August 1, 2025 • 39 mins
Class is barely in session as the Duran Clan dives headfirst into senior year meltdowns, post-grad panic, and the unspoken trauma of transferring credits. Kayla spills on sorority thong exchanges (yes, really), Chloe defends her fifth year, and Ben debates if college was ever even fun. Plus, Producer Celia reveals how she finessed her way from intern to iHeart insider. It’s chaotic, cathartic, and just a little too real.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guess what we gave the in terms of podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wait we did?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
What?
Speaker 4 (00:05):
Whose idea was this? The DM clan? Hey, I'm Ben,
I'm Kayla, and I'm Chloe And where the clan with
Celia again? Hey guys, unfortunate Leilani is not here today,
but Celia's feeling in for her, so it's all good.
And you caught us in the midst of chatting about college,
(00:30):
senior year, post grad, everything of that nature. So yeah,
the fucking.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Okay, So, how are your senior years going? Are you
feeling upset?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Sad? Are you looking forward to your future? What are
your feelings?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yes? Okay, all of that feeling weird because I feel
like a year ago when I started, when I was
starting my junior year.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I was like no, like you didn't want to go back?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
No, I just didn't want it to end. I was like,
I feel like, like, no way, I'm already almost done.
Like this is insane. Yeah, I was like, I'm so sad,
I can't do this, don't want to do real life
after this, Like I just want to be in this
like in between forever, right, And now a year later,
I'm like, get me out, I'm done. I don't want
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to do it anymore. I'm so over it. What was
the shift for you? Honestly, I think coming here because
my spring semester of this past year, I was doing
the internship in school at the same time, and like,
I cared so much more about this than I did
about school. And I didn't like slack off in school
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by any means, but like mentally, I just cared about
it less. The work was like so like mindless almost
except for like creative projects, because those are things I
actually care about. But then classes that were more like typical,
like the science course I had to take, I was like.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The last that, so it was just very much like
I don't know, I'm just like over it and I
want to be done. But also I know that it's
scary at the same time, so I'm like, let me
just like enjoy it. Well lasts.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, I feel that too. I'm excited for this last year,
but I also feel like ready to, like like I
know when that time comes, I'm gonna be like, Okay,
yeah I did that, and I'm ready to you know,
grow and and go on with my life. But I
know some people that are like like you were saying before,
like I never want to graduate, Like I'm not ready
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to do that at all.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I also think because it feels like freshman year was
like two weeks ago everyone was bird like mind fuck it,
I was just in freshman year. I also feel like
freshman year is literally like a black hole time warp
of like a time that was not real, not real
at all, fell into it and then like now here
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you are.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
But like even sophomore year was like a little bit
more like I can wrap my head around that being
like a real experience. But I feel like freshman year
I was like just in like a different like a
new world, a different world.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yea, it was because it was just like overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, I was like so fun, yeah, so good.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I want to broad my freshman year first semester so
like for me, I went to Rome. Oh wow, freshman.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Year, no junior year. I went. I was there for
six months.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Sweet Yeah, yeah, I did a semester's worth. But it
was just like a lot from going from like a
senior in high school to like living with your parents,
like having that like support, and then just all of
a sudden going abroad. Like I wouldn't trade it for anything.
It was like such an amazing experience. And I feel
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like if I was just thrown into like the Miami
world right away, Holly would have.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Like not been who I am.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like now, I feel like, in a sense, so I
was like grounded in Europe almost because like I made
like two of my best friends and we kind of
just like traveled and got like pretty like super cultured
and stuff. But yeah, it was like it was crazy
because I was like, wait, I don't even know how
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to cook. I don't even know like any of these
survival skills like help.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I for me, like I graduated high school when COVID hit,
and then my freshman year was completely hindered by COVID,
Like we couldn't do anything, like if you wanted to
go to a party, like you had to show a
text and only like a certain amount of people would
get those texts. And like I was, I was in
a sorority, which like I loved so much, and it
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sucked because like you couldn't meet the people who you
were like living with the next year, and like it
was it was crazy, honestly, But the same thing that
you said, I think even though it sucked, Rome obviously
was probably amazing, but like that sucked. I probably still
wouldn't have had like the friends and personality that I
do now, like for real, but it just sucks that
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it was at the most pivotal times, like senior freshman
in college, Like are you literally joking?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Like that's insane.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It just sucks for you guys, and like for your
class that you missed out on, like those big milestones
like yeah, graduation.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Prom.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I know it's not real big of a New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Were not, or at least my high school we gon't
allowed to have prom, but you was.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Did you go to a private school?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, just like in I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
New Orleans is so weird, and like the private schools
is really like what everyone kind of knows, like public
schools are not well funded or well run besides a
few two I think.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So it's really hard.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Honestly, it's it's kind of sad because you don't really
get good access to like any good education if you
don't have the money to or the you know, sports
abilities to be able to go to those schools, which
like the sports is like a whole.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Thing like illegal paying.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And all of that it's crazy, but we weren't allowed
to have prom Luckily like we have Marti.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Gras and COVID.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
COVID Well, senior year is like the biggest year for
Marty Graus because like a certain friend group gets passed
down a float in a parade and you go with
your moms. So it's like all of my twelve person
friend group and all of our moms were riding one day,
like on the biggest day, and that's like the one
thing that we all wanted. And thank god COVID did
not ruin that because it was before COVID. But we
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also had like all these other plans, like there's this
hangout fest that like we always would everyone would go
to with your parents and like every you get a
big house and it's like in Alabama, and couldn't do that,
like my twenty first birthday, No, my eighteenth birthday was
like ruined in my golden birthday too. Both years, my
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seventeenth and eighteenth, it was awful, but again, wouldn't have
the experience I had, Probably wouldn't even have gone to
the college I went to or been here.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Everything happens for a reason a man, and it's COVID
also messes it.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Like I really feel for the ones that like you're
going into college or you're coming out of college, and
you may.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Be a little delayed. I was in the middle of college.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, COVID struck, and that delayed me from graduating all
the time. I had to go to school for five years.
But honestly, I felt like that was better for me
because I had a whole nother year of college. That's
why I'm like surprised you're saying you're like so ready
to be done, because I was like holding onto my
college experience.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
I don't think I've ever been like nearly as depressed
the last month of college, just knowing that like everything
I didn't want to stop was about to stop.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I know.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
But also I guess if I lived in this if
I went to college, because I would.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Probably want to get the hell out.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
But like I was like on boats and like on
the frozen lake, and like I went.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
To Wisconsin, Like yeah, it was just magical. Like I
was in a city.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Too, though I was in Philadelphia, I was not a temple,
So it's like, I don't know, maybe it's just like
a different experience.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah, everyone on a different liking suit it also depends
on like how much are you connected to home and
like how much do you you know what I mean?
And like for me, I didn't have a job like
until the way and like right after graduation, so I
was like I can't leave, Like I don't have anywhere
to go, Like that's moving back home, Like I don't
know what to do, and like I didn't I wasn't
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really passionate about like getting a master's in anything or
like because I did I double major it anyways, and
like I my brain was full. But I just loved
living like in apartments with my friends and being able
to run around and go to football games and do
whatever your concerts and just you know, and it just
felt like that was like the last kind of morsel
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you get of being a kid, even though you're not
a kid.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But it's scary, it's really really scary.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Really just soak it in, like as much as you
probably do feel like you want to leave, Like when
I interned here and had to go back to school
because I was a junior.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I did this summer of junior year. I was crying, like.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Going back to school, and I was like I don't
want to go, like I want to work here forever.
