WEBVTT - Clay Travis sits down with Rachel Bonnetta 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.760 This is Wins and Losses with Clay Trevis. Play talks 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:09.840 with the most entertaining people in sports, entertainment and business. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:25.040 Now here's Clay Trevis. Welcome in weekly podcast Wins and Losses. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.400 I hope you guys are enjoying this series. We are 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.280 having a lot of fun. If you're enjoying it, go 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.560 give us a five star rating and make fun of 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.480 our most recent guest, Joel Klatt. You can also make 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.519 fun of our current guest, Rachel Bonetta at Rachel Getta 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.280 on Twitter. She is already there and we are ready 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.599 to roll. You can watch her on lock it In 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.520 every single weekday Monday to Friday, now that we're into 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.200 season two, from at four thirty Eastern, three thirty Central 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.760 to thirty Mountain one thirty Pacific. We are on for 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.200 an hour at least five days a week. And uh, 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.880 I don't know a lot about Rachel Bonetta's back or 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.720 other than the fact that she's an awful Canadian who 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.920 doesn't chat very often. So I'm actually curious to find 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.240 out some of this information myself. So Rachel, first of all, 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.959 thanks for coming on. First off, I'm really sorry I 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:15.560 did not realize that we were supposed to give you 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.920 five first, I gave you one. I don't think I 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:24.160 can join the excited to be here, excited to chat 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.880 with you. Um, you're right. We worked together every single day, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.520 and I think that we know kind of like surface 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.000 level information about each other. But I guess I'm excited 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.119 to spill all my dirty, juicy secrets on this podcast. Well, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.480 I mean, I would say more than surface level because 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.080 your mom and I have been dating for a while. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:44.560 But that's how we're gonna start. We really don't talk 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.800 that much about you. It's more about our relationship than 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.720 it is yours with your Oh why did I ever 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.040 agree to do this? That's a good question. Well, honestly, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:52.920 I thought you were going to give me the heisman 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.639 on this because you were nervous. Why were you nervous 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.160 to come on the show? I think it was nervous because, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.920 you know, I feel like every other podcast that I've done, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.040 which is not many by any means, Um, it's been 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.640 all this surface level again. It's it's all like, you know, 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.880 what have you been doing the last two years, and 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.960 how do you like your job? And what do you 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:14.920 aspire to do in the future, And it's all been 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.560 very like boring, uh stuff, And I feel like you're 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.160 gonna ask me questions that are going to make me 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:25.200 uncomfortable answer them because I've agreed new that's already. So 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.520 I'm I'm excited. Let's make you uncomfortable right up. So 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.120 first of all, I hear what I Here's what I 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.520 know about you. You grew up in Canada. You have 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.440 three older brothers, which makes our show almost a little 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.160 bit of a reflection of what your life was like. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.639 So take me into Canada. I don't know much about Canada. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.799 I bet a lot of our listeners don't. But if 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.760 we do know something about Candida, it's like, okay, we 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.960 know something about Toronto. We know maybe Montreal, maybe Vancouver. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.120 Where did you grow up? What was it like when 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.280 you were a kid. I grew up about two and 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.360 a half hours outside of Toronto, UM in a really 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.359 really small town called or Know, and I lived on 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:07.040 forty six acres. We had a huge property. UM probably 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.280 like middle class family. My dad drove transport trucks and 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.320 my mom was a school secretary. Uh. And I used 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.320 to ride four wheelers and dirt bikes and fight with 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.239 my brothers. There's a huge age gap between me and 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.600 the youngest brother. It's eight years, so they were all 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.000 so much older than me. Um, and it was like 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.280 a dog eat dog world in my house. It's like 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.640 you had to fend for yourself or else you were 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.440 gonna get the crap kind of kicked out of you. Um. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.240 And I was the only girl too, so I feel 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.080 like the guys really wanted to make me tough and 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.080 wanted to make me one of them. So you know, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.320 I was like covered in dirt from an early age. Um. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.320 But it was also a really beautiful place to grow 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.760 up because there was absolutely nothing around, nothing to do, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.640 so I was all of us, the whole family are 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.600 really creative because we literally had like two blades of 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.720 grass to rub together to kind of entertain ourselves. So um, 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.280 you know, I would we had like this huge woods 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.360 in our back yard and or behind our house, and 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.760 I was like always exploring and um, you know, really 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.040 trying to be a tag team for those guys. So yes, 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.360 it absolutely applies to our show. I feel like I've 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.280 been you know, um, speaking up for myself and fending 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.320 for myself from a very young age. And uh, it 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.760 really mimics my my life because all of you guys 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.160 are quite a bit older than me too, because Todd's 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.320 what ten years older than I am, and he's the 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.600 youngest one on the show. So, um, it's very interesting 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.279 that I've found myself in this exact same dynamic. Uh 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.200 seven years old? All right, so you're twenty seven. You 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.279 grew up on forty six acres. I didn't know this 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.520 at all in are No, Like, how do you spell 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.840 the town that you're from in Canada? It's Toronto without 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:50.600 the teas? Are No? So how many people live there? 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.680 And and what did you do? So let's say you 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.880 leave the forty acres? What do you do? Like? What 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:57.839 did you guys do for fun? Is there a mall? Like? 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.800 How close is the movie at? Or like mall? Like 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.279 what did you do for fun? With the clothes? Movie? 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.400 Theater was probably forty five minutes away? Like we are 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.440 around nothing. I we didn't have next door neighbors. I 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.320 would have to like walk ten minutes up the street 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.360 to get to the next person that lived close to us, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:21.919 my friend. Um, and we we really entertained ourselves. I 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.880 mean we had like a giant pond on our property. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.000 So anytime in the summer we were like swimming in 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.479 that and my brothers were my best friends. I was 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.640 like always looking up to them, always trying to hang 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.200 out with them. Um. As I got older and U 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.719 went into high school, that's when I started to be 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.800 more interested in like getting out of the house and um, 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.839 you know, leaving my family and hanging out with my friends. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.400 And then it was just like sure, we would take 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.520 a forty five minute bus ride to the Oshawa Center 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.039 and like walk around the mall. But um, once I 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:54.839 grew up in and was in high school, I moved 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.040 to a little bit of a bigger town that actually 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:02.080 had like stores, so um, but that wasn't until like 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.040 the ninth grade. So I really like I grew up. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.120 It's insane that I live in Los Angeles now and 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:07.880 I'm doing what I'm doing because I grew up in 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.520 the middle of nowhere. My high school didn't even have 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.200 a drama program, nothing that would lead one to think 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.520 that I would be in front of a camera. Um, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.599 And it was just, uh, it was it was a 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.239 very like, you know, my family were my best friends, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.200 and I was always wanted to wanting to be home. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.920 But it's also because we had an amazing life, like 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.000 we I could go home and ride my four wheeler 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.000 around for hours until it was like dinner time. So 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.359 it was a lot of time spent solo slash mixed 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.680 with like hanging out with my family. So we're talking 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.640 to Rachel Bannetta. You follow her on Twitter. This Clay 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.599 Travis wins and lost his podcast. How cold was it? 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.039 So you said you had you had like a pond 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.440 to swimming in the summer, Like how cold was it 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.200 in your part of Canada? And how it was? Yeah, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.200 it was cold. We would, Um, we had like two 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.000 really big hills in front of our house, so we 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.719 would like, uh, my dad would take his tractor and 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.200 he would build jumps for us because we all snowboarded 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.080 and skied, so we would. It's a miracle. I didn't 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.400 break a bone until a couple of weeks ago when 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.760 I desiccated my shoulder, but trying. Yeah, exactly, I'm a lizard. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.640 Um but uh so yeah, we would have like ski 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:14.520 jumps and like rails and stuff set up in our 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.440 front yard and then my dad would take a giant 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:21.000 like uh fire hose and put fresh water over our 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.160 already frozen over pond, so it would be a really 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.880 smooth surface to play hockey. And we would hold hockey 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.000 tournaments at our house from like for all of our 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.600 family to come to. So we would have like days 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.880 before Christmas at like all of our aunts and uncles 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.560 and cousins would come. We'd have like huge hockey tournaments. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.480 Is the most Canadian thing sounding thing. I didn't realize 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.640 we would have crazy hockey tournaments on our pond because 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.960 it was like a beautiful rink. It was like, those 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.800 are some of the best childhood memories for me. So 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.760 the Raptors obviously were a part of your childhood. Were 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.520 you a big hockey fan and how much what did 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.400 the Raptors mean to you growing up? Um? I never 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:02.080 attached myself to hockey team because my dad hated the 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.800 Leafs for whatever reason. I think that he loved to 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.320 watch them to hate them. So we were raised in 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.000 like an anti trying to make the Leaf's household. But 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.200 we were living in Ontario, so it's kind of hard to, 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.520 you know, really find another team that I loved, so 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.480 not some I played a lot of hockey, played hockey 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:21.320 for like five years, um, but then basketball. I remember 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.840 waking up on my ninth birthday and I had a 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.560 canopy bed, and I woke up probably like three AM, 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.840 and somehow my brother and his girlfriend had snuck into 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.920 my room and put like a friend. I can still 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:38.440 remember looking at it, a fresh Crisp White fifteen Raptor's jersey, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.520 Vince Carter's jersey, and hung it up on my canopy 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.599 with a letter saying like, happy birthday. I hope you 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.640 enjoyed this. That dude and the Raptors were pretty new 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.319 at that point, especially Vince Carter. He's like taking over 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.400 the city and I just, oh, my gosh. I did 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.400 not take that jersey off for probably a year. It 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.439 was like you, I see photos of it and it's 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.480 just covered in grass stains. And I was bringing a 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.280 basketball to school. I wanted to be in the w 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.840 n B A, and I was obsessed with Vince Carter. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.400 I was so in love with him, like watching him 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.360 any chance I could. UM, and uh, I don't know why. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:12.920 I don't know why I loved him so much, and 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.000 I why I fell in love with basketball. But then 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.120 I started playing basketball. I was like captain of my 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.080 seventh and eighth grade team. Um. And then as I 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:21.960 got older, I kind of fell off a little bit, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.360 uh just because we started sucking a lot in Vince 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.680 Carter left and um you know, ugly fashion. But um 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.480 so it was so beautiful to come back these last 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.160 few years when they started to heat up again, and 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.480 then this year with Kauai. I was like bawling my 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.680 eyes out when they won because I was just thinking 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.240 about that nine year old girl who was obsessed with sports, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.760 um and and loved Vince Carter so much, and I 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.520 was just thinking about like what I've done with my 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.920 career and my It was like a really like a 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.679 looking inside, deep down moment for me, and I just 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.120 couldn't stop crying on like this is so stupid a 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.199 sports game, and I was. I was really emotion all. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.720 It just meant it meant a lot to uh younger 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.360 me and and and now me. You got to watch 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.880 it in person, Yeah, I went to go. I went 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.640 to was so lucky. Um one of my friends had 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.680 an extra ticket and asked me to go, and I 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.160 was just like, oh my god, when am I gonna 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.320 We obviously didn't know that they were gonna win at 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.040 that point, but I was like, holy, this is gonna 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.160 be the last game Oracle too so I wanted to 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.000 go see that, um, and I was there to witness 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.680 it in person. There was like a small group of 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.400 us because obviously it's in away game, but there were 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.160 still so many traveling fans. There's probably hundred of us, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.760 and we just like, uh, congregated in one area after 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.440 they won, and like everyone was emotional. Everyone was wearing 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:43.240 like old school jerseys and uh, you know Vince Carter, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.400 DeMar De rose in. Like everyone was kind of all 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.200 over the place and you could just tell like, oh 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.400 my gosh, we all love this so much that we've 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.600 that we've traveled. It's like almost like the batch of 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.200 the most hardcore Raptors fans that you can find. Uh. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.480 And we were all there and and they celebrated right 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.360 in front of us and lifted the trophy and um, 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.280 it was just a really really cool moment. I'll remember that. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.280 I kind of was just like, how do I want 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:06.800 to go? Like I have to work the next day 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.280 and it's all the way up in San Francisco, Like 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.520 do I really want to do that? I want to 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.320 spend the money, And I was just like, screw it, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:13.680 what am I ever going to have this chance again? 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.520 I'm gonna remember. I'm gonna tell my kids about this 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.000 moment um, So it was it was something to remember 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.960 for sure. Be sure to catch live editions about Kicked 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.720 the coverage with Clay Travis week days at six am 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.959 Eastern three am Pacific. Your seven. You haven't even had 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.600 your ten year high school reunion yet, which is pretty 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.360 crazy to think about giving what you're doing now for 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.200 a living, That is insane. Yeah, So if you had been, 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.760 if if you had been when you were sixteen or 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.840 seventeen years old, asked what do you want to do 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.439 for a living? And everybody at sixteen and seventeen has 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.400 different answers. Had you hit on the idea of I 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.360 want to be involved in media and entertainment in some 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.360 former fashion yet and if not, when did you hit 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.040 on that idea? Yeah? When I was sixteen, I was 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.480 that's like the twelve right. I was volunteering at my 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.880 local news station. So I was like Mike in hand, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.640 ready to go. I always wanted to be an actress, 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.840 but I was just like that pause here for a second, 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.200 I want to go back and this so you your 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.599 local news is where local news was probably at the 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.000 time forty five minutes away from me like where I 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.440 was going. But it was like local news oshwa, like 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.400 that area, that's what it was. You would you would 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.200 show up and do like you're like, what are you 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.000 doing at the local news? And how did you end 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.280 up going there? So we had a program in our 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.560 high school that you could take a semester off and 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.720 kind of do like an internship if you were at 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.360 a good place with your grades and stuff like that. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.960 Um and so I decided to uh oh they called 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.559 it a co op. So I decided to go. You 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.320 you'd have to go into school maybe like three times 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.680 a month, but I tell the semester off. Yeah, it 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.120 was amazing and you get like real experience, like some 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.520 people would go and work, um, like in the trades 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.400 and stuff like that, but it was this was this 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.400 one was available and so I applied for it, um 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.400 and uh I got it miraculously. And so I would 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.520 go in every single day. I would take my mom's 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.840 car and I would drive into work as like a 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:14.520 real reporter. And I was wearing like flax and like blazers, 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.960 and I was learning how to be a reporter everything 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.760 from like you know, gathering information and doing the investigative 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.280 part to the way that you make your voice sound 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.360 like a reporter and first local Rachel Bonetta on the scene, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.319 Like it was ridiculous the things that they were teaching 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.760 me to do, which just seems so oh so cringing now, 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.360 but um, I was. I just went home actually a 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.280 couple of weeks ago, and I was looking through all 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.439 of my old tapes because I've kept everything, and it 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:42.719 was like, you can see it on my Instagram. I 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.240 posted when it was like sixteen year old me reporting 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.880 from like a fundraiser and like a school safety meeting, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.640 and it was all very like, you know, youth reporting 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.400 kind of things. They weren't making me go and do 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.840 the hard hitting journalism, but that experience was like, Okay, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.400 I guess I'm gonna go to school for broadcast journalism now. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.400 Like that just kind of landed in my lap. Part 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.320 of me probably wanted to not go to school and 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.840 go off and try and be like a somewhat of 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.200 a real adult, um, but it ended up kind of 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.040 working my favor. So did these things air on the 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:18.040 local news or you just did you were on you 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.120 were on local news as a sixteen year old. I 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.320 was on local news. I remember I would go to 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.040 work and I would film whatever I had to film. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.880 I probably had like four four to five hits a 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.640 week of different stories. I would go to work, come back, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.680 go to my boyfriend's house, and the whole family would 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.120 gather around and watch the local news until my my 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.880 part came on. It was pretty insane. I was like 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.640 sixteen years old, So what what? I watched a couple 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.560 of these on your Instagram page and one of them 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.200 was like you covered will Blockbuster survive? Right? Or like 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.800 Blockbuster was closing? How did you get these these ideas 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.480 for stories? Did they assign them to you? Did you 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.680 come up with it on your own? Yeah? Like I 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.440 would go out there was like like said, it was 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.800 pretty like loose the broad The Blockbuster thing was from college, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.920 but all of the other ones were like, Okay, there's 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:14.160 um picnic benefiting the local animal shelter on Tuesday. Um, 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.280 why don't we send Rachel and a cameraman to that? 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.080 And that's all they gave me. And I would actually 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.400 go and interview all the people that I would have 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.760 to interview and do my research and and you know, 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.320 write everything down and then I would have to do 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.000 all my stand up so it's like being in front 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.440 of a camera holding a mic, being like doing like 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.320 the open and the and the clothes for like a 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.760 one minute peace. Um, and I learned. I learned so much. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.520 So even going into college, I was just like, screw 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.800 you guys. I was on first local like getting line baby, 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.120 I'm number one. So wait, so you had an adult 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.320 cameraman who would be assigned to you, and like you 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.480 guys would drive around all over town to do local stories. Yes, yes, 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.400 and I took the school. I was able to do 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.640 like a full full credits like I didn't have to 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.680 spend any extra time in high school, like this was 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.920 something that are are are just our school promoted they 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.000 Still that seems crazy to me that a sixteen year 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.040 old could be on local news. How many people would 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.640 watch this local news broadcast, Like oh, I can't imagine 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.600 very well. We would have people like email in about 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.720 like oh I hated Jones tied tonight, you better pick 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.480 up overalls and I'm not going to watch again. Like 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.360 it was there was some. There was some I was 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.120 like never recognized or anything like that, Like it was 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.600 not that many people tuning in, but for it was like, um, 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.880 that's a huge deal for a sixteen year old. Oh. Absolutely, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.240 the cultination of a bunch of different small towns and 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.760 small cities. Um, because the first local was kind of 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.280 like overseeing a big area and it was the local news, 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.560 so it was like Channel six a lot of people watch. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.920 So your mom had to be really impressed by that, right, Um. Yeah, 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:46.440 I think that might say, I'm sure we'll get into this. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.920 My family was going through some stuff when that was happening. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.000 My dad was really sick. So as much as they 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.280 were like proud of what I was doing, I wasn't 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.360 really the center of attention at the time. I think 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.640 that looking back now, even even myself, I'm like, holy crap, 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.680 why doing that at sixteens. As I'm telling this story again, 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.399 I haven't talked about it really one time. It sounds insane. Um. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.960 But yeah, she she was. She was super super proud, 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.160 for sure. So you mentioned what your family was going 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.160 through around the time that you're doing that. So what 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:21.240 were you dealing with in your family at the time. Well, 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.360 when I was about, um, I want to say, like 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:30.400 eight or nine, my dad started to just be really weird. Um. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.560 And and I was so young at that point, I 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.919 had no idea what was going on. Um, but he 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:41.399 just started acting not himself. And he's like, you know, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:46.600 he's a really early like typical Canadian lumberjack as you 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.840 would see it. Like he was a hunter, and he 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.520 drove transport trucks and he took care of our family. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.520 And all of a sudden, he was like not feeling well, 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:58.640 and um, you know, have having trouble walking and all 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.280 this stuff, and and I had no idea what was happening. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.040 And I remember being called into my school and in 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.480 my principal's office and her saying, you know, we just 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.359 want to let you know if you're ever feeling that 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.439 you're going through a tough time, like you can always 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.280 come and talk to us. And I was just so confused, 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.840 just like okay, like whatever, I'm gonna go back to 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:21.040 class now, Like it's just weird. Um. And then my 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:25.720 my dad's like physical appearance started to diminish more and more. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.920 And then it was that he ended up in the hospital. 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.320 And and again like I was so young, so my 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.280 mom was probably shielding me from a lot of stuff. 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.480 But it ended up that he had this really rare 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.720 blood disease called amiladosis. And it took them years to 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.160 even identify what it was because it is so rare. 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.360 It's like one and a billion people get this random disease. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:46.919 And my mom was actually one of the ones that 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.520 helped diagnose it because she is like such a mom 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.480 through and through and she was like going through notes 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.240 and notes and notes and looking at the symptoms and 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.120 and all of this stuff, and she was the one 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.399 that was just like, well, what about this? And then 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.879 they tested him for it and it ended up being that. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.960 But um, still like, not a lot of information is 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.480 out about this disease. And basically what happened over those 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.200 years is he started losing a ton of weight. Like 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.240 when I was in the tenth grade, my dad weighed 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.040 less than Iowa and I'm not, I'm like a pounds now. 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.520 So it was really it was really hard and um, 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.040 he was unable to walk. It affected his nervous system. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.280 Uh so his the nerves and his legs weren't, um, 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:30.760 you know, acting right. So he had to use a 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:32.360 walker in a wheelchair, and he was in and out 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.879 of the hospital and they they it's not a treatable disease, 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.960 is a terminal illness, so they were testing him like 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.199 a guinea pig. They gave him chemotherapy, he lost all 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.280 of his hair. They gave him stem cell transplants, which 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.360 is like the huge as needles they put in your back, 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.800 and it was all very painful, and it was all 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.800 just for him to feel better for a couple of years, 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.040 and then he would end up going back, and then 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:53.879 he would try something new, and then he ended up 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.640 going back, and so it was really really hard um 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.640 to deal with us, and and it was so long, 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:01.960 and it lasted for eight years, so it was a 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.000 really it took up a really big part of my life, 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.600 and I had to grow up really really quickly. And 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:09.720 my brothers weren't around because they are so much older. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:10.919 By the time I was in high school, they were 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.040 in college, they were living in different provinces, they were 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.560 all over the place. So it was really just like 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.360 me and my mom and my dad, and I was like, 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.399 I felt like I was like walking home to a 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.639 very hellish state every single day, and I just wanted 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.800 to I wanted to run away, and I didn't want 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:31.520 to be in that situation. And it was impossible to 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.920 connect with my dad because I was scared even looking 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.080 at him. What do you look like? And it was 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.680 really hard. It was really hard for a really long time. 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:40.520 So that's kind of what we were dealing with. And 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.360 that was tough for my mom also too. Like I said, 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:47.720 she's such a caregiver and her husband the love of 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:49.879 her life. They had such an amazing I'm so thankful 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.040 that my parents had an incredible relationship. They were married 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.879 for like thirty one years, um, and you know that 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.120 was like her first priority. So you know, you also 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:01.560 have this like blossoming young daughter who's trying to pursue 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:04.280 all of these things, but you know, your first priority 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:06.080 is going to be making sure that your husband can 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.359 get up and walk down the stairs because he couldn't 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.520 do that by himself. So it was a lot, it was. 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.680 It was a tough few years, sir. So from Mike 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.440 eight to sixteen, this is when this is going on. Yeah, 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:23.120 he passed away, she thought the way when I was seventeen, Um, 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:27.280 I graduated high school in June or whatever, and he 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:31.920 passed away that February, right before, right before you graduated. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.840 So I mean a part of this is you probably 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:37.600 I don't know if you even like sit around and 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.960 try to psychoanalyze yourself a lot. But if you're sixteen 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.200 and you're so driven to grow up that you're doing 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:47.199 these reporting assignments, I mean, is that partly like you 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:50.159 were just ready to be off on your own because 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.840 in some way you had to kind of raise yourself, 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.159 right because your mom has to focus so much on 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:57.920 your dad. Yeah, no, absolutely, I talked about this in 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.959 therapy every week, but um, yeah, it's it's exactly that. 