Welcome to Fit to Be Real and a little extra.
Oh my God.
We are a little nervous.
We have quite the chat for you today.
We know you love our sisterly dynamic duo.
Pete, do they?
They do.
Is okay.
So we have the OG sisterly duo with us.
OG.
Baby, who are whispering right now.
If you can hear them, they're whispering into the microphone thinking we can hear them.
So let's just get right into the introduction.
Here we go.
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys, I'm Carly.
I'm Carmella.
Hey girls.
I'm Vicki.
Vicki.
Do it again.
We need to hear that again.
Now do it exactly the same but way different.
Hey girl.
I'm Vicki.
Why are you a baritone?
She's so confused.
It's early in the morning.
It's 10 o'clock.
Yeah, it's 10 o'clock.
Well, I haven't talked much.
Well,
if you needed any other introduction, we couldn't have written it better.
We have Carmella and Vicki here with us.
So just to clarify, Vicki is our aunt and we all know Carm.
She's been here before but she's our mom and they are the original relectures.
I am going to preface this with our aunt Vicki's name is Victoria Guitara's Junta Abbot.
I was just going for Victoria.
Yeah.
But we also have a young Victoria and then mom.
Carmella.
And I am also Carmella.
So you have two Victorias and two Carmella.
I never realized that.
You're joking.
No.
You did it.
Mom.
She's got my whole name.
Oh my gosh.
That's right.
I look on Facebook.
I go that.
Oh, no, that's not me.
That's her.
That's mine.
Oh my gosh.
You named us.
I know.
But I never put the correlation together.
That you named Victoria after Vicki and me after you.
Yeah, I did that.
I did that.
But the two of us like Carmella Victoria, Carmella Victoria.
It's okay.
We're okay.
We'll be all right.
We're going to be all right.
So we wanted to have both of you on today to talk about what it's like for two reasons.
One, to work together as sisters, which is basically what we're doing, but you have been
doing it way longer.
And we also wanted to talk about fitness in your 70s.
Okay.
So glad you're on board.
Is that okay with you guys?
Okay.
Well, it's nice to know.
You go first.
We have an astual question.
So how long have you been working together?
We know you've done a bunch of jobs together, right?
We heard about the wallpapering business and the balloons.
That's the first was the balloons.
Yeah.
But how long have you been maybe Carmella's dance studio working together?
So it's 1995?
Oh, she's glitching 28 years.
This is the 27th, 28 years.
She does math like me.
No idea, but I think it's 27 or 28.
If you can't help the studio, but then we did the wallpapering business was way back at stages,
stages of imagination was 25 years.
Stages of imagination is their children's theater, which I know we've talked about before.
We started that.
We started working on that in 1990.
So yeah, that's a long time ago.
Yeah.
How's it going?
What the relationship or the or all the things we worked on both?
The only thing that's left is the studio, but we'll work on that.
Yes.
But stages of imagination lasted how long?
25 years.
Yeah.
That's a long time he did her blood, sweat and tears in that.
And then we both became grandmothers.
Yeah.
And we said we can't do both.
So we picked grandmother.
Do your fault.
Sorry, my bad.
No, no, I had something to do with it.
It's her fault.
Yeah.
Her bad.
Yeah.
And they were really wonderful shows and it was a great time because Vicki would say,
okay, let's meet at 703 by the bagel shop.
703.
Seriously.
Because and that was before GPS.
She would map quest it and decide how long it would take with traffic.
Oh my gosh.
Remember 703.
Remember writing it down on a piece of paper and then saying and now what?
And now what?
Right.
And then and then yeah.
Yeah.
And called Joe and everybody and say the directions are wrong.
Take a left, not a right.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
I forgot.
I had forgotten all that bad stuff.
All I remembered was applause.
Oh my gosh.
You wonder where I get.
I get a little from both.
I get all the my math skills from my mom and my.
The numbers are definitely Vicki's game.
Yes.
Oh no.
Am I a good actress?
Yeah.
Absolutely not.
No, believe it or not.
She does everything.