I don't want to leave. I don't want to go
back to Wisconsin. And then I got there and I
was like, wait, I.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Got my whole life to work, Like what Yeah? Which
is the truth?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
And like post grad my days feel like groundhog day.
Like I wake up, go to work, go to the gym,
cook dinner, watch TV with my roommates, and go to
bed every day except for the weekends.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
No, Like, don't get me wrong, I like love college
and I feel like, yeah, you're right. It kind of
is like the last time that like I don't know, Yeah,
well no, you still do fun things and you still
like are like in the Hamptons, like like throwing parties.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Definitely get to do fun things like you just have it,
just you have to sacrifice a lot, you know, Like
the financial aspects, it's truly crazy, like especially in the
day that we're in right now. Like I don't know
if y'all saw, but like you have to be making
like one point five million dollars to be able to
retire comfortably in the city or whatever. The's how much
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you have to have in your net worth, and that
is simply not possible, especially if you want to have
a life, because like, if you're an investment banker, yeah,
you're making three hundred thousand dollars a year, but you
have no life. You're at work till four in the
morning and then you're there again to eight, Like, yeah,
why why would you? Either way, you have to make
(10:50):
so many sacrifices. And I think that's like the biggest
part about being an adult is you have to sacrifice something,
either a good time or money.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And like, unfortunately for me, it's always money.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Like taking a good time.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah, I'm always gonna have a good time because honestly,
I say this to myself every time and look I'm
doing alright. Money comes and goes. It'll come back somehow.
I don't know how, and you don't need to, but
it will.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Like a boomerang, come on, jojo.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yes, I got to give out what this?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, I mean, I definitely feel like, I don't know,
for some reason, I feel like my freshman and sophomore
year feel like such a different.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
No, it's a total different entity like thing.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Than like my junior and probably my senior or I
don't know, not there yet more month and then I
start but I don't know, I feel like it got
like more serious junior year, and now I'm like, Okay,
well if it's becoming more serious and whatever, I'd rather
just like be done and like move on to like
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working or whatever it may be, because I'm just like,
ohver it. But like it stopped being like college is
like fun, and it started being like everything else was fun. Yeah,
do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Like actually there.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Is nothing as of right now, and again, like this
could totally change in like three months and may probably
like fuck, I don't want to leave, but I feel
like there's nothing about the school anymore that is like
necessarily fun. I think maybe it's like because I don't
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live keeping in a dorm anymore. Yeah, that could be
part of it. Like it doesn't really like it do.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Just like I still have everything like the same when
you graduate. You're saying, like everything's going to be.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
There, everything hopefully will remain the same, like living in
the city, work in the city, whatever it may be.
But like, I don't know, I feel like the fun
that I have here isn't tied to school in any
way anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I also do feel and like correct me if I'm wrong,
but like building a college community and this city specifically,
I could not imagine like how that's possible or how
to like even maintain that, Like so I can see
where you're coming from. Like freshman year, I feel like
they probably try really really hard to do a really
good job at like getting you in a community and
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like routine, and then junior years when they're kind of like, hey,
you're good now, like you had one year to learn
and another year to master it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, now go fly yeah, and like it's they.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Don't really like give a fuck anymore, And so that's
why I probably felt like more serious, because you're not
really like your hand is not being held as much
nearly as much, like even by I don't know, I
guess I never even met my advisor in real life,
but like like never.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I like met my queen. She was like I when
did I meet with? The last time I met her,
she was on like an exercise ball at her desk,
just like smary in my back hurts. I'm just like
out saying, shout out, what the fuck's her name? Nicole something?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So you like her? I feel like no one likes
her advisors.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I didn't like my freshman year one. He was whack,
But the one I have now is kind of fierce.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We had the same for all four years.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't know you have a new one. Nicole Gillman.
That's my name. Shout out Nicole Lovey. Oh my god,
Nicole luck And I don't she knows anything about me.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well, what's been like? Okay? I have two separate questions.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
One for you, Ben, what's your favorite part about being
like in such a unique college experience, like in the city, Like,
what what's been like a really fun part of being
a student in the city compared to like what you
would see in like a movie like American college experience,
you know.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Okay, So I feel like, I I think depends on
the person, because I don't think like I had name
one would enjoy it. Yeah, And I feel like it
kind of depends what you want out of your college experience.
I didn't really care to like chill on the quad
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and like go to like football games and things like that.
But some people that's like what they want, and so
it really depends. But for me, I was like, I
want something busy, I want something new and something like inspiring,
and I feel like the city is really inspiring to me.
And also just like the nightlife especially freshman year was
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like such a like it felt like the coolest thing
in the world. So yeah, I don't know. I think
if you like something busy and exciting and it just
never gets boring honestly, Okay, And I also feel like
I had to. I mean obviously it was like eighteen,
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but like even from like when I came to college
to now, like I feel like, you like mature so much.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, you have to. It's like you're being thrown to
the wolves.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
But I mean I know that happens in like any
college experience, but I think just like it's different for
some reason being here. You have to be like so
much more independent, I guess. Yeah. And yeah, you just
really have to.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Have a thick skin.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah, you just have to know how to like figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, Chloe, what are you enjoying about getting your masters here?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I think getting my masters is something I've always wanted
to do. I actually wanted to do it straight out
of college, but I was like, let me take a break.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's been five years.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I think I need to really just relax and get
myself settled in a career. That's why I like that
you mentioned that you were in an internship in college
because I wasn't doing that, and that's probably why I
held onto the experience so hard, because I didn't really
feel established outside of college. I was like, this is
my identity, this is my life, and then once college
was done, it was like who am I? Yeah, it
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was kind of scary. But now that I feel like
I'm now more established and getting everything together, I feel
like I have time to actually go up towards my
masters and want to extend to more education, and I
think it's just exciting. It's just something I can easily do.
It's online. I'm not like running back and forth to
a college. Right now. I feel just a lot more
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stable with it.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Yay, I love that. We love to hear that. And Kayla,
what about you? What's been like your favorite part of
Miami going there? Do you love like the tailgates? Like
is it just how we see on TikTok?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It's exactly how you see on TikTok, except honestly, I've
never been to tailgate because I'm dancing at them. So
like a football game for us would be like waking up.
It depends with time it is, but it's like a
full day thing, like waking up at like seven and
then we're not getting home until like eight pm at night,
So yeah, we don't really have time to like enjoy
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the I guess that type of stuff, like the tailgates
and like the parties. But in basketball season it's a
lot more relaxed, so that's when we can like have
time to enjoy that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
But you love like enjoying what you're doing during the day.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Right, yes, no, I I mean dance is Dance is
my passion. I can't imagine like my life without it.
