We Wish You A Mommy Christmas: Episode 87 with Joe Gatto and Steve Byrne

Published Dec 24, 2024, 3:00 PM

It’s that magical time of the year again and the moms are back with a very special Christmas episode! Find out what the moms asked for from Santa this year before their annual gift exchange. Who will be left ‘spinning’ and, one gift that has its own secret! 

This episode the moms answer your burning holiday questions from favorite movies to real or fake Christmas trees. Plus, what are some of their favorite holiday traditions from childhood to fatherhood. All on this very special edition of Two Cool Moms! 

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One, two three. We wish you a mommy Christmas. We wish you a mommy Christmas.

We wish you a mommy Christmas.

And happy mommy, Joseph. Happy by the holidays. You look, you look fantastic. It is our Christmas quickie.

That's what we're going.

Christmas quikie. This is what we call this stocking stuff.

That's right, Oh nice, because everybody knows what the holidays is. We've got no time, the hustle and bustle.

We gotta yeah, don't listen to spend a little bit of time with us. Yes, but go hug a loved one. Hug a love one, and that is our gift to you. That's our gift and to them and to the hugs.

Go hug somebody.

The shoes match they do, there we go.

They do we hugg enough. You think, sorry, we're hugg alow guys. You have a lot of hugglo guys.

Or your big handshake guy, uh, I like a handshaker.

Yeah, you know you.

You were very you push you off the dog for a while. It took me a long time to break in past that barrier.

Why the stone wall.

Stevie, what's the matter With some affection from a loving male. I went in to hug you a lot, and I remember the moment where we got on a hugglo.

Yeah.

I mean I'm never hugged now now you are, because you know I don't like getting massages.

No, you're a spa guy.

Oh, I love myself a spot. That's what I asked for from Santa for Christmas?

Is that what you did?

I did?

I want to go to the spa a little repsky, little robsky. The dog's are barking. Man, I've been walking. I've been running around this country making people.

I didn't that's new. It's new. Just started. Happened by accident. I fell asleep.

The woman's up in there doing it already, and then I was like, oh, this isn't too bad. The whoofy Woofi is like the rugby rubbies.

And I got my dog stopped barking the guy and fell asleep and that was it was. I loved it.

So when you fall asleep during.

A love a good glute rub, when they get up in there with the elbow, it's all connected.

To your ass.

Everybody knows that what all all roads ended your ass? Okay, Joe, everything's connected right up to the glutes. This sounds like something you'd hear. It's like something you're at a bar, Chelsea. It's ant makes please don't make me cut.

I'm not I know.

But when you is that in actuality, like when it comes to massage, because I don't get them, so I don't know.

How's your ass firm?

Flat?

That's right.

If you started get the massages, it would release a lot of the like you pull the.

On a life vest pulls out. Yeah, no, a lot of connects there.

You get, well, then why would more people get like a people get glue rubs.

You get up there because you're honestly, it goes all up into your glutes.

It's a big muscle. You know, your butt's a big muscle.

Glutens.

I guess yeah, And I guess, and you spend a lot of time sitting, so that's not good for you for your butt.

What do you mean I spend a lot of time sitting sitting?

We will sit, Yeah, we all sit. I'm in you, the universe, the royal you.

But you you really genuinely do like a good massage for me.

It's partly that, but it's more the joke where I could say to the person when they say, hey, do you want us to focus on anything?

That's what they say to you in the spot.

Is there any Problemary should we stay away from or is anything like? It's a focus on I say, don't be afraid of the feet and get up in them glutes.

I say that as I look them right in the eyes.

And it's so fun for me because I don't break and they don't know if I'm serious, and that's what they just go.

So you're committed to a joke for ninety minutes and yeah, and I get the gloues rub.

How about a sweetish what's the one with the rock that I've done?

A hot rock?

Hot rock? Hot rock sounds interesting.

Hot rock's not bad.

They just put a rock on you and they just they rock it.

Don't stop it, they stop it, don't rock they take it. They put the rocks in the microwave so they were.

Warm rock ok, and they put them all across the spine.

