Speaker 1: Hellow Hi, I'm speaking on top of a microphone.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, at least something works today. Yes, hey, oh,
Speaker 2: I wish you could see how he has positions in
Speaker 2: the microphone.
Speaker 1: Oh, there it goes, has happened?
Speaker 2: Limp again?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 2: Its sauce on the side. I am here with my
Speaker 2: boy Andrew. What's up? Yo?
Speaker 1: What's up? Gandhi?
Speaker 2: Oh God? And Diamond? Hey, Diamond, Hey, so we're having
Speaker 2: technical issues across the board here today.
Speaker 1: How come I got it.
Speaker 2: Because I said, we're here with my guy Andrew, and
Speaker 2: you were like, Yo, what's up?
Speaker 1: Well you said it to me like that?
Speaker 2: Did I say it like that?
Speaker 1: Diamond?
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, very authentic coming from you. Gandhi.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well you know what she's saying. It's heard, heard, chill.
Speaker 2: So anyway, everything is fucking up here today. It is
Speaker 2: as I'm recording this, and obviously not that he hear it,
Speaker 2: because we have some stuff that actually was recorded on Friday.
Speaker 2: What was that the sixth? Yeah, Friday the sixth, And
Speaker 2: I think it's pretty interesting. We're gonna we played I
Speaker 2: believe by this point we would have played a part
Speaker 2: of it on the show, but Halsey was here on Friday,
Speaker 2: and I talked to her for a while about her
Speaker 2: album and some health issues and some stuff with Britney Spears,
Speaker 2: and I'm interested to share that with everybody because I
Speaker 2: know we're not gonna play the entire thing on the air.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna play a little piece. Diamond was in
Speaker 2: for the interview. Diamond, did you think there was a
Speaker 2: specific part that we should have played on the air?
Speaker 3: I liked when you guys were I didn't like this.
Speaker 3: I don't want to sound I don't want it to
Speaker 3: sound like I was happy about this. But the conversation
Speaker 3: that the two of you had about your health issues
Speaker 3: and you know, it was very like nice to see.
Speaker 3: I think that she felt seen and I could tell
Speaker 3: that you felt seen.
Speaker 4: So it's really nice.
Speaker 2: Aw that's nice. Okay, Well, I say we just get
Speaker 2: to the interview real quick and then we can have
Speaker 2: all our like fuckery on the other side of it. Cool.
Speaker 1: Cool, Yeah you heard Yeah.
Speaker 2: My god man, Okay, I am here with Halsey. Halsey. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm so glad that you're here. We haven't seen you
Speaker 2: in years, I know, and now you are here, and
Speaker 2: there's so much to talk about where to begin. Let's
Speaker 2: start with your album, dropping October twenty fifth, The Great Impersonator.
Speaker 2: What is this? What does this mean to you?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, Well, it's my fifth album, which is crazy.
Speaker 4: I can't believe I have five.
Speaker 5: Of anything, you know what I mean, Like, it's just
Speaker 5: it's it's always so like crazy when I start doing
Speaker 5: the math and adding it up. This summer is ten
Speaker 5: years since I put out my first album, bad Lands,
Speaker 5: and so it's like cool to have this album, you know,
Speaker 5: coming in like the year leading up to it, because
Speaker 5: I feel like this record is so tied.
Speaker 4: To bad Lands in a way.
Speaker 5: This album feels like I'm getting to do a debut
Speaker 5: record again. I've just been through so much as a
Speaker 5: person in the past couple of years and I feel
Speaker 5: really different, and so making this album felt like this
Speaker 5: version of me was getting to put out her.
Speaker 4: Debut, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 5: So I feel like it's just like, you know, there's
Speaker 5: like some poetic justice in there that's amazing.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 2: We love evolution, like seeing people grow, and when you
Speaker 2: say it ties back so much to bad Lands in
Speaker 2: which way.
Speaker 5: In a lot of ways, I feel like I wrote
Speaker 5: it with the same mentality as when I made bad Lands.
Speaker 5: You know, when I was making my first record, the
Speaker 5: only thing that I thought about was I wanted my friends.
Speaker 4: To think that the music was cool.
Speaker 5: You know, so in ego, actually, I say, you know,
Speaker 5: I want to go back to the beginning when it
Speaker 5: all felt right.
Speaker 4: A rooftop Lower east Side.
Speaker 5: I'm singing, and I that's actually a real memory of mine,
Speaker 5: as I remember being on the friend's rooftop on like
Speaker 5: Orchard Street, like I think, like in this apartment above
Speaker 5: Hair the Dog, like just sitting on this rooftop and
Speaker 5: I was playing people demos from my EP off of
Speaker 5: my phone, just like in the middle of the table,
Speaker 5: and everyone was just like this is so cool, like
Speaker 5: this is so dope. And I was like, that's the
Speaker 5: only feeling I'll ever need ever again, is like my
Speaker 5: friend and my peers like loving what I'm making and
Speaker 5: connecting with it. And then you know, my career changed,
Speaker 5: and everything changed, and by the time I put out
Speaker 5: my second album or my third, it wasn't just about
Speaker 5: what my friends thought or like connecting with the people
Speaker 5: closest to me.
Speaker 4: You know, there's this.
Speaker 5: Global community and then there's a lot of other things too.
Speaker 5: You know, there's being here, there's the radio, there's like
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: Ticket sales.
Speaker 5: Like the pressure grows and it's like you start thinking
Speaker 5: a lot about the way people are receiving you, and it.
Speaker 4: Changes the way you make music.
Speaker 5: When I made The Great Impersonator, I felt like I
Speaker 5: reverted to that frame of mind where I.
Speaker 4: Was just like, I just want my friends to think
Speaker 4: this is cool.
