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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Wide Open.

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Speaker 2: Today's guest is someone who didn't just show up on

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Speaker 2: our screens.

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Speaker 1: She helped shape an entire era of pop culture.

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Speaker 2: Nicole Snooky Politzi became a household name almost overnight, and

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Speaker 2: whether you watch Jersey Shore in real time or absorbed

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Speaker 2: it through memes, quotes, and Halloween costume, her impact is undeniable.

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Speaker 2: But what I love about this conversation is that she's

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Speaker 2: not just about who Snooky.

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Speaker 1: Was back then.

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Speaker 2: It's about who Nicole is now, a wife, a mom,

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Speaker 2: a businesswoman, a woman who grew up in front of

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Speaker 2: the world and had to figure out who she was

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Speaker 2: on the other side of fame. We talk about why

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Speaker 2: she said yes to the show, how it changed her life,

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Speaker 2: and what it was like to become famous so fast,

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Speaker 2: and how respective shifts when you're raising kids who may

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Speaker 2: one day watch your past on TV. It's honest, it's funny,

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Speaker 2: it's reflective, and it's very real. Let's get into it.

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Speaker 2: This is Wide Open with Nicole Snooky Polizi. All right, everyone,

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Speaker 2: welcome back to another episode of Wide Open. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: Asheln Harris, and we have an incredible guest this week.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to unpack this conversation. The one and

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Speaker 2: only Nicole Snooky POLIZI welcome.

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Speaker 3: To the show. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's so good to see you.

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Speaker 2: I feel that you've really been near and dear to

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Speaker 2: my upbringing. Let's just say, love your fashion. Then, the

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Speaker 2: Snooky poof in college was everything.

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Speaker 3: I know. I miss it. I kind of want to

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Speaker 3: bring it back, but.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we should. It was really a cultural moment.

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Speaker 2: So how does it feel to have so many young

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Speaker 2: kids during that time? And what was that like two

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Speaker 2: thousand and nine? Was that two thousand and nine?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two thousand and nine was the first season and

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Speaker 3: I just turned twenty one, so that's what That's why

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Speaker 3: I went so crazy. And it was literally it was

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Speaker 3: literally my college years for everyone to watch.

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Speaker 2: So I mean, listen, better you than me, honey, But

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Speaker 2: trust me, we were all doing the same thing exactly

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Speaker 2: the dance.

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Speaker 1: Moves I carry, We.

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Speaker 3: Had some really good dance moves, huh.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 1: It was one of the most epic times.

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Speaker 2: Like I really feel that that was such a cultural

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Speaker 2: moment that it really changed the complete the landscape of

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Speaker 2: reality television, and I imagine before we really dive into

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Speaker 2: everything because you are so much more than the jersey short,

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Speaker 2: your mom, your wife. You're an insane entrepreneur and business woman.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you have time to do it all.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, but I guess that's imagine that women multitasking

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Speaker 2: crazy crazy.

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Speaker 1: So who was who was Nicole growing up?

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Speaker 2: Before we jump into clearly how much it changed your

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Speaker 2: life and how much you impacted so many people?

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Speaker 1: Who was Nicole growing up?

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Speaker 2: And you know, I'd love to hear about you were

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Speaker 2: born in Chile and.

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Speaker 1: Came to the US.

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Speaker 2: And you know, recently you really opened up about your

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Speaker 2: adoption story, which was so beautiful, So please share who

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Speaker 2: was Nicole before all of the fame.

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Speaker 3: She was shy, surprisingly so growing up obviously, I was

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Speaker 3: adopted at six months, so yeah, thank god. I feel

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Speaker 3: like my parents were always supposed to be my parents.

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Speaker 3: It was just meant to be. So I always knew

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Speaker 3: I was adopted. We never had to have like that

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Speaker 3: This we don't look alike, but I know you're my parents.

