Speaker 1: This is Take twenty with Mattie and Kenzie Ziggler and
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio podcast. Welcome back to Take twenty. Hi guys,
Speaker 1: today we have a really really fun episode because oh,
Speaker 1: now you know who it is. It's our mom. Um. Yeah, Hi,
Speaker 1: this is Melissa or mother. I got up at five
Speaker 1: this morning and I was like, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: on the podcast today. I'm so excited. We knew that
Speaker 1: she would be so excited. Her name is also Margaret
Speaker 1: sometimes Margaret. Oh my gosh. That's a whole other thing
Speaker 1: that I think we actually spoke about the podcast, Um,
Speaker 1: and yeah, we just we love you so much. We
Speaker 1: talked about you in like every episode, so we felt
Speaker 1: it was very necessary you and you. I feel like
Speaker 1: you love that we talk about you. She probably record
Speaker 1: that section and then I and then she posted on it,
Speaker 1: and so I just I always know the first day
Speaker 1: our podcast came out, we talked about her on the
Speaker 1: first episode, and she came into my room and was like,
Speaker 1: can you crop this for me in the screen records
Speaker 1: this for me because I don't know how to do it.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, okay, you just want to
Speaker 1: post about what we say your name and now just pp.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, can you get that part where the
Speaker 1: girls talked about me and cut in paste? Um? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: why don't we just get into it? Why don't we
Speaker 1: just why don't you tell the people? Mom? Uh? Why
Speaker 1: don't you introduce yourself? What do you do every day?
Speaker 1: What's your life? Like? Well, I'm a mom, I say,
Speaker 1: I identify as a thirty two year old mom, but
Speaker 1: you're not thirty two. Yes, but what I do all
Speaker 1: day is basically watch puppy dogs and run errand's for you, guys,
Speaker 1: and I love it. She's an incredible mom. You guys. Um,
Speaker 1: I already came to your house this morning to pick
Speaker 1: up something, went to FedEx, and she's like our own.
Speaker 1: It's it's funny now because now that I've moved out. Uh,
Speaker 1: she's it's like almost like she's our person. Like you're
Speaker 1: just so oh my gosh, it's just Boosts opened the door. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: you can come in, but you have to say it. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's a boy. Um. So we obviously like grew up
Speaker 1: working with our mom, which was an interesting dynamic. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's not a normal circumstance for a lot
Speaker 1: of families. So we started working. Kenzie was six and
Speaker 1: I was eight, and we started a reality show with
Speaker 1: her mom, which is such a like interesting way to
Speaker 1: grow up. How was that for you, mom? I mean,
Speaker 1: I was lucky because I got to be with you guys.
Speaker 1: So that's the lucky part of it. I man, and
Speaker 1: I got to see everything all the time. So I
Speaker 1: was lucky because a lot of moms have to work
Speaker 1: full time and then send their kids to daycare and
Speaker 1: they don't get to see them until evening. But I
Speaker 1: got to see you guys all the time. So was
Speaker 1: it hard seeing us in that environment? Though? Like as
Speaker 1: a mom, for sure, I hated it. I had to
Speaker 1: bite my tonel all the time. If I would be on,
Speaker 1: you know, a reality show with you guys in the
Speaker 1: same situation, I'd probably be put in jail. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's interesting now because looking back, which obviously we don't
Speaker 1: have to dwell on this topic because you know, but
Speaker 1: it's definitely interesting because when we were younger and you
Speaker 1: would stick up for us, we would always be like
Speaker 1: scared of like, oh no, we don't want to like
Speaker 1: make it worse with you, like mom, don't whatever. But
Speaker 1: now looking back, it's so fair that you wanted to
Speaker 1: stick up for us because you were your kids and
Speaker 1: you just wanted to protect this as much as you can,
Speaker 1: and you did such a good job doing that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's cool to see that perspective now. Um, so what
Speaker 1: what do you think your favorite memory with us is?
Speaker 1: Because I I feel like we have so many, but
Speaker 1: we don't really remember anything from when we were younger.
Speaker 1: I have so many great memories with you guys. Like,
Speaker 1: it's really funny when I go through the photo albums,
Speaker 1: it makes me kind of choked up. Um, I knew
Speaker 1: the tears were gonna come. I just didn't know they
Speaker 1: were gonna come this because now, because I loved every age,
Speaker 1: it's really funny when people say, oh, I can't wait
Speaker 1: till my kids grow up, I'm like, what, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Like I loved when you were infants. I didn't care
Speaker 1: when you cried. I like I liked all the stages.
