Twinstripe Reporters, budget-friendly 'egg-ternatives': Good Day Today

Good morning and welcome back to Good Night, New York. I'm Carter

And I'm Cooper. We're the Twin Trip reporters. Today is Tuesday, April 15th, and it's Jackie Robinson Day

The anniversary of Robinson's debut in Major League Baseball in 1947. We're looking forward to seeing all the players in 42

Of course, we're most excited to see number 42 on the Yankee Pinch Rep jerseys

The Yanks are facing off with the Kansas City Royals tonight at Yankee Stadium. But first, we're talking to Colonel Rosanna

What? Whoa! Who the heck are you two sitting in our seats? First, they're stealing our jobs

Cooper, Carter, that was impressive. First of all, thanks for being on Good Day, or are we on your show

Thank you so much for having us. Yeah, thank you. All right, so I'll start with you, Carter

How did this get started here? First of all, you're 10 years old, right? 10, we're both 10, yes

Who's older? Me, I'm older. By how many? One minute. One minute

Yeah. And does he ever let you forget it? No, never. And he never will

How did you guys get started with this? So we've always been big Yankee fans

We used to go to a bunch of Yankee games, and then we just started going to a few autograph signings

and we started asking players some questions, and it turned into interviews, and they really liked it

and we really liked it, and we had a lot of fun with it. So we just kept doing it. It's really fun

Cooper, how old were you when you started doing the interviews? I think we were nine turning ten

Okay, so about a year or so ago? Yeah, a year or so. Okay. So who are some of the fun people you talk to

There's a lot of fun Yankees you talk to. Cece Sabathia. Yeah, he's been on our show

Azwoldo Cabrera. Yeah. Nick Swisher, Dallas Strawberry, Doc Gooden. Did you talk to Aaron Judge

We did for like a minute. Okay, well, we talked to him longer. Yeah

Who was your favorite that you've interviewed? My favorite interview so far was Azwoldo Cabrera just because he was so nice

He's such a hard worker, too. I think that was just the coolest interview. Cooper, who was your favorite

I think I have to say Nick Swisher. He was so energetic. he has so much enthusiasm. Yeah, Nick Swisher. You guys like the old timers. Yeah. We meet a lot of old time Yankees. I like it. So how do you balance this big hobby that you have with school work? Like in the morning, most school work and then most events are in like afternoon, night kind of. Do you take off from school to go to an event? So we're actually homeschooled. So we get to do our work in the

morning. I like that. Yeah. How many Yankee games have you been to? In my life? A lot

Probably about like 50, 60, something. Really? Yeah. Wow. And you went to opening day for

the first time this year? Yeah. It was so fun. It was only been to opening day once, but

it was a great opening day. How was it? It was really fun. Oswells had the leadoff home

run. The Yankees won, obviously, so it was really fun. And is there a game tonight? Yes

I think there's a big game tonight. What are we looking forward to tonight

I mean, we think we're going. And I look forward to seeing Max Fried on the mound

You know, he just had a really good start, so I'm looking forward to see that. Yeah, seven innings, last start

And yesterday the Yankees won, and they're looking for the second straight win

They had four home runs, solo shots. So I'm thinking you guys really don't want my job

You want his job. Kind of. Kind of? Okay we great friends You surviving Hey let me ask you this Carter I ask you Do you know what nerd means yes are you baseball nerds or do you oh you are big baseball words yes i didn know if you

just like doing the tv part or the social media part or you're big baseball yeah all three all

three all three yeah you could we know a lot about baseball we like read books on like stats and stuff

yeah the biggest part of doing it all is you have to read every day tell me about it oh so give me

a stat that you think probably would impress Yankee fans? A what

A stat that would impress Yankee fans. Or some fact that maybe Yankee fans don't realize

This guy, this will blow your mind. Babe Ruth has only won one MVP

What? Yeah, it's because you could only win one back then, but it still wows me

You weren't allowed to win two. That's impressive. That's a great one

Okay, so in 1934, Lou Gehrig won the Triple Crown. He had the most home runs, most batting average, most RBIs

He finished fifth in the MVP vote. Are you guys ready to go to WFAN and start a talk show

Yeah. Because you got stuff like that, and you can yell at callers when they call in and try to argue who should be in the Hall of Fame

You can do that. Don Mattingly should be in the Hall of Fame. Oh, Don Mattingly. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Why

