Speaker 1: That's okay, because no one here.
Speaker 2: Is Hello tities. Nope, producers, do we have to bleep
Speaker 2: that now?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'll just keep work shopping it. Welcome to
Speaker 2: teen Beat. I am your host, Danielle Fischel, the recent
Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars hopeful, current American Idol additional content host,
Speaker 2: and former child star who spent every landmark moment of
Speaker 2: her teenage years on TV. No matter what awkward phase
Speaker 2: I entered, it was in front of a live studio
Speaker 2: audience in a programming block with a teenage witch and
Speaker 2: a talking cat. So on this show, I have flipped
Speaker 2: the script. I'm talking to interesting people about their childhoods,
Speaker 2: their pre adult existence, where a crush felt like life
Speaker 2: and death, and weekends just meant more time on the
Speaker 2: home phone or a few extra minutes polishing up that
Speaker 2: aim away message. There's only so many my chemical romance
Speaker 2: lyrics you can quote. I look at it like this.
Speaker 2: I gave you my childhood. It's time we heard yours.
Speaker 2: When the history books are written about the rise of
Speaker 2: reality TV, our grandchildren will start at chapter one. An
Speaker 2: analytical breakdown of the first foray in the docuseries format.
Speaker 2: The real world but I'll be nearby, lounging in my
Speaker 2: rocking chair, poppin' Werther's Originals and sippin' on some metamucil, laughing.
Speaker 2: How forget that textbook? Emmanuel. Yeah, that's my grandchild's name, Emmanuel.
Speaker 2: I'll say, sure, Real World was first, but it didn't
Speaker 2: get good until two thousand and nine. Because that's the
Speaker 2: true modern birth of unscripted. It's the premiere of MTV's
Speaker 2: Jersey Shore. The Real World may have been the mole,
Speaker 2: but Jersey Shore was the traders. It took the original
Speaker 2: formula and perfected it so that decades to come were
Speaker 2: now emulating the product of evolution. Influence becomes inspiration, imitation
Speaker 2: becomes innovation, and everything in between became Italian. Only a
Speaker 2: handful of TV stars from the past two decades have
Speaker 2: affected the medium quite like my guests. This week, she
Speaker 2: became the unforgettable scenes stealing human Beanie baby on the
Speaker 2: cultural phenomenon that is Jersey Shore, one of the few
Speaker 2: franchises that doesn't have Real housewives in the title that
Speaker 2: continues to be a modern day cable tent pole. There's
Speaker 2: celebrity and then there's celebrity, marked by things like most
Speaker 2: popular Halloween costume of the year or recurring impression on SNL.
Speaker 2: It would have been hard to find someone in twenty
Speaker 2: ten who didn't know her name. Yet somehow she turned
Speaker 2: getting wasted in her twenties and the assumption of only
Speaker 2: having fifteen minutes of fame into a full fledged empire,
Speaker 2: transitioning into a mom of three, a multi time bestselling author,
Speaker 2: and a beloved entrepreneur. And now she's decided to share
Speaker 2: even more of her life with the public, facing stage
Speaker 2: one cervical cancer and hoping her diagnosis can push those
Speaker 2: who grew up watching her to get those yearly checkups.
Speaker 2: I know the feeling. So this week I'm thrilled to
Speaker 2: welcome to teen Beat, a true story of perseverance. Nicole Polizzi,
Speaker 2: professionally known as Snookie.
Speaker 3: That is the cutest intro I think I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: You are such a wonderful, inspirational person, and I'm so
Speaker 2: happy to talk to you. And I already complimented your hair,
Speaker 2: but I have to do it again. I think this
Speaker 2: is the cutest haircut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. I mean I definitely didn't do anything
Speaker 3: with it this morning. It was in a bun I
Speaker 3: just put it down because the kids are home from
Speaker 3: spring break. I'm a mess over here, but thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I wanted to do like a bob, but not to Bobby. Right.
Speaker 3: This is a bob for me because I've always had
Speaker 3: long hair and extensions and I'm just over it. I'm
Speaker 3: too old to like take care of myself like that.
Speaker 2: Listen, I understand. I have also wanted a lob, but
Speaker 2: all can't seem to get myself to cut my hair
Speaker 2: or anything shorter than like boob length.
Speaker 4: So you'll get there, and then you'll okay, great, Well,
Speaker 4: my instinct is to call you snooky, but I also
Speaker 4: want to respect Nicole, So you tell me.
Speaker 2: I'm going to follow your lead. What do you like
Speaker 2: to be cold?
Speaker 3: I'll do both. I mean, I always said that snooky
Speaker 3: is the brand I feel like when I started to
Speaker 3: have kids, I was like, all right, like, I know,
Speaker 3: you know, doing these interviews and they're calling me snooky.
Speaker 3: But I was like kind of like in the transition
Speaker 3: of like snooky is like the party girl, and now
Speaker 3: I'm a mom, like just six months old, so I like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be known as a party girl anymore.
Speaker 3: But like party girl turned mommy.
Speaker 2: Yes, so I kind of was.
Speaker 3: I had a dilemma with it for a little bit,
Speaker 3: but now it's just like whatever, like Snooky Knuckle, it
Speaker 3: is what it is.
Speaker 2: Right, So I want to talk to you about young
Speaker 2: Nicole before the Snooky brand. What were you like as
Speaker 2: a kid. Did you always have a big personality.
Speaker 3: When I was comfortable and cozy around people. I feel
Speaker 3: like I was super shy until I really hit like
Speaker 3: my teenage years, like thirteen, But yeah, I was like
Speaker 3: shy to meet people. I was shy to like get
Speaker 3: out there, meet new friends. So my mom really had
Speaker 3: to push me because I was like wrapped around my
Speaker 3: mom's leg all the time. Then I think, once you know,
Speaker 3: I hit like middle school and puberty, that's when I
Speaker 3: was like okay, like social butterfly, I want to hang
Speaker 3: out and you know, meet everybody. So I wasn't always
Speaker 3: outgoing and like bubbly.
