oh you just said the full thing.
Speaker 1: Whatever graphic? Sorry terrible. Um, yeah, we had. We had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun memories, I think. I think, like also,
Speaker 1: our mom used to make us we're matching offits, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, the photos are so cute now looking back,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that was adorable. It was so cute. But
Speaker 1: apparently when I was like three, or four, I told mom, mommy,
Speaker 1: no more matching or something like I I was over it.
Speaker 1: And then we would do like Cordina color coordinated outfits
Speaker 1: or like I would wear the top to a set
Speaker 1: and need or to the bottom. Like she just couldn't
Speaker 1: get over it. Remember I would I would scream in
Speaker 1: my crib and I'd go, mommy, daddy, anybody. I think
Speaker 1: that is so like Twinkle Twinkle little Star because I
Speaker 1: was bored and like no one would come and hang
Speaker 1: out with That's so cute. I had a really traumatic
Speaker 1: story with my crib and my diapers. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is the best story of all time. And then
Speaker 1: we'll stop talking about my mom could tell this story
Speaker 1: because it's so funny. I've been just a scaredy cat
Speaker 1: from day one. Like honestly, I couldn't sleep alone. Also,
Speaker 1: Kenzie and I didn't sleep alone. We had our own
Speaker 1: rooms in every house because we had to move houses
Speaker 1: like every few years because our parents divorcing and everything.
Speaker 1: But we, like um always had separate rooms, but we
Speaker 1: slept together until we were like twelve, was always in
Speaker 1: your room always, so we were like twelve. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I was in my crib and I. My mom one
Speaker 1: night heard me jump out of my crib and she
Speaker 1: heard footsteps running down the hall and I ran in
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know I wanted to sleep
Speaker 1: with them. No, you said change me, didn't you know?
Speaker 1: That wasn't that wasn't the story. So I jumped out
Speaker 1: and then she was like, oh no, So she put
Speaker 1: me in the crib again. And then what I would
Speaker 1: do is I would take my diaper off and jump
Speaker 1: out and run and say I need change, Like I
Speaker 1: would just tell her or the zipper where So then
Speaker 1: she was like, okay, I'm gonna put her diaper on backwards.
Speaker 1: Like funny enough, I was able to take it off.
Speaker 1: So she duct taped my diaper on me because she
Speaker 1: was asking other moms what do I do? And she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: my kids do this. You just have to deduct tape it.
Speaker 1: And then she was like, but she keeps jumping out
Speaker 1: of the thing. So she put one of those little
Speaker 1: nets over my crib and my mom she was like,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. It was so silent. I just from
Speaker 1: down the hall here like I from her n She's like,
Speaker 1: I heard you unzipped the whole thing. And he just
Speaker 1: jumped out and ran how did you jump? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was so like corn. So then that was probably
Speaker 1: my issue of why I couldn't sleep by myself till
Speaker 1: I was twelve because like eventually mom was like nothing worked.
Speaker 1: He would not sleep with the crib, so she both
Speaker 1: slept with Mom and our dad would sleep on like
Speaker 1: on the couch. Normally we would like kick him out.
Speaker 1: We'd like go into bed and sleep with Mom in
Speaker 1: that big bed. Yeah, I remember that so vivid with
Speaker 1: like the weird quille do you remember that? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: was like that's so weird, Like thank you about that.
Speaker 1: How do you think like when we started first started
Speaker 1: going to dance together, like we kind of split off
Speaker 1: because we were in different groups. I feel like even
Speaker 1: we were dancing at that studio but way before like
Speaker 1: before the show came. How how was that? Like was
Speaker 1: it weird for you to be like, I know my
Speaker 1: sisters in the other room but like dancing. No, because
Speaker 1: we would have acro together when we were older, but
Speaker 1: when we were younger, it was kind of just like
Speaker 1: see you after dance. Like we didn't we didn't talk
Speaker 1: to we didn't talk, we didn't we didn't do anything, like,
Speaker 1: I felt like I was in my own world. True.
Speaker 1: Also with school too, because Kenzie and I obviously I
Speaker 1: was so interested too, because we both had to become
Speaker 1: homeschooled in I was in going into my fifth grade
Speaker 1: year and Kenzie was going into her fourth. Like think
Speaker 1: about it, if we stayed in school and you were
Speaker 1: in fifth grade, I would have left school and went
Speaker 1: to sixth grade at the middle school. I would have
Speaker 1: hated that. I would have been so weird because even
Speaker 1: though we were in different classes, I feel like we
Speaker 1: we well. First of all, we always went together, and
Speaker 1: we would always sit in the lobby together. Before you
Speaker 1: would pick up, you would get me from my classroom.
Speaker 1: If we had to leave early, you would come to
Speaker 1: my classroom and we would leave together. Or when like
Speaker 1: parents pick up, we would be together. Um, so I
Speaker 1: would feel so I think i'd be like scared by myself.
