Speaker 1: What's up a Happy Hour. It's good to be back
Speaker 1: with you again this week, but it's also slightly good
Speaker 1: or sweet because my wonderful co host Michelle is unfortunately
Speaker 1: under the weather, so she will not be joining us
Speaker 1: this week, which is a huge bummer because I wanted
Speaker 1: to catch up with her and hear all about how
Speaker 1: her birthday weekend, how she enjoyed Wayne Go Tango and
Speaker 1: walked the red carpet with Nate. But we will have
Speaker 1: to wait until the following week to get her on
Speaker 1: to just pick her brain on all of that fun stuff.
Speaker 1: But Michelle, if you are listening to this in the meantime,
Speaker 1: I have to give you a huge shout out because
Speaker 1: you and Nate rocked the red carpet at Wayne Go Tango.
Speaker 1: You looked absolutely stunning in that red dress. For all
Speaker 1: of our listeners who have not seen her in this
Speaker 1: incredible number, please go to Instagram. It's probably boasted all
Speaker 1: over your feed. It's probably on her feed. But oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, hot, damn, no one else should ever wear
Speaker 1: that dress because Michelle, you looked incredible and it looked
Speaker 1: like such a fun time. I hope you had a
Speaker 1: great time reuniting with Nate and celebrating your big birthday
Speaker 1: and all of that fun stuff. And you know, for
Speaker 1: everyone listening here, I love to talk. I could just
Speaker 1: go on and go on, but I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do that because we actually have a very fun guest
Speaker 1: coming up and I can't wait to have her on
Speaker 1: because she is not only a fellow podcaster just a
Speaker 1: badass mom, but she has really paved the way in
Speaker 1: the world of social media and especially knowing all things
Speaker 1: pop culture in terms of reality television. So very shortly
Speaker 1: we will be having Amanda hirsh On aka not Skinny
Speaker 1: but not Fat. But before we do bring Amanda on,
Speaker 1: I have to give one final shout out to Michelle
Speaker 1: because you know, we've been talking about this for weeks,
Speaker 1: but it is officially her last week of school, last
Speaker 1: week of teaching in the classroom, and Michelle, you have
Speaker 1: put in so much hard work, time, dedication to the classroom,
Speaker 1: to your students, and to their families. But we will
Speaker 1: be thinking of you this week. I'm sure you're just
Speaker 1: going to crash once that day is done, but we
Speaker 1: are sending you so much love and support and enjoy
Speaker 1: those last few hours with all of your students, and
Speaker 1: who knows what the future will hold, but we are
Speaker 1: always here to love and support you. But it's an
Speaker 1: exciting week for you. Let me know if you need
Speaker 1: anything in the meantime, a bottle of wine, kick up
Speaker 1: your feet, relax, chill for a little bit, and just
Speaker 1: treat yourself to some time off. You know, hopefully you
Speaker 1: can enjoy the next three months of this summer break.
Speaker 1: But everyone, before we do, bring on our very fun guest.
Speaker 1: I just have to do a little humble bragging here,
Speaker 1: and not that it's that big of a deal, but
Speaker 1: if anyone follows along either me or Thomas on social media,
Speaker 1: you will see that Thomas was supposed to be running
Speaker 1: a big marathon down in San Diego last week, and
Speaker 1: fortunately he caught a very weird, very strange, unique double
Speaker 1: lung infection when we were in Hawaii, so he unfortunately
Speaker 1: could not run the marathon. But he, somehow, I don't
Speaker 1: know how he did this, convinced me to run a
Speaker 1: five k and I'm not a huge runner. I'm not
Speaker 1: into cardio. It's not my thing. I don't necessarily enjoy it,
Speaker 1: but he talked me into it. And so this past weekend,
Speaker 1: Thomas and I ran our first five well not ours,
Speaker 1: but my first five k together done in San Diego
Speaker 1: with the Rock and Roll Marathon, and it was so
Speaker 1: much fun. And for anyone who has ever ran a
Speaker 1: marathon or a half marathon, or a ten k or
Speaker 1: even a five k, like, kudos to you, because it's
Speaker 1: not easy, I mean, especially running in a marathon. I
Speaker 1: have so much more respect for people who do it
Speaker 1: and who are dedicated and love and enjoy it. But
Speaker 1: it all goes to a good cause. And so thanks
Speaker 1: to everyone who took part in that. Thanks to Tommy
Speaker 1: or drag and my booty out of bed at five
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, six in the morning to get
Speaker 1: running on the road. And some people have DMed me
Speaker 1: actually asking if I would ever do a marathon or
Speaker 1: if you'll see me running in the future, And I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you right now you probably will never
Speaker 1: ever in this lifetime see me do marathon, probably not
Speaker 1: even a half marathon, but I would definitely do another
Speaker 1: five k, maybe maybe a ten k if I practice.
Speaker 1: But it was just such a fun experience. So shout
Speaker 1: out to the Rock and Roll Marathon in San Diego.
Speaker 1: You guys are incredible, So many people showed up. I
Speaker 1: did not know what to expect and it was such
Speaker 1: a cool experience just with everything all the planning that
Speaker 1: goes into it. But yeah, thanks for all of the
Speaker 1: well wishes and the support with that all of our
Speaker 1: listeners who fall along. That has been received and loved
Speaker 1: and I appreciate it so much. But enough about me.
Speaker 1: We do have a very fun interview coming up with
Speaker 1: Amanda again. She is a force on Instagram with her
Speaker 1: extensive coverage on all things pop culture. Please join me
Speaker 1: and welcoming Amanda Hirst a Happy Hour. Well first, Amanda,
Speaker 1: welcome to Happy Hour. We well when I say we
Speaker 1: because I know Michelle who is my co host and
Speaker 1: unfortunately a second campy here. We have been wanting to
Speaker 1: have you on for a while. We're so excited to
Speaker 1: have you, so thank you for joining us and just
Speaker 1: catch us up on your life. How are you well?
Speaker 1: Thank you back. I'm a huge fan, as you guys
Speaker 1: probably know, I'm a Bachelor Nation groupie. I don't know
Speaker 1: what do I call it, like back to our nation, bitch,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just part of your part of
Speaker 1: the nation. I'm like part I'm on the sidelines. Of
Speaker 1: the nation. Yeah, we've been like, it feels weird to
Speaker 1: not have it on air right now, even though like
Speaker 1: that used to be normal, but we got you so
Speaker 1: like back to back to back to back to back,
Speaker 1: and now we have this spoiled you could call it
Speaker 1: that spoiled over abundance. I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I felt both. I felt both. Um, but a
Speaker 1: huge fan, huge fan of Bastination can't wait for what
Speaker 1: is it Paradise to come the next thing. Well, so
Speaker 1: first it'll be the Boucherette the next season that'll air,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, like the duel two women, and
Speaker 1: then the Paradise is about to film like this week.
Speaker 1: I think, I know some of the cast is already
Speaker 1: down there, so that'll come out. I'm assuming like September October.
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact dates, but you'll you'll very
Speaker 1: soon have back to back seasons once again. Oh my
Speaker 1: god it congrats on your engagement. Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been showing off his rock whenever he can, his
Speaker 1: little bling, you know how Like I'm sure when women
Speaker 1: get engaged, they're like, oh, look at you everything, you
Speaker 1: know what you know? Yeah, but you know, like people
Speaker 1: want to do everything with their left hand, and I
Speaker 1: feel like that's how he is. Now. He's like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: let me hold my cup with my left hand and
Speaker 1: we get my coffee mug. But I want to switch
Speaker 1: it into this hand. And so he's been showing off
Speaker 1: the ring a lot. So thank you, we can I
Speaker 1: ask you see how I'm switching it around to like
Speaker 1: having you on my podcast, but this I just want
Speaker 1: to know how it works. So is he going to
Speaker 1: get you a ring now? Yes? So I kind of
Speaker 1: stole his thunder a little bit because he did have
Speaker 1: something planned so he I don't know if he has
Speaker 1: it currently or is like in the midst of making
Speaker 1: a ring, but he had a date in mind and
Speaker 1: I have no idea what it is that he was
Speaker 1: going to do it. And so when I popped to
Speaker 1: the question early and through him for the loop, I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't want to take away from what
Speaker 1: you have planned. You know, my ring fingers getting lonely
Speaker 1: over here, so I want one too, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to add to it. So yes, we are probably
Speaker 1: like the only people, which is probably not necessary and
Speaker 1: like you said, over abundance, but like we'll probably have
Speaker 1: two engagements then, so like surprise for engaged again. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll he'll do something fun. Are you Are you
Speaker 1: going to tell him, like what you want for a ring?