I'll map her head and I need a calculator.
Yeah.
Well, Marley doesn't do any of it.
Well, smart people usually use the calculator.
Yeah, but she she really doesn't.
I don't.
I don't use either.
So I don't.
I used to weigh tables in New York and I was the only waitress who didn't have to pay
out the restaurant at the end of the night because I was the only one to use my head
and not a computer.
Calculate or words.
Sorry, she was acting.
No, I wasn't.
Okay.
How did Vicki end up doing the booking and the accounting for the dance studio?
Well, can I answer that?
No, yes, you absolutely can.
Because I know the answer.
Go ahead.
When the lights were turned off.
She said, why are the lights turned off?
And I said, I think he didn't maybe pay the bill.
No, that's not what happened.
I opened the dance studio for a year and I ran it by myself.
Yes, you did.
And then when I went to the accountant, he looked at my books and said, you're fired.
You need someone to run your business.
And that's when you stepped in.
Well, Car, then a year.
If I know it was here, but your lights were turned off one time.
I don't remember that.
And you're like, I don't have any lights.
And I said, Carmel, did you pay the bill?
No.
And you're like, I don't know.
Probably not.
I don't remember paying any bills.
I think you did.
That's the point.
I don't think you did.
And that's why Vicki.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't think I did.
And Carmel.
I know, I know, I know.
That's why I got yelled at.
That's why I got fired.
Yes.
He said, you're not going to be in business much longer.
You need to have a partner.
So that's how we became.
Yeah, but Car, if he said that somebody to run your business and you picked me.
Yeah.
That was pretty, that was pretty dumb.
Well, you said I'll do it.
Yeah, I know.
But run your business.
No.
Yeah, you can.
Vic, it looks like you've been doing a good job though.
It's left to 28 years.
Yeah.
Say the other half.
We are the other half of each other's brain.
I'm going to interject your podcast, your episode right now.
I'm going to interject and say, I do know that Vicki walks on the treadmill as she goes on her,
as you do your work on the computer.
She does.
The only person I know to work on the computer, do all of the things you need to do while working, walking on the treadmill.
Well, you're not the only, but you are definitely the first one I've ever heard of because you got,
you started and wanted to do that before it was like a thing and now it's a thing.
And before that, you had the big ball chair too.
Yeah, I did.
I sat on one of those gym ball things and I would bounce up and down.
You didn't ask our ages.
Normally people don't like that, but sure, mom, how old are you?
I'm 70.
That, wait, that's Vicki.
No.
It's the same.
Vicki, how old are you?
I'm 77 and never better.
That's right.
And I'm 70.
Then she could be a little better.
She's on the edge.
I could be a little better.
So I've been saying that never better thing since I was about 52 because I'm trying to make myself believe it.
Well, it is one of your longest.
Vicki's jokes are probably what is she is best known for?
Vicki's jokes are, you've never heard a joke like that.
They're legendary.
She's also the best audience.
You can say hello and she thinks it's funny and she's the best audience.
But there is a sister in between and our aunt Jeannie, but she does not work at the dance studio.
She volunteers and does the recitals and she's a dance grandma and she's always there to help.
But she does not officially work at the studio and there is a sister in between.
Because I think of all three of you work together.
Oh, it would be chaos.
More chaos than it is now.
I don't know.
We each have our strengths.
Yeah, that's true.
What are they?
Identified.
Yeah, yeah.
All the rooms.
She said, I can't identify them.
Well, that brings us to our next question.
Who is actually the boss?
Oh, Vicki.
Oh, no, no, no.
Vicki is the one who I'm afraid to say things to because she's going to say, oh, Carmella, why did you do that?
Well, when you lose a check and it's in a box full of say, flowers or something.
It was in a box full of flowers.
You'll find it a year later.
I mean, she also loses her skirt in public places.
So I can understand why it might be Vicki.
And she never did find skirt.
I think that's when it works best, though, when the other one always thinks the other one is the boss.
You know what I mean?
She's got so much in her head that cannot be deciphered.