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:05.800 And it's, um there's like a fear as well, like 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.919 going home. I when it was just my dad and I, 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:10.680 like sometimes I'd be sitting in the living room and 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.200 I would here like a crash, and it was because 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.480 like my full grown father has fallen to the ground 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.439 and there's like a fifteen year old I have to 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.280 now pick up his like deadweight body and bring him 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:22.119 into the living room. Somebody can sit like that's not 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:25.320 only embarrassing for him and hard for him to deal with, 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:28.080 it's like, oh my god, I can't profess this, Like 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.440 what is this? And so I was constantly I never 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.080 ran away, per se, but I was always running away. 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:35.840 I was always trying to get out of that house. 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:39.000 I moved away as much as I wanted to support 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:41.120 my mom and stay home for even like a semester. 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:43.680 I went away to college as fast as I can 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:45.520 and and I was like always out of the house, 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:49.680 always at my boyfriend's house, who was like a disaster um. 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:52.520 And it was yeah, it was really it was a 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:57.080 really dark place. Home. Home's was a really dark place 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:00.560 for me the first eight years, not right when everything 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:02.719 before he got sick, and then it's like just all 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:04.760 of a sudden, the chapter changes in your life is 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:07.960 completely altered. Yeah, I mean the first eight years. I 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:12.080 think that that's why I am, you know. I feel 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:13.920 like there's this big goofy side to me, and I 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:16.280 feel like that comes from early on, like the first 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:19.879 eight years when I had like free range on creativity 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:21.960 and I had a great relationship with my parents, and 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:24.679 my parents had a great relationship, and my brothers and 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:27.320 I were always like goofing and laughing, and they introduced 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:30.399 me to comedy and and then I feel like around 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:35.400 like nine, that's when that joyful side just like culpit 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:38.679 and stopped. And I feel like a big part of 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:41.000 my life now is like trying to get that back 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:44.000 and and trying to really live in this like fun 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:46.679 space because I love that that, like we always talk 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:48.679 about in therapy, not to get too deep into this, 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:53.200 like but that, um my my kids like kid Rachel, Um, 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:55.040 you know, she needs to be taken care of because 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.880 around like eight or nine, she stopped having people look 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.080 looking out for her. She was looking out for herself 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:05.800 because everyone else was focused on my father and so, um, yeah, 0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:07.480 it's a lots. It's a lot to deal with for 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:10.240 a really young kid. I didn't even know it, Like 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:14.320 I said, my mom couldn't even explain to me what 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:17.439 was happening at this point in my life because it's like, 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:20.159 how do we even tell how old are your kids? Clay, Like, 0:24:20.200 --> 0:24:22.240 imagine telling them no. I mean that's what I'm thinking 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:24.320 about now. I've got eleven and eight and a four 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.680 year old, and so they've had explained to them totally 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:31.600 idyllic existence right now, and if if something like that happened, 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:33.800 it would be like they would be, you know, almost 0:24:33.800 --> 0:24:36.920 full pedaling into a wall, right like everything is perfect 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.920 and then it's like a line of demarcation and everything 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:41.600 changes in their life. And I think there's probably a 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:44.280 lot of people out there listening right now who maybe 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:46.560 not have had as serious of an incident as you have, 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:48.919 but they can go to a point in their life 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:53.400 and be like this changed everything, right and and whatever 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:57.000 else comes afterwards, I can't get over what might have 0:24:57.080 --> 0:24:59.560 happened at this age. By the way, you're listening to 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:02.160 Winds and Losses. I'm Clay Travis. We're talking with Rachel 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:06.280 Bonetta and so you you you're doing this thing at 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:09.000 sixteen years old. You're doing local news and and it's 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:12.720 interesting because you have a and I'm sure people here 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:14.919 as this goes on, if they watched the show, certainly 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:18.720 you know this. You have a really great sense of humor. 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:21.040 But a part of that a lot of times comedians 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:23.639 have great sense as a humor because it's a coping mechanism, right, 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:27.640 I mean, otherwise you just kind of wallow in, uh 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:30.080 in the things that are bad in your life, and 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:33.520 that's a way to escape the darkness, right, um. And 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:36.200 and I think the humor that you have, whether it's 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:40.160 on Instagram or on social media are certainly on our 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:44.280 show comes through a lot, but it's almost like a 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:46.480 self defense mechanism in some ways. Not to mean that 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:48.720 you're not funny, but it's it's interesting where that comes 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:51.480 from Yeah, no, for sure. I mean my dad was 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:54.199 a very quick like honestly, and I think that a 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:57.040 lot of times he was always trying to lighten the 0:25:57.040 --> 0:25:59.240 mood because he was sick and all of us, like 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:01.840 he probably felt from his daughter like, Oh, she's afraid 0:26:01.880 --> 0:26:03.960 of me now because she's afraid of losing me. So 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.679 she's gonna push me as far as she can away 0:26:06.720 --> 0:26:08.880 because she doesn't want to get hurt. And so his 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:11.520 way of cracking the ice with me was being funny 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.040 and like watching funny things in same with my brothers, 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:17.000 like I was introduced to like sn L and SETV 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:20.760 and mad TV and in Living color, all of those 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:23.680 things when I was really young, because it was so 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:26.960 depressing in our household that what we watched at night 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:29.479 had to be something that made us laugh. And so 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:31.560 I'm thankful that I grew up in a in a 0:26:31.640 --> 0:26:33.480 family that had a sense of humor and was able 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:35.199 to laugh about some stuff. Like my dad would make 0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:37.119 jokes when he was bald and like had peach fuzz 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:40.880 and um, you know, he he was ridiculous and super goofy, 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:43.640 and I will hold those memories super close to my heart. 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:45.720 But um, that was definitely a way to all of it. 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:47.639 It wasn't just me. All of us were trying to 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:50.359 cope with this through our sense of humor because that 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:52.159 was literally the only way that we could keep breathing. 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:58.040 So sixteen year old Rachel is a local news star, Um, 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:00.920 you're dealing with your dad. You said, I don't even 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:02.680 know if your your boyfriend might listen to this. He 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:05.080 probably doesn't want to hear it because you probably that 0:27:05.160 --> 0:27:07.080 you never had a boyfriend before. But you said you 0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:10.159 had an awful high school boyfriend. Oh. Yeah, he was 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:12.000 a jerk. He was a jerk. I didd him for 0:27:12.040 --> 0:27:14.720 like five years to five years of a long time 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:18.000 in high school. So what initially attracted you to him? Oh, 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:21.040 I don't know. You have like a shaved head. He 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:24.199 was a skateboarder. That's why I was really into skateboarders 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:25.879 at the time. But I started dating him like the 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:29.000 end of my Our junior high was right next to 0:27:29.040 --> 0:27:30.600 our high school, and still there was probably only a 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:34.120 total of like five hundred people, um combined with all 0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:36.480 of those grades. So it was partly because there was 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:39.879 nobody else. But I met him at like the end 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:41.359 of the eighth grade and I broke up with him. 0:27:41.400 --> 0:27:43.280 As soon as I went to college, I was like, later, 0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:46.760 so what does he do now? I have no idea 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:50.239 and I do not want to know. So legitimately you 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:53.080 have no idea, like he hasn't tracked, have no idea. No, no, 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:55.040 I think that once. Once I got to college, I 0:27:55.080 --> 0:27:56.800 was like, oh my god, I gos a jerk. Like, 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:00.880 for instance, I'll give you a little glimpse in our relationship, 0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:05.880 um my twelfth grade. Um, you know, it was really 0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:07.480 just like a waiting game when my dad he was 0:28:07.520 --> 0:28:11.040 not doing well. This was probably in November. The doctors 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:13.080 told us that my dad had until Christmas to live. 0:28:13.160 --> 0:28:16.760 Basically what a date, right, Oh yeah, celebrate Christmas as 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:19.200 your dad? And I like the next day. Um, and 0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:23.439 so I found out in November my boyfriend broke up 0:28:23.440 --> 0:28:26.320 with me. And I was devastated because literally going through 0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:28.520 the worst time in my life. Now, I've lost the 0:28:28.520 --> 0:28:31.040 only person that I can really you know, he's like 0:28:31.080 --> 0:28:34.320 my number one shoulder to cry on. He broke up 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:37.280 with me the next day. He's love with my best 0:28:37.280 --> 0:28:40.600 friend and all of this stuff is going on, and 0:28:40.640 --> 0:28:44.920 so I was just like, uh, you know, I stupidly. 0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:46.520 Why am I telling you this stuff? For the first place, 0:28:47.560 --> 0:28:50.000 I got back together with him after my dad passed away, 0:28:50.480 --> 0:28:52.800 and then it literally as soon as I left for college, 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:54.720 I was just like, get this guy into my life. 0:28:54.760 --> 0:28:58.320 I'm so much better off. So yeah, like high school, 0:28:58.400 --> 0:29:00.560 Rachel was all over the place. She was mess. You 0:29:00.560 --> 0:29:02.760 did not know how to function. The only thing that 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:05.360 she was like worried about with school and her career, 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:09.520 which is like kind of still the same. Um, But uh, yeah, 0:29:09.600 --> 0:29:12.480 I was going through it. I think about that Rachel now, 0:29:12.520 --> 0:29:15.640 and I couldn't make me cry sometimes because I was 0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:18.600 really being put through the ringer And what you wish 0:29:18.680 --> 0:29:20.440 what do you wish you you could go back in 0:29:20.520 --> 0:29:23.040 time and tell yourself when you were in high school. 0:29:27.360 --> 0:29:29.600 I don't know, but everything's gonna be okay, I guess. 0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:31.800 But I always had the sense that it was going 0:29:31.880 --> 0:29:33.400 to be all right. Like I do think I deal 0:29:33.440 --> 0:29:37.240 with trauma pretty fairly well, whether it's like you know, uh, 0:29:37.600 --> 0:29:40.160 somebody passing away or like me losing my passport in 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:42.120 a foreign country. Like I'm very I'm a very good 0:29:42.120 --> 0:29:46.000 problem solver. Um. But I think that there's always been 0:29:46.000 --> 0:29:49.840 the fear of I will say this, Ever since my 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:51.880 dad passed away, and even before that, there's I've I've 0:29:51.880 --> 0:29:56.360 had an irrational fear of people leaving me and death 0:29:56.480 --> 0:29:58.400 and and losing people. Whether I can deal with it 0:29:58.520 --> 0:30:00.840 or not, just the fear of it happening absolutely terrifies me. 0:30:00.880 --> 0:30:03.520 So just like letting myself know when it comes to that, 0:30:03.760 --> 0:30:06.520 like I'm I'm okay, I'm gonna be okay, and I'm 0:30:06.520 --> 0:30:09.360 gonna get through this and at least I'm gonna live. 0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:11.800 We know that I don't even know that it's in 0:30:11.840 --> 0:30:14.240 a rational fear based on what you've been through, uh 0:30:14.440 --> 0:30:17.960 I know. Be sure to catch live editions about Kicked 0:30:18.000 --> 0:30:21.120 the Coverage with Clay Travis week days at six am Eastern, 0:30:21.200 --> 0:30:24.800 three am Pacific, talking to Rachel Bannetta wins and Lost 0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:27.120 his podcast I'm Clay Travis. You can follow Rachel at 0:30:27.200 --> 0:30:29.200 Rachel bannetto on Twitter. You can watch her every single 0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:32.720 day on uh FS one Walk it In alongside of me, 0:30:32.840 --> 0:30:35.160 cousin sal and Todd Ferman. All right, so you go 0:30:35.280 --> 0:30:38.080 off to college. You've probably given everything that you are 0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:41.040 going through in high school, are desperate to go away 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:43.120 to college? Where do you go? How do you pick 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:45.240 it and what is your focus when you go away 0:30:45.280 --> 0:30:49.200 to college. So I moved into the city. I moved 0:30:49.200 --> 0:30:52.120 into the city. I've got Toronto meeting meeting, the city 0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:55.240 of Toronto, Yeah, the big city. I think two of 0:30:55.240 --> 0:30:56.800 my brothers were living there at the time, so at 0:30:56.880 --> 0:30:59.840 least I had some kind of you know, safety with 0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:03.560 having them somewhat close. But I decided that I wasn't 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:06.520 going to audition, uh to go to school for theater 0:31:06.680 --> 0:31:11.320 because I was too scared. I think that, um, you know, 0:31:11.320 --> 0:31:13.120 everything that had happened. I was just like, I just 0:31:13.160 --> 0:31:16.400 want to go to school for something I know that 0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:18.200 I can get into, for something that I know I'm 0:31:18.200 --> 0:31:19.960 already good at, and for something that I know that 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:22.960 I'm slightly interested in. And at least, um, you know, 0:31:23.040 --> 0:31:25.960 part of the school processes that I can take improv classes, 0:31:26.000 --> 0:31:27.840 which was so exciting for me and I still take 0:31:27.880 --> 0:31:31.560 those to this day. Um. So I applied for broadcast journalism. 0:31:32.480 --> 0:31:34.520 I think I was a shoe in because, as you said, 0:31:34.520 --> 0:31:41.160 I'm a sixteen year old television star at uh uh. Yeah. 0:31:41.200 --> 0:31:42.920 So I moved into the city. I moved out of 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:47.320 my house. My mom sold our house and moved into 0:31:47.400 --> 0:31:49.360 like a really small house and like a small town 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:53.760 far away, further away from me. Um and uh, I 0:31:53.840 --> 0:31:57.080 failed and I feeled hard. I was doing this talk 0:31:57.200 --> 0:31:58.920 about mental health a couple of years ago for the 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:01.800 Big East, and there were it was like all coaches 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:04.360 that were in the room, and I was a volleyball player, 0:32:04.440 --> 0:32:07.160 was a varsity volleyball player, and I brought in my 0:32:07.200 --> 0:32:10.800 transcripts from my first semester of my first year, and 0:32:10.800 --> 0:32:12.960 it was all like f f F d F c 0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:16.360 f f F like failed, like literally everything I could 0:32:16.400 --> 0:32:19.760 have failed, I failed pretty much. Um. And it was 0:32:20.080 --> 0:32:21.840 I was telling these people because I was just like 0:32:21.920 --> 0:32:24.880 I was depressed and anxious and going through the dealing 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:28.720 with the loss of my father and and those times 0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:30.560 the coach, I'm seeing my coach more than I'm seeing 0:32:30.560 --> 0:32:33.160 my teachers. Um. And so I was kind of saying 0:32:33.160 --> 0:32:34.680 that like this is this was my story, and I 0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:36.760 was telling them and oh my god, I just bombed 0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:40.520 so bad because like my I was just going through 0:32:40.560 --> 0:32:45.000 a world of pain and I forgot everything that I learned. Um, 0:32:45.040 --> 0:32:48.960 you know at first local and it was a it 0:32:49.000 --> 0:32:52.200 was tough, It was really tough. I thought about quitting. 0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:54.400 I was just like I'm not I need to take 0:32:54.440 --> 0:32:56.400 some time off, Like clearly my brain is not right. 0:32:56.440 --> 0:32:58.520 I'm not in a right space to be learning and 0:32:58.560 --> 0:33:00.800 to be caring about anything other than thinking about my 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:04.400 dad dying. Like it was rough. So you went to 0:33:04.520 --> 0:33:06.960 class and you were making it like, I mean, how 0:33:06.960 --> 0:33:09.040 how did you fail? Everything right? Because I mean I 0:33:09.040 --> 0:33:12.280 would go into class, I was listening to the lecture, 0:33:12.440 --> 0:33:15.320 I was being given the homework, and I was saying 0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:17.920 f you, and I was gooding, And I would go 0:33:17.960 --> 0:33:21.600 to volleyball practice and I'd go home, sleep, wake up 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:23.080 the next day to do it all over again. I 0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:25.680 was not handing in any assignments. I was having trouble 0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:28.040 going to class sometimes because I couldn't get out of bed. 0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:31.040 This was like my first real bout with depression like 0:33:31.080 --> 0:33:33.920 I had never really felt. Not only was I moving 0:33:33.960 --> 0:33:36.440 away um from home and like what I know and 0:33:36.480 --> 0:33:38.080 what I love, and I broke up with my boyfriend, 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:40.040 which is like, you know, any teenager is going to 0:33:40.120 --> 0:33:42.520 have a problem with that, and it's gonna like face 0:33:42.560 --> 0:33:44.960 some kind of repercussion in their feelings and their emotions. 