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Speaker 3: So I always knew I was adopted, but like the

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Speaker 3: no matter what I know, you know, adopted kids, we

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Speaker 3: all think differently. You know, some like don't feel like

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Speaker 3: their birth family and that's like their journey. Mine is

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Speaker 3: just like I never wanted to find them, you know,

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Speaker 3: But then once I had my children, it kind of

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Speaker 3: was nice. But yeah, growing up I was I was shy.

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Speaker 1: Great Poughkeepsie Princess.

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Speaker 3: I heard, is that what I am so embarrassing? So

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Speaker 3: I actually grew up in a small town called Moborough,

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Speaker 3: So I was like, I'm from Poughkeepsie, which is across

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Speaker 1: Kill me. I love that. But what I do.

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Speaker 2: I love the new season of you know, Jersey Shore

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Speaker 2: Family Vacation because I I adopted two children who are

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Speaker 1: Brown, and it's love that from where.

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Speaker 2: I adopted one one my daughter from Miami and my

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Speaker 1: And I love that.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting the way you talk about it because it

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Speaker 1: Clearly, you know, I'm a white woman.

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Speaker 2: Covered in tattoos and I'm queer, and uh, there's guess queen.

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Speaker 1: Come on, we need more gay people in this world

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Speaker 1: the best. But yeah, I do.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting, like now we're getting to that phase. They're

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Speaker 2: ask questions and I'm like, I just it's like, how

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Speaker 2: I'm curious, though, when did when did you start asking

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Speaker 1: Do you even remember or you just like always knew?

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Speaker 3: I was just like, I know I'm adopted. We never

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Speaker 3: I thought they I thought they bought me at a store,

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Speaker 3: so I was like, can you go buy another kid?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you cracked me up. So what why,

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Speaker 1: Jersey Shore? What happened? What was going on? Like how

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So I always wanted to do reality because I

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Speaker 2: Point did you realize like, oh, this is actually like

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Speaker 3: Well, after we finished the first season, it literally took

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Speaker 3: we just do that for nothing? Like it's been a year.

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Speaker 3: There's no commercials about the show, Like, I don't think

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Speaker 3: they're airing it because we knew we did crazy shit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Lorenzo looks just like me. I think he

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Speaker 1: It's what is it, fifteen seasons?

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Speaker 2: You just celebrated some ridiculous amount of episodes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we actually filmed more Jersey Shore Family Vacation

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Speaker 2: Like what you know, I was doing a little deep dive,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we want to film. We want to film, you know,

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Speaker 2: How how did becoming a mom really change everything for you?

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Speaker 2: Because you talk about it so often and you're so present,

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Speaker 3: Well? Yeah, it's my number one priority when it comes

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Speaker 3: I'm like, you had me for three nights, and then

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Speaker 3: It's just the house is a disaster. Obviously, obviously Gianni's

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Speaker 1: You know, they miss yeah, and I miss.

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Speaker 3: Them, Like I freak out if I'm not with my

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Speaker 2: That's very sweet and enjoying it along the ride, I imagine.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm actually really excited to hear about this

437
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 2: paranormal rookie show coming.

438
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 1: It's being filmed in Canada, right, Yeah, So.

439
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,879
Speaker 3: I've been doing a few things in Canada. I love Canada.

440
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 3: Everyone is so nice there. I'm welcoming this. Yeah, I

441
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 3: want like dual citizenships. So I kind of run over

442
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,719
Speaker 3: there if I need to. Oh god, yeah I I

443
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 3: So I've been practicing paranormal for years now, Like I

444
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 3: just I just open. I opened my third eye like

445
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 3: probably eight years ago, and I had a mentor that

446
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,879
Speaker 3: was like because I always felt things. I always knew

447
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,400
Speaker 3: there was like spirits around me and I just felt them,

448
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 3: and even like aliens and stuff like I've seen things,

449
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 3: so I always wanted to tap into that more. So

450
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 3: I ended up opening my third eye. And then it

