Keeping Up with Amanda Hirsch

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