Speaker 2: So it's like a full not necessarily full circle, but
Speaker 2: you've grown so much because you started out I just
Speaker 2: want my friends to think this is cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then over ten years, your priorities changed, and now you're
Speaker 2: back to I just want my friends to think.
Speaker 4: This is cool. Yeah, I think it's cool. I think
Speaker 4: so yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean I've kept this one so lock and key.
Speaker 5: I'm usually like, you know, blasting people in my phone,
Speaker 5: like check out this demo, check out this demo.
Speaker 4: And this one I was.
Speaker 5: Like, I played really close to the chest, and you know,
Speaker 5: obviously because there was a lot of personal content on
Speaker 5: it and before I started, you know, coming out online
Speaker 5: and talking about what my life has looked like the
Speaker 5: past couple of years, the songs were just so like
Speaker 5: revealing that I really kept them close, you know, and
Speaker 5: now I'm getting.
Speaker 4: A little looser about like who's getting to hear it.
Speaker 5: But all of my closest friends, you know, we would
Speaker 5: hang out at the house and like sit in my
Speaker 5: living room, and every time I got like an updated
Speaker 5: version of the album, we would.
Speaker 4: Just sit and like listen through to it.
Speaker 5: And everyone close to me, my friends and family, has
Speaker 5: said that this is their favorite album of mine yet.
Speaker 4: But they say that every.
Speaker 2: Time they see they do find somebody. Trust you're not biased.
Speaker 2: So when you pick the people that you're like, you
Speaker 2: know what, this is who I want to share my
Speaker 2: music with before anyone else. How do you choose?
Speaker 5: Well, I think the first people that hear it are
Speaker 5: my two little brothers. Yeah, Savian's twenty six, Dante is nineteen.
Speaker 5: So it's nice because I kind of get like, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm technically a millennial. I'm twenty nine, but like I'm
Speaker 5: kind of on the cusp of gen Z, but I'm
Speaker 5: not gen Z enough, you know, Like my brother Savian
Speaker 5: is very gen Z. And then my youngest brother, Dante,
Speaker 5: you know, he's nineteen, and so I kind of get
Speaker 5: to get this.
Speaker 4: This incredible like focus group, you know, and they're.
Speaker 5: Boys, you know, so they they're kind of too cool
Speaker 5: for everything. So when they really like something, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: I've I've nailed it.
Speaker 2: Mine would definitely be my sister if I was gonna
Speaker 2: show anyone, because I think that of all the people,
Speaker 2: your siblings will shred you.
Speaker 4: For sure if they want to.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they'll also let you know like, no, this
Speaker 2: is actually really dope.
Speaker 4: I love that totally.
Speaker 5: And when you get that from a sibling, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: I love it, you're like nothing else matters you really.
Speaker 2: They sort of live every now and then to just
Speaker 2: chop you totally read Denise.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: I tease my brother all the time when I was
Speaker 5: growing up, Like, you know, I'd be playing guitar and
Speaker 5: singing in my bedroom and he'd be like, you suw
Speaker 5: at my concerts, like singing every word, and I'm like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, front row, I'm probably using that to like flex
Speaker 2: on people like do you know who my sister is?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, you know what's funny?
Speaker 5: Is like you would think that, But I feel like
Speaker 5: the both of them are so just like over it
Speaker 5: at this point where they're just like we don't care,
Speaker 5: Like you know what I mean, I'm like I was
Speaker 5: like when my brother Dante was in high school, you know,
Speaker 5: because he's nineteen, so he was in high school two
Speaker 5: years ago, and I always be like.
Speaker 4: Do people think it's like cool myttle sister? And He's like,
Speaker 4: I don't tell anybody that, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, Okay, what in the hell?
Speaker 4: I know, like when might I be cool enough for you?
Speaker 5: And then we'll like, you know, we'll go to a
Speaker 5: concert and he'll meet like Dominic Fike or something like that,
Speaker 5: and he's like sick, and I'm like, hey, I'm cool too,
Speaker 5: you know, like do they go to the same high
Speaker 5: school you went to?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: No, I grew up in Jersey, Okay, my brothers are
Speaker 5: in California now, yeah, I'm in Jersey girl, So yeah.
Speaker 2: We do love that you're a Jersey girl.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I feel like anytime somebody mentions Halsey, like do you
Speaker 2: know she's from Jersey's down the street? Like I do
Speaker 2: know that. Everybody has told me that. So one of
Speaker 2: the things that you've said about this album that I
Speaker 2: find fascinating, you wrote this well in the space between
Speaker 2: life and death. Yeah, yeah, do you want to talk
Speaker 2: about that space?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 4: I mean I think, you know, I wasn't really sure
Speaker 4: what I was going to write my fifth album about.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I wrote if I Can of Love, I Want Power,
Speaker 5: really about what my experience was like while I was pregnant,
Speaker 5: and I was like, I was really fearful, you know,
Speaker 5: in the time leading up to giving birth and becoming
Speaker 5: a mom because it was so unknown, and so I
Speaker 5: translated that into this really dark album, you know, because
Speaker 5: I wanted somewhere to put those feelings of like fear
Speaker 5: and confusion, and.
Speaker 4: It was just so effortless.
Speaker 5: It was so easy to know that that's what the
Speaker 5: album was supposed to be. And then when it came
Speaker 5: time where I was like, okay, I should probably start
Speaker 5: my fifth album, I just didn't know where to look.
Speaker 5: And I was like, you know, I have my baby
Speaker 5: and I'm home, and like, you know, I just I
Speaker 5: don't really know that all that much is going on,
Speaker 5: and I don't really want to start going backwards and
Speaker 5: digging through old stuff. And so I was I was
Speaker 5: a little, you know, stumped, and then I found out
Speaker 5: that I was really sick, and I got the kind
Speaker 5: of sick where you can't really leave your house, you know,
Speaker 5: your body starts to look different, you lose your hair, like.