Speaker 1: Oh he knows, he is well aware. Yeah, one of
Speaker 1: my best friends has made it very apparent to him
Speaker 1: of what I would like the time around, because in
Speaker 1: the past I wasn't really able to design a ring personally,
Speaker 1: and so now this time around, Um, my friend has
Speaker 1: told him, you know, this is what it needs to
Speaker 1: look like, this is exactly what she needs. Don't go over,
Speaker 1: don't go under whatever. So he knows, he's he's a
Speaker 1: smart guy. Yeah, I love that. I also love I
Speaker 1: love the coupling in general because it's so random. It is.
Speaker 1: It is very random. That's what everyone said, especially when
Speaker 1: we first got together. It was a random but then
Speaker 1: like it happened, and then you guys knock on Wood
Speaker 1: are like making it and you know he didn't get
Speaker 1: the best at it on his season obviously, Um, and
Speaker 1: you're just making everybody kind of see him. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: actually a really really great guy and so I'm at least,
Speaker 1: you know, I was lucky enough to meet him in
Speaker 1: Paradise and other people were done there too. But you know,
Speaker 1: now I could spend my life with him and I
Speaker 1: know that real Thomas now, which I'm like, how the
Speaker 1: hell did they turn you into this? But right? But yeah,
Speaker 1: but I want to ask you, so, when you got
Speaker 1: engaged and married, did your husband know what you wanted
Speaker 1: it in advance? Or was he did he just go
Speaker 1: on blind? No? I was twenty six years old, baby,
Speaker 1: I know. You know girls come in the batchelor at
Speaker 1: like twenty three and Imo was like and but for me,
Speaker 1: it's like we were together for five years, so I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't need to get proposed to. He
Speaker 1: was like more into that. But yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: complete surprise. I was like caught off guard and he
Speaker 1: you know, we were broke at the time, so we
Speaker 1: got me a baby ring, which only you know we're
Speaker 1: married now for six years together for eleven I think
Speaker 1: I only allowed myself to make fun of it like
Speaker 1: this year, like like that's like the decade mark of dating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to be like now I'm like all the time, like
Speaker 1: I need a microscope please, like led zoom in, where's
Speaker 1: my monocle? Right? But now he gets it, but but
Speaker 1: it is special because we were at such a different
Speaker 1: point in our lives where like we had no money
Speaker 1: like yet to take like a loan to get this ring. Um,
Speaker 1: and and it is really special. I am thinking about
Speaker 1: like upgrading it now, and it's really sweet because he's
Speaker 1: so supportive, Like, but I'm I'm not gonna put it
Speaker 1: in a drawer. I want to like incorporate it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like I'm sure a lot of men would be like
Speaker 1: and he's just like wants me to do it. He's like,
Speaker 1: So that's more and more common these days. I mean
Speaker 1: I've talked to aunts and just random women who I'll
Speaker 1: comment on their rings and they'll be like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is my second ring. We just upgraded it. So I
Speaker 1: feel like it's more common these days. And I love
Speaker 1: that you still want to incorporate what he gave you originally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's then what is it what I'm going to get
Speaker 1: a new engagement ring? Like bitch, like you've been married
Speaker 1: for whatever years and it means something. So yeah, it
Speaker 1: was the opposite. Like today I saw my sister go
Speaker 1: through the process and she of getting engaged, and like
Speaker 1: she knew exactly what she wanted. She had Pinterest picture
Speaker 1: she had to the point that she knew like which
Speaker 1: band and which like the under things, like all these things,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, I didn't even have
Speaker 1: a chance to like explore those things, know what I mean? Well,
Speaker 1: and especially I'm sure before social media and like the
Speaker 1: pinterests of the world came up. It's like, I mean,
Speaker 1: even doing Thomas's ring, which you would think would be
Speaker 1: so damn simple, like a men's wedding band, there was
Speaker 1: so many questions and bits and pieces. I'm like, thank
Speaker 1: god I had a friend who's a dueler that could
Speaker 1: help me, because I'm like, I don't know what any
Speaker 1: of you. I don't know what a stone cut is,
Speaker 1: or like what the clarity or any of this shit.
Speaker 1: It's it's wild. I want to ask you. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I have so many questions for you. But just since
Speaker 1: we're talking about your husband really quick, is he a
Speaker 1: pop culture junkie just like you? Oh my god, he's
Speaker 1: the opposite. He the other day confused like Jason Biggs
Speaker 1: and Adam Sandler, Like he's the opposite. So like, what
Speaker 1: is his thing that he like gravitates too? Well, it's
Speaker 1: really sweet because he's so supportive and like like I'll
Speaker 1: explain to him like who people are so he knows,
Speaker 1: and then he'll get into it be like oh that girl,
Speaker 1: you know, and he'll just find a way to like
Speaker 1: make me understand who he's talking about. But he'll never
Speaker 1: say the name because he doesn't know. It's just it's
Speaker 1: so much to keep track of. It's like I watch
Speaker 1: so much television and I mean not enough, not really,
Speaker 1: but but a lot of reality TV stars and celebrities
Speaker 1: and you know, so, no, he's not in tune with it.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I don't think I like it
Speaker 1: that way. You know. It's like he doesn't need to
Speaker 1: be into this stuff or geek out about this stuff.
Speaker 1: He's just really happy for like me in situations and
Speaker 1: he gets really into it, like oh and like what
Speaker 1: about this? And he's very supportive in the on the
Speaker 1: business side. But no, he's not, you know, he's not
Speaker 1: into it. I'll be like I got a dam from
Speaker 1: Kim and he'll like be excited, but he's not, like,
Speaker 1: you know, into it. I wonder like if there are
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that are well, I mean, so
Speaker 1: just being in this world, you know, I came into
Speaker 1: the Bachelor world back in twenty seventeen, and since then,
Speaker 1: I've met so many guys. You would be surprised at
Speaker 1: the amount of men that I'll meet just randomly, like
Speaker 1: on the straight or grocery shopping, who are huge, huge
Speaker 1: fans and they and you know, you have the guys
Speaker 1: who are just so proud of it. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the show. I watched like I watched it
Speaker 1: with my guys. And then there's half, like the half
Speaker 1: of the group of men who are like, oh, I
Speaker 1: watch because my fiance does, or my wife does or
Speaker 1: my girlfriends. I'm like, you guys always blame it on
Speaker 1: the girls, but you secretly get hooked too. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm actually surprised at the amount of guys that that
Speaker 1: like also recognized Thomas, like he gets spotted. I mean
Speaker 1: he's tall, so he sticks out like a sore thumb,
Speaker 1: but like so many dudes gravitate towards him and they're like, dude,
Speaker 1: we sigh you on the show. We loved you, like
Speaker 1: it's it's so funny, you would not expect it. I
Speaker 1: love it. I think I know more men that watch
Speaker 1: it with their like women. But I wonder if it's
Speaker 1: like a red flag if you meet a guy and
Speaker 1: he watches The Bachelor or not. Well, I've met a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that will just do it with their
Speaker 1: guy friends, like um, people like yeah, they're like like,
Speaker 1: I was talking to a guy maybe a month or
Speaker 1: show ago who started watching it and he's my age now,
Speaker 1: so thirties and started in college. I think he was
Speaker 1: part of a frat and they just started watching it
Speaker 1: on Mondays to like, you know, pick up girls and
Speaker 1: to be able to talk about it, and then it
Speaker 1: just stuck. So he has his Fantasy Bachelor group on
Speaker 1: Monday still, and it's these dudes in their thirties that
Speaker 1: just watch it together and their wives like, I don't
Speaker 1: even think take part in it. It's so funny to me,
Speaker 1: it is. But I you know, I don't know Becca honestly,
Speaker 1: and well I want to know. I want to know.
Speaker 1: So how long have you been a fan or have
Speaker 1: watched The Bachelor or Bachelortte? What season? Maybe Ben Higgins? Oh,
Speaker 1: some more recent Yeah, I mean it's not that recent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that was Joe Joe Lauren. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: when I like really started watching watching before that like
Speaker 1: I knew about it. I think I even was like
Speaker 1: kind of in it when like the Tristan and Ryan
Speaker 1: like those first couples. But I think the Beg Benhiggens
Speaker 1: season was really one. Even today, like I'll get asked
Speaker 1: by people like if you would recommend a season. I
Speaker 1: feel like the Ben like Ben Haigen season is such
Speaker 1: a classic one because he's so like a certain type
Speaker 1: and he got the Joe Joe and you know, well
Speaker 1: he and he was one of that one sicks out
Speaker 1: because he was one of the first people leads to
Speaker 1: say I love you to two people, oh right, and
Speaker 1: he and he didn't get as much shit, right, No, No,
Speaker 1: I think I mean I think he did, but not
Speaker 1: in the way that other leads coming after him had.