Speaker 2: How I seem, Oh that's so interesting. I would often
Speaker 2: think that people would usually not blossom in maybe what
Speaker 2: a lot of people consider to be the most awkward
Speaker 2: years of adolescence, you know, like twelve thirteen, and yet
Speaker 2: that's really when you felt like you found your stride
Speaker 2: in your personality. What do you think it was about
Speaker 2: that time of your life that just made your personality blossom.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I grew up as an only child,
Speaker 3: so I was adopted, and I was just like attached
Speaker 3: at the hips my mom, like anywhere we went. I
Speaker 3: was just like, I don't know, I just always wanted
Speaker 3: my mommy. I was I was, you know, the only child,
Speaker 3: like just wanting to be with her her parents all
Speaker 3: the time. Yeah. But like once, you know, I was
Speaker 3: making friends and you know, teenage years, you're starting to
Speaker 3: go to parties and like go out and do things,
Speaker 3: go to the mall with your friends. I was like, okay, mom,
Speaker 3: I love you, but like I think I'm gonna you know,
Speaker 3: spread my wings then, you know, hang out with my
Speaker 3: friends now. So I think it was just that.
Speaker 2: What were you into as a kid. Did you have
Speaker 2: any speci toys that you loved?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, POGs?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love the POGs.
Speaker 3: I got the pog makers, so I meet all my POGs,
Speaker 3: like I made instinct POGs, Backstreet Boy POGs. I still
Speaker 3: have them.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I love a boy band pog.
Speaker 3: Yes, and then Beanie Babies of course, of course beennie babies.
Speaker 3: I collected the Mary Kay and Ashley like all of
Speaker 3: their movies.
Speaker 2: Do you still have your beanie babies?
Speaker 3: I do? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you think being raised an only child gave you
Speaker 2: I mean you said like when you were really young,
Speaker 2: you were obsessed with your parents and maybe a little shy.
Speaker 2: But do you think that having that security of being
Speaker 2: an only child and being close to them through all
Speaker 2: your young years gave you any sort of like main
Speaker 2: character energy as a teenager?
Speaker 3: Yes? Absolutely, Because when I met Jenny so Jenny on
Speaker 3: the show j Wow, she's an only child too. So
Speaker 3: once I started to like hang out with all the cast,
Speaker 3: like everybody had siblings, me and Jenny were the only one.
Speaker 3: So if it like it wasn't about us or we
Speaker 3: weren't the number.
Speaker 2: One, we were like what's this?
Speaker 3: What is that? So it's kind of like we had
Speaker 3: to get used to, you know, having having siblings. Literally
Speaker 3: we all lived into the house because it's like we're
Speaker 3: sharing things and it's not on our time and it's
Speaker 3: not our world. So yes, it's definitely just like a shock,
Speaker 3: Like you know, when you're an only child, it's literally
Speaker 3: like you're spoiled. It's all about you, and then when
Speaker 3: you know you're living with other people, it's like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, like I hate this. I want I want
Speaker 3: it to be all about me in my space and
Speaker 3: being alone. So yeah, it was definitely a shock to
Speaker 3: both of us. But I ended up, you know, eventually,
Speaker 3: I ended up like getting a genealogist to like look
Speaker 3: at everything because it was a close adoption. So my
Speaker 3: mom had like a certain amount of papers and then
Speaker 3: she she took that and you know, found my birth family.
Speaker 3: So I do have one sister and one brother.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, so you do have siblings. You do have siblings. Okay,
Speaker 2: you have a brother and a sister. Have you met
Speaker 2: your biological mother?
Speaker 3: No? So I'm I'm still in the process of like
Speaker 3: doing everything, and I did everything on the show, you know,
Speaker 3: so like the fans can see it, and it's a
Speaker 3: huge thing for me. I never I never thought that
Speaker 3: I wanted to do that. So I did every single
Speaker 3: process on the show of like meeting with the genealogists,
Speaker 3: her finding out the information, giving me the binder so
Speaker 3: I see what they look like and where they live.
Speaker 3: And the furthest thing I got to was doing a
Speaker 3: phone call with them. So we started doing like a
Speaker 3: text and it was through Facebook because they're on Facebook.
Speaker 3: So I had a translator and she had a translator.
Speaker 3: But then like the texting was like it was just
Speaker 3: so hard. Yeah, like can we call you so then
Speaker 3: you can hear our voice and it'd be easier. And
Speaker 3: then that was crazy because I didn't think I would
Speaker 3: get so emotional with hearing her voice. Oh yeah, So
Speaker 3: that that was crazy. And I think now the next
Speaker 3: step would be FaceTime and then eventually, you know, going
Speaker 3: to see her, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happened one step at a time exactly.
Speaker 2: You called yourself the Princess of Poughkeepsie though you tech her,
Speaker 2: though you technically grew up in Marlborough. So may I
Speaker 2: suggest that you now adopt the mama of Marlborough.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I'll take my mama on Marlborough, Okay,
Speaker 3: I like that. I literally, So I always went out
Speaker 3: and Poughkeepsie, and I feel like I didn't want to
Speaker 3: see Marlborough like where I was from, because it's just
Speaker 3: fall town. No one's gonna know it on a map,
Speaker 3: and Poughkeepsie's like across the bridge across the river, so
Speaker 3: I always went there to like go out like that.
Speaker 3: That was like my night life, like going to the
Speaker 3: bars and the clubs and everywhere I went, like people
Speaker 3: knew like, oh here she is, it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: crazy night. So yeah, Princess of Poughkeepsie, Like I thought
Speaker 3: that was so cool, and now I'm like, ugh, fringe.
Speaker 2: We all look back at our things we thought were
Speaker 2: very cool back then and cringe. Now, what did you
Speaker 2: do for fun as a kid in Marlborough? You were?
Speaker 2: Were you a cheerleader?
Speaker 3: Yees? So I grew up on an apple orchard, so
Speaker 3: it's literally like all apples everywhere.
Speaker 2: Beauful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I graduated with like one hundred and twenty kids,
Speaker 3: so it was a small town. But like I loved
Speaker 3: it and I missed it so much I wish I
Speaker 3: could go back. But yeah, I grew up like quatting.