But then they use them in their hands as basically instead of using their elbow to dig deep, they use the hote like that.

That's not bad. Swedish is for me is just dumb.

They basically get pet it's basically just a petting session Swedish.

Which.

But a tie is like they're gonna be oh, you don't want to.

Tie goes to the runner. You don't want to do that at all. That that's what you're going to fight. You're get to fight. A tie is like you just came out. It's like, well that.

You don't know if you should tip them or punch them in the face. That's ridiculous. They grabbed the bars up top, they tap dance on you.

Yeah, that's nuts. That is nuts. The tie one is.

But it's a woman that looks like my mom. Yeah, like she's five foot two, eighty three pounds and just beating the shit out of you.

I remember I went once with my brother in law Vinnie, big guy, you know, my brother in law. Yeah, he's the best. You know, he's a gentleman that beat Murray in the pinata suit. Great, big dude. Right, it's three hundred you know it, three hundred pounds six for four muscle.

Right, we go.

We're at the Borgado down in Atlantic City and we go for the spot that it's like, let's go, We're gonna go spot.

The sisters go, now wee. Now the guys are waiting. They called out there.

Like Joe I got up on ladies like hello, And then there was this she couldn't been five foot nothing.

She was five foot nothing. Hands were the size of like toddlers, right, and she goes.

Vincent stands up and she looked at him and went, oh no, and we.

Busted out laughing.

Yeah, she's gonna need some Like I was like, I was like, I hope you booked a four hour massage because that's how much time it's going.

To take to get around your whole body. Yeah, it was very funny. Yeah, what'd you ask for for? Sannah Uh?

I don't ask for much from saying what's the is there like, single handedly the greatest gift you've ever gotten in your life.

We've talked about my Nintendo when I was younger. That was just a core memory for me. I think I've gotten but I will say my wife got me a record player, which I didn't even know I wanted, and then I started getting some vinyl, and I loved to listen to music that way, and me and my daughter have bonded over that, and I think that's pretty cool.

So I think that's probably one of the best gifts I've ever gotten.

Do you appreciate it?

Like, what is it you appreciate more about vinyl? I just think it takes more intention to listen to it. Right, you're committing committing to it, you throw it on. It feels a little different that you're gonna be like, I'm gonna listen to music.

I use it when I write a lot, So it's in my office, my record player, so I lock in and write.

I think that's good.

Coincidentally, one of my other favorites was the quirdy board. Did you ever see this thing? It's a bluetooth typewriter that's a keyboard for your computer, but it's an old school typewriter real.

And it's bluetooth. It's the coolest thing ever.

It's an old school typewriter.

Right, that's bluetooth, so when you write on your computer, you're writing with it. It makes you write so much better. Really, it's so much fun for me personally.

I love it. Yeah, pretty sure. It's called the quirdy board.

And when you hit return, does do the whole thing?

Or is no? No, No, it's right. It's just a bluetooth keyboard.

But it has the same tactile as a keyboard as a typewriter, the same like leverage when you push your little metal stems.

Oh, that's pretty interesting.

All the things are in the right spots. Yeah, it's cool.

You write handwritten not really not jokes, yeah, sometimes, And I know you're a big journal guy. You're like a big having a book with you, right, you love it. Don't you retire your notebooks after each special Yeah? I thought I saw that on Instagram. You do that, right, So you write your all your jokes and you have all your journals you've ever written, besides the one that you lost once I got stolen there.

Yeah, and everything. I have everything from literally day one.

It's amazing.

And I have three notebooks of just suicide letters.

So it was happy holidays, man, yeah, holidays.

But Hey, speaking of which, I got you a gift.

Oh, I got you a gift. Okay, great, he go first here, I'll just start off. I'll do one at a time. I got you this.

How did you know I needed wi?

You said? You said there were so many in the lobby.

I was like, oh, you should get one of those two?

And then did you get this from the construction area?

And I get you this make every podcast want you? That's uh.

When we walked in the lobby, you go, oh, there's so many of these books Kimberlee Spencer.

Yeah there you go.

