Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to another week of Casual Chaos.
Speaker 1: This week, I have a very exciting guest because we
Speaker 1: both have something very exciting premiering on June third, Brooks Marx,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Casual Chaos.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I feel like everyone is super excited
Speaker 1: about the show, and overall, I feel like we've been
Speaker 1: getting pretty positive feedback.
Speaker 2: I agree, yeah for sure, and I'm so so so
Speaker 2: excited to be here. I feel like everything that I've
Speaker 2: seen from this podcast, I've been like secretly listening when
Speaker 2: I'm working and putting it on.
Speaker 1: So okay, so let's talk about next gen. I feel
Speaker 1: like everyone with any show, they want to know how
Speaker 1: the friend group came together, and I'm always, you know,
Speaker 1: very honest. I'm like, I barely knew anyone. The only
Speaker 1: person that I knew was Brooks. But I also say, like,
Speaker 1: you know, with anything that's come up in your life,
Speaker 1: I feel like, where you need another Bravo kid, or
Speaker 1: if you want somebody to tag along with you in something,
Speaker 1: you have always put me first and asked me to
Speaker 1: do things with you, and I've always been so appreciative
Speaker 1: of that. But you were the reason why I did
Speaker 1: Next Gen.
Speaker 2: Mysay, what a badge of honor. But I feel the
Speaker 2: same way about you, and I feel like you're always
Speaker 2: down for everything. You're literally so supportive, Like you give
Speaker 2: me the best advice. I can't believe you're younger than me, Like,
Speaker 2: I feel like you have so much wisdom, and I'm
Speaker 2: so happy that you did Next Gen. It literally like
Speaker 2: would not have been the same without you, and it
Speaker 2: probably would not have happened without you.
Speaker 1: No, don't say that it wouldn't have been the same
Speaker 1: without you. If I didn't have Brooks on the show,
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have done Next Gen. I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: survived without you or Arianna. To be completely honest, it
Speaker 1: was just different. I kind of walked in blind. I
Speaker 1: didn't know a lot of the cast members, so it
Speaker 1: really was me meeting a new friend group. But kind
Speaker 1: of makes sense. I am not from New York City,
Speaker 1: I didn't go to college year and doing this show,
Speaker 1: it really was me like forming new friendships, creating different bonds,
Speaker 1: and you know, making new friends. So that really was
Speaker 1: my standpoint on it. But you really knew the rest
Speaker 1: of the cast pretty much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I have developed friendships with basically everyone
Speaker 2: throughout moving to New York. But what's so funny is
Speaker 2: I feel like you were in the same room as
Speaker 2: a lot of the people that are a part of
Speaker 2: this show. But maybe you guys just like didn't talk
Speaker 2: and stuff, like you'd be at the same events, like
Speaker 2: working with the same brands and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Well, and I think that's why Amyr and I connect
Speaker 1: so much, you know, in the beauty fashion industry with
Speaker 1: influencing and content creating. Her and I are constantly at
Speaker 1: the same events now work with many of the same brands,
Speaker 1: and we just I had no idea who a Mira
Speaker 1: was before, you know, starting this show. We just never
Speaker 1: crossed paths. You know. Riley, I obviously knew because of
Speaker 1: the you know, Bravo world. Same with Arianna, And it
Speaker 1: was funny because Brooks brought me on, but I introduced
Speaker 1: Ariana to extent. M I say, I never met Ariana
Speaker 1: in person, but I just from seeing her on social media.
Speaker 1: I was a fan of Don't Be Tardy, her family
Speaker 1: spin off on Bravo. I was a fan of it.
Speaker 1: I would watch it when I was younger, and I
Speaker 1: just felt like I would vibe really well with Arianna.
Speaker 1: I felt like she was really funny, down to earth
Speaker 1: and we had a lot of similarities. So the show
Speaker 1: interviewed Rihanna really liked her and she picked up her
Speaker 1: life and moved to New York. So I don't think
Speaker 1: she knew where it was going to bring her, but
Speaker 1: she really did want to kind of get out of Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and this show brought her here and now she loves
Speaker 1: New York City.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel like she's done such a great
Speaker 2: job like vibing with New York.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she loves it. Yeah, she loves it. You know,
Speaker 1: she's having the best time. And I mean it was
Speaker 1: definitely a rocky star getting here to New York with
Speaker 1: the apartment surge and everything. But you guys are all
Speaker 1: going to see that next ship, m I see. So yeah,
Speaker 1: her whole movement.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about, but I'm like, I can't
Speaker 2: say anything I until the season airs, so everyone will
Speaker 2: just have to tune in, tune in.