Speaker 1: I mean, even though you were younger, I think I'd
Speaker 1: feel the same way too. It was nice knowing that like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we go to school together, we do our classes, and
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like we leave together.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of like a buddy buddy system, right.
Speaker 1: That was fun though, that was really fun. I loved
Speaker 1: like elementary school. I loved school. Kenzie had such a
Speaker 1: good you loved dear teachers. I loved mine too. There
Speaker 1: was one teacher that I did not like, but every
Speaker 1: other teacher was wouldn't let you go to the bathroom
Speaker 1: or something during I peed in class. I literally peed
Speaker 1: my pants. I class my pants multiple times, dead pants
Speaker 1: because our dance teacher wouldn't let us go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: like literally ballet teacher. No, it was, oh you had
Speaker 1: remember your one teacher that would do headstand Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: my first grade teacher. It was because we so Maddie
Speaker 1: and I went to a different school in pre school, kindergarten,
Speaker 1: in first grade, and then in the middle of first
Speaker 1: grade for me, we switched schools and I that we
Speaker 1: were like the new kids at the school right in
Speaker 1: the middle of the year. It was like the weirdest thing.
Speaker 1: And my first impression of my first grade teacher was
Speaker 1: any time the whole class would get like a hundred
Speaker 1: percent because you know, in the first grade, she would
Speaker 1: do handstands and I was like, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is my mother. I was like, this is my mother.
Speaker 1: But I had so much fun. Like I made so
Speaker 1: many friends in first you had such a little group
Speaker 1: of like Kenzie was like the popular girl, like everyone
Speaker 1: was her friend. Which is so funny because so my
Speaker 1: my best friend in second grade and heard grade. She's
Speaker 1: now my neighbor at home in Pittsburgh. When we lived
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, you guys became best friends again. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: would tattle tail on me every day, but like I
Speaker 1: loved her because I never took anything to heart when
Speaker 1: I was at young of course, but she came to
Speaker 1: my house when we first moved there in Pittsburgh, when
Speaker 1: we like built our house at home, she came over
Speaker 1: and was like, Hey, do you want to come hang out?
Speaker 1: And I got so scared and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's funny. But then we hung out the next day.
Speaker 1: And also Kenzie was the type of girl even though
Speaker 1: she was like the popular one in her class or
Speaker 1: like in school. She even at dance. I think we
Speaker 1: talked about this. She would buy every she would give
Speaker 1: away all her food, she would give away her her gifts,
Speaker 1: her snacks, like the American girl. She gave away her
Speaker 1: American girl doll. And if you guys know, American girl
Speaker 1: dolls are a hundred dollars just for the dollars for
Speaker 1: a doll not even including the accessories and elfhits or whatever.
Speaker 1: So she was so generous. You still are, You're still
Speaker 1: the same way. But like when you were younger, you
Speaker 1: were like Oprah, you were like you get a car.
Speaker 1: You like literally I would ask my my stepdad for
Speaker 1: like twenty one dollar bills so we could so all
Speaker 1: of my friends and I could go to the vending
Speaker 1: machines and I would come back and be like, I
Speaker 1: have no more money. Can I have more? And he'd
Speaker 1: be like, I just gave you twenty dollars of once
Speaker 1: like four snacks that are three dollars, And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I didn't give them to my other friends. But
Speaker 1: you're you're also that way too, You're still We're both
Speaker 1: still that way, I think too. Also, like even though
Speaker 1: even when we started the show, like you in the
Speaker 1: first and second season is the cutest thing ever because
Speaker 1: it was just like she had like no teeth, she
Speaker 1: lost her like teeth, and then she had like pigtails
Speaker 1: and her hair was like so long. You're they were
Speaker 1: always low besided. At the end of the day. It
Speaker 1: was always like yeah, and they were. You just were
Speaker 1: so cute, and you said the funniest things, like when
Speaker 1: you were crying and you're like, I'm just emotional, okay,
Speaker 1: Like it's just it's so funny, like how kids, you know,
Speaker 1: you just speak what's on your mind and you don't
Speaker 1: like sugarcoat or anything. That was like the epitome, Like
Speaker 1: you just literally embodied how you were feeling at all
Speaker 1: times and always shared how you're feeling. My favorite is
Speaker 1: like you being told if he asked if you can sing,
Speaker 1: say yes, and you're like, okay. She's like if she asked,
Speaker 1: you're just saying, what do you say? Yes? Well, you
Speaker 1: get in the audition, he's like, so do you want
Speaker 1: to sing? You're like no, Like you even knew how
Speaker 1: to manipulate our teacher, you were like, yes, of course
Speaker 1: at sex. Then you get in the room you're like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think like I don't think it's so funny.