451
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 3: got too crazy to where I was going to Starbucks

452
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,679
Speaker 3: and I was feeling everyone's energy and I was like

453
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 3: this is too I wasn't sleeping. I was like this

454
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,959
Speaker 3: is too much, so I cut it off. But then

455
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 3: I was like, you know, obviously I love TV. I

456
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 3: love what I do, Like I want to do a

457
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 3: paranormal show, like why not? No one has any idea

458
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,239
Speaker 3: that I do any of this. So yeah, I've been

459
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 3: trying to sell this show for like three years now

460
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 3: and it finally got picked up and it's in Canada,

461
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 3: so I'm very excited. We start in January, and yeah,

462
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 3: I'm nervous. I mean, I can't really say much about it,

463
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 3: but I'm excited for a different experience.

464
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, but is it really because honestly, this shit scares

465
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 2: the hell out of me. I don't want to call

466
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 2: in any type of crazy nonsense that I can't get

467
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,640
Speaker 2: away from the whole concept of it because it used

468
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,439
Speaker 2: to be so big, Like it used to be a

469
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:57,679
Speaker 2: huge thing on TV.

470
00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 1: Everyone watched it.

471
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 2: It used to be scripted and unscripted, and it's kind

472
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 2: of like quietly gone away. So I think it's awesome

473
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: that you're bringing that back to the forefront. And I

474
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 2: think there's I saw a small clip of you doing

475
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 2: some stuff with some of the castmates. It scared It

476
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 2: scared the shit out of some people. But I how

477
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 2: is it something you actually just turn off? You can

478
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 2: just be like up, I called it on and now I'm.

479
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: Shutting the door. Does this it really work like that?

480
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: Or do you choose what you want to feel and

481
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: see in the moment.

482
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 3: It's complicated if you don't experience it. It's very hard

483
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 3: to describe, but I tell everyone, like everyone has this ability.

484
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 3: If you meditate, you open your third eye, like we

485
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 3: all have psychic and psychic telepathic. We can all do that.

486
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 3: We can all do that. We're just like desensitized and

487
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 3: we don't think about it, but like literally, we can

488
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 3: all experience that. We can all do that. And I

489
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 3: think there's going to be an awakening in twenty twenty.

490
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 3: Everyone's gonna like start feeling that because back in the

491
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 3: day we used to talk telepathically and I feel like

492
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 3: we just lost it. So everyone can experience this. You

493
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 3: just have to meditate and you know want it. But yeah,

494
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 3: it's very hard to it's hard to explain.

495
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: Are you into urban legends? Yeah, because even everything okay

496
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: because I.

497
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 2: Keep hearing and my producers were telling me this about

498
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 2: the Jersey Devil. It's actually not just a nice hockey team,

499
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: Like have you heard about this Jersey devil that wanders

500
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 2: in the woods, Like have you ever have you ever

501
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 2: gone out and kind of tried to look for things

502
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 2: like that or experience it or is it just like, oh,

503
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: I'm in Starbucks.

504
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: I'm like feeling the energy and seeing people in the corner, like.

505
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 3: See, it's more of like feelings that I get. I

506
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 3: never actually like went out and looked, but I did

507
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 3: hear the Jersey Devil. I don't know if that's real

508
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,919
Speaker 3: or not. But like I'm not saying it's not like

509
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 3: I'm open to everything, like I feel like everything could

510
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 3: be real. But yeah, I've I've experienced like I'm seeing

511
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 3: like UFOs and like feeling yeah, and like doing all that.

512
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 3: Like I'm obsessed with aliens and I love them more

513
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 3: than ghosts. So maybe one day I could do an

514
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 3: alien show.

515
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 2: And you have these like paranormal experiences often, like has

516
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 2: did any of your kids get this? Because I heard

517
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 2: it is kind of like passed down and definitely a

518
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 2: part of like, yeah, your DNA and how you operate

519
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 2: in your mindset, Like has has any of your kids

520
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 2: been like Yo, this just happened, and I'm scared.