Speaker 1: Like I think I think he like set the precedent
Speaker 1: for the amount of I love you and if you
Speaker 1: should or should it in this whole debate of like
Speaker 1: you know, how much should you divulge to somebody you're
Speaker 1: about to get engaged too? Right, Like it's but um,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, yeah that was back in like twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: I think you know what's so wild? I was just
Speaker 1: reminiscing about the real World. Have you the Real World ever? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well yes, young Becca did I mean? And I had
Speaker 1: to hide it from my mom because growing up when
Speaker 1: it was like in its prime, I was in probably
Speaker 1: middle school, like eight elementary school, and I would always
Speaker 1: go to my friend's house to watch it, but my
Speaker 1: mom was like very strict on TV, so I couldn't
Speaker 1: watch it at home. But oh yeah, there was there
Speaker 1: was one season where I think Cameron who was now
Speaker 1: on right Southern char I watched her. Yeah and Brad
Speaker 1: remember Brad? Yes, yes, And so that's like the prime
Speaker 1: of what I remember. Diego? Yeah, yeah, at San Diego.
Speaker 1: I just yesterday. Oh you know why I thought, like
Speaker 1: why it became a topic of a conversation because there
Speaker 1: was like a challenge um uh promo and like Kim
Speaker 1: Kardashian wasn't it randomly? And it was just so random.
Speaker 1: It was just a bunch of people from the franchise,
Speaker 1: like the batch of the Challenge in real World, which
Speaker 1: is still going. They're still doing challenges everybody, and and
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian was in the promo being like saying one
Speaker 1: of the lions and the promo and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is the most random collab and then here for it,
Speaker 1: but I'm always here for it. And I started remembering
Speaker 1: all the players like CT, and then I posted something
Speaker 1: about CT and literally my dams were blowing up of
Speaker 1: women just thirsting over this guy that was in the
Speaker 1: real world. And then there was this girl, Bryn. She
Speaker 1: was on a season, she was from Portland, and so
Speaker 1: many people from our generation, like millennials that watched the show.
Speaker 1: This was our like induction to reality TV. Yeah, jen
Speaker 1: Zeers don't know what they missed, like and that was
Speaker 1: before like a lot of I'm sure editing took place
Speaker 1: and all right, just like it was real well they
Speaker 1: say where real people? Yeah, but they lost out on
Speaker 1: like somebody saw Bryn one of like a favorite like
Speaker 1: um waitress saying you know now and and we were saying,
Speaker 1: like they didn't get to enjoy the perks of reality
Speaker 1: TV starts today. Oh it wasn't like you're gonna leave
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe you'll get a show or maybe
Speaker 1: a pot or maybe a partnership. It was like, no,
Speaker 1: you're back to being a normal person. Yeah, like you
Speaker 1: probably get paid for just that stint. I mean, and
Speaker 1: I feel like it didn't really take or go to
Speaker 1: the challenge. Yeah, like the next thing, like you make
Speaker 1: it far enough here, you go to the next show.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel like it didn't really take off
Speaker 1: until social media became such a thing with like brand
Speaker 1: deals and collabs and now, I mean, there's just so
Speaker 1: much that people don't even realize what it was like
Speaker 1: before that. But oh man, anyways, I want to get
Speaker 1: into you and how you really got started because you
Speaker 1: just mentioned Kim Kardashian and I want to talk about
Speaker 1: the evolution of Amanda into Commanda, because because your followers
Speaker 1: are so loyal and they lost their minds when you
Speaker 1: were invited to cover the Hulu premier, So how did
Speaker 1: you get involved in that in the first ones? Like
Speaker 1: who invited you to cover that? Like give me the
Speaker 1: whole backstory to this. Well, I you know, I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: became Commanda. It was like I was covering the Bachelor
Speaker 1: Kardashians summer House, like just you know, fun recapping reality
Speaker 1: to be like you know, and I've always loved the Kardashians,
Speaker 1: always watched and I think, you know, I did commentary
Speaker 1: on them, and I started noticing I think I started
Speaker 1: noticing that like their friends kind of follow me or
Speaker 1: kind of talk to me. And I didn't even allow
Speaker 1: myself to go far in my head like, oh, that
Speaker 1: means maybe they do. But but I think slowly I
Speaker 1: started realizing that, like, well, maybe they do know about me,
Speaker 1: because like their friends kind of do, and their friends
Speaker 1: say like, you know, we love your cant like all
Speaker 1: these little things. And then I started getting their pr packages,
Speaker 1: which is obviously exciting, Like everything that happened was super
Speaker 1: exciting on its own. It's like, of course I'm in
Speaker 1: a fucking geek out when I get you know, a poosh,
Speaker 1: you know, fucking the whole thing. Or but again, I
Speaker 1: never even allowed myself to like think as far as
Speaker 1: them coming on the podcast or you know, caring about
Speaker 1: me at all. Um. But then so so a huge fan.
Speaker 1: And then I think the first time was, um, I
Speaker 1: never like responded to their stories or anything just because, um,
Speaker 1: you know, you just assume like they're not gonna see it.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna see it, so I'm not gonna like
Speaker 1: be a huge fucking nerd. So I the first time
Speaker 1: I responded to Courtney Kardashian's story, it was because she
Speaker 1: posted that she went on Addison Raised podcast, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, she's doing podcasts, Like it was just
Speaker 1: a quick thought, like and I just responded without thinking,
Speaker 1: like you should come on my podcast. And then she
Speaker 1: responded almost immediately and I was actually in the middle
Speaker 1: of recording my own podcast, and she responded like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, like shoud I this was Courtney Courtney okay,
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh god, And I was like
Speaker 1: recording a podcast live. He going with that, but I
Speaker 1: would be like I gotta go buy no, no I did.
Speaker 1: I was like, there was a really funny girl that
Speaker 1: was on my podcast, and I like, I was like, listen,
Speaker 1: we need to like just talk about something that's happening
Speaker 1: right now. And she like helped me formulate a response,
Speaker 1: you know when like your friends help you with like
Speaker 1: a guy. Yes, it was the same thing. I was
Speaker 1: like okay, and she's like and I ended up beck.
Speaker 1: If I look at it back, I'll probably cringe because
Speaker 1: it was so not me. Because I listened to her.
Speaker 1: It was like too proper. It was too like just trying.
Speaker 1: But whatever. It's like, you know what. I wasn't going
Speaker 1: to leave her unseen, so I had to pull it
Speaker 1: together a real quack. Can you imagine putting Corny Kardashian unseen, right,
Speaker 1: you don't do that. You fucking answer whatever you need
Speaker 1: to answer. So that's kind of and then we like
Speaker 1: went back and forth, and then I kind of realized
Speaker 1: from there that she knows about me and my coverage
Speaker 1: of them, and and that's kind of how it started.
Speaker 1: And then a little bit after that, Kim started following me,
Speaker 1: which I thought was like, I was like, why would
Speaker 1: you like, I remember just thinking like, she doesn't need too, like,
Speaker 1: why would you like, that's an accident, No, that's literally
Speaker 1: back I was every day. I was like, today today
Speaker 1: she's going to realize she's made a huge mistake and
Speaker 1: you know, keep going with her life. Um but literally
Speaker 1: would see her, you know how it shows you like
Speaker 1: the verified person or the person that like you follow
Speaker 1: back in like the circle on the bottom. So I'd
Speaker 1: see her face and I'd be like, it's like your
Speaker 1: mom watching, but you just I just had to keep
Speaker 1: doing what I do. I couldn't say, Okay, now I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna talk about them negatively ever, or you know,
Speaker 1: poke fun or whatever, even though it does get a
Speaker 1: little hard, but um but I was never mean before.
Speaker 1: It was always like little snarky things. Um, and then
Speaker 1: it just became kind of yeah and then for the oh,
Speaker 1: for the for the event. So oh okay. So in February,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in a nail salon and um, you know
Speaker 1: board because it takes so fucking long to get a pedicure. Um,
Speaker 1: and I see an email like from my website, like forgot.
Speaker 1: I even had a website Forgot. I had like a
Speaker 1: contact body there, and it was like from Hulu being like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Kardashians is premiering in April, um, would you be
Speaker 1: interested in having Kim Kardashian on your podcast? And I
Speaker 1: was like, what kind of troll does? Who was doing this?