Speaker 3: I grew up doing competitive gymnastics from like five to twelve,
Speaker 3: and I did that for a while and then like
Speaker 3: once I got older, I was like, this is too much.
Speaker 3: It's not fun anymore. It feels like work and it
Speaker 3: feels like I don't want to be here anymore, just
Speaker 3: because I knew, Like I got to the level and
Speaker 3: that was it, Like I'm not elevating. I was like
Speaker 3: scared to do the bars. I was only good at
Speaker 3: tumbling the beam I sucked. So I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to get any anywhere else, right, you.
Speaker 2: Didn't see a future for that.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I hit my max. So then I was like,
Speaker 3: I still want to I love tumbling, I love you know,
Speaker 3: doing all that, So let me try cheer. So my
Speaker 3: first year at cheer was in sixth grade, and you know,
Speaker 3: tried out for the cheer team for the school and
Speaker 3: I ended up just taking everything over. I was teaching
Speaker 3: people how to tumble. I was like the coach teaching
Speaker 3: people how to tumble. I made all the dances for
Speaker 3: like the pep rally. So I really fell in love
Speaker 3: with cheer. So I wish I did cheer from the beginning.
Speaker 3: But no competitive gymnastics.
Speaker 2: It's abast Yeah it is. My cousin was in competitive
Speaker 2: gymnastics and she was incredible. But it's also very hard
Speaker 2: on your body.
Speaker 3: Yes, very hard on your body, and I feel like
Speaker 3: it stunt my growth a little bit. But no, I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure I'm supposed to be small.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, I'm only I actually just told somebody last night,
Speaker 2: I'd say I'm five to one, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: I've already shrunk at you know, forty four years old,
Speaker 2: so i don't even think i'm a full five to
Speaker 2: one yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it happens. We're gonna shrink. We're gonna be like
Speaker 3: Ganonas when we're.
Speaker 2: Old, exactly. We're just gonna be so tiny. And now
Speaker 2: your daughter is following in your footsteps, right, you're a
Speaker 2: dance mom. Oh really?
Speaker 3: So she actually does competitive cheer. I only did like
Speaker 3: school cheer, so it was like town cheer. You just
Speaker 3: show up to like the football games, and you know,
Speaker 3: you just cheer on the sideline. I didn't do All
Speaker 3: Star cheer until I was like twenty, and that was
Speaker 3: like an open cheer, so you could be eighteen to forty.
Speaker 3: And that's when I like did the backtop basket tosses
Speaker 3: and all of that, and I loved it. But then
Speaker 3: I tried out for the show and then I just
Speaker 3: stopped doing it because I was busy with the show. Right,
Speaker 3: So I always said if I had a daughter, I
Speaker 3: was going to push her into cheer and if she
Speaker 3: liked it she liked it. If not, you know, we'll
Speaker 3: do something else. So I took her to an all
Speaker 3: star cheer gym at three and like had her run around,
Speaker 3: and ever since then she never left. So the gym
Speaker 3: has known her since she was three. She's now going
Speaker 3: to be twelve soon. She's been there for years and
Speaker 3: she's killing it. She's way better than I ever was.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, and it's so smart that you were like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you looked back on your own experience and thought, I
Speaker 2: wish I would have just started with cheer instead of
Speaker 2: going the gymnastics to cheer root and so with her,
Speaker 2: you just like started there. And now she's got that foundation.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she's awesome. She's incredible. She's everything that I
Speaker 3: wish I was growing up. And I'm just so proud
Speaker 3: of her. And she works hard. She's my little mini me,
Speaker 3: my best friend, and I mean, I'm hoping she continues
Speaker 3: it like forever, because now she has the talent. So
Speaker 3: the point where like you can get like a little
Speaker 3: scholarship for cheer because cheer is like a big thing
Speaker 3: in college. Now, yeah, let's keep at it because you
Speaker 3: work so hard, like.
Speaker 2: Don't quit exactly, yes, Wow, that will be amazing. Imagine
Speaker 2: where does where If you had to pick like your
Speaker 2: dream place for her to go to school, where would
Speaker 2: she go to college?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I haven't thought about it. I mean, obviously my favorite
Speaker 3: team in college is is Navarro. Okay, they're incredible this
Speaker 3: year they're insane. But that's only like a community college.
Speaker 3: So she would go there for like two years. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But I mean I don't want her to live my dream.
Speaker 3: I want her to go wherever she wants to go.
Speaker 3: I love her, but like I'm always like, keep with cheer. Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 3: That is your sport. You work so hard for it,
Speaker 3: So you know, whatever she wants to do, I'm going
Speaker 3: to be a very proud mama.
Speaker 2: Is there anything different you do than maybe your parents
Speaker 2: did with you pertaining to being a cheer mom? Is
Speaker 2: there any like any sort of way you're raising your
Speaker 2: kids where you go? I didn't love this when I
Speaker 2: was a kid. I'm going to do it differently for
Speaker 2: my own Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think probably how strict they were because I wasn't
Speaker 3: comfortable talking to them about things. And if I was
Speaker 3: somewhere where I was uncomfortable and I called them and say,
Speaker 3: like I had a few drinks. And you know, I
Speaker 3: was in high school, like I wasn't called cofable calling
Speaker 3: them because I knew they would scream at me. Like
Speaker 3: I wasn't allowed to swear in the house. Like they
Speaker 3: were very stressed. Like even even when I was like nineteen,
Speaker 3: I would say a bedword in front of my mom
Speaker 3: and she would be like, oh, and I'm like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, it's over. So that's why I'm on the show.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, my parents are really going to see
Speaker 3: who I.
Speaker 2: Am now right the mask is off?
Speaker 3: Yeah. So and I was twenty one, so I'm like,
Speaker 3: come on, so now raising my kids, I just want
Speaker 3: like full transparency, Like you can come to me with anything.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to scream at you. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: yell at you. I'm gonna be there for you, not
Speaker 3: necessarily like I want to be just like friends, you know,
Speaker 3: but I am here for you, know, for you to
Speaker 3: talk to me about uncomfortable things. I'm not gonna be
Speaker 3: mad at you. I'm not gonna yell at you. I'm
Speaker 3: just here to talk. But like also, if something does
Speaker 3: bother me, I won't yell at you in the moment,
Speaker 3: but then we're going to have a serious conversation and
Speaker 3: you might get in trouble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit doesn't mean there are no repercussions, factly,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 3: Don't want to be. I don't want them to be
Speaker 3: scared to tell me things. And that's how I felt
Speaker 3: with my parents, and I hated it. So I don't
Speaker 3: want that with my kids. So I'm trying to have
Speaker 3: an open communication with them about everything, and I think
Speaker 3: I'm doing a good job with that so far.