And the girls like they're my family. So although like
I'm not doing like the norm, I guess like that,
it's just so much fun for me because like we
get to represent the school, we get to represent like
our dance team, and it's so cool, like people treat
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us like celebrities.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Even though we're literally not.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Like everyone's asking us for pictures outside the stadium like
little kids are like I want to be just like
you guys. Like it's really it's such a blessing to
be on the team and to be at such an
amazing school too, And yeah, that my parents we were
able to like send me there is like just amazing.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Yeah, that's so amazing honestly, and that's so cute, like
and that's really fun. I feel like everyone at like
some point in their life always wanted to like be
one of those girls who were like dancing or cheering
or any of those things, like in another life maybe,
but I could never cud see you and I'm sure
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you kill it. Oh thanks, do you'll have any questions
for me?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Well? Anyway, what do you guys do for fun?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Though?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Like, so if you guys can't do stuff like that,
what do you guys do team bonding?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Like?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, so our team actually has like different chairs too,
so like someone's in charge of sister it's a lot
like Greek life. Yeah, so some girls will be in
charge of sisterhood where we do like team bonding, we do,
like I guess depends on the season. Like we do
like little like uh, what's it called white elephant, Like
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we did that for Christmas. For Valentine's Day, we did
like I don't even know if I should say this,
we did like a little thong exchange, little cute things
like that, you know, And then yeah, we were able
to like go out and stuff and enjoy like the
city and the night life, but everything is definitely like
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super for lack of a better words, like polish, Like
we signed contracts that like we can't be like posting
like us with alcohol or like us like out certain places.
We have to go to class with hair and makeup,
like in not in sweatpants. Like so yeah there's that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
But okay, so you can't just bum if you want to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
No, no, no, no, you can not bum it out.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Wow wow Yeah. Fun though, definitely fun.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
So that's why I think for me, like keeping such
a small circle was like crucial and like also just
the way I've always like kind of vibes, just like
having like my close couple friends and then you guys
like you just trust each other like love each other.
It's just like it just works at a big school,
at a big university like that, yeah, where like everyone's
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super super like at Miami, like the people obviously are
like there's a bunch of good people in a place
like that too, but Miami's like a lot of the
kids are like entitled, just have a lot of money,
and yeah, that's just how it is living in a
city like that.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Know some a lot of my friends have also gone there.
And like so many of their friends and like not
even their friends.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
But like people, yes, and they're like acquaintances.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
It's kind of like, I hate, I hate to say this,
but it's kind of like two Lane, you know, Oh
is it? Yeah, Tulane and Miami have like very similar populations.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I feel like whenever I talk to people, they're like.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, oh I applied Tulane in Miami. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, Celia, I have a question. Okay, I forget hired
asking for a friend.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I actually wanted to know that too. The story.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I need to I need to just like walk in.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
So I got my internship with Diamond two summers ago.
So I moved here for the summer. A bunch of
my friends did too. Did my internship. It kind of
just like clicked like real fast, Like I kind of
like knew what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I was really on top of it.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I really loved it, and like was like hungry to
do more. Like I was just asking around, like what
can I do?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
What can I do?
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Like I want to do more work, I want to help,
I want to do anything. And Andrew and I also
just clicked, well, like we are very similar as human beings,
if that makes sense, and we just kind of like
stayed in touch. I like I said, I was literally
like leaving, like crying leaving this internship. I did not
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want to go. So I tried to keep in touch
with as many people as possible, just because I genuinely
enjoyed them as well.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And so for jingle Ball, I reached out.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
And I was just like, hey, I would love to
help you know, like I'm coming to New York in December, anyways,
I can like send my trip and like, I really
want to help out. So worked out. I came, I
came back to New York and worked. Jingle Ball had
a time, did pretty well with what I was doing
because I like wrote all the questions for everyone. And
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then when I was getting closer to graduating, I was like,
I have no job and like I have not applied
or like done anything, and so I called Andrew and
I was just like, is there anything that we can
do here?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Any like? Can I can I be like an intern?
Can I like do whatever? And actually, funny story, it
wasn't funny at the time, but now it is. I
was saying. I went abroad in Rome.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
So the transfer of credits from abroad to my school
takes like three months, and for some reason, it took
mine a year and eight months, and so by the
time graduation came, there were three credits that were not
transferred but that I had completed. So like they gave
me like an exception option because it wasn't my fault,
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and they were just like cause I completed everything on time.
I was so crazy about it, and they were just like,
you know, this isn't your fault and there's something we
can do. But if you want, like take three credits
over the summer and we'll put you as graduating like
in May, because you didn't do anything wrong, and so
like okay, but like I'm not paying that tuition, Like
that's funny as hell. So they gave me like a
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free three credit class you can do like kind of
whatever you want. You just need like a supervisor. So
I asked Andrew, it's like, did y'all already finish the internships?
Like I really need something to help me and then
like I would love to work full time, and I
was like, let me see what I can do like
really quick, and thank god they worked out. He like
made an internship for me which was like helping with
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the podcast. And then I got to like September, I
was like, wait if I finished this internship and I
don't have a job, like I've moved here, like I
cannot live anywhere else, like I moved here postgrad, like
I have to get a new job. But I kind
of just like stuck around, didn't really ask any questions
until Andrew was like started asking me questions like can
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you make a list of your responsibilities and like can
you do you know, show somebody this, or like can
you do this and can we go talk to these
people about it? And we kind of worked together as
a team to like really show that I care so
much and like I'm here. I'm here, like I am
doing the work, I am doing more than enough work,
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and like I really really want to be here. And
luckily they hired me as a contractor, so I kind
of can do like different recordings throughout the company or
other companies if I want to. And I also like,
since I started on this the Elvis team, like I
kind of just already know how to do it all.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
So I'm just kind of like looped in there.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
So basically like don't give up, like just keep sticking
around and doing your job. And like I think the
biggest thing that Andrew had told me that like stuck
with me was like he had to do reports for
me back to the school and like my first year interning,
he was like saying, he said that I was like
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a self starter, and like I'd never like i'd heard
that before, but like not about myself. And then I
was like, wait, fuck, yeah, actually I am. Like all
I want to do was just like I just want
to get stuff done and like try to build more
based off of whatever is going on and like to
its best potential. So I really going back to what
I was saying earlier, like if you're really passionate about something,
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you'll want to do that, and like the way you
were Ben were saying, like I became more like I
prioritized this a little bit more than school because that's
what I wanted to do. That's a good sign, Like
you are doing everything right by like enjoying what you're
doing and working really really hard and just showing the
people that you're with that you really care and like
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are in it for the long run.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
So that's how I got hired. That's a good success story. Well, thanks,
That's how I got here.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Wait, so this is like kind of irrelevant. Great story, thanks,
really inspiring, okay, and good info. I want to dismiss
your story, but I remember something about what you said,
like five minus yeah, so I just like can't forget
it in my brain. Anyways. When so you graduated when.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Last May twenty four?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Okay? So, so were you at this past jingle ball.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
I've been at two jingle balls. So I was at
twenty twenty four and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I don't know how I didn't see any of you.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I don't know twenty I probably did in twenty twenty four. Yeah, okay,
so Danna and I were in the pit same like
by the cameras.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Mm hm, you were for some of the sets? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Oh, because they they said that Dana and I were
like the only ones who were allowed because they were
filming for ABC or whatever Hulu.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And then towards the end they let like people come in.
I don't know. It was crazy though.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
I was getting pushed by kids the whole time because
like they couldn't block off normally, like there's an area
blocked off for someone like Deanna who is capturing content or.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Me who's somehow doing that.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
And since they were filming it for like national television
this year, they had to have that whole thing blocked
off for this mechanical camera that was like on this
like track like on the ground, like a train track almost,
and like would whip around like real fast and like,
so they basically had to put us in with everyone
(29:22):
who was sitting in the first three rows of Madison
Square Garden and so it was like all of these
like nepo babies.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh my god. I literally was dying.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
But I had so much fun though, because the year
before I didn't even get to see the show. I
got to see like Sizza and Olivia Rodriguaz and that
was it. But this year I was there from the
I was there the whole time. But my tiktoks, I
think like six of them went really viral over two
million views.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, Clarket, is that what you do?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Also?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Like social media?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Like no, I mean I kind of really just do
anything because like I've known it for so for like
two years now, Like I know how to post for
their TikTok, I know how to do everything else. Yeah,
so I just kind of offer my hands and I'm
like if you need me, I'm here.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Nice, But mostly my main.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Come on jack of all trades.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yes, my main job is to being a producer for
the podcast network.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
So that's me. Anytime you hear all of that podcasts,
I push the buttons.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
What's your favorite one? I guess I think you know Tommy's.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yes, because he has my favorite people. I just like,
I'm a really big fan girl in general of Tommy.
