WEBVTT - Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:05.199 Hi, Katherine, Hello, Chelsea together, Oh my god, it's Los Angeles. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.840 It's raining, and the whole everything is sliding down the hill. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.680 I love the fucking rain, and I know it's not safe. Yeah, 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.040 but I fucking love when it rains. It's I love 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.279 it too, But like this fourth week, I was like, 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.600 I'm a little over it. I'm all done with us. 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.960 I'm not, but I understand it's not good for Californians 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.480 and that people are and obviously it's a serious dangerous situations. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.840 So I obviously don't love the rain. And if I 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.120 had to choose to have the rain or not have 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:32.559 the rain, I would have to choose to not have 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.320 the rain. But then we're in a drought. Chelsea, I know, 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.200 but I just enjoy the sound of the pitter patter 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.800 and I just did so much moodier and it's like cozy. 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:43.800 I love it so much. It makes me I just 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.640 you know. Anyway, Hi, what's happening. What's new? Well, we 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.120 got to see all of the gals from ma Yorka 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.760 that we went to. God I couldn't go when was it? 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.320 Because I was well, I had the Critics Choice Awards, 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.120 so we had rehearsals Friday for that where I was 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.840 so excited. How did that go? Was amazing? I loved it. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.120 I love dressing up like a little Barbie do you 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.040 and that red dresses everything. Yeah, it was actually hot pink. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.480 It was like the color of your of your hair amazing, 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.600 well parts of the color of your like this little 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.080 strand up here. Yes. Um, yeah, it was really fun. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.640 We had such a good time, my writers and I 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.960 that helped write the monologue or roll and everybody there 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.440 and then we went out after and yeah, it was 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.360 really fun. I had a great night. I'm so happy. Yeah, 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.399 it was funny to do actually good Yea. Usually I 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.040 don't like to do things like that because I'm like, oh, 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.360 that's gonna be a painting NAIs. Plus it was interrupting 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:41.959 my you know, Christmas. But you know, I just understood 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.880 that I'm I'm going to have to not and we 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.560 have to say yes to work when I yea, when 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.200 I have a snow way, I have to learn how 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.320 to not take four months off. Yeah, well we'll send 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.560 you back right, Yeah, I'm going back pretty. I'm actually 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.800 marrying my makeup artist from New York Mia. I'm marrying 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:04.559 her tomorrow to someone else, so to her fiance, and 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.960 I am the officiant for their wedding. She's like, and 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:12.560 I'm not sure how that happened exactly, but she told 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.520 me this weekend. Last week, I was in New York 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:19.440 doing some press. She told me that she assumed that 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.720 I have married a bunch of people already. And I 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.800 looked at her, and my sister was with us at 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.800 dinner or Shoshana, and we both looked at her and thought, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.239 have you been listening to anything I've ever said? Why 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.160 would you think that I marry a lot of people? 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.000 You know? I can kind of see it as an 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.960 extension of like you get a lot of gay couples 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.360 engaged at your shows and things, right, and yeah, but 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.919 like this is a bigger level of responsibility. So Casey, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:50.800 who is an assistant, he got me officiated online and 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.080 now I'm an efficient I can marry people. So please 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.360 don't put in request because it's not happening. I'm not 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.960 doing this again. This is a one off. Oh my gosh, 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:03.919 are you Are you a reverend? Are you I'm an officiate? Yes, 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.560 I'm a shaman. I'm a guy inecologist. I'm a shaman. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.560 I'm a reverend. A reverend is good. That's kind of 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.520 like my speed great. I mean, I'm just fucking preaching 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:18.359 gospel basically all the time, right, yes, so many gospels. So, Chelsea, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.920 we recorded this episode with our very fantastic guest a 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.839 couple of weeks ago, and you were a little under 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.800 the weather. So just so people know, that's why your 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.280 voice sounds a little different. Before I introduced our guest today, 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:31.959 I want to say that I was on a plane. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.080 I was flying back from Boston, and I spoked a 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.760 lot of pop because I was tending to my sister 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.960 who had surgery and I was being a nurse and 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.440 that was stressful for Chelsea. So she smoked a lot 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.520 of pot. And then I have a very sensitive throat, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.960 so I started coughing and I was like, okay, forget it. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.840 Then I had shows and on the East Coast I 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.360 got on the plane Monday on Jet Blue. Thank god 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.080 I had my own little cubby hole area, because I 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.320 deteriorated on that plane ride like I had full blown aids. