It's Tuesday, December 30th, and you're listening to an encore episode of Behind the Table.

Today, hear the conversation from a few weeks ago where I sat down with Joy to discuss how she likes to spend her holidays, her secret to staying youthful, and she reveals who she considers her true loves.

Let's get it started.

Thank you. considers her true loves. Let's get it started. I'm here. I'm ready to get spatch cocked by Joy Behar. Hello, Joy.

You know, Sunny had never heard the term spatchcock. I had never heard it until I read the

producer's script and saw that it was coming up. Well, it's really basically you get a real, like a roasting chicken. Yes. And you bang it so you smash it that it's flat. Yeah. And then it cooks better. It's crisper. It feels very much like my life, getting spatch cocked every day. Yeah. How was your Thanksgiving? Well, my husband and I had dinner alone at the American Hotel, and my kids are in Italy all week, and I tried to make her feel guilty about it, but it didn't work. All right. Does that make you sad, or do you, I mean, because, you know, you and I... No, I actually enjoyed it. It was fine. And then the day after Thanksgiving, I invited a bunch of friends. It's the same thing I think with, you know, when I was a kid, I had just gigantic

thanksgivings with great uncles and grandparents and grandparents and everything else.

And then as you get older, it starts to thin out a little bit.

It thins out.

I'm the oldest one from the next generation.

Yeah.

So my cousin, Valerie, wrote to me that she had 36 people. So I said it was just me and Steve alone in a restaurant. She was, oh, she started getting so sad. I said, don't be sad. Yeah, it was lovely, I'm sure. And also, the next day we had a Friendsgiving. Yes. I have a girlfriend who's married to a count. Okay. An Italian count.

Mm-hmm. And they're always fighting. Really? Yeah, they're always fighting. What's to fight about it for married to a count? For example, he's cooking dinner. And it's like, give me, where's the parmesan cheese? And she's like, I got it for you already. They start screaming at each other. Sure. when they're on the phone, it's like poopie and poopie and poopie. It's just when they're in person. I say he poopie. So I call him count poopie. Count poopie. All right. Well, it must have been quite an affair. All right. America's dying to know an update on the broken toe. Oh, the broken toe. I'm also rhyming now for some reason. Is anyone really interested in this? Yeah, no, people are wondering. First of all, the fact, so this is my fault today, because I think I assured you, I definitely told Whoopi that we were going to continue not walking out at the top of the show. Yeah, but then we made us. I forgot to tell the control room. So I looked up at the clock. You almost tripped, and I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, my biggest fear is that I'll be in an elevator and someone will walk

backward. troll room. So I looked up at the clock. You almost tripped. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, my biggest fear is that I'll be in an elevator and someone will walk backwards, you know? On to the toe. Yeah, so I broke it because I dropped an iPad on it. And it broke, actually broke the skin and the bone, I guess. Unbelievable. Yeah. So now it's going to take six to eight weeks for the bone to come back to normal.

Oh, that's awful. And because I was galvancing around Woodbury Commons in the weekend. Okay. And the casino, I went to Foxwoods. Oh. Oh, I was busy this weekend. You really were? Yes. How'd you do in Foxwoods? I lost $400. If you must. That's all right. No.

I lost that on the Giants game last night,

so that's fun.

We're about the same place.

I mean, you know, my father was a gambler. Yes. And so he never won and he never lost. My Aunt Julie would say, every gutty in the neighborhood, when they win, they take the whole family out to dinner. Your father, nothing. Nothing. Because he gives it back. Yes. He gives it back. So I have that in the family, a genetic area, but I have a limit of usually 300. Right. But I just went back and gave it a little bit. Did you lose it all at once or did you go up a little bit back and forth? It was actually fun. I was going to say, how much, how many things can you do for a night and enjoy for $400? Well, first of all, I got a massage and a facial. Okay.

I had two great Italian dinners, and I played cards. All right, that sounds like a great evening. Without getting on a plane, aren't you? That to me is a great vacation. Did you stay over? Stayed over one night. People recognize you? Here and there. But they're so distracted by the games.

Yes, you're just in the way.

No confrontations with people about politics?

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