Speaker 1: That's what I thought. I was like, this trolling has
Speaker 1: gotten like tell me to die, you know, tell but
Speaker 1: this like this whole level yeah, so I so so
Speaker 1: I like, I was like, this is a joke. And
Speaker 1: I looked up the name of the woman and saw
Speaker 1: her LinkedIn saw she looked to Hulu had a fucking
Speaker 1: died and uh, how are you acting in this pedicure?
Speaker 1: Like are you able to sit steal him, have this finish?
Speaker 1: I feel like I would have been I would have
Speaker 1: been like, I gotta go give me my feedback. I
Speaker 1: don't care if they're not paying. I don't know, Becca,
Speaker 1: I really don't know. I think I was just like
Speaker 1: like looking like who I can tell, but like literally anyone.
Speaker 1: I couldn't know anyone. Um And I think it was
Speaker 1: just like you know, looking at like trying to really
Speaker 1: grasp this and then say, oh my fucking god. And
Speaker 1: again the thoughts running through my head are like why,
Speaker 1: like she doesn't need this, she doesn't need to do
Speaker 1: a podcast like, um, so it was, yeah, that's rare
Speaker 1: because they typically don't do podcasts. And so, so you
Speaker 1: had Kim on first and then Chloe after that. Correct,
Speaker 1: So I had Kim on and then literally got it
Speaker 1: from Oh so the week I had Kim like simultaneously. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the week I had Kim, right before I'm about
Speaker 1: to fly out to LA, my agent calls me and
Speaker 1: is like, um and as, oh no, so the day
Speaker 1: so that that day, a day, a few days before
Speaker 1: I flew to LA, all of a sudden, Kim that
Speaker 1: day leaked by accident the premiere info and like people
Speaker 1: were talking about it and I was like, excuse me,
Speaker 1: I'm like in La that day, like we're having a
Speaker 1: podcast a day after, like, why'men uninvited? Not in like
Speaker 1: not in any like in a joking way. I was
Speaker 1: kind of like I shouldn't be invited, Like what the hell?
Speaker 1: Like totally kidding to myself and to like my family.
Speaker 1: I even tried to hint at her, one of the
Speaker 1: women who works with Kim that I like communicate with.
Speaker 1: I even texted her trying to hint, being like when
Speaker 1: is the premiere again? And she was like the seventeenth,
Speaker 1: And I was like, cool, I'll be there. No, Like no,
Speaker 1: I thought you'd be like, oh, he's totally come, so
Speaker 1: radio silence. And then that night my agents called me
Speaker 1: and were like, not only are you going, like they
Speaker 1: want you to host the carpet and interview the entire family.
Speaker 1: And it was the night before or my interview with Kim.
Speaker 1: So it's like it was a lot because I you know,
Speaker 1: when you have something important, you want to just focus
Speaker 1: on that. But then it's like, no, the day before
Speaker 1: is like pretty wild too, So um, it was. It
Speaker 1: was an experience for sure. How do you even in
Speaker 1: prep for that for the red carpet? Yes, like have
Speaker 1: you had like was this your first one? You'd ever done.
Speaker 1: It was my first one. No, I did a little
Speaker 1: fashion week thing for E, but that was my first one.
Speaker 1: It was totally thrown into it, like I didn't even
Speaker 1: know that, Like when you talk, you have to like
Speaker 1: put it here and right. It's like you have tony
Speaker 1: little things, so many little things to think about. Um.
Speaker 1: But but you know what Becca, like, when you get
Speaker 1: these opportunities, you're not like why. I mean like sometimes
Speaker 1: you're like I fucking deserve it them like if I'm
Speaker 1: getting it, and they were actively reaching out to you
Speaker 1: to get right, which that's something which says a lot.
Speaker 1: And and you know, I somehow go into these moment
Speaker 1: moments like just with a blank, like not poker face,
Speaker 1: but poker because if I allowed myself to realize what
Speaker 1: it is in the moment, I would have a panic attack.
Speaker 1: I would like shit my brains out. So I have
Speaker 1: to be like I deserve to be here. I know
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. Boom, Like they're normal people. You could
Speaker 1: just be you. They like you for who you are.
Speaker 1: So so it's a very Kardashian week because I had
Speaker 1: that and the Hulu thing, and then I'm doing a
Speaker 1: show with E about the Kardashian, So it was like
Speaker 1: it was a very Kardashian week. I think that's how
Speaker 1: commander came about, because it was like, how are you
Speaker 1: not transforming? How are you part of this family already?
Speaker 1: How am I not part of it? And then a
Speaker 1: couple of days after I got back from the Kim interview,
Speaker 1: we were talking about how how good it was, like
Speaker 1: me and her team, and they were like, so Chloe next,
Speaker 1: and I was like and they're like no, really, so
Speaker 1: what when can you do it? And I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: So if you told me, they can do it right?
Speaker 1: And where I'll come to the moon, I'll come to wherever.
Speaker 1: So it's, um, it's a wild it's a wild thing,
Speaker 1: and it just makes me want to do it more,
Speaker 1: like you know interview. Well, yeah, I'm sure. It's like
Speaker 1: similar to this is probably a very bad analogy, be
Speaker 1: like similar to tattoo, where it's like you're a little
Speaker 1: nervous at first, you don't quite know how it's going
Speaker 1: to go, but then once you get the taste for it,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, let's keep it coming, let's keep it coming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And well, and that's like the top of the top
Speaker 1: of who you would want to interview. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and thank god they have a thousand members of the
Speaker 1: families you can just sling through them. I want to know,
Speaker 1: are there any questions that when you were with them,
Speaker 1: but you didn't get the chance to ask them? If
Speaker 1: they were to come on again, what would you ask
Speaker 1: them next time? I actually got to ask them everything
Speaker 1: that I wanted. But listen, I'm always about them, like
Speaker 1: the little nuanced fan question, you know, like we want
Speaker 1: to know, Like I regret not asking while I asked
Speaker 1: Chloe how she drinks her coffee, but I didn't get
Speaker 1: to ask him. But it's like those little things you
Speaker 1: know that that fans want to know, Like we know
Speaker 1: all the headlines, we know the Kanye of it all,
Speaker 1: we know trists and cheated and those things are like
Speaker 1: important and you want to talk about them. But I
Speaker 1: just love getting like the nitty gritty little yeah, the
Speaker 1: little I like. So this reminds me. I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: seen it in magazines. They have the I love how
Speaker 1: you talked in the magazines. Oh my Minnesota accent comes out.
Speaker 1: I love us so bad. But there's like the sections
Speaker 1: where it you know, it's like the celebrities, they're just
Speaker 1: like us, and it's pictures of them like walking their
Speaker 1: dog or like stepping into a porta potty or picking
Speaker 1: up a coffee, And I it's always so funny to
Speaker 1: me because I'm like, of course, they're just like us,
Speaker 1: like we're all humans. But then I always wonder, you know,
Speaker 1: like little things like what I were watching the Kardashians,
Speaker 1: and I feel like they're always eating salad, So I
Speaker 1: always think, do they only eat salads for the most part,
Speaker 1: Like what else when the cameras aren't rolling, what do
Speaker 1: you eat? Like what's your what are you indulge in?
Speaker 1: Like little things like that that it's like probably no
Speaker 1: one gives two shits about, but like I'm curious, but
Speaker 1: that's the thing that people really really care. Like when
Speaker 1: Chloe told me that her Starbucks coffee order is like
Speaker 1: a seven pump Chai latte, I was pretty shocked because
Speaker 1: I thought that's like a lot of sugar, yeah, kind
Speaker 1: of like I was like, Chloe, like, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of like shame of your life on the edge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I think people love to know that stuff. And
Speaker 1: to me, it's like I always say this when people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, you know celebrities. You know, they're not
Speaker 1: even the ones on Instagram. It's their assistance or their
Speaker 1: social media are like they're not looking or they're not posting.
Speaker 1: It's like, you guys, best be sure these bitches are
Speaker 1: on fucking Instagram all day. Now. That's what I really
Speaker 1: I feel like learned from this industry. It's like everyone's
Speaker 1: life like me. They're on their phones. They care what
Speaker 1: people are saying, whether it's about them or about other
Speaker 1: stuff they care about. They care about shit, they're watching
Speaker 1: The Bachelor, you know, they're it's like they're not like unicorns.