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.640 I mean I was shivering, my back was thumping, I 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.560 was I was like hacking up a storm. Of course, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.920 I had a mask on because I'm not a Republican, 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.600 and I just was like, oh my god, they may 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.720 have to ground the plane and take me straight to 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.880 the emergency room in Dubois or wherever we were flying over. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.880 And I got off the plane went straight My driver 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.920 drove me straight to my doctor's office. He goes, don't 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.880 come inside. Meet me in the alleyway because he's like, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.279 I have to test you for RSB, COVID and the 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.599 flu that's going around. I'm like, I had the flu shot. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.040 He goes, it doesn't matter, everyone's got it anyway. I 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.200 ended up having the flu. I'm on my fifth day 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.560 of antibiotics, so I'm no longer infectious, which is upsetting 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.160 for me because I wanted to give you something when 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:43.839 you got here. Well, I have something, so I'm gonna 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.120 give it to you. Okay, what do you have. I'm 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.120 just kidding. I'm kidding. I actually got COVID for the 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.440 first time the other week. Oh you did that after 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.240 I saw you at that party. Yeah, yeah, I got 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.040 it from you room. Your friend gave me the mushroom. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:04:59.880 She gave my boyfriend the mushroom. Okay, this is al 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.240 sandraw Cooper. Everybody, Okay, you know her from Call Her Daddy, 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:09.000 which is the number one podcast in all of the globe. Okay, 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.880 it's probably more popular than Joe Rogan's podcast, Honey, hang 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.760 Out with You More um, And she put herself on 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.400 the map in a major, major way. Because you know 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.240 what's so funny. The first time I met Alexandra, I 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.159 didn't know who the funk she was and I should 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.960 let me know it. Yeah, well, my publicists were like, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.680 you have to go do Alexandra Cooper's podcast. It's the 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.640 biggest podcast in the world. She just got this huge 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.240 podcast deal. Blah blah blah blah. I go, sure, whatever, 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.560 and I go to her house and the whole time 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.880 she's like, do you even know who I am? I'm like, well, 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.360 I mean no, but stop saying that, Like, I can't lie. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.799 I'm not going to pretend it was like the awkward 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.960 girl who was like fan girl in that Chelsea. I 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.080 was stoned. I had my sunglasses on. I was like, listen, girl, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.839 we can't we don't have time for this fan girl, Like, 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.920 let's get down to business. And then throughout the hour, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.200 I was like, oh, okay, can see why this girl 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.520 is popular and she's fun and then I've been able 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.440 to watch your success and run into you a few 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.680 times that I do really like you. Thank you. I 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.400 like you too. You're in a very very solid relationship, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.039 you said the other day when I saw you at 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.560 the Amphire of Them for two years. Right, it's shocking. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.839 I'm so proud of myself. It's been good because the 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.240 toxicity was running through my veins in college and out 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.120 of college in the New York City, like I was 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.839 just trying to ruin guys live. And then I got 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.880 over it and I was like, toxic is now actually 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.839 boring to me because it's the same thing every time. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.760 And then I found healthy and it's good. How did 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.880 you find that? I found that because I feel like 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.400 I was just ready, Like I wouldn't have been ready 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.239 if it I wouldn't have found healthy if I wasn't healthy. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.840 I got into therapy. Well there's the answer for all 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.880 of us, right, And sometimes you don't want to be 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.760 in therapy because you're like I want to keep spiraling, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.720 like this is better for content, this is better just 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.200 for me, and generally keep living in the dark. And 0:06:58.200 --> 0:06:59.520 then I woke up and I was like, all right, 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.400 I guess it's time I figured out, well, that's good. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.279 I mean, listen, I didn't figure my ship out until 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.640 I was like forty. But I think when you're an 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.119 artist or a creative, you think all the bad ship 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.360 is helpful for your material. Like I remember doing stand 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.960 up and anytime I broke up with somebody's when I 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.280 was just crushing it because I could just go off 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.880 on that relationship. And then you've come to a point 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.240 where you're like, well, no one's gonna date me anymore. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.240 And then you're like, but who gives a fund? Because 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.840 I don't want to date anybody anyway. But then you know, 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.320 you come to grips with the idea that like it's 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.880 so exhausting to be in something that requires so much energy. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.280 You know, like you don't need drama or bad ship 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.080 or toxicity in your life to create good stuff. You 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.720 can do that. It's like when fat comedians lose weight 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.480 and they're like, well are they still going to be funny? 