Yeah, yeah, I got that for you too. Yeah.

How to be radically interesting?

Yeah, yeah, right, there's no like last minute.

It's just like.

Okay, well it was right, Okay, we'll just do this one at a time. It's the holidays, and I know it's funny you brought up vinyls.

No, you are.

Not going to believe this. You want not gona believe this when I tell this, tell you this.

I picked this up and put it down because I couldn't take it with me when I was on the road last weekend.

Are you serious?

Swear?

I was in a vintage store and I was there, Oh that is so weird because you that is so cool.

It's just it's a Charlie Brown Christmas vinyl. Oh my dude, I actually listened to it.

I love that this and then I got this one because I know you'll listen to that's like the Inspector and it's all like the.

The other one's cool. You should have gave me this one first. Sorry, this is just Spector.

Says legend of Wu Tang is great, Wu Tang's greatest.

It's it's so funny that you bought me vinyl.

And I said that I love you, buddy Universal for somebody Else's Steve and that's you know, it's just dude, that was so nice.

I want you to get confused with the ones in the lobby.

Dude. I love that Phil Spector Christmas album. Dude, this is so cool, Thank you so much.

But that Charlie Brown Woe I actually listened to because I know you listen when you write.

And when I went over your place, you have a nice.

Vinyl collection, yep, and we talked about that and I was like, oh, that is that Charlie Brown when I I listened to when I write.

Actually this wanted to do the bar mine. Did you have your own or your borrow mine to listen to? This is so cool, dude, Thank you. I appreciate that.

I appreciate that, and I love that you just picked up some garbage that was hanging around.

Yeah.

I mean, honestly, those pliers and everything universe remote you can use those definitely that you can use anywhere anywhere that this to you take that on a Delta Airlines you can fly the flight absolutely.

Yeah.

Okay, here, I'm just gonna let you open this one.

Here we go, and don't worry about don't worry about reading the card. You can read the card later, okay, because it's ten personal jesus O. Great, Here we go.

I should have gone. I should have gone.

No, No, it's not. It's just heavy, not expensive. Don't worry.

Okay, Oh dude, I get to Okay, hold on good.

Take him out.

Thank you.

There's a journal we just talked about.

Literally, yeah, can I tell you this? So there's a I was just talking to a gentleman, you know, you know, Tom Wilson, Tom Wilson biffing back to the future. We've been emailing each.

Other about writing and journaling and just being more creative. On the road and I had just finished my special and I was like, okay. In the next day or two, when I get to New York, I got to buy another journal.

And this is there you go.

And a nice pen.

Yeah, a beautiful pen.

It's fancy.

Panic.

People don't realize when you had right.

You need a good pen.

You need a good pen.

That's fantastic.

Swear to God good on the same page, Thank you the sharpie. Uh oh, now I know you read.

I know you like to read.

This.

Next gift here, okay, this you could open this up here. You love to read, right, I know two things about you. You love to read.

There you go, Oh dude, this is okay, first edition opener up and and you love to drink.

Over op guide.

Wait where am I supposed to open it?

It's a a flask in it.

Everybody that is Steve burning a gift. This, by the way, is going to come in very handy.

How cool is that?

This is by the way, this is one of my favorite colors.

And this is this I'll show you this in a second. Oh my goodness, look at that.

You're gonna believe this.

It's gonna match your office. Oh, it matches your phone. Your phone is the same color. That's so cool.

You love a good seaphone, the green seaphone iPhone and it literally, oh my goodness, matches it like literally matches.

That's so small my favorite colors. Thank you, buddy. This is awesome.

I love how there's directions for a flask. It's like I know how to use flas.

I saw that.

You.

I saw that and I thought of you instantly.

I saw that. Man.

Yeah, well I'm gonna put this to the test on.

And then there's a there's a couple of the little little things in there.

Well, thank you do I yeah, you.

Can just open the last there's one other real book in there. I want you to take a look. Yeah, this one I saw. How cool is that. It's a nice little call game.

Look for you. It's in Las Vegas, Vegas then and now.