Speaker 5: It was really just a completely transformative experience. And initially
Speaker 5: when it first happened, I couldn't have been thinking less
Speaker 5: about writing music that wasn't even on my radar. I
Speaker 5: was just trying to figure out, you know, realistically, what
Speaker 5: does this.
Speaker 4: Mean for me?
Speaker 5: You know, I was in that in between space waiting
Speaker 5: for answers from doctors for months of like, you know,
Speaker 5: not only could I be not in a position where
Speaker 5: I get to be a musician anymore, but I don't
Speaker 5: even know, you know, if I'm going to get to
Speaker 5: be anymore. And that was terrifying. And I was the
Speaker 5: mom of a one year old, you know, this was
Speaker 5: like I had this whiplash kind of like the greatest
Speaker 5: thing in the world ever happened to me, and then
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, a really scary thing happened to me.
Speaker 5: And then I knew that I had to start writing
Speaker 5: because I knew that was going to help me process
Speaker 5: going on. And so yeah, I just I feel like
Speaker 5: the reason I feel like I wrote it in the
Speaker 5: space between life and death is because I and maybe
Speaker 5: that's why it's similar to bad Lands too, because in
Speaker 5: both situations, I didn't really have anything to lose, you know,
Speaker 5: like I just had to make what was true to
Speaker 5: me and what was like on my heart and like
Speaker 5: on my mind, and that was all I was thinking
Speaker 5: about because I didn't have the luxury at that time
Speaker 5: of thinking ahead, you know, into the future and getting
Speaker 5: anxious and overplanning and overthinking everything the way that I
Speaker 5: had kind of done with albums prior. And so I
Speaker 5: think there's a pretty beautiful result because of that.
Speaker 2: You know, I relate to everything that you just said
Speaker 2: so much because I'm not gonna make this about me.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna know exquately. Something very similar happened to
Speaker 2: me almost a year ago. I was hitting my start.
Speaker 2: Everything was amazing. I was like, this is the best
Speaker 2: life ever. And boom, I hit a while. I got really,
Speaker 2: really sick, and it changed my perspective on everything. I
Speaker 2: see the world differently, I see color differently, I hear
Speaker 2: laughter differently. Everything is different when you kind of get
Speaker 2: that second chance to bounce back. And the hair loss,
Speaker 2: by the way, yeah, this is a wig because well,
Speaker 2: thank you, it all fell out. I was sitting on
Speaker 2: the couch one day, brushed it and here comes the
Speaker 2: clump and it just never stopped from that.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry that happened to you.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry that happened to you. It's really rough, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And what I learned from that was I posted about it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I went to Instagram and I said, this is what's
Speaker 2: happening and here's a picture, and the amount of people,
Speaker 2: specifically women, who said, holy crap, same thing. I don't
Speaker 2: talk about it, What is your solution? What are you doing?
Speaker 2: How can you help me? Actually really made a difference
Speaker 2: and made me feel better totally. And I feel like
Speaker 2: this album from you is probably going to bring a
Speaker 2: ton of moments like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, brace yourself it already, you know.
Speaker 5: It was like I was really nervous to share that
Speaker 5: news with the world, you know, because as much as
Speaker 5: I pride myself being authentic, I think subconsciously, you know,
Speaker 5: I had kind of taken on this external pressure to like,
Speaker 5: you know, always look good and always be happy and
Speaker 5: always you know, have something positive or interesting to say.
Speaker 5: And I really felt at that point that I had
Speaker 5: been living my life really truthfully and then I wasn't
Speaker 5: afraid to tell anyone anything about myself. And then I
Speaker 5: got hit a little bit with that the reality that
Speaker 5: maybe that's not quite true about you. When I got sick,
Speaker 5: and my first instinct was I need to hide this.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid of people knowing. And I'm glad I took
Speaker 5: the time and the privacy to process it because there
Speaker 5: were so many unknowns at the time that I think
Speaker 5: going through it publicly would have probably been just a disaster,
Speaker 5: you know. I waited until everything was like a little
Speaker 5: bit more stable to share it. But then when I did,
Speaker 5: just the amount of people, you know, who just flooded
Speaker 5: in with support, some people with stories like mine, some
Speaker 5: people with stories far worse than mine, offering me, you know,
Speaker 5: community and validation and support. And I was really overwhelmed
Speaker 5: and just really touched. And I find that I make
Speaker 5: the kind of albums where my fans always say to me,
Speaker 5: I don't know how you knew, but I needed this
Speaker 5: so much right now.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: It's funny because I'm not thinking about that when I
Speaker 5: make them, and we're like, what do they need?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: What am I going through?
Speaker 2: That's about me?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but always seems to line up that way, and
Speaker 5: I was it was really interesting to see the influx
Speaker 5: of people who felt that way about this record too,
Speaker 5: which surprised me because I was very afraid while making
Speaker 5: this album that I was maybe writing about an experience
Speaker 5: that was a little too singular, and then I was
Speaker 5: proven wrong so fast in the best way, the worst way,
Speaker 5: because I'm sorry people are going through that, but in
Speaker 5: the best way of like knowing that, you know, there's
Speaker 5: people who relate and we're kind of all going through
Speaker 5: it together and feeling proud that I've made something that
Speaker 5: they've expressed, you know, to help me, and now it's
Speaker 5: helping them, and that's.
Speaker 4: Like, I think, a real moment of pride for me.