521
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 3: I feel like they sense things because they get really

522
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 3: nervous out of nowhere for no reason, and I'm like,

523
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 3: you're fine. I swear Gianni sees things sometimes, like he

524
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 3: always says he sees shadows. I'm like, I think you

525
00:26:53,440 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 3: see stuff. But when the kids were babies, they definitely

526
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 3: saw stuff because every time I would change them in

527
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 3: my one room because I felt like my grandparents there,

528
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 3: they would always look at the ceiling and their eyes

529
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 3: will go back and forth smiling. So I feel like

530
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 3: they were like looking at like my grandparents and like

531
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,239
Speaker 3: watching over them, and they definitely saw things when they

532
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 3: were babies.

533
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: Wow.

534
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 2: So when you're not filming and you're just kicking it, like,

535
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: what's a day, like, you know for you and your

536
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 2: real life, Let's just say, like, I mean, you're always

537
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 2: your fashion is fucking incredible, has been since Jersey Shore days.

538
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 1: You have an incredible sense love. Yes, I do too.

539
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 3: I miss everything.

540
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 2: Everything should be coming back and like that was such

541
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: an iconic time.

542
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, we need to bring we need to get

543
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: back to those days.

544
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 2: But that's what I thought was so incredible about the

545
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 2: way you moved in the world. You were you to

546
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 2: a fucking tea unapologetically. I'm me, I'm not going to

547
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 2: try to more. If I'm not going to try to

548
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: do this, I'm just gonna like show up.

549
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: Now.

550
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 2: Have you carried that like in your are you like

551
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 2: that day to day or are you a sweat sweat

552
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 2: like sweats kind of girl when you wake up?

553
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, day to day shit?

554
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: Or are you like how you are on TV?

555
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 3: Yeah? So every day? Like so when I'm not filming

556
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 3: or I'm not traveling or doing anything, I'm a stay

557
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 3: at home mom. Like I'm home, I'm getting the laundry done,

558
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 3: I'm doing grocery shopping, I'm cleaning the house. I'm Adam Sandler.

559
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 3: And I love being Adam Sandler. I love just being

560
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 3: in sweats all day, no makeup, par and a bun

561
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 3: like that is that's the real meat, and I love it.

562
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,959
Speaker 3: And I hate wearing makeup. I hate doing myself. But

563
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 3: when I do do myself and I do get dressed,

564
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 3: I'm just like there she is, she still got it.

565
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,479
Speaker 3: But like me, like real the real me is just

566
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 3: like cozy and no makeup and just being comfortable, you know,

567
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 3: and not you know, just not looking hot, which I'm

568
00:28:58,360 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: fine with.

569
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 2: How do you like for someone who gives so much? Right,

570
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 2: you give so much to your job, you give so

571
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 2: much to the cast, You give so much to your

572
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 2: family and your children, Like what do you what do

573
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 2: you like take for yourself? Like how do you recharge?

574
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 2: How do you what's sacred in your life? That is

575
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 2: just for unicle.

576
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 3: Well, I do like getting shit done, like I do

577
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 3: like being busy, so you know, when the kids are

578
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 3: in school, I'll go to my store. I try and

579
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 3: go to my store every single day in Madison because

580
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 3: it's literally like ten minutes away. So I like to

581
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 3: go there and just like make sure everything looks good,

582
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 3: figure out what I need to do. So I like

583
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 3: to I like to work. I like to get my

584
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 3: shit done and work and then I come home and

585
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 3: I do things in the office, inventory, you know, stuff

586
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 3: for like my wine. I just like to be busy

587
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 3: with work. But mentally for me, like I'm a bed

588
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 3: ridder if I socialize, if I socialize too much. Like

589
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 3: at the cheer cumps. I'm there from Thursday, Thursday, Friday,

590
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 3: Saturday Sunday, so five days of just around a ton

591
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 3: of people and socializing and going to dinners and drinks,

592
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 3: and I love it so much fun and it's my

593
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 3: alone time with my daughter. But when I get home,

594
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 3: they call it the cheer hangover. And it's not even

595
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 3: for drinking. It's just like the going and like the

596
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 3: the socializing with people and just like the NonStop cheer stuff.