Uh No, he does all the guests. Leilani cut that
out right listening.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Okay, So Tommy, Tommy and I I met him my
first summer.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
He was one of the first guests who came in.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
And then we like Mediga and last summer, and then
I just became his full full time producer and now
we like kind of kiki back and forth about like
who he should get on, like what's trending, what what
is like people my age, our age watching and consuming?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And it was a really good host.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah, and I really enjoy like how he asks each
like guest, what have you never said before? Because yeah,
sometimes you can hear some really interesting answers, like truly.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
It's also funny. I feel like some people don't get
the question. No, they don't who was somebody did not
get it was.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
No not I wasn't here forictional, but there was also
I forget her name. She won an oscar and she's
in only Murders in the building. But oh she was like, wait,
I don't want to spill anyone's secrets.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Name was it Dine? Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Love love her so much. She's such a queen. I
don't want to spill anyone's secrets.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Have you watched The Holdovers? No, let's one her oscar
for okay? Yeah? Yeah, I filmed it in Massachusetts, okay,
and one of the restaurants is like ten minutes for
my house.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
They really is it good? The show?
Speaker 4 (32:07):
It's a movie. It was great. It's a Christmas movie,
so wait till Christmas time. But it's so good.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I love Christmas.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
I can't say I'm writing my favorite home.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I love Christmas.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
I love it like.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I love it too so much, but like it's too early,
it's like not even.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
I walked into our lobby like last week, remember Ben,
and I was like, I really.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I kind of watch it was Christmas?
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yeah, because I looked at the sunflowers on the front
desk and I was like, I want them to be
points at us.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Yeah, like right now, Yeah, I hear you. But also
like the summer is going by way too fascinating to
slow the fuck down.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
It's just too hot.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
It's too hot right now the day I'm saying that
as a Louisiana girl, like when I would like leave
high school and go get in my car, the temperature
would say one hundred and twenty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
But it's just something is up.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
It's because you have to slept around the city. It is.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
I will say this right now when I say all
the time, if I just had like a car to
drive to point A, from point A to point B, no,
completely'd be fine. Yeah, the only thing would be the parking,
I guess definitely. And like the driving here, like if
we lived in like the city, but it had normal
roads and like normal drivers.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (33:21):
The driving here, I don't think is like that insane.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
It kind of scares me.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Like right around here it's a little bit down, kookie,
But downtown I think it's a lot better.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
I mean, I I drove, I've never driven here through
it once when I was doing promo.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Oh yeah, because you have to drive.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Because I had to we had to like drive to
like Brooklyn. We had to like picture up East Rutherford, Mama.
But it was like a big ass, fucking like van
through the city, and I was like it was scary,
but it was kind of fierce and county and yeah, impressive,
I know. I was like so proud of myself. I
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was like, Wow, I really did that. And then I
was like it's like not that scary driving in the city,
but also like I feel like because I was in
such a like big ass car, like people were probably
like more aware, but I feel if I was in
a smaller car be scared that.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I would like one of my friends like sells medical
device sales, so they like give her a.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Car to drive around all day.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
And so she's also from like Westchester, so I kind
of like trust her with that. But let me tell you,
like the first time I got in the car with her,
it's like you have to learn to drive crazy to be.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Like fit in with the rest of them.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
And like I was holding on for dear life, like screaming, please,
I don't want to be in here any longer. Yeah,
but it's almost like I feel like it's almost like Europe,
where like when you're in the car, like it may
seem like what they're doing is wrong and scary, but
they know that that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Yeah. You know, I'm also from Massachusetts, where people are
notoriously not good drivers.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Do you have a lot of traffic?
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, Do you have like a lot of highways? Like
that would the vibe? Yeah, Like you take the highway
to get places?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Well, it depends, like.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Yes, Like how long of a drive is it to
get to like a normal like your friend's house or something.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I would not take a highway.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, okay, you just take like normal streets.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I would like it's very much like a neighborhood. Okay,
but like if I were to go to like Target,
I'd have to get on the highway for like maybe
two minutes. Same and then i'd be off same if
I were go to the Beach Highway for like forty minutes,
you know, also in highway for like thirty Okay, but
like a friend's house, like it's gotta be a side street.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Heard chef. What about y'all? Wait, you're from New Jersey. Yeah,
so it's probably like more suburbia.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I mean it's pretty similar to you Ben, like uh,
actually it depends where they're Like some friends, I do
take the highway, but I'll be on for like a minute.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
But like to your high school or something like did
you take the highway?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
You you could, yeah, but like I didn't. It was
about the same time. But yeah, it was pretty suburbia.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I guess what about you, Chloe.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I also live in Jersey, so okay, still like the
same thing. Yeah, and it's like I live in a
really small town.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
My high school was literally up the street from where
I would live, so I was just.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Like the same drive walk whatever. Yeah, okay were you guys? Wait,
this is my final question that we can end. What
was your like commute to school? Tea? Because like I
was the friend that would like.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Pick everyone up high school or college high school? Okay,
oh sh I.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Go first, whoever? But yeah, I was the car that
would like scoop everyone.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Then for oh sorry, no you go, you go.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
So for us, we all had to be at school
different times because if you had a free period first
you could sleep in. But like my friends who were
like on the same schedule as me, sometimes I'd pick
them up are our school was like really centrally located,
so and also we had off campus lunch. So a
lot of people want their own cars because like if
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you want to go home or whatever. So like sometimes
I'd pick up like a group of people, but mostly
are like fun carpool rides would be.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
To lunch, gotcha.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And after school we like would just do random things.
But like my best friend lives across the street from school,
so we would like go to her house all the time.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, so I was literally a straight drive, Like I
could walk to school every morning if I wanted to.
It was literally like ten minutes, maybe eight minutes for
me to.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Walk to school.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
But I was always late to high school, like always
always late, so I'd be like running and sprinting with
my heavy backpack like and I was like so skinny.
And after a while, like senior year, all of my
friends got cars, so like they would all catch me
like running home and they just be like get in,
just get in, like and then eventually I started driving.
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But it was just like that that was the tea
for real, because everybody would morning like running.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah, I didn't have the car in high school. I
had two brothers we shared, so that was just like
who was driving what day. I don't have any like
tea on that, but we would also like do the
lunch period thing where we all would go for like
sandwiches in town and it was kind of like the
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like the best part of the day.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
So yeah, well it's been a joy. It's been a blast.
Another another recording you guys in our books. Yeah and yeah,
I guess well we can be next.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Week And thanks for having me guys anytime.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
If you want to find me on Instagram, it's Ben
Fifer with an extra.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
R, and you can find me at Kayla Capato and
you can find me at Chloe m connor on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Do I get to go? Oh my god?
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Okay, my instagram is sela underscore underscore Romano like the cheese.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh and where does rank class?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Ya
Guess what we gave the in terms of podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wait we did?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
What?