Speaker 2: I feel like life is sort of like a Google
Speaker 2: search where almost no matter what you type in, so
Speaker 2: it's going to be completed because somebody else has looked
Speaker 2: for that, so somebody else has gone through that. And
Speaker 2: until you get that feedback of like, holy crap, so
Speaker 2: many people have gone through this, it does feel like
Speaker 2: it's just you. Yeah, but it's also the whole pain
Speaker 2: shared is pain lessened, yea. And not only are you
Speaker 2: helping them, I would imagine just to a certain extent,
Speaker 2: it helps you out as well.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, so much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it lessens that again, like you said, that
Speaker 5: feeling of being alone and like just that's the solitude
Speaker 5: of it all. I think the thing people don't really
Speaker 5: discuss all that much is how.
Speaker 4: Lonely it can be to.
Speaker 5: Be ill in a way that other people don't really understand,
Speaker 5: you know. And it's how duly lonely it is to
Speaker 5: also be a new mom and I was going through
Speaker 5: both at the same time. So I just felt just
Speaker 5: like just this abysmal loneliness. But it wasn't all for
Speaker 5: not because you know, I think I was a little
Speaker 5: misanthropic before I got sick.
Speaker 4: I was kind of getting to a point where I
Speaker 4: was like, I've met enough people.
Speaker 5: I don't need to meet anyone else ever.
Speaker 4: Again, I've met enough people for the rest of my life.
Speaker 5: And I was kind of becoming like a little introverted
Speaker 5: in a way that was kind of foreign to me.
Speaker 5: And then spending all that time, you know, home dealing
Speaker 5: with my health. As soon as I kind of got
Speaker 5: the clear and like the go ahead that I was
Speaker 5: doing well enough to get back out there and do
Speaker 5: everything again, I was just walking around just wanting to
Speaker 5: talk to everyone and meet everyone, and just like you know,
Speaker 5: absolutely fresh perspective on life. And I'm hesitant to say
Speaker 5: everything happens for a reason because I feel like there's
Speaker 5: a lot of people who have been through some really
Speaker 5: terrible things who don't want to hear that because they're
Speaker 5: like the reason I went through this suffering.
Speaker 4: Of this grief.
Speaker 5: But for me personally, I'm grateful in a way that
Speaker 5: I've had this experience because I like the person that
Speaker 5: I've turned out to be as a result of it
Speaker 5: a lot better than the version that I was on
Speaker 5: track to be coming beforehand.
Speaker 4: That's so I'm grateful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a very incredible statement, and all of this just
Speaker 2: thinking about it. You know, you're a new mom, obviously,
Speaker 2: your celebrity, millions of people looking at you every day
Speaker 2: all the time, and they probably think everything's just perfect. Sure,
Speaker 2: like no matter what happens, she's gonna be good. She
Speaker 2: has this amazing life. Which makes me think about your
Speaker 2: rendition of lucky because what you see is not always
Speaker 2: what is going on, and people feel like they have
Speaker 2: this right to you and they build these parasocial relationships
Speaker 2: that you're.
Speaker 4: Like, what, totally I didn't know.
Speaker 2: And also when you're sick, everybody comes other woods like
Speaker 2: they're a Google doctor to let you know what's happening.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, please stop. But when you were working
Speaker 2: on Lucky, how relatable was that to you?
Speaker 5: I mean, I was had the song stuck in my
Speaker 5: head for weeks before I decided to interpolate it. And
Speaker 5: you know, I'm one of those people where like I'll
Speaker 5: catch myself singing a song under my breath and it's
Speaker 5: like it's like relatable to what's.
Speaker 4: Going on, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Like for example, like you know, I'll be like with
Speaker 5: my my partner and I'll be like coming up the
Speaker 5: stairs and I'll like look at him and for whatever reason.
Speaker 4: I'll just being like we belong to get.
Speaker 5: Like you know, it's like why is Mariah in my head?
Speaker 5: And it's so cool because I love you, like you
Speaker 5: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I always get these like.
Speaker 5: Songs, and Lucky was coming up a lot in that time,
Speaker 5: you know, because I was still in treatment while I
Speaker 5: made the album, and so I was thinking about a lot,
Speaker 5: going from treatment to the studio or like, you know,
Speaker 5: having kind of this double life a little bit, you know,
Speaker 5: I was, I really was like leading this this double
Speaker 5: life in a way. And the song was just so
Speaker 5: specifically poignant, and it's funny. It's the reverse of what
Speaker 5: I was just talking about, where it felt like that
Speaker 5: song was for me, you know, the way like some
Speaker 5: of my fans say they feel that way about my
Speaker 5: songs and so beautiful about music and being a musician
Speaker 5: and also being a fan of other musicians. You know,
Speaker 5: it's getting to have both sides of the experience. But
Speaker 5: I think that, you know, Lucky was the first song
Speaker 5: that I ever heard from a pop star. I think
Speaker 5: Lucky might have been one of the first moments where
Speaker 5: in my life, because I was like five or six
Speaker 5: when it came out, you know, where I really learned
Speaker 5: how to empathize with like a celebrity, you know, yeah,
Speaker 5: like the people. I was just talking about this with
Speaker 5: a friend this morning. You know, I was at the
Speaker 5: age where I was like, the people in the TV
Speaker 5: come on the TV when I turn it on, and
Speaker 5: then they go to sleep when I shut it off,
Speaker 5: or like, oh, if I hear you know, if I
Speaker 5: hear Destiny's Child on the radio, they're singing it right
Speaker 5: now while for me while I'm listening to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I had really definitely like a sort of
Speaker 4: detached view of what was going on in like media.
Speaker 4: I didn't really understand what media was. And then when
Speaker 4: I heard Lucky for.