It's fatty acid.
No, I mean, she knows every student and what classes they take and how they move from this one to that one.
And when they started it, my expertise, thank you, comes with my computer with my database that I have.
Which I have no idea what.
Oh, we know how to turn a computer on.
Therefore, I use my cell phone for everything.
Fun fact, when she did use a computer, it was before iPads and touch screens, it was like a big desktop.
And she used to hit the computer screen because she didn't know that the keyboard was how you controlled the computer.
She would just hit send on the actual screen instead of using a mouse.
And now she can't stop clicking things because things aren't happening fast enough.
So it's completely gone in the other direction.
That's true.
My phone freezes.
You just have a block.
You don't want to learn and that is that's it.
No, that's not true.
She, I do, I would love to learn.
But now I would love to learn.
Her brain is just too old.
It learned how to use Instagram.
Very quickly.
Oh, Dory, the pandemic I did.
Oh, yeah.
Every day I get too instant.
Oh, that's it?
That's it?
Well, I don't do Instagram.
Yeah, so it's a process to get this editor.
82.
No, mom, I got 12 this morning before I saw you.
So you don't give it.
You don't get as many.
We guess what?
He's rolling in his grave because you you sent me seven this morning, mom.
I did.
I did not.
Are you blackout sending?
She's fatty acid in her brain.
So fatty.
There we go.
I don't send Instagrams, but I send newspaper clippings.
Yeah, I read an article.
So that's where I am.
She was the original.
I read an article, but she actually read the article.
She didn't lie and say she heard it on MPR, but really saw it on Instagram.
I have one ready to go today.
Okay, great.
To all the nieces and nieces in laws about nutrition.
So cool.
Be aware it's coming.
Okay.
Can't wait.
Can you ask me about being 70 and fit?
We'll get there.
Okay.
I don't think we're here today.
You know what?
What's it like being 70 and fit?
Let's just get into it.
Well, I've been wanting to advertise this to the world for a while.
I think about it all the time, but I didn't know how to get it out there.
Right.
I've been dancing my whole life, but I haven't done sit-ups correctly, push-ups correctly,
planks correctly, burpees correctly, anything until I've been going to see fit.
And they tell you, they remind you, pull your belly buttons in, lower your shoulders,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And I do that and it makes, and that's how I save my back, save my knees.
Oh, wiggle those toes so that all your weight is on your heels when in a squat.
I never knew that.
Oh, man, that's see fit sounds amazing.
That those see fit people really sound great.
So I can do squats and burpees and all that stuff at 70 with no problem because I'm doing them correctly.
Thank you.
Thank you for that statement.
Well, Vicki and Carmella are also our biggest fans.
If you haven't noticed, they are our PR.
They are always trying to get us to the next level.
And I think that's because they, they did the scene before we did, not in the same effect in fitness,
but they did their stages of imagination, all their businesses, and they are now living vicariously through us, which is super fun.
Super.
Well, I do have to tell you that our first two businesses really weren't very thriving.
No, they didn't thrive even a little bit.
No, but we left a lot.
That would be wallpaper and ballooning.
Yes.
That wasn't scripted.
No.
So tell us about the dynamic of working together because I would imagine as sisters,
no, I'm going to finish my thought.
Okay.
Put your breath away.
As sisters, there are moments where you get annoyed with each other.
Uh-oh, correct.
Yes.
Vicki said no.
Yeah, but, but it's like the other day when you, when you were like on the phone, you were like, oh, on the phone.
I was like, oh, Carmella.
And then, and then I said, 10 minutes later, like, I'm sorry, I was so grouchy.
And that's what I do too.
And I'll say, oh, I'm sorry, I was grouchy.
And it, it, I mean, I know that she's just grouchy sometimes.
And I know, and I know that I'm just grouchy sometimes.
Carly never apologizes.
Carly doesn't know how to apologize.
10 minutes later, I, I sent her a text.
Hey, I'm so sorry.
I'm grouchy.
The little little good.
This happened.
Not a lot of people speak English with you.