Speaker 1: Like Mackenzie didn't want me to put her down for
Speaker 1: four years. She'd be Mommy, I want to be back
Speaker 1: in your belly. I know. I mean, I love that. Um,
Speaker 1: but the one thing that was really really fun was
Speaker 1: your birthday party. Um, Mackenzie was three and you were five,
Speaker 1: and we did ponies up and down the street in
Speaker 1: our neighborhood and that was like so fun because of
Speaker 1: your eyes and you were just it was just like
Speaker 1: a really special time. But like all of our little
Speaker 1: vacations like to Disney and to Hawaii with Greg and
Speaker 1: you know, we just have so many fun memories. And
Speaker 1: mind you, we did all of this while in matching outfits.
Speaker 1: My mom used to match us all the time, but didn't.
Speaker 1: I have like a moment mom where I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to match anymore. So you were like
Speaker 1: six and you said, Mom, I don't want to I
Speaker 1: don't want to do this anymore. And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: So then I did you in coordinating outfits, which was
Speaker 1: like what like color like the same um like it
Speaker 1: was jim Boree. So our neighbor Melissa, she worked in
Speaker 1: jim bore So she would drop off the whole line
Speaker 1: and let me go through it and then she would
Speaker 1: charge me for whatever I kept. It was she was
Speaker 1: the best. Then I would just get like big girl,
Speaker 1: little girl stuff and the same color. Okay, we need
Speaker 1: to we need to settle this right now. Who what
Speaker 1: do you what are you about was the more troubled
Speaker 1: kid when they were younger, because we still I still
Speaker 1: don't know this. It was probably mean, like what when
Speaker 1: we were younger, and who would like have timber tantrums?
Speaker 1: Who would you know? Maddie was the easiest baby. I
Speaker 1: could take her to get like my nails and pedicure
Speaker 1: and my hair collar and she would just sit on
Speaker 1: my lap. And then when you came along, Kenzie, you
Speaker 1: just were like such a busy little beaver and you
Speaker 1: were just like like I couldn't really go to dinner
Speaker 1: with you when you were little because I wouldn't let
Speaker 1: me put you in a chair. I had to eat
Speaker 1: like and bounce. She's like, let's go, let's go. I'm
Speaker 1: still like that. I took you guys everywhere, but you
Speaker 1: were a little bit difficult. Well but I still am not.
Speaker 1: You're like the easiest kid ever. God, you're so easy
Speaker 1: And all my friends say that too funny. What um,
Speaker 1: what made you feel? Because I know there's like the
Speaker 1: saying that people are like you're never actually ready until
Speaker 1: you have a kid, you know, like you can never
Speaker 1: really prepare yourself. But was there a moment where you
Speaker 1: were like, I'm really ready to have kids. No, I
Speaker 1: mean I always wanted to be a mom because like
Speaker 1: all my friends wouldn't go to college, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I want to be a mom, you know, That's what
Speaker 1: I always wanted to be. So No, because I always
Speaker 1: kind of took care of everybody's kids, like your brothers
Speaker 1: they were little, and I used to have all the
Speaker 1: like twelve cousins sleepover for every holiday, and I would
Speaker 1: take them bowling, and I would take them, you know,
Speaker 1: do parties, and and then you guys came along and
Speaker 1: it was just so fun. I mean it was you
Speaker 1: were definitely destined to be a mom, like even dog mom,
Speaker 1: or even just like you, like you said, you even
Speaker 1: just provide for like you used to provide for all
Speaker 1: of our friends at the dance studio and all of
Speaker 1: our school friends. Like you, You've just always been so
Speaker 1: generous with yourself, and you give so much to everyone.
Speaker 1: But I feel like, also you now, I feel like
Speaker 1: I have to practice more like self care for yourself
Speaker 1: because you spent your whole life giving to everyone and
Speaker 1: you still do. But I'm doing already work. So that's
Speaker 1: like taking all my you know, all my free time,
Speaker 1: which I love. Our mom makes cookies for every for
Speaker 1: every week for the homeless shelter or for the homeless,
Speaker 1: which is like amazing, amazing. And also I'm sure that's
Speaker 1: so special to them because cookies are just such like
Speaker 1: a I don't like when you grow up, like your
Speaker 1: mom makes you cookies or your grandma makes you cookies.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's like a very like comfort thing.
Speaker 1: So it's very sweet, and they're they're very sweet cookies. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just such an issue having the cookies in our
Speaker 1: house all the time though, because I I always say
Speaker 1: to you, let me have to because then you have
Speaker 1: to give the rest away? Is that why? Well, I
Speaker 1: say only in even numbers because I bacon even numbers.