Speaker 5: The first time, I was so young, and I remember
Speaker 5: I think that was the moment where I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: like she goes home, is she all by herself?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: Like does she do you think she ever has a
Speaker 5: bad day? Or like, you know, maybe her mom yells
Speaker 5: at her because her room's not clean. Because I'm five
Speaker 5: or six, I mean, That's what I'm thinking of, and
Speaker 5: like she gets sad, or she nobody comes to her
Speaker 5: birthday party, or like, you know, I start thinking about
Speaker 5: this person in the media in a way that's really
Speaker 5: teaching me how to empathize in this way. It was
Speaker 5: really affecting, and I was thinking about it so much
Speaker 5: when I was kind of in a space where I
Speaker 5: was like so desperate for.
Speaker 4: Empathy but unsure how to go about getting it, you know.
Speaker 5: So it felt like the song's already perfect, but I
Speaker 5: wanted to incorporate it into my musical journey just because
Speaker 5: of how much, like how much I loved it and
Speaker 5: how connected to it I was.
Speaker 2: I feel you on that. I love that song, and
Speaker 2: I love that Britney Spears is what made you realize
Speaker 2: that celebrities are human? Crazy, right, because you talk about
Speaker 2: a journey.
Speaker 4: That way she's been.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: The thing unfortunately with Brittany, though, is that you know,
Speaker 5: for so long now, she's been at the epicenter of
Speaker 5: can we treat celebrities like humans?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: And uh, that's you know, it's a battle she's still fighting,
Speaker 5: you know, and maybe is the unwilling representative of and like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I just kind of wanted to honor her and honor
Speaker 5: that experience and my experience all wrapped up into one
Speaker 5: hot pink you.
Speaker 4: Know, little little bubble wrapped gift.
Speaker 2: Solid color. Have the two of you talked about this
Speaker 2: at all?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've talked.
Speaker 6: She was so supportive at the gate, which really surprised
Speaker 6: me because I thought it was gonna take some convincing
Speaker 6: because I didn't think she knew who I was, you know,
Speaker 6: so when you know, I.
Speaker 5: Didn't just reach out to her cold, because what do
Speaker 5: you do? You don't just reach out to Britney Spears.
Speaker 2: That's I was wondering, like, how does that even work?
Speaker 2: Isn't a celebrity phone book that we don't know about?
Speaker 4: No, there's not that that would be psychotic like I
Speaker 4: would never. I was like, way, way too afraid.
Speaker 5: So like, you know, it was kind of like, hey,
Speaker 5: I wrote this really long letter first, is the first
Speaker 5: thing that I did, just talking about her and how
Speaker 5: much I love her in the song and you know
Speaker 5: what i'd been going through and what it meant to me,
Speaker 5: and just like you know, i'd also just read I'd
Speaker 5: become a single mom, you know, so I really related
Speaker 5: to her in that way as well, and I kind
Speaker 5: of wrote it just being like I don't even know
Speaker 5: she's gonna read this, you know, And she did. And
Speaker 5: then I remember getting the call that was like you
Speaker 5: can use the song. She loves it, And I was
Speaker 5: just like is this happening right? Like this is crazy.
Speaker 5: I was just like chopped. Yeah, it was a really
Speaker 5: full circle moment from six year old media.
Speaker 2: So when you say you wrote a letter, was it
Speaker 2: like a penned letter? Did you send a DM.
Speaker 4: No, I'd tell you I typed it up. I typed
Speaker 4: it out. Yeah, yeah, but it was like four paragraphs long.
Speaker 4: It was a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was trying not to info dump on Britney spears.
Speaker 5: I was like, how do I keep this short, and
Speaker 5: I have thirty years of wanting to talk.
Speaker 2: Right like five or six year old. You even think
Speaker 2: there's gonna come a moment in my life where I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be questioning if I should info down on Britney
Speaker 2: Spears because I'm trying to use her song in my
Speaker 2: own massive, amazing career.
Speaker 4: Literally, not a chance. I would have been crazy suspected.
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially not me, like sitting my grandparents down in
Speaker 5: the living room and making them watch me do like
Speaker 5: my dance routines.
Speaker 4: Then I made up to a Britney song.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm really excited about this album. I personally cannot
Speaker 2: wait to hear it because I feel like it's going
Speaker 2: to probably speak to me in a lot of ways,
Speaker 2: just based on the conversation we've had today.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry in advance. Really, there's a couple. There's a
Speaker 5: couple tear drinkers on there.
Speaker 3: Cry.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, yeah, maybe, like, don't listen to
Speaker 5: it if you're like about to walk into work or
Speaker 5: something like that, you might need a minute.
Speaker 2: There's a couple on the they love to start the
Speaker 2: morning show.
Speaker 3: It's here.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 4: You're gonna be like, hi, sorry, I'm fine, everything's good.
Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite song on the album? Are
Speaker 2: they all your babies?
Speaker 5: I think they're all my babies. They're all so different, Yeah,
Speaker 5: they're all so different. The one song in particular, I'm
Speaker 5: not ready to say the name of yet, but you'll
Speaker 5: know it as soon as you hear it. It's like
Speaker 5: this really stripped down piano ballad and it's just me
Speaker 5: playing piano and singing. It's really intimate, and it is
Speaker 5: by far. I think it's the best song I've ever
Speaker 5: written and simultaneously the saddest song I've ever made ever.
Speaker 5: And when I hear I've heard it a hundred times, obviously,
Speaker 5: I still cry every time I hear it.
Speaker 2: So so yeah, Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna think about this, yeah,
Speaker 2: and probably send you a DM that you're never gonna.
Speaker 4: Write about this, so sorry.
Speaker 2: Well October twenty fifth the album, Yes, it's the great
Speaker 2: impersonator already the song ego. Yeah, and we love it.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for stopping.