But I don't have to speak English with Vicki.
Well, that's the other thing is that I don't know if it's because we're sisters
or just that we've been doing it so long.
And if like two friends did it this long, but we kind of are on the same wavelength.
Like most of the time, except the text she sent last night, I could not understand at all.
But then again, I was tired and.
Don't blame yourself, Vicki.
It's okay.
Sometimes it's her fault.
It is.
Well, I just didn't understand that.
I was like, oh, well, I'm going to see her tomorrow morning.
And, and then the other thing is now people will be at a party and something will come
into one of our heads and we'll just, it's like part of life.
It's, it's not like business and life and family.
It's like this.
There's that language again.
It's easy that way.
Yeah.
And, and we do take we do take a responsibility for our grouchiness and our.
That's stupid.
Carly could learn a little from that.
I don't think Carly has ever said the words.
I am sorry.
I say anything, but that wasn't supposed to happen.
Truly.
She just never said the words.
I'm sorry.
Do you do you say you're sorry?
Yes.
Teacher.
Oh, I'm trying.
I'm tired.
There's a little dog buttons over there.
So I approach it and say, say, I'm sorry, Carly.
I say I'm sorry and then I'll come back in and like buy her gifts.
I'm like, no, you don't say you're sorry.
No, no, I say through buying you presents.
You're a toxic relationship.
She is not.
She's like, oh, but I really need coffee.
So I'll take the coffee.
I don't need the I'm sorry, whatever.
Just give it to me.
Yeah, you know, see, that's the thing about being being together
since birth gives us like a shorthand.
I know you have that shorthand because I've seen it.
Victoria and Carly when she backhands me with the shorter hand.
Literally will backhand me.
One hand is shorter than the other.
It's a thing with her.
But Carly wants to backhand Victoria.
But I don't have a shorter hand.
But she doesn't.
She just, you know, simmers buys her coffee, buys her coffee.
Well, really only with Carmella and Jeannie to like with the three of us
who are together, they're losing their car.
Have you guys been listening to yourselves?
Do I ever, did you know, laugh until like really you're going to die?
Belly left.
Yeah. Like you lose your breath and you're like, stop, stop, stop.
Every Tuesday.
What was the original question?
I forgot.
All right.
Wait a minute.
You she talked about being 70.
Yeah.
And I'm working out.
Well, we're not there yet.
But she jumped the gun.
She's so sorry.
So sorry.
She jumped like five questions.
Okay.
Moving on because no one can remember the question.
Certainly are not going to move back.
What we talked about some of the pros about being sisters and working together.
Are there any cons or do you guys not talk badly about each other at all?
I don't think so.
No.
Um, the cons are there are some say so there are some, but Jeannie will say at a party.
Okay.
Can you two stop?
Well, that would be that would be my con.
Yeah.
We never stopped talking about see fit and then people say, oh,
Victoria didn't tell you.
I said, no, we don't talk.
And if we do talk, it's about see fit.
Right.
Well, but that's what I meant that like to me, that was a pro that no matter where
we are or what we're doing, if something dawns on me that she needs to know, I tell her
about it and I then forget about it until she sends me a text.
Well, but but Jeannie says, will you two stop talking business?
But we don't really talk business.
We just.
It's a little census.
Yes.
But it's, you know, I was thinking the other day, like people say, when you go to retire,
retire me too.
And I'm like, what would I do?
I would be so bored.
Yeah.
I was actually really, this is what I was thinking about the other day.
It was it was taxes and I was, I don't want to use the word stressed because I wasn't stressed.
Just like when you're in college, sorry, Carmella is giving us the side.
I like you.
I mean, she's been talking about how stressed you were all week.
No, I'm not.
I'm telling you, I'm not stressed.
I'm focused.
I'm focused and I like that focus.
And then now yesterday after the taxes were mostly done, I saw a couple things to do,
but I focused on two issues and I was thinking, you know, what would I do if I didn't do that?
I'd have to go out and get another job because I'm not going to sit around and watch TV or
read novels as much as I'd love to read novels.