Because Don Mattingly was probably the second-best yielding first baseman ever behind Keith Hernandez

Keith Hernandez? Yeah. He hit over 200 home runs. He won the 1985 AL MVP

He was just a really good player, and he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. So I know that you love your Yankees

How do you feel about the Mets? Because they are also another home team

Well, our grandpa roots for Mets, and he helps us root for the Yankees

So we kind of root for each other, kind of. Okay, that's good. But if it wasn't for that

No? No. Interesting. I have a question for you guys. What's your guys' favorite baseball team

Oh. Now, we're not supposed to say anything because we're supposed to be impartial

Yes, we're unbiased here. So, let me ask you this. Speaking of favorites, I heard you're a Dallas Cowboys fan

Yeah. How does that go over in the house? Carter, what's your favorite football team

49ers. I thought we'd get one New York team between the two of you

No Giants fans, no Jets fans? No, our dad is a Giants fan

But that's close. We're looking good with the Giants. Come on. The Cowboys are probably so bad

I don't know. Okay. What? So, last question for me. I also heard that you take your dog Shelly

Yes. To games sometimes? Sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes it's a lot for her, so we don't take her every day, but..

Does she like baseball? Yes. She likes baseball a lot. She wants almost caught a ball

No way. How? She... It hit her hand, but she had it

You got to train her better in the backyard. Yeah. Next time

All right, so what do you want to do here long term? I'm going to say, when you become an old man at, like, 15, what do you want to be doing

I want to do broadcasting for the Yankees. Okay. Broadcasting, reporting. Yeah

It just seems really fun. What you're doing. Okay, no, no, no, no

Not what we're doing. What other people are doing, you want to do. Just don't take our jobs

Okay. We'll go back there. Don't worry, don't worry. All right, guys, we can follow you on social media

Yeah. You're on Instagram. You're on X. That's all new. Your mom runs your account so everything is all on the up and up Thank you so much We can wait to see you Thank you so much for having us This is awesome This is awesome This is good to know Cooper and Carter Thomas

everybody, and your Instagram handle is TwinStrike. TwinStrike reporters. Yeah, TwinStrike reporters

Nice season. Good outfits, too, by the way. I like it. I like it. I think we should just

keep them around. What are you going to do for the rest of the day? I think we're planning

to go to the Yankees game, but we can stay here for a little bit if we want. I mean, you You know, we're going to do egg coloring next

Easter egg coloring. Egg coloring. We don't have eggs, though, because, you know, eggs are very expensive

Would you want to hang around with us? Sure. Yeah, that'd be great

I don't think you're getting them off camera anytime soon. Of course, Easter is this Sunday, and everyone seems to be talking about the price of eggs this year

Oh, yeah, we are, too. So if you want to keep the tradition of coloring Easter eggs, you have to get a little creative

Here with some budget-friendly egg-ternatives. Okay. Okay, some colorful things. Expert Paula Sullivan, lifestyle expert, the owner of Sully and Vanilla

Nice to have you back. Hi, guys. Thank you. Have you met Carter and Cooper? Yes, you guys

I'm so glad that there are kids here for this. This is so great. And you guys did such a good job

Thank you. So what are we going to do, Paula? Okay, so you guys, there was a study that just came out

Half of America is not dying Easter eggs this year. What? Because A, they're really expensive, but they're also, have you noticed, like, you go to the

store and they also don't have them. Right. Like, even if you're willing to buy them, they don't have them

Right. So we did some experimenting, my kids and I, over the weekend

And we did some alternative things. So have you guys seen these? Nice. These are super fun

This is the egg-mazing little product here. Is that an egg in there, though

I don't know who makes it. But look, it's a little machine. And these little egg goes around

And then you take a little marker. And you move it with the marker. And it draws on the little egg

That's fun. And then, look, you've got, like, a really cute, like, pretty centerpiece thing

I love that. You can also save. That's very different. It's so different, right

Then we did marshmallows. The marshmallows were good, but the marshmallows get a little sticky and a little gooey

So my daughter took the marshmallows. And you can get these little plastic needles

We took the marshmallows and some other gummy candies. And you see in the front there, she made a little candy necklace

You can wear and eat your marshmallows, which is super fun. You can grab any of that and just sew it on there, kind of

And then, you guys, we found like the golden king of alternative Easter eggs are white potatoes