Speaker 4: By, my God, thanks for having me, thank you time back,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 2: And there she was Halsey, whose name is Ashley Halsey,
Speaker 2: is an anagram. In case you didn't know, it, and
Speaker 2: here goes Andrew just fucking round with the microphone.
Speaker 1: No, no, it works better this way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that. But do you see the
Speaker 2: what you did? Do you see that waveform right there?
Speaker 1: Sorry for the waveform.
Speaker 2: People listening anyway, I feel like there's so much stuff
Speaker 2: to talk about. First of all, you know, Josh and
Speaker 2: Andrew are like living together for the next how much longer?
Speaker 2: Like another week? Yeah, and it's been two or one
Speaker 2: one week then one week, we have one week left.
Speaker 2: How's that going?
Speaker 1: It's going well. I have no complaints.
Speaker 7: We used to live together anyway, so it's like now
Speaker 7: it's just unfortunately not in another bedroom. It's just on
Speaker 7: the living room couch, so you know it's a little different.
Speaker 2: One bathroom. Yep, that'd be a problem for me.
Speaker 7: I mean I feel like with guys, it's really not much.
Speaker 7: You don't really carry care if you guys blow it up.
Speaker 7: I mean not really, that's the problem.
Speaker 2: It's not anything else.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's not really too bad. I would
Speaker 7: say it's not too bad yet.
Speaker 2: Who's worse? You or Josh?
Speaker 1: I try and do my business here?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You kidding me?
Speaker 7: I go like once a day maybe twice if I'm
Speaker 7: feeling like I drink enough water. But I'm hearing from
Speaker 7: like seven until two three o'clock, So you don't.
Speaker 2: Your own apartment, I do, just not when Josh is there.
Speaker 1: Just like in the morning, I usually am here. In
Speaker 1: the afternoon, I'm usually here.
Speaker 7: Like it's most maybe if there's one more, it's I
Speaker 7: do it at home. But I mean I prefer doing
Speaker 7: it at home anyway, because I have my tushy. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and those things like I just feel so unhygienic now
Speaker 7: that I use one, which diamond you should also be using.
Speaker 1: Not to pivot, but.
Speaker 2: This conversation again, we had, we had a whole long
Speaker 2: combo about this because you, Josh, myself, we all have
Speaker 2: a tushy. Diamond says she thinks they're disgusting.
Speaker 3: Yes, but also I'm not gonna let Andrew change the
Speaker 3: topic of this conversation just yet. You mean to tell
Speaker 3: me that you're letting this man make you feel uncomfortable
Speaker 3: in your own home to the point where you can't
Speaker 3: take a shit in peace?
Speaker 1: No, I hent work.
Speaker 3: You come and terrorize our bathroom.
Speaker 1: Well it's the ten floors bathroom, not ours. There are
Speaker 1: people there, Yeah, but there's like not too many.
Speaker 7: But no, I will go at home. It's just I
Speaker 7: don't feel the need to go as much at home.
Speaker 7: But that's just in general for me too.
Speaker 2: Has Josh literally scared the shit out of you?
Speaker 1: Uh? No, well maybe maybe.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So I think something that we learned on our trip
Speaker 2: was that we in our little foursome have two sets
Speaker 2: of like poopers. Yeah, the ones who will leave the
Speaker 2: common shared area and the ones who don't care, which
Speaker 2: I have actually much more impressed by same. The ones
Speaker 2: who don't care same. I wish I cared less so many.
Speaker 2: Andrew said he had a trick. I tried it once.
Speaker 2: I don't really know if it worked where he puts
Speaker 2: lotion no shampoo on toilet paper and then throws it
Speaker 2: into the toilet, and he says that that always works
Speaker 2: to like dissipate the smell matches actually always.
Speaker 1: Work always, guys. Well, you know, I'm not really caring
Speaker 1: matches too much.
Speaker 2: Usually I do.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not.
Speaker 7: So, but the toilet papaper on the shampoo or the
Speaker 7: shampoo on the toilet paper trick usually does work.
Speaker 1: But you gotta lather her up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Lather up the toilet paper with shampoo and just leave
Speaker 2: it in.
Speaker 7: Not too much, though, because you'll get bubbles that form
Speaker 7: and then that it's even more embarrassing.
Speaker 1: If someone walked in and would be like, why is
Speaker 1: there so many bubbles in the.
Speaker 2: Toilet, Well, I wouldn't care. I'd be like, because I
Speaker 2: was trying to help you out there. Yeah, Diamond has
Speaker 2: something to say, and I can say it on her face.
Speaker 3: No, I just I don't understand why we go so
Speaker 3: hard about pooping. Everybody does it water electrocs.
Speaker 6: See.
Speaker 2: I told you something's going on here.
Speaker 3: That's just like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, hit or just threw all the water on the floor.
Speaker 2: Something that's wrong with this man.
Speaker 3: But also like if I gotta let it out, I
Speaker 3: gotta let it out.
Speaker 4: I try to get away from people, but if I.
Speaker 3: Can't, it is what it is.
Speaker 4: Okay, let it out people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think anyone. Wait, did anyone give you
Speaker 2: crap about crapping?
Speaker 7: We actually commended you for being like just free and
Speaker 7: bold to do what is in to.
Speaker 1: Do your do do.
Speaker 2: But on the actual trip, did any of us give
Speaker 2: a crap about it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, not at all. She never blew it
Speaker 1: up that bad.
Speaker 4: I don't think it poop around you guys.
Speaker 2: I don't think I remember yeah her, but I do
Speaker 2: distinctly remember. I don't know if it was you or
Speaker 2: if it was Josh. The day that we thought the
Speaker 2: keys were gone and I walked into your place, somebody
Speaker 2: had shitted. It was not me, Okay, it was probably Josh.