Speaker 1: And you know what, they're probably on their phones more
Speaker 1: than we're on our phones when we're saving. Not more
Speaker 1: than me because I am a lot, but they're in
Speaker 1: cars and on flights and on all this shit. So
Speaker 1: people always think like, oh, they're not going to see
Speaker 1: it or you know, and they're very very and especially
Speaker 1: the Kardashians, they're they're they want to be very on
Speaker 1: the like on the head of what's going on, of
Speaker 1: what's being said about them. They there, it's they have
Speaker 1: a whole Like I feel like they're just very good
Speaker 1: like social media and marketing and stuff. But but yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: they have pj's and they have all that stuff, and
Speaker 1: they've never taken an uber but they you know, eat
Speaker 1: salads and they have. I was shocked with Chloe. We
Speaker 1: had like a pop socket on her phone. It was
Speaker 1: like a chipping pop socket scream. Yeah, So I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: you're so down to earth. I will say, and this
Speaker 1: is not to take away and make this about me,
Speaker 1: but I will say I met Kendall and Chris when
Speaker 1: it was right after I was announced as bacherette, so
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen, you know, five years ago, and
Speaker 1: I met them because Kendall was on Ellen and I
Speaker 1: was going in to do an interview. So I'm walking
Speaker 1: in as Chris and Kendall are walking out and Chris
Speaker 1: gave me a hug and he's like, this was right
Speaker 1: after the public breakup that was on the show for
Speaker 1: the finale, and she gave me a hug, and she's like,
Speaker 1: f him, and you're welcome to come to our house
Speaker 1: for dinner anytime, and like, you know who I am.
Speaker 1: But they it's like, you know, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: didn't know they watched. Yeah, some of them are fans,
Speaker 1: and it's it's so it's crazy. It's like, the more
Speaker 1: I'm in this world, the more I hear about actual
Speaker 1: celebrities and like big people who you know, have done
Speaker 1: a lot more than I whatever do in my life.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like it's a good escape. Reality. Teev
Speaker 1: is a good escape for anyone, and people like to
Speaker 1: downplay sometimes when I'm like, hey, it brings people together.
Speaker 1: Is something common to talk about. It's entertaining. It just
Speaker 1: brings us all that down to reality. I want to know.
Speaker 1: So you just mentioned a little bit ago you're always
Speaker 1: on your phone. What is a typical day in the
Speaker 1: life for you. What does that look like? Well, I
Speaker 1: have a baby, and it's adorable, by the way, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, thanks, you're so precious. I eat him up
Speaker 1: all day. And so it's mainly like him and doing
Speaker 1: my shit and him and doing my shit and them simultaneously.
Speaker 1: It's it's fun because most of the stuff I get
Speaker 1: to do from home, you know, And I'm really lucky
Speaker 1: in that because I get to hang out with him
Speaker 1: so much. But yeah, it's basically between him and making
Speaker 1: sure that I'm on top of everything that's going on.
Speaker 1: Even though listen, we're human, we're not always able to be,
Speaker 1: you know, and most of what I do is like
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm the first person, you know, the
Speaker 1: front lines capturing the footage. You know, I'm not TMZ
Speaker 1: and I don't want to be. I'm just the way
Speaker 1: this whole thing kind of started is like, I'm just
Speaker 1: really passionate about it, and I like commenting on it
Speaker 1: and I like talking about it. But this is not
Speaker 1: like you guys, well, hear it here first, and you
Speaker 1: know if so, it's kind of um, that's kind of
Speaker 1: fluid for you, Like if something comes up and you
Speaker 1: can cover it and talk about it. I kind of
Speaker 1: like that, though you don't make it your entire world
Speaker 1: and identity. Yeah, it is such a huge part of
Speaker 1: me that it's real. It's not like, oh, I have
Speaker 1: to like, you know, know what's going on. It's more like,
Speaker 1: if before I started this, I would freak out about,
Speaker 1: you know, something that's happening in pop culture to my sister,
Speaker 1: to my husband. I'd be like Courtney got a haircut.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like, now I have a bunch of
Speaker 1: people that also care about this shit to freak out
Speaker 1: to about, and we all kind of, you know, love
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty stuff. So yeah, it's it's more like
Speaker 1: a fun, fluid thing. Sometimes it's very all over the
Speaker 1: place because it's just like stuff that comes up for me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm like, let's just talk
Speaker 1: about Harry styles and you know the moves he makes
Speaker 1: on stage or you know this show that I'm watching
Speaker 1: right now or or whatever. But well, that's really fun.
Speaker 1: That's why I would say you're so fun to follow,
Speaker 1: because it's fluid and it is you, and it's not
Speaker 1: like you feel the need to bang out a certain
Speaker 1: amount of content or posts or stories or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be over things that you don't care about or
Speaker 1: that's not newsworthy to you. Did you would you say
Speaker 1: you got you like really kicked off during COVID or
Speaker 1: when did you feel like, okay, like I'm kind of
Speaker 1: making it in this world. I think it's hard to
Speaker 1: even say that now. It's such a scary thing to say,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that No, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: a COVID. Well, the thing is, I started in two
Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen, so a while, it's been like six
Speaker 1: six years. Um, you know, not like a TikToker that
Speaker 1: like gained fifteen million followers overnight, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I've been hustling at this for like a really long time.
Speaker 1: But I will say, if I had to really think
Speaker 1: about it, that maybe during COVID people were more bored
Speaker 1: and looking for more, you know, outlets to like to
Speaker 1: to to get some escapism. And maybe I think there
Speaker 1: were some scandals too. I think it was like there
Speaker 1: was Hilaria Baldwin pretending to be Spanish, and then there
Speaker 1: was Armie Hammer being a cannibal, and I think I
Speaker 1: think definitely there were peaks at that time. But I've
Speaker 1: been doing what I do consistently for the past six
Speaker 1: years and with the same kind of like love for it,
Speaker 1: the same dedication, the same motivation when I wasn't making
Speaker 1: a dollar. Like it's just wild to think about it,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to say I made it. I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm like going with the flow, you know, I'm like
Speaker 1: enjoying the opportunities that come, and I'm enjoying the fact that,
Speaker 1: like I said, I get to do this and be
Speaker 1: with my son and be who I am, because that
Speaker 1: was that was like my main thing when I got pregnant,
Speaker 1: was like I'm still gonna be this dumb bitch, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I'm not changing because I had
Speaker 1: a baby. I'm not changing because I had a baby,
Speaker 1: and you can say that, but I didn't know how
Speaker 1: it would look, and it was like the way it
Speaker 1: looks is exactly how I pictured it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I'm able to give him everything, all the love,
Speaker 1: all the smushing all day, but I'm able to fucking
Speaker 1: doing what I need to do. Yeah, what I wanted
Speaker 1: to still have fun on the side. Well, you really
Speaker 1: have turned it into a business and then you've just
Speaker 1: taken off and not only like have you become like
Speaker 1: an ig and podcast destination for people, but you've you've
Speaker 1: done it in a successful way that not many people
Speaker 1: can do. What's the best professional advice anyone has ever
Speaker 1: given you? Oh? I think the other day this is
Speaker 1: kind of life advice. And I really liked this advice
Speaker 1: is that you don't have to be one hundred percent
Speaker 1: sure about a decision. You only need to be about
Speaker 1: fifty one percent. And I love that. Isn't that so good?
Speaker 1: Because I'm such an overthinker and like I overanalyze every
Speaker 1: single thing and like it has to be one hundred
Speaker 1: percent or it is not right. And I feel like
Speaker 1: that piece of advice and I think I even posted
Speaker 1: and so many people connected with it because people are
Speaker 1: dealing with like real life shit all the time, like
Speaker 1: big moves and job promotions and having a kid not
Speaker 1: having a kid, and even when people ask me about Noah,
Speaker 1: my son and why I and like when I know
Speaker 1: I was ready, it's like exactly that, no one's gonna
Speaker 1: tell you I was thousand percent. Read like no, like
Speaker 1: you were a little bit more ready than not ready,
Speaker 1: which is like the fifty one percent for example. But
Speaker 1: but that and the other piece of professional advice I'll
Speaker 1: give is like, if you really really love something and
Speaker 1: you are dedicated to it and like to the extent
Speaker 1: of being all in on it, and you love it
Speaker 1: and you do what you do with passion, like you
Speaker 1: will succeed. I don't see, you know, and a way
Speaker 1: that that isn't isn't true. I just feel like that's
Speaker 1: find what you really love, work hard at it. I
Speaker 1: sound like Kim Kardashian and her like nobody wants to
Speaker 1: work through things, show up and do the work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to work these days. It's so weird and
Speaker 1: I know it's easier said than done because I was
Speaker 1: working odd jobs for years like that didn't represent me,
Speaker 1: that I didn't feel like we're me, that I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't give a fuck about because I was like
Speaker 1: not trying to be there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So also like, don't stress if you're twenty five, if
Speaker 1: you're thirty, if you're thirty five and you're doing something
Speaker 1: that you don't think is you, it's okay, you'll find it.