Yeah, well and it look at the pictures of phenomenal in it.

If you've ever seen me on the road, you know that I always wear these pins from a young lady. She runs a company called Battleborn and battle This is literally like the blueprint for her because it's the sands, the frontier.

It's uh, it's.

All the old school, just even like the old school fonts and everything, and she's so artistic with this stuff. And there's the Flamingo, the original casino Bugsy Seagull worked on so cool and uh, you know we we've talked history a bit before about Vegas, but this is like, literally, this is I mean, I am entranced with all the Neon signs and all the artwork.

I love. The photos are just so cool. There's so many cool photos in there.

Thank you so much.

This is cool.

This is gonna be great.

I think there's one more thing in there.

Oh shoot, it's a pair of pliers. And I'm just kidding this. I don't know if I think I put it in there. You go a good deck of cards. Remember we talked about that Thank you Dirty special. It was like we need you need like a nice This is a metallic red. I thought it was really good. It goes actually with the with the outfit.

This is beautiful.

Actually, thank you, like.

Real playing cards like a gentleman, like a real jo, like a real gentleman. You're a real gentleman. Well, I'm a big boys, a big boy now, buddy, I'm a big boys.

Thank you so much.

Joe Merry Christmas palate, Verry Christmas, Very Christmas to you, and I hope you enjoy the pendulum swing of Charles Schultz's Peanuts Gang and Wu Tang.

But I was like, I can't get you all Christmas. No, dude, this is so awesome. Thank you so much.

I literally literally was talking to my wife. I was like, I got to get that journal because I was just talking to him about thank you.

Problem solve. I love man good.

This is one of the coolest things.

That's really fun, right because when you got the book, I was like, Okay, first sell it. I don't even know what the pages are, don't even know the title of the book is.

It's Lou Wallace. Yeah, Lou Wallace an autobiography.

No it's not. It's an auto by drink a Fee.

I love it. Should we solve some Christmas problems the holiday cheer?

Oh hi, are you you're what's happenings?

This fueral one? Hey?

Everyone?

Okay, so I have some fun Christmas questions for y'all.

Oh okay, well we're doing a fun time Christmas. It's a wrap, it's a stocking stuffer.

There we go, let's do it.

Holiday red seat, Let's go Okay, what is your favorite Christmas movie and why?

I mean it's gotten reinvigorated. For me, it was Home Alone because my kids love it so much and I watched it a lot. But I will say it's a close second. The number one for me is Love Actually. I think Love actually so fun. I watched it earlier in my wife. I just rewatched it. We watched it like three nights ago. I just spoke to somebody about it in detail, and you realize, what's there's such great storytelling in it.

Number one of all time.

I think it's Love actually.

Yeah really yeah, which is interesting, right, I mean you bypassed the greatest hits.

It's one of the life miracle. Fourth Christmas Story.

Yeah, Christmas Vacation, all that stuff.

Now, well, I would I would always say Christmas Story always, always, always, because I feel.

Like it's almost like a perfect film.

But then, like the more I got into like narrative and right, it just like structurally it's kind of like, you know, a little all over the map. And Ralphie's not like if you really think about Ralphie, he's like throwing his friends out of the bus. Yeah, you know he's like but I love that movie obviously it's so iconic, but I I mean I was introduced a Miracle on.

Thirty four Street, the original and.

Went back and it is just such a good movie and a great message and a great story, great acting, great acting, everything about it. And there's like, I don't know some of these movies too lately. I rewatch All the Time in the Road, Once upon Time, Once upon a Time in Hollywood, the Aviator Bugsy actually, because I like these movies that take you back in time, and it's almost like I'm watching the film as much as I feel like I'm watching a time capsule, you know, like Quentin Tarantino's taking you to Hollywood in the sixties, where it's like, wow, this is wild and it's cool. It almost smells like a musty magazine, you know. But Miracle on thirty fourth Street, I don't know, there's something just very uh.

I don't know. You could ask me next year. It's like pure might be something different. Yeah.