Speaker 2: Good good. I'm happy to hear that you've talked about
Speaker 2: the origin of the name Snooky, that it's from the
Speaker 2: movie Save the Last Dance, and it's because you were
Speaker 2: the first in your friend group to kiss a boy.
Speaker 2: I want to hear all about this first kiss. How
Speaker 2: old were you? Who was the boy? Tell me all
Speaker 2: the deats.
Speaker 3: I feel like I was twelve or thirteen. But it
Speaker 3: wasn't like a crazy kiss.
Speaker 2: It was just like a wow yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: But so our best movie was Say the Last Dance.
Speaker 3: At the moment like we love Say the Last Dance.
Speaker 3: It was the thing. And my best friend Katie, she
Speaker 3: decided to call me Snuky, and she was the only
Speaker 3: one that called me Snuky in my entire life, like ever,
Speaker 3: like she would call me snook, like she never called
Speaker 3: me nick, So my friends call me nick nick or Nicole,
Speaker 3: like she never she never called me that. She always
Speaker 3: called me snook. And the last dance it's Snook the
Speaker 3: Kucci Crook and she's like, I think I'm gonna call
Speaker 3: you that now because you're the first one to kiss
Speaker 3: a boy. I was like, okay, whatever. So she was
Speaker 3: the only one that called me that in my entire life.
Speaker 3: So when I was doing the applications for Jersey Shore,
Speaker 3: they were really harping on, like we want everybody to
Speaker 3: have a nickname. So they're like, does anybody call you
Speaker 3: like another name? And I'm like, oh, well, one of
Speaker 3: my best friends calls me snooky and then it.
Speaker 2: Just stuck so unbelievable. How does Katie feel about that now?
Speaker 3: She's like, where's my paycheck? Girl? She's like that is insane.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know, that is so funny. So getting
Speaker 2: back to your first kiss, who was the boy? And
Speaker 2: do you are you still? Have you ever talked to
Speaker 2: him again?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So the boy was in my grade. He was
Speaker 3: my first like real boyfriend, and then once we broke
Speaker 3: up because we were, you know, kids, We were best
Speaker 3: friends in high school. We're still friends on Facebook. He's
Speaker 3: carrying two kids. But he was like in high school
Speaker 3: we had like core best friends and like guys and girls,
Speaker 3: and he was a part of it, and we just
Speaker 3: became best friends. So yeah, Also, to this.
Speaker 2: Day, that's so cute. Did you know what you were doing?
Speaker 3: Did it?
Speaker 2: Just like what led up to the moment of the
Speaker 2: big kiss, Like, was this was obviously your you know,
Speaker 2: your first boyfriend. You're twelve or thirteen, so what does
Speaker 2: a boyfriend really mean at that at that age? But
Speaker 2: leading up to that first kiss, you are you nervous?
Speaker 2: Do you know what you're doing?
Speaker 3: So I remember we were at my friend's house and
Speaker 3: he had like a little get together, so we were
Speaker 3: all in the basement and everybody was in couples okay
Speaker 3: you know, of course, and then couples started kissing, and
Speaker 3: we were like, what do we do? Are we doing this?
Speaker 3: So once he left, it was just like a peck goodbye,
Speaker 3: and then we were just like, we did it.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, our first kiss. Check that box. Your skyrocket to
Speaker 2: fame is probably something that should be studied by historians.
Speaker 2: Jersey Shore was an overnight phenomenon and you became a
Speaker 2: brand name immediately. When and how did you realize this
Speaker 2: was a big, big deal?
Speaker 3: Well, it was crazy because when we shot the show,
Speaker 3: we had no idea what it was going to be
Speaker 3: called or what it was. I was just excited to like,
Speaker 3: finally do reality because I always wanted to. I was
Speaker 3: a huge reality fan of like Real World, World Rules,
Speaker 3: and I just wanted to try it out. And I
Speaker 3: knew I was going to have fun and we would
Speaker 3: love it. So we ended up doing it that summer,
Speaker 3: but then like a whole year went by and we
Speaker 3: didn't hear anything. So we were like, were we awful?
Speaker 3: Not like it? We're like, I guess we just did
Speaker 3: that for nothing, But you know, it was fun. We
Speaker 3: had a free shorehouse and it was great. So then
Speaker 3: we started, you know, seeing the previews and it came
Speaker 3: out and just everybody was talking about it. And the
Speaker 3: fact that it was so controversial, like everyone hated us
Speaker 3: off the bat, like without even watching, I'm like, oh
Speaker 3: my god. I was like, We're just here to have fun,
Speaker 3: like we're not trying to kill anybody. So the fact
Speaker 3: that it was controversial, I was like, Okay, I think
Speaker 3: we have something here. And then I think once the
Speaker 3: episode aired where I got punched in the face, then
Speaker 3: everybody was talking about it, and then everyone started watching
Speaker 3: the show, and I think that's the episode that really
Speaker 3: got people talking and tuning in. Yes, so yeah, once
Speaker 3: I started going because I used to work at the
Speaker 3: mall forever twenty one and I would always go to like,
Speaker 3: you know, the mall to like, you know, see my
Speaker 3: old coworkers and shop. And after that episode air, like
Speaker 3: a few weeks later, I went to the mall to
Speaker 3: go shopping, like thinking nothing of it, and I couldn't
Speaker 3: walk anywhere. People were like, oh my god, you're that girl.
Speaker 3: And I was there was a line to take pictures
Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh my god, Like is this my
Speaker 3: life now? Like I can't go to my mall now.