Speaker 1: Keep on moving. Yeah, as long as you have the
Speaker 1: drive to find out what fuels you. And even when
Speaker 1: you say, like if you find something that you're one
Speaker 1: hundred percent so passionate about and you find join that,
Speaker 1: like you're already winning, whether you consider that a career
Speaker 1: or a hobby whatever. Exactly exactly when I started this,
Speaker 1: it was a hobby and I was totally content with
Speaker 1: it being that. And I always said, like to my family,
Speaker 1: my husband, my sister's like something good can come out
Speaker 1: of it, So like you never know, and and that's
Speaker 1: really cool. I want to ask you this because I'm
Speaker 1: sure I can imagine you've probably heard something similar, but
Speaker 1: like just for me coming off of the show, and
Speaker 1: you know, being in the world of reality TV and
Speaker 1: then coming on the podcast, and I don't have a
Speaker 1: typical nine to five job, like before I before all
Speaker 1: that I worked in an office nine to five. I
Speaker 1: put in my forty hours of work. And now people
Speaker 1: don't quite understand, like, oh, well, you don't work because
Speaker 1: you're not in the office nine to five and putting
Speaker 1: in forty hours. What do you say to people who
Speaker 1: put down what you're doing because in your mind it
Speaker 1: is a career for you. Now it came off of
Speaker 1: a hobby, but like, this is your livelihood, this is
Speaker 1: how you make money, and you enjoy it. So what
Speaker 1: do you have to say for those people who hate
Speaker 1: on you not going into office working nine to five
Speaker 1: and like having this traditional role. Yeah, it's funny because
Speaker 1: I think I will be the first to admit I'm
Speaker 1: a very self aware person. Like as much as I'll
Speaker 1: say yes, it's just job, and yes it's twenty four
Speaker 1: fucking seven sometimes more than an office job, I also
Speaker 1: will say it's much more fun than an office job,
Speaker 1: and it is not brain surgery, and it's not hard
Speaker 1: in the same ways that other jobs are hard. But
Speaker 1: some I totally will be like, I get you like
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say I didn't fucking hate going
Speaker 1: into in office, Like I think there's also like there's
Speaker 1: a spectrum of people that like, don't I'm going to
Speaker 1: the office fucking hate it, fucking hate it, like and
Speaker 1: there was me that I was on a hundred of
Speaker 1: like hate it going the office. Always wanted to leave early,
Speaker 1: like was smoking cigarettes to have a break, Like I
Speaker 1: was not an office gallon. It's like I knew that's
Speaker 1: not where I should be. But I will say that,
Speaker 1: like every job is different, and of course this has
Speaker 1: a lot of fun perks to it, but I also
Speaker 1: work my ass off. But like my mom just satur Day,
Speaker 1: my mom was like, oh my god, like you're so
Speaker 1: busy and you're being so torn and I don't know
Speaker 1: how you're doing. She was like gonna cry. And I
Speaker 1: was literally like, Mom, like relax. So I like she's
Speaker 1: taking it to the other extreme where I'll be like, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm super busy, I have so much to do and
Speaker 1: I have a baby and blah blah blah, but this
Speaker 1: is fun shit and I love it and I'm so
Speaker 1: hashtag blass, hashtag grateful to do it. So I can
Speaker 1: understand that people saying that but also say like there
Speaker 1: is the other side to it, that it is hard,
Speaker 1: that it takes a lot out of you, that you
Speaker 1: don't really feel like you have days off, and that
Speaker 1: it's a different kind of job for sure, right right.
Speaker 1: I feel like your mom sounds exactly like my mom,
Speaker 1: where she's always like, take a break, go easy on yourself,
Speaker 1: and it's like, my I'm good, thank you. Though I
Speaker 1: appreciate the concern, but I'm good and I like what
Speaker 1: I do, so it's not like I'm drowning over here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's like, can't you just take a break. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: gotta get our moms together. I feel like they would
Speaker 1: be two pieces in a pod. What advice do you
Speaker 1: have for listeners who potentially want to follow in your
Speaker 1: footsteps and do something similar and build their own small following,
Speaker 1: whether that's through Instagram or some other platform. I think
Speaker 1: that it's that again. I think it's the same advice
Speaker 1: like if you love if you're doing it because you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: hashtag influence her life looks really cool, then you're not
Speaker 1: gonna make it in my opinion. But if you're like
Speaker 1: I'm really passionate about you know, writing fun memes or
Speaker 1: about following a certain Bravo show and recapping it, and
Speaker 1: I think I could do it really well, and you
Speaker 1: know I would do it anyway, but I want to
Speaker 1: do on a bigger platform than do it. If you're
Speaker 1: going into it because you're like, oh, I want to
Speaker 1: like get pr boxes, then that's not because I'll be
Speaker 1: the Like when I started it, it was like I
Speaker 1: started with a meme account. I was writing funny things
Speaker 1: that made me feel better because I was really depressed
Speaker 1: at that time, and it was before stories. Nobody knew
Speaker 1: who I was, and it kind of evolved in today
Speaker 1: I understand, like in this weird, fucked up way that
Speaker 1: this is kind of what I always wanted to do,
Speaker 1: because I always did want to be in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1: My dream was to be on like fucking E news,
Speaker 1: and I got to it in this weird, roundabout way.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying if your dream is to be
Speaker 1: famous a singer and actor or a dancer, you can't
Speaker 1: have those dreams, that they're far fetched. I'm saying if
Speaker 1: it's like, if it's just you know that you want
Speaker 1: to be famous and you don't know, why are you
Speaker 1: for the purpose, or you want to just have followers,
Speaker 1: like so many people they just like want followers, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's such as there's a lot more to that,
Speaker 1: And especially in this world where it's it's really not
Speaker 1: only like numbers and how many people follow you and
Speaker 1: what it's it's people that do it. I feel like,
Speaker 1: really think about it as more than that, you know,
Speaker 1: and if if if you like really build a community
Speaker 1: and stuff. So if you want to do it, do it.
Speaker 1: But do something that you really love, have a passion for,
Speaker 1: and feel like you can add to because it definitely
Speaker 1: is a saturated Oh yeah, yeah, Mark, Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh gosh. Yeah. It's so funny because I think back
Speaker 1: to like even when I first went on the show
Speaker 1: and I had started with like four hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: eight Instagram followers, you know, it was just like friends
Speaker 1: and people back in Minnesota, and now it's just you know,
Speaker 1: since then, it's skyrocketed. But for me, it's like I'm
Speaker 1: not like your typical influencer where I'm like taking pictures
Speaker 1: in all my clothes and knowing how to pose, Like
Speaker 1: I feel so awkward when I do that and I
Speaker 1: see all these other accounts I'm like, oh, like she's
Speaker 1: crushing it, she's killing it. But like that is so
Speaker 1: not me, and so yeah, you really have to like
Speaker 1: if that's the case, I totally agree and understand why
Speaker 1: you're saying that. Is like to have know the why
Speaker 1: behind it too for sure. Well for yourself, Becca, you
Speaker 1: don't have to be like any other bitch. You know.
Speaker 1: That's why I only have pictures of my dogs on
Speaker 1: it Instagram for the most part. That's me. That's what
Speaker 1: makes me happy. You know. I gotta get money to
Speaker 1: pay for them for their life. Okay, before we get
Speaker 1: into our game, because we always play our games here
Speaker 1: with our guests, I want to take it back to
Speaker 1: The Bachelor a little bit just for our happy our listeners.
Speaker 1: So we want to get your take on the current
Speaker 1: state of affairs in Batchel Nation. So I you know
Speaker 1: that the next season has two Batchel rets cracked. It's
Speaker 1: like the dual season with the girls. Okay, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that? TBH? Was kind of disappointed, just
Speaker 1: because like it makes me feel like if I was
Speaker 1: in that position, I wouldn't understand why they don't think
Speaker 1: that I can hold it on my own. So I
Speaker 1: hope that the way that it is kind of like
Speaker 1: makes sense, Like we don't know what it's going to
Speaker 1: look like. So didn't love, didn't love the little change up.
Speaker 1: But we'll keep my you know, fingers crossed that it'll
Speaker 1: be a fun little twist. Okay, So since you started
Speaker 1: watching from ben Cy sniff, there is a couple from
Speaker 1: Bacher Nation that you would want to go on a
Speaker 1: double date with. Who would it be? I feel like
Speaker 1: Jojo and Jordan are so cute. They're so cute together.