Speaker 1: I used to hate when like our moms had to
Speaker 1: say that. Now we're like, yeah, guys, just you know,
Speaker 1: tune in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so fine, I'm like, mom, just tell them what's
Speaker 2: going on. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: Who did you know before the cast before we started filming,
Speaker 1: kind of give the rundown on everyone that you knew
Speaker 1: who you were friends with.
Speaker 2: I mean everyone for the most part, the only people
Speaker 2: that I mean. For instance, like we've had a friendship
Speaker 2: for like quite a few years now.
Speaker 1: We met at Dolores's baseball game, charity baseball game.
Speaker 2: It was such like a random meeting.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. Did you guys even go of.
Speaker 2: My mom's friends with Laura?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Riley, Like I met through a mutual friend at NYU.
Speaker 1: So you both went to school in the city. Same,
Speaker 1: what a mirror? Did you know a mirror because of NYU?
Speaker 2: No. She and I met at like this event at
Speaker 2: the Dominic Hotel and soho oh okay fine, also like
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one or something, and she like instantly
Speaker 2: invited me to her birthday when we met, and I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, Like she literally is just so like welcoming, yeah,
Speaker 2: and just such a great person. And then Ariana and
Speaker 2: I obviously met through you.
Speaker 1: Charlie.
Speaker 2: I've met him like a couple of years ago through
Speaker 2: a mutual friend. It was at this event in the
Speaker 2: city of this private members club that was opening. Ironically, Ava,
Speaker 2: Ava and I met like a few years ago as well.
Speaker 2: We met at a friend's birthday in Miami and Ava,
Speaker 2: I just I'm obsessed with Ava, Like she just has
Speaker 2: amazing energy and is so unseerious and just like always
Speaker 2: down for like a fun time, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like if anything, feel like hitting the fan, like She's
Speaker 2: just there to make it so unseerious and not a
Speaker 2: big deal.
Speaker 1: Well, you always need a friend like that though.
Speaker 2: And Georgia Charlie did introduce us. But we met for
Speaker 2: the first time like while we were filming the next
Speaker 2: shed except for that dinner that we filmed.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, so before filming next shehit M I see.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because you guys in one of the
Speaker 1: in one of the previews, when Amir and I were
Speaker 1: talking about how we vibe, they showed the sizzle.
Speaker 2: Actually yeah, I was like, I didn't know that was
Speaker 2: making it in there.
Speaker 1: I have not seen a lick of that sizzle. I
Speaker 1: don't know where it is.
Speaker 2: Apparently it sold. The show did its job.
Speaker 1: They showed like a flashback of how Ameir and I
Speaker 1: met through the sizzle that we filmed our flashback of
Speaker 1: how Amir and I met from the sizzle that we filmed.
Speaker 1: We obviously filmed the show last summer, but we filmed
Speaker 1: the sizzle for this show two summers ago.
Speaker 2: That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: I was twenty two.
Speaker 2: You give such like summer birthday energy. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I would love to be a summer birthday, but for
Speaker 1: my birth this year, I really would love to go
Speaker 1: to Aspen. That's on my list. I want to go
Speaker 1: to Cloud nine.
Speaker 2: It's so fun, it looks amazing. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: What did your family think when you decided to do
Speaker 1: the show? Was your mom? I'm assuming so happy for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know you dealt with, you know, some stuff on
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. Did that make you nervous to doing
Speaker 1: Next Gen? Or were you excited for this to be
Speaker 1: the moment where you kind of stepped out on your
Speaker 1: own and showed people a different side of you.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I was most excited for was and
Speaker 2: still is. Granted that nothing has aired, it just for
Speaker 2: people to actually get to know me.
Speaker 1: But I feel like people could just really see your
Speaker 1: personality through these previews. Really, I think you're hilarious in
Speaker 1: every single clip that they've shown.
Speaker 2: Thank you what you are, I mean you are. You're like, wow,
Speaker 2: they're editing you real.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're great. They told they got me saying
Speaker 1: shut up. Meanwhile, I think I said that once the
Speaker 1: entire season, and of course that's what my face is.
Speaker 2: Shut the f up. It's the new waking up in
Speaker 2: the morning.
Speaker 1: Oh no, nothing can be waking up in the morning.
Speaker 1: I wish it. I wish they that's what they put.