I have to walk on my treadmill while I read them.
So I might as well be helping somebody do something.
Survive my treadmill.
And also, Daddy asked you to take care of me.
That was not for public knowledge.
I think you have overextended.
I don't think he meant for the rest of your born days.
Well, he didn't ask me just to take care of you.
He asked me to take care of you and Jeannie.
Well, here's my other thing.
Did you learn how to do all of the books and accounting and all the business side or did
you learn as you go?
Oh, honey, I usually learn after I make a big mistake and then I go back.
Same.
Either somebody tells me or I look, oh, guess what?
What?
See, we had a friend doing our, this is what I zone out.
I can tell.
We had a friend doing the studio taxes for years and he would do Excel and he would put
it, I would give him all the stuff and he'd put it in Excel and he'd say, you don't need
to learn it.
Okay.
So now he's not doing it anymore.
So I thought it was really, really hard to collate all this stuff.
So I started just Googling.
How do you do blah, blah, blah, whatever on Excel?
And I get the answer.
And I was learning how to do Excel.
It's like magic.
It is like magic to me.
And I was so proud.
See, you said, how do you learn?
I was so proud of myself that now it wasn't perfect.
And when we went to the CPA, she was like, blah, blah, blah, blah, and she did all these.
Wow, that language again really comes out of nowhere.
We have to learn it.
But I feel empowered now in an Excel beginner.
Yeah, no, I agree.
We usually make a big mistake and then fix it and go back.
But so we're just repeating history.
Yeah, cool.
Cool, cool, cool.
Well, when you major in theater, theater and English, you don't have, you know...
We're not doing any of those things.
Yeah, none of us majored in business.
And believe me, I would have been dead of boredom in college if I had major in business.
But I agree.
I agree.
But we're, that's good.
You know, we're learning.
But I feel like maybe one of us should have minored in it.
That could have helped maybe a little bit of all of us if one of us minored in business.
But, and after all these years, I think, geez, my friends are all retiring.
They all have 401Ks.
They all have Sally Mayes, whatever they are.
Which Sally Mayes?
I have no idea what a Sally May is and I'd love to meet her.
I think it's a mortgage card.
Don't worry about it.
Welcome, everyone, to the main event.
And I think I should have done a nine to five job.
Carl, you do have a 401K.
Vicki knows because she does all of your banking.
I didn't know that.
But however, I think I should have done a nine to five job.
We're screwed.
I would have hated my life.
Yeah.
I worked a nine to five job.
My first job out of school, out of Immaculata at a hospital, a local hospital who shall
remain unnamed because it was horrible, oh, horrible.
The days were 29 hours long.
And I sat behind a desk and I couldn't wait to get up to say I had to go to the bathroom
or to walk to the cafeteria for lunch.
It was awful, awful.
Yeah.
And we just, we, and you two don't have that.
It's just not in our DNA.
It's not.
But as you were saying, you were giving us a little of your acting expertise there
when you said that line that it was horrible.
No, I want you to tell us, you've been in some movies.
Tell us what movies you've been in.
Okay.
No, I just got out of breath from that.
For the acting.
From the acting.
Yeah.
She has her masters in theater from Villanobas.
It was kind of like a hobby.
So tell them the movie.
Wide awake was a little small role that I was very happy to.
That was not a small role.
Post-starring with Rosie O'Donnell.
No.
That was a big role.
We went to your premiere.
Yeah, but it was a small role.
But so I met knight Shaumelann and he was a very nice young man.
Oh my gosh.
He was like so young, but he was so sweet.
There was the other movie I see that people.
Sixth Sense.
This little flick called Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis.
Bruce Willis.
Yeah.
Haley Joel Osmit.
Well, the...
Demi Moore.
Demi named some more?
The funny thing was, I don't think Demi Moore was there.
Oh, nope.
Nope.
She was married to Bruce.
Carmella Schuch.
Oh, right.
She was just married to Bruce Willis.
She was not in the movie.
Mighty Max.
The Mighty Max.
But I was just a nun in the gym.