But but just also the age old question of does Santa really exist? And just the twist at the end, it just it's don't give it away to people's okay, so spoilers sorry. Jack dies on the thing with Kate Winslet.

You couldn't moved over. But it's not the.

Door, by the way, die hard Diehard Christmas movie for sure, Christmas movie on absolutely, Yeah, all right, you're staying with love actually say with love.

Actually really love.

Actually that's kind of okay.

I it's not your fair Christmas story.

Still, I have that whole sharad you just put up about time machines and bullshit.

You still have his going back to the beginning.

Yeah, because I'm like, it's just it's the one that it's like comfort food, gotcha, but also a great movie.

Hold on, White Christmas, White Christmas.

Is I don't see color. I don't see color.

Sorry, that's my favorite. That's my favorite White Christmas. Bing Crosby. Uh did you see Time Out?

Though? Which was really really fun.

I mean people a new a new generation one. I think that is worthy of the conversation, is elf. I think it's one of the newer ones that kids growing up like my my niece and nephew who were in their twenties.

That's there, that's their Christmas vacation, is elf.

Yeah.

So, but I will say one that has come out, did uh.

What's the one that just came out with Dave Harbor as Santa Silent Night. He's trying to you know that action movie they made. It's basically die Hard with Santa Claus. That was a really fun movie. I haven't seen that one. Oh, you gotta watch it. I wouldn't say it's my favorite movie, but it's so fun's so good, so fun, elf.

I agree, it's maintained and my kids like it.

My kids love Grinch. But who's there Grinch? Is it Benetict Cumberbatch? Or is it Old School? Or is it Carrie?

For both of them, they could watch either, but if they have a choice, they'd rather watch the animated one.

Yeah, I just I just.

Heard a thing about when people were saying, like, who's your who's your James Bond? Like in our generation it was like, or even our parents a little bit more like who's your Bond?

It's like, who's your Grinch? Is it the original voice? The comic one? Is it? Is it carry? Is it Ben the comfort Batch? Yeah? Because of a lot of iterations of it.

Now, so who's your Grims?

Then the original anim o g animated GM I don't I don't even know who did his voice, but I don't either.

Yeah, but it's deep and deep and good.

Yes, all right, I'm gonna say White Christmas though good, sorry, okay.

But White Christmas out of nowhere great trying to follow your d D mind.

Because it's all flooding back to me. But the music in it is so I love that movie.

I find a very uh okay, very final answer. White Christmas.

Final answer. I'm gonna say white Christmas.

Acceptable, okay.

Real or artificial tree?

Which one? This is controversial.

I have to go artificial in my house because the dogs will pay on it.

A real one?

Yeah, I never had a real one though, I never in my life had a real tree.

You've never had a real tree smell?

What's a real pine?

Like?

Yes? No, never had it. Don't think it's sappy too? It ken? Yeah you.

I I am very opinionated on this.

So you're are your team? Which team?

Are you?

Real tree?

And I have really have three dogs and they all drink the water, which is definitely bad, and they pee on it too, so's they're probably drinking their own people. But yeah, we're always team real like all ways, I need that smell in my.

Yeah, it's something about the pine. It's slot of it smells great.

You know, you can get a candle. It has the same effect, and you can go put the tree up and then light a candle and I'm done. I'm not dealing with Dez. Throw it out. Watch a dog, don't eat the pine needles.

I will say, team real, but you have faked the house.

I have faked the house.

Yeah, And I'll tell you it's so much easier, I get it. What sucks is when you're taking it out and you're getting stabbed with those pine needles and then you got to pick them up, you know, just the vacuuming and all that.

You basically have to throw.

Nobody wants to help because they all want to do it.

You have to wait till Kent, wait till Kent is like sixteen, and be like take the tree down, take it down, and you just slidee cigar and you watch him do it, and you're saying, what, don't miss those needles?

Yeah, he's about to you earn you keep kid, Dad.

You've changed ever since You've just been reading the same book all these years.

Drink of feet. He really knows about this guy.

Okay, And what is your favorite family holiday tradition.

Or do you have me?