Speaker 4 (00:05):
Whose idea was this? The DM clan? Hey, I'm Ben,
I'm Kayla, and I'm Chloe And where the clan with
Celia again? Hey guys, unfortunate Leilani is not here today,
but Celia's feeling in for her, so it's all good.
And you caught us in the midst of chatting about college,
(00:30):
senior year, post grad, everything of that nature. So yeah,
the fucking.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Okay, So, how are your senior years going? Are you
feeling upset?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Sad? Are you looking forward to your future? What are
your feelings?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yes? Okay, all of that feeling weird because I feel
like a year ago when I started, when I was
starting my junior year.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I was like no, like you didn't want to go back?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
No, I just didn't want it to end. I was like,
I feel like, like, no way, I'm already almost done.
Like this is insane. Yeah, I was like, I'm so sad,
I can't do this, don't want to do real life
after this, Like I just want to be in this
like in between forever, right, And now a year later,
I'm like, get me out, I'm done. I don't want
(01:24):
to do it anymore. I'm so over it. What was
the shift for you? Honestly, I think coming here because
my spring semester of this past year, I was doing
the internship in school at the same time, and like,
I cared so much more about this than I did
about school. And I didn't like slack off in school
(01:44):
by any means, but like mentally, I just cared about
it less. The work was like so like mindless almost
except for like creative projects, because those are things I
actually care about. But then classes that were more like typical,
like the science course I had to take, I was like.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The last that, so it was just very much like
I don't know, I'm just like over it and I
want to be done. But also I know that it's
scary at the same time, so I'm like, let me
just like enjoy it. Well lasts.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, I feel that too. I'm excited for this last year,
but I also feel like ready to, like like I
know when that time comes, I'm gonna be like, Okay,
yeah I did that, and I'm ready to you know,
grow and and go on with my life. But I
know some people that are like like you were saying before,
like I never want to graduate, Like I'm not ready
(02:41):
to do that at all.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I also think because it feels like freshman year was
like two weeks ago everyone was bird like mind fuck it,
I was just in freshman year. I also feel like
freshman year is literally like a black hole time warp
of like a time that was not real, not real
at all, fell into it and then like now here
(03:04):
you are.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
But like even sophomore year was like a little bit
more like I can wrap my head around that being
like a real experience. But I feel like freshman year
I was like just in like a different like a
new world, a different world.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yea, it was because it was just like overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, I was like so fun, yeah, so good.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I want to broad my freshman year first semester so
like for me, I went to Rome. Oh wow, freshman.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Year, no junior year. I went. I was there for
six months.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Sweet Yeah, yeah, I did a semester's worth. But it
was just like a lot from going from like a
senior in high school to like living with your parents,
like having that like support, and then just all of
a sudden going abroad. Like I wouldn't trade it for anything.
It was like such an amazing experience. And I feel
(03:57):
like if I was just thrown into like the Miami
world right away, Holly would have.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Like not been who I am.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like now, I feel like, in a sense, so I
was like grounded in Europe almost because like I made
like two of my best friends and we kind of
just like traveled and got like pretty like super cultured
and stuff. But yeah, it was like it was crazy
because I was like, wait, I don't even know how
(04:22):
to cook. I don't even know like any of these
survival skills like help.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I for me, like I graduated high school when COVID hit,
and then my freshman year was completely hindered by COVID,
Like we couldn't do anything, like if you wanted to
go to a party, like you had to show a
text and only like a certain amount of people would
get those texts. And like I was, I was in
a sorority, which like I loved so much, and it
(04:53):
sucked because like you couldn't meet the people who you
were like living with the next year, and like it
was it was crazy, honestly, But the same thing that
you said, I think even though it sucked, Rome obviously
was probably amazing, but like that sucked. I probably still
wouldn't have had like the friends and personality that I
do now, like for real, but it just sucks that
(05:14):
it was at the most pivotal times, like senior freshman
in college, Like are you literally joking?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Like that's insane.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It just sucks for you guys, and like for your
class that you missed out on, like those big milestones
like yeah, graduation.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Prom.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I know it's not real big of a New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Were not, or at least my high school we gon't
allowed to have prom, but you was.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Did you go to a private school?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, just like in I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
New Orleans is so weird, and like the private schools
is really like what everyone kind of knows, like public
schools are not well funded or well run besides a
few two I think.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So it's really hard.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Honestly, it's it's kind of sad because you don't really
get good access to like any good education if you
don't have the money to or the you know, sports
abilities to be able to go to those schools, which
like the sports is like a whole.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Thing like illegal paying.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And all of that it's crazy, but we weren't allowed
to have prom Luckily like we have Marti.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Gras and COVID.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
COVID Well, senior year is like the biggest year for
Marty Graus because like a certain friend group gets passed
down a float in a parade and you go with
your moms. So it's like all of my twelve person
friend group and all of our moms were riding one day,
like on the biggest day, and that's like the one
thing that we all wanted. And thank god COVID did
not ruin that because it was before COVID. But we
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also had like all these other plans, like there's this
hangout fest that like we always would everyone would go
to with your parents and like every you get a
big house and it's like in Alabama, and couldn't do that,
like my twenty first birthday, No, my eighteenth birthday was
like ruined in my golden birthday too. Both years, my
(07:08):
seventeenth and eighteenth, it was awful, but again, wouldn't have
the experience I had, Probably wouldn't even have gone to
the college I went to or been here.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Everything happens for a reason a man, and it's COVID
also messes it.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Like I really feel for the ones that like you're
going into college or you're coming out of college, and
you may.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Be a little delayed. I was in the middle of college.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, COVID struck, and that delayed me from graduating all
the time. I had to go to school for five years.
But honestly, I felt like that was better for me
because I had a whole nother year of college. That's
why I'm like surprised you're saying you're like so ready
to be done, because I was like holding onto my
college experience.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
I don't think I've ever been like nearly as depressed
the last month of college, just knowing that like everything
I didn't want to stop was about to stop.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I know.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
But also I guess if I lived in this if
I went to college, because I would.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Probably want to get the hell out.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
But like I was like on boats and like on
the frozen lake, and like I went.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
To Wisconsin, Like yeah, it was just magical. Like I
was in a city.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Too, though I was in Philadelphia, I was not a temple,
So it's like, I don't know, maybe it's just like
a different experience.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah, everyone on a different liking suit it also depends
on like how much are you connected to home and
like how much do you you know what I mean?
And like for me, I didn't have a job like
until the way and like right after graduation, so I
was like I can't leave, Like I don't have anywhere
to go, Like that's moving back home, Like I don't
know what to do, and like I didn't I wasn't
(08:48):
really passionate about like getting a master's in anything or
like because I did I double major it anyways, and
like I my brain was full. But I just loved
living like in apartments with my friends and being able
to run around and go to football games and do
whatever your concerts and just you know, and it just
felt like that was like the last kind of morsel
(09:10):
you get of being a kid, even though you're not
a kid.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But it's scary, it's really really scary.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Really just soak it in, like as much as you
probably do feel like you want to leave, Like when
I interned here and had to go back to school
because I was a junior.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I did this summer of junior year. I was crying, like.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Going back to school, and I was like I don't
want to go, like I want to work here forever.
I don't want to leave. I don't want to go
back to Wisconsin. And then I got there and I
was like, wait, I.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Got my whole life to work, Like what Yeah? Which
is the truth?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
And like post grad my days feel like groundhog day.