Speaker 2: Josh only eats beans now, so I was like, damn,
Speaker 2: these guys don't give a fuck. That's fine, we've lost
Speaker 2: the keys. We'll find them.
Speaker 1: And then, like I said, they were with Diamond, So
Speaker 1: I win.
Speaker 2: Diamond had a really tough day that day. Yeah, really tough.
Speaker 3: I mean, why do we keep bringing this day up?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was a day. I want to go back so bad.
Speaker 2: I wish we had like another week. Now that we've
Speaker 2: been home for a couple of weeks, I want to
Speaker 2: go do another week.
Speaker 1: Same.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Diamond is like, m absolutely not. Diamond is
Speaker 2: preparing for something fabulous. What's happening for you this weekend?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm turning thirty.
Speaker 2: She's like grown up, she's an adults. What are you
Speaker 2: doing for your thirtieth I'm going to a wellness retreat.
Speaker 3: In Arizona.
Speaker 2: Soona, No Phoenix, Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm very, very very excited.
Speaker 4: It was supposed to be a solo trip.
Speaker 3: But then my sister booked a ticket, my friends got
Speaker 3: a room, and so we're just I'm just gonna make
Speaker 3: them do everything that I want to do. So we're
Speaker 3: going to make hats, like custom trucker hats, which is
Speaker 3: really cool. Then we're going to a baseball game, and
Speaker 3: then we're going to oh football game. Wow, and yeah,
Speaker 3: so we're doing everything that I want.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's how it would go whether it
Speaker 2: was your birthday or not. Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: I agree?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, no no.
Speaker 1: So the princess doesn't get her way.
Speaker 2: The Lady death protest too much? That was too many notes.
Speaker 3: I get my way in my life. Nobody else has
Speaker 3: to give me their way in theirs.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: You know, like I'm to do what I want to do.
Speaker 1: Can I say how I think this was proposition? Shut up?
Speaker 2: I want to hear it.
Speaker 7: I think it happened this way. I'm going on a
Speaker 7: solo trip, don't join me. Hey, Diamond, at your thirtieth birthday,
Speaker 7: are you really going to Arizona by yourself?
Speaker 1: Yes? On a solo trip, but don't come. But here's
Speaker 1: the itinerary.
Speaker 7: People joined, and then you were like, here are the
Speaker 7: activities that I want to do. You either come or
Speaker 7: you don't want to come on these activities. Then everyone's like,
Speaker 7: so you want us to come and then go on
Speaker 7: these activities. And then you were like, fine, my solo
Speaker 7: trip was crashed, but now everyone's doing the things I
Speaker 7: want and coming on the trip with me.
Speaker 2: Is that how it happened?
Speaker 1: Oh not really?
Speaker 4: So what happened?
Speaker 1: You? Hospital? Braceleted it?
Speaker 2: Going away alone for my birthday? Asked me, no question, Now,
Speaker 2: don't ask me what I'm doing for shut up.
Speaker 4: So it was.
Speaker 3: Lower the zone, thank you. First of all, I'm going
Speaker 3: through a traumatic experience. My eye is itching. I think
Speaker 3: I'm allergic to the lashes that I got, So it's itching.
Speaker 3: It's itching very badly. I can't think of a comeback
Speaker 3: for you, but it's coming anyway. Yeah, no, yeah, I
Speaker 3: really don't understand why it's it's just so bad right now.
Speaker 3: But can't you see probably a.
Speaker 2: Little bit of that got in your eye right there?
Speaker 3: You don't see it? Oh good, okay, great, anyway, what
Speaker 3: what were we talking about?
Speaker 2: See how did this trip, the solo trip transpire and
Speaker 2: change from a solo trip to a friend's trip where
Speaker 2: they're all doing exactly what you want?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, So on her birthday, on her birthday, Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 3: So I wanted to go to the Caribbean or something
Speaker 3: and be by a beach. I thought that really cute. No,
Speaker 3: that was with people, okay. But then when I realized
Speaker 3: that a lot of the which shut up. Then when
Speaker 3: I realized that a lot of the islands, like the
Speaker 3: resorts on the islands that I wanted to go to
Speaker 3: close for maintenance around this time of the year, yeah,
Speaker 3: like certain ones, I was like, oh, well, okay, then
Speaker 3: I'll just go to Arizona because I had wanted to
Speaker 3: do a solo trip to uh a specific place, okay,
Speaker 3: for a wellness trip whatever, Okay, cool. So I told
Speaker 3: my friends, you guys don't have to come, because like,
Speaker 3: who wants to go to Arizona with me? Like, it's
Speaker 3: not that big of avidea gonna but you know it's
Speaker 3: hot there right now, right, I know? Okahich is why
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, no pressure, because like whatever. So
Speaker 3: I started planning it as a solo trip because I
Speaker 3: didn't want to force anybody to go to Arizona, especially
Speaker 3: people who wanted to go to a beach in the
Speaker 3: first place. And then my sister was like, no, you're
Speaker 3: not going alone. Great, so it was gonna be me
Speaker 3: and my sister. And then my best friends are like, no,
Speaker 3: we're coming to You're turning thirty, so what's the shade?
Speaker 3: And then my thing is like, if I'm going out there,
Speaker 3: I'm doing what I want. And it's my birthday, so
Speaker 3: we're doing what I want if you're coming, and that's it, okay,
Speaker 3: so shut your mouth, you filthy animals.
Speaker 1: So everything I said right.
Speaker 3: Is this how Virgo season is gonna go for the
Speaker 3: rest of the month. That's what I want to know.
Speaker 3: You know, we're celebrating until October twelfth. Now when you're
Speaker 3: saying we, who does that include everyone?