We sing oh Christmas Tree when the Christmas tree is up, and we don't know the words, which is very fun, so we just go, oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree.

Then we sing the whole verse. We did la la la.

We do that, And I have a very special place in my heart for a videotape I have of my father and mother doing it with my brother in law then boyfriend of my sister and oldest sister and you know, he was over to help decorate the tree and I'm in I'm in my Monsignor Faral sweatshirt, fourteen year old Joey, and I'm hitting record on the tripod and we watch it and and that's also saying that, and everybody's crumbling laughing because Nino doesn't know that we don't know the words. And my sister teed him up, like ye I got our single Christmas dream. He's like, what is we all sing it together? You guy sing a nice and land and he's like, I don't know, ohat And then we saw doing laws.

It's very funny. So that's probably my family tradition. Yeah, when's the last time you watched it? Maybe last year? I think I watched it. Yeah, I might watched it last year. They don't put it on the end of this episode. Really cool, Yeah, i'd love on the YouTube channel. Yeah, it'd be cool.

I think our our tradition is just putting the trip together, I guess, you know. I mean, other than like obviously day of and cooking and all that stuff.

Is it always the same day you guys do?

Usually it's after Thanksgiving.

Thursday or the day that weekend. Some people do right after, right after the meals clean they throw the try.

That'd be a fun time to do it. I think we're just kind of lethargic.

Yeah, of course spaced out, but usually it goes up within that weekend.

And I don't know.

It does remind you of being a kid and then seeing it through your kid's eyes and watching them get so excited.

Amped I think that's cool.

I'll never forget when Jess first brought me to her family's home for the holidays in Minnesota.

She has a massive family, massive family. I mean it's like forty to fifty deep.

And I remember they passed out sheet music to everybody and the one cousin got behind a piano. No, I was like, nope, and I just I said, Jess, there's no way, There's no way I can do this.

And and it was.

Like in About a Boy when when when Hugh Grant, Hugh Grant is talking to how He's like, oh, look at them, they're closing their eyes. That's when I tune out. And one of the cousins like closed their eyes, was like you know s And I'm like fuck, I couldn't run out of there quick enough. So I I by the way, I am like allergic to cats, but I like amped it up that they have a.

Cat and I'm like, oh my god, you took the cat face.

Give it a dander.

So I I literally I like ran and hid in that room. I was like, I can't do this. There's no way.

Yeah, that's tough.

I uh yeah.

The sheet music bust out at the holidays and stuff, Christmas carols at the door?

Do you ever have that? Growing up?

Me neither stating out they didn't do that.

I would always I had dated a girl who lived out east and she had had that once when I was over her house and I remember being like, I was like I would just like shut the door, but like, okay, thanks, Like after one song, like they all stood there like the carol is Yeah, I'm like.

What the f I'd be like, it's cold goods.

Well, somebody has to do it.

Where you get like five dudes that are Christmas carollers like a single girl but then they're strippers.

Yeah, of course, of course it's gotta be. Yeah, the candy canes both with ks, candy Kissaines. Maybe it's kiss Aines. That's a little bit more street credes.

No, the candy cane carollers three ks.

She called them the sorry nobody with the K.

Merry Christmas. We love you, let me do you.

Thank you so much.

We will see you in the new year. We love you, guys.

And just a quick minute to our fans, tell him, uh, we couldn't do this without you guys listening.

We love you very much.

It is so fun to do this with one of my best friends, Steve, And as I count my blessings this season, it's that I get to do this with you for just some funsies and have some laughs. I laugh every time we do it, and I love.

You, buddy, Love you too, Bud, and thank you again for the gifts getting to do this and getting to work with everybody here has been fantastic, a great team, and again to the community, everybody listening and everybody at iHeart especially like we really.

Appreciate the opportunity to be here.

It has been nothing but fun and we're definitely looking forward to this next year because I think it's only going to get bigger and better and torrier and comedy and funnier and.

Merrier, much merrier. So hanging there, everybody. Much love to you.

Uh how this could be crazy, So we're sending you lots of love.

Strength You've got this much love.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happianica, all the things