Speaker 3: So once that happened, I was like, all right, things
Speaker 3: you're definitely going to change.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my whole life is different. I want to talk
Speaker 2: about that punch because it is one of those moments
Speaker 2: where I look at it now with a twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six lens and I can't believe it was pop culture fodder,
Speaker 2: Like it is aggressive assault just a man cold cocking
Speaker 2: a woman and it aired unedited originally, then over and
Speaker 2: over again. But at that point censored, were you privy
Speaker 2: to anything with the process of them deciding to air
Speaker 2: it and how they were going to do.
Speaker 3: It, Well, MTV. I had a meeting with MTV and
Speaker 3: they were like, listen, we know this happened. What do
Speaker 3: you want us to do because we want you to
Speaker 3: be comfortable, okay, And at that moment, like it was
Speaker 3: just so fresh and I was still like traumatized over it.
Speaker 3: I was like, can you please like not air it
Speaker 3: but like black it out, like if you keep the audio,
Speaker 3: but like, don't show it yet until like I'm over it.
Speaker 3: So they ended up airing it blacked out, and then
Speaker 3: eventually I was like, all right, it's fine, like you know,
Speaker 3: you can put it on the DVD. And because it
Speaker 3: was DVDs, right, I was like, yeah, I just put
Speaker 3: on the DVD and it's fine, Like I'm over it, It's okay.
Speaker 3: So then it was on the DVDs and then everyone
Speaker 3: finally saw it. So I love the fact that, you know,
Speaker 3: the network was very respectful and like my feelings over it,
Speaker 3: because that was insane and it took me like two
Speaker 3: years to get over it because it was so scary.
Speaker 3: But then it's just like a right, like I'm fine,
Speaker 3: everything's fine, Like it was a shitty situation, and you know.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's it's very shocking. It's shocking to see.
Speaker 2: It's shocking that it happened. I mean, I can't believe
Speaker 2: it only took you two years to get over it.
Speaker 2: Did you have then a fear of like being in
Speaker 2: public spaces? Did you did you ever then have a
Speaker 2: fear of men? What was the what was the immediate
Speaker 2: aftermath of that kind of trauma?
Speaker 3: Not like a fear of men. But I feel like
Speaker 3: when I went out, I was more I was more
Speaker 3: aware of my STrenD and like I was, I wasn't
Speaker 3: gonna like stick up for myself with men. Like the
Speaker 3: whole point was he was stealing our shots, and he
Speaker 3: ordered shots, he stole them, ordered shots again, he took
Speaker 3: them by the fourth round of shots that we I
Speaker 3: was ordering, and he took again without paying and we
Speaker 3: were paying. I was like, all right, man, like enough
Speaker 3: is enough? Yeah, So I think you know, if that
Speaker 3: were to happen, I would just walk away instead of
Speaker 3: like speaking up and that you know, it just changed
Speaker 3: how I went out a little bit, like being around
Speaker 3: men and around people that I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, had you spent a lot of time on the
Speaker 2: Jersey Shore before the show aired? And how many novelty
Speaker 2: T shirts have you purchased over the years?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So I grew up going to Point Pleasant, so
Speaker 3: that's like another another beach. It's probably like, you know,
Speaker 3: twenty five minutes from Seaside, and it's more like family oriented.
Speaker 3: So I would go there with my mom and my
Speaker 3: best friend. We would go there for a couple of nights.
Speaker 3: But then once I got older, like eighteen nineteen, we
Speaker 3: would drive down the Seaside and stay in like the
Speaker 3: cheap seaside motels and just enjoy beach because that's like
Speaker 3: where all the young kids went. So yes, I did
Speaker 3: go before the show, and I was so excited that
Speaker 3: I was going to be in Seaside cause I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I'm all my friends, I know where
Speaker 3: to go, like all the hotspots, So I was super
Speaker 3: excited for that. And what about the shirt?
Speaker 2: How many novelty T shirts have you purchased over the years?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Well, I would say stolen it definitely
Speaker 3: stole something because not.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite thing you've ever stolen.
Speaker 3: From?
Speaker 2: Now the Shore or in general.
Speaker 3: I stole Crocodilly. I saw, yeah, the machine was open,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh my god, I want that,
Speaker 3: and Crocodilly has been stolen. I kidnapped him.
Speaker 2: Okay, you kidnapped Crocodilli, all right, I don't think.
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 2: Podcast exclusive? I love it. Make sure you have a
Speaker 2: tag now, like an air tag on Crocodili, because I
Speaker 2: do not want crocadiliy be stolen.
Speaker 3: Now, nobody comes to steal him now.
Speaker 2: Exactly, it's yours. So this cast, you are thrown into it, honestly,
Speaker 2: very much the same way I was, you know, thrown
Speaker 2: into a cast on Boy Meets World and you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: now go be family. How many of the Jersey Shore
Speaker 2: cast members would have been your actual friends in real
Speaker 2: life had you met out in the street instead of
Speaker 2: just on the show.
Speaker 3: First impressions? Yeah, or well, walking into the house right away,
Speaker 3: I was like, what is this Benny guy doing here?
Speaker 3: He's not a wido, Like he's boring. She looks like
Speaker 3: a wannabe rapper, Like who is that.
Speaker 2: Wally?
Speaker 3: Right away? I was like, yep, a hang out with you, Ronnie, yep, Mike.
Speaker 3: Maybe because we all had the same look except Vinnie, right,
Speaker 3: So I would saying.
Speaker 2: Everybody in the house except Vinnie.
Speaker 3: Stuck out like a sore thumb. We're like, what are
Speaker 3: you doing here?
Speaker 2: Obviously a lot of that first season centered around drinking.
Speaker 2: Had you been a big drinker before the show?
Speaker 3: Yes, I loved going out. I love having fun and yeah,
Speaker 3: that was the first summer that I was legally twenty one. Okay,
Speaker 3: I was like I'm going out. I was like, I
Speaker 3: just broke out with my boyfriend. I was like sad
Speaker 3: at the time, so I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 3: go out and enjoy myself and I'm young, and yeah
Speaker 3: I was. I was ready to go that summer.
Speaker 2: Did you ever feel out of control with your drinking
Speaker 2: and what is your relationship with alcohol? Like now.