Like I wake up, go to work, go to the gym,
cook dinner, watch TV with my roommates, and go to
bed every day except for the weekends.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
No, Like, don't get me wrong, I like love college
and I feel like, yeah, you're right. It kind of
is like the last time that like I don't know, Yeah,
well no, you still do fun things and you still
like are like in the Hamptons, like like throwing parties.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Definitely get to do fun things like you just have it,
just you have to sacrifice a lot, you know, Like
the financial aspects, it's truly crazy, like especially in the
day that we're in right now. Like I don't know
if y'all saw, but like you have to be making
like one point five million dollars to be able to
retire comfortably in the city or whatever. The's how much
(10:30):
you have to have in your net worth, and that
is simply not possible, especially if you want to have
a life, because like, if you're an investment banker, yeah,
you're making three hundred thousand dollars a year, but you
have no life. You're at work till four in the
morning and then you're there again to eight, Like, yeah,
why why would you? Either way, you have to make
(10:50):
so many sacrifices. And I think that's like the biggest
part about being an adult is you have to sacrifice something,
either a good time or money.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And like, unfortunately for me, it's always money.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Like taking a good time.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah, I'm always gonna have a good time because honestly,
I say this to myself every time and look I'm
doing alright. Money comes and goes. It'll come back somehow.
I don't know how, and you don't need to, but
it will.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Like a boomerang, come on, jojo.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yes, I got to give out what this?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, I mean, I definitely feel like, I don't know,
for some reason, I feel like my freshman and sophomore
year feel like such a different.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
No, it's a total different entity like thing.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Than like my junior and probably my senior or I
don't know, not there yet more month and then I
start but I don't know, I feel like it got
like more serious junior year, and now I'm like, Okay,
well if it's becoming more serious and whatever, I'd rather
just like be done and like move on to like
(12:01):
working or whatever it may be, because I'm just like,
ohver it. But like it stopped being like college is
like fun, and it started being like everything else was fun. Yeah,
do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Like actually there.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Is nothing as of right now, and again, like this
could totally change in like three months and may probably
like fuck, I don't want to leave, but I feel
like there's nothing about the school anymore that is like
necessarily fun. I think maybe it's like because I don't
(12:34):
live keeping in a dorm anymore. Yeah, that could be
part of it. Like it doesn't really like it do.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Just like I still have everything like the same when
you graduate. You're saying, like everything's going to be.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
There, everything hopefully will remain the same, like living in
the city, work in the city, whatever it may be.
But like, I don't know, I feel like the fun
that I have here isn't tied to school in any
way anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I also do feel and like correct me if I'm wrong,
but like building a college community and this city specifically,
I could not imagine like how that's possible or how
to like even maintain that, Like so I can see
where you're coming from. Like freshman year, I feel like
they probably try really really hard to do a really
good job at like getting you in a community and
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like routine, and then junior years when they're kind of like, hey,
you're good now, like you had one year to learn
and another year to master it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, now go fly yeah, and like it's they.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Don't really like give a fuck anymore, And so that's
why I probably felt like more serious, because you're not
really like your hand is not being held as much
nearly as much, like even by I don't know, I
guess I never even met my advisor in real life,
but like like never.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I like met my queen. She was like I when
did I meet with? The last time I met her,
she was on like an exercise ball at her desk,
just like smary in my back hurts. I'm just like
out saying, shout out, what the fuck's her name? Nicole something?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So you like her? I feel like no one likes
her advisors.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I didn't like my freshman year one. He was whack,
But the one I have now is kind of fierce.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We had the same for all four years.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't know you have a new one. Nicole Gillman.
That's my name. Shout out Nicole Lovey. Oh my god,
Nicole luck And I don't she knows anything about me.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well, what's been like? Okay? I have two separate questions.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
One for you, Ben, what's your favorite part about being
like in such a unique college experience, like in the city, Like,
what what's been like a really fun part of being
a student in the city compared to like what you
would see in like a movie like American college experience,
you know.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Okay, So I feel like, I I think depends on
the person, because I don't think like I had name
one would enjoy it. Yeah, And I feel like it
kind of depends what you want out of your college experience.
I didn't really care to like chill on the quad
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and like go to like football games and things like that.
But some people that's like what they want, and so
it really depends. But for me, I was like, I
want something busy, I want something new and something like inspiring,
and I feel like the city is really inspiring to me.
And also just like the nightlife especially freshman year was
(15:33):
like such a like it felt like the coolest thing
in the world. So yeah, I don't know. I think
if you like something busy and exciting and it just
never gets boring honestly, Okay, And I also feel like
I had to. I mean obviously it was like eighteen,
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but like even from like when I came to college
to now, like I feel like, you like mature so much.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, you have to. It's like you're being thrown to
the wolves.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
But I mean I know that happens in like any
college experience, but I think just like it's different for
some reason being here. You have to be like so
much more independent, I guess. Yeah. And yeah, you just
really have to.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Have a thick skin.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah, you just have to know how to like figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, Chloe, what are you enjoying about getting your masters here?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I think getting my masters is something I've always wanted
to do. I actually wanted to do it straight out
of college, but I was like, let me take a break.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's been five years.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I think I need to really just relax and get
myself settled in a career. That's why I like that
you mentioned that you were in an internship in college
because I wasn't doing that, and that's probably why I
held onto the experience so hard, because I didn't really
feel established outside of college. I was like, this is
my identity, this is my life, and then once college
was done, it was like who am I? Yeah, it
(17:11):
was kind of scary. But now that I feel like
I'm now more established and getting everything together, I feel
like I have time to actually go up towards my
masters and want to extend to more education, and I
think it's just exciting. It's just something I can easily do.
It's online. I'm not like running back and forth to
a college. Right now. I feel just a lot more
(17:31):
stable with it.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Yay, I love that. We love to hear that. And Kayla,
what about you? What's been like your favorite part of
Miami going there? Do you love like the tailgates? Like
is it just how we see on TikTok?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It's exactly how you see on TikTok, except honestly, I've
never been to tailgate because I'm dancing at them. So
like a football game for us would be like waking up.
It depends with time it is, but it's like a
full day thing, like waking up at like seven and
then we're not getting home until like eight pm at night,
So yeah, we don't really have time to like enjoy
(18:10):
the I guess that type of stuff, like the tailgates
and like the parties. But in basketball season it's a
lot more relaxed, so that's when we can like have
time to enjoy that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
But you love like enjoying what you're doing during the day.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Right, yes, no, I I mean dance is Dance is
my passion. I can't imagine like my life without it.
And the girls like they're my family. So although like
I'm not doing like the norm, I guess like that,
it's just so much fun for me because like we
get to represent the school, we get to represent like
our dance team, and it's so cool, like people treat
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us like celebrities.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Even though we're literally not.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Like everyone's asking us for pictures outside the stadium like
little kids are like I want to be just like
you guys. Like it's really it's such a blessing to
be on the team and to be at such an
amazing school too, And yeah, that my parents we were
able to like send me there is like just amazing.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Yeah, that's so amazing honestly, and that's so cute, like
and that's really fun. I feel like everyone at like
some point in their life always wanted to like be
one of those girls who were like dancing or cheering
or any of those things, like in another life maybe,
but I could never cud see you and I'm sure
(19:34):
you kill it. Oh thanks, do you'll have any questions
for me?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Well? Anyway, what do you guys do for fun?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Though?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Like, so if you guys can't do stuff like that,
what do you guys do team bonding?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Like?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, so our team actually has like different chairs too,
so like someone's in charge of sister it's a lot
like Greek life. Yeah, so some girls will be in
charge of sisterhood where we do like team bonding, we do,
like I guess depends on the season. Like we do
like little like uh, what's it called white elephant, Like
(20:08):
we did that for Christmas. For Valentine's Day, we did
like I don't even know if I should say this,
we did like a little thong exchange, little cute things
like that, you know, And then yeah, we were able
to like go out and stuff and enjoy like the
city and the night life, but everything is definitely like
(20:31):
super for lack of a better words, like polish, Like
we signed contracts that like we can't be like posting
like us with alcohol or like us like out certain places.