0:33:45.320 --> 0:33:48.600 But also I just had like a catastrophic event happened 0:33:48.600 --> 0:33:51.440 in my life. Um, and I just couldn't handle it. 0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:52.760 I couldn't deal with it. So I would not get 0:33:52.760 --> 0:33:55.840 into bed, I would not do my assignments. And it 0:33:55.920 --> 0:33:59.120 showed so for a full year or a full semester, 0:33:59.520 --> 0:34:03.960 just a full semester. After I got those the grades back. UM, 0:34:04.040 --> 0:34:06.280 my volleyball coach threatened to kick me off the team. 0:34:06.400 --> 0:34:10.880 UM My mom was very disappointed in me, and I 0:34:11.000 --> 0:34:14.319 just snapped. I had this moment of being like you, 0:34:14.480 --> 0:34:16.480 I had this really beautiful moment with my dad right 0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:19.239 right before he passed away. I'm gonna try and get 0:34:19.239 --> 0:34:22.440 through this. Um. And uh, you know, we we knew 0:34:22.440 --> 0:34:24.160 about a week before he passed away. They pulled me 0:34:24.160 --> 0:34:26.279 out of school and they brought my brothers home and 0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:27.839 we're like, spend as much time as with your dad 0:34:27.840 --> 0:34:29.839 as you can, because he's gonna be he's not gonna 0:34:29.840 --> 0:34:32.319 make it pass this week. He's stopped eating, and so 0:34:32.400 --> 0:34:34.360 all of us took turns going up into his bedroom. 0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:36.520 He had like a hospital bed pulled into our house, 0:34:36.760 --> 0:34:41.080 and um, when he was awake and around and you know, 0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:43.000 with it, we would go up and we would have 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:45.799 conversations with him, and I got to tell him right 0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.560 before he passed away, like a couple of days before that, 0:34:48.640 --> 0:34:51.480 I was like, I'm gonna go and kick ass and 0:34:51.520 --> 0:34:53.520 I'm inna I think also the first time that I 0:34:53.520 --> 0:34:55.000 swore in front of my dad, I remember being like, 0:34:55.000 --> 0:34:56.319 oh my god, I hope it's not gonna be mad 0:34:56.360 --> 0:34:58.879 at me, but I'm gonna go kick ass, and I'm 0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:00.839 gonna go make you so out, and I'm gonna take 0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:03.359 care of mom. And I'm just gonna go and and 0:35:03.480 --> 0:35:05.200 just kill it at school and I'm going to be 0:35:05.560 --> 0:35:08.560 a star and and you don't have to worry about anything. 0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:10.920 I'm gonna take care of everybody. From one of the 0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:12.760 last things that you said to me ever, was seeing 0:35:12.800 --> 0:35:16.000 the movie's kids, Well it makes me want to vomit. Um, 0:35:17.880 --> 0:35:21.560 I know, right, sor right? But I had this moment 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:24.360 after that first semester that I was like, I have 0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:26.680 not lived up to everything that I told my dad, 0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:28.440 and he would be so disappointed in me. And I 0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:31.400 think even my maybe somebody had said that, like, you know, 0:35:31.600 --> 0:35:33.279 do this for your dad, and I was just like, 0:35:33.320 --> 0:35:37.520 all right, screw this, buckled down started like caring so 0:35:37.600 --> 0:35:40.719 much really put like literally great change from like f 0:35:40.800 --> 0:35:42.640 T A S because I was I'm a smart person 0:35:42.680 --> 0:35:44.799 and I'm creative, and that's exactly what all these things 0:35:44.800 --> 0:35:46.920 we're calling for. It's like make a video, go and 0:35:46.920 --> 0:35:50.080 do a documentary, be an improv class, like you know, 0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:56.120 go and cover Blockbuster, shutting down whatever it is, excuse um. 0:35:56.160 --> 0:35:57.920 And uh I just snapped, and I was just like, 0:35:58.040 --> 0:36:01.080 I this is my chance to prove myself and I 0:36:01.120 --> 0:36:03.160 don't want to fail. And I'm not going back to Orn. No, 0:36:03.280 --> 0:36:06.640 good lord, I'm not going back to Orno. And uh 0:36:06.800 --> 0:36:09.240 I just snapped. And I have not since that moment, 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:12.719 Since that semester, I have never looked back and have 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:15.560 just gone gung home with my career. And I think 0:36:15.560 --> 0:36:18.680 that's a huge part of the reason why I'm twenty 0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:21.480 seven and I'm hosting a show in Los Angeles, of 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:24.640 all places, three thousand, five hundred miles away from where 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:27.839 I grew up, and I'm still like, not backing down, 0:36:27.920 --> 0:36:29.719 still going full till all right. I want to go 0:36:29.760 --> 0:36:31.839 back to that pivot point because there are a lot 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:35.280 of people who face challenges, and obviously for your age, 0:36:35.400 --> 0:36:40.080 the challenges that you faced wor substantial, and is you 0:36:40.160 --> 0:36:43.280 said that like you suddenly had this realization in your mind, 0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:46.160 but you go home for Christmas. I'm assuming I don't 0:36:46.160 --> 0:36:49.200 know exactly how the Canadian school schedule is, but you 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:51.400 have to show your mom the f's and the d's 0:36:51.480 --> 0:36:55.520 that you have made. Where exactly do you make that 0:36:55.600 --> 0:36:58.080 decision that things change for you? It's a pivot point. 0:36:58.120 --> 0:36:59.520 Like you said, you could have ended up back in 0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:04.000 Orno uh and uh and people like you're surrounded probably 0:37:04.000 --> 0:37:05.040 by a lot of the people that you went to 0:37:05.120 --> 0:37:08.000 high school with, and you're living a life where it's 0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:10.640 it's kind of a quiet scream of anonymity, right Like 0:37:10.800 --> 0:37:13.759 you're you're feeling like you didn't do what you wanted 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:15.759 to do. And look, I mean you're still young. I mean, 0:37:15.800 --> 0:37:17.840 even if you had made that decision for a few years, 0:37:18.120 --> 0:37:20.400 you could have still had a pivot point. But for you, 0:37:20.480 --> 0:37:23.560 it happened at eighteen or nineteen years old. What do 0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:27.080 you attribute that too to the mental toughness and the 0:37:27.160 --> 0:37:29.640 ability to make that pivot, Because I feel like there's 0:37:29.640 --> 0:37:31.759 a lot of people listening right now the podcast is 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:33.880 called Wins and Losses who get to that point and 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:36.560 it may not have as many significant factors that that 0:37:36.680 --> 0:37:39.439 bring it to bear as yours did. But that they're 0:37:39.480 --> 0:37:42.000 at a quarter life crisis or their midlife crisis or 0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:45.200 whatever it is, and maybe they're younger and they might 0:37:45.239 --> 0:37:47.160 not go in the direction that you did to pour 0:37:47.480 --> 0:37:50.640 positivity into the situation. What do you attribute to how 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:55.880 you were able to do it? Um, I think it 0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:58.080 would be easy for somebody. Let let's say my dad 0:37:58.080 --> 0:37:59.960 didn't pass away, and I went to school and I failed. 0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:03.960 I think it'd be easy for me to be like, um, 0:38:04.320 --> 0:38:06.040 is screw this, Like I'm not I'm just not cut 0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:07.520 out for it. But I think that when you have 0:38:07.600 --> 0:38:11.520 a parent pass away or something traumatic happening, you automatically 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:15.879 become a tougher person because you've been knocked down and 0:38:16.640 --> 0:38:19.239 you've in the process, you've just like grown this like 0:38:19.320 --> 0:38:23.040 outer shield or whatever you want to call it, UM, 0:38:23.080 --> 0:38:25.480 And nothing can hurt you as bad as that first 0:38:25.640 --> 0:38:28.680 thing that happened to you that was traumatic. And I 0:38:28.680 --> 0:38:31.040 don't know what it is. I always just call it snapping. 0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:34.359 I just snapped, and I went home, and I saw 0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:38.799 how disappointed my mom was, And UM, I know how 0:38:38.920 --> 0:38:41.920 much she gave to my dad and to this family. 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:45.279 I know, like she took so much time off from work, 0:38:45.440 --> 0:38:49.480 she was oh my god, probably in the deepest of depressions. 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:52.760 She actually just sent me a text with kissing emojis. 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:55.439 Isn't that weird? She literally just sent me that. That's 0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:58.640 so strange. Um, But you know, she was just the 0:38:59.040 --> 0:39:01.520 toughest of off. And I went home and I saw 0:39:01.520 --> 0:39:03.440 how disappointed she was, and I think that she just 0:39:04.000 --> 0:39:06.799 I was disappointed in the situation. No one did anything wrong. 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:08.759 My parents didn't treat me like ship like it was 0:39:08.800 --> 0:39:12.000 just a shitty situation. And I think that part of 0:39:12.000 --> 0:39:14.960 her was like, I'm so sorry that this has happened 0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:17.640 to you. Like she was upset and disappointed, but I 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:20.680 think also part of her was like, I'm just so 0:39:20.719 --> 0:39:22.680 sorry that this is the life. These are the cards 0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:25.200 that you've been dealt, and this is clearly affecting you. 0:39:25.280 --> 0:39:27.840 And maybe I was hoping that it wouldn't affect you 0:39:27.920 --> 0:39:30.080 as much as it as it is. And I just 0:39:30.160 --> 0:39:33.759 remember seeing that face and how upset she was, and 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:35.799 I was just like, I cannot do this. My mom 0:39:35.800 --> 0:39:38.719 has been through too much already. I need to be 0:39:38.760 --> 0:39:41.400 the tough person that I am that my dad has 0:39:41.440 --> 0:39:43.400 made me and my mom has made me, and I 0:39:43.440 --> 0:39:46.440 need to I need to snap. I need to take 0:39:46.480 --> 0:39:48.000 care of my mom like I promise. I need to 0:39:48.000 --> 0:39:49.640 take care of my family like I promised. And this 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:52.360 is not taking care of This is adding more stress 0:39:52.400 --> 0:39:55.839 and more pain. And I've already felt the worst of it. 0:39:56.160 --> 0:39:58.319 I can be better and be stronger. And then I 0:39:58.360 --> 0:40:01.239 just went back after Christmas or whatever it was Thanksgiving, 0:40:02.760 --> 0:40:04.520 and I just I woke up one day and was 0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:06.440 just like re energized, and I thought about my mom 0:40:06.520 --> 0:40:08.520 all the time, and I thought about how sad she was, 0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:10.560 and I was just like, I am not contributing to that. 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:13.279 There's no chance that I am going to be part 0:40:13.320 --> 0:40:15.560 of the reason that my mom is worse off than 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:17.600 losing her husband. Like, I'm not going to add to that. 0:40:18.120 --> 0:40:19.960 And so she was a really big part of me 0:40:20.040 --> 0:40:24.080 going back and just going like full till crazy. And 0:40:24.360 --> 0:40:28.440 you are incredibly smart and incredibly talented. Uh, not that 0:40:28.480 --> 0:40:31.759 you deserve compliments from me, but in that uh And 0:40:32.000 --> 0:40:33.319 and I don't want you to get used to them, 0:40:33.360 --> 0:40:36.719 but in that in that scenario, it's also interesting to 0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:41.320 me because people sometimes have talents and they aren't willing 0:40:41.360 --> 0:40:44.080 to acknowledge them themselves that they have them, and so 0:40:44.200 --> 0:40:46.200 they can fall back on Oh, this is just not 0:40:46.320 --> 0:40:48.160 for me. I'll go back to something that's safe. So 0:40:48.280 --> 0:40:50.960 you pour yourself into it. You already knew that you 0:40:50.960 --> 0:40:53.520 were driven in some sense at sixteen, when you're doing 0:40:53.560 --> 0:40:57.040 these local television reports. Uh, and what are you doing? 0:40:57.239 --> 0:40:59.320 And and how quickly does it? The pivot happens. You 0:40:59.360 --> 0:41:02.400 start getting as are you doing more television? Are you 0:41:02.440 --> 0:41:05.120 doing more? Like? What what exactly are you doing while 0:41:05.120 --> 0:41:09.600 you're in school? Um? I started looking for internships, and 0:41:09.640 --> 0:41:11.640 I started being like, I am really good in the field, 0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:14.160 so I need to start looking at like the local 0:41:14.200 --> 0:41:17.400 news stations or um. You know. I was just expanding 0:41:17.560 --> 0:41:19.759 my mind. I was like, how can I get better 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:21.640 at this? How can I do? I want to start 0:41:21.640 --> 0:41:24.160 branching out and do acting stuff like I was just 0:41:24.239 --> 0:41:26.560 instead of like feeling sorry for myself all the time 0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:28.800 and and thinking about other things that didn't matter or 0:41:28.840 --> 0:41:31.320 didn't pertain to school, it was the complete opposite. I 0:41:31.400 --> 0:41:33.040 was like, how do I be the best of the 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:36.600 best at this? UM? And I just poured all of that, 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:40.120 you know, sad energy that I did have into going 0:41:40.160 --> 0:41:42.600 full throttle. So I did an internship with our local 0:41:42.600 --> 0:41:44.200 news station that was in Toronto, which was like a 0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:46.160 much bigger deal. I remember one of my first days 0:41:46.200 --> 0:41:49.239 was like Osama bin Laden being shot and and and 0:41:49.560 --> 0:41:51.880 assassinated or whatever happened. Um, and that was like the 0:41:51.960 --> 0:41:54.120 first taste of like live news, and I was like, 0:41:54.160 --> 0:41:56.920 oh my god, this is this isn't the Picnics that 0:41:56.960 --> 0:41:59.680 I was covering. And on first local I was like 0:41:59.719 --> 0:42:02.560 Allly moly, buckle up. Uh. And then for a really 0:42:02.600 --> 0:42:04.239 long time I thought I wanted to do news, and 0:42:04.280 --> 0:42:07.400 so I was like constantly trying to get in with 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:09.680 those spaces. Never once did I want to do sports. 0:42:09.960 --> 0:42:12.719 I remember even at school we would have to like 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:15.879 sporting reports, and I was like, I hate this. I'm 0:42:15.880 --> 0:42:18.840 not interested at all. I played the sports. I played volleyball. 0:42:18.880 --> 0:42:20.439 I'm the athlete. I don't want to be talking about 0:42:20.480 --> 0:42:23.799 other athletes. I just wasn't interested in whatsoever. So it's 0:42:23.880 --> 0:42:25.640 hilarious what I've ended up doing with my life. But 0:42:26.560 --> 0:42:29.080 um so yeah, I just like I just poured myself 0:42:29.080 --> 0:42:30.880 in and I went I would stay up late, I 0:42:30.880 --> 0:42:33.520 would be at school until you know they kicked me out, 0:42:33.680 --> 0:42:36.720 editing pieces and and really branching out and just carrying 0:42:36.800 --> 0:42:40.440 so much more. Really that wasn't were you good at volleyball? 0:42:40.480 --> 0:42:43.480 By the way, I was excellent a volleyball. I didn't 0:42:43.480 --> 0:42:47.120 have crazy hops, like I couldn't jump very so they 0:42:47.120 --> 0:42:48.799 would oftentimes put me in the backup as like a 0:42:48.840 --> 0:42:52.279 designated pass er. Um. But I was pretty good. Our 0:42:52.320 --> 0:42:55.920 team wasn't great, But I played for thirteen years. Like 0:42:56.000 --> 0:42:57.600 that was one thing that I kind of like after 0:42:57.680 --> 0:43:00.560 I played hockey. U my mom was al players, so 0:43:00.600 --> 0:43:01.799 she's like, why don't you try this? And so I 0:43:01.840 --> 0:43:05.040 played rap like travel volleyball for thirteen years. It was insane. 0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:07.560 I didn't even know there was travel volleyball. Is that 0:43:07.600 --> 0:43:10.120 a Canadian thing? I think it might. Well, no, there's 0:43:10.120 --> 0:43:12.920 a big amen travel volleyball in America. I don't know. 0:43:12.960 --> 0:43:15.120 I've never even heard of anybody doing that. I'm sure 0:43:15.200 --> 0:43:17.400 they do. Um, but there was like a lot of 0:43:17.400 --> 0:43:19.320 girls in my high school were really into volleyball, and 0:43:19.560 --> 0:43:20.960 I played when I was a junior. I played on 0:43:20.960 --> 0:43:25.120 the senior team. That's how good I was. UM, And uh, yeah, 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:26.879 it was pretty competitive. It was fun. We were playing 0:43:26.960 --> 0:43:29.640 tournaments like every weekend, all right, So you at that 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:33.200 point then have decided you've come through, Uh, the challenge 0:43:33.480 --> 0:43:36.759 of finding motivation and everything else, and you kind of 0:43:36.800 --> 0:43:39.080 know what you want to do. Do you feel like 0:43:39.160 --> 0:43:41.920 school is unnecessary at that point because you're like, hey, 0:43:41.960 --> 0:43:43.920 I know what I want to do for my career, 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:46.760 and you know, I think about this. For instance, at Fox, 0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:50.080 two of our bosses, I think, uh, Eric Shanks and 0:43:50.160 --> 0:43:54.080 Brad Zeiger, neither one of them finished college because they're like, 0:43:54.239 --> 0:43:56.200 I want to do you know, sports production? I want 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:59.680 to and now obviously very successful at Fox. Did you 0:43:59.719 --> 0:44:01.600 feel like you were just wasting your time at that 0:44:01.600 --> 0:44:04.800 point in college where a little I mean university in 0:44:04.840 --> 0:44:07.040 college is different in Canada. So if you're going to university, 0:44:07.080 --> 0:44:09.000 you're going for four years, which is college in the 0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:12.400 United States, right, But if you're going to college in Canada, 0:44:12.520 --> 0:44:15.319 it's usually two years and it's usually some kind of 0:44:15.360 --> 0:44:18.879 trade or it's more hands on. So if I were 0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:22.960 to go to university for broadcast journalism in Canada, the 0:44:23.000 --> 0:44:26.400 first two years would be writing essays and theories about whatever, 0:44:27.160 --> 0:44:30.200 and then the final two years would be in studio, 0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:32.920 getting your hands dirty, going out into the field. And 0:44:32.960 --> 0:44:34.200 I was just like, I don't want to waste my 0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:36.200 time with the first two years, like I've already been 0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:38.240 out in the field. So I want to go to college. 0:44:38.280 --> 0:44:39.600 I want to be done in two years, and I 0:44:39.640 --> 0:44:44.080 want to be working in that third year. So um 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:48.800 so yeah. So by the second year, UM, I never finished. 0:44:48.880 --> 0:44:51.240 I was missing one still to this day, i'm missing 0:44:51.280 --> 0:44:54.720 one credit to graduate. I do not need it now. UM. 0:44:54.760 --> 0:44:57.360 But I was going to go back uh for a 0:44:57.400 --> 0:45:01.359 final semester. And then um or I was gonna go back. 0:45:01.360 --> 0:45:02.880 I was gonna go back to school for theater. I 0:45:02.960 --> 0:45:05.239 decided that I did not want to do broadcast. I 0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:08.279 didn't want to do broadcasting anymore. For whatever reason, I 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:10.640 really enjoyed those improv classes, and I was just like, 0:45:10.640 --> 0:45:12.399 I've always wanted to be an actor, Like why am 0:45:12.400 --> 0:45:15.200 I still reading the news? This isn't exactly what I 0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:18.439 want to do. I'm still thinking about acting all the time. Um. 0:45:18.480 --> 0:45:21.800 And so I had one credit left and I was 0:45:21.840 --> 0:45:23.320 just like, I'm not I'm not going to finish this 0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:25.000 because I'm gonna go back to school for something else. 0:45:25.040 --> 0:45:28.439 And then, in that interim period of deciding I wanted 0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:33.239 to leave broadcast journalism behind and applying for universities for 0:45:33.320 --> 0:45:37.319 theater programs, I got my first big job it's like 0:45:37.400 --> 0:45:41.799 by accident. So then that kind of just led me astray. 0:45:41.920 --> 0:45:46.040 So what was the job? So it was Toronto c 0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:50.040 which is Major League soccer. It was the Dream Job contest, 0:45:50.280 --> 0:45:52.120 So it wasn't even a job application. It was a 0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:54.239 contest that I saw on Facebook and it was like, 0:45:54.280 --> 0:45:57.320 whoever wins this contest gets to be on the jumble 0:45:57.400 --> 0:46:00.560 tron at halftime and interview players and do all this 0:46:00.640 --> 0:46:01.960 like fun stuff. And I was like, oh, this could 0:46:01.960 --> 0:46:04.600 be like a perfect side thing while I'm going to school. 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:06.360 I still get to be in front of a camera. 0:46:07.280 --> 0:46:09.320 I still get to, you know, like play in that space. 0:46:09.800 --> 0:46:11.799 So like, why not, I'm probably not gonna win. I 0:46:11.800 --> 0:46:14.080 don't know much about soccer, so let me just like apply. 0:46:14.880 --> 0:46:18.520 So I applied and just from my so you applied 0:46:18.520 --> 0:46:21.400 by how like doing a video? Like what's what's the application? 0:46:21.560 --> 0:46:24.480 First application process was literally just an application. It was 0:46:24.520 --> 0:46:27.759 like who are you? Why do you want this job? Um? 0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:31.520 And I cracked top fifteen just by my application, and 0:46:31.680 --> 0:46:36.120 my application was a little inappropriated. I made some I 0:46:36.200 --> 0:46:40.520 made some choice. I the first I don't know how 0:46:40.560 --> 0:46:43.600 I got hired off this, but the first line you 0:46:43.600 --> 0:46:45.319 have to kind of like write a like a mini 0:46:45.440 --> 0:46:49.160 essay on why you should be hired. The first line 0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:53.560 of my essay was besides my love for balls dot 0:46:53.600 --> 0:46:57.560 dot dot, this is why you should hire me. That 0:46:57.760 --> 0:47:01.840 got me to crack the top fifteen. Somehow I have 0:47:01.960 --> 0:47:03.919 not some of that must have line must have caught 0:47:03.960 --> 0:47:07.759 somebody's eye. Um so you're handwriting this or do you 0:47:07.800 --> 0:47:11.200 like you're typing this online submission? It was an online submission. 