Speaker 2: A flashot from you when you were like two, yeah please,
Speaker 2: I honestly like kind of blacked out that whole like
Speaker 2: situation from when that happened. Like I don't remember what happened.
Speaker 1: I don't either.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Like how involved you have been with
Speaker 2: your mom show. I think you've been like more involved
Speaker 2: than I have, and like it's shown more of your
Speaker 2: life obviously because you grew up on it. I'm really
Speaker 2: excited for people to get to see like the ins
Speaker 2: and outs of my clothing brand and my life in
Speaker 2: New York. People think that I like live in Salt
Speaker 2: Lake City and I'm from Salt Lake City, which is
Speaker 2: so funny to me.
Speaker 1: Which is crazy because I feel like you know your life,
Speaker 1: maybe your personal life is just not as publicized and
Speaker 1: people don't know your every move. But it's funny because
Speaker 1: you've been in New York for how long now seven years?
Speaker 1: So you didn't go home after n YU.
Speaker 2: I stayed in the city.
Speaker 1: Well because you obviously your mom joined Salt Lake City
Speaker 1: when you were twenty. Did you want her to join?
Speaker 1: Were you nervous about your life being public?
Speaker 2: No, not that I didn't want her to join. Know
Speaker 2: that I was not nervous for that at all, because
Speaker 2: like this show is real Housewives, it's not about the kids. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I think that's what's so funny is that there
Speaker 2: are so many times where the kids become a big
Speaker 2: part of it. And that was something that I wasn't
Speaker 2: privy to and didn't anticipate, but I am ultimately grateful
Speaker 2: for because it gave me a platform with my clothing
Speaker 2: brand and I was able to show a lot of
Speaker 2: the work that I do and show like an example
Speaker 2: of a really positive relationship between a mom and her son.
Speaker 1: It is so cute. You guys really are an amazing team.
Speaker 1: You work together and you know you're learning from the best. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: you're learning from your mom, who is a super successful businesswoman,
Speaker 1: and I think it's honestly something that people are gonna
Speaker 1: find really admiring because it's you and your mom working together.
Speaker 1: She's helping you build your umpire and showing you how
Speaker 1: to do it.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Do you feel any pressure being marred with Mark's son?
Speaker 2: I mean yes, but not probably not in the way
Speaker 2: that people would think, Like, more so in a way
Speaker 2: of She's built a really successful brand for herself, and
Speaker 2: I hope to achieve like one percent of that success.
Speaker 1: Yes, like you have to live up to the bar
Speaker 1: that she set.
Speaker 2: Right, I hope to pass it. But like that bar
Speaker 2: is constantly moving. I'm like, oh, can we just keep
Speaker 2: it stagnant for one second?
Speaker 1: It is she has so many brands and you know,
Speaker 1: businesses that she has launched. I feel like, even within
Speaker 1: the last year, it's just it's nuts.
Speaker 2: Like, right when you think she's done, she's like, here's
Speaker 2: Meredith Mark's caviar.
Speaker 1: She's like bath bomb. Ever heard of it? Here? It is.
Speaker 2: My favorite thing ever was when Hudson facetimed me and
Speaker 2: you guys were just like eating an entire attent of
Speaker 2: caviar that we forgot to eat. Oh my god, it
Speaker 2: was so good, so funny.
Speaker 1: We were I think the caviar bumps that they were
Speaker 1: doing were mountains. Yeah, they were just huge.
Speaker 2: I mean that was enough caviar for probably twenty or
Speaker 2: thirty people that you guys devoured.
Speaker 1: We ate the whole thing in one sitting. It was
Speaker 1: that good.
Speaker 2: Wait was your mom like excited for you with the show?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What was the vibe? She was so excited for me.
Speaker 1: I feel like we grew up on Bravo, so our
Speaker 1: fans are really loyal to my family and they love
Speaker 1: seeing us grow and they are still watching us grow.
Speaker 1: So I feel like the ultimate, you know, Bravo wish
Speaker 1: would be to see like me turn into a housewife
Speaker 1: one day and then you know, see Teresa Juda says
Speaker 1: a grandma on Bravo. You know, just kind of see
Speaker 1: something come full circle. And I feel like Next Gen
Speaker 1: is kind of showing that, Yeah, is it me becoming
Speaker 1: a housewive yet? No, but it's also showing, you know,
Speaker 1: a completely different chapter of our lives that you wouldn't
Speaker 1: see on Real Housewives.