Speaker 1: I shipped them. I feel like she's kind of like
Speaker 1: this like perfect. Maybe I wouldn't want to go because
Speaker 1: she's too perfect an She's like always her hair is perfect,
Speaker 1: She's always like perfectly bad. Yeah, so put together, and
Speaker 1: they have like a gazillion business said, is I feel
Speaker 1: like they're really right? Yeah? Power couple. Yeah I ship? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh god, I know, just like looking at their I've
Speaker 1: only met her in person, I've never met him, but
Speaker 1: just looking at them and their pictures together, I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's too much beauty in this in the spare it's
Speaker 1: not fair shares for the rest of us. Okay, would
Speaker 1: you ever let your son when he grows up and
Speaker 1: becomes legal, go on a reality TV show or the Boutchelrette. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah I would. Yeah, I'm not anti those things. Would
Speaker 1: you still recap him and give him shit for it? Probably?
Speaker 1: I would be like voting for him. They'd be like,
Speaker 1: what are we voting for? Um? I believe that. You know,
Speaker 1: I paid forty five thousand dollars for college and looking
Speaker 1: back at a year looking back like, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's I regret it because I don't know where I
Speaker 1: would be without the education, and if I need it,
Speaker 1: it was good to fall back on it. But I
Speaker 1: feel like you don't know what's going to be in
Speaker 1: like ten twenty years, like if we're all going to
Speaker 1: be going to college and you know, just doing the
Speaker 1: thing that you're supposed to do, or if people are
Speaker 1: gonna have other ways to um, you know, get make
Speaker 1: a profession and a living. So I'm for whatever he
Speaker 1: wants to do, but like, let's aim for like soccer player.
Speaker 1: It's looking entertaining. Yeah, provide that can take care of
Speaker 1: you one day? Yeah, I provide, Yeah, exactly. I love that.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had anyone from Bachelor on your podcast? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I had Dylan barber Um Blake, Blake, h Jason another
Speaker 1: X Jason. I sling through them. Jason, he's such a
Speaker 1: great one. I know they're all, oh yeah, there would
Speaker 1: be another couple. I feel like Jason and and Caitlin
Speaker 1: are another really fun one. Oh yeah, yeah, wow you
Speaker 1: had Blake and Jason. I feel like those are like
Speaker 1: the main ones. I mean, Colton was on my season,
Speaker 1: but wow, and he's engaged, I know. I The thing
Speaker 1: that's the thing with The Bachelor is like, even if
Speaker 1: you want to take off a season because you know
Speaker 1: you're over it, it's like, how would I keep up
Speaker 1: with all this shit if I wasn't watching? Well, I
Speaker 1: want to know it's it's hard. It's like you gotta.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like that's what what hooks people
Speaker 1: to the show. Probably any reality show is like you
Speaker 1: get to know that I don't even want to call
Speaker 1: them characters, but like the cast, and then you get
Speaker 1: to know who they date and age like this full
Speaker 1: on cycle. But if you take some time off, it's like,
Speaker 1: I mean I've taken some time off before sort of
Speaker 1: the podcast, just because I could, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I've missing so much. What the hell is going on
Speaker 1: in this world? Right now. Yeah, So do you plan
Speaker 1: to watch Paradise this year which is currently filming, and
Speaker 1: who do you really hope to see hit the sands?
Speaker 1: So that's a problem out of question because I feel
Speaker 1: like Clayton season, Um, I wasn't really paying attention, so
Speaker 1: I literally don't remember anyone, but I think from a
Speaker 1: Shell season, if we get like she had her finalists
Speaker 1: were like really sexual. There's Brandon her runner up, Um Rodney,
Speaker 1: who I'm obsessed. Brandon was super like whoa, he was
Speaker 1: like I love you? Yeah, he was brant to it.
Speaker 1: Rodney was too. Yeah. I feel like Michelle season had
Speaker 1: some oh my god, and Katie's season. Are we going
Speaker 1: to see Greg quick Grippo? Well whatever, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think he has a girlfriend now, oh he does.
Speaker 1: I think I could be wrong, but I think he's
Speaker 1: dating a Parisian model Okay, okay, And he always hangs
Speaker 1: around with Andre what's his name? Who's his best friend?
Speaker 1: Andrew made him, I made him more exotic apparently, so
Speaker 1: he so he's always with him, Like I've seen them
Speaker 1: around the city. There are two for one deal. So
Speaker 1: I feel like, sorry to the women in Clayton season.
Speaker 1: It's hard. I don't remember that, but I feel like
Speaker 1: Katie and Michelle season have some good guys. So I
Speaker 1: love Paradise. I feel like with The Bachelor, what makes
Speaker 1: me restless is the many, you know, episodes you have
Speaker 1: at the beginning or Bachelor bechel Ede where it's like
Speaker 1: all the people and the drama between them, like I'm
Speaker 1: here to see the relationships. And I feel like with
Speaker 1: Paradise you dive right into, like you know, right away,
Speaker 1: right away and there and there's always more. That's what's
Speaker 1: great is there's multiple storylines going on, multiple relationships happening,
Speaker 1: which like for me as a viewer, it's much more
Speaker 1: fun to watch, much more huentertaining. And then it just
Speaker 1: gets messy too with so many people. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: we love it. We love the sweating, we love the
Speaker 1: mess in as. Oh gosh, Paradise. I it's so hot.
Speaker 1: But I will say anyone going is so lucky because
Speaker 1: the food there is the best. I would go. I
Speaker 1: told Timas I'd break up with him for two months
Speaker 1: just or a month just to go down to Paradise
Speaker 1: to eat. Yeah. The food there's InCred Like I'm the
Speaker 1: resort that you're at. Yeah. Wow, is little. That's that's
Speaker 1: the tea. It's so good. Um okay, Amanda. Before we
Speaker 1: get into this game, I have a two part final
Speaker 1: question for you. Number one, what is next? If there's
Speaker 1: any future plans that you can share with our listeners?
Speaker 1: And then two also where can everyone go to find you? Well,
Speaker 1: no exciting future plans yet, going with the flow and
Speaker 1: and and just doing my normal shit. And um, my
Speaker 1: instagram is on skinny ben Off fat and it's a
Speaker 1: name that has really nothing to do with the content.
Speaker 1: And so is my podcast. All right, well you heard
Speaker 1: it from her. Check out her instagram and her podcast.
Speaker 1: You won't want to miss it. It's so entertaining. And
Speaker 1: to end up, like I said, we love our games.
Speaker 1: Here at about your happy hour, we I was playing
Speaker 1: with our guests. So this is a very easy one.
Speaker 1: It's basically rapid fire. We're gonna ask you a question
Speaker 1: and you just give me the first thing that comes
Speaker 1: to mind. Super easy, okay, So we'll start out fun.
Speaker 1: What is your signature? Go to drink um the uh
Speaker 1: um um that what's it called? The shaken ice? Spread?
Speaker 1: Oh dirt? No? Oh okay um alcohol? Just because I
Speaker 1: want a coffee, I was thinking of coffee. Alcohol. Is
Speaker 1: a skinny margarita okay? Or a white wine? I love it.
Speaker 1: What's the last TV show that you binged? Hacks? It's
Speaker 1: so good you guys and HBO Max. You have to
Speaker 1: watch it. I'm obsessed. What song always gets you pumped up? Oh? Um?
Speaker 1: You know this song? It was popular on like two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten. It's by strow May and it's French
Speaker 1: and it goes alone. How would you guys look it up?
Speaker 1: I was just gonna pull up my phone to try
Speaker 1: to choose, yam you but yeah, no, so look it up.
Speaker 1: Strow May a Laura's dance. I think it's called and
Speaker 1: it's such a like you have one drink, you're ready
Speaker 1: to go stromm Yeah, okay, yeah, I'll check it out.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I've heard it just right at the club.
Speaker 1: You've heard it? Okay? I think I would know this
Speaker 1: one after talking to you. But what's your favorite curse word?
Speaker 1: What I say funk a lot? Yeah, but I didn't choose,
Speaker 1: so it's okay. But is that your favorite? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: My mom says like, can you curse less? On the podcast? See?
Speaker 1: But do you know that I don't realize that it's
Speaker 1: so bad when you don't even know, like I would
Speaker 1: tell you, like I would swear on my bank account
Speaker 1: right now and be like, I didn't say fuck this
Speaker 1: whole podcast. No, I'm the same way, especially if I
Speaker 1: get behind the wheel and I'm driving, I get major
Speaker 1: world rage and it's just like word vomit, curse, curse
Speaker 1: word after curseword that comes out of my mouth. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: if you could make a cameo on any unscripted what
Speaker 1: would it be? Dashians Hondo Okay, yeah, would be the second?