0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:14.880 Did you spend on the online submission? Oh? I remember, 0:47:14.960 --> 0:47:17.200 like just like saying screw it, I'm not gonna win this. 0:47:17.440 --> 0:47:19.960 So I remember maybe like twenty minutes, just like a 0:47:20.120 --> 0:47:22.080 quick type up like who are you? How old? Do 0:47:22.200 --> 0:47:25.600 you send us a picture? And why you want this job? So? 0:47:26.480 --> 0:47:30.200 Um so I cracked top fifteen, and then top fifteen 0:47:30.280 --> 0:47:31.920 had to send in a video, and I was just like, 0:47:31.960 --> 0:47:34.920 oh man, now I got this in the bag. So 0:47:35.080 --> 0:47:39.520 I made uh like a two minute sketch comedy sketch 0:47:39.560 --> 0:47:42.040 on why I should be hired. And I got this 0:47:42.080 --> 0:47:44.919 guy to put on a brown wig and do keep 0:47:44.920 --> 0:47:46.880 you up eas like keep ups with a football with 0:47:46.920 --> 0:47:50.320 a soccer ball, and wear a duke, and we shot 0:47:50.320 --> 0:47:53.040 it as if it looked like I was doing, so 0:47:53.080 --> 0:47:55.040 they're like, oh, this girl is funny. And then I 0:47:55.120 --> 0:47:57.600 cracked the cracked the top five. That video is still 0:47:57.600 --> 0:48:00.000 available to watch on YouTube. By the way, I cracked 0:48:00.040 --> 0:48:02.279 the top five, and I was just like, how do 0:48:02.360 --> 0:48:04.240 you mean you crack the top five? Like people vote, 0:48:04.440 --> 0:48:06.840 like how are you? How do you know where you're ranking. 0:48:06.880 --> 0:48:09.359 I think it was a combination of people voting and 0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:12.840 also uh, their choice, like toront his choice. So I 0:48:12.880 --> 0:48:14.360 think that they thought that was funny and that I 0:48:14.400 --> 0:48:16.719 could do some different things, and they're like, all right, 0:48:16.760 --> 0:48:18.960 this girl's entertaining, like let's let's bring her in for 0:48:19.000 --> 0:48:23.000 an interview. Um. So then I was top five and 0:48:23.120 --> 0:48:25.680 I went in for an interview and they know nothing 0:48:25.719 --> 0:48:29.839 about soccer, like Toronto captains. I had the captain's name, 0:48:30.000 --> 0:48:33.800 Porston Springs written in ink on my hand for the interview, 0:48:34.520 --> 0:48:36.239 so you could come out and like cheat if you 0:48:36.280 --> 0:48:37.799 need to, So I could look down and say if 0:48:37.800 --> 0:48:39.200 they asked me any questions, I could be like, at 0:48:39.239 --> 0:48:41.160 least I know who the captain is. I can I 0:48:41.160 --> 0:48:46.120 can work Towards and Springs into my bullshitting um and uh. 0:48:46.160 --> 0:48:47.719 And I just like I won them over in the 0:48:47.719 --> 0:48:52.319 meeting I was myself and uh. I remember I was 0:48:52.400 --> 0:48:54.560 working at the time at a bar. There was a 0:48:54.640 --> 0:49:00.520 torontof Sea bar um and so as a bartender, as 0:49:00.600 --> 0:49:04.560 a as a server, and so the final process of 0:49:04.560 --> 0:49:06.560 this contest, that is, they were going to invite all 0:49:06.600 --> 0:49:09.520 of us to center field at half time and announced 0:49:09.520 --> 0:49:11.640 the winner. There was five of us left, but I 0:49:11.680 --> 0:49:14.359 had to work the shift before the game. So I 0:49:14.400 --> 0:49:16.839 was in the in the restaurant serving all of these 0:49:16.920 --> 0:49:19.080 Toronto Sea fans. And then my bosses let me go 0:49:19.239 --> 0:49:21.840 to the game to see if I won the contest, 0:49:21.880 --> 0:49:23.520 and my mom was with me, and it was raining, 0:49:24.000 --> 0:49:25.680 and I remember before we even went in, I was like, Mom, 0:49:25.680 --> 0:49:26.920 I don't want to do this, like I'm not gonna win. 0:49:26.920 --> 0:49:28.919 I'm gonna be embarrassed in front of the twenty people 0:49:28.920 --> 0:49:30.719 that are sitting in the stands right now. And She's 0:49:30.760 --> 0:49:33.000 like just go, like it's fine. What if you do 0:49:33.120 --> 0:49:37.120 win then? Uh? And I remember a halftime it was raining. 0:49:37.120 --> 0:49:39.680 They pulled us all out in the middle field and 0:49:39.760 --> 0:49:42.600 they called my name and I was just like, oh 0:49:42.600 --> 0:49:47.759 my god, I won and I sprinted. I shook some 0:49:47.880 --> 0:49:50.959 hands like oh my god, this is and I sprinted 0:49:51.040 --> 0:49:53.680 to my mom because I knew where she was sitting, 0:49:53.680 --> 0:49:56.200 and we just like held each other and cried because 0:49:56.200 --> 0:49:58.080 this was the first win. This was my first win. 0:49:58.960 --> 0:50:03.480 I didn't finish school. Dad passes away, which procious first semester. 0:50:03.840 --> 0:50:05.319 Holy crap, I just want to I just beat up 0:50:05.320 --> 0:50:07.800 five people for this job that I probably did not deserve. 0:50:08.600 --> 0:50:11.120 So her and I were just sobbing in each other's arms, like, 0:50:11.160 --> 0:50:12.719 oh my God, Like I'm gonna be able to take 0:50:12.719 --> 0:50:14.279 care of myself, You're not gonna have to pay my rent, 0:50:14.400 --> 0:50:16.400 me more, all of these things. It was just like 0:50:16.400 --> 0:50:20.080 a really beautiful moment. Uh. And then I was like, Okay, 0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:23.719 I guess I'm gonna blow off school for a little 0:50:23.760 --> 0:50:26.200 bit longer and be this host because they hired me 0:50:26.239 --> 0:50:29.640 for some reason. They hired me Monday to Friday five, 0:50:30.280 --> 0:50:32.080 but I was an arena host, like they wanted me 0:50:32.120 --> 0:50:34.760 to do so much more than the initial job entailed. 0:50:34.800 --> 0:50:37.839 So I was just like, Okay, they paid me forty dollars. 0:50:37.880 --> 0:50:40.600 I was like, that's an instant amount of money. Yeah, 0:50:42.440 --> 0:50:45.040 you're what twenty years old. I'm twenty years old at 0:50:45.040 --> 0:50:50.879 the time. Yeah. Uh, that's literally the jackpot. You think 0:50:50.880 --> 0:50:55.640 you're rich with compared to the other twenty year olds, 0:50:55.640 --> 0:51:00.719 and so what does that job entail? Held nothing and 0:51:00.920 --> 0:51:03.440 entailed absolutely nothing. I had to go and show up 0:51:03.440 --> 0:51:05.880 on the weekends and be the arena hosts. But because 0:51:05.920 --> 0:51:08.120 I was sitting at a desk every single day and 0:51:08.160 --> 0:51:12.160 going berserk with boredom, YouTube was hot and fresh. I 0:51:12.160 --> 0:51:15.160 started making usy videos, and I started making sketches within 0:51:15.200 --> 0:51:17.680 the office and doing like weekly videos that I would 0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:20.759 put out that the fans could watch, and um, those 0:51:20.800 --> 0:51:23.400 like kind of blew up in in like small YouTube terms, 0:51:24.040 --> 0:51:27.480 and uh, Major League Soccer. The head office in New 0:51:27.560 --> 0:51:31.239 York City started seeing these videos and being like, we 0:51:31.320 --> 0:51:33.200 really like what you're doing, or would you ever be 0:51:33.200 --> 0:51:35.600 interested in moving to New York City? And I had 0:51:35.600 --> 0:51:37.959 been to New York City one time in my life 0:51:38.000 --> 0:51:40.800 before that, and I had um, oh, I can't remember 0:51:40.800 --> 0:51:42.520 the name of it. I think a Carnegie Delhi. Does 0:51:42.560 --> 0:51:44.400 that sound right? I had a Deli napkin from New 0:51:44.480 --> 0:51:47.959 York City posted on my cubicle because I just loved 0:51:48.040 --> 0:51:51.000 New York City so much. Um and I even had 0:51:51.000 --> 0:51:53.160 written a contract to myself. I still have it. When 0:51:53.200 --> 0:51:55.480 I was about ten years old, I Rachel Bannetta will 0:51:55.520 --> 0:51:59.000 live in New York City by the time I'm twenty three, uh, 0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:02.440 and like signed with a in and everything. Uh. And 0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:05.000 so I spent a couple of years in Toronto, got 0:52:05.000 --> 0:52:07.120 this email, maybe like a year and a half in 0:52:07.560 --> 0:52:09.239 and they were like, we would like, we would like 0:52:09.280 --> 0:52:10.560 to bring you out to New York City if you're 0:52:10.560 --> 0:52:12.879 willing to move here. And so that's how I got 0:52:12.920 --> 0:52:16.359 to from Toronto to New York. What do you think 0:52:16.360 --> 0:52:18.319 would have happened if you hadn't seen that Facebook ad? 0:52:20.000 --> 0:52:22.400 I have no idea. I would probably be a waitress 0:52:22.400 --> 0:52:23.960 in Toronto trying to make it as an actress. And 0:52:24.000 --> 0:52:26.120 that sounds super depressing to me. There's so many points 0:52:26.160 --> 0:52:27.800 in my career, as I'm sure we'll keep on talking 0:52:27.840 --> 0:52:29.959 that I could have gone left, but I went right, 0:52:30.080 --> 0:52:33.759 and I have no idea what would have happened if 0:52:33.760 --> 0:52:36.400 I went left? Like it's insane. So you go to 0:52:36.520 --> 0:52:38.600 you take the MLS job, and I'm curious, I want 0:52:38.640 --> 0:52:40.799 to go back again because you said you're just bored 0:52:40.840 --> 0:52:43.759 at the office nine to five, like you are on 0:52:44.000 --> 0:52:47.160 you know, doing the games for Toronto FC. But that's 0:52:47.160 --> 0:52:48.640 where you come up with the idea of Hey, I'm 0:52:48.640 --> 0:52:51.239 going to do these videos? Do you ask anybody for permission? 0:52:51.400 --> 0:52:53.960 How do you go about taking the initiative there? Well, 0:52:54.000 --> 0:52:55.839 I knew how to operate a camera, I knew how 0:52:55.840 --> 0:52:57.320 to set up a tripod, and I knew how to 0:52:57.360 --> 0:52:59.000 plug plug in a mic. So I was just like, 0:52:59.360 --> 0:53:00.840 do you as mind a Like, I'm just like I 0:53:00.840 --> 0:53:02.640 got an idea. I'm just gonna go like shoot some 0:53:02.640 --> 0:53:05.160 stuff from I'm not doing anything anyways, and they're like, yeah, 0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:06.759 go go give it a shot. And I also knew 0:53:06.760 --> 0:53:09.439 how to edit, So I was going around and first 0:53:09.520 --> 0:53:11.640 I did these things called six and sixty, so six 0:53:11.680 --> 0:53:14.359 things to know about the game in sixty seconds. So 0:53:14.480 --> 0:53:17.400 I would go around the stadium six different spots and 0:53:17.440 --> 0:53:20.120 I'd be like, game time is six pm, and then 0:53:20.200 --> 0:53:22.799 like joke, joke, joke and character character character, and then 0:53:22.880 --> 0:53:25.160 number two would be like, you guys are gonna want 0:53:25.160 --> 0:53:28.120 to take the t TC, which is our trans transportation 0:53:28.440 --> 0:53:31.640 um like buses and trains and stuff like that in Toronto, uh, 0:53:31.680 --> 0:53:33.719 and give them like traffic reports. And it was all 0:53:33.760 --> 0:53:36.399 it was like sixty seconds of just like fun. Uh. 0:53:36.440 --> 0:53:38.760 And I shot them myself, I wrote them myself, I 0:53:38.920 --> 0:53:41.399 vowed them, I edited them, and I put them all 0:53:41.440 --> 0:53:43.480 out myself. I just showed them like one or two 0:53:43.480 --> 0:53:44.839 and they're like, yeah, they look cool. Let's just put 0:53:44.840 --> 0:53:47.080 them on the on my YouTube on our YouTube channel, 0:53:47.480 --> 0:53:49.920 which was like not of consequence at the time because 0:53:49.920 --> 0:53:52.840 it was brand new and you know, uh, and so 0:53:52.920 --> 0:53:54.480 they put it up. But then people started to like them. 0:53:54.480 --> 0:53:56.680 So I started making more and more in depth and 0:53:56.760 --> 0:53:59.799 more creative and more weird, and like someone got really weird. 0:54:00.680 --> 0:54:02.759 But that's what MLS noticed and that's what they liked, 0:54:02.840 --> 0:54:06.359 so led me here. Oh yeah, for sure. Probably if 0:54:06.360 --> 0:54:10.560 you oh gosh, if you searched Rachel Bannetta six and 0:54:10.600 --> 0:54:14.160 sixty t t FC, I'm sure you'd find some real gems. 0:54:14.560 --> 0:54:16.759 So you get So this is pretty wild. It means 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:20.600 a pretty fast trajectory, right. You you get hired by 0:54:20.680 --> 0:54:24.160 Toronto FC. You you start to establish yourself. You're fortunate 0:54:24.200 --> 0:54:26.759 in that the MLS is still like kind of a 0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:29.560 new league, and obviously you're experimenting in a new arena 0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:33.320 with YouTube and kind of the social ability to advertise 0:54:33.360 --> 0:54:35.239 in that way. And you get to MLS and what 0:54:35.239 --> 0:54:38.279 do you do in New York? What's your job there? So? Uh, 0:54:38.360 --> 0:54:40.120 in New York. It's kind of like Free Range. They're like, 0:54:40.120 --> 0:54:42.440 we want you to be our digital host. So anything 0:54:42.480 --> 0:54:44.480 we need you for, we want you to do, we 0:54:44.520 --> 0:54:46.960 want to develop shows for you. So I got the 0:54:47.000 --> 0:54:49.279 show called Off Topic with Rachel Benetta, which is where 0:54:49.280 --> 0:54:51.560 I would like travel and meet up with an athlete 0:54:51.560 --> 0:54:53.359 and we would go out something, go out and do 0:54:53.440 --> 0:54:55.359 something that had nothing to do with what they did 0:54:55.400 --> 0:54:57.359 on the field. We would like go bowling or go 0:54:58.000 --> 0:55:00.120 you know, seeker shopping or whatever. And I was just 0:55:00.160 --> 0:55:02.120 it was all personality driven. It was like literally just 0:55:02.160 --> 0:55:04.000 me hanging out with these dudes. And again those became 0:55:04.080 --> 0:55:07.359 so popular that we had athletes coming to us and 0:55:07.400 --> 0:55:11.200 being like we would like to do this, which was 0:55:11.239 --> 0:55:13.680 insane because there was still I only spent a year 0:55:13.680 --> 0:55:17.120 with them less. It all happened so so quickly. Um 0:55:17.160 --> 0:55:19.960 so just like really fun, personality driven stuff. And I 0:55:20.000 --> 0:55:22.000 would also still do like comedy sketches that I would 0:55:22.000 --> 0:55:25.919 write and we would put out, um and uh yeah. 0:55:25.960 --> 0:55:27.600 It was like all Free Rangers are like, we willing 0:55:27.680 --> 0:55:29.080 to keep on doing what you like to do, and 0:55:29.120 --> 0:55:30.600 what you like to do is being yourself. So it 0:55:30.680 --> 0:55:33.080 was pretty It was a pretty fun job be sure 0:55:33.120 --> 0:55:35.400 to catch live editions of Out Kicked the coverage with 0:55:35.480 --> 0:55:40.880 Clay Travis week days at six am Eastern three am Pacific. Alright, 0:55:40.920 --> 0:55:44.920 So part of social media and the YouTube universe and 0:55:45.040 --> 0:55:47.880 just people being able to reach out to you comes 0:55:47.960 --> 0:55:50.959 with some negativity. Were you getting almost all positive stuff 0:55:51.000 --> 0:55:53.960 because soccer fans tend to be a happy, go lucky group, 0:55:54.120 --> 0:55:56.680 or were you getting because one of the challenges I 0:55:56.719 --> 0:55:59.399 think people have in general is putting themselves out there 0:55:59.480 --> 0:56:02.880 having this health confidence or the tough skin. And obviously 0:56:03.239 --> 0:56:05.480 just from the lifestyle that you have led, maybe your 0:56:05.520 --> 0:56:07.960 skin was tougher than most. But I feel like that's 0:56:07.960 --> 0:56:09.960 a big challenge, especially for people who were in their 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:13.520 young twenties, because you may not you know, you don't 0:56:13.520 --> 0:56:16.000 have bubble wrap. People are mean on the internet. Did 0:56:16.040 --> 0:56:17.960 you read any of that or you just didn't read 0:56:18.000 --> 0:56:19.840 the comments or you haven't didn't really have it as 0:56:19.840 --> 0:56:24.080 an issue? Um. I mean, I I feel like, knock 0:56:24.120 --> 0:56:27.400 on wood, I've been really, really lucky even up until 0:56:27.400 --> 0:56:28.799 this point in my career that people tend to be 0:56:28.800 --> 0:56:32.840 pretty nice to me on social media. Um, but I 0:56:32.880 --> 0:56:36.240 think that when I was at MLS, it is such 0:56:36.280 --> 0:56:41.120 a niche sport. There is not a ton of It's 0:56:41.160 --> 0:56:43.160 growing for sure, but there's still a not a ton 0:56:43.200 --> 0:56:47.120 of people that watch. Uh I'm alive. So I was 0:56:47.160 --> 0:56:49.319 putting all these new videos who which were very new. 0:56:49.600 --> 0:56:53.120 They've never seen anything really like this female host digital host, 0:56:53.280 --> 0:56:55.560 she knows a bit about soccer. Okay, this is cool. 0:56:56.280 --> 0:56:59.239 That has probably been the time in my career that 0:56:59.280 --> 0:57:01.960 I have been like wreck niced in airports, more in malls. 0:57:01.960 --> 0:57:04.080 People would come up to me at restaurants because it's 0:57:04.080 --> 0:57:07.840 so niche. People want to soak up like every single 0:57:08.000 --> 0:57:11.960 ounce of content that we have um and and soccer 0:57:12.000 --> 0:57:15.520 fans are hardcore, like they're really into their teams. Um 0:57:15.880 --> 0:57:17.919 So it was really cool, like that was the first 0:57:17.960 --> 0:57:19.760 time that I actually felt like, oh my gosh, this 0:57:19.840 --> 0:57:21.400 is like a nice feeling. People like what I'm doing. 0:57:21.440 --> 0:57:23.640 People are watching what I'm doing. They're starting to follow 0:57:23.680 --> 0:57:25.520 me on social media. People are coming up to me 0:57:25.600 --> 0:57:27.800 in the stands at soccer games and being like, oh 0:57:27.840 --> 0:57:29.520 my god, I'm such a big fan off topic or 0:57:29.520 --> 0:57:30.640 I'm such a big fan to get me in there 0:57:30.680 --> 0:57:32.920 the other show I was doing. So it was a 0:57:33.000 --> 0:57:35.760 really exciting time. I remember the first time I hit 0:57:35.800 --> 0:57:39.240 like ten thousand followers on Twitter. Iuse was like, oh 0:57:39.280 --> 0:57:41.800 my god, I'm famous. And then people whenever I would 0:57:41.840 --> 0:57:43.919 go home, people started calling me Hollywood and I wasn't 0:57:43.920 --> 0:57:46.440 even living in l A. But just the even those 0:57:46.880 --> 0:57:49.560 so miniscul members compared to you know, people on social 0:57:49.600 --> 0:57:53.439 media today. Um, but it was a really exciting time 0:57:53.480 --> 0:57:54.800 for me. I so it's like, oh my gosh, people 0:57:54.800 --> 0:57:56.240 like what I'm doing. This is really cool. So it 0:57:56.320 --> 0:57:58.880 was also huge boost and confidence as well. So what 0:57:58.960 --> 0:58:06.320 happens then? So I was about six months into that job, 0:58:06.440 --> 0:58:09.680 and again, um, people started seeing what I was doing, 0:58:10.920 --> 0:58:14.080 and all of a sudden, I had ESPN and Fox 0:58:14.080 --> 0:58:16.840 Sports knocking on my door. And I have never told 0:58:16.840 --> 0:58:19.240 this story publicly. I told the story to you last week. 0:58:19.240 --> 0:58:22.760 And it took me a while to agree to tell 0:58:22.800 --> 0:58:24.680 this story, but I guess I guess I'll put it 0:58:24.720 --> 0:58:29.320 out there now. Um. So, uh, ESPN gave me a 0:58:29.360 --> 0:58:32.360 really great offer and I was still up to my 0:58:32.680 --> 0:58:36.320 ears in debt, and um, I just started dating somebody 0:58:36.400 --> 0:58:38.640 new in New York City who's still my current boyfriend now. 0:58:39.280 --> 0:58:42.040 And uh, as much as the offer with Fox Sports 0:58:42.040 --> 0:58:43.720 sounded like awesome, like oh my god, I want to 0:58:43.720 --> 0:58:44.960 move to l A. Oh my god, I want to 0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:46.800 work for the same company as Jay and Dan, who 0:58:46.800 --> 0:58:51.480 are like kings Kings Kings Kings from where I come from. 0:58:51.600 --> 0:58:54.960 Um uh, Like every every sign pointed to Fox Sports, 0:58:54.960 --> 0:58:56.439 but I was like, I don't want to move New York. 0:58:56.480 --> 0:58:59.800 I haven't even been living here a year yet, and 0:59:00.120 --> 0:59:04.200 more money, and so I chose ESPN. Plot twist. I 0:59:04.240 --> 0:59:06.760 said not to Fox Sports at first, and I went 0:59:06.800 --> 0:59:11.920 down the route of ESPN and um, everything was Seinfield delivered. 0:59:11.920 --> 0:59:13.480 They gave me my offer. I was like, a yes, 0:59:13.600 --> 0:59:18.120 police bank account is going to be looking good. They 0:59:18.160 --> 0:59:22.600 they got me my visa approved. Like everything was Seinfield delivered. 0:59:23.440 --> 0:59:26.320 And I was about to go to Africa because I 0:59:26.360 --> 0:59:29.000 just started volunteering with a nonprofit. I was like weeks 0:59:29.040 --> 0:59:31.280 away from going Africa. Um, and I was going to 0:59:31.360 --> 0:59:33.400 go to Africa, like the beginning of December and then January. 0:59:33.480 --> 0:59:35.920 Oh one, I was supposed to start with ESPN. So 0:59:38.080 --> 0:59:41.320 what year, Um, this was about like three and four, 0:59:41.560 --> 0:59:46.560 three years ago. So twenty six, you tell your mom, Hey, 0:59:46.560 --> 0:59:49.640 I'm gonna go work at ESPNE. I said, oh my god, Mom, 0:59:49.760 --> 0:59:52.400 I am gonna make in bee bee beep at ESPN, 0:59:52.440 --> 0:59:57.520 and she's just like, holy ship. It was. It was amazing, 0:59:57.600 --> 0:59:59.600 Like it was such an exciting time. Not that money 0:59:59.680 --> 1:00:01.760 is everything, but it was just like again, like, oh 1:00:01.800 --> 1:00:03.200 my god, You're gonna be able to be on your 1:00:03.240 --> 1:00:04.600 own now and I don't have to worry about you 1:00:04.600 --> 1:00:05.880 so much. You're gonna be able to pay off all 1:00:05.880 --> 1:00:07.640 your debt, You're gonna be living in New York City, 1:00:07.680 --> 1:00:09.120 you got a you got a nice boyfriend that I 1:00:09.200 --> 1:00:11.320 really like. Like from her point of view, she was 1:00:11.400 --> 1:00:16.680 just like, thank Jesus all Olivia. Um and so accepted 1:00:16.680 --> 1:00:19.479 everything everything Seinfield delivered. I remember I kept my ten 1:00:19.880 --> 1:00:22.120 that my agent gave me to sign the contract. I 1:00:22.120 --> 1:00:26.120 think I still probably have it somewhere. That is how 1:00:26.200 --> 1:00:28.600 well it's like ESPN, you know, like that's it's like 1:00:28.640 --> 1:00:31.600 a crazy I came from or no, No No, and all 1:00:31.600 --> 1:00:34.200 of a sudden, now I have Fox Sports and ESPN 1:00:34.280 --> 1:00:36.800 knocking on my door, two of the biggest sports places 1:00:36.800 --> 1:00:39.200 in the entire world. Holy crap. How did I end 1:00:39.280 --> 1:00:43.000 up here? Um? And uh and So I signed everything 1:00:43.000 --> 1:00:46.440 everything Seinfield delivered sent off about a couple of days 1:00:46.480 --> 1:00:50.760 before I leave for Africa. Um My, what would have been. 1:00:50.760 --> 1:00:52.960 My boss and I were chatting. We were like excited. 1:00:53.000 --> 1:00:55.160 We're talking about like where where my guest was gonna be. 1:00:55.200 --> 1:00:56.919 I was gonna still work out in Manhattan. I wasn't 1:00:56.920 --> 1:01:00.480 gonna have to go to Bristol um and Uh. I 1:01:00.600 --> 1:01:03.400 on an email from HR and they were like, hey, 1:01:03.480 --> 1:01:05.880 because we offered you the job and everything's like all 1:01:05.880 --> 1:01:09.040 Sinfield delivered. You didn't apply like a normal person, So 1:01:09.120 --> 1:01:11.120 we don't have any information about you. We don't have 1:01:11.160 --> 1:01:12.840 your email, we don't have your phone number, we don't 1:01:12.880 --> 1:01:16.120 have your emergency contact, we don't have your resume, like nothing, 1:01:16.200 --> 1:01:18.200 and as HR, we need all of those things to 1:01:18.240 --> 1:01:20.520 put on file. And I was like, sure, no problems, 1:01:20.520 --> 1:01:22.840 send send your applications like whatever, I'll fill it all out. 1:01:23.440 --> 1:01:27.400 So um, I'm filling it out. It's like emergency contact, 1:01:27.560 --> 1:01:29.400 cell phone number, email, did it out? Where did you 1:01:29.440 --> 1:01:31.880 go to school? What years did you go to I 1:01:31.920 --> 1:01:34.880 went Seneca College from two thousand seven to two thousand 1:01:34.960 --> 1:01:39.880 nine or two eleven whatever. It was not indicating that 1:01:40.000 --> 1:01:43.080 I did not graduate. I was probably making it seem 1:01:43.160 --> 1:01:45.880 like I had because at that point sein Field delivered, 1:01:45.880 --> 1:01:48.280 have this job. Who cares if I went to school? 