Speaker 2: I'm really excited for people to get to see you
Speaker 2: in the city because I feel like that is a
Speaker 2: huge part of your life. That is just not accounted for.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what. And it was funny because when
Speaker 1: we were filming Next Gen, my life was not as
Speaker 1: crazy as it is now. I have never been in
Speaker 1: the city more in my life than after filming Next
Speaker 1: Gen MC. And it was weird because it's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, brands or anything got wind of Next Gen
Speaker 1: MYC while we were filming it. But I think, you know,
Speaker 1: my brand and career just started picking up, and my
Speaker 1: life is more in the city. Now. I have my podcast,
Speaker 1: I have Amazon Lives, I have events, filming Nextion m C.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in the city constantly, and now I'm
Speaker 1: you know, really considering getting an apartment and I think
Speaker 1: I am going to be getting one by September, so
Speaker 1: I'm really going to start looking in August.
Speaker 2: So exciting.
Speaker 1: It's so unsustainable.
Speaker 2: I'm honestly shocked. I really never thought I would hear
Speaker 2: you say that.
Speaker 1: It was funny because I feel like during Next Gen
Speaker 1: I was so against it.
Speaker 2: You were like, I will never make it into the city,
Speaker 2: the closest I will get his jerseys.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, now the city has quite literally taken over my life.
Speaker 1: How was Next Gen different than filming Housewives.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's comparing. The only similarity is that
Speaker 2: it's a camera recording you. I mean, the whole experience
Speaker 2: was totally different.
Speaker 1: It was The production company was also just so good
Speaker 1: with making sure that we were okay and making sure
Speaker 1: that we were comfortable with things that we were filming.
Speaker 1: And you don't get that on Housewives. They want you
Speaker 1: to literally brub each other's heads like they go for
Speaker 1: the jugular.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The production company that worked on next Gen is
Speaker 2: truly incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were, They were amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you like Bravocon? Are you excited to maybe do
Speaker 1: something like that?
Speaker 2: I thought it was so fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, honestly, my clothing brand is all e comm and
Speaker 2: so having the opportunity to have a booth with my
Speaker 2: brand there, yeah, and allow like people that are interested
Speaker 2: to experience the product in person before purchasing, Like that
Speaker 2: was the most exciting part for me because I've been
Speaker 2: wanting to do that for a long.
Speaker 1: Time and you did do that. You sold so much
Speaker 1: of your line at Bravocon, which was awesome. It was awesome,
Speaker 1: and then to be able to do that again, and like,
Speaker 1: also because we're gonna be on our own platform, and
Speaker 1: have our own show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna kill it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so good.
Speaker 2: I was literally just talking about this actually in another
Speaker 2: podcast that I did with Ariana and we were talking
Speaker 2: about Bravocon and stuff and like if there are any
Speaker 2: similarities with like us and our moms and whatever, and
Speaker 2: I was like, Gia has some similarities with her mom,
Speaker 2: but like in really random ways. At Bravocon and you
Speaker 2: like put on this face powder. You were calling it
Speaker 2: this cacao powder, and I was like, girl, it's just
Speaker 2: not how you say a cow. It was like this Gucci
Speaker 2: bronzer that you had.
Speaker 1: Oh I still use that. That's so funny. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: good cow. Yeah it has a chocolate set. The Bravo
Speaker 1: fans are loyal, they are right or dies, so if
Speaker 1: they are not on your team, they can be brutal.
Speaker 1: So are you nervous to kind of maybe deal with
Speaker 1: that when Next Gen comes out?
Speaker 2: I definitely, like I don't want to lie and be
Speaker 2: like no, like I don't care whatever. Like I definitely
Speaker 2: am nervous for that. But at the end of the day, like,
Speaker 2: as long as you're telling the truth and being real
Speaker 2: to who you are, it's just like you can't care
Speaker 2: what people think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because when you experience that on Salt
Speaker 1: Lake you kind of like you hated that.
Speaker 2: I was also an a way different point in my life,
Speaker 2: like when my mom filmed that first season of Salt
Speaker 2: Lake City. That was probably like some of the most
Speaker 2: formative years of my life.
Speaker 1: So wow. So you of course had to get the
Speaker 1: backlash the first season that you guys even filmed anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you thought it was.
Speaker 1: Going to be something fun, exciting, so that probably discouraged
Speaker 1: you a little bit for filming.