Speaker 1: The second? Um I did maybe Summer House on Bravo. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh I am a family of Summer House. If you
Speaker 1: could trade closets with any celebrity in the world, who
Speaker 1: would it be. Oh that's a good one. Hayley biber
Speaker 1: H Another good one. Fun fact. She when I was
Speaker 1: living in La she and Justin you Slive ride around
Speaker 1: the corner from me, so I would. I would purposely
Speaker 1: walk my dog every day, and I could tell if
Speaker 1: they were in town in that house or not because
Speaker 1: they'd have extra security and the guard dogs out. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: did you get to see them? I saw them a
Speaker 1: couple of times. Well, usually like usually at the farmer's
Speaker 1: market though that I would go to, they would be there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'd hit up like the local coffee shops. So yeah.
Speaker 1: And I'm that creepy person that like slid into her
Speaker 1: DMS to give her the best burrito recommendation at the
Speaker 1: farm worst market and she definitely did not see it.
Speaker 1: But you know, I shot my shot there. Okay. I
Speaker 1: live right by you and Casey. You know you wanted
Speaker 1: to get a burrito together. I don't. If you need
Speaker 1: me to water your plants, I will whatever. I'll hold
Speaker 1: on the fort when you're gone. Um, what is one
Speaker 1: thing about you that would surprise your followers? Um? Wow,
Speaker 1: I don't think anything would surprise my followers. They know
Speaker 1: way too much about me. It's just like, aside from
Speaker 1: showing them like my pee and the toilet, like literally,
Speaker 1: I always joke about it. I'm like, I want to
Speaker 1: be mysterious, but I'm not. I don't think anything would
Speaker 1: surprise them at this point. You're an open book, open book.
Speaker 1: I love that. What's one fashion trend that you wish
Speaker 1: would come back? Oh? I thought it would be way
Speaker 1: easier of a question if you'd said which wouldn't come back,
Speaker 1: give me that one low Rise jeans. Thank you? If
Speaker 1: low really yeah, you could wear low Rice jeans. Well.
Speaker 1: I hate jeans in general just because they're too constructing,
Speaker 1: but low Rise are the worst, like the worst. Do
Speaker 1: you remember wearing them? Like my butt crack was probably
Speaker 1: hanging out in middle school high school twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven and then the taile ub against your your tailbone.
Speaker 1: It's just so uncomfortable. I hate them so bad, hate it.
Speaker 1: And so many guys that I talked to, they're like,
Speaker 1: we love low Rice jeans. There's the sexy and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's disgusting. I could see that because guys don't. They don't.
Speaker 1: I feel like they don't get what's like good for us,
Speaker 1: you know, tell them to wear them, yeah, tell them
Speaker 1: to wear them. Honestly, I'm to buy Thomas a pair
Speaker 1: of low Rice jeans and yeah the butt crack twenty
Speaker 1: four seven. Okay, last one for this game. What is
Speaker 1: one word to describe your summer twenty twenty two? Vibe
Speaker 1: or a phrase or one word? Is hard ac summer?
Speaker 1: Sure you're in New York, right, I'm in New York
Speaker 1: and like we don't have like beaches and and you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and pools and if you just
Speaker 1: you go to brunch, you go to dinner, you go
Speaker 1: to wherever, and you come back to the fucking air conditioning. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I used to live on and off
Speaker 1: in New York back in the day and throughout the summer,
Speaker 1: and I was just constantly, constantly sweaty. It's never because
Speaker 1: you have to walk here a lot. So it's not
Speaker 1: like la, we can get in your car um I'm
Speaker 1: not yeah, I It's like it's you guys. Let's not
Speaker 1: like title our summers. Let's let it happen planning to
Speaker 1: have a hot girl summer. Like what if you're not
Speaker 1: going to be hot this summer? You don't know? I hey,
Speaker 1: go with the flow. I love it. Yeah, okay. We
Speaker 1: always ask our guests there Rose and Thorn of the
Speaker 1: week basically like your highlight or favorite moment of the
Speaker 1: week and then low light or worse moment. I will
Speaker 1: let you start if you want to share. Okay. My
Speaker 1: highlight was it was my birthday, Yes, and I saw
Speaker 1: that Thank you, and my family did this really cute
Speaker 1: pick like in the park for me, and it was
Speaker 1: complete surprised and it was so cute, and then I
Speaker 1: went to a cold Play concert and that was really fun.
Speaker 1: And my thorn is that I left the cold Play
Speaker 1: concert to avoid traffic and missed fix You, which is
Speaker 1: apparently the best song, and like, you know, that's the
Speaker 1: one I missed, and then everybody's like that's the best song.
Speaker 1: I'm like the best, like maybe, like maybe to me, yeah,
Speaker 1: like star full of Sky full of Stars is just
Speaker 1: as good. Okay, So that was upsetting. It was hard too.
Speaker 1: I came to terms with it because then I heard
Speaker 1: that people that stay it took them like two and
Speaker 1: a half hours to get home. I was happy with
Speaker 1: my decision, but um, but it sucks a little. Well
Speaker 1: that's I mean, if that's that's your thorn, you're doing
Speaker 1: this week, well, okay, true, Okay, I'm going to start
Speaker 1: with my thorn. My thorn is that Thomas and I
Speaker 1: had an offering on a house and this seller can
Speaker 1: suck my as Demi said in Paradise, suck my ass,
Speaker 1: because he was so terrible and lied about permitting on
Speaker 1: the house, so we had to back out of that.
Speaker 1: But my thorn, oh sorry, my rose is probably my
Speaker 1: mom and God Mom were able to come to California,
Speaker 1: and it had been years pre COVID was last Sunday,
Speaker 1: We're able to come out here. So I spent an
Speaker 1: incredible week with them. We had an abundance of Minnesota time.
Speaker 1: It was great. Thomas was ready for all of us
Speaker 1: to be out of the house after that, but it
Speaker 1: was such a fun week. So that was probably my
Speaker 1: highlight as of now. But again, wait, where do you
Speaker 1: guys live in California? Not in LA, but in California.
Speaker 1: We're in San Diego. Yeah, so I own a place
Speaker 1: in LA, but I'll probably rent it out eventually, so
Speaker 1: I'll go back and forth. But I'm in San Diego
Speaker 1: most of my time, and aren't aren't Dylan and Hannah
Speaker 1: Gee there too? Yeah, they're down bias. Yeah, Oh that's
Speaker 1: a while. Yeah, I haven't seen their new place. I
Speaker 1: want to check it out. We actually just had her
Speaker 1: on the podcast maybe a month or so ago. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see their new house. But I absolutely
Speaker 1: adore them. Yeah. How did San Diego really become the
Speaker 1: capital of Bachelor our Nation? That's a good question because
Speaker 1: for the longest time, it was LA and then and
Speaker 1: then it was New York and then Nashville. I think
Speaker 1: San Diego. Well, it was either no, it had to
Speaker 1: have been Katie's season of The Bachelor. They just had
Speaker 1: a thousand guys from San Diego and the surrounding area
Speaker 1: that were on the season. She just had an abundance
Speaker 1: of San Diego people, and so I feel like since
Speaker 1: then in the past year, that's kind of like but
Speaker 1: a lot of people, but a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: necessarily live here. Like a lot of people will come
Speaker 1: here and party and like they'll take photos with the
Speaker 1: Bachelor their friends and like hype it up. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, not as many lives here, so which
Speaker 1: to me, I kind of like, but um, yeah, a man,
Speaker 1: I thank you for joining us. I had such a blast.
Speaker 1: I feel like I could talk to you forever and
Speaker 1: I still have so many questions, so we'll have to
Speaker 1: have you on again. But thank you for coming to
Speaker 1: Batcher Happy Hour and stay in touch your part about
Speaker 1: your nation now. So if you ever want to make
Speaker 1: a cameo, I'm sure they'd love to have you down
Speaker 1: in Paradise or something. Let me let me bartend with wells.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's what everyone wants. Food. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Next goals, Next goals, thank you so much. Bad take care.
Speaker 1: A huge thank you too, Amanda. That was such a blast.
Speaker 1: You know I did miss Michelle. I'm sure she would
Speaker 1: have loved being here to chat with us, but next
Speaker 1: week she'll be back. And another big thank you to
Speaker 1: our Baucher Happy Hour listeners. Thanks for tuning in each
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