1:01:48.360 --> 1:01:50.720 Or not period, whether I graduated or not as a 1:01:50.720 --> 1:01:53.120 whole other story. I've been working for like four years 1:01:53.120 --> 1:01:56.440 at this point. Um. And so I sent that off, 1:01:56.520 --> 1:01:58.560 didn't even think about it, flew to Africa, having a 1:01:58.600 --> 1:02:01.680 great time helping the children, YadA, YadA ya. I got 1:02:01.720 --> 1:02:06.560 an email from HR being like, hey, so we called 1:02:06.600 --> 1:02:12.680 Seneca and I was like, oh, no, ps, they're saying 1:02:12.720 --> 1:02:15.960 that you didn't graduate, um, that you're missing one credit, 1:02:16.120 --> 1:02:18.680 cared to explain, and I was just like yeah, totally. 1:02:18.720 --> 1:02:21.840 My dad didn't think it was that big of a deal. Like, 1:02:21.840 --> 1:02:24.880 like I said, signed contracts, everything signed, feel delivered. You 1:02:24.920 --> 1:02:27.360 already have like my direct deposit ready to go virganuary 1:02:27.360 --> 1:02:29.160 oh one, Like I already know where I'm sitting in 1:02:29.160 --> 1:02:33.400 the office. So bad mistake by me, lazy mistake by me, 1:02:33.600 --> 1:02:35.200 just like kind of thinking that this was not going 1:02:35.240 --> 1:02:38.120 to be a big deal because I didn't I already 1:02:38.120 --> 1:02:39.360 had the job. I really didn't think that they were 1:02:39.360 --> 1:02:41.200 going to look into my past at all, minus like 1:02:41.240 --> 1:02:44.320 maybe a what you call it a criminal record, which 1:02:44.320 --> 1:02:48.280 I cleared I used. I'm a perfect person. Um but uh, 1:02:48.400 --> 1:02:50.240 and so I was just like, oh my gosh, this 1:02:50.240 --> 1:02:53.520 this is that like I didn't even know at that time. 1:02:53.560 --> 1:02:55.760 I was like, yeah, sorry, I didn't pass. I'm missing 1:02:55.760 --> 1:02:58.440 one credit. Here's my transcript something my transcript which was 1:02:58.440 --> 1:03:00.640 showing that I was only missing one and I was like, 1:03:00.760 --> 1:03:03.080 totally my bad. Um. You know, I can talk to 1:03:03.160 --> 1:03:05.560 anybody who wants to to explain the situation, but I 1:03:05.560 --> 1:03:07.280 really don't think it's a big of you know, I'm 1:03:07.320 --> 1:03:09.280 going to go back to Africa and enjoy this time 1:03:09.320 --> 1:03:10.960 off that I have before I started crazy new job. 1:03:11.320 --> 1:03:14.400 And even what would have been my boss, Cam and 1:03:14.440 --> 1:03:15.880 I were talking. He's like, yeah, sorry, you have to 1:03:15.880 --> 1:03:18.200 deal like you know it's and I was like, I'm 1:03:18.200 --> 1:03:20.960 sorry that I had made this MS, but I'm gonna 1:03:21.040 --> 1:03:23.280 go back to what I was doing, still not really 1:03:23.320 --> 1:03:26.120 worrying about it. And then I got a phone call, 1:03:26.560 --> 1:03:29.120 maybe like twenty four hours later, and he's just like, 1:03:29.200 --> 1:03:32.840 are you sitting down house. I was like, oh, in Africa. 1:03:33.280 --> 1:03:35.360 He called me in Africa and was like are you 1:03:35.360 --> 1:03:38.840 sitting down? And ilse just like I am now and 1:03:38.880 --> 1:03:43.160 he's just like hr at ESPN. I guess because they 1:03:43.200 --> 1:03:46.320 are by the book something's happened in their past or whatever, 1:03:47.680 --> 1:03:50.640 or because it's owned by such a big company, Disney. Um, 1:03:50.720 --> 1:03:54.280 they are black and white. By the book, nothing can 1:03:54.360 --> 1:03:56.920 be off even after we've sent you the contract, everything 1:03:56.920 --> 1:04:00.000 sign feel delivered. Nothing can be false on your records. 1:04:00.120 --> 1:04:02.520 And because you put that you graduated, we have to 1:04:02.520 --> 1:04:08.160 revoke your offer. I'm in the middle of nowhere on 1:04:08.240 --> 1:04:11.920 the phone with somebody from New York City telling me 1:04:12.000 --> 1:04:14.160 that when I get back from Africa, I do not 1:04:14.280 --> 1:04:18.120 have a job. And so I was devastated. I was 1:04:18.200 --> 1:04:21.440 absolutely devastated. I was just like, all this hard work 1:04:21.840 --> 1:04:26.200 that I have been kicking my own ask for is 1:04:26.240 --> 1:04:29.960 down the drain because I wrote something on a piece 1:04:30.000 --> 1:04:33.360 of paper that I didn't put enough thought into, and 1:04:33.560 --> 1:04:35.280 I was thinking. I was like, oh my god, they're 1:04:35.280 --> 1:04:37.200 gonna take away my visa. I'm gonna have to move 1:04:37.200 --> 1:04:39.080 back in with my mom. I'm gonna have no way 1:04:39.120 --> 1:04:41.360 to make money. I've already said goodbye to everybody. I've 1:04:41.360 --> 1:04:43.600 already told everyone I'm going to ESPN what the hell 1:04:43.640 --> 1:04:46.760 am I going to do? And thankfully that that what 1:04:46.800 --> 1:04:50.840 would have been my boss. He was very understanding and apologetic. 1:04:51.040 --> 1:04:52.720 He was just like, I am so sorry that this 1:04:52.760 --> 1:04:54.760 is happening. This is insane. I've talked to everybody that 1:04:54.800 --> 1:04:58.040 there is to talk to, but this is the final stance. 1:04:58.480 --> 1:05:00.320 This is what we gotta do. And he was it's like, 1:05:00.400 --> 1:05:01.760 I will talk to people at box, I'll talk to 1:05:01.760 --> 1:05:04.760 people at MLS. Whatever you need to get those offers 1:05:04.760 --> 1:05:06.600 back on the table, Like I will really help you out. 1:05:06.880 --> 1:05:10.080 So did you call from Africa? How did like? So 1:05:10.200 --> 1:05:12.880 you hang up with that guy? You? Uh? And by 1:05:12.920 --> 1:05:14.720 the way, I'm Clay Travis is for Rachel ban Ada. 1:05:14.720 --> 1:05:16.720 You're listening to Winds and Losses, you hang up the 1:05:16.720 --> 1:05:18.640 phone and you do what when you're in Africa and 1:05:18.680 --> 1:05:22.360 you get that info? Cried, cried, and I think drank 1:05:22.360 --> 1:05:25.240 a beer because I was in shock. I was like, 1:05:25.240 --> 1:05:26.840 oh my god, I didn't even know that this could happen. 1:05:27.840 --> 1:05:31.200 Um and uh, I don't know what. I called my 1:05:31.360 --> 1:05:33.439 mom right away. I think I called my agent because 1:05:33.440 --> 1:05:35.440 I was just like, uh, and I had to explain 1:05:35.480 --> 1:05:39.040 to him when it happened, which explaining it was just embarrassing, 1:05:39.120 --> 1:05:41.640 Like I was like, this is such a stupid mistake 1:05:41.720 --> 1:05:44.200 on my part, Like it was just it was dumb. 1:05:44.240 --> 1:05:47.040 And I was starting to really be self conscious because 1:05:47.040 --> 1:05:49.680 I was like, wait, a sect, these people are gonna 1:05:49.680 --> 1:05:51.920 start thinking that I'm a liar like that I was 1:05:52.040 --> 1:05:56.360 trying to fib about like, you know, what happened at school, 1:05:56.400 --> 1:05:59.200 and that I was trying to pretend that I've asked. 1:06:00.040 --> 1:06:01.560 And so I had explained all this to my agent 1:06:01.600 --> 1:06:03.919 and he was just like Jesus, what did I sign 1:06:04.000 --> 1:06:06.360 up for? So that he immediately put out calls to 1:06:06.400 --> 1:06:13.040 Fox Sports and MLS. Thankfully, after some you know, massaging. Again, 1:06:13.080 --> 1:06:14.760 I had to tell everyone what happened, had to tell 1:06:14.800 --> 1:06:16.880 him LS what happened, had to tell Fox Sports what happened. Like, 1:06:16.920 --> 1:06:19.240 I was devastated. I was like, people are going to 1:06:19.240 --> 1:06:22.439 start questioning my character. This is by far the worst 1:06:22.480 --> 1:06:25.640 thing that's ever happened in my career. Still to this 1:06:25.720 --> 1:06:29.760 day gives me divers um. And uh, you know, I've 1:06:29.880 --> 1:06:32.800 I've never been one to get into trouble. I'm not 1:06:32.880 --> 1:06:35.080 that kind of I'm like a goody two shots minus 1:06:35.080 --> 1:06:36.640 the one time I got suspended in high school. It's 1:06:36.640 --> 1:06:41.280 a different story every day. Um we're talking about there. 1:06:42.120 --> 1:06:44.880 It was I, uh, this was like the first time 1:06:44.920 --> 1:06:46.360 that I ever felt like I was in trouble. Was like, 1:06:46.360 --> 1:06:49.000 oh my god. And uh so they put out a 1:06:49.040 --> 1:06:51.360 bunch of calls to people that knew me, that had 1:06:51.400 --> 1:06:53.400 worked with me before, and they were like, you know, 1:06:53.400 --> 1:06:56.640 as Rachel Shady, like what should we think about this? 1:06:56.680 --> 1:06:59.560 And they're like, oh my god, no, she's hard working. 1:06:59.600 --> 1:07:01.840 That like basically everything that I've told you about my career, 1:07:01.920 --> 1:07:04.040 people very much vouched for me, and they were like, 1:07:04.080 --> 1:07:06.880 this is a mistake. You need to hire this girl 1:07:07.080 --> 1:07:12.120 a sap And thankfully Fox Sports uh came back and 1:07:12.120 --> 1:07:14.640 they're like, we still really want you, and and even 1:07:14.720 --> 1:07:17.240 up to their offer in the first place, which was insane, 1:07:17.320 --> 1:07:20.080 like sinisoun heard of if anything, they would say any 1:07:20.160 --> 1:07:22.840 any other company would probably offer less because you could 1:07:23.160 --> 1:07:26.440 would have gone there for ten bucks um. And so 1:07:26.480 --> 1:07:28.440 I was like, yes it yes, fun for the yests. 1:07:28.480 --> 1:07:29.600 I wanted to sign with you in the first place. 1:07:29.600 --> 1:07:31.880 Oh my god, yes, I says a Jest signed Field. 1:07:32.240 --> 1:07:34.840 Fluid was like, looked. I had to tell all this 1:07:34.880 --> 1:07:37.040 to my boyfriend too. I was just like, I'm not 1:07:37.160 --> 1:07:40.280 gonna be living here in a week because everything happened 1:07:40.320 --> 1:07:41.800 so fast. I had to get rid of my apartment. 1:07:41.840 --> 1:07:42.720 I had to go to l A. I had to 1:07:42.720 --> 1:07:44.560 find an apartment. I had no money at the time, 1:07:44.560 --> 1:07:47.439 saved for a big cross country move like that, because 1:07:47.440 --> 1:07:49.920 I assumed that I was saying in New York, um, 1:07:50.120 --> 1:07:53.080 and I was just like, we gotta break up. I'm 1:07:53.120 --> 1:07:55.840 moving to l A. And this is devastating and but 1:07:56.000 --> 1:07:58.520 my career is number one and I gotta go. And 1:07:58.600 --> 1:08:03.120 so UM, I moved to l A and started working 1:08:03.160 --> 1:08:06.680 with Fox Sports and started working on their digital team, 1:08:06.800 --> 1:08:12.959 and um, they've been absolutely mind boggling incredible. In fact, 1:08:13.000 --> 1:08:17.720 I've resigned a new contract just about every single year 1:08:17.760 --> 1:08:20.040 that I've been here because they keep on making they 1:08:20.400 --> 1:08:22.599 they kept on making my role bigger and bigger. At 1:08:22.600 --> 1:08:24.320 first I signed on to do a digital thing, and 1:08:24.320 --> 1:08:26.040 then I signed on to do digital TV, and then 1:08:26.080 --> 1:08:28.160 I signed on to do digital and even more TV, 1:08:28.280 --> 1:08:30.599 and now I'm a full TV contract. Like they've just 1:08:30.680 --> 1:08:34.120 believed in me and pushed me. And I mean that 1:08:34.120 --> 1:08:36.120 that's insane. I've signed a new contract basically every single 1:08:36.200 --> 1:08:37.840 year that I've been here because my role just keeps 1:08:37.840 --> 1:08:41.000 on changing. Um. So, who went to bat for you 1:08:41.040 --> 1:08:45.680 at Fox? Um, Matt Schneider who ended up hiring me. 1:08:45.800 --> 1:08:47.920 And now it's one of my really good friends who 1:08:48.000 --> 1:08:49.720 is a good guy, and I hope he's listening here. 1:08:49.800 --> 1:08:55.920 So so he would that great higher, great Higher now 1:08:55.960 --> 1:08:59.479 at the NFL network. Yeah. And uh and Scott Riddell, 1:08:59.479 --> 1:09:01.120 who's still a reducer at Fox Sports. He was the 1:09:01.160 --> 1:09:02.920 one that kind of called around to a couple of people. 1:09:02.960 --> 1:09:05.519 Him and I were friendly, and he's just like, I 1:09:05.640 --> 1:09:07.640 know you're not this person, but I am going to 1:09:07.760 --> 1:09:10.160 go call some people that you've worked with and just 1:09:10.240 --> 1:09:13.960 kind of get an over, you know, more people who 1:09:13.960 --> 1:09:15.559 have your back. And so he called a ton of 1:09:15.560 --> 1:09:18.280 people and we're like, yes, hire her, yes, hire her, 1:09:18.360 --> 1:09:20.400 yes higher. So he could bring that to Schneider and 1:09:20.439 --> 1:09:22.160 be like, there's so many people vouching for her, like 1:09:22.320 --> 1:09:25.759 we need we need this girl. Um and and madel 1:09:25.880 --> 1:09:27.719 is also an awesome guy, by the way, and both 1:09:27.760 --> 1:09:30.160 of them, when we'll get to this in a minute. 1:09:30.160 --> 1:09:32.600 When walk it In happened, they immediately called me and 1:09:32.640 --> 1:09:37.040 they're like, you're gonna absolutely love working with Rachel. She's fantastic. 1:09:37.600 --> 1:09:39.880 Um And So, but did you think going back to 1:09:39.920 --> 1:09:42.080 that Africa when you get that call, did you think, like, 1:09:42.160 --> 1:09:47.720 my career is over? Oh? I remember sitting out. We 1:09:47.720 --> 1:09:49.599 would wake up early early because we were going into 1:09:49.640 --> 1:09:52.640 these really small villages that were like hours away. I 1:09:52.720 --> 1:09:54.439 remember sitting out at three thirty in the morning. We 1:09:54.479 --> 1:09:57.320 were getting our car packed and I was like three 1:09:57.400 --> 1:10:01.720 or four and the early morning prayer was happening, and 1:10:01.760 --> 1:10:04.760 so I remember sitting Maybes later on the day, I 1:10:04.760 --> 1:10:08.479 was remember sitting on the stoop listening to this prayer 1:10:09.040 --> 1:10:12.560 being just like shouted into one of just like sirens 1:10:12.560 --> 1:10:15.559 all over, just being echoed all over, and just looking 1:10:15.560 --> 1:10:18.920 into like this guy and being like it's over. I'm done. 1:10:19.280 --> 1:10:23.000 I'm gonna help to go home and face the music. 1:10:23.160 --> 1:10:25.679 And I've really messed up this time and I need 1:10:25.720 --> 1:10:28.640 to grow up. And I was just really angry at 1:10:28.680 --> 1:10:31.320 myself because at that point, I was just like, this 1:10:31.360 --> 1:10:34.519 was an incredible experience. Now with the what am I 1:10:34.560 --> 1:10:37.960 gonna do? What which path am I on? Now? Like 1:10:38.800 --> 1:10:40.880 I just had no idea what was in store, and 1:10:40.920 --> 1:10:43.680 I had no idea that Fox was gonna put the 1:10:43.720 --> 1:10:47.200 offer back on the table. Thank thank god. I was 1:10:47.240 --> 1:10:49.240 just like, thank you so much. I would absolutely love 1:10:49.320 --> 1:10:51.599 to take this, but I'm going to go with option 1:10:51.680 --> 1:10:53.679 A because A, B, and C and I was actually 1:10:53.840 --> 1:10:56.320 Matt Niner the one that I turned down, and I 1:10:56.320 --> 1:10:58.920 think he understood. I was just like, I need to 1:10:58.920 --> 1:11:00.920 stay here. I've got a new boyfriend. I'm close to 1:11:00.920 --> 1:11:02.760 my family. My dad passed away a few years ago. 1:11:02.800 --> 1:11:06.120 I still need to be close to them. Um, YadA, YadA, YadA. 1:11:06.120 --> 1:11:07.880 And he was super understanding in the first place. I'm 1:11:07.880 --> 1:11:09.240 so glad that him and I had such a great 1:11:09.240 --> 1:11:12.240 connection because it was easier for me to call back 1:11:12.280 --> 1:11:15.040 and be like, hey, so this is what happened. Please 1:11:15.040 --> 1:11:17.240 take me back. So what do you do with Fox? 1:11:19.400 --> 1:11:22.960 You have Fox? Yeah? Started your digital videos, right, Yeah. 1:11:23.000 --> 1:11:25.519 I started working at this thing called at the Buzzer. 1:11:25.760 --> 1:11:29.719 So it was like any video of a guy getting 1:11:29.760 --> 1:11:33.280 like a softball to the nads, we would be like, 1:11:33.400 --> 1:11:37.519 oh my god, check out this viral video. Then maybe 1:11:37.600 --> 1:11:39.760 like thirty second things that we would Sometimes it would 1:11:39.760 --> 1:11:41.720 be like during commercials they would roll on Fox, So 1:11:41.760 --> 1:11:44.320 I was getting on TV in that way. But usually 1:11:44.320 --> 1:11:46.280 it was just like videos, like viral videos that we 1:11:46.320 --> 1:11:49.559 would put back out on Twitter. Um. But that ended 1:11:49.600 --> 1:11:52.320 about like a year after it got canceled a year 1:11:52.360 --> 1:11:55.240 after I started with Fox, and they're like, we still 1:11:55.280 --> 1:11:59.040 really want to use you, so we're gonna keep you around. 1:11:59.120 --> 1:12:02.800 You're gonna still do more digital videos, but we're gonna 1:12:02.840 --> 1:12:04.960 keep you in the soccer space. So that's kind of 1:12:04.960 --> 1:12:08.000 when I veered off at Fox and started doing like 1:12:08.160 --> 1:12:12.439 only soccer um And so I was doing soccer digital 1:12:12.520 --> 1:12:15.080 like literally up until last year, like last summer when 1:12:15.080 --> 1:12:16.840 I got locked in. I had just gotten back from 1:12:17.000 --> 1:12:19.400 the World Cup in Russia. So we'll get to that 1:12:19.400 --> 1:12:21.080 in a second. But so you and I meet for 1:12:21.120 --> 1:12:23.960 the first time that I remember at the Fox super 1:12:24.000 --> 1:12:25.920 Bowl party because you had done what did you do? 1:12:25.960 --> 1:12:28.960 Like a Lady Gaga video? Yeah, I wrote a sketch 1:12:29.120 --> 1:12:31.599 that they were actually gonna put in the pre show, uh, 1:12:31.640 --> 1:12:33.759 the night before the super Bowl, which was like still insane, 1:12:33.800 --> 1:12:36.880 it's crazy, uh, And so I wrote a sketch. So 1:12:36.960 --> 1:12:38.960 I was going for that, and then we were also 1:12:39.000 --> 1:12:40.640 just like going to go shoot some fun stuff for 1:12:40.880 --> 1:12:42.720 that was a beautiful thing about digital. It's just like, 1:12:43.040 --> 1:12:45.479 let's just go hang out, let's make some videos, let's 1:12:45.479 --> 1:12:47.240 put them up on Facebook and they'll probably get insane 1:12:47.240 --> 1:12:49.120 amount of views because that was just like the Facebook 1:12:49.160 --> 1:12:51.479 algorithm at the time, and and on Twitter and stuff 1:12:51.479 --> 1:12:53.240 like that too. So I went there and then I 1:12:53.280 --> 1:12:55.880 was also I did some stuff for Garbage Time for 1:12:56.000 --> 1:12:59.000 Kan Nolan Show, which was super fun. Uh, and so 1:12:59.280 --> 1:13:01.479 branching it. That was like the first time that my 1:13:01.560 --> 1:13:05.360 current boss, now Charlie, our crew boss, was just like, Hey, 1:13:05.400 --> 1:13:07.000 we want to start getting you more on TV. So 1:13:07.040 --> 1:13:08.640 you're gonna come to the super Bowl, You're gonna do 1:13:08.640 --> 1:13:10.320 garbage time, You're gonna do a couple of hits for them. 1:13:10.320 --> 1:13:13.919 And I was just like, okay, let's do it. Um. 1:13:14.000 --> 1:13:16.640 So yeah, constantly just like putting me in situations so 1:13:16.760 --> 1:13:19.320 we're terrifying. But that made me grow so much in 1:13:19.360 --> 1:13:21.559 the process over the last two years. All right, so 1:13:21.680 --> 1:13:25.599 then you like do what like so you you had 1:13:26.040 --> 1:13:28.519 you set in for Cowherd a couple of times, like 1:13:28.600 --> 1:13:31.280 as as Fox starts to think, okay, maybe this girl 1:13:31.320 --> 1:13:34.160 can be on television. You said earlier you wanted to 1:13:34.200 --> 1:13:37.519 be an acting and actress and things like that. Were 1:13:37.520 --> 1:13:40.400 you doing any kind of any kind of things in 1:13:40.439 --> 1:13:42.920 that respect? And I think probably this is a long question, 1:13:43.080 --> 1:13:45.519 but people who have listened and are listening now can 1:13:45.520 --> 1:13:47.840 tell you're quick. Right, Like you said, you do a 1:13:47.920 --> 1:13:51.840 lot of improv but you think and talk rapidly, which 1:13:51.960 --> 1:13:55.960 is which is obviously good for unscripted television. What were 1:13:56.000 --> 1:13:58.519 you doing, like, what was the transition point from video 1:13:58.560 --> 1:14:01.960 to television. I is a part time student. Basically I 1:14:02.000 --> 1:14:04.360 was in class four times a week, whether it was 1:14:04.400 --> 1:14:06.600 like straight up acting class or improv classes that I 1:14:06.640 --> 1:14:08.400 was taking at ground Links, which is like ground Links 1:14:08.520 --> 1:14:10.760 is home to so many s and l alums like 1:14:10.840 --> 1:14:15.519 You've got Will Ferrell, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiggs just to 1:14:15.600 --> 1:14:17.640 name a few, like Phewee Herman went there. So it 1:14:17.680 --> 1:14:19.960 was it's like the ultimate school for comedy in l A. 1:14:20.800 --> 1:14:23.599 So I was going to that taking uh, like straight 1:14:23.680 --> 1:14:26.160 up acting classes and just like really fully immersing myself 1:14:26.200 --> 1:14:28.760 into the creative process, which was all all helping with 1:14:28.800 --> 1:14:30.439 all of the comedy sketches that I was writing for 1:14:30.479 --> 1:14:33.840 the Fox digital side as well. UM. And as I 1:14:33.920 --> 1:14:36.280 was starting to do more comedy sketches like this has 1:14:36.320 --> 1:14:39.200 just been a trend in my career, like doing more 1:14:39.400 --> 1:14:43.960 creative stuff and putting it out there, I started getting UM. 1:14:44.000 --> 1:14:47.240 I started getting meetings with people on the studio side, 1:14:47.280 --> 1:14:49.240 on the TV side, and they're like, who are you, 1:14:49.920 --> 1:14:53.240 what are you doing, where did you come from, and 1:14:53.280 --> 1:14:55.840 how do we get you to do more? So it 1:14:56.000 --> 1:14:59.240 was UM I've always said over the past few years, 1:14:59.240 --> 1:15:02.040 as like I've develop a deep Fox from the beginning. 1:15:02.120 --> 1:15:04.080 I want to grow up here. I want to grow 1:15:04.360 --> 1:15:06.920 and become whoever I'm supposed to be at Fox, because 1:15:06.920 --> 1:15:10.920 they're so nurturing and so patient, and we'll we'll let 1:15:10.920 --> 1:15:13.320 you make a mistake, uh, and we'll let you grow 1:15:13.720 --> 1:15:15.840 in your space. And I feel like so many times 1:15:15.920 --> 1:15:17.960 people are like it not doing so good, let's grab 1:15:17.960 --> 1:15:19.680 her off, and they let me squirm and kind of 1:15:19.680 --> 1:15:22.200 figure it out myself, which I'm so thankful for. UM. 1:15:22.240 --> 1:15:23.679 But it was it was just a lot of meetings 1:15:23.800 --> 1:15:25.240 and sometimes I would get a chance. I remember the 1:15:25.240 --> 1:15:29.479 first time I filled in for on Coward Show, Chris 1:15:29.560 --> 1:15:33.320 Carter and Nick Wright. We're doing like a test run 1:15:33.360 --> 1:15:36.320 for their show that was being developed, and so they 1:15:36.360 --> 1:15:38.640 were filling in, so it wasn't even the herd. It 1:15:38.760 --> 1:15:41.799 was a three man team. And maybe they were testing 1:15:41.840 --> 1:15:43.840 me for to host that show as well, although that 1:15:43.920 --> 1:15:46.040 was pretty surely on. I don't think they were doing that. 1:15:46.520 --> 1:15:51.080 UM and I bombed, Oh my gosh, I bombed so hard. 1:15:51.200 --> 1:15:53.280 I could not figure it out because it was the 1:15:53.320 --> 1:15:56.080 first time I was on television and then in the US, 1:15:56.920 --> 1:15:59.400 and I remember somebody came out. I kept on screwing 1:15:59.479 --> 1:16:01.599 up because I was doing what would have been Christine 1:16:01.640 --> 1:16:02.960 like he's role at the times to just like the 1:16:03.000 --> 1:16:07.000 news updates, and there was like a um, you know, 1:16:07.720 --> 1:16:09.800 Colin would be like okay, and over to Christine with 1:16:09.800 --> 1:16:11.720 the news, and then there was like a doo doo 1:16:11.720 --> 1:16:15.040 doo dooo, like a musical thing, and I would never 1:16:15.040 --> 1:16:17.280 stop for the musical thing. I'd be like, Okay, the 1:16:17.400 --> 1:16:19.720 net of the day is And I did that like 1:16:19.800 --> 1:16:25.679 four times in a row, over talking over the music. 