Speaker 1: You were so smart and had such a strong idea
Speaker 1: at such a young age, and right so cute, and
Speaker 1: Maddie a dance was always like even if she's hurt
Speaker 1: or sick or anything, she was like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: dance and I would like fake an injury every day,
Speaker 1: so I didn't dance. But when you had a boot
Speaker 1: on your foot that was real, that was actually real,
Speaker 1: but like you made it a little bit worse than
Speaker 1: it actually was. No, the time I had a full
Speaker 1: on boot that was actually like terrible. But one time
Speaker 1: I went to the doctors because I like, I hurt
Speaker 1: my foot, but it wasn't like a bad thing like
Speaker 1: and my mom took me to the doctors that day
Speaker 1: and he examined my foot and he goes, oh, you
Speaker 1: you have a sprained ankle. And I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: I have a sprained ankle, Like this is really weird.
Speaker 1: But I actually had a sprained ankle, and I was
Speaker 1: just like, oh, I just faked this injury. But it's
Speaker 1: because my ankles are still messed up to this day,
Speaker 1: so like they were always yeah, because you have you also,
Speaker 1: what does it come that's in my knees. I have
Speaker 1: Oscar Slaughter's disease. But then in my I had um
Speaker 1: tennanitis in my left foot twice, like it came back
Speaker 1: and then I never Yeah, my left foot is so weak,
Speaker 1: like it just stays that way. I think as a
Speaker 1: dancer too, you're even though it's probably not the best thing.
Speaker 1: Like you're taught to just keep going even when you
Speaker 1: kind of have something off in your body. So now
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm especially dealing with like kind of
Speaker 1: the consequences of if you don't take care of your
Speaker 1: body super intensely when you're younger, obviously you're going to
Speaker 1: have after effects like when you're older. And now I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, my body is like yeah, going through
Speaker 1: it a little bit. Another thing that I think it's
Speaker 1: so funny that I really really remember, um was one
Speaker 1: vine was a thing Maddie. Maddie was really really into vine.
Speaker 1: Not as much though Maddie and some of the other
Speaker 1: girls on the show, they would make full on skits
Speaker 1: and they would like go viral like they were so funny.
Speaker 1: And Maddie has just always been so funny. Her humor
Speaker 1: is so good. But like her vines. If you just
Speaker 1: look up a population on the best Kickers on my face,
Speaker 1: like all the random ones we did such rent in school,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Always our teachers would like, we'd be like,
Speaker 1: can we just make a vine? And they're like, sure,
Speaker 1: how funny that that was? Like what were not even
Speaker 1: like Instagram or anything. We're just like fine. We would
Speaker 1: post Instagram photos like we would literally just take a photo.
Speaker 1: You would take a selfie one time, take one take,
Speaker 1: and because you would take it on Instagram app, and
Speaker 1: then you would put like one of the filters like
Speaker 1: the pre like I'd put um like Sepia or whatever,
Speaker 1: then just post it. It's so funny. I archived a
Speaker 1: lot of my wife. I thought about that yesterday. I
Speaker 1: was like, should I start archiving all of my like
Speaker 1: even ones that are like in the past year that
Speaker 1: I just don't like. Well, that's what it was. I
Speaker 1: archived a lot from like three years ago because I
Speaker 1: was like, these are so embarrassing, but like I kept
Speaker 1: like my first Instagram You remember your first Instagram photos?
Speaker 1: What is it? It's a selfie of me in bed
Speaker 1: and it says his good night world. Oh't know, it
Speaker 1: says good night everyone. And the photo me like smiling.
Speaker 1: You can barely see me because I'm in the dark,
Speaker 1: and like the quality is so bad. My first this
Speaker 1: is so embarrassing. My first Instagram photo. It was we
Speaker 1: were watching Nickelodeon or something on TV okay, and you
Speaker 1: know how Nickelodeon would always have like those skits or something.
Speaker 1: There was this one skit there's this one guy a
Speaker 1: dressed as Katie Perry and he had you know how
Speaker 1: Katy Perry had like the cupcake boobs and like and
Speaker 1: the women shoot out of him. It was a guy
Speaker 1: in a in a Katy Perry outfit with the the
Speaker 1: cupcake boobs with something shooting out of his boobs. And
Speaker 1: I said, like the real Katy Perry with like a
Speaker 1: bunch of emojies. I deleted that though, because you think
Speaker 1: it was like I thought it was the funniest thing ever.
Speaker 1: I just remember that is hilarious. At the time, it
Speaker 1: probably was funny. That is hilarious. We thought we were
Speaker 1: so fun. We really did. We I it's so nice
Speaker 1: that we have each other to to remind each other
Speaker 1: of like the memories we've had. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: as long as even though we had like a bit
Speaker 1: of a stressful upbringing with like the show, we also
Speaker 1: had some really great memories for sure, even on like
Speaker 1: the off when we weren't filming, was the most fun. Totally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but thank you guys so much for listening to this episode.
Speaker 1: This was so fun to like go down memories. I know,
Speaker 1: it's so weird, like a lot of things are starting
Speaker 1: to like surface again. Well, yeah, I have a good
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