Speaker 3: Now? I never thought it was like a problem, just
Speaker 3: because I was so young and we were all doing it,
Speaker 3: and when I was like tired, I rested. I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to force myself. I don't feel like
Speaker 3: drinking today, Like I'm gonna take it easy. So I
Speaker 3: never thought it was a problem. It was just like
Speaker 3: going out and partying and having fun. And now I mean,
Speaker 3: of course it's still like my cocktails, but Mommy, Mommy,
Speaker 3: Judy's are first, and I plan. I plan my life first,
Speaker 3: and then I'm like, okay, So like, for instance, if
Speaker 3: so tomorrow I have a flight and I have to
Speaker 3: go to work for a couple of days, and you know,
Speaker 3: knowing that I have to do that, Like I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna have a glass of wine tonight for dinner. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to do that. If I know I have
Speaker 3: something to do the next day or like that week,
Speaker 3: I just you know, I don't have anything. So I'm
Speaker 3: a social drinker now. If I go out, absolutely marchinie
Speaker 3: some wine. But like if I'm just hanging out at
Speaker 3: the house, like, no, there's no drinking. I have no
Speaker 3: desire to do it. I think it's more of just
Speaker 3: a social thing now, you know, when I'm out for
Speaker 3: dinner or out with my mom friends or you know,
Speaker 3: on dates, it's more of like a social thing now.
Speaker 3: But I do like my martinis.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love that. For you. Thinking about the fact
Speaker 2: that you have kids now, your oldest is almost twelve,
Speaker 2: right harteen, they're t wow, almost thirteen. Wow, how much
Speaker 2: do your kids know about your history, your fame? Do
Speaker 2: they know about the punch?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: How much do they know about what you are known for?
Speaker 3: Well, my two oldest Lorenzo's thirteen, Giovanna's eleven, and then
Speaker 3: so Angelo knows nothing, Like he'll see me sometimes when
Speaker 3: I put the TV on, like the the fire six screen.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the show will pop up on Paramount and he's like, mom,
Speaker 3: that's you, and I'm like, I know, honey, like that's
Speaker 3: mommy's job because he's when I work, and he doesn't
Speaker 3: understand what my work is. So I'm like, when mommy
Speaker 3: leaves for work, like that's what I'm doing. I'm on TV.
Speaker 3: And he's like, how do you get into the TV?
Speaker 2: It's like right right, yep.
Speaker 3: So now he understands, like, you know, when mommy goes
Speaker 3: to work, she's going to be on TV eventually. But
Speaker 3: my oldest, you know, thirteen, all of his friends, you know,
Speaker 3: watch Jersey Shore. Now, I like, now the kids they
Speaker 3: see clips on TikTok, they see clips on Jersey Shore
Speaker 3: like TikTok, like all the crazy scenes, and then they
Speaker 3: start bringing the show. So it's like I feel like
Speaker 3: the show is never going to die because like the
Speaker 3: younger generations just keep watching it and then they fall
Speaker 3: in love, you know. So Lorenzo, I don't know how
Speaker 3: much he's seen, but I mean he's seen enough. I
Speaker 3: feel like, what was that? I just tell him that
Speaker 3: was scripted. Yeah, know, it's acting and they told me
Speaker 3: to do that and it's not real.
Speaker 2: I love that. That's very smart.
Speaker 3: Esventually, I'll be like, yeah, honey, that was mommy before,
Speaker 3: and don't do what I did right.
Speaker 2: I mentioned SNL in the opening. Bobby moynihan played you
Speaker 2: a few times. What did you think of that at
Speaker 2: the time in Awesome?
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, SNL, like we made it,
Speaker 3: you did it, and I never got offended.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just feel like I was always comfortable in my
Speaker 3: own skin, and I knew I was crazy and dramatic,
Speaker 3: so when people made fun of me, I'm just like,
Speaker 3: I made it like a South Park thing. I was
Speaker 3: like a big fat rat and the whole episode was
Speaker 3: based on me, and growing up I was a huge
Speaker 3: Seuth Park fan.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, I got my own episode,
Speaker 4: so insane.
Speaker 3: And then yeahes so now Bobby kept doing it, and
Speaker 3: then for New Year's one year we did a skit together.
Speaker 3: It was just awesome. It just it made me feel
Speaker 3: great about myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah good, Oh yeah good, That's exactly what I was
Speaker 2: hoping to hear. One of the things that I love
Speaker 2: so much is that that anonymous email you and Jay
Speaker 2: Wow wrote to Sam about Ronnie kissing another girl lives
Speaker 2: in meme infamy. I will always remember the line also
Speaker 2: was grinding with multiple fat women. Did you ever expect
Speaker 2: that would be a thing that twenty years later people
Speaker 2: would still obsess.
Speaker 3: Over No, and everyone's always like, oh, the producers told
Speaker 3: you to do that. That was all our idea. So
Speaker 3: we wanted so we were friends with ron and Sam
Speaker 3: at the moment, and we didn't want Ron to hate
Speaker 3: us for like writing them out, but also like our girl,
Speaker 3: like what are you doing? So we didn't want to
Speaker 3: calluse drama, and we wanted to make it anonymous. So
Speaker 3: in the house, we're not allowed electronics, we're not allowed
Speaker 3: to go to a computer and print something. We can't
Speaker 3: even write anything. There's no pens and paper, like all
Speaker 3: communication has to be a face to face. So I
Speaker 3: went to the producer and I'm like, listen, Sam needs
Speaker 3: to know this, but like, we don't want Ron to
Speaker 3: kill us, So are we able to like go to
Speaker 3: like a cafe and like print something and just anonymously
Speaker 3: leave it for her? And we knew eventually, like you know,
Speaker 3: the cameras were following us, We knew eventually that she
Speaker 3: was going to find out what was us, But we
Speaker 3: had like a good two years yea until she would
Speaker 3: find out in it air. So yeah, that was all
Speaker 3: our idea because we just didn't want we don't want
Speaker 3: Ron to hate us. But now looking back at it,
Speaker 3: I would have been like, run your freaking idiot, Like
Speaker 3: why would you do that? Like fam what happened? So yep, yeah,
Speaker 3: I would do things way differently now. But like in
Speaker 3: the moment, I mean, we were living in that house
Speaker 3: for like a month and a half together and me
Speaker 3: and Jenny did not want the drama.