We have to go to class with hair and makeup,
like in not in sweatpants. Like so yeah there's that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
But okay, so you can't just bum if you want to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
No, no, no, no, you can not bum it out.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Wow wow Yeah. Fun though, definitely fun.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
So that's why I think for me, like keeping such
a small circle was like crucial and like also just
the way I've always like kind of vibes, just like
having like my close couple friends and then you guys
like you just trust each other like love each other.
It's just like it just works at a big school,
at a big university like that, yeah, where like everyone's
(21:27):
super super like at Miami, like the people obviously are
like there's a bunch of good people in a place
like that too, but Miami's like a lot of the
kids are like entitled, just have a lot of money,
and yeah, that's just how it is living in a
city like that.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Know some a lot of my friends have also gone there.
And like so many of their friends and like not
even their friends.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
But like people, yes, and they're like acquaintances.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
It's kind of like, I hate, I hate to say this,
but it's kind of like two Lane, you know, Oh
is it? Yeah, Tulane and Miami have like very similar populations.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I feel like whenever I talk to people, they're like.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, oh I applied Tulane in Miami. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, Celia, I have a question. Okay, I forget hired
asking for a friend.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I actually wanted to know that too. The story.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I need to I need to just like walk in.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
So I got my internship with Diamond two summers ago.
So I moved here for the summer. A bunch of
my friends did too. Did my internship. It kind of
just like clicked like real fast, Like I kind of
like knew what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I was really on top of it.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I really loved it, and like was like hungry to
do more. Like I was just asking around, like what
can I do?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
What can I do?
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Like I want to do more work, I want to help,
I want to do anything. And Andrew and I also
just clicked, well, like we are very similar as human beings,
if that makes sense, and we just kind of like
stayed in touch. I like I said, I was literally
like leaving, like crying leaving this internship. I did not
(23:16):
want to go. So I tried to keep in touch
with as many people as possible, just because I genuinely
enjoyed them as well.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And so for jingle Ball, I reached out.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
And I was just like, hey, I would love to
help you know, like I'm coming to New York in December, anyways,
I can like send my trip and like, I really
want to help out. So worked out. I came, I
came back to New York and worked. Jingle Ball had
a time, did pretty well with what I was doing
because I like wrote all the questions for everyone. And
(23:50):
then when I was getting closer to graduating, I was like,
I have no job and like I have not applied
or like done anything, and so I called Andrew and
I was just like, is there anything that we can
do here?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Any like? Can I can I be like an intern?
Can I like do whatever? And actually, funny story, it
wasn't funny at the time, but now it is. I
was saying. I went abroad in Rome.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
So the transfer of credits from abroad to my school
takes like three months, and for some reason, it took
mine a year and eight months, and so by the
time graduation came, there were three credits that were not
transferred but that I had completed. So like they gave
me like an exception option because it wasn't my fault,
(24:43):
and they were just like cause I completed everything on time.
I was so crazy about it, and they were just like,
you know, this isn't your fault and there's something we
can do. But if you want, like take three credits
over the summer and we'll put you as graduating like
in May, because you didn't do anything wrong, and so
like okay, but like I'm not paying that tuition, Like
that's funny as hell. So they gave me like a
(25:04):
free three credit class you can do like kind of
whatever you want. You just need like a supervisor. So
I asked Andrew, it's like, did y'all already finish the internships?
Like I really need something to help me and then
like I would love to work full time, and I
was like, let me see what I can do like
really quick, and thank god they worked out. He like
made an internship for me which was like helping with
(25:24):
the podcast. And then I got to like September, I
was like, wait if I finished this internship and I
don't have a job, like I've moved here, like I
cannot live anywhere else, like I moved here postgrad, like
I have to get a new job. But I kind
of just like stuck around, didn't really ask any questions
until Andrew was like started asking me questions like can
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you make a list of your responsibilities and like can
you do you know, show somebody this, or like can
you do this and can we go talk to these
people about it? And we kind of worked together as
a team to like really show that I care so
much and like I'm here. I'm here, like I am
doing the work, I am doing more than enough work,
(26:10):
and like I really really want to be here. And
luckily they hired me as a contractor, so I kind
of can do like different recordings throughout the company or
other companies if I want to. And I also like,
since I started on this the Elvis team, like I
kind of just already know how to do it all.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
So I'm just kind of like looped in there.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
So basically like don't give up, like just keep sticking
around and doing your job. And like I think the
biggest thing that Andrew had told me that like stuck
with me was like he had to do reports for
me back to the school and like my first year interning,
he was like saying, he said that I was like
(26:55):
a self starter, and like I'd never like i'd heard
that before, but like not about myself. And then I
was like, wait, fuck, yeah, actually I am. Like all
I want to do was just like I just want
to get stuff done and like try to build more
based off of whatever is going on and like to
its best potential. So I really going back to what
I was saying earlier, like if you're really passionate about something,
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you'll want to do that, and like the way you
were Ben were saying, like I became more like I
prioritized this a little bit more than school because that's
what I wanted to do. That's a good sign, Like
you are doing everything right by like enjoying what you're
doing and working really really hard and just showing the
people that you're with that you really care and like
(27:37):
are in it for the long run.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
So that's how I got hired. That's a good success story. Well, thanks,
That's how I got here.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Wait, so this is like kind of irrelevant. Great story, thanks,
really inspiring, okay, and good info. I want to dismiss
your story, but I remember something about what you said,
like five minus yeah, so I just like can't forget
it in my brain. Anyways. When so you graduated when.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Last May twenty four?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Okay? So, so were you at this past jingle ball.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
I've been at two jingle balls. So I was at
twenty twenty four and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I don't know how I didn't see any of you.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I don't know twenty I probably did in twenty twenty four. Yeah, okay,
so Danna and I were in the pit same like
by the cameras.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Mm hm, you were for some of the sets? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Oh, because they they said that Dana and I were
like the only ones who were allowed because they were
filming for ABC or whatever Hulu.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And then towards the end they let like people come in.
I don't know. It was crazy though.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
I was getting pushed by kids the whole time because
like they couldn't block off normally, like there's an area
blocked off for someone like Deanna who is capturing content or.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Me who's somehow doing that.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
And since they were filming it for like national television
this year, they had to have that whole thing blocked
off for this mechanical camera that was like on this
like track like on the ground, like a train track almost,
and like would whip around like real fast and like,
so they basically had to put us in with everyone
(29:22):
who was sitting in the first three rows of Madison
Square Garden and so it was like all of these
like nepo babies.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh my god. I literally was dying.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
But I had so much fun though, because the year
before I didn't even get to see the show. I
got to see like Sizza and Olivia Rodriguaz and that
was it. But this year I was there from the
I was there the whole time. But my tiktoks, I
think like six of them went really viral over two
million views.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, Clarket, is that what you do?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Also?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Like social media?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Like no, I mean I kind of really just do
anything because like I've known it for so for like
two years now, Like I know how to post for
their TikTok, I know how to do everything else. Yeah,
so I just kind of offer my hands and I'm
like if you need me, I'm here.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Nice, But mostly my main.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Come on jack of all trades.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yes, my main job is to being a producer for
the podcast network.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
So that's me. Anytime you hear all of that podcasts,
I push the buttons.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
What's your favorite one? I guess I think you know Tommy's.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yes, because he has my favorite people. I just like,
I'm a really big fan girl in general of Tommy.