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.800 You're like, what you're talking about, Like that's our only bit, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.400 Like like you got funny because you're fat. That's not 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.680 the way it works anyway. So tell us a little 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.239 bit about your for lack of a better word journey 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.280 into podcasting, into the situation that you're in, Like, how 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.880 did everything start dapping? If you excuse me, Oh my god, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.000 I just got the flu end COVID. At the same time, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.800 Chelsea just looked me dead in the eyes. We made 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.679 eye contact and she just burped a cough on. Because 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.040 I have to be completely honest, I'm wearing a Maxi 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.040 shield right now because I cough. This cough I have 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.920 is so bad that I said to my housekeeper, and 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:27.080 we only speak Spanish, I'm like, tenemos Maxi shield. No, 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.120 you know what she sounds like. It's when you have 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.240 like a cough coming and you're holding your breath in 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.360 your throat and you're trying to talk. It's been since 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.200 I walked into the room, So why don't I just podcast? 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.520 You sit over there, you just take a little break. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.520 I haven't, and I funcs. It's fucking disgusted. And every 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.920 time I was out, I was getting my color done 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.760 last night and I coughed so hard and then I 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.480 got up. I was like, is that you're in tripping 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.760 down my leg? And I got up. Luckily they're two 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.280 gay men, so I didn't have to be ashamed and 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.480 I said, you got I need you to get me 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.080 my pea coat because I can't walk out of the 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.640 salon like this because I've urinated all over myself. And 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.120 they both looked at each other, got my coat and 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.520 didn't even say goodbye to me. They were both like, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.920 fuck off, get out of here. But so now, because 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.320 of this crazy cough, I have to wear a Maxi 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.800 shield because urine is just going to come out. A 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.640 Maxi shield that's shielding the rest of the world from 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.280 my urine. I wouldn't judge you, but like behind your back, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.880 I would. Yeah, I'm judging me in front of us, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.200 both of us. Your pants, Well, that sounds like it's next. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.760 By the way, did you hear that putin shout his pants? 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.079 I putin fell down the stairs, Good for you, your 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.040 fucking asshole, and then shot his pants. Yes, I love 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.680 I love stories about people shooting their pants, especially that guy. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.880 It's great. Okay, So back to you. The journey, the journey, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.600 the journey. Yeah, so I mean it's it's I can 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.960 keep it quick. It was I was out of college. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.559 I was on unemployment, text trying to figure my did 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.080 you go to Boston University? Was just a Boston, buss 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.480 is my favorite city. I love it. It was so 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.960 good for college too. I feel like New York you 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.320 think you would want to go there, and then you're like, well, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.280 I don't want to be in college in New York City. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.520 So Boston was perfect because I had all of the colleges. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.840 And then that's where the professional athletes came in because 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.400 they were like, oh the city, and it was great. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.680 It was just a perfect opportunity for me to really thrive. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.440 I got out of college and I had this awful job. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.640 I was in sales and it was for a magazine 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.880 and printice sucking Dying. So my boss is always like, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.960 why can't you sell ship? I'm like, because who the 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.240 funk wants to buy an advertisement in a magazine like bitch, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.200 this is dinosaur ages. So I was really unamused by 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.160 my job, miserable, and I was just typing up scripts 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.160 every day, like, wanted to start a YouTube channel, want 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.200 to do something in the creative field. My dad's in 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.520 sports television. I majored in film and television and then 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.840 I'm at a fucking ad agency. But that's usually how 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.439 it goes, Like you gotta get a job you hate 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.560 and finally I got fired and it was incredible. Everyone 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.000 was crying the day we all got laid off, and 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.320 I was like crying tears of happiness, just be because 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.960 I hated my job so much. But I didn't have 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.080 the balls to leave because I couldn't financially just be 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.120 like I'm gonna leave and go like I don't come 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.160 from a trust fund, like I had to have a job, 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.160 so I'm on unemployment checks. And I was going to 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.760 start a YouTube channel for my in Boston in New 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.280 York now in New York, and then I wanted to 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.360 start a YouTube channel call her Daddy was now an 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.360 idea and I was going to do it as YouTube channel. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.720 And then some people were like, you should do a podcast. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.440 It's not oversaturated like YouTube right now, especially with the 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.520 way you talk. All right, listen to this. You should 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.160 have been born with a podcast. I literally came out 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:35.800 of the room and like, I I should have had 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.360 a microphone in front of me because I could never 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.600 stop talking. My mother's always like shut the funk up, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.880 like your other siblings speak absolutely not. So then I 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.160 just started the podcast. And I had really no plan, 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.280 like there was no business plan. I didn't know anything 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.319 about the industry. And after the first episode was uploaded, 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.280 Dave Portnoy from Barstool deemed me and was like, what 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.560 is this thing? Like what is going on here? Like 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.320 who made this promo? And I was like, oh, I 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.760 edited it to other like I edited myself. I went 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.880 to film school and then I went in for meeting. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.800 Dave Portnoy signed me and the show went like number 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.959 one on episode four and it was wild and it's 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.079 it was like very aggressive start where I wasn't prepared 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.880 almost for the success. I understand. I'm so lucky. Sometimes 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:19.400 you have to work something for a very long time. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.840 For me, it like it was uploaded and then it 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.640 was like, what the funk do I do now? There 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.800 was no plan, there was no vision, and so it 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.040 was kind of like a makeshift moment where every week 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.600 was just like trying to come up with a new 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.280 episode and a new concept and and then it just 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.680 got big and then I left Barstool, took my I 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.960 P and went to Spotify. It was pretty wild And 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.319 how long has that been? So I have a three 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.960 year deal with Spotify and I'm halfway into my second year, 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.680 so it's been pretty wild and it's been like a 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.760 pretty amazing experience. And do you have any interest in 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.400 like having a talk show? I don't even know what 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.000 It's quite crazy because if you asked me, I never 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.400 thought I would be a podcaster. Like I didn't know 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.080 that was even a fucking thing back in the day. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.320 It'd be like my dad's hobby was to listen to 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.800 podcast and now I'm a podcaster, and so I don't know, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.320 like I don't know if it'd be a talk show. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.000 I don't know if it's going to continue. I think 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.760 I'm just making my show what I wanted to be. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.840 Like I'm doing video now that's not a podcast technically, 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.880 but it is because I wanted to be, Like I'm 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.679 very stimulated by the visual aspect. Audio was never like 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.439 my passion, but it is how I got obviously. Well 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.720 it's kind of funny because it all turns into the 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.400 same thing anyway, you know, like podcasting was supposed to 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.160 be so it wasn't on the air, and then all 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.480 of a sudden, you're watching podcasts on YouTube and you're 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.079 watching them and now it's a TV show and you're like, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.960 it's like all of media, you know, all these streaming 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.880 platforms are basically turning back into the three major networks 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:48.040 because they're all amalgamating. You know, Disney buys this, Warner 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.800 buys this, blah blah blah blah, Viacom buys this, and 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.320 we're basically getting right back to where we started. So 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.280 we have all these streaming platforms that are now going 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.600 to put commercials back on, so they're back to NBC, 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.080 ABC and CBS. It's all really stupid. It's like cell 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.840 phones came out. They were really small, then they got 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.760 really big, and then they got small, and now they're 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.160 like what the fuck. You know, I'm just waiting for 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.680 them to like come up with bundles of streaming services 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.520 and then it's just cable. Absolutely, you're right, it's a 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.120 great point, so tell us about and then now you're 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.600 in a normal relationship. I find that hard to believe. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.960 It's it's it's very hard to believe. And I know 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.760 people on the internet which ship talk to me like 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:30.360 he doesn't exist. It's not he exists, he exists, thank you. Yeah, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.560 it's really wild. I think that the reason it's so 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:38.520 normal is because I actually don't know. I need to 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.920 like think about this answer. I guess it's normal because 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.560 he's very normal. He grew up in l A. He's 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.080 very unaffected by just all of it because you grew 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.200 up around it, and he has no interest in it. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.480 He's in the industry, but he's very private. So we 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.800 keep things offline, which I think is nice because my 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:59.120 relationship is not predicated on what other people think about us. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.040 And I'm not like making decisions because I'm seeing comments 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.000 or I'm not using it to monetize my business. It's 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.720 a real relationship. And so if I don't like him, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.160 I don't like him. Before I like him, I like him. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.960 It's not going to be based off of something I 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.720 see on social media. And I don't even give a ship. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.480 If you have a platform, like when people have a 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.000 hundred followers and you're posting your partner, it is affected, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.360 you know what I mean? Like or how many comments 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.080 do we get? We can get into many likes on that, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.560 like people are saying he's so hot, is are they 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.120 going to d M him? Or he's so ugly? Should 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.680 I dump him? Like? There's too much stimulation going on. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.320 And so I think the crux of why it's healthy 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.040 is because it's as normal as I could humanly possibly 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.200 make it, and the only people that are influencing my 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.960 relationship is me and him. I like that. And what 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.880 would you say? I mean, I'm gonna ask you probably 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.400 a hard question to answer, but I think you probably 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.120 can because you seem to have a good, strong sense 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.440 of yourself, which I think is really admirable and I 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.040 wish all women would have, especially in their twenties. What 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.920 would you accredit your success and value in this podcast space? 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.440 What are your attributes that have gotten you here? And 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.760 why do you think you're so good at it? Thank you? 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.760 First of all. I mean, I think I feel like 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.720 I was very fortunate to be raised with a pretty 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.160 like normal, stable family, which I recognize that makes me 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.960 like not normal because most people's everyone's family ship is 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:19.560 family ship. But my parents were so obsessed with making 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.480 sure I was grounded, Like I think they knew I 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.640 wanted to be an entertainment my whole life, and they 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.600 kept being like, no, you're gonna go to college. No, 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.120 we're not going to go to auditions for you to 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.520 be an actress, like no, So they were making sure 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.280 that I was not getting ahead of myself and that 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.160 I was like focusing on what matter which was in 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.480 their minds, like education and having normal life and being 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.800 a good person and making me go to church every 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.080 fucking Sunday, And it was just a very I live. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.640 Grew up in Pennsylvania, and so I feel like my 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.720 parents instilled the values of just like not getting affected 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.760 by all of the bullshit because they didn't let me 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:52.800 do certain things when I wanted to do it. On 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.440 top of that, I think sports honestly was like a 0:16:55.560 --> 0:17:00.960 huge help towards me having this drive and grit and tenacity. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.160 And also like the amount of people that say about 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.040 me on the internet, I don't know why doesn't affect 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.399 me as much as maybe it would other creators. I 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.440 think because of the absolute annihilation I received at playing 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.880 Division one soccer. It was like the hardest thing I've 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.000 ever done in my life, and getting basically like verbally 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.520 abused every single day by a coach and teammates and 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.440 the whole thing, like it just made me a very 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.919 strong person. So I when I came into this industry, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.800 I'm very passionate about what I do. I think is 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.000 like why I'm able to stay grounded. I'm not doing 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.280 it for wrong reasons. I'm not doing it for fame 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.679 and money, Like I'm driven by the fact that, like 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.919 I've been obsessed with creating since such a young age, 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.359 and then just having support from my family and like 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.760 them literally hip checking me every day of like, no, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.200 you sound fucking insane, like no, that you're being a brat, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.840 and I'm like, I am, so I'm fortunate. I I 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.119 credit it really to my family. So you grew up 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.560 in Pennsylvania, And how many siblings do you have to 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.920 I'm the youngest, Okay, I'm the youngest too. Do you 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.680 have a boy and a girl, oldest sister and then 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.800 middle brother? And I also like that because you made 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.720 an announcement last year you were talking about becoming more 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.119 politically active and taking a stand for things that you 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.480 believe in. And I think with somebody with the size 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.879 platform you have, I think the thing that kind of 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.560 bugs me is when people, young people don't don't do that. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.000 It irks me because we you know, you have so 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.040 much influence and so much power. So I just love 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.760 that you're standing up for things, and you know, for 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.440 human rights and for basic things that we should all 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:29.000 be standing up for. And it's not necessarily political to 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:33.000 stand up for human rights. It's kind of necessary. So 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.560 that's also another great thing. So on this podcast we 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.960 give advice to real people who call in, you know 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.000 a little bit about I'm excited. I love giving advice. Yeah, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.680 so do I I can't get enough of it. I'm 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.320 just like, I overheard a conversation the other day. I'm like, 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.760 can I just chime in here? Okay? I was like, 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.399