1:16:25.800 --> 1:16:28.439 You can't even hear what I'm saying anyways, and I'm like, oh, 1:16:28.600 --> 1:16:31.000 I just kept on forgetting about it. And I was 1:16:31.040 --> 1:16:33.760 also so nervous, and I remember somebody coming out I'd 1:16:33.760 --> 1:16:36.720 done it twice, somebody and I had a third hit 1:16:36.800 --> 1:16:38.640 in the show. Somebody came out and was just like, 1:16:39.160 --> 1:16:41.800 he screwed this up twice, don't take it three for three. 1:16:43.520 --> 1:16:46.599 And I was like, oh my god, I'm fired. I'm 1:16:46.600 --> 1:16:49.320 fired from a job. I don't even have um And 1:16:49.360 --> 1:16:51.320 it was just a bad day. I did you screw 1:16:51.360 --> 1:16:52.560 it up the third time or did you get it 1:16:52.640 --> 1:16:54.000 right on the third chap? I think I got it 1:16:54.080 --> 1:16:56.559 right for the third time, thankfully, but Chris and Nick 1:16:56.600 --> 1:17:00.519 were probably like, who is why were we up with her? 1:17:00.560 --> 1:17:04.320 Where's Christine? Uh? And so it was a while. It 1:17:04.360 --> 1:17:06.160 was it was a while where I was back on TV. 1:17:07.240 --> 1:17:08.360 Gave me a second to figure it out on the 1:17:08.439 --> 1:17:12.000 digital side. Um. But then uh, I just started feeling 1:17:12.000 --> 1:17:16.440 in like randomly, randomly here and there, uh for Christine 1:17:16.680 --> 1:17:18.599 and I actually got to sit in with Colin one time, 1:17:18.680 --> 1:17:21.080 then another couple of times. It was like Doug Gottlieb 1:17:21.080 --> 1:17:24.280 who fills in for calling sometimes. And then uh, I 1:17:24.280 --> 1:17:26.639 think the kicker was going away to the World Cup, 1:17:27.120 --> 1:17:28.439 and I was doing a lot of TV at the 1:17:28.479 --> 1:17:31.360 World Cup because we had so um, we had so 1:17:31.400 --> 1:17:33.519 many different programs happening. We had Tonight Show, we had 1:17:33.520 --> 1:17:36.639 a daily show, I had my digital show, which very 1:17:36.720 --> 1:17:39.160 much felt and looked like a television show. I was 1:17:39.200 --> 1:17:43.320 reading off prompter and we were doing it live and yeada, YadA, YadA. 1:17:44.400 --> 1:17:50.080 Oh my god, no, just once, I've been to Germany. 1:17:50.439 --> 1:17:53.320 Just that's it. So that's a big deal for people 1:17:53.360 --> 1:17:55.759 who don't realize you went over to Russia. The US 1:17:55.880 --> 1:18:00.040 misses the World Cup, which is like just devastating to 1:18:00.120 --> 1:18:02.760 be so bad. Where were you when the US got 1:18:02.760 --> 1:18:05.000 beat by Trinidad into Artago. I think it was right 1:18:05.040 --> 1:18:09.240 where Um. I was at a bar. We were doing 1:18:09.240 --> 1:18:11.240 a live stream we were doing I was doing a 1:18:11.240 --> 1:18:13.280 lot of soccer covers even leading up to the World Cup. 1:18:13.320 --> 1:18:15.000 We had like a pre show in a post show 1:18:15.000 --> 1:18:18.240 anytime the US had a qualifier. So I was at 1:18:18.240 --> 1:18:20.360 a bar and we had to go live seconds after 1:18:20.840 --> 1:18:24.639 they had gotten knocked out when I was just stew Holden, 1:18:24.680 --> 1:18:26.600 who used to be on the national team. He is 1:18:26.640 --> 1:18:29.960 an analyst for FS one now and calls crazy games 1:18:29.960 --> 1:18:33.519 like the World Cup final on Fox, and um him 1:18:33.560 --> 1:18:36.320 and I just had to like go through this fifteen 1:18:36.400 --> 1:18:39.559 twenty minute live show of being like, Okay, so the 1:18:39.640 --> 1:18:42.040 US is in the World Cup, but we're still going 1:18:42.080 --> 1:18:43.640 to the World Cup. We're gonna be in Russia in 1:18:43.680 --> 1:18:46.519 the summer. And it was just like a weird It was. 1:18:46.600 --> 1:18:49.000 It was a weird balance of like being excited and 1:18:49.479 --> 1:18:52.880 being sympathetic to all the American people watching that they 1:18:52.880 --> 1:18:54.680 didn't just make it into the World Cup. So um 1:18:54.880 --> 1:18:57.519 so I covered it every second leading up to it 1:18:57.600 --> 1:18:59.360 and then was there for the actual thing, which was 1:18:59.360 --> 1:19:02.559 pretty incredib ball, so it was incredible for everybody who 1:19:02.560 --> 1:19:06.960 watched it you also ended up hospitalized. What happened there? Um, 1:19:07.000 --> 1:19:09.720 I woke up. We were working insane hours, like I 1:19:09.760 --> 1:19:11.559 was doing my show like I mentioned, and then I 1:19:11.600 --> 1:19:13.559 was also doing this tonight show. So oftentimes I was 1:19:13.560 --> 1:19:16.640 working like twa like full days and uh and then 1:19:16.680 --> 1:19:18.479 also like going home and watching the games too, so 1:19:18.520 --> 1:19:22.120 it's not like I ever stopped. And um. So I 1:19:22.160 --> 1:19:25.640 woke up one day and I was really sick. I 1:19:25.720 --> 1:19:28.439 just did not feel good. I couldn't get out of bed. 1:19:28.720 --> 1:19:30.519 I showed up to work and they were like, go home. 1:19:30.840 --> 1:19:33.519 You look bad. If you get anyone else sick, we're 1:19:33.600 --> 1:19:36.920 in trouble. So you need to go home and rest. Um. 1:19:37.000 --> 1:19:39.600 And I didn't like vomit or anything like that. I 1:19:39.640 --> 1:19:42.559 just felt really weird. I felt weak, I felt like nauseous, 1:19:42.600 --> 1:19:43.880 and I was like, I don't know what's going on 1:19:43.920 --> 1:19:47.400 with me. So went home, slept for like fifteen hours 1:19:47.400 --> 1:19:49.160 something crazy, and then woke up the next day and 1:19:49.200 --> 1:19:52.320 was like, Okay, I feel pretty good, showed up to work, 1:19:52.479 --> 1:19:55.599 worked another crazy day. The next morning. I woke up 1:19:55.960 --> 1:19:58.639 usually because of the time difference, we were shooting later 1:19:58.680 --> 1:20:00.639 on in in the night, so I would finished until 1:20:00.640 --> 1:20:02.400 like three am, and I go home and then I 1:20:02.400 --> 1:20:06.200 would sleep until like noon or whatever. Um. I woke 1:20:06.280 --> 1:20:07.880 up at eight am the next day and I was 1:20:07.920 --> 1:20:10.360 just like, this is not good. I still need to 1:20:10.360 --> 1:20:11.840 be sleeping for a few hours if I'm going to 1:20:11.880 --> 1:20:15.120 be able to stand. Uh. And I felt really sick again, 1:20:15.200 --> 1:20:17.839 like super nauseous, and I just like I I just started 1:20:18.280 --> 1:20:21.439 huking like so bad. I texted our team doctor who 1:20:21.520 --> 1:20:23.160 was kind of like traveling around to all the different 1:20:23.160 --> 1:20:27.439 hotels that was in charge of Fox, and Uh. I 1:20:27.520 --> 1:20:29.720 was just like, I'm putting bad shape. You need to 1:20:29.800 --> 1:20:32.080 come to my room, like, please tell me. And he 1:20:32.320 --> 1:20:35.960 when he found me, I was on the bathroom floor 1:20:36.000 --> 1:20:38.040 because it was cold the tile, and I was like 1:20:38.120 --> 1:20:41.240 burning up and I just couldn't move. I was just like, 1:20:41.280 --> 1:20:43.280 if you touch me, I'm gonna throw up. I'm gonna 1:20:43.280 --> 1:20:45.080 throw up around your face, so we better not touch me. 1:20:45.680 --> 1:20:48.280 And uh. He took a shot of morphine and put 1:20:48.320 --> 1:20:51.439 it in a butt and that helped me to not vomit. 1:20:51.600 --> 1:20:54.479 And they've transported me from the tile floor in my 1:20:54.520 --> 1:20:59.120 bathroom to the hospital and uh and not in an ambulance, No, 1:20:59.240 --> 1:21:02.920 we had like some security cars so they transport transported 1:21:02.920 --> 1:21:07.320 me to the hospital, and um, I went in there 1:21:07.320 --> 1:21:08.840 and had like a bunch of scans and they're like, 1:21:08.920 --> 1:21:12.040 your gall bladder is more than twice its normal size 1:21:12.240 --> 1:21:14.280 and we have no idea why, so we're gonna have 1:21:14.320 --> 1:21:17.519 to do some tests. Um. At that point, thankfully I did. 1:21:17.520 --> 1:21:21.120 The morphine had made me stop vomiting, vomiting and feeling 1:21:21.120 --> 1:21:24.559 so nauseous. So I was like, Okay, at the time, 1:21:25.160 --> 1:21:28.400 you're in a Russian hospital, right, I'm in a Russian hospital. 1:21:28.520 --> 1:21:32.040 And as you can tell by my history, I hate hospitals. 1:21:32.160 --> 1:21:34.800 They give me anxiety. They freaked me out. I spent 1:21:34.880 --> 1:21:36.559 way too much time in them as a kid. I 1:21:36.600 --> 1:21:40.280 cannot stand hospital. So I'm like literally watching Netflix on 1:21:40.320 --> 1:21:42.840 my phone because like I can't think. I cannot be 1:21:42.920 --> 1:21:44.760 here in my mind, I Am not going to sit 1:21:44.800 --> 1:21:48.880 here and stare at the ceiling feeling like super nauseous still. 1:21:48.960 --> 1:21:51.360 And I remember at the time, I hadn't been fully 1:21:51.360 --> 1:21:53.840 admitted yet because they hadn't figured out my insurance, and 1:21:53.880 --> 1:21:55.280 so I was in like a weight like one of 1:21:55.320 --> 1:21:57.240 those like waiting rooms where there's like a ton of 1:21:57.240 --> 1:21:59.880 beds and you're only really separated by like a sheet. Um. 1:22:00.080 --> 1:22:02.360 I was in one of those for like probably three hours, 1:22:02.960 --> 1:22:06.040 and uh, I remember the wheeled this guy in. Keep 1:22:06.080 --> 1:22:08.720 in mind, I'm so nauseous. They wheeled this guy in 1:22:08.840 --> 1:22:13.360 from Boston of all places, and this guy has severe 1:22:13.400 --> 1:22:15.920 diarrhea and has had diarrhea for forty eight hours and 1:22:16.000 --> 1:22:19.080 would go into full detail in length for the next 1:22:19.120 --> 1:22:22.160 twenty minutes while I sat and choked down my vomit 1:22:23.120 --> 1:22:26.000 for it was it was laughable. I was just like, 1:22:26.040 --> 1:22:28.240 this is not happening to me. Why why are we 1:22:28.280 --> 1:22:31.640 both in this Russian hospital? So they ended up admitting me. 1:22:32.280 --> 1:22:37.040 I spent the next three days in the hospital begging 1:22:37.080 --> 1:22:38.800 them to let me go because I wanted to get 1:22:38.840 --> 1:22:40.559 back to work. I had to have a fill in 1:22:40.720 --> 1:22:43.080 which was just like this is my show. I need 1:22:43.080 --> 1:22:44.840 to get through the World Cup like this, I need 1:22:44.880 --> 1:22:47.519 a medal of honor. Once I finished it, uh, and 1:22:47.560 --> 1:22:49.720 I was, I was like devastated, and I just like 1:22:49.800 --> 1:22:54.960 watched TV and ate crutons and waited until my goldbladder 1:22:55.000 --> 1:22:58.880 went down to normal size. Fox Sports Radio has the 1:22:58.960 --> 1:23:00.839 best sports talk a lot end up in the nation. 1:23:01.160 --> 1:23:04.080 Catch all of our shows at Fox sports radio dot 1:23:04.120 --> 1:23:07.160 com and within the I heart radio app search f 1:23:07.479 --> 1:23:11.160 s R to listen live. I'm Clay Travis. Is Rachel 1:23:11.160 --> 1:23:13.600 Bannetta talking about our gallbladder on Wins and Losses and 1:23:13.640 --> 1:23:16.000 they figure out what caused your gallbladder to just like 1:23:16.240 --> 1:23:18.840 double in size. They said, it's a combination of things. 1:23:18.880 --> 1:23:20.439 It was like, it could have been stressed, it could 1:23:20.439 --> 1:23:22.680 have been eating different foods, which we absolutely were. The 1:23:23.040 --> 1:23:25.920 food in Russia was um as you can assume pretty 1:23:25.920 --> 1:23:29.400 different um not sleep, all of these things, and I 1:23:29.439 --> 1:23:30.880 was like, I check all those boxes. So yeah, it 1:23:30.880 --> 1:23:34.040 makes sense that I have a large callblatterer. But it 1:23:34.120 --> 1:23:36.120 just took. It took like three days and I started 1:23:36.120 --> 1:23:37.720 feeling a little bit normal. But then I couldn't eat 1:23:37.760 --> 1:23:40.800 normal food for like a couple of a couple of weeks. 1:23:40.800 --> 1:23:42.600 I had to have like boiled chicken and rice just 1:23:42.720 --> 1:23:45.160 until my my body went back to normal. So you 1:23:45.280 --> 1:23:49.479 come back from you survive living in Russia, you come 1:23:49.479 --> 1:23:53.960 back and you want to do television maybe? And when 1:23:53.960 --> 1:23:57.120 did you hear so walk it In is being worked on. 1:23:57.520 --> 1:23:59.680 I guess that we're like the next summer, right, like 1:23:59.680 --> 1:24:02.160 the next summer after the after the World Cup? Or 1:24:02.200 --> 1:24:07.240 was it the same summer, I literally from from Russia. Like, 1:24:07.439 --> 1:24:10.599 let's say on a Friday, and I got an email saying, 1:24:10.920 --> 1:24:13.240 Charlie Dixon, who's our boss now, wants to have lunch 1:24:13.240 --> 1:24:14.720 with you on Monday. Are you around? And I was 1:24:14.760 --> 1:24:17.200 like yeah, sure, And so I come to the Fox 1:24:17.280 --> 1:24:19.000 lot and I have lunch with Charlie and Charlie's is 1:24:19.080 --> 1:24:23.400 like there, I'm developing a show, um and uh Chris, 1:24:23.400 --> 1:24:26.400 and I'm gonna host it. And I really want you 1:24:26.640 --> 1:24:29.640 to be the fill in, like whenever she's sick or 1:24:29.680 --> 1:24:31.280 wants to go on vacation. I want you to be 1:24:31.320 --> 1:24:33.519 the designated number one fill in. That way, you're gonna 1:24:33.520 --> 1:24:36.400 get reps on TV, you're gonna learn this space, You're 1:24:36.439 --> 1:24:38.760 it's it's just like the perfect place for you. And 1:24:38.800 --> 1:24:40.120 he says like, if it's not this, if you're not 1:24:40.160 --> 1:24:41.880 interested in this, it's something else, like we definitely want 1:24:41.880 --> 1:24:43.639 to get you on TV this year and and like 1:24:44.000 --> 1:24:46.680 you know, more experience in yeah, yah YadA. And I 1:24:46.680 --> 1:24:49.360 was just like I'm absolutely down, Like I will start 1:24:49.800 --> 1:24:53.360 tomorrow whatever you need. And he's like, okay, great, good here, 1:24:53.640 --> 1:24:57.559 glad you're into it. Blah blah blah blah. Somehow from 1:24:57.600 --> 1:25:02.880 that Monday to literally the following Monday, ship hit the 1:25:02.920 --> 1:25:05.080 van and he called me on money. He was like, okay, 1:25:05.080 --> 1:25:06.599 so how would you actually like to host the whole 1:25:06.600 --> 1:25:10.160 thing because that's that's that's up for graps now, UM. 1:25:10.200 --> 1:25:14.120 And I was just like, yes, yes, yes that's terrifying, 1:25:14.120 --> 1:25:16.720 but yes I'm in UM. And so he's like, Okay, 1:25:16.760 --> 1:25:18.240 we're gonna like test it out and you can meet 1:25:18.240 --> 1:25:20.280 the guys and and we'll see. He's like, I'm not 1:25:20.360 --> 1:25:22.800 promising anything, but let's just you know, go to the 1:25:22.840 --> 1:25:25.280 next step and and see what this looks like. And 1:25:25.320 --> 1:25:28.519 so we were all I mean, you guys were flowed 1:25:28.520 --> 1:25:31.600 to l A still had no idea. I think in 1:25:31.600 --> 1:25:33.960 their minds they were like, okay, well she's gonna host it. 1:25:34.200 --> 1:25:35.800 Still to me, I was just like, okay, this is 1:25:35.880 --> 1:25:37.840 very much like a tryout. I need to be very 1:25:37.880 --> 1:25:42.479 proper and like just like really well everybody. And uh 1:25:42.560 --> 1:25:45.479 so I showed up to the meeting, um Met stal 1:25:45.640 --> 1:25:48.880 Met Todd had met you once before, and uh we 1:25:49.000 --> 1:25:51.280 just had like a really great first table read. I 1:25:51.320 --> 1:25:54.519 don't know what it was, um, but do you remember 1:25:54.520 --> 1:25:56.040 that like all of us were just like clicking and 1:25:56.120 --> 1:25:58.479 driving and like making fun of each other from the 1:25:58.520 --> 1:26:01.080 get go. From the beginning, this is like how we 1:26:01.120 --> 1:26:04.120 have done this show. Uh. And I remember like people 1:26:04.120 --> 1:26:06.200 looking around at each other at the table and they're like, Okay, 1:26:06.200 --> 1:26:08.599 this is it. This is a group. Uh. And then 1:26:08.640 --> 1:26:10.519 like a couple of days later, they Charlie called me 1:26:10.520 --> 1:26:12.960 into his office and he's like, so we wanted to 1:26:12.960 --> 1:26:16.120 host this show, and I just pretend vomited. I was 1:26:16.160 --> 1:26:20.680 like okay, and uh yeah, and then we just did 1:26:20.720 --> 1:26:22.160 like a bunch of trier and so a bunch of 1:26:22.160 --> 1:26:24.000 rehearsals leading up to the show and then it was lunched. 1:26:24.080 --> 1:26:26.519 So probably from the time that I found out I 1:26:26.560 --> 1:26:29.200 was getting the show, it was like two weeks until 1:26:29.240 --> 1:26:32.120 it actually happened two weeks three weeks to be And 1:26:32.360 --> 1:26:34.400 by the way, Charrissa decided she had so much going 1:26:34.439 --> 1:26:37.479 on she couldn't do a daily one hour show, which 1:26:37.520 --> 1:26:39.400 then left it open for who was going to be 1:26:39.439 --> 1:26:43.840 the host, and you just swept right in. But talking 1:26:43.840 --> 1:26:47.120 about taking risks, and I'm Clay Travis, Rachel Barnetta Wins 1:26:47.120 --> 1:26:48.680 and Losses. You've taken a lot of risks and a 1:26:48.720 --> 1:26:50.719 lot of creative risk in your career, but you didn't 1:26:50.720 --> 1:26:53.439 know anything about gambling like that. You you you were like, yeah, 1:26:53.479 --> 1:26:55.360 I'll do the show, but you're I mean you said 1:26:55.360 --> 1:26:57.320 earlier like you didn't know much about soccer when you 1:26:57.360 --> 1:27:00.320 started MLS. You just kind of threw yourself into to it, 1:27:00.439 --> 1:27:02.720 and they gave you like a binder to try to 1:27:02.840 --> 1:27:05.760 learn as much as you could before gambling started. Right. 1:27:06.320 --> 1:27:09.000 One thing that I'm really saying full for is I'm 1:27:09.000 --> 1:27:11.439 a quick learner. If I'm if I'm like dedicated to something, 1:27:11.439 --> 1:27:13.519 then I will pick it up. Um. And so that, yes, 1:27:13.560 --> 1:27:16.479 they gave me a binder, the Gambling Bible, and I 1:27:16.520 --> 1:27:19.479 went home and I just started pairing through that thing 1:27:19.600 --> 1:27:21.479 and had somebody like sit with me and kind of 1:27:21.520 --> 1:27:24.280 like understood, like because gambling, I feel like when you 1:27:24.320 --> 1:27:25.800 first look at it's a lot of numbers. It's like 1:27:25.840 --> 1:27:28.040 super intimidating. It's like WHOA, this is the language that 1:27:28.040 --> 1:27:31.320 I don't even understand sometimes until somebody sat with me 1:27:31.320 --> 1:27:34.640 and talked to me as a human being and like 1:27:34.800 --> 1:27:37.640 discussed every kind of game that you could play in 1:27:37.760 --> 1:27:40.320 terms of sports gambling, and I just got it. I 1:27:40.320 --> 1:27:41.880 picked it up, and then I just had to learn 1:27:41.920 --> 1:27:43.800 the terms and like how to say the numbers and 1:27:43.840 --> 1:27:46.120 the way that we say it with the halves and 1:27:46.120 --> 1:27:49.720 and the plus and minus and YadA YadA, YadA um 1:27:49.760 --> 1:27:51.879 and then I just figured it out. But also, football 1:27:52.000 --> 1:27:54.200 is not something that I was like, I've covered soccer 1:27:54.400 --> 1:27:56.120 for the past few years, and even if it was 1:27:56.200 --> 1:27:59.880 something that I was watching, I haven't. I haven't covered 1:28:00.040 --> 1:28:02.040 in a way that you're full on talking about it 1:28:02.080 --> 1:28:04.920 every single day, especially on TV, and TV basically have 1:28:05.040 --> 1:28:07.639 to be pretty bang on about everything that you're talking 1:28:07.640 --> 1:28:10.759 about in terms of like facts, unless you're Clay Travis. Um. 1:28:12.240 --> 1:28:14.000 So that was also something I was having to learn 1:28:14.040 --> 1:28:16.640 as well. Uh So I dove into sports gambling, I 1:28:16.640 --> 1:28:19.320 dove into football, and I picked it up relatively quickly. 1:28:19.640 --> 1:28:21.519 But then it was also like finding the confidence to 1:28:21.560 --> 1:28:23.840 talk about it too, um and talk about it in 1:28:23.880 --> 1:28:25.800 like a way that you would talk to your friends, 1:28:25.840 --> 1:28:27.880 because that's exactly what our show is like, a bunch 1:28:27.880 --> 1:28:30.439 of people chatting about, you know, what games they like 1:28:30.520 --> 1:28:32.720 and what kind of bets they like. So it was 1:28:32.760 --> 1:28:34.639 a lot of work. It was a ton of work. 1:28:34.640 --> 1:28:37.439 I remember like being very close to panic attack a 1:28:37.479 --> 1:28:39.360 couple of the nights leading up to our first show 1:28:39.360 --> 1:28:40.479 because I was like, I don't know if I can 1:28:40.479 --> 1:28:43.280 do this, Like I think they've got the wrong person. Um, 1:28:43.320 --> 1:28:47.360 But thankfully things things went the right way. How So 1:28:47.400 --> 1:28:49.559 we talked about that first table read. We were it's 1:28:49.560 --> 1:28:51.760 not on the lot. We're sitting there. For people who 1:28:51.840 --> 1:28:54.360 may not understand what that's like. It's there's no cameras, 1:28:54.720 --> 1:28:57.479 there's no dress up, like, there's no you know, makeup 1:28:57.560 --> 1:29:00.000 or anything, or nobody's dressed in fancy clothes or any 1:29:00.040 --> 1:29:01.840 thing like that, but you just kind of do a 1:29:01.920 --> 1:29:04.880 mock show. And almost from the get go it was 1:29:04.960 --> 1:29:07.719 really really smooth. I mean, I knew Furman, I didn't 1:29:07.720 --> 1:29:09.960 know sal at all. I didn't. I didn't know you 1:29:10.040 --> 1:29:12.840 other than to have met you at that Super Bowl party, 1:29:13.280 --> 1:29:16.000 and so I don't think you knew anybody, right, Like 1:29:16.040 --> 1:29:18.240 you didn't know any of the three of us. No, 1:29:18.360 --> 1:29:21.719 I I didn't know anyone. I remember our boss calling 1:29:21.760 --> 1:29:23.400 me and being like, do you know who cousins Salas? 1:29:23.400 --> 1:29:25.880 And I was like, yeah, that's that name. Sounds really familiar. 1:29:26.160 --> 1:29:27.400 And I had my computer in front of me and 1:29:27.400 --> 1:29:29.000 I looked it up and I'm like, oh, yeah, Jimmy 1:29:29.040 --> 1:29:31.360 kimbl Okay, I got that uh, and then I had 1:29:31.400 --> 1:29:35.120 met you literally one time before, um, and I didn't 1:29:35.120 --> 1:29:37.120 know Todd Furman, So I was just like I was 1:29:37.160 --> 1:29:40.519 going in pretty blind for sure. So how so first 1:29:40.520 --> 1:29:43.760 of all they announced the show and are you like 1:29:44.240 --> 1:29:47.439 people immediately are going to say things bad about me? Right? Like? 1:29:47.520 --> 1:29:50.559 I did anybody say anything bad about sal Or Furman 1:29:50.640 --> 1:29:53.519 to you? Um? I don't think so. I think it 1:29:53.560 --> 1:29:55.479 was all yeah. I remember my mom calling me and 1:29:55.520 --> 1:29:58.479 being like who, Like what is this Clay's guy? What 1:29:58.600 --> 1:30:01.000 is this deal? Like? Why is everyone one? You know? 1:30:01.080 --> 1:30:04.280 You would sink when you announced the show that everyone's 1:30:04.280 --> 1:30:06.280 going to be like raw raw raw, Yes, like this 1:30:06.439 --> 1:30:08.960 is amazing, congratulations and they're like I would watch it 1:30:09.000 --> 1:30:12.200 if Clay Travis wasn't on it. It's like what am 1:30:12.200 --> 1:30:16.920 I signing up for? Oh my goodness? Um, but I 1:30:17.000 --> 1:30:19.000 was excited. I remember there's a photo of my mom 1:30:19.080 --> 1:30:21.519 that my aunt's hook when I called her and told 1:30:21.520 --> 1:30:23.200 her that I got the job, and it's just like 1:30:23.280 --> 1:30:25.760 her with a huge smile on her face being like, 1:30:25.840 --> 1:30:29.759 oh my god. So that was pretty cool. But it's exciting. 1:30:29.800 --> 1:30:33.280 I mean, it's like a new venture and people that 1:30:33.360 --> 1:30:36.080 have watched you grow for as long as people have 1:30:36.080 --> 1:30:38.360 been watching me grow. I think when I say, like, 1:30:38.520 --> 1:30:40.320 all right, I'm moving on to TV, people are like 1:30:40.439 --> 1:30:42.160 that is awesome. Like I said, I've had a lot 1:30:42.280 --> 1:30:45.040 of I've been really lucky and had a lot of 1:30:45.640 --> 1:30:51.160 uh positive people following me, and so I I don't 1:30:51.200 --> 1:30:55.479 really get a lot of nasty stuff unless you're Tom 1:30:55.479 --> 1:30:58.559 Allen Bauld. Yeah, of course. So how nervous were you 1:30:59.160 --> 1:31:03.080 before the first show? Um, I was freaking out. I 1:31:03.120 --> 1:31:04.920 was freaking out, and I was freaking out for a 1:31:04.960 --> 1:31:08.840 long while after that. Like I the first half of 1:31:08.840 --> 1:31:11.840 of our season, I probably didn't sleep much. Like I 1:31:11.880 --> 1:31:15.000 was just like constantly in fear of getting something wrong. 