No, what we would call cheerleading nun.
I had to teach all these other people how to be nun nuns.
They had no clue.
But anyway.
Oh, you were also in blowout with John Travolta.
And that was just as an extra.
That was my first extra job.
Me too.
Yeah.
So you do what she does?
Pretty much.
She...
I pretty much...
I was in the union until I was making money.
Yeah, I wasn't in the union.
I think I made $50 for the whole day.
She just showed up.
Yeah.
Vicki was like, just come with me.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
And here's what you wear.
And here's what you bring.
And you have to pack a carload of clothes so the assistant directors can say, wear this,
put this on, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you bring everything you own.
And then, yeah.
So, yeah.
And I went also the one that was filmed up in Kensington.
Oh, fighting back.
I forgot about that.
I had a nice role in fighting back.
There's just no way to segue.
So we're moving on.
Okay.
First of all, I need to ask you a question.
What does it feel like you're looking at a mirror?
I'm a little nervous, to be honest with you.
I'm sitting here with my mouth wide open being like, oh my gosh, this is a look into our
future.
I'm scared.
I see dead people.
But who is who?
Oh, no, we know who's who.
We know exactly who's who.
And that's what's so scary.
No.
I at least get Vicky.
No, I think you two really each are an amalgam that, so it's not like pure Carmella or pure
Vicky.
You are an amalgam of each.
So you're still bringing your various parts.
Amalgam means combination.
Okay.
Thank you.
That was for mom, too.
Sorry.
I'm the math person and I don't know what amalgam means.
That's not math.
It is, isn't it?
No, I think we're pretty clear on who's who.
I thought it was algorithm.
No, I don't do algorithms.
Yep.
Future looks bright.
Yep.
Hey, listen, who do you know that goes to work and laughs until they can't breathe and
raises your spirits and brightens your outlook.
And that's what you have to look forward to.
And it's, but you work hard and believe me, we worked very hard.
We loaded and unloaded the van in the snow, like in Philadelphia.
It had snow.
We had to dig.
And we had to dig.
Did I hit the table?
No.
You guys just get very detailed in your story.
Well, I'm just telling you, we worked really hard, just like you do.
Yeah.
Really hard.
But we laughed really hard, too.
It's really fun.
I mean, it's just so much fun.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
Yeah.
Nice.
All right, Vicki.
Yes, Carly.
Let's talk about you being 77.
You work out three to five times a week.
Talk about that.
That's just that C-Fit.
That's, yeah.
You walk as well.
Every day.
Well, no, I stopped walking in the cold.
When I go to C-Fit, it's not working out.
I'm going to dance.
That's what I'm going to do.
And that's what I look forward to.
And the fact that it makes me work out 298 calories in the 45-minute class, that's the
most I've ever gotten.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Oh, wow.
And of course, my heart rate goes up to 160.
And I monitor that.
That is just like work with Carmela.
It's dance, go dance with the kids.
Go dance with the girls.
Yes, but you do it so that you can avoid osteoporosis, bone health.
And I do do arm work at home.
And you do weights?
Yeah, arm work.
I do arm work at home.
And you cut down your, you don't have to take medication because the doctor said, for osteoporopenia.
Did you just make up that word?
That algorithm, you know?
Osteopina.
Well, yeah.
She did.
She said, whatever you're doing, keep on doing it because you're doing well.
Okay.
And what I'm doing is going to see fit and banging my heels.
And so that's what I do.
And how would you give advice or tell someone else in your age range that maybe hasn't started
working out or getting back into a workout routine that it's not, you know, it's not
too late and you should and you could.
And how would you keep motivated?
Well, I'd say like find something that you can enjoy doing.
Maybe start just walking around the block.
And if you want to listen to a podcast, this one.
See, specifically this episode.
No, no, this series or whatever and do that.
But if you have to make it something that you look forward to.
Oh, I didn't ever like the sweat.
That's another thing.
You still don't.
Well, I don't sweat much, but that's just Jean.
But she really doesn't like this.
I can remember back when I was.