597
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 3: Like I always bedrot the next day after a cheer

598
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 3: com because I'm mentally drained. So I'm a bed rodder

599
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 3: and I need to when I need to, and I

600
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 3: feel better the next day. But also I definitely love

601
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 3: killing my body with working out, so like rumble, like

602
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 3: love rumble. Yeah, I love rumble, love going with my trainer.

603
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 3: I love you know, running until I die. I just

604
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 3: I really, I really like killing myself in the gym.

605
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 2: I I feel that's a common thread for a lot

606
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 2: of us women. We love to suffer. We just put

607
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 2: ourselves through the ringer. There's nothing, there's no in between.

608
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 2: It's like we're not dipping a toe, We're jumping in.

609
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: The fucking deep end.

610
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 3: Yes exactly.

611
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 2: I feel like that's I would assume that's the way

612
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 2: you live your life.

613
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: You're like you you're fully committed.

614
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, anything that I do I give a hundred percent.

615
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 3: And I'm a sage, so I'm very spontaneous and I

616
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 3: don't think about things and I just do it. But

617
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,719
Speaker 3: then I get it done with like one hundred percent effort.

618
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 3: And yeah, that's me.

619
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: I love.

620
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 2: This is your fashion sense something that's like you know

621
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 2: with your stores, do you curate all of the clothing.

622
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 2: Is it very true to your like personality of what

623
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 2: you were like on the Jersey Shore, like the Leopard,

624
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 2: the things like that, or is it ever changing all

625
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 2: the time.

626
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, So when you come shop at my stores, it's

627
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 3: like you're shopping my closet.

628
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: That's good.

629
00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, my logo like shop Snookie's closet. So yeah, like

630
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 3: obviously I have a lot of merch, and I love

631
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 3: my merch like Jersey Shore, merge, SNOOKI merch all the

632
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 3: things with that. But like when you're shopping like my style,

633
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 3: my closet. Of course, we still have Leopard. I mean

634
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 3: I still wear Leopards to this day. Leopard is still

635
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: my favorite color. So we have Leopard Camo, we have

636
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 3: all the prints. So I like a lot of I

637
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 3: would have to say, because I'm a buyer, so I do.

638
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 3: I do everything that you see in my store. I

639
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 3: pick out like this is all me and this is

640
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 3: everything that I wear and I love. So there's definitely

641
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 3: a lot of going out clothes and like cute items.

642
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 3: But I do love sweats. I love being being comfortable

643
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 3: and you know, like cute sweats. So yeah, I have

644
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 3: a lot of like cozy items and then also like

645
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 3: items where you can go out, so I like to

646
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 3: have a lot of everything and when I want when

647
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 3: I decided to open the store, so I started my

648
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 3: online store twenty ten, So that's when because I always

649
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 3: work in retail and I just loved fashion, obviously in

650
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 3: closed and necessories, so I wanted to open my own

651
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 3: online store to see how it would go. And it

652
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 3: was just so good. Everyone was ordering, and then I

653
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 3: was like, eventually my goal is to have a brick

654
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 3: and mortar store, you know, but obviously when everything dies

655
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 3: down and I have time and I'm not filming and

656
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 3: traveling all the time because I need to be home

657
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 3: to be able to open the store for this. Yeah,

658
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 3: so yeah, twenty nineteen, right before the pandemic, I was like,

659
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 3: let's open a store, of course, So that's when that happened.