Speaker 2: In the moment, I remember those feelings of being a
Speaker 2: teen and being friends with both people and it being
Speaker 2: very clear one of them is in the wrong, but
Speaker 2: you still don't want to rat on that person, like
Speaker 2: you have a sense of loyalty to them, and you
Speaker 2: feel like you're stuck between a rock and a hard
Speaker 2: place of like, well, I want my friend to know
Speaker 2: who she's dating, but also like I'm still friends with
Speaker 2: that guy. So it's funny because now, in hindsight, I
Speaker 2: feel exactly the same way. I'm like, no, you're the
Speaker 2: one who's screwing up. I'm gonna just say the truth.
Speaker 2: But at the time, it's a very big deal to
Speaker 2: make that decision.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we knew nobody was going to tell her, and
Speaker 3: we weren't even there to witness it. Everyone else was
Speaker 3: telling us. I feel awful for her, like, you know,
Speaker 3: they're totally fine, but she has no idea what's going
Speaker 3: on and no one's telling her.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you did.
Speaker 3: The best that we could in the moment, but we
Speaker 3: had no idea that it was going to blow up
Speaker 3: the way that it did.
Speaker 2: And people still talking about it this many years later.
Speaker 2: You are still working with these former roommates. Twenty years later.
Speaker 2: The final Jersey Shore Vacation season will air in May.
Speaker 2: You guys have all been through so much together. How
Speaker 2: do you explain your feelings for these friends of yours
Speaker 2: that you've known for so long?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, they're literally my brothers and sisters, like
Speaker 3: best friends. I'm sure you can relate. It's just like
Speaker 3: something that no one will ever understand, but you guys,
Speaker 3: it's just like you had these memories and going through
Speaker 3: things and your life changing overnight, and only we know
Speaker 3: about it, and how you know, it's just our memories
Speaker 3: and our memories. So yeah, it's kind of like it's
Speaker 3: kind of like that, and we'll always have each other
Speaker 3: and we're literally best friends. We talk every single day,
Speaker 3: we have our group chat, and I think we'll be
Speaker 3: best friends forever, you know. And even though this is
Speaker 3: our final season, so this is I think season nine,
Speaker 3: I don't know we film We filmed this season that's
Speaker 3: airing in May, like a year and a half ago,
Speaker 3: so I don't even remember where we were what we did.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's going to be the final season on
Speaker 3: MTV because you know, networks change and they re bring
Speaker 3: two different things. So I am blessed, you know that
Speaker 3: we had all those years on MTV. We've been with
Speaker 3: them since two thousand and nine, so reality shows don't
Speaker 3: really stay that long. So you know, we are blessed
Speaker 3: that we had all those years, you know, with MTV.
Speaker 3: But we know eventually, you know, we were gonna end
Speaker 3: up you know, not doing the show on MTV and
Speaker 3: going somewhere else. So yeah, I think the transition now
Speaker 3: because we're definitely not done filming, and we always film
Speaker 3: into we're nursing homes, killing each other.
Speaker 2: I love that Jersey Shore retirement home.
Speaker 3: Literally and I feel like the fans will so watch it.
Speaker 3: So now we're just figuring out, you know, what our
Speaker 3: next move is, the next show, where we're going to go.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we still have a lot to offer with
Speaker 3: our show. But yeah, it's the final season and it's
Speaker 3: it's bittersweet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's the final season in this iteration. I'm
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what you guys continue to.
Speaker 3: Do next next chapter.
Speaker 2: I reached out to you privately around the time of
Speaker 2: your cancer diagnosis, knowing firsthand it is quite a journey
Speaker 2: and you face a wide array of emotions, so I
Speaker 2: wanted to ask you, how are you feeling now and
Speaker 2: where are you in the journey of dealing with a
Speaker 2: new diagnosis.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I definitely appreciate you reaching out. That made
Speaker 3: me feel nice and cozy because I know you've sent
Speaker 3: through a lot of stuff. It was definitely scary, and
Speaker 3: I feel like it's a very common thing that no
Speaker 3: one really talks about. Yep. Because I was freaking out, like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, like what is this? I never I
Speaker 3: never heard of this, Like what am I to expect?
Speaker 3: Like what do I do? And then of course I
Speaker 3: went on TikTok and I put in cervical cancer ye,
Speaker 3: And there so many tiktoks of women like this is
Speaker 3: what happened. And I had to do this and I
Speaker 3: had to do that and now I'm fine, and like
Speaker 3: no one talks about it. So I'm like, you know what, eventually,
Speaker 3: when I get comfortable talking about this, I'm going to
Speaker 3: make a TikTok and just be like, listen, no one's
Speaker 3: talking about this. This is what I'm going through. Everything's
Speaker 3: going to be fine, but like, get your pap smears,
Speaker 3: get your checkups, because what happened to me was I
Speaker 3: always had this, but it was never pre cancerous or
Speaker 3: it was never like scary. My doctor was just always like,
Speaker 3: you have to come every six months so we can
Speaker 3: keep an eye on it and make sure nothing happens
Speaker 3: because you're supposed to go like every once two years,
Speaker 3: I think, but like I had to go over for
Speaker 3: six months because there was always abnormalities, yeah, in my tests.
Speaker 3: But then like I would go every six months and
Speaker 3: he would say, you have to come back to do
Speaker 3: like more, and it's just so uncomfortable and I hated
Speaker 3: it and it hurt and I just I didn't see
Speaker 3: him for two years and I ignored him and I
Speaker 3: was like, I'll be fine, it's all right. And then
Speaker 3: he ended up he ended up calling me and you know,
Speaker 3: left voicemails like you really need to get in here,
Speaker 3: like we have to stay on top of this to
Speaker 3: make sure nothing happened. I was like, all right. So
Speaker 3: then I would go to like the appointment and he
Speaker 3: would see pre cancer cells and I would have to
Speaker 3: go back. So that's when it started, right, and I
Speaker 3: was like that's fine. So that I didn't see him
Speaker 3: for another year. So then the doctor's office is like
Speaker 3: sending me letters like you have to schedule your appointment,
Speaker 3: like what are you doing? And I don't know. I
Speaker 3: think I was just like I didn't want there to
Speaker 3: be an issue or I didn't want to deal with it,
Speaker 3: so I ignored it. But then also like I hated
Speaker 3: going to it, like it's just uncomfortable and it's not
Speaker 3: fun and just being a woman is not fun at
Speaker 3: all when it comes to a pointments in your body
Speaker 3: and babies and it's just not easy and it's scary.