So you have to have eight of them. I don't know how I feel about this, Paula. I know, I know. This is like very, you know, unconventional, I guess

Yes, that's the word we'll use. But you have to peel the potatoes. So what we found is that actually a can of potatoes already peeled works the most easily

I also didn't know you could buy canned potatoes already peeled. I did not either until I went searching for potatoes. So these are potatoes

Those are potatoes? Those are something like eggs? No, they look like eggs. Then look, we did them

But if you see here, look how nicely the dye goes right into them

That is a great trick. Isn't it so great? It is. Like if you don't eat them afterward, it costs a dollar and you just toss them

So you don't feel bad. So like a dollar per can and you get, I don't know, looks like 10 or 12. And in my house, no one wants to dye 12 eggs, right

They want to dye 60 of them. So like this is a better way

So, you know, hopefully people can still have some fun, even though the eggs aren't readily as readily available

So Paula, I love what you do. You like buy store things and then zhuzh them up We love to zhuzh you know You know I always love to do a zhuzh So this is the same cake three times right And all we done here we taken a little of this edible Easter grass

We've popped it on top. We've taken a chocolate bunny, stuck in the middle

Like, how cute is that centerpiece? When you're about to eat them over, you've got a centerpiece. Yeah, you've got a centerpiece, and you have a cake to eat so easy

This one, we just took our little row of peeps and smushed them on the side

You can even pop one in the middle of the cake. And then for the front cake, we're going to do, you know, we love the little bunny ears

So we're going to take the ears. We've popped them off. And we're literally just going to stick them into the cake

That's a great idea. Isn't that fun? That's fun, right? So fun, right? And then you have like a little cake

And then a little, you know, you can eat it. And you also have like a fun centerpiece

Which one's your favorite, boys? Which one's, guys? If I had to pick one, they're all great

But I like that one. Yeah, me too. I need to. It's like very elevated with the grass

And it looks cool, right? All right, Paula, come on down here. Okay, so we're moving on. So we're going to move on to these centerpieces

So we found a really easy, this is an easy and affordable way. These are just carrots with the greenery already on them

We put them in water. We put some daisies in the middle. I mean, how cute is that? Why does that look great

Why didn't I think of that? It's so fun. It's perfect. Yeah. It's perfect. I love it with the greens

And it kind of falls over. That looks so cool. So you've got like a little, you know, a nice thing

All right, Kurt, you can help with this. Okay. Because I know you love a project. Yes. You're going to take my trusty Guinness mug or Guinness pint

And you see we have flowers in a mug. We're going to put that inside of this

Put the entire mug in there? Put the entire thing in. Or the pint? The pint, yes

My trusty old Guinness pint. So then we've got like basically a vase within a vase

And then we're just going to take a bunch of jelly beans. And we're going to fill the outside of the vase

Now, it would take a while for us to actually cover the whole thing. But it could be a fun activity

Yeah, kids can do this. We're going to cover the outside in jelly beans, and then you have jelly beans and flowers in the middle

That is cool. I like how there's so much colors on it. It does, right? It looks really good

For the holidays, kids like color. They like color. Yeah, this is all attractive because it's really bright, right

All right, Paula, what else do you got? Okay, so then we're going to move on. So then we're going to take any leftover flowers

You can take and make a cute little centerpiece here. You can add a flower. We also made these cute little bunny rolls with just some crescent roll dough

So all you do, we're not going to do it on the show, but you're going to take the crescent roll

roll it into like a little snake and fold it into a figure eight and bake

and it comes out looking like a cute little bunny. You know what else

we did? These are fun. This is a little plastic egg filled with

like a charcuterie egg. With a little cheese, a little meat, a little fruit

so many options, but so little time. We are out of it, Carla

Are we out of it? The baskets. We have to hurry up. We have other people

coming on the show. We love you to death, But we do have other guests. So I spoke to the Easter Bunny this year for my family

and we're filling the Easter baskets with just things that the kids need this time of year

So a new bathing suit, a new pair of pajamas, a little book that somebody might like to read

You can pop a couple of Easter things in there, too. But good to stock up on the things that are already necessary

All right. It is wonderful stuff, a large variety. Where can people find you? Sullyandvanilla.com

I'm also at Butterfield Markets on the Upper East Side, Grease's Marketplace, and Fresh Direct

You guys don't worry about the baseball thing the morning show host you've already got down the that's really interesting

You know how to do that already thank you boys