Speaker 2: Like afterwards, I just didn't like think that would be
Speaker 2: a part of it. I didn't think like backlash would
Speaker 2: be a thing. I just was like, I'm literally on
Speaker 2: this show for the five minutes, yeah, or probably more
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 1: But you know, this is my mom's spotlight. I'm just
Speaker 1: a child, and you know, don't come after someone's kid.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I feel like that was something that we really
Speaker 2: bonded over.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 2: It was like initially that experience, which is very weirdly unique.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, because you wouldn't expect that, you know, a
Speaker 1: person child would experience backlash or even have drama with
Speaker 1: any of the other housewives on the show, but you
Speaker 1: know it kind of makes you, you know, reevaluate the
Speaker 1: situation kind of.
Speaker 2: I mean, the concept of a grown person going after
Speaker 2: someone's kid is like crazy. I don't care if your
Speaker 2: kid is twenty, like, you do not go after your
Speaker 2: friend's child. That if you are like more than double
Speaker 2: someone's age, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, you look crazy?
Speaker 2: Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Are there any scenes or moments from filming that you're
Speaker 1: scared to watch back or that you hope don't make
Speaker 1: the final cut?
Speaker 2: No, can't wait to see it all.
Speaker 1: I just feel like you were so good. Honestly, though,
Speaker 1: what's one celebrity that you would freak out if they
Speaker 1: wore the Brooks Marks tracksuit?
Speaker 2: Nicki Minaj and Jennifer Lawrence. I was thinking about this
Speaker 2: other day, those two, I mean fire. If I had
Speaker 2: those two people in a room wearing my brand, I
Speaker 2: think I would simply pass away.
Speaker 1: What are your career goals? Are you leaning more into
Speaker 1: modeling or fashion or kind of trying to conquer both?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 2: I think that's what people will see a lot in
Speaker 2: Next Gen is like the balancing act of all these
Speaker 2: different facets of my career, ranging from like modeling to
Speaker 2: fashion entrepreneurship with my brand and the work that I
Speaker 2: do with my mom at Meredith Marx.
Speaker 1: No, it's true. I mean, congratulations on teen Vogue.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That was like crazy, that was sick though, so beautiful
Speaker 1: and your photos were stunning.
Speaker 2: It was elated.
Speaker 1: I always say, if Brooks was straight, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you would get so many I'm sure we get so
Speaker 1: many guys too, But like all my friends, like from
Speaker 1: my perspective, all of my friends slide up on any
Speaker 1: story that I ever post with Brooks and they're like,
Speaker 1: he's so handsome. I'm like, I know he's though and taken.
Speaker 2: Am I. You'll just have to tune in to find out.
Speaker 1: I always do this segment of rapid fire questions with
Speaker 1: my guests whenever we are ending an episode. So we
Speaker 1: need your New York City recommendations. Best place to go out?
Speaker 2: Oh, the Box.
Speaker 1: The Box is I think one of the best clubs
Speaker 1: now in New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like the Box. You need to go there
Speaker 1: at least a little tipsy. So what's a good pregame
Speaker 1: spot before going to the Box?
Speaker 2: Before the Box, I love the Nines. Most overrated NYC
Speaker 2: hot spot I mean Times Square. I don't know why
Speaker 2: people go there. Is that offensive? No, whatever, it's real.
Speaker 1: What's your drunk bodego water? At two am?
Speaker 2: I'll just stumble into like whatever place is serving food,
Speaker 2: then eat it.
Speaker 1: Best bagel in the city.
Speaker 2: Cidel's and Papa Bagels.
Speaker 1: Okay, I really want to try Papup Bagel.
Speaker 2: In this place. Apollo Bagels is apparently really good, but
Speaker 2: I haven't.
Speaker 1: Tried a favorite restaurant in the city.
Speaker 2: I mean, I really love rh guest House, Like I
Speaker 2: will go there for brunch, go there a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been trying to get you to come with me
Speaker 2: for a while.
Speaker 1: We need to go. Yeah, we do dream part of
Speaker 1: the city to live in.
Speaker 2: I've lived in Hudson Square in West Village and those
Speaker 2: are definitely like my two favorite places. I don't think
Speaker 2: I'd ever want to live elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Craziest New York City party you've been to.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's so normal that I wouldn't think
Speaker 2: it was crazy. You know, we have a couple of
Speaker 2: serious loose Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that is it. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: coming on my podcast, and make sure to tune in
Speaker 1: to Next Gen NYC on June third, thank you for
Speaker 1: having me