Uh No, he does all the guests. Leilani cut that
out right listening.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Okay, So Tommy, Tommy and I I met him my
first summer.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
He was one of the first guests who came in.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
And then we like Mediga and last summer, and then
I just became his full full time producer and now
we like kind of kiki back and forth about like
who he should get on, like what's trending, what what
is like people my age, our age watching and consuming?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And it was a really good host.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah, and I really enjoy like how he asks each
like guest, what have you never said before? Because yeah,
sometimes you can hear some really interesting answers, like truly.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
It's also funny. I feel like some people don't get
the question. No, they don't who was somebody did not
get it was.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
No not I wasn't here forictional, but there was also
I forget her name. She won an oscar and she's
in only Murders in the building. But oh she was like, wait,
I don't want to spill anyone's secrets.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Name was it Dine? Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Love love her so much. She's such a queen. I
don't want to spill anyone's secrets.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Have you watched The Holdovers? No, let's one her oscar
for okay? Yeah? Yeah, I filmed it in Massachusetts, okay,
and one of the restaurants is like ten minutes for
my house.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
They really is it good? The show?
Speaker 4 (32:07):
It's a movie. It was great. It's a Christmas movie,
so wait till Christmas time. But it's so good.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I love Christmas.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
I can't say I'm writing my favorite home.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I love Christmas.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
I love it like.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I love it too so much, but like it's too early,
it's like not even.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
I walked into our lobby like last week, remember Ben,
and I was like, I really.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I kind of watch it was Christmas?
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yeah, because I looked at the sunflowers on the front
desk and I was like, I want them to be
points at us.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Yeah, like right now, Yeah, I hear you. But also
like the summer is going by way too fascinating to
slow the fuck down.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
It's just too hot.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
It's too hot right now the day I'm saying that
as a Louisiana girl, like when I would like leave
high school and go get in my car, the temperature
would say one hundred and twenty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
But it's just something is up.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
It's because you have to slept around the city. It is.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
I will say this right now when I say all
the time, if I just had like a car to
drive to point A, from point A to point B, no,
completely'd be fine. Yeah, the only thing would be the parking,
I guess definitely. And like the driving here, like if
we lived in like the city, but it had normal
roads and like normal drivers.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (33:21):
The driving here, I don't think is like that insane.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
It kind of scares me.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Like right around here it's a little bit down, kookie,
But downtown I think it's a lot better.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
I mean, I I drove, I've never driven here through
it once when I was doing promo.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Oh yeah, because you have to drive.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Because I had to we had to like drive to
like Brooklyn. We had to like picture up East Rutherford, Mama.
But it was like a big ass, fucking like van
through the city, and I was like it was scary,
but it was kind of fierce and county and yeah, impressive,
I know. I was like so proud of myself. I
(33:57):
was like, Wow, I really did that. And then I
was like it's like not that scary driving in the city,
but also like I feel like because I was in
such a like big ass car, like people were probably
like more aware, but I feel if I was in
a smaller car be scared that.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I would like one of my friends like sells medical
device sales, so they like give her a.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Car to drive around all day.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
And so she's also from like Westchester, so I kind
of like trust her with that. But let me tell you,
like the first time I got in the car with her,
it's like you have to learn to drive crazy to be.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Like fit in with the rest of them.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
And like I was holding on for dear life, like screaming, please,
I don't want to be in here any longer. Yeah,
but it's almost like I feel like it's almost like Europe,
where like when you're in the car, like it may
seem like what they're doing is wrong and scary, but
they know that that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Yeah. You know, I'm also from Massachusetts, where people are
notoriously not good drivers.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Do you have a lot of traffic?
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, Do you have like a lot of highways? Like
that would the vibe? Yeah, Like you take the highway
to get places?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Well, it depends, like.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Yes, Like how long of a drive is it to
get to like a normal like your friend's house or something.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I would not take a highway.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, okay, you just take like normal streets.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I would like it's very much like a neighborhood. Okay,
but like if I were to go to like Target,
I'd have to get on the highway for like maybe
two minutes. Same and then i'd be off same if
I were go to the Beach Highway for like forty minutes,
you know, also in highway for like thirty Okay, but
like a friend's house, like it's gotta be a side street.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Heard chef. What about y'all? Wait, you're from New Jersey. Yeah,
so it's probably like more suburbia.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I mean it's pretty similar to you Ben, like uh,
actually it depends where they're Like some friends, I do
take the highway, but I'll be on for like a minute.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
But like to your high school or something like did
you take the highway?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
You you could, yeah, but like I didn't. It was
about the same time. But yeah, it was pretty suburbia.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I guess what about you, Chloe.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I also live in Jersey, so okay, still like the
same thing. Yeah, and it's like I live in a
really small town.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
My high school was literally up the street from where
I would live, so I was just.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Like the same drive walk whatever. Yeah, okay were you guys? Wait,
this is my final question that we can end. What
was your like commute to school? Tea? Because like I
was the friend that would like.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Pick everyone up high school or college high school? Okay,
oh sh I.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Go first, whoever? But yeah, I was the car that
would like scoop everyone.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Then for oh sorry, no you go, you go.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
So for us, we all had to be at school
different times because if you had a free period first
you could sleep in. But like my friends who were
like on the same schedule as me, sometimes I'd pick
them up are our school was like really centrally located,
so and also we had off campus lunch. So a
lot of people want their own cars because like if
(37:00):
you want to go home or whatever. So like sometimes
I'd pick up like a group of people, but mostly
are like fun carpool rides would be.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
To lunch, gotcha.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And after school we like would just do random things.
But like my best friend lives across the street from school,
so we would like go to her house all the time.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, so I was literally a straight drive, Like I
could walk to school every morning if I wanted to.
It was literally like ten minutes, maybe eight minutes for
me to.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Walk to school.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
But I was always late to high school, like always
always late, so I'd be like running and sprinting with
my heavy backpack like and I was like so skinny.
And after a while, like senior year, all of my
friends got cars, so like they would all catch me
like running home and they just be like get in,
just get in, like and then eventually I started driving.
(37:49):
But it was just like that that was the tea
for real, because everybody would morning like running.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah, I didn't have the car in high school. I
had two brothers we shared, so that was just like
who was driving what day. I don't have any like
tea on that, but we would also like do the
lunch period thing where we all would go for like
sandwiches in town and it was kind of like the
(38:19):
like the best part of the day.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
So yeah, well it's been a joy. It's been a blast.
Another another recording you guys in our books. Yeah and yeah,
I guess well we can be next.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Week And thanks for having me guys anytime.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
If you want to find me on Instagram, it's Ben
Fifer with an extra.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
R, and you can find me at Kayla Capato and
you can find me at Chloe m connor on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Do I get to go? Oh my god?
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Okay, my instagram is sela underscore underscore Romano like the cheese.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh and where does rank class?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Ya
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