Speaker 3: So I just put it in the back of my mind.
Speaker 3: And then eventually my doctor, and this is the doctor
Speaker 3: who like birth all my three kids, like I've known
Speaker 3: him for years. He's like, you have to get your
Speaker 3: ass in here, right, he screaming, and I'm like, oh
Speaker 3: my god. So that's when I went in, and then
Speaker 3: I had to that. Then he was like, there's severe
Speaker 3: free cancer cells, like you have to come back for
Speaker 3: a colposcopy, and I'm like great, So I just I
Speaker 3: scheduled the appointments.
Speaker 2: I went in.
Speaker 3: He did it, which is very uncomfortable by the way,
Speaker 3: because they don't give you any pain meds or anesthesia.
Speaker 2: And it's literally a scraping of your cervix right oh,
Speaker 2: like a biopsy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a chunk of biopsy on both sides. So
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, that's very uncomfortable. So
Speaker 3: did that biopsy came back? Hi, you have cancer, so
Speaker 3: let's so let's do the I did the cone buiop.
Speaker 2: See okay.
Speaker 3: So that was like a couple of weeks later, where
Speaker 3: I had to get put under and then he put
Speaker 3: like a he he took out a cone shape with
Speaker 3: a knife where where all like the real cancer cells
Speaker 3: were like at the top of my service. So the
Speaker 3: next step I did was the pet scan to see
Speaker 3: if like spreads in my lymph nodes, because I guess
Speaker 3: I have the cancer where it goes to your lymp
Speaker 3: notes and that was good. That was good to spread anywhere,
Speaker 3: which is good because now I don't need you know, chemo.
Speaker 3: The next step is just to get the hysterectomy and
Speaker 3: then hopefully everything is good. So I still have to
Speaker 3: get that done. I've just been so crazy with work
Speaker 3: and traveling and yeah, everyone's yelling at me, so screw work,
Speaker 3: like you need to keep your health first. But I'm like,
Speaker 3: I know, but these dates are already scheduled, and I'm like
Speaker 3: it's very hard to shut down production.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And it's in another country and I'm just trying to
Speaker 3: get it done. So yeah, eventually I will get the
Speaker 3: hysterectom and everything will be good to just where I
Speaker 3: have to like go to the appoint and make sure
Speaker 3: I'm okay. Yeah, you know, like the pups and everything's
Speaker 3: it's always going to be in my body. But the
Speaker 3: good thing is that I caught it early and it's
Speaker 3: very common. And yeah, now, like my PSA is just
Speaker 3: like do your appointments. Don't do what I did and
Speaker 3: wait and let it faster. I mean, stress makes it worse.
Speaker 3: Like why not to be stressed and just go to
Speaker 3: your appointments and get it done because I'm an idiot.
Speaker 3: It ignored my doctor for like two years.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and you know, I remember that was one
Speaker 2: of my PSAs as well, because I knew. I was
Speaker 2: so happy I didn't ignore my appointments because in hindsight,
Speaker 2: don't you look back and think as annoying as those
Speaker 2: doctor's appointments were, having a hysterectomy is ten times more annoying.
Speaker 2: Now you've got a schedule that.
Speaker 3: Like, now I'm terrified, but I heard it's like it's
Speaker 3: easy breathing, It's not terrible. I think it was more
Speaker 3: of a shock that like, oh wow, like I can
Speaker 3: never have kids again, Like I'm done, Like I don't
Speaker 3: want any more kids, right, but knowing that I don't
Speaker 3: have that, I think that's where I had like the
Speaker 3: mental breakdown, like I don't know, like I'm going to
Speaker 3: feel like less of a mom or a woman. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I had really really weird thoughts in crime
Speaker 3: Shower about it.
Speaker 2: There are definitely strong emotions attached to all sorts of
Speaker 2: things that have to do with our health. And you know,
Speaker 2: like you said, yeah, it's like having that choice taken
Speaker 2: away from you is a different feeling than just knowing
Speaker 2: you're done having kids on your own volition exactly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I get that. Has opening up about your diagnosis publicly
Speaker 2: overall been a positive experience for you. Have you felt
Speaker 2: the love from people?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm like, oh my god, if I ever pass away,
Speaker 3: all these people are just going to be so sad
Speaker 3: because I had no idea how many people like loved
Speaker 3: me and reached out to me, even like people that
Speaker 3: I haven't talked to in years, like they wrote me
Speaker 3: like these beautiful text messages, and I just felt really loved,
Speaker 3: which was great because that, you know, that means you
Speaker 3: feel good. But yeah, I think you know the more
Speaker 3: of people like like fans and like random people dming
Speaker 3: me yeah and saying hey, I work at a guy
Speaker 3: in a collegist office, and we got so many calls
Speaker 3: because of your video. Thank you so much. So like
Speaker 3: everyone was just booking their appointments. I'm like, thank you,
Speaker 3: Like that was that was the whole point of why
Speaker 3: I was explaining my journey on what was going on.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad it worked and everyone's looking there. You know,
Speaker 3: everyone's booking their scans. Yeah. No. The fact that, like
Speaker 3: I'm still getting gms with people, like I finally went
Speaker 3: to my scan and now I'm going through what you're
Speaker 3: going through. They caught it early, and yeah, I'm getting
Speaker 3: a lot of those messages and I'm like, you got this,
Speaker 3: Like I'm the biggest scaredy cat in the world. I
Speaker 3: do not like pain, I don't suels, I don't like anything.
Speaker 3: So the fact that I'm just going and getting this
Speaker 3: done like you could do.
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