660
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 3: And my main thing with my store because you know,

661
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 3: you see a lot of these celebrities or reality stars

662
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 3: who do open their boutiques, but it's just like the

663
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 3: prices are like one hundred and twenty dollars for a

664
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 3: shirt or just something crazy, and I'm just like, I

665
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 3: don't want to be like that. Because I was a

666
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 3: struggling college student at one point, I didn't grow up

667
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 3: with money. Like my parents tried so hard and they

668
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 3: did great, but I mean it's not it's not easy,

669
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 3: so especially now with the prices. So I have literally

670
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 3: items from five and then my biggest, my highest item

671
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 3: is probably like sixty. Yeah, so I wanted to I

672
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 3: wanted to stay in like the the you know, the

673
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 3: affordable range so people can actually shot my store.

674
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 2: That's so that's so important too. It's like really not

675
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 2: losing sight of your roots. And I think that it's

676
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 2: really easy to do. And you know, I think that's

677
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 2: something that you take pride in, which is good to

678
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 2: see because I don't think all like as you said, celebrities,

679
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 2: you know, they know they can make money off of

680
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: their name and they choose to do so. So for

681
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 2: someone who's had so much success like yourself and your castmates,

682
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 2: like seeing what everyone's doing now in this new phase

683
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: of life has been really beautiful. But you all show

684
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 2: up for each other in such a unique way for

685
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 2: openings for this or that, Like you guys all really

686
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:53,439
Speaker 2: do root for each other.

687
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: So what what does success look.

688
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 2: Like for you now, Nicole? Because you've had so much it, Like.

689
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: Is it it's.

690
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, is it just success looks like, you know,

691
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 2: raising an incredible family and being present or are there

692
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 2: a lot of unchecked boxes you still are hungry for.

693
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously there's a million things that I still

694
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 3: want to do, but yeah, I feel like the best

695
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 3: success is like having great human beings that you're raising

696
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 3: and they're not assholes. Like I'm really scared. I don't

697
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,919
Speaker 3: want my kids to be bullies or just assholes in life,

698
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 3: like I want them to be good people. And so

699
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 3: far it's it's working out. It's working out because at home,

700
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 3: at home, you know, they can be real dicks, especially

701
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 3: to me. Then I'm like, please don't act like that

702
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 3: at school or like with your friends. And then you know,

703
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 3: you do the parent teacher conference and you know, they

704
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 3: just say amazing things about my kids, so I'm like, oh,

705
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 3: thank god. Yeah. So I just want to raise amazing,

706
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 3: beautiful human beings that are kind to people. And also

707
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 3: you know, they have the drive like like I do,

708
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 3: like you want to succeed, you want to kill it.

709
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 3: So that that's my main goal is my kids. But

710
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 3: business wise, I mean, yeah, this lookie shop is my

711
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 3: baby and I would love to open more stores and

712
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 3: do all the things with it. So it's you know,

713
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 3: it's an ongoing process.

714
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: I love that.

715
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 2: And what excites you about this like phase in your life,

716
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 2: Like you're gonna be forty and there's like.

717
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 3: Well, calm down, I just turned thirty eight.

718
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: Well come on, girl, you get I tell you what.

719
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: I just turned forty. God, and it feels so good.

720
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: I love high calmed down girl.

721
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I'm so scared. So I so I knew

722
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 3: I was turning thirty eight in November, and I was

723
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 3: freaking out about it because I really like wasn't at

724
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 3: my healthiest. And I was like, I want to get

725
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 3: healthy because everyone that's like in their forties, they're the

726
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 3: best they've ever looked like. Yeah, Bethany Frankel, Bethany Frankel,

727
00:36:54,480 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 3: Melissa Gorga, Jenny Jay Wos, she looks fucking phenomenal and

728
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 3: she just turned forty. So I'm like, I'm getting up there.