Speaker 1: So you're like, if I give two away, then the
Speaker 1: rest will be even for everyone else, right, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: then she liked her leftover. She puts in the little
Speaker 1: cookie thing and they'll be gone in a day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And my friends, my friends love her cookies. It's just
Speaker 1: it's they're so Also, you don't even use a recipe,
Speaker 1: you just make them. She just like kind of goes
Speaker 1: with it. It's so crazy, and they actually taste they
Speaker 1: actually taste good every time. Also, Okay, I'm very interested
Speaker 1: in this because we actually never really talked about this. Kenzie.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be like, WHOA, this is weird to talk about.
Speaker 1: What how why did you name us what we're named?
Speaker 1: And like why, like what was that about? I wanted
Speaker 1: to have M names really, so that's why I did M.
Speaker 1: So I knew that I wanted all M names. I
Speaker 1: wanted six kids, so oh my gosh, wow he wanted
Speaker 1: six I didn't know that I did always wanted six kids.
Speaker 1: Why does Maddie know this? And I don't know She's
Speaker 1: talked about it a bunch um, so go on? Why
Speaker 1: but MS? I just um, so, I back when you
Speaker 1: guys were born, there wasn't like the internet like it
Speaker 1: is today. So I bought a book and I would
Speaker 1: just circle MS, you know, and it was really I
Speaker 1: had some really really cute names, but I just loved
Speaker 1: your names. Yeah. It's also funny because we don't even
Speaker 1: like because my mom used to scrap book like all
Speaker 1: of our childhood memories and we have just so many
Speaker 1: different scrap books of all of our memories. And you
Speaker 1: used to write every day, like in the calendar, like
Speaker 1: what activity we did that day? But even the day
Speaker 1: I was born. In the in the scrap book, you
Speaker 1: were calling me Maddie even though my phone name is Madison,
Speaker 1: like from day one, and Kenzie literally never goes by Mackenzie.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of funny that we didn't really like
Speaker 1: stick to our I'm sure one day, well we'll want
Speaker 1: to be called by full names. But maybe because I'm
Speaker 1: I was missing my whole life and then and now
Speaker 1: you're you go by Melissa. Yeah, yeah, um. And I
Speaker 1: loved being pregnant by the way, I you were so cute.
Speaker 1: You were the cutest pregnant woman ever. You're so cute.
Speaker 1: Didn't you have braces? I had braces when I was
Speaker 1: pregnant with you kens that's so cute because I couldn't
Speaker 1: afford my parents couldn't afford him, and then so that
Speaker 1: I got him later in life. Well, you looks really
Speaker 1: cute with them. I have never seen someone pull off
Speaker 1: braces literally. Also, do you have any of your old dresses,
Speaker 1: like from when you were younger, because literally where all
Speaker 1: of them? Whenever I see old photos of you, like
Speaker 1: in the scrap books, where you're wearing this like hot
Speaker 1: black silk dress, I'm like, why didn't you keep that
Speaker 1: because we would be wearing that today. Yes, Oh I
Speaker 1: have that dress. I want it that dress at home?
Speaker 1: Will share it? Share it? Oh my god, listen, I
Speaker 1: go to Pittsburgh first, so I got the raid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as if you're going to wear it in the snow,
Speaker 1: I will. I was looking for my through my closet
Speaker 1: the other day because I was donating stuff, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: your girls, you guys probably would love some of my stuff.
Speaker 1: I really like old jackets and stuff like, Oh, you
Speaker 1: need to look through my closet. Can we please? Is
Speaker 1: it in Pittsburgh? Yep? Okay, great, Um, that's okay. This
Speaker 1: is like, on a more serious note, what was your
Speaker 1: biggest fear about raising kids? Um? Other people? I was
Speaker 1: really I UM. I hated like school bus. I didn't
Speaker 1: like I was always worried about your guys going on
Speaker 1: the school bus, which you only went on once. Um
Speaker 1: and Kenzie forgot to get on. So that's another story
Speaker 1: in itself. UM. I was always worried about other people,
Speaker 1: like stealing you or hurting you or me you so,
Speaker 1: and now we're like in the industry that's the most
Speaker 1: like cutthroat, just like a scary place to be but
Speaker 1: I taught you well, and you don't. You're never alone
Speaker 1: in any It's true, it's true, it's and it's funny
Speaker 1: because you weren't even like a helicopter mom, like you
Speaker 1: always let us do what we want. You always, But
Speaker 1: if I didn't want to dance, she was like, quit
Speaker 1: and then I did quit. Yeah, exactly, Well that's that's
Speaker 1: like literally, probably the best thing, one of the best
Speaker 1: things about you is you never pushed us to do anything.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of the girls that we danced with
Speaker 1: in our dance studio ended up not liking dance because
Speaker 1: their moms would make them practice at home, and you
Speaker 1: only put us and dance because one like obviously you
Speaker 1: did it in the beginning just because oh that's kid,
Speaker 1: I'll put my daughters in something. And then they actually
Speaker 1: ended up liking it, so I then, you know, treated
Speaker 1: them to that because that's something they were passionate about.