Those are like bugs.
My first.
My.
Anything else, mom?
Anything else you want to tell?
My first experience at a Robic Dance when my friend said, come let's do a Robic Dance.
I was like, oh, you mean those sweaty women that we see leave class after yoga because
I was into yoga at that time.
And so she said, please, I don't want to go by myself.
I was like, all right.
And then I was hooked.
And that was the beginning of my journey.
Well, addiction to exercise and dance, dancing with exercise.
Yeah.
So the advice is just figured out.
No, no, no, no, no.
What you do is you find a gym, a la see fit where it's very comfortable, very pressure
free and you do what you can.
I really would love some of my girlfriends to start to believe that they can do what
they can and get their heart rate up just and have fun at the same time.
Like if they would only get their heart rate up and have fun at the same time.
Yeah, but I know exactly what you're saying, Karen.
And I, I try to talk to people when I see they're there for the first time, especially
if they're older like I am and I'll say, just move to the music.
Just you don't have to kick your legs up in the air like all these young kids do.
Just pick it up a little bit.
And then the first thing you know, you're picking it up a little bit higher and you're,
but people get, you know, they don't want to try.
Well, it's intimidating sometimes, especially in your 70s, I think, to start something new
in general.
You're coming by yourself, but then you get there and you see, we just took a picture
in yesterday's class of everybody over 60 in our class with the 20 year olds.
There were also just as many 20 year olds, but there were what eight people over their
60s, mostly in their 70s.
And they got just as good a workout as the 20 year olds.
Well, while this whole episode has been one fun game, very nice linear conversation.
And the thing is, your input today has been top notch.
I'm nervous, I'm nervous, Frank.
Why?
Because I can't move my hand and I can't move my feet.
We're going to take a picture of what she looks like while she's sitting here because
we gave her one job.
You cannot bang the table with the microphone because we can hear it.
So after the 13th time she did it, we had to raise our voice.
We had to.
And so she's been trying to either keep her hands and armpits or sit on her hands or
stamp her feet.
Once that happened, Vicki started hitting the microphone and then coughing.
So it's just going to joy.
Godspeed if you're still with us.
Yeah.
So we're going to actually play a game.
Oh.
Oh, very two different personalities here.
And the game is called the stages of your imagination.
Oh, they're so happy.
They're so happy.
I'm so excited.
Okay.
I'm going to ask you questions.
It's rapid fire.
Rapid fire.
There's no time for specifics.
There's no time for stories.
It's like family food.
No chatting.
There's no talking.
Just the answer.
No talking.
Yep, like that.
Okay.
Just we've lost Victoria, the young one.
We've lost the young Victoria and there's no way I can see this.
There's nothing I'm going to be able to see.
She's crying, but she's crying, laughing.
It's fine.
We haven't even gotten to the game yet.
I'm nervous.
No talking.
Okay.
Ready?
Just answer the question.
It's between you two.
The answer is either Carmella or the answer is either Vicki.
Those are the only answers.
Okay.
Can we both answer?
You both have to answer.
Oh, okay.
Who is the ultimate troublemaker in the family?
Carmella.
Vicki.
Me.
Sorry.
Can we do that again?
We're not doing it again.
Who's the better storyteller?
Vicki.
You didn't answer, Vick.
I know because.
Who's the more nostalgic person?
Me.
Oh, yeah, you were too.
Who's the more adventurous person?
Carmella.
Me.
Who's more likely to have an imaginary friend?
You.
Me.
Who forgets birthdays or anniversaries?
Neither one of us.
No.
Yeah, we were right.
Remind each other.
Yeah.
Oh, how sweet.
Who's the sleepiest?
Vicki.
Yeah, me.
Who laughs at the wrong moment?
Carmella.
Me.
Who spends all their money on stupid things?
Carmella.
Me.
Who cries during sad movies?
Me.
Vicki.
Me.
Who sleeps through their alarms?
I did this morning.
Okay.
I never had.
Yeah.
Well, yes, I had.
I had to get my balls while walking.
Carmella.