729
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,919
Speaker 3: I need to get on this level. So I ended

730
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 3: up I ended up losing twenty pounds and I'm back

731
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 3: in the gym, thank God. Like I'm eating healthier, I'm

732
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 3: trying not to drink wine all the time. So like

733
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 3: I have like Martini's now, but like, I'm not trying

734
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 3: to do it unless like I go out or I'm

735
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 3: going to dinner or something, not just like on a

736
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 3: random Tuesday night because I'm pissed off. So I'm trying

737
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 3: to cut back on things that are not healthy for me.

738
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm I just want to be the best

739
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 3: version of myself when I do enter my forties.

740
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: I love that.

741
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,280
Speaker 2: Well, you look great, So whatever you're doing, you're doing great.

742
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 2: And now I'm like, should we should we be going

743
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 2: back to rumble?

744
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 1: Yes, stay tuned.

745
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 2: I'll be back in just a moment after this brief

746
00:37:52,160 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 2: message from our sponsors. What would you say after there's

747
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 2: so much of your life has been, you know, filmed

748
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 2: in the public eye. Like I say this often because

749
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 2: as a professional athlete, like I've been very open about

750
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 2: sharing my life, and I think that what people don't

751
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 2: understand is even though you were on a reality show,

752
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 2: even though I'm an athlete, what.

753
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: You see is not technically like who I am. Let's

754
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: just say that.

755
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 2: I think people get misconstrued and like they think they

756
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 2: know us based on what they've seen. Do you feel

757
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 2: that do you feel that there's something still about you

758
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 2: that people have no idea, Like do you feel that

759
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 2: people still in their mind have this like snooky idea

760
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: of who you were at twenty? Like I'm curious if

761
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 2: there's something that you gate keep that like you people

762
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 2: really have fucking no clue or do you really just

763
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 2: you gave you, you gave everything, every part of you,

764
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 2: every angle, and you dusted it or do you Yeah?

765
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I'm definitely an open book,

766
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 3: so I feel like everyone knows exactly who I am.

767
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 3: But that's why I'm excited for this paranormal show, because

768
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 3: it's like something that I'm so passionate about that no

769
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 3: one really knows what I do. So it's like little

770
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 3: things like that. But yeah, we always have fans, like

771
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 3: seeing us at airports and I'm just like chilling with

772
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 3: my kids and I'm like hey, and they're just like,

773
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 3: why aren't you drinking? Like why aren't you so loud?

774
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, just I'm with my kids. I

775
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 3: don't really party like that anymore. So they when they

776
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 3: meet us, they expect us to be like drunk and

777
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 3: fist pumping, and it's just that's not that's not us anymore.

778
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 3: That was like I mean it's us like if we

779
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 3: go out like in a blue moon on a Saturday night, like, yeah,

780
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 3: we still got it, because.

781
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: I still I still hit that that beat.

782
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 2: Remember back in the day, we used to start on

783
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: the floor. How the fuck were you touching that disgusting

784
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 2: floor with our home?

785
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 3: I used to lay on it into friggin back handsprings.

786
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 3: I mean it was gross.

787
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 2: Oh I can't well, I want to wrap this up.

788
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: And I'm curious.

789
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 2: You know, there's there's so much of you that has

790
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: been such an open book, and I think it gives

791
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 2: people the permission to be exactly who they are. Don't

792
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 2: fucking sugarcoat it, don't ask for permission, Like this is

793
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 2: your life, own it, live it without hesitation. And I

794
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 2: really feel like you gave a lot of people permission

795
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 2: to do so. So if you could, you know, if

796
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 2: people could take one thing away from your story, what

797
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 2: do you hope that is?

798
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: Like, what would you give to people?

799
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 3: I know my main thing is just live your life

800
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: for you. I know a lot of people want to

801
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 3: please others or show off, or you know, they take

802
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 3: to heart what people say about them, like in the

803
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 3: comments like straight and stuff like that, like don't give

804
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 3: a shit about what anyone thinks about you. As long

805
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 3: as your family loves you, your friends love you, and

806
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 3: your little circle like understands you and loves you, that's

807
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 3: all that matters. Like you're not living your life for

808
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 3: everybody else.