Speaker 1: But I feel like we never lost our passion for
Speaker 1: the things we do because you never pushed us to
Speaker 1: do it right. And the food issue, like I think
Speaker 1: that like the mom, some of the moms the studio
Speaker 1: wouldn't let their kids eat whether they're not have to
Speaker 1: eat cards or they're not a girl. I'm like, eat
Speaker 1: whatever you want. You're a kid. And it's I tell
Speaker 1: Maddie this all the time. But like when I feel
Speaker 1: the most insecure, I always walked downstairs and You're always like, oh,
Speaker 1: your body looks so nice, and I'm like, that's so nice,
Speaker 1: Like that makes me so happy. I know, I kind
Speaker 1: of want to be you, you know, Oh my god, listen,
Speaker 1: you have a bang and body to you. Do you
Speaker 1: do have a your age? You we always say that
Speaker 1: for your age. No, I was saying, I know. I
Speaker 1: was saying, like, you look younger now for your age
Speaker 1: now than you did when you were thirty years old,
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. I wasn't saying like you guys.
Speaker 1: If you can see her right now, she has a
Speaker 1: high ponytail curled with hoops like a pink bedroom. She's
Speaker 1: living her best age life. Yea, Um, what kind of
Speaker 1: parents did you have like an expectation of like, oh,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna be like this parents when I'm
Speaker 1: older or did you kind of just wing it and
Speaker 1: be like I'm just going to see how it goes
Speaker 1: and then no, I knew i'd be like my mom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so she was like your inspiration going into having kids.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because we played games, we baked together. I
Speaker 1: always sat in the kitchen and talked to her while
Speaker 1: she cooked. She never taught me had to cook, but
Speaker 1: she taught me how to bake. Um. But my mom
Speaker 1: was so fun and she would like break out and
Speaker 1: dance and um, you know, and just like me. And
Speaker 1: she would sing just like me, really good. My we've
Speaker 1: grown up with her mom singing opera in the house,
Speaker 1: which is hilarious obviously not seriously like she would do it,
Speaker 1: but she still does it like randomly, Like remember yesterday
Speaker 1: we heard her singing. We we were upstairs and we
Speaker 1: heard you singing off for dancers for yourself. We're like,
Speaker 1: what is she doing? I was singing to the puppies.
Speaker 1: I was. I was saying this the other day. I
Speaker 1: was like, I always used to like kind of make
Speaker 1: fun of mom for like being the way she is
Speaker 1: with the puppies, because she's like probably the craziest dog
Speaker 1: mom I've ever met. But now having our own dogs,
Speaker 1: we have implemented so many of the things that you
Speaker 1: do with your dogs, like we treat them like humans.
Speaker 1: Well I can say though, yes, we do talk to
Speaker 1: our dogs, but not my mom. I will like, and
Speaker 1: I have such a vocabulary, I cannot. I will be
Speaker 1: walking down the stairs and she'll literally be talking to
Speaker 1: Ivy like, so, what do you want to do today?
Speaker 1: You want to do this? You want to do this,
Speaker 1: you want to and I'm like, like, who's there. I'm
Speaker 1: like what do you mean? I'm always like who are
Speaker 1: you talking to? And he's like, Ivy. It's very cute. Though, Well,
Speaker 1: she told me she didn't want to be home, so
Speaker 1: I had to take her on all my errands and
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, it was so hard. But I
Speaker 1: think I think the best thing is you use them
Speaker 1: as an excuse, Like she'll be like, oh, i've he's
Speaker 1: laying on me, so can you please go get me
Speaker 1: a water from the fridge. I don't want to wake
Speaker 1: her more. My favorite is when she's like she'll call
Speaker 1: me and she's like, oh my gosh, I you know,
Speaker 1: Boots just FaceTime me and he wants to have come
Speaker 1: over and sleep over. I'm like, oh, did he did
Speaker 1: he FaceTime me? Because I didn't see that happen. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: well mom, this has been so much fun, but we
Speaker 1: actually you guys We are doing a part two with
Speaker 1: our mom, so stay tuned for this next episode asking
Speaker 1: her juicy questions. So it's not over yet. Get ready, Mom,
Speaker 1: We're going to ask you some some good questions. Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on, Thanks for having me. Okay, bye bye,
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