Speaker 2: And Andrew and me have to celebrate if you want
Speaker 2: to fuck out of here, people do not celebrate my
Speaker 2: birthday for a month. I barely get like a day
Speaker 2: you get born close to Christmas. No one gives half
Speaker 2: a fuck. Whose fault is that that I was born?
Speaker 3: No that nobody? You have to tell people we're still
Speaker 3: celebrating my birthday.
Speaker 4: And that's it.
Speaker 2: No, because you know the one thing I refuse to do,
Speaker 2: make people celebrate. The people want to celebrate me, they will,
Speaker 2: and if they don't, I know where they stand.
Speaker 7: And this is why the Universal Birthing Day of Celebration
Speaker 7: aka UBDOC will be the best holiday ever. It's the middle.
Speaker 2: Of the year. What the fuck are you talking about.
Speaker 7: I have a holiday that I am starting with a
Speaker 7: couple of friends. It's called UBDOC, a Universal Birthing Day
Speaker 7: of Celebration. Birthdays such a pain, right, this is where
Speaker 7: you guys go, right, Yeah, So with UBDOC, or the
Speaker 7: Universal Birthing Day of Celebration, you celebrate with everybody. It's
Speaker 7: everybody's birthday and the middle of the year, it's it's
Speaker 7: a floating holiday.
Speaker 1: So it's always.
Speaker 7: The last Saturday of June because that's pretty much the
Speaker 7: middle of the year and everybody's birthday is celebrated.
Speaker 2: No, this is terrible.
Speaker 1: No, it's your birthday, it's your birthday, it's my birthday.
Speaker 2: You're celebrating everybody, So you're celebrating nobody.
Speaker 7: Well that's the point, everybody, it's universal. We all are
Speaker 7: torate because birthday celebrations are stressful.
Speaker 1: As you can see here, Diamond wanted to go on a.
Speaker 7: Solo trip alone and people talk to join, and then
Speaker 7: all of a sudden everyone joined.
Speaker 1: It's just there's so much stress.
Speaker 7: What if there's just one day where you could celebrate
Speaker 7: your birthday with everybody and it's all a fun celebration
Speaker 7: and then you.
Speaker 1: Just this sound when it comes to your birthday, we
Speaker 1: can celebrate it. We can't, I mean we did all.
Speaker 2: This is very like dystopian society. Nobody has joy anymore.
Speaker 2: There's no color in the world. Everyone is just the
Speaker 2: exact same. No birthday celebrated, no holidays are celebrated. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, you're like a communist.
Speaker 7: Birthdays are celebrated. You could celebrate your own birthday still.
Speaker 7: It's just this is the one day where if just say, you, guys,
Speaker 7: ever wanted to have a joint birthday party, but you're
Speaker 7: is in December and hers is in September, you can
Speaker 7: now because it's Updoc.
Speaker 3: Why would I want to have a joint birthday party
Speaker 3: with someone who isn't even close to me in like birthdays?
Speaker 3: That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4: That's also a completely different party.
Speaker 2: Then we're also talking to a guy who's had like
Speaker 2: multiple surprise parties and loved them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and claimed that I had one thing. Please you
Speaker 3: planned it yourself.
Speaker 1: Wait, I only had one surprise birthday party. Yeah, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I only had one.
Speaker 2: Nobody did anything for you when he turned thirty. No,
Speaker 2: I know it was a COVID birthday, but I specifically
Speaker 2: remember text messages going out about surprising you.
Speaker 1: It was a video. It was a video surprise, And no,
Speaker 1: you sent me to videos.
Speaker 2: Damn it.
Speaker 1: I still watch that for a nice little cheer up.
Speaker 7: Everyone.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you this about those videos.
Speaker 1: Oh has your solo trip babes.
Speaker 2: And they're off. I sent somebody else who is part
Speaker 2: of our show a video for their birthday. I tell
Speaker 2: you it caused all the problems in the world. I
Speaker 2: wish we could talk about it. One of these days,
Speaker 2: we're going to be able to talk about it. But
Speaker 2: until then, just know I sent a video that I
Speaker 2: thought made me look hideous and ridiculous and disgusting and
Speaker 2: not even like a human being. I look like a creature.
Speaker 2: And the person's significant other took that hideous video as
Speaker 2: me trying to make sexual advances at the person I
Speaker 2: was gonna leave it there. You all saw the video? Yes,
Speaker 2: was there anything sexual about it?
Speaker 1: Nothing whatsoever? In fact, I laugh about it to this day.
Speaker 2: One of these days supposed to be able to talk
Speaker 2: about it and what happened as a result, And where
Speaker 2: we all are today is people because of that video
Speaker 2: cannot wait and some other things. But until then, where
Speaker 2: can they find you online?
Speaker 1: Andrew at Andrew Pug.
Speaker 3: Did at Diamond Sincere, I'm.
Speaker 2: At Baby Hot Sauce. Andrew? Are you still over ten thousand?
Speaker 1: I'm ten point one now? O?
Speaker 3: Shit?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, should we be.
Speaker 7: Following you this weekend for your eat pray LOVEX? Oh wait, no,
Speaker 7: you're not going alone?
Speaker 1: Okay? Well happy.
Speaker 3: Today, DOMI You're gonna take this In this new year
Speaker 3: of life that I'm entering, I've realized that I'm not
Speaker 3: going to argue with losers.
Speaker 1: You know is that you didn't need a solo trip
Speaker 1: to figure it out. I love that for.
Speaker 3: You, and I'm so happy that you're so witty today. Okay,
Speaker 3: your forehead shut.
Speaker 4: Up here next time.
Speaker 2: But until then, everyone's say bye bye