1:31:16.520 --> 1:31:19.719 And like that dates back to when I was a kid, 1:31:19.760 --> 1:31:23.800 Like I didn't have somebody who was being like great job, 1:31:23.920 --> 1:31:26.719 Like you should have all the confidence in the world, because, 1:31:26.760 --> 1:31:28.639 like like I said, my parents were busy with other things. 1:31:29.280 --> 1:31:32.599 And so my therapist has helped me and navigate that road. Um, 1:31:32.680 --> 1:31:35.639 but uh so I'm constantly just in fear of like 1:31:35.760 --> 1:31:39.240 being wrong, saying the wrong thing, not doing well, screwing up, 1:31:39.280 --> 1:31:41.840 getting fired. I mean even yesterday we had our you know, 1:31:41.880 --> 1:31:45.000 we've we've had our season premiere of of season two 1:31:45.000 --> 1:31:49.439 of Blocking In, and um, my boss was just like, yeah, 1:31:49.439 --> 1:31:50.720 I got I got a couple of notes. I'm like, 1:31:50.800 --> 1:31:52.439 you know, you have to call me tonight and tell 1:31:52.479 --> 1:31:54.200 me those notes now or else I will think about 1:31:54.240 --> 1:31:56.120 it until tomorrow morning. And they were all good notes. 1:31:56.560 --> 1:31:57.920 But he called me like, I know, I had to 1:31:57.920 --> 1:32:00.000 call you because you're just gonna go crazy over these things. 1:32:00.000 --> 1:32:01.680 And he's like, I'm guess I'm glad that you know 1:32:01.840 --> 1:32:03.840 the kind of person I am now. Um, but it 1:32:03.920 --> 1:32:06.720 took a while to kind of find my footing and 1:32:06.800 --> 1:32:10.599 get comfortable. And live television is terrifying when you're first 1:32:10.600 --> 1:32:14.040 starting out, and I think people, I'm sure people realize 1:32:14.080 --> 1:32:15.800 that it's a scary thing, but when you're sitting in 1:32:15.840 --> 1:32:17.880 front of the camera, you feel so I felt like 1:32:17.920 --> 1:32:20.040 a kid. I felt like a child that first day, like, 1:32:20.080 --> 1:32:22.559 oh my god, somebody please hold my hand and walk 1:32:22.640 --> 1:32:25.320 me through this because I cannot do it alone. But 1:32:25.360 --> 1:32:27.360 thankfully I just like blacked out and got through it 1:32:27.400 --> 1:32:28.720 and got through the next day and the next day 1:32:28.720 --> 1:32:30.000 and the next day, and now I'm like, you know, 1:32:30.320 --> 1:32:33.639 pretty used to it and feel much more confident about 1:32:33.680 --> 1:32:36.439 everything in terms of you know what, we're talking about, 1:32:36.439 --> 1:32:39.840 but it was pretty scary there for a while. So 1:32:40.040 --> 1:32:43.760 what I think is fascinating about you in particular is 1:32:44.200 --> 1:32:49.920 you're young, um, but you don't like you can be 1:32:50.000 --> 1:32:52.880 made fun of on the television show in a way 1:32:52.880 --> 1:32:55.760 that I think a lot of people can't. Um, and 1:32:56.280 --> 1:32:58.160 like people make fun of me all the time. Whatever 1:32:58.200 --> 1:33:00.760 I'm forty, I've been through, you know, like that's kind 1:33:00.800 --> 1:33:03.200 of been my life story for a while. But I 1:33:03.240 --> 1:33:05.960 feel like in this Instagram age that we're in, so 1:33:06.040 --> 1:33:08.640 many people are like they want to put out a 1:33:08.760 --> 1:33:13.200 version of themselves is perfect, but you're comfortable in the imperfect. 1:33:13.400 --> 1:33:18.680 Why do you think that is? Um? I don't know. 1:33:18.960 --> 1:33:20.760 I think I just want to be I know it's 1:33:20.920 --> 1:33:24.080 gonna sounds so losory, but I just want to be 1:33:24.840 --> 1:33:28.439 me because I look at so many other people on 1:33:28.479 --> 1:33:31.400 Instagram they're like putting out this perfect version of themselves 1:33:31.400 --> 1:33:35.080 and like, to be honest, I definitely curate my Instagram 1:33:35.080 --> 1:33:37.160 to what I wanted to be. I'm not like showing 1:33:37.160 --> 1:33:41.519 all the sad stuff that I've talked about on here, um, 1:33:41.560 --> 1:33:43.639 but I feel like it would be so easy for 1:33:43.760 --> 1:33:49.759 me to post photos where I'm like looking good and 1:33:49.960 --> 1:33:52.679 you know, feeling good, and I feel like my followers 1:33:52.720 --> 1:33:56.479 would probably jump way up. And you know, anytime I 1:33:56.520 --> 1:33:59.280 even post a selfie on my Instagram, it's like astronomically 1:33:59.280 --> 1:34:01.639 more like said, if I were to post the sunset picture, 1:34:01.680 --> 1:34:04.280 you know what I mean. So I can see what works, 1:34:04.840 --> 1:34:07.080 but I just don't want to be that. I feel 1:34:07.080 --> 1:34:10.479 like I absolutely want to be an advocate for women 1:34:10.680 --> 1:34:13.400 in this space in sports and in television, and there's 1:34:13.439 --> 1:34:15.880 not a ton of us. And so when I'm looking 1:34:15.880 --> 1:34:19.800 at somebody, whether it's on social media or TV and 1:34:19.840 --> 1:34:22.519 I and they've got like, you know, gigantic boobs and 1:34:22.520 --> 1:34:24.439 they look perfect, I'm like, I can't do that. I 1:34:24.479 --> 1:34:27.000 can't be that person. But maybe if somebody's watching me 1:34:27.080 --> 1:34:29.799 and I'm being a goofball and totally imperfect and messing 1:34:29.840 --> 1:34:33.160 up my lines and laughing at myself, and maybe they're like, Okay, 1:34:33.240 --> 1:34:35.439 I can do that and be probably better than that. 1:34:36.240 --> 1:34:38.720 I just I do think about that a lot, and 1:34:38.760 --> 1:34:41.640 I would never want to be somebody that I'm not 1:34:41.840 --> 1:34:46.439 and and that version of you know, and kudos to 1:34:46.479 --> 1:34:48.920 those women who can feel comfortable in their skin and 1:34:48.960 --> 1:34:50.679 be sexy and all that stuff. That's just like not 1:34:51.360 --> 1:34:55.120 who I am, and I never want to be like that. 1:34:55.200 --> 1:34:58.919 I just want to be the goofy me that I am. 1:34:59.120 --> 1:35:02.080 Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 1:35:02.120 --> 1:35:05.080 the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports 1:35:05.200 --> 1:35:08.280 Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app 1:35:08.360 --> 1:35:12.880 search f s R to listen live. We're talking to 1:35:12.960 --> 1:35:15.599 Rachel bonetto wins and Losses. You get tagged a lot 1:35:16.120 --> 1:35:18.639 on things that I say or do, and people are like, 1:35:19.600 --> 1:35:22.679 how in the world can you stand that awful human being, 1:35:22.720 --> 1:35:27.599 Clay Travis. People, A lot of people who are listening 1:35:27.640 --> 1:35:30.760 to this right now are already going to like me 1:35:30.880 --> 1:35:32.720 or at least tolerate me. But also there will be 1:35:32.760 --> 1:35:34.920 people who are listening to this right now that are 1:35:35.040 --> 1:35:37.320 fans of yours that don't really know me, or they 1:35:37.320 --> 1:35:39.519 are fans, or they're just finding this, And I hope 1:35:39.520 --> 1:35:41.439 this is something people will listen to for a long 1:35:41.479 --> 1:35:43.320 time in the future, and they're listening to this after 1:35:43.360 --> 1:35:46.360 you just won an Emmy or after you after you 1:35:46.439 --> 1:35:50.080 just won some award for an acting related venture. But 1:35:50.400 --> 1:35:53.280 what I would argue is people don't have to agree 1:35:53.280 --> 1:35:56.719 on everything to like each other, right, And I address 1:35:56.800 --> 1:35:59.000 this because I'm sure that you're gonna get tagged as 1:35:59.040 --> 1:36:00.320 soon as I put it up, Like, how in the 1:36:00.400 --> 1:36:02.320 world can you spend time with Clay like you and 1:36:02.360 --> 1:36:04.080 I don't agree on a lot of different things in 1:36:04.120 --> 1:36:05.960 the world. I don't agree on one of different things 1:36:05.960 --> 1:36:08.240 with my wife or my parents everybody else. I tend 1:36:08.280 --> 1:36:11.519 to get along with everyone. And I feel like there's 1:36:11.720 --> 1:36:13.679 a sort of zeit guest that's out there right now 1:36:13.800 --> 1:36:16.760 of if you don't agree with everything, you shouldn't be 1:36:16.840 --> 1:36:19.800 hanging out with this person. And I feel like, even 1:36:19.800 --> 1:36:22.160 though we disagree on things, you probably agree with me. 1:36:22.240 --> 1:36:24.559 That life would be kind of boring if you only 1:36:24.640 --> 1:36:26.599 hung out with people who agreed with you on everything. 1:36:27.280 --> 1:36:28.799 I think that's true. And I think that, if anything, 1:36:28.880 --> 1:36:31.479 you have taught me that this year, because I feel like, 1:36:32.439 --> 1:36:35.559 you know, I'm, you know, pretty to the left and 1:36:35.800 --> 1:36:38.599 I don't agree with some of the things that that 1:36:38.680 --> 1:36:41.519 you post, and um, same with some of my family, 1:36:41.600 --> 1:36:43.800 Like some of my family voted for Trump and I 1:36:43.800 --> 1:36:48.080 don't necessarily agree with that, but um, that doesn't necessarily 1:36:48.120 --> 1:36:52.439 mean they're an absolutely atrocious person. And I think that, Um, 1:36:52.800 --> 1:36:55.880 it's like our society is a mess right now because 1:36:55.880 --> 1:36:57.519 all of us hate each other because of where we 1:36:57.560 --> 1:37:01.000 stand politically, and that's just never really been the case before, 1:37:01.400 --> 1:37:03.320 and it's only going to make problems worse. So I 1:37:03.360 --> 1:37:05.519 think that, you know, going into this show, I was like, 1:37:06.040 --> 1:37:07.920 oh my god, I'm gonna have to Travis. He was 1:37:07.920 --> 1:37:10.080 just talking about boobs on CNN, Like, how am I 1:37:10.080 --> 1:37:11.760 going to what you think? By the way, when you 1:37:11.840 --> 1:37:13.519 heard that, I said that I was the first amendment 1:37:13.560 --> 1:37:16.640 in boobs absolut you know, like you were Dingleberry, I 1:37:16.680 --> 1:37:19.320 was like, this guy's a loser. What is he doing? 1:37:19.360 --> 1:37:21.240 He's trying to get a right, like a rise out 1:37:21.240 --> 1:37:24.840 of women. And I was, I was, I remember you. 1:37:24.960 --> 1:37:27.000 I was talking to somebody, one of my girlfriends who 1:37:27.080 --> 1:37:28.960 was also working in sports, and we were talking about 1:37:28.960 --> 1:37:31.040 it the day that you did that, and I was 1:37:31.080 --> 1:37:33.160 just like I was pissed because it was at a 1:37:33.200 --> 1:37:35.599 time I think, like the me too stuff was happening, 1:37:35.640 --> 1:37:37.439 and it was just a time to be angry as 1:37:37.439 --> 1:37:39.920 a woman. And I was just like, how dare he? 1:37:40.120 --> 1:37:42.320 Like that's just so stupid. Give us a little bit 1:37:42.360 --> 1:37:44.519 more than that, and like talk about women in a 1:37:44.520 --> 1:37:46.760 way that we deserve to be talked about, not just 1:37:46.800 --> 1:37:50.360 like from our boobs, and I was. I was genuinely angry. 1:37:50.520 --> 1:37:53.360 And then you know, people I say stupid stuff too, 1:37:53.400 --> 1:37:55.400 and not to say that, you know, you should have 1:37:55.439 --> 1:37:56.840 said that. You shouldn't have said that. We don't need 1:37:56.840 --> 1:37:59.040 to go back into that. But I think that just 1:37:59.080 --> 1:38:03.640 because somebody tweet something or says something that does not 1:38:04.120 --> 1:38:09.240 tell you totally and completely who that person is. And 1:38:09.280 --> 1:38:11.120 I think that that's what I've learned this year from 1:38:11.120 --> 1:38:12.479 doing the show. And sal and I had a lot 1:38:12.479 --> 1:38:14.439 of conversations about this in the beginning because him and 1:38:14.479 --> 1:38:17.880 I are, you know, relatively similar, and you know what 1:38:17.920 --> 1:38:19.760 we what we think and what we feel. I don't 1:38:19.800 --> 1:38:22.639 mean to speak for him, but um, Tim and I 1:38:22.680 --> 1:38:24.639 have this conversation like we totally thought we were gonna 1:38:24.640 --> 1:38:25.920 hate you because we thought you were gonna be a 1:38:26.000 --> 1:38:28.639 butt head, and you're not. You invited my mom into 1:38:28.640 --> 1:38:31.840 your home, and my mom's met your mom, and our 1:38:31.880 --> 1:38:34.760 families have come together and you've been nothing but nice 1:38:34.800 --> 1:38:37.280 and supportive to me and my career. And it's a 1:38:37.280 --> 1:38:39.280 little bit disappointing that you're not as big of an 1:38:39.280 --> 1:38:40.760 asshole as I thought you were going to be, because 1:38:40.800 --> 1:38:45.320 I was fully prepared to hate you you are. You know, 1:38:45.360 --> 1:38:48.800 I think that you're right. I think that um, you know, 1:38:48.840 --> 1:38:50.599 I I'm not going to agree with everything that you say, 1:38:50.600 --> 1:38:52.080 and you're not gonna agree with everything that I say. 1:38:52.120 --> 1:38:55.640 But that doesn't mean that we should not try to 1:38:55.840 --> 1:38:57.680 be friends. Because what I've realized is that you and 1:38:57.720 --> 1:38:59.759 I do have a lot in common and we stand 1:38:59.800 --> 1:39:01.760 on the same ground in some places, and that's what 1:39:01.880 --> 1:39:05.120 makes people friends, and that's what makes relationships happen. And 1:39:05.360 --> 1:39:08.719 I think that more people should have, uh an outlook 1:39:08.840 --> 1:39:11.320 on that. And in fact, I spend some time with 1:39:11.360 --> 1:39:14.280 my my uncle who you know, otherwise I'm I have 1:39:14.360 --> 1:39:16.000 nothing in common with a couple of weeks ago and 1:39:16.439 --> 1:39:18.479 him and I had a conversation which we hadn't had 1:39:18.600 --> 1:39:20.479 in like a couple of years, and I tried to 1:39:20.520 --> 1:39:23.080 be on common ground because that's trying, like, that's me 1:39:23.160 --> 1:39:26.320 trying to look at the world in this light. Now, 1:39:26.439 --> 1:39:29.280 you know, Uh, last couple of questions for you, and 1:39:29.320 --> 1:39:34.880 thanks for all the times. Uh, the last couple of 1:39:34.960 --> 1:39:36.840 questions for you. You're not even ten years out of 1:39:36.880 --> 1:39:40.519 high school. If that's weird, Yeah, And I still think 1:39:40.520 --> 1:39:41.800 that's crazy. And I think there's a lot of people 1:39:41.800 --> 1:39:43.720 who are going to be listening and think that's crazy too, 1:39:43.720 --> 1:39:45.920 because you remember your ten year high school unions or 1:39:45.920 --> 1:39:49.559 whatever else. But if you were about to have your 1:39:49.640 --> 1:39:52.439 twenty year high school reunion, so eleven years from now, 1:39:52.520 --> 1:39:55.559 a decade plus, what would you hope you have done 1:39:55.640 --> 1:40:02.479 by thirty eight that you haven't done b by thirty eight. 1:40:03.800 --> 1:40:07.960 I hope that, first off, I really just hope that 1:40:08.000 --> 1:40:11.960 I'm happy, because we can. I feel like this phase 1:40:12.000 --> 1:40:14.479 of my life, I'm realizing like I've already done a 1:40:14.479 --> 1:40:17.280 ton of stuff with my career, and um, that's it. 1:40:17.439 --> 1:40:20.240 It's it's not everything. Money, isn't everything your accolades, like, 1:40:20.280 --> 1:40:22.639 it's just not It's not what you want to leave 1:40:22.720 --> 1:40:24.280 the world with. So I hope that I'm in a 1:40:24.280 --> 1:40:27.599 place that I am happy and not so career obsessed, 1:40:27.600 --> 1:40:29.320 which I am right now. I hope that that kind 1:40:29.320 --> 1:40:31.680 of like dies down a little teeny tiny bit and 1:40:31.760 --> 1:40:34.320 I'm at a place that I'm happy with. But also 1:40:34.439 --> 1:40:38.240 that I just like keep on growing and taking on 1:40:38.280 --> 1:40:42.080 more opportunities and and just staying the same person and 1:40:42.160 --> 1:40:45.479 not becoming, um a jerk or an asshole. And I 1:40:45.520 --> 1:40:47.800 feel like going home helps that a lot, because my 1:40:47.880 --> 1:40:50.400 mom still lives in a very very small town with 1:40:50.439 --> 1:40:53.200 only like a hundred people. And so going back to 1:40:53.240 --> 1:40:55.639 those places where no one knows who you are and 1:40:56.040 --> 1:41:00.600 um you're treated like everybody else is is very grounding 1:41:00.640 --> 1:41:03.000 and a beautiful thing for me. And then I just 1:41:03.080 --> 1:41:05.840 keep on making stuff because we can, so we can 1:41:05.840 --> 1:41:07.920 get caught up in our busy day to day, Like 1:41:07.960 --> 1:41:09.400 we do a live show every single day, it's almost 1:41:09.400 --> 1:41:11.280 impossible to go home and have energy to do anything 1:41:11.360 --> 1:41:15.840 like a freaking two hour podcast right now. But UM, 1:41:15.960 --> 1:41:17.680 I hope I came on writing and making something that 1:41:17.720 --> 1:41:20.400 I'm really proud of. And um, I've got some projects 1:41:20.479 --> 1:41:21.880 on the on the back burner that I'm going to 1:41:21.960 --> 1:41:24.160 try and put my all into this year and snap 1:41:24.200 --> 1:41:27.880 again like I did when I was like ten years ago. Um, 1:41:27.920 --> 1:41:31.599 And I just hope I'm happy, I said last, this 1:41:31.640 --> 1:41:33.920 is the last question. So you are what I like? 1:41:34.400 --> 1:41:37.240 Is I like people who are honest, right and authentic 1:41:37.439 --> 1:41:40.240 and just saying what they think and what they feel. 1:41:40.800 --> 1:41:44.040 Um do you worry at all about being so open 1:41:44.560 --> 1:41:46.880 and you know sort of an arrow where there are 1:41:46.920 --> 1:41:50.320 almost no privacy at times? Right? Um? Or is that 1:41:50.400 --> 1:41:53.080 just something you're naturally comfortable with because there's people who 1:41:53.080 --> 1:41:55.559 are listening to this right now and they're going to say, Wow, 1:41:55.680 --> 1:41:58.479 I love Rahl. I didn't know her before, and they're 1:41:58.520 --> 1:42:00.680 gonna be like this. Every thing that she said in 1:42:00.720 --> 1:42:03.160 this podcast was so honest and I knew you would, 1:42:03.720 --> 1:42:08.640 but sometimes in our society that's rare. Yeah, well, I 1:42:08.680 --> 1:42:13.599 think that, Um, I don't know for me, Okay, when 1:42:13.640 --> 1:42:15.679 when I think about mental health, and I think about 1:42:16.520 --> 1:42:19.840 depression and anxiety, and I also have obsessive compulsive disorder 1:42:19.920 --> 1:42:22.880 that was really bad when I was younger. That used 1:42:22.880 --> 1:42:24.760 to make me feel crazy. I used to think that 1:42:24.760 --> 1:42:27.040 I was a crazy person and that nobody else on 1:42:27.120 --> 1:42:30.000 this planet felt that way, and that made me feel isolated. 1:42:30.040 --> 1:42:32.759 It made me feel disgusted when I thought about myself. 1:42:32.800 --> 1:42:37.519 I hated myself for that. And it wasn't until you know, recently, 1:42:37.920 --> 1:42:40.800 people have been more open about their mental health, and 1:42:41.160 --> 1:42:44.080 I've learned more about obsessive compulsive disorder because people talk 1:42:44.120 --> 1:42:47.719 about it more, and um, I've been able to feel 1:42:47.760 --> 1:42:51.160 more comfortable in my skin, and so I feel like, 1:42:51.240 --> 1:42:53.839 you know, there's there's nothing that I feel to attached 1:42:53.920 --> 1:42:56.320 to in my personal life beside maybe like my personal relationship. 1:42:56.320 --> 1:42:57.960 Would you guys like to make kind of almost every 1:42:57.960 --> 1:43:01.360 single day. Don't know that he's ever going to propose 1:43:01.400 --> 1:43:05.599 to you, to be honest. Besides that, like you know, 1:43:05.680 --> 1:43:09.120 every everything that I've been through, I hope talking about 1:43:09.160 --> 1:43:11.080 it helps other people go through it. Like the loss 1:43:11.120 --> 1:43:13.320 of my father, that was something that I was really 1:43:13.320 --> 1:43:16.120 really hard to overcome, and I can only hope. That's 1:43:16.160 --> 1:43:19.240 why I talk about it, is that people talking about 1:43:19.360 --> 1:43:21.760 things that pertain to me, when they're open about it, 1:43:21.760 --> 1:43:24.360 it's made me feel better. So then I realize, Okay, well, 1:43:24.360 --> 1:43:26.880 if I keep on pushing this and keep on talking 1:43:26.880 --> 1:43:29.120 about whether it's mental health or grieving and death and 1:43:29.960 --> 1:43:33.400 or success or being a female in sports, um or 1:43:33.439 --> 1:43:35.920 being really lucky, you know, there's so many people that 1:43:35.920 --> 1:43:38.439 could hear my story and be like, oh ship, like 1:43:38.479 --> 1:43:40.719 it doesn't matter, Like if I work hard, I could 1:43:40.720 --> 1:43:43.720 get lucky and and have this career that I've been 1:43:44.000 --> 1:43:45.760 been I've been hoping for. So I think it's so 1:43:45.840 --> 1:43:50.439 beneficial on in so many ways to be open about 1:43:50.479 --> 1:43:54.439 your struggles and also your winds as well, because you 1:43:54.479 --> 1:43:57.400 don't know who's listening, You don't know who it can 1:43:57.439 --> 1:44:03.000 eventually help are you happy now. I'm pretty happy. I'm 1:44:03.040 --> 1:44:04.759 getting there. I'm working on it. I go to therapy 1:44:04.760 --> 1:44:06.840 every single week and that's been really helpful. It's do 1:44:06.840 --> 1:44:08.240 you go to therapy? Do you talk to anybody? You 1:44:08.240 --> 1:44:14.360 probably should? I have so many, so many voices in 1:44:14.400 --> 1:44:18.439 my head. I just talked to them. Um No, I'm I'm. 1:44:18.479 --> 1:44:20.080 I can say I'm definitely working on it. I think 1:44:20.120 --> 1:44:23.599 I'm really I'm I'm finally this year, I'm like, wow, 1:44:23.840 --> 1:44:26.080 I can't believe I've done so much, even even like 1:44:26.240 --> 1:44:28.240 taking moments like this when I'm like looking back on 1:44:28.320 --> 1:44:30.800 my career, even though it's been fairly short so far, 1:44:31.240 --> 1:44:33.439 it's like I've done a lot and I've worked my 1:44:33.640 --> 1:44:37.600 butt off, like I'm exhausted, and I'm still going and 1:44:37.640 --> 1:44:40.439 I'm still so hungry for more. Um So, I don't 1:44:40.439 --> 1:44:43.160 know if the lever be uh. I hope that one 1:44:43.200 --> 1:44:45.040 day I can fully be like I'm good, I'm I'm 1:44:45.040 --> 1:44:46.640 really happy in this space. I think that I'm just 1:44:46.720 --> 1:44:49.800 so hungry right now for everything that's coming down the pipe, 1:44:49.840 --> 1:44:51.800 and and for this new season will block it in 1:44:51.840 --> 1:44:54.599 and next year and next year and next year, and um, 1:44:54.640 --> 1:44:56.800 I'm just like so excited. I just want to do more. 1:44:56.840 --> 1:44:58.400 I want to be exhausted at the end of every 1:44:58.400 --> 1:45:00.439 single day, like you do Ray Go Show, you do 1:45:00.479 --> 1:45:02.559 a podcast, you do television, Like do you probably feel 1:45:02.560 --> 1:45:04.559 so fulfilled when you hit your pillow everything that you're 1:45:04.840 --> 1:45:08.240 you're mentally and physically exhausted. I want to I want 1:45:08.240 --> 1:45:11.360 to be feeling those things. Rachel Banantta Go follow her 1:45:11.400 --> 1:45:15.800 on Twitter. She is outstanding. If you haven't before, I'm 1:45:15.840 --> 1:45:19.040 telling you that in the years ahead, and I rarely 1:45:19.080 --> 1:45:21.360 say this, in the years ahead, you're gonna do pretty 1:45:21.400 --> 1:45:23.320 awesome stuff, and I'm excited to see all the things 1:45:23.360 --> 1:45:25.679 that you're gonna do. But in the meantime, she's hanging 1:45:25.720 --> 1:45:28.560 out with us on lock It In every single afternoon. 1:45:28.760 --> 1:45:31.360 Go follower, And if you're listening to this year's down 1:45:31.360 --> 1:45:34.280 the line, I think it'll be cool if you tag us, 1:45:34.640 --> 1:45:38.080 assuming Twitter still around in ten years or My hope 1:45:38.160 --> 1:45:41.160 is in doing these long form podcasts that they almost 1:45:41.200 --> 1:45:43.720 stand as like, uh, you know, like different sort of 1:45:43.760 --> 1:45:45.720 seminal moments where people can go back and be like, oh, 1:45:46.200 --> 1:45:47.800 I hope that this is just as good to listen 1:45:47.840 --> 1:45:50.639 to in a decade as it is next. Pretty cool, 1:45:51.280 --> 1:45:53.760 very cool. Thanks for having anybody. Thank you. This Wins 1:45:53.760 --> 1:45:57.320 the Losses. I'm Clay Travis Ratis on iTunes. This has 1:45:57.360 --> 1:46:00.559 been wins and losses. Sorry Clay Travis and Joe Banana. 1:46:00.840 --> 1:46:03.760 Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 1:46:03.800 --> 1:46:06.799 the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports 1:46:06.880 --> 1:46:10.000 Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app. 1:46:10.040 --> 1:46:12.160 Search f s R to listen live.