809
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: It's just for you.

810
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 3: And just stop worrying about everybody else. Because people are terrible.

811
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: Yes, even nowadays.

812
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 2: So if you could sit down giving giving that information

813
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 2: now raising the young powerful children you are doing currently,

814
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 2: if you could go back, you know that twenty one,

815
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: twenty two year old self still finding her way in

816
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 2: the world.

817
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: Before that show aired, What would you want her to know?

818
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 3: I don't know. I always get asked that question. I'm

819
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 3: just like, I feel like everything that I was going

820
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 3: through and how I felt and what happened made me

821
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 3: the strong bitch that I am today. So I wouldn't

822
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 3: really change anything, but I would tell myself to stick

823
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 3: up for myself a little more, like don't be so

824
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:05,240
Speaker 3: fucking nice.

825
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that.

826
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 3: Don't let people walk all over you.

827
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: That's and I imagine you're you're raising a young.

828
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 2: Daughter who is gonna embody that way before we ever did,

829
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 2: because we gave. We gave too many fucks growing up

830
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 2: because that's what culturally was pushed on us. And I'm

831
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 2: I'm happy and excited to be raising powerful children, especially

832
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:37,479
Speaker 2: powerful women, and I think that that's a big deal

833
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 2: for people like us. And and we keep sticking together

834
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 2: and we keep raising these babies to be good humans.

835
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 2: And I think, especially in this current political landscape, like

836
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 2: it's our fucking job. It's our job to raise good humans,

837
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 2: because that's where it starts in the household, Like how

838
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 2: how we're showing up, how we're you know, teaching our

839
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 2: children are like real life reality because it's it's fucking

840
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 2: hard out there, and it's not easy, and it will

841
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 2: eat you up and spit you out.

842
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 1: And I love to see how you're raising your kids.

843
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 2: And you know, you've had such an incredible story, and

844
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 2: I appreciate you being so vulnerable and open about your

845
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: adoption and your children, and it's it's really beautiful to watch, Nicole.

846
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: So thank you for coming on.

847
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 2: And I mean, you have what like seventeen point five

848
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 2: million followers, but please tell everyone if they don't are

849
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,720
Speaker 2: already where to follow you, when to expect this new show.

850
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 2: I know you have a lot of new things coming out,

851
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 2: but I want to give you the floor because.

852
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: I want people to tune in.

853
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the new season of Jersey Shore, a lot

854
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 3: a lot is going on. We filmed it, like we

855
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 3: filmed it this whole year, so there's a lot of things.

856
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 3: I don't even remember what happened. So that is airing

857
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 3: in January, so make sure you check that out because

858
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 3: a lot of shit went down. And yeah, like I'm

859
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 3: on Instagram TikTok at Snooki and then make sure to

860
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 3: follow all my stores. At the Snooky Shop, we're always

861
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 3: doing like sales. We do VIP events which are so

862
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 3: much fun. Literally just have like four time slots and

863
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 3: I have everybody come and I'm there obviously, and we're

864
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 3: just getting drunk and shopping. So it's literally the best

865
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 3: time ever. I'm always so hung over the next day

866
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 3: because everyone brings me shots and we're just chugging.

867
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: Oh god.

868
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a fun girls time. We'll like close

869
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 3: and shopping and drinking. So yeah, make sure you follow

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Speaker 2: Yes, everyone go check it out. Nicole, Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for being on and good luck with everything. You

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Speaker 1: Fuck with you.

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Speaker 2: So I will be tuning in because I know it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun exactly all right. Well,

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Speaker 2: have a great rest of you know, this year, and

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Speaker 2: I'm excited for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited for you, I'm excited for all.

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Speaker 2: Of us, and we'll see you next week. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: being on Wide Open.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Lo