Who talks in their sleep?
Oh, yeah, I do.
I wouldn't know.
Who gets lost in familiar places?
Carmella.
Both of us.
Who's the messiest in the family?
Vicki.
Yeah.
Vicki.
Yeah.
Vicki.
Yeah.
Vicki.
Who's constantly late?
No, either one of us anymore.
We used to be both of us.
We did.
You're both wrong.
Yeah.
Who always has their phone battery die?
Carmella.
Me.
Carmella.
Who has the most interesting dreams?
Oh, interesting dreams.
I had a wonderful dream last night.
Okay.
It's the rapid fire.
Okay.
Who binge watches TV shows?
Carmella.
Who's the neat freak?
Neither one of us.
Who's a fitness enthusiast?
Both of us.
Me too.
Carmella.
Who's the clumsiest?
Carmella.
Who fixes tech issues?
Vicki.
Who breaks into laughter at silliest jokes?
Vicki.
Who has the neatest handwriting?
Vicki.
Who is the fashionista?
Carmella.
That's not a question, mom.
That's not a question.
It's not Vicki.
We love you, Vicki, but it's not you.
Okay.
Last one.
Who's your favorite season sister, Carly or Victoria?
Both of them.
You won.
You were supposed to pick.
You know what?
I don't care.
You know what?
I don't care.
I was going to say, I know it's going to be hard for you to
edit it, but I don't care.
I would do this every day.
Just buy her coffee.
Don't say it.
Don't apologize.
Just buy her coffee.
She'll be fine.
I feel bad that she has to.
No.
Just go to five below, get her a lot of cheap gifts, bring
them in in a bag the next day, and she'll forget why she's
mad at you.
It's tried and true almost every week.
What do you do?
What do you do so that Carly's not mad at you?
I apologize.
Like a grown adult.
That's cute.
This episode had no other purpose than to explain us to you
all.
You should have told us that.
No, mom.
She's sort of kidding.
It was to talk about being in your 70s working out and
figuring out where you came from.
Did you get your answer?
We're not sure.
I don't remember the question.
At this point.
And we rolled with it.
Did you roll with it?
Did you lean with it and rock with it too?
Because we just we laughed so much that we forgot the
question.
But that's your problem.
Oh, well.
I would love to end this with the original hustlers singing
the hustler theme song.
I'm a hustler, baby.
Baby.
That's perfect.
We can't finish any other way.
I just went by pants.
I think it's the vibrato at the end.
We should we should interview them.
I'm pretty sure you just did that the whole episode.
You told us what to ask and when.
You interviewed yourself.
Actually, we didn't have to be here.
In all seriousness.
We hope you have gotten something out of these
generations of just stories and personalities and a little
bit of what it's like to work with a family member and
someone as close as a sister because it has ups, it has
downs.
And sometimes it has apologies.
Sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes it has a secret language.
And sometimes you have absolutely know what the hell
they're talking about.
But this is where we came from.
And this is how it started in the dynamic duo of just
jumping in with two feet and hoping for the best and
apologizing after the fact or not at all.
Or not at all.
No, I was going for the phrase of don't ask for an
approval given apology.
Don't ask for permission.
Ask for forgiveness.
That's right.
Is that what you were going for?
Yes.
Yep.
That's just 30 years ago.
We hope you left a little today.
We hope you got some sort of information from it all.
And we want to thank both of you truly for taking the time to
come in and talk through all of this with us.
And we want you all up there to remember that you are
always fit to be real and always allowed to be a little
extra.
Say bye-bye.
Bye.
See you later.
I mean, if you're going to keep it going, keep it going.
Adios, amigos.
Sweet dreams, baby.
Bye.
Ciao.
Arriva a verci.
A vervoie.
And done.
So, if any of you,
we are not medical people.
So,
please talk to your physician
or your therapist and let's talk about
the medical thing.
We have a lot of medical people.
Please talk to your physician or your therapist and let
us know what they say.
We'd like to know it too.
Bye